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  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves simply as something to aim at."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Absorb what is useful, discard what is not, add what is uniquely your own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Remember, success is a journey not a destination. Have faith in your ability. You will do just fine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: In order to realize our true self we must be willing to live without being dependent upon the opinion of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Life itself is your teacher, and you are in a state of constant learning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Every man today is the result of his thoughts yesterday."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Only the self-sufficient stand alone - most people follow the crowd and imitate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: People try to hold onto the sameness. This holding onto prevents growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Showing off is the fool's idea of glory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: What you habitually think largely determines what you will ultimately become."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Mistakes are always forgivable, if one has the courage to admit them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Loneliness is only an opportunity to cut adrift and find yourself. In solitude you are least alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Be like water making its way through cracks. Do not be assertive, but adjust to the object, and you shall find a way round or through it. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: If you make an ass out of yourself, there will always be someone to ride you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Those who are unaware they are walking in darkness will never seek the light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Remember no man is really defeated unless he is discouraged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That\u2019s the end. That\u2019s when the coffin is closed. You might be deteriorating physically in the long process of aging, but your personal process of daily discovery is ongoing. You continue to learn more and more about yourself every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Choose the positive. You have choice, you are master of your attitude, choose the positive, the constructive. Optimism is a faith that leads to success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Sorrows are our best educator. A man can see further through a tear than a telescope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Emptiness the starting point. \u2014 In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup. My friend, drop all your preconceived and fixed ideas and be neutral. Do you know why this cup is useful? Because it is empty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Be a calm beholder of what is happening around you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Without frustration you will not discover that you might be able to do something on your own. We grow through conflict."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Evaluation by others is not a guide for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Have no rigid system in you, and you'll be flexible to change with the ever changing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Concentration is the root of all the higher abilities in man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The change is from inner to outer. We start by dissolving our attitude not by altering outer conditions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Using no way as a way, having no limitation as limitation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Cease negative mental chattering. If you think a thing is impossible, you'll make it impossible. Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The possession of anything begins in the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: To become a champion requires a good mental attitude toward preparation. You have to accept the most tedious task with pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The poorer we are \n inwardly, \n the more we try to \n enrich ourselves \n outwardly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Your state of mind is everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The more aware you become, the more you shed from day to day what you have learned so that your mind is always fresh and uncontaminated by previous conditioning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Knowing is not enough, You must apply"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Flow in the living moment. \u2014 We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed. Have no rigid system in you, and you\u2019ll be flexible to change with the ever changing. Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment. If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Anxiety is the gap between the NOW and the THEN. So if you are in the NOW, you can't be anxious, because your excitement flows immediately into ongoing spontaneous activity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Since life is an ever evolving process, one should flow in this process and discover how to actualize and expand oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The spirit of the individual is determined by his dominating thought habits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: If every man would help his neighbor, no man would be without help."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: To understand your fear is the beginning of really seeing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Everybody has to think for himself. A right way for a big man may not be a right way for a small man. A right way for someone who is slow may not be a right way for someone who is quick. Each person must understand his weaknesses and his strengths."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Stop wasting time in playing a role or a concept. Instead, learn to ACTUALIZE YOURSELF, your potential."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: To be bound by traditional martial art style or styles is the way of the mindless, enslaved martial artist. But to be inspired by the traditional martial art and to achieve further heights is the way of genius."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: I'm moving and not moving at all. I'm like the moon underneath the waves that ever go on rolling and rocking. It is not, \"I am doing this,\" but rather, an inner realization that \"this is happening through me,\" or \"it is doing this for me.\" The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: No matter what, you must let your inner \n light guide you out of the darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Be a practical dreamer backed by action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Believe me that in every big thing or achievement there are always obstacles-big or small- and the reaction one shows to such obstacles is what counts, not the obstacle itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Art is never decoration, embellishment; instead, it is work of enlightenment. Art, in other words, is a technique for acquiring liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Self-Conquest is the greatest of victories. Mighty is he who conquers himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: With every adversity comes a blessing because a shock acts as a reminder to oneself that we must not get stale in routine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: One must be truthful and honest in his approach; a constant independent inquiry and not blindly following a certain blue print laid down by others"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Understanding requires not just a moment of perception, but a continuous awareness, a continuous state of inquiry without conclusion"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: I've come to understand that life is best lived, not conceptualized."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: If you want to do your duty properly, you should do just a little more than that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: We shall find the answer when we examine the problem, the problem is never apart from the answer, the problem IS the answer, understanding the problem dissolves the problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: To spend time is to pass it in a specified manner. To waste time is to expend it thoughtlessly or carelessly. We all have time to either spend or waste and it is our decision what to do with it. But once passed, it is gone forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Obey the principles without being bound by them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: I believe in teaching just a few students, as teaching requires a constant alert observation on each individual in order to establish a direct relationship. A good teacher cannot be fixed in a routine, and many are just that. During teaching, each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: It's not what you give, it's the way you give it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth. To me, the function and duty of a quality human being is the sincere and honest development of one's potential."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: One great cause of failure is lack of concentration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Its not what happens that counts... \n It's how you react."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: He who wants to succeed should learn how to fight, to strive and to suffer. You can acquire a lot in life, if you are prepared to give up a lot to get it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: A person cannot forget someone who is good to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Love is like a friendship caught on fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Give recognition where it is due. Compliments stimulate more effort and desire to improve. Be generous with honest praising."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Defense is attack, attack is defense, each being the cause and result of the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready. Not thinking, yet not dreaming. Ready for whatever may come. When the opponent expands, I contract; and when he contracts, I expand. And when there is an opportunity, \"I\" do not hit, \"it\" hits all by itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: When one has no form, one can be all forms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Life is an ever-flowing process and somewhere on the path some unpleasant things will pop up - it might leave a scar, but then life is flowing, and like running water, when it stops it grows stale.  Go bravely on, my friend, because each experience teaches us a lesson.  Keep blasting because life is such that sometimes it is nice and sometimes it is not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: In life, what more can you ask for than to be real?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Observe what is with undivided awareness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Use only that which works, and take it from any place you can find it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Any technique, however worthy and desirable, becomes a disease when the mind is obsessed with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Dedication, absolute dedication, is what keeps one ahead!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Water can flow, or it can crash. Be water, my friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Open yourself and flow, my friend. Flow in the total openness of the living moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Life is better lived than conceptualized. \u2014 This writing can be less demanding should I allow myself to indulge in the usual manipulating game of role creation. Fortunately for me, my self-knowledge has transcended that and I\u2019ve come to understand that life is best to be lived \u2014 not to be conceptualized. If you have to think, you still do not understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The future looks extremely bright indeed, with lots of possibilities ahead -- big possibilities. Like the song says, We've just begun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: To tolerate is to insult."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Faith makes it possible to achieve that which man's mind can conceive and believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: We do not become. We simply are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Knowledge will give you power, but character respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Success means doing something sincerely and wholeheartedly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: False teachers of the Way of life use flowery words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: I wish neither to possess nor to be possessed. I no longer covet 'paradise'. More important, I no longer fear 'hell'. The medicine for my suffering I had within me from the very beginning but I did not take it. My ailment came from within myself, but I did not observe it, until this moment. Now I see that I will never find the light unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, consuming myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Learning is never cumulative, it is a movement of knowing which has no beginning and no end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: You will never get any more out of this life than you expect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Fluidity is the way to an empty mind. You must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Effort within the mind further limits the mind, because effort implies struggle towards a goal and when you have a goal, a purpose, an end in view, you have placed a limit on the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Let nature take its course and your tools will strike at the right moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow -- you are not understanding yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, actualize yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: True refinement seeks simplicity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: We should devote ourselves to being self-sufficient and must not depend upon the external ratings by others for our happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: To be certain, every day there can be a revelation or a new discovery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Take inventory of everyone with whom you have contact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The martial arts are based upon understanding, hard work and a total comprehension of skills. Power training and the use of force are easy, but total comprehension of all of the skills of the martial arts is very difficult to achieve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Forget about winning and losing; forget about pride and pain. Let your opponent graze your skin and you smash into his flesh; let him smash into your flesh and you fracture his bones; let him fracture your bones and you take his life! Do not be concerned with escaping safely- lay your life before him!!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: If nothing within you stays rigid, outward things will disclose themselves. Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: A good teacher protects his pupils from his own influence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Like the cobra, you remain coiled in a loose but compact position and your strike should be felt before it is seen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: If you don't want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: A martial artist has to take responsibility for himself and accept the consequences of his own doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Defeat is not defeat unless accepted as a reality-in your own mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: We have more faith in what we imitate than in what we create"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: My strength comes from my abdomen. It's the center of gravity and the source of real power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: It is not what happens that is success or failure, but what it does to the heart of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement, which is something I experience every day - sometimes good, sometimes frustrating. No matter what, you must let your inner light guide you out of the darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: You must have complete determination. The worst opponent you can come across is one whose aim has become an obsession. For instance, if a man has decided that he is going to bite off your nose no matter what happens to him in the process, the chances are he will succeed in doing it. He may be severely beaten up, too, but that will not stop him from carrying out his objective. That is the real fighter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: You have to create your own luck. You have to be aware of the opportunities around you and take advantage of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Flow in the living moment - We are always in a process of becoming and nothing is fixed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: There are no limits. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The meaning of life is that it is to be lived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Ultimately the greatest help is self-help."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Remember my friend to enjoy your planning as well as your accomplishment, for life is too short for negative energy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The More we value things, the less we value ourselves"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Put 'going the extra mile' to work as part of one's daily habit"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The martial arts are ultimately self-knowledge. A punch or a kick is not to knock the hell out of the guy in front, but to knock the hell out of your ego, your fear, or your hang-ups."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: I don't want to do anything halfway. It has to be perfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that. The void is all-inclusive, having no opposite--there is nothing which it excludes or opposes. It is living void, because all forms come out of it and whoever realizes the void is filled with life and power and the love of all beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Before me now there is only one real fact -- Death. The truth I have been seeking -- this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So -- we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Pessimism blunts the tools you need to succeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: What Is, is more important than What Should Be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: It's the law of averages: put in more, come out with more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Forget about winning and losing, forget about pride and pain"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: To live is to express oneself freely"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: To develop the creative attitude, analyze and focus on the wanted SOLUTION; seek out and fill your mind with the FACTS; write down ideas, both sensible and seemingly wild; let the facts and ideas simmer in your mind; evaluate, recheck, settle on the creative ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The man who is really serious, with the urge to find out what truth is, has no style at all. He lives only in what is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: It is not a shame to be knocked down by other people. The important thing is to ask when you're being knocked down, 'Why am I being knocked down?' If a person can reflect in this way, then there is hope for this person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: But to those who kept saying\n\"It can't be done,\"\nNever are the victories\nOr the honors won.\nBut, rather,\nBy the believing, doing kind,\nWhile the doubters\nWatched from far behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Bring the mind into sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere. The mind must be emancipated from old habits, prejudices, restrictive thought processes and even ordinary thought itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Prosperity is apt to prevent us from examining our conduct; but adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is beneficial to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: One does not accumulate but eliminate. It is not daily increase but daily decrease. The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Sincere thought means thought of concentration (quiet awareness). The thought of a distracted mind cannot be sincere"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Having totality means being capable of following \"what is,\" because \"what is\" is constantly moving and constantly changing. If one is anchored to a particular view, one will not be able to follow the swift movement of \"what is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: To change with change is the changeless state"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The consciousness of self is the greatest hindrance to the proper execution of all physical action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you. I'll not willingly offend, nor be easily offended."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: When you freely express, you are the total style."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: When one has reached maturity in this art, one will have the formless form. It is like the dissolving or thawing [of] ice into water that can shape itself to any structure. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, one can fit in with any style."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: If I tell you I'm good, probably you will say I'm boasting. But if I tell you I'm not good, you'll know I'm lying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The stillness in stillness is not the real stillness; only when there is stillness in movement does the universal rhythm manifest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Optimism is a faith that leads to success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: What can you take from me which is not already yours?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: A teacher is never a giver of truth; he is a guide, a pointer to the truth that each student must find for himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: All types of knowledge ultimately lead to self-knowledge. So, therefore, these people are asking me to teach them, not so much how to defend themselves or how to do somebody in. Rather, they want to learn to express themselves through some movement, be it anger, be it determination or whatever. So, in other words, they're paying me to show them, in combative form, the art of expressing the human body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Even today, I dare not say that I have reached a state of achievement. I'm still learning, for learning is boundless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: when one is not expressing himself, he is not free. thus, he begins to struggle and the struggle breeds methodical routine. Soon, he is doing his methodical routine as response rather than responding to what is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Be self aware, rather than a repetitious robot"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Running water never grows stale."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: My style? You can call it the art of fighting without fighting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Unfortunately, now in boxing people are only allowed to punch. In Judo, people are only allowed to throw. I do not despise these kinds of martial arts. What I mean is, we now find rigid forms which create differences among clans, and the world of martial art is shattered as a result."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: As you think, so shall you become."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Man, he is constantly growing and when he is bound by a set pattern of ideas or way of doing things, that's when he stops growing"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Efficiency is anything that scores."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: What we are after is the root and not the branches. The root is the real knowledge; the branches are surface knowledge. Real knowledge breeds 'body feel' and personal expression; surface knowledge breeds mechanical conditioning and imposing limitation and squelches creativity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Boards don't hit back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Jeet Kune Do does not beat around the bush. It does not take winding detours. It follows a straight line to the objective. Simplicity is the shortest distance between two points."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Time means a lot to me because, you see, I, too, am also a learner and am often lost in the joy of forever developing and simplifying. If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: A man must constantly exceed his level"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Bring the mind to a sharp focus and make it alert so that it can immediately intuit truth, which is everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: I did what I came here to do. What I've done I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: A self-willed man obeys a different law, the one law I, too, hold absolutely sacred the human law in himself, his own individual will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: You and your opponent are one. There is a coexisting relationship between you. You coexist with your opponent and become his complement, absorbing his attack and using his force to overcome him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: What comes after victory? Why do people value victory so much? What is 'glory'? What kind of victory is 'glorious'?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Humility forms the basis of honor, just as the low ground forms the foundation of a high elevation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The meaning of life is that it is to be lived, and it is not to be traded and conceptualized and squeezed into a patter of systems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: We have great work ahead of us, and it needs devotion and much, much energy. To grow, to discover, we need involvement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Training for strength and flexibility is a must. You must use it to support your techniques. Techniques alone are no good if you don't support them with strength and flexibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: I have always been a martial artist by choice, an actor by profession, but above all, am actualising myself to be an artist of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The principle of martial arts is not a thing that can be learned, like a science, by fact-finding and instruction in facts. It has to grow spontaneously, like a flower, in a mind free from emotions and desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Life is wide, limitless. There is no border, no frontier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: All goals apart from the means are illusions; becoming is a denial of being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Ideas are the beginning of all achievement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: If there is always light, you don\u2019t experience light anymore. You have to have the rhythm of light and darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Concepts vs. self-actualization. - Instead of dedicating your life to actualize a concept of what you should be like, ACTUALIZE YOURSELF. The process of maturing does not mean to become a captive of conceptualization. It is to come to the realization of what lies in our innermost selves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The Western approach to reality is mostly through theory, and theory begins by denying reality - to talk about reality, to go around reality, to catch anything that attracts our sense-intellect and abstract it away from reality itself. Thus philosophy begins by saying that the outside world is not a basic fact, that its existence can be doubted and that every proposition in which the reality of the outside world is affirmed is not an evident proposition but one that needs to be divided, dissected and analyzed. It is to stand consciously aside and try to square a circle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: To live is a constant process of relating, so come on out of that shell of isolation and conclusion, and relate DIRECTLY to what is being said. Bear in mind I seek neither your approval nor to influence you. So do not make up your mind as to \"this is this\" or \"that is that.\" I will be more than satisfied if you begin to learn to investigate everything yourself from now on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: A quality martial artist is always ready for any move, and trains oneself invincible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: In Buddhism, there is no place for using effort. Just be ordinary and nothing special. Eat your food, move your bowels, pass water and when you're tired go and lie down. The ignorant will laugh at me, but the wise will understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: You know what I want to think of myself? As a human being. Because, I mean I don't want to be like \"As Confucius say,\" but under the sky, under the heavens there is but one family. It just so happens man that people are different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Give up thinking as though not giving it up. Observe techniques as though not observing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Can you look at a situation without naming it? Naming it, making it a word, causes fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: To realize freedom the mind has to learn to look at life, which is a vast movement, without the bondage of time , for freedom lies beyond the field of consciousness care for watching, but don't stop and interpret \"I am free,\" then you're living in a memory of something that has gone before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Satori - in the awakening from a dream. Awakening and self-realization and seeing into one's own being - these are synonymous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Man, the living creature, the creating individual, is always more important than any established style or system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: I have the absolute confidence not to be number two, but then I have enough sense to realize that there can be no number one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: A good martial artist does not become tense, but ready."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Moving, be like water. Still, be like a mirror. Respond like an echo."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The best form of endurance exercise is the performance of the event."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Do not run away; let go.  Do not seek; for it will come when least expected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Taoist philosophy is essentially monistic. Matter and energy, Yang and Yin, heaven and earth, are conceived of as essentially one or as two coexistent poles of one indivisible whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: There is a powerful craving in most of us to see ourselves as instruments in the hands of others and thus free ourselves from the responsibility for acts which are prompted by our own questionable inclinations and impulses. Both the strong and the weak grasp at this alibi. The latter hide their malevolence under the virtue of obedience: they acted dishonorably because they had to obey orders. The strong, too, claim absolution by proclaiming themselves the chosen instrument of a higher power -- God, history, fate, nation, or humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The intangible represents the real power of the universe. It is the seed of the tangible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Voidness is that which stands right in the middle between this and that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The timeless moment. - The \"moment\" has no yesterday or tomorrow. It is not the result of thought and therefore has no time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: If people say Jeet Kune Do is different from this or from that, then let the name of Jeet Kune Do be wiped out, for that is what it is, just a name. Please don't fuss over it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Relationship is the mirror in which you discover yourself - to be is to be related."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: A self-willed man has no other aim than his own growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Remember, you are expressing the techniques and not doing the techniques."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Truth cannot be structured or confined."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The point is the doing of them rather than the accomplishments . There is no actor but the action; there is no experiencer but the experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The highest art is no art. The best form is no form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: I don't believe in getting something for nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: There are too many stars and too few actors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception. To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person. Awareness has no frontier; it is giving of your whole being, without exclusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: One should be in harmony with, not in opposition to, the strength and force of the opposition. This means that one should do nothing that is not natural or spontaneous; the important thing is not to strain in any way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Now I see that I will never find the light Unless, like the candle, I am my own fuel, Consuming myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Ever since I was a child I have had this instinctive urge for expansion and growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The abdominal and waist region coordinate all parts of the body and act as the center or generator. Therefore, you can promote the ability to control the body's action and master your will more easily."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Know the difference between a catastrophe and an inconvenience. - To realize that it's just an inconvenience, that it is not a catastrophe, but just an unpleasantness, is part of coming into your own, part of waking up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: You cannot force the Now. \u2014 But can you neither condemn nor justify and yet be extraordinarily alive as you walk on? You can never invite the wind, but you must leave the window open."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Action is a high road to self-confidence and esteem. Where it is open, all energies flow toward it. It comes readily to most people, and its rewards are tangible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The unfolding of the bare human soul...that is what interests me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: To live is to express, and to express you have to create.  Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The moment is freedom. \u2014 I couldn\u2019t live by a rigid schedule. I try to live freely from moment to moment, letting things happen and adjusting to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: It is useless to try to stir the dirt Out of the muddy water, As it will become murkier. But leave it alone, And if it should be cleared; It will become clear by itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The reward is found in the work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Don't get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs, unless we have another group of beings on earth that are structurally different from us, there can be no different style of fighting. Why is that? Because we have two hands and two legs. ... because of styles, people are separated. They are not united together because styles become law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Its like a finger pointing away to the moon. Dont concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Since weight training involves repetitions, a great deal of energy must be exerted. Therefore, weight training should be practiced only every other day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: I personally do not believe in the word style. Why? Because, unless there are human beings with three arms and four legs, unless we have another group of human beings that are structually different from us, there can be no different style of fighting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: When you're talking about fighting, as it is, with no rules, well then, baby you'd better train every part of your body!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The unconditioned mind intuits truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The perfect way is only difficult for those who pick and choose. Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart; if you want the truth to stand clear before you, never be for or against. The struggle between 'for' and 'against' is the mind's worst disease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The measure  of the moral worth of a man is his happiness. The better the man, the more happiness. Happiness is the synonym of well-being"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: We [tend to] have more faith in what we imitate than in what we originate. We [often feel that we] cannot derive a sense of absolute certitude from anything which has its root in us. The most poignant sense of insecurity comes from standing alone; we are not alone when we imitate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Use karate, judo, aikido, or any style to build your counter-offensive. It will be interesting!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The attitude, 'You can win if you want to badly enough,' means that the will to win is constant. No amount of punishment, no amount of effort, no condition is too 'tough' to take in order to win. Such an attitude can be developed only if winning is closely tied to the practitioner's ideals and dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: What is true stillness? Stillness in movement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Nothingness cannot be defined; the softest thing cannot be snapped."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life. The aim of art is not the one-sided promotion of spirit, soul and senses, but the opening of all human capacities \u2013 thought, feeling, will \u2013 to the life rhythm of the world of nature. So will the voiceless voice be heard and the self be brought into harmony with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Knowledge , surely, is always of time , whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The world is full of people who are determined to be somebody or to give trouble. They want to get ahead, to stand out. Such ambition has no use for a gung fu man, who rejects all forms of self-assertiveness and competition"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: To me, ultimately, martial arts means honestly expressing yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Independent inquiry is needed in your search for truth, not dependence on anyone else's view or a mere book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The great mistake is to anticipate the outcome of the engagement; you ought not to be thinking of whether it ends in victory or defeat. Let nature take its course, and your tools will strike at the right moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Reality is apparent when one ceases to compare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Training is one of the most neglected phases of athletics. Too much time is given to the development of skill and too little to the development of the individual for participation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: In order to taste my cup of water you must first empty your cup."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Circumstances hell! I make circumstances!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The success of an assailant's attack depends on surprise, and if you're sufficiently alert to prevent a surprise, your counterattack is already halfway to being successful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Never take your eyes off your opponent, even when you bow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: One will never get any more than he thinks he can get. YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES. Look back and see your progress - damn the torpedo, full speed ahead!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Don't be forecasting evil unless it is what you can guard against. Anxiety is good for nothing if we can't turn it into a defense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: More and more I believe in the fact that you have two hands and two legs, and the thing is how to make good use of yourself - and that's about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The primary Reality is not what I think, but that I live, for those also live who do not think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Art is the way to the absolute and to the essence of human life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Linda and I aren't one and one. We are two halves that make a whole -- two halves fitted together are more efficient than either half would ever be alone!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The happiness that is derived from excitement is like a brilliant fire- soon it will go out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Understanding comes about through feeling, from moment to moment in the mirror of relationship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Self-will seems to be the only virtue that takes no account of man-made laws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: There is \"what is\" only when there is no comparing and to live with \"what is\" is to be peaceful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Do not deny the classical approach, simply as a reaction, or you will have created another pattern and trapped yourself there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Do not like, do not dislike; all will then be clear. Make a hairbreadth difference and heaven and earth are set apart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The aim of art is to project an inner vision into the world, to state in aesthetic creation the deepest psychic and personal experiences of a human being. It is to enable those experiences to be intelligible and generally recognized within the total framework of an ideal world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: To contemplate a thing implies maintaining oneself OUTSIDE it, resolved to keep a distance between it and ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: I think of myself as a human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Things live by moving and gain strength as they go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: After all, all knowledge simply means self-knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The Now is indivisible. Completeness, the now, is an absence of the conscious mind to strive to divide that which is indivisible. For once the completeness of things is taken apart it is no longer complete."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Conditioning obstructs our view of reality. We do not see IT in its suchness because of our indoctrination, crooked and twisted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The second-hand artist blindly following his sensei or sifu accepts his pattern. As a result, his action is and , more importantly, his thinking become mechanical. His responses become automatic, according to set patterns, making him narrow and limited."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: I don't know what is the meaning of death, but I am not afraid to die - and I go on, non-stop, going forward with life. Even though I, Bruce Lee, may die some day without fulfilling all of my ambitions, I will have no regrets. I did what I wanted to do and what I've done, I've done with sincerity and to the best of my ability. You can't expect much more from life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: All martial art is simply an honest expression of one's body \u2014 with a lot of deception in between."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Art lives where absolute freedom is, because where it is not, there can be no creativity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The athlete who is building muscles though weight training should be very sure to work adequately on speed and flexibility at the same time. In combat, without the prior attributes, a strong man will be like the bull with its colossal strength futilely pursuing the matador or like a low-geared truck chasing a rabbit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The key to immortality is first living a life worth remembering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The most important thing to me is, how, in the process of learning how to use my body, can I come to understand myself ?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: The knowledge and skills you have achieved are meant to be forgotten so you can float comfortably in emptiness, without obstruction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: 'What is' is more important than 'what should be.' Too many people are looking at 'what is' from a position of thinking 'what should be'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: As long as we separate this oneness into two we won't achieve realization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: If one loves, one need not have an ideology of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Jeet Kune Do favors formlessness so that it can assume all forms and since Jeet Kune Do has no style, it can fit in with all styles. As a result, Jeet Kune Do utilizes all ways and is bound by none and, likewise, uses any techniques which serve its end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Because one does not want to be disturbed, to be made uncertain, he establishes a pattern of conduct, of thought, a pattern of relationships to man. He then becomes a slave to the pattern and takes the pattern to be the real thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Self-knowledge is the basis of jeet kune do because it is effective not only for the individual's martial art but also for his life as a human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Here I am as a human being...how can I express myself, totally and completely?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Life is never stagnation. It is constant movement, un-rhythmic movement, as we as constant change. Things live by moving and gain strength as they go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: True thusness is the substance of thought, and thought is the function of true thusness. There is no thought except that of true thusness. Thusness does not move, but its motion and function are inexhaustible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: I don't believe in different ways of fighting now. I mean, unless human beings have 3 arms and 3 legs, then we will have a different way of fighting. But basically we all have two arms and two legs so that is why I believe there should be only one way of fighting and that is no way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: Good technique includes quick changes, great variety and speed. It may be a system of reversals much like a concept of God and the Devil. In the speed of events, which one is really in charge? Do they change places with lightning speed? The Chinese believe so. To put the heart of the martial arts in your own heart and have it be a part of you means total comprehension."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Lee: True observation begins when devoid of set patterns; freedom of expression occurs when one is beyond system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I have a very strict gun control policy: if there's a gun around, I want to be in control of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: If you want a guarantee, buy a toaster."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: They say marriages are made in Heaven. But so is thunder and lightning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: You're as young as you feel. As young as you want to be. There's an old saying I heard from a friend of mine. People ask him, \"Why do you look so good at your age?\" He'll say, \"Because I never let the old man in.\" And there's truth to that. It's in your mind, how far you let him come in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: The more time you have to think things through, the more you have to screw it up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Secretly everybody's getting tired of political correctness, kissing up. That's the kiss-ass generation we're in right now. We're really in a pussy generation. Everybody's walking on eggshells. We see people accusing people of being racist and all kinds of stuff. When I grew up, those things weren't called racist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Of course we all know Biden is the intellect of the Democratic Party. Kind of a grin with a body behind it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Go ahead, make my day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Everybody is looking for a reason to not to take responsibility for their own actions in hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: There's only one way to have a happy marriage and as soon as I learn what it is I'll get married again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: When a naked man is chasing a woman through an alley with a butcher knife and a hard-on, I figure he isn't out collecting for the Red Cross."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: These people who are making a big deal out of gay marriage? I don't give a fuck about who wants to get married to anybody else! Why not?! We're making a big deal out of things we shouldn't be making a deal out of. hey go on and on with all this bullshit about \"sanctity\"\u2014don't give me that sanctity crap! Just give everybody the chance to have the life they want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: The guys who won World War II and that whole generation have disappeared, and now we have a bunch of teenage twits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Ever notice how you come across somebody once in a while you shouldn't have messed with? That's me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Most people are afraid of change, but if you look at it as something you can always count on, then it can be a comfort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I mean, I've always been a libertarian. Leave everybody alone. Let everybody else do what they want. Just stay out of everybody else's hair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: There are two kinds of people in this world. 'I' people and 'we' people. I've always tried to be a 'we' person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that's what everybody needs to know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: You have to be realistic about where you are in life and enjoy it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Michael Moore and I actually have a lot in common. We both appreciate living in a country where there's free expression. But Michael, if you ever show up at my front door with a camera, I'll kill you. I mean it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Westerns. A period gone by, the pioneer, the loner operating by himself, without benefit of society. It usually has something to do with some sort of vengeance; he takes care of the vengeance himself, doesn't call the police. Like Robin Hood. It's the last masculine frontier. Romantic myth. I guess, though it's hard to think about anything romantic today. In a Western you can think, Jesus, there was a time when man was alone, on horseback, out there where man hasn't spoiled the land yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Nobody knows diddly. They just think they do. And the people that think they know the most know the least."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I believe in my gut. Most people intellectualize their instincts away, but when you feel something, you have to go for it. A Fistful of Dollars was a great instinct for me, because here I was, a guy who's doing Rawhide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I'm anti - the pussy generation. Not to be confused with pussy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: What happened is I was going to college in 1950. L. A. City College. A guy I knew was going to an acting class on Thursday nights. He started telling me about all the good-lookin' chicks and said, \"Why don't you go with me?\" So I probably had some motivation beyond thoughts of being an actor. And sure enough, he was right. There were a lot of girls and not many guys. I said, \"Yeah, they need me here.\" I wound up at Universal as a contract player."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I'm trying to preach the idea that if we don't pay attention to history we're destined to repeat it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Aging can be fun if you lay back and enjoy it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: As you get older you try to do things that please you more. You get a little more selfish. You start thinking I want to do things where I enjoy myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: You can't stop everything from happening. But we've gotten to a point where we're certainly trying. If a car doesn't have four hundred air bags in it, then it's no good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Just trust your instincts. There's an old saying in golf, you've studied the swing many times, and you practice and practice, but when you stand over the ball, you just have to trust your swing. And you trust it. And if you don't trust it, you'll ruin it; your brain will take over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Hillary Clinton has made a lot of dough out of being a politician. I gave up dough to be a politician. I'm sure that Ronald Reagan gave up dough to be a politician."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: What Trump is onto is, he's just saying what's on his mind. And sometimes it's not so good. And sometimes it's... I mean, I can understand where he's coming from, but I don't always agree with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: That's one of the actor's secrets: With everything you do, learn something new about yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I'd have to go for Donald Trump ... you know, 'cause Hillary Clinton is declared that she's gonna follow in Barack Obama's footsteps. There's been just too much funny business on both sides of the aisle. She's made a lot of dough out of being a politician."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Over the years, I realized there was a Republican philosophy that I liked. And then they lost it. And LIBERTARIANS had more of it. Because what I really believe is, let's spend a little more time leaving everybody alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Scott's Eastwood movie Snowden sounds fascinating. I want to see it because it's about deserting your country ... for whatever reasons you have. Edward Snowden became famous for the wrong reasons, as Captain Chesley \"Sully\" Sullenberger became famous for doing something spectacular."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Over my career I played some badass characters. So, people sometimes think I should have a .44 magnum. But that's not true, I don't have that. But I do fire them and I do enjoy target shooting and all that sort of thing. I'm not much of a hunter. I don't like killing animals, but I love to shoot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: There was a stool there, and some fella kept asking me if I wanted to sit down. When I saw the stool sitting there, it gave me the idea. I'll just put the stool out there and I'll talk to Mr Obama and ask him why he didn't keep all of the promises he made to everybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: The most gentle people in the world are macho males, people who are confident in their masculinity and have a feeling of well-being in themselves. They don't have to kick in doors, mistreat women, or make fun of gays."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I was always annoyed by too much explaining."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Directing is more like you're being a psychologist and you're kind of analyzing the situation and evaluating each person for their idiosyncrasies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: My wife is my closest friend. Sure, I'm attracted to her in every way possible, but that's not the answer. Because I've been attracted to other people, and I couldn't stand 'em after a while."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: There are two kinds of actors -- one sits in a dressing room waiting for his call and the other gets out into the business and polishes his craft by absorbing everything. I don't know enough, I'll never learn everything I need to learn. When a guy thinks he's already learned it, he can only go backwards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I always liked characters that were more grounded in reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I would just like to say something, ladies and gentlemen. Something that I think is very important. It is that, you, we - we own this country. We - we own it. It is not you owning it, and not politicians owning it. Politicians are employees of ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I'd say people get to work and start being more understanding of everybody - instead of calling everybody names, start being more understanding. But get in there and get it done. Kick ass and take names. And this may be my dad talking, but don't spend what you don't have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: My father had a couple of kids at the beginning of the Depression. There was not much employment. Not much welfare. People barely got by. People were tougher then."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I never look back and think too much about my films. I've done some work I've been proud of over the years but which of them is my favourite I really don't know. I could say the last one. I've had little jumps in my career like Unforgiven possibly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Crimes against children are the most heinous crime. That, for me, would be a reason for capital punishment because children are innocent and need the guidance of an adult society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Plagiarism is always the biggest thing in Hollywood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: The casting is the most important thing. If you cast a picture really well a lot of things take care of themselves. You get actors that like to give a lot to the role and who appreciate the role on the same level that you do. If you miscast it, you're working an uphill battle a little bit and maybe you can come out okay but you can't always come out great."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I'm in the saddle every day playing a screwball. And then somebody comes along and says, \"How would you like to go to Italy and Spain and do an Italian/Spanish/German co-production with an Italian director who's only directed one movie?\" It wasn't like I was going there to be with Federico Fellini. But something was there, and I thought, Well, I loved this story when it was told by Akira Kurosawa; maybe this is a good idea. That's an instinctive moment. A Fistful of Dollars was made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: You spend your life training to be an actor, observing people's characteristics so that you can design characters around what you've seen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: There's a saying that we use in golf: \"I'd rather be lucky than good.\" Of course, to be lucky and good is the ideal. If you study hard, you can get good. And if you get lucky and get the proper parts for people to be able to appreciate what you're doing ... I'm sure there are many actors that are quite talented who have never been a success because they've never had the right opportunity and the right material. My mother used to think I had a guardian angel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: No, I don't have to practice that grunt. You just do it. Once you're in character, you're in character. You don't sit there purposely thinking, Well, I'll grunt here, or I'll groan there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Don Siegel last advice to me was 'Don't short yourself.' He said the tendency is when an actor's directing is to kind of you want to work on everybody else but you're going to short yourself. He said, take the time to do a good job with yourself so that you're satisfied with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I keep working because I learn something new all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: People have lost their sense of humor. In former times, we constantly made jokes about different races."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Today, the only thing Hollywood swears by is space adventures because that's what goes over well. For my part, I trust my instinct and I make the films I believe in. If the public follows me, that's wonderful. If it doesn't follow, \"c'est la vie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I just think it is important that you realize, that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to do the ridiculous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I'm a firm believer in research, but I'm also a firm believer in utilizing the instincts that are within your soul or in your body or in your stomach, wherever they reside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I'm thinking, That's Barack Obama. He doesn't go to work. He doesn't go down to Congress and make a deal. What the hell's he doing sitting in the White House? If I were in that job, I'd get down there and make a deal. Sure, Congress are lazy bastards, but so what? You're the top guy. You're the president of the company. It's your responsibility to make sure everybody does well. It's the same with every company in this country, whether it's a two-man company or a two-hundred-man company... . And that's the pussy generation - nobody wants to work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: That's the secret to a movie career - just keeping an open mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Every once and a while somebody writes a script, but even regardless of what age you are, most of the actors would all agree that it's all based upon material and the material has got to spark with you. It may be great material but you think it's great material for somebody else. Or it's great material and I'm perfect for it. So, you just have to make that judgment and if you feel in the mood to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I pay tribute to the writing always. The writer is a creative artist and the director is an interpretive artist and the actors are interpretive. You take zero and make it into something, that's always amazing to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I am sort of anti-hunting. I don't put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: When you're making a film you start living with it, and I find myself sitting down and figuring out a sound or melody that would go with a film, or a particular period. It's not brain surgery, you just kind of feel it along."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Everybody has certain things they wish they hadn't done in life. They wish they hadn't kicked their dog when they were ten or something. There are many things you can go back and have regrets about. I don't like doing that. But by the same token I do agree that when you get to a certain stage in life, you change. And you should change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: If a person is constantly evolving, constantly reading new material and being exposed to new material and growing in life, then you're becoming, hopefully, a more intelligent and well-rounded individual. If you're not then something's wrong and you're sliding back in the other direction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I always thought what an interesting idea because almost everybody's fascinated by the perpetrator of a crime; very few people study what happens to people for the rest of their lives, and how it affects not only that particular character but other characters around him as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Acting to me is a very organic art form and you just go and do it. And I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed. Let me bring in what I want to bring in, and if something's wrong, just tell me about it and I'll make some corrections or adjustments. And that's what I do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Drama usually has some sort of intense conflict."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I don't look at my life too much. I'm always looking forward, not backward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I had three points I wanted to make. That not everybody in Hollywood is on the left, that Obama has broken a lot of promises he made when he took office, and that the people should feel free to get rid of any politician who's not doing a good job. But I didn't make up my mind exactly what I was going to say until I said it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: The thing that haunts a man the most is what he isn't ordered to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Pay attention to the work you want to do and everything'll work out fine. If you're in it for the ego, you might be successful but at a limited level."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: If you don't pay attention to history, you're destined to repeat it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: There are a lot of conservative people, a lot of moderate people, Republicans, Democrats, in Hollywood. It is just that the conservative people by the nature of the word itself play closer to the vest. They do not go around hot dogging it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I'm just a kid. I've got a lot of stuff to do yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: If you think it's going to rain, it will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: If a person doesn't change, there's something really wrong with him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I guess a great movie would be one that has the most great moments in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: When I used to be a contract player in 1954 at Universal, I wasn't getting good roles. I was getting one-liners, and then I'd be gone. But I'd hang around; I'd watch guys. And when I had days off, which was most days, I'd go down and watch other sets while they were shooting. Watch Joan Crawford or whomever. Just watch how they worked and how the director handled them. I didn't know anything about making movies, and there's a lot to learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I've always told my son Scott the same thing: Don't rush into anything, because there's gonna be a lot of fish in the sea. You can be one of the people that's lucky enough not to become a loser two and three and four times over like people do, just by being a little more patient."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: If somebody's dumb enough to ask me to go to a political convention and say something, they're gonna have to take what they get."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: If anybody asks me what I attribute the longevity of my career to, then I say it's because I was never satisfied with being a cowboy in the plains of Spain and later I was never satisfied with just playing a detective in San Francisco, and constantly just pushing the envelope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I could be the driver - the Uber guy saying, \"I used to be in films years ago... .\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Stage actors are usually much more conscious of speaking up and making sure that everyone can hear in the back of the theatre; a film actor probably thinks of that a little less. Unfortunately, there's a style of acting going round, especially with the younger actors, where they talk without even moving their lip. Maybe it's because my hearing probably isn't what it was 40 years ago but I'm sitting there going \"What did they say\"?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I think it is more important to tell a story rather than follow any trend; that is a less bold way to go. If you do that [follow trends] you are just trying to ride on the coat tails of someone else's success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Children teach you that you can still be humbled by life, that you learn something new all the time. That's the secret to life, really: never stop learning. It's the secret to career. I'm still working because I learn something new all the time. It's the secret to relationships. Never think you've got it all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Writing is a creative art form and the acting and directing is more of an interpretive art form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: At certain points if your life, you like doing more. I'm not sure what causes it or for what reasons; you just do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Everybody always feels that they're right even if they're wrong and that's what a whole actor's career is built around rationalizing your way into whatever character you're playing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I had one well known director who kept saying, \"Now Clint, this is what ....\" And I'd say, \"I know. I read the script. I'm the one who cast you as the director. Let me show you and you'll correct me if I'm wrong.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: There's a lot of young guys coming along, but I'd like to say to the various financiers, don't forget the senior guys. The senior guys and gals are there, willing to do their best work for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: If you read any of the biographies on J. Edgar Hoover, you find that they contradict each other more than they agree. Often times, they're often told from a political perspective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: My father died very suddenly at sixty-three. Just dropped dead. For a long time afterward, I'd ask myself, Why didn't I ask him to play golf more? Why didn't I spend more time with him? But when you're off trying to get the brass ring, you forget and overlook those little things. It gives you a certain amount of regret later on, but there's nothing you can do about it. So you just forge on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I'm past doing one chin-up more than I did the day before. I just kind of do what I feel like."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: That's why I don't rehearse a lot and why I shoot a lot immediately. I have ideas of where I'd like to take the character, but we both end up going together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: You have to go with your instincts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I found out that a lot of my liberal friends weren't liberal because they weren't liberal about approaching anybody else's ideas, or at least standing for it. They started getting really animalistic about, \"I can't even associate with this guy. He's stupid. He's an idiot.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I always revered people that I thought had an idea and proceeded through with it. I guess I've been that way since the day I called my father and told him I was going to study acting and maybe try to see if I could do well with that, and he told me: \"Don't do that. You don't want to do that, that's just dream stuff. Get a legitimate job and move forward.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: A lot of times people get to a certain age and they quit. I always felt sorry for the Frank Capras, the Billy Wilders, directors like that, because they quit in their sixties. Why would you quit? Think of the great work they could've done in their sixties, seventies, and on up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Music does have a very special place in my heart. I enjoy it very much. I suppose it is my first love and I do a lot of it. It seems to be when you are making a project it inspires you sometimes to jot down something that you think fits the situation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I had always planned when I started directing in 1970 that after a few years I'd get tired of looking at myself on the screen and say: \"Hey, let's not do that any more.\" But then every once in a while something pops up. I'm not saying it won't happen again but probably the odds get less as you set yourself for roles that fit your age group."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: After directing awhile, you get an instinct about it, but you have to be able to trust your own feelings. Invariably, two-thirds of the way through a film, you say, \"Jeezus, is this a pile of crap! What did I ever see in it in the first place?\" You have to shut off your brain and forge ahead, because by that time you're getting so brainwashed. Once I commit myself to a film I commit myself to that ending, whatever the motivations and conclusions are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Casting a film is to me one of the most important things next to the writing. If you cast it properly everything takes place very easily. If you cast it improperly you're fighting an uphill battle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: You definitely do not do films for that particular reason. You do them for yourself, for your satisfaction of creating this thing with characters and watching these characters take on real life - that's all you care about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: There's really no way to teach you how to act, but there is a way to teach you how to teach yourself to act. That's kind of what it is; once you learn the little tricks that work for you, pretty soon you find yourself doing that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: When I see a story, I ask: is this something I'd like to be in? Is this something I'd like to see? And if I'd like to see it, would I like to tell it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: A talented executive would be somebody who knows how to surround themselves with a lot of people that will make him look good. You could say that about a politician or you could say that about a head of a major corporation or what have you. The people you surround yourself with it's very important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Most people who'll remember me, if at all, will remember me as an action guy, which is okay. There's nothing wrong with that. But there will be a certain group which will remember me for the other films, the ones where I took a few chances. At least, I like to think so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I've done a few special effects movies in my life, so I've gotten that out of my system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: And I think it's that time. And I think if you just step aside and Mr. Romney can kind of take over. You can maybe still use a plane. Though maybe a smaller one. Not that big gas guzzler you are going around to colleges and talking about student loans and stuff like that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I'm so glad for the dozens of times I haven't listened along the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I think great movies have to have some great moments in them to bring them up to that level."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: When anybody gives you an award, it could be wrong. You\u2019ve just got to bear that it mind and go ahead and enjoy it. Like Morgan says, it\u2019s a pat on the back, so great you\u2019ll take it and then move on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I've taken advantage of a few breaks that came along and moved along with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Nobody wants to make something that displeases people, but once you make a film, that's out of your control and you can't think about that. You just have to follow your head and make sure that you're satisfied by putting down what you intended."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: You should just evaluate the work and make your judgments accordingly. That's the way you do it in life and every other subject."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Whatever the drama of the story is, you have to be true to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I'm a movie maker, but I have the same feelings as the average guy out there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: If you feel like you've got something to offer you should do it while the iron's hot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I can't do that to myself..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: What do you want me to tell Romney? I can't tell him to do that. I can't tell him to do that to himself. You're crazy. You're absolutely crazy. You're getting as bad as Biden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I always like to try different things, different genres; stories that have a dramatic element and can generate conflict which I find appealing; where the characters have to overcome obstacles. That kind of thing is challenging."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I've got to learn French because I've been going there for years and still, the only words I know are the swear words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I never expect anything. I am always amazed at why anybody goes to any movie or why anybody doesn't go to any movie. Any movie you make, you make it because you're hoping somebody wants to see it, but you never know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I never considered myself a cowboy, because I wasn`t. But I guess when I got into cowboy gear I looked enough like one to convince people that I was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: If you cast a film incorrectly, then you're going to be fighting an uphill battle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Dyin' ain't much of a living, boy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: If you can make a good picture that actually has some substance, that's doubly good nowadays 'cause most everybody else is trying to address how many CGI plates we're gonna do, what little being is gonna come in from another asteroid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I'd been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years. And then, in 1970, when I first started directing, I if I could pull this off, I can some day just move in back of the camera and stay there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Winning the election is a good-news, bad-news kind of thing. Okay, now you're the mayor. The bad news is, now you're the mayor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I don't know how everybody else feels, but I just long for reality rather than these made-up things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: The craving for information is so huge now, and it can be marketed at such a rapid rate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: You get to a certain age and you're just glad to be there. I don't know what to add to that. It's fun. You have to be a realist, so you try to look for roles that are within the age you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: A lot of people when they retire, they just expire. It happens to men more than women. Women usually have great interest in the family, because the family's always growing and they're always coming to the rescue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I just make the pictures and where they fall is where they fall. If somebody likes them, that's always nice. And if they don't like them, then too bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: They've got this crazy actor who's 82 years old up there in a suit. I was a mayor, and they're probably thinking I know how to give a speech, but even when I was mayor I never gave speeches. I gave talks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Every story has its demands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I always felt blessed that I was able to make a living in a profession [acting] that not a lot of people can make a living at, and I was able to do something I liked, rather than be in a job that I hated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: At some point in your fife, your tolerance level goes down and you realize that, with someone much younger, there's nothing really to talk about. And I think we're at a point now where a lot of older women take better care of themselves, compared to the 1940s and '50s when women were programmed to figure it's all over after 30."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: You change as the years go by. The more knowledge you get, the more things change in your life and circumstances change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I don't mind telling a dark side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I don't watch a lot of films. I'm usually involved in making them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: There's something about the first time an actor runs the material over his or her face you know when they kind of run it through their eyes and you see the thing and there is little imperfections in it and not every line is delivered perfectly, and it doesn't have that mechanical feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I don't believe in pessimism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I'm not a chick-flick enthusiast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Am I aging? The pros and the cons? Well, you know a lot more, at least until the time you start forgetting it all. Actually, aging can be a fun process, to some degree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I just feel that I enjoy the work more than I ever have... or just as much certainly... I enjoy making films behind the camera equally to making them in front of the camera on all those years. I just enjoy it, that's all. I've been lucky enough to work in a profession that I have really liked and so I figured I'd just continue until someone hits me over the head and says \"get out\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I think as you get older, you find you can play more things because you're moving to a different category. You play a certain thing as a younger man, playing action roles like I did. Then I moved out, and I kept trying to do different things all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I'm just naturally gravitating towards different things. As you mature, different subject matters. And as you're older, you can't play as many parts, or you shouldn't be playing the parts that you used to play. But also there's the opportunity to play parts that you couldn't have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I don't have any great pickup lines. I was never an extrovert, so I always had to have someone meet me halfway. If she was interested, we'd come together, and if not ... When I became a movie actor and became well-known, it took care of itself. Maybe that's why I became an actor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Having the security of being in a series week in, week out gives you great flexibility; you can experience with yourself, try a different scene different ways. If you make a mistake one week, you can look at it and say, 'Well, I won't do that again,' and you're still on the air next week."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I've lived through the shooting of movie, the editing and every other process along the way, so it's not for me to really judge it. I'll probably look at it again five years from now to get a fresh feel for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Actors know what actors are insecure about - and they're all insecure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: My wife and I are both Libertarian; she was a Democrat and I was a Republican, and we both met in the middle somewhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Conflict is the basis of drama. I guess that goes back as long as time has existed as far as mankind is concerned, dating back to the Greek tragedies or the Old Testament. And violence is a form of conflict, so whether that's catharsis or whether that has some socially damaging effect on audiences - I suppose that would just depend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: You have to go with your instincts. I remember when I was about to make \"Fistful of Dollars\" a big article came out that said, \"Italian Westerns are finished.\" I said, \"Swell.\" Then, of course, the film came out, and it did something. I'm so glad for the dozens of times I haven't listened along the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: If the director's a communist, whatever, he's a communist. All I care is that he directs. For the actor, the same thing. All you really care is that he comes in and performs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: For a man, once you've sired your pups, you're done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Scott Eastwood always came in and did a good job. And he's now graduated to better roles, and the chicks are all calling and asking where Scott is. They used to ask where I was. Now they're going, \"What about Scott?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: We were dealing with films that had very prominent roles for women and I felt I was actually contributing something. Many people had wondered why I would want to do a film where the best part was a woman's part. But I wasn't afraid to be the lesser intelligence in a film."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I think the only way it has influenced me is to cause me to try to branch out and do other things. So that people will know that I am reaching out and trying to be a little more versatile. So they realize he is not a \"Dirty Harry.\" He doesn't advocate martial law or mayhem -it's a character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I haven't been very active in politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: As you get older, you change certain things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Everybody wants to make something they think is a surefire winner, though nobody knows what a surefire winner is, in my opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Acting is an animal thing, not an intellectual thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I like a drama. And I think that's the basis of good films, or good plays, is to have a nice drama."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I've never been on a movie where they play five-dollar Friday. I must not be very observant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I was forty the first time I directed. I formed a company in 1967, looking to the future. My dad taught me that whatever you do, do it well. Be the best at what you can do for that particular job in life. That always resonated with me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I don't necessarily look for dark themes; they just seem to appear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: With people in high office, the old - you go into the extreme, which is absolute power and absolute power corrupts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: When you think of a particular director, you think you would have liked to be with them on one particular film and not necessarily on some other one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: When you're an actor, you're so busy: people are always coming up to you and pulling your collar, making sure that things fit, brushing your hair and you're always being yanked up, so finally when you're behind a camera, you're just a slob."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Hitchcock used to believe that if there were three or four memorable scenes in a film that would be enough to drive it, but I don't know if that's true or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Everybody puts importance in money on a film set."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: When I was a kid, I remember the first Batman, the first Superman comic books when they came out, thinking how great that was and wouldn't it be great to see a movie like that. They did some cheap serials, but they're not the same as today. But I think younger audiences would like to see a real hero also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I'd say, go ahead, shoot your shot. More power to ya if you can come up with a different angle on the character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: There are so many parallels in society today [with era of J. Edgar Hoover ] that you can use, whether it's the head of a studio or the head of an organization, a major newspaper, a major factory or company, of people who stay too long, maybe, and overstay their usefulness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I don't write. I usually look for material by other people. Sometimes I change things or adapt things but I don't write from scratch. I wish I had that ability."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I just don't want to copy the current trends or do movies for teenagers. I want people to get more out of movies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me. The horse is out of the barn... In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don't try to play younger than I really am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: The only reason I ever thought about retiring from the front part of the camera as opposed to the back is sometimes you think, \"How many roles are there for someone my age?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: The story [for the western genre] is everything. Whether it's a book or a screenplay, the story drives everything. And if you just go out and try to make one by putting on boots and jumping on a horse and riding off... If you don't have the material, the characters and the things to overcome and conflicts that give life to drama, you don't have it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I have great respect for the FBI, and I know that there have been some rumors lately that the FBI was disenchanted because of what we were doing in story, or doing a certain take: that's not true. Actually the FBI was tremendously enthusiastic about us doing [ J. Edgar Hoover ] film."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: [FBI] philosophy is \"Go ahead and make the story you want to make, and hopefully we'll love it.\" So that's that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I just kind of had my own impressions growing up with Hoover as a heroic figure in the 40s - actually the 30s, 40s, and 50s and beyond - but this was all prior to the information age so we didn't know about Hoover except what was usually in the papers, and this was fun, because this was a chance to go into it [ during filming 'J. Edgar Hoover' ]"
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: In America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the audience. They come up with the demographics for the film and then the film is made and sold strictly to that audience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: If you've done what you intended and if nobody tampered with it, then it's yours. And if people don't like it, then they just don't agree with you on that subject matter, and that's life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: As a movie actor, once you've become known, you're observed all the time so you don't get the chance to observe anymore. You still get a taste of life but it's not quite the same and there's something to be said for a more anonymous life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: [ J. Edgar]Hoover, I'm sure, felt that he was right in everything he did and even the things that we don't like about his character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Historically, actors have been made very famous for roles that were something that was far - - Richard Widmark comes to mind (playing Tommy Udo in \"Kiss of Death\") or something like that, where you do some famous role and everybody imitates you for the rest of your life. But obviously it's much more fun to play something you're not than it is to play something you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: I do believe if one keeps busy it's very good for a person. In fact, people are always rushing into retirement and we read in Europe that people there are talking about their retirement age and moving it to 67 or something. Well, back when they started retirement funds and everything, the average age was 70 or 60, and then all of a sudden now it's 80, and so. [...] And so you keep in shape, you keep yourself mentally in shape. And if you keep yourself mentally in shape, chances are physically it will follow suit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Clint Eastwood: Acting gets into your blood, after so many years, and I just always like revisiting it. It's fun to meet new people and watch them coming along, at different stages of their careers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Working hard is important. But there is something that matters even more, believing in yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I'm very comfortable discussing my personal life, because it's so boring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: There's no shame in enjoying the quiet life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I will never, ever do a film as successful as the Harry Potter series. But neither will anyone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: As much as I would love to be a person that goes to parties and has a couple of drinks and has a nice time - that doesn't work for me. I do that very unsuccessfully. I'd just rather sit at home and read, or go out to dinner with someone, or talk to someone I love, or talk to somebody that makes me laugh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I\u2019m an atheist, and a militant atheist when religion starts impacting on legislation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I'm an atheist, but I'm very relaxed about it. I don't preach my atheism, but I have a huge amount of respect for people like Richard Dawkins who do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Though I am not religious in the least, I am very proud to be Jewish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I thought I was an actor playing a wizard. But really, I was a wizard playing an actor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: The only thing I can think of is my favorite album at the moment by this guy called Father John Misty, and the album is called I Love You, Honeybear. It's just brilliant. It's the album I'm currently obsessed with. It is original, and the lyrics are fantastic and [it's] brilliant. So that's blowing me away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: There were some parts of the film [Swiss Army Man] that the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] really wanted to look as elegant as a piece of ballet. As Hank and Manny go on in the story, they get better and better at being with each other and more and more adept - Hank knows more and more what Manny's going to need at any given point, and having that choreography helps a bit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: There's no shame in enjoying a quiet life. And that's been the realization of the past few years for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Harry Potter star Daniel Radcliffe has confessed that until recently, he thought the 16-year-old fellow tween idol [Justin Bieber] was a female. 'I only heard Justin Bieber for the first time two weeks ago. I genuinely thought it was a woman singing. I'd never heard it before. Is it big in England yet?'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: The real challenge of acting for me, I suppose, is just getting to know a character very, very well and just applying what I know about them to every single scene. That's what it can be broken down to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I am very critical! I hate watching myself but I know I have to because I'm going to be asked so I need to have some sort of semblance of what the films with me are like. But it's not an enjoyable experience watching yourself. I hate it less than I used to but I still don't enjoy it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I think part of me would love to play a drag queen, just because it would be an excuse to wear loads of eye makeup."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Yes, gay marriage is about symbolically blessing a relationship, but the larger issue is about transmitting a fundamental message about equality. Gay people should have equality in law everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: England is my home. London is my home. New York feels like, if I have to spend a year living in an unfamiliar city, this is a pretty lovely one to spend a year in, but I will be going home at the end of it, certainly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I sort of try to read the books when they come out impartially and not make up my mind, but the fact is when I was reading the sixth, 'Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince', there were bits in there where I was going, 'God, I would love to do that because it's so good'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I used to joke I was a point-and-click actor. My whole process has been about trusting your instincts and hitting your mark."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Everyone on the set has a mobile phone, and I found by pushing a few buttons, they could be programmed into different languages. I fixed Robbie's Coltrane to speak in Turkish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: If you like the book, you'll hate the movie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3 headed-dog because then no one would argue with me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I'm 5-foot-5, and I'll wear a big parka and put the hood up, and nobody gives me a second glance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I'm not an easy person to love. There are lots of times when I'm a very good boyfriend, but there are times when I'm useless. I mean, I'm a mess around the house. I talk nonstop. I become obsessed with things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Religion leaves no room for human complexity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: What first attracted me to doing Swiss Army Man was just how mental it was - how insane and wonderful and original the script was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: There's no blueprint for where I should be. I see myself as a young, good actor who still has a lot to learn. There's nobody at any point in their career who is the finished article."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: In my experience of doing physical scenes, half of your energy is spent on trying to get the other actor to enter into it physically with you. Most actors don't want to hurt each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Sometimes you can't help but pay attention to what is written about you. You are trying not to because it's generally not constructive, it can be very funny, in which case it's fine to pay attention to it if you're going to laugh about it. But if it's going to get you angry then it's a pretty pointless waste of energy, so I try and be selective about what I take an interest in about myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Both of my parents have been actors; there were a lot of show tunes on in the car all of the time. I grew up with that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I enjoy any type of physical transformation. I enjoy working with the hair and makeup department and I enjoy watching people be very good at their jobs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I've learnt a lot about certain things but you also learn through your own experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: The one piece of advice I would give to any actor is, if you want to go out on the street without being recognised, without even being looked at, go out with a 6ft 8in beautiful transsexual. No one gives you a second glance. Especially when you're 5ft 5in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: There is always this thing of will you get too old for your part? But people are playing a lot younger than they actually are in real life. I don't think it's as big an issue as a lot of people are making it out to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I've always had a slightly overactive imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Obviously, I've been very lucky in general in my career, but I feel that I've been very lucky in terms of having directors come along at the right times who have taken me to the next level of where I needed to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Ironing boards are a classic example of something I find horrible about modern society: the excitementation, for want of a better word, of mundane things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: When you're seventeen to early twenties, that's the time you're trying to work out who you are. If you're trying to make some kind of artistic or creative impact, that's the age when you start to figure out how to do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: There is something inherently valuable about being a misfit. It's not to say that every person who has artistic talent was a social outcast, but there is definitely a value for identifying yourself differently and being proud that you are different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I grew up around gay people my entire life, basically, that\u2019s possibly why I\u2019m quite camp, and some people think I\u2019m gay when I meet them, which I think is awesome. It\u2019s always good to keep them guessing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Stage is much more intimidating than going before the cameras, because you can really screw up, and can't do a retake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: My favorite phrase, that a friend of mine who worked on the Potter films and was a lot older than me would use in front of me, and I picked up from him many great phrases - the English have a lot of great idioms for sweating. I don't know why that is. But that's what we do. I feel like it's particularly our country; probably everywhere has a lot of idioms for sweating. He always said, \"I'm sweating like a glassblower's asshole,\" which I always found an incredibly strange and yet vivid image."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I'm the only kid in the world who doesn't want an eighth Harry Potter book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: The paparazzi were outside the theatre every single night, but we came up with a cunning ruse. I would wear the same outfit every time - a different T-shirt underneath, but I'd wear the same jacket and zip it up so they couldn't see what I was wearing underneath, and the same hat. So they could take pictures for six months, but it would look like the same day, so they became unpublishable. Which was hilarious, because there's nothing better than seeing paparazzi getting really frustrated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Somebody I love and have a huge amount of respect for once told me something that, to this day, I don't really think I understand. It was probably toward the end of Harry Potter, and they were talking to me about afterwards and that kind of stuff. And they were saying, \"You need to think of yourself as a brand and you need to protect that brand.\" I just don't understand what that really means in terms of being an actor, and I also think I would find that a slightly soul-destroying way to look at myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I like the idea of not having to do stuff for the money, and if I want to, I can pick indie projects for the rest of my life and be quite happy doing that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I want to write and direct, but I don't think if I did it for 100 years I would ever come close to putting something out there that gives a feeling of all-encompassing and joyous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: To be fair, it's not even the first time I've seen a dead version of myself. There was one on Harry Potter, on the last movie, that they actually used to bring to set in a body bag."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I think it speaks to the fact that other people are as excited about originality as we are. I think the thing that has been wonderfully communicated in the trailers and all the promotion for the movie [Swiss Army Man] is that it isn't like anything else you've ever seen, and we're not just saying that. I think that excites people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I just want to keep working, really. I just want to keep acting. Playing one part for a very long time builds up in you a desire to play as many different things as you can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: All it takes is for me to be seen chatting up a girl for [tabloids] to, you know, make up some crappy headline about me being a sex rat or whatever they call it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: When actors aren't filming they just go to their dressing rooms and relax."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: As an actor, I think sort of relish the chance to take a leap and sort of put yourself out there. You know, it's, like on any film, you just have to be willing to embarrass yourself, because otherwise you are not going to really reveal anything that you have. So I think it's exciting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Paul [Dano] was amazing at carrying me around [in Swiss Army Man]. I wanted to be there as much as possible but didn't want to hurt Paul's back, but Paul often chose me over the dummy many times on the set. But yeah, to be honest, a little bit of preparation I did with my friend in my flat could never have prepared me for quite the level of physical reliance we would have on each other."
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    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I was worried on a personal level because I wanted to be slightly taller than I am, ideally. But I've now accepted it. Basically, I came to the conclusion a while ago that you can either be really bitter about it or you can make loads of funny jokes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I mean I've seen 3D films so far and I think it's a long way to go before they replace actors. It's a funny thing with 3D, I haven't quite got it yet. Yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: If you're on a date and somebody comes up and says, \"Oh, I loved you in Harry Potter,\" it's a bit weird, because you suddenly start thinking, \"Oh, God. Is this weird for the other person I'm here with, or is this weird for my family?\" But generally speaking, I don't really think because I was thrown into it so young and kind of always had that, it's just something you get used to. And most of the time... It was interesting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I would love to work in America. I wouldn't love to live there, but I'd love to experience working there."
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I'm very interested in religion as something to study, but I'm not a religious person in the slightest."
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot. I don't know if it's maybe from being on films that's often playing Harry [Potter] or I just think it's a natural thing that I have. It's something that I think about just because it's fascinating in a very alien kind of way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Acting is really instinctual and I think you can overanalyse what you're doing. A lot of it has to be based on instinct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I'm somebody who is very, very proud to have been a part of the British film industry all my life and to have kind of been involved with a very important piece of British film history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: In terms of drama school, what that will give you that you won't necessarily learn on a film set is the technical ability - ie, projecting your voice and stage craft."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I'm very proud of being Jewish. It means I have a good work ethic, and you get Jewish humour and you're allowed to tell Jewish jokes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I don't think there's anything that I would really baulk at doing on-screen. I don't think so. I've got certain pet peeves about writing... my pet peeve about reading scripts is when they give you a line reading and there'll be a line but next to your character's name it'll say 'very angry'. But I'm like: \"Well, I'll decide that actually!\" So, there's little things like that. That's a slight pet peeve."
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    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I don't think that you necessarily need a certain type of background to take on roles. You see actors from very, very privileged backgrounds playing working class characters and vice-versa. I don't think your background limits you as to what you can do."
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I'm a serial monogamist. I'm not one of those people that can date loads of people at the same time, it's all too complicated."
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I don't know what to do with it. I'm very fortunate to have it, and it gives you room to maneuver. But the main thing about having money is it means you don't have to worry about it. And that for me is a lovely thing. It's not for fast cars and hookers."
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: If you spent a proper amount of time with me, you would probably wonder if I was on drugs - I'm not. I'm just incredibly hyperactive and manic. I can be quiet and serious at the same time."
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I think Harry Potter's very important. Every opportunity I will get for the rest of my life, I would not have got if it wasn't for Harry Potter. And it would be height of ingratitude if I was ever anything but proud to be associated with these films."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I think pressure is a good thing and it's good to be able to feel it and use it and experience the feeling of it and especially if you can get past it."
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    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: For me, you go to university to meet lots of different people from different backgrounds. I think that's one of the most important things you get there. And you also get some sense of direction regarding what you want to do when you leave. I sort of know what I want to do in my life - I want to act and ultimately I'd like to write. And in terms of meeting people from different backgrounds, that's what you get on a film set. So the two most valuable things that university would have given me I've sort of achieved by being on a film set."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Some people are asking me questions like this is a more shocking subject, which is so strange."
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I know me, and I know that I'm not somebody that particularly merits a lot of screaming and shouting. And there's nothing special about me as opposed to hundreds of thousands of other people everywhere."
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I think that the process of making a film is an underrated factor in how that film turns out."
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I don't think of those things [from farting, to male on male affection, to crossdressing] as being taboo, I suppose, so it didn't strike me as, \"Oh, I'm breaking boundaries and stuff...\""
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I definitely think the idea of friend zone is just men going, 'This woman won't have sex with me.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I think I'm always very na\u00efve. With 'Kill Your Darlings' and 'Horns', I'm like, \"Why wouldn't everybody love this?\" But I guess it's going to divide people in some ways. But if you're willing to go with it and suspend your disbelief, you're going to get something amazing and something unlike anything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: To be honest, I would like to have worked with Peter Sellers, because when people talk about classic British actors, you talk about Lawrence Olivier, and Peter Sellers was just in the most amazing films."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I'm not too worried about humanity in the future. I think we've got an innate ability as a species to self-correct."
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: All these things, social media or [smart] phones or the things that distract us from each other, are fairly new. They're all fairly new inventions, and I think we're in a stage where we sort of as a whole have gotten these new toys and we're just obsessed with playing with them. I feel like after a period of adjustment it will inevitably be a regression from where we are now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: People tell me I look mournful. They say, \"Cheer up, Dan, it's not that bad!\" Sometimes, I just look into space, which freaks people out. If I was ever required to do anything other than look haunted, I could. I'm a happy person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I Google myself to see what come up when you Google Daniel Radcliffe because that's always amusing."
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: What I love about the gay thing is that every single person I type into Google, it doesn't matter if it's Florence Welch, anybody, if you are not being called gay you don't have a career. That's my theory!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I still have issues around forgetting that it's my life and if I want to do something, I can do it."
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I'm into weird kind of, anything that resembles magical realism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: We would choreograph [ with Paul Dano] before each scene [in Swiss Army Man] and very quickly got to a place where we could improvise physically in scene and know that the other person would respond in character appropriately. So that [dynamic] was a lot of fun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: My friends have always called me 'Mr. Thorough,' in that when I get into something, I become obsessed with it."
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I had one relative who passed away but fortunately none others. So my sort of experience of it is quite limited, thankfully."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Part of an actor's job is to find correlations between your own life and the life of the person you are playing."
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I'm thrilled of the acceptance I get abroad. The people are so hearty, warm and grateful and I feel privileged having seen so many countries and some of the greatest monuments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: There were a few years there when I was just so enamored with the idea of living some sort of famous person's lifestyle that really isn't suited to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: My taste in the films I've taken as an actor is similar to what I'd do a director or writer: all quite odd, challenging stuff, slightly off-the-wall."
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: The sixth Harry Potter film - I don't like my performance in that film at all."
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I've always thought that as long as directors and casting directors don't see me as just Harry Potter, I'll be OK. People have shown a lot of faith in me, and I owe them a huge debt. They're letting me prove that I'm serious about this."
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I've never been one of the cool people at school, but then again, I don't get the people who are cool. It's not that I don't like them, it's just that they don't interest me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: If I can make a career for myself after Harry Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: There are two types of poets: People who write poetically about their lives, and poets that live poetically and write about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I'm possibly a very morbid person but I think about death a lot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I take things in better when I'm allowed to talk, and respond, and engage and move around a bit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I seem to be a long-term relationship kinda guy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I would consider doing any part as long as the script is good and the film has an interesting director."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: And the people I'm best friends with on the films are not generally the actors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I could never do stand-up because it's that thing of having to get up on stage. And out of every 10 jokes you tell, nine of them have to get a really good response."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I'm not clean or even vaguely pleasant to be around in a domestic situation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I think, as an actor, and particularly if you are playing the lead in something, you have to view yourself as the head of department for the cast. All of the other departments are accountable and have somebody at the helm who is leading them all the time, and I don't think that the actors should be any different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I pretty much left full-time, formal education when I was 11. So that was when I was taken out of the school system... I think the longest stretch I would go back for was a term and a half when I was about 14."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: When you're in the position I'm in, you have two options: you can either shut yourself off from everybody, from the world, and not live a full life. Or you welcome everybody into your life and occasionally somebody will try to take advantage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: There's an incredible comfort level that I have on film sets because it's where I've grown up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I know it wouldn't seem like I've had a lot of failure in my career, but there are things that I regard as failures, when I look at certain performances and go, 'That's not good enough.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: As an actor, there is room for a certain amount of creativity, but you're always ultimately going to be saying somebody else's words. I don't think I'd have the stamina, skill or ability to write a novel, but I'd love to write short stories and poetry, because those are my two passions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I absolutely don't relate to being beaten down my whole life - I had amazing opportunities at a young age - but there is still in many, many people's minds the notion that I'll never be able to escape Harry Potter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: A lot of modern horror can leave me cold, and I'm not good with blood and gore and all that stuff. It's not fun for me. There's nothing entertaining about watching a film like that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I think any actor worth their salt wants to show as much versatility as they possibly can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I'm not clumsy, I'm just accident prone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I haven\u2019t always been thrilled with my work. But the fear of not proving the people wrong who think you can\u2019t emerge from a franchise and do well, that\u2019s a very strong driving force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I have no idea how much money I've got."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Franchises aren't to be avoided. They can be exciting, and they give you opportunities to do other films."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I suppose whenever you go through periods of transition, or in a way, it's a very definite closing of a certain chapter of your life. I suppose those times are always going to be both very upsetting and also very exciting by the very nature because things are changing and you don't know what's going to happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Fans are really important for me. And if they take pains to write me, it's the minimum that I answer myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I was very much a product of the public-school system. There was only one other kid in my class who had parents not involved in the stock market or law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: You have to find out who you are aside from what the media say you are. If you've become reliant on them for kind of a sense of self, then you're really screwed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: The happiest I ever am is spending time with a group of really good friends. That's all I aspire to in life, really."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I'm certainly lucky to have got famous through something that was so well liked, generally speaking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Potter for me is something that's been giving me these amazing opportunities to start a career and learn while I'm doing, which is the best way to learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I remember Paul [Dano] had said at one point that when he finished this film [Swiss Army Man] was the strongest he'd ever been just from lugging me around for [several] weeks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I would say I was challenging the system quite. But I like to think that if the choices I make are slightly unexpected or challenging to people, then that is good. We are definitely three fairly like-minded people in terms of what we value in scripts and in storytelling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I think any man who says he has never had an awkward moment with a girl, is a liar or he's delusional because he's sitting there thinking he is doing really well and the girl is thinking \"Who is this man and why is he talking to me?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I definitely want to go on acting for as long as I can find employment. I'm never happier than when I'm on a film set. I just want to keep working."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I really enjoy working physically."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: The idea the actors are the most important people on a film set I think is very stupid. Actors are the most replaceable people there. There are literally millions of us. There's very few people that can operate a steady-cam. The numbers are a lot, lot fewer for that, you know?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Every day the Daniels [Kwan and Scheinert] would come up with some amazing solution and [make it easy] to put yourself in their hands. There's something really lovely about knowing you're working with directors who know exactly what they want and exactly what they're looking for, and they're not going to move on until they have it. That, as an actor, frees you up a lot because you can [try different approaches] and they'll only use what's appropriate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Every day I would come to set [of Swiss Army Man] going like, \"How are we going to do this?\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: It was a lot of fun to play a character [in Swiss Army Man] with no inhibitions, and with no knowledge of the world, and who comes into the world kind of like a blank slate. It means there's no template or blueprint for how you need to play certain scenes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Maybe it's a compliment to the film that you can't do that with it, that it can't be explained in 15 seconds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: 'Insane Farting Corpse' is a really hard movie to do a Q&A for. The audience is still kind of reeling and being like, \"I don't know what to ask.\""
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: A gay murder movie is never going to be, like, breaking box office records."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I'll miss some of the opportunities that playing Harry [Potter] brought me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: If you're having a bad day, get on with your job, because you having a bad day can affect everyone around you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: We sing a lot of the soundtrack in this film [Swiss Army Man] - me and Paul Dano - and on the last day of filming we had to just get into the back of our sound mixer's van and record a really crappy, rough version of the singing then. For some reason that was one of the most fun days."
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: Those things [t hydraulic penises and prosthetic butts and all that] can be what's genuinely shocking about the movie [Swiss Army Man] because people wouldn't expect to be moved by any of it."
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: It's really good to talk about it [ hydraulic penises and prosthetic butts], and it's very gratifying when people ask us about the other aspects of the film [Swiss Army Man], but [those things] are part of the movie and they're important and hilarious, a very fun part of the movie, so there's no sense from us of not wanting to talk about that. I think it's exciting that those things exist in a film that is also very heartfelt and emotional and profound."
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  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I think it was pretty obvious early on that we had both come with kind of the same attitude of \"Let's just [jump] in,\" and neither of us was going to be precious about it. I feel like the thing that we learned is, weirdly, the most intimate thing or a very intimate thing you can do to somebody is hold their tongue with your fingers. When Paul [Dano] is making me talk [in Swiss Army Man]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Daniel Radcliffe: I think it's kind of great, to be honest. I'll never do another film [like Swiss Army Man] where I get to talk about those things, so I might as well enjoy it while I can."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Find out who you are and be that person. That's what your soul was put on this Earth to be. Find that truth, live that truth and everything else will come."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Never follow anyone else's path, unless you're in the woods and you're lost."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It's about knowing and accepting who you are."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I learned compassion from being discriminated against. Everything bad that's ever happened to me has taught me compassion."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: It must be around forty, when you're \"over the hill.\" I don't even know what that means and why it's a bad thing. When I go hiking and I get over the hill, that means I'm past the hard part and there's a snack in my future. That's a good thing as far as I'm concerned."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: True beauty is not related to what color your hair is or what color your eyes are. True beauty is about who you are as a human being, your principles, your moral compass."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Human beings only use ten percent of their brains. Ten percent! Can you imagine how much we could accomplish if we used the other sixty percent?"
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: My point is, life is about balance. The good and the bad. The highs and the lows. The pina and the colada."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: We all feel like idiots at one time or another. Even if we feel we're cool 98 percent of the time, that 2-percent doofus is poised to take over our bodies without any warning."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Honestly, we'd probably be great parents. But it's a human being, and unless you think you have excellent skills and have a drive or yearning in you to do that, the amount of work that that is and responsibility - I wouldn't want to screw them up! We love our animals."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Being a teenager and figuring out who you are is hard enough without someone attacking you."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Normally, I try not to pay attention to my haters, but this time I'd like to talk about it, because my haters are my motivators."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: It's failure that gives you the proper perspective on success."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are. That's where us gay people come from - you heterosexuals."
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    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I am saddened by how people treat one another and how we are so shut off from one another and how we judge one another, when the truth is, we are all one connected thing. We are all from the same exact molecules."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: If you want to get rid of stuff, you can always do a good spring-cleaning. Or you can do what I do. Move."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I\u2019d like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I\u2019ve tried to meditate, but it\u2019s really hard for me to stay still. I\u2019d like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can\u2019t shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Be kind to one another. Bye, bye."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: If we're destroying our trees and destroying our environment and hurting animals and hurting one another and all that stuff, there's got to be a very powerful energy to fight that. I think we need more love in the world. We need more kindness, more compassion, more joy, more laughter. I definitely want to contribute to that."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I personally chose to go vegan because I educated myself on factory farming and cruelty to animals, and I suddenly realized that what was on my plate were living things, with feelings. And I just couldn't disconnect myself from it any longer. I read books like 'Diet for a New America' and saw documentaries like 'Earthlings' and 'Meet your Meat,' and it became an easy choice for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: And now I've got to explain the smell that was in there before I went in there. Does that ever happen to you? It's not your fault. You've held your breath, you just wanna get out, and now you open the door and you have to explain, 'Oh! Listen, there's an odor in there and I didn't do it. It's bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: The problem with labels is that they lead to stereotypes and stereotypes lead to generalizations and generalizations lead to assumptions and assumptions lead back to stereotypes. It\u2019s a vicious cycle, and after you go around and around a bunch of times you end up believing that all vegans only eat cabbage and all gay people love musicals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: It's our challenges and obstacles that give us layers of depth and make us interesting. Are they fun when they happen? No. But they are what make us unique."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: We focus so much on our differences, and that is creating, I think, a lot of chaos and negativity and bullying in the world. And I think if everybody focused on what we all have in common - which is - we all want to be happy."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: The word \"yoga\" literally means \"uniting\", because when you're doing it you are uniting your mind and your body. You can tell this almost immediately because your mind will be thinking, \"Ouch, that hurts,\" and your body will say, \"I know.\" And your mind will think, \"You have to get out of this position.\" And your body will say, \"I agree with you, but I can't right now. I think I'm stuck."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I'm not an activist; I don't look for controversy. I'm not a political person, but I'm a person with compassion. I care passionately about equal rights. I care about human rights. I care about animal rights."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: So excited for the Apple Watch. For centuries, we've checked the time by looking at our phones. Having it on your wrist? Genius."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Now we have hands-free phones, so you can focus on the thing you're really supposed to be doing. Chances are, if you need both of your hands to do something, your brain should be in on it too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: For a long time I thought I knew for sure who I was. I grew up in New Orleans and became a comedian. And there was everything that came along with that. The nightclubs. The smoking. The drinking. Then I turned 13."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Some people believe that to find happiness, you should live each day of your life as if it's your last because that way you will appreciate every single moment you have. Other people believe that you should live each day as if it's your first because then every day can be the beginning of a new journey."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I'm a godmother, that's a great thing to be, a godmother. She calls me god for short, that's cute, I taught her that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: You're never too old to play. You're only too old for low-rise jeans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: If anybody could put themselves in that situation of feeling a giant loud voice saying you don't deserve the same rights, you are different and you are not equal, it feels really bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: We have two dogs, Mabel and Wolf, and three cats at home, Charlie, George and Chairman. We have two cats on our farm, Tom and Little Sister, two horses, and two mini horses, Hannah and Tricky. We also have two cows, Holy and Madonna. And those are only the animals we let sleep in our bed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: And the bottom line is we are who we are-we look a certain way, we talk a certain way, we walk a certain way. I strut because I\u2019m a supermodel, and sometimes I gallop for fun. When we learn to accept that, other people learn to accept us. So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless you\u2019re a serial killer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Usually, I wear tennis shoes because my feet are flat, and it hurts to wear anything other than shoes that are cushiony."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: So many people prefer to live in drama because it's comfortable. It's like someone staying in a bad marriage or relationship - it's actually easier to stay because they know what to expect every day, versus leaving and not knowing what to expect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: It is a fundamental right for people to be allowed to love who they want to love and marry who they want to marry and stop holding on to some form of discrimination that it's just isn't fair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I just feel like every kid is growing up too fast and they're seeing too much. Everything is about sex, and that's fine for me. I'm not saying I don't like it. But I don't think it should be everywhere, where kids are exposed to everything sexual. Because they have to have some innocence; there's just no innocence left."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, \"You may regret this,\" would have been fine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: The only thing that scares me more than space aliens is the idea that there aren't any space aliens. We can't be the best that creation has to offer. I pray we're not all there is. If so, we're in big trouble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I'm a lesbian, an Aquarian, and a vegetarian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: The only way a no-legged leopard could hurt you is if it fell out of a tree onto your head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an idea, then my quill breaks. Or I spill ink all over my writing tunic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: There are people out there hiding all kinds of things. People who have all this success and all this fame and all this money, and yet there are secrets that they think if we found out about, it would be over for them. And it's a horrible way to live whether you're famous or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: You listen to any monologue on late-night TV or just in general, to people talking, and there's always a joke at someone's expense. It's sarcasm; it's nasty. Kids grow up hearing that, and they think that's what humor is, and they think it's OK. But that negativity permeates the entire planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: We stock up on popcorn and candy like we're crossing the Sierras, don't we? I'll have a couple of soft pretzels, a hot dog, Milk Duds, Snocaps. Is that the largest popcorn you've got there, that bucket? You don't have a barrel or anything like that? Do you have a donkey or a pack mule or anything? - Oh, and a Diet Coke."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I cannot believe they haven't yet come up with a better screening process than the mammogram. If a man had to put his special parts inside a clamp to test him for anything, I think they would come up with a new plan before the doctor finished saying, \"Put that thing there so I can crush it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: My dad is still Christian Scientist. My mom's not, and I'm not. But I believe in God, and that there's a higher power and an intelligence that's bigger than us and that we can rely on. It's not just us, thinking we are the ones in control of everything. That idea gives me support."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Sometimes the greatest things are the most embarrassing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen days."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: One rough patch is not the big picture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these disorders with three letters because we don't have the time or patience to pronounce the entire disorder. That should be a disorder right there, TBD - Too Busy Disorder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Above all things physical, it is more important to be beautiful on the inside - to have a big hear and an open mind and a spectacular spleen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: All the commercials on TV today are for antidepressants, for Prozac or Paxil. And they get you right away. \"Are you sad? Do you get stressed, do you have anxiety?\" \"Yes, I have all those things! I'm alive!\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I used to beat myself up about weight and working out, and no matter what I did I never felt good about myself. I decided to accept myself and know that I am good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Haters are my motivators"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Portia and I have been married for 4 years and they have been the happiest of my life. And in those 4 years, I don't think we hurt anyone else's marriage. I asked all of my neighbors and they say they're fine"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: We're told to go on living our lives as usual, because to do otherwise is to let the terrorists win, and really, what would upset the Taliban more than a gay woman wearing a suit in front of a room full of Jews?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Designing is my hobby. If I didn't do what I do for a living - at some point when I don't do this for a living - I'll probably just do design work. I love finding really special pieces of furniture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: If we don\u2019t want to define ourselves by things as superficial as our appearances, we\u2019re stuck with the revolting alternative of being judged by our actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Do you live each day as if it's your first or your last? Either way you should probably have a diaper on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I would love for the world to be happier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Have you ever heard somebody sing some lyrics that you've never sung before, and you realize you've never sung the right words in that song? You hear them and all of a sudden you say to yourself, 'Life in the Fast Lane?' That's what they're saying right there? You think, 'why have I been singing 'wipe in the vaseline?' how many people have heard me sing 'wipe in the vaseline?' I am an idiot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: So be who you really are. Embrace who you are. Literally. Hug yourself. Accept who you are. Unless you're a serial killer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Start thinking positively. You will notice a difference. Instead of 'I think I'm a loser,' try 'I definitely am a loser.' Stop being wishy-washy about things! How much more of a loser can you be if you don't even know you are one? Either you are a loser or you are not. Which is it, stupid?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: We can sit and worry about what's going to happen to us two weeks from now. I'd rather focus on the amazing things happening right in front of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: It always helps to think about other people instead of ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I won't have a hard time being brutally honest. But I won't be mean. You don't have to be mean to be honest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: If your Birthday is on Christmas day and you're not Jesus, you should start telling people your birthday is on June 9 or something. Just read up on the traits of a Gemini. Suddenly you're a multitasker who loves the color yellow. Because not only do you get stuck with them combo gift, you get the combo song. \"We wish you a merry Christmas - and happy birthday, Terry - we wish you a merry Christmas - happy birthday, Terry - we wish you a merry Christmas and a happy New Ye - Birthday, Terry!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: There's lotion for your face, for your hands, for your feet, for your body. Why? What would happen if you put hand lotion on your feet? Would your feet get confused and start clapping? Each kind has something special in it - aloe, shea butter, coconut, cocoa butter, vanilla, lemon extract. That's not lotion. That's one ingredient short of a Bundt cake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important. It's hard to understand failure when you're going through it, but in the grand scheme of things it's good to fall down - not because you're drunk and not near stairs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I'm glad I'm funny. I'm glad I make people happy, because that's very important. But I'm proud to be known as a kind person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: The sixties were when hallucinogenic drugs were really, really big. And I don't think it's a coincidence that we had the type of shows we had then, like The Flying Nun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I don't think I remember my first memory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Never follow anyone else\u2019s path, unless you\u2019re in the woods and you\u2019re lost and you see a path and by all means you should follow that. Don\u2019t give advice, it will come back and bite you in the ass. Don\u2019t take anyone\u2019s advice. So my advice to you is to be true to yourself and everything will be fine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I like being busy and juggling a lot of things at the same time. I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I'm sure men have their own ways of trying to demean one another, but women can be very gossipy and judgmental, and that doesn't help."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Who needs sleep? I laugh in the face of sleep!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I know that experts say you're more likely to get hurt crossing the street than you are flying, but that doesn't make me any less frightened of flying. If anything, it makes me more afraid of crossing the street."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Most people don't get to laugh, be free, dance, be surrounded by this energy. It's important to remind people to take that home. I want the world to start shifting [to] a more positive energy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I do it because I love animals and I saw the reality. And I just couldn't ignore it anymore. I'm healthier for it, I'm happier for it. I can't imagine that if you're putting something in your body that is filled with fear or anxiety or pain, that that isn't somehow going to be inside of you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: No one is perfect, except for Pen\u00e9lope Cruz."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I still have the shirt I wore my first time on Johnny Carson's show. Only now I use it as a tablecloth at dinner parties. It was very blousy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I think the hard thing about this job [stand-up] I mean, I think this part is great but that the traveling is y'know, 'cause 'cause I'm gone a lot from home and this time I'm out for three-and-a-half weeks without going home, and that's hard, to be gone three-and-a-half weeks 'cause then I have to ask my friends, \"Would you mind going to the house and watering the plants, and turn some lights on and make it look like somebody's home, and make sure that the mobile over the crib isn't tangled or the baby's gonna get bored."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I have a terrible problem with procrastination. A friend told me, \"Well, you should go to therapy.\" And I thought about it, but then I said, \"Wait a minute. Why should I pay a stranger to listen to me talk when I can get strangers to pay to listen to me talk?\" And that's when I got the idea of touring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I don't want to get the same looks I give people when they get on a plane holding a baby: \"That's a cute baby, just keep walking, keep walking, keep going, keep going."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: My name is Ellen and I'm a vegetarian. Just to add another label to me: I am a lesbian, aquarian and vegetarian. I've said it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I've got a lot to say about television. There's a lot going on in television right now and I feel like a huge part of television."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: But I do believe that's when you do your soul-searching. I think when you have these trials that life gives you, it is an opportunity to find out who you are. Not just who you are when everything's great, but who are you when everything is taken away from you and you have nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: What you look like on the outside is not what makes you cool at all. I mean, I had a mullet and wore parachute pants for a long, long time, and I'm doin' okay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: People give me such a hard time because I don't wear dresses. What's that got to do with anything?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I was raised that you don't use something nice until there's someplace to go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: When people show me clothing that seems very, very feminine, it's hard for me to embrace that, because it just doesn't feel like me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I think I let go of the need for approval. It certainly feels good when you get it, but I used to be more desperate for it. Once I felt better inside about myself... I could do everything based on how I want to do things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: You know that song that asks, \"Why do fools fall in love?\"? I think the obvious answer is because they're fools."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: What would bug the Taliban more than seeing a gay woman in a suit surrounded by Jews?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I'm probably the most honest person you'll ever meet - to a fault, like, I-will-hurt-your-feelings honest. I'm sure if I lied about anything, it would have been silly, but I haven't retained that information."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Procrastinate now, don't put it off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new talent and talk about music, which is a passion of mine. I've written another book. And I get to come to work and do the TV show, which is always really fun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's called marriage. I don't care if it's called, you know, domestic partnership. I don't care what it's called."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I just like observing people - it's something I've done ever since I was a kid, and I got really good at it. That's a big part of why I became a comedian. My audience is filled with every kind of person you can imagine, and I love that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I love clothes, so when I wear clothes, they're usually somebody's. You know, I'm not wearing Kmart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Do you feel insecure because you keep getting the nagging feeling that you're not that smart? Well, I've got good news for you, my friend. You have no need to be insecure. That nagging feeling is absolutely right on target. You are not that smart. But I have more good news for you. You are also not alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Baloney is just salami with an inferiority complex."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I know that every time I list something that I am, I am potentially alienating a whole group of people. Publicists and managers will encourage you not to say what political party you belong to, what you eat, what you don't eat, who you sleep with and all that stuff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I do have ADD and in real life, I'm all over the place and can hardly focus. If we were talking for, for more than an hour or so, I'd start drifting off... I can't sit still too long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I collect old portraits. They're all just interesting pictures of people, and you just kind of wonder who they were and what they were. There's a guy - I don't know who he is, but he's wearing a suit. He's got his arms folded, and he looks like he sold insurance or something. I'm just wondering why someone painted him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: There are all sorts of books offering advice on how to deal with life-threatening situations, but where's the advice on dealing with embarrassing ones?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: That's what life is all about. There's a lot of crying. So you'd better cry now and get used to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Don't you hate when people are late to work. And they always have the worst excuses. \"Oh, I'm sorry I'm late, traffic.\" \"Traffic, huh? How do you think I got here; helicoptered in!?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I don't want to take a pill. Go to Africa, go follow some bushman around. He's being chased by a lion. That's stress. You're not going to find a pygmy on Paxil, I'll tell you that right now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I don't pay attention to the number of birthdays. It's weird when I say I'm 53. It just is crazy that I'm 53. I think I'm very immature. I feel like a kid. That's why my back goes out all the time, because I completely forget I can't do certain things anymore - like doing the plank for 10 minutes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I had everything I'd hoped for, but I wasn't being myself. So I decided to be honest about who I was. It was strange: The people who loved me for being funny suddenly didn't like me for being... me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I was raised in an atmosphere of 'everything's fine.' But as I got older, I was like, 'Well no, everything's not fine. There is stuff that's sad.' I am a really sensitive person. I think I am too sensitive sometimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I cannot imagine not going home to animals. They are the closest thing to God. They don't harbour resentment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Honestly, I would eat cardboard rather than go back to eating animals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Beauty isn\u2019t between a size zero and a size eight, it is not a number at all. It is not physical."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: When the message out there is so horrible that, to be gay, you can get killed for it... we need to change the message!!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I'm going to be kind, because then it all just kind of spreads, and the world is a little nicer out there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: There are \u201cwell-known secrets\u201d out there and there are people who are \u201cso happy they could die.\u201d Sometimes people are so sad they have to laugh and sometimes things feel so wrong, they\u2019re right. Basically what I\u2019m saying is, I usually don\u2019t know what people are talking about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: It's such an honor to receive the Mark Twain Prize. To get the same award that has been given to people like Bill Cosby, Tina Fey and Will Ferrell, it really makes me wonder\u2026 why didn't I get this sooner?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: ...we should be grateful for them because without our family\u2014the ancestors we descend from, the cousins we see once a year, the loves our lives we see every day\u2014life is pretty boring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: We went to lunch and were talking about procrastination and the waitress overheard us and she said, 'I have a problem with procrastination, too.' I said 'Really?... Get my sandwich.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Faith is part of who I am, yes. I was raised Christian Scientist. The most important thing I saw every single week on the wall at Sunday school was the Golden Rule: \"Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I'm a - I'm a, um, a godmother which is just, that's fun to be a godmother, she is so precious, she's the light of my life, she's two... or five or something, and she's, uh... I don't know, I've never seen her - the pictures are precious, she just seems so, y'know... She lives clear across town, I don't have that kind of time, but, um... Well, I send money and stuff, it's not like I don't have a connection..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Come on, if you don't win tonight it doesn't mean you're not a good person, it just means you're not a good actor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: You say you're sick and tired of hearing about me? I've got news for you: I'M sick and tired of hearing about me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: When there's time for whistling, there's a lot of time on a show."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: You know how you always expect someone to think the same as you and then your like, really shocked when they don't? Like when it's a cold day and you turn to the person next to you and say, 'Its so cold, aren't you cold?' and then they say 'no.' It's kinda like, 'what, are you a communist?'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getting rid of stuff. I'm not crazy. I also move so that I never have to wash any windows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: What goes up must come down, which is why I don't wear tube tops."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: When I decided to have my character on the show come out, I knew I was going to have to come out, too. I never wanted to be the lesbian actress. I never wanted to be the spokesperson for the gay community. Ever. I did it for my own truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I wanted to have money; I wanted to be special; I wanted people to like me; I wanted to be famous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I have an amazing team, I have amazing producers, I have amazing writers, but at the end of it, it's me making the decisions on the writing, the tone, the editing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: The stand up, everything was accidental. I never grew up and was the class clown and had to get the attention. It was - it really is, I have a career despite myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: For some reason, we can't just enjoy somebody else's success. Somehow, that's going to affect us. If they have more, then I have less - and I don't know why."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I have a great career, and I have wonderful fans who really are supportive and loyal - because I'm not hiding anything from them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I still get scared at night. Every tiny creak, every little noise, I open my eyes real wide and listen with them. Have you noticed that? When it\u2019s dark and you can\u2019t see a thing, you open your eyes really wide and glance back and force, like your eyes become your ears?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Haiku sounds like I'm Saying hi to someone named Ku. Hi, Ku. Hello."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I've learned 2 things about tv. It's always easier with vodka & SOME OF THE BEST SINGERS ARE FROM THE PHILIPPINES"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I look at anything in nature and how things work - the stars, the pyramids - and I can't imagine that there's not some kind of design to it all. There's got to be something big that we don't understand. I do believe in Jesus. I believe in being good to one another. Life is about spending our time here contributing and not taking away. That's my faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: That woman in the shampoo commercial - she's happy. She's... she's too happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: You know, if you're going to be honest with yourself, you have to admit that you go into show business wanting people to talk about you and wanting everyone to know who you are. But that also means there are going to be a whole bunch of people who don't like you. No matter who you are. I'm sure there's somebody out there who doesn't like Betty White because she's short and has white hair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: It's a lot of work to put a brand-new monologue and a brand-new show on the air and find comedy every single day. It's challenging and it's the hardest thing I have ever done, but it's the best-suited thing for me. The more relaxed I get and the more confident I feel, the more I get to play and be myself..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I don't consider myself an interviewer as much as an entertainer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I think furniture is art. I don't think art is just for your walls - I think everything that someone has made is a piece of art."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I get home at the end of the day and I don't want to talk. All I want to do is lay on the floor and pet my dogs and my cats."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: There's always time to do things that you're passionate about. ... If my name helps get something out there that I believe in then I am going to produce it. ... Design is really my true love."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I talked to Beyonce and she wants to learn how to speak Arabic and she wants to jump out of an airplane. I don't want to do that. I just don't want to wash my hair every day."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Sometimes something being taken away from you is exactly what you need to take a look at yourself."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: My dream guests are really not so much celebrities. They're people who are actually interesting and they're doing something interesting with their lives or had an interesting experience in some way. I really enjoy talking to regular, everyday people."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Standup is more me talking the entire time. There's definitely an exchange of energy because that room, that audience, is giving back."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: It's so much better for me to do a talk show. You still have that energy of the audience, and the audience is just as important as that guest that's sitting next to me. It's not about me and that guest exchanging energy and talking. It's about everything that's going on in that room, and they're as much a part of the show as anything. I like this better than anything I've ever done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Some celebrities, it's interesting, because they're fantastic playing a character when somebody is writing the lines for them, and they're amazing actors, but they're not as comfortable on television in front of a live audience and just having a conversation and being themselves."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I love furniture. And I thought, why are we not seeing who's making the cool new coffee table and these new designs that come out?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: We put the wrong emphasis on what beauty is and what health is. Health is being vibrant and having energy and being happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I always like using different muscles, you can take that however you want. But doing something once a year is fantastic, I highly recommended it if you can do it. It's a wonderful thing, it's very freeing and I can put a lot of energy and attention onto it and it's something I love doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I get my dance moves from just moving around and listening to music and not really worrying about if it's perfect or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I think there's a whole bunch of things that go along with being a girl. You're not supposed to have opinions or be tough or strong. You're supposed to be soft and vulnerable, and I find those qualities important in both men and women."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I think gender plays a part in most things, but I don't know how it would be different because I've never been a man. And my fame is different from Nicole Kidman's or Sharon Stone's. I think everybody's fame is different."
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  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I like sitting at outdoor restaurants; it would be nice to go someplace on the street and not worry about somebody taking my picture while I'm about to take a bite of something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I would rather be the good aunt who never says anything bad and lets the parents discipline the child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: It would be horrible to live with someone who didn't like the same things you like."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I had done a sitcom and a movie and hosted the Emmys, and all of a sudden, I lost everything. As someone put it at the time, I was suddenly like a Ferrari in neutral."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I watch people's behavior and notice things. I think that's why I became a comedian. I notice how stupid the things we do are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: I don't really ever live my life in fear. I really live my life in gratitude and feeling positive for the most part."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: If success is really dependent on someone liking you or not liking you, and you have to teeter on that kind of tightrope of how you're supposed to act and how you're supposed to look and who you are, it's just not a healthy way to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Above all, I strive to be the best I can - to be better than I was yesterday and better tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my day. If you can actually sit still and really get to that place of silence, you realize what's important and what's not important. Little things don't usually get to me anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ellen DeGeneres: It's just, you can get very complacent if you do the same thing all the time and especially the comedian, it gives me you know different things to react to and respond to, and it stimulates me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I don't want other people to decide who I am. I want to decide that for myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: All I can do is follow my instincts, because I'll never please everyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Feeling beautiful has nothing to do with what you look like. I promise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: If not me- who?, If not now- when?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Don't feel stupid if you don't like what everyone else pretends to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: There's nothing interesting about looking perfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: If you believe in equality, you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I think that it is very important if you know what you want, understand where you are heading towards, and try your best to get it. It is only when we use our hearts to do it, and fall in love with what we are doing, then can we really get real determination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: We really damage our own confidence when we put ourselves down, so I try not to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I don't want the fear of failure to stop me from doing what I really care about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: If I've learned anything, it's really just to stop trying to find answers and certainties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I truly, truly believe that beauty is something that comes from within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I do worry about the expectation to look a certain way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Harry Potter's like Santa Clause: something you can't see but wish was real so badly that you end up believing in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Both men and women should feel free to be sensitive. Both men and women should feel free to be strong... It is time that we all perceive gender on a spectrum not as two opposing sets of ideals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: My idea of sexy is that less is more. The less you reveal the more people can wonder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: But it's a journey and the sad thing is you only learn from experience, so as much as someone can tell you things, you have to go out there and make your own mistakes in order to learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I do things in my own way, but I've never felt any need to rebel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I think our fears find us and force us to confront them over and over again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I keep telling myself that I'm a human being, an imperfect human being who's not made to look like a doll, and that who I am as a person is more important than whether at that moment I have a nice figure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I HAVE REALIZED THAT FIGHTING FOR WOMEN'S RIGHTS HAS TOO OFTEN BECOME SYNONYMOUS WITH MAN-HATING. IF THERE IS ONE THING I KNOW FOR CERTAIN, IT IS THAT THIS HAS TO STOP."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Really I was open-minded about doing anything, but the one thing I didn't want to do was get myself into a corset, because I was worried I'd never get out again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: There's a Theodore Roosevelt speech about the importance of being in the arena, whether you fail or you succeed, or you make a complete idiot of yourself, as long as you're doing the best with what you have, using whatever knowledge you have to bring to the table at that moment. And you continue to keep learning. I think my mistakes have made me much stronger. It's nice to know that things don't ultimately break you; that you need to go there to know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: My friends are all really nice about my fame, they're just curious really, they ask lots of questions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: If you want to run for Prime Minister, you can. If you don't, that's wonderful, too. Shave your armpits, don't shave them, wear flats one day, heels the next. These things are so irrelevant and surface to what it is all really about, and I wish people wouldn't get caught up in that. We want to empower women to do exactly what they want, to be true to themselves, to have the opportunities to develop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Men, I would like to take this opportunity to extend your formal invitation. \u2026 Gender equality is your issue, too. \u2026 I've seen young men suffering from mental illness, unable to ask for help, for fear it would make them less of a men\u2014or less of a man. I've seen men made fragile and insecure by a distorted sense of what constitutes male success. Men don't have the benefits of equality, either."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: If men don\u2019t have to be aggressive in order to be accepted, women won\u2019t feel compelled to be submissive. If men don\u2019t have to control, women won\u2019t have to be controlled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: It is my belief that there is a greater understanding than ever that women need to be equal participants in our homes, in our societies, in our governments, and in our workplaces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: To be honest, I felt more myself with that haircut. I felt bold, and it felt empowering because it was my choice. It felt sexy too. Maybe it was the bare neck, but for some reason I felt super-, supersexy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against? I've had so much freedom, sometimes it was hard. My parents wanted to protect me, but they had no idea how to. I had to learn as I went and make my own mistakes. I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Feminism is not here to dictate to you. It\u2019s not prescriptive, it\u2019s not dogmatic. All we are here to do is give you a choice. If you want to run for President, you can. If you don\u2019t, that\u2019s wonderful, too. I\u2019m lucky I was raised to believe that my opinion at the dinner table was valuable. My mum and I spoke as loudly as my brothers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I am from Britain and think it is right that as a woman I am paid the same as my male counterparts. I think it is right that I should be able to make decisions about my own body. I think it is right that women be involved on my behalf in the policies and decision-making of my country. I think it is right that socially I am afforded the same respect as men. But sadly I can say that there is no one country in the world where all women can expect to receive these rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: For the first two movies, I had a huge crush on Tom Felton. He was my first crush. He totally knows. We talked about it - we still laugh about it. We are really good friends now, and that's cool."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Men think it's a women's word. But what it means is that you believe in equality, and if you stand for equality, then you're a feminist. Sorry to tell you. You're a feminist. You're a feminist. That's it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. I was completely the eager beaver in school, I was the girl in the front of the class who was the first person to put her hand up, and it's often not cool to be the person that puts themself out there, and I've often gotten teased mercilessly, but I found that ultimately if you truly pour your heart into what you believe in - even if it makes you vulnerable - amazing things can and will happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Gender equality, historically has been predominantly a women's movement for women. But I think the impact of gender inequality and how it's affecting men hasn't really been addressed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I used to look back at pictures and cringe but actually I'm quite proud that I've had fun with fashion and don't always look perfect. The only regret I have is when I look at something I wore when I was very young and it obviously looks like it belonged to someone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: There's nothing interesting about looking perfect\u2014you lose the point. You want what you're wearing to say something about you, about who you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: People sometimes talk about me as being a brand, having a strategy and whatever else. I wish. Seriously. I wish I had it together enough to have a strategy. But it's so instinctual. It usually comes down to two things: the person I'm working with - the director is really important to me - and a line in a script."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Yes, I will put it out there - I will work for anyone for free if they're prepared to make their clothing Fair Trade and organic. It's really hard to get people interested in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: A lot of children of this generation have their entire lives made public before they have a say about what they would want. I think it should always be a choice. I love social media, and I love what it can do and how it brings people together, but used in the wrong way, it's incredibly dangerous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I'm a real Londoner. We have very grey weather in London, and I think it encourages a very eclectic and crazy fashion sense. I mix high-street stuff with more high-end fashion and vintage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: As a child, I loved being onstage. I loved singing, I loved the lights, I loved the adrenaline. I even loved learning lines. I was completely obsessive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: People don't really understand, but having people stare, and point, and take pictures, even if it is in a positive framework, is quite isolating; there's no two ways about it. You feel a little bit, you know, freakish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: If I had it my way, I would have just kept it short forever. Of course, men like long hair. There's no two ways about it. The majority of the boys around me were like, 'Why did you do that? That's such an error.' And I was like, 'Well, honestly, I don't really care what you think!' I've never felt so confident as I did with short hair - I felt really good in my own skin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I thought, If people are going to write about what I'm wearing, then I would wear young British designers who need the publicity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Hermione is so close to who I am as a person that I've never really had to research a role. I'm literally rediscovering what it means to be an actress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I'm finally able to tell you... that I will be playing Belle in Disney's new live-action Beauty and the Beast! It was such a big part of my growing up, it almost feels surreal that I'll get to dance to 'Be Our Guest' and sing 'Something There'. My six year old self is on the ceiling - heart bursting. Time to start some singing lessons. I can't wait for you to see it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: And I always keep cards people send me. I have a whole wall covered with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: The reality is that if we do nothing it will take 75 years, or for me to be nearly a hundred before women can expect to be paid the same as men for the same work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I have felt for the last 10 years I have had this battle; I've been fighting so hard to have an education. It's been this uphill struggle. I was Warner Bros' pain in the butt. I was their scheduling conflict. I was the one who made life difficult."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: It's difficult on my dating life, because anyone I get photographed with is automatically my boyfriend. So it just makes it look as if I've had, like, 6,000 boyfriends!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Why has the word become such an uncomfortable one?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Don't let anyone tell you what you can or cannot do, or cannot achieve. Do. Not. Allow. It."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: We are tapping into what the world wants: to be a part of change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: For the record, feminism by definition is: 'The belief that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities. It is the theory of the political, economic and social equality of the sexes.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: We don't often talk about men being imprisoned by gender stereotypes but I can see that that they are and that when they are free, things will change for women as a natural consequence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I like books that aren't just lovely but that have memories in themselves. Just like playing a song, picking up a book again that has memories can take you back to another place or another time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I didn't see many female politicians on TV. I didn't see women in history textbooks, so I did geography, and art and English literature. But I know I must have been affected by not seeing women represented."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say she loves it and doesn't want to change anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: L.A. scares the crap out of me. I feel if I have to work out four hours a day, and count the calories of everything I put in my mouth, and have Botox at 22, and obsess about how I look the whole time, I will go mad. I will absolutely lose it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I love fashion. I think it's so important, because it's how you show yourself to the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I decided I was a feminist and this seemed uncomplicated to me. But my recent research has shown me that feminism has become an unpopular word. Apparently I am among the ranks of women whose expressions are seen as too strong, too aggressive, isolating, anti-men and, unattractive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Women have a natural tendency to want to nurture and take care of men. You always think that the guy is going to end up coming around and that you\u2019re going to be the one that saves him - like the Oasis song."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I don't know. I think there are fans out there who know that too and who wonder whether Ron would have really been able to make her happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I love painting and have a need to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: As an actress I take roles I find interesting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I've never wanted to grow up too fast. I wanted to wear a sports bra until I was 22! ... The allure of being sexy never really held any excitement for me. I've never been in a terrible rush to be seen as a woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful, romantic idea about love. It was almost that you were a victim - that there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: We want to end gender inequality, and to do this, we need everyone involved...We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change and we don't just want to talk about it. We want to try and make sure that it's tangible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: BUT MY RECENT RESEARCH HAS SHOWN ME THAT FEMINISM HAS BECOME AN UNPOPULAR WORD. WOMEN ARE CHOOSING NOT TO IDENTIFY AS FEMINISTS."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation. I think what people connect with in novels is this idea of an overpowering, encompassing love - and it being more important and special than anything and everything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: It sounds like a cliche but I also learnt that you're not going to fall for the right person until you really love yourself and feel good about how you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Who here actually thinks I would do 50 Shades of Grey as a movie? Like really. For real. In real life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I love having the door opened for me. Isn't that just polite? But the key is, would you then mind if I opened the door for you? The key is, chivalry should be consensual. Both parties should be feeling good about that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Social media, it's a minefield! Technology is moving so fast right now. Everyone is scrambling around trying to understand what it means to have an avatar, how to live our lives on the internet, what it means for privacy, for citizens of a political universe. I think that we're trying to find rules now, as we speak, and it's difficult. But, like everything, the internet is an incredibly powerful force that needs governing - not to restrict our freedom, but to protect people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I'm a feminist, but I think that romance has been taken away a bit for my generation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Concentrate on comfort - even if that means wearing the same thing over and over, because when I feel comfortable, I feel so much more relaxed and have a much better time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Hermione uses all these big long tongue twister words. I don't know what she's going on about half the time!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: It was unbelievable seeing me as an action figure! In a few months, toddlers all around the country will be biting my head off!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I already had the sense that I was someone who was more spiritual than specifically religious. ... I'm really interested in those things that are more far-reaching than culture, nationality, race, religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I went from being totally unknown and never acting professionally to being in a major movie and being very famous. It all happened so quickly, I didn't have any time to work things out. It's been pretty scary at times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Acting is telling the truth under imaginary circumstances. I cannot think of a worse way to describe acting. Also, I'm the worst liar ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I find the whole concept of being \u2018sexy\u2019 embarrassing and confusing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I still have friends from primary school. And my two best girlfriends are from secondary school. I don't have to explain anything to them. I don't have to apologize for anything. They know. There's no judgment in any way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: You might be thinking who is this Harry Potter girl? And what is she doing up on stage at the UN. It's a good question and trust me I have been asking myself the same thing. I don't know if I am qualified to be here. All I know is that I care about this problem. And I want to make it better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I never wear pigtails, I wear plaits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: WE ARE STRUGGLING FOR A UNITING WORD BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT WE HAVE A UNITING MOVEMENT."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: The character is everything that I felt really strongly against - she's superficial, materialistic, vain, amoral. She's all of these things, and I realised that I really hated her. How do you play someone that you hate? But I found it really interesting and it gave me a whole new insight into what my job, or my role as an actress, could be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I would say there have been different stages of my feminist awakening. The more layers you peel back and the more things you're made aware of, you're like, \"Oh my God.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I think I'm actually in denial that I'm famous, it only sinks in when people crowd in the streets. My friends treat me like a regular person, which is what I wanted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I like to think of myself as an actress, I think of going through all of the films as my kind of film academy, the way that I've learnt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: People say things to me like, 'It's really cool that you don't go out and get drunk all the time and go to clubs.' I appreciate that, but I'm kind of an introverted kind of person just by nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I don't know who this quote is by but the friends that you can call at 3am are the ones that really count and I am lucky that I have a few of those. So, I just drew on that and the people who believe in me as they lift you up. It's really important to have people around you that do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I had been doing something for more than half of my life that I wanted to continue doing - I really loved making the film and I really love acting and it is what I want to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I have collections of quirky things from places I've been to, like a set of Russian dolls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of... own everything. There was a lot of stuff a couple of years ago saying that I was bullied at Brown and awful things like that, none of which were true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: The entertainment industry is pretty nuts, and having had that experience outside of it and going to university has really made a big difference. It's important to me to feel like I have my own life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I hope that having my life and having an education will lengthen my career."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Whenever I've gone against my instincts, it's been a bit of a disaster. If there's a script I'm considering, I will get everyone to read it. I will get my mom to read it, I will get my friends to read it, I'll get the person doing my manicure to read it. I'm someone who really needs to talk things through. And then, obviously, I have a wonderful manager and agents, and I listen very carefully to what they have to say as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: For an actor, it is better to play well (or even not so well) in a bad film, than to not play at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I'm aware that I'm kind of a paradox, and at times a bit ill-suited to my profession. But there's something that brings me back. There's something in me that feels like I have to do this, that this is what I'm meant to be doing. If I didn't feel this way, I wouldn't do it. But it's full of contradictions, for sure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: The story of my life has been of public interest, which is why I've been so passionate about having a private identity. When I step into a character, people have to be able to suspend their disbelief; they have to be able to divorce me from Hermiona. And not having everyone know every single intimate detail of my entire life is part of me trying to protect my ability to do my job well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Steve Jobs has a great speech where he talks about how the wrong turns in his life truly set him on the path that he needed to be on. Anyway, what do I do? I bake. I'm pretty competitive about my chocolate chip banana bread. I don't think anyone can believe how good it is. It's really on another level."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I was working on 'Harry Potter' while I was growing up, and the attention it brought me made me feel quite isolated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I remember reading this thing that Elizabeth Taylor wrote. She had her first kiss in character. On a movie set. It really struck me. I don't know how or why, but I had this sense that if I wasn't really careful, that could be me. That my first kiss could be in somebody else's clothes. And my experiences could all belong to someone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Harry Potter is not twilight, you know; we're not selling sex."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: this kiss between hermione and ron is highly anticipated, it's been building up for eight films now. and harry potter is not twilight, you know; we're not selling sex."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I've had so many moments where seeing other women be fully and truly and authentically themselves, and express that, has given me permission. Once you see it happening, you're like, \"Oh, I have permission to do that, too.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I threw my 20th birthday party at Brown, and I didn't even have to say to anyone not to put pictures on Facebook. Not a single picture went up. That was when I knew I'd found a solid group of friends, and I felt like I belonged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Being asked to serve as UN Women\u2019s Goodwill Ambassador is truly humbling. The chance to make a real difference is not an opportunity that everyone is given and is one I have no intention of taking lightly. Women\u2019s rights are something so inextricably linked with who I am, so deeply personal and rooted in my life that I can\u2019t imagine an opportunity more exciting. I still have so much to learn, but as I progress I hope to bring more of my individual knowledge, experience and awareness to this role."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I would love to persuade Christopher Bailey to get even just a section of Burberry that's, like, organic or free trade. I love him, he's a very good person and an amazing designer, and I have a lot of respect and time for him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I don't really buy designer stuff. I have a few nice things, but I don't really have the occasion to wear couture too often."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: No country in the world can yet say they have achieved gender equality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Acting never was about the money for me... Maybe in 10 years, I'll be able to appreciate the fact that I am financially stable and independent and I don't have to make bad choices. I can be very picky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I try to avoid wearing black because sometimes it's the easy option. But I'm young, so it's nice to be able to play with color and not just wear black all the time. I can save that for when I'm older."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I dance a lot and I run and do yoga and play field hockey and tennis. I like to be active. I don't always have time for that stuff, but I do always feel better afterward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: If I hadn't done 'Harry Potter,' I would have gone and done years of art. I really do love it, and I'd love to write."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: It sounds so geeky, but I really do like studying and reading, and if I'm not working on 'Harry Potter,' then my greatest relaxation is to sit with a book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: WE NEED MORE OF THOSE AND IF YOU STILL HATE THE WORD, IT IS NOT THE WORD THAT IS IMPORTANT. IT'S THE IDEA AND THE AMBITION BEHIND IT."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: WHEN AT 15, MY GIRLFRIENDS STARTED DROPPING OUT OF THEIR BELOVED SPORTS TEAMS, BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T WANT TO APPEAR MUSCLE-Y, WHEN AT 18, MY MALES FRIENDS WERE UNABLE TO EXPRESS THEIR FEELINGS, I DECIDED THAT I WAS A FEMINIST."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: My grandma said - when I was really young and I'd sing along to the radio - why do you sing in an American accent? I guess it was because a lot of the music I was listening to had American vocalists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: In Canc\u00fan, I felt like I had walked into an American teen movie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: How can we effect change in the world when only half of it is invited or feel welcome to participate in the conversation?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I don't have makeup on all the time, but when I want, I have fun with my friends choosing clothes and putting nail polish on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: We want to try to galvanize as many men and boys as possible to be advocates for change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I can't wait to be able to drive, but it's hard. Good driving doesn't really run in my family genes. My mother is possibly the worst driver ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I do things in my own way, but I've never felt any need to rebel. To be honest, I've always had far too much freedom. I had a job when I was 10. I started living on my own when I was 17 or 18. I've earned my own money; I've traveled the world. What would I rebel against?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: If I went to somewhere busy, I wouldn't last very long. I can't go to a museum - I'll last 10 or 15 minutes in a museum. The problem is that when one person asks for a photograph, then someone sees a flash goes off, then everyone else sort of... it's sort of like a domino effect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: It's quite stressful knowing that every time you walk out the door, someone is going to be giving you a very good look up and down, judging everything you wear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I've got about eight pairs of shoes, and that's it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I could be 100 years old and in my rocker, but I'll still be very proud that I was part of the 'Harry Potter' films."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I've had my breath taken away when a fan told me since watching my speech she has stopped herself being beaten up by her father. I've been stunned by the amount of men in my life that have contacted me since my speech to tell me to keep going, and that they want to make sure that their daughters will still be alive to see a world where women have power and equality, economically and politically."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Men don't have the benefits of equality either."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: If I want to see someone, I want to see them, and if I don't, then I don't. My friends are always telling me I have to play hard to get because I'll pretty much say to a guy, 'I like you - let's go hang out.' But my friends are like, 'You can't do that! You have to string this guy along.' And I'm just like, 'No! I won't! I just want to go on the date!' It's a nightmare - I definitely haven't figured it out yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: As a younger woman, that pressure got me down, but I've made my peace with it. With airbrushing and digital manipulation, fashion can project an unobtainable image that's dangerously unhealthy. I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I would love to not date someone in the same industry as me. Otherwise it becomes what it means to everyone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: If we stop defining each other by what we are not and start defining ourselves by who we are we can all be freer. And this is what HeforShe is about. It\u2019s about freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I have a real thing for Mexican directors. And I love Guillermo del Toro and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I think when you take away all, like, the premieres and press stuff and all the special effects, then you just come down to the fact that it's all about acting, and I think that has been the best bit for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: If I was going to be a princess, I would be a warrior princess."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Even worse than seeing women's privacy violated on social media is reading the accompanying comments that show such a lack of empathy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I'm excited about the ageing process. I'm more interested in women who aren't perfect. They're more compelling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: When I started dating I had this kind of Romeo and Juliet, fateful, romantic idea about love. It was almost that you were a victim - that there was a lot of pain involved and that was how it should be. Shakespeare said the course of true love never did run smooth and I had a sense it had to be painful. It was such a revelation to realise it shouldn't be that way and you get to choose who you love and who you give your heart to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Most people are really nice but some stare, like you're some kind of zoo exhibit and not a real person with real feelings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: When I haven't been working I've tried to travel a lot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I want to diversify a bit. I don't wanna throw myself into another big blockbuster or another big franchise anytime soon. So smaller films, just small little interesting parts, I think I'd even like to play around with some really good supporting roles and then develop into - I don't know just like feel my way into it a bit more. I don't know, I'd love to try some theater. That's my other thing. I'd love to do some Shakespeare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I get sent Bibles. I have a collection of about 20 in my room. People think I need to be guided."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: When people call me a role model it puts the fear of god into me, because I feel like I'm destined to fail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: We need to make sure that we are using technology, and technology is not using us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Whether you are a woman on a tea plantation in Kenya, or a stockbroker on Wall Street, or a Hollywood actress, no one is being paid equally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: What I find difficult about photo shoots is the line between playing a character - you're being asked by the photographer to take on a role like you would in a movie - and being a fancier version of yourself. It's about finding that line between being spontaneous and open to direction, but also trying to explain to photographers that the \"me\" is often taken out of context because it has all of this other stuff attached to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Photographers want to reinvent you, to take you somewhere else, to show you in a completely different way. They look at your previous work, and try to figure out what they can do to show a new side of you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I'm going to be the most competitive birth-giver ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I think that why the research and the data are so important is because you become so used to seeing the world one way that you don't even notice anymore. [Gender inequality] has this invisibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: It's funny when I look at my life; my primary school was two-thirds male to one-third female. So I started my life that way. I have two brothers. And when I did Harry Potter, the ratio was more often than not, at the very least, one-third female, two-thirds male."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: In the film industry you work very long hours, and making a film is a very intense process."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I find it easier to cry than I do to laugh convincingly. It's incredibly hard to pull off a laugh that feels natural take after take after take, that feels real. You can tell a fake laugh the minute you hear it, and that's something I really struggle with more than producing tears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: All the baggage that comes with fame, being an actress. The down side to it is the intrusion into your life and this expectation that because they've seen you onscreen, they kind of have a right to you as a human being and personally and in your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: How as an actress are you meant to inhabit other people if you haven't lived? How are you meant to play someone who gets the bus to work or has a part-time job or whatever if I've never experienced any of it myself or if I haven't been to school? How does that make me someone that people can relate to? I don't think it's possible really."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: If I were in the director's chair, I would cast [Geena Davis] in something awesome every six months if I had the choice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Hindsight is obviously a very great thing, but I'm always convinced that the reason that I didn't take as many politics or history classes is because I just didn't see any women. I didn't think when I was 13, 14 that that had anything to do with me. I just didn't see women in my textbooks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I looked at [Geena Davis] research and see things like 21 percent of filmmakers are women, only 31 percent of speaking roles in popular films are female - you start seeing it everywhere. It's so much bigger. So you've uncovered this groundbreaking data and research."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I didn't realize that I wasn't moving in a gender-equal world - I had a sense of it, but I didn't start to really see evidence of it, I think, until I hit puberty. Media even before that age is already creating all these biases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I definitly wouldn't want Harry Potter to be the last thing I do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Originally what I used to love was being on a stage and reacting to a live audience and maybe my calling is more in theatre."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I just love music generally. If you come to my house I always have music playing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: Umm, there are so many people that I've never had one person that I've particularly idolised or I thought \"Wow, I want to be just like them.\" It used to be when I was younger, Julia Roberts, I used to just love her. There is something so appealing about her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I love people like Ren\u00e9e Zellweger who aren't afraid to look unattractive and really put themselves into a character role and to really be an actress instead of just thinking \"Am I on-screen pouting and looking beautiful?\" because that's not really what it's about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: My best friend Madison keeps a list on her phone of all of the different English slang that I say, so she has kind of like a translator so she can understand without having to ask me, \"What on Earth are you talking about when you say 'nackered'?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: While I wouldn't object to work at a restaurant or a different place that sells decent-or-better food, I think that I can learn much more by becoming a coder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Emma Watson: I'm lucky that I've worked with so many different directors with very different styles and with a lot of different actors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: If you could only sense how important you are to the lives of those you meet; how important you can be to the people you may never even dream of. There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Often when you think you're at the end of something, you're at the beginning of something else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: As human beings, our job in life is to help people realize how rare and valuable each one of us really is, that each of us has something that no one else has-or ever will have-something inside that is unique to all time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: You make each day a special day. You know how, by just your being you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, \"Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.\" To this day, especially in times of \"disaster,\" I remember my mother's words and I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers \u2013 so many caring people in this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Some days, doing \"the best we can\" may still fall short of what we would like to be able to do, but life isn't perfect on any front-and doing what we can with what we have is the most we should expect of ourselves or anyone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: There is something of yourself that you leave at every meeting with another person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Imagine what our real neighborhoods would be like if each of us offered . . . just one kind word to another person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Honesty is often very hard. The truth is often painful. But the freedom it can bring is worth the trying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: When we love a person, we accept him or her exactly as is: the lovely with the unlovely, the strong with the fearful, the true mixed in with the fa\u00e7ade, and of course, the only way we can do it is by accepting ourselves that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: We speak with more than our mouths. We listen with more than our ears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: One of the greatest dignities of humankind is that each successive generation is invested in the welfare of each new generation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Real strength has to do with helping others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: The purpose of life is to listen - to yourself, to your neighbor, to your world and to God and, when the time comes, to respond in as helpful a way as you can find ... from within and without."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: In times of stress, the best thing we can do for each other is to listen with our ears and our hearts and to be assured that our questions are just as important as our answers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Transitions are almost always signs of growth, but they can bring feelings of loss. To get somewhere new, we may have to leave somewhere else behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: It's really easy to fall into the trap of believing that what we do is more important than what we are. Of course, it's the opposite that's true: What we are ultimately determines what we do!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: I recently learned that in an average lifetime a person walks about sixty-five thousand miles. That's two and a half times around the world. I wonder where your steps will take you. I wonder how you'll use the rest of the miles you're given."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Confronting our feelings and giving them appropriate expression always takes strength, not weakness. It takes strength to acknowledge our anger, and sometimes more strength yet to curb the aggressive urges anger may bring and to channel them into nonviolent outlets. It takes strength to face our sadness and to grieve and to let our grief and our anger flow in tears when they need to. It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Feeling good about ourselves is essential in our being able to love others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: I like you just the way you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Sometimes people are good, and they do just what they should. But the very same people who are good sometimes are the very same people who are bad sometimes. It's funny but it's true. Its the same isn't it, for me and . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of -- moments when we human beings can say \"I love you,\" \"I'm proud of you,\" \"I forgive you,\" \"I'm grateful for you.\" That's what eternity is made of: invisible imperishable good stuff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Who you are inside is what helps you make and do everything in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Play is often talked about as if it were a relief from serious learning. But for children play is serious learning. Play is really the work of childhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: I think everybody longs to be loved and longs to know that he or she is lovable and, consequently, the greatest thing that we can do is to help somebody know that they are loved and capable of loving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: My hope for all of us is that 'the miles we go before we sleep' will be filled with all the feelings that come from deep caring--delight , sadness, joy, wisdom--and that in all the endings of our life, we will be able to see the new beginnings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: The real issue in life is not how many blessings we have, but what we do with our blessings. Some people have many blessings and hoard them. Some have few and give everything away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: How great it is when we come to know that times of disappointment can be followed by joy; that guilt over falling short of our ideals can be replaced by pride in doing all that we can; and that anger can be channeled into creative achievements... and into dreams that we can make come true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: We all have different gifts, so we all have different ways of saying to the world who we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Parents don't come full bloom at the birth of the first baby. In fact parenting is about growing. It's about our own growing as much as it is about our children's growing and that kind of growing happens little by little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood, a beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine; could you be mine?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Human relationships are primary in all of living. When the gusty winds blow and shake our lives, if we know that people care about us, we may bend with the wind ... but we won\u2019t break."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Our world hangs like a magnificent jewel in the vastness of space.  Every one of us is a part of that jewel.  A facet of that jewel.  And in the perspective of infinity, our differences are infinitesimal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Deep within us-no matter who we are-there lives a feeling of wanting to be lovable, of wanting to be the kind of person that others like to be with. And the greatest thing we can do is to let people know that they are loved and capable of loving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: It always helps to have people we love beside us when we have to do difficult things in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: It's not the honors and the prizes and the fancy outsides of life which ultimately nourish our souls. It's the knowing that we can be trusted, that we never have to fear the truth, that the bedrock of our very being is good stuff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Love and trust, in the space between what\u2019s said and what\u2019s heard in our life, can make all the difference in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative spirit. We're helping ourselves stay in touch with that spirit, too. It's the things we play withand the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: The values we care about the deepest, and the movements within society that support those values, command our love. When those things that we care about so deeply become endangered, we become enraged. And what a healthy thing that is! Without it, we would never stand up and speak out for what we believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Anyone who has ever been able to sustain good work has had at least one person--and often many--who have believed in him or her. We just don't get to be competent human beings without a lot of different investments from others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: There's no \"should\" or \"should not\" when it comes to having feelings. They're part of who we are and their origins are beyond our control. When we can believe that, we may find it easier to make constructive choices about what to do with those feelings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: As different as we are from one another, as unique as each one of us is, we are much more the same than we are different. That may be the most essential message of all, as we help our children grow toward being caring, compassionate, and charitable adults."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Often, problems are knots with many strands, and looking at those strands can make a problem seem different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: It's important to know when we need to stop, reflect, and receive. In our competitive world, that might be called a waste of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: A young apprentice applied to a master carpenter for a job. The older man asked him, \"Do you know your trade?\" \"Yes, sir!\" the young man replied proudly. \"Have you ever made a mistake?\" the older man inquired. \"No, sir!\" the young man answered, feeling certain he would get the job. \"Then there's no way I'm going to hire you,\" said the master carpenter, \"because when you make one, you won't know how to fix it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: It's a mistake to think that we have to be lovely to be loved by human beings or by God"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: How many times have you noticed that it's the little quiet moments in the midst of life that seem to give the rest extra-special meaning?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Peace means far more than the opposite of war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Forgiveness is a strange thing. It can sometimes be easier to forgive our enemies than our friends. It can be hardest of all to forgive people we love. Like all of life's important coping skills, the ability to forgive and the capacity to let go of resentments most likely take root very early in our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Discovering the truth about ourselves is a lifetime\u2019s work, but it\u2019s worth the effort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is certainly a prerequisite of love. One of the most essential ways of saying 'I love you' is being a receptive listener."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: People have said, 'Don't cry' to other people for years and years, and all it has ever meant is, 'I'm too uncomfortable when you show your feelings. Don't cry.' I'd rather have them say, 'Go ahead and cry. I'm here to be with you.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Whether we're a preschooler or a young teen, a graduating college senior or a retired person, we human beings all want to know that we're acceptable, that our being alive somehow makes a difference in the lives of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: When I was a boy I used to think that STRONG meant having big muscles, great physical power; but the longer I live, the more I realize that real strength has much more to do with what is NOT seen. Real strength has to do with helping others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: I hope you're proud of yourself for the times you've said \"yes,\" when all it meant was extra work for you and was seemingly helpful only to someone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: It's a beautiful day in this neighborhood, A beautiful day for a neighbor. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?... It's a neighborly day in this beauty wood, A neighborly day for a beauty. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?... I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you. So, let's make the most of this beautiful day. Since we're together we might as well say: Would you be mine? Could you be mine? Won't you be my neighbor? Won't you please, Won't you please? Please won't you be my neighbor?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: We want to raise our children so that they can take a sense of pleasure in both their own heritage and the diversity of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: The roots of a child's ability to cope and thrive, regardless of circumstance, lie in that child's having had at least a small, safe place (an apartment? a room? a lap?) in which, in the companionship of a loving person, that child could discover that he or she was lovable and capable of loving in return. If a child finds this during the first years of life, he or she can grow up to be a competent, healthy person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: The world is not always a kind place. That's something all children learn for themselves, whether we want them to or not, but it's something they really need our help to understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: It's the people we love the most who can make us feel the gladdest ... and the maddest! Love and anger are such a puzzle!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: We need to help people to discover the true meaning of love. Love is generally confused with dependence. Those of us who have grown in true love know that we can love only in proportion to our capacity for independence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Play is really the work of childhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Attitudes are caught, not taught."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: In appreciating our neighbor, we're participating in something truly sacred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: The world needs a sense of worth, and it will achieve it only by its people feeling that they are worthwhile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: You rarely have time for everything you want in this life, so you need to make choices. And hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: It's very dramatic when two people come together to work something out. It's easy to take a gun and annihilate your opposition, but what is really exciting to me is to see people with differing views come together and finally respect each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Solitude is different from loneliness, and it doesn't have to be a lonely kind of thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Mutual caring relationships require kindness and patience, tolerance, optimism, joy in the other's achievements, confidence in oneself, and the ability to give without undue thought of gain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: You bring all you ever were and are to any relationship you have today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: There is no normal life that is free of pain. It's the very wrestling with our problems that can be the impetus for our growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: This is what I give. I give an expression of care every day to each child, to help him realize that he is unique. I end each program by saying, 'You've made this day a special day by just your being you. There's no person in the whole world like you. And I like you just the way you are.' And I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Music is the one art we all have inside. We may not be able to play an instrument, but we can sing along or clap or tap our feet. Have you ever seen a baby bouncing up and down in the crib in time to some music? When you think of it, some of that baby's first messages from his or her parents may have been lullabies, or at least the music of their speaking voices. All of us have had the experience of hearing a tune from childhood and having that melody evoke a memory or a feeling. The music we hear early on tends to stay with us all our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: The thing I remember best about successful people I've met all through the years is their obvious delight in what they're doing and it seems to have very little to do with worldly success. They just love what they're doing, and they love it in front of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: When I say it's you I like, I'm talking about that part of you that knows that life is far more than anything you can ever see or hear or touch. That deep part of you that allows you to stand for those things without which humankind cannot survive. Love that conquers hate, peace that rises triumphant over war, and justice that proves more powerful than greed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our children. Sometimes, though, I wonder if we confuse strength with other words\u2014like 'aggression' and even 'violence'. Real strength is neither male nor female; but it is, quite simply, one of the finest characteristics that a human being can possess."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: The gifts we treasure most over the years are often small and simple. In easy times and tough times, what seems to matter most is the way we show those nearest us that we've been listening to their needs, to their joys, and to their challenges."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Listening is where love begins: listening to ourselves and then to our neighbors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Love is like infinity: You can't have more or less infinity, and you can't compare two things to see if they're \"equally infinite.\" Infinity just is, and that's the way I think love is, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean this life or to cherish it in creative, imaginative ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: I am always comforted by realizing that there are still so many helpers - so many caring people in this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: I've often hesitated in beginning a project because I've thought, 'It'll never turn out to be even remotely like the good idea I have as I start.' I could just 'feel' how good it could be. but I decided that, for the present, I would create the best way I know how and accept the ambiguities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: It may take months or years for a wish to come true, but it's far more likely to happen when you care so much about a wish that you'll do all you can to make it happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Imagining may be the first step in making it happen, but it takes the real time and real efforts of real people to learn things, make things, turn thoughts into deeds or visions into inventions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Very frankly, I am opposed to people being programmed by others. My whole approach in broadcasting has always been 'You are an important person just the way you are. You can make healthy decisions.' Maybe I'm going on too long, but I just feel that anything that allows a person to be more active in the control of his or her life, in a healthy way, is important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Hopefully your choices can come from a deep sense of who you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Children who have learned to be comfortably dependent can become not only comfortably independent but also comfortable with having people depend on them. They can lean, stand, and be leaned upon, because they know what a good feeling it can be to feel needed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: It's our insides that make us who we are, that allow us to dream and wonder and feel for others. That's what's essential. That's what will always make the biggest difference in our world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Parents are like shuttles on a loom. They join the threads of the past with threads of the future and leave their own bright patterns as they go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: All life events are formative. All contribute to what we become, year by year, as we go on growing. As my friend the poet Kenneth Koch once said, You aren't just the age you are. You are all the ages you ever have been!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: I'm proud of you for the times you came in second, or third, or fourth, but what you did was the best you have ever done"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: There's a world of difference between insisting on someone's doing something and establishing an atmosphere in which that person can grow into wanting to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: What's been important in my understanding of myself and others is the fact that each one of us is so much more than any one thing. A sick child is much more than his or her sickness. A person with a disability is much, much more than a handicap. A pediatrician is more than a medical doctor. You're MUCH more than your job description or your age or your income or your output."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Often out of periods of losing come the greatest strivings toward a new winning streak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Love isn't a state of perfect caring, it is an active noun like struggle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: One of the most important things a person can learn to do is to make something out of whatever he or she happens to have at the moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: The very best reason parents are so special . . . is because we are the holders of a priceless gift, a gift we received from countless generations we never knew, a gift that only we now possess and only we can give to our children. That unique gift, of course, is the gift of ourselves. Whatever we can do to give that gift, and to help others receive it, is worth the challenge of all our human endeavor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: What do you think it is that drives people to want far more than they could ever use or need? I frankly think it's insecurity. How do we let the world know that the trappings of this life are not the things that are ultimately important for being accepted?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: If you like to make things out of wood, or sew, or dance, or style people's hair, or dream up stories and act them out, or play the trumpet, or jump rope, or whatever you really love to do, and you love that in front of your children, that's going to be a far more important gift than anything you could ever give them wrapped up in a box with ribbons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: I don't think anyone can grow unless he's loved exactly as he is now, appreciated for what he is rather than what he will be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: More and more I've come to understand that listening is one of the most important things we can do for one another. Whether the other be an adult or a child, our engagement in listening to who that person is can often be our greatest gift. Whether that person is speaking or playing or dancing, building or singing or painting, if we care, we can listen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: [I]f we can bring our children understanding, comfort, and hopefulness when they need this kind of support, then they are more likely to grow into adults who can find these resources within themselves later on. (from the introduction)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Fame is a four-letter word; and like tape or zoom or face or pain or life or love, what ultimately matters is what we do with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: I like to compare the holiday season with the way a child listens to a favorite story. The pleasure is in the familiar way the story begins, the anticipation of familiar turns it takes, the familiar moments of suspense, and the familiar climax and ending."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: How sad it is that we give up on people who are just like us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Love is at the root of all healthy discipline. The desire to be loved is a powerful motivation for children to behave in ways thatgive their parents pleasure rather than displeasure. it may even be our own long-ago fear of losing our parents' love that now sometimes makes us uneasy about setting and maintaining limits. We're afraid we'll lose the love of our children when we don't let them have their way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: The child is in me still and sometimes not so still."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, \"Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: I believe it's a fact of life that what we have is less important than what we make out of what we have.  The same holds true for families: It's not how many people there are in a family that counts, but rather the feelings among the people who are there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: I've always wanted to have a neighbor just like you. I've always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: It's the things we play with and the people who help us play that make a great difference in our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Whatever we choose to imagine can be as private as we want it to be. Nobody knows what you're thinking or feeling unless you share it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: I think of discipline as the continual everyday process of helping a child learn self-discipline."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: I got into television because I hated it so. And I thought there's some way of using this fabulous instrument to nurture those who would watch and listen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Development comes from within. Nature does not hurry but advances slowly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: In the external scheme of things, shining moments are as brief as the twinkling of an eye, yet such twinklings are what eternity is made of \u2014 moments when we human beings can say, \u201cI love you\u201d ... \u201cI'm proud of you\u201d ... \u201cI forgive you\u201d ... \u201cI'm grateful for you\u201d ... \u201cWhether you win anything or not, you still have great value.\u201d That's what eternity is made of: invisible, imperishable good stuff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: It's not always easy for a father to understand the interests and ways of his son. It seems the songs of our children may be in keys we've never tried. The melody of each generation emerges from all that's gone before. Each one of us contributes in some unique way to the composition of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: I don't believe that children can develop in a healthy way unless they feel that they have value apart from anything they own or any skill that they learn. They need to feel they enhance the life of someone else, that they are needed. Who, better than parents, can let them know that?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fred Rogers: Vermont is a small state which makes an enormous difference."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When fascism comes to America, it will not be in brown and black shirts. It will not be with jack-boots. It will be Nike sneakers and Smiley shirts. Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The word bipartisan usually means some larger-than-usual deception is being carried out."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Language is a tool for concealing the truth. If we could read each other's minds, this would be a horror show."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Those who dance are considered insane by those who cannot hear the music."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: There's a reason education sucks, and it's the same reason it will never ever ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better. Don't look for it. Be happy with what you've got, because the owners of this country don't want that. I'm talking about the real owners now... the real owners. The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't. You have no choice. You have owners."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Government want to tell you things you can't say because they're against the law, or you can't say this because it's against a regulation, or here's something you can't say because its a... secret; \"You can't tell him that because he's not cleared to know that.\" Government wants to control information and control language because that's the way you control thought, and basically that's the game they're in."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: To my way of thinking, there is every bit as much evidence for the existence of UFOs as there is for the existence of God. Probably far more. At least in the case of UFOs there have been countless taped and filmed and, by the way, unexplained sightings from all over the world, along with documented radar evidence seen by experienced military and civilian radar operators.>&gt."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: There is a planet named Pluto, but we don't have one named Goofy. Goofy would be a good name for this planet. It certainly qualifies."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The wisest man I ever knew taught me something I never forgot. And although I never forgot it, I never quite memorized it either. So what I\u2019m left with is the memory of having learned something very wise that I can\u2019t quite remember."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If honesty were suddenly introduced into American life, the whole system would collapse."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: ... the important thing is to, first of all, question everything you read or hear or see or are told. Question it, and try to see the world for what it actually is, as opposed to what someone or some company or some organization or some government is trying to represent it as, or present it as, however they've mislabeled it or dressed it up or told you."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: In the United States, anybody can be President. That's the problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When I hear a person talking about political solutions, I know I am not listening to a serious person."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: A crazy person doesn't really lose his mind. It just becomes something more entertaining."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I think TV remotes should have a button that allows you to kill the person on the screen."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Some people try to get out of jury duty by lying. You don't have to lie. Tell the judge the truth. Tell him you'd make a terrific juror because you can spot guilty people."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Why do they bother saying \"raw sewage\"? Do some people actually cook that stuff?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Medical researchers have discovered a new disease that has no symptoms. It is impossible to detect, and there is no known cure. Fortunately, no cases have been reported thus far."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Just cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: My first rule: I don't believe anything the government tells me."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Traditional American values: Genocide, aggression, conformity, emotional repression, hypocrisy, and the worship of comfort and consumer goods."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: \"No comment\" is a comment."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: This country was founded by a group of slave owners who told us that all men are created equal."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The very existence of flamethrowers proves that sometime, somewhere, someone said to themselves, \"You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Political discourse has been reduced to \"Where's the beef?\" \"Read my lips,\" and \"Make my day.\" Where are the assassins when we really need them?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If you're looking for self-help, why would you read a book written by somebody else?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: You're all going to die. I hate to remind you, but it is on your schedule. It probably won't happen when you'd like; generally, it's an inconvenience."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Oh Beautiful for smoggy skies, insecticided grain, \nFor strip-mined mountain's majesty above the asphalt plain. \nAmerica, America, man sheds his waste on thee, \nAnd hides the pines with billboard signs, from sea to oily sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The next time they give you all that civic bullshit about voting, keep in mind that Hitler was elected in a full, free democratic election"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: There are battered husbands. Apparently this happens when the woman is real big, the man is very small, and they each drink a quart of whiskey a day."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your f**kin' retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Life is a near-death experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: That's why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It's there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, and a lovely day. There's no mystery, no one asks for money, I don't have to dress up, and there's no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to \"God\" are all answered at about the same 50% rate."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: It's the old American Double Standard, ya know: Say one thing, do somethin' different. And of course this country is founded on the double standard. That's our history. We were founded on a very basic double standard: This country was founded by slave owners who wanted to be free."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Even in a fake democracy, people ought to get what they want once in a while."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Honesty may be the best policy, but it's important to remember that apparently, by elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I, myself, have killed six people. All random, all undetected, no way to trace them to me. And, let me tell you, there's nothin' like it. It's a great feeling. Yeah, I know, you're thinking. 'Aw, he's a comedian. He's just sayin' that stuff.' Good. That's exactly what I want you to think."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: A lot of times when they catch a guy who killed twenty-seven people, they say, He was a loner. Well, of course he was a loner; he killed everyone he came in contact with."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I have a suggestion that I think would help fight serious crime. Signs. There are lots of signs for minor infractions: No Smoking, Stay Off the Grass, Keep Out, and they seem to work fairly well. I think we should also have signs for major crimes: Murder Strictly Prohibited, NO Raping People, Thank You for Not Kidnapping Anyone. It's certainly worth a try. I'm convinced Watergate would never have happened if there had just been a sign in the Oval Office that said, Malfeasance of Office Is Strictly Against the Law, or Thank You for Not Undermining the Constitution."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: There are only two places in the world: over here and over there."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: We kind of shape our truths as we speak them. We fashion things to suit the occasion or the person or our own needs in the moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The violence of the Left is symbolic, the injuries are not intended. The violence of the Right is real - directed at people, designed to cause injuries. Vietnam, nuclear weapons, police out of control are intentional forms of violence. The violence from the Right is aimed directly at people and the violence from the Left is aimed at institutions and symbols."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: What exactly is 'viewer discretion'? If viewers had discretion, most television shows would not be on the air."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If you had chicken at lunch and chicken at dinner, do you ever wonder if the two chickens knew each other?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The future will soon be a thing of the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Good news for senior citizens: Death is near!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me . . they\u2019re cramming for their final exam."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Capitalism tries for a delicate balance: It attempts to work things out so that everyone gets just enough stuff to keep them from getting violent and trying to take other people\u2019s stuff."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Before they give you a lethal injection, they swab your arm with alcohol. It's true. Well, they don't want you to get an infection, and you can see their point. They don't want some guy go to hell and be sick."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The planet isn't going anywhere. We are."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: God bless the homicidal maniacs. They make life worthwhile."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I'm 60 years of age. That's 16 Celsius."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Is a vegetarian permitted to eat animal crackers?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Cloud nine gets all the publicity, but cloud eight actually is cheaper, less crowded, and has a better view."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: To me, authority is something that a freer spirit, a more independent mind, and a person who can handle the world, doesn't need guidance from."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: History is not happenstance: it is conspiratorial. Carefully planned and executed by people in power."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If you ask me, we could do with a little less motivation. - The people who are causing all the trouble seem highly motivated to me. - Serial killers, stock swindlers, drug dealers, Christian Republicans."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: People get all upset about torture, but when you get right down to it, it's really a pretty good way of finding out something a person doesn't want you to know."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: People think life is real complicated. Actually, there's nothing to it. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If at first you don't succeed, redefine success."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Looking back, I realize that my life has been a series of incidents where one person has said to another, \"Get this asshole outta here!\""
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Sometimes a little brain damage can help."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Here\u2019s a bumper sticker I\u2019d like to see: \u201cWe are the proud parents of a child who\u2019s self-esteem is sufficient that he doesn\u2019t need us promoting his minor scholastic achievements on the back of our car.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I knew a transsexual guy whose only ambition is to eat, drink, and be Mary."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: One great thing about getting old is that you can get out of all sorts of social obligations just by saying you're too tired."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Hard work is for people short on talent."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Voting is a meaningless exercise. I'm not going to waste my time with it. These parties, these politicians are given to us as a way of making us feel we have freedom of choice. But we don't. Everything is done to you in this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Just when I discovered the meaning of life, they changed it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Obviously, there are people who constrict themselves and build walls around themselves, whether it's from a moral standpoint or a patriotic standpoint, or just plain old conformity, and who therefore live in those little prisons, and when things breach those walls, it's shocking for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Not only do I not know what's going on, I wouldn't know what to do about it if I did."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: People who say they don't care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don't care what people think."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I am a personal optimist but a skeptic about all else. What may sound to some like anger is really nothing more than sympathetic contempt. I view my species with a combination of wonder and pity, and I root for its destruction. And please don't confuse my point of view with cynicism; the real cynics are the ones who tell you everything's gonna be all right."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: To me, fast food is when a cheetah eats an antelope."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: People who see life as anything more than pure entertainment are missing the point."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I don't know how you feel, but I'm pretty sick of church people. You know what they ought to do with churches? Tax them. If holy people are so interested in politics, government, and public policy, let them pay the price of admission like everybody else. The Catholic Church alone could wipe out the national debt if all you did was tax their real estate."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Spirituality: the last refuge of a failed human. Just another way of distracting yourself from who you really are."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Ah, to be a bird. To fly the skies, sing my song, and best of all occasionally peck someone's eyes out."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: So far, this is the oldest I've been."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I went through the usual stages: imp, rascal, scalawag, whippersnapper. And, of course, after that it's just a small step to full-blown sociopath."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I wanted to get a job as a gynecologist, but I couldn't find an opening."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If no one knows when a person is going to die, how can we say he died prematurely?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If a painting can be forged well enough to fool experts, why is the original so valuable?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If a man smiles all the time, he\u2019s probably selling something that doesn\u2019t work."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The safest place to be during an earthquake would be in a stationary store."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Israeli murderers are called \"commandos,\" Arab commandos are called \"terrorists.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I'm always relieved when someone is delivering a eulogy and I realize I'm listening to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If this is the best God can do, I'm not impressed."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The planet is fine. The people are f****d. Because everyone is trying to save the planet. The planet doesn\u2019t need that. The planet will take care of itself. People are selfish. And that's what they're doing is trying to save the planet for themselves to have a nicer place to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: People say, 'I'm going to sleep now,' as if it were nothing. But it's really a bizarre activity. 'For the next several hours, while the sun is gone, I'm going to become unconscious, temporarily losing command over everything I know and understand. When the sun returns, I will resume my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Valentine's Day is devoted to love. Why don't we have a day devoted to hatred? The raw, visceral hatred that is felt every hour of the day by ordinary people, but is repressed for reasons of social order. I think it would be very cathartic, and it would certainly make for an exciting six o'clock news."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The seven dwarfs were each on different little trips. Happy was into grass and grass alone. Happy, that's all he did. Sleepy was into reds. Grumpy, too much speed. Sneezy was a full blown coke freak. Doc was a connection. Dopey was into everything. Any old orifice will do for Dopey. He's always got his arm out and his leg up. And then, the one we always forget, because he was Bashful. Bashful didn't use drugs. He was paranoid on his own. Didn't need any help on that ladder."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I don't have any beliefs or allegiances. I don't believe in this country, I don't believe in religion, or a god, and I don't believe in all these man-made institutional ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When someone is impatient and says, 'I haven't got all day,' I always wonder, How can that be? How can you not have all day?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Have you ever started a path? No one seems willing to do this. We don't mind using existing paths, but we rarely start new ones. Do it today. Start a path. Even if it doesn't lead anywhere"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I would never want to be a member of a group whose symbol was a guy nailed to two pieces of wood."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I respect animals. I have more sympathy for an injured or dead animal than I do for an injured or dead human being, because human beings participate and cooperate in their own undoing. Animals are completely innocent. There are no innocent human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The child molester skipped breakfast, but said he'd grab a little something on the way to work."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: A house is just a place to keep your stuff while you go out and get more stuff."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Have you ever wondered why Republicans are so interested in encouraging people to volunteer in their communities? It\u2019s because volunteers work for no pay. Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: So, have a little fun. Soon enough you'll be dead and burning in Hell with the rest of your family."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If you can't say something nice about a person, go ahead"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here is one I would suggest: \"Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: A lot of the people who keep a gun at home for safety are the same ones who refuse to wear a seat belt"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Hooray for most things!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: That's the whole meaning of life, isn't it? Trying to find a place for your stuff."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: You wouldn't know it, from some of the things I've said over the years, but I like people. I do. I like people, but I like them in short bursts. I don't like people for extended periods of time. I'm all right with them for a little while, but once you get up past around... a minute, minute and a half, I gotta get the fuck out of there."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: You know an odd feeling? Sitting on the toilet eating a chocolate candy bar."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Heart disease has changed my eating habits, but I still cook bacon for the smell."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I don't get all choked up about yellow ribbons and American flags. I see them as symbols, and I leave them to the symbol-minded."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Avoid teams at all cost. Keep your circle small. Never join a group that has a name."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Someone once said, if you scratch a cynic, and you'll find a disappointed idealist. That really rang a bell with me - because I recognized that, within me, there is this flame, of wishing it were better, wishing people had better lives, that there was more of an authentic sharing and harmony with nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If we could just find out who's in charge, we could kill him."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: More people have been killed in the name of God than for any other reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I often wonder how different the world would be if Hitler had not been turned down when he applied to art school."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: And although I broke a lot of laws as a teenager, I straightened out immediately upon turning eighteen, when I realized the state had a legal right to execute me."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: In Hawaii they say, \"aloha.\" That's a nice one, It means both \"hello\" and \"good-bye\" Which just goes to show, if you spend enough time in the sun you don't know whether you're coming or going."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee; I have no interest in any of it. I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loathe and despise the groups they identify with and belong to."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: So I say, \u201cLive and let live.\u201d That\u2019s my motto. \u201cLive and let live.\u201d And anyone who can\u2019t go along with that, take him outside and shoot the motherfucker. It\u2019s a simple philosophy, but it\u2019s always worked in our family."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: By and large, language is a tool for concealing the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: People can't seem to get it through their heads that there is never any healing or closure. Ever. There is only a short pause before the next \"horrifying\" event. People forget there is such a thing as memory, and that when a wound \"heals\" it leaves a permanent scar that never goes away, but merely fades a little. What really ought to be said after one of these so-called tragedies is, \"Let the scarring begin."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not your own."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Why do they bother with a suicide watch when someone is on death row? \"Keep an eye on this guy. We're gonna kill him, and we don't want him to hurt himself.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Meow\u201d means \u201cwoof\u201d in cat."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Personally, when it comes to rights, I think one of two things is true. I think either we have unlimited rights, or we have no rights at all. Personally I lean towards unlimited rights, I feel for instance I have the right to do anything I please, BUT! If I do something you don't like I think you have the right to kill me."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Intelligence tests are biased toward the literate."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: A scary dream makes your heart beat faster. Why doesn't the part of your brain that controls your heartbeat realize that another part of your brain is making the whole thing up? Don't these people communicate?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Dogs lead a nice life. You never see a dog with a wristwatch."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: In restaurants where they serve frog's legs, what do they do with the rest of the frog? Do they just throw it away? You never see \"frog torsos\" on the menu. Is there actually a garbage can full of frog bodies in the alley? I wouldn't want to be a homeless guy looking for an unfinished cheeseburger and open the lid on that"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I never worry that all hell will break loose. My concern is that only part of hell will break loose and be much harder to detect."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: It is impossible for an abortion clinic to have a waiting list of more than nine months."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: These days many politicians are demanding change. Just like homeless people."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: One of the more pretentious political self-descriptions is 'Libertarian.' People think it puts them above the fray. It sounds fashionable, and to the uninitiated, faintly dangerous. Actually, it's just one more bullshit political philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I noticed that all the prayers I used to offer to God, and all the prayers I now offer to Joe Pesci, are being answered at about the same 50% rate. Half the time I get what I want, half the time I don't... Same as the four-leaf clover and the horseshoe...same as the Voodoo Lady who tells you your fortune by squeezing the goat's testicles, it's all the same: 50-50. So just pick your superstition, sit back, make a wish, and enjoy yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When I was a kid, if a guy got killed in a western movie I always wondered who got his horse."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The US Army has announced that although it is true they performed mind-destroying drug tests on hundreds of soldiers in the 1960s, none of the victims have been promoted beyond the rank of lieutenant colonel."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Don't give your money to the church. They should be giving their money to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I'm not an angry person, just very disappointed and contemptuous of my fellow humans' choices - and on stage those feelings sometimes are exaggerated for a theatric stage - you're on a stage you have an audience of 2500 or 3000 people: you need to project the feelings, the emotions it's heightened, and people mistake it for a personal anger but it's more dissatisfaction, disappointment and contempt for these things we've settled for."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Things I wonder about the FBI's list of the \"Ten Most Wanted\" criminals: When they catch a guy and he comes off the list, does number eleven automatically move up? And does he see it as a promotion? Does he call his criminal friends and say, \"I made it, Bruno. I'm finally on the list\"?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: What does it mean to pre-board? Do you get on before you get on?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I think I am, therefore, I am... I think."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Can placebos cause side effects? If so, are the side effects real?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: You get to play with people's little danger zones."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: That's really a part of my nature , it goes along with autonomy and independence of action - it's just that I don't identify with the local group, no matter what it is, whether it's the human species or the American democracy, the nation, the country, religions, political parties, nothing. None of these have my allegiance because I'm not really concerned with what they do. I don't feel a part of any of this."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: All music is the blues. All of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: People love to admit they have bad handwriting or that they can't do math. And they will readily admit to being awkward: 'I'm such a klutz!' But they will never admit to having a poor sense of humor or being a bad driver."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: What year did Jesus think it was?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: A woman told me her child was autistic, and I thought she said artistic. So I said, 'Oh great. I'd like to see some of the things he's done."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Dogs and cats get put to sleep; hogs and cows get slaughtered."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I've never owned a telescope, but it's something I'm thinking of looking into."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: As much as I love my family, I enjoy it when the house is empty, because then I know I'm truly alone, as we all are on the planet, after all. Every atom in us is originally from a star. And during my moments of aloneness, I'm most mindful of that; that I'm just another group of matter randomly but wonderfully arranged. That's when I feel my immortality."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I think the warning labels on alcoholic beverages are too bland. They should be more vivid. Here are a few I would suggest: \"Alcohol will turn you into the same asshole your father was.\"; \"Drinking will significantly improve your chances of murdering a loved one.\"; \"If you drink long enough, at some point you will vomit up the lining of your stomach.\"; \"Use this product and you may wake up in Morocco wearing a cowboy suit and tongue-kissing a transmission salesman.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I don't consider myself a cynic. I think of myself as a skeptic and a realist."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I credit that eight years of grammar school with nourishing me in a direction where I could trust myself and trust my instincts. They gave me the tools to reject my faith. They taught me to question and think for myself and to believe in my instincts to such an extent that I just said, \"This is a wonderful fairy tale they have going here, but it's not for me.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: It is said that Indians were sometimes named for the first thing they saw when they were born. Makes you wonder why there aren't more Indians named Hairy Pussy, doesn't it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Once you leave the womb, conservatives don't care about you until you reach military age. Then you're just what they're looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Life is a series of dogs."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Don't confuse my point of view with cynicism. The real cynics are the ones who tell you that everything's gonna be all right."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Most people are not particularly good at anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I think it's important to break taboos for the same reason it's important to break laws and rules - because either you're a slave to them, or you're taking matters into your hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When people say \u201cclean as a whistle\u201d, they forget that a whistle is full of spit."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: You have to be realistic about terrorism. Certain groups of people, certain groups, Muslim fundamentalists, Christian fundamentalists, Jewish fundamentalists, and just plain guys from Montana, are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long, long time."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Always do whatever's next."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: How come when it\u2019s us, it\u2019s an abortion, and when it\u2019s a chicken, it\u2019s an omelette?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I didn't wash today. I wasn't dirty. If I'm not dirty, I don't wash. Some weeks I don't have to shower at all. I just groom my three basic areas: teeth, hair, and asshole. And to save time, I use the same brush."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: A flag is supposed to represent everything that a country does. It doesn't only represent the good things. If you burn the flag, you're burning the flag for what you perceive to be the bad things the country has done. it's only a symbol. It's only a piece of cloth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the intellect."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Think of how strange we'd look if all the cuts, burns, scrapes, bruises, scratches, bumps, gashes, and scabs we ever had suddenly reappeared on our bodies at the same time."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If people stand in a circle long enough, they'll eventually begin to dance."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When you step on the brakes your life is in your foot's hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If a movie is described as a romantic comedy, you can usually find me next door playing pinball."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Tits always look better in a pink sweater."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: E-I-E-I-O is actually a gross misspelling of the word farm."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The New Testament is not new anymore' it's thousands of years old. It's time to start calling it the Less Old Testament."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: It's not in the mainstream media yet, but the biggest jump in skin cancer has occurred since the advent of sunscreens. That kind of thing makes me happy. The fact that people, in pursuit of a superficial look of health, give themselves a fatal disease. I love it when 'reasoning' human beings think they have figured out how to beat something and it comes right back and kicks them in the nuts. God bless the law of unintended consequences. And the irony is impressive: Healthy people, trying to look healthier, make themselves sick. Good!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I believe my first duty is to survive. And I'm not just talking about criminals coming into my home. I once seriously considered getting a gun to protect myself from the police. If I need a weapon to continue living, I'll get one. And I'll use it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Every time you're exposed to advertising in America you're reminded that this country's most profitable business is still the manufacture, packaging, distribution, and marketing of bullshit. High-quality, grade-A, prime-cut, pure American bullshit."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The keys to America: The cross, the brew, the dollar, and the gun."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Why is there such controversy about drug testing? I know plenty of guys who'd be willing to test any drug they can come up with."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When you're born in this world you're given a ticket to the Freak Show. And when you're born in America, you're given a front row seat. And some of us get to sit there with notebooks."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I couldn't commit suicide if my life depended on it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: In most polls there are always about 5 percent of the people who 'don't know.' What isn't generally understood is that it's the same people in every poll."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Griddle cakes, pancakes, hot cakes, flapjacks: why are there four names for grilled batter and only one word for love?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: You show me a tropical fruit and I'll show you a cocksucker from Guatemala."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Soft rock music isn\u2019t rock, and it ain\u2019t music. It\u2019s just soft."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Picture your grandmother in Hell, baking pies... without an oven."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: hard work is a misleading term. physical effort & long hours do not constitute hard work. hard work is when someone pays you to do something you'd rather not be doing. anytime you'd rather be doing something other than the thing you're doing...you're doing hard work."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: It turned out I was pretty good in science. But again, because of the small budget, in science class we couldn't afford to do experiments in order to prove theories. We just believed everything. Actually, I think that class was called Religion. Religion class was always an easy class. All you had to do was suspend the logic and reasoning you were being taught in all the other classes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Regarding the fitness craze: America has lost its soul; now it's trying to save its body."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I love individuals. I think people are terrific as I meet and get to know them. I like imagination. I like the freedom that this society manages to parcel out to us in the midst of the rest of what they do to you. I also like thinking about the fact that the atoms in me are the same atoms that are in all the rest of the universe, and that every one of those atoms came from the middle of a star. In other words, it's only me out there."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: There are ten thousand people in the United States in a persistent vegetative state. Just enough to start a small town. Think of them as veggie-burghers."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When you think about it, 12:15 P.M. is actually 11:75 A.M."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: For a while, I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I like my jokes to be built on a foundation of ideas, or at least smart observations."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Here's a bumper sticker I'd like to see... 'We are the Proud Parents of a Child who has resisted his teacher's attempts to bend him to the will of his corporate masters'."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: By the age of six or seven, I was already doing voices and faces, making my friends and my mother laugh."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: And speaking of sex, the Immaculate Conception does not mean Jesus was conceived in the absence of sex. It means Mary was conceived without Original Sin. That's all it has ever meant. And according to the tabloids, Mary is apparently the only one who can make such a claim. The Jesus thing is called virgin birth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If you dropped me off a space platform onto the ground where a line was drawn, I would fall to the left side of it. I believe the difference between right and left is that the right, for the most part, the bulk of their philosophy is interested in property, and the rights of people to own property and gain and acquire and keep property. And I think on the left - though they blend and mix - on the left primarily you will find people who are more concerned about humans, and the human condition, and what can be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: My money buys me the freedom not to be a member of the corporate structure. And I certainly don't feel guilty or hypocritical about that. The way our economy is set up, if you don't want to be a corporate moron and you don't want to be enfeebled in the streets, you must earn enough to know that you'll never have to go to them for money."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I worry about my judgment when anything I believe in or do regularly begins to be accepted by the American public."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I had run away from home three times. I had been kicked out of three different schools under different circumstances. I was kicked out of everything that I didn't quit. Kicked out of schools. Kicked out of summer camp, the Boy Scouts, the altar boys, the choir, and something else that I can't think of, that I'm proud of. Anyway, that was my pattern. I just began to invent myself early in life, and went out and did something about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: By elimination, dishonesty is the second-best policy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I hope no one asks me to show them the ropes; I have no idea where they are. Maybe I could pull some strings and find out."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I don't really identify with America, I don't really feel like an American or part of the American experience, and I don't really feel like a member of the human race, to tell you the truth. I know I am, but I really don't. All the definitions are there, but I don't really feel a part of it. I think I have found a detached point of view, an ideal emotional detachment from the American experience and culture and the human experience and culture and human choices."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I find it discouraging - and a bit depressing - when I notice the unequal treatment afforded by the media to UFO believers on the one hand, and on the other, to those who believe in an invisible supreme being who inhabits the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When Thomas Edison worked late into the night on the electric light, he had to do it by gas lamp or candle. I'm sure it made the work seem that much more urgent."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Regarding jam sessions: Jazz musicians are the only workers I can think of who are willing to put in a full shift for pay and then go somewhere else and continue to work for free."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I'm in favor of personal growth as long as it doesn't include malignant tumors."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I had no shoes, and I felt sorry for myself until I met a man who had no feet. I took his shoes. Now I feel better."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Regarding local residents attempting to ban sex shops from their neighborhoods: You show me a parent who says he's worried about his child's innocence and I'll show you a homeowner trying to maintain equity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Writing is really wonderful art. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's our job as writers is to just notice them and bring them to life."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When I was young I used to read about the decline of Western civilization, and I decided it was something I would like to make a contribution to."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: And what can we do to silence these Christian athletes who thank Jesus whenever they win, never mention his name when they lose? Not a word. You never hear them say \"Jesus made me drop the ball.\" \"The good lord tripped me up behind the line of scrimmage.\" According to these guys Jesus is undefeated, meanwhile these assholes are in last place. Must be another one of those \"miracles.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: It's way beyond ironic that a place called the Holy Land is the location of the fiercest, most deeply felt hatred in the world. And it makes for wonderful theater."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If I ever lose my mind I hope some honest person will find it and take it to Lost and Found."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Comedy, although it is not one of the fine arts - it's a vulgar art, it's one of the people's arts, it's the spoken word, the writing that goes into it is an art form - it's certainly artistry."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The owner of a Florida massage parlor has been arrested by police. \"There weren't any serious violations,\" said the officers, \"she just rubbed us the wrong way.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I enjoy watching a woman with really bad teeth and a good sense of humor struggling to use her lips and tongue to hide her teeth when she's laughing. I just stand there and tell her joke after joke after joke."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I put a dollar in one of those change machines.  Nothing changed."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Anger is a handy term and words are tricky, as we know. What one man perceives as anger, another person - in my case the deliverer of material - is, \"Don't you see it, don't you see how badly you're doing?\" It's like shaking a child - which you're not supposed to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I like good ideas. I don't want just do something for it's own sake to bother people, but if I can bother them with a logical argument about something they have agreed to in society simplistically - like children are sacred, the cult of the child, this cult of professional parenthood, and of course religion, and respect for policemen and the law, and all of these untouchable areas. I like attacking those beliefs, but in with good sound thinking, and an unusual approach."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Language is the most elementary aspect to our humanness, probably. In addition to that, it's the embodiment, it's the apotheosis of the human experience, it's the way we summarize ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I recently went to a new doctor and noticed he was located in something called the Professional Building. I felt better right away."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: As you swim the river of live, do the breast stroke. It helps to clear the turds from your path."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I thought of myself as an atheist until I realized it was a belief, too. It's a shame everything has to have a label. I feel that if I was figuratively dropped on the Earth and there was a political line, I would be just left of center. The difference for me is that conservatives are more interested in property values and rights and free markets, and liberals are more interested in human rights. In the end, there are people who don't fit into the marketplace and are not equipped. I believe the government should step in where the free market fails."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: McDonald's breakfast for under a dollar is actually more expensive than that. You have to factor in the cost of bypass surgery."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Primitive societies, or social groupings, had shamans, and some of them even more recent in time. Shamans were tricksters. There was a tradition of the trickster, and the trickster was a clown, a humorous fellow. His task was to trick the gods, to humor the gods into laughing, so that there was access to the divine - because laughter is a moment when we are completely ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Catholic, which I was until I reached the age of reason"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I was taken to the hospital for observation. I stayed several days, didn't observe anything, and I left."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Let me get a sip of water here... you figure this stuff is safe to drink? Actually, I don't care, I drink it anyway. You know why? Because I'm an American and I expect a little cancer in my food and water. I'm a loyal American and I'm not happy unless I let government and industry poison me a little bit every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If you take five white guys and put 'em with five black guys, and let 'em hang around together for about a month, and at the end of the month, you'll notice that the white guys are walking and talking and standing like the black guys do. You'll never see the black guys going, \"Oh, golly! We won the big game today, yes sir!\" But you'll see guys with red hair named Duffy going, \"What's happenin'?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: There is a core of loneliness. It's partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father was asked to leave because he couldn't metabolize ethanol. Actually, my mother ran away with us when I was 2 months old and my brother was 5. Real dramatic stuff: down the fire escape, through backyards. So, I sort of raised myself. I was alone a lot and I invented myself - I lived through the radio and through my imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I like to say two things in life that mean the most: genetics and luck. When you look at it realistically, genetics is luck too. Because you could have been born in some really terrible situation and never had a chance to realize yourself or see who you were. And so the luck of genetics and then after that, circumstances, those are the two guiding things."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don't have as many people who believe it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: They mention that it's a nonstop flight. Well, I must say I don't care for that sort of thing. Call me old fashioned, but I insist that my flight stop. Preferably at an airport."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: One of the first things they teach you in Driver's Ed is where to put your hands on the steering wheel. They tell you put 'em at ten o'clock and two o' clock. Never mind that . I put mine at 9:45 and 2:17. Gives me an extra half hour to get where I'm goin'."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: My books and records are arranged according to subject, and within each subject, they're alphabetical by author or artist. The music tapes are alphabetical and the performance tapes are in chronological order.I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If there were only one cherry pie in the world, and Bill Clinton owned it, I might get a piece of it. If Bush or Reagan owned it, you'd have to kill them to get a piece of pie. That's my feeling about Bill. And Bill's a good bullshitter. America likes a good bullshitter. That's one of the reasons he was re-elected. Honesty has no place in politics. It would throw everything off."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I never take credit for anything, because it's mostly genetic to my way of thinking. Even the need to work hard with some genetic talent you're given - the need to go out and develop it, and push hard to bring it to people."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: So about 80 years after the Constitution is ratified, the slaves are freed. Not so you'd really notice it of course; just kinda on paper. And that of course was at the end of the Civil War. Now there is another phrase I dearly love. That is a true oxymoron if I've ever heard one: \"Civil War.\" Do you think anybody in this country could ever really have a civil war? \"Say, pardon me?\" (shoots gun) \"I'm awfully sorry. Awfully sorry.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: That invisible hand of Adam Smith seems to offer an extended middle finger to an awful lot of people."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Golf is an arrogant, elitist game that takes up entirely too much space in this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Movies and television don't make you violent; all they do is channel the violence more creatively."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I've never been quarantined. But the more I look around the more I think it might not be a bad idea."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: You show me something that doesn't cause cancer, and I'll show you something that isn't on the market yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If drumsticks are for playing drums, you would think that breadsticks would be for playing bread, wouldn't you? \"Would you like some breadsticks?\" \"No, thank you, I don't play bread. I play drums. Perhaps I'll have a drum roll.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Sometimes when I'm told to use my own discretion, if no one is looking I'll use someone else's. But I always put it back."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If it requires a uniform, it's a worthless endeavor."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When you look at the average American you realize there's nothing nature enjoys more than a good joke."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: That's basically what the drive is: \"I want to be famous, I want to be noticed, and I want to be approved of.\" That's basically what you're after. \"Give me attention, give me applause, give me an audience. A. A. A. Straight As.\" That's all you're looking for."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: On the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Of course, in Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, most people don't have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That's why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I don't like the phrase shock value. Surprise is essential in comedy, and if people are shocked by what I consider merely surprising, then that's their shock. But there is no joke without surprise."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I did a lot of thinking, and used mental activity to relieve whatever feelings I had. I became very left-brained, and I was good in school. That is, I was a smart kid."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: In high school, when I first heard of entropy, I was attracted to it immediately. They said that in nature all systems are breaking down, and I thought, What a wonderful thing; perhaps I can make some small contribution to this process, myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Where ideas are concerned, America can be counted on to do one of two things: Take a good idea and run it completely into the ground, or take a bad idea and run it completely into the ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: You can't fight City Hall, but you can goddamn sure blow it up."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: You know why we're good at it? Because we get a lot of practice. This country is only 200 years old, and already we've had ten major wars. We average a major war every twenty years. So we're good at it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Grass probably helped me as much as it hurt me. Especially as a performer. When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are. But, on the other hand, pot opens windows and doors that you may not be able to get through any other way."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Part of the pleasure of being alive is the knowledge that you're not dead yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: In my fifth-grade yearbook - it's right up there on the top shell - the last page says, \"What about your future?\" and under my name, it says, \"When I grow up, I would like to be either an actor, a radio announcer, an impersonator or a comedian.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The surgeon general warned today that saliva causes stomach cancer. But apparently only when swallowed in small amounts over a long period of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Most people with low self-esteem have earned it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The good lord tripped me up behind the line of scrimmage."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Religion has actually convinced people that there's an invisible man living in the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Somehow I enjoy watching people suffer."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Republicans have been trying to get people to work for no pay for a long time."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: No one knows what's next, but everybody does it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I like to control my environment, because I feel if I have my physical space in order, then I'm free to dream. So there is some compulsion involved. But the dividend I get is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I have this real moron thing I do? It's called thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Everyone should try to scratch their name on the bomb of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Germany lost the Second World War. Fascism won it. Believe me, my friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When you think about it, attention-deficit order makes a lot of sense. In this country there isn't a lot worth paying attention to."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Never give up on an idea simply because it is bad and doesn't work."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Little-known fact: When the stock exchange closes, the guy who comes out on the balcony with that big hammer slams it on the head of the person who lost the most money that day."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Electricity is really just organized lightning."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Standing ovations have become far too commonplace. What we need are ovations where the audience members all punch and kick one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: \"Fussy eater\" is a euphemism for \"big pain in the ass.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I say things that can be defined as prayers. But I don't pray to a power or ask an entity to intercede in the earthly scheme, because I don't believe that happens. But if I see a really unfortunate person in the street, I do pray, yes, though I suppose it's really more like a mantra to ease my own sorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: We now buy watches primarily for their looks, price, or additional functions. The fact that they tell time seems lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The main reason women are crazy, is that men are stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Never get on an airplane if the pilot is wearing a hat that has more than three pastel colors."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: There are nights when the wolves are silent and only the moon howls."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Everything beeps now."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I think people should be allowed to do anything they want. We haven't tried that for a while. Maybe this time it'll work."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests. I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: No, there's no God, but there might be some sort of an organizing intelligence, and I think to understand it is way beyond our ability. It's certainly not a judgmental entity. It's certainly not paternalistic and all these qualities that have been attributed to God."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: One thing leads to another? Not always. Sometimes one thing leads to the same thing. Ask an addict."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: At a formal dinner party, the person nearest death should always be seated closest to the bathroom."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I actually was a writer who had the ability to perform his own work as opposed to a comedian who wrote his own material. So that really made me happy and changed my whole perspective."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I recently bought a book of free verse. For twelve dollars."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Because we were a poor area, the school had a small budget and was unable to teach the second half of the alphabet."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: It's legal for men to be floorwalkers and illegal for women to be streetwalkers."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When people asked me, \"Do you get high to go onstage?\" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high since eight that morning. Going onstage had nothing to do with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: No one is more himself than the moment when he's laughing at a joke. It's at those moments that people's defenses go down, and that's when you can slip in a good idea."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: My left descending septal branch artery decided to close without consultation with any of my other organs. It happened on Saint Patrick's Day, 1978."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: There are two types of people: One strives to control his environment, the other strives not to let his environment control him. I like to control my environment."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Why should it be illegal to sell something that's perfectly legal to give away?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Comedy is grievances. It's a recitation of grievances - whether they're inconsequential, superficial - like \"my wife shops too much\", or \"kids today\", all those old-fashioned themes - or, if it's deeper, and somewhat more thoughtful, about social imbalance and inequities, and the folly of human behavior. It's usually a complaint."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The sicker you get, the harder it is to remember if you took your medicine."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Some national parks have long waiting lists for camping reservations. When you have to wait a year to sleep next to a tree, something is wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Jesus was a cross-dresser."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Do you think Sammy Davis ate Junior Mints?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If the Cincinnati Reds were really the first major league baseball team, who did they play?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: As soon as someone is identified as an unsung hero, he no longer is."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Here's a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. They say that if 2 planes almost collide, it's a near miss. Bullshit, my friend. It's a near hit! A collision is a near miss. [WHAM! CRUNCH!] \"Look, they nearly missed!\" \"Yes, but not quite."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: People say life begins at conception, I say life began about a billion years ago and it's a continuous process."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If the reason for climbing Mt. Everest is that it's hard to do, why does everyone go up the easy side?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: By the next one [albom],Occupation: Foole, I was right back into the trip again. I'm more frantic, more breathless. You can hear how sick I am. If you want to see a cokehead, just look at the pictures on the Occupation: Foole album."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Heroin, forget it. In my neighborhood, I could see what heroin did firsthand and I was definitely afraid of that number."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Beethoven was so hard of hearing, he thought he was a painter."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: We use up words like 'spiritual' so fast in this culture. Twenty years ago spiritual had a distinct meaning. But now there's a lot of jack-off thinkers who just love to talk about the spiritual. And there is a lot of bogus - is bogosity a word? It should be - a lot of bogosity in these spiritual seekers. So you have to find another way to express it. I just call it 'how I fit'."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The Christians are coming to get you, and they are not pleasant people."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Personally, emotionally, I'd rather divorce myself from the world than face the heartbreak of partial success. Because partial success implies overwhelming failure."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: So I live in Los Angeles, and it's kind of a goofy place. They have an airport named after John Wayne. That ought to explain it. It has a charming kind of superstitious innocence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: What I became a comedian for was to get my art out. To get some of these feelings and things I had on my chest out. I don't care if people believe them, listen to them, change their ways, or think, or any of that kind of crap. I'm interested in showing off. I'm the same kid from sixth grade who stood up and said \"watch this.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: There's an idea that the human body is somehow evil and bad and there are parts of it that are especially evil and bad, and we should be ashamed. Fear, guilt and shame are built into the attitude toward sex and the body. It's reflected in these prohibitions and these taboos that we have."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Boxing is a more sophisticated form of hockey."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I look at it this way... For centuries now, man has done everything he can to destroy, defile, and interfere with nature: clear-cutting forests, strip-mining mountains, poisoning the atmosphere, over-fishing the oceans, polluting the rivers and lakes, destroying wetlands and aquifers... so when nature strikes back, and smacks him on the head and kicks him in the nuts, I enjoy that. I have absolutely no sympathy for human beings whatsoever. None. And no matter what kind of problem humans are facing, whether it's natural or man-made, I always hope it gets worse."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I was a hip kid. When I saw Bambi it was the midnight show."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Leftovers make you feel good twice. First, when you put it away, you feel thrifty and intelligent: 'I'm saving food!' Then a month later when blue hair is growing out of the ham, and you throw it away, you feel really intelligent: 'I'm saving my life!'"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: It was the typical paranoid experience [to hide coke]. As soon as I knew my hiding place, I thought the whole world knew it. I'd write clues to my hiding places in code, then forget the code and spend the rest of the day looking for my coke."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I kind of like it when a lot of people die, and on the other hand I always wonder how many unused frequent-flier miles they had."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I'll bet there aren't too many people hooked on crack who can play the bagpipes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If you you think there is a solution, you're part of the problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Bowling is not a sport because you have to rent the shoes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Swimming is not a sport. Swimming is a way to keep from drowning. That's just common sense!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Humor is based on surprise, and surprise is a milder way of saying shock. It's surprise that makes the joke."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: People are dreaming if they think they have rights. They've never had rights. There's no such thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: What occurs as you age is an accumulation of information, data, knowledge, and what I'm going to call the matrix of the mind. There's just a rich, textured, field of information and impressions that have been all networked by the brain."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: My father and mother separated when I was two months old."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: How come when it's us, it's an abortion, and when it's a chicken, it's an omelette? Are we so much better than chickens all of a sudden? When did this happen; that we passed chickens in goodness? Name six ways we're better than chickens. See, nobody can do it! You know why? 'Cause chickens are decent people."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The phrase surgical strike might be more acceptable if it were common practice to perform surgery with high explosives."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Although the photographer and the art thief were close friends, neither had ever taken the other's picture."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I call him Governor Bush because that's the only political office he's ever held legally in this country. I don't care where they hang his portrait, I don't care how big his library is. To me, he'll always be \"Governor Bush.\" I don't even capitalize his name when I type it anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I don't think we really gave barbarism a fair try."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Sometimes a fireman will go to great strenuous lengths to save a raccoon that's stuck in a drainpipe and then go out on the weekend and kill several of them for amusement."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Singing is basically a form of pleasant, controlled screaming."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I'm not in show business because I don't have to go to the meetings, I'm just not a part of it, I don't belong to it. When you \"belong\" to something. You want to think about that word, \"belong.\" People should think about that: it means they own you. If you belong to something it owns you, and I just don't care for that. I like spinning out here like one of those subatomic particles that they can't quite pin down."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Christian Deodorant: \"Thou Shalt Not Smell\""
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Sex criminals. Completely incurable... I suppose you could outlaw religion and these sex crimes would disappear in a generation or two, but we don't have time for rational solutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I saw Danny Kaye in a movie, and he was doing voices and faces on that big, big screen and making whole audiences laugh. It was just an instant hookup."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: You can't be the fastest gun in town forever. There comes a time when you're not the golden boy, and you have to go off somewhere and figure yourself out."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I don't care much about the outcome. I'd like for people to feel better and have better lives, but I don't think that's in the cards through political action. I think bloodshed is still the way you get dramatic change. That'll never happen because they've got all the guns now. At least they've got the nice guns, the big ones, the ones with night vision."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: One of the effects it [cocaine] had on my personality - my moods, my behaviors - was that it inhibited me a lot. It kind of took possibilities out of my world, and made the focus of things very narrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: In comic strips, the person on the left always speaks first."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: It ended suddenly for Brenda, more slowly for me. My runs began getting shorter and less pleasurable. I'd feel bad after only one day, or only a few hours, instead of four or five days. And I began to want to stop. One of the proudest moments of my life was at a rock-'n'-roll theater in New Jersey. A guy actually put some coke under my nose and I was able to say, \"No, thanks,\" and turn my head away."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Some people think that words can injure the psyche or the moral fiber. And they really can't."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: There are some people that aren't into all the words. There are some people who would have you not use certain words. Yeah, there are 400,000 words in the English language, and there are seven of them that you can't say on television. What a ratio that is. 399,993 to seven. They must really be bad. They'd have to be outrageous, to be separated from a group that large. All of you over here, you seven. Bad words. That's what they told us they were, remember? 'That's a bad word.' You know bad words. Bad thoughts. Bad intentions."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: One philosopher has rightly said that property is theft. But I'd like to use my future ownership of property to give something back."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: A pear is a failed apple."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Art, music, and philosophy are merely poignant examples of what we might have been had not the priests and traders gotten hold of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Cancer research is a growth industry."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I'll tell you a little secret about the Blues: it's not enough to know which notes to play, you have to know why they need to be played."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: You never see a smiling runner."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Instead of thinking about the sex, I'd always think about the clap and the crabs those people have."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Just think, right now as you read this, some guy somewhere is gettin' ready to hang himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When he got loaded, the human cannonball knew there were not many men of his caliber."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I have things that are strident and confrontational, and I have a lot of things that are childlike and innocent and sort of sweet. So, somewhere in between lies the middle of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I hope we're not just human garbage drifting toward a big sewer. But I think so."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: It's nothing but a big stroke job in this country. The government strokes you every day of your life. Religion never stops stroking you. Big business gives you a good stroke. And it's one big, transcontinental, cross-country, red, white and blue stroke job... Do you know what the national emblem for this country ought to be? Forget that bald eagle. The national emblem of this country ought to be Uncle Sam standing naked at attention saluting, and seated on a chair next to him, the Statue of Liberty jerking him off. That would be a good symbol for the United Strokes of America."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I do something about the weather. I stay home."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I'm thinking of buying a church and changing it around: maybe selling crack and having a few whores in the pew."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Every time you use the phrase all my life it has a different meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: It was just a compulsion. In fact, I soon realized that the only thing I really enjoyed was the actual snorting."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I used to be Irish Catholic. Now I'm an American - you know, you grow."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: How can it be a spy satellite if they announce on television that it's a spy satellite?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I think it keeps the child alive in me. There's a thrill when you steal something in plain view of other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: An art thief is a man who takes pictures."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Baby boomers helped me a great deal in my career. They launched me. They were there for me to sing my song to. And I'm not saying I'm better than anyone, but I think they turned that anti-authority baby boom mentality into their own enemy. Now I identify very closely with their children."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: What exactly is \"midair\"? Is there some other part of air besides the \"mid\" part?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When it comes to God's existence, I'm not an atheist and I'm not agnostic. I'm an acrostic. The whole thing puzzles me."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When you quit school at an early age, I think you have a lifelong need to show the world - and maybe yourself - that you're really smart after all."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The whole problem with this idea of obscenity and indecency, and all of these things - bad language and whatever - it's all caused by one basic thing, and that is: religious superstition."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The symphony orchestra had played poorly, so the conductor was in a bad mood. That night he beat his wife--because the music hadn't been beautiful enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When you visualize the recent past, do you see it as being somewhere over on the left?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Cocaine was different. It kept saying, \"You haven't had enough.\" I became an abuser almost instantly."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: None of the Christian religions do [interest me]. They're all outer-directed."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: People have material needs, but you don't need a deodorant for every different day of the week. You don't need four hundred varieties of mustard. This is what I call too many choices. There are too many choices in America."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Eventually, alas, I realized the main purpose of buying cocaine is to run out of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: It's the American view that everything has to keep climbing: productivity, profits, even comedy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Where do we get our values from?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I did LSD and peyote in the late Sixties, before I got into cocaine. That was concurrent with my change from a straight comic to the album and counterculture period, and those drugs served their purpose. They helped open me up."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I've been a performer for a long time and I know when people are laughing from their guts, from the inside, and when their tuxedos are laughing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I was surprised when I started getting old. I always thought it was one of those things that would happen to someone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: People tell you to have a safe trip, as if you have some control over it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: In the doggie dictionary, under \"bow wow\" it says, \"See \"arf arf.\"\""
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I really haven't seen this many people in one place since they took group photographs of all the criminals and lawbreakers in the Ronald Reagan administration."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Running isn't a sport because anyone can do it. Anything we can all do can't be a sport. I can run, you can run. My mother can run, you don't see her on the cover of Sports Illustrated do you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The whole problem with the world today: private property. If no one owned anything, it would be a lot better. There's even an entire industry devoted to keeping an eye on other people's stuff. This is how stupid it's got. If you decide to get rid of a lot of your stuff, you can give it to a thrift shop or to Goodwill."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I consider the coke a major cause. Of course, you could also make the argument that because cocaine speeds up the heart, it's good for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Give now. Somewhere, someone feels crappy. You can help."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Most of the time people feel okay. Probably it's because at the moment they're not actually dying."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: You know what I like about the American form of government? They've worked things out so that you're never far from a 7-Eleven."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I think everybody should be able to do anything they want and let roving bands of people punish each other for things they don't agree with. People with no underwear doing anything they want. Wouldn't that be fun? You wouldn't need television."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I love it in a movie when they throw a guy off a cliff. I love it even when it's not a movie. No, especially when it's not a movie."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I\u2019m a high-tech low-life. A cutting edge, state-of-the-art bi-coastal multi-tasker and I can give you a gigabyte in a nanosecond!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The effect of the coke on our relationship [with my wife Brenda] was very sick. Now that it's over, those were actually funny times. Looking for each other's coke, hiding it, finding it, doing some, not telling the other. Then fighting over it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The first obligation I have is to be funny; it's my first impulse and an instinct. I like being funny and finding the jokes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: My mother and I had a lot of distance between us emotionally, although, on the surface, most of the time, we appeared good and friendly, and all that. But I was a problem. I was a street kid."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Sometimes, when I was really loaded, I'd sit on the floor and sort out every nut and bolt in the house. It was just sheer insanity. And often there'd be speed in the cut, so I was a speed freak, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I've just completed a five-year period that can perhaps best be called a breathing spell. A time of getting my health back and gathering my strength. That time also included incredible cocaine abuse, a heart attack and my wife's recovery from both alcoholism and cocaine abuse."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: No one has to come see my shows who doesn't like me talking about white Christians. They are free not buy a ticket. They're free to leave at any time. So I'm not imposing anything on anyone. Therefore I feel free to cross the line."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: One of the interesting things about \"outsidership\" is that underneath it there's a longing to belong. I just wish the thing I refused to belong to - the species, Western capital culture - was a little more respectable. My one true relaxation is my flotation tank, in which I can either meditate or just drift off."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Self-expression is a hallmark of an artist, of art, to get something off one's chest, to sing one's song. So that element is present in all art. It is the key to even standing up and saying, \"Hey, listen to me.\" Self-expression can be based on looking at the world and making observations about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I think it would be fair and right to use some of my land and wealth for a drug-rehab center or an Indian school."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: You know, if a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough. Acid and peyote were that way for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The secretiveness. The stealth. Those were obviously the aspects of cocaine use I was addicted to."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When people asked me, \"Do you get high to go onstage?\" I could never understand the question. I mean, I'd been high since eight that morning."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I should think it takes a fairly low intellect to draw pleasure from the following activity: hitting a ball with a crooked stick. and then walking after it! An then ..hitting it again!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I use the [vulgar] words because apparently these words do not corrupt morally. I'm from the street in New York, hung around in a tough neighborhood. It was common to curse, you make your point. It's a very effective language. I try not to overdo it. It's never to shock. I know where it fits, it's never to shock. There's no shock value left in words."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I don't believe there's any problem in this country, no matter how tough it is, that Americans, when they roll up their sleeves, can't completely ignore."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: It seems to me like a perversion of talent for an artist of any kind to further the corporate structure of America or the personal interests of the morons and thieves who run it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I literally didn't know my father. My mother had been a secretary, and after she and my father split, she went back to work for an advertising executive. So my older brother and I were \"latch-door kids.\" We went home for lunch and after school by ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I believe myself to be a worthwhile and inventive performer in my own right. But I'm not in a league with Lenny [Bruce], certainly not in terms of social commentary."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I feel sorry for confetti. Its useful life lasts about two seconds. And it can never be used again."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: In adolescence you have to separate yourself and establish your identity. So, being very independent anyway, I took charge."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I went to my old school, where all the kids I'd been with for eight years were about to graduate. But the sisters wanted me to repeat the whole term; so I went to the principal and pleaded with her to allow me to graduate with my class. She finally agreed on the condition that I write the graduation play. It was called How Do You Spend Your Leisure Time?Catchy title, huh?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I believe you can joke about anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The enjoyment has been diminishing. Now, there's no question that it's sort of fun to get high."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The angles of my body show you an awful lot. I started doing coke to feel open, but by that time, the hole had opened so wide that I'd fallen through. The body language in those photos tells you everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The coke made me incredibly horny."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When I'm not actually doing my work, I'm planning it or thinking about it or reading things that on some level are transformed into performance fantasies. I have no active interests."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The dividend I get [from my compulsion] is the freedom to be totally disorderly in my dreamworld."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I was a class clown, of the classic term for it. I would get the work done easily, and then I would try to deprive other people of their educations. I developed skills for mimicry, and I was a good showoff. I knew how to get attention, and I knew how to do it in a positive funny way."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If a drug has anything going for it at all, it should be self-limiting. It should tell you when you've had enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I went to George Washington High School for six months before my 16th birthday, when I could legally quit. That was an even worse experience than the Catholic schools. I mean, they were still teaching fractions. But mostly, I played hooky."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Anyone who's onstage is going to attract a certain number of misguided people. But I was never very interested in groupies. Instead of thinking about the sex, I'd always think about the clap and the crabs those people have."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The only good thing about religion is the music. Because nature is filled with balances and opposites, there are always exceptions to the overall rules, whether the overall rules are bleak or otherwise. If you propound a joyous theory of existence, I will find an exception to that. If I propound a bleak theory, someone will find a joyous exception. That's just nature being nature, I think, and I don't think it offers a lot of hope. It's sort of a respite along the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I became a guy who wanted to be a comedian someday, or a comic actor. The way I put it was, I'll be like Danny Kaye. He was kind of the model I had in mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Leadership camp? Isn't that where Hitler went?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I'm happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I don't have to tell you it goes without saying there are some things better left unsaid. I think that speaks for itself. The less said about it the better."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: If two baseball players from the same hometown, on different teams, receive the same uniform number, it is not ironic. It is a coincidence. If Barry Bonds attains lifetime statistics identical to his father's, it will not be ironic. It will be a coincidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Baseball is the only major sport that appears backwards in a mirror."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: There are women named Faith, Hope, Joy, and Prudence. Why not Despair, Guilt, Rage, and Grief? It seems only right. 'Tom, I'd like you to meet the girl of my dreams, Tragedy.' These days, Trajedi."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Engineers at General Motors have developed a revolutionary new engine whose only function is to lubricate itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Hitler never bothered with restaurant reservations; he just dropped by. And somehow they always found him a table."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When you're high, it's easy to kid yourself about how clever certain mediocre pieces of material are."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: To me, smoking pot meant sitting with a newspaper on my legs, rolling the seeds down, pulling the twigs out and finally producing a perfectly cylindrical, absolutely wonderful joint that you either locked at both ends or pinched off, or pinched at one end and left open at the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The ritual was very important to me: cleaning the pot, rolling the pot."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: As a matter of principle, I never attend the first annual anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: In baseball the object is to go home! And to be safe! - I hope I'll be safe at home!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I think self-expression is present at all times, and whether or not you're talking about the outside world or your responses to it depends on the moment and the subject."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I never go anywhere or do anything that transports me outside the boundaries of my mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I profess no belief in God, which by definition is true, especially if we take the accepted definition of God. But to be an atheist is to also have a belief, and have a system, and I don't know that I like that either."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I'd say pot has been a break-even proposition for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I'm not collegial, I don't hang out. I'm soloist, I like my solitude, I don't really hang around with comedians."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The two big mistakes were the belief in a sky god - that there's a man in the sky with 10 things he doesn't want you to do and you'll burn for a long time if you do them - and private property, which I think is at the core of our failure as a species. That's the source of my indignations, my dissatisfactions, however it comes out on the stage. I feel betrayed by the people I'm part of, these creatures, these magnificent creatures."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Anyone who's onstage is going to attract a certain number of misguided people. But I was never very interested in groupies."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: And, of course, the funniest food: \"kumquats\". I don't even bring them home anymore. I sit there laughing and they go to waste."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Brenda [Carlin] went into therapy and I soon joined her. First we put the drugs behind us, then we began serious work on our relationship. And, in time, we got well together.She just drove through a hotel lobby. Now, that's bottoming out."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The Class Clown album was done totally sober. I'd realized what a hell I'd made for myself and I cleaned up completely for three months. You can hear the clarity of my thinking and of my speech on that album."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: For an entertainer, part of the thing you do is just style. And the coke did help me get into great runs of pure form."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Two things happened. The creative side of my career was harmed. When I'd sit down and write under the influence of coke, the ratio of pages kept to pages thrown out declined drastically. But onstage, when rapping about a feeling I already owned, I would sometimes get a burst of eloquence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Sun worship is fairly simple. There's no mystery, no miracles, no pageantry, no one asks for money, there are no songs to learn, and we don't have a special building where we all gather once a week to pare compare clothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I tell ya, if I hadn't chosen the career of being a performer, I think linguistics would have been a natural area that I'd have loved - to teach it, probably, Language has always fascinated me. There's a genetic inheritance there a good language gene, which I inherited [from my mother and grandfather] and she fostered that in me as he fostered that in her."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: It's a \"keep your fingers crossed\" business, the entertainment business."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I try not to see new comics - their acts or their films. Part of that is professional. I don't want to be influenced. But another part is fear and jealousy. I'm afraid to see how good they might be. I don't like that emotion, but it's part of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I'm a believer that things happen. Fate is what happens."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I quit school in ninth grade, even though I was good at the studies. I knew I didn't need school for what I wanted."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The patterns became even more vivid at Cardinal Hayes High School. That's when I began failing subjects and running away from home for days at a time."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: On Thanksgiving, you realize you're living in a modern world. Millions of turkeys baste themselves in millions of ovens that clean themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I always wanted and enjoyed sex, but I never put much importance on scoring or having an athletic sex life. I guess I define myself more by my career and my commitment to a relationship than by my ability to have a lot of chicks or achieve ten orgasms in an evening."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: We are all precancerous."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: And this should go without saying. That's why I'm going to say it: Drinking and driving don't mix. Do your drinking early in the morning and get it out of the way. Then go driving while the visibility is still good."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Who decides when the applause should die down? It seems like it's a group decision; everyone begins to say to themselves at the same time, \"Well, okay, that's enough of that.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: There's a thrill when you steal something in plain view of other people. When you drop a newspaper over a sign and walk away with it, or take something off a wall and the sound of the glue ripping makes people turn around. Your heart is racing, it's a rush."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: What I hated most was seeing those priests and brothers getting so much pleasure out of inflicting pain. I wondered what was wrong with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: There are an awful lot of things in the cut of street drugs that eventually make you sick. I reached a point where the skin around the edges of my fingernails used to hurt all the time. And it would peel away easily. Now, that must have been from some poison in the cut."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Broadway isn't a very big career move. There's no money in it and it doesn't mean anything to your career. It's just a nice little jewel in the crown."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The rebellious mood of the country during those [60th] years allowed me to plug right back into my old hatreds. I could scream and holler, as I did on the albums, against religion, government, big business - all those assholes and their values. That hatred was very real."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: In terms of coke, the only money I ever thought about was that dollar bill I had stuck up my nose."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Because Brenda [Carlin] had a drinking problem along with the coke, she had to hit bottom first. Most alcoholics do. And for her, bottom was an automobile accident that almost landed her in jail."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Sudden total weight loss."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The older I got, the more apparent it became that my mother was losing control over me. She fought back fiercely with black moods, silent treatments and martyrdom. And, of course, all she did was run my ass out of the house even quicker. The pressure was unbearable."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I was kind of sweet kid, according my mother, and my recollections. Thoughtful and good, but kind of alone - although I didn't interpret it that way, as such. Children never interpret these things. They think they understand logically."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: And off we go, out onto the highway looking for a little fun. Perhaps a flatbed truck loaded with human cadavers will explode in front of a Star Trek reunion. One can only dream and hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The fact that I didn't finish school left me with a lifelong need to prove that I'm smart, prove it to myself, maybe to the world. I [also] needed to be - not the center of attention - but I needed to be able to attract attention when I wanted it, through my stunts and my fooling around physically with faces or postures or voices I would do. Those things are important elements in the drive behind all of this [my career]."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I was a stonehead for 30 years. I'd wake up in the morning and if I couldn't decide whether I wanted a joint or not, I'd smoke a joint to figure it out. And I stayed high all day long."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: To my surprise, my marijuana use has been tapering off steadily."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: So I want to thank the Pentagon, the Soviet Union and the military-industrial complex from the bottom of my heart. Without them, I could never have become the man I am today."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I can remember staring at the orphanage and feeling envy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I always have these little internal monologues. You'll get used to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: In my neighborhood - West 121st Street in New York, \"white Harlem\" - there were only two drugs: smack and marijuana. By the time I was 13, some friends and I were using marijuana fairly regularly. The Reefer Madness myth was still very strong then, but I'd been into jazz and those lyrics included so many casual references to pot that it was completely demystified for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Life is not that complicated."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Most of the note-taking happens while I'm watching television. It's a broad window on the world, and a lot of things are already established in my mind as things I say, things that I'm interested in, things that are fodder for my [stand-up] machine. And when I see something that relates to one of them, I know it instantly and if it's a further exaggeration and a further addition, or an exception - if it plays into furthering my purpose, I jot it down."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The person who is most a part of me is the performer, is the standup, the guy who says, \"Hey look at me, listen to this!\" I do that because that's what I do, I love doing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The writing is what gives me the joy, especially editing myself for the page, and getting something ready to show to the editors, and then to have a first draft and get it back and work to fix it, I love reworking, I love editing, love love love revision, revision, revision, revision."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I love and treasure individuals as I meet them, I loath and despise the groups they identify or belong to."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I always knew I could hold people's attention and make them laugh every 30 or 40 seconds, and I got approval and attention for that, so the behavior was reinforced. Later, that became an important skill on the street corner."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Sometimes, after I'd gone at the coke like one of those snow plows moving up First Avenue, I'd think my heart was over on the dresser, pounding, and I was watching it. I asked some of the doctors who drifted through the intensive-care unit what kind of effect total cocaine abuse has on the heart and they said things like, \"Well, there's not enough valid information....\" That kind of answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The mayfly lives only one day. And sometimes it rains."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: First I was a mimic. Practically from the moment I began talking, I did impersonations of the people in my neighborhood - the storekeepers, the policemen, my teachers."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I became a radio nut. I loved the afternoon serials, and I got into jazz through the radio. I had a subscription to Down Beat when I was 12. And I'd spend a lot of time in front of the minor, miming records."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: My mother didn't get home until about seven most nights and, yes, there was a sense of being very alone after school. She gave me all the proper guidance and influences, but physically, she just couldn't be there."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: My mother and her plans for my future. She had it all worked out. I would attend a nice college, then get a job in advertising. \"You'll be one of those smart-looking fellows in their Madison Avenue suits.\" And I rebelled against [my mother] and her values and her plans for my future at every opportunity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I simply decided that dope wasn't worth the ritual."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I was never a pipe or bong man. That's California stuff. I was an Eastern roller."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I'd go on runs [on cocaine ], four and five days without sleep. Then I'd crash and sleep about 18 hours a day for seven to ten days. Then it would take a few more weeks to get over a vague sort of depression. Then I'd be off on another run."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When I listen to those tapes now, the real cocaine shows; there's just nothing special about their content."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I think there's a little more attention to human needs than to property rights. But I don't think much of political activism. It's so shortsighted. Most people are interested in their own personal comfort. I've said that about environmentalists. I think they care about bike paths and places to park their Volvos, not the planet as an abstraction."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Being a Dodgers fan led to my first Air Force court-martial, but that's another story."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Meanwhile, followers of Eastern religions are sitting in the middle of their minds, experiencing a bliss and a level of consciousness that Western man can't begin to approach."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: When I was in seventh grade, I was caught stealing money from the visiting team's locker room during a basketball game. So I was sent to The Brothers. That's what they called this parochial school up in Goshen, New York. I was supposed to get closer supervision there and more \"masculine influence,\" whatever that means. But I was thrown out for telling a couple of really lame kids on the playground that I had heroin."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I loved the angiogram. They stick a thing in your thigh and it goes all the way up to your heart. Isn't that a thrill? Well, at least the nurse scored thigh."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I gravitated toward being a funny guy. I liked the radio comedians. I lived in the Golden Age of radio, and the Golden Age of television came along when I was still in my early teens."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: We will never be an advanced civilization as long as rain showers can delay the launching of a space rocket."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: You know something I could really do without? The Space Shuttle. ... It's irresponsible. The last thing we should be doing is sending our grotesquely distorted DNA out into space."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I don't see much of a future for this planet. I think it's a cursed planet. The boundaries we've drawn between nations and the profit motive - those two factors have, in my opinion, brought us to the point where almost nothing can stop the utter destruction of the environment and all our earthly life-support systems."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Next time you see someone sleeping, make believe you're in a science fiction movie. And whisper, 'The creature is regenerating itself.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I suspect there really was more to my accident than bad luck. I think it was God's way of punishing my nose."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: The women who line up at a comic's dressing-room door are not what you'd call your class groupies."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I hope I'm beginning a new cycle of energy and creativity. If so, it'll really be my third career. The first was as a straight comic in the Sixties. The second was as a counterculture performer in the Seventies. The third will be...well, that's for others to judge."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Lenny Bruce genius was the unique ability to investigate hypocrisy and expose social inequities in a street rap that was really a form of poetry."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Have you noticed when you wear a hat for a long time it feels like it's not there anymore? And then when you take it off it feels like it's still there?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I never took reds or Quaaludes to balance out the coke. So when it got to be four in the morning and the gram was three quarters gone, I'd start wishing it was nine o'clock and hoping the guy got up early. But, of course, he didn't sleep either, so there was no sweat. During all those years, I was always looking forward to the next snort or the next guy I could score from."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: It's difficult enough for a young person to put his soul on the line in front of a lot of drunken people without having that hanging over his head, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: O. J. Simpson has already received the ultimate punishment: For the rest of his life he has to associate with golfers."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: To me the cynics are the ones in the boardrooms with the reports from the focus groups."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I'm certainly a skeptic. I always quibble with people."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: Do you remember Barbara Bush? I call her the silver douchebag."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Carlin: I'm kinda like herpes, I just keep coming back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: If you laugh at it, you can deal with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I hate housework! You make the beds, you do the dishes and six months later you have to start all over again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I\u2019ve had so much plastic surgery, when I die they will donate my body to Tupperware."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I said to my husband, 'Why don't you call out my name when we're making love?' He said, 'I don't want to wake you up.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: To the pessimist the light at the end of the tunnel is another train."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I knew I was an unwanted baby when I saw that my bath toys were a toaster and a radio."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: In life the only thing that you can expect is the unexpected; the only surprise is a day that has none."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: When you first get married, they open the car door for you. Eighteen years now...once he opened the car door for me in the last four years - we were on the freeway at the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I succeeded by saying what everyone else is thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: A study says owning a dog makes you 10 years younger. My first thought was to rescue two more, but I don't want to go through menopause again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I was dating a transvestite, and my mother said, \"Marry him, you'll double your wardrobe.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: A man can sleep around, no questions asked, but if a woman makes nineteen or twenty mistakes she's a tramp."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I enjoy life when things are happening. I don't care if it's good things or bad things. That means you're alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: We don't apologize for a joke. We are comics. We are here to make you laugh. If you don't get it, then don't watch us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I wish I had a twin, so I could know what I'd look like without plastic surgery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: At my funeral, I want Meryl Streep crying in five different accents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: In every human endeavor, persistence is everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: With age comes wisdom. You don't need big boobs to be feminine. Look at Liberace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I got a waterbed, but my husband stocked it with trout."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: moving on is a gift you give yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Don\u2019t worry about the money. Love the process."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Before we make love, my husband takes a pain killer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: My earliest childhood memory was watching my parents loosen the wheels on my stroller."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: My love life is like a piece of Swiss cheese; most of it's missing, and what's there stinks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Self-pity shortens your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Grandchildren can be annoying - how many times can you go: \"And the cow goes moo and the pig goes oink\"? It's like talking to a supermodel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: If you don't want gays in the military, make the uniforms ugly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: The first rule of survival is: Make your own rules. The hell anyone thinks about the way you're acting; listen only to yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: If God wanted us to bend over he'd put diamonds on the floor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I was smart enough to go through any door that opened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Elizabeth Taylor's so fat she puts mayonnaise on aspirin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I was born in 1962, and the room next to me was 1963."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I've learned from doing my own show with Fox that people are not your partners if they're signing the checks. Whoever signs your paycheck is the boss - no matter what they tell you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: If two people want to get married, get married! The Victorians had a great saying: As long as it doesn't scare the horses, do what you want. And I absolutely believe that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: My mother could make anybody feel guilty - she used to get letters of apology from people she didn't even know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: When my husband Edgar and I were courting, he said he couldn't wait to have a baby. It was only after we were married that he changed his mind and decided that I should have the baby."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I think we obviously need health care. Of course we need health care, but I think that it's gone too far the other way, and I don't understand it. It's gotten so complicated. The minute they made a deal with the drug companies, you know something isn't kosher here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Don't cook. Don't clean. No man will ever make love to a woman because she waxed the linoleum."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: My breasts are so low, now I can have a mammogram and a pedicure at the same time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: We all mourn in our own way. I mourn with a great steak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: On the Vanna White diet, you only eat what you can spell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I'm in nobody's circle, I've always been an outsider."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: A Mafia guy in Vegas gave me this advice: \"Run your own race, put on your blinders.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Maybe I'm old-fashioned, but I believe when a woman enters a room, men should stand up - and gay men should stand up at least halfway."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: my cousin Shirley, who never complains, screamed and screamed when she was having her baby. True, this was just during conception."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Why should a woman cook? So her husband can say 'My wife makes a delicious cake' to some hooker?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Trust your husband, adore your husband, and get as much as you can in your own name."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I saw what's going on under my chin. I don't want to be the one the President has to pardon on Thanksgiving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I have no sex appeal. If my husband didn't toss and turn, we'd never have had any kids."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: My sex life is so bad, my G-spot has been declared a historical landmark."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: It's been so long since I made love, I can't even remember who gets tied up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: My face has been tucked in more times than a bedsheet at the Holiday Inn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Half of all marriages end in divorce- and then there are the really unhappy ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Never floss with a stranger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Mick Jagger could French-kiss a moose. He has child-bearing lips."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I hate thin people; 'Oh, does the tampon make me look fat?'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Oprah Winfrey is so powerful that she had the Rapture postponed until after her final show airs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I must admit I am nervous about getting Alzheimer's. Once it hits, I might tell my best joke and never know it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: My boobs are so low I had to put curb feelers on my nipples!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: A woman went to a plastic surgeon and asked him to make her like Bo Derek. He gave her a lobotomy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I could never be in a cult. For starters, they never accessorize properly. David Koresh had no fashion sense, Jim Jones wore leisure suits, and I don't care how charismatic Osama bin Laden was, an AK-47 and an insulin drip do not take the place of drop earrings or a well-placed brooch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I have so little sex appeal that my gynecologist calls me \"sir.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I think it was Cosby who also said to me, 'If only 2 percent of the world thinks you're funny, you'll still fill stadiums for the rest of your life.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I am definitely going to watch the Emmys this year! My makeup team is nominated for \u201cBest Special Effects.\u201d"
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Life is very tough. If you don't laugh, it's tough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: My routines come out of total unhappiness. My audiences are my group therapy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I don't think I'm good in bed. My husband never said anything, but after we made love he'd take a piece of chalk and outline my body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I have no methods. All I do is accept people as they are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Elizabeth Taylor was so fat that whenever she went to London in a red dress, 30 passengers would try to board her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I like colonic irrigation because sometimes you find old jewelry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I think anyone who's perfectly happy isn't particularly funny. And when you're very, very happy, you're not very funny. You're just happy. I'd rather be damaged and funny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I am a dyke! And I'm damn proud of it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Anger is a symptom, a way of cloaking and expressing feelings too awful to experience directly - hurt, bitterness, grief and, most of all, fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Gay marriage, I am so against it because if all my gay friends get married, it will cost me a fortune in gifts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Comedy is a very rough beat. It's no holds barred, as it should be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Valentine's Day is different for old people. At this age I receive chocolates in boxes shaped like artificial hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: The fun of working on the road means stealing from hotels. I've been doing it for so long, I have a set of towels from the Ark."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I was the last girl in Larchmont, NY to get married. My mother had a sign up: \"Last Girl Before Freeway.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Want to know why women don't blink during foreplay? Not enough time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: My husband wanted to be cremated. I told him I'd scatter his ashes at Neiman Marcus - that way, I'd visit him every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Having my daughter, I screamed for twenty-three hours straight. And that was just during conception."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I have no sex appeal, which kills me. The only way I can ever hear heavy breathing from my husband's side of the bed is when he's having an asthma attack."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: The people voting for the Oscars are so old. I haven't seen one Academy award voter with a tampon in her purse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Life is very tough, you know. You sit at a dinner party and talk to the person on your right or your left, you're going to hear something terribly sad, or horrible, or awful. And you just laugh at everything. I think it was Winston Churchill who said something like, any time you get someone to laugh, you're giving them a little vacation. It's so true. You laugh for one second, you're happy. I find in negotiations, everybody's sitting around looking so serious, I say something funny and it breaks the ice. And it's like, now we can get through this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I am so out of the loop. I am never honored. My career is hilarious to me. I am either under the radar or over the radar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I've learned from my dealings with Johnny Carson that no matter what kind of friendship you think you have with people you're working with, when the chips are down, it's all about business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Girls just want to have fun. Well, so do old ladies!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I was so flat I used to put Xs on my chest and write, 'You are here.' I wore angora sweaters just so the guys would have something to pet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: When you're first-generation money, you want to say, \"I got a Mercedes and a Rolls and a Lamborghini. Take a look.\" When you're second-generation money, you're very quiet behind your country club doors. I think that's why people are much more aware. It's the first-generation wives that have the huge rings and the second-generation says, \"Everyone be quiet as we get on our yacht or our private plane.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I said to my husband, 'my boobs have gone, my stomach's gone, say something nice about my legs.' He said, 'Blue goes with everything.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: The glass is always half empty. All good comedians are manic-depressive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I was just reading about the new Lindsay Lohan diet, which is all liquid. 80 proof."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Every time I get on an airplane I figure it's gonna get blown up. You live on the edge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: What could be nicer than to have three horrible children behind you in an airplane, and the next set, you go onstage and you talk about how much you despise the children and what you would like to do to them on an airplane? That's the only time I would gladly take a terrorist on. It'd be worth it to get rid of these children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I like my politicians and my judges and my lawyers to be simple. I think if you worry about where your hemline is you're really not concentrating on the world crisis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: If you don't go to Broadway, you're a fool. On Broadway, off Broadway, above Broadway, below Broadway, go! Don't tell me there isn't something wonderful playing. If I'm home in New York at night, I'm either at a Broadway or an Off Broadway show. We're in the theater capital of the world, and if you don't get it, you're an idiot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I've always hate child stars, starting from way back when, when I was a child. The first child star I saw was Shirley Temple. She was six years old, two foot six and the biggest star in Hollywood. She wore ribbons in her hair, and frilly little pinafores and shiny patent-leather tap shoes - just like the boys in Glee do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: You know you've reached middle age when you're cautioned to slow down by your doctor, instead of by the police."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: But you do have to learn, if you want to be a satirist, you can't be part of the party. Meaning, you can't go horseback riding with Jackie O in Central Park if you're going to make a joke about her that night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I think anyone who's perfectly happy isn't particularly funny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: If you don't think you're funny, no one else will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: When a man has a birthday, he takes a day off. When a woman has a birthday, she takes at least three years off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: The only way I can get a man to touch me at this age is plastic surgery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: And since we're all adults here, let's be brutally honest-most babies are not actually attractive. In fact, they're weird and freakish looking. A large percentage of them are squinty-eyed and bald and their faces are all mushed toegther, kind of like Renee Zellweger pushed up against a glass window."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: As a wedding gift, Ray J gave Kim Kardashian his profits from their sex tape. It's 'Something Old' as well as 'Something Blew.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done. You can tune me out, you can click me off, it's OK. I am not going to bow to political correctness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Having a baby can be a scream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I think I'm in a business where you have to look good, and it's totally youth-oriented."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I hate reality shows that are not reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I have a wonderful psychiatrist that I see maybe once a year, because I don't need it. It all comes out onstage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Is Elizabeth Taylor fat? Her favorite food is seconds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Everyone thinks Angelina Jolie was the first celebrity baby hoarder, but she wasn't. Before Angelina there was Mia Farrow. Mia had an entire farm full of children. I think she got them at Costco."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I want to be buried in a Valentino gown and I want Harry Winston to make me a toe tag."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: The only street I like is Rue Honore de Balzac, because 'Balzac' sound so gay, and I love my gays. I might like Parisians more if they named their streets only for gay icons, like Rue Liza Minnelli or Rue Bette Midler or, my favorite, Rue McClanahan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I love gay and lesbian parents. But I think we need a law that says lesbians and gay men have to raise their children together. This way, the kids would not only know how to build bookshelves, but they'd also instinctively know how to decorate them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I have to tell you that it's not going to be easy. Take every chance and every opportunity that you can. Don't say 'I can't' or 'I shouldn't' or 'I'm too tired.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I think we all in comedi business, especially when we reach a certain age, are divas up to a point. I love when a limousine comes for me, I can't lie about that. I love when you go to a restaurant and they say, \"Come this way, Miss Rivers,\" and you get a good table. I love all that, the perks that come with the business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: If you hate something, you hate it, and if you like something or somebody, you like it, but tell the truth. And most celebrities have that thin veneer that they will not break for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: All babies look like Ren\u00e9e Zellweger pushed against a glass window."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Obama came in and said he was going turn everything around, and you can't. Give the guy a break. But I question a lot of what's happening. It's certainly going to reflect in my vote, but who else is there? It's a horrible time, because people vote party lines instead of what's good for the country. I think the whole health care issue turned so ugly, because of party lines, and that's not what that's supposed to be about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: If I found Yoko Ono floating in my pool, I'd punish my dog."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I've learned: When you get older, who cares? I don't mince words, I don't hold back. What are you gonna do to me? Fire me? It's been done. Threaten to commit suicide? Done. Take away my show? Done! Not invite to me to the Vanity Fair party? I've never been invited! If I ever saw the invitation, I'd use it as toilet paper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: If you're not a wreck in this business, you're not around."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I'm at the top, top, top of my game now. I'm so happy to be on that stage, I'm in control of it, and I love every minute of it. I walk onstage in rehearsal and I start to smile. And so I just don't care what anyone else is doing. Do what you want, say what you want. Nobody else can do what I do onstage. Nobody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I love the way my life has fallen into place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Life is hard. And we better laugh at everything, otherwise we're going down the tube."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I think Hillary Clinton's style is perfect. Perfect. You don't notice what she's wearing, you notice the woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Everyone takes fashion so seriously! It's fashion - enjoy it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Comedy exists to laugh at things that aren't laughable. But isn't it? That's what separates us from the animals. We laugh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Boy George is all England needs. Another queen who can't dress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Can we talk?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Elizabeth Taylor has more chins than the Chinese telephone directory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Every television show you go on is a choice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I think it's time they knew the truth about Beethoven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Comedy is truth. We should not apologize for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: She's so pure, Moses couldn't even part her knees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I lived to be on stage, and I'm terrified. Terrified before every show."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: Russell Brand has announced that he plans to write a series of children's books. First up: 'Horton Hears a Heroin Dealer.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: My body is a temple, and my temple needs redecorating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: I adore my apartment in New York. It was a ballroom that I remade, so it's like a loft but done by Louis the Fifteenth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: If you're saying the same line 10 times and making it look like you just came up with it, that's acting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Joan Rivers: What we do is a calling...we make people happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: The more I think of it, the more I realize there are no answers. Life is to be lived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: To all the girls that think you\u2019re fat because you\u2019re not a size zero, you\u2019re the beautiful one, its society who\u2019s ugly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Who said nights were for sleep?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Boys think girls are like books, If the cover doesn't catch their eye they won't bother to read what's inside\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: The real lover is the man who can thrill you just by touching your head or smiling into your eyes - or just by staring into space."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Don't you know that a man being rich is like a girl being pretty? You wouldn't marry a girl just because she's pretty, but my goodness, doesn't it help?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Husbands are chiefly good as lovers when they are betraying their wives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I've never fooled anyone. I've let people fool themselves. They didn't bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn't argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Sex is a part of nature. I go along with nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: It's better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone - so far."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn't that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I am alone; I am always alone no matter what."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Men love you more if they can be made a little uncertain about owning you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: If I'd observed all the rules, I'd never have got anywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: The worst thing that happens to people when they dress up and go to a party is that they leave their real selves at home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I keep my undies in the icebox!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Most men judge your importance in their lives by how much you can hurt them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Love is something you cant invent, no matter how much you want to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I have feelings too. I am still human. All I want is to be loved, for myself and for my talent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they're pretty, even if they aren't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: When you're young and healthy you can plan on Monday to commit suicide, and by Wednesday you're laughing again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I sleep in the nude but I pull the sheets up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Men who think that a woman's past love affairs lessen her love for them are usually stupid and weak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: We are all born sexual creatures,thank God, but it's a pity so many people despise and crush this natural gift."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I don't know who invented high heels, but all women owe him a lot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I knew I belonged to the public and to the world, not because I was talented or even beautiful, but because I had never belonged to anything or anyone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: The first effect marriage had on me was to increase my lack of interest in sex.... Actually our marriage was a sort of friendship with sexual privileges."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I restore myself when I'm alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I've never dropped anyone I believed in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: A strong man doesn't have to be dominant toward a woman. He doesn't match his strength against a woman weak with love for him. He matches it against the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: A career is born in public - talent in privacy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: A career is wonderful, but you can't curl up with it on a cold night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I'm one of the world's most self-conscious people. I really have to struggle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: As far as I can make out, women's friendships with each other are based on a gush of lies and pretty speeches that mean nothing. You'd think they were all wolves trying to seduce each other the way they flatter and flirt when they're together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: When you have only a single dream it is more than likely to come true - because you keep working toward it without getting mixed up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I believe that everything happens for a reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Important people are much more interesting when they are drunk and seem much more like human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I love to do the things the censors won't pass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Dogs never bite me. Just humans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: The truth can only be recalled, never invented."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I don't understand why people aren't a little more generous with each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress. I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: a struggle with shyness is in every actor more than anyone can imagine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Sometimes I've been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties, would give me a wide berth. And the ladies would gang up in a corner to discuss my dangerous character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I learned also that the best way to keep out of trouble was by never complaining or asking for anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Only parts of us will ever touch only parts of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: What do I wear in bed? Why, Chanel No. 5, of course."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: But square-cut or pear-shaped, These rocks don't lose their shape. Diamonds are a girl's best friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I didn't mind being thought of as dumb. I knew I wasn't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I have always had a talent for irritating women since I was fourteen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I've often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I guess I have always been deeply terrified to really be someone's wife since I know from life one cannot love another, ever, really."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Always admired men who had many women. It must be that to a child of a dissatisfied woman the idea of monogamy is hollow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I think that sexuality is only attractive when it's natural and spontaneous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: It's often just enough to be with someone. I don't need to touch them. Not even talk. A feeling passes between you both. You're not alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I was never used to being happy, so that wasn't something I ever took for granted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: If I play a stupid girl and ask a stupid question, I've got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I've tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Personally, I react to Marlon Brando. He's a favorite of mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: My work is the only ground I've ever had to stand on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me- and that I've made of myself- as a sex symbol. They expect bells to ring and whistles to whistle, but my anatomy is the same as any other woman's and I can't live up to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I'm for the individual as opposed to the corporation. The way it is the individual is the underdog, and with all the things a corporation has going for them the individual comes out banged on her head. The artist is nothing. It's really tragic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I think to love bravely is the best and accept - as much as one can bear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo. You're judged by how you look, not by what you are. Hollywood's a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for kiss, and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: My marriage didn't make me sad, but it didn't make me happy either. My husband and I hardly spoke to each other. This wasn't because we were angry. We had nothing to say. I was dying of boredom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I lay in bed at night crying to myself. The only one who loved me and watched over me was someone I couldn't see or hear or touch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Hollywood parties not only confuse me, but they often disillusion me. The disillusion comes when I meet a movie star I\u2019ve been admiring since childhood. I always thought that movie stars were exciting and talented people full of special personality. Meeting one of them at a party I discover usually that he (or she) is colorless and even frightened. I\u2019ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Beauty and femininity are ageless and can't be contrived, and glamour, although the manufacturers won't like this, cannot be manufactured. Not real glamour; it's based on femininity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I just got to feel that whoever I marry has some real regard for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I have always felt comfortable in blue jeans. I have found it interesting, however, that people also whistle at blue jeans. I have to admit that I like mine to fit. There's nothing I hate worse than baggy blue jeans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Next to my husband and along with Marlon Brando, Yves Montand is the most attractive man I've ever met."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Speaking of Oscars, I would win overwhelmingly if the Academy gave an Oscar for faking orgasms. I have done some of my best acting convincing my partners I was in the throes of ecstasy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Yes, there was something special about me, and I knew what it was. I was the kind of girl they found dead in a hall bedroom with an empty bottle of sleeping pills in her hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: When Clark Gable died, I cried for 2 days straight. I couldn't eat or sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Let yourself go, the pleasure of physical movement is so important. If that's a problem, you say to yourself, what is there that I am afraid of, or hiding? Maybe your libido!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: That's the way you feel when you're beaten inside. You don't feel angry at those who've beaten you. You just feel ashamed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Who does she think she is, Marilyn Monroe?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely. I still wore the blue dress and the blouse the orphanage provided. They made me look like an overgrown lummox."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: try to enjoy myself when I can - I'll be miserable enough as it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I want to say to the people, if I am a star, the people made me a star. No studio, no person, but the people did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Please don't make me a joke. End the interview with what I believe. I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one... I want to be an artist, an actress with integrity..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: The studio people want me to do \"Good-bye Charlie\" for the movies, but I'm not going to do it. I don't like the idea of playing a man in a woman's body - you know? It just doesn't seem feminine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Creativity has got to start with humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: The public doesn't mind people living together without being married, providing they don't overdo it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: If fame goes by, so long, I've had you, fame. If it goes by, I've always known it was fickle. So at least it's something I experience, but that's not where I live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: It stirs up envy, fame does. People feel fame gives them some kind of privilege to walk up to you and say anything to you - and it won't hurt your feelings - like it's happening to your clothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I love a natural look in pictures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: My travels have always been of the same kind. No matter where I've gone or why I've gone there it ends up that I never see anything. Becoming a movie star is living on a merry-go-round. When you travel you take the merry-go-round with you. You don't see natives or new scenery. You see chiefly the same press agents, the same sort of interviewers, and the same picture layouts of yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Some people have been unkind. If I say I want to grow as an actress, they look at my figure. If I say I want to develop, to learn my craft, they laugh. Somehow they don't expect me to be serious about my work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I know I will never be happy, but I know I can be gay!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: There was my name up in lights. I said, 'God, somebody's made a mistake.' But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, 'Remember, you're not a star.' Yet there it was up in lights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I'd sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn't miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Well, whatever I am, I am the blonde!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn't any."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: First, I'm trying to prove to myself that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll convince myself that I'm an actress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I'm working on the foundation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I wanna be loved by you, just you, nobody else but you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: All little girls should be told they are pretty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: You might as well make yourself fly as to make yourself love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: The truth is, I've never fooled anyone. I've let men sometimes fool themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Diamonds are a girls bestfriend"
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Trying to build myself up with the fact that I have done things right that were even good and have had moments that were excellent but the bad is heavier to carry around and feel have no confidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I wanted to ask a thousand questions, but there was no one to ask. Besides I knew that people only told lies to children-lies about everything from soup to Santa Claus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: As long as I can remember, I've always loved people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Acting became important. It became an art that belonged to the actor, not to the director or producer, or the man whose money had bought the studio. It was an art that transformed you into somebody else, that increased your life and mind. I had always loved acting and tried hard to learn it. But with Michael Chekhov, acting became more than a profession to me. It became a sort of religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you're a human being, you feel, you suffer. You're gay, you're sick, you're nervous or whatever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I used to say to myself, 'What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?' And I'd answer, 'Everything, everything,' and I'd walk slowly and turn my head slowly as if I were a queen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: In Rockford I decided that I had seen enough of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I've never liked the name Marilyn. I've often wished that I had held out that day for Jean Monroe. But I guess it's too late to do anything about it now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I enjoy acting when you really hit it right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Only the public can make a star. It's the studios who try to make a system out of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: In fact, my popularity seems almost entirely a masculine phenomenon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: A sex-symbol becomes a thing, I just hate being a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something I'd rather have it sex than some other things we've got symbols of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: How do I know about a man's needs for a sex symbol? I'm a girl."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: The chief drawback with men is that they are too talkative."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: My heart belongs to daddy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: But chiefly, no lies! No lies about there being a Santa Claus or about the world being full of noble and honorable people all eager to help each other and do good to each other. I'll tell her there are honor and goodness in the world, the same as there are diamonds and radium."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: It's almost having certain kinds of secrets for yourself that you'll let the whole world in on only for a moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Nearly everyone I knew talked to me about God. They always warned me not to offend Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: When you're famous you kind of run into human nature in a raw kind of way. It stirs up envy, fame does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: People always ask me if I believe diamonds are a girl's best friend. Frankly, I don't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: For life: it is rather a determination not to be overwhelmed. For work: the truth can only be recalled, never invented."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: A woman can bring a new love to each man she loves, providing there are not too many."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I love a natural look in pictures. I like people with a feeling one way or another - it shows an inner life. I like to see that there\u2019s something going on inside them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Fame is like caviar, you know - it's good to have caviar but not when you have it at every meal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Arthur Miller wouldn't have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: Everyone\u2019s childhood plays itself out. No wonder no one knows the other or can completely understand. By this I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m just giving up with this conclusion or resigning myself \u2014 or maybe for the first time connecting with reality. How do we know the pain or another\u2019s earlier years, let alone all that he drags with him since along the way at best a lot of leeway is needed for the other \u2014 yet how much is unhealthy for one to bear. I think to love bravely is the best and accept \u2014 as much as one can bear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: It stirs up envy, fame does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: An actor is supposed to be a sensitive instrument."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I don't want to play sex roles any more. I'm tired of being known as the girl with the shape."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I want the world to see my body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Marilyn Monroe: I enjoy acting when you really hit it right. And I guess I've always had too much fantasy to be only a housewife."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Create the highest, grandest vision possible for your life, because you become what you believe"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: The greatest contribution you can make to women's rights, is to be the absolute ... best at what you do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You are not your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You will be wounded many times in your life. You'll make mistakes. Some people will call them failures but I have learned that failure is really God's way of saying, \"Excuse me, you're moving in the wrong direction.\" It's just an experience, just an experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Nothing happens until you decide. Make a decision and watch your life move forward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals - I remained faithful, hopeful, and open to seeing the best in people, regardless of whether they were showing me their worst. I stayed open to believing that no matter how hard the climb, there is always a way to let in a sliver of light to illuminate the path forward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I was in a conversation and someone said: \"You know, we were talking about the whole issue of transgender and how it has become so accepted now, and somebody said, 'You know the Oprah show, I think has had a big impact.'\" I said, I don't think so. We did several transgender [shows], but we didn't do as much for transgender as I did for, say, abused kids or battered women. And they said, \"But no, you started the conversation. You started the conversation and the conversation has led us to here.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: The key to realizing a dream is to focus not on success but significance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: To move forward you have to give back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You get in life what you have the courage to ask for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You are not the product of your circumstances. You are a composite of all the things you believe, and all the places you believe you can go. Your past does not define you. You can step out of your history and create a new day for yourself. Even if the entire culture is saying, \"You can't.\" Even if every single possible bad thing that can happen to you does. You can keep going forward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different, it's accepting the past for what it was, and using this moment and this time to help yourself move forward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: True forgiveness is when you can say, \"Thank you for that experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Helping others is the way we help ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: If you're sitting around waiting on somebody to save you, to fix you, to even help you, you are wasting your time because only you have the power to take responsibility to move your life forward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Turn your wounds into wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: No matter where you are on your journey, that's exactly where you need to be. The next road is always ahead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You define your own life. Don't let other people write your script."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Nobody\u2019s journey is seamless or smooth. We all stumble. We all have setbacks. It\u2019s just life\u2019s way of saying, \u2018Time to change course.\u2019"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Whenever I'm faced with a difficult decision, I ask myself, 'What would I do if I weren't afraid of making a mistake? Feeling rejected? looking foolish? Or being alone?' I know for sure that when you remove the fear, the answer that you've been searching for comes into focus and as you walk into your fear, you should know for sure that your deepest struggle can, if you're willing and open, produce your greatest strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: What I learned at a very early age was that I was responsible for my life. And as I became more spiritually conscious, I learned that we all are responsible for ourselves, that you create your own reality by the way you think and therefore act. You cannot blame your parents, your circumstances, because you are NOT your circumstances. You are your possibilities. If you know that, you can do anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: We often block our own blessings because we don't feel inherently good enough or smart enough or pretty enough or worthy enough... You're worthy because you are born and because you are here. Your being here, your being alive makes worthiness your birthright. You alone are enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: What you focus on expands, and when you focus on the goodness in your life, you create more of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: What I know for sure is that what you give comes back to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Follow your feelings. If it feels right, move forward. If it doesn't feel right, don't do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Whatever you fear most has no power--it is your fear that has the power"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: What you believe has more power than what you dream or wish or hope for. You become what you believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: The happiness you feel is in direct proportion to the love you give."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Your journey begins with a choice to get up, step out, and live fully"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Don't live your life to please other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Learn from every mistake because every experience, encounter, and particularly your mistakes are there to teach you and force you into being more who you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Do the one thing you think you cannot do. Fail at it. Try again. Do better the second time. The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire. This is your moment. Own it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: All the money in the world doesn't mean a thing if you don't have time to enjoy it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: When people show you who they are ... believe them!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To be less than your best is a sin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: It doesn't matter how far you might rise. At some point you are bound to stumble because if you\u2019re constantly doing what we do, raising the bar. If you're constantly pushing yourself higher, higher the law of averages not to mention the Myth of Icarus predicts that you will at some point fall. And when you do I want you to know this, remember this: there is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Move with the flow. Don't fight the current. Resist nothing. Let life carry you. Don't try to carry it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Do what you have to do until you can do what you want to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: When you know who you are and what you stand for, you stand in wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: The single greatest thing you can do to change your life today would be to start being grateful for what you have right now. And the more grateful you are, the more you get."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Thank you for that experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I don't think of myself as a poor deprived ghetto girl who made good. I think of myself as somebody who from an early age knew I was responsible for myself, and I had to make good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I want to continue to encourage as many people as I can to open their hearts to life, because if I know anything for sure, it's that opening my own heart is what has brought me my greatest success and joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You can either waltz boldly onto the stage of life and live the way you know your spirit is nudging you to, or you can sit quietly by the wall, receding into the shadows of fear and self doubt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: All of us need a vision for our lives, and even as we work to achieve that vision, we must surrender to the power that is greater than we know. It's one of the defining principles of my life that I love to share: God can dream a bigger dream for you than you could ever dream for yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: How do I define success? Let me tell you, money's pretty nice. But having a lot of money does not automatically make you a successful person. What you want is money and meaning. You want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I know for sure that what we dwell on is who we become."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: With every failure, every crisis, every difficult time, I say - What is this here to teach me? And as soon as you get the lesson, you get to move on. If you really get the lesson, you pass and you don't have to repeat the class. \n \nMy philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I was once afraid of people saying, \u201cWho does she think she is?\u201d Now I have the courage to stand and say, \u201cThis is who I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I'm finally ready to own my own power, to say, \"This is who I am.\" If you like it, you like it. And if you don't like it, you don't. So watch out; I'm gonna fly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Every day brings a chance for you to draw in a breath, kick off your shoes, and dance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I hear people say all the time, \"I'm not really religious, but I consider myself spiritual.\" I definitely have always been spiritual, being raised by my grandmother on that little acre in Mississippi, indoctrinated, born into the church and the ways of the church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Free speech not only lives, it rocks!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Start embracing the life that is calling you and use your life to serve the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You are the single biggest influence in your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Every choice gives you a chance to pave your own road. Keep moving. Full speed ahead"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: All my life I have always known I was born to greatness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: We're all called. If you're here breathing, you have a contribution to make to our human community. The real work of your life is to figure out your function-your part in the whole-as soon as possible, and then get about the business of fulfilling it as only you can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You become what you believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Honor your calling. Everybody has one. Trust your heart and success will come to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Doubt means don't. Don't move. Don't answer. Don't rush forward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: What I know for sure is this: You are built not to shrink down to less, but to blossom into more. To be more extraordinary. To use every moment to fill yourself up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: My first deepening of spirituality came when I was 6, when I was moved from my grandmother and sent to live with my mother - whom I really did not know - who had moved to Milwaukee. Something inside myself knew that I was never going to see my grandmother again - I would be wasting my time to live in that space of wanting that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I believe that every single event in life happens in an opportunity to choose love over fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: When you don't give yourself the time and care you need, your body rebels in the form of sickness and exhaustion"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Here's the gift of gratitude: In order to feel it, your ego has to take a backseat. What shows up in its place is greater compassion and understanding. Instead of being frustrated, you choose appreciation. And the more grateful you become, the more you have to be grateful for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: When you're doing the work you're meant to do, it feels right and every day is a bonus, regardless of what you're getting paid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Courage is feeling the fear and doing it anyway."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You can't give it to others if you don't have it in yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: When you make loving others the story of your life, there's never a final chapter, because the legacy continues. You lend your light to one person, and he or she shines it on another and another and another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I still have my feet on the ground, I just wear better shoes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: When you have more respect for yourself and put yourself in a position where you feel your sense of value or worth, that's how you know you're on the right path."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: If we're really committed to growth, we never stop discovering new dimensions of self and self-expression ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: She is the mother I never had, she is the sister everybody would want. She is the friend that everybody deserves. I don't know a better person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: The choices we've made throughout our lives affect whatever happens to us in any given moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: There is a seeded bread that I bring from South Africa. I bring home 10, 20 loaves. I am so bad with this bread. I've literally been in hotels and brought my own: \"Please, can you toast this? I have my own bread.\" They're like, \"You have your own bread?\" And I'll pull it out!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: True self-esteem is realizing that you are valuable because you were born. No matter where you came from, what color your skin is, what people say about your family or what mean things people may have done to you, because you were born, you are important and you matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I was in the gym working on my triceps, and I was thinking, just as I did the 50-pound pulldown, I am going to be in better shape by the end of the year [2016] than I've ever been in my life. I really just smiled at the notion: Wow, what a thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I thought, If I'm gonna run a jazz club, if I've got Miles Davis' posters in my bar, I should at least know what his horn sounds like."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I don't know what kind of egomaniac is sitting at home thinking about the impact they have had on the culture. It's not something I actually think about until it comes up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Luck is a matter of preparation meeting opportunity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: It's not easy being grateful all the time. But it's when you feel least thankful that you are most in need of what gratitude can give you"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You teach people how to treat you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Often when someone comes to you and wants to vent, it's so tempting to start giving advice. But if you allow the person just to let the feelings out, and then at another time come back with advice or comments, that person would experience a deeper healing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Interviewing people, I don't miss that at all. I do miss kibitzing with the audience because after every show I would spend half an hour to 40 minutes talking to people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: There are so many people who've come before me who deserved to be tired. Who didn't have the opportunities, who didn't have the access, who didn't have the money, who didn't have the influence, who didn't have the voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I interviewed - no - had lunch with Harper Lee several years ago, trying to convince Harper Lee to do \"To Kill a Mockingbird\" for the book club. She wouldn't do it. She said, \"Honey, I said everything I wanted to say.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I've never listened to jazz. It's just not something I ever paid attention to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I set out to really build this universe of interfaith connectedness, where people could see that other people in different parts of the world are very much like them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: There's nobody who would be willing to do an interview on a regular basis that you can't go and Google and find out what has happened to them in the past week. There's nobody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I still love church. My favorite church service is T.D. Jakes at the Potter's House. I don't think there is a better preacher in the country. His ability to interpret scripture is like no other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I'm definitely not a traditionalist, because a traditionalist would be going to church every Sunday."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You have two choices: You can come down from the mountain and spend the rest of your days thinking it was so beautiful there, or you can create a vision, look upward, see the next mountain, and start the climb all over again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You want to make decisions that are meaningful to you, and that are going to continue to enhance you being who you really are and what your message to the world is, and everybody has one. The real important thing is to know what that message is and how you want to carry that forward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You do what you have to do to get through today, and that puts you in the best place tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Connect. Embrace. Liberate. Love somebody. Just one person. And then spread that to two. And as many as you can. You'll see the difference it makes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I have a lot of things to prove to myself. One is that I can live my life fearlessly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I can't define \"God,\" so to be open to the mystical and mystery of God is a natural part of myself. So people criticize me for not being what they are, and I say, it's working for me and has worked for me and continues to work for me, in a way that fills me with a sense of peace and contentment about what God means to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: My response is that I love the church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I tried documentaries.It wasn't the time for me. I was going to try to do the same thing, I did make a valiant attempt but it did not work - to do the same thing with documentaries that we had done with the book club [in 2011]. The zeitgeist wasn't ready. It just wasn't ready."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: The way through the challenge is to get still and ask yourself, 'What is the next right move? What is the next right move?' and then, from that space, make the next right move and the next right move."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: There's a wealth that has nothing to do with dollars, that comes from the perspective and wisdom of paying attention to your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Walk through life eager and open to self-improvemen t and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why we're here - to evolve as human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I'm always interested in people being able to share stories that allow us to see the landscape of human foibles, challenges, and ultimately triumph."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: The essential question is not, \"How busy are you?\" but \"What are you busy at?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I believe there's a calling for all of us. I know that every human being has value and purpose. The real work of our lives is to become aware. And awakened. To answer the call."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: If you want to feel good, you have to go out and do some good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You are built not to shrink down to less but to blossom into more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: What matters is how you feel inside, because feeling beautiful on the inside is key to looking good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: No matter who you are, no matter what your culture is, it is absolutely possible to look out and extend yourself in such a way, that you can connect to other people and find that we are more alike than we are different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: In God, I move and breathe and have my being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Although there may be tragedy in your life, there\u2019s always a possibility to triumph. It doesn\u2019t matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You must have some vision for your life. Even if you don't know the plan, you have to have a direction in which you choose to go... You want to be in the driver's seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: If I lost control of the business I'd lose myself - or at least the ability to be myself. Owning myself is a way to be myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: There are still generations of people, older people, who were born and bred and marinated in it, in that prejudice and racism, and they just have to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I want every day to be a fresh start on expanding what is possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Getting my library card was like citizenship; it was like American citizenship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: All life is energy and we are transmitting it at every moment. We are all little beaming little signals like radio frequencies, and the world is responding in kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: What material success does is provide you with the ability to concentrate on other things that really matter. And that is being able to make a difference, not only in your own life, but in other people's lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: The only people who never tumble are those who never mount the high wire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You want to be in the driver\u2019s seat of your own life because if you are not, life will drive you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: The struggle of my life created empathy... I could relate to pain... being abandoned... having people not love me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Your soul tells you when it's time to move on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Whatever our dreams, ideas, or projects, we plant a seed, nurture it -- and then reap the fruits of our labors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I had no idea that being your authentic self could make me as rich as I've become. If I had, I'd have done it a lot earlier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: If I had kids, my kids would hate me. They would have ended up on the equivalent of the Oprah show talking about me; because something [in my life] would have had to suffer and it would've probably been them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: A mentor is someone who allows you to see the hope inside yourself. A mentor is someone who allows you to know that no matter how dark the night, in the morning joy will come. A mentor is someone who allows you to see the higher part of yourself when sometimes it becomes hidden to your own view."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: What stands out to me most about Maya Angelou is not what she has done or written or spoken; it's how she lived her life. She moved through the world with unshakable calm, confidence and a fierce grace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I am disappointed by this controversy surrounding A Million Little Pieces because I rely on the publishers to define the category that a book falls within and also the authenticity of the work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I've talked to nearly 30,000, people on this show, and all 30,000, had one thing in common: They all wanted validation...I would tell you that every single person you will ever meet shares that common desire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Wow, wow, wow! I never imagined meatless meals could be so satisfying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: There is a level of disrespect for the office that occurs. And that occurs in some cases and maybe even many cases because he is African American. There\u2019s no question about that and it\u2019s the kind of thing nobody ever says but everybody\u2019s thinking it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I know for sure that appreciating whatever shows up for you in life changes your personal vibration. You radiate and generate more goodness for yourself when you're aware of all you have and not focusing on your have-nots."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Be more splendid, more extraordinary. Use every moment to fill yourself up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I was probably toward 8 1/2 when I actually joined the church and was baptized - and, my God, did I take it seriously! I was a zealot who irritated every one of my third-grade friends. They didn't beat me up, but I got labeled \"the preacher girl.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: [People] might have a different word for the yearning of the heart and the yearning of the spirit that is looking for what I call \"God,\" it still is the same thing. It is the heart's yearning to know the origin of its mystery. It's a heart's yearning to know the power of the divine in each of our lives. It's a heart's yearning to be connected to that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Anybody who has ever done anything knows that, when you believe, it doesn't matter what other people think. You just have to keep finding a way to align your vision with other people who will receive and accept your vision. And when the time is right, if it is for you, it will show itself, if you believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: What you do today creates every tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: If you allow yourself to breathe into the depth, wonder, beauty, craziness, and strife everything that represents the fullness of your life you can live fearlessly. Because you come to realize that if you just keep breathing, you cannot be conquered"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Ask the right questions, and the answers will always reveal themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I grew up in the Baptist Church, and going to church with my father; I remember being 8 years old, trying to determine whether I was really ready to give up sin, and for days I agonized."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: There were lots of little boys having their bar mitzvahs all over the world, and they sent me tapes of some of them that they interviewed, probably six or seven little boys, and there was something about Mendel. I just loved his little face. I loved the energy of Mendel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I started out giving thanks for small things, and the more thankful I became, the more my bounty increased"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: This is the body you've been given - love what you've got."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: When I learn something, when I know something, when I find something. I always want to share it. Because life is better when you share it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: And how do you know when you're doing something right? How do you know that? It feels so. What I know now is that feelings are really your GPS system for life. When you're supposed to do something or not supposed to do something, your emotional guidance system lets you know. The trick is to learn to check your ego at the door and start checking your gut instead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: If this was the last day of your life, would you spend it the way you're spending today?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: It's great to have a private jet. Anyone that tells you that having your own private jet isn't great is lying to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I want us all to fulfill our greatest potential. To find our calling, and summon the courage to live it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I want to use television not only to entertain, but to help people lead better lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: What I know for sure: Having the best things is no substitute for having the best life. When you can let go of the desire to acquire, you know you are really on your way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Align your personality with your purpose, and no one can touch you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: If you peel back the layers of your life-the frenzy, the noise-stillness is waiting. That stillness is you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I think I do speak to all ages, but the emphasis is, unlike everybody else who is chasing the Millennials, I'm not chasing the Millennials."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: How you spend your time defines who you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: All pain is the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You are worthy because you were born."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Life is better when you share it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Everybody has a calling. And your real job in life is to figure out as soon as possible what that is, who you were meant to be, and to begin to honor that in the best way possible for yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: The pathway to your best life isn't the route of denial. It's owning every moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Well, I don't call you an atheist then. I think if you believe in the awe and the wonder and the mystery, then that is what God is. That is what God is, not the bearded guy in the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I never had children, never even thought I would have children. Now I have 152 daughters; expecting 75 more next year. That is some type of gestation period."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: It felt like a new day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Making other people happy is what brings me happiness. I have a blessed life, and I have always shared my life's gifts with others. I will continue to use my voice and my life as a catalyst for encouraging people to help make a difference in the lives of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Nothing happens until you decide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I knew there was a way out. I knew there was another kind of life because I had read about it. I knew there were other places, and there was another way of being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: It's much easier for me to make major life, multi-million dollar decisions, than it is to decide on a carpet for my front porch. That's the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Is it shocking that it's very difficult for a news organization to do news in America now? It's not shocking because we're a culture that doesn't want news. We want entertainment. We want info-tainment. That's why CNN is having problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: What, I have actually loved it, because I've been underestimated every step of the way, and it's so exciting when you can prove them all wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I wasn't remembering the gift that God had given me. I had totally put all that aside. And my daughter was growing up before my eyes, and I just wanted to grab hold of that. It goes by so fast. I wanted to watch her. I wanted to be that parent - because at that point in time, I was a single parent. Watch her go to school, and when she got home, be there. I wanted that moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Every story about Oprah Winfrey Network was that it was struggling.I literally had a come-to-Jesus meeting with myself to say, 'Lord, what would you have me do?' What I know for sure is that the only way to hold onto yourself is through a spiritual base - otherwise you lose it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: When your life is on course with it\u2019s purpose, you are your most powerful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Most people when they're walking are thinking about where they have to go and what they have to do. But that removes us from happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I don't want to have to get the lesson of losing [things like health and moving about freely] to appreciate what it was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I would say my faith has become strengthened every time I have faced what I considered to be a trial, and there is no greater trial than being 14 and pregnant and not even knowing what it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I believe I don't know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. I know who and what holds the future. I trust that beyond this space and time, all is well, and all will be well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I'm not one of those people who is trying to act like I don't sleep. I used to be like, \"Oh, I only need four hours.\" Now I need exactly 5 1/2 to 6 in order to feel like I've done well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I would say that during the time that I was 14 and pregnant - I didn't even know what pregnancy was when I got pregnant - I was trying to do everything I could to harm myself. I said to God, \"God, if you want me to die, then you're going to have to kill me\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I've seen that many times in rural African villages where people have nothing but a hut and a bowl. The joy in the children's eyes is something you wish you could package and bring back to America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I see all art as a complement to telling people's stories. I'm in the storytelling business. I believe that the humanity that all of us share is the stories of our lives, and everybody has a story. Your story is as important as the next person's story."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I felt that it was deeply moving and profound, and of course everybody was like, \"Oh, the president [Barack Obama] can sing!\" Maybe a little off key! I actually think that the sermon reinforced the very nature of the grace that the victims' families had shown to the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: When I was going through menopause, I didn't sleep. I didn't sleep for two years and ended up blowing out my thyroid, and I became nonfunctional. It's difficult to remain fully present if I'm not getting enough sleep, so I work at getting enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: \"Back in the day when I started - it's like I walked five miles to school in the snow barefooted\" - there were three channels.I don't know what I would do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I think I try to speak to the heart of the woman who I know is interested in growing into herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I do miss the people in the audience and the fun: \"I came with my mother! And this is my mother!\" I miss that. I miss: \"My cousin and I came all the way from....\" I miss that. I don't miss this - who is left to interview?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I live in the space where God is. There is no question that that is why I am where I am, and why I have had the success that I've had, is because I allow myself to be guided by that which is greater than myself - than my personality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I am a person who lives my life based on intention. I don't do anything without intention because intention determines the outcome of your life. It's like cause and effect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I think that the idea of reaching young girls that are in college is something that we are strongly open to because who better wants to know how to live a more purposeful life than people who are starting out?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I made the decision I will own my own show. So never again will I ever be told what I can and can not do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Your work speaks for you. Your art defines you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I can honestly say that I'm not a person who thinks about awards, as much I think about the work itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I also like some of Joel Osteen's work. I think he's now doing a book about one of my favorite sermons of his, \"The Power of 'I Am.' \" I just love that sermon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I believe that education is freedom. It provides the tools to affect one's own destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: One of my purposes is to use the television show as a voice to not only entertain people, as I did in the beginning, but as a source of information, as a source of enlightenment, wherever we can, and also as a source of lifting people up wherever you can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Many things in life inspire philanthropy, such as your faith in humanity and your belief in the human spirit to overcome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: The very first time I had Whitney Houston on my show, however many years ago, I thought, \"You are 'the voice.'\" You are the voice, that was my name for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You have the RIGHT to change your mind"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I love hearing stories, telling stories, sharing stories. I've shared 37,000 on the Oprah show! Every day I was like the town crier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Spirituality for me is recognizing that I am connected to the energy of all creation, that I am a part of it and it is always a part of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You will find true success and happiness if you have only one goal, there really is only one, and that is this: to fulfill the highest most truthful expression of yourself as a human being. You want to max out your humanity by using your energy to lift yourself up, your family and the people around you. Theologian Howard Thurman said it best. He said, \u201cDon\u2019t ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive and then go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive.\u201d"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I decided to be the best and the smartest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Books showed me there were possibilities in life, that there were actually people like me living in a world I could not only aspire to but attain. Reading gave me hope. For me, it was the open door."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You can't accomplish anything worthwhile if you inhibit yourself"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Nothing about my life is lucky. Nothing. A lot of grace, a lot of blessings, a lot of divine order, but I don't believe in luck. For me, luck is preparation meeting the moment of opportunity. There is no luck without you being prepared to handle that moment of opportunity. Every single thing that has ever happened in your life is preparing you for the moment that is to come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: To be fully human is...to know that it's possible to face the unimaginable and somehow put one foot in front of the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Only by owning who and what you are can you step into the fullness of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I am a product of every other black woman before me who has done or said anything worthwhile. Recognizing that I am part of history is what allows me to soar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: What I know for sure is that pleasure is energy reciprocated. What you put out comes back. Your base level of pleasure is determined by how you view your whole life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Reading gave me hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I believe that you tend to create your own blessings. You have to prepare yourself so that when opportunity comes, you're ready."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: When you educate a girl, you begin to change the face of a nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Mr. Right is coming, but he's in Africa and he's walking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: You really haven't changed, you've just become more of yourself. That is really what were all trying to do: become more of ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I've learned that every single trial offers us a chance to either turn away from what we know to be true, or to stand strong in who we are..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I will not be taking a paternity test, ever!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I am the seed of the free, and I know it. I intend to bear great fruit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: It does not matter how you came into the world, what matters is that you are here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I'm not even kind of a lesbian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Your gut is your inner compass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I cannot be defined by what other people think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I for sure believe in miracles. For me, a miracle is seeing the world with light in your eyes. It's knowing there's always hope and possibility where none seems to exist. Many people are so closed to miracles that even when one is boldly staring them in the face, they label it coincidence or serendipity. I call it like I see it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: We need to deprogram ourselves. I know for sure that you can't give what you don't have. If you allow yourself to be depleted to the point where your emotional and spiritual tank is empty and you're running on fumes of habit, everybody loses. Especially you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: This is your moment. Own it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: How can you say you're trying to spiritually evolve, without even a thought about what happens to the animals whose lives are sacrificed in the name of gluttony?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: It is very true, that the way you think creates reality for yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I've learned to rely on the strength I inherited from all those who came before me-the grandmothers, sisters, aunts, and brothers who were tested with unimaginable hardships and still survived. 'I go forth alone, and stand as ten thousand,' Maya Angelou proclaimed in her poem 'Our Grandmothers.' When I move through the world, I bring all my history with me-all the people who paved the way for me are part of who I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: To kick things off, [television show host Andy Cohen] asked the last time Winfrey had smoked marijuana. 'Uh ... 1982,' Winfrey replied. 'Let's hang out after the show,' Cohen joked. 'Okay,' Winfrey laughed. 'I hear it's gotten better.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: My constant prayer for myself is to be used in service for the greater good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Gratitude is the single greatest treasure I will take with me from this experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Don't complain about what you don't have. Use what you've got. To do less than your best is a sin. Every single one of us has the power for greatness, because greatness is determined by service-to yourself and to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Take five minutes to center yourself in the morning...Set your intention every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: There is a lesson in almost everything that you do, and getting the lesson is how you move forward. It is how you enrich your spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I know this for sure, that doing good actually makes you better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: It has become harder and harder to find books on a monthly basis that I feel absolutely compelled to share, .. I will continue featuring books on the 'Oprah Winfrey Show' when I feel they merit my heartfelt recommendation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I didn't just fall off the wagon. I let the wagon fall on me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I've been stopped cold from eating another burger!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: All you need to do is know who you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: The future is full of possibility, whether you make one tiny change - or a whole invigorating, thrilling, inspiring bunch of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: If you make a choice that goes against what everyone else thinks, the world will not fall apart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I remember a specific moment, watching my grandmother hang the clothes on the line, and her saying to me, 'you are going to have to learn to do this,' and me being in that space of awareness and knowing that my life would not be the same as my grandmother's life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Back then, a few doilies and napkins were all that a lot of women had. In the little house where I grew up, the pillowcases my grandmother embroidered were the only things of beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: To be mundane and poor is the curse of life!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I love what the church offers to us as a culture - black people in particular. We would be nowhere without the black church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: For me to live in a world that is not inclusive of other people who are not Christian would be the opposite of Christianity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: When you're passionate about your work, it feels like you would do it even if no one were paying you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: Can I just tell you the truth? I get asked to do a lot of stuff. And all of the years that people have asked me to do things for the film festival, I couldn't. And so this year, I thought, \"Oh, my god, I don't have a day job. If somebody ask me to do something, I'm going to do it.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: What you want to do is to get to the point where you only do what matters to you. The real goal in life is to become more of who you are, so that you can make the choices that really satisfy who you are and what you want to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: So, The Color Purple changed my life. It changed everything about my life because, in that moment of praying and letting go, I really understood the principle of surrender. The principle of surrender is that, after you have done all that you can do, and you've done your best and given it your all, you then have to release it to whatever you call God, or don't call God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: One of the things that I encourage for anybody who is interested in their own charity or philanthropy is to start from where you are and what has mattered to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oprah Winfrey: I try to live in the moment and let that moment carry me to the next great place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I wonder what chairs think about all day: \"Oh, here comes another asshole.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: The human spirit is more powerful than any drug - and that is what needs to be nourished: with work, play, friendship, family. These are the things that matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: If you're that depressed, reach out to someone. And remember, suicide is a permanent solution, to a temporary problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Real loss is only possible when you love something more than you love yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Please, don't worry so much. Because in the end, none of us have very long on this Earth. Life is fleeting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: There's a world out there. Open a window, and it's there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Sometimes you got to specifically go out of your way to get into trouble. It's called fun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Why do they call it \"rush hour\" when nothing moves?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Life is fleeting. And if you're ever distressed, cast your eyes to the summer sky when when the stars are strung across the velvety night. And when a shooting star streaks through the blackness, turning night into day... make a wish and think of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Boys, you must strive to find your own voice, because the longer you wait to begin the less likely you are to find it at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Our job is improving the quality of life, not just delaying death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: If women ran the world, we wouldn't have wars, just intense negotiations every 28 days."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I had sex with a prostitute when I was 21, I was so bad, she gave me a refund."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Ah, yes, divorce... from the Latin word meaning to rip out a man's genitals through his wallet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Change is not popular; we are creatures of habit as human beings. 'I want it to be the way it was.' But if you continue the way it was there will be no 'is.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Most of all, I want to thank my father, up there, the man who when I said I wanted to be an actor, he said, 'Wonderful. Just have a back-up profession like welding.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Good people end up in Hell because they can't forgive themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Do you think God gets stoned? I think so ... look at the platypus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: People say that I'm a tree hugger, but I do a lot more than hug trees. I like having my drinking water without faecal matter, that's really nice. Or acceptable levels of strychnine. I'm an air breather, I've gotten used to that over the years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Beer commercials usually show big men, manly men, doing manly things: \"You've just killed a small animal. It's time for a light beer.\" Why not have a realistic beer commercial, with a realistic thing about beer, where someone goes, \"It's 5:00 in the morning. You've just pissed on a dumpster. It's Miller time.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I try to make sense of things. Which is why, I guess, I believe in destiny. There must be a reason that I am as I am. There must be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: When I was growing up they used to say, \"Robin, drugs can kill you.\" Now that I'm 58 my doctor's telling me, \"Robin, you need drugs to live.\" I realize now that my doctor is also my dealer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Ballet: men wearing pants so tight that you can tell what religion they are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I always thought the idea of education was to learn to think for yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: You know the difference between a tornado and divorce in the south? Nothing! Someone is losing a trailer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: What some folks call impossible is just stuff they haven't seen before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and dignity, and decency, and God forbid, maybe even humor. Death is not the enemy gentlemen. If we're going to fight a disease, let's fight one of the most terrible diseases of all, indifference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: If you listen real close, you can hear them whisper their legacy to you.  Go on, lean in. Listen, you hear it?  Carpe diem, seize the day boys, make your lives extraordinary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: The Chinese had accused the Tibetans of being terrorists, which is weird. A Tibetan terrorist is like an Amish hacker. It just doesn't fit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Politically, I don't care what party you're from, offer a point of view and let's see what happens and really debate the issues rather than use personal attacks. Really talk about it, talk about immigration, talk about education, talk about pollution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: You treat a disease, you win, you lose. You treat a person, I guarantee you, you'll win, no matter what the outcome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: The truth is, if anything, I'm probably addicted to laughter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: A woman would never make a nuclear bomb. They would never make a weapon that kills, no, no. They'd make a weapon that makes you feel bad for a while."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: To be acknowledged for who and what I am, no more, no less. Not for acclaim, not for approval, but, the simple truth of that recognition. This has been the elemental drive of my existence, and it must be achieved, if I am to live or die with dignity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Everyone has these two visions when they hold their child for the first time. The first is your child as an adult saying \"I want to thank the Nobel Committee for this award.\" The other is \"You want fries with that?\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Being a functioning alcoholic is kind of like being a paraplegic lap dancer: You can do it, just not as well as the others, really."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Even mistakes can be wonderful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Gentlemen, haven't we learned anything from the music of John Lennon? All we need is love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: In England, if you commit a crime, the police don't have a gun and you don't have a gun. If you commit a crime, the police will say 'Stop, or I'll say stop again.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Ever since my children were born, the moment I looked at them I was crazy about them. Once I held them I was hooked. I am addicted to my children sir. I love them with all my heart and the idea of someone telling me I can't be with them, I can't see them everyday. Well, it's like someone saying I can't have air."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Cocaine is God's way of telling you you are making too much money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: We don\u2019t read and write poetry because it\u2019s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Canada is like a loft apartment over a really great party."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Comedy is acting out optimism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: My childhood was lonely. Both my parents were away a lot, working, and the maid basically raised me. And I think that's where a lot of my comedy comes from. Not only was the maid very funny and witty, but when my mother came home I'd use humour to try and get her attention. If I made mommy laugh, then maybe everything would be all right. I think that's where it [my comedy] all started."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings. And a favorite book as a child? Growing up, it was 'The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe' - I would read the whole C.S. Lewis series out loud to my kids. I was once reading to Zelda, and she said 'don't do any voices. Just read it as yourself.' So I did, I just read it straight, and she said 'that's better.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Okra is the closest thing to nylon I've ever eaten. It's like they bred cotton with a green bean. Okra, tastes like snot. The more you cook it, the more it turns into string."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: As an alcoholic, you will violate your standards quicker than you can lower them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: If it's the Psychic Network why do they need a phone number?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: If heaven exists, to know that there's laughs, that would be a great thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: All you have to do is think one happy thought, and you'll fly like me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Oh, no. To live... to live would be an awfully big adventure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Anything that is not funny at a certain point will be funny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Sucking the marrow out of life doesn't mean choking on the bone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I thought lacrosse was what you find in la church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: There's three things in this world that you need: Respect for all kinds of life, a nice bowel movement on a regular basis, and a navy blazer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: My favorite thing to do is ride a bicycle. I ride road bikes. And for me, it's mobile meditation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Texting and driving at the same time is like jerking off and juggling at the same time. Too many balls in the air, if you catch my drift."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I was once walking in an airport and a woman came up to me and said, 'Be zany!'. That'd be like walking up to Baryshikov and going, 'Plie! Just do a plie! Do it! Do a releve right now! Lift my wife!'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Here's the best birth control in the whole world, if you really, if you have no pills, if you have no diaphragm, if you have no other form of contraception. Use it for ladies, if he comes at you with that little thing in his hand, just laugh at it. They can't deal with it, OK, it'll be gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: My favorite is when you go to Afghanistan and you meet the special forces guys, and they look like these heavily armed surfers. These guys are the best. You see guys dressed as full Afghans, but then wearing a Yankees hat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: My children give me a great sense of wonder. Just to see them develop into these extraordinary human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I was in Iraq, Afghanistan, Djibouti, Bahrain. The first year I went pretty much by myself. Then I went with General [Richard] Myers, head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The shows and audiences were amazing. You'll never get a better group of people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: You can start any 'Monty Python' routine and people finish it for you. Everyone knows it like shorthand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: The great thing about marriage is the idea of really getting to know someone. And really getting to know a woman is a life long task."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Gradual school is where you go to school and you gradually find out you don't want to go to school anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Explore an idea until you've exhausted it, really go to all the different parameters of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I want to do a movie, but it has to be the right movie, whether it's independent or a studio movie. I'm much more open to being a supporting actor. At the age of 60, I'll be second fiddle. Fine. I'm happy to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: You don't need cocaine! There's another way to get real high, and really mess your mind up, it's called marathon running!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I stand upon my desk to remind myself that we must constantly look at things in a different way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: We're dealing with fundamentalists... the Amish are fundamentalists, but they don't try and hijack a carriage at needlepoint. And, if you're ever in Amish country and you see a man with his hand buried in a horse's ass, that's a mechanic. Remember that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I've always improvised, and stand-up was this great release. All of a sudden, it was just me and the audience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: The Second Amendment! It says you have the right to bear arms, or the right to arm bears, whatever the hell you want to do!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Make your life spectacular, I know I did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: All the new people you meet, it's pretty amazing. The vampire needs new blood. And there is still a lot to learn and there is always great stuff out there. Even mistakes can be wonderful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: After my training wheels, my first real bike was a Schwinn, and my first time out, I rode down a hill, didn\u2019t know how to stop, and ran right into a tree. So, that was a nice experience ... like realizing, oh, there are brakes!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I started doing comedy because that was the only stage that I could find. It was the pure idea of being on stage. That was the only thing that interested me, along with learning the craft and working, and just being in productions with people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: But if there's love, dear... those are the ties that bind, and you'll have a family in your heart, forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: My childhood was really nice. My parents never forced me to do anything; it was always, \"If you want to do that, fine.\" When I told my father I was going to be an actor, he said, \"Fine, but study welding just in case.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I've never had a \"hankering\" to direct. I can perform, but I can't write on that level. I tend to go off on tangents. Directing also requires a kind of specificity and I don't have it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it 'all the money,' but they changed it to 'alimony.' It's ripping your heart out through your wallet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Whenever a big white man picks up a banjo, my cheeks tighten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: 2020. There'll be cold fusion. We'll actually be able to power our cars with our own feces. That's right. The emissions problem will be a little intense, but just light a match."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Don't mess with me, man, I'm a lawyer!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public. Once you step on stage you're licensed to do that. It's an understood relationship. You walk on stage - it's your job."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: My preference is live performance. Because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that. You know, musicians need it, comedians definitely need it. It doesn't matter what size and what club, whether it's 30 people in the club or 2,000 in a hall or a theater. It's live, it's symbiotic, you need it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Taking Viagra after open heart surgery is like a Civil War re-enactment with live ammo. Not good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Directing requires great discipline, that ability to be in and out at the same time. The great ones I've worked with are like generals. It's a bit like a small war on that level. The great ones have that combination of freedom and control. I'm nowhere near that. There's still so much to do as an actor. I have enough to explore with that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Comedy can be a cathartic way to deal with personal trauma."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: With mountain biking, it's always that constant thing, negotiating singletrack, which I like, but for a road ride that rhythm is really Buddhist. When you get a good pedal stoke, it's that thing of everything works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I had to stop drinking alcohol, because I used to wake up nude in front of my car with my keys in my ass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: It's frightening and exhilarating. It's like combat. Look at the metaphors: You kill when it works; you die when it doesn't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, \"Well, what are you really like?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Look at the walls of Pompeii. That's what got the internet started."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Things that I see in the future. I see... it could be quite incredible if we can master a few problems, like the air and the water thing might be nice. I see governments dissolving these barriers are all falling down for economic reasons. They're all so interbound."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Friends come in all sizes, take it from me! Golly gee, size doesn't matter, when you want some friendly patter from a pal who is true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I just want to do movies, and I want to sell them. I don't want to link up with some product."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: We were totally opposite - me coming from the West Coast and a junior college, and him [ Christopher Reeve] from the hard-core Ivy League. He used to be the studly studly of all studlies, and I was the little fool ferret boy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: People would say I never censor. As Billy Crystal says, 'I don't have that button.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I never performed on drugs. That'd be stupid. It's the same thing with athletes. They can't perform when they have cocaine problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Being in the same room with people and creating something together is a good thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I have no desire to go anywhere near drugs. People say, \"Aren't you tempted?\" No, because of the ridiculousness of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: My religious background is that my mother is a Christian Dior Scientist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I can be trained, I can actually show you how intelligent I am, I can use a word like delicatessen and know what it means."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Cross-country running was so beautiful with all the trails and the lake regions ... very physical and also a bit spiritual, where you could come over the mountain and all of a sudden you'd see a Buddhist landscape fog."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Even when I did my Broadway show, I did 15 minutes no one had seen before, because that was the night that Michael Jackson protested about Al Sharpton bailing on him. I said, \"Wow, if that man bails on you, this must be really a lost cause.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: The dramas for me allow me to explore more behavioral, deeper psychological things. But the comedies obviously allow me to explore the idea of really working off other people. I'm having more fun doing that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I did an event in Washington, and it was like we lifted a sea.Immediately after [9/11], there was a stunned shock - kind of this feeling of \"What do we do now?\" I started performing, and there was a catharsis in the laughing. People started to be able to laugh again. Laughter can be many things - sometimes a medicine, sometimes a weapon, depending on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: A place where we all go can't be bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: You have an internal critic, an internal drive that says, 'OK, you can do more.' Maybe that's what keeps you going."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Shooting in New York is the shiznit, if I may be so bold. It was great. New York is a character. People who live here know that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Terrible wars have been fought where millions have died for one idea - freedom. And it seems that something that means so much to so many people would be worth having."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: There's no question this is where I want to live.  Never has been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I'm a very tolerant man, except when it comes to holding a grudge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: We were talking briefly about cocaine... yeah. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent, give me more of that!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Sometimes with a comedy it's just having the instinct of how real you play it and what level you want it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Sometimes, keeping track of people. It's always a weird combination of worrying so much about the outside world, and not... you have to be more aware of the inner circle, the folks that matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: As intellectual as we think we are, you still trip, we still have human foibles, sexuality, all the different things to still make you aware of your humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: If there was a pill that allowed you to drink and not get drunk, an alcoholic would go \"What happens if you take two?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: For a while you get mad, then you get over it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: When your spinal cord freezes up, you're vulnerable to everything. But he [Chrestopher Reese] was tough as nails. And he kept a great, kind of dark sense of humor about it, but also was able to accomplish amazing things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: In America, they really do mythologize people when they die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: What's true in our minds is true, whether some people know it or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: On rides you see things that trigger ideas. And most the time it's just not doing anything but riding ... letting it all go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: It doesn't matter who you are, if you've got the legs, you can hang with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: It's always great when you want scientific fact to get a really good science fiction writer to talk to you about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: If I ever asked you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet. But you've never looked a woman and been totally vulnerable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Comedy is there to basically show us we fart, we laugh, to make us realize we still are part animal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I went to rehab [for alcoholism] in wine country, just to keep my options open."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I don't have a college degree, and my father didn't have a college degree, so when my son, Zachary, graduated from college, I said, \"My boy's got learnin'!\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I enjoy that, and the idea of doing small things over a period of time. I think there are certain things you can do for water control in America, because that will be our most precious resource. In America, you pay more for water than you do for gas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: The world is open for play, that everything and everybody is mockable, in a wonderful way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Crying never helped anybody do anything, okay? You have a problem, you face it like a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: When you really do find a new idea or you're in and it's all working, that's the gift. It's like a musician when they hit a riff, that's when you're like all right, it's mellow. You back off and just ride it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Women are incredibly intuitive. If anybody on the planet is going to evolve to the next level, that telekinetic thing, women will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: It is hard to find something where you can go off as much as I do in stand-up, but I think stand-up allows me that freedom where you can really go off and have a good time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Men may have wars, but women have their period. Men go off and kill each other, but women say nasty things, which is even better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Is it rude to Twitter during sex? To go \"omg, omg, wtf, zzz\"? Is that rude?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I play a lot of computer games. I love computer graphics. I've had Pixar in me for a long time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Cable is not bound because people pay for it. It's literally a choice, that's the operative word. If you don't like the language, if cocksucker offends you, then turn it off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: My father retired to San Francisco, and I got a chance to know him and be around him. It's always been someplace where everything changed for the better. It's always been a home for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: It was kind of a decompression - from straight alcohol to mixed drinks to wine to spritzers - and then you're out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Humor is a great defense, and an offense too. Usually the recipient isn't too happy about it, but the people around are laughing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Do you get the feeling with Sarah Palin, in high school, she was voted least likely to write a book and most likely to burn one?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: They're talking about partial nuclear disarmament, which is also like talking about partial circumcision - you either go all the way or forget it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: If we were interested in making money, we wouldn't have become teachers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: It's hotter than a snake's ass in a wagon rut."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: That's the formaldehyde. That's why Granny's so well-preserved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: We're not laughing at you - we're laughing near you"
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: What kind of man gives cigarettes to trees?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I know size can be daunting but don't be afraid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Incoming is not the thing you want to hear at Christmas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I'm history! No, I'm mythology! Nah, I don't care what I am, I'm free!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I had one or two steady girlfriends in high school, but then in college, it was three, four... I went crazy. At one point I had three separate girlfriends, running around mad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Women are wonderful. They're amazing creatures. You can never learn enough! They're addicting in the most amazing sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Women have so many levels. There's the physical level, which is a lot of fun. There's this emotional level, which is extremely mercurial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I love being backstage, or doing littler things like Blame Canada."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: [On creating] And you get that little endorphin buzz, it's great. Why do you think Einstein looked like that? I don't think he was going \"You know this is some dynamite weed! It's all relative you know.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Stand-up is the place where you can do things that you could never do in public."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: My preference is live performance, because you get the feedback. There's an energy. It's live theater. That's why I think actors like that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: In California, we are a sixty percent Hispanic state, we elected an Austrian governor. Even old Nazis are going \"That's weird.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: I'm fascinated by the new iPhone. I bought it and kept trying to use it in France. \"Siri, what is a good restaurant?\" (In a robotic voice.) \"I'm sorry, Robin. I can't give locations in France.\" \"Why, Siri?\" \"I don't know.\" It's like she was upset with the French or something. \"They seem to have an attitude I can't understand. Should I look for Germans, Robin?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Finding a good script is really difficult and the scariest thing of all is when they say about a script that's not right, \"we will fix it..\" It's like before you get on the Titanic and you see a big hole. In process, it's too late."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: If you're going to do a movie about the Village, it's pretty nice to shoot in the village and not be in Toronto."
  },
  {
    "text": "Robin Williams: Comedy pays the bills if I can't find a film."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Global warming isn't real because I was cold today! Also great news: world hunger is over because I just ate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Isn't an agnostic just an atheist without balls?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Don't cry over spilled milk. By this time tomorrow, it'll be free yogurt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I believe in pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps. I believe it is possible \u2014 I saw this guy do it once in Cirque du Soleil. It was magical."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don\u2019t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying \u201cyes\u201d begins things. Saying \u201cyes\u201d is how things grow. Saying \u201cyes\u201d leads to knowledge. \u201cYes\u201d is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say \u201cyes'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: If Jesus doesn't have a sense of humor, I am in huge trouble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Scientists have invented a new strain of cannabis without the high. They celebrated with non-alcoholic beer and furious dry-humping."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: If women are breadwinners and men bring home the bacon, why do people complain about having no dough? I'm confused. Also hungry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: And when those bombs went off, there were runners who, after finishing a marathon, kept running for another two miles to the hospital to donate blood. So, here's what I know - these maniacs may have tried to make life bad for the people of Boston, but all they can ever do, is show just how good those people are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Christianity is the best way to cure gayness \u2014 just get on your knees, take a swig of wine, and accept the body of a man into your mouth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I'm not a fan of facts. You see, the facts can change, but my opinion will never change, no matter what the facts are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Now, I don't see color. People tell me I'm white and I believe them because police officers call me 'sir'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you. You know what I mean? I\u2019ve always liked that phrase \u201cHe was visited by grief,\u201d because that\u2019s really what it is. Grief is its own thing. It\u2019s not like it\u2019s in me and I\u2019m going to deal with it. It\u2019s a thing, and you have to be okay with its presence. If you try to ignore it, it will be like a wolf at your door."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Hey yogurt, if you're so cultured, how come I never see you at the opera?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Destroying a religious symbol and building a religious center are really the same thing if you don't think about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: There hasn't been a scandal this big at the C.I.A. since (CLASSIFIED) committed (CENSORED) to (REDACTED)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Try to love others and serve others and hopefully find those who love and serve you in return."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: If our Founding Fathers wanted us to care about the rest of the world, they wouldn't have declared their independence from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: You are about to start the greatest improvisation of all. With no script. No idea what's going to happen, often with people and places you have never seen before. And you are not in control. So say 'yes.' And if you're lucky, you'll find people who will say 'yes' back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: After obsessively Googling symptoms for four hours, I discovered 'obsessively Googling symptoms' is a symptom of hypochondria."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: If the eyes are the window to the soul, then why does it hurt when I spray them with Windex?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Who would have thought that a means of communication limited to 140 characters would ever create misunderstanding?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Apply Truth liberally to the inflamed area."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don\u2019t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: We have no desire to make anybody look like a blithering idiot, but we do love it when they do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: If you're doing nothing wrong, you have nothing to hide from the giant surveillance apparatus the government's been hiding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Foreign newspapers: if they've got nothing to hide, how come they don't print them in English?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: NC passed law against global warming science, therefore it's not happening. So I'm ignoring Twitter's 140-character limit, so it's not happ"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Not living in fear is a great gift, because certainly these days we do it so much. And do you know what I like about comedy? You can't laugh and be afraid at the same time - of anything. If you're laughing, I defy you to be afraid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Now you'll have to wait for hours in line for medical care instead of immediately not getting any."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: So if animals aren't our friends, then what are they? The answer can be summed up between two buns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: And that brings us to tonight's word: Truthiness. Now I'm sure some of the word-police, the 'wordanistas' over at Websters, are gonna say, 'Hey, that's not a word!' Well, anybody who knows me knows that I am no fan of dictionaries or reference books. They're elitist. Constantly telling us what is or isn't true, what did or didn't happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Truthiness is tearing apart our country, and I don't mean the argument over who came up with the word. I don't know whether it's a new thing, but it's certainly a current thing, in that it doesn't seem to matter what facts are. It used to be, everyone was entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts. But that's not the case anymore. Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Take it from me, there's nothing like a job well done, except the quiet enveloping darkness at the bottom of a bottle of Jim Beam after a job done any way at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: And of course I don't go anywhere without my pet goldfish, Anthrax. I always tell security I'm carrying Anthrax. Yeah, sure I get a lot of guff about it, but it's a family name; I'm not changing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I don't trust books. They're all fact, no heart. And that's exactly what's pulling our country apart today. Because face it, folks, we are a divided nation. Not between Democrats or Republicans, or conservatives and liberals, or tops and bottoms. No, we are divided by those who think with their head, and those who know with their heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Cynicism is an enormous problem. I'm actually a hopeful person. But the way to stay hopeful is to acknowledge and to not accept what is absolutely amoral, mentally ill behavior as normal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I believe all God's creatures have a soul... except bears, bears are Godless killing machines!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Thankfully, dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: It's official. Highway patrolmen are not susceptible to the Jedi Mind Trick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: If it's called THE USA Today, why is all the news from yesterday?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Donald Trump, yes, he's somebody's little boy. But he is his ideas because his ideas are what's going to affect us. As a man, he can do very little. But his ideas could kill us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I would say laughter is the best medicine. But it's more than that. It's an entire regime of antibiotics and steroids."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: it's back to school time. or as home-schoolers call it, stay-where-you-are time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: They said you can't go to the moon. They said you can't put cheese inside a pizza crust, but NASA did it. They had to, because the cheese kept floating off in space."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I've long been against illegal aliens, partly because they distract us from an even bigger threat: real aliens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: If I had one wish, it would be for self-drying pants. Wait -- no! Unlimited wishes! How do I return these stupid pants?!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: When the president decides something on Monday, he still believes it on Wednesday - no matter what happened Tuesday."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: We all deserve credit for this new surveillance state that we live in because we the people voted for the Patriot Act. Democrats and Republicans alike....We voted for the people who voted for it, and then voted for the people who reauthorized it, then voted for the people who re-re-authorize d it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Thankfully dreams can change. If we'd all stuck with our first dream, the world would be overrun with cowboys and princesses. So whatever your dream is right now, if you don't achieve it, you haven't failed and you're not some loser-but just as importantly-if you do get your dream, you're not a winner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax and spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh... and everybody's high!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I've always been a big fan of beauty. Sure, you can't judge a book by its cover but who wants to have sex with a book?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I love being onstage, I love the relationship with the audience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Status is always ripe for satire, status is always good for comedy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I can't prove it, but I can say it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I used to write things for friends. There was this girl I had a crush on, and she had a teacher she didn't like at school. I had a real crush on her, so almost every day I would write her a little short story where she would kill him in a different way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I do my show half-hour a night four nights a week. I haven't seen my kids in 18 months, and I am losing calcium in my bones. Doctors say I should stop. I'm not going to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I just think Rosa Parks was overrated. Last time I checked, she got famous for breaking the law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I believe that the government that governs best is a government that governs least, and by these standards we have set up a fabulous government in Iraq."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything. It's certainty. People love the president because he's certain of his choices as a leader, even if the facts that back him up don't seem to exist. It's the fact that he's certain that is very appealing to a certain section of the country. I really feel a dichotomy in the American populace. What is important? What you want to be true, or what is true?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: A father has to be a provider, a teacher, a role model, but most importantly, a distant authority figure who can never be pleased. Otherwise, how will children ever understand the concept of God?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: One day,I might be able to tell my grandkids I interviewed the last president of the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I gut check my show. I say, I say, \"Gut, gut, does that feel true to you?\" And Gut says, \"Yes it does, Stephen. Let's get a grilled cheese sandwich.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I don't accept the status quo. I do accept Visa, MasterCard, or American Express."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: The trouble with the jokes is that once they're written, I know how they're supposed to work, and all I can do is not hit them. I'm more comfortable improvising. If I have just two or three ideas and I know how the character feels, what the character wants, everything in between is like trapeze work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Some people perceive me as an assassin or at least someone who can slip under your guard with a knife. But if you watch what I do, that's almost never the case. I'm just trying to keep the balloon in the air. It rarely turns into anything combative."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: You should spend more time with your families; write that novel you've always wanted to write. You know, the one about the fearless reporter who stands up to the administration. You know - fiction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Here's how it works: the president makes decisions. He's the decider. The press secretary announces those decisions, and you people of the press type those decisions down. Make, announce, type. Just put 'em through a spell check and go home. The greatest thing about this man is he's steady. You know where he stands. He believes the same thing Wednesday that he believed on Monday, no matter what happened Tuesday. Events can change; this man's beliefs never will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Every night on my show, The Colbert Report, I speak straight from the gut, okay? I give people the truth, unfiltered by rational argument. I call it \"The No Fact Zone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Oops! I always thought PETA stood for Please Eat This Animal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: While skin and race are often synonymous, skin cleansing is good, race cleansing is bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Mitt Romney's email was hacked! So if you start getting messages that sound like they're from a bot, he's fixed the problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Forgot to live-tweet the election last night, so I'm post-tweeting today. I'll start as soon as my fingers unclench from their rage fists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: It's like boxing a glacier. Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren will have no idea what a glacier is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: The entire future of marriage rests with Justice Anthony Kennedy, the man who declared in Citizens United that corporations are people with constitutional rights. I just hope he doesn't do anything rash, like declare that homosexuals are people with constitutional rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: You gotta learn to love when you're failing.... The embracing of that, the discomfort of failing in front of an audience, leads you to penetrate through the fear that blinds you. Fear is the mind killer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I'm a junkie for exhaustion, and I'm a junkie for setting up my expectations too high and then trying to meet them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: You may learn sooner than most generations the hard lesson that you must always make the path for yourself...There is no secret society out there that will tap you on your shoulder one night and show you the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: It's the way our founding fathers would have wanted it, if they had founded corporations instead of just a country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Love means never having to say you're sorry. That's why I never apologize to my mirror."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: If I ever succumbed to the demon on my shoulder going, \"You should get something special because you're famous,\" that is the moment that my behavior will be caught on social media for all time. I'm even afraid to use it to get a reservation. This is the person who will tweet, \"Can you believe what this a-hole did?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I'm disappointed that my own Catholic Church has decided that capital punishment is wrong. Which is pretty hypocritical if you think about it, because they wouldn't even have a religion if it wasn't for capital punishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: My character is self-important, poorly informed, well-intentioned but an idiot. So we said, `Let's give him a promotion.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Making a better tomorrow, tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: If you're a perfectionist and you know you're about to do something at which you cannot be perfect, then that is daunting because you know what your heart is like and the way you approach your work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: You can't swallow and think about your tongue. If you think about your tongue, you've got a giant piece of meat in your mouth and that's a terrible feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I wrote things for the school's newspaper, and - like all teenagers - I dabbled in poetry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: You don't want to just do a joke because it works - we can make a lot of jokes work - you want to do a joke because it will hopefully build into an argument."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: What the right-wing in the United States tries to do is undermine the press."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Laughter brings the swelling down on our national psyche."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: If you repeat it, it's true. If you repeat it, it's true. And through repetition, something becomes true. If you repeat it enough. Until it becomes true. Or do I need to repeat that for you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Winning the Nobel Prize does not automatically qualify you to be commander in chief. I think George Bush has proved definitively that to be president, you don't need to care about science, literature or peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Republicans will need to work hard to capture the Latino vote instead of their current strategy of capturing Latinos."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Speak from the balls, not from the diaphram."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I have always been a fan of reality by majority vote."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Citizens United said that transparency would be the disinfectant, but (c)(4)'s are warm, wet, moist incubators. There is no disinfectant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: If anybody needs anything else at their tables, just speak slowly and clearly into your table numbers. Someone from the NSA will be right over with a cocktail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: You see, we're America the Beautiful, not America 'Well, At Least She Has a Great Personality'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: If I thought I knew what was going to happen, it wouldn't be worth doing. The challenge is how joyfully, with what sense of fun and adventure and playfulness, we will greet it. We don't have to look for what the next thing will be. If experience is any judge, it'll come flowing toward us like a river."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news at you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: You don't look up truthiness in a book, you look it up in your gut."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: When meeting royalty, it is very important, no matter how excited you are, not to vomit on them. Instead, vomit on the nearest commoner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: It warps the minds of our children and weakens the resolve of our allies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I am no fan of books. And chances are, if you're reading this, you and I share a healthy skepticism about the printed word. Well, I want you to know that this is the first book I've ever written, and I hope it's the first book you've ever read. Don't make a habit of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Pain is the body's way of telling the brain it's in trouble. Similarly, confusion is the brain's way of telling the body, 'All right, buddy, drop that book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: brb, ttyl ok? wow, i saved a 'ton' of time with those acronyms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Summer movie idea: take all the sequels that are out right now, and make movies about their backstories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I'm off for two weeks, so until I get back, take the characters in this tweet and parcel them out one per day. Use this Q wisely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I like talking about people who don't have any power and it seems like some of the least powerful people in the United States are the migrant workers who come and do our work and don't have any rights as a result. And yet we still invite them to come here, and at the same time ask them to leave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I love making observations. That one is a classic example."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I've said it a million times: Romance languages lead to premarital sex."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: It would be a very short pint. It would be gummy bears and matzah, and be called Chewy Jewy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I'm a huge news junkie. I love what the news does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: On this show, your voice will be heard in the form of my voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day. Give a man a sub-prime fish loan and you're in business, buddy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Can't wait for tomorrow when I get to exercise my patriotic duty as an American: Complaining about how long it's taking to VOTE."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: You have to have a passionate opinion; otherwise you sound false. You end up telling the audience jokes they've already heard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: The Yankees' Facebook page was hacked. The hacker was immediately purchased and signed to a 5 year contract with the Yankees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: It's August, which means Congress is on recess and Mitch McConnell has shimmied back into the ocean to seek a mate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: My guest Newt Gingrich shut down the government during the Clinton administration. I'll ask him when it's gonna start working again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: This is America. I don't want a tomato picked by a Mexican. I want it picked by an American, then sliced by a Guatemalan and served by a Venezuelan in a spa where a Chilean gives me a Brazilian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I won't be doing the new show in character, so we'll all get to find out how much of him was me. I'm looking forward to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Shamelessness is a wonderful part of the character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I am no fan of books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: My mom kind of led me toward acting. She wanted to be an actress when she was younger. That made me interested in it when I was a kid, because she and I are very close."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: We have this idea in our mind that there's a separation of church and state in America, which I think is a good thing. And we extend that to our politics. Like it's not just church and state, but it's also there's a separation of religion and politics. But of course, there - there isn't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I'm a satirist, so I've got boxing gloves on if the person is worthy of satire. But I'm not an assassin. If that ever happens, it's only because something happened during the interview that got me going, and then I had to translate my feelings to the mouth of the character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: The interesting thing about grief, I think, is that it is its own size. It is not the size of you. It is its own size. And grief comes to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I used to make up stuff in my bio all the time, that I used to be a professional ice-skater and stuff like that. I found it so inspirational. Why not make myself cooler than I am?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Who's Britannica to tell me that the Panama Canal was built in 1914? If I want to say that it was built in 1941, that's my right as an American."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I not only loved studying theater, I loved being a theater major. It gave me an excuse to brood, to grow a beard, to wear black 'at' people. I didn't just want to play Hamlet, I wanted to be Hamlet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Warning, I may contain more than a trace amount of nut."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Sir, pay no attention to the people who say the glass is half empty, because 32% means it's 2/3 empty. There's still some liquid in that glass is my point, but I wouldn't drink it. The last third is usually backwash. (Said to President Bush at the White House Correspondents Dinner)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: My brother Billy was the joke teller. My brother Jim had a really sharp, cutting wit. And the teller of long stories, that was my brother Ed. As a child, I just absorbed everything they said, and I was always in competition for the laughs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Equations are the devil's sentences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Washington is dangerously positioned between two Canadas, Canada Canada and California's Canada, Oregon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I know that the pope's infallible, but that doesn't mean he can't make mistakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Yeah, Silver and his math are jokes, because math has a liberal bias. After all, math is the reason Mitt Romney's tax plan doesn't add up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: We claim no respectability. There's no status I would not surrender for a joke. So we don't have to defend anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I have two last pieces of advice. First, being pre-approved for a credit card does not mean you have to apply for it. And lastly, the best career advice I can give you is to get your own TV show. It pays well, the hours are good, and you are famous. And eventually some very nice people will give you a doctorate in fine arts for doing jack squat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: But you are also the biggest threat of all ...You are a gay person I like. Your threat is that you make being gay seem non-threatening. It's almost as if your happiness does not take mine away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor. You have to be able to just hit the backhand. You can't think about all the pieces of it. You can't think about your swing. You just have to do it. Reading someone else's deconstruction of what I do, all it does is put me in my head. On nights when the show goes particularly well, I am not aware of its fluidity. A lot of nights I'm just worried that I'm not going to be as good as the script in front of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: If someone spreads hate then they're not your religious leader."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I didn't realize quite how liberal I was until I was asked to make passionate comedic choices as opposed to necessarily successful comedic choices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Ignorance is bliss. Oedipus ruined a great sex life by asking too many questions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I'm more American than apple pie. I'm like apple pie, with a hot dog in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I deliver my Truth hot and hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I spent my first two years at a small all-male college in Virginia called Hampden-Sydney. That was like going to college 120 years ago. The languages, a year of rhetoric, all of the great books, Western Man courses, stuff like that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: There must be a God, because I don't know how things work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Life is an improvisation. You have no idea what's going to happen next and you are mostly just making things up as you go along."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I don't think anybody can with a straight face say that the Russians did not set out to influence our election, and they did so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I don't know a lot about politics. I like talking about human behavior. Politicians are funny to me because they often say one thing and behave a different way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: You have to do your First Penance before your First Holy Communion. You're really young. What do you know? You've got nothing to confess. All I knew was that I was an evil human whose sins caused the death of our Lord."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: People would say, \"Oh, you say you just do jokes.\" I don't just do jokes. I do jokes. Jokes are important. They saved my life when I was younger. Hopefully we're making things nicer at the end of the day for people. That's the entire goal, and that's the touchstone and the North Star for the tone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: The interesting thing about fake news and fake media is that it's a heresy against reality. Again, as a Catholic, I was taught that the greatest sin was heresy. Because not only are you a sinner, you are proselytizing and inviting other people into your sinful state through your heresy. You're a recruiter for your own fallen state. Donald Trump is a heretic against reality. Basically, he's lying for sport. He's inviting people into his heresy that there is no objective reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Improvisation in general is good, and improvising material into themes, turning the material into something codified and repeatable, taught me scenic structure and dramatic gambits that work and things that are appealing both as a performer and an audience member, like you know, what does \"want\" really mean in a scene, and how do you achieve your want, and how is that expressed, and how do you achieve closure? Those are all things that I learned performing at the cabaret after just doing the same scenes over and over and over again over the years, with my own ability to change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Trump will not respond to reasoned argument. He will not be held accountable for the things he said. All you can do is point and laugh. Because the devil cannot abide mockery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I'm proud of my ability to understand what somebody else is trying to do and help them achieve it, because part of the aesthetic of improvisation is service. You never say no. Serve the servant, follow the follower. And that's very valuable in your life, as well as very valuable in your actor's work. I'm damn proud of my ability to help other people achieve their ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: You've gotta understand what Putin's strategy is. He really doesn't like democracy. He thinks it's an inconvenient, messy process. And he doesn't like us, and he wants to destabilize our country; sow doubt about our democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I actually do not think that's how what's happening to our government is going to be stopped. I think people who are willing to be civically engaged and believe in the promises and the progress of the last fifty years that will save this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I began my day as I often begin my days, by checking Donald Trump's Twitter feed to see how far the crazy has spread. And today, I really think he's off his meds, because today he went from crazy to cruel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Usually when Donald Trump wants to keep someone out of military service, he just fakes a doctor's note saying he has a foot injury. It worked fine for him during Vietnam."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: A lot of people have said, \"Oh, I, boy, I wish Hillary Clinton would just go away.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: What I rediscovered was the therapeutic nature of singing lessons. They're like doing yoga but for [the] inside of your body. You open up and use muscles that you don't think of as malleable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Donald Trump is a strong president. We got to stand behind this guy is what I think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: There was sort of a negative association with the military. Maybe growing up in the South or being in a family with members of the military, I didn't have that negative connotation, but I did have this 'separate' connotation. I was ashamed to realize I had it and did not realize I had it until I was [in Iraq]. I was so impressed by the people I met over there and there was just a sense of connection and gratitude towards those people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: There is a residual sense for me, having grown up in the early '70s, that I did not know I had, which was a sense that the military are different than I. Because there was such a divide between the military world - and there still is, because there's no draft - and the civilian world is one of the rotten harvests of the Vietnam War, was this sort of bifurcation of America in that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I imagined myself living in New York in some sort of open, large but sparse studio apartment with a lot of blond wood and a futon on the floor and a bubbling samovar of tea in the background and a big beard - living alone but with my beard - and doing theater. That's what I thought my life would be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I tell a lot of young performers, 'Go get in trouble. Go commit yourself to something you're not sure you can do.' And I followed my own advice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I'm not a standup. I didn't start off as a writer, I learned to write through improvisation, and so that's the part of the show that can most surprise me. The written part of the show, I know I can get wrong. You can't really get the interview \"wrong.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I hadn't intended to end up there. I meant to be a serious actor with a beard who wore a lot of black and wanted to share his misery with you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I can really find something interesting about almost anyone I talk to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: For me, improvisation is about working with a partner. That is much easier to do in the interview, because you have a sounding board."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I used to play a narcissistic-conservative pundit. Now, I'm just a narcissist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Writing and producing the show is an intellectual process. Performing the show is far more athletic and intuitive, because you don't get to do it twice. It helps if you've done whatever the old saw is, 10,000 hours of it. Because I've done 10,000 hours of comedy, I have this database in my mind of what works and what doesn't work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: A press that has validity is a press that has authority. And as soon as there's any authority to what the press says, you question the authority of the government - it's like the existence of another authority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: You know what I hate about people who criticize you? They - they criticize what you say but they never give you credit for how loud you say it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I'm proud of my ability to understand what somebody else is trying to do and help them achieve it, because part of the aesthetic of improvisation is service. We don't lead, we only follow. You never say no. Serve the servant, follow the follower. And that's very valuable in your life, as well as very valuable in your work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: If you imitate someone, you owe them a royalty check. If you emulate them, you don't. There's a big difference. Check your lawyer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: I could sit toe to toe at a potato table with anybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Once I'm performing the show, I think that hour show has a certain intimacy with our audience. And that intimacy is through the lens and the live audience is a witness to that, whereas the audience at home is actually the object of my efforts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Colbert: Truthiness is \"What I say is right, and [nothing] anyone else says could possibly be true.\" It's not only that I feel it to be true, but that I feel it to be true. There's not only an emotional quality, but there's a selfish quality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: You can tell how smart people are by what they laugh at."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Whatever the problem, be part of the solution. Don\u2019t just sit around raising questions and pointing out obstacles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Start with a 'Yes', and see where that takes you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Life is improvisation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Don't waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions... Do your thing and don't care if they like it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: You can\u2019t be that kid standing at the top of the waterslide, overthinking it. You have to go down the chute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Whatever the problem - be part of the solution"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Now every girl is expected to have: Caucasian blue eyes, full Spanish lips, a classic button nose, hairless Asian skin with a California tan, a Jamaican dance hall ass, long Swedish legs, small Japanese feet, the abs of a lesbian gym owner, the hips of a nine-year-old boy, the arms of Michelle Obama, and doll tits. The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: There are no mistakes only opportunities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: This week, penny collector Gene Sukie went to the bank and cashed in ten thousand pounds of pennies he had collected over 34 years, which were worth over fourteen thousand dollars. And, of course, I was in line behind him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I want to thank my parents for somehow raising me to have confidence that is disproportionate with my looks and abilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: And I can see Russia from my house."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: To say I\u2019m an overrated troll, when you have never even seen me guard a bridge, is patently unfair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: George Clooney married Amal Alamuddin this year. Amal is a human rights lawyer who worked on the Enron case, was an advisor to Kofi Annan regarding Syria, and was selected for a three-person commission investigating rules of war violation in the Gaza Strip. So tonight, her husband is getting a lifetime achievement award."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: If you retain nothing else, always remember the most important Rule of Beauty. \u201cWho cares?\u201d"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Do your thing and don't care if they like it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Sometimes if you have a difficult decisin to make, just stall until the answer presents itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: So, my unsolicited advice to women in the workplace is this. When faced with sexism, or ageism, or lookism, or even really aggressive Buddhism, ask yourself the following question: \u201cIs this person in between me and what I want to do?\u201d If the answer is no, ignore it and move on. Your energy is better used doing your work and outpacing people that way. Then, when you\u2019re in charge, don\u2019t hire the people who were jerky to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Don\u2019t waste your energy trying to educate or change opinions; go over, under, through, and opinions will change organically when you\u2019re the boss. Or they won\u2019t. Who cares? Do your thing, and don\u2019t care if they like it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: My work is my work. I take my work seriously but I don't take myself too seriously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Ah, babies! They\u2019re more than just adorable little creatures on whom you can blame your farts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: To me YES, AND means don't be afraid to contribute. Always make sure you're adding something to the discussion. Your initiations are worthwhile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I am going to dedicate myself, full time, to my day-drinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: In real life, people in the most dire situations must cope through humor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: When humor works, it works because it's clarifying what people already feel. It has to come from someplace real."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I like to crack the jokes now and again, but it's only because I struggle with math."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: It is an impressively arrogant move to conclude that just because you don\u2019t like something, it is empirically not good. I don\u2019t like Chinese food, but I don\u2019t write articles trying to prove it doesn\u2019t exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: When I turned 50, I looked in the mirror and I thought: \"Hey, this isn't the dress rehearsal, this is life and I don't know how much longer I'm going to have!\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: (My proudest moment as a child was the time I beat my uncle Pierre at Scrabble with the seven-letter word FARTING.)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I have no affinity for animals. I don\u2019t hate animals and I would never hurt an animal; I just don\u2019t actively care about them. When a coworker shows me cute pictures of her dog, I struggle to respond correctly, like an autistic person who has been taught to recognize human emotions from flash cards. In short, I am the worst."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: If you want to make an audience laugh, you dress a man up like an old lady and push her down the stairs. If you want to make comedy writers laugh, you push an actual old lady down the stairs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Some people say, \u201cNever let them see you cry.\u201d I say, if you\u2019re so mad you could just cry, then cry. It terrifies everyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: In most cases being a good boss means hiring talented people and then getting out of their way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: In an attempt to make things easier for myself, which is the basis for all of history's worst decisions [...]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I'm not that good looking... nobody is that good looking. I have seen a lot of movie stars, and maybe four are amazing looking. The rest have a team of gay guys who make it happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: A wise friend once told me, 'Don't wear what fashion designers tell you to wear. Wear what they wear.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: It was reported that Guy Ritchie has cast his wife Madonna in a small walk-on role in his new movie, Revolver. Madonna will play the part of the woman who ruins the film."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I hire people that are good, and aren't crazy. Or assholes. Because that takes up too much time. There are just as many good people who are not crazy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I think someone should design exercise machines that reward people with sex at the end of their workouts, because people will perform superhuman feats for even the faint hope of that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Obviously, as an adult I realize this girl-on-girl sabotage is the third worst kind of female behavior, right behind saying \"like\" all the time and leaving your baby in a dumpster."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I want every day to be the most boring news day ever. I want every day to be about spelling bee champions and baby basketball. It's better to have no comedy material than a horrific news day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: When actors are too good-looking, I can\u2019t memorize them. For example, I have never seen a picture of Sienna Miller where I didn\u2019t say, \u201cThat girl\u2019s pretty. Who is that?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I feel like there is a lot of inherent humor in the stress and insanity surrounding that process. People lose their minds, trying to prove their parental worth by getting their children into one of five colleges; when there are thousands of good colleges across the United States - and elsewhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Read! When your baby is finally down for the night, pick up a juicy book like Eat, Pray, Love or Pride and Prejudice or my personal favorite,Understanding Sleep Disorders: Narcolepsy and Apnea; A Clinical Study. Taking some time to read each night really taught me how to feign narcolepsy when my husband asked me what my \"plan\" was for taking down the Christmas tree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Every kid has something they're good at, that you hope they find and gravitate toward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: \u2018How do you juggle it all?\u2019 people constantly ask me, with an accusatory look in their eyes. \u2018You\u2019re screwing it all up, aren\u2019t you?\u2019 their eyes say. My standard answer is that I have the same struggle as any working parent but with the good fortune to be working at my dream job. Or sometimes I just hand them a juicy red apple I\u2019ve poisoned in my working-mother witch cauldron and fly away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: ...I can't possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody's business and I'll never regret it for a moment unless it ruins my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: ...nothing is creepier than a bunch of adults being very quiet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Everybody kind of gets to be the person they didn't get to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: You're not in competition with other women. You're in competition with everyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: There are a couple of things I want to impart to ladies who want to be in comedy: One, you don\u2019t have to be weird or be quirky to get your job done. And two, comedy skill is not sexually transmittable. You do not have to sleep with a comedian to learn what you\u2019re doing. Male comedians will not like that advice, but it is the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Lesson learned? When people say, \"You really, really must\" do something, it means you don't really have to. No one ever says, \"You really, really must deliver the baby during labor.\" When it's true, it doesn't need to be said."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: You transition as a mother from literally just pulling a booger out of that person's nose whenever you see one until at some point they assert: \"No, I'm a person. You can't fix my underpants on the subway.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I prefer the retro chic of spending Christmas just like Joseph and Mary did - Traveling arduously back to the place of your birth to be counted, with no guarantee of a bed when you get there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: What Turning Forty Means to Me I need to take my pants off as soon as I get home. I didn't used to have to do that. But now I do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I got a fan letter on the back of a prison menu. And I remember thinking, 'Well, they get pie. It's not so bad. They get pie on the weekends.' I want to say blueberry and also a Boston cream pie. Not so bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: If you want to be a screenwriter, take an acting class to get a sense of what you're asking actors to do. Learning other skills will help you communicate with people and respect what they do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Not only is my wardrobe totally average, my body's totally average. I love all the candy-fantasy fulfillment of Sex and the City."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: North Korea referred to The Interview as absolutely intolerable and a wanton act of terror. Even more amazing: not the worst review the movie got."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I don't really have a nemesis, but I have a series of hundreds of small enemies that fuel me. Everyone I meet I assume is out to get me and that fuels my fire on a daily basis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not knowing stuff? \u201cI\u2019m not one of those fancy Harvard heart surgeons. I\u2019m just an unlicensed plumber with a dream and I\u2019d like to cut your chest open.\u201d The crowd cheers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am all about money. I mean, just look how well my line of zodiac-inspired toe rings and homeopathic children's medications are selling on Home Shopping Network."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: If a bout of \"creepy face\" sets in, the trick is to look away from the camera between shots and turn back only when necessary. This also limits how much of your soul the camera can steal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Either way, everything will be fine. But if you have an opinion, please feel free to offer it to me through the gap in the door of a public restroom. Everyone else does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: You\u2019re in competition with everyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I hope for his sake that Tracy's apology will be accepted as sincere by his gay and lesbian coworkers at 30 Rock, without whom Tracy would not have lines to say, clothes to wear, sets to stand on, scene partners to act with, or a printed-out paycheck from accounting to put in his pocket."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: The person closest to actually achieving this look is Kim Kardashian, who, as we know, was made by Russian scientists to sabotage our athletes. Everyone else is struggling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: When hiring, mix Harvard Nerds with Chicago Improvisers and stir."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Quentin Tarantino is here, star of all my sexual nightmares."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Somewhere around the fifth or seventh grade I figured out that I could ingratiate myself to people by making them laugh. Essentially, I was just trying to make them like me. But after a while it became part of my identity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Whitney Houston\u2019s cover of \u201cI Will Always Love You\u201d was constantly on my FM Walkman radio around that time. I think that made me cry because I associated it with absolutely no one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: It is less dangerous to draw a cartoon of Allah French-kissing Uncle Sam \u2014 which, let me make it very clear, I have not done \u2014 than it is to speak honestly about [working moms]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: You have to try your hardest to be at the top of your game and improve every joke you can until the last possible second, and then you have to let it go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Sleep when your baby sleeps. Everyone knows this classic tip, but I say why stop there? Scream when your baby screams. Take Benadryl when your baby takes Benadryl. And walk around pantless when your baby walks around pantless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Being a mom has made me so tired. And so happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I learned quickly that trying to force Country Folk to love the Big City is like telling your gay cousin, \"You just haven't met the right girl yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: A willingness to drop your ego and let yourself look foolish. You almost have to enjoy looking vulnerable. You'd be surprised how many people don't want to do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: You must not look in that mirror at your doughy legs and flat feet, for today is about dreams and illusions, and unfiltered natural daylight is the enemy of dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I went through a phase where I was sick of acting, I didn't want to do it anymore, I was bored with it and then I tried directing a movie and I was like: \"Shoot, get back over there!\" It made me appreciate acting more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Television is a runaway train that you have to get on for nine months of the year. But at the same time, it has a wonderful immediacy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Some people work with a trainer, some people work with a stylist. I work with a celebrity fecalist. A fecalist is basically a person who comes and collects my stools, and then examines them to see if I'm eating right and if I should be drinking more water and what my moods should be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: When you have a set of characters, you have to fall in love with them and care about them as each individual character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I think the Web is, you know, things like YouTube and stuff are absolutely where a lot of younger people are watching their TV on iTunes in the Web and YouTube, whatever. So, I think it's an important place to have a presence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: The upsides of acting in things is mostly getting your hair done and having people give you clothes. So as long as you can have a little bit of that in your life, then it's just as delightful to be behind camera."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: \"30 Rock\" is over, so I definitely aspire to write another movie again; eventually, will try to pitch something for television again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I had a gentleman in college tell me, during a date, that I could be really pretty if I lost some weight. On a date!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I believe in process. I believe that having a really difficult process is more valuable than a good outcome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: The ladies of comedy now are comfortable dressing up. It's not forbidden anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I've gotta make sense of them.\nI enjoy helping to develop material for movies, it's a way for me to get into the part."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: After college, I knew I wanted to work in comedy, so the first thing I did was go to where the comedy was. I moved from Charlottesville to Chicago, because that's where The Second City and Improv Olympics are. You have to go wherever you need to go to study what interests you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: If you're an actor and you don't get cast in stuff a lot, then put together a show or hold play-reading nights at your apartment. Make your own opportunities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Pissing in jars, they had never been handed a fifteen-year-old Kotex product by the school nurse. But they trusted me and Paula, so I'm proud to say we made"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: In real life these women experienced different sides of the same sexism coin. People who didn't like Hillary called her a ballbuster. People who didn't like Sarah called her Caribou Barbie. People attempted to marginalize these women based on their gender."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I think the philosophy will continue to be what it always was; which was, let's keep throwing a bunch of things at the wall, and see what sticks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Will Ferrell is a dangerous man. If he thinks you're in his way in show business, he will crack your head open. He's the Jeff Gillooly of comedy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I keep my eyes on the sea, waiting to be rocketed into it on a wave of fire. I'll be ready for it to happen and that way it won't happen. It's a burden, being able to control situations with my hyper-vigilance, but its my lot in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: No other formula gives your baby a better start in life except that stuff that comes out of you for free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: If you\u2019re looking for a spiritual allegory in the style of C.S. Lewis, I guess you could piece something together with Lorne Michaels as a symbol for God and my struggles with hair removal as a metaphor for virtue"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: The more New Yorkers like something, the more disgusted they are. \"The kitchen was all Sub-Zero: I want to kill myself. The building has a playroom that makes you want to break your own jaw with a golf club. I can't take it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: It\u2019s no more dangerous to society than a radio broadcast of The War of the Worlds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: A combustion engine of ambition and disappointment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: You have to remember that actors are human beings. Which is hard sometimes because they look so much better than human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Am I just chasing it because it's the hardest thing for me to get and I want to prove I can do it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: [Please let my daughter] not have to wear high heels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: The first time I went to see a Second City show, I was in awe of everything. I just wanted to touch the same stage that Gilda Radner had walked on. It was sacred ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I really love cursing a lot. But as I get older, I realize it's a little unseemly for women of a certain age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Steve Carell's Foxcatcher look took two hours to put on, including his hairstyling and make up. Just for comparison, it took me three hours today to prepare for my role as \"human woman\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Doing one movie every two years is about all I can handle 'cause, being the creator at '30 Rock', my year there starts in the middle of June and goes back around until March."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I still want Oprah to play my best friend. I want to spend time with Oprah."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: At the request of the Catholic Church, a three-day sex orgy to be held near Rio de Janeiro was cancelled last Friday. So instead I spent the weekend cleaning my apartment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I grew up in a family of Republicans. And when I was 18 and registering to vote, my mom\u2019s only instruction was \u2018You just go in and pull the big Republican lever.\u2019 That\u2019s my welcome to adulthood. She\u2019s like, \u2018No, don\u2019t even read it. Just pull the Republican lever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I'm more of a writer than an actor, and I used to say that I'm mostly an improviser, though I haven't improvised in awhile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Yeah, it's tough being smart and sexy, too. I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date. I promise you it's true. My husband Jeff Richmond saw a diamond in the rough and took me in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Even when I was at 'SNL,' I didn't do impersonations. I always wanted to be the kind of person who could do them - I always thought they were the coolest thing on the show - but I didn't have any experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I\u2019m not a mean person, but I have a capacity for it. I have the biting comment formed somewhere in the back of my head \u2014 like it\u2019s in captivity. Sometimes people expect that I\u2019m going to be tough. It\u2019s not a bad situation. People treat you better. People are on time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Your initiations are worthwhile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: We should leave people alone about their weight. Being chubby for a while (provided you don\u2019t give yourself diabetes) is a natural phase of life and nothing to be ashamed of. Like puberty or slowly turning into a Republican."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Tracy: Stop eating people's old french fries, little pigeon. Have some self-respect. Don't you know you can fly?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: When I first set out to ruin SNL, I didn't think anyone would notice, but I persevered because - like you trying to do a nine-piece jigsaw puzzle - it was a labour of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I have two daughters, and we live here in Manhattan, and having gone through the Manhattan kindergarten application process, nothing will ever rival the stress of that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I really admire stand-up, and I think I would have loved to learn how to do it. I think it's terrifying and thrilling. A really cool thing to do. It's a dying art, in a way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I work, and then whenever I have any other time, I'm with my daughter, and then I go to sleep. I think you basically have to abandon the dreams of having any other adult activities in your life. You have to go to sleep whenever your child goes to sleep. That's basically how we're doing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Instead of trying to fit an impossible ideal, I took a personal inventory of all my healthy body parts for which I am grateful: Straight Greek eyebrows. They start at the hairline at my temple and, left unchecked, will grow straight across my face and onto yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I had to get back to work... NBC has me under contract; the baby and I only have a verbal agreement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I don't weigh myself. I just go by if my clothes fit. I try not to participate too much in the incredible amount of wasted energy that women have around dealing with food. I just feel like being healthy is sort of a job requirement to be on TV, and being a writer is so much coping with fatigue and stress, and you just eat. You eat to stay awake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: And, you know, politics aside, the success of Sarah Palin and women like her is good for all women - except, of course - those who will end up, you know, like, paying for their own rape 'kit 'n' stuff. But for everybody else, it's a win-win. Unless you're a gay woman who wants to marry your partner of 20 years - whatever. But for most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us. Unless you believe in evolution. You know - actually, I take it back. The whole thing's a disaster."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Don't be too precious or attached to anything you write. Let things be malleable. For sketch writers, remember they're called sketches for a reason. They're not called oil paintings. Some of them are going to stink. You have to let them stink."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I feel like I represent normalcy in some way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: We should leave people alone about their weight. Being skinny for a while (provided you actually eat food and don't take pills or smoke to get there) is a perfectly fine pastime. Everyone should try it once, like a super-short haircut or dating a white guy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: We are a society that constantly celebrates no one but women and it must stop! I want to hear what the men of the world have been up to. What fun new guns have they invented? What are they raping these days? What\u2019s Michael Bay\u2019s next film going to be?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: The topic of working moms is a tap-dance recital in a minefield."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Finally the world would see my full range of comedy characters - from grouchy librarian to Russian librarian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: You know who does have a funny bone in her body? Your mom every night for a dollar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Acting is really about showing up that day and telling the writers what you feel like saying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I am extremely square and obedient in nature!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: The Washington State Supreme Court on Thursday announced a two-year suspension for a lawyer found having jailhouse sex with a triple murder defendant she was representing. HaHa! Jokes on you dummies... I'm not really a lawyer!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: there was an assumption that I was personally attacking Sarah Palin by impersonating her on TV. No one ever said it was 'mean' when Chevy Chase played Gerald Ford falling down all the time. No one ever accused Dana Carvey or Darrell Hammond or Dan Aykroyd of 'going too far' in their political impressions. You see what I'm getting at here. I am not mean and Mrs. Palin is not fragile. To imply otherwise is a disservice to us both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: You don't just decide to destroy a person by making up stuff, and no one at 'SNL' is writing to go after someone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Many of the world's greatest discoveries have been by accident. I mean, look at the Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, or Botox."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Only in comedy, by the way, does an obedient white girl from the suburbs count as diversity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I have to say, I'm really not that attractive. Until I met my husband, I could not get a date."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: My favorite day at 30 Rock is Thursday, when the show airs. At lunch we screen the episodes. For everyone to watch together, to see the stuff we all worked on, to hear the crew laugh - it\u2019s great fun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I think my level of fame will drop back down. I think it\u2019ll recede. In fact, I know it will. That\u2019s life on planet earth. And I\u2019m okay with that. Besides getting tables at restaurants and special treatment at the airport, what else is there?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Twitter seems like a busman's holiday: just more writing. I have no plans to do it. I'll just stick with my 24/7 webcam. I'm old-fashioned that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I'm a big fan of 'The Office,' both the British and the American versions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I have a suspicion that the definition of \"crazy\" in show business is a woman who keeps talking even after no one wants to f*** [sleep with her] anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I want to spend time with Oprah and I don't know what I need to do to make that happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I was ten. I had noticed something was weird earlier in the day, but I knew from commercials that one's menstrual period was a blue liquid that you poured like laundry detergent onto maxi pads to test their absorbency. This wasn't blue, so... I ignored it for a few hours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: It's easy to fall into the trap of just cranking out things that are good enough to sell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: At some point, you realize that people might be laughing at your jokes because they're afraid not to laugh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: It's hard to get laughs when you're new."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: The only way I could get comfortable around people was to make them laugh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: 30 Rock is a little different from other current sitcoms, in that it's fast-paced, but the pace comes from the actors, not the editing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I don't know how many more movies I'm going to get the opportunity to make and I don't want to look back and go: \"Man, I just floated through that one.\" Or: \"I did that one for the money.\" I want to be able to say that I worked as a hard as I could and I did the best work that I could do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: My mom wanted me to apply to Princeton, cause she just I guess since I was a kid had this dream that I would apply to Princeton, and it was not happening."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: If you care about [the characters] as if they were real, that always helps."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I'm such a fan of Lily's [Tomlin], for so many years. I feel like Lily was the first popular mainstream crossover comedian who also was kind of an overtly feminist comedian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: If you watch [The] Search for Signs of Intelligent Life [in the Universe], or The Incredible Shrinking Woman, or 9 to 5, there is a lot of gender politics at the forefront of Lily Tomlin work, which was kind of thrilling for me to be watching as a 10-, 11-, 12-year-old kid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: When you go into something where you can really trust that everyone has thought about it, more than you have even, then that's like a gift."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I went to the University of Virginia and I came from, I grew up in suburban Philadelphia."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: My parents are very well-behaved. If anything, if my Mom were here right now, she would hug and kiss every one of you hello, and then she would feed you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Every day I wrote in my journal: \"How am I going to win today?\" So that when the guys are talking about water-boarding I'm telling them they haven't even got the right towels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Most of my work is done before we start shooting, preparation work, so my normal day begins when I start writing, it might even be the night before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: The ideal situation for a parent is one that no one has - having a fulfilling job that requires you to work three days a week. It's better for the parents, because they get to spend time with the children and also have a source of pride and achievement - and income - outside the home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I'm not a fan of purposely farting in front of other people. If you have to fart, leave the room."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I guess what I would tell women is to get their education first, before having kids. That way they can keep their options open down the road. I also think that it shouldn't necessarily be an issue just for women, that men should be part of the stay-home discussion too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: There should be a new, more honest euphemism. Like, I'm leaving office because I plan to solicit more anonymous sex in bathrooms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: One of the great things about doing animated movies is that you don't have to dress up or put on make-up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: [Television] is a great medium for writers, because there's just no time for a studio to interfere very long. You write it, you shoot it; it's on TV."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: You mostly know that you want to be funny, know that you have the desire. It's not like people who grow up beautiful and can look in the mirror and be like, I'm beautiful! Funny is more of a journey. And a desperate attempt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I wrote a one-act play - I can't remember the name of it, but it was really about the way women are perceived as leaders. In the play, Catherine the Great would say things like, \"You know, John F. Kennedy had extramarital affairs and no one says anything. But I bang one horse and now I'm a horse banger for all eternity? That's it? That's what I am?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: The idea of being in control for the sake of control, is not really important to me. If everyone is sharp and doing, you know, what they're doing well, you don't really need to be in control all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I'm still technically employed by the National Broadcasting Company."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: We're gonna promote freedom. Usher in democratic values and ideals. And fight terror-loving terrorists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Every morning, when Alaskans wake up, one of the first things they do, is look outside to see if there are any Russians hanging around. And if there are, you gotta go up to them and ask, 'What are you doing here?' and if they can't give you a good reason, it's our responsibility to say, you know, 'Shoo! Get back over there!'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Sometimes when you're doing a comedy, the director will yell out \"alts\" and then the director gets the first laugh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Sometimes, you can feel or see how a movie can... how you can do it. Sometimes it's just like seeing, \"Can that work? Will people buy that? Can we do that?\" And all those checkmarks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I don't live the single life and never really did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: The thing that always fascinated me about improv is that it's basically a happy accident that you think you're initiating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: For most women, the success of conservative women is good for all of us, unless you believe in evolution. Actually, I take it back. The whole thing is a disaster."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: My problem with the traditional acting method was that I never understood what you were supposed to be thinking about when you're onstage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Growing up as a girl is always traumatizing, especially when you have the deadly combination of greasy skin and getting your boobs at ten. But I think it's good to grow up that way. It builds character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: The comedy for the Democrats is that they're showing off too much. They need to be putting a boring white guy out there to kind of get a hold of things. Once the boring white guy is out there, then you bust out the junior senator from Illinois who smokes and does cocaine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I really like John McCain. He's an awesome dude and was a lot of fun when he hosted \"SNL.\" I'd love to see a McCain-Giuliani \"rage\" ticket."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: Anne Hathaway you gave a stunning performance in \"Les Miserables.\" I have not seen someone so totally alone and abandoned like that since you were onstage with James Franco at the Oscars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I definitely think of myself still as a writer first, and feel like - with the lucky exception of this - any acting opportunity I've gotten is usually because I was writing on it. This is like a wonderful vacation. If you've ever sat in a writers' room it's the most disgusting, tortuous place, so it's a treat to be treated like a movie actor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: The barrier between TV and movies has come down and film actors are willing to do TV and vice versa, because they just want to follow what's interesting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: \"Admission\" is Paul Weitz's movie. This is Karen Croner - the screenwriter's - movie. To have such a lovely role in such a beautifully written script offered to me, it's like elves made the shoes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tina Fey: I was like, oh, I want to sign up for \"Catwoman,\" and then Anne Hathaway had already signed up for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity Kitai. Do not misunderstand me, danger is very real, but fear is a choice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Don't let failure go to your heart, and don't let success go to your head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: If you're not willing to work hard, let someone else do it. I'd rather be with someone who does a horrible job, but gives 110% than with someone who does a good job and gives 60%."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Throughout life people will make you mad, disrespect you and treat you bad. Let God deal with the things they do, cause hate in your heart will consume you too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: If anybody can find someone to love them and to help them through this difficult thing that we call life, I support that in any shape or form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist is in our thoughts of the future. It is a product of our imagination, causing us to fear things that do not at present and may not ever exist. That is near insanity. Do not misunderstand me danger is very real but fear is a choice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I've always considered myself to be just average talent and what I have is a ridiculous insane obsessiveness for practice and preparation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: So if you stay ready, you ain't gotta get ready, and that is how I run my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Something hurts, lean in. You just lean into that point until it loses its power over you. There's a certain amount of suffering that you have to be willing to sustain if you want to have a good life. And the real trick is to be able to sustain it with your heart open and still be loving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: You can't win enough, you can't have enough money, you can't succeed enough. There is not enough. The only thing that will ever satiate that existential thirst is love. And I just remember that day I made the shift from wanting to be a winner to wanting to have the most powerful, deep, and beautiful relationships I could possibly have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: The central idea of love is not even a relationship commitment, the first thing is a personal commitment to be the best version of yourself with or without that person that you're with. You have to every single day-mind, body, and spirit-wake up with a commitment to be better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Being famous is such a gift for me because small things make people's lives brighter. You just shake somebody's hand. You just smile and write your name and people will talk about it for the rest of their lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I just think that the gifts that God has given me and the attention that I have, I just don't feel like acting is the limit of it. I just feel like there's so much more that I could do...And, you know, every day I wake up and I try to do a little more and I just want the world to be different and better because I was here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I grew up in the church, Resurrection Baptist Church in Philadelphia, and my grandmother was that grandmother at the church, the one always at the church, always putting on the events. It was deeply instilled in me that every action, everything I create, everything I say and do in the world is inexorably bound to the lives of everybody I come in contact with - and it's my responsibility to put things into the world that have a positive influence on humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: If you stay ready, you don't have to get ready."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: For our family, the entire structure of our life, our home, our business relationships - the entire purpose is for everyone to be able to create in a way that makes them happy. Fame is almost an inconsequential by-product of what we're really trying to accomplish. We are trying to put great things into the world, we're trying to have fun, and we're trying to become the greatest versions of ourselves in the process of doing things we love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: If you want somethin', go get it. Period."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I think my general disposition on life is finding what's funny about it. When something happens, the first thing in my mind is, \"What's funny about it?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: One of my teachers used to call me Prince, because I always had a way of charming myself in and out of different situations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I believe that I can create whatever I want to create. If I can put my head on it right, study it, learn the patterns, and - it's hard to put into words, it's real metaphysical, esoteric nonsense, but I feel very strongly that we are who we choose to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Part of being an actor is almost self-hypnosis during those brief moments when the cameras are rolling. You want to actually believe you're Chris Gardner or Muhammad Ali."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I'm not afraid to die on a treadmill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I want to take care of people. I want to help people. The maximum joy that I have is when I can create something that makes someone else's life lighter, brighter, or better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: You can cry, ain't no shame in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Whatever your dream is, every extra penny you have needs to be going to that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Anything can go away. There's no such thing as safety and security. You can do things that give you the illusion of safety and security, but there's really no such thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I\u2019m a student of patterns. At heart, I\u2019m a physicist. I look at everything in my life as trying to find the single equation, the theory of everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: There is nothing like having to change your physical form to put you in contact with every weak part of yourself, to train yourself in discipline. Put somebody on a treadmill and I'll tell you how good they are at any other thing they do in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I read a Bruce Lee quote that shifted how I'm trying to live my life right now. He said, \"Some targets are only meant to be aimed at.\" Right? And I took that to mean a shift for myself from goal orientation to path orientation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Life is dangerous and you're not gonna live a life without risk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: The quality of your life was determined by the quality of your service. I'm attracted to characters who have a higher calling, who want to serve in ways where you get beyond the comfortable service and you get into the space of the sacrificial. And I really am attracted to characters who just want to do things that brighten the world. That probably is the central aspect of my personality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Give me a problem, I'll give you a solution. I just love living. That's a feeling you can't fake. I'm glad every single day. I think that even the camera can feel that I'm a happy man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: The things that have been most valuable to me I did not learn in school. Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Everybody need a partner to stand right by their side. Not only down for the good times. But also down through the bad times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Whatever you have is gonna die and you are gonna have to rebirth something new. You have to be willing to ride the waves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I look at Bill Clinton, the way I look at Bill Gates. As long as my Microsoft stock is going up, I don't care what Bill Gates does in the privacy of his own home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: You'd be surprised how much you don't understand what other people see your actions as; how other people view the things you say and the things that you do. And a lot of times just clarifying what your intentions are with people makes a huge difference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: She has got to have command of her body. So when she goes out into the world, she's going out with a command that is hers. She is used to making those, decisions herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: When you create art, the world has to wait."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Life is lived on the edge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: If the world attacks and you slide off track, remember one fact, I got your back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: You be as truthful as you can to a specific situation, and it will become universal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I love creating music and television and film. I love the hustle, I love the grind, I love working sixteen- and eighteen-hour days and waking up at four the next morning and going to the gym. I love that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: It's been rough for me trying to find my position in the struggle and where my voice is needed and helpful. You know, I grew up in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia has a really rough police-brutality history. I grew up in a neighborhood where it was very clear that the police were \"them\" and we were \"us\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Probably means there's a good chance. Possibly means we might or we might not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I've trained myself to illuminate the things in my personality that are likable and to hide and protect the things that are less likeable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Just stay ready. Stay in shape and then you don't have to rush to train before the movie starts. I'll show you my abs later because I\u2019m in shape. But that idea, if you stay ready, you don\u2019t have to get ready."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Here I stand before you - brown. Color of the mountains Colossal as the earth Wrapped so deliciously within my own joy and misery Feathers of my wings paralyzed by the distance of my mind Here I stand before you, the color of the night Frozen by the potential of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I think for me, as a parent, once my children are thoroughly informed, they can make the decisions that they want to make. The only thing that I demand is a complete comprehension [of the information]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I don't want to be an icon. I want to be an idea. I want to represent possibilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Summer, summer, summertime time to sit back and unwind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: A rapper is about being completely true to yourself. Being an actor is about changing who you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: When I was growing up, I installed refrigerators in supermarkets. My father was an electrical engineer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: You've got to run your career. What happens is a lot of times artists have this talent and they're just looking for somebody to take it and do something with it. And you have to be the creative force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: My God, my higher power. It's mine and mine alone. I create my connection and I decide how my connection is going to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: You play a part in every aspect of your life going the way you want or not going the way that you want. It has very little to do with other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I've always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Hurry up and write your number down before I don't want it no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Any time you see a white guy in jail, you know he did something bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Goofy was the word that was used most often by my sisters because I've been this tall ever since I was 12 years old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I don't necessarily believe in organized religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I would have absolutely messed up 'The Matrix'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I think with movies I am really connecting to the Joseph Campbell idea of the collective unconscious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I feel like I could run for President. People often laugh, but if I set my mind to it, within the next 15 years I could be in the White House."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Can I say something? Um, I'm the type of person that if you ask me a question and I don't know the answer, I'm gonna tell you that I don't know. But I bet you what, I know how to find the answer and I will find the answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I'm the type of person who is always going to be somewhat dissatisfied with myself. I'm never going to be smart enough. I'm never going to be a good enough father and husband. I'm never going to be a good enough actor for myself. I just never will be, and I have to get comfortable with waking up every day and trying to move some little increment closer to the person I have always dreamed of being. This is the journey."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I'm a student of world religion, so to me, it's hugely important to have knowledge and to understand what people are doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: The greatest experience I've ever had in a movie theater was watching \"Star Wars.\" It shaped how I look at the world. My imagination was so small before I went in that theater and there was an explosion in my head. I just couldn't figure out how someone came up with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I have fun. I enjoy my life. And I was hardwired for a deep connection between service, God, and happiness. You kind of need all of those things to be in play for one to have the others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: If you look at somebody like 50 Cent, ain't nobody telling 50 what to do and how to do what he does. He has a vision of who he wants to be, and he instructs everybody along those lines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Sitting in the movie theater watching \"Star Wars,\" I've never had an experience with any form of entertainment that was like that. It was almost spiritual. I couldn't believe that someone's mind created that. And, right, it felt like George Lucas had a piano that was playing my emotions, and he could go ahead and do whatever he wanted and make me lean forward if he wanted, or he could make me go oh, or he could make me hide my face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I always thought there was some place I was going, that there was some success or some achievement or some box-office number that was going to fill the hole. And what I realize is that life is a hole. It's a process of continually trying to find and reinvent myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Our whole dream for our home was for it to be an artist's haven. So there are paint supplies; there's a piano with a microphone and a recorder right there to capture things right in the second. There's editing equipment. There are cameras. I think the only thing in our house that people would be surprised by is the efficiency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: You can't win enough, you can't have enough money, you can't succeed enough. There is not enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Marvin Gaye said there's a song inside of me and I can't get it out. And I know it's in there, and I can feel that it's in there, and I can't get it out. There's so much that I want to say, and I haven't been able to figure out how to say it in my art. I can only say it in ham-fisted, clumsy, nonpoetic ways, and I'm trying to figure out how to talk about life and talk about love and talk about pain and trials and tribulation in an artistic form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do is they would take lead - just take a chunk of lead - and they could turn lead into gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: What people are perceiving will dictate what their life and ultimately what your interaction is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I've always been a jokester. The things I got in trouble for, when I was little, was always about making a joke or setting up a prank or being silly when I should be paying attention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I love you and I'm here for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I've always been attracted to characters with insurmountable odds and obstacles, because innately, however inarticulately I've always believed that my dreams and my desires can command and bend time and space to be the things that I want them to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: When you find things that are tried and true for millennia, you can bet that it's going to happen tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I like to look good, but I like my body to function well more than anything. For me, it's as spiritual and intellectual as it is physical. And emotional. I enjoy pushing myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: You have to create something in a way that has direction, that it has vision, and then your partner will take it and figure out whatever their expertise is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: The big thing I tell my kids is you have to control how you label things. It's very important to me they understand the power they have to create the lives that they want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Before 2010, I had a vision. I saw a family in my mind that I wanted to have. And I was pushing and driving hard for my picture, and then I realized everyone has their own journey. I have to support what they want to do. I have to support the vision that they have for themselves, not my vision. That was excruciating for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: It's great to be black in Hollywood. When a black actor does something, it seems new and different just by virtue of the fact that he's black."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I love being black in America, and especially being black in Hollywood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: The Bible talks about your spirit being immortal, that you were created for existence beyond your physical body. Well, that's no different from Scientology! I don't think that because the word someone uses for spirit is thetan that the definition becomes any different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I want to represent possibilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I try to speak my points of view about black America, and how I feel about black men and the role that black men should play in their lives with their children and in their lives with their women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Adolf Hitler was a vile, heinous, vicious killer responsible for one of the greatest acts of evil committed on this planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: My biggest emotional defeat and the greatest emotional pain I've had as an actor was when \"Wild Wild West\" opened up to $52 million. The movie wasn't good. And it hurt so bad to be the No. 1 movie - to open at $52 million - and to know the movie wasn't good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: Bouncing in the club where the heat is on,\r\nAll night on the beach till the break of dawn"
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I met my father for the first time when I was 28 years old. I made up my mind that when I had children, my children were going to know who their father was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I was trying so hard. I would memorize the entire script, then I'd be lipping everybody's lines while they were talking. When I watch those episodes, it's disgusting. My performances were horrible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I'm human viagra. I'm Willagra. I'm a sex machine now. I'm raring to go every second of the day. My wife's loving it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: You might have more talent than me, you might be smarter than me, you might be sexier than me, you might be all of those things you got it on me in nine categories. But if we get on the treadmill together, there are two things: You're getting off first, or I'm going to die. It's really that simple, right?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: When I was young, and I'd get A's, I'd get this good feeling of all the things that I could be. And then I'd never became any of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I first wanted to be a comedian when I was six or seven and my dad showed me Laurel and Hardy's \"Perfect Day\" on tv."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I so connected to symbolically being able to turn lead into gold. My grandmother used to say, \"Life give you a lemon, you go ahead and make lemonade.\" To me, that's alchemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I believe that my connection, to my higher power, is separate from everybody\u2019s. I don\u2019t believe that the Muslims have all the answers. I don\u2019t believe the Christians have all the answer, or the Jews have all the answers..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: To me, it's science fiction for me to do the things I've been blessed to do in this industry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: When you connect to a primal idea - life, death, hunger, hope, fear - any of those primal ideas are going to translate, and I think that's the thing that I've always been attracted to in my work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: The desire to be a good father is really innate. There aren't a lot of movies that depict that relationship because men, we have to pretend that we're not that emotional about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: I want to represent possibilities. I want to represent magic, right, that you're in a universe, and two plus two equals four."
  },
  {
    "text": "Will Smith: When you're talking to a person, it only matters what they are perceiving. You only need them to perceive you as a loving husband. You don't necessarily need to be one. That's always a good road, if you actually are one. But what people are perceiving will dictate what their life is, and ultimately what your interaction is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: There will be, in the next generation or so, a pharmacological method of making people love their servitude, and producing dictatorship without tears, so to speak, producing a kind of painless concentration camp for entire societies, so that people will in fact have their liberties taken away from them, but will rather enjoy it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Never have so many been manipulated so much by so few."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: This Power Elite directly employs several millions of the country\u00b4s working force in its factories, offices and stores, controls many millions more by lending them the money to buy its products, and, through its ownership of the media of mass communication, influences the thoughts, the feelings and the actions of virtually everybody. To parody the words of W. Churchill, never have so many been manipulated so much by few."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: ... the greater part of the population is not very intelligent, dreads responsibility, and desires nothing better than to be told what to do. Provided the rulers do not interfere with its material comforts and its cherished beliefs, it is perfectly happy to let itself be ruled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Love casts out fear; but conversely fear casts out love. And not only love. Fear also casts out intelligence, casts out goodness, casts out all thought of beauty and truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Democracy can hardly be expected to flourish in societies where political and economic power is being progressively concentrated and centralized. But the progress of technology has led and is still leading to just such a concentration and centralization of power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The world is an illusion, but an illusion which we must take seriously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Reality cannot be ignored except at a price; and the longer the ignorance is persisted in, the higher and more terrible becomes the price that must be paid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Experience teaches only the teachable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music, bright lights...and in next to no time you can reduce them to a state of almost mindless subhumanity. Never before have so few been in a position to make fools, maniacs, or criminals of so many."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Most ignorance is vincible ignorance. We don't know because we don't want to know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The more powerful and original a mind, the more it will incline towards the religion of solitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Beware of being too rational. In the country of the insane, the integrated man doesn't become king. He gets lynched."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Higher education is not necessarily a guarantee of higher virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies - the development of a vast mass communications industry, concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making a reasonable choice in the light of available evidence. Democratic institutions can be made to work only if all concerned do their best to impart knowledge and to encourage rationality. But today, in the world's most powerful democracy, the politicians and the propagandists prefer to make nonsense of democratic procedures by appealing almost exclusively to the ignorance and irrationality of the electors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Wherever the choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesitatingly followed the madman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that is your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. That comes afterwards, when you have worked on your own corner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: life is short and information endless: nobody has time for everything"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Children are nowhere taught, in any systematic way, to distinguish true from false, or meaningful from meaningless, statements. Why is this so? Because their elders, even in the democratic countries, do not want them to be given this kind of education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Liberty, as we all know, cannot flourish in a country that is permanently on a war footing, or even a near war footing. Permanent crisis justifies permanent control of everybody and everything by the agencies of central government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: If one's different, one's bound to be lonely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Never give children a chance of imagining that anything exists in isolation. Make it plain from the very beginning that all living is relationship. Show them relationships in the woods, in the fields, in the ponds and streams, in the village and in the country around it. Rub it in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Assembled in a crowd, people lose their powers of reasoning and their capacity for moral choice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: If we evolved a race of Isaac Newtons, that would not be progress. For the price Newton had to pay for being a supreme intellect was that he was incapable of friendship, love, fatherhood, and many other desirable things. As a man he was a failure; as a monster he was superb."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The greatest triumphs of propoganda have been accomplished, not by doing something, but by refraining from doing. Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Round pegs in square holes tend to have dangerous thoughts about the social system and tend to infect others with their discontents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The most shocking fact about war is that its victims and its instruments are individual human beings, and that these individual beings are condemned by the monstrous conventions of politics to murder or be murdered in quarrels not their own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Consistency is contrary to nature, contrary to life. The only completely consistent people are dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: So long as men worship the Caesars and Napoleons, Caesars and Napoleons will duly arise and make them miserable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they\u2019ll go through anything. You read and you\u2019re pierced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Our business is to wake up. We have to find ways in which to detect the whole of reality in the one illusory part which our self-centered consciousness permits us to see. We must not live thoughtlessly, taking our illusion for the complete reality, but at the same time we must not live too thoughtfully in the sense of trying to escape from the dream state. We must be continuously on watch for ways in which we may enlarge our consciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: No social stability without individual stability."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere. Political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Good is a product of the ethical and spiritual artistry of individuals; it cannot be mass-produced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: All war propaganda consists, in the last resort, in substituting diabolical abstractions for human beings. Similarly, those who defend war have invented a pleasant sounding vocabulary of abstractions in which to describe the process of mass murder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The survival of democracy depends on the ability of large numbers of people to make realistic choices in the light of adequate information."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The indispensible is not necessarily the desirable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The trouble with fiction,\" said John Rivers, \"is that it makes too much sense. Reality never makes sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books. To be cultivated, one must read slowly and with a lingering appreciation the comparatively few books that have been written by men who lived, thought, and felt with style."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The old idea that words possess magical powers is false; but its falsity is the distortion of a very important truth. Words do have a magical effect - but not in the way that magicians supposed, and not on the objects they were trying to influence. Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Hug me till you drug me, honey; Kiss me till I'm in a coma."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: You never see animals going through the absurd and often horrible fooleries of magic and religion. . . . Dogs do not ritually urinate in the hope of persuading heaven to do the same and send down rain. Asses do not bray a liturgy to cloudless skies. Nor do cats attempt, by abstinence from cat's meat, to wheedle the feline spirits into benevolence. Only man behaves with such gratuitous folly. It is the price he has to pay for being intelligent but not, as yet, quite intelligent enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The effects which follow too constant and intense a concentration upon evil are always disastrous. Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes even perceptibly worse than it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The Humanity of men and women is inversely proportional to their Numbers. A Crowd is no more human than an Avalanche or a Whirlwind. A rabble of men and women stands lower in the scale of moral and intellectual being than a herd of Swine or of Jackals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: In spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody. The essential substance of every thought and feeling remains incommunicable, locked up in the impenetrable strong-room of the individual soul and body. Our life is a sentence of perpetual solitary confinement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: My sympathies are, of course, with the Government side, especially the Anarchists ; for Anarchism seems to me more likely to lead to desirable social change than highly centralized, dictatorial Communism ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: At this point we find ourselves confronted by a very disquieting question: Do we really wish to act upon our knowledge?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: For at least two thirds of our miseries spring from human stupidity, human malice and those great motivators and justifiers of malice and stupidity, idealism, dogmatism and proselytizing zeal on behalf of religious or political idols"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Every gain made by individuals or societies is almost instantly taken for granted. The luminous ceiling toward which we raise our longing eyes becomes, when we have climbed to the next floor, a stretch of disregarded linoleum beneath our feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Ending is better than mending."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The nature of power is such that even those who have not sought it, but have had it forced upon them, tend to acquire a taste for more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: A majority of young people seem to develop mental arteriosclerosis forty years before they get the physical kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: In the course of evolution nature has gone to endless trouble to see that every individual is unlike every other individual....Physically and mentally, each one of us is unique. Any culture which, in the interests of efficiency or in the name of some political or religious dogma, seeks to standardize the human individual, commits an outrage against man's biological nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: In real life there is no such person as the average man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: What is absurd and monstrous about war is that men who have no personal quarrel should be trained to murder one another in cold blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The Perennial Philosophy is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi ('That art thou'); the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; and the last end of every human being, is to discover the fact for himself, to find out who he really is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Industrialization is the systemic exploitation of wasting assets. In all too many cases, the thing we call progress is merely an acceleration in the rate of that exploitation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Man's life on earth has only one end and purpose: to identify himself with his eternal Self and so to come to unitive knowledge of the Divine Ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons-that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Sons have always a rebellious wish to be disillusioned by that which charmed their fathers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Facts are ventriloquist\u2019s dummies. Sitting on a wise man\u2019s knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Chastity - the most unnatural of all the sexual perversions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Most ignorances are vincible, and in the greater number of cases stupidity is what the Buddha pronounced it to be, a sin. For, consciously, or subconsciously, it is with deliberation that we do not know or fail to understand-because incomprehension allows us, with a good conscience, to evade unpleasant obligations and responsibilities, because ignorance is the best excuse for going on doing what one likes, but ought not, to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Can you say something about nothing?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: I know the outer world as well as you do, and I judge it. You know nothing of my inner world, and yet you presume to judge that world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: By comparison with a night-club, churches are positively gay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Every idol, however exalted, turns out, in the long run, to be a Moloch, hungry for human sacrifice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Did you eat something that didn't agree with you?\" asked Bernard. The Savage nodded \"I ate civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one thereby discovers has to be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions; it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: We are all geniuses up to the age of ten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Those who believe that they are exclusively in the right are generally those who achieve something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: I'm afraid of losing my obscurity. Genuineness only thrives in the dark. Like celery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Every ceiling, when reached, becomes a floor, upon which one walks as a matter of course and prescriptive right"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The consistent thinker, the consistently moral man, is either a walking mummy or else, if he has not succeeded in stifling all his vitality, a fanatical monomaniac."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Maybe this world is another planet's Hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: A democracy which makes or even effectively prepares for modern, scientific war must necessarily cease to be democratic. No country can be really well prepared for modern war unless it is governed by a tyrant, at the head of a highly trained and perfectly obedient bureaucracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Universal education has created an immense class of what I may call the New Stupid, hungering for certainty yet unable to find it in the traditional myths and their rationalizations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: If only people would realize that moral principles are like measles.... They have to be caught. And only the people who've got them can pass on the contagion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The condition of being forgiven is self-abandonment. The proud man prefers self-reproach, however painful --because the reproached self isn't abandoned; it remains intact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: ... one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: All our science is just a cookery book, with an orthodox theory of cooking that nobody's allowed to question, and a list of recipes that mustn't be added to except by special permission from the head cook."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: God isn't the son of Memory; He's the son of Immediate Experience. You can't worship a spirit in spirit, unless you do it now. Wallowing in the past may be good literature. As wisdom, it's hopeless. Time Regained is Paradise Lost, and Time Lost is Paradise Regained. Let the dead bury their dead. If you want to live at every moment as it presents itself, you've got to die to every other moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Societies are composed of individuals and are good only insofar as they help individuals to realize their potentialities and to lead a happy and creative life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born - the beneficiary inasmuch as language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience, the victim in so far as it confirms him in the belief that reduced awareness is the only awareness and as it bedevils his sense of reality, so that he is all too apt to take his concepts for data, his words for actual things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Almost all of us long for peace and freedom; but very few of us have much enthusiasm for the thoughts, feelings, and actions that make for peace and freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: No man ever dared to manifest his boredom so insolently as does a Siamese tomcat when he yawns in the face of his amorously importunate wife."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: We participate in a tragedy; at a comedy we only look."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: ...most men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Several excuses are always less convincing than one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Most men and women lead lives at the worst so painful, at the best so monotonous, poor and limited that the urge to escape, the longing to transcend themselves if only for a few moments, is and has always been one of the principal appetites of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: To be excited is still to be unsatisfied."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: We don't want to change. Every change is a menace to stability."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Well... ...That's what you always forget, isn't it? I mean, you forget to pay attention to what's happening. And that's the same as not being here and now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: To see ourselves as others see us is a most salutary gift. Hardly less important is the capacity to see others as they see themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: There's only one effectively redemptive sacrifice, the sacrifice of self-will to make room for the knowledge of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Art is one of the means whereby man seeks to redeem a life which is experienced as chaotic, senseless, and largely evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: We live together, we act on, and react to one another; but always, and in all circumstances, we are by ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The silent bear no witness against themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: All of us desire a better state of society. But society cannot become better before two great tasks are performed.Unless peace can be firmly established and the prevailing obsession with money and power profoundly modified, there is no hope of any desirable change being made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Only a person with a Best Seller mind can write Best Sellers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: If we must play the theological game, let us never forget that it is a game. Religion, it seems to me, can survive only as a consciously accepted system of make-believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The finest works of art are precious, among other reasons, because they make it possible for us to know, if only imperfectly and for a little while, what it actually feels like to think subtly and feel nobly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: In the course of history many more people have died for their drink and their dope than have died for their religion or their country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Morality is always the product of terror; its chains and strait-waistcoats are fashioned by those who dare not trust others, because they dare not trust themselves, to walk in liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him. It is a gift for dealing with the accidents of existence, not the accidents themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy, one can never really communicate anything to anybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: What drivel it all is!... A string of words called religion. Another string of words called philosophy. Half a dozen other stringscalled political ideals. And all the words either ambiguous or meaningless. And people getting so excited about them they'll murder their neighbours for using a word they don't happen to like. A word that probably doesn't mean as much as a good belch. Just a noise without even the excuse of gas on the stomach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Generalized intelligence and mental alertness are the most powerful enemies of dictatorship and at the same time the basic conditions of effective democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The fact that people are shocked is the best proof that they need shocking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Pageantry is a visionary art which has been used, from time immemorial, as a political instrument."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Sixty two thousand four hundred repetitions make one truth. Idiots!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Death is the only thing we haven't succeeded in completely vulgarizing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Science has explained nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: I used to think I had no will to power. Now I perceive that I vented it on thoughts, rather than people. Conquering an unknown province of knowledge. Getting the better of a problem. Forcing ideas to associate or come apart. Bullying recalcitrant words to assume a certain pattern. All the fun of being a dictator without any risks and responsibilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: In the world of ideas everything was clear; in life all was obscure, embroiled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory fantasies, human terrors, human cruelties. If all men were alike, all the world would worship the same God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Complete prohibition of all chemical mind changers can be decreed, but cannot be enforced, and tends to create more evils than it cures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: But the quiet grows and grows. Beautifully and unbearably."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: We are so anxious to achieve some particular end that we never pay attention to the psycho-physical means whereby that end is to be gained. So far as we are concerned, any old means is good enough. But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify the means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Too much consistency is as bad for the mind as for the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Something that had been a single cell, a cluster of cells, a little sac of tissue, a kind of worm, a potential fish with gills, stirred in her womb and would one day become a man--a grown man, suffering and enjoying, loving and hating, thinking, remembering, imagining. And what had been a blob of jelly within her body would invent a god and worship; what had been a kind of fish would create, and, having created, would become the battleground of disputing good and evil; what had blindly lived in her as a parasitic worm would look at the stars, would listen to music, would read poetry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The brotherhood of men does not imply their equality. Families have their fools and their men of genius, their black sheep and their saints, their worldly successes and their worldly failures. A man should treat his brothers lovingly and with justice, according to the deserts of each. But the deserts of every brother are not the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Who lives longer? The man who takes heroin for two years and dies, or a man who lives on roast beef, water and potatoes 'till 95? One passes his 24 months in eternity. All the years of the beefeater are lived only in time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: We lie to ourselves in order that we may still have the excuse of ignorance, the alibi of stupidity and incomprehension, possessing which we can continue with a good conscience to commit and tolerate the most monstrous crimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: All right then,\" said the Savage defiantly, \"I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: This growing poverty in the midst of growing population constitutes a permanent menace to peace. And not only to peace, but also to democratic institutions and personal liberty For overpopulation is not compatible with freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: In actual life a downward movement may sometimes be made the beginning of an ascent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: In the days before machinery men and women who wanted to amuse themselves were compelled, in their humble way, to be artists. Now they sit still and permit professionals to entertain them by the aid of machinery. It is difficult to believe that general artistic culture can flourish in this atmosphere of passivity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: We tend to think and feel in terms of the art we like; and if the art we like is bad then our thinking and feeling will be bad. And if the thinking and feeling of most of the individuals composing a society is bad, is not that society in danger?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: [...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: You should hurry up and acquire the cigar habit. It's one of the major happinesses. And so much more lasting than love, so much less costly in emotional wear and tear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: For some strange reason murder has always seemed more respectable than fornication. Few people are shocked when they hear God described as the God of Battles; but what an outcry there would be if anyone spoke of him as the God of Brothels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: To talk about religion except in terms of human psychology is an irrelevance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Two hours. One hundred and twenty minutes. Anything might be done in that time. Anything. Nothing. Oh, he had had hundreds of hours, and what had he done with them? Wasted them, spilt the precious minutes as though his reservoir were inexhaustible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Good is that which makes for unity. Evil is that which makes for separateness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Civilization means food and literature all round. Beefsteaks and fiction magazines for all. First-class proteins for the body, fourth-class love-stories for the spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Liberate yourselves from everything you know and look with complete innocence at this infinitely improbable thing before you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create the uninterpretable and yet divinely significant pattern of human destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Man is so intelligent that he feels impelled to invent theories to account for what happens in the world. Unfortunately, he is not quite intelligent enough, in most cases, to find correct explanations. So that when he acts on his theories, he behaves very often like a lunatic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past, you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training. Now, you swallow two or three half-gramme tablets, and there you are. Anybody can be virtuous now. You can carry at least half your morality about in a bottle. Christianity without tears-that's what soma is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Real progress is progress in charity, all other advances being secondary thereto."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Experience is not a matter of having actually swum the Hellespont, or danced with the dervishes, or slept in a doss-house. It is a matter of sensibility and intuition, of seeing, and hearing the significant thing, of paying attention at the right moments, of understanding and coordinating. Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Words form the thread on which we string our experiences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. [...] By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: I'd rather be myself,\" he said. \"Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Words are magical in the way they affect the minds of those who use them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: To be shaken out of the ruts of ordinary perception, to be shown for a few timeless hours the outer and the inner world, not as they appear to an animal obsessed with words and notions, but as they are apprehended, directly and unconditionally, by Mind at Large-This is the experience of inestimable value to everyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The most intractable of our experiences is the experience of Time-the intuition of duration, combined with the thought of perpetual perishing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: This really revolutionary revolution is to be achieved, not in the external world, but in the souls and flesh of human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: What\u2019s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Ironically enough, the only people who can hold up indefinitely under the stress of modern war are psychotics. Individual insanity is immune to the consequences of collective insanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The business of a seer is to see; and if he involves himself in the kind of God-eclipsing activities which make seeing impossible, he betrays the trust which his fellows have tacitly placed in him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Modern man's besetting temptation is to sacrifice his direct perceptions and spontaneous feelings to his reasoned reflections; to prefer in all circumstances the verdict of his intellect to that of his immediate intuitions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Teaching is the last refuge of feeble minds with a classical education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: A man who has trained himself in goodness come to have certain direct intuitions about character, about the relations between human beings, about his own position in the world - intuitions that are quite different from the intuitions of the average sensual man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Pleasure cannot be shared; like Pain, it can only be experienced or inflicted, and when we give Pleasure to our Lovers or bestow Charity upon the Needy, we do so, not to gratify the object of our Benevolence, but only ourselves. For the Truth is that we are kind for the same reason as we are cruel, in order that we may enhance the sense of our own Power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Every man who knows how to read has it in his power to magnify himself, to multiply the ways in which he exists, to make his life full, significant and interesting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Suddenly to realise that one is sitting, damned, among the other damned--it is a most disquieting experience; so disquieting thatmost of us react to it by immediately plunging more deeply into our particular damnation in the hope, generally realized, that we may be able, at least for a time, to stifle our revolutionary knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Men have always been a prey to distractions, which arethe original sins of the mind; but never before today has an attempt been made to organize and exploit distractions, to make of them, because of their economic importance, the core and vital center of human life, to idealize them as the highest manifestations of mental activity. Ours is an age of systematized irrelevances, and the imbecile within us has become one of the Titans, upon whose shoulders rests the weight of the social and economic system"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The impulse to cruelty is, in many people, almost as violent as the impulse to sexual love - almost as violent and much more mischievous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The sum of evil, Pascal remarked, would be much diminished if men could only learn to sit quietly in their rooms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: We are not our own any more than what we possess is our own. We did not make ourselves, we cannot be supreme over ourselves. We are not our own masters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Man approaches the unattainable truth through a succession of errors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: If humans were in fact the members of a truly social species, and if their individual differences were trifling and could be completely ironed out by appropriate conditioning, then, obviously, there would be no need for liberty and the State would be justified in persecuting the heretics who demanded it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: When people are suspicious with you, you start being suspicious with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Marble, I perceive, covers a multitude of sins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: \"All right then,\" said the savage defiantly, I'm claiming the right to be unhappy.\" \n\"Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind.\" \nThere was a long silence. \n\"I claim them all,\" said the Savage at last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning, truth and beauty can't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Speed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Most vices demand considerable self-sacrifices. There is no greater mistake than to suppose that a vicious life is a life of uninterrupted pleasure. It is a life almost as wearisome and painful -- if strenuously led -- as Christian's in The Pilgrim's Progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: For the born traveller, travelling is a besetting vice. Like other vices, it is imperious, demanding its victim's time, money, energy and the sacrifice of comfort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The flower of the present rosily blossomed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: A man can smile and smile and be a villain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: What man has joined, nature is powerless to put asunder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it. If we fail to do our share, but rather choose to rely on self-will and self-direction, we shall not only get no help from the graces bestowed on us, we shall actually make it impossible for further graces to be given."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The social body persists although the component cells may change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: One of the many reasons for the bewildering and tragic character of human existence is the fact that social organization is at once necessary and fatal. Men are forever creating such organizations for their own convenience and forever finding themselves the victims of their home-made monsters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The more stitches, the less riches."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The man who comes back through the Door in the Wall will never be quite the same as the man who went out. He will be wiser but less sure, happier but less self-satisfied, humbler in acknowledging his ignorance yet better equipped to understand the relationship of words to things, of systematic reasoning to the unfathomable mystery which it tries, forever vainly, to comprehend"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the over-compensations for misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Bondage is the life of personality, and for bondage the personal self will fight with tireless resourcefulness and the most stubborn cunning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Generalities are intellectually necessary evils."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The optimum population is modeled on the iceberg- eight-ninths below the water line, one-ninth above."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The Christian idea of a perfect heaven that is something other than a non-existence is a contradiction in terms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: What wonder, then, if human beings in their search for the divine have generally preferred to look within!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Thought is barred in this City of Dreadful Joy and conversation is unknown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The proper study of mankind is books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Under the present dispensation, the great majority of factories are little despotisms, benevolent in some cases, malevolent in others. Even where benevolence prevails, passive obedience is demanded by the workers, who are ruled by overseers, not of their own election, but appointed from above. In theory they may be the subjects of a democratic state; but in practice they spend the whole of their working lives as the subjects of a petty tyrant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: To be enlightened is to be aware, always, of total reality in its immanent otherness - to be aware of it and yet remain in a condition to survive as an animal. Our goal is to discover that we have always been where we ought to be. Unhappily we make the task exceedingly difficult for ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: We can't allow science to undo its own good work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: I have always found that Angels have the vanity to speak of themselves as the only wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Every individual is at once the beneficiary and the victim of the linguistic tradition into which he has been born."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: If you want to be a psychological novelist and write about human beings, the best thing you can do is keep a pair of cats."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Both of us victims of the same twentieth-century plague. Not the Black Death, this time; the Gray Life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: [I am not] the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The effectiveness of political and religious propaganda depends upon the methods employed, not upon the doctrines taught. These doctrines may be true or false, wholesome or pernicious it makes little or no difference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: You got rid of them. Yes, that\u2019s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether \u2018tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them\u2026 But you don\u2019t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It\u2019s too easy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Happiness is never grand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Drill and uniforms impose an architecture on the crowd. An army's beautiful. But that's not all; it panders to lower instincts than the aesthetic. The spectacle of human beings reduced to automatism satisfies the lust for power. Looking at mechanized slaves, one fancies oneself a master."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: I am ignorant and impotent and yet, somehow or other, here I am, unhappy, no doubt, profoundly dissatisfied ... In spite of everything I survive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Those who feel themselves despised do well to look despising."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: When the individual feels, the community reels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: To aspire to be superhuman is a most discreditable admission that you lack the guts, the wit, the moderating judgment to be successfully and consummately human."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: An ideal is merely the projection, on an enormously enlarged scale, of some aspect of personality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The ductless glands secrete among other things our moods, our aspirations, our philosophy of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: I met, not long ago, a young man who aspired to become a novelist. Knowing that I was in the profession, he asked me to tell him how he should set to work to realize his ambition. I did my best to explain. 'The first thing,' I said, 'is to buy quite a lot of paper, a bottle of ink, and a pen. After that you merely have to write.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Wherever we turn we find that the real obstacles to peace are human will and feeling, human convictions, prejudices, opinions. If we want to get rid of war we must get rid first of all of its psychological causes. Only when this has been done will the rulers of the nations even desire to get rid of the economic and political causes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: To associate with other like-minded people in small, purposeful groups is for the great majority of men and women a source of profound psychological satisfaction. Exclusiveness will add to the pleasure of being several, but at one; and secrecy will intensify it almost to ecstasy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Such prosperity as we have known it up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: How difficult it is to sound persuasive at the top of one's voice!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: People believe in God because they've been conditioned to believe in God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Abused as we abuse it at present, dramatic art is in no sense cathartic; it is merely a form of emotional masturbation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Nothing is more dreadful than a cold, unimpassioned indulgence. And love infallibly becomes cold and unimpassioned when it is too lightly made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The scent organ was playing a delightfully refreshing Herbal Capriccio - rippling arpeggios of thyme and lavender, of rosemary, basil, myrtle, tarragon; a series of daring modulations through the spice keys into ambergris; and a slow return through sandalwood, camphor, cedar and newmown hay (with occasional subtle touches of discord - a whiff of kidney pudding, the faintest suspicion of pig's dung) back to the simple aromatics with which the piece began. The final blast of thyme died away; there was a round of applause; the lights went up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Every significant artist is a metaphysician, a propounder of beauty-truths and form-theories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: In regard to man's final end, all the higher religions are in complete agreement. The purpose of human life is the discovery of Truth, the unitive knowledge of the Godhead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: But every one belongs to every one else"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Some of the greatest advances in mathematics have been due to the invention of symbols, which it afterwards became necessary to explain; from the minus sign proceeded the whole theory of negative quantities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: I dread the inevitable acceleration of American world domination which will be the result of it all...Europe will no longer be Europe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: What with making their way and enjoying what they have won, heroes have no time to think. But the sons of heroes - ah, they have all the necessary leisure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Successfully (whatever that may mean) or unsuccessfully, we all overact the part of our favorite character in fiction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: I was not looking now at an unusual flower arrangement.  I was seeing what Adam had seen on the morning of his creation - the miracle, moment by moment, of naked existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Champagne had the taste of an apple peeled with a steel knife."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Hell is the incapacity to be other than the creature one finds oneself ordinarily behaving as."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The inconveniences and horrors of the pox are perfectly well known to every one; but still the disease flourishes and spreads. Several million people were killed in a recent war and half the world ruined; but we all busily go on in courses that make another event of the same sort inevitable. Experientia docet? Experientia doesn't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: It is because we don't know who we are, because we are unaware that the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, that we behave in the generally silly, the often insane, the sometimes criminal ways that are so characteristically human. We are saved, we are liberated and enlightened, by perceiving the hitherto unperceived good that is already within us, by returning to our eternal ground and remaining where, without knowing it, we have always been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: It is possible to argue that the really influential book is not that which converts ten millions of casual readers, but rather that which converts the very few who, at any given moment, succeed in seizing power. Marx and Sorel have been influential in the modern world, not so much because they were best-sellers (Sorel in particular was not at all a widely read author), but because among their few readers were two men, called respectively Lenin and Mussolini."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: In a word, they failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Visionary experience is not the same as mystical experience. Mystical experience is beyond the realm of opposites. Visionary experience is still within that realm. Heaven entails hell, and 'going to heaven' is no more liberation than is the descent into horror. Heaven is merely a vantage point from which the divine Ground can be more clearly seen than on the level of ordinary individual experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: I don't care where I'm from, nor where I'm going. From hell to hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Henry's universe was modeled on the highball. It was a mixture in which half a pint of the fizziest philosophical and scientific ideas all but drowned a small jigger of immediate experience, most of it strictly sexual. Broken reeds are seldom good mixers. They're far too busy with their ideas, their sensuality and their psychosomatic complaints to be able to take an interest in other people - even their own wives and children. They live in a state of the most profound voluntary ignorance, not knowing anything about anybody, but abounding in preconceived opinions about everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Grace is always sufficient, provided we are ready to cooperate with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Christianity accepted as given a metaphysical system derived from several already existing and mutually incompatible systems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to tickle and amuse one's mind; one reads, above all, to prevent oneself thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Science and art are only too often a superior kind of dope, possessing this advantage over booze and morphia: that they can be indulged in with a good conscience and with the conviction that, in the process of indulging, one is leading the higher life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: I ate civilization. It poisoned me; I was defiled. And then,\" he added in a lower tone, \"I ate my own wickedness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: For myself, as, no doubt, for most of my contemporaries, the philosophy of meaninglessness was essentially an instrument of liberation. The liberation we desired was simultaneously liberation from a certain political and economic system and liberation from a certain system of morality. We objected to the morality because it interfered with our sexual freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Everyone belongs to everyone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Pain was a fascinating horror"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: An irrelevance, and your life's altered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: What's the greatest enemy of Christianity to-day? Frozen meat. In the past only members of the upper classes were thoroughly sceptical, despairing, negative. Why? Among other reasons, because they were the only people who could afford to eat too much meat. Now there's cheap Canterbury lamb and Argentine chilled beef. Even the poor can afford to poison themselves into complete scepticism and despair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: ...we were back at home, and I had returned to that reassuring but profoundly unsatisfactory state known as 'being in one's right mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: A poor degenerate from the ape, Whose hands are four, whose tail's a limb, I contemplate my flaccid shape And know I may not rival him Save with my mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: A man may be a pessimistic determinist before lunch and an optimistic believer in the will's freedom after it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The leech's kiss, the squid's embrace, The prurient ape's defiling touch: And do you like the human race? No, not much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The mockery made him feel an outsider; and feeling an outsider he behaved like one, which increased the prejudice against him and intensified the contempt and hostility aroused by his physical defects. Which in turn increased his sense of being alien and alone. A chronic fear of being slighted made him avoid his equals, made him stand, where his inferiors were concerned, self-consciously on his dignity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: I want to know what passion is. I want to feel something strongly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: As late as the seventeenth century, monarchs owned so little furniture that they had to travel from palace to palace with wagon-loads of plate and bedspreads, of carpets and tapestries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Back to culture. Yes, actually to culture. You can\u2019t consume much if you sit still and read books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Men make use of their illnesses at least as much as they are made use of by them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Nothing short of everything will really do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: No less than war or statecraft, the history of Economics has its heroic ages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Most kings and priests have been despotic, and all religions have been riddled with superstition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: There are confessable agonies, sufferings of which one can positively be proud. Of bereavement, of parting, of the sense of sin and the fear of death the poets have eloquently spoken.  They command the world's sympathy.  But there are also discreditable anguishes, no less excruciating than the others, but of which the sufferer dare not, cannot speak.  The anguish of thwarted desire, for example."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: There are many kinds of gods. Therefore there are many kinds of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Perhaps dirt is the necessary condition of beauty.... Perhaps hygiene and art can never be bedfellows. No Verdi, after all, without spitting into trumpets. No Duse without a crowd of malodorous bourgeois giving one another their coryzas. And think of the inexpugnable retreats for microbes prepared by Michelangelo in the curls of Moses' beard!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Faith, it is evident, may be relied on to produce sustained action and, more rarely, sustained contemplation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: One of the principal functions of a friend is to suffer (in a milder and symbolic form) the punishments that we should like, but are unable, to inflict upon our enemies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: I'm pretty good at inventing phrases - you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you'd sat on a pin, they seem so new and exciting even though they're about something hypnopaedically* obvious. But that doesn't seem enough. It's not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Art, I suppose, is only for beginners, who have made up in their minds to be content with symbols rather than with what they signify, with the elegantly composed recipe in lieu of actual dinner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Books have their destinies like men. And their fates, as made by generations of readers, are very different from the destinies foreseen for them by their authors. Gulliver's Travels, with a minimum of expurgation, has become a children's book; a new illustrated edition is produced every Christmas. That's what comes of saying profound things about humanity in terms of a fairy story."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: We now spend a good deal more on drink and smoke than we spend on education. This, of course, is not surprising. The urge to escape from selfhood and the environment is in almost everyone almost all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: A gramme is better than a damn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: People travel for the same reason as they collect works of art: because the best people do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what\u2019s going on in his heart and mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Since Mozart's day composers have learned the art of making music throatily and palpitatingly sexual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: There are few who would not rather be taken in adultery than in provocation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Industrial civilization is only possible when there's no self-denial. Self-indulgence up to the very limits imposed by hygiene and economics. Otherwise the wheels stop turning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: A love of nature keeps no factories busy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The really important facts were that spatial relationships had ceased to matter very much and that my mind was perceiving the world in terms of other than spatial categories. At ordinary times the eye concerns itself with such problems as where? \u2014 how far? \u2014 how situated in relation to what? In the mescaline experience the implied questions to which the eye responds are of another order. Place and distance cease to be of much interest. The mind does its perceiving in terms of intensity of existence, profundity of significance, relationships within a pattern."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Cant is always rather nauseating; but before we condemn political hypocrisy, let us remember that it is the tribute paid by men of leather to men of God, and that the acting of the part of someone better than oneself may actually commit one to a course of behavior perceptibly less evil than what would be normal and natural in an avowed cynic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest--it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [...] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something--for a greater gain in knowledge, in understanding, in intensified living? I sometimes wonder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth.... Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: If Men and Women took their Pleasures as noisily as the Cats, what Londoner could ever hope to sleep of nights?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Official dignity tends to increase in inverse ratio to the importance of the country in which the office is held."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Lying in bed, he would think of Heaven and London."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: What the rest of us see only under the influence of mescalin, the artist is congenitally equipped to see all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: You all remember, I suppose, that beautiful and inspired saying of Our Ford's: History is bunk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Nothing \u2014 the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: And that,\" put in the Director sententiously, \"that is the secret of happiness and virtue \u2014 liking what you've got to do. All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: It is natural to believe in God when you're alone-- quite alone, in the night, thinking about death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: It's a very salutary thing to realize that the rather dull universe in which most of us spend most of our time is not the only universe there is. I think it's healthy that people should have this experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The instinct of acquisitiveness has more perverts, I believe, than the instinct of sex. At any rate, people seem to me odder about money than about even their amours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Home, home -- a few small rooms, stiflingly over-inhabited by a man, by a periodically teeming woman, by a rabble of boys and girls of all ages. No air, no space; an understerilized prison; darkness, disease, and smells."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Only times and places, only names and ghosts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Defined in psychological terms, a fanatic is a man who consciously over-compensates a secret doubt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Ultimate Reality is not clearly and immediately apprehended except by those who have made themselves loving, pure in heart and poor in spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Words play an enormous part in our lives and are therefore deserving of the closest study."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: It isn\u2019t only art that is incompatible with happiness, it\u2019s also science. Science is dangerous, we have to keep it most carefully chained and muzzled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: There are so many intellectual and moral angels battling for rationalism, good citizenship, and pure spirituality; so many and such eminent ones, so very vocal and authoritative! The poor devil in man needs all the support and advocacy he can get. The artist is his natural champion. When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The snapshots had become almost as dim as memories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Given a fair chance, human beings can govern themselves, and govern themselves better"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: It is delightful to read on the spot the impressions and opinions of tourists who visited a hundred years ago, in the vehicles and with the aesthetic prejudices of the period, the places which you are visiting now. The voyage ceases to be a mere tour through space; you travel through time and thought as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The gods are just. No doubt. But their code of law is dictated, in the last resort, by the people who organize society; Providence takes its cue from men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: For particulars, as everyone knows, make for virtue and happiness; generalities are intellectually necessary evils. Not philosophers but fretsawyers and stamp collectors compose the backbone of society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: In any race between human numbers and natural resources, time is against us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Along this particular stretch of line no express had ever passed. All the trains--the few that there were--stopped at all the stations. Denis knew the names of those stations by heart. Bole, Tritton, Spavin Delawarr, Knipswich for Timpany, West Bowlby, and, finally, Camlet-on-the-Water."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: I was born wandering between two worlds, one dead, the other powerless to be born, and have made, in a curious way, the worst of both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: If it were not for the intellectual snobs who pay - in solid cash - the arts would perish with their starving practitioners. Let us thank heaven for hypocrisy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Of the significant and pleasurable experiences of life only the simplest are open indiscriminately to all. The rest cannot be had except by those who have undergone a suitable training."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: When an artist deserts to the side of the angels, it is the most odious of treasons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: I have spoken so far only of the blissful visionary experience? But visionary experience is not always blissful. It's sometimes terrible. There is hell as well as heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Chaos and ineptitude are anti-human; but so too is a superlatively efficient government, equipped with all the products of a highly developed technology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden.  At the same time, and no less obviously, it was these flowers, it was anything that I - or rather the blessed Not-I  - cared to look at."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The amelioration of the world cannot be achieved by sacrifices in moments of crisis; it depends on the efforts made and constantly repeated during the humdrum, uninspiring periods, which separate one crisis from another, and of which normal lives mainly consist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Culture is like the sum of special knowledge that accumulates in any large united family and is the common property of all its members. When we of the great Culture Family meet, we exchange reminiscences about Grandfather Homer, and that awful old Dr. Johnson, and Aunt Sappho, and poor Johnny Keats."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: \u200e\"But that's the price we have to pay for stability. You've got to choose between happiness and what people used to call high art. We've sacrificed the high art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The innocence of those who grind the faces of the poor, but refrain from pinching the bottoms of their neighbour's wives! The innocence of Ford, the innocence of Rockefeller! The nineteenth century was the Age of Innocence--that sort of innocence. With the result that we're now almost ready to say that a man is seldom more innocently employed than when making love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Every notable advance in technique or organization has to be paid for, and in most cases the debit is more or less equivalent to the credit. Except of course when it's more than equivalent, as it has been with universal education, for example, or wireless, or these damned aeroplanes. In which case, of course, your progress is a step backwards and downwards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Happiness is like coke \u2014 something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Pure Spirit, one hundred degrees proof - that's a drink that only the most hardened contemplation-guzzlers indulge in. Bodhisattvas dilute their Nirvana with equal parts of love and work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow such a marvelous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: For what we think and feel and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and our viscera."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: God in the safe and Ford on the shelves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Civilization is sterilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Now, a corpse, poor thing, is an untouchable and the process of decay is, of all pieces of bad manners, the vulgarest imaginable. For a corpse is, by definition, a person absolutely devoid of savoir vivre."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Where beauty is worshipped for beauty's sake as a goddess, independent of and superior to morality and philosophy, the most horrible putrefaction is apt to set in. The lives of the aesthetes are the far from edifying commentary on the religion of beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: A life-worshipper's philosophy is comprehensive. He is at one moment a positivist and at another a mystic: now haunted by the thought of death and now a Dionysian child of nature; now a pessimist and now, with a change of lover or liver or even the weather, an exuberant believer that God's in his heaven and all's right with the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children; sometimes like the noise of lambs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Nonsense is an assertion of man's spiritual freedom in spite of all the oppressions of circumstance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Unless we choose to decentralize and to use applied science, not as the end to which human beings are to be made the means, but as the means to producing a race of free individuals, we have only two alternatives to choose from: either a number of national"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Cleanliness is next to fordliness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: But a priest's life is not supposed to be well-rounded; it is supposed to be one-pointed - a compass, not a weathercock."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: When one individual comes into intimate contact with another, she\u2014or he, of course, as the case may be\u2014must almost inevitably receive or inflict suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Henri IV's feet and armpits enjoyed an international reputation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: They're old; they're about God hundreds of years ago. Not about God now\" \"But God doesn't change\" \"Men do though"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: In life, man proposes, God disposes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: One of the great attractions of patriotism"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: I will have no Parsons around me but such as drink deep, ride to Hounds and caress the Wives and Daughters of their Parishioners.A Virtuous Parson does nothing to test or exercise the Faith of his Flock."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north-east, east, south-east, south, south-south-west; then paused, and after a few seconds, turned as unhurriedly back towards the left. South-south-west, south, south-east, east."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The natural rhythm of human life is routine punctuated by orgies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: It is in the social sphere, in the realm of politics and economics, that the Will to Order becomes really dangerous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: A competent portraitist knows how to imply the profile in the full face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The Savage interrupted him. \"But isn't it natural to feel there's a God?\" \n\"You might as well ask if it's natural to do up one's trousers with zippers,\" said the Controller sarcastically. \"You remind me of another of those old fellows called Bradley. He defined philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believed anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them. Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons \u2013 that's philosophy. People believe in God because they've been conditioned to.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Drinking can not be sacramentalised except in religions which set no store on decorum. The worship of Dionysos or the Celtic god of beer was a loud and disorderly affair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: And along with indifference to space, there was an even more complete indifference to time. \"There seems to be plenty of it\", was all I would answer when the investigator asked me to say what I felt about time. Plenty of it, but exactly how much was entirely irrelevant. I could, of course, have looked at my watch but my watch I knew was in another universe. My actual experience had been, was still, of an indefinite duration. Or alternatively, of a perpetual present made up of one continually changing apocalypse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Asceticism, it is evident, has a double motivation. If men and women torment their bodies, it is not only because they hope in this way to atone for past sins and avoid future punishments; it is also because they long to visit the mind's antipodes and do some visionary sightseeing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Happiness has got to be paid for. You're paying for it, Mr. Watson\u2013paying because you happen to be too much interested in beauty. I was too much interested in truth; I paid too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: A large city cannot be experientially known; its life is too manifold for any individual to be able to participate in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Wild inside; raging, writhing\u2014yes, \"writhing\" was the word, writhing with desire. But outwardly he was hopelessly tame; outwardly\u2014baa, baa, baa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: From the internal reality, by which I means the totality of psychological experiences, it [science] actually separates us. Art, for example, deals with many more aspects of this internal reality than does science, which confines itself deliberately and by convention to the study of one very limited class of experiences the experiences of sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Our conviction that the world is meaningless is due in part to the fact (discussed in a later paragraph) that the philosophy of meaningless lends itself very effectively to furthering the ends of political and erotic passion; in part to a genuine intellectual error - the error of identifying the world of science, a world from which all meaning has deliberately been excluded, with ultimate reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. The process, it seemed, was reversible. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Work is prayer. Work is also stink. Therefore stink is prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Primroses and landscapes, he pointed out, have one grave defect: they are gratuitous. A love of nature keeps no factories busy. It was decided to abolish the love of nature, at any rate among the lower classes. . . . it was essential that they should keep on going to the country, even though they hated it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Seated upon the convex mound Of one vast kidney, Jonah prays And sings his canticles and hymns, Making the hollow vault resound God's goodness and mysterious ways, Till the great fish spouts music as he swims."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Dying is almost the least spiritual of our acts, more strictly carnal even than the act of love. There are Death Agonies that are like the strainings of the Costive at stool."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: A million million spermatozoa, All of them alive: Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah Dare hope to survive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: The history of any nation follows an undulatory course. In the trough of the wave we find more or less complete anarchy; but the crest is not more or less complete Utopia, but only, at best, a tolerably humane, partially free and fairly just society that invariably carries within itself the seeds of its own decadence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Religion is always a patron of the arts, but its taste is by no means impeccable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Each person is at each moment capable of remembering all that has ever happened to him and of perceiving everything that is happening everywhere in the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: he had been making an unsuccessful effort to write something about nothing in particular"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aldous Huxley: Applied Science is a conjuror, whose bottomless hat yields impartially the softest of Angora rabbits and the most petrifying of Medusas."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The first action to be taken is to pull ourselves together. If we are going to be destroyed by an atomic bomb, let that bomb, when it comes, find us doing sensible and human things -- praying, working, teaching, reading, listening to music, bathing the children, playing tennis, chatting to our friends over a pint and a game of darts -- not huddled together like frightened sheep and thinking about bombs."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: One road leads home and a thousand roads lead into the wilderness."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: One of the most cowardly things ordinary people do is to shut their eyes to facts."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A sign of a culture that has lost its faith - Moral collapse follows upon spiritual collapse."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, 'Thy will be done,' and those to whom God says, 'All right, then, have it your way.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Don't let your happiness depend on something you may lose."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There is no neutral ground in the universe. Every square inch, every split second is claimed by God, and counterclaimed by Satan."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I didn\u2019t go to religion to make me happy. I always knew a bottle of Port would do that. If you want a religion to make you feel really comfortable, I certainly don\u2019t recommend Christianity."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Those who do not think about their own sins make up for it by thinking incessantly about the sins of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If you think of this world as a place intended simply for our happiness, you find it quite intolerable: think of it as a place of training and correction and it's not so bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: He told people that their sins were forgiven, and never waited to consult all the other people whom their sins had undoubtedly injured. He unhesitatingly behaved as if He was the party chiefly concerned, the person chiefly offended in all offenses. This makes sense only if He really was God whose laws are broken and whose love is wounded in every sin."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A proud man is always looking down on things and people; and, of course, as long as you are looking down, you cannot see something that is above you."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak. We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us, like an ignorant child who wants to go on making mud pies in a slum because he cannot imagine what is meant by the offer of a holiday at the sea. We are far too easily pleased."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The moment you wake up each morning, all your wishes and hopes for the day rush at you like wild animals. And the first job each morning consists in shoving it all back; in listening to that other voice, taking that other point of view, letting that other, larger, stronger, quieter life come flowing in."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If a thing is free to be good it is also free to be bad. And free will is what has made evil possible. Why, then, did God give them free will? Because free will, though it makes evil possible, is also the only thing that makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Enemy-occupied territory---that is what this world is. Christianity is the story of how the rightful king has landed, you might say landed in disguise, and is calling us to take part in a great campaign of sabotage."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: In Gethsemane the holiest of all petitioners prayed three times that a certain cup might pass from Him. It did not."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We must picture Hell as a state where everyone is perpetually concerned about his own dignity and advancement, where everyone has a grievance, and where everyone lives the deadly serious passions of envy, self-importance, and resentment."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You must make your choice: either this man was, and is, the Son of God, or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool, you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us. He did not intend to."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Do not waste time bothering whether you \u2018love\u2019 your neighbor; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Everything is as good or bad as our opinion makes it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The Christian does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There are two kinds of love: we love wise and kind and beautiful people because we need them, but we love (or try to love) stupid and disagreeable people because they need us. This second kind is the more divine because that is how God loves us: not because we are lovable but because He is love, not because He needs to receive but He delights to give."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: To have Faith in Christ means, of course, trying to do all that He says. There would be no sense in saying you trusted a person if you would not take his advice."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You cannot make men good by law: and without good men you cannot have a good society."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You never know what you can do until you try, and very few try unless they have to."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Friendship is born at that moment when one man says to another: \"What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .\""
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I think that if God forgives us we must forgive ourselves. Otherwise, it is almost like setting up ourselves as a higher tribunal than Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The great thing to remember is that though our feelings come and go God's love for us does not."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For pride is spiritual cancer: it eats up the very possibility of love, or contentment, or even common sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life. If I had to give a piece of advice to a young man about a place to live, I think I should say, 'sacrifice almost everything to live where you can be near your friends.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God knows our situation; He will not judge us as if we had no difficulties to overcome. What matters is the sincerity and perseverance of our will to overcome them."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Christianity asserts that every individual human being is going to live for ever, and this must be either true or false. Now there are a good many things which would not be worth bothering about if I were going to live only seventy years, but which I had better bother about very seriously if I am going to live for ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You find out the strength of a wind by trying to walk against it, not by lying down."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It may be hard for an egg to turn into a bird: it would be a jolly sight harder for it to learn to fly while remaining an egg. We are like eggs at present. And you cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: What seem our worst prayers may really be, in God's eyes, our best. Those, I mean, which are least supported by devotional feeling. For these may come from a deeper level than feeling. God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Never, never pin your whole faith on any human being: not if he is the best and wisest in the whole world. There are lots of nice things you can do with sand; but do not try building a house on it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Our temptation is to look eagerly for the minimum that will be accepted. We are in fact very like honest but reluctant taxpayers."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Since it is so likely that (children) will meet cruel enemies, let them at least have heard of brave knights and heroic courage. Otherwise you are making their destiny not brighter but darker."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If you have really handed yourself over to Him, it must follow that you are trying to obey Him. But trying in a new way, a less worried way."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man's outward actions \u2013 if he continues to be just a snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before \u2013 then I think we must suspect that his 'conversion' was largely imaginary."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next. It is since Christians have largely ceased to think of the other world that they have become so ineffective in this."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Every story of conversion is the story of a blessed defeat."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want you....Hand over the whole natural self, all the desires which you think innocent as well as the ones you think wicked- the whole outfit. I will give you a new self instead. In fact, I will give you myself: my own will shall become yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man who is enabled to repent."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The descent to hell is easy and those who begin by worshipping power, soon worship evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Of course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is). What is going on in you at present is simply the beginning of the treatment. Continue seeking with cheerful seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The Christian is in a different position from other people who are trying to be good. They hope, by being good, to please God if there is one; or \u2014 if they think there is not \u2014 at least they hope to deserve approval from good men. But the Christian thinks any good he does comes from the Christ-life inside him. He does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because He loves us; just as the roof of a greenhouse does not attract the sun because it is bright, but becomes bright because the sun shines on it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: He died not for men, but for each man. If each man had been the only man made, He would have done no less."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You cannot love a fellow creature fully till you love God."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God can show Himself as He really is only to real men. And that means not simply to men who are individually good, but to men who are united together in a body, loving one another, helping one another, showing Him to one another. For that is what God meant humanity to be like; like players in one band, or organs in one body."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And out of that hopeless attempt has come nearly all that we call human history\u2014money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery\u2014the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Of Course God does not consider you hopeless. If He did, He would not be moving you to seek Him (and He obviously is)... Continue seeking Him with seriousness. Unless He wanted you, you would not be wanting Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And there, right in the middle of it, I find 'Forgive us our sins as we forgive those that sin against us.' There is no slightest suggestion that we are offered forgiveness on any other terms. It is made perfectly clear that if we do not forgive we shall not be forgiven."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Aristotle said that some people were only fit to be slaves. I do not contradict him. But I reject slavery because I see no men fit to be masters."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Democracy demands that little men should not take big ones too seriously; it dies when it is full of little men who think they are big themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Love as distinct from \"being in love\" is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The perfect church service would be one we were almost unaware of. Our attention would have been on God."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations - these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat. But it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit - immortal horrors or everlasting splendors. This does not mean that we are to be perpetually solemn. We must play. But our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: In Science we have been reading only the notes to a poem; in Christianity we find the poem itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Whenever we find that our religious life is making us feel that we are good - above all, that we are better than someone else - I think we may be sure that we are being acted on, not by God, but by the devil."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The question is not what we intended ourselves to be, but what He intended us to be when He made us."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God is the food our spirits were designed to feed on."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I know now, Lord, why you utter no answer. You are yourself the answer. Before your face questions die away. What other answer would suffice?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Jesus produced mainly three effects: hatred, terror, adoration. There was no trace of people expressing mild approval."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The homemaker has the ultimate career. All other careers exist for one purpose only - and that is to support the ultimate career."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Shut your mouth; open your eyes and ears."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We may ignore, but we can nowhere evade the presence of God. The world is crowded with Him. He walks everywhere incognito."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line. What was I comparing this universe with when I called it unjust?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk of those things, except perhaps as a joke. Every one there is filled full with what we should call goodness as a mirror is filled with light. But they do not call it goodness. They do not call it anything. They are not thinking of it. They are too busy looking at the source from which it comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Christianity is a fighting religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If God had granted all the silly prayers I've made in my life, where should I be now?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You thought you were being made into a decent little cottage but He is building a palace. He intends to come & live in it Himself"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Prosperity knits a man to the world. He feels that he is finding his place in it, while really it is finding its place in him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If God thinks this state of war in the universe is a price worth paying for free will--that is, for making a live world in which creatures can do real good or harm and something of real importance of real importance can happen, instead of a toy world which only moves when He pulls the strings--then we may take it it is worth paying."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: But the great thing to remember is that, though our feelings come and go, His love for us does not. It is not wearied by our sins, or our indifference; and, therefore, it is quite relentless in its determination that we shall be cured of those sins, at whatever cost to us, at whatever cost to Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Suspicion often creates what it suspects."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The monstrosity of sexual intercourse outside marriage is that those who indulge in it are trying to isolate one kind of union (the sexual) from all the other kinds of union which were intended to go along with it and make up the total union."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: This world is a great sculptor's shop. We are the statues and there is a rumor going round the shop that some of us are some day going to come to life."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The Psalmists in telling everyone to praise God are doing what all men do when they speak of what they care about."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Pain is God's megaphone to rouse a deaf world."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For most of us the prayer in Gethsemane is the only model. Removing mountains can wait."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: To make Christianity a private affair while banishing all privacy is to relegate it to the rainbow's end or the Greek Calends."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is better to forget about yourself altogether."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Without the aid of trained emotions the intellect is powerless against the animal organism."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When we are lost in the woods, the sight of a signpost is a great matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I gave in, and admitted that God was God."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person's ultimate good as far as it can be obtained."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I believe that there are too many practitioners in the church, who are not believers."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Until you have given up yourself to Him, you will not have a real self."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: No philosophical theory which I have yet come across is a radical improvement on the words of Genesis, that 'In the beginning God made Heaven and Earth'."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The world is so much larger than I thought. I thought we went along paths--but it seems there are no paths. The going itself is the path."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For the Christian, there are, strictly speaking, no chances. A secret Master of the Ceremonies has been at work."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is wonderful what you can do when you have to."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: How difficult it is to avoid having a special standard for oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The Christians are right: it is Pride which has been the chief cause of misery in every nation and every family since the world began."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It was when I was happiest that I longed most...The sweetest thing in all my life has been the longing...to find the place where all the beauty came from."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Before we can be cured, we must want to be cured."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. I have heard others, and I have heard myself, recounting cruelties and falsehoods committed in boyhood as if they were no concern of the present speaker's, and even with laughter. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin. The guilt is washed out not by time but by repentance and the blood of Christ: if we have repented these early sins we should remember the price of our forgiveness and be humble."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We were made not primarily that we may love God, but that God may love us."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact you must give it to no one, not even an animal."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If devils exist, their first aim is to give you an anesthetic -- to put you off your guard. Only if that fails, do you become aware of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If minds are wholly dependent on brains and brains on biochemistry, and biochemistry (in the long run) on the meaningless flux of the atoms, I cannot understand how the thought of those minds should have any more significance than the sound of the wind in the trees."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When we lose one blessing, another is often most unexpectedly given in its place."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If Christianity is untrue, then no honest man will want to believe it, however helpful it might be; if it is true, every honest man will want to believe it, even if it gives him no help at all"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Good people know about both good and evil: bad people do not know about either."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A cold, self-righteous prig who goes regularly to church may be far nearer to Hell than a prostitute."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We 'have all we want' is a terrible saying when 'all' does not include God. We find God an interruption. As St. Augustine says somewhere, 'God wants to give us something, but cannot, because our hands are full - there's nowhere for Him to put it.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Perhaps your own reiterated cries deafen you to the voice you hoped to hear"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When you argue against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Where, except in the present, can the eternal be met?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Fallen man is not simply an imperfect creature who needs improvement: he is a rebel who must lay down his arms."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God became man to turn creatures into sons: not simply to produce better men of the old kind but to produce a new kind of man. It is not like teaching a horse to jump better and better but like turning a horse into a winged creature."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is when we notice the dirt that God is most present in us; it is the very sign of His presence."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A man can eat his dinner without understanding exactly how food nourishes him. A man can accept what Christ has done without knowing how it works: indeed, he certainly would not know how it works until he has accepted it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin. But mere time does nothing either to the fact or to the guilt of a sin."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When they have really learned to love their neighbours as themselves, they will be allowed to love themselves as their neighbours."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A man can't be taken to hell, or sent to hell: you can only get there on your own steam."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: How monotonously alike all the great tyrants and conquerors have been: how gloriously different are the saints."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There is but one good; that is God. Everything else is good when it looks to Him and bad when it turns from Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Our experience is coloured through and through by books and plays and the cinema, and it takes patience and skill to disentangle the things we have really learned from life for ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is only our bad temper that we put down to being tired or worried or hungry; we put our good temper down to ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I'd sooner live among people who don't cheat at cards than among people who are earnest about not cheating at cards."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Theocracy is the worst of all governments. If we must have a tyrant, a robber baron is far better than an inquisitor. The baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity at some point be sated; and since he dimly knows he is doing wrong he may possibly repent. But the inquisitor who mistakes his own cruelty and lust of power and fear for the voice of Heaven will torment us infinitely because he torments us with the approval of his own conscience and his better impulses appear to him as temptations."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You can put this another way by saying that while in other sciences the instruments you use are things external to yourself (things like microscopes and telescopes), the instrument through which you see God is your whole self. And if a man's self is not kept clean and bright, his glimpse of God will be blurred - like the Moon seen through a dirty telescope. That is why horrible nations have horrible religions: they have been looking at God through a dirty lens."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Theology is like a map. Merely learning and thinking about the Christian doctrines, if you stop there, is less real and less exciting than the sort of thing my friend got in the desert. Doctrines are not God: they are only a kind of map. But that map is based on the experience of hundreds of people who really were in touch with God--experiences compared with which many thrills of pious feelings you and I are likely to get on our own are very elementary and very confused. And secondly, if you want to get any further you must use the map."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: These, then, are the two points I wanted to make. First, that human beings, all over the earth, have this curious idea that they ought to behave in a certain way, and cannot really get rid of it. Secondly, that they do not in fact behave in that way. They know the Law of Nature; they break it. These two facts are the foundation of all clear thinking about ourselves and the universe we live in."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Authority exercised with humility, and obedience accepted with delight are the very lines along which our spirits live."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The proper aim of giving is to put the recipient in a state where he no longer needs our gift."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Do not imagine that if you meet a really humble man he will be what most people call \"humble\" nowadays: he will not be a sort of greasy, smarmy person, who is always telling you that, of course, he is a nobody. Probably all you will think about him is that he seemed a cheerful, intelligent chap who took a real interest in what you said to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: With my mother's death all settled happiness, all that was tranquil and reliable, disappeared from my life. There was to be much fun, many pleasures, many stabs of Joy; but no more of the old security. It was sea and islands now; the great continent had sunk like Atlantis."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: One always feel better when one has made up one's mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We must lay before him what is in us; not what ought to be in us."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A man is never so proud as when striking an attitude of humility."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Humans are amphibians - half spirit and half animal. As spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The way for a person to develop a style is (a) to know exactly what he wants to say, and (b) to be sure he is saying exactly that."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: But Pride always means enmity -- it is enmity. And not only enmity between man and man, but enmity to God."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that.... The real job of every moral teacher is to keep on bringing us back, time after time, to the old simple principles which we are all so anxious not to see; like bringing a horse back and back to the fence it has refused to jump or bringing a child back and back to the bit in its lesson that it wants to shirk."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is hard to have patience with people who say 'There is no death' or 'Death doesn't matter.' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Safety and happiness can only come from individuals, classes, and nations being honest and fair and kind to each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Forgiving and being forgiven are two names for the same thing. The important thing is that a discord has been resolved."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The first demand any work of art makes upon us is to surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Jesus Christ did not say, 'Go into the world and tell the world that it is quite right.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The great thing with unhappy times is to take them bit by bit, hour by hour, like an illness. It is seldom the present, the exact present, that is unbearable."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I believe in Christianity as I believe the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Certain things, if not seen as lovely or detestable, are not being correctly seen at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When all the suns and nebulae have passed away, each one of you will still be alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The death of a beloved is an amputation."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I can't imagine a man really enjoying a book and reading it only once."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When a man is getting better he understands more and more clearly the evil that is still left in him. When a man is getting worse he understands his own badness less and less."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Not my idea of God, but God. Not my idea of H., but H. Yes, and also not my idea of my neighbour, but my neighbour. For don't we often make this mistake as regards people who are still alive -- who are with us in the same room? Talking and acting not to the man himself but to the picture -- almost the pr\u00e9cis -- we've made of him in our own minds? And he has to depart from it pretty widely before we even notice the fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Love may forgive all infirmities and love still in spite of them: but Love cannot cease to will their removal."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: In the same way a Christian is not a man who never goes wrong, but a man is enabled to repent and pick himself up and begin over again after each stumble--because the Christ-life is inside him, repairing him all the time, enabling him to repeat (in some degree) the kind of voluntary death which Christ Himself carried out.\" - Mere Christianity"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I have seen great beauty of spirit in some who were great sufferers. I have seen men, for the most part, grow better not worse with advancing years, and I have seen the last illness produce treasures of fortitude and meekness from most unpromising subjects."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The typical expression of opening Friendship would be something like, 'What? You too? I thought I was the only one!"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: An author should never conceive himself as bringing into existence beauty or wisdom which did not exist before, but simply and solely as trying to embody in terms of his own art some reflection of eternal Beauty and Wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We are told that Christ was killed for us, that His death has washed out our sins, and that by dying He disabled death itself. That is the formula. That is Christianity. That is what has to be believed."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: He cannot \"tempt\" to virtue as we do to vice. He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand; and if only the will to walk is really there He is pleased even with their stumbles."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The only things we can keep are the things we freely give to God. What we try to keep for ourselves is just what we are sure to lose."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I may repeat 'Do as you would be done by' till I am black in the face, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbor as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbor as myself till I learn to love God;and I cannot learn to love God except by learning to obey him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There are no ordinary people.. it is immortals whom we joke with, work with, marry, snub, and exploit."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We need not despair even in our worst, for our failures are forgiven. The only fatal thing is to sit down content with anything less than perfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen of Narnia."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The Moral Law tells us the tune we have to play: our instincts are merely the keys."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It takes all sorts to make a world; or a church. This may be even truer of a church. If grace perfects nature it must expand all our natures into the full richness of the diversity which God intended when He made them, and Heaven will display far more variety than Hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Child, to say the very thing you really mean, the whole of it, nothing more or less or other than what you really mean; that's the whole art and joy of words."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Well, you know how it feels if you begin hoping for something that you want desperately badly; you almost fight against the hope because it is too good to be true; you've been disappointed so often before."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If things are real, they're there all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Try to exclude the possibility of suffering which the order of nature and the existence of free-wills involve, and you find that you have excluded life itself"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and... God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Atheism turns out to be too simple. If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There is a story about a schoolboy who was asked what he thought God was like. He replied that, as far as he could make out, God was 'the sort of person who is always snooping around to see if anyone is enjoying himself and then trying to stop it.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You must see that if two things are alike, then it is a further question whether the first is copied from the second, or the second from the first, or both from a third."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is after you have realized that there is a real Moral Law, and a Power behind the law, and that you have broken that law and put yourself wrong with that Power -- it is after all this, and not a moment sooner, that Christianity begins to talk."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: No great wisdom can be reached without sacrifice."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Friendship, then, like the other natural loves, is unable to save itself. In reality, because it is spiritual and therefore faces a subtler enemy, it must, even more wholeheartedly than they, invoke the divine protection if it hopes to remain sweet. For consider how narrow its true path is. Is must not become what the people call a \"mutual admiration society\"; yet if it is not full of mutual admiration, of Appreciative love, it is not Friendship at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I need Christ, not something that resembles Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If Christianity is only one more bit of good advice, then Christianity is of no importance."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The harder you tried not to think, the more you thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You can't get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Crying is all right in its way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The humans live in time but our Enemy (God) destines them for eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If you want to get warm you must stand near the fire: if you want to be wet you must get into the water. If you want joy, power, peace, eternal life, you must get close to, or even into, the thing that has them. They are not a sort of prize which God could, if He chose, just hand out to anyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: What would really satisfy us would be a God who said of anything we happened to like doing, 'What does it matter so long as they are contented?'"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Since I am I, I must make an act of self-surrender, however small or however easy, in living to God rather than to my self."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If you are a Christian, you are free to think that all these religions, even the queerest ones, contain at least some hint of the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is natural for us to wish that God had designed for us a less glorious and less arduous destiny; but then we are wishing not for more love but for less."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Something of God... flows into us from the blue of the sky, the taste of honey, the delicious embrace of water whether cold or hot, and even from sleep itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Precisely because we cannot predict the moment, we must be ready at all moments."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The Christian life is simply a process of having your natural self changed into a Christ self, and that this process goes on very far inside. One's most private wishes, one's point of view, are the things that have to be changed."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If you look for truth, you may find comfort in the end; if you look for comfort you will not get either comfort or truth only soft soap and wishful thinking to begin, and in the end, despair."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The old field of space, time, matter, and the senses is to be weeded, dug, and sown for a new crop. We may be tired of that old field: God is not."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We have a strange illusion that mere time cancels sin."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Because we love something else more than this world, we love even this world more than those who know no other."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: All that is not eternal is eternally out of date."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word \"love\", and look on things as if man were the centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. \"Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.\" We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the divine love may rest \"well pleased\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The Life-Force is a sort of tame God. You can switch it on when you want, but it will not bother you. All the thrills of religion and none of the cost. Is the Life-Force the greatest achievement of wishful thinking the world has yet seen?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Besides being complicated, reality, in my experience, is usually odd. It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If you are a Christian you do not have to believe that all the other religions are simply wrong all through. If you are an atheist you do have to believe that the main point in all the religions of the whole world is simply one huge mistake."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There have been men before who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God himself, as if the good Lord had nothing to do but to exist. There have been some who were so preoccupied with spreading Christianity that they never gave a thought to Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The devil loves 'curing' a small fault by giving you a great one."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You can be good for the mere sake of goodness; you cannot be bad for the mere sake of badness. You can do a kind action when you are not feeling kind and when it gives you no pleasure, simply because kindness is right; but no one ever did a cruel action simply because cruelty is wrong - only because cruelty is pleasant or useful to him, In other words, badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth of falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you. It is easy to say you believe a rope to be strong and sound as long as you are merely using it to cord a box. But suppose you had to hang by that rope over a precipice. Wouldn't you then first discover how much you really trusted it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Death opens a door out of a little, dark room (that's all the life we have known before it) into a great, real place where the true sun shines and we shall meet."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I must keep alive in myself the desire for my true country, which I shall not find till after death; I must never let it get snowed under or turned aside; I must make it the main object of life to press on to that other country and to help others to do the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For a long time I used to think this a silly, straw-splitting distinction: how could you hate what a man did and not hate the man? But years later it occurred to me that there was one man to whom I had been doing this all my life - namely myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If you are really a product of a materialistic universe, how is it that you don't feel at home there?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Morality is a mountain which we cannot climb by our own efforts; and if we could we should only perish in the ice and unbreathable air of the summit, lacking those wings with which the rest of the journey has to be accomplished. For it is from there that the real ascent begins. The ropes and axes are 'done away' and the rest is a matter of flying."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary, He told us to be not only \"as harmless as doves,\" but also \"as wise as serpents.\" He wants a child's heart, but a grown-up's head."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A man can no more diminish God's glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, 'darkness' on the walls of his cell."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You Too? I thought I was the only one."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When you come to knowing God, the initiative lies on His side. If He does not show Himself, nothing you can do will enable you to find Him. And, in fact, He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others\u2014not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to show Himself to a man whose whole mind and character are in the wrong condition. Just as sunlight, though it has no favourites, cannot be reflected in a dusty mirror as clearly as in a clean one."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When you are not feeling particularly friendly but know you ought to be, the best thing you can do, very often, is to put on a friendly manner and behave as if you were a nicer person than you actually are. And in a few minutes, as we have all noticed, you will be really feeling friendlier than you were."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The sight of the huge world put mad ideas into me, as if I could wander away, wander forever, see strange and beautiful things, one after the other..."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Do not dare not to dare."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The happiness which God designs for His higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to Him and to each other in an ecstasy of love and delight compared with which the most rapturous love between a man and a woman on this earth is mere milk and water. And for that they must be free."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Whatever you do, He will make good of it. But not the good He had prepared for you if you had obeyed him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Put first things first and we get second things thrown in: put second things first & we lose both first and second things."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Anyone who is honestly trying to be a Christian will soon find his intelligence being sharpened: one of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself. That is why an uneducated believer like Bunyan was able to write a book that has astonished the whole world."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You never know how much you really believe anything until its truth or falsehood becomes a matter of life and death to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I can imagine no man who will look with more horror on the End than a conscientious revolutionary who has, in a sense sincerely, been justifying cruelties and injustices inflicted on millions of his contemporaries by the benefits which he hopes to confer on future generations: generations who, as one terrible moment now reveals to him, were never going to exist. Then he will see the massacres, the faked trials, the deportations, to be all ineffaceably real, an essential part, his part, in the drama that has just ended: while the future Utopia had never been anything but a fantasy."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: That fierce imprisonment in the self is but the obverse of the self-giving which is absolute reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If they are wrong they need your prayers all the more; and if they are your enemies, then you are under orders to pray for them. That is one of the rules common to the whole house."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Do not be deceived, Wormwood. Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring, but still intending, to do our Enemy's will, looks round upon a universe from which every trace of Him seems to have vanished, and asks why he has been forsaken, and still obeys."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I pray because I can't help myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Virtue - even attempted virtue - brings light; indulgence brings fog."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The more often he feels without acting, the less he will be able ever to act, and, in the long run, the less he will be able to feel."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There is a kind of happiness and wonder that makes you serious. It is too good to waste on jokes."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A dragon has just flown over the tree-tops and lighted on the beach. Yes, I am afraid it is between us and the ship. And arrows are no use against dragons. And they're not at all afraid of fire.\" \"With your Majesty's leave-\" began Reepicheep. \"No, Reepicheep,\" said the King very firmly, \"you are not to attempt a single combat with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The value of the individual does not lie in him. He receives it by union with Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Now God, who has made us, knows what we are and that our happiness lies in Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It's not a question of God 'sending' us to Hell. In each of us there is something growing up which will of itself be Hell unless it is nipped in the bud."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When you go to church you are really listening-in to the secret wireless from out friends: that is why the enemy is so anxious to prevent us from going. He does it by playing on our conceit and laziness and intellectual snobbery."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The enemy will not see you vanish into God's company without an effort to reclaim you."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: They have chosen cunning instead of belief. Their prison is only in their minds, yet they are in that prison; and so afraid of being taken in that they cannot be taken out."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Laziness means more work in the long run."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: This moment contains all moments."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Readers are advised to remember that the devil is a liar."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Only a real risk tests the reality of a belief."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: All human beings pass away. Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose. If love is to be a blessing, not a misery, it must be for the only beloved who will never pass away."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Vanity is really the least bad and most pardonable sort. The vain person wants praise, applause, admiration too much and is always angling for it. It is a fault, but a childlike and even (in an odd way) a humble fault. It shows that you are not yet completely contented with your own admiration. You value other people enough to want them to look at you. You are in fact still human."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You understand sleep when you are awake, not while you are sleeping.  You can see mistakes in arithmetic when your mind is working properly; while you are making them you cannot see them.  Good people know about both bad and evil; bad people do not know about either."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Mere improvement is not redemption, though redemption always improves people"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Christianity does not want us to reduce by one atom the hatred we feel for cruelty and treachery. We ought to hate them. Not one word of what we have said about them needs to be unsaid. But it does want us to hate them in the same way in which we hate things in ourselves: being sorry that the man should have done such things, and hoping, if it is anyway possible, that somehow, sometime, somewhere he can be cured and made human again."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Every Christian would agree that a man's spiritual health is exactly proportional to his love for God."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We forgive, we mortify our resentment; a week later some chain of thought carries us back to the original offence and we discover the old resentment blazing away as if nothing had been done about it at all. We need to forgive our brother seventy times seven not only for 490 offences but for one offence."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Some people talk as if meeting the gaze of absolute goodness would be fun. They need to think again."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We are half-hearted creatures, fooling about with drink and sex and ambition when infinite joy is offered us."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Most people, if they had really learned to look into their own hearts, would know that they do want, and want acutely, something that cannot be had in this world. There are all sorts of things in this world that offer to give it to you, but they never quite keep their promise."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love them."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling\u2026the question should never be: \u2018Do I like that kind of service?\u2019 but \u2018Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Love is the great conqueror of lust."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You cannot go on indefinitely being just an ordinary, decent egg. We must be hatched or go bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God will look to every soul like its first love because He is its first love."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Disobedience to conscience makes conscience blind."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Her absence is like the sky, spread over everything. But no, that is not quite accurate. There is one place where her absence comes locally home to me, and it is a place I can't avoid. I mean my own body. It had such a different importance while it was the body of H.'s lover. Now it's like an empty house."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Once the feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There have been times when I think we do not desire heaven but more often I find myself wondering whether, in our heart of hearts, we have ever desired anything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Only those who try to resist temptation know how strong it is. ... We never find out the strength of the evil impulse inside us until we try to fight it: and Christ, because He was the only man who never yielded to temptation, is also the only man who knows to the full what temptation means\u2014the only complete realist."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When we want to be something other than the thing God wants us to be, we must be wanting what, in fact, will not make us happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for a move. It did very well in its place, but it looks shabby or tawdry or grotesque in the sunshine."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We want to know not how we should pray if we were perfect but how we should pray being as we now are ... It is no use to ask God with factitious earnestness for A when our whole mind is in reality filled with the desire for B. We must lay before Him what is in us, not what ought to be in us."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I want God, not my idea of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: As Christians we are tempted to make unnecessary concessions to those outside the faith. We give in too much. Now, I don't mean that we should run the risk of making a nuisance of ourselves by witnessing at improper times, but there comes a time when we must show that we disagree."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Miracles do not, in fact, break the laws of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, and intellectually. We need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We have failed to practise ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Christ says, 'Give me all. I don't want so much of your time and so much of your money and so much of your work: I want You.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Christ offers something for nothing: He even offers everything for nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You cannot make men good by law."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When we Christians behave badly, or fail to behave well, we are making Christianity unbelievable to the outside world. The wartime posters told us that Careless Talk costs Lives. It is equally true that Careless Lives cost Talk. Our careless lives set the outer world talking; and we give them grounds for talking in a way that throws doubt on the truth of Christianity itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I dread specialists in power because they are specialists speaking outside of their special subject."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The choice of every lost soul can be expressed in the words \"Better to reign in hell than serve in heaven.\" There is always something they insist on keeping, even at the price of misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Gratitude exclaims, very properly, 'How good of God to give me this.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Some people feel guilty about their anxieties and regard them as a defect of faith but they are afflictions, not sins. Like all afflictions, they are, if we can so take them, our share in the passion of Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The most dangerous thing you can do is to take any one impulse of your own nature and set it up as the thing you ought to follow at all costs. There is not one of them which will not make us into devils if we set it up as an absolute guide. You might think love of humanity in general was safe, but it is not. If you leave out justice you will find yourself breaking agreements and faking evidence in trials \"for the sake of humanity\", and become in the end a cruel and treacherous man."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. To those who knock it is opened."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Before we can be cured we must want to be cured. Those who really wish for help will get it; but for many modern people even the wish is difficult."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You'll never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking what sort of impression you make."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word \"love.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness. And it appears, from all the records, that though He has often rebuked us and condemned us, He has never regarded us with contempt. He has paid us the intolerable compliment of loving us, in the deepest, most tragic, most inexorable sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Part of every misery is, so to speak, the misery's shadow or reflection: the fact that you don't merely suffer but have to keep on thinking about the fact that you suffer. I not only live each endless day in grief, but live each day thinking about living each day in grief."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We do not see into men\u2019s hearts. We cannot judge, and are indeed forbidden to judge."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: What does not satisfy when we find it, was not the thing we were desiring."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I was the lion who forced you to join with Aravis. I was the cat who comforted you among the houses of the dead. I was the lion who drove the jackals from you while you slept. I was the lion who gave the horses the new strength of fear for the last mill so that you should reach King Lune in time. And I was the lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words 'true' or 'false'."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Prostitutes are in no danger of finding their present life so satisfactory that they cannot turn to God: the proud, the avaricious, the self-righteous, are in that danger."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Mere change is not growth. Growth is the synthesis of change and continuity, and where there is no continuity there is no growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: That is why Christians are told not to judge. We see only the results which a man's choices make out of his raw material. But God does not judge him on the raw material at all, but on what he has done with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Grief is like a long valley, a winding valley where any bend may reveal a totally new landscape."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A man does not call a line crooked unless he has some idea of a straight line."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A real desire to believe all the good you can of others and to make others as comfortable as you can will solve most of the problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For the church is not a human society of people united by their natural affinities but the Body of Christ, in which all members, however different, (and He rejoices in their differences and by no means wishes to iron them out) must share the common life, complementing and helping one another precisely by their differences."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Good philosophy must exist, if for no other reason, because bad philosophy needs to be answered."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God is the only comfort, He is also the supreme terror: the thing we most need and the thing we most want to hide from."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Much is expected from those to whom much is given."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Every time you make a choice you are turning the central part of you, the part of you that chooses, into something a little different from what it was before. And taking your life as a whole, with all your innumerable choices, all your life long you are slowly turning this central thing either into a heavenly creature or into a hellish creature..."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: In God there is no hunger that needs to be filled, only plenteousness that desires to give."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Love...is not merely a feeling. It is a deep unity, maintained by the will and deliberately strengthened by habit; reinforced by (in Christian marriages) the grace which both partners ask, and receive, from God. They can have this love for each other even at those moments when they do not like each other; as you love yourself even when you do not like yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: No doubt those who really founded modern science were usually those whose love of truth exceeded their love of power."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: But I will not tell you how long or short the way will be; only that it lies across a river. But do not fear that, for I am the great Bridge Builder."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable. How many hours are in a mile? Is yellow square or round? Probably half the questions we ask - half our great theological and metaphysical problems - are like that."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Beauty is not democratic; she reveals herself more to the few than to the many."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm that yawns between us and reality, is part of our inconsolable secret. And surely, from this point of view, the promise of glory, in the sense described, becomes highly relevant to our deep desire. For glory meant good report with God, acceptance by God, response, acknowledgment, and welcome into the heart of things. The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Pride, on the other hand, is the mother of all sins, and the original sin of lucifer.... An instrument strung, but preferring to play itself because it thinks it knows the tune better than the Musician"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Praise is the mode of love which always has some element of joy in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: All your life an unattainable ecstasy has hovered just beyond the grasp of your consciousness. The day is coming when you will wake to find, beyond all hope, that you have attained it, or else, that it was within your reach and you have lost it forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, 'What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?' and gave the obvious answer: jailers."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God is love, and that love works through men-especially through the whole community of Christians."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Selfishness has never been admired."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God has not been trying an experiment on my faith or love in order to find out their quality. He knew it already. It was I who didn't. In this trial He makes us occupy the dock, the witness box, and the bench all at once. He always knew that my temple was a house of cards. His only way of making me realize the fact was to knock it down."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Obedience is the road to freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Chastity is the most unpopular of the Christian virtues."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Ambition! We must be careful what we mean by it. If it means the desire to get ahead of other people - which is what I think it does mean - then it is bad. If it means simply wanting to do a thing well, then it is good. It isn't wrong for an actor to want to act his part as well as it can possibly be acted, but the wish to have his name in bigger type than the other actors is a bad one."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Obedience is the road to freedom, humility the road to pleasure, unity the road to personality."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You would not have called to me unless I had been calling to you,\" said the Lion."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The doctrine of the Second Coming teaches us that we do not and cannot know when the world drama will end. The curtain may be rung down at any moment: say, before you have finished reading this paragraph."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There are only two kinds of people in the end: those who say to God, \"Thy will be done,\" and those to whom God says, in the end, \"Thy will be done.\" All that are in Hell, choose it. Without that self-choice there could be no Hell. No soul that seriously and constantly desires joy will ever miss it. Those who seek find. Those who knock it is opened."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There have been men before now who got so interested in proving the existence of God that they came to care nothing for God Himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God has infinite attention, infinite leisure to spare for each one of us. He doesn't have to take us in the line. You're as much alone with Him as if you were the only thing He'd ever created."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is the magician's bargain: give up our soul, get power in return. But once our souls, that is, ourselves, have been given up, the power thus conferred will not belong to us. We shall in fact be the slaves and puppets of that to which we have given our souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When you have reached your own room, be kind to those Who have chosen different doors and to those who are still in the hall."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Nothing less will shake a man \u2014 or at any rate a man like me \u2014 out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Safe?\u201d said Mr. Beaver; \u201cdon\u2019t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? \u2018Course he isn\u2019t safe. But he\u2019s good. He\u2019s the King, I tell you."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Many things, such as loving, going to sleep, or behaving unaffectedly - are done worst when we try hardest to do them."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The Glory of God, and, as our only means of glorifying Him, the salvation of human souls, is the real business of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Joy is the serious business of heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We make men without chests and expect from them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The New Testament writers speak as if Christ's achievement in rising from the dead was the first event of its kind in the whole history of the universe. He is the 'first fruits,' the pioneer of life,' He has forced open a door that has been locked since the death of the first man. He has met, fought, and beaten the King of Death. Everything is different because He has done so."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I'm on Aslan's side even if there isn't any Aslan to lead it. I'm going to live as like a Narnian as I can even if there isn't any Narnia."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: On the whole, God\u2019s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God has infinite attention to spare for each one of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The most valuable thing the Psalms do for me is to express the same delight in God which made David dance."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It matters enormously if I alienate anyone from the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is safe to tell the pure in heart that they shall see God, for only the pure in heart want to."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Free will, though it makes evil possible, also makes possible any love or goodness or joy worth having."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man... It is the comparison that makes you proud: the pleasure of being above the rest. Once the element of competition is gone, pride is gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The salvation of a single soul is more important than the production or preservation of all the epics and tragedies in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We shall not be well so long as we love and admire anything more than we love and admire God."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than of any other slackers. If you are thinking of becoming a Christian, I warn you you are embarking on something which is going to take the whole of you, brains and all."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Repentance is not something God demands of you before He will take you back and which He could let you off if He chose; it is simply a description of what going back is like."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We must beware of the Past, mustn't we? I mean that any fixing of the mind on old evils beyond what is absolutely necessary for repenting our own sins and forgiving those of others is certainly useless and usually bad for us. Notice in Dante that the lost souls are entirely concerned with their past! Not so the saved."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: That raises a terrible question. How is it that people who are quite obviously eaten up with Pride can say they believe in God and appear to themselves very religious? I am afraid it means they are worshiping an imaginary God."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: To walk out of his will is to walk into nowhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A creature revolting against a creator is revolting against the source of his own powers-including even his power to revolt...It is like the scent of a flower trying to destroy the flower."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The continual looking forward to the eternal world is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We must show our Christian colors, if we are to be true to Jesus Christ. We cannot remain silent or concede everything away."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something is to see something through it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The worldly man treats certain people kindly because he 'likes' them: the Christian, trying to treat every one kindly, finds him liking more and more people as he goes on - including people he could not even have imagined himself liking at the beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A world of nice people, content in their own niceness, looking no further, turned away from God, would be just as desperately in need of salvation as a miserable world-and might be even more difficult to save."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A man can't be always defending the truth; there must be a time to feed on it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Much of the modern resistance to chastity comes from men's belief that they 'own' their bodies\u2014those vast and perilous estates, pulsating with the energy that made the worlds, in which they find themselves without their consent and from which they are ejected at the pleasure of Another!"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Love, in the Christian sense, does not mean an emotion. It is a state not of the feelings but of the will; that state of the will which we have naturally about ourselves, and must learn to have about other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is Christ Himself, not the Bible, who is the true Word of God. The Bible, read in the right spirit and with the guidance of good teachers, will bring us to Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Mercy detached from justice grows unmerciful."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: As long as you notice, and have to count the steps, you are not yet dancing but only learning to dance. A good shoe is a shoe you don't notice. Good reading becomes possible when you need not conciously think about eyes, or light, or print, or spelling. The perfect church service would be the one we were almost unaware of; our attention would have been on God."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The event of falling in love... in one high bound it has overleaped the massive wall of our selfhood; it has made appetite itself altruistic, tossed personal happiness aside as a triviality and planted the interests of another in the centre of our being."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Reality, looked at steadily, is unbearable."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Looking for God-or Heaven-by exploring space is like reading or seeing all Shakespeare's plays in the hope that you will find Shakespeare as one of the characters."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of men, and His compulsion is our liberation."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Odd, the way the less the Bible is read the more it is translated"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Being in love is a good thing, but it is not the best thing. There are many things below it, but there are also things above it. You cannot make it the basis of a whole life. It is a noble feeling, but it is still a feeling. Now no feeling can be relied on to last in its full intensity, or even to last at all. Knowledge can last, principles can last, habits can last; but feelings come and go."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear. I am not afraid, but the sensation is like being afraid. The same fluttering in the stomach, the same restlessness, the yawning. I keep on swallowing. At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says. Or perhaps, hard to want to take it in. It is so uninteresting. Yet I want the others to be about me. I dread the moments when the house is empty. If only they would talk to one another and not to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I wish I were younger. What inclines me now to think you may be right in regarding [evolution] as the central and radical lie in the whole web of falsehood that now governs our lives is not so much your arguments against it as the fanatical and twisted attitudes of its defenders."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Aravis also had many quarrels (and, I'm afraid, even fights) with Cor, but they always made it up again: so that years later, when they were grown up, they were so used to quarrelling and making it up again that they got married so as to go on doing it more conveniently."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Don't you understand anything?  Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and a fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other?  That's how we get things done.  Any opposition to the N.I.C.E. is represented as a Left racket in the Right papers and a Right racket in the Left papers.  If it's properly done, you get each side outbidding the other in support of us-to refute the enemy slanders.  Of course we're non-political.  The real power always is."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: According to Christian teachers, the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If naturalism were true then all thoughts whatever would be wholly the result of irrational causes. It cuts its own throat."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: History is a story written by the finger of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I have no duty to be anyone's Friend and no man in the world has a duty to be mine. No claims, no shadow of necessity. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself (for God did not need to create). It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The very nature of Joy makes nonsense of our common distinction between having and wanting."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Faith, in the sense in which I am here using the word, is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Chronological snobbery is the uncritical acceptance of the intellectual climate common to our own age and the assumption that whatever has gone out of date is on that account discredited. You must find why it went out of date. Was it ever refuted (and if so by whom, where, and how conclusively), or did it merely die away as fashions do? If the latter, this tells us nothing about its truth or falsehood."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Your place in Heaven will seem to be made for you and you alone, because you were made for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I do not believe one can settle how much we ought to give. I am afraid the only safe rule is to give more than we can spare."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I mean, the more a man was in the Devil's power, the less he would be aware of it, on the principle that a man is still fairly sober as long as he knows he's drunk."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Love, having become a god, becomes a demon."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Now that I am a Christian I do have moods in which the whole thing looks improbable: but when I was an atheist I had moods in which Christianity looked terribly probable."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is that of an unsatisfied desire which is itself more desirable than any other satisfaction."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The most precious gift that marriage gave me was the constant impact of something very close and intimate, yet all the time unmistakably other, resistant - in a word, real."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: As long as you are proud, you cannot know God."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Consciousness is either inexplicable illusion, or else revelation."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting every one else to give it up. That is not the Christian way. An individual Christian may see fit to give up all sorts of things for special reasons--marriage, or meat, or beer, or the cinema; but the moment he starts saying the things are bad in themselves, or looking down his nose at other people who do use them, he has taken the wrong turning."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: What do people mean when they say, 'I am not afraid of God because I know He is good'? Have they never even been to a dentist?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Give up yourself, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God is not merely good, but goodness; goodness is not merely divine, but God."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If you have once accepted Christianity, then some of its main doctrines shall be deliberately held before your mind for some time every day. That is why daily prayers and religious reading and churchgoing are necessary parts of the Christian life. We have to be continually reminded of what we believe. Neither this belief nor any other will automatically remain alive in the mind. It must be fed."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Pride gets no pleasure out of having something, only out of having more of it than the next man."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If there is equality it is in His love, not in us."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: At present we are on the outside of the world, the wrong side of the door. We discern the freshness and purity of morning, but they do not make us fresh and pure. We cannot mingle with the splendours we see. But all the leaves of the New Testament are rustling with the rumour that it will not always be so. Some day, God willing, we shall get in."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: No natural feelings are high or low, holy or unholy, in themselves. They are all holy when God's hand is on the rein. They all go bad when they set up on their own and make themselves into false gods."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If no set of moral ideas were truer or better than any other, there would be no sense in preferring civilised morality to savage morality."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Nature never taught me that there exists a God of glory and of infinite majesty. I had to learn that in other ways. But nature gave the word glory a meaning for me. I still do not know where else I could have found one."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Prayer in the sense of petition, asking for things, is a small part of it; confession and penitence are its threshold, adoration its sanctuary, the presence and vision and enjoyment of God its bread and wine."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Child,' said the Lion, 'I am telling you your story, not hers. No one is told any story but their own."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is not enough to want to get rid of one\u2019s sins, we also need to believe in the One who saves us from our sins."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Who can endure a doctrine which would allow only dentists to say whether our teeth were aching, only cobblers to say whether our shoes hurt us, and only governments to tell us whether we were being well governed?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Clearly one must read every good book at least once every ten years."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Holy places are dark places. It is life and strength, not knowledge and words, that we get in them. Holy wisdom is not clear and thin like water, but thick and dark like blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: While we are actually subjected to them, the 'moods' and 'spirits' of nature point no morals. Overwhelming gaiety, insupportable grandeur, sombre desolation are flung at you. Make what you can of them, if you must make at all. The only imperative that nature utters is, 'Look. Listen. Attend."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We want, in fact, not so much a father in heaven as a grandfather in heaven: a senile benevolence who, as they say, \"liked to see young people enjoying themselves\" and whose plan for the universe was simply that it might be truly said at the end of each day, \"a good time was had by all.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The Scotch catechism says that man's chief end is 'to glorify God and enjoy Him forever.' But we shall then know that these are the same thing. Fully to enjoy is to glorify. In commanding us to glorify Him, God is inviting us to enjoy Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than when I do."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If crime and disease are to be regarded as the same thing, it follows that any state of mind which our masters choose to call 'disease' can be treated as a crime and compulsorily cured."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Prosperity knits a man to the world.  He feels that he is finding his place in it while really it is finding its place in him.  His increasing reputation, his widening circle of acquaintances, his sense of importance, the growing pressure of absorbing and agreeable work build up in him a sense of being really at home on earth which is just what we want."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: In the long run the answer to all those who object to the doctrine of hell, is itself a question: What are you asking God to do? To wipe out their past sins and, at all costs, to give them a fresh start, smoothing every difficulty and offering every miraculous help? But He has done so, on Calvary. To forgive them? They will not be forgiven. To leave them alone? Alas, I am afraid that is what He does."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For in grief nothing \"stays put.\" One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral? But if a spiral, am I going up or down it? How often -- will it be for always? -- how often will the vast emptiness astonish me like a complete novelty and make me say, \"I never realized my loss till this moment\"? The same leg is cut off time after time."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I am a product of long corridors, empty sunlit rooms, upstairs indoor silences, attics explored in solitude, distant noises of gurgling cisterns and pipes, and the noise of wind under the tiles. Also, of endless books."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I think we must attack -- wherever we meet it -- the nonsensical idea that mutually exclusive propositions about God can both be true."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If nothing is self-evident, nothing can be proved. Similarly if nothing is obligatory for its own sake, nothing is obligatory at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You can get a large audience together for a strip-tease act\u2014that is, to watch a girl undress on the stage. Now suppose you come to a country where you could fill a theatre by simply bringing a covered plate on to the stage and then slowly lifting the cover so as to let every one see, just before the lights went out, that it contained a mutton chop or a bit of bacon, would you not think that in that country something had gone wrong with the appetite for food?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The man in Christ rose again, not only the God."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: My idea of God is not a divine idea. It has to be shattered time after time. He shatters it Himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Afflictions are... if we can so take them, our share in the Passion of Christ"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There are no ordinary people. You have never talked to a mere mortal. Nations, cultures, arts, civilizations--these are mortal, and their life is to ours as the life of a gnat."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Badness cannot succeed even in being bad in the same way in which goodness is good. Goodness is, so to speak, itself: badness is only spoiled goodness. Evil is a parasite, not an original thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Die before you die, there is no chance after."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It would be impossible to accept naturalism itself if we really and consistently believed naturalism. For naturalism is a system of thought. But for naturalism all thoughts are mere events with irrational causes. It is, to me at any rate, impossible to regard the thoughts which make up naturalism in that way and, at the same time, regard them as a real insight into external reality...If it is true, then we can know no truths. It cuts its own throat."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: How could an idiotic universe have produced creatures whose mere dreams are so much stronger, better, subtler than itself?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It doesn't really matter whether you grip the arms of the dentist's chair or let your hands lie in your lap. The drill drills on."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted. And if an infinitely wise Being listens to the requests of finite and foolish creatures, of course He will sometimes grant and sometimes refuse them."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The first thing to get clear about Christian morality between man and man is that in this department Christ did not come to teach any brand new morality. The Golden Rule of the New Testament (Do as you would be done by) is a summing up of what everyone, at bottom, had always known to be right."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The prayer preceding all prayers is 'May it be the real I who speaks. May it be the real Thou that I speak to.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Above all, do not attempt to use science (I mean, the real sciences) as a defence against Christianity. They will positively encourage him to think about realities he can\u2019t touch and see."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And since we cannot deceive the whole human race all the time, it is most important thus to cut every generation off from all others; for where learning makes a free commerce between the ages there is always the danger that the characteristic errors of one may be corrected by the characteristic truths of another."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: An 'impersonal God'-well and good. A subjective God of beauty, truth and goodness, inside our own heads-better still. A formless life-force surging through us, a vast power which we can tap-best of all. But God himself, alive, pulling at the other end of the cord, perhaps approaching at an infinite speed, the hunter, King, husband-that is quite another matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And how could we endure to live and let time pass if we were always crying for one day or one year to come back--if we did not know that every day in a life fills the whole life with expectation and memory and that these are that day?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: But suppose you struggle through to the good and find that it also is dreadful? How if food itself turns out to be the very thing you can't eat, and home the very place you can't live, and your very comforter the person who makes you uncomfortable? Then, indeed, there is no rescue possible: the last card has been played."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If ever they remembered their life in this world it was as one remembers a dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We treat our dogs as if they were \"almost human\": that is why they really become \"almost human\" in the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It will not bother me in the hour of death to reflect that I have been \"had for a sucker\" by any number of imposters but it would be a torment to know that one had refused even one person in need."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We do not want merely to see beauty... we want something else which can hardly be put into words- to be united with the beauty we see, to pass into it, to receive it into ourselves, to bathe in it, to become part of it. That is why we have peopled air and earth and water with gods and goddesses, and nymphs and elves."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Do not waste time bothering whether you \"love\" your neighbor; act as if you did."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Very often the only way to get a quality in reality is to start behaving as if you had it already."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Gratitude looks to the Past and love to the Present; fear, avarice, lust, and ambition look ahead."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I have come home at last! This is my real country! I belong here. This is the land I have been looking for all my life, though I never knew it till now... Come further up, come further in!"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A children's story that can only be enjoyed by children is not a good children's story in the slightest.\" He also said: \"No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally - and often far more - worth reading at the age of 50 and beyond."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Make your choice, adventurous Stranger, Strike the bell and bide the danger, Or wonder, till it drives you mad, What would have followed if you had."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: But courage, child: we are all between the paws of the true Aslan."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: To be religious is to have one's attention fixed on God and on one's neighbour in relation to God."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We are all fallen creatures and all very hard to live with."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Death and resurrection are what the story is about and had we but eyes to see it, this has been hinted on every page, met us, in some disguise, at every turn, and even been muttered in conversations between such minor characters (if they are minor characters) as the vegetables."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Five senses; an incurably abstract intellect; a haphazardly selective memory; a set of preconceptions and assumptions so numerous that I can never examine more than a minority of them - never become even conscious of them all."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: This is my password,\" said the King as he drew his sword. \"The light is dawning, the lie broken. Now guard thee, miscreant, for I am Tirian of Narnia."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A dogmatic belief in objective value is necessary to the very idea of a rule which is not tyranny or an obedience which is not slavery."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There is, hidden or flaunted, a sword between the sexes till an entire marriage reconciles them."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Imagine yourself as a living house."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The process of living seems to consist in coming to realize truths so ancient and simple that, if stated, they sound like barren platitudes."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Isn't it absolutely essential to keep a fierce Left and fierce Right, both on their toes and each terrified of the other? That's how we get things done."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Need-love says of a woman \"I cannot live without her\"; Gift-love longs to give her happiness, comfort, protection - if possible, wealth; Appreciative love gazes and holds its breath and is silent, rejoices that such a wonder should exist even if not for him, will not be wholly dejected by losing her, would rather have it so than never to have seen her at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Now the story of Christ is simply a true myth: a myth working on us the same way as the others, but with this tremendous difference that it really happened: and one must be content to accept it in the same way, remembering that it is God\u2019s myth where the others are men\u2019s myths: i.e., the Pagan stories are God expressing Himself through the minds of poets, using such images as He found there, while Christianity is God expressing Himself through what we call 'real things'."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It means that though the Witch knew the Deep Magic, there is a magic deeper still that she did not know. Her knowledge goes back only to the dawn of Time. But if she could have looked a little further back, into the stillness and darkness before Time began, she would have read there a different incantation. She would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor's stead, the Table would crack and death itself would work backwards."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Your patient has become humble; have you drawn his attention to the fact? All virtues are less formidable to us once the man is aware that he has them, but this is specially true of humility."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The central miracle asserted by Christians is the incarnation. They say that God became man."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is a good rule after reading a new book, never to allow yourself another new one till you have read an old one in between."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: \"Welcome, Prince,\" said Aslan. \"Do you feel yourself sufficient to take up the Kingship of Narnia?\" \n\"I - I don't think I do, Sir,\" said Caspian. \"I'm only a kid.\" \n\"Good,\" said Aslan. \"If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: But why,... if you have a serious comment to make on the real life of men, must you do it by talking about a phantasmagoric never-never land of your own? Because, I take it, one of the main things the author wants to say is that the real life of men is of that mythical and heroic quality."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Not that I am (I think) in much danger of ceasing to believe in God. The real danger is of coming to believe such dreadful things about Him. The conclusion I dread is not 'So there's no God after all,' but 'So this is what God's really like. Deceive yourself no longer."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Thus we have now for many centuries triumphed over nature to the extent of making certain secondary characteristics of the male (such as the beard) disagreeable to nearly all the females\u2014and there is more in that than you might suppose."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. He would either be a lunatic - on a level with the man who says he is a poached egg - or else he would be the Devil of Hell. You must make your choice. Either this man was, and is, the Son of God; or else a madman or something worse. You can shut him up for a fool; you can spit at him and kill him as a demon; or you can fall at his feet and call him Lord and God. But let us not come with any patronizing nonsense about his being a great human teacher. He has not left that open to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Suppose... suppose we have only dreamed and made up these things like sun, sky, stars, and moon, and Aslan himself. In that case, it seems to me that the made-up things are a good deal better than the real ones. And if this black pits of a kingdom is the best you can make, then it's a poor world. And we four can make a dream world to lick your real one hollow."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We know we are sinners, it does not follow that we are saved."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Wrong will be right, when Aslan comes in sight, At the sound of his roar, sorrows will be no more, When he bares his teeth, winter meets its death, And when he shakes his mane, we shall have spring again."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: What we have been told is how we men can be drawn into Christ-can become part of that wonderful present which the young Prince of the universe wants to offer to His Father-that present which is Himself and therefore us in Him. It is the only thing we were made for. And there are strange, exciting hints in the Bible that when we are drawn in, a great many other things in Nature will begin to come right. The bad dream will be over: it will be morning."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A sick society must think much about politics, as a sick man must think much about his digestion."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: No emotion is, in itself, a judgement; in that sense all emotions and sentiments are alogical. but they can be reasonable or unreasonable as they conform to Reason or fail to conform. The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Besides reasoning about matters of fact, men also make moral judgements."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Grief ... gives life a permanently provisional feeling. It doesn't seem worth starting anything. I can't settle down. I yawn, I fidget, I smoke too much. Up till this I always had too little time. Now there is nothing but time. Almost pure time, empty successiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: To move with the times is, of course, to go where all times go."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality. For magic and applied science alike the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There was a boy called Eustace Clarence Scrubb, and he almost deserved it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: She's the sort of woman who lives for others - you can tell the others by their hunted expression."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I became my own only when I gave myself to Another."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It would seem that Our Lord finds our desires not too strong, but too weak."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty or mercy which yields to danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: To the glistening Eastern sea, I give you Queen Lucy, the Valiant. To the great Western Wood, King Edmund the Just. To the radiant Southern sun, Queen Susan, the Gentle; and to the clear Northern sky I give you King Peter, the Magnificent. Once a king or queen of Narnia, always a king or queen. May your wisdom grace us 'til the stars rain down from the heavens."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Those who cannot conceive of Friendship as a substantive love but only as a disguise or elaboration of Eros betray the fact that they have never had a Friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We're free Narnians, Hwin and I, and I suppose, if you're running away to Narnia you want to be one too. In that case Hwin isn't your horse any longer. One might just as well say you're her human."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Children have one kind of silliness, as you know, and grown-ups have another kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: That part of Rostrevor which overlooks Carlingford Lough is my idea of Narnia."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Literary experience heals the wound, without undermining the privilege, of individuality."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Novelty may fix our attention not even on the service but on the celebrant. You know what I mean. Try as one may to exclude it, the question \"What on earth is he up to now?\" will intrude. It lays one's devotion waste. There is really some excuse for the man who said, \"I wish they'd remember that the charge to Peter was Feed my sheep; not Try experiments on my rats, or even, Teach my performing dogs new tricks."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Tea should be taken in solitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,\" said Aslan. \"And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: In those days Mr. Sherlock Holmes was still living in Baker Street and the Bastables were looking for treasure in the Lewisham Road."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Lucy looked and saw that Aslan had just breathed on the feet of the stone giant. It's all right!\" shouted Aslan joyously. \"Once The feet are put right, all the rest of him will follow."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Oh, Adam\u2019s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Music. A meaningless acceleration in the rhythm of celestial experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is a very funny thing that the sleepier you are, the longer you take about getting to bed."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Badness is only spoiled goodness."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There must, whether the gods see it or not, be something great in the mortal soul. For suffering, it seems, is infinite, and our capacity without limit."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The modern habit of doing ceremonial things unceremoniously is no proof of humility; rather it proves the offender's inability to forget himself in the rite, and his readiness to spoil for every one else the proper pleasure of ritual."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: What began the change was the very writing itself. Let no one lightly set about such a work. Memory, once waked, will play the tyrant."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It has actually become very necessary in our time to rebut the theory that every firm and serious friendship is really homosexual."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: No one can teach riding so well as a horse."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If He who in Himself can lack nothing, chooses to need us, it is because we need to be needed."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The proper rewards are not simply tacked on to the activity for which they are given, but are the activity itself in consummation."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Perfect humility dispenses with modesty."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The modern idea of a Great Man is one who stands at the lonely extremity of some single line of development--"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The higher animals are in a sense drawn into Man when he loves them and makes them (as he does) much more nearly human than they would otherwise be."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We sit down before the picture in order to have something done to us, not that we may do things with it. The first demand any work of art makes upon us is surrender. Look. Listen. Receive. Get yourself out of the way (there is no good asking first whether the work before you deserves such a surrender, for until you have surrendered you cannot possibly find out."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Even I never dreamed of Magic like this!"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: She did not shut it properly because she knew that it is very silly to shut oneself into a wardrobe, even if it is not a magic one."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: He liked books if they were books of information and had pictures of grain elevators or of fat foreign children doing exercises in model schools."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Ah, you've come over the water. Powerful wet stuff, ain't it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Aslan's instructions always work; there are no exceptions."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Feelings, and feelings, and feelings. Let me try thinking instead."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The man is a humbug \u2014 a vulgar, shallow, self-satisfied mind, absolutely inaccessible to the complexities and delicacies of the real world. He has the journalist's air of being a specialist in everything, of taking in all points of view and being always on the side of the angels: he merely annoys a reader who has the least experience of knowing things, of what knowing is like. There is not two pence worth of real thought or real nobility in him. But he isn't dull."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The demand of the loveless and the self-imprisoned that they should be allowed to blackmail the universe: that till they consent to be happy (on their own terms) no one else shall taste joy: that theirs should be the final power; that Hell should be able to veto Heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Puddleglum's my name. But it doesn't matter if you forget it. I can always tell you again."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: All their life in this world and all their adventures had only been the cover and the title page: now at last they were beginning Chapter One of the Great Story which no one on earth has read: which goes on for ever: in which every chapter is better than the one before."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Man's conquest of Nature, if the dreams of some scientific planners are realized, means the rule of a few hundreds of men over billions upon billions of men. There neither is nor can be any simple increase of power on Man's side. Each new power won by man is a power over man as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You and I who still enjoy fairy tales have less reason to wish actual childhood back. We have kept its pleasures and added some grown-up ones as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Sometimes fairy stories may say best what's to be said."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I am only trying to call attention to a fact; the fact that this year, of this month, or, more likely, this very day, we have failed to practice ourselves the kind of behaviour we expect from other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When we force a boy to be a mediocrity in a dozen subjects we destroy his standards, perhaps for life."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: He came to this world and became a man in order to spread to other men the kind of Life He has - by what I call 'good infection'. Every Christian is to become a little Christ. The whole purpose of becoming a Christian is simply nothing else."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There is nothing like suspense and anxiety for barricading a human's mind against the Enemy. He wants men to be concerned with what they do; our business is to keep them thinking about what will happen to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I have always at least, ever since I can remember had a kind of longing for death."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Christ did not die for man because they were intrinsically worth dying for, but because he is intrinsically love, and therefore loves infinitely."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The only thing one can usually change in one's situation is oneself. And yet one can't change that either-only ask Our Lord to do so."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: In the science, Evolution is a theory about changes; in the myth it is a fact about improvements."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If all experienced God in the same way and returned Him an identical worship, the song of the Church triumphant would have no symphony, it would be played like an orchestra in which all instruments played the same note."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: What I like about experience is that it is such an honest thing. You may take any number of wrong turnings; but keep your eyes open and you will not be allowed to go very far before the warning signs appear. You may have deceived yourself, but experience is not trying to deceive you. The universe rings true wherever you fairly test it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A promise must be about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling a certain way."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The true Christian's nostril is to be continually attentive to the inner cesspool."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When we see the face of God we shall know that we have always known it. He has been a party to, has made, sustained and moved moment by moment within, all our earthly experiences of innocent love."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Of course it should be pointed out that, though all salvation is through Jesus, we need not conclude that he cannot save those who have not explicitly accepted him in this life."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Good and evil both increase at compound interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: One of our great allies at present is the Church itself. Do not misunderstand me. I do not mean the Church as we see her spread out through all time and space and rooted in eternity, terrible as an army with banners. That, I confess, is a spectacle which makes our boldest tempters uneasy. But fortunately it is quite invisible to these humans."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It isn't Narnia, you know,\" sobbed Lucy. \"It's you. We shan't meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?\" \"But you shall meet me, dear one,\" said Aslan. \"Are -are you there too, Sir?\" said Edmund. \"I am,\" said Aslan. \"But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The more we get what we now call 'ourselves' out of the way and let Him take us over, the more truly ourselves we become."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For Christianity is a fighting religion. It thinks God has made the world- that space and time, heat and cold, and all the colors and tastes, and all the animals and vegetables, are things that God 'made up out of His head' as a man makes up a story. But it also thinks that a great many things have gone wrong with the world that God made and that God insists, and insists very loudly, on our putting them right again."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Our merriment must be of that kind (and it is, in fact, the merriest kind) which exists between people who have, from the outset, taken each other seriously - no flippancy, no superiority, no presumption. And our charity must be a real and costly love, with deep feeling for the sins in spite of which we love the sinner - no mere tolerance or indulgence which parodies love as flippancy parodies merriment."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Children are not deceived by fairy-tales; they are often and gravely deceived by school-stories. Adults are not deceived by science-fiction ; they can be deceived by the stories in the women's magazines."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Nothing is yet in its true form."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When things go wrong, you'll find they usually go on getting worse for some time; but when things once start going right they often go on getting better and better."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Once a man is united to God, how could he not live forever?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I do not think that all who choose wrong roads perish; but their rescue consists in being put back on the right road."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, however, turns out to be not a state, but a process. It needs not a map, but a history, and if I don't stop writing that history at some quite arbitrary point, there's no reason why I should ever stop."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: One must never be either content with, or impatient with, oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If education is beaten by training, civilization dies."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: What do they teach them at these schools?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You must picture me alone in that room in Magdalen, night after night, feeling, whenever my mind lifted even for a second from my work, the steady, unrelenting approach of Him whom I so earnestly desired not to meet. That which I greatly feared had at last come upon me. In the Trinity Term of 1929 I gave in, and admitted that God was God, and knelt and prayed: perhaps, that night, the most dejected and reluctant convert in all England."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If you had felt yourself sufficient, it would have been a proof that you were not."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Notice how we are perpetually surprised at Time. ('How time flies! Fancy John being grown-up and married! I can hardly believe it!') In heavens name, why? Unless, indeed, there is something in us which is not temporal."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Our souls demand Purgatory, don't they? Would it not break the heart if God said to us, It is true, my son, that your breath smells and your rags drip with mud and slime, but we are charitable here and no one will upbraid you with these things, nor draw away from you. Enter into joy? Should we not reply, With submission, sir, and if there is no objection, I'd rather be cleansed first. It may hurt, you know-even so, sir."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Nothing in Man is either worse or better for being shared with the beasts."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We are not living in a world where all roads are radii if a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork you must make a decision."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Those of us who are blamed when old for reading childish books were blamed when children for reading books too old for us."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The best swordsman in the world may be disarmed by a trick that's new to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: As the king governs by his executive, so Reason in man must rule the mere appetites by means of the 'spirited element.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Don't you mind,\" said Puddleglum. \"There are no accidents. Our guide is Aslan; and he was there when the giant king caused the letters to be cut, and he knew already all things that would come of them; including this."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A man with an obsession is a man who has very little sales resistance."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I think I am beginning to understand why grief feels like suspense. It comes from the frustration of so many impulses that had become habitual. Thought after thought feeling after feeling action after action had H. for their object. Now their target is gone. I keep on through habit fitting an harrow to the string then I remember and have to lay the bow down. So many roads lead through to H. I set out on one of them. But now there's an impassable frontier-post across it. So many roads once now so many culs de sac."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Man approaches God most nearly when he is in one sense least like God. For what can be more unlike than fullness and need, sovereignty and humility, righteousness and penitence, limitless power and a cry for help?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Most of us are not really approaching the subject in order to find out what Christianity says; we are approaching it in the hope of finding support from Christianity for the views of our own party."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: No good work is done anywhere without aid from the Father of Lights."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The Future is, of all things, the thing least like eternity. It is the most temporal part of time--for the Past is frozen and no longer flows, and the Present is all lit up with eternal rays."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If God is satisfied with the work, the work may be satisfied with itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We have to be continually reminded of what we believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We do not enjoy a story fully at the first reading. Not till the curiosity, the sheer narrative lust, has been given its sop and laid asleep, are we at leisure to savour the real beauties."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Surely what a man does when he is taken off his guard is the best evidence for what sort of man he is."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: when pain is to be born, a little courage helps more than much knowledge, a little human sympathy more than much courage, and the least tincture of the love of God more than all."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: \"I wish I had never been born,\" she said. \n\"What are we born for?\" \n\"For infinite happiness,\" said the Spirit. \n\"You can step out into it at any moment...\""
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For prayer is request. The essence of request, as distinct from compulsion, is that it may or may not be granted."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I never see why we should do anything unless it is either a duty or a pleasure! Life's short enough without filling up hours unnecessarily"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: On the whole, God\u2019s love for us is a much safer subject to think about than our love for Him. Nobody can always have devout feelings: and even if we could, feelings are not what God principally cares about. Christian Love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Good, as it ripens, becomes continually more different not only from evil but from other good."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And men said that the blood of the stars flowed in her veins"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: we follow One who stood and wept at the grave of Lazarus-not surely, because He was grieved that Mary and Martha wept, and sorrowed for their lack of faith (though some thus interpret) but because death, the punishment of sin, is even more horrible in his eyes than in ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Nothing can seem extraordinary until you have discovered what is ordinary."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: By repenting, one acknowledges them as sins-therefore not to be repeated."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Things never happen the same way twice."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Scripture itself is not systematic; the New Testament shows the greatest variety. God has shown us that he can use any instrument. Balaam's ass, you remember, preached a very effective sermon in the midst of his 'hee-haws.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There is a difficulty about disagreeing with God. He is the source from which all your reasoning power comes: you could not be right and he wrong any more than a stream can rise higher than its own source. When you are arguing against Him you are arguing against the very power that makes you able to argue at all: it is like cutting off the branch you are sitting on."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You can\u2019t get second things by putting them first. You get second things only by putting first things first."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: What we want is not more little books about Christianity, but more little books by Christians on other subjects--with their Christianity latent."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Do not cite the Deep Magic to me, Witch. I was there when it was written."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The moment good taste knows itself, some of its goodness is lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When first things are put first, second things are not suppressed but increased."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If you picture Time as a straight line along which we have to travel, then you must think of God as the whole page on which the line is drawn."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Talk to me about the truth of religion and I'll listen gladly. Talk to me about the duty of religion and I'll listen submissively. But don't come talking to me about the consolations of religion or I shall suspect that you don't understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Where, except in uncreated light, can the darkness be drowned?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There seems to be hardly any one among my acquaintance from whom I have not learned."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The Guide sang: \nThe new age, the new art, the new ethic and thought, \nAnd fools crying, \nBecause it has begun It will continue as it has begun! \nThe wheel runs fast, therefore the wheel will run \nFaster for ever, \nThe old age is done, \nWe have new lights and see without the sun. \n(Though they lay flat the mountains and dry up the sea, \nWilt thou yet change, as though God were a god?)"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: That is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended - civilizations are built up - excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong. Some fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then it all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems to start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Only a bad person needs to repent: only a good person can repent perfectly."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You have a traitor there, Aslan,\" said the Witch. Of course everyone present knew that she meant Edmund. But Edmund had got past thinking about himself after all he'd been through and after the talk he'd had that morning. He just went on looking at Aslan. It didn't seem to matter what the Witch said."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I was at this time living, like so many Atheists or Antitheists, in a whirl of contradictions. I maintained that God did not exist. I was also very angry with God for not existing. I was equally angry with Him for creating a world."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: From the moment a creature becomes aware of God as God and of itself as self, the terrible alternative of choosing God or self for the centre is opened to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The unhistorical are usually, without knowing it, enslaved to a fairly recent past."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The term is over: the holidays have begun. The dream is ended: this is the morning."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We cannot understand. The best is perhaps what we understand least."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There is only one way fit for a man - Heroism, or Master-Morality, or Violence. All the other people in between are ploughing the sand."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A moderated religion is as good for us as no religion at all\u2014and more amusing."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Really great moral teachers never do introduce new moralities: it is quacks and cranks who do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When humans should have become as perfect in voluntary obedience as the inanimate creation is in its lifeless obedience, then they will put on its glory, or rather that greater glory of which Nature is only the first sketch."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Naturally, since I myself am a writer, I do not wish the ordinary reader to read no modern books. But if he must read only the new or only the old, I would advise him to read the old."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If we accept Heaven we shall not be able to retain even the smallest and most intimate souvenirs of Hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Human beings judge one another by their external actions. God judges them by their moral choices."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A society in which conjugal infidelity is tolerated must always be in the long run a society adverse to women."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For in grief nothing 'stays put.' One keeps on emerging from a phase, but it always recurs. Round and round. \n Everything repeats. Am I going in circles, or dare I hope I am on a spiral?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Ideally, we should like to define a good book as one which 'permits, invites, or compels' good reading"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When golden moments come, when God enables one really to pray without words, who but a fool would reject the gift?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If God is Love, He is, by definition, something more than mere kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The road to the promised land runs past Sinai."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It's so much easier to pray for a bore than to go and see one."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A concentrated mind and a sitting body make for better prayer than a kneeling body and a mind half asleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Everyone feels benevolent if nothing happens to be annoying him at the moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: No man can be an exile if he remembers that all the world is one city."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Look for the valleys, the green places, and fly through them. There will always be a way through."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is to hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ. But it is far easier than what we are all trying to do instead. For what we are trying to do is to remain what we call \"ourselves,\" to keep personal happiness as our great aim in life, and yet at the same time be \"good."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Humanity does not pass through phases as a train passes through stations: being alive, it has the privilege of always moving yet never leaving anything behind. Whatever we have been, in some sort we are still."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: This is the land of Narnia,' said the Faun, 'where we are now; all that lies between the lamp-post and the great castle of Cair Paravel on the eastern sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Where I come from, they don't think much of men who are bossed about by their wives."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There ought to be things we should like to do and cannot do because our charitable expenditures excludes them."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We are forbidden to neglect the assembling of ourselves together. Christianity is already institutional in the earliest of its documents. The Church is the Bride of Christ. We are members of one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I write for the unlearned about things in which I am unlearned myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I sometimes pray not for self-knowledge in general but for just so much self knowledge at the moment as I can bear and use at the moment; the little daily dose."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Writing is like a 'lust,' or like 'scratching when you itch.' Writing comes as a result of a very strong impulse, and when it does come, I for one must get it out."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is funny how mortals always picture us as putting things into their minds: in reality our best work is done by keeping things out."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: My own eyes are not enough for me; I will see through those of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: But the most obvious fact about praise \u2014 whether of God or anything \u2014 strangely escaped me. I thought of it in terms of compliment, approval, or the giving of honor. I had never noticed that all enjoyment spontaneously overflows into praise unless (sometimes even if) shyness or the fear of boring others is deliberately brought in to check it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The poison was brewed in these West lands but it has spat itself everywhere by now. However far you went you would find the machines, the crowded cities, the empty thrones, the false writings, the barren beds:  men maddened with false promises and soured with true miseries, worshipping the iron works of their own hands, cut off from Earth their Mother and from the Father in Heaven. You might go East so far the East became West and you returned to Britain across the great Ocean, but even so you would not have come out anywhere into the light.  The shadow of one dark wing is over all Tellus."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The fact that you are giving money to charity does not mean that you need\r\nnot try to find out whether that charity is a fraud or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: and a charge of lying against someone whom you have always found truthful is a very serious thing; a very serious thing indeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For you will certainly carry out God's purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Reality the iconoclast once more. Heaven will solve our problems, but not, I think, by showing us subtle reconciliations between all our apparently contradictory notions. The notions will all be knocked from under our feet. We shall see that there never was any problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Now the trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: No thanks,\" said Digory, \"I don't know that I care much about living on and on after everyone I know is dead. I'd rather live an ordinary time and die and go to Heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: To live in a fully predictable world is not to be a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I have come,\" said a deep voice behind them. They turned and saw the Lion himself, so bright and real and strong that everything else began at once to look pale and shadowy compared with him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves part of eternal reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Further up and further in!"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The love of knowledge is a kind of madness."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The cross comes before the crown and tomorrow is a Monday morning!"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And so for a time it looked as if all the adventures were coming to and end; but that was not to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The very first tear he made was so deep that I thought it had gone right into my heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Theology offers you a working arrangement, which leaves the scientist free to continue his experiments and the Christian to continue his prayers."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Christianity does not involve the belief that all things were made for man. it does involve the belief that god loves man and for his sake became man and died."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. It was hardly a tune. But it was beyond comparison, the most beautiful sound he had ever heard."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I have been wandering to find him and my happiness is so great that it even weakens me like a wound. And this is the marvel of marvels, that he called me Beloved, me who am but as a dog."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: He wants them to learn to walk and must therefore take away His hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The human heart is not unchanging (nay, changes almost out of recognition in the twinkling of an eye)."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A man may have to die for our country: but no man must, in any exclusive sense, live for his country. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There might be things more terrible even than losing someone you love by death."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: To what will you look for help if you will not look to that which is stronger than yourself?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And all the time - such is the tragic comedy of our situation - we continue to clamor for those very qualities we are rendering impossible. We make men without chests and expect of them virtue and enterprise. We laugh at honor and are shocked to find traitors in our midst. We castrate and bid the geldings be fruitful."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And this is the marvel of marvels; that he called me Beloved."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I prefer being honest to being 'honest to God.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The best fruits are plucked for each by some hand that is not his own."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For He (God) seems to do nothing of himself which He can possibly delegate to His creatures."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be. This is elementary"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Enough had been thought, and said, and felt, and imagined. It was about time that something should be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We may not be able to get certainty, but we can get probability, and half a loaf is better than no bread."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: In coming to understand anything we are rejecting the facts as they are for us in favour of the facts as they are."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Think of a country where people were admired for running away in battle, or where a man felt proud of double-crossing all the people who had been kindest to him. You might just as well try to imagine a country where two and two made five."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We might think that God wanted simply obedience to a set of rules: whereas He really wants people of a particular sort."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I am suffering incessant temptations to uncharitable thoughts at present; one of those black moods in which nearly all one's friends seem to be selfish or even false. And how terrible that there should be even a kind of pleasure in thinking evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Don't worry. If you really want to, you will Whether you'll like it when you do is another question."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Those who have nothing can share nothing; those who are going nowhere can have no fellow-travellers."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The central Christian belief is that Christ's death has somehow put us right with God and given us a fresh start. Theories as to how it did this are another matter. A good many different theories have been held as to how it works; what all Christians are agreed on is that it does work."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If you make the same guess often enough it ceases to be a guess and becomes a Scientific Fact. This is the inductive method."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We hear a great deal about the rudeness of the rising generation. I am an oldster myself and might be expected to take the oldsters' side, but in fact I have been far more impressed by the bad manners of parents to children than by those of children to parents."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Heaven will display far more variety than Hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God sometimes seems to speak to us most intimately when he catches us, as it were, off our guard."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: What one must not do is to rule out the supernatural as the one impossible explanation."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is often little things that are hardest to stand."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: An obligation to feel can freeze feelings."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: He has room for people with very little sense, but He wants everyone to use what sense they have."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I wrote this story for you, but when I began it I had not realized that girls grow quicker than books. As a result you are already too old for fairy tales, and by the time it is printed and bound you will be older still. But some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again. You can then take it down from some upper shelf, dust it, and tell me what you think of it. I shall probably be too deaf to hear, and too old to understand a word you say, but I shall still be your affectionate Godfather, C. S. Lewis."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Spying on people by magic is the same as spying on them in any other way."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Youth and age touch only the surface of our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: But no one except Lucy knew that as it circled the mast it had whispered to her, \"Courage, dear heart,\" and the voice, she felt sure, was Aslan's, and with the voice a delicious smell breathed in her face."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Either the day must come when joy prevails and all the makers of misery are no longer able to infect it, or else, for ever and ever, the makers of misery can destroy in others the happiness they reject for themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I read in a periodical the other day that the fundamental thing is how we think of God. By God Himself, it is not! How God thinks of us is not only more important, but infinitely more important."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was very good and ended by discovering that we were paying the author an undeserved compliment."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Some have paid me an undeserved compliment by supposing that my Letters were the ripe fruit of many years' study in moral and ascetic theology. They forgot that there is an equally reliable, though less creditable, way of learning how temptation works."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: They stormed and jeered at one another in long meaningless words of about twenty syllables each."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: \u201cWho are you?\u201d One who has waited long for you to speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And I was the Lion you do not remember who pushed the boat in which you lay, a child near death, so that it came to shore where a man sat, wakeful at midnight, to receive you."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: All names will soon be restored to their proper owners."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You know me better than you think, you know, and you shall know me better yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The Christian idea of marriage is based on Christ's words that a man and wife are to be regarded as a single organism - for that is what the words 'one flesh' would be in modern English. And the Christians believe that when He said this He was not expressing a sentiment but stating a fact - just as one is stating a fact when one says that a lock and its key are one mechanism, or that a violin and a bow are one musical instrument."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Your Majesty would have a perfect right to strike off his head,\" said Peridan. \"Such an assault as he made puts him on a level with assassins.\" \"It is very true,\" said Edmund. \"But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did.\" And he looked very thoughtful."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: What can you ever really know of other people's souls \u2014 of their temptations, their opportunities, their struggles? One soul in the whole of creation you do know: and it is the only one whose fate is placed in your hands. If there is a God, you are, in a sense, alone with Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Wouldn't he know without being asked?' said Polly. 'I've no doubt he would,' said the Horse (still with his mouth full). 'But I've a sort of an idea he likes to be asked."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If my house has collapsed at one blow, that is because it was a house of cards. The faith which 'took these things into account' was not faith but imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A world of automata \u2013 of creatures that worked like machines \u2013 would hardly be worth creating."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Emerson said, Do you love me? means Do you see the same truth?-Or at least, \"Do you care about the same truth?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Will the others see you too?\" asked Lucy. \"Certainly not at first,\" said Aslan. \"Later on, it depends.\" \"But they won\u2019t believe me!\" said Lucy. \"It doesn\u2019t matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: No man who says, 'I'm as good as you,' believes it. He would not say it if he did."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The human mind is generally far more eager to praise and dispraise than to describe and define. It wants to make every distinction a distinction of value; hence those fatal critics who can never point out the differing quality of two poets without putting them in an order of preference as if they were candidates for a prize."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If they embark on this course the difference between the old and the new education will be an important one. Where the old initiated, the new merely 'conditions'. The old dealt with its pupils as grown birds deal with young birds when they teach them to fly; the new deals with them more as the poultry-keeper deals with young birds- making them thus or thus for purposes of which the birds know nothing. In a word, the old was a kind of propagation-men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The value given to the testimony of any feeling must depend on our whole philosophy, not our whole philosophy on a feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The State exists simply to promote and to protect the ordinary happiness of human beings in this life. A husband and wife chatting over a fire, a couple of friends having a game of darts in a pub, a man reading a book in his own room or digging in his own garden-that is what the State is there for. And unless they are helping to increase and prolong and protect such moments, all the laws, parliaments, armies, courts, police, economics, etc., are simply a waste of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The worst attitude of all would be the professional attitude which regards children in the lump as a sort of raw material which we have to handle."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Whenever you find a man who says he does not believe in a real Right and Wrong, you will find the same man going back on this a moment later. He may break his promise to you, but if you try breaking one to him he will be complaining 'It's not fair' before you can say Jack Robinson."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There is wishful thinking in Hell as well as on Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: [The natural life] knows that if the spiritual life gets hold of it, all its self-centredness and self-will are going to be killed and it is ready to fight tooth and nail to avoid that."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: To please God\u2026 to be a real ingredient in the divine happiness\u2026 to be loved by God, not merely pitied, but delighted in as an artist delights in his work or a father in a son- it seems impossible, a weight or burden of glory which our thoughts can hardly sustain. But so it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The notion that everyone would like Christianity to be true, and therefore all atheists are brave men who have accepted the defeat of all their deepest desires, is simply impudent nonsense."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Language exists to communicate whatever it can communicate. Some things it communicates so badly that we never attempt to communicate them by words if any other medium is available."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Well,' said Ransom, 'if it is a delusion, it's a pretty stubborn one."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The higher the stakes, the greater the temptation to lose your temper."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The promise, made when I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I have been suspected of being what is called a Fundamentalist. That is because I never regard any narrative as unhistorical simply on the ground that it includes the miraculous."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: In God's dimension, so to speak, you find a being who is three Persons while remaining one Being, just as a cube is six squares while remaining one cube."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: In God you come up against something which is in every respect immeasurably superior to yourself. Unless you know God as that-and, therefore, know yourself as nothing in comparison-you do not know God at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: All get what they want; they do not always like it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: To the Ancients, Friendship seemed the happiest and most fully human of all loves... The modern world in comparison, ignores it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: One of the reasons why it needs no special education to be a Christian is that Christianity is an education itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I see people, as they approach me, trying to make up their minds whether they'll 'say something about it' or not. I hate if they do, and if they don't."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When the author walks onto the stage, the play is over"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Quarrelling means trying to show that the other man is in the wrong. (And) There is no sense in trying to do that unless you and he had some sort of agreement as to what Righ and Wrong are."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: But one of the worst results of being a slave and being forced to do things is that when there is no one to force you any more you find you have almost lost the power of forcing yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It certainly is my opinion that a book worth reading only in childhood is not worth reading even then."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The terrible thing, the almost impossible thing, is the hand over your whole self--all your wishes and precautions--to Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Liking an author may be as involuntary and improbable as falling in love."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Education is only the most fully conscious of the channels whereby each generation influences the next."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Sanity ... had it ever been more than a convention -- a comfortable set of blinkers, an agreed mode of wishful thinking, which excluded from our view the full strangeness and malevolence of the universe we are compelled to inhabit?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: By this method thousands of humans have been brought to think that humility means pretty women trying to believe they are ugly and clever men trying to believe they are fools. And since what they are trying to believe may, in some cases, be manifest nonsense, they cannot succeed in believing it and we have the chance of keeping their minds endlessly revolving on themselves in an effort to achieve the the impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: My friendship you shall have, leanred Man,\" piped Reepicheep. \"And any Dwarf--or Giant---in the army who does not give you good language shall have my sword to reckon with."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is always the novice who exaggerates."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A man who has been in another world does not come back unchanged. One can't put the difference into words. When the man is a friend it may become painful: the old footing is not easy to recover."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I sometimes wonder whether all pleasures are not substitutes for joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Surely you know that if a man can't be cured of churchgoing, the next best thing is to send him all over the neighbourhood looking for the church that \"suits\" him until he becomes a taster or connoisseur of churches."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Daughter, I have now lived a hundred and nine winters in this world and have never yet met any such thing as Luck. There is something about all this that I do not understand: but if ever we need to know it, you may be sure that we shall."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts. The right defence against false sentiments is to inculcate just sentiments. By starving the sensibility of our pupils we only make them easier prey to the propagandist when he comes. For famished nature will be avenged and a hard heart is no infallible protection against a soft head."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The essence of religion, in my view, is the thirst for an end higher than natural ends."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Most of us, I suppose, have a secret country but for most of us it is only an imaginary country. Edmund and Lucy were luckier than other people in that respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And he writhed inside at what seemed the cruelty and unfairness of the demand. He had not yet learned that if you do one good deed your reward usually is to do another and harder and better one."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Dance and game are frivolous, unimportant down here; for \"down here\" is not their natural place. Here, they are a moment's rest from the life we were placed here to live. But in this world everything is upside down. That which, if it could be prolonged here, would be a truancy, is likest that which in a better country is the End of ends. Joy is the serious business of Heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I think earth, if chosen instead of Heaven, will turn out to have been, all along, only a region in Hell; and earth, if put second to Heaven, to have been from the beginning a part of Heaven itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The naturalists have been engaged in thinking about Nature. They have not attended to the fact that they were thinking. The moment one attends to this it is obvious that one's own thinking cannot be merely a natural event, and that therefore something other than nature exists. The Supernatural is not remote or abstruse; it is a matter of daily and hourly experience, as intimate as breathing."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And she never could remember; and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The man can neither man, nor retain, one moment of time; it all comes to him by pure gift; he might as well regard the sun and moon as his chattels."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We were talking of DRAGONS, Tolkien and I In a Berkshire bar. The big workman Who had sat silent and sucked his pipe All the evening, from his empty mug With gleaming eye glanced towards us: \"I seen 'em myself!\" he said fiercely."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I know the two great commandments, and I'd better get on with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: He (God) loved us not because we are lovable, but because He is love."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The Christian has a great advantage over other men, not by being less fallen than they, nor less doomed to live in a fallen world, but by knowing that he is a fallen man in a fallen world."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God, who needs nothing, loves into existence wholly superfluous creatures in order that he may love and perfect them."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You find out more about God from the Moral Law than from the univerise in general just as you find out more about a man by listening to his conversation than by looking at a house he has built."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: All the delights of sense, or heart, or intellect, with which you could once have tempted him, even the delights of virtue itself, now seem to him in comparison but as the half nauseous attractions of a raddled harlot would seem to a man who hears that his true beloved whom he has loved all his life and whom he had believed to be dead is alive and even now at his door."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The fundamental laws are in the long run merely statements that every event is itself and not some different event."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: What assurance have we that our masters will or can keep the promise which induced us to sell ourselves? Let us not be deceived by phrases about 'Man taking charge of his own destiny'. All that can really happen is that some men will take charge of the destiny of the others. They will be simply men; none perfect; some greedy, cruel and dishonest. The more completely we are planned the more powerful they will be. Have we discovered some new reason why, this time, power should not corrupt as it has done before?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Come, live with me and you'll know me."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I do not expect old heads on young shoulders."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is very true. But even a traitor may mend. I have known one that did."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Dearest Daughter. I knew you would not be long in coming to me. Joy shall be yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: People shouldn't call for demons unless they really mean what they say."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Heaven offers nothing that a mercenary soul can desire."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The Intelligentsia (scientists apart) are losing all touch with, and all influence over, nearly the whole human race. Our most esteemed poets and critics are read by our most esteemed critics and poets (who don't usually like them much) and nobody else takes any notice. An increasing number of highly literate people simply ignore what the 'Highbrows' are doing. It says nothing to them. The Highbrows in return ignore and insult them."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Those who are enjoying something, or suffering something, together, are companions. Those who enjoy or suffer one another, are not."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Child, that is why all the rest are now a horror to her. That is what happens to those who pluck and eat fruits at the wrong time and in the wrong way. Oh, the fruit is good, but they loath it ever after."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The absent are easily refuted."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: All killing is not murder any more than all sexual intercourse is adultery."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Earthly pleasures were never meant to satisfy."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Why must holy places be dark places?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: What the soul cries out for is the resurrection of the senses. Even in this life, matter would be nothing to us if it were not the source of sensations."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Of course all children's literature is not fantastic, so all fantastic books need not be children's books. It is still possible, even in an age so ferociously anti-romantic as our own, to write fantastic stories for adults: though you will usually need to have made a name in some more fashionable kind of literature before anyone will publish them."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: An unliterary man may be defined as one who reads books once only."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Wisdom: The first error is that of the southern people, and it consists in holding that these eastern and western places are real places. Give no quarter to that thought, whether it threatens you with fear, or tempts you with hopes. For this is Superstition and all who believe it will come in the end to the swamps, to the south and the jungles, to the far south. Part of the same error is to think that the Landlord is a real man."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: ...if all we mean by our love is a craving to be loved, we are in a very deplorable state."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything and your heart will be wrung."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Prosperity knits a man to the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: 100 per cent of us die, and the percentage cannot be increased."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I wish they would remember that the charge to Peter was \"Feed my sheep\", not \"Try experiments on my rats\", or even \"Teach my performing dogs new tricks\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Joy is never in our power and pleasure often is"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The Christian and the Materialist hold different beliefs about the universe.  They can't both be right. The one who is wrong will act in a way which simply doesn't fit the real universe. Consequently, with the best will in the world, he  will be helping his fellow creatures to their destruction."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Well!' said Puddleglum, rubbing his hands. 'This is just what I needed. If these chaps don't teach me to take a serious view of life, I don't know what will."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We have discovered that the scheme of 'outlawing war' has made war more like an outlaw without making it less frequent and that to banish the knight does not alleviate the suffering of the peasant."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We do not truly see light, we only see slower things lit by it, so that for us light is on the edge-the last thing we know before things become too swift for us."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If you do not take the distinction between good and bad very seriously, then it is easy to say that anything you find in this world is a part of God. But, of course, if you think some things really bad, and God really good, then you cannot talk like that. You must believe that God is separate from the world and that some of the things we see in it are contrary to His will."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: My own view is that the Churches should frankly recognise that the majority of the British people are not Christians and, therefore, cannot be expected to live Christian lives. There ought to be two distinct kinds of marriage: one governed by the State with rules enforced on all citizens, the other governed by the Church with rules enforced by her on her own members.\" --about the only statement i agree with in this book"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It now seemed to me that all my other guesses had been only self-pleasing dreams spun out of my wishes, but now I was awake."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Nothing which is at all times and in every way agreeable to us can have objective reality. It is of the very nature of the real that it should have sharp corners and rough edges, that it should be resistant, should be itself. Dream-furniture is the only kind on which you never stub your toes or bang your knee."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: One is given strength to bear what happens to one, but not the 100 and 1 different things that might happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If you could see humanity spread out in time, as God sees it, it would look like one single growing thing-rather like a very complicated tree. Every individual would appear connected with every other."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Perhaps civilization will never be safe until we care for something else more than we care for it. The hypothesis has certain facts to support it. As far as peace (which is one ingredient in our idea of civilization)is concerned, I think many would now agree that a foreign policy dominated by desire for peace is one of the many roads that lead to war."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Alas,\" said Aslan, shaking his head. \"It will. Things always work according to their nature. She has won her heart's desire; she has unwearying strength and endless days like a goddess. But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And in that far distant day when the gods become wholly beautiful, or we at last are shown how beautiful they always were, this will happen more and more. For mortals, as you said, will become more and more jealous. And mother and wife and child and friend will all be in league to keep a soul from being united with the Divine Nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to be a myth, comes down from the heaven of legend and imagination to the earth of history."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The proper motto is not Be good, sweet maid, and let who can be clever, but Be good sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can. God is no fonder of intellectual slackers than any other slackers."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: As for wrinkles--Pshaw! Why shouldn't we have wrinkles? Honorable insignia of long service in this warfare."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There is one bit of advice given us by the ancient Greeks, and by the Jews in the Old Testament, and by the great Christian teachers of the Middle Ages, which the modern economic system has completely disobeyed. All these people told us not to lend money at interest; and lending money at interest - what we call investment - is the basis of our whole system."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is a poor thing to strike our colors to God when the ship is going down under us; a poor thing to come to Him as a last resort, to offer up 'our own' when it is no longer worth keeping. If God were proud He would hardly have us on such terms: but He is not proud, He stoops to conquer, He will have us even though we have shown that we prefer everything else to Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God lends us a little of His reasoning powers and that is how we think: He puts a little of His love into us and that is how we love one another. When you teach a child writing, you hold its hand while it forms the letters: that is, it forms the letters because you are forming them. We love and reason because God loves and reasons and holds our hand while we do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It still remains true that no justification of virtue will enable a man to be virtuous."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If I had really cared as I thought I did about the sorrows of the world I should not have been so overwhelmed when my own sorrow came- I thought I trusted the rope until it mattered to me whether it would bear me, now it matters and I find I didn't."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: In a sense it (Christianity) creates, rather than solves, the problem of pain, for pain would be no problem unless side by side with our daily experience of this painful world, we had received what we think a good assurance that ultimate reality is righteousness and loving."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Goodness is, so to speak, itself; badness is only spoiled goodness. And there must be something good first before it can be spoiled."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Hatred obscures all distinctions."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I cannot understand how a man can appear in print claiming to disbelieve everything that he presupposes when he puts on the surplice. I feel it is a form of prostitution."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: He'll be coming and going\" he had said. \"One day you'll see him and another you won't. He doesn't like being tied down--and of course he has other countries to attend to. It's quite all right. He'll often drop in. Only you mustn't press him. He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the opposite; civilization is a rarity, attained with difficulty and easily lost. The normal state of humanity is barbarism, just as the normal surface of the planet is salt water. Land looms large in our imagination and civilization in history books, only because sea and savagery are to us less interesting."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There is hope for a man who has never read Malory or Boswell or Tristam Shandy or Shakespeare's Sonnets: but what can you do with a man who says he \"has read\" them, meaning he has read them once, and thinks that this settles the matter?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You will say these are very small sins... [But] it does not matter how small the sins are provided that their cumulative effect is to edge the man away from the Light and out into the Nothing. Murder is no better than cards if cards can do the trick. Indeed, the safest road to Hell is the gradual one--the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us - an energy which, if not thus distorted, would have blossomed into one of those holy acts whereof 'God did it' and 'I did it' are both true descriptions."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We regard God as an airman regards his parachute; it's there for emergencies but he hopes he'll never have to use it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Whatever he says, let his inner resolution be not to bear whatever comes to him, but to bear it 'for a reasonable period'--and let the reasonable period be shorter than the trial is likely to last. It need not be much shorter; in attacks on patience, chastity, and fortitude, the fun is to make the man yield just when (had he but known it) relief was almost in sight."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The only moral that is of any value is that which arises inevitably from the whole cast of the author's mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Christianity tells people to repent and promises them forgiveness. It therefore has nothing (as far as I know) to say to people who do not know they have done anything to repent of and who do not feel that they need forgiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If you have a religion it must be cosmic."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If I, being what I am, can consider that I am in some sense a Christian, why should the different vices of those people in the next pew prove that their religion is mere hypocrisy and convention?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I sometimes think that shame, mere awkward, senseless shame, does as much towards preventing good acts and straightforward happiness as any of our vices can do."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is so fatally easy to confuse an aesthetic appreciation of the spiritual life with the life itself-to dream that you have waked, washed, and dressed and then to find yourself still in bed."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: People who know a lot of the same things can hardly help talking about them."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Unless the religious claims of the Bible are again acknowledged, its literary claims will, I think, be given only 'mouth honour' and that decreasingly."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: They tell me, Lord, that when I seem\nTo be in speech with you.\nSince but one voice is heard, it"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Of course language is not an infallible guide, but it contains, with all its defects, a good deal of stored insight and experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Have you not seen that in our days\n Of any whose story, song or art\n Delights us, our sincerest praise\n Means, when all's said, 'You break my heart?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: This is my endlessly recurrent temptation: to go down to that Sea, and there neither dive nor swim nor float, but only dabble and splash, careful not to get out of my depth and holding on to the lifeline which connects me with my things temporal."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: In our world,\" said Eustace, \"a star is a huge ball of flaming gas.\" Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is, but only what it is made of."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The people who keep asking if they can't lead a decent life without Christ, don't know what life is about; if they did they would know that 'a decent life' is mere machinery compared with the thing we men are really made for."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Once when I had remarked on the affection quite often found between cat and dog, my friend replied, \"Yes. But I bet no dog would ever confess it to the other dogs."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Even in this world of course it is the stupidest children who are most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are most grown-up."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The sin both of men and of angels, was rendered possible by the fact that God gave us free will."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: As for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Here the whole world (stars, water, air, And field, and forest, as they were Reflected in a single mind) Like cast off clothes was left behind In ashes, yet with hopes that she, Re-born from holy poverty, In lenten lands, hereafter may Resume them on her Easter Day.\" (Epitaph for Joy Gresham)"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Disobedience to conscience is voluntary; bad poetry, on the other hand, is usually not made on purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Every poem can be considered in two ways--as what the poet has to say, and as a thing which he makes."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Only the skilled can judge the skillfulness, but that is not the same as judging the value of the result."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Without sin, the universe is a Solemn Game: and there is no good game without rules."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Everything except God has some natural superior; everything except unformed matter has some natural inferior."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: People blush at praise--not only praise of their bodies, but praise of anything that is theirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If we did not bring to the examinations of our instincts a knowledge of their comparative dignity we could never learn it from them."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Man's conquest of Nature turns out, in the moment of its consummation, to be Nature's conquest of Man."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If the universe is so bad...how on earth did human beings ever come to attribute it to the activity of a wise and good Creator?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If God were a Kantian, who would not have us till we came to Him from the purest and best motives, who could be saved?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Tribulations cannot cease until God either sees us remade or sees that our remaking is now hopeless."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: An Ulster Scot may come to disbelieve in God, but not to wear his weekday clothes on the Sabbath."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Though I do not believe that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Thus, and not otherwise, the world was made. Either something or nothing must depend on individual choices."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Truth and falsehood are opposed; but truth is the norm not of truth only but of falsehood also."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Human intellect is incurably abstract."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The true enjoyments must be spontaneous and compulsive and look to no remoter end."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We have had enough, once and for all, of Hedonism--the gloomy philosophy which says that Pleasure is the only good."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Poetry too is a little incarnation, giving body to what had been before invisible and inaudible."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The difference [God's] timelessness makes is that this now (which slips away from you even as you say the word now) is for Him infinite."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Though we cannot experience our life as an endless present, we are eternal in God's eyes; that is, in our deepest reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Only He who really lived a human life (and I presume that only one did) can fully taste the horror of death."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Some people probably think of the Resurrection as a desperate last moment expedient to save the Hero from a situation which had got out of the Author's control."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: To play well the scenes in which we are 'on' concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Every sin is the distortion of an energy breathed into us."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You must not do, you must not even try to do, the will of the Father unless you are prepared to 'know of the doctrine'."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The natural life in each of us is something self-centred, something that wants to be petted and admired, to take advantage of other lives, to exploit the whole universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A blessed spirit is a mould ever more and more patient of the bright metal poured into it, a body ever more completely uncovered to the meridian blaze of the spiritual sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Now Eros makes a man really want, not a woman, but one particular woman. In some mysterious but quite indisputable fashion the lover desires the Beloved herself, not the pleasure she can give."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Not to be, but to seem, virtuous - it is a formula whose utility we all discovered in the nursery."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There was nothing medieval people liked better, or did better, than sorting out and tidying up. Of all our modern inventions I suspect that they would most have admired the card index."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I wish we didn't live in a world where buying and selling things seems to have become almost more important than either producing or using them."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If these holy places, things, and days cease to remind us, if they obliterate our awareness that all ground is holy and every bush (could we but perceive it) a Burning Bush, then the hallows begin to do harm. Hence both the necessity, and the perennial danger, of 'religion.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: In a word, we may reasonably hope for the virtual abolition of education when I'm as good as you has fully had its way. All incentives to learn and all penalties for not learning will vanish.The few who might want to learn will be prevented; who are they to overtop their fellows? And anyway the teachers-or should I say, nurses?-will be far too busy reassuring the dunces and patting them on the back to waste any time on real teaching. We shall no longer have to plan and toil to spread imperturable conceit and incurable ignorance among men. The little vermin themselves will do it for us."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I enjoyed my breakfast this morning, and I think that was a good thing and do not think it was condemned by God. But I do not think myself a good man for enjoying it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We must perpetually try to distinguish, however closely they get entwined by the subtle nature of the facts and by the secret importunity of our passions, those attitudes in a writer which we can honestly and confidently condemn as real evils, and those qualities in his writing which simply annoy and offend us as men of taste."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Watchin' and listenin' is the thing at present; not talking."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Because God created the Natural - invented it out of His love and artistry - it demands our reverence."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The longest way round is the shortest way home"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There seems no plan because it is all plan."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It's like the sound of a chuckle in the darkness. The sense that some shattering and disarming simplicity is the real answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A man who first tried to guess 'what the public wants,' and then preached that as Christianity because the public wants it, would be a pretty mixture of fool and knave"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Why should your heart not dance?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Every day in a life fills the whole life with expectations and memory."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We have not long to live in any event. Let us spend what is left in seeking the unpeopled world behind the sunrise."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I have read the Aeneid through more often than I have read any long poem."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: One is sometimes glad not to be a great theologian; one might easily mistake it for being a good Christian."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: But as for Aslan himself, the Beavers and the children didn't know what to do or say when they saw him. People who have not been in Narnia sometimes think that a thing cannot be good and terrible at the same time. If the children had ever thought so, they were cured of it now. For when they tried to look at Aslan's face they just caught a glimpse of the golden mane and the great, royal, solemn, overwhelming eyes; and then they found they couldn't look at him and went all trembly."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: At the very least, they can be persuaded that the bodily position makes no difference to their prayers; for they constantly forget[...]that they are animals and that whatever their bodies do affects their souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The return from the walk, and the arrival of tea, should be exactly coincident, and not later than a quarter past four."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If we are any good we must always be working towards the moment at which our Pupils are fit to become our Critics & Rivals"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Every poet and musician and artist, but for grace\">Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The more imagination the reader has ... the more he will do for himself. He will, at a mere hint from the author, flood wretched material with suggestion and never guess that he is himself chiefly making what he enjoys."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We reduce things to mere Nature in order that we may \"conquer\" them."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Monarchy can easily be \"debunked,\" but watch the faces, mark well the debunkers. These are the men whose taproot in Eden has been cut: whom no rumour of the polyphony, the dance, can reach - men to whom pebbles laid in a row are more beautiful than an arch. Where men are forbidden to honour a king they honour millionaires, athletes or film stars instead: For spiritual nature, like bodily nature, will be served; deny it food and it will gobble poison."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Surely arrested development consists not in refusing to lose old things but in failing to add new things."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When the most important things in our life happen we\n quite often do not know, at the moment, what is\n going on."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Because, as we know, almost anything can be read into any book if you are determined enough. This will be especially impressed on anyone who has written fantastic fiction. He will find reviewers, both favourable and hostile, reading into his stories all manner of allegorical meanings which he never intended. (Some of the allegories thus imposed on my own books have been so ingenious and interesting that I often wish I had thought of them myself.)"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think the convention a silly one. No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally (and often far more) worth reading at the age of fifty-except, of course, books of information. The only imaginative works we ought to grow out of are those which it would have been better not to have read at all. A mature palate will probably not much care for cr\u00e8me de menthe: but it ought still to enjoy bread and butter and honey."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If we ignore it the truth that God is love may slyly come to mean for us the converse, that love is God."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The point is that for our ancestors, the universe was a picture; for modern physics it is a story."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the world-old, world-wide religio of amulets and holy places and priestcraft. Protestantism,in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes. Catholicism is accused of being too much like all the other religions; Protestantism of being insufficiently like a religion at all. Hence Plato, with his transcendent Forms, is the doctor of Protestants; Aristotle, with his immanent Forms, the doctor of Catholics."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The whole difficulty of understanding Hell is that the thing to be understood is so nearly nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike. Subjectivism about moral values is eternally incompatible with democracy. We and our rulers are of one kind only so long as we are subject to one law. But if there is no Law of Nature, the ethos of any society is the creation of its rulers, educators and conditioners; and every creator stands above and outside his own creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Christianity thinks of human individuals not as mere members of a group or items in a list, but as organs in a body-different from one another and each contributing what no other could."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You people have no imagination!"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I fancy that most people who think at all have done a great deal of their thinking in the first fourteen years."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The imagined beings have their insides on the outside; they are visible souls. And man as a whole, Man pitted against the universe, have we seen him at all till we see that he is like a hero in a fairy tale?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When Catholicism goes bad it becomes the religion of amulets and holy places and priestcraft: Protestantism, in its corresponding decay, becomes a vague mist of ethical platitudes"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Term, holidays, term, holidays, till we leave school, and then work, work, work till we die."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Humans are very seldom either totally sincere or totally hypocritical. Their moods change, their motives are mixed, and they are often quite mistaken as to what their motives are."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A spoiled saint, a Pharisee, an inquisitor, or a magician, makes better sport to Hell than a mere common tyrant or debauchee."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When the voice of your friend or the page of your book sinks into democratic equality with the pattern of the wallpaper, the feel of your clothes, your memory of last night, and the noises from the road, you are falling asleep. The highly selective consciousness enjoyed by fully alert men, with all its builded sentiments and consecrated ideals, has as much to be called real as the drowsy chaos, and more."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Narnia! It's all in the wardrobe just like I told you!"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Nothing is wonderful except in the abnormal, and nothing is abnormal until we have grasped the norm."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Perhaps the experience had been so complete that repetition would be vulgarity - like asking to hear the same symphony twice in a day."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The real moon,if you could reach it and survive it, would in a deep and deadly sense be just like anywhere else...no man would find an abiding strangness on the moon unless he were the sort of man who could find it in his own back garden."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The student is half afraid to meet one of the great philosophers face to face. He feels himself inadequate and thinks he will not understand him. But if he only knew, the great man, just because of his greatness, is much more intelligible than his modern commentator. The simplest student will be able to understand, if not all, yet a very great deal of what Plato said; but hardly anyone can understand some modern books on Platonism."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The mark of Friendship is not that help will be given when the pinch comes (of course it will) but that, having been given, it makes no difference at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Stop it,\" spluttered Eustace, \"go away. Put that thing away. It's not safe. Stop it, I say. I'll tell Caspian. I'll have you muzzled and tied up.\" \"Why do you not draw your own sword, poltroon!\" cheeped the Mouse. \"Draw and fight or I'll beat you black and blue with the flat.\" \"I haven't got one,\" said Eustace. \"I'm a pacifist. I don't believe in fighting.\" \"Do I understand,\" said Reepicheep, withdrawing his sword for a moment and speaking very sternly, \"that you do not intend to give me satisfaction?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Shall I ever be able to read that story again; the one I couldn't remember? Will you tell it to me, Aslan? Oh do,do,do.\" \"Indeed,yes, I will tell it to you for years and years. But now, come. We must meet the master of this house."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: So that the one road for which we now need God's leadership most of all is a road God, in His own nature, has never walked. But suppose God became a man... He could surrender His will, suffer and die, because He was a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: But in general, take my advice, when you meet anything that is going to be Human and isn\u2019t yet, or used to be Human once and isn\u2019t now, or ought to be Human and isn\u2019t, you keep your eyes on it and feel for your hatchet."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is, of course, quite true that God will not love you any less, or have less use for you, if you happen to have been born with a very second-rate brain."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When he was a young man he prayed constantly for chastity; but years later he realized that while his lips had been saying 'Oh Lord, make me chaste,' his heart had been secretly adding, 'But please don't do it just yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The worst of sleeping out of doors is that you wake up so dreadfully early. And when you wake up you have to get up because the ground is so hard you are uncomfortable. And it makes matters worse if there is nothing but apples for breakfast and you have had nothing but apples for supper the night before."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Well, whatever they say, you don't feel like ghosts."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Oh, I'm a dangerous criminal, I am,' said the dwarf cheerfully."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You have no idea what an appetite it gives one, being executed."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: At least he went on saying this till Aslan had loaded him up with three dwarfs, one dryad, two rabbits, and a hedgehog, that steadied him a bit."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: As long as this deliberate refusal to understand things from above, even where such understanding is possible, continues, it is idle to talk of any final victory over materialism."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: No Christian and, indeed, no historian could accept the epigram which defines religion as 'what a man does with his solitude.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Catch {a man} at the moment when he is really poor in spirit and smuggle into his mind the gratifying reflection, \"By jove, I'm being humble,\" and almost immediately pride - pride at his own humility - will appear."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: To see, in some measure, like God. His love and His knowledge are not distinct from one another, not from Him. We could almost say He sees because He loves, and therefore loves although He sees."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We have not, in fact, proved that science excludes miracles: we have only proved that the question of miracles, like innumerable other questions, excludes laboratory treatment."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Friendship is the greatest of worldly goods. Certainly to me it is the chief happiness of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: To get even near humility, even for a moment, is like a drink of cold water to a man in a desert."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Perfect goodness can never debate about the end to be attained, and perfect wisdom cannot debate about the means most suited to achieve it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When you go to church you are really listening in to the secret wireless from our friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A glimpse is not a vision. But to a man on a mountain road by night, a glimpse of the next three feet of road may matter more than a vision of the horizon."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: On many questions and specially in view of the marriage bed, the Puritans were the indulgent party, . . . they were much more Chestertonian than their adversaries. The idea that a Puritan was a repressed and repressive person would have astonished Sir Thomas More and Luther about equally."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The whole journey was odd and dream-like -- the roaring stream, the wet grey grass, the glimmering cliffs which they were approaching, and always the glorious, silently pacing beast ahead."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Her face was working and twitching with passion, but his looked up at the sky, still quiet, neither angry nor afraid, but a little sad."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Kids like us don't often have the chance of meeting a great warrior like you. Would you have a little fencing match with me? It would be frightfully decent."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Oh Trees, Trees, Trees...wake. Don't you remember it? Don't you remember me? Dryads and hamadryads, come out, come [out] to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Certainly, Lu. Whatever you like,' said Peter unexpectedly. This was encouraging, but as Peter instantly rolled round and went to sleep again it wasn't much use."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: and the whole forest would give itself up to jollification for weeks on end."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I see you are an idiot, whatever else you may be."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: His face had become very red and his mouth and fingers were sticky. He did not look either clever or handsome, whatever the Queen might say."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Edmund, who was becoming a nastier person every minute, thought that he had scored a great success, and went on at once to say, 'There she goes again. What's the matter with her?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It was a full moon and, shining on all the snow, it made everything almost as bright as day -- only the shadows were rather confusing."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Am I to understand,' said Reepicheep to Lucy after a long stare at Eustace, 'That this singularly discourteous person is under your Majesty's protection? Because, if not--"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We thought the Duke would have been pleased if the King's Majesty would have married his daughter, but nothing came of that--' Squints, and has freckles,' said Caspian. Oh, poor girl,' said Lucy."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: No interviews without appointments except between nine and ten p.m. on second Saturdays."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For his mind was full of forlorn hopes, death-or-glory charges, and last stands."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A powerful dragon crying its eyes out under the moon in a deserted valley is a sight and a sound hardly to be imagined."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: He didn't call his father and mother 'Father' and 'Mother' but Harold and Alberta. They were very up to date and advanced people. They were vegetarians, non-smokers and teetotalers, and wore a special kind of underclothes. In their house there was very little furniture and very few clothes on the beds and the windows were always open."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Golly,' said Edmund under his breath, 'He's a retired star."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And as Jill gazed at its motionless bulk, she realized that she might as well have asked the whole mountain to move aside for her convenience."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And the Prince stared at her like a man out of his wits."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: No more I do, your Majesty. But what's that got to do with it? I might as well die on a wild goose chase as die here."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And there's one thing about this underground work, we shan't get any rain."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Here. All of you. And you, doorkeeper. No one is to be let out of the house today. And anyone I catch talking about this young lady will be first beaten to death and then burned alive and after that be kept on bread and water for six weeks. There."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: But as long as you know you're nobody special, you'll be a very decent sort of Horse, on the whole, and taking one thing with another."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Please,' she said, 'You're so beautiful. You may eat me if you like. I'd rather be eaten by you than fed by anyone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head!"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Well, sir, if things are real, they\u2019re there all the time.\" \"Are they?\" said the Professor; and Peter did not quite know what to say."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Though it was bright sunshine everyone felt suddenly cold. The only two people present who seemed to be quite at their ease were Aslan and the Witch herself. It was the oddest thing to see those two faces - the golden face and the dead-white face so close together. Not that the Witch looked Aslan exactly in his eyes; Mrs Beaver particularly noticed this."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Here are beauties which pierce like swords or burn like cold iron. Here is a book [The Lord of the Rings] which will break your heart.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Fancy sleeping on air. I wonder if anyone's done it before. I don't suppose they have. Oh, bother\u2014-Scrubb probably has!"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: They call him Aslan in That Place,\" said Eustace. \"What a curious name!\" \"Not half so curious as himself,\" said Eustace solemnly."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: My son, by all means desist from kicking the venerable and enlightened Vizier: for as a costly jewel retains its value even if hidden in a dung-hill, so old age and discretion are to be respected even in the vile persons of our subjects. Desist therefore, and tell us what you desire and propose."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Last year, when he had been staying with the Pevensies, he had managed to hear them all talking of Narnia and he loved teasing them about it. He thought of course that they were making it all up; and as he was far too stupid to make anything up himself, he did not approve of that."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Pooh! Grown-ups are always thinking of uninteresting explanations."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: [The witch] would have known that when a willing victim who had committed no treachery was killed in a traitor\u2019s stead, the Table would crack and Death itself would start working backwards."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: That world is ended, as if it had never been. Let the race of Adam and Eve take warning."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: But all night, Aslan and the Moon gazed upon each other with joyful and unblinking eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Jewel,' he said, 'what lies before us? Horrible thoughts arise in my heart. If we had died before today we should have been happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Would it not be better to be dead than to have this horrible fear that Aslan has come and is not like the Aslan we have believed in and longed for? It is as if the sun rose one day and were a black sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Now sir, said the bulldog in his business-like way. 'Are you a animal, vegetable, or mineral?' - The Magician's Nephew"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Digory never spoke on the way back, and the others were shy of speaking to him. He was very sad and he wasn't even sure all the time that he had done the right thing; but whenever he remembered the shining tears in Aslan's eyes he became sure."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I was driven to Whipsnade one sunny morning. When we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, and when we reached the zoo I did. Yet I had not exactly spent the journey in thought. Nor in great emotion. \u201cEmotional\u201d is perhaps the last word we can apply to some of the most important events. It was more like when a man, after a long sleep, still lying motionless in bed, becomes aware that he is now awake."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: In Charn [Jadis] had taken no notice of Polly (till the very end) because Digory was the one she wanted to make use of. Now that she had Uncle Andrew, she took no notice of Digory. I expect most witches are like that. They are not interested in things or people unless they can use them; they are terribly practical."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: All is summed up in the prayer which a young female human is said to have uttered recently: \"O God, make me a normal twentieth-century girl!\" Thanks to our labors, this will mean increasingly: \"Make me a minx, a moron, and a parasite."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: you had nothing to say about it and yet made the nothing up into words."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: In the name of the Fathers, and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost, here goes-I mean Amen."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It would be nice and fairly nearly true, to say that 'from that time forth, Eustace was a different boy.' To be strictly accurate, he began to be a different boy. He had relapses. There were still many days when he could be very tiresome. But most of those I shall not notice. The cure had begun."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Do I think well of myself, think myself a nice chap? WEll, I am afraid I sometimes do (and those are, no doubt, my worst moments)."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be \u2014 or so it feels\u2014 welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: But length of days with an evil heart is only length of misery and already she begins to know it. All get what they want; they do not always like it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: They were really getting quite fond of their strange pet and hoped that Aslan would allow them to keep it. The cleverer ones were quite sure by now that at least some of the noises which came out of his mouth had a meaning. They christened him Brandy because he made that noise so often."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Far overhead from beyond the veil of blue sky which hid them the stars sang again; a pure, cold, difficult music. Then there came a swift flash like fire (but it burnt nobody) either from the sky or from the Lion itself, and every drop of blood tingled in the children's bodies, and the deepest, wildest voice they had ever heard was saying: \"Narnia, Narnia, Narnia, awake. Love. Think. Speak. Be walking trees. Be talking beasts. Be divine waters."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Bridge-players tell me that there must be some money on the game 'or else people won't take it seriously'. Apparently it's like that. Your bid - for God or no God, for a good God or the Cosmic Sadist, for eternal life or nonentity - will not be serious if nothing much is staked on it. And you will never discover how serious it was until the stakes are raised horribly high, until you find that you are playing not for counters or for sixpences but for every penny you have in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The claim to equality, outside of the strictly political field, is made only by those who feel themselves to be in some way inferior."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Devils are depicted with bats' wings and good angels with birds' wings, not because anyone holds that moral deterioration would be likely to turn feathers into membrane, but because most men like birds better than bats."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Every joy is beyond all others."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Periods' are largely an invention of the historians. The poets themselves are not conscious of living in any period and refuse to conform to the scheme."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Do not look sad. We shall meet soon again.\" \"Please, Aslan\", said Lucy,\"what do you call soon?\" \"I call all times soon\" said Aslan; and instantly he was vanished away."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Oh God, God, why did you take such trouble to force this creature out of its shell if it is now doomed to crawl back -- to be sucked back -- into it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Till that word can be dug out of us, why should they hear the babble that we think we mean? How can they meet us face to face till we have faces?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Slowly, quietly, like snow-flakes\u2014like the small flakes that come when it is going to snow all night \u2014little flakes of me, my impressions, my selections, are settling down on the image of her. The real shape wil be quite hidden in the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The grave and the image are equally links with the irrecoverable and symbols for the unimaginable."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I could never have gone far in any science because on the path of every science the lion Mathematics lies in wait for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Poetry most often communicates emotions, not directly, but by creating imaginatively the grounds for those emotions. It therefore communicates something more than the emotion; only by means of that something more does it communicate the emotion at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You all know,\" said the Guide, \"that security is mortals' greatest enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: the Divine Nature wounds and perhaps destroys us merely by being what it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And for all I can tell, the only difference is that what many see we call a real thing, and what only one sees we call a dream. But things that many see may have no taste or moment in them at all, and things that are shown only to one may be spears and water-spouts of truth from the very depth of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: This must be a simply enormous wardrobe!"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Gone! And you and I quite crestfallen. It\u2019s always like that, you can\u2019t keep him; it\u2019s not as if he were a tame lion."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate foundations either of Theoretical or of Practical Reason is idiocy. If a man's mind is open on these things, let his mouth at least be shut. He can say nothing to the purpose. Outside the Tao there is no ground for criticizing either the Tao or anything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I wonder do the gods know what it feels like to be a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Always winter but never Christmas."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If each side had been frankly contending for its own real wish, they would all have kept within the bounds of reason and courtesy; but just because the contention is reversed and each side is fighting the other side\u2019s battle, all the bitterness which really flows from thwarted self-righteousness and obstinacy and from the accumulated grudges of the last ten years is concealed from them by the nominal or official \"Unselfishness\" of what they are doing or, at least, held to be excused by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For jokes as well as justice come in with speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is because they have no Oyarsa,' said one of the pupils. It is because everyone of them wants to be a little Oyarsa himself,' said Augray."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: It is in some ways more troublesome to track and swat an evasive wasp than to shoot, at close range, a wild elephant. But the elephant is more troublesome if you miss."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is why it is just no good asking God to make us happy in our own way without bothering about religion. God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: To every man, in his acquaintance with a new art, there comes a moment when that which before was meaningless first lifts, as it were, one corner of the curtain that hides its mystery, and reveals, in a burst of delight which later and fuller understanding can hardly ever equal, one glimpse of the indefinite possibilities within."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A Christian society is not going to arrive until most of us really want it: and we are not going to want it until we become fully Christian. I may repeat \"Do as you would be done by\" till I am black in the fact, but I cannot really carry it out till I love my neighbour as myself: and I cannot learn to love my neighbour as myself till I learn to love God."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Kindness consents very readily to the removal of its object \u2013 we have all met people whose kindness to animals is constantly leading them to kill animals lest they should suffer. Kindness, merely as such, cares not whether its object becomes good or bad, provided only that it escapes suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: They say, 'The coward dies many times'; so does the beloved. Didn't the eagle find a fresh liver to tear in Prometheus every time it dined?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: See the bear in his own den before you judge of his conditions."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I daren't come and drink,\" said Jill. Then you will die of thirst,\" said the Lion. Oh dear!\" said Jill, coming another step nearer.\"I suppose I must go and look for another stream then.\" There is no other stream,\" said the Lion."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Christian principles are, admittedly, stricter than the others; but then we think you will get help towards obeying them which you will not get towards obeying the others."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The promise, made when I am in love and because I am in love, to be true to the beloved as long as I live, commits me to being true even if I cease to be in love. A promise must be about things that I can do, about actions: no one can promise to go on feeling in a certain way. He might as well promise to never have a headache or always to feel hungry."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Materialism is in fact no protection. Those who seek it in that hope (they are not a negligible class) will be disappointed. The thing you fear is impossible. Well and good. Can you therefore cease to fear it? Not here and now. And what then? If you must see ghosts, it is better not to disbelieve in them."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered. You are speaking, Hm\u00e1n, as if pleasure were one thing and the memory another. It is all one thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I think He made one law of that kind in order that there might be obedience. In all these other matters what you call obeying Him is but doing what seems good in your own eyes also. Is love content with that?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Fools!\" said the man, stamping his foot with rage. \"That is the sort of talk that brought me here, and I'd better have been drowned or never born. Do you hear what I say? This is where dreams \u2014 dreams, do you understand \u2014 come to life, come real. Not daydreams: dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I'm hunger. I'm thirst. Where I bite, I hold till I die, and even after death they must cut out my mouthful from my enemy's body and bury it with me. I can fast a hundred years and not die. I can lie a hundred nights on the ice and not freeze. I can drink a river of blood and not burst. Show me your enemies."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I hope I do not offend God by making my Communions in the frame of mind I have been describing. The command, after all, was Take, eat: not Take, understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Remember, we Christians think man lives for ever. Therefore, what really matters is those little marks or twists on the central, inside part of the soul which are going to turn it, in the long run, into a heavenly or a hellish creature."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A tyrannous and gluttonous demand for affection can be a horrible thing. But in ordinary life no one calls a child selfish because it turns for comfort to its mother; nor an adult who turns to his fellow \"for company.\" Those, whether children or adults, who do so least are not usually the most selfless."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I have discovered, passionate grief does not link us with the dead but cuts us off from them. This becomes clearer and clearer. It is just at those moments when I feel least sorrow - getting into my morning bath is usually one of them - that H. rushes upon my mind in her full reality, her otherness. Not, as in my worst moments, all foreshortened and patheticized and solemnized by my miseries, but as she is in her own right. This is good and tonic."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We delight to praise what we enjoy because the praise not merely expresses but completes the enjoyment; it is its appointed consummation. It is not out of compliment that lovers keep on telling one another how beautiful they are; the delight is incomplete till it is expressed."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Most of us know what we should expect to find in a dragon's lair, but, as I said before, Eustace had read only the wrong books. They had a lot to say about exports and imports and governments and drains, but they were weak on dragons."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: They were pretty tired by now of course; but not what I\u2019d call bitterly tired \u2013 only slow and feeling very dreamy and tired as one does when one is coming to the end of a long day in the open."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Did I hate him, then? Indeed, I believe so. A love like that can grow to be nine-tenths hatred and still call itself love."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A man's physical hunger does not prove that man will get any bread; he may die of starvation on a raft in the Atlantic. But surely a man's hunger does prove that he comes of a race which repairs its body by eating and inhabits a world where eatable substances exist. In the same way, though I do not believe (I wish I did) that my desire for Paradise proves that I shall enjoy it, I think it a pretty good indication that such a thing exists and that some men will."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe, how would it be if you came and had tea with me?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A perfect man would never act from a sense of duty; he\u2019d always want the right thing more than the wrong one. Duty is only a substitute for love (of God and of other people) like a crutch which is a substitute for a leg. Most of us need the crutch at times; but of course it is idiotic to use the crutch when our own legs (our own loves, tastes, habits etc.) can do the journey on their own."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Though no one would want to be sold as a slave, it is perhaps even more galling to be a sort of utility slave whom no one will buy."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For every one pupil who needs to be guarded against a weak excess of sensibility there are three who need to be awakened from the slumber of cold vulgarity. The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles but to irrigate deserts."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Emeth came walking forward into the open strip of grass between the bonfire and the Stable. His eyes were shining, his face was solemn, his hand was on his sword-hilt, and he carried his head high. Jill felt like crying when she looked at his face. And Jewel whispered in the King's ear, \"By the Lion's Mane, I almost love this young warrior, Calormene though he be. He is worthy of a better god than Tash."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You would not call a man humane for ceasing to set mousetraps if he did so because he believed there were no mice in the house."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are \"on\" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Peter, High King of Narnia,\" said Aslan. \"Shut the Door."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I have swallowed up girls and boys, women and men, kings and emperors, cities and realms,\" said the Lion. It didn't say this as if it were boasting, nor as if it were sorry, nor as if it were angry. It just said it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Do you not know how bashful friendship is? Friends - comrades - do not look at each other. Friendship would be ashamed."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: We do know that no person can be saved except through Christ. We do not know that only those who know Him can be saved by Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I believe that many who find that \"nothing happens\" when they sit down, or kneel down, to a book of devotion, would find that the heart sings unbidden while they are working their way through a tough bit of theology with a pipe in their teeth and a pencil in their hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Aslan\" said Lucy \"you're bigger\". \"That is because you are older, little one\" answered he. \"Not because you are?\" \"I am not. But every year you grow, you will find me bigger\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: At home, besides being Peter or Jane, we also bear a general character; husband or wife, brother or sister, chief, colleague or subordinate. Not among Friends. It is an affair of disentangled, or stripped, minds. Eros will have naked bodies; Friendship naked personalities."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: But what would have been the good?\" Aslan said nothing. \"You mean,\" said Lucy rather faintly, \"that it would have turned out all right \u2013 somehow? But how? Please, Aslan! Am I not to know?\" \"To know what would have happened, child?\" said Aslan. \"No. Nobody is ever told that.\" \"Oh dear,\" said Lucy. \"But anyone can find out what will happen,\" said Aslan. \"If you go back to the others now, and wake them up; and tell them you have seen me again; and that you must all get up at once and follow me \u2013 what will happen? There is only one way of finding out."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Sometimes it is hard not to say, 'God forgive God.' Sometimes it is hard to say so much. But if our faith is true, He didn't. He crucified Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: But as for Lucy, she was always gay and golden-haired, and all princes in those parts desired her to be their Queen, and her own people called her Queen Lucy the Valiant."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Be sure it is not for nothing that the Landlord has knit our hearts so closely to time and place \u2013 to one friend rather than another and one shire more that all the land."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Things always work according to their nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Pilate was merciful till it became risky."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You die and die and then you are beyond death."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Good beats upon the damned incessantly as sound waves beat on the ears of the deaf, but they cannot receive it. Their fists are clenched, their teeth are clenched, their eyes fast shut. First they will not, in the end they cannot, open their hands for gifts, or their mouth for food, or their eyes to see."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For the power of Man to make himself what he pleases means... the power of some men to make other men what THEY please."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Beloved,\" said the Glorious One, \"unless thy desire had been for me thou wouldst not have sought so long and so truly. For all find what they truly seek."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Nature does not teach. A true philosophy may sometimes validate an experience of nature; an experience of nature cannot validate a philosophy. Nature will not verify any theological or metaphysical proposition (or not in the manner we are now considering); she will help to show what it means."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The value of the myth is that it takes all the things we know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by \u2018the veil of familiarity.\u2019 The child enjoys his cold meat, otherwise dull to him, by pretending it is buffalo, just killed with his own bow and arrow. And the child is wise. The real meat comes back to him more savory for having been dipped in a story\u2026by putting bread, gold, horse, apple, or the very roads into a myth, we do not retreat from reality: we rediscover it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And what about you? You must be some kind of beardless dwarf?...You mean to say, that you're a daughter of Eve?...Y-yes, but, you are in fact... human?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Any patch of sunlight in a wood will show you something about the sun which you could never get from reading books on astronomy. These pure and spontaneous pleasures are \u2018patches of Godlight\u2019 in the woods of our experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Very few modern people think Friendship a love of comparable value or even a love at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, \"hullo! i'm growing up.\" It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call \"growing up."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: They Open A Door And Enter A World"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: He's wild, you know. Not like a tame lion."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: For Narnia and for Aslan!"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: In my experience, it is Affection that creates this taste, teaching us first to notice, then to endure, then to smile at, then to enjoy, and finally to appreciate the people who 'happen to be there.' Made for us? Thank God, no. They are themselves, odder than you could have believed and worth far more than we guessed."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I have at last come to the end of the Faerie Queene: and though I say \"at last\", I almost wish he had lived to write six books more as he had hoped to do \u2014 so much have I enjoyed it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Courtship is the time for sowing those seeds which will grow up ten years into domestic hatred."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and garnished with twigs and flowers so as to make it a toy garden or a toy forest. That was the first beauty I ever knew. What the real garden had failed to do, the toy garden did. It made me aware of nature-not, indeed, as a storehouse of forms and colors but as something cool, dewy, fresh, exuberant....As long as I live my imagination of Paradise will retain something of my brother's toy garden."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Friendship arises out of mere Companionship when two or more of the companions discover that they have in common some insight or interest or even taste which the others do not share and which, till that moment, each believed to be his own unique treasure (or burden)."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Total war is the most humane in the long run."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Unless thought is valid we have no reason to believe in the real universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A universe whose only claim to be believed in rests on the validity of inference must not start telling us the inference is invalid."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Unless Christianity is wholly false, the perception of ourselves which we have in moments of shame must be the only true one."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If you examined a hundred people who had lost their faith in Christianity, I wonder how many of them would turn out to have reasoned out of it by honest argument? Do not most people simply drift away?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: 'Useful,' and 'necessity' was always 'the tyrant's plea'."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it is not. We cannot compete, in simplicity with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We are dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: At other times it feels like being mildly drunk, or concussed. There is a sort of invisible blanket between the world and me. I find it hard to take in what anyone says."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You can't see anything properly while your eyes are blurred with tears."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: All day I have been tossed and whirled in a preposterous happiness; was it an elf in the blood? Or a bird in the brain? Or even part of the cloudily crested, fifty-league-long, loud, uplifted wave of a journeying angels transit over and through my heart?"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There is no good trying to be more spiritual than God. God never meant man to purely spiritual creature. That is why He uses material things like bread and wine to put the new life into us. We may think this rather crude and unspiritual. God does not: He invented eating. He likes matter. He invented it."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The Eternal Being, who knows everything and who created the whole universe, became not only a man but (before that) a baby, and before that a fetus in a woman's body."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The hills and valleys of Heaven will be to those you now experience not as a copy is to an original, nor as the substitute is to the genuine article, but as the flower to the root, or the diamond to the coal."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: When we are such as He can love without impediment, we shall in fact be happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: And now, what does it all matter? It matters more than anything else in the world. The whole dance, or drama, or pattern of this three-Personal life is to be played out in each one of us: or (putting it the other way round) each one of us has got to enter that pattern, take his place in that dance. There is no other way to the happiness for which we were made."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Wherever any precept of traditional morality is simply challenged to produce its credentials, as though the burden of proof lay on it, we have taken the wrong position."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. If God is like the Moral Law, then He is not soft."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Morality, like numinous awe, is a jump; in it, man goes beyond anything that can be 'given' in the facts of experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: All men alike stand condemned, not by alien codes of ethics, but by their own, and all men therefore are conscious of guilt."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: One can regard the moral law as an illusion, and so cut himself off from the common ground of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The standard that measures two things is something different from either. You are, in fact, comparing them both with some Real Morality, admitting that there is such a thing as a real Right, independent of what people think, and that some people's ideas get nearer to that real Right than others."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If, as I can't help suspecting, the dead also feel the pains of separation (and this may be one of their purgatorial sufferings), then for both lovers, and for all pairs of lovers without exception, bereavement is a universal and integral part of our experience of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Each new power won by man is a power over man as well. Each advance leaves him weaker as well as stronger."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A noble hunger, long unsatisfied, met at last its proper food."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You know what this is, I suppose. Religious melancholia. Stop while there is time. If you dive, you dive into insanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Bad art is never really enjoyed in the same sense in which good art is enjoyed. It is only \"liked\": it never startles, prostrates, and takes captive."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The story does what no theorem can quite do. It may not be \"like real life\" in the superficial sense: but it sets before us an image of what reality may well be like at some more central region."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Even the best Christian that ever lived is not acting on his own steam--he is only nourishing or protecting a life he could never have acquired by his own efforts."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Time is the very lens through which ye see - small and clear, as men see through the wrong end of a telescope - something that would otherwise be too big for ye to see at all. That thing is Freedom: the gift whereby ye most resemble your Maker and are yourselves parts of eternal reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then you have pretty good evidence that they are to him a sort of poetry."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every shutting up of the creature within the dungeon of its own mind -- is, in the end, Hell. But Heaven is not a state of mind. Heaven is reality itself. All that is fully real is Heavenly."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Prayer is either a sheer illusion or a personal contact between embryonic, incomplete persons (ourselves) and the utterly concrete Person."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A sensible human once said, \"If people knew how much ill-feeling unselfishness occasions, it would not be so often recommended from the pulpit\"; and again, \"She's the sort of woman who lives for others you can always tell the others by their hunted expression."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: 'Being in love' first moved them to promise fidelity: this quieter love enables them to keep the promise."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You're a mere chick. I remember you when you were a egg. Don't come trying to teach me, sir. Crabs and crumpets!"
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The man who truly and disinterestedly enjoys any one thing in the world, for its own sake, and without caring two-pence what other people say about it, is by that very fact forewarmed against some of our subtlest modes of attack."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: If a man is going to write on chemistry, he learns chemistry. The same is true of Christianity."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: The most deeply compelled action is also the freest action. By that I mean, no part of you is outside the action."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: A great deal of what is being published by writers in the religious tradition is a scandal and is actually turning people away from the church. The liberal writers who are continually accommodating and whittling down the truth of the Gospel are responsible."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: You can't lay down any pattern for God. There are many different ways of bringing people into his Kingdom, even some ways that I specially dislike! I have therefore learned to be cautious in my judgment."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I cannot speak for the way God deals with others; I only know how he deals with me personally."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I would not know how to advise a man how to write. It is a matter of talent and interest. I believe he must be strongly moved if he is to become a writer."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Of course, we are to pray for spiritual awakening, and in various ways we can do something toward it. But we must remember that neither Paul nor Apollos gives the increase."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: Some people write heavily, some write lightly. I prefer the light approach because I believe there is a great deal of false reverence about. There is too much solemnity and intensity in dealing with sacred matters; too much speaking in holy tones."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: There is a difference between a private devotional life and a corporate one. Solemnity is proper in church, but things that are proper in church are not necessarily proper outside, and vice versa."
  },
  {
    "text": "C. S. Lewis: I can say a prayer while washing my teeth, but that does not mean I should wash my teeth in church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The first panacea for a mismanaged nation is inflation of the currency; the second is war. Both bring a temporary prosperity; both bring a permanent ruin. But both are the refuge of political and economic opportunists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I drink to make other people more interesting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You must be prepared to work always without applause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Remember everything is right until it's wrong. You'll know when it's wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Courage is grace under pressure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Any man's life, told truly, is a novel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no art in a fart. Still a fart may not be artless. Let us fart and artless fart in the home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I'm with you. No matter what else you have in your head I'm with you and I love you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: War is no longer made by simply analyzed economic forces if it ever was. War is made or planned now by individual men, demagogues and dictators who play on the patriotism of their people to mislead them into a belief in the great fallacy of war when all their vaunted reforms have failed to satisfy the people they misrule."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Everybody has something wrong with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Fear of death increases in exact proportion to increase in wealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Being against evil doesn't make you good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Everything about him was old except his eyes and they were the same color as the sea and were cheerful and undefeated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Fascism is a lie told by bullies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: When you stop doing things for fun you might as well be dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: We wait always for something that does not come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Never mistake motion for action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Look at things \n and listen \n and feel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: But life isn't hard to manage when you've nothing to lose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring. They are the very simplest things and because it takes a man's life to know them the little that each man gets from life is very costly and the only heritage he has to leave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Most people never listen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There are worse places to be than on your own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Religion is the opium of the poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: How little we know of what there is to know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: where a man feels at home, outside of where he\u2019s born, is where he\u2019s meant to go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I still need more healthy rest in order to work at my best. My health is the main capital I have and I want to administer it intelligently."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: In order to write about life first you must live it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Being against evil doesn't make you good. Tonight I was against it and then I was evil myself. I could feel it coming just like a tide... I just want to destroy them. But when you start taking pleasure in it you are awfully close to the thing you're fighting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You'll lose it, if you talk about it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: But man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: If the others heard me talking out loud they would think that I am crazy. But since I am not, I do not care."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: A big lie is more plausible than truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The worst death for anyone is to lose the center of his being, the thing he really is. Retirement is the filthiest word in the language. Whether by choice or by fate, to retire from what you do - and makes you what you are - is to back up into the grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today. It's been that way all this year. It's been that way so many times. All of war is that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Everybody is friends when things are bad enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I thought that all generations were lost by something and always had been and always would be"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Never confuse movement with action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I know the night is not the same as the day: that all things are different, that the things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist, and the night can be a dreadful time for lonely people once their loneliness has started."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: All thinking men are atheists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I\u2019m trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across\u2014not to just depict life\u2014or criticize it\u2014but to actually make it alive. So that when you have read something by me you actually experience the thing. You can\u2019t do this without putting in the bad and the ugly as well as what is beautiful. Because if it is all beautiful you can\u2019t believe in it. Things aren\u2019t that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Use short sentences. Use short first paragraphs. Use vigorous English. Be positive, not negative."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Easy writing makes hard reading."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: How did you go bankrupt?\" Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The writer's job is to tell the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: When you love you wish to do things for. You wish to sacrifice for. You wish to serve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I loved you when I saw you today and I loved you always but I never saw you before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: No one ever stopped when they were winning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Wine ... offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than possibly any other purely sensory thing which may be purchased."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There isnt always an explanation for everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintery light. But you knew there would always be the spring, as you knew the river would flow again after it was frozen. When the cold rains kept on and killed the spring, it was as though a young person died for no reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I\u2019m not brave any more darling. I\u2019m all broken. They\u2019ve broken me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: For sale. Baby shoes. Never worn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: When people talk, listen completely. Most people never listen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Imagination? It is the one thing beside honesty that a good writer must have. The more he learns from experience the more he can imagine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: We all take a beating every day, you know, one way or another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your reserves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Every damn thing is your own fault, if you are any good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Everyone has his own conscience,\nand there should be no rules about\nhow a conscience should function."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Every day above earth is a good day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: When you go to war as a boy you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed; not you. . . . Then when you are badly wounded the first time you lose that illusion and you know it can happen to you. After being severely wounded two weeks before my nineteenth birthday I had a bad time until I figured out that nothing could happen to me that had not happened to all men before me. Whatever I had to do men had always done. If they had done it then I could do it too and the best thing was not to worry about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: In going where you have to go, and doing what you have to do, and seeing what you have to see, you'll dull and blunt the instrument you write with. But I would rather have it bent and dull and know I had to put it to the grindstone again and hammer it into shape and put a whetstone to it, and know that I had something to write about, than to have it bright and shining and nothing to say, or smooth and well-oiled in the closet, but unused."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: And how much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: A bottle of wine was good company."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in and two lovely houses in the town; one where I would have my wife and children and be monogamous and love them truly and well and the other where I would have my nine beautiful mistresses on nine different floors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: In the morning there was a big wind blowing and the waves were running high up on the beach and he was awake a long time before he remembered that his heart was broken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy and to make plans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: To hell with luck. I'll bring the luck with me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Why do old men wake so early? Is it to have one longer day?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Part of you died each year when the leaves fell from the trees and their branches were bare against the wind and the cold, wintry light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You\u2019re my religion. You\u2019re all I\u2019ve got."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Nobody ever lives their life all the way up except bullfighters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Man is not made for defeat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The bicycle riders drank much wine, and were burned and browned by the sun. They did not take the race seriously except among themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: All bad writers are in love with the epic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: One cat just leads to another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, \"What will you have, sir?\" And I said, \"A glass of hemlock.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You never understand anybody that loves you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Happiness is often presented as being very dull but, he thought, lying awake, that is because dull people are sometimes very happy and intelligent people can and do go around making themselves and everyone else miserable. He had never found happiness dull. It always seemed more exciting than any other thing and capable of as great intensity as sorrow to those people who were capable of having it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I was so sentimental about you I'd break any one's heart for you. My, I was a damned fool. I broke my own heart, too. It's broken and gone. Everything I believe in and everything I cared about I left for you because you were so wonderful and you loved me so much that love was all that mattered. Love was the greatest thing, wasn't it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: He rested sitting on the un-stepped mast and sail and tried not to think but only to endure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Because Fascism is a lie, it is condemned to literary sterility. And when it is past, it will have no history, except the bloody history of murder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: As long as you can start, you are all right. The juice will come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: But in the night he woke and held her tight as though she were all of life and it was being taken from him. He held her feeling she was all of life there was and it was true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There is no rule on how to write."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I drank a bottle of wine for company. It was Chateau Margaux. It was pleasant to be drinking slowly and to be tasting the wine and to be drinking alone. A bottle of wine was good company."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: All our words from loose using have lost their edge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: A severed femoral artery empties itself faster than you can believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Why, darling, I don't live at all when I'm not with you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: All modern American literature comes from one book by Mark Twain called Huckleberry Finn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The best writing is certainly when you are in love"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: All my life I've looked at words as though I were seeing them for the first time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I was trying to write then and I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather that what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action; what the actual things which produced the emotion that you experienced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You know that fiction, prose rather, is possibly the roughest trade of all in writing. You do not have the reference, the old important reference. You have the sheet of blank paper, the pencil, and the obligation to invent truer than things can be true. You have to take what is not palpable and make it completely palpable and also have it seem normal and so that it can become a part of experience of the person who reads it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, \"Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There are the two curses of Spain, the bulls and the priests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The things of the night cannot be explained in the day, because they do not then exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: For what are we born if not to aid one another?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Why did they make birds so delicate and fine as those sea swallows when the ocean can be so cruel?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: All things truly wicked start from innocence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: If a writer stops observing, he is finished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Writing, at its best, is a lonely life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcas of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one. You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The further you go in writing the more alone you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There will always be people who say it does not exist because they cannot have it. But I tell you it is true and that you have it and that you are lucky even if you die tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always try for something that has never been done or that others have tried and failed. Then sometimes, with great luck, he will succeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: A girl came in the cafe and sat by herself at a table near the window. She was very pretty with a face fresh as a newly minted coin if they minted coins in smooth flesh with rain-freshened skin, and her hair black as a crow's wing and cut sharply and diagonally across her cheek."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it. There are only certain words which are valid and similes (bring me my dictionary) are like defective ammunition (the lowest thing I can think of at this time)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: As a writer, you should not judge, you should understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Worry destroys the ability to write."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I believe that basically you write for two people; yourself to try to make it absolutely perfect; or if not that then wonderful. Then you write for who you love whether she can read or write or not and whether she is alive or dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Eschew the monumental. Shun the Epic. All the guys who can paint great big pictures can paint great small ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: When you work hard all day with your head and know you must work again the next day what else can change your ideas and make them run on a different plane like whisky?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: What difference does it make if you live in a picturesque little outhouse surrounded by 300 feeble minded goats and your faithful dog? The question is: Can you write?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I learned never to empty the well of my writing, but always to stop when there was still something there in the deep part of the well, and let it refill at night from the springs that fed it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There is no friend as loyal as a book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: A person with increasing knowledge and sensory education may derive infinite enjoyment from wine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: All stories, if continued far enough, end in death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Do you know how an ugly woman feels? Do you know what it is to be ugly all your life and inside to feel that you are beautiful? It is very rare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: My life used to be full of everything. Now if you aren't with me I haven't a thing in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: If my Valentine you won't be, I'll hang myself on your Christmas tree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: What is moral is what you feel good after."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The whiskey warmed his tongue and the back of his throat, but it did not change his ideas any, and suddenly, looking at himself in the mirror behind the bar, he knew that drinking was never going to do any good to him now. Whatever he had now he had, and it was from now on, and if he drank himself unconscious when he woke up it would be there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I belong to this notebook and this pencil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: So this was how you died, in whispers that you did not hear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Out of all the things you could not have there were some things that you could have and one of those was to know when you were happy and to enjoy all of it while it was there and it was good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I felt very lonely when they were all there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Some other places were not so good but maybe we were not so good when we were in them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: That every day should be a fiesta seemed to me a wonderful discovery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You won't do our things with another girl, or say the same things, will you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more difficult than anything else that I have ever done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Anyone can be a fisherman in May."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: In the spring mornings I would work early while my wife still slept. The windows were open wide and the cobbles of the street were drying after the rain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it. Financial security then is a great help as it keeps you from worrying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: A wine shop was open and I went in for some coffee. It smelled of early morning, of swept dust, spoons in coffee-glasses and the wet circles left by wine glasses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: It's none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I had an inheritance from my father, It was the moon and the sun. And though I roam all over the world, The spending of it\u2019s never done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you. Or rather you can if you will be ruthless enough about it. But the best writing is certainly when you are in love. If it is all the same to you I would rather not expound on that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Having books published is very destructive to writing. It is even worse than making love too much. Because when you make love too much at least you get a damned clarte that is like no other light. A very clear and hollow light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The best way is to read it all every day from the start, correcting as you go along, then go on from where you stopped the day before. When it gets so long that you can't do this every day read back two or three chapters each day; then each week read it all from the start. That's how you make it all of one piece."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Every day is a new day. It is better to be lucky. But I would rather be exact. Then when luck comes you are ready."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings. First you have to know the subject; then you have to know how to write. Both take a lifetime to learn, and anybody is cheating who takes politics as a way out. All the outs are too easy, and the thing itself is too hard to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There is no rule on how to write. Sometimes it comes easily and perfectly; sometimes it's like drilling rock and then blasting it out with charges."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I have a rotten habit of picturing the bedroom scenes of my friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it than for the lovely, perfect wood-fringed lake you see across the sun-baked salt plain. You have walked across that plain in the morning and you know that no such lake is there. But now it is there absolutely true, beautiful and believable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words? He thinks I don\u2019t know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Often a man wishes to be alone and a girl wishes to be alone too and if they love each other they are jealous of that in each other, but I can truly say we never felt that. We could feel alone when we were together, alone against the others. But we were never lonely and never afraid when we were together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The great thing is to last and get your work done and see and hear and learn and understand; and write when there is something that you know; and not before, and not too damned much after."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You're not a moron. You're only a case of arrested development."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Work could cure almost anything"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I was young and not gloomy and there were always strange and comic things that happened in the worst time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: All you need to do is write truly and not care about what the fate of it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Oh, now, now, now, the only now, and above all now, and there is no other now but thou now and now is thy prophet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I am opposed to writing about the private lives of living authors and psychoanalyzing them while they are alive. Criticism is getting all mixed up with a combination of the Junior FBI-men, discards from Freud and Jung and a sort of Columnist peep-hole and missing laundry list school. ... Every young English professor sees gold in them dirty sheets now. Imagine what they can do with the soiled sheets of four legal beds by the same writer and you can see why their tongues are slavering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You love a lot of things if you live around them, but there isn't any woman and there isn't any horse, nor any before nor any after, that is as lovely as a great airplane."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: If the reader prefers, this book may be regarded as fiction. But there is always the chance that such a book of fiction may throw some light on what has been written as fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: My attitude toward punctuation is that it ought to be as conventional as possible. The game of golf would lose a good deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green. You ought to be able to show that you can do it a good deal better than anyone else with the regular tools before you have a license to bring in your own improvements."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I'm not advocating the strenuous life for everyone or trying to say it's the choice form of life. Anyone who's had the luck or misfortune to be an athlete has to keep his body in shape. The body and mind are closely coordinated. Fattening of the body can lead to fattening of the mind. I would be tempted to say that it can lead to fattening of the soul, but I don't know anything about the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I write description in longhand because that's hardest for me and you're closer to the paper when you work by hand, but I use the typewriter for dialogue because people speak like a typewriter works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: For luck you carried a horse chestnut and a rabbit?s foot in your right pocket. The fur had been worn off the rabbit?s foot long ago and the bones and the sinews were polished by the wear. The claws scratched in the lining of your pocket and you knew your luck was still there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: But Paris was a very old city and we were young and nothing was simple there, not even poverty, nor sudden money, nor the moonlight, nor right and wrong nor the breathing of someone who lay beside you in the moonlight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: All the critics who could not make their reputations by discovering you are hoping to make them by predicting hopefully your approaching impotence, failure and general drying up of natural juices. Not a one will wish you luck or hope that you will keep on writing unless you have political affiliations in which case these will rally around and speak of you and Homer, Balzac, Zola and Link Steffens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Nobody climbs on skis now and almost everybody breaks their legs but maybe it is easier in the end to break your legs than to break your heart although they say that everything breaks now and that sometimes, afterwards, many are stronger at the broken places."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: War is not won by victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: If he wrote it, he could get rid of it. He had gotten rid of many things by writing them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: 'Safety', the wife of Pablo said. 'There is no such thing as safety. There are so many seeking safety here now that they make a great danger. In seeking safety now you lose all.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I am so in love with you that there isn\u2019t anything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Wine is one of the most civilized things in the world and one of the most natural things of the world that has been brought to the greatest perfection, and it offers a greater range for enjoyment and appreciation than, possibly, any other purely sensory thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of the country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: No Pilar,\" Agustin said. \"You are not smart. You are brave. You are loyal. You have decision. You have intuition. Much decision and much heart. But you are not smart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: By then I knew that everything good and bad left an emptiness when it stopped. But if it was bad, the emptiness filled up by itself. If it was good you could only fill it by finding something better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Madame, it is an old word and each one takes it new and wears it out himself. It is a word that fills with meaning as a bladder with air and the meaning goes out of it as quickly. It may be punctured as a bladder is punctured and patched and blown up again and if you have not had it does not exist for you. All people talk of it, but those who have had it are marked by it, and I would not wish to speak of it further since of all things it is the most ridiculous to talk of and only fools go through it many times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: An aggressive war is the great crime against everything good in the world. A defensive war, which must necessarily turn to aggressive at the earliest moment, is the necessary great counter-crime. But never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. Ask the infantry and ask the dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish and of forgetting that the fish has a hook in his mouth, his gullet, or his belly and that his gameness is really an extreme of panic in which he runs, leaps, and pulls to get away until he dies. It would seem to be enough advantage to the angler that the fish has the hook in his mouth rather than the angler."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: He could beat anything, he thought, because no thing could hurt him if he did not care."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The ocean is worth writing about just as man is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: My heart's broken,' he thought. 'If I feel this way my heart must be broken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: But sometimes when I was starting a new story and I could not get it going, I would sit in front of the fire and squeeze the peel of the little oranges into the edge of the flame and watch the sputter of blue that they made. I would stand and look out over the roofs of Paris and think, 'Do not worry. You have always written before and you will write now. All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.' So finally I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day. Night life is when you get up with a hangover in the morning. Night life is when everybody says what the hell and you do not remember who paid the bill. Night life goes round and round and you look at the wall to make it stop. Night life comes out of a bottle and goes into a jar. If you think how much are the drinks it is not night life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: A man's got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to suspend your imagination and live completely in the very second of the present with no before and no after is the greatest gift a soldier can acquire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The story was writing itself and I was having a hard time keeping up with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Never fall in love?\" \"Always,\" said the count. \"I am always in love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: It's all nonsense. It's only nonsense. I'm not afraid of the rain. I am not afraid of the rain. Oh, oh, God, I wish I wasn't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: In modern war... you will die like a dog for no good reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Keep right on lying to me. That's what I want you to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I don't think I ever owned twenty pencils at one time. Wearing down seven number-two pencils is a good day's work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: We think. We are not peasants. We are mechanics. But even the peasants know better than to believe in a war. Everybody hates war. There is a class that control a country that is stupid and down not realise anything and never can. That is why we have this war. Also they make money out of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Until the dead are buried they change somewhat in appearance each day. The color change in Caucasian races is from white to yellow, to yellow-green, to black. If left long enough in the heat the flesh comes to resemble coal-tar, especially where it has been broken or torn, and it has quite a visible tarlike iridescence. The dead grow larger each day until sometimes they become quite too big for their uniforms, filling these until they seem blown tight enough to burst. The individual members may increase in girth to an unbelievable extent and faces fill as taut and globular as balloons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: To be a successful father... there's one absolute rule: when you have a kid, don't look at it for the first two years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: He no longer dreamed of storms, nor of women, nor of great occurrences, nor of great fish, nor fights, nor contests of strength, nor of his wife. He only dreamed of places now and the lions on the beach. They played like young cats in the dusk and he loved them as he loved the boy. He never dreamed about the boy. He simply woke, looked out the open door at the moon and unrolled his trousers and put them on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I was always embarresed by the words 'sacred,' 'glorious,' and 'sacrifice' and the expression 'in vain.' We had heard them, sometimes standing in the rain almost out of earshot, so that only the shouted words came through, and had read them on proclamations that were slapped up by billposters over other proclamations, now for a long time, and I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stock yards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: He would lie in the bed and finally, with daylight, he would go to sleep. After all, he said to himself, it is probably only insomnia. Many must have it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Most people are heartless about turtles because a turtle's heart will beat for hours after he has been cut up and butchered. But the old man thought, I have such a heart too and my feet and hands are like theirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I did not care what it was all about. All I wanted to know was how to live in it. Maybe if you found out how to live in it you learned from that what is was all about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I would walk along the quais when I had finished work or when I was trying to think something out. It was easier to think if I was walking and doing something or seeing people doing something that they understood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I would like to take the great DiMaggio fishing,\" the old man said. \"They say his father was a fisherman. Maybe he was as poor as we are and would understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Drinking wine was not a snobbism nor a sign of sophistication nor a cult; it was as natural as eating and to me as necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Dying is a very simple thing. I've looked at death and really I know. If I should have died it would have been very easy for me. Quite the easiest thing I ever did. But the people at home do not realize that. They suffer a thousand times more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Somebody just back of you while you are fishing is as bad as someone looking over your shoulder while you write a letter to your girl."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You must hold hard to life and do it. But life is a cheap thing beside a man's work. The only thing is that you need it. Hold it tight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You make your own luck, Gig. You know what makes a good loser? Practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: French is the language of diplomacy. Spanish is the language of bureaucracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: No one should be alone in their old age, he thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Everything that a painter did or that a writer wrote was a part of his training and preparation for what he was to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: It was like certain dinners I remember from the war. There was much wine, an ignored tension, and a feeling of things coming that you could not prevent happening. Under the wine I lost the disgusted feeling and was happy. It seemed they were all such nice people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The telephone and visitors are the work destroyers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Enjoying living was learning to get your money's worth and knowing when you had it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: He was just a coward and that was the worst luck any many could have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: No well-run yacht basin in Southern waters is complete without at least two sun-burned, salt bleached-headed Esthonians who are waiting for a check from their last article. When it comes they will set sail to another yacht basin and write another saga."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: She is kind and very beautiful. But she can be so cruel and it comes so suddenly and such birds that fly, dipping and hunting, with their small sad voices are made too delicately for the sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: If you have a success, you have it for the wrong reasons. If you become popular it is always because of the worst aspects of your work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You don't have to destroy me. Do you? I'm only a woman who loves you and wants to do what you want to do. I've been destroyed two or three times already. You wouldn't want to destroy me again, would you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The brave dies perhaps two thousand deaths if he's intelligent. He simply doesn't mention them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: And who understands? Not me, because if I did I would forgive it all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I read my own books sometimes to cheer me when it is hard to write, and then I remember that it was always difficult, and how nearly impossible it was sometimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness, but I doubt if they improve his writing.... For he does his work alone and if he is a good enough writer he must face eternity, or the lack of it, each day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Wine is the most civilized thing in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The world is a fine place and worth the fighting for and I hate very much to leave it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: When you start to live outside yourself, it's all dangerous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: They were beaten to start with. They were beaten when they took them from their farms and put them in the army. That is why the peasant has wisdom, because he is defeated from the start. Put him in power and see how wise he is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I suppose if a man has something once, always something of it remains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There are some things which cannot be learned quickly, and time, which is all we have, must be paid heavily for their acquiring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The bulls are my best friends.\" I translated to Brett. \"You kill your friends?\" she asked. \"Always,\" he said in English, and laughed. \"So they don't kill me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: But you always fall for somebody else and then it's all right. Fall for them but don't let them ruin you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I wanted to try this new drink: That's all we do, isn't it - look at things and try new drinks?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I have noticed that doctors who fail in the practice of medicine have a tendency to seek one another's company and aid in consultation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There is nothing else than now. There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow. How old must you be before you know that? There is only now, and if now is only two days, then two days is your life and everything in it will be in proportion. This is how you live a life in two days. And if you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: If the book is good, is about something that you know, and is truly written, and reading it over you see that this is so, you can let the boys yip and the noise will have that pleasant sound coyotes make on a very cold night when they are out in the snow and you are in your own cabin that you have built or paid for with your work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I do not think I had ever seen a nastier-looking man. Under the black hat, when I had first seen them, the eyes had been those of an unsuccessful rapist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Everything that's innocent to us is crazy to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: His (the writer's) standard of fidelity to the truth should be so high that his invention, out of his experience, should produce a truer account than anything factual can be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: No horse named Morbid ever won a race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Let those who want to save the world if you can get to see it clear and as a whole. Then any part you make will represent the whole if it's made truly. The thing to do is work and learn to make it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Survival, with honor, that outmoded and all-important word, is as difficult as ever and as all-important to a writer. Those who do not last are always more beloved since no one has to see them in their long, dull, unrelenting, no-quarter-given-and-no-quarter-received, fights that they make to do something as they believe it should be done before they die. Those who die or quit early and easy and with every good reason are preferred because they are understandable and human. Failure and well-disguised cowardice are more human and more beloved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: it wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: No weapon has ever settled a moral problem. It can impose a solution but it cannot guarantee it to be a just one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: My big fish must be somewhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: All a man has is pride. Sometimes you have it so much it is a sin. We have all done things for pride that we knew were impossible. We didn't care. But a man must implement his pride with intelligence and care."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: For a true writer each book should be a new beginning, where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I love you and I always will and I am sorry. What a useless word."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: After writing a story I was always empty and both sad and happy, as though I had made love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There isn't any me. I'm you. Don't make up a separate me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit it again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You have it now and that is all your whole life is; now.  There is nothing else than now.  There is neither yesterday, certainly, nor is there any tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Some people show evil as a great racehorse shows breeding. They have the dignity of a hard chancre."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Il faut d'abord durer (First One Must Endure)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The world was not wheeling anymore. It was just very clear and bright and inclined to blur at the edges."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I started out very quiet and I beat Mr. Turgenev. Then I trained hard and I beat Mr. de Maupassant. I've fought two draws with Mr. Stendhal, and I think I had an edge in the last one. But nobody's going to get me in any ring with Mr. Tolstoy unless I'm crazy or I keep getting better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: His talent was as natural as the pattern that was made by the dust on a butterfly's wings. At one time he understood it no more than the butterfly did and he did not know when it was brushed or marred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Madame, all stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: It's a town you come to for a short time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I've seen you, beauty, and you belong to me now, whoever you are waiting for and if I never see you again, I thought. You belong to me and all Paris belongs to me and I belong to this notebook and this pencil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: What is the definition of guts? Grace under pressure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and it is cool or cold and you come to your work and warm as you write."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Everybody has strange things that mean things to them. You couldn't help it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I would not have thought of eating a meal without drinking a beer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There was no really good true war book during the entire four years of the war. The only true writing that came through during the war was in poetry. One reason for this is that poets are not arrested as quickly as prose writers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The English talked with inflected phrases. One phrase to mean everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: God knows, people who are paid to have attitudes toward things, professional critics, make me sick; camp-following eunuchs of literature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The questioners had that beautiful detachment and devotion to stern justice of men dealing in death without being in any danger of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I was blown up while we were eating cheese."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: What a writer has to do is write what hasn't been written before or beat dead men at what they have done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made. Almost no new classics resemble other previous classics. At first people see only the awkwardness. Then they are not so perceptible. When they show so very awkwardly people think these awkwardnesses are the style and many copy them. This is regrettable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Some writers are only born to help another writer write one sentence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Sometimes you know the story. Sometimes you make it up as you go along and have no idea how it will come out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: He had loved too much, demanded too much, and he wore it all out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Fish,\" he said, \"I love you and respect you very much. But I will kill you dead before this day ends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: When you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Wine is a grand thing,\" I said. \"It makes you forget all the bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: It is a miserable thing to have people writing about your private life while you are alive. I have tried to stop it all that I could but there have been many abuses by people I trusted. You cannot stop trusting people in life but I have learned to be a little bit careful. The way to make people trust-worthy is to trust them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Luck is a thing that comes in many forms and who can recognize her?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I loved her and I loved no one else and we had a lovely magic time while we were alone. I worked well and we made great trips, and I thought we were invulnerable again, and it wasn't until we were out of the mountains in late spring, and back in Paris, that the other thing started again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: How do you tell a valuable French book?' 'First there are the pictures. Then it is a question of the quality of the pictures. Then it is the binding. If a book is good, the owner will have it bound properly. All books in English are bound, but bound badly. There is no way of judging them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: It wasn't by accident that the Gettysburg address was so short. The laws of prose writing are as immutable as those of flight, of mathematics, of physics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Bigotry is an odd thing. To be bigoted you have to be absolutely sure you are right and nothing makes that surety and righteousness like continence. Continence is the foe of heresy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The house was built on the highest part of the narrow tongue of land between the harbor and the open sea. It had lasted through three hurricanes and it was built solid as a ship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The road to Hell is paved with unbought stuffed dogs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Write the best story that you can and write it as straight as you can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Here is the piece. If you can't say fornicate can you say copulate or if not that can you say co-habit? If not that would have to say consummate I suppose. Use your own good taste and judgment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the wall above the urinal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman is either chaste or not, and after one piece of dishonest writing he is never the same again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Nobody that ever left their own country ever wrote anything worth printing. Not even in the newspapers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: It is impossible to believe the emotional and spiritual intensity and pure, classic beauty that can be produced by a man, an animal, and a piece of scarlet serge draped over a stick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I wonder what your idea of heaven would be \u2014 A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists. All powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death. And hell would probably an ugly vacuum full of poor polygamists unable to obtain booze or with chronic stomach disorders that they called secret sorrows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I was as afraid as the next man in my time and maybe more so. But with the years, fear had come to be regarded as a form of stupidity to be classed with overdrafts, acquiring a venereal disease or eating candies. Fear is a child's vice and while I loved to feel it approach, as one does with any vice, it was not for grown men and the only thing to be afraid of was the presence of true and imminent danger in a form that you should be aware of and not be a fool if you were responsible for others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: And we could have all this,' she said. 'And we could have everything and every day we make it more impossible.' 'What did you say?' 'I said we could have everything.' 'We can have everything.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can have the whole world.' 'No, we can't.' 'We can go everywhere.' 'No, we can't. It isn't ours anymore.' 'It's ours.' 'No, it isn't. And once they take it away, you never get it back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to break them, so of course it kills them. The world breaks every one and afterward many are strong at the broken places. But those that will not break it kills. It kills the very good and the very gentle and the very brave impartially. If you are none of these you can be sure it will kill you too but there will be no special hurry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: A beautiful vacuum filled with wealthy monogamists, all powerful and members of the best families all drinking themselves to death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I don't want to be your friend, baby. I am your friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: If a writer of prose knows enough about what he is writing about he may omit things that he knows and the reader, if the writer is writing truly enough, will have a feeling of those things as strongly as though the writer had stated them. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one-eighth of it being above water. A writer who omits things because he does not know them only makes hollow places in his writing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I've seen a lot of patriots and they all died just like anybody else if it hurt bad enough and once they were dead their patriotism was only good for legends; it was bad for their prose and made them write bad poetry. If you are going to be a great patriot i.e. loyal to any existing order of government (not one who wishes to destroy the existing for something better) you want to be killed early if your life and works won't stink."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The way to learn whether a person is trustworthy is to trust him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Now Catherine would die. That was what you did. You died. You did not know what it was about. You never had time to learn. They threw you in and told you the rules and the first time they caught you off base they killed you. Or they killed you gratuitously like Aymo. Or gave you the syphilis like Rinaldi. But they killed you in the end. You could count on that. Stay around and they would kill you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: He did not care for the lying at first. He hated it. Then later he had come to like it. It was part of being an insider but it was a very corrupting business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You're an expatriate. You've lost touch with the soil. You get precious. Fake European standards have ruined you. You drink yourself to death. You become obsessed by sex. You spend all your time talking, not working. You are an expatriate, see? You hang around cafTs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The fact that I am interrupting serious work to answer these questions proves that I am so stupid that I should be penalized severely. I will be. Don't worry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: In company with people of your own trade you ordinarily speak of other writers' books. The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves. Joyce was a very great writer and he would only explain what he was doing to jerks. Other writers that he respected were supposed to be able to know what he was doing by reading it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The great artist when he comes, uses everything that has been discovered or known about his art up to that point, being able to accept or reject in a time so short it seems that the knowledge was born with him, rather than that he takes instantly what it takes the ordinary man a lifetime to know, and then the great artist goes beyond what has been done or known and makes something of his own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Ezra was right half the time, and when he was wrong, he was so wrong you were never in any doubt about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I wish I could write well enough to write about aircraft. Faulkner did it very well in Pylon but you cannot do something someone else has done though you might have done it if they hadn't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Now, being in Africa, I was hungry for more of it, the changes of the seasons, the rains with no need to travel, the discomforts that you paid to make it real, the names of the trees, of the small animals, and all the birds, to know the language and have time to be in it and to move slowly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Everything you have is to give. Thou art a phenomenon of philosophy and an unfortunate man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You know lots of criticism is written by characters who are very academic and think it is a sign you are worthless if you make jokes or kid or even clown. I wouldn't kid Our Lord if he was on the cross. But I would attempt a joke with him if I ran into him chasing the money changers out of the temple."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: They can't yank a novelist like they can a pitcher. A novelist has to go the full nine, even if it kills him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: It is one thing to be in the proximity of death, to know more or less what she is, and it is quite another thing to seek her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I might say that what amateurs call a style is usually only the unavoidable awkwardnesses in first trying to make something that has not heretofore been made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Everything is on such a clear financial basis in France. It is the simplest country to live in. No one makes things complicated by becoming your friend for any obscure reason. If you want people to like you you have only to spend a little money. I spent a little money and the waiter liked me. He appreciated my valuable qualities. He would be glad to see me, and would want me at his table. It would be a sincere liking because it would have a sound basis. I was back in France."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: To hell with the Church when it becomes a State and the hell with the State when it becomes a Church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There's no one thing that's true. It's all true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: But in the meantime all the life you have or ever will have is today, tonight, tomorrow, today, tonight, tomorrow, over and over again (I hope)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Paris is so very beautiful that it satisfies something in you that is always hungry in America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: We have come out of the time when obedience, the acceptance of discipline, intelligent courage and resolution were most important, into that more difficult time when it is a man's duty to understand his world rather than simply fight for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: He saw the girl watching him and he smiled at her. It was an old smile that he had been using for fifty years, ever since he first smiled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Now a writer can make himself a nice career while he is alive by espousing a political cause, working for it, making a profession of believing in it, and if it wins he will be very well placed. All politics is a matter of working hard without reward, or with a living wage for a time, in the hope of booty later. A man can be a Fascist or a Communist and if his outfit gets in he can get to be an ambassador or have a million copies of his books printed by the Government or any of the other rewards the boys dream about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Read anything I write for the pleasure of reading it. Whatever else you find will be the measure of what you brought to the reading."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Do not think about sin, he thought. There are enough problems now without sin. Also I have no understanding of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: So far, about morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: It is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Time is the least thing we have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There are many who do not know they are fascists but will find it out when the time comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You ought to be ironical the minute you get out of bed. You ought to wake up with your mouth full of pity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: For him it was a dark passage which led to nowhere, then to nowhere, then again to nowhere, once again to nowhere, always and forever to nowhere, heavy on the elbows in the earth to nowhere, dark, never any end to nowhere, hung on all time always to unknowing nowhere, this time and again for always to nowhere, now not to be borne once again always and to nowhere, now beyond all bearing up, up, up and into nowhere, suddenly, scaldingly, holdingly all nowhere gone and time absolutely still and they were both there, time having stopped and he felt the earth move out and away from under them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I always rewrite each day up to the point where I stopped. When it is all finished, naturally you go over it. You get another chance to correct and rewrite when someone else types it, and you see it clean in type. The last chance is in the proofs. You're grateful for these different chances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You can write anytime people will leave you alone and not interrupt you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: But don't try to find an untroublesome woman. She will dull out on you. What makes a woman good in bed makes it impossible for her to live alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Though there is one part of writing that is solid and you do it no harm by talking about it, the other is fragile, and if you talk about it, the structure cracks and you have nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: And the ones who would not make war? Can they stop it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: When I am working on a book or a story I write every morning as soon after first light as possible. There is no one to disturb you and is it is cool and you come to your work and warm as you write. You read what you have written and, as you always stop when you know what is going to happen next, you go on from there. You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and know what will happen next and you stop and try to live through until the next day when you hit again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: If the wind rises it can push us against the flood when it comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: A continent ages quickly once we come. The natives live in harmony with it. But the foreigner destroys, cuts down the trees, drains the water, so that the water supply is altered, and in a short time the soil, once the sod is turned under, is cropped out and, next, it starts to blow away as it has blown away in every old country and as I had seen it start to blow in Canada. The earth gets tired of being exploited."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I am always in love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Listen now. When people talk listen completely. Don't be thinking what you're going to say. Most people never listen. Nor do they observe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You never kill any one that you want to kill in a war, he said to himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need to list these writers. Everyone here may make his own list according to his knowledge and his conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I love thee and thou art so lovely and so wonderful and so beautiful and it does such things to me to be with thee that I feel as though I wanted to die when I am loving thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: He remembered poor Julian [actually F. Scott Fitzgerald] and his romantic awe of them and how he had started a story once that began, \"The very rich are different from you and me.\" And how someone had said to Julian, \"Yes, they have more money.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I never knew of a morning in Africa when I woke that I was not happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There is no lonelier man in death, except the suicide, than that man who has lived many years with a good wife and then outlived her. If two people love each other there can be no happy end to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Try and write straight English; never using slang except in dialogue and then only when unavoidable. Because all slang goes sour in a short time. I only use swear words, for example, that have lasted at least a thousand years for fear of getting stuff that will be simply timely and then go sour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: In the fall the war was always there but we did not go to it any more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: To make war all you need is intelligence. But to win you need talent and material."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: We thought of wine as something as healthy and normal as food and also as a great giver of happiness and well being and delight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Let him think is I am more man than I am and I will be so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: He knew he would not be afraid. Even if he ever was afraid he knew that he could do it anyway."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: It was considered a virtue not to talk unnecessarily at sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Write as well as you can and finish what you start."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Each day of not writing, of comfort, of being that which he despised, dulled his ability and softened his will to work so that, finally, he did no work at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Honor to a Spaniard, no matter how dishonest, is as real a thing as water, wine, or olive oil. There is honor among pickpockets and honor among whores. It is simply that the standards differ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You make something from things that have happened and from things that exist and from all things that you know and all those you cannot know, and you make something through your invention that is truer than anything true and alive, and if you make it well enough, you give it immortality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: And you'll always love me won't you? Yes And the rain won't make any difference? No"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: A writer is like a gypsy. He owes no allegiance to any government. If he is a good writer he will never like any government he lives under. His hand should be against it and its hand will always be against him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: And you treat me wonderfully and keep all your promises."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Isn't it pretty to think so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Personal columnists are jackals and no jackal has been known to live on grass once he had learned about meat - no matter who killed the meat for him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: No catalogue of horrors ever kept men from war. Before the war you always think that it's not you that dies. But you will die, brother, if you go to it long enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: What I learned constructive about women, not just ethics like never blame them if they pox you because somebody poxed them and lots of times they don't even know they have it \u2014 that's in the first reader for squares \u2014 is, no matter how they get, always think of them the way they were on the best day they ever had."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: It is awfully easy to be hard-boiled about everything in the daytime, but at night it is another thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Later he had seen the things that he could never think of and later still he had seen much worse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Fish,\" the old man said. \"Fish, you are going to have to die anyway. Do you have to kill me too?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I decided that I would write one story about each thing that I knew about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: All I know is that young boys sleep late and hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: What did I know best that I had not written about\n and Lost? What did I know about truly and care for the most?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: When things are going well, I like to have people to share it with. I've been alone in troubled times, and I don't mind that. Some things have to be endured alone. As Hemingway said, the human being is strong in all the broken places."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: And if there is not any such thing as a long time, nor the rest of your lives, nor from now on, but there is only now, why then now is the thing to praise and I am very happy with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: It could be worse,' Passini said respectfully. \"There is nothing worse than war.\" Defeat is worse.\" I do not believe it,\" Passini said still respectfully. \"What is defeat? You go home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other. We always returned to it no matter who we were or how it was changed or with what difficulties, or ease, it could be reached. Paris was always worth it and you received return for whatever you brought to it. But this is how Paris was in the early days when we were very poor and very happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Cheer up,' I said. 'All countries look just like the moving pictures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Real seriousness in regard to writing being one of the two absolute necessities. The other, unfortunately, is talent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life - and one is as good as another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Practice any faith you wish. Got a ball field up the island where you can practice. I'll give the Deity a fast one high and inside if he crowds the plate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Wearing down seven number two pencils is a good day's work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: He was violating the second rule of the two rules for getting on well with people that speak Spanish; give the men tobacco and leave the women alone"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Hombre, there are bodegas open all night long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: How simple the writing of literature would be if it were only necessary to write in another way what has been well written. It is because we have had such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I'm not unfaithful, darling. I've plenty of faults but I'm very faithful. You'll be sick of me I'll be so faithful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I kept this to remind me of you trying to brush away the Villa Rossa from your teeth in the morning, swearing and eating aspirin and cursing harlots. Every time I see that glass I think of you trying to clean your conscience with a toothbrush."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: It is a hell of a thing to be hungry in your own house."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There are so many good ones to paint and if you paint as well as you really can and keep out of all other things and do that, it is the true thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You know I don't love any one but you. You shouldn't mind because some one else loved me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: But perhaps he had enough animal strength and detached intelligence that he could make another start."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Our nada who art in nada, nada be thy name thy kingdom nada thy will be nada in nada as it is in nada. Give us this nada our daily nada and nada us our nada as we nada our nadas and nada us not into nada but deliver us from nada; pues nada. Hail nothing full of nothing, nothing is with thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: But did thee feel the earth move?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I say that is wine,\" Brett held up her glass. \"We ought to toast something. 'Here's to royalty.'\" \"This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. you don't want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. you lose the taste.\" Brett's glass was empty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The better the writers the less they will speak about what they have written themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: However you make your living is where your talent lies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Some lived in it and never felt it but he knew it all was nada y pues nada y nada y pues nada."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I had gone to no such place but to the smoke of cafes and nights when the room whirled and you needed to look at the wall to make it stop, nights in bed, drunk, when you knew that that was all there was, and the strange excitement of waking and not knowing who it was with you, and the world all unreal in the dark and so exciting that you must resume again unknowing and not caring in the night, sure that this was all and all and all and not caring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: To invent out of knowledge means to produce inventions that are true. Every man should have a built-in automatic crap detector operating inside him. It also should have a manual drill and a crank handle in case the machine breaks down. If you're going to write, you have to find out what's bad for you. Part of that you learn fast, and then you learn what's good for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Things may not be immediately discernible in what a man writes, and in this sometimes he is fortunate; but eventually they are quite clear and by these and the degree of alchemy that he possesses he will endure or be forgotten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You've such a lovely temperature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: A writer can be compared to a well. There are as many kinds of wells as there are writers. The important thing is to have good water in the well, and it is better to take a regular amount out than to pump the well dry and wait for it to refill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Clearly I miss Him, having been brought up in religion. But now a man must be responsible to himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: In war, one cannot say what one feels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: To have come on all this new world of writing, with time to read in a city like Paris where there was a way of living well and working, no matter how poor you were, was like having a great treasure given to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: When I saw my wife again standing by the tracks as the train came in by the piled logs at the station, I wished I had died before I had ever loved anyone but her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You're awfully dark, brother,\" he said. \"You don't know how dark."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The old man looked at him with his sun-burned, confident loving eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: And bed, he thought. Bed is my friend. Just bed, he thought. Bed will be a great thing. It is easy when you are beaten, he thought. I never knew how easy it was. And what beat you, the thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You did not kill the fish only to keep alive and to sell for food, he thought. You killed him for pride and because you are a fisherman. You loved him when he was alive and you loved him after. If you love him, it is not a sin to kill him. Or is it more?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: In those days, there was no money to buy books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Thou wilt go now, rabbit. But I go with thee. As long as there is one of us there is both of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: And this was the price you paid for sleeping together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There is nothing you can do except try to write it the way that it was. So you must write each day better than you possibly can and use the sorrow that you have now to make you know how the early sorrow came. And you must always remember the things you believed because if you know them they will be there in the writing and you won\u2019t betray them. The writing is the only progress you make."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Now he was proving it again. Each time was a new time and he never thought about the past when he was doing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Mr. Barnes, it is because I have lived very much that now I can enjoy everything so well"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I would take anything I love and throw it off the highest cliff you ever saw and not wait to hear it bounce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I don't like to write like God. It is only because you never do it, though, that the critics think you can't do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Take a good rest, small bird,\" he said. \"Then go in and take your chance like any man or bird or fish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I am an old man who will live until I die,\" Anselmo said."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: It was strange how easy being tired enough made it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Wars are Spinach. Life in general is the tough part. In war all you have to do is not worry and know how to read a map and co-ordinates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always a bloody owl."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: This looking and not seeing things was a great sin, I thought, and one that was easy to fall into. It was always the beginning of something bad and I thought that we did not deserve to live in the world if we did not see it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Switzerland is a small, steep country, much more up and down than sideways, and is all stuck over with large brown hotels built on the cuckoo clock style of architecture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Fish,\" he said softly, aloud, \"I'll stay with you until I am dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Have faith in the Yankees my son. Think of the great DiMaggio."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Yes, they have more money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: He did not say that because he knew that if you said a good thing it might not happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I am like a blind pig when I work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Where do the noses go? I always wondered where the noses would go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Having books published is very destructive to writing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: If you have to go away,' she said,'is it absolutely necessary to kill off everything you leave behind? I mean do you have to take away everything?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: it is all very well for you to write simply and the simpler the better. But do not start to think so damned simply. Know how complicated it is and then state it simply."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Oh, darling, I've been so miserable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I did not understand them but they did not have any mystery, and when I understood them they meant nothing to me. I was sorry about this but there was nothing I could do about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I am drunk, seest thou? When I am not drunk I do not talk. You have never heard me talk much. But an intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend his time with fools."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: That seemed to handle it. That was it. Send a girl off with one man. Introduce her to another to go off with him. Now go and bring her back. And sign the wire with love. That was it all right. I went in to lunch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I was a little drunk. Not drunk in any positive sense but just enough to be careless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: A good life is not measured by any biblical span."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: It seemed out of place to think of consequences during the fiesta."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I think you should learn about writing from everybody who has ever written that has anything to teach you"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Now I am depressed myself,' I said. 'That's why I never think about these things. I never think and yet when I begin to talk I say the things I have found out in my mind without thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: We have very primitive emotions,\u201d he said . \u201cIt's impossible not to be competitive. Spoils everything, though."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: My,' she said. 'We're lucky that you found the place.' We're always lucky,' I said and like a fool I did not knock on wood. There was wood everywhere in that apartment to knock on too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Up the road, in his shack, the old man was sleeping again. He was still sleeping on his face and the boy was sitting by him watching him. The old man was dreaming about the lions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Mice: What is the best early training for a writer? Y.C.: An unhappy childhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: He had always known what I did not know and what, when I learned it, I was always able to forget. But I did not know that then, although I learned it later."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I don't feel any way,' the girl said. 'I just know things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The fun of talk is to explore, but much of it and all that is irresponsible should not be written. Once written you have to stand by it. You may have said it to see whether you believed it or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I've been in love (truly) with five women, the Spanish Republic and the 4th Infantry Division."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Please tell me what can I do. There must be something I can do"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: If every one said orders were impossible to carry out when they were received where would you be? Where would we all be if you just said, \"Impossible,\" when orders came?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Certain numbers were the same way and certain dates and these with the names of the places were all you could say and have them mean anything. Abstract words such as glory, honor, courage, or hallow were obscene beside the concrete names of villages, the numbers of roads, the names of rivers, the numbers of regiments and the dates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The only place where you could see life and death, i. e., violent death now that the wars were over, was in the bull ring and I wanted very much to go to Spain where I could study it. I was trying to learn to write, commencing with the simplest things, and one of the simplest things of all and the most fundamental is violent death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Something, or something awful or something wonderful was certain to happen on every day in this part of Africa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: For we have thought the longer thoughts And gone the shorter way. And we have danced to devils' tunes, Shivering home to pray; To serve one master in the night, Another in the day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You don't have to destroy me. Do you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Perhaps wars weren't won anymore. Maybe they went on forever. Maybe it was another Hundred Years' War."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Oh Jake,\" Brett said, \"We could have had such a damned good time together.\" Ahead was a mounted policeman in khaki directing traffic. He raised his baton. The car slowed suddenly, pressing Brett against me. Yes,\" I said. \"Isn't it pretty to think so?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: When we came back to Paris it was clear and cold and lovely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I had seen nothing sacred, and the things that were glorious had no glory and the sacrifices were like the stockyards at Chicago if nothing was done with the meat except to bury it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: In the early morning on the lake sitting in the stern of the boat with his father rowing, he felt quite sure that he would never die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I would write one true sentence, and then go on from there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Your blood coagulates beautifully."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You're beautiful, like a May fly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: All stories, if continued far enough, end in death, and he is no true-story teller who would keep that from you. Especially do all stories of monogamy end in death, and your man who is monogamous while he often lives most happily, dies in the most lonely fashion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: There is a great inertia about all military operations of any size. But once this inertia has been overcome and underway they are almost as hard to arrest as to initiate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: No; that doesn't interest me.' 'That's because you never read a book about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: This is a good place,\" he said. \"There's a lot of liquor,\" I agreed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The only way to combat the murder that is war is to show the dirty combinations that make it and the criminals and swine that hope for it and the idiotic way they run it when they get it so that an honest man will distrust it as he would distrust a racket and refuse to be enslaved into it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I used to play cello. My mother kept me out of school a whole year to study music and counterpoint. She thought I had ability, but I was absolutely without talent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Going to another country doesn\u2019t make any difference. I\u2019ve tried all that. You can\u2019t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another. There\u2019s nothing to that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: This beer is good for you.  This is draft beer.  Stick with the beer.  Let's go and beat this guy up and come back and drink some more beer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Don't you drink? I notice you speak slightingly of the bottle. I have drunk since I was fifteen and few things have given me more pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: I'm always reading books-as many as there are. I ration myself on them so that I'll always be in supply."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Listen,\" I told him. \"Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Rereading places you at the point where it has to go on, knowing it is as good as you can get it up to there. There is always juice somewhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: Worry destroys the ability to write. Ill health is bad in the ratio that it produces worry which attacks your subconscious and destroys your nerves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ernest Hemingway: If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The world only exists in your eyes. You can make it as big or as small as you want"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: ...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the \"impossible,\" come true."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Don't forget who you are and where you come from."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You have a place in my heart no one else ever could have."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Having once found the intensity of art, nothing else that can happen in life can ever again seem as important as the creative process."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Egyptian Proverb: The worst things: To be in bed and sleep not, To want for one who comes not, To try to please and please not."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: mother says that two souls are sometimes created together and--and in love before they're born."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The world is always curious, and people become valuable merely for their inaccessibility"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Riches have never fascinated me, unless combined with the greatest charm or distinction."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Her philosophy is carpe diem for herself and laissez faire for others."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in the world, your imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it does something to them, makes them soft where we are hard, and cynical where we are trustful, in a way that, unless you were born rich, it is very difficult to understand. They think, deep in their hearts, that they are better than we are because we had to discover the compensations and refuges of life for ourselves. Even when they enter deep into our world or sink below us, they still think that they are better than we are. They are different."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Here's to alcohol, the rose colored glasses of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I never blame failure - there are too many complicated situations in life - but I am absolutely merciless toward lack of effort."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You are mysterious, I love you. You\u2019re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that\u2019s the rarest known combination."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Too much of anything is bad, but too much Champagne is just right."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Actually that\u2019s my secret \u2014 I can\u2019t even talk about you to anybody because I don\u2019t want any more people to know how wonderful you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I don\u2019t want just words. If that\u2019s all you have for me, you\u2019d better go"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He smiled understandingly-much more than understandingly. It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life. It faced--or seemed to face--the whole eternal world for an instant, and then concentrated on you with an irresistible prejudice in your favor. It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I want to know you moved and breathed in the same world with me."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: We all have souls of different ages"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: i'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Mostly, we authors must repeat ourselves - that's the truth. We have two or three great and moving experiences in our lives - experiences so great and moving that it doesn't seem at the time anyone else has been so caught up and so pounded and dazzled and astonished and beaten and broken and rescued and illuminated and rewarded and humbled in just that way ever before. Then we learn our trade, well or less well, and we tell our two or three stories - each time in a new disguise - maybe ten times, maybe a hundred, as long as people will listen."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I won\u2019t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can\u2019t get rid of habits."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your \"personality,\" as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: There's no substitute for will. Sometimes you have to fake will when you don't feel it at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I\u2019m not sure what I\u2019ll do, but\u2014 well, I want to go places and see people. I want my mind to grow. I want to live where things happen on a big scale."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She wanted to crawl into his pocket and be safe forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent mistress' is so much more tangible and desirable\u2026 ."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You seem to take things so personally, hating people and worshipping them--always thinking people are so important--especially yourselves. You just ask to be kicked around. I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it--on the inside."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She saw him the first day on board, and then her heart sank into her shoes as she realized at last how much she wanted him. No matter what his past was, no matter what he had done. Which was not to say that she would ever let him know, but only that he moved her chemically more than anyone she had ever met, that all other men seemed pale beside him."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: A squalid phantasmagoria of breath"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I'm a cynical idealist."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Well, I can't describe her exactly-except to say that she was beautiful. She was-tremendously alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I used to build dreams about you."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You remind me of a smoked cigarette."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: And I like large parties. They\u2019re so intimate. At small parties there isn\u2019t any privacy."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She was feeling the pressure of the world outside and she wanted to see him and feel his presence beside her and be reassured that she was doing the right thing after all."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay. And just as any period decays in our minds, the things of that period should decay too, and in that way they're preserved for a while in the few hearts like mine that react to them. Trying to preserve a century by keeping its relics up to date is like keeping a dying man alive by stimulants."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He had no plans, no definite intentions, except to kiss her lips again, to hold her in his arms."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The easiest way to get a reputation is to go outside the fold, shout around for a few years as a violent atheist or a dangerous radical, and then crawl back to the shelter."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I can\u2019t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don\u2019t want you to know. I don\u2019t want any one to know."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I want to tell you about your heart\u2014 you've probably been neglecting your heart\u2014and you don\u2019t know."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Celibacy goes deeper than the flesh."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world\u2019s weight he had never chosen to bear."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Think how you love me,' she whispered. 'I don't ask you to love me always like this, but I ask you to remember.' You'll always be like this to me.' Oh no; but promise me you'll remember.' Her tears were falling. 'I'll be different, but somewhere lost inside me there'll always be the person I am tonight."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It's not a slam at you when people are rude, it's a slam at the people they've met before."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Life cracked like ice!"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning-fork that had been struck upon a star."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: When a girl feels that she\u2019s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That\u2019s charm"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You'll find another.' God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Beauty is only to be admired, only to be loved - to be harvested carefully and then flung at a chosen lover like a gift of roses. It seems to me, so far as I can judge clearly at all, that my beauty would be used like that."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: There was a kindliness about intoxication - there was that indescribable gloss and glamour it gave, like the memories of ephemeral and faded evenings."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: \"Oh, you want too much!\" she cried to Gatsby. \"I love you now - isn't that enough? I can't help what's past.\" She began to sob helplessly. \"I did love him once-but I loved you too.\"\n<br>Gatsby's eyes opened and closed.\n<br>\"You loved me too?\" he repeated.\n<br>\"Even that's a lie,\" said Tom savagely. \"She didn't know you were alive. Why - there're things between Daisy and me that you'll never know, things that neither of us can ever forget.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: All I kept thinking about, over and over, was 'You can't live forever; you can't live forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I don't care about truth. I want some happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Of the things they possessed in common, greatest of all was their almost uncanny pull at each others hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I found something! Courage--just that; courage as a rule of life and something to cling to always."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Forgotten is forgiven."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Life is progressive, no matter what our intentions."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which included even a man's silk pajamas laid domestically across the bed. They stood in front of the jewelry stores and picked out their engagement rings, and their wedding rings and their platinum wrist watches, and then drifted on to inspect the feather fans and opera cloaks; meanwhile digesting the sandwiches and Sundaes they had eaten for lunch."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: How different it all was from what you'd planned."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Can\u2019t repeat the past?\u2026Why of course you can!"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You will walk differently alone, dear, through a thicker atmosphere, forcing your way through the shadows of chairs, through the dripping smoke of the funnels. You will feel your own reflection sliding along the eyes of those who look at you. You are no longer insulated; but I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: There's a right way of doing things and a wrong way. If you've made up your mind to be different from everybody else, I don't suppose I can stop you, but I really don't think it's very considerate."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter--as indissolubly as if they were conceived together."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Someday I'm going to find somebody and love him and love him and never let him go."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Men get to be a mixture of the charming mannerisms of the women they have known."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She had an air of seeming to wait, as if for a man to get through with something more important than herself, a battle or an operation, during which he must not be hurried or interfered with. When the man had finished she would be waiting, without fret or impatience, somewhere on a highstool, turning the pages of a newspaper."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: That familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You can stroke people with words."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: So he tasted the deep pain that is reserved only for the strong, just as he had tasted for a little while the deep happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You've got to sell your heart, your strongest reactions, not the little minor things that only touch you lightly, the little experiences that you might tell at dinner. This is especially true when you begin to write, when you have not yet developed the tricks of interesting people on paper, when you have none of the technique which it takes time to learn. When, in short, you have only your emotions to sell."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It takes two to make an accident."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It is sadder to find the past again and find it inadequate to the present than it is to have it elude you and remain forever a harmonious conception of memory."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I hope you live a life you're proud of..."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I\u2019ll tell you a story."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I began to realize that for two years my life had been a drawing on resources that I did not possess, that I had been mortgaging myself physically and spiritually up to the hilt."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: A sense of responsibility would spoil her. She's too pretty."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I don't want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He talked a lot about the past, and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy. His life had been confused and disordered since then, but if he could once return to a certain starting place and go over it all slowly, he could find out what that thing was."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Boredom is not an end-product, is comparatively rather an early stage in life and art. You've got to go by or past or through boredom, as through a filter, before the clear product emerges."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Nothing any good isn't hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Action is character."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She was a mischief, and that was a satisfaction; no longer was she a huntress of corralled game"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: At fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I'm inclined to reserve all judgement, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and made me the victim of not a few veteran bores. The abnormal mind is quick to detect and attach itself to this quality when it appears in a normal person, and so it came about that in college I was unjustly accused of being a politician, because I was privy to the secret griefs of wild, unknown men."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It isn't given to us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world. They will not be cured by our most efficacious drugs or slain with our sharpest swords."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Now he realized the truth: that sacrifice was no purchase of freedom. It was like a great elective office, it was like an inheritance of power - to certain people at certain times an essential luxury, carrying with it not a guarantee but a responsibility, not a security but an infinite risk. Its very momentum might drag him down to ruin - the passing of the emotional wave that made it possible might leave the one who made it high and dry forever on an island of despair...Sacrifice by its very nature was arrogant and impersonal; sacrifice should be eternally supercilious."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The bar is in full swing, and floating rounds of cocktails permeate the garden outside, until the air is alivewith chatter and laughter, and casual innuendo and introductions forgotten on the spot, and enthusiastic meetings between women who never knew each other\u2019s names."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It\u2019s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: This is what I think now: that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: the cracked plate has to be retained in the pantry, has to be kept in service as a household necessity. It can never be warmed on the stove nor shuffled with the other plates in the dishpan; it will not be brought out for company but it will do to hold crackers late at night or to go into the ice-box with the left overs."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that's no matter - to-morrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther ... And one fine morning ---"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Never miss a party...good for the nerves--like celery."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: My latest tendency is to collapse about 11:00 and with the tears flowing from my eyes or the gin rising to their level and leaking over, and tell interested friends or acquaintances that I haven't a friend in the world and likewise care for nobody."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Family quarrels are bitter things. They don't go according to any rules. They're not like aches or wounds, they're more like splits in the skin that won't heal because there's not enough material."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: His youth seemed never so vanished as now in the contrast between the utter loneliness of this visit and that riotous, joyful party of four years before. Things that had been the merest commonplaces of his life then, deep sleep, the sense of beauty around him, all desire, had flown away and the gaps they left were filled only with the great listlessness of his disillusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time..."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation - with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals. Even if, deep in my heart, I thought we were all blind atoms in a world as limited as a stroke of a pendulum, I and my sort would struggle against tradition; try, at least, to displace old cants with new ones. I've thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult. One thing I know. If living isn't seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The truth was that Jay Gatsby, of West Egg, Long Island, sprang from his Platonic conception of himself. He was a son of God\u2014a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that\u2014and he must be about His Father\u2019s Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Premature success gives one an almost mystical conception of destiny as opposed to will power-at its worst the Napoleonic delusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream. He must have looked up at an unfamiliar sky through frightening leaves and shivered as he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about...like that ashen, fantastic figure gliding toward him through the amorphous trees."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The rich are different from us."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I hate dainty minds,' answered Marjorie. 'But a girl has to be dainty in person. If she looks like a million dollars she can talk about Russia, ping-pong, or the League of Nations and get away with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Reserving judgements is a matter of infinite hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The lights grow brighter as the earth lurches away from the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering\u2014this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o\u2019clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn\u2019t work\u2014and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o\u2019clock in the morning, day after day."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: His hand took hold of hers, and as she said something low in his ear he turned toward her with a rush of emotion. I think that voice held him most, with its fluctuating, feverish warmth, because it couldn\u2019t be over-dreamed \u2014that voice was a deathless song."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Dear, don't think of getting out of bed yet. I've always suspected that early rising in early life makes one nervous."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I couldn\u2019t forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified. It was all very careless and confused. They were careless people, Tom and Daisy\u2014they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I had a strong sudden instinct that I must be alone. I didn\u2019t want to see any people at all. I had seen so many people all my life -- I was an average mixer, but more than average in a tendency to identify myself, my ideas, my destiny, with those of all classes that came in contact with. I was always saving or being saved -- in a single morning I would go through the emotions ascribable to Wellington at Waterloo. I lived in a world of inscrutable hostiles and inalienable friends and supporters."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: A new world, material without being real, where poor ghosts, breathing dreams like air, drifted fortuitously about."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Art isn't meaningless... It is in itself. It isn't in that it tries to make life less so."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Great art is the contempt of a great man for small art."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She wouldn't let go of the letter. She took it into the tub with her and squeezed it up in a wet ball, and only let me leave it in the soap dish when she saw that it was coming to pieces like snow."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The unwelcome November rain had perversely stolen the day's last hour and pawned it with that ancient fence, the night."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Rosemary felt that this swim would become the typical one of her life, the one that would always pop up in her memory at the mention of swimming."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Blessed are the dead that the rain falls on."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: that voice was a deathless song."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just a dreamer, not practical'- a year later they rail at him for making his dreams realities. They haven't clear logical ideas on one single subject except a sturdy, stolid opposition to all change. They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated too, and we're going round and round in a circle. That- is the great middle class."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It takes a genius to whine appealingly."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I have never wished there was a God to call on- I have often wished there was a God to thank."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: And he could not tell why the struggle was worthwhile, why he had determined to use the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself,\" he cried, \"But that is all."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The rich get richer and the poor get - children."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Kiss me now, love me now."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I'll drink your champagne. I'll drink every drop of it, I don't care if it kills me."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: When Eleanor's arm touched his he felt his hands grow cold with deadly fear lest he should lose the shadow brush with which his imagination was painting wonders of her. He watched her from the corners of his eyes as ever he did when he walked with her-- she was a feast and a folly and he wished it had been his destiny to sit forever on a haystack and see life through her green eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: What a wonderful song, she thought-everything was wonderful tonight, most of all this romantic scene in the den with their hands clinging and the inevitable looming charmingly close. The future vista of her life seemed an unending succession of scenes like this: under moonlight and pale starlight, and in the backs of warm limousines and in low cosy roadsters stopped under sheltering trees-only the boy might change, and this one was so nice."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: A lot of young girls together is a romantic secret thing like the first sight of wild ducks at dawn."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: taking her hand he led her out into a broad stretch of hard sandy soil that the moon flooded with great splendor. They floated out like drifting moths under the rich hazy light, and as the fantastic symphony wept and exulted and wavered and despaired, Ardita's last sense of reality dropped away, and she abandonded her imagination to the dreamy summer scents of tropial flowers and the infinite starry spaces overhead, feeling that if she opened her eyes it would be to find herself dancing with a ghost in a land created by her own fantasy."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He was so terrible that he was no longer terrible, only dehumanized."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trouble has no necessary connection with discouragement. Discouragement has a germ of its own, as different from trouble as arthritis is different from a stiff joint."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Life plays the same lovely and agonizing joke on all of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: There is a moment\u2014Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word\u2014something that makes it worth while."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Only remember west of the Mississippi it's a little more look, see, act. A little less rationalize, comment, talk."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I never noticed the stars before. I always thought of them as great big diamonds that belonged to some one. Now they frighten me. They make me feel that it was all a dream, all my youth."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Over the great bridge, with the sunlight through the girders making a constant flicker upon the moving cars, with the city rising up across the river in white heaps and sugar lumps all built with a wish out of non-olfactory money. The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Books are like brothers. I am an only child. Gatsby [is] my imaginary eldest brother."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: How the unforgettable faces of dusk would blend to her, the myriad footsteps, a thousand overtures, would blend to her footsteps; and there would be more drunkenness than wine in the softness of her eyes on his."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: His heart beat faster and faster as Daisy\u2019s white face came up to his own. He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God. So he waited, listening for a moment longer to the tuning fork that had been struck upon a star. Then he kissed her. At his lips\u2019 touch she blossomed like a flower and the incarnation was complete."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The afternoon had made them tranquil for a while, as if to give them a deep memory for the long parting the next day promised."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Optimism is the content of small men in high places."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He was handsome then if never before, bound for one of those immortal moments which come so radiantly that their remembered light is enough to see by for years."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The things that'll make you fail I'll love always."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Receding from grief, it seems necessary to retrace the same steps that brought us there."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken..."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: When people are taken out of their depths they lose their heads, no matter how charming a bluff they may put up."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: All I think of ever is that I love you."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: No grand idea was ever born in a conference, but a lot of foolish ideas have died there."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within-that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: These lights, this brightness, these clusters of human hope, of wild desire\u2014I shall take these lights in my fingers. I shall make them bright, and whether they shine or not, it is in these fingers that they shall succeed or fail."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It makes me sad because I've never seen such--such beautiful shirts before."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: First, he realized that the sea was blue and that there was an enormous quantity of it, and that it roared and roared-really all the banalities about the ocean that one could realize, but if any one had told him then that these things were banalities, he would have gaped in wonder."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Then she added in a sort of childish delight: 'We'll be poor, won't we? Like people in books. And I'll be an orphan and utterly free. Free and poor! What fun!' She stopped and raised her lips to him in a delighted kiss. 'It's impossible to be both together,' said John grimly. 'People have found that out. And I should choose to be free as preferable of the two."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Look at that,' she whispered, and then after a moment: 'I'd like to just get one of those pink clouds and put you in it and push you around."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You know, you\u2019re a little complicated after all.\u201d \u201cOh no,\u201d she assured him hastily. \u201cNo, I\u2019m not really - I\u2019m just a - I\u2019m just a whole lot of different simple people."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I can\u2019t exactly describe how I feel but it\u2019s not quite right. And it leaves me cold."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Their lips brushed like young wild flowers in the wind."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I want to be a society vampire, you see."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: And lastly from that period I remember riding in a taxi one afternoon between very tall buildings under a mauve and rosy sky; I began to bawl because I had everything I wanted and knew I would never be so happy again."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Strange children should smile at each other and say, \"Let's play."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them - this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: There are no second acts in American lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Then a strange thing happened. She turned to him and smiled, and as he saw her smile every rag of anger and hurt vanity dropped from him \u2014 as though his very moods were but the outer ripples of her own, as though emotion rose no longer in his breast unless she saw fit to pull an omnipotent controlling thread."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Beware the artist who's an intellectual also. The artist who doesn't fit."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: At any rate, let us love for a while, for a year or so, you and me. That's a form of divine drunkenness that we can all try. There are only diamonds in the whole world, diamonds and perhaps the shabby gift of disillusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: he used to think that he wanted to be good, he wanted to be kind, he wanted to be brave and wise, but it was all pretty difficult. He wanted to be loved, too, if he could fit it in."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: A stirring warmth flowed from her, as if her heart was trying to come out to you concealed in one of those breathless, thrilling words."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She smiled, a moving childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: For a while these reveries provided an outlet for his imagination; they were a satisfactory hint of the unreality of reality, a promise that the rock of the world was founded securely on a fairy's wing."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I've given parties that have made Indian rajahs green with envy. I've had prima donnas break $10,000 engagements to come to my smallest dinners. When you were still playing button back in Ohio, I entertained on a cruising trip that was so much fun that I had to sink my yacht to make my guests go home."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The invitation to Miss Myra St. Claire's bobbing party spent the morning in his coat pocket, where it had an intense physical affair with a dusty piece of peanut brittle."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Writers aren\u2019t people exactly. Or, if they\u2019re any good, they\u2019re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry \"Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: \"If it wasn\u2019t for the mist we could see your home across the bay,\" said Gatsby. \"You always have a green light that burns at the end of your dock.\" Daisy put her arm through his abruptly but he seemed absorbed in what he had just said. Possibly it had occurred to him that the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. Compared to the great distance that had separated him from Daisy it had seemed very near to him, almost touching her. It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was again a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted things had diminished by one."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: A classic,' suggested Anthony, 'is a successful book that has survived the reaction of the next period or generation. Then it's safe, like a style in architecture or furniture. It's acquired a picturesque dignity to take the place of its fashion."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: All good writing is swimming under water and holding your breath."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: How strange to have failed as a social creature\u2014even criminals do not fail that way\u2014they are the law's \"Loyal Opposition,\" so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The victor belongs to the spoils."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Everywhere we go and move on and change, something's lost--something's left behind. You can't ever quite repeat anything, and I've been so yours, here--"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the things that hovered on lips, that might have been said. The new love-words, the tenderness learned, and treasured up for the next lover."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: If he had to bring all the bitterness and hatred of the world into his heart, he was not going to be in love with her again."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: To create souls in men, to create fine happiness and fine despair she must remain deeply proud - proud to be inviolate, proud also to be melting, to be passionate and possessed."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: he was figuratively following along beside her as she walked the fence, ready to catch her if she should fall."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day easily associated with those abstract truths and purities that dissolve in the sunshine or fade out in mocking laughter by the light of the moon. The trees and clouds were carved in classical severity; the sounds of the countryside had harmonized to a monotone, metallic as a trumpet, breathless as the Grecian urn."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: As we passed over the dark bridge her wan face fell lazily against my coat's shoulder and the formidable stroke of thirty died away with the reassuring pressure of her hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two: the passion of their pretense created the actuality. Here, finally, was the quintessence of self-expression-- yet it was probable that for the most part their love expressed Gloria rather than Anthony. He felt often like a scarecly tolerated guest at a party she was giving."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Nancy had a mouth like a remembered kiss."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: All she wanted was to be a little girl, to be efficiently taken care of by some yielding yet superior power, stupider and steadier than herself. It seemed that the only lover she had ever wanted was a lover in a dream"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It's a sad season of life without growth...It has no day."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too. That gives me an advantage."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: But with every word she was drawing further and further into herself, so he gave that up, and only the dead dream fought on as the afternoon slipped away, trying to touch what was no longer tangible, struggling unhappily, undespairingly, toward that lost voice across the room."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: i'm in a muddle about a lot of things -- i've just discovered that i've a mind, and i'm starting to read\" \"read what?\" \"everything. i have to pick and choose, of course, but mostly things that make me think."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: That was always my experience-a poor boy in a rich town; a poor boy in a rich boy's school; a poor boy in a rich man's club at Princeton .... However, I have never been able to forgive the rich for being rich, and it has colored my entire life and works."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: In a few days I'll have lived one score and three days in this vale of tears. On I plod-always bored, often drunk, doing no penance for my faults-rather do I become more tolerant of myself from day to day, hardening my crystal heart with blasphemous humor and shunning only toothpicks, pathos, and poverty as being the three unforgivable things in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The transition from libertine to prig was so complete."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: His dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Every author ought to write every book as if he were going to be beheaded the day he finished it."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The years between thirty-five and sixty-five revolve before the passive mind as one unexplained, confusing merry-go-round. True, they are a merry-go-round of ill-gaited and wind-broken horses, painted first in pastel colors, then in dull grays and browns, but perplexing and intolerably dizzy the thing is, as never were the merry-go-rounds of childhood or adolescence; as never, surely, were the certain-coursed, dynamic roller-coasters of youth. For most men and women these thirty years are taken up with a gradual withdrawal from life."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Sometimes I think that idlers seem to be a special class for whom nothing can be planned, plead as one will with them - their only contribution to the human family is to warm a seat at the common table."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: What was the use of doing great things if I could have a better time telling her what I was going to do?"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: From the ruins, lonely and inexplicable as the sphinx, rose the Empire State Building."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I don't think he was ever happy unless someone was in love with him, responding to him like filings to a magnet, helping him to explain himself, promising him something. What it was I do not know. Perhaps they promised that there would always be women in the world who would spend their brightest, freshest, rarest hours to nurse and protect that superiority he cherished in his heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: ...I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The hangover became a part of the day as well allowed-for as the Spanish siesta."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Prose talent depends on having something to say and an interesting, highly developed way of saying it."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The words seemed to bite physically into Gatsby."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: When she saw him face to face their eyes met and brushed like birds\u2019 wings. After that everything was all right, everything was wonderful, she knew that he was beginning to fall in love with her."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: France was a land, England was a people, but America, having about it still that quality of the idea, was harder to utter - it was the graves at Shiloh and the tired, drawn, nervous faces of its great men, and the country boys dying in the Argonne for a phrase that was empty before their bodies withered. It was a willingness of the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: No one should live beyond 30."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: A writer's temperament is continually making him do things he can never repair."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Of all natural forces, vitality is the incommunicable one. . . . Vitality never \"takes.\" You have it or you haven't it, like health or brown eyes or a baritone voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: For years afterwards when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills into the places beside his heart. The night when they rode up the slope and watched the cold moon float through the clouds, he lost a further part of him that nothing could restore; and when he lost it he lost also the power of regretting it."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: They had spent a year in France for no particular reason, and then drifted here and there unrestfully wherever people played polo and were rich together."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I want to just be lazy and I want some of the people around me to be doing things, because that makes me feel comfortable and safe - and I want some of them to be doing nothing at all, because they can be graceful and companionable for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: When we pulled out into the winter night and the real snow, our snow, began to stretch out beside us and twinkle against the windows, and the dim lights of small Wisconsin stations moved by, a sharp wild brace came suddenly into the air. That's my middle-west - not the wheat or the prairies or the lost Swede towns, but the thrilling returning trains of my youth and the street lamps and sleigh bells in the frosty dark and the shadows of holly wreaths thrown by lighted windows on the snow."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Her voice is full of money."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes take the forms of houses and chimneys and rising smoke and, finally, with a transcendent effort, of men who move dimly and already crumbling through the powdery air. Occasionally a line of gray cars crawls along an invisible track, gives out a ghastly creak, and comes to rest, and immediately the ash-gray men swarm up with leaden spades and stir up an impenetrable cloud, which screens their obscure operations from your sight."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Better let it all alone in the depths of her heart and the depths of the sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Don't be so anxious about it,' she laughed. 'I'm not used to being loved. I wouldn't know what to do; I never got the trick of it.' She looked down at him, shy and fatigued. 'So here we are. I told you years ago that I had the makings of Cinderella.' He took her hand; she drew it back instinctively and then replaced it in his. 'Beg your pardon. Not even used to being touched. But I'm not afraid of you, if you stay quiet and don't move suddenly."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I guess I'm the Black Death,' he said slowly. 'I don't seem to bring people happiness any more."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table--the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: ...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It is youth\u2019s felicity as well as its insufficiency that it can never live in the present, but must always be measuring up the day against its own radiantly imagined future"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: They talked aimlessly back and forth, each speaking for the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He was going to live in New York, and be known at every restaurant and caf\u00e9, wearing a dress suit from early evening to early morning, sleeping away the dull hours of the forenoon."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You've got an awfully kissable mouth."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The only way to increase it is to cultivate your own garden. And the only thing that will help you is poetry, which is the most concentrated form of style.... I don't care how clever the other professor is, one can't raise a discussion of modern prose to anything above tea-table level."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Beauty and love pass, I know... Oh, there's sadness, too. I suppose all great happiness is a little sad. Beauty means the scent of roses and then the death of roses-"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: but there was an immediately perceptible vitality about her as if the nerves of her body were continually smouldering."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He snatched the book from me and replaced it hastily on its shelf, muttering that if one brick was removed the whole library was liable to collapse."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: There was no God in his heart, he knew; his ideas were still in riot; there was ever the pain of memory; the regret for his lost youth-yet the waters of disillusion had left a deposit on his soul, responsibility and a love of life, the faint stirring of old ambitions and unrealized dreams...... And he could not tell why the struggle was worth while, why he had determined to use to the utmost himself and his heritage from the personalities he had passed... He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky. I know myself,\" he cried, \"but that is all."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Human sympathy has its limits."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: No decent career was ever founded on a public."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Baltimore is warm but pleasant... I belong here, where everything is civilized and gay and rotted and polite."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there\u2019s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: When Vanity kissed Vanity, a hundred happy Junes ago, he pondered o'er her breathlessly, and, that all men might ever know, he rhymed her eyes with life and death: \"Thru Time I'll save my love!\" he said. . . yet Beauty vanished with his breath, and, with her lovers, she was dead. . . -Ever his wit and not her eyes, ever his art and not her hair: \"Who'd learn a trick in rhyme, be wise and pause before his sonnet there\". . . So all my words, however true, might sing you to a thousandth June, and no one ever know that you were Beauty for an afternoon."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It was about then [1920] that I wrote a line which certain people will not let me forget: \"She was a faded but still lovely woman of twenty-seven.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: \"I was counting the waves\", replied Amory gravely, \"I'm going in for statistics\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: In short, you have only your emotions to sell. This is the experience of all writers."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I was haunted always by my other life-my drab room in the Bronx, my square foot of the subway, my fixation upon the day's letter from Alabama-would it come and what would it say?-my shabby suits, my poverty, and love. While my friends were launching decently into life I had muscled my inadequate bark into midstream... I was a failure-mediocre at advertising work and unable to get started as a writer. Hating the city, I got roaring, weeping drunk on my last penny and went home."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She laughed with thrilling scorn. \"Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children's party taken over by the elders."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: What you have felt and thought will by itself invent a new style, so that when people talk about style they are always a little astonished at the newness of it, because they think that it is only style that they are talking about, when what they are talking about is the attempt to express a new idea with such force that it will have the originality of the thought.It is an awfully lonesome business, and, as you know, I never wanted you to go into it, but if you are going into it at all, I want you to go into it knowing the sort of things that took me years to learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: he wanted people to like his mind again-after awhile it might be such a nice place in which to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I care not who hoes the lettuce of my country if I can eat the salad!"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: No,\" interrupted Marcia emphatically. \"And you're a sweet boy. Come here and kiss me.\" Horace stopped quickly in front of her. \"Why do you want me to kiss you?\" he asked intently. \"Do you just go round kissing people?\" \"Why, yes,\" admitted Marcia, unruffled. \"'At's all life is. Just going around kissing people."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: One writes of scars healed, a loose parallel to the pathology of the skin, but there is no such thing in the life of an individual."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Ah,\" she cried, \"you look so cool.\" Their eyes met, and they stared together at each other, alone in space. With an effort she glanced down at the table. You always look so cool,\" she repeated. She had told him that she loved him, and Tom Buchanan saw."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She\u2019s got an indiscreet voice,\u201d I remarked. \u201cIt\u2019s full of-\u201c I hesitated. \u201cHer voice is full of money,\u201d he said suddenly. That was it. I\u2019d never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals\u2019 song of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I noticed that she wore her evening dress, all her dresses, like sports clothes-there was a jauntiness about her movements as if she had first learned to walk upon a golf course on clean, crisp, mornings."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I must hold in balance the sense of the futility of effort and the sense of the necessity to struggle; the conviction of the inevitability of failure and still the determination to 'succeed'-and, more than these, the contradiction between the dead hand of the past and the high intentions of the future. If I could do this through the common ills-domestic, professional and personal-then the ego would continue as an arrow shot from nothingness to nothingness with such force that only gravity would bring it to earth at last."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Feel like criticizing any one,\" he told me, \"just remember"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I'm not much like myself any more."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I was rather literary in college\u2014one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'\u2014and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn\u2019t just an epigram\u2014life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: And, after boasting this way of my tolerance, I come to the admission that it has a limit. Conduct may be founded on the hard rock or the wet marshes, but after a certain point I don\u2019t care what it\u2019s founded on. When I came back from the East last autumn I felt that I wanted the world to be in uniform and at a sort of moral attention forever; I wanted no more riotous excursions with privileged glimpses into the human heart. Only Gatsby, the man who gives his name to this book, was exempt from my reaction\u2014Gatsby, who represented everything for which I have an unaffected scorn."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: There was not a moving up into vacated places; there was simply an anachronistic staying on between a vanishing past and an incalculable future."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It's just because I love the past that I want this house to look back on its glamourous moment of youth and beauty, and I want its stairs to creak as if to the footsteps of women with hoop skirts and men in boots and spurs. But they've made it into a blondined, rouged-up old woman of sixty."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Exploration was for those with a measure of peasant blood, those with big thighs and thick ankles who could take punishment as they took bread and salt, on every inch of flesh and spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: we both fitted. If our corners were not rubbed off they were at least pulled in. But deep in us both was something that made us require more for happiness. I didn't know what I wanted"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Intelligence is a mere instrument of circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She was incurably dishonest."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Aristocracy's only an admission that certain traits which we call fine - courage and honor and beauty and all that sort of thing - can best be developed in a favorable environment, where you don't have the warpings of ignorance and necessity."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Somewhere inside me there\u2019ll always be the person I am to-night"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night, and the satisfaction that the constant flicker of men and women and machines gives to the restless eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: but they were frightened at his survivant will, once a will to live, now become a will to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: This unlikely story begins on a sea that was a blue dream, as colorful as blue-silk stockings, and beneath a sky as blue as the irises of children's eyes. From the western half of the sky the sun was shying little golden disks at the sea--if you gazed intently enough you could see them skip from wave tip to wave tip until they joined a broad collar of golden coin that was collecting half a mile out and would eventually be a dazzling sunset."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: They weren't happy, and neither of them had touched the chicken or the ale---and yet they weren't unhappy either. There was an unmistakable air of natural intimacy about the picture and anybody would have said that they were conspiring together."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Nicole's world had fallen to pieces, but it was only a flimsy and scarcely created world; beneath it her emotions and instincts fought on."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Daisy began to sing with the music in a husky, rhythmic whisper, bringing out a meaning in each word that it had never had before and would never have again. When the melody rose, her voice broke up sweetly, following it, in a way contralto voices have, and each change tipped out a little of her warm human magic upon the air."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He looked at her and for a moment she lived in the bright blue worlds of his eyes, eagerly and confidently."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: All that kept her from breaking was that it was not an image of strength that was leaving her; she would be just as strong without him."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: One girl can be pretty - but a dozen are only a chorus."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She knew few words and believed in none."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He was resentful against all those in authority over him, and this, combined with a lazy indifference toward his work, exasperated every master in school. He grew discouraged and imagined himself a pariah; took to sulking in corners and reading after lights. With a dread of being alone he attached a few friends, but since they were not among the elite of the school, he used them simply as mirrors of himself, audiences before which he might do that posing absolutely essential to him. He was unbearably lonely, desperately unhappy."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: he could transform the barest incident into a thing of curve and contour."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I'll never be a poet,' said Amory as he finished. 'I'm not enough of a sensualist really; there are only a few obvious things that I notice as primarily beautiful: women, spring evenings, music at night, the sea; I don't catch the subtle things like 'silver-snarling trumpets.' I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never right anything but mediocre poetry."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Can't repeat the past?\" he cried incredulously. \"Why of course you can!\" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humour. Then more details are required and one paints a second portrait, and a third \u2013 before long the best lines cancel out \u2013 and the secret is exposed at last; the planes of the pictures have intermingled and given us away, and though we paint and paint we can no longer sell a picture. We must be satisfied with hoping that such fatuous accounts of ourselves as we make to our wives and children and business associates are accepted as true"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: ...their eyes are full of kindness as each feels the full effect of novelty after a short separation. They are drawing a relaxation from each other's presence, a new serenity."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Girls like you are responsible for all the tiresome colorless marriages; all those ghastly inefficiencies that pass as feminine qualities. What a blow it must be when a man with imagination marries the beautiful bundle of clothes that he's been building ideals around, and finds that she's just a weak, whining, cowardly mass of affectations!"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: People try so hard to believe in leaders now, pitifully hard. But we no sooner get a popular reformer or politician or soldier or writer or philosopher -- a Roosevelt, a Tolstoi, a Wood, a Shaw, a Nietzsche, than the cross-currents of criticism wash him away. My Lord, no man can stand prominence these days. It's the surest path to obscurity. People get sick of hearing the same name over and over."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Laughter is easier minute by minute, spilled with prodigality, tipped out at a cheerful word."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It was strange to have no self-to be like a little boy left alone in a big house, who knew that now he could do anything he wanted to do, but found that there was nothing that he wanted to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: If all your clothes are worn to the same state, it means you go out too much."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: To most women art is a form of scandal."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It's a mining town in lotus land."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative; they must bend tiny golden tentacles from his imagination to hers, that would take the place of the great, deep love that was never so near, yet never so much of a dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer. Even if I had no talents I'd not be content to work ten years, condemned either to celibacy or a furtive indulgence, to give some man's son an automobile."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and-we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Rosemary bubbled with delight at the trunks. Her naivete responded whole-heartedly to the expensive simplicity of the Divers, unaware of its complexity and its lack of innocence, unaware that it was all a selection of quality rather than quantity from the run of the world's bazaar; and that the simplicity of behavior also, the nursery-like peace and good will, the emphasis on the simpler virtues, was part of a desperate bargain with the gods and had been attained through struggles she could not have guessed at."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Progress was a labyrinth ... people plunging blindly in and then rushing wildly back, shouting that they had found it ... the invisible king-the \u00e9lan vital-the principle of evolution ... writing a book, starting a war, founding a school."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Eighteen might look at thirty-four through a rising mist of adolescence, but twenty-two would see thirty-eight with discerning clarity."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Englishmen must have an island."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It is difficult for young people to live things down. We will tolerate vice, grand larceny and the quieter forms of murder in our contemporaries... but our children's friends must show a blank service record."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The purpose of a work of fiction is to appeal to the lingering after-effects in the reader's mind as differing from, say, the purpose of oratory or philosophy which respectively leave people in a fighting or thoughtful mood."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: There was even a recurrent idea in America about an education that would leave out history and the past, that should be a sort of equipment for aerial adventure, weighed down by none of the stowaways of inheritance or tradition."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Her body calculated to a millimeter to suggest a bud yet guarantee a flower."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Young people do not perceive at once that the giver of wounds is the enemy and the quoted tattle merely the arrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I am not a great man, but sometimes I think the impersonal and objective equality of my talent and the sacrifices of it, in pieces, to preserve its essential value has some sort of epic grandeur."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: There must have been moments even that afternoon when Daisy tumbled short of his dreams -- not through her own fault, but because of the colossal vitality of his illusion. It had gone beyond her, beyond everything. He had thrown himself into it with a creative passion, adding to it all the time, decking it out with every bright feather that drifted his way. No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Those days are over. I have to be won all over again every time you see me."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: As he took her hand she saw him look her over from head to foot, a gesture she recognized and that made her feel at home, but gave her always a faint feeling of superiority to whoever made it. If her person was property she could exercise whatever advantage was inherent in its ownership."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I've got an adjective that just fits you."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back anymore. The gates were closed, the sun was down, and there was no beauty left but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of youth, of illusion, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The past--the wild charge at the head of his men up San Juan Hill; the first years of his marriage when he worked late into the summer dusk down in the busy city for young Hildegarde whom he loved; the days before that when he sat smoking far into the night in the gloomy old Button house on Monroe Street with his grandfather-all these had faded like unsubstantial dreams from his mind as though they had never been. He did not remember."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I carry the place around the world in my heart but sometimes I try to shake it off in my dreams"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: all the time something within her was crying for a decision. She wanted her life shaped now, immediately \u2014 and the decision must be made by some force \u2014 of love, of money, of unquestionable practicality \u2014 that was close at hand"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You're a rotten driver,' I protested. 'Either you ought to be more careful or you oughtn't to drive at all.' 'I am careful.' 'No, you're not.' 'Well, other people are,' she said lightly. 'What's that got to do with it?' 'They'll keep out of my way,' she insisted. 'It takes two to make an accident.' 'Suppose you met somebody just as careless as yourself.' 'I hope I never will,' she answered. 'I hate careless people. That's why I like you.' Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: This is the beauty I want. Beauty has got to be astonishing, astounding-- it's got to burst in on you like a dream, like the exquisite eyes of a girl."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: People living alone get used to loneliness."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: They were still in the happier stage of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered. They both seemed to have arrived there with an extraordinary innocence as though a series of pure accidents had driven them together, so many accidents that at last they were forced to conclude that they were for each other. They had arrived with clean hands, or so it seemed, after no traffic with the merely curious and clandestine."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You can\u2019t repeat the past.\u201d \u201cCan\u2019t repeat the past?\u201d he cried incredulously. \u201cWhy of course you can!"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I was too absorbed to be responsive"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You don\u2019t know what a trial it is to be \u2014like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You\u2019re just the romantic age,\u201d she continued- \u201cfifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.\u201d - Hildegarde"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: They had never been closer in their month of love, nor communicated more profoundly one with another, than when she brushed silent lips against his coat's shoulder or when he touched the end of her fingers, gently, as though she were asleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The bottle of whiskey - the second one - was now in constant demand by all present, excepting Catherine, who 'felt just as good on nothing at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: In the morning you were never violently sorry-- you made no resolutions, but if you had overdone it and your heart was slightly out of order, you went on the wagon for a few days without saying anything about it, and waited until an accumulation of nervous boredom projected you into another party."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: \"What are you going to do?\" \"Can't say - run for president, write -\" \"Greenwich Village?\" \"Good heavens, no - I said write - not drink.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: But you can love more than just one person, can't you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You are mine-you know you're mine!\" he cried wildly...the moonlight twisted in through the vines and listened...the fireflies hung upon their whispers as if to win his glance from the glory of their eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You know I'm old in some ways-in others-well, I'm just a little girl. I like sunshine and pretty things and cheerfulness-and I dread responsibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: If you spend your life sparing people\u2019s feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can\u2019t distinguish what should be respected in them."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?\" I didn't answer. Nick?\" he asked again. What?\" Want any?\" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday.\" I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I\u2019ve heard it said that Daisy\u2019s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: And will I like being called a jazz-baby?\nYou will love it."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It\u2019s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they\u2019re never coming again, and I\u2019m not really getting all I could out of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: A sudden gust of rain blew over them and then another - as if small liquid clouds were bouncing along the land. Lightning entered the sea far off and the air blew full of crackling thunder. The table cloths blew around the pillars. They blew and blew and blew. The flags twisted around the red chairs like live things, the banners were ragged, the corners of the table tore off through the burbling billowing ends of the cloths."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I don't like girls in the daytime,' he said shortly, and then thinking this a bit abrupt, he added: 'But I like you.' He cleared his throat. 'I like you first and second and third."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: We haven\u2019t met for many years, said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be. \"Five years next November.\" The automatic quality set us all back at least another minute."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: If you're in love it ought to make you happy. You ought to laugh."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: New friends can often have a better time together than old friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It appears that every man's insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Travel, which had once charmed him, seemed, at length, unendurable, a business of color without substance, a phantom chase after his own dream's shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He felt married to her, that was all."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Debut: the first time a young girl is seen drunk in public."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: What do you think of that? It\u2019s stopped raining.\" I\u2019m glad Jay.\" Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: And Yale is November, crisp and energetic."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: That's the whole burden of this novel - the loss of those illusions that give such color to the world that you don't care whether things are true or false as long as they partake of the magical glory."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It understood you just as far as you wanted to be understood, believed in you as you would like to believe in yourself, and assured you that it had precisely the impression of you that, at your best, you hoped to convey."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered \u201cListen,\u201d a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I see you're looking at my cuff buttons.\" I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure and the memory so possessed him that for the moment there was nothing to do but to pretend."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It is not necessarily poverty of spirit that makes a woman surround herself with life - it can be a superabundance of interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handled with gloves. Now, human respect\u2014you don't call a man a coward or a liar lightly, but if you spend your life sparing people's feelings and feeding their vanity, you get so you can't distinguish what should be respected in them."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon,' cried Daisy, 'and the day after that, and the next thirty years?' 'Don't be morbid,' Jordan said. 'Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.' 'But it's so hot,' insisted Daisy, on the verge of tears, 'And everything's so confused. Let's all go to town!"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He dispensed starlight to casual moths."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: What was it up there in the song that seemed to be calling her back inside? What would happen now in the dim, incalculable hours?"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth-bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The water reached up for her, pulled her down tenderly out of the heat, seeped in her hair and ran into the corners of her body. She turned round and round in it, embracing it, wallowing in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Yet high over the city our line of yellow windows must have contributed their share of human secrecy to the casual watcher in the darkening streets, and I was him too, looking up and wondering. I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Possibly it had occurred to him the colossal significance of that light had now vanished forever. [...] It had seemed as close as a star to the moon. Now it was a green light on a dock. His count of enchanted objects had diminished by one."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I know myself,\" he cried, \"but that is all-"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Men don\u2019t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Her beautiful eyes and lips were very grave as she made her choice, and Anthony thought again how naive was her every gesture; she took all the things of life for hers to choose from and apportion, as though she were continually picking out presents for herself from an inexhaustible counter."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: There used to be two kinds of kisses: First when girls were kissed and deserted; second, when they were engaged. Now there's a third kind, where the man is kissed and deserted. If Mr. Jones of the nineties bragged he'd kissed a girl, everyone knew he was through with her. If Mr. Jones of 1919 brags the same, everyone knows it's because he can't kiss her any more. Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Through all he said, even through his appalling sentimentality, I was reminded of something-an elusive rhythm, a fragment of lost words, that I heard somewhere a long time ago. For a moment a phrase tried to take shape in my mouth and my lips parted like a dumb man's, as though there was more struggling upon them than a wisp of startled air. But they made no sound and what I had almost remembered was uncommunicable forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: You said a bad driver was only safe until she met another bad driver? Well, I met another bad driver, didn't I? I mean it was careless of me to makes such a wrong guess. I thought you were rather an honest, straightforward person I thought it was your secret pride.\" \"I'm thirty,\" I said. \"I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor.\" She didn't answer. Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Women are necessarily capable of almost anything in their struggle for survival and can scarcely be convicted of such man-made crimes as \u201ccruelty."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: For the moment I can only cry out that I have lost my splendid mirage. Come back, come back, O glittering and white!"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He hadn\u2019t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe thoughts but thoughts worthy of being clothed--the whole thing was absurdly beyond his desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It was dawn now on Long Island and we went about opening the rest of the windows downstairs, filling the house with gray-turning, gold-turning light. The Shadow of a tree fell abruptly across the dew and ghostly birds began to sing among the blue leaves. There was a slow, pleasant movement in the air, scarcely a wind, promising a cool, lovely day."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Your first most typical figure in any new place turns out to be a bluff or a local nuisance."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: So there was not an \"I\" anymore - not a basis on which I could organize my self-respect - save my limitless capacity for toil that it seemed I possessed no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I have asked a lot of my emotions-one hundred and twenty stories. The price was high, right up with Kipling, because there was one little drop of something, not blood, not a tear, not my seed, but me more intimately than these, in every story, it was the extra I had. Now it has gone and I am just like you now."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Wine gave a sort of gallantry to their own failure."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him, some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life, as if he were related to one of those intricate machines that registered earthquakes ten thousand miles away."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I\u2019m thirty,\u201d I said. \u201cI\u2019m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He had seen me several times, and had intended to call on me long before, but a peculiar combination of circumstances had prevented it."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: He had been full of the idea so long, dreamed it right through to the end, waited with his teeth set, so to speak, at an inconceivable pitch of intensity. Now, in the reaction, he was running down like an overwound clock."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I see now that this has been a story of the West, after all--Tom and Gatsby, Daisy and Jordan and I, were all Westerners, and perhaps we possessed some deficiency in common which made us subtly unadaptable to Eastern life."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Gatsby turned out all right at the end; it is what preyed on Gatsby, what foul dust floated in the wake of his dreams that temporarily closed out my interest in the abortive sorrows and short-winded elations of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I want leisure to read\u2014an immense amount."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Who would not be pleased at carrying lamps helpfully through the darkness?"
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: I'm merely trying to give you the sort of argument that would appeal to your intelligence."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: The mouth was wide open and ripped at the corners, as though she had choked a little in giving up the tremendous vitality she had stored so long."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains."
  },
  {
    "text": "F. Scott Fitzgerald: you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked. LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others. When he has no respect for anyone, he can no longer love, and, in order to divert himself, having no love in him, he yields to his impulses, indulges in the lowest forms of pleasure, and behaves in the end like an animal. And it all comes from lying - lying to others and to yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart. The really great men must, I think, have great sadness on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: It is better to be unhappy and know the worst, than to be happy in a fool's paradise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: If you want to overcome the whole world, overcome yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The most offensive is not their lying - one can always forgive lying - lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth - what is offensive is that they lie and worship their own lying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The more you succeed in loving, the more you'll be convinced at the existence of God and the immortality of your soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The world says: \"You have needs - satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don't hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more.\" This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: It is not the brains that matter most, but that which guides them \u2014 the character, the heart, generous qualities, progressive ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: If you want to be respected by others, the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: You will burn and you will burn out; you will be healed and come back again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The soul is healed by being with children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: You can be sincere and still be stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Only the heart knows how to find what is precious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: But how could you live and have no story to tell?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The man who lies to himself can be more easily offended than anyone else. You know it is sometimes very pleasant to take offense, isn't it? A man may know that nobody has insulted him, but that he has invented the insult for himself, has lied and exaggerated to make it picturesque, has caught at a word and made a mountain out of a molehill--he knows that himself, yet he will be the first to take offense, and will revel in his resentment till he feels great pleasure in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: If God does not exist, then everything is permissible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: People speak sometimes about the \"bestial\" cruelty of man, but that is terribly unjust and offensive to beasts, no animal could ever be so cruel as a man, so artfully, so artistically cruel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: A hundred suspicions don't make a proof."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: My life is ending, I know that well, but every day that is left me I feel how my earthly life is in touch with a new infinite, unknown, but approaching life, the nearness of which sets my soul quivering with rapture, my mind glowing and my heart weeping with joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Everything passes, only truth remains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: To go wrong in one's own way is better than to go right in someone else's."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Don\u2019t be overwise; fling yourself straight into life, without deliberation; don\u2019t be afraid - the flood will bear you to the bank and set you safe on your feet again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I think the devil doesn't exist, but man has created him, he has created him in his own image and likeness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Man is sometimes extraordinarily, passionately, in love with suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Man only likes to count his troubles, but he does not count his joys."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Man has it all in his hands, and it all slips through his fingers from sheer cowardice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I don't need money, or, better, it's not money that I need; it's not even power; I need only what is obtained by power and simply cannot be obtained without power: the solitary and calm awareness of strength! That is the fullest definition of freedom, which the world so struggles over!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: To be in love is not the same as loving. You can be in love with a woman and still hate her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: A single day is sufficient for a man to discover what happiness is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: If there is no God, then I am God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Above all, don't lie to yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Nature doesn't ask your permission; it doesn't care about your wishes, or whether you like its laws or not. You're obliged to accept it as it is, and consequently all its results as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The world will be saved by beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: From a hundred rabbits you can't make a horse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: When reason fails, the devil helps!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Above all, don't lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Love animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Do not trouble their joy, don't harrass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent. Man, do not pride yourself on superiority to animals; they are without sin, and you, with your greatness, defile the earth by your appearance on it, and leave the traces of your foulness after you - alas, it is true of almost every one of us!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: She looked much younger than her age, indeed, which is almost always the case with women who retain serenity of spirit, sensitiveness and pure sincere warmth of heart to old age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: By interpreting freedom as the propagation and immediate gratification of needs, people distort their own nature, for they engender in themselves a multitude of pointless and foolish desires, habits, and incongruous stratagems. Their lives are motivated only by mutual envy, sensuality, and ostentation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Be the sun and all will see you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I can see the sun, but even if I cannot see the sun, I know that it exists. And to know that the sun is there - that is living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Never mind a little dirt, if the goal is splendid!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: There is no sin , and there can be no sin on all the earth , which the Lord will not forgive to the truly repentant! Man cannot commit a sin so great as to exhaust the infinite love of God . Can there be a sin which could exceed the love of God?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: People really do like seeing their best friends humiliated; a large part of the friendship is based on humiliation; and that is an old truth,well known to all intelligent people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I utter what you would not dare think"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Talking nonsense is man's only privilege that distinguishes him from all other organisms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: But I always liked side-paths, little dark back-alleys behind the main road- there one finds adventures and surprises, and precious metal in the dirt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Love is such a priceless treasure that you can buy the whole world with it, and redeem not only your own but other people's sins. Go, and do not be afraid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the privacy of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Be not forgetful of prayer. Every time you pray, if your prayer is sincere, there will be new feeling and new meaning in it, which will give you fresh courage, and you will understand that prayer is an education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: It seems, in fact, as though the second half of a man's life is made up of nothing, but the habits he has accumulated during the first half."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Above all, avoid lies, all lies, especially the lie to yourself. Keep watch on your own lie and examine it every hour, every minute. And avoid contempt, both of others and of yourself: what seems bad to you in yourself is purified by the very fact that you have noticed it in yourself. And avoid fear, though fear is simply the consequence of every lie. Never be frightened at your own faintheartedness in attaining love, and meanwhile do not even be very frightened by your own bad acts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: May you be for ever blessed for that moment of bliss and happiness which you gave to another lonely and grateful heart. Isn't such a moment sufficient for the whole of one's life?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Hell is the inability to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Love children especially, for they too are sinless like the angels; they live to soften and purify our hearts and, as it were, to guide us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Besides, nowadays, almost all capable people are terribly afraid of being ridiculous, and are miserable because of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: A man who lies to himself, and believes his own lies, becomes unable to recognize truth, either in himself or in anyone else, and he ends up losing respect for himself and for others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Happiness lies not in happiness but only in the attempt to achieve it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I cannot understand why the world is arranged as it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to yourself. Watch over your own deceitfulness and look into it every hour, every minute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Everything seems stupid when it fails."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: For all is like an ocean, all flows and connects; touch it in one place and it echoes at the other end of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: People with new ideas, people with the faintest capacity for saying something new, are extremely few in number, extraordinarily so, in fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I've long stopped worrying about who invented whom - God man or man God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: My God, a moment of bliss. Why, isn't that enough for a whole lifetime?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: For what is man without desires, without free will, and without the power of choice but a stop in an organ pipe?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Let us not forget that the reasons for human actions are usually incalculably more complex and diverse than we tend to explain them later, and are seldom clearly manifest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Being in love doesn't mean loving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: ... what you need more than anything in life is a definite position."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Hang your merit. I don't seek anyone's approbation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Obedience, fasting, and prayer are laughed at, yet only through them lies the way to real true freedom. I cut off my superfluous and unnecessary desires, I subdue my proud and wanton will and chastise it with obedience, and with God's help I attain freedom of spirit and with it spiritual joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: To study the meaning of man and of life \u2014 I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: ...it all, maybe, most likely, indeed, might turn out for the best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Life is in ourselves and not in the external."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from the faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Money is coined liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Drive nature out of the door and it will fly in at the window"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Killing myself was a matter of such indifference to me that I felt like waiting for a moment when it would make some difference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Compassion is the chief law of human existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: It is precisely that requirement of shared worship that has been the principal source of suffering for individual man and the human race since the beginning of history. In their efforts to impose universal worship, men have unsheathed their swords and killed one another. They have invented gods and challenged each other: \"Discard your gods and worship mine or I will destroy both your gods and you!\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The jealous are the readiest of all to forgive, and all women know it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: It is amazing what one ray of sunshine can do for a man!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee today. For every hour and every moment thousands of men leave life on this earth, and their souls appear before God. And how many of them depart in solitude, unknown, sad, dejected that no one mourns for them or even knows whether they have lived or not!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Believe to the end, even if all men went astray and you were left the only one faithful; bring your offering even then and praise God in your loneliness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The more I love humanity in general, the less I love man in particular."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Man is bound to lie about himself"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: One must first learn to live oneself before one blames others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Grown-up people do not know that a child can give exceedingly good advice even in the most difficult case."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I drink because I wish to multiply my sufferings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Man, do not pride yourself on your superiority to the animals, for they are without sin, while you, with all your greatness, you defile the earth wherever you appear and leave an ignoble trail behind you -- and that is true, alas, for almost every one of us!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: It's the great mystery of human life that old grief passes gradually into quiet tender joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: For a woman, all resurrection, all salvation, from whatever perdition, lies in love; in fact, it is her only way to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: At some thoughts one stands perplexed, especially at the sight of men's sin, and wonders whether one should use force or humble love. Always decide to use humble love. If you resolve on that once for all, you may subdue the whole world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Lack of originality, everywhere, all over the world, from time immemorial, has always been considered the foremost quality and the recommendation of the active, efficient and practical man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Break what must be broken, once for all, that's all, and take the suffering on oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Neither a person nor a nation can exist without some higher idea. And there is only one higher idea on earth, and it is the idea of the immortality of the human soul, for all other \"higher\" ideas of life by which humans might live derive from that idea alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Every man looks out for himself, and he has the happiest life who manages to hoodwink himself best of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: There is immeasurably more left inside than what comes out in words. Your thought, even a bad one, while it is with you, is always more profound, but in words it is more ridiculous and dishonorable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Bad people are to be found everywhere, but even among the worst there may be something good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I swear to you gentlemen, that to be overly conscious is a sickness, a real, thorough sickness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: All people seem to be divided into'ordinary'and 'extraordinary'. The ordinary people must lead a life of strict obedience and have no right to transgress the law because?theyare ordinary.Whereas the extraordinary people have the right to commit any crime they like and transgress the law in any way just because they happen to be extraordinary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Paradise is hidden in each one of use, it is concealed within me too, right now, and if I wish, it will come for me in reality, tomorrow even, and for the rest of my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The consciousness of life is higher than life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Existentialism isn't so atheistic that it wears itself out showing that God doesn't exist. Rather, it declares that even if God did exist, that would change nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Power is only vouchsafed to the man who dares to stoop and pick it up. There is only one thing, one thing needful: one has only to dare!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I am a fool with a heart but no brains, and you are a fool with brains but no heart; and we\u2019re both unhappy, and we both suffer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: For, after all, you do grow up, you do outgrow your ideals, which turn to dust and ashes, which are shattered into fragments; and if you have no other life, you just have to build one up out of these fragments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The world has proclaimed the reign of freedom, especially of late, but what do we see in this freedom of theirs? Nothing but slavery and self-destruction! For the world says: \"You have desires and so satisfy them, for you have the same rights as the most rich and powerful. Don't be afraid of satisfying them and even multiply your desires.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Sorrow compressed my heart, and I felt I would die, and then... Well, then I woke up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: If I seem happy to you . . . You could never say anything that would please me more. For men are made for happiness, and anyone who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.' All the righteous, all the saints, all the holy martyrs were happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Civilization has made man, if not always more bloodthirsty, at least more viciously, more horribly bloodthirsty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Since I wasn't consulted at the time of the creation of the world, I reserve for myself the right to have my own opinion about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: They won't let me ... I can't be ... good!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Psychology lures even most serious people into romancing, and quite unconsciously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: With love one can live even without happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Man grows used to everything, the scoundrel!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: You see I kept asking myself then: why am I so stupid that if others are stupid\u2014and I know they are\u2014yet I won't be wiser?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I am a dreamer. I know so little of real life that I just can\u2019t help re-living such moments as these in my dreams, for such moments are something I have very rarely experienced. I am going to dream about you the whole night, the whole week, the whole year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Woe to the man who offends a small child!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: a man is no example for a woman. It\u2019s a different thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Love in action is a harsh and dreadful thing compared with love in dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: If not reason, then the devil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Viper will eat viper, and it would serve them both right!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Power is given only to him who dares to stoop and take it ... one must have the courage to dare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: What terrible tragedies realism inflicts on people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a fraction of a false note to candor, it immediately produces dissonance, and as a result, exposure. But in flattery, even if everything is false down to the last note, it is still pleasant, and people will listen not without pleasure; with coarse pleasure, perhaps, but pleasure nevertheless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I have no self-respect. But can a man of acute sensibility respect himself at all?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Was it all put into words, or did both understand that they had the same thing at heart and in their minds, so that there was no need to speak of it aloud, and better not to speak of it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Lamentations comfort only by lacerating the heart still more. Such grief does not desire consolation. It feeds on the sense of its hopelessness. Lamentations spring only from the constant craving to re-open the wound."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Love life more than the meaning of it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: If he has a conscience he will suffer for his mistake. That will be his punishment-as well as the prison."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: If there were no God, he would have to be invented."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Above all, do not lie to yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The world stands on absurdities, and without them perhaps nothing at all would happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The whole work of man really seems to consist in nothing but proving to himself every minute that he is a man and not a piano key."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Right or wrong, it's very pleasant to break something from time to time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: ...chance may do anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man, don't bother analyzing his ways of being silent, of talking, of weeping, of seeing how much he is moved by noble ideas; you will get better results if you just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The meanest and most hateful thing about money is that it even gives one talent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: They were like two enemies in love with one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Sometimes we desire absolute nonsense because in our stupidity we see in this nonsense the easiest way of attaining some conjectural good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The prince says that the world will be saved by beauty! And I maintain that the reason he has such playful ideas is that he is in love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Reason is the slave of passion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Love the animals: God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: You will have many enemies, but even your foes will love you. Life will bring you many misfortunes, but you will find your happiness in them, and will bless life and will make others bless it-which is what matters most."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: It suddenly seemed to me that I was lonely, that every one was forsaking me and going away from me. Of course, any one is entitled to ask who \"every one\" was. For though I had been living almost eight years in Petersburg I had hardly an acquaintance. But what did I want with acquaintances? I was acquainted with all Petersburg as it was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared. And it was after that that I found out the truth . I learnt the truth last November on the third of November, to be precise and I remember every instant since."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: How good life is when one does something good and just!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: One can tell a child everything, anything. I have often been struck by the fact that parents know their children so little. They should not conceal so much from them. How well even little children understand that their parents conceal things from them, because they consider them too young to understand! Children are capable of giving advice in the most important matters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: There is something at the bottom of every new human thought, every thought of genius, or even every earnest thought that springs up in any brain, which can never be communicated to others, even if one were to write volumes about it and were explaining one's idea for thirty-five years; there's something left which cannot be induced to emerge from your brain, and remains with you forever; and with it you will die, without communicating to anyone perhaps the most important of your ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: If you are penitent, you love. And if you love you are of God. All things are atoned for, all things are saved by love. If I, a sinner even as you are, am tender with you and have pity on you, how much more will God have pity upon you. Love is such a priceless treasure that you can redeem the whole world by it, and cleanse not only your own sins but the sins of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: To cook your hare you must first catch it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: We always imagine eternity as something beyond our conception, something vast, vast! But why must it be vast?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: A beast can never be as cruel as a human being, so artistically, so picturesquely cruel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Love is a teacher, but one must know how to acquire it, for it is difficult to acquire, it is dearly bought, by long work over a long time, for one ought to love not for a chance moment but for all time. Anyone, even a wicked man, can love by chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: They wanted to speak, but could not; tears stood in their eyes. They were both pale and thin; but those sick pale faces were bright with the dawn of a new future, of a full resurrection into a new life. They were renewed by love; the heart of each held infinite sources of life for the heart of the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Existence alone had never been enough for him; he had always wanted more. Perhaps it was only from the force of his desires that he had regarded himself as a man to whom more was permitted than to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Lying is a delightful thing, for it leads to truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy, rather than in the coarse pleasures he indulges in today -- gluttony, fornication, ostentation, boasting, and envious vying with his neighbor? I am certain this is not a vain hope and that the day will come soon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: --you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Since man cannot live without miracles, he will provide himself with miracles of his own making. He will believe in witchcraft and sorcery, even though he may otherwise be a heretic, an atheist, and a rebel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably more terrible than murder by brigands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The man who has a conscience suffers whilst acknowledging his sin. That is his punishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I did not bow down to you, I bowed down to all the suffering of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: In most cases, people, even wicked people, are far more naive and simple-hearted than one generally assumes. And so are we."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: And what's strange, what would be marvelous, is not that God should really exist; the marvel is that such an idea, the idea of the necessity of God, could enter the head of such a savage, vicious beast as man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Gentlemen, let us suppose that man is not stupid. (Indeed one cannot refuse to suppose that, if only from the one consideration, that, if man is stupid, then who is wise?) But if he is not stupid, he is monstrously ungrateful! Phenomenally ungrateful. In fact, I believe that the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Humiliate the reason and distort the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: For the secret of man's being is not only to live but to have something to live for. Without a stable conception of the object of life, man would not consent to go on living, and would rather destroy himself than remain on earth, though he had bread in abundance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Of course my jokes are in poor taste, inappropriate, and confused; they reveal my lack of security. But that is because I have no respect for myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Forgive me... for my love -for ruining you with my love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: All of a sudden I became aware of a little star in one of those patches and I began looking at it intently. That was because the little star gave me an idea: I made up my mind to kill myself that night. I had made up my mind to kill myself already two months before and, poor as I am, I bought myself an excellent revolver and loaded it the same day. But two months had elapsed and it was still lying in the drawer. I was so utterly indifferent to everything that I was anxious to wait for the moment when I would not be so indifferent and then kill myself. Why -- I don't know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Atheism: It seeks to replace in itself the moral power of religion, in order to appease the spiritual thirst of parched humanity and save it; not by Christ, but by force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: This is my last message to you: in sorrow, seek happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Fathers, provoke not your children to wrath."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: There is no virtue if there is no immortality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: But what are years, what are months!\" he would exclaim. \"Why count the days, when even one day is enough for man to know all happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: But man is a fickle and disreputable creature and perhaps, like a chess-player, is interested in the process of attaining his goal rather than the goal itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: There is no idea, no fact, which could not be vulgarized and presented in a ludicrous light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Beggars, especially noble beggars, should never show themselves in the street; they should ask for alms through the newspapers. It's still possible to love one's neighbor abstractly, and even occasionally from a distance, but hardly ever up close."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I am too young and I've loved you too much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: But to fall in love does not mean to love. One can fall in love and still hate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Even those who have renounced Christianity and attack it, in their inmost being still follow the Christian ideal, for hitherto neither their subtlety nor the ardour of their hearts has been able to create a higher ideal of man and of virtue than the ideal given by Christ of old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Alyosha's heart could not bear uncertainty, for the nature of his love was always active. He could not love passively; once he loved, he immediately also began to help."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Though I do not believe in the order of things, still the sticky little leaves that come out in the spring are dear to me, the blue sky is dear to me, some people are dear to me, whom one loves sometimes, would you believe it, without even knowing why; some human deeds are dear to me, which one has perhaps long ceased believing in, but still honors with one's heart, out of old habit...\" --Ivan Karamazov"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I know that you don't believe it, but indeed, life will bring you through. You will live it down in time. What you need now is fresh air, fresh air, fresh air!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends. He has others which he would not reveal even to his friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. But finally there are still others which a man is even afraid to tell himself, and every decent man has a considerable number of such things stored away. That is, one can even say that the more decent he is, the greater the number of such things in his mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Talking nonsense is the sole privilege mankind possesses over the other organisms. It's by talking nonsense that one gets to the truth! I talk nonsense, therefore I'm human"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: - What is a Socialist? - That's when all are equal and all have property in common, there are no marriages, and everyone has any religion and laws he likes best. You are not old enough to understand that yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better \u2014 cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Beyond the grave they will find nothing but death. But we shall keep the secret, and for their happiness we shall allure them with the reward of heaven and eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I almost do not exist now and I know it; God knows what lives in me in place of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: It was a wonderful night, such a night as is only possible when we are young, dear reader."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: It\u2019s not God that I do not accept, you understand, it is this world of God\u2019s, created by God, that I do not accept and cannot agree to accept."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: To a commonplace man of limited intellect, for instance, nothing is simpler than to imagine himself an original character, and to revel in that belief without the slightest misgiving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: It wasn't the New World that mattered... Columbus died almost without seeing it; and not really knowing what he had discovered. It's life that matters, nothing but life - the process of discovering, the everlasting and perpetual process, not the discovery itself, at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Without a clear perception of his reasons for living, man will never consent to live, and will rather destroy himself than tarry on earth, though he be surrounded with bread\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Being at a loss to resolve these questions, I am resolved to leave them without any resolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Such power!\" Adelaida cried all at once, peering greedily at the portrait over her sister's shoulder. \"Where? What power?\" Lizaveta Prokofyevna asked sharply. \"Such beauty has power,\" Adelaida said hotly. \"You can overturn the world with such beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Catch several hares and you won't catch one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Beauty would save the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Faith does not, in the realist, spring from the miracle but the miracle from faith. If the realist once believes, then he is bound by his very realism to admit the miraculous also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The absurd is only too necessary on earth. The world stands on absurdities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: There is nothing more alluring to man than freedom of conscience, but neither is there anything more agonizing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: It seemed clear to me that life and the world somehow depended upon me now. I may almost say that the world now seemed created for me alone: if I shot myself the world would cease to be at least for me. I say nothing of its being likely that nothing will exist for anyone when I am gone, and that as soon as my consciousness is extinguished the whole world will vanish too and become void like a phantom , as a mere appurtenance of my consciousness, for possibly all this world and all these people are only me myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: What can become of him if he is in such bondage to the habit of satisfying the innumerable desires he has created for himself? He is isolated, and what concern has he with the rest of humanity? They have succeeded in accumulating a greater mass of objects, but the joy in the world has grown less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The genuine realist, if he is an unbeliever, will always find strength and ability to disbelieve in the miraculous, and if he is confronted with a miracle as an irrefutable fact he would rather disbelieve his own senses than admit the miraculous also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: We don't understand that life is heaven, for we have only to understand that and it will at once be fulfilled in all its beauty, we shall embrace each other and weep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I want to suffer so that I may love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Until you have become really, in actual fact, as brother to everyone, brotherhood will not come to pass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I wanted to fathom her secrets; I wanted her to come to me and say: \"I love you,\" and if not that, if that was senseless insanity, then...well, what was there to care about? Did I know what I wanted? I was like one demented: all I wanted was to be near her, in the halo of her glory, in her radiance, always, for ever, all my life. I knew nothing more!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Beauty is a terrible and awful thing! It is terrible because it has not been fathomed, for God sets us nothing but riddles. Here the boundaries meet and all contradictions exist side by side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Love the animals. God has given them the rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. Don't trouble it, don't harass them, don't deprive them of their happiness, don't work against God's intent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I will put up with any mockery rather than pretend that I am satisfied when I am hungry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Man is stupid, phenomenally stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Put away your gods and come and worship ours, or we will kill you and your gods!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: ...to return to their 'native soil,' as they say, to the bosom, so to speak, of their mother earth, like frightened children, yearning to fall asleep on the withered bosom of their decrepit mother, and to sleep there for ever, only to escape the horrors that terrify them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: And so in that very shame I suddenly begin a hymn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: God knows what lives in me in place of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: They have this social justification for every nasty thing they do!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: It is always so, when we are unhappy we feel more strongly the unhappiness of others; our feeling is not shattered, but becomes concentrated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Beauty will save the world"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: How does it come about that what an intelligent man expresses is much stupider than what remains inside him?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: He did not know that the new life would not be given him for nothing, that he would have to pay dearly for it, that it would cost him great striving, great suffering. But that is the beginning of a new story -- the story of the gradual renewal of a man, the story of his gradual regeneration, of his passing from one world into another, of his initiation into a new unknown life. That might be the subject of a new story, but our present story is ended."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: What if man is not really a scoundrel, man in general, I mean, the whole race of mankind-then all the rest is prejudice, simply artificial terrors and there are no barriers and it's all as it should be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Equality lies only in human moral dignity. ... Let there be brothers first, then there will be brotherhood, and only then will there be a fair sharing of goods among brothers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: To be too conscious is an illness. A real thorough going illness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: My feelings, gratitude, for instance, are denied me simply because of my social position."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: What is the use of Christ's words, unless we set an example?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: And the more I drink the more I feel it. That's why I drink too. I try to find sympathy and feeling in drink.... I drink so that I may suffer twice as much!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Ah, Misha, he has a stormy spirit. His mind is in bondage. He is haunted by a great, unsolved doubt. He is one of those who don't want millions, but an answer to their questions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: It is man's unique privilege, among all other organisms. By pursuing falsehood you will arrive at the truth!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Where is it I've read that someone condemned to death says or thinks, an hour before his death, that if he had to live on some high rock, on such a narrow ledge that he'd only room to stand, and the ocean, everlasting darkness, everlasting solitude, everlasting tempest around him, if he had to remain standing on a square yard of space all his life, a thousand years, eternity, it were better to live so than to die at once. Only to live, to live and live! Life, whatever it may be!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Man is unhappy because he doesn't know he's happy. If anyone finds out he'll become happy at once."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Walking along the crowded row He met the one he used to know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: It is not the real punishment. The only effectual one, the only deterrent and softening one, lies in the recognition of sin by conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Man is a mystery. It needs to be unravelled, and if you spend your whole life unravelling it, don't say that you've wasted time. I am studying that mystery because I want to be a human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I want peace; yes, I'd sell the whole world for a farthing, straight off, so long as I was left in peace. Is the world to go to pot, or am I to go without my tea? I say that the world may go to pot for me so long as I always get my tea. Did you know that, or not? Well, anyway, I know that I am a blackguard, a scoundrel, an egoist, a sluggard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: In the end they will lay their freedom at our feet and say to us, Make us your slaves, but feed us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: What makes a hero? Courage, strength, morality, withstanding adversity? Are these the traits that truly show and create a hero? Is the light truly the source of darkness or vice versa? Is the soul a source of hope or despair? Who are these so called heroes and where do they come from? Are their origins in obscurity or in plain sight?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Granted I am a babbler, a harmless vexatious babbler, like all of us. But what is to be done if the direct and sole vocation of every intelligent man is babble, that is, the intentional pouring of water through a sieve?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: God is the pain of the fear of death"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Filled with rapture, his soul yearned for freedom, space, vastness. Over him the heavenly dome, full of quiet, shining stars, hung boundlessly. From the zenith to the horizon the still-dim Milky Way stretched its double strand. Night, fresh and quiet, almost unstirring, enveloped the earth. The white towers and golden domes of the church gleamed in the sapphire sky. The luxuriant autumn asleep till morning. The silence of the earth seemed to merge with the silence of the heavens and the mystery of the earth touched the mystery of the stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Listen, in dreams and especially in nightmares, from indigestion or anything, a man sees sometimes such artistic visions, such complex and real actuality, such events, even a whole world of events, woven into such a plot, with such unexpected details from the most exalted matters to the last button on a cuff, as I swear Leo Tolstoy has never invented."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: ... you can never be sure of what has passed between husband and wife or lover and mistress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Love to throw yourself on the earth and kiss it. Kiss the earth and love it with an unceasing, consuming love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Without God all things are permitted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: \"I love mankind,\" he said, \"but I find to my amazement that the more I love mankind as a whole, the less I love man in particular.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The chief thing is to love others like yourself, that's the chief thing, and that's everything; nothing else is wanted - you will find out at once how to arrange it all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: One can't understand everything at once, we can't begin with perfection all at once! In order to reach perfection one must begin by being ignorant of a great deal. And if we understand things too quickly, perhaps we shan't understand them thoroughly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I tell you solemnly, that I have many times tried to become an insect. But I was not equal even to that. I swear, gentlemen, that to be too conscious is an illness \u2014 a real thorough-going illness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Russia was a slave in Europe but would be a master in Asia."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Can a man of perception respect himself at all?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Pass us by, and forgive us our happiness"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Life had stepped into the place of theory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: One could never judge a man without seeing him close, for oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Suffering is the sole origin of consciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: He does not like showing his feelings and would rather do a cruel thing than open his heart freely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Gentlemen, I am tormented by questions; answer them for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice-that's what it is-they are all full of malice, malice!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Accept suffering and achieve atonement through it \u2014 that is what you must do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: For men are made for happiness, and any one who is completely happy has a right to say to himself, 'I am doing God's will on earth.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Imagine that you are creating a fabric of human destiny with the object of making men happy in the end, giving them peace and rest at last. Imagine that you are doing this but that it is essential and inevitable to torture to death only one tiny creature...in order to found that edifice on its unavenged tears. Would you consent to be the architect on those conditions? Tell me. Tell the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I will not and cannot believe that evil is the normal condition of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Even there, in the mines, underground, I may find a human heart in another convict and murderer by my side, and I may make friends with him, for even there one may live and love and suffer. One may thaw and revive a frozen heart in that convict, one may wait upon him for years, and at last bring up from the dark depths a lofty soul, a feeling, suffering creature; one may bring forth an angel, create a hero! There are so many of them, hundreds of them, and we are all to blame for them. [...] If they drive God from the earth, we shall shelter Him underground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: If he's alive, everything is in his power! Whose fault is it that he doesn't understand that?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in the world, do good to society, without shutting yourself up in a monastery at other people's expense, and without expecting a reward up aloft for it--you'll find that a bit harder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Here is a commandment for you: seek happiness in sorrow. Work, work tirelessly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Or renounce life altogether! Accept fate obediently as it is, once and for all, and stifle everything in myself, renouncing any right to act, to live, to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I could not become anything; neither good nor bad; neither a scoundrel nor an honest man; neither a hero nor an insect. And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything, that only a fool can become something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: And in vain does the dreamer rummage about in his old dreams, raking them over as though they were a heap of cinders, looking into these cinders for some spark, however tiny, to fan it into a flame so as to warm his chilled blood by it and revive in it all that he held so dear before, all that touched his heart, that made his blood course through his veins, that drew tears from his eyes, and that so splendidly deceived him!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: In a morbid condition of the brain, dreams often have a singular actuality, vividness, and extraordinary semblance of reality.  At times monstrous images are created, but the setting and the whole picture are so truth-like and filled with details so delicate, so unexpectedly, but so artistically consistent, that the dreamer, were he an artist like Pushkin or Turgenev even, could never have invented them in the waking state.  Such sick dreams always remain long in the memory and make a powerful impression on the overwrought and deranged nervous system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it\u2019s good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The fear of appearances is the first symptom of impotence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that they still regard me as being as ridiculous as ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: On our earth we can only love withsuffering and through suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: A widow, the mother of a family, and from her heart she produces chords to which my whole being responds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: If the people around you are spiteful and callous and will not hear you, fall down before them and beg their forgiveness; for in truth you are to blame for their not wanting to hear you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: For if there's no everlasting God, there's no such thing as virtue, and there's no need of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: It is easier for a Russian to become an Atheist, than for any other nationality in the world. And not only does a Russian 'become an Atheist,' but he actually BELIEVES IN Atheism, just as though he had found a new faith, not perceiving that he has pinned his faith to a negation. Such is our anguish of thirst!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: they may all be drunk at my place, but they're all honest, and though we do lie-because I lie, too-in the end we'll lie our way to the truth"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: It's the moon that makes it so still, weaving some mystery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I go to spread the tidings, I want to spread the tidings of what? Of the truth , for I have seen it, have seen it with my own eyes , have seen it in all its glory ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I saw clear as daylight how strange it is that not a single person living in this mad world has had the daring to go straight for it all and send it flying to the devil! I...I wanted to have the daring...and I killed her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Because everyone is guilty for everyone else. For all the 'wee ones,' because there are little children and big children. All people are 'wee ones.' And I'll go for all of them, because there must be someone who will go for all of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: But twice-two-makes-four is for all that a most insupportable thing. Twice-two-makes-four is, in my humble opinion, nothing but a piece of impudence. Twice-two-makes-four is a farcical, dressed-up fellow who stands across your path with arms akimbo and spits at you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I used to imagine adventures for myself, I invented a life, so that I could at least exist somehow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky \u2014 that\u2019s all it is. It\u2019s not a matter of intellect or logic, it\u2019s loving with one\u2019s inside, with one\u2019s stomach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: You can't be angry with me, because I am a hundred times more severely punished than you, if only by the fact that I shall never see you again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Who doesn't desire his fathers death?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Here my tears are falling, Nastenka. Let them flow, let them flow - they don't hurt anybody. They will dry Nastenka."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: The sky was horribly dark , but one could distinctly see tattered clouds , and between them fathomless black patches. Suddenly I noticed in one of these patches a star , and began watching it intently. That was because that star had given me an idea : I decided to kill myself that night ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I suddenly dreamt that I picked up the revolver and aimed it straight at my heart my heart, and not my head; and I had determined beforehand to fire at my head, at my right temple. After aiming at my chest I waited a second or two, and suddenly my candle , my table, and the wall in front of me began moving and heaving. I made haste to pull the trigger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Don't think I'm talking nonsense because I'm drunk. I'm not a bit drunk. Brandy's all very well, but I need two bottles to make me drunk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: People talk sometimes of a bestial cruelty, but that's a great injustice and insult to the beasts; a beast can never be so cruel as a man, so artistically cruel. The tiger only tears and gnaws, that's all he can do. He would never think of nailing people by the ears, even if he were able to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Every man has some reminiscences which he would not tell to everyone, but only to his friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I used to analyze myself down to the last thread, used to compare myself with others, recalled all the smallest glances, smiles and words of those to whom I\u2019d tried to be frank, interpreted everything in a bad light, laughed viciously at my attempts \u2018to be like the rest\u2019 \u2013and suddenly, in the midst of my laughing, I\u2019d give way to sadness, fall into ludicrous despondency and once again start the whole process all over again \u2013 in short, I went round and round like a squirrel on a wheel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Trifles, trifles are what matter!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: You\u2019re a gentleman,\u201d they used to say to him. \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t have gone murdering people with a hatchet; that\u2019s no occupation for a gentleman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Do you understand, sir, do you understand what it means when you have absolutely nowhere to turn?\" Marmeladov's question came suddenly into his mind \"for every man must have somewhere to turn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: ... you simply can't imagine what men will say!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: A special form of misery had begun to oppress him of late. There was nothing poignant, nothing acute about it; but there was a feeling of permanence, of eternity about it; it brought a foretaste of hopeless years of this cold leaden misery, a foretaste of an eternity \"on a square yard of space."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: By the experience of active love. Strive to love your neighbour actively and indefatigably. In as far as you advance in love you will grow surer of the reality of God and of the immortality of your soul. If you attain to perfect self-forgetfulness in the love of your neighbour, then you will believe without doubt, and no doubt can possibly enter your soul. This has been tried. This is certain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Make us your slaves, but feed us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: If thou love each thing thou wilt perceive the mystery of God in all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Your hand is cold, mine burns like fire. How blind you are, Nastenka!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Hold your tongue; you won't understand anything. If there is no God, then I am God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Is there in the whole world a being who would have the right to forgive and could forgive?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now ! I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no one else as you do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: Ah, Father! That\u2019s words and only words! Forgive! If he\u2019d not been run over, he\u2019d have come home today drunk and his only shirt dirty and in rags and he\u2019d have fallen asleep like a log, and I should have been sousing and rinsing till daybreak, washing his rags and the children\u2019s and then drying them by the window and as soon as it was daylight I should have been darning them. What\u2019s the use of talking forgiveness! I have forgiven as it is!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fyodor Dostoevsky: It\u2019s not God that I don\u2019t accept, Alyosha, only I most respectfully return him the ticket."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day be day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except the endless present in which the party is always right."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It's frightful that people who are so ignorant should have so much influence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial: that is, when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: However much you deny the truth, the truth goes on existing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: That rifle hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or labourer's cottage is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics.' All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The real division is not between conservatives and revolutionaries but between authoritarians and libertarians."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Everyone believes in the atrocities of the enemy and disbelieves in those of his own side, without ever bothering to examine the evidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A generation of the unteachable is hanging upon us like a necklace of corpses."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: From the totalitarian point of view, history is something to be created rather than learned."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: War against a foreign country only happens when the moneyed classes think they are going to profit from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It's not so much staying alive, it's staying human that's important. What counts is that we don't betray each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas of which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question. It is not exactly forbidden to say this, that or the other, but it is 'not done' to say it... Anyone who challenges the prevailing orthodoxy finds himself silenced with surprising effectiveness. A genuinely unfashionable opinion is almost never given a fair hearing, either in the popular press or in the high-brow periodicals."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery and torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but more merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress toward more pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: All rulers in all ages have tried to impose a false view of the world upon their followers."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Despotic governments can stand 'moral force' till the cows come home; what they fear is physical force."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Either we all live in a decent world, or nobody does."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he thought of the enormous power arrayed against him, the ease with which any Party intellectual would overthrow him in debate, the subtle arguments which he would not be able to understand, much less answer. And yet he was in the right! They were wrong and he was right."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: One must choose between God and Man, and all \"radicals\" and \"progressives\", from the mildest liberal to the most extreme anarchist, have in effect chosen Man."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The word Fascism has now no meaning except in so far as it signifies 'something not desirable.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Doublethink means the power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The totalitarian states can do great things, but there is one thing they cannot do: they cannot give the factory-worker a rifle and tell him to take it home and keep it in his bedroom.  That rifle, hanging on the wall of the working-class flat or laborer's cottage, is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: To see what is in front of one\u2019s nose needs a constant struggle."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The masses never revolt of their own accord, and they never revolt merely because they are oppressed. Indeed, so long as they are not permitted to have standards of comparison, they never even become aware that they are oppressed."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The Ministry of Peace concerns itself with war, the Ministry of Truth with lies, the Ministry of Love with torture and the Ministry of Plenty with starvation. These contradictions are not accidental , nor do they result from from ordinary hypocrisy: they are deliberate exercises in doublethink"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Freedom of the Press, if it means anything at all, means the freedom to criticize and oppose"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In philosophy, or religion, or ethics, or politics, two and two might make five, but when one was designing a gun or an aeroplane they had to make four."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A totalitarian state is in effect a theocracy, and its ruling caste, in order to keep its position, has to be thought of as infallible. But since, in practice, no one is infallible, it is frequently necessary to rearrange past events in order to show that this or that mistake was not made, or that this or that imaginary triumph actually happened."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Totalitarianism, if not fought against, could triumph anywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Apparently nothing will ever teach these people that the other 99 % of the population exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: They could be made to accept the most flagrant violations of reality, because they never fully grasped the enormity of what was demanded of them, and were not sufficiently interested in public events to notice what was happening"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Don\u2019t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Being in a minority, even in a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: One's got to change the system, or one changes nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The essence of oligarchical rule is not father-to-son inheritance, but the persistence of a certain world-view and a certain way of life, imposed by the dead upon the living. A ruling group is a ruling group so long as it can nominate its successors. The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. Who wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It is not possible for any thinking person to live in such a society as our own without wanting to change it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: To be corrupted by totalitarianism, one does not have to live in a totalitarian country."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Every Joke is a Tiny Revolution"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In real life it is always the anvil that breaks the hammer."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought. A bad usage can spread by tradition and imitation even among people who should and do know better."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: For if leisure and security were enjoyed by all alike, the great mass of human beings who are normally stupefied by poverty would become literate and would learn to think for themselves; and when once they had done this, they would sooner or later realise that the privileged minority had no function, and they would sweep it away. In the long run, a hierarchical society was only possible on a basis of poverty and ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Comrades!' he cried. 'You do not imagine, I hope, that we pigs are doing this in a spirit of selfishness and privilege? Many of us actually dislike milk and apples. I dislike them myself. Our sole object in taking these things is to preserve our health. Milk and apples (this has been proved by Science, comrades) contain substances absolutely necessary to the well-being of a pig. We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm depend on us. Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we drink the milk and eat those apples."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Every war, when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The point is that we are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A man may take to drink because he feels himself to he a \n failure, and then fail all the more completely because he \n drinks. It is rather the same thing that is happening to the \n English language. It becomes ugly and inaccurate because \n our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language \n makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A man receiving charity always hates his benefactor- it is a fixed characteristic of human nature"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: At fifty everyone has the face he deserves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If you turn the other cheek, you will get a harder blow on it than you got on the first one. This does not always happen, but it is to be expected, and you ought not to complain if it does happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It was terribly dangerous to let your thoughts wander when you were in any public place or within range of a telescreen. The smallest thing could give you away. A nervous tic, an unconscious look of anxiety, a habit of muttering to yourself-anything that carried with it the suggestion of abnormality, of having something to hide. In any case, to wear an improper expression on your face ... was itself a punishable offense. There was even a word for it in Newspeak: facecrime."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print. Never use a long word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out always cut it out. Never use the passive voice where you can use the active. Never use a foreign phrase a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Early in life I had noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule , between good and evil but between two evils. You can let the Nazis rule the world : that is evil; or you can overthrow them by war , which is also evil. There is no other choice before you, and whichever you choose you will not come out with clean hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The typical socialist... a prim little man with a white-collar job, usually a secret teetotaler and often with vegetarian leanings."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed\u2014if all records told the same tale\u2014then the lie passed into history and became truth. 'Who controls the past' ran the Party slogan, 'controls the future: who controls the present controls the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: All left-wing parties in the highly industrialized countries are at bottom a sham, because they make it their business to fight against something which they do not really wish to destroy. They have internationalist aims, and at the same time they struggle to keep up a standard of life with which those aims are incompatible. We all live by robbing Asiatic coolies, and those of us who are 'enlightened' all maintain that those coolies ought to be set free; but our standard of living, and hence our 'enlightenment,' demands that the robbery shall continue."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Never use a metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The writers I care about most and never grow tired of are: Shakespeare, Swift, Fielding, Dickens, Charles Reade, Flaubert and, among modern writers, James Joyce, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence. But I believe the modern writer who has influenced me most is Somerset Maugham, whom I admire immensely for his power of telling a story straightforwardly and without frills."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Serious sport has nothing to do with fair play. It is bound up with hatred, jealousy, boastfulness, disregard of all rules and sadistic pleasure in witnessing violence. In other words, it is war minus the shooting."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Orthodoxy means not thinking--not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In a Society in which there is no law, and in theory no compulsion, the only arbiter of behaviour is public opinion. But public opinion, because of the tremendous urge to conformity in gregarious animals, is less tolerant than any system of law. When human beings are governed by \"thou shalt not\", the individual can practise a certain amount of eccentricity: when they are supposedly governed by \"love\" or \"reason\", he is under continuous pressure to make him behave and think in exactly the same way as everyone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The choice before human beings, is not, as a rule, between good and evil but between two evils."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The fact is that every war suffers a kind of progressive degradation with every month that it continues, because such things as individual liberty and a truthful press are simply not compatible with military efficiency."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Pacifism is objectively pro-Fascist"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A scrupulous writer, in every sentence that he writes, will ask himself at least four questions, thus: 1. What am I trying to say? 2. What words will express it? 3. What image or idiom will make it clearer? 4. Is this image fresh enough to have an effect?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Take away freedom of speech, and the creative faculties dry up."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Beauty is meaningless until it is shared."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: We control matter because we control the mind. Reality is inside the skull."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop an equal fanaticism. It appears to me that one defeats the fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The aims of these three groups are entirely irreconcilable. The aim of the High is to remain where they are. The aim of the Middle is to change places with the High. The aim of the Low, when they have an aim-for it is an abiding characteristic of the Low that they are too much crushed by drudgery to be more than intermittently conscious of anything outside their daily lives -is to abolish all distinctions and create a society in which all men shall be equal."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Myths which are believed in tend to become true."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: We are in a strange period of history in which a revolutionary has to be a patriot and a patriot has to be a revolutionary."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: No one believes more firmly than Comrade Napoleon that all animals are equal. He would be only too happy to let you make your decisions for yourselves. But sometimes you might make the wrong decisions, comrades, and then where should we be?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The essential point here is that all people with small, insecure incomes are in the same boat and ought to be fighting on the same side. Probably we could do with a little less talk about' capitalist' and 'proletarian' and a little more about the robbers and the robbed."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It is curious how people take it for granted that they have a right to preach at you and pray over you as soon as your income falls below a certain level."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The capitalists owned everything in the world, and everyone else was their slave. They owned all the land, all the houses, all the factories, and all the money. If anyone disobeyed them they could throw him into prison, or they could take his job away and starve him to death. When any ordinary person spoke to a capitalist he had to cringe and bow to him, and take off his cap and address him as 'Sir'"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The object of power is power."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I do not wish to comment on the work; if it does not speak for itself, it is a failure."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Rifles, muskets, long-bows and hand-grenades are inherently democratic weapons. A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon - so long as there is no answer to it - gives claws to the weak."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Patriotism has nothing to do with Conservatism. It is actually the opposite of Conservatism, since it is a devotion to something that is always changing and yet is felt to be mystically the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: This life we live nowadays. It's not life, it's stagnation death-in-life. Look at all these bloody houses and the meaningless people inside them. Sometimes I think we're all corpses. Just rotting upright."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: When I see an actual flesh-and-blood worker in conflict with his natural enemy, the policeman, I do not have to ask myself which side I am on."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If you kept the small rules, you could break the big ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: There is only one way to make money at writing, and that is to marry a publisher's daughter."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: And if our book consumption remains as low as it has been, at least let us admit that it is because reading is a less exciting pastime than going to the dogs, the pictures or the pub, and not because books, whether bought or borrowed, are too expensive."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: We may find in the long run that tinned food is a deadlier weapon than the machine-gun."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It is the same in all wars; the soldiers do the fighting, the journalists do the shouting, and no true patriot ever gets near a front-line trench, except on the briefest of propaganda tours."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Nationalism is power hunger tempered by self-deception."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: We have become too civilized to grasp the obvious. For the truth is very simple. To survive you often have to fight, and to fight you have to dirty yourself. War is evil, and it is often the lesser evil. Those who take the sword perish by the sword, and those who don't take the sword perish by smelly diseases."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It is one of the tragedies of the half-educated that they develop late, when they are already committed to some wrong way of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one's mind and alter one's whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It was curious to think that the sky was the same for everybody, in Eurasia or Eastasia as well as here. And the people under the sky were also very much the same--everywhere, all over the world, hundreds or thousands of millions of people just like this, people ignorant of one another's existence, held apart by walls of hatred and lies, and yet almost exactly the same--people who had never learned to think but were storing up in their hearts and bellies and muscles the power that would one day overturn the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Those who 'abjure' violence can do so only because others are committing violence on their behalf."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache. They wanted to produce a perfect society by an endless continuation of something that had only been valuable because it was temporary. The wider course would be to say that there are certain lines along which humanity must move, the grand strategy is mapped out, but detailed prophecy is not our business. Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A humanitarian is always a hypocrite."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: We believe half-instinctively that evil always defeats itself in the long run.  Pacifism is founded largely on this belief.  Don't resist evil, and it will somehow destroy itself. But why should it? What evidence is there that it does... unless conquered from the outside by military force?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: No advance in wealth, no softening of manners, no reform or revolution has ever brought human equality a millimeter nearer."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It is impossible to found a civilization on fear and hatred and cruelty. It would never endure.' 'Why not?' 'It would have no vitality. It would disintegrate. It would commit suicide."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: [A] world in which it is wrong to murder an individual civilian and right to drop a thousand tons of high explosive on a residential area does sometimes make me wonder whether this earth of ours is not a loony bin made use of by some other planet. Not to have a national anthem would be logical."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The relative freedom which we enjoy depends of public opinion. The law is no protection. Governments make laws, but whether they are carried out, and how the police behave, depends on the general temper in the country. If large numbers of people are interested in freedom of speech, there will be freedom of speech, even if the law forbids it; if public opinion is sluggish, inconvenient minorities will be persecuted, even if laws exist to protect them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Fate seemed to be playing a series of extraordinarily unamusing jokes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Orthodoxy is the ability to say two and two make five when faith requires it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Big Brother is watching you."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: By using stale metaphors, similes and idioms, you save much mental effort, at the cost of leaving your meaning vague, not only for your reader but for yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip, but the really well-trained dog is the one that turns his somersault when there is no whip."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: To accept civilization as it is practically means accepting decay."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The planting of a tree, especially one of the long-living hardwood trees, is a gift which you can make to posterity at almost no cost and with almost no trouble, and if the tree takes root it will far outlive the visible effect of any of your other actions, good or evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Does Big Brother exist?\" \"Of course he exists. The Party exists. Big Brother is the embodiment of the Party.\" \"Does he exist in the same way as I exist?\" \"You do not exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The great enemy of clear language is insincerity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor. War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Progress is not an illusion, it happens, but it is slow and invariably disappointing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: No one is patriotic about taxes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If there is hope, it lies in the proles."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: All propaganda is lies, even when one is telling the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I watched him [a 'fat Russian agent'] with some interest, for it was the first time that I had seen a person whose profession was telling lies -- unless one counts journalists."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Huge events like the Ukraine famine of 1933, involving the deaths of millions of people, have actually escaped the attention of the majority of English russophiles."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A human being is primarily a bag for putting food into."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: And in the general hardening of outlook that set in ... practices which had been long abandoned ... -- imprisonment without trial, the use of war prisoners as slaves, public executions, torture to extract confessions, the use of hostages and the deportation of whole populations -- not only became common again, but were tolerated and even defended by people who considered themselves enlightened and progressive."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: [T]he more one is conscious of one's political bias, the more chance one has of acting politically without sacrificing one's aesthetic and intellectual integrity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Man serves the interests of no creature except himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at it. Football, it seemed to me, is not really played for the pleasure of kicking a ball about, but is a species of fighting."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Pacifism is objectively pro-fascist. This is elementary common sense. If you hamper the war effort of one side, you automatically help out that of the other. Nor is there any real way of remaining outside such a war as the present one. In practice, 'he that is not with me is against me'."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty, and then we shall fill you with ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: When I joined the militia I had promised myself to kill one Fascist - after all, if each of us killed one they would soon be extinct."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Party, which is collective and immortal."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The enemies of intellectual liberty always try to present their case as a plea for discipline versus individualism. The issue truth-versus-untruth is as far as possible kept in the background."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Political writing in our time consists almost entirely of prefabricated phrases bolted together like the pieces of a child's Meccano set. It is the unavoidable result of self-censorship. To write in plain, vigorous language one has to think fearlessly, and if one thinks fearlessly one cannot be politically orthodox."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Perhaps a man really dies when his brain stops, when he loses the power to take in a new idea."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It is almost universally felt that when we call a country democratic we are praising it; consequently, the defenders of every kind of regime claim that it is a democracy, and fear that they might have to stop using the word if it were tied down to any one meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Man is the only creature that consumes without producing. He does not give milk, he does not lay eggs, he is too weak to pull the plough, he cannot run fast enough to catch rabbits. Yet he is lord of all the animals."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A dirty joke is not, of course, a serious attack on morality, but it is a sort of mental rebellion, a momentary wish that things were otherwise."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In this game that we're playing, we can't win. Some kinds of failure are better than other kinds, that's all."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The heresy of heresies was common sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Autobiography is only to be trusted when it reveals something disgraceful."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The smell of her hair, the taste of her mouth, the feeling of her skin seemed to have got inside him, or into the air all round him. She had become a physical necessity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If publishers and editors exert themselves to keep certain topics out of print, it is not because they are frightened of prosecution but because they are frightened of public opinion. In this country intellectual cowardice is the worst enemy a writer or journalist has to face, and that fact does not seem to me to have had the discussion it deserves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The Puritanical nonsense of excluding children and therefore to some extent women from pubs has turned these places into mere boozing shops instead of the family gathering places that they ought to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The words democracy, socialism, freedom, patriotic, realistic, justice have each of them several different meanings which cannot be reconciled with one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Stupidity was as necessary as intelligence, and as difficult to attain."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Confession is not betrayal. What you say or do doesn't matter; only feelings matter. If they could make me stop loving you-that would be the real betrayal."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulne\u00adss while telling carefully constructe\u00add lies, to hold simultaneo\u00adusly two opinions which cancelled out, knowing them to be contradict\u00adory and believing in both of them, to use logic against logic, to repudiate morality while laying claim to it, to believe that democracy was impossible and that the Party was the guardian of democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936 has been written, directly or indirectly against totalitarianism and for democratic Socialism as I understand it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: He drove his mind into the abyss where poetry is written."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: By ' patriotism ' I mean devotion to a particular place and a particular way of life , which one believes to be the best in the world but has no wish to force on other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: What is to be expected of them is not treachery, or physcial cowardice, but stupidity, unconscious sabotage, an infallible instinct for doing the wrong thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable - what then?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Never use a long word where a short one will do."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Power-worship blurs political judgment because it leads, almost unavoidably, to the belief that present trends will continue. Whoever is winning at the moment will always seem to be invincible."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: All art is propaganda."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Preventive war is a crime not easily committed by a country that retains any traces of democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I sometimes think that the price of liberty is not so much eternal vigilance as eternal dirt."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The energy that actually shapes the world springs from emotions - racial pride, leader-worship, religious belief, love of war - which liberal intellectuals mechanically write off as anachronisms, and which they have usually destroyed so completely in themselves as to have lost all power of action."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Creeds like pacifism or anarchism, which seem on the surface to imply a complete renunciation of power, rather encourage this habit of mind. For if you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics ... the more you are in the right (and) everybody else should be bullied into thinking otherwise."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The more intelligent, the less sane"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: This work was strictly voluntary, but any animal who absented himself from it would have his rations reduced by half."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In the face of pain there are no heroes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: To exchange one orthodoxy for another is not necessarily an advance. The enemy is the gramophone mind, whether or not one agrees with the record that is being played at the moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Men use up their lives in heart-breaking political struggles, or get themselves killed in civil wars, or tortured in the secret prisons of the Gestapo, not in order to establish some central-heated, air-conditioned, strip-lighted Paradise, but because they want a world in which human beings love one another instead of swindling and murdering one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: ...men can only be highly civilized while other men, inevitably less civilized, are there to guard and feed them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Many people genuinely do not want to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If I had understood the situation a bit better I should probably have joined the Anarchists."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own unorthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I know it is the fashion to say that most of recorded history is lies anyway. I am willing to believe that history is for the most part inaccurate and biased, but what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be truthfully written."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Circus dogs jump when the trainer cracks his whip."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In the end I worked out an anarchistic theory that all government is evil, that the punishment always does more harm than the crime and that people can be trusted to behave decently if only you will let them alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: One defeats a fanatic precisely by not being a fanatic oneself, but on the contrary by using one's intelligence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Most people approve of capital punishment, but most people wouldn't do the hangman's job."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date. In this way every prediction made by the Party could be shown by documentary evidence to have been correct; nor was any item of news, or any expression of opinion, which conflicted with the needs of the moment, ever allowed to remain on record. All history was a palimpsest, scraped clean and reinscribed exactly as often as was necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Always eyes watching you and the voice enveloping you. Asleep or awake, indoors or out of doors, in the bath or bed- no escape. Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimeters in your skull."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: He was an embittered atheist, the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The tendency of advanced capitalism has been to enlarge the middle class and not to wipe it out, as it once seemed likely to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Think of something you really care about. Then add hour to hour and calculate the fraction of your life that you've actually spent in doing it. And then calculate the time you've spent on things like shaving, riding to and fro on buses, waiting in railway junctions, swapping dirty stories, and reading the newspapers."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The English are probably more capable than most peoples of making revolutionary change without bloodshed. In England, if anywhere,it would be possible to abolish poverty without destroying liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: But what is work and what is not work?  Is it work to dig, to carpenter, to plant trees, to fell trees, to ride, to fish, to hunt, to feed chickens, to play the piano, to take photographs, to build a house, to cook, to sew, to trim hats, to mend motor bicycles?  All of these things are work to somebody, and all of them are play to somebody.  There are in fact very few activities which cannot be classed either as work or play according as you choose to regard them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: All political thinking for years past has been vitiated in the same way. People can foresee the future only when it coincides with their own wishes, and the most grossly obvious facts can be ignored when they are unwelcome."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A Socialist United States of Europe seems to me the only worth-while political objective today"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A family with the wrong members in control; that, perhaps, is as near as one can come to describing England in a phrase."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear. But so long as he uttered it, in some obscure way the continuity was not broken. It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If he were allowed contact with foreigners he would discover that they are creatures similar to himself and that most of what he has been told about them is lies. The sealed world in which he lives would be broken, and the fear, hatred and self-righteousness on which his morale depends might evaporate."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The stars are a free show; it don\u2019t cost anything to use your eyes"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: All nationalistic distinctions - all claims to be better than somebody else because you have a different-shaped skull or speak a different dialect - are entirely spurious, but they are important so long as people believe in them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid; but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A thing which I regret, and which I will try to remedy some time, is that I have never in my life planted a walnut. Nobody does plant them nowadays-when you see a walnut it is almost invariably an old tree. If you plant a walnut you are planting it for your grandchildren, and who cares a damn for his grandchildren?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: One can love a child, perhaps, more deeply than one can love another adult, but it is rash to assume that the child feels any love in return."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The machine has got to be accepted, but it is probably better to accept it rather as one accepts a drug - that is, grudgingly and suspiciously. Like a drug, the machine is useful, dangerous, and habit-forming. The oftener one surrenders to it the tighter its grip becomes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: When the white man turns tyrant, it is his own freedom that he destroys"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: You are imagining that there is something called human nature which will be outraged by what we do and will turn against us. But we create human nature. Men are infinitely malleable."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Nothing was your own except the few cubic centimetres inside your skull. "
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O Lord, give me money, only money."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Scientific education for the masses will do little good, and probably a lot of harm, if it simply boils down to more physics, more chemistry, more biology, etc to the detriment of literature and history. Its probable effect on the average human being would be to narrow the range of his thoughts and make him more than ever contemptuous of such knowledge as he did not possess."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I believe that the BBC, in spite of the stupidity of its foreign propaganda and the unbearable voices of its announcers, is very truthful. It is generally regarded here as more reliable than the press."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Lack of money means discomfort, means squalid worries, means shortage of tobacco, means ever-present consciousness of failure-above all, it means loneliness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: To say \"I accept\" in an age like our own is to say that you accept concentration-camps, rubber truncheons, Hitler, Stalin, bombs, aeroplanes, tinned food, machine guns, putsches, purges, slogans, Bedaux belts, gas-masks, submarines, spies, provocateurs, press-censorship, secret prisons, aspirins, Hollywood films and political murder."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It is fatal to look hungry. It makes people want to kick you."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: You're only a rebel from the waist downwards,' he told her."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It struck him that in moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy, but always against one\u2019s own body... On the battlefield, in the torture chamber, on a sinking ship, the issues that you are fighting for are always forgotten, because the body swells up until it fills the universe, and even when you are not paralysed by fright or screaming with pain, life is a moment-to-moment struggle against hunger or cold or sleeplessness, against a sour stomach or an aching tooth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: You believe that reality is something objective, external, existing in its own right. You also believe that the nature of reality is self-evident. When you delude yourself into thinking that you see something, you assume that everyone else sees the same thing as you. But I tell you, Winston, that reality exists in the human mind, and nowhere else. Not in the individual mind, which can make mistakes, and in any case soon perishes: only in the mind of the Paty, which is collective and immortal."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The main motive for nonattachment is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In all the modern talk about energy, efficiency, social service and the rest of it, what meaning is there except \"Get money, get it legally, and get a lot of it\"? Money has become the grand test of virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: You are a slow learner, Winston.\" \"How can I help it? How can I help but see what is in front of my eyes? Two and two are four.\" \"Sometimes, Winston. Sometimes they are five. Sometimes they are three. Sometimes they are all of them at once. You must try harder. It is not easy to become sane."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Lastly, tea--unless one is drinking it in the Russian style--should be drunk WITHOUT SUGAR. I know very well that I am in a minority here. But still, how can you call yourself a true tea-lover if you destroy the flavour of your tea by putting sugar in it? It would be equally reasonable to put in pepper or salt. Tea is meant to be bitter, just as beer is meant to be bitter. If you sweeten it, you are no longer tasting the tea, you are merely tasting the sugar; you could make a very similar drink by dissolving sugar in plain hot water."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The whole question of evolution seems less momentous than it did, because, unlike the Victorians, we do not feel that to be descended from animals is degrading to human dignity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: All true tea lovers not only like their tea strong, but like it a little stronger with each year that passes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But at any rate they could plug in your wire whenever they wanted to. You had to live-did live, from habit that became instinct-in the assumption that every sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every movement scrutinized."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: To talk, simply to talk! It sounds so little, and how much it is! When you have existed to the brink of middle age in bitter loneliness, among people to whom your true opinion on every subject on earth is blasphemy, the need to talk is the greatest of all needs."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The inflated style is itself a kind of euphemism. A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outlines and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It was not by making yourself heard but by staying sane that you carried on the human heritage."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: His answer to every problem, every setback was \u201cI will work harder!\u201d \u2014which he had adopted as his personal motto."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: No animal shall kill any other animal WITHOUT CAUSE."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The whole idea of revenge and punishment is a childish day-dream. Properly speaking, there is no such thing as revenge. Revenge is an act which you want to commit when you are powerless and because you are powerless: as soon as the sense of impotence is removed, the desire evaporates also."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: For weeks past he had been making ready for this moment, and it had never crossed his mind that anything would be needed except courage. The actual writing would be easy. All he had to do was to transfer to paper the interminable restless monologue that had been running inside his head, literally for years."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: There are some situations from which one can only escape by acting like a devil or a lunatic."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Contrary to popular belief, the past was not more eventful than the present. If it seems so it is because when you look backward things that happened years apart are telescoped together, and because very few of your memories come to you genuinely virgin."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The books one reads in childhood, and perhaps most of all the bad and good bad books, create in one's mind a sort of false map of the world, a series of fabulous countries into which one can retreat at odd moments throughout the rest of life, and which in some cases can survive a visit to the real countries which they are supposed to represent."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Poverty is spiritual halitosis."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Don't you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could understand such a conversation as we are having now?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The truth, it is felt, becomes untruth when your enemy utters it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The urge to shout filthy words at the top of his voice was as strong as ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it emerge into your consciousness in any shape that can be given a name."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: For, after all, how do we know that two and two make four? Or that the force of gravity works? Or that the past is unchangeable? If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable \u2013 what then?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Is the English press honest or dishonest? At normal times it is deeply dishonest. All the papers that matter live off their advertisements, and the advertisers exercise an indirect censorship over news. Yet I do not suppose there is one paper in England that can be straightforwardly bribed with hard cash. In the France of the Third Republic all but a very few of the newspapers could notoriously be bought over the counter like so many pounds of cheese."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Literature is doomed if liberty of thought perishes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In Oceania at the present day, Science, in the old sense, has almost ceased to exist. In Newspeak there is no word for 'Science.' The empirical method of thought, on which all the scientific achievements of the past were founded, is opposed to the most fundamental principles of Ingsoc."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Certainly all \"progressive\" thought, has assumed tacitly that human beings desire nothing beyond ease, security, and avoidance of pain... Hitler, because in his joyless mind he feels it with exceptional strength, knows that human beings don't only want comfort, safety, short working-hours, hygiene, birth-control and, in general, common sense; they also, at least intermittently, want struggle and self-sacrifice, not to mention drums, flags and loyalty-parades. However they may be as economic theories, Fascism and Nazism are psychologically far sounder than any hedonistic conception of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Recently I was reading somewhere or other  an Italian curio-dealer who attempted to sell a 17th century crucifix to J.P. Morgan. Inside it was concealed a stiletto. What a perfect symbol of the Christian religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Tragedy, he precieved, belonged to the ancient time, to a time when there were still privacy, love, and friendship, and when the members of a family stood by one another without needing to know the reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: To a surprising extent the war-lords in shining armour, the apostles of martial virtues, tend not to die fighting when time comes. History is full of ignominious getaways by the great and famous."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If human equality is to be forever averted -- if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently -- then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Man is the only creature that consumes without producing"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: But the proles, if only they could somehow become conscious of their own strength, would have no need to conspire.  They needed only to rise up and shake themselves like a horse shaking off flies.  If they chose they could blow the Party to pieces tomorrow morning.  Surely sooner or later it must occur to them to do it?  And yet --!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: No one can look back on his schooldays and say with truth that they were altogether unhappy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The Party is not concerned with perpetuating its blood but with perpetuating itself. WHO wields power is not important, provided that the hierarchical structure remains always the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Bad writers are nearly always haunted by the notion that Latin or Greek words are grander than Saxon ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: To hang on from day to day and from week to week, spinning out a present that had no future, seemed an unconquerable instinct, just as one's lungs will always draw the next breath so long as there is air available."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: By preaching the doctrine that nothing is to be admired except steel and concrete, one merely makes it a little surer that human beings will have no outlet for their surplus energy except in hatred and leader worship."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The whole climate of thought will be different. In fact there will be no thought, as we understand it now. Orthodoxy means not thinking - not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art.' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: While the game of deadlocks and bottle-necks goes on, another more serious game is also being played. It is governed by two axioms. One is that there can be no peace without a general surrender of sovereignty: the other is that no country capable of defending its sovereignty ever surrenders it. If one keeps these axioms in mind one can generally see the relevant facts in international affairs through the smoke-screen with which the newspapers surround them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: From where Winston stood it was just possible to read, picked out on its white face in elegant lettering, the three slogans of the Party:\r\nWAR IS PEACE\r\nFREEDOM IS SLAVERY\r\nIGNORANCE IS STRENGTH."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The fact is that certain themes cannot be celebrated in words, and tyranny is one of them. No one ever wrote a good book in praise of the Inquisition."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The Ministry of Truth, which concerned itself with news, entertainment, education and fine arts.\r\nThe Ministry of Peace, which concerned itself with war.\r\nThe Ministry of Love, which maintained law and order.\r\nAnd the Ministry of Plenty, which is responsible for economic affairs.\r\ntheir names, in Newspeak:\r\nMinitrue, Minipax, Miniluv and Miniplenty"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In my opinion, nothing has contributed so much to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country and that every act of its rulers must be excused, if not imitated. And so for the last ten years, I have been convinced that the destruction of the Soviet myth was essential if we wanted a revival of the socialist movement."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The primary aim of modern warfare ... is to use up the products of the machine without raising the general standard of living."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Where this age differs from those immediately preceding it is that a liberal intelligentsia is lacking. Bully-worship, under various disguises, has become a universal religion, and such truisms as that a machine-gun is still a machine-gun even when a \"good\" man is squeezing the trigger have turned into heresies which it is actually becoming dangerous to utter."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The secret of rulership is to combine a belief in one\u2019s own infallibility with a power to learn from past mistakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The mutability of the past is the central tenet of Ingsoc. Past events, it is argued, have no objective existance, but survive only in written records and in human memories. The past is whatever the records and the memories agree upon. And since the Party is in full control of all records, and in equally full control of the minds of its members, it follows that the past is whatever the Party chooses to make it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The Party is not interested in the overt act. The thought is all we care about."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at a curate."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: You had to live - did live, from habit that became instinct - in the assumption that evey sound you made was overheard, and, except in darkness, every moment scrutinized."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A mass of Latin words falls upon the facts like soft snow, blurring the outline and covering up all the details. The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink. In our age there is no such thing as 'keeping out of politics'. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred, and schizophrenia. When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If one harbours anywhere in one's mind a nationalistic loyalty or hatred, certain facts, although in a sense known to be true, are inadmissible."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: ...in the negative part of Professor's Hayek's thesis there is a great deal of truth. It cannot be said too often - at any rate, it is not being said nearly often enough - that collectivism is not inherently democratic, but, on the contrary, gives to a tyrannical minority such powers as the Spanish Inquisitors never dreamt of."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The consequences of every act are included in the act itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: We of the sinking middle class may sink without further struggles into the working class where we belong, and probably when we get there it will not be so dreadful as we feared, for, after all, we have nothing to lose."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In the past the need for a hierarchal form of society has been the doctrine specifically of the High. It had been preached by kings and aristocrats and the priests, lawyers and the like who were parasitical upon them, and it had generally been softened by promises of an imaginary world beyond the grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I felt as if I was the only person awake in a city of sleepwalkers. That's an illusion, of course. When you walk through a crowd of strangers it's next door to impossible not to imagine that they're all waxworks, but probably they're thinking just the same about you."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: [What Hayek] does not see, or will not admit, [is] that a return to \"free\" competition means for the great mass of people a tyranny probably worse, because more irresponsible, than that of the State. The trouble with competitions is that somebody wins them. Professor Hayek denies that free capitalism necessarily leads to monopoly, but in practice that is where it has led, and since the vast majority of people would far rather have State regimentation than slumps and unemployment, the drift towards collectivism is bound to continue if popular opinion has any say in the matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Nearly all creators of Utopia have resembled the man who has toothache, and therefore thinks happiness consists in not having toothache... Whoever tries to imagine perfection simply reveals his own emptiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: For a second, two seconds, they had exchanged an equivocal glance, and that was the end of the story. But even that was a memorable event, in the locked loneliness in which one had to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In any form of art designed to appeal to large numbers of people,...[t]he rich man is usually 'bad', and his machinations are invariably frustrated.:; 'Good poor man defeats bad rich man' is an accepted formula."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The belly comes before the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The high-water mark, so to speak, of Socialist literature is W.H. Auden, a sort of gutless Kipling."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of sitting all day under a willow tree beside a quiet pool - and being able to find a quiet pool to sit beside- belongs to a time before the war, before radio, before aeroplanes, before Hitler."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A hideous ecstasy of fear and vindictiveness, a desire to kill, to torture, to smash faces in with a sledge hammer, seemed to flow through the whole group of people like an electric current, turning one even against one's will into a grimacing, screaming lunatic. And yet the rage that one felt was an abstract, undirected emotion which could be switched from one object to another like the flame of a blowlamp."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Since pacifists have more freedom of action in countries where traces of democracy survive, pacifism can act more effectively against democracy than for it. Objectively the pacifist is pro-Nazi."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop. Nothing in the world was so bad as physical pain. In the face of pain there are no heroes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A sahib has got to act like a sahib; he has got to appear resolute, to know his own mind and do definite things."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Records told the same tale, then the lie passed into history and became truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: War is war. The only good human being is a dead one."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In the nineteenth century some parts of the world were unexplored, but there was almost no restriction on travel.:; Up to 1914 you did not need a passport for any country except Russia.:; The European emigrant, if he could scrape together a few pounds for the passage, simply set sail for America or Australia, and when he got there no questions were asked.:; In the eighteenth century it had been quite normal and safe to travel in a country with which your own country was at war."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: But you could not have pure love or pure lust nowadays. No emotion was pure, because everything was mixed up with fear and hatred. Their embrace had been a battle, the climax a victory. It was a blow struck against the Party. It was a political act."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words.... Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It is a feeling of relief, almost of pleasure, at knowing yourself at last genuinely down and out. You have talked so often of going to the dogs - and well, here are the dogs, and you have reached them, and you can stand it. It takes off a lot of anxiety."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does not triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: To an ordinary human being, love means nothing if it does not mean loving some people more than others."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: As I write, highly civilized human beings are flying overhead, trying to kill me. They do not feel any enmity against me as an individual, nor I against them. They are only 'doing their duty'"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If you have embraced a creed which appears to be free from the ordinary dirtiness of politics - a creed from which you yourself cannot expect to draw any material advantage - surely that proves that you are in the right?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Progress and reaction have both turned out to be swindles. Seemingly, there is nothing left but quietism - robbing reality of its terrors by simply submitting to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It reminded us that propaganda in some form or other lurks in every book, that every work of art has a meaning and a purpose - a political, social and religious purpose - that our aesthetic judgements are always coloured by our prejudices and beliefs"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Politically, Swift was one of those people who are driven into a sort of perverse Toryism by the follies of the progressive party of the moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The educated man pictures a horde of submen, wanting only a day's liberty to loot his house, burn his books, and set him to work minding a machine or sweeping out a lavatory. 'Anything,' he thinks, 'any injustice, sooner than let that mob loose.' He does not see that since there is no difference between the mass of rich and poor, there is no question of setting the mob loose. The mob is in fact loose now, and--in the shape of rich men--is using its power to set up enormous treadmills of boredom, such as 'smart' hotels."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: We do not merely destroy our enemies; we change them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: ...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Four legs good, two legs bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Even through the shut window pane, the world looked cold."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The intellectual is different from the ordinary man, but only in certain sections of his personality, and even then not all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: He thought with a kind of astonishment of the biological uselessness of pain and fear, the treachery of the human body which always freezes into inertia at exactly the moment when a special effort is needed."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The more men you've had, the more I love you."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: High sentiments always win in the end. The leaders who offer blood, toil, tears and sweat always get more out of their followers than those who offer safety and a good time. When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: All men are enemies. All animals are comrades"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Never again will you be capable of ordinary human feeling. Everything will be dead inside you. Never again will you be capable of love, or friendship, or joy of living, or laughter, or curiosity, or courage, or integrity. You will be hollow. We shall squeeze you empty and then we shall fill you with ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Sanity was statistical. It was merely a question of learning to think as they thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The Paris slums are a gathering-place for eccentric people - people who have fallen into solitary, half-mad grooves of life and given up trying to be normal or decent. Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behavior, just as money frees people from work."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The idea really came to me the day I got my new false teeth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Anyone who knows of a provable instance of colour discrimination ought always to expose it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: . . . it is a corrupting thing to live one's real life in secret. One should live with the stream of life, not against it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The Communism of the English intellectual is something explicable enough. It is the patriotism of the deracinated."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection, that one is sometimes willing to commit sins for the sake of loyalty, that one does not push asceticism to the point where it makes friendly intercourse impossible, and that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one's love upon other human individuals."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: To die hating them, that was freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: England will still be England, an everlasting animal, stretching into the future and the past and like all living things having the power to change out of all recognition and yet remain the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. Things like the continuance of British rule in India, the Russian purges and deportations, the dropping of the atom bombs on Japan, can indeed be defended, but only by arguments which are too brutal for most people to face, and which do not square with the professed aims of the political parties. Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: When you make love you're using up energy; and afterwards you feel happy and don't give a damn for anything. They can't bear you to feel like that. They want you to be bursting with energy all the time. All this marching up and down and cheering and waving flags is simply sex gone sour. If you're happy inside yourself, why should you get excited about Big Brother and the Three-Year Plans and the Two Minutes Hate and all the rest of their bloody rot?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Her feelings were her own, and could not be altered from outside. It would not have occurred to her that an action which is ineffectual thereby becomes meaningless. If you loved someone, you loved him, and when you had nothing else to give, you still gave him love."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It had become usual to give Napoleon the Credit for every Successful achievement and every stroke of good fortune. You would often hear one hen remark to another, \"Under the guidance of our leader, Comrade Napoleon, I have laid five eggs in six days\" or two cows, enjoying a drink at the pool, would exclaim, \"thanks to the leadership of Comrade Napoleon, how excellent this water tastes!\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: You would not make the act of submission which is the price of sanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Political chaos is connected with the decay of language... one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: An earthquake is such fun when it is over."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Roughly speaking, the more one pays for food, the more sweat and spittle one is obliged to eat with it.... Dirtiness is inherent in hotels and restaurants, because sound food is sacrificed to punctuality and smartness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: How could you communicate with the future? It was impossible. Either the future would resemble the present in which case it would not listen to him, or it would be different from it, and his predicament would be meaningless."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In a town like London there are always plenty of not quite certifiable lunatics walking the streets, and they tend to gravitate towards bookshops, because a bookshop is one of the few places where you can hang about for a long time without spending any money."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Your worst enemy, he reflected, was your nervous system. At any moment the tension inside you was liable to translate itself into some visible symptom."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It was like swimming against a current that swept you backwards however hard you struggled, and then suddenly deciding to turn round and go with the current instead of opposing it. Nothing had changed except your own attitude: the predestined thing happened in any case."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The pleasures of spring are available to everybody and cost nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: For the ordinary man is passive. Within a narrow circle (home life, and perhaps the trade unions or local politics) he feels himself master of his fate, but against major events he is as helpless as against the elements. So far from endeavoring to influence the future, he simply lies down and lets things happen to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The ruling power is always faced with the question, \u2018In such and such circumstances, what would you do?\u2019, whereas the opposition is not obliged to take responsibility or make any real decisions."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Money has become the grand test of virtue. By this test beggars fail, and for this they are despised. If one could earn even ten pounds a week at begging, it would become a respectable profession immediately. A beggar, looked at realistically, is simply a businessman, getting his living, like other businessmen, in the way that comes to hand. He has not, more than most modem people, sold his honour; he has merely made the mistake of choosing a trade at which it is impossible to grow rich."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: they say that time heals all things, they say you can always forget; but the smiles and the tears across the years they twist my heart strings yet!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Probably the best nonsense poetry is produced gradually and accidentally, by communities rather than by individuals."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Imperialism as he [Kipling] sees it is a sort of forcible evangelising."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same in all cases."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Thoughtcrime was not a thing that could be concealed forever. You might dodge successfully for a while, even for years, but sooner or later they were bound to get you."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Using the word \u2018political\u2019 in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples\u2019 idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: He [Gandhi] was not one of those saints who are marked out by their phenomenal piety from childhood onwards, nor one of the other kind who forsake the world after sensational debaucheries."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In general, the greater the understanding, the greater the delusion; the more intelligent, the less sane."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I hate purity, I hate goodness! I don't want virtue to exist anywhere. I want everyone to be corrupt to the bones."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Several of them would have protested if they could have found the right arguments."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie... a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The birds sang, the proles sang. the Party did not sing. All round the world, in London and New York, in Africa and Brazil, and in the mysterious, forbidden lands beyond the frontiers, in the streets of Paris and Berlin, in the villages of the endless Russian plain, in the bazaars of China and Japan \u2014 everywhere stood the same solid unconquerable figure, made monstrous by work and childbearing, toiling from birth to death and still singing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The very word 'war', therefore, has become misleading. It would probably be accurate to say that by becoming continuous war has ceased to exist. ... War is Peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In some ways she was far more acute than Winston, and far less susceptible to Party propaganda. Once when he happened in some connection to mention the war against Eurasia, she startled him by saying casually that in her opinion the war was not happening. The rocket bombs which fell daily on London were probably fired by the Government of Oceania itself, \"just to keep the people frightened.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I am struck again by the fact that as soon as a working man gets an official post in the Trade Union or goes into Labour politics, he becomes middle-class whether he will or no. ie. by fighting against the bourgeoisie he becomes a bourgeois. The fact is that you cannot help living in the manner appropriate and developing the ideology appropriate to your income."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Before the war, and especially before the Boer War, it was summer all the year round."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: To the future or to the past, to a time when thought is free, when men are different from one another and do not live alone\u2014 to a time when truth exists and what is done cannot be undone: From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink \u2014 greetings!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it's got no reality, it's just a set of facts that you've learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn't merely come back to you, you're actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The Seven Commandments: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend. No animal shall wear clothes. No animal shall sleep in a bed. No animal shall drink alcohol. No animal shall kill any other animal. All animals are equal."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The two aims of the Party are to conquer the whole surface of the earth and to extinguish once and for all the possibility of independent thought. There are therefore two great problems which the Party is concerned to solve. One is how to discover, against his will, what another human being is thinking, and the other is how to kill several hundred million people in a few seconds without giving warning beforehand."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: ... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Looking at the world as a whole, the drift for many decades has been not towards anarchy but towards the reimposition of slavery. We may be heading not for general breakdown but for an epoch as horribly stable as the slave empires of antiquity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Reality is inside the skull."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: He was a lonely ghost uttering a truth that nobody would ever hear."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I did try very hard to tell the whole truth without violating my literary instincts."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The one certain thing was that death never came at an expected moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The cheaper books become, the less money is spent on books."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: During part of 1941 and 1942, when the Luftwaffe was busy in Russia, the German radio regaled its home audience with stories of devastating air raids on London. Now, we are aware that those raids did not happen. But what use would our knowledge be if the Germans conquered Britain? For the purpose of a future historian, did those raids happen, or didn't they? The answer is: If Hitler survives, they happened, and if he falls they didn't happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I'm fat, but I'm thin inside. Has it ever struck you that there's a thin man inside every fat man, just as they say there's a statue inside every block of stone?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Power is not a means; it is an end."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Many people genuinely do not wish to be saints, and it is probable that some who achieve or aspire to sainthood have never felt much temptation to be human beings. If one could follow it to its psychological roots, one would, I believe, find that the main motive for \"non-attachment\" is a desire to escape from the pain of living, and above all from love, which, sexual or non-sexual, is hard work."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: There were times when the fact of impending death seemed as palpable as the bed they lay on, and they would cling together with a sort of despairing sensuality, like a damned soul grasping at his last morsel of pleasure when the clock is within five minutes of striking. But there were also times when they had the illusion not only of safety but of permanence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Donkeys live a long time. None of you has ever seen a dead donkey."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Whatever goes upon two legs is an enemy. Whatever goes upon four legs, or has wings, is a friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I am well acquainted with all the arguments against freedom of thought and speech - the arguments which claim that it cannot exist, and the arguments which claim that it ought not to. I answer simply that they don't convince me and that our civilization over a period of four hundred years has been founded on the opposite notice."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The artist is to be exempt from the moral laws that are binding on ordinary people. Just pronounce the magic word \"Art,\" and everything is O.K. Rotting corpses with snails crawling over them are O.K.; kicking little girls in the head is O.K.; even a film like L'Age d'Or is O.K."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: There is no such thing as a naval dictatorship."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Revolutions only effect a radical improvement when the masses are alert and know how to chuck out their leaders as soon as the latter have done their job."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Modern writing at its worst does not consist in picking out words for the sake of their meaning and inventing images in order to make the meaning clearer. It consists in gumming together long strips of words which have already been set in order by someone else, and making the results presentable by sheer humbug. The attraction of this way of writing is that it is easy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: All human relationships must be purchased with money."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The life of an animal is misery and slavery: that is the plain truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Poverty frees them from ordinary standards of behaviour, just as money frees people from work."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Men are only as good as their technical development allows them to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The moralist and the revolutionary are constantly undermining one another. Marx exploded a hundred tons of dynamite beneath the moralist position, and we are still living in the echo of that tremendous crash. But already, somewhere or other, the sappers are at work and fresh dynamite is being tamped in place to blow Marx at the moon. Then Marx, or somebody like him, will come back with yet more dynamite, and so the process continues, to an end we cannot foresee."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Last of all came the cat, who looked round, as usual, for the warmest place, and finally squeezed herself in between Boxer and Clover; there she purred contentedly throughout Major's speech without listening to a word of what he was saying."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: All people who have reached the point of becoming nations tend to despise foreigners, but there is not much doubt that the English-speaking races are the worst offenders. One can see this from the fact that as soon as they become fully aware of any foreign race they invent an insulting nickname for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Some hams hanging in the kitchen were taken out for burial"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I had the lonely child's habit of making up stories and holding conversations with imaginary persons, and I think from the very start my literary ambitions were mixed up with the feeling of being isolated and undervalued. I knew that I had a facility with words and a power of facing unpleasant facts, and I felt that this created a sort of private world in which I could get my own back for my failure in everyday life."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In so far as it takes effect at all, pacifist propaganda can only be effective against those countries where a certain amount of freedom of speech is still permitted; in other words it is helpful to totalitarianism."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: She's beautiful,' he murmured. 'She's a metre across the hips, easily,' said Julia. 'That is her style of beauty,' said Winston."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Sanity is not statistical."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In Moulmein, in lower Burma, I was hated by large numbers of people - the only time in my life that I have been important enough for this to happen to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: No one I met at this time -- doctors, nurses, practicantes, or fellow-patients -- failed to assure me that a man who is hit through the neck and survives it is the luckiest creature alive. I could not help thinking that it would be even luckier not to be hit at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Society has always seemed to demand a little more from human beings than it will get in practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: By the time you have perfected any style of writing, you have always outgrown it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The citizen of Oceania is not allowed to know anything of the tenets of the other two philosophies, but he is taught to execrate them as barbarous outrages upon morality and common sense. Actually, the three philosophies are barely distinguishable."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: For the future. For the unborn."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: From the proletarians nothing is to be feared. Left to themselves, they will continue from generation to generation and from century to century, working, breeding, and dying, not only without any impulse to rebel, but without the power of grasping that the world could be other than it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It is brought home to you...that it is only because miners sweat their guts out that superior persons can remain superior."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It said what he would have said, if it had been possible for him to set his scattered thoughts in order. It was the product of a mind similar to his own, but enormously more powerful, more systematic, less fear-ridden. The best books, he perceived, are those that tell you what you know already."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Winston was gelatinous with fatigue."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In my opinion nothing has contributed more to the corruption of the original idea of socialism as the belief that Russia is a socialist country."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit and grown hard and red and coarse, and then her life had been laundering, scrubbing, laundering, first for children, then for grandchildren, over thirty years. At the end of it she was still singing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: They were governed by private loyalties which they did not question. What mattered were individual relationships, and a completely helpless gesture, an embrace, a tear, a word spoken to a dying man, could have value in itself"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Napoleon is always right."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Can you not understand that liberty is worth more than ribbons?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: He examined the chess problem and set out the pieces. It was a tricky ending, involving a couple of knights. 'White to play and mate in two moves.' Winston looked up at the portrait of Big Brother. White always mates, he thought with a sort of cloudy mysticism. Always, without exception, it is so arranged. In no chess problem since the beginning of the world has black ever won. Did it not symbolize the eternal, unvarying triumph of Good over Evil? The huge face gazed back at him, full of calm power. White always mates."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Snobbishness, like hypocrisy, is a check upon behaviour whose value from a social point of view has been underrated."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: For, when you are approaching poverty, you make one discovery which outweighs some of the others. You discover boredom and mean complications and the beginnings of hunger, but you also discover the great redeeming feature of poverty: the fact that it annihilates the future. Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: He loved Big Brother."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The mass of the rich and the poor are differentiated by their incomes and nothing else,and the average millionaire is only the average dishwasher dressed in a new suit."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: But the problems of perpetuating a hierarchical society go deeper than this. There are only four ways in which a ruling group can fall from power. Either it is conquered from without, or it governs so inefficiently that the masses are stirred to revolt, or it allows a strong and discontented Middle group to come into being, or it loses its own self-confidence and willingness to govern."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: During the first two months of the war it was the Anarchists more than anyone else who had saved the situation, and much later than this the Anarchist militia, in spite of their indiscipline, were notoriously the best fighters among the purely Spanish forces."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: You preferred to be a lunatic, a minority of one."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Hunger reduces one to an utterly spineless, brainless condition, more like the after-effects of influenza than anything else. It is as though all one's blood had been pumped out and lukewarm water substituted."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The clock struck half past two. In the little office at the back of Mr. McKechnie's bookshop, Gordon--Gordon Comstock, last member of the Comstock family, aged twenty-nine and rather moth-eaten already--lounged across the table, pushing a fourpenny packet of Player's Weights open and shut with his thumb."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The result of this is that so-called peace propaganda is just as dishonest and intellectually disgusting as war propaganda. Like war propaganda, it concentrates on putting forward a \u2018case\u2019, obscuring the opponent\u2019s point of view and avoiding awkward questions."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: During five literary generations every enlightened person had despised him, and at the end of that time nine-tenths of those enlightened persons are forgotten and Kipling is in some sense still there."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Perhaps a lunatic was simply a minority of one. At one time it had been a sign of madness to believe that the Earth goes round the Sun; today, to believe the past is inalterable. He might be alone in holding that belief, and if alone, then a lunatic. But the thought of being a lunatic did not greatly trouble him; the horror was that he might also be wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The food crank is by definition a person willing to cut himself off from human society in the hopes of adding five years onto the life of his carcase; that is, a person out of touch with common humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Cricket is a game full or forlorn hopes and sudden dramatic changes of fortune and its rules are so ill-defined that their interpretation is partly an ethical business."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The major problem of our time is the decay in the belief in personal immortality, and it cannot be dealt with while the average human being is either drudging like an ox or shivering in fear of the secret police... How right [the working classes] are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: How could you make appeal to the future when not a trace of you, not even an anonymous word scribbled on a piece of paper, could physically survive?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: My best fishing-memory is about some fish that I never caught."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: To do anything that suggested a taste for solitude, even to go for a walk by yourself, was always slightly dangerous. There was a word for it in Newspeak: ownlife."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I would sooner be a foreigner in Spain than in most countries. How easy it is to make friends in Spain!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: ... ages in which the dominant weapon is expensive or difficult to make will tend to be ages of despotism, whereas when the dominant weapon is cheap and simple, the common people have a chance... A complex weapon makes the strong stronger, while a simple weapon -- so long as there is no answer to it -- gives claws to the weak."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: [Political] prose consists less and less of words chosen for the sake of their meaning, and more and more of phrases tacked together like the sections of a prefabricated hen-house."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: There were sins that were too subtle to be explained, and there were others that were too terrible to be clearly mentioned. For example, there was sex, which was always smouldering just under the surface and which suddenly blew up into a tremendous row when I was about twelve."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: He wondered vaguely whether in the abolished past it had been a normal experience to lie in bed like this, in the cool of a summer evening, a man and a woman with no clothes on, making love when they chose, talking of what they chose, not feeling any compulsion to get up, simply lying there and listening to peaceful sounds outside. Surely there could never have been a time when that seemed ordinary?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I think I exist,' he said wearily. 'I am conscious of my own identity. I was born, and I shall die. I have arms and legs. I occupy a particular point in space. No other solid object can occupy the same point simultaneously."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Joyce is a poet and also an elephantine pedant."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: We are the dead. Our only true life is in the future. We shall take part in it as handfuls of dust and splinters of bone. But how far away that future may be, there is no knowing. It might be a thousand years. At present nothing is possible except to extend the area of sanity little by little. We cannot act collectively. We can only spread our knowledge outwards from individual to individual, generation after generation. In the face of the Thought Police there is no other way."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me--"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: People simply disappeared, always during the night. Your name was removed from the registers, every record of everything you had ever done was wiped out, your one-time existence was denied and then forgotten. You were abolished, annihilated: vaporized was the usual word."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Clover was a stout motherly mare approaching middle life, who had never quite got her figure back after her fourth foal."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Now he had recognized himself as a dead man it became important to stay alive as long as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Has it ever occurred to you,' he said, 'that the whole history of English poetry has been de-termined by the fact that the English language lacks rhymes?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: You were the dead; theirs was the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I have the most evil memories of Spain, but I have very few bad memories of Spaniards."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: And yet, just for a moment, what almost frightening power had sounded in that cry from only a few hundred throats! Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Except for the small revolutionary groups which exist in all countries, the whole world was determined upon preventing revolution in Spain. In particular the Communist Party, with Soviet Russia behind it, had thrown its whole weight against the revolution. It was the Communist thesis that revolution at this stage would be fatal and that what was to be aimed at in Spain was not workers' control, but bourgeois democracy. It hardly needs pointing out why 'liberal' capitalist opinion took the same line."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: He had moved from thought to words, and now from words to actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: But the thing that I saw in your face no power can disinherit: No bomb that ever burst shatters the crystal spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A peace that was truly permanent would be the same as a permanent war."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: By revolution we become more ourselves, not less."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: All through my boyhood I had a profound conviction that I was no good, that I was wasting my time, wrecking my talents, behaving with monstrous folly and wickedness and ingratitude-and all this, it seemed, was inescapable, because I lived among laws which were absolute, like the law of gravity, but which it was not possible for me to keep."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A fat man is never so happy as when he is describing himself as \"robust."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, but then fail all the more completely because he drinks."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Do you remember writing in your diary,\" he said, \"that it did not matter whether I was a friend or an enemy, since I was at least a person who understood you and could be talked to? You were right. I enjoy talking to you. Your mind appeals to me. It resembles my own mind except that you happen to be insane."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Is not anyone with any degree of mental honesty conscious of telling lies all day long, both in talking and writing, simply because lies will fall into artistic shape when truth will not?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: A plongeur is a slave, and a wasted slave, doing stupid and largely unnecessary work. He is kept at work, ultimately, because of a vague feeling that he would be dangerous if he had leisure. And educated people, who should be on his side, acquiesce in the process, because they know nothing about him and consequently are afraid of him."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The weariness of the cell is the vigour of the organism."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: What happens to you here is forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The cat joined the Re-education Committee and was very active in it for some days. She was seen one dag sitting on a roof and talking to some sparrows who were just out of her reach. She was telling them that all animals were now comrades and that any sparrow who chose could come and perch on her paw; but the sparrows kept their distance."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It struck him that the truly characteristic thing about modern life was not its cruelty and insecurity, but simply its bareness, its dinginess, its listlessness. Life, if you looked about you, bore no resemblance not only to the lies that streamed out of the telescreens, but even to the ideals that the party was trying to achieve."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: What was happening was only the working-out of a process that had started years ago. The first step had been a secret, involuntary thought, the second had been the opening of the diary. He had moved from thoughts to words, and now from words to actions. The last step was something that would happen in the Ministry of Love. He had accepted it. The end was contained in the beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic. Women face childbed and the scrubbing brush, revolutionaries keep their mouths shut in the torture chamber, battleships go down with their guns still firing when their decks are awash."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The animals were happy as they had never conceived it possible to be. Every mouthful of food was an acute positive pleasure, now that it was truly their own food, produced by themselves and for themselves, not doled out to them by a grudging master."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: [...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: the mute protest in your own bones"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The fight against bad English is not frivolous."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I do not think one can assess a writer's motives without knowing something of his early development. His subject matter will be determined by the age he lives in ... but before he ever begins to write he will have acquired an emotional attitude from which he will never completely escape."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The ideal set up by the Party was something huge, terrible, and glittering-a world of steel and concrete, of monstrous machines and terrifying weapons-a nation of warriors and fanatics, marching forward in perfect unity, all thinking the same thoughts and shouting the same slogans, perpetually working, fighting, triumphing, persecuting-three hundred million people all with the same face."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: What can the England of 1940 have in common with the England of 1840? But then, what have you in common with the child of five whose photograph your mother keeps on the mantelpiece? Nothing, except that you happen to be the same person."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: He felt as though he were wandering in the forests of the sea bottom, lost in a monstrous world where he himself was the monster. He was alone. The past was dead, the future was unimaginable"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Even the humblest Party member is expected to be competent, industrious, and even intelligent within narrow limits, but it is also necessary that he should be a credulous and ignorant fanatic whose prevailing moods are fear, hatred, adulation, and orgiastic triumph. In other words it is necessary that he should have the mentality appropriate to a state of war. It does not matter whether the war is actually happening, and, since no decisive victory is possible, it does not matter whether the war is going well or badly. All that is needed is that a state of war should exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Football, a game in which everyone gets hurt and every nation has its own style of play which seems unfair to foreigners."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. If one gets rid of these habits one can think more clearly, and to think clearly is a necessary first step toward political regeneration: so that the fight against bad English is not frivolous and is not the exclusive concern of professional [or scholarly] writers."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I had been in London innumerable times, and yet till that day I had never noticed one of the worst things about London-the fact that it costs money even to sit down."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: All writers are vain, selfish and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives lies a mystery."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Probably the battle of Waterloo was won on the playing-fields of Eton, but the opening battles of all subsequent wars have been lost there."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Prolonged, indiscriminate reviewing of books is a quite exceptionally thankless, irritating and exhausting job. It not only involves praising trash but constantly inventing reactions towards books about which one has no spontaneous feeling whatever."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It was not the man's brain that was speaking; it was his larynx."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The enemy of the moment always represented absolute evil, and it followed that any past or future agreement with him was impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: You asked me once,' said O'Brien, 'what was in Room 101. I told you that you knew the answer already. Everyone knows it. The thing that is in Room 101 is the worst thing in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I often wondered whether any of the others grasped that I had done it solely to avoid looking a fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It had never occurred to him that the body of a woman of fifty, blown up to monstrous dimensions by childbearing, then hardened, roughened by work til it was coarse in the grain like an overripe turnip, could be beautiful. But is was so, and after all, he thought, why not?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Under the spreading chestnut tree I sold you and you sold me: There lie they, and here lie we Under the spreading chestnut tree."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It was soon noticed that when ever there was work to be done the cat could never be found."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Windmill or no windmill, he said, life would go on as it had always gone on--that is, badly."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: What is not hereditary cannot be permanent."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Most people get a fair amount of fun out of their lives, but on balance life is suffering, and only the very young or the very foolish imagine otherwise."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: When it comes to the pinch, human beings are heroic."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I managed to get my copy of Ulysses through safely this time. I rather wish I had never read it. It gives me an inferiority complex. When I read a book like that and then come back to my own work, I feel like a eunuch who has taken a course in voice production."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: His whole mind and body seemed to be afflicted with an unbearable sensitivity, a sort of transparency, which made every movement, every sound, every contact, every word that he had to speak or listen to, an agony. Even in sleep he could not altogether escape form her image."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The Catholic and the Communist are alike in assuming that an opponent cannot be both honest and intelligent."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Mrs Weaver nosed among the books, too dim-witted to grasp that they were in alphabetical order."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Gordon eyed them with inert hatred. At this moment he hated all books, and novels most of all. Horrible to think of all that soggy, half-baked trash massed together in one place."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In moments of crisis one is never fighting against an external enemy but always against one's own body."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Almost as swiftly as he had imagined it, she had torn her clothes off, and when she flung them aside it was with that same magnificent gesture by which a whole civilization seemed to be annihilated."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The men who were well enough to stand had moved across the carriage to cheer the Italians as they went past. A crutch waved out of the window; bandaged forearms made the Red Salute. It was like an allegorical picture of war; the trainload of fresh men gliding proudly up the line, the maimed men sliding slowly down, and all the while the guns on the open trucks making one's heart leap as guns always do, and reviving that pernicious feeling, so difficult to get rid of, that war *is* glorious after all."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: He was conscious of nothing except the blankness of the page in front of him, the itching of the skin above his ankle, the blaring of the music, and a slight booziness caused by the gin."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Envy is a horrible thing. It is unlike all other kinds of suffering in that there is no disguising it, no elevating it into tragedy. It is more than merely painful, it is disgusting."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If you are a man, Winston, you are the last man."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If he thinks he floats off the floor, and if I simultaneously think I see him do it, then the thing happens."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I am afraid of death. You are young, so presumably you're more afraid of it than I am. Obviously we shall put if off as long as we can. But it makes very little difference. So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Most people who bother with the matter at all would admit that the English language is in a bad way, but it is generally assumed that we cannot by conscious action do anything about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It is difficult for a statesman who still has a political future to reveal everything that he knows: and in a profession in which one is a baby at 50 and middle-aged at seventy-five, it is natural that anyone who has not actually been disgraced should feel that he still has a future."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: As a rule they will refuse even to sample a foreign dish, they regard such things as garlic and olive oil with disgust, life is unliveable to them unless they have tea and puddings."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The whole experience of being hit by a bullet is very interesting and I think worth describing in detail."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Take pleasure in the impact of one sound on another."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: We may be together for another six months\u2014a year\u2014there\u2019s no knowing. At the end we\u2019re certain to be apart. Do you realize how utterly alone we shall be?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The end was contained in the beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith\u2014as mysterious as faith itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The paperweight was the room he was in, and the coral was Julia's life and his own, fixed in a sort of eternity at the heart of the crystal."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Surely, comrades, you don't want Jones back?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: [T]he outcry against killing women, if you accept killing at all, is sheer sentimentality.:; Why is it worse to kill a woman than a man?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: There is a geographical element in all belief-saying what seem profound truths in India have a way of seeming enormous platitudes in England, and vice versa . Perhaps the fundamental difference is that beneath a tropical sun individuality seems less distinct and the loss of it less important."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Antisemitism, for instance, is simply not the doctrine of a grown-up person."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: One always abandons something in retreat. Look at Napoleon at the Beresina! He abandoned his whole army."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: How right the working classes are in their \"materialism.\" How right they are to realize that the belly comes before the soul, not in the scale of values but in point of time!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: On a ruinous wall I came upon a poster dating from the previous year and announcing that \u2018six handsome bulls\u2019 would be killed in the arena on such and such a date. How forlorn its faded colours looked. Where were the handsome bulls and the handsome bull-fighters now? It appeared that even in Barcelona there were hardly any bullfights nowadays - for some reason all the best matadors were Fascists."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Nothing holds it together except an idea which is indestructible."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I have no wish to take life, not even human life"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The human beings did not hate Animal Farm any less now that it was prospering; indeed, they hated it more than ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Today there were fear, hatred, and pain, but no dignity of emotion, no deep or complex sorrows."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Only old Benjamin professed to remember every detail of his long life and to know that things never had been, nor ever could be much better or much worse--hunger, hardship, and disappointment being, so he said, the unalterable law of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It could not have been ten seconds, and yet it seemed a long time that their hands were clasped together. He had time to learn every detail of her hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: ...every human being is doomed to die, which is the greatest of all failures."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It is deliberate policy to keep even the favoured groups somewhere near the brink of hardship, because a general state of scarcity increases the importance of small privileges and thus magnifies the distinction between one group and another."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: On each landing, opposite the lift shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall. It was one of those pictures which are so contrived that the eyes follow you about when you move. BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU, the caption beneath it ran."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The words kept coming back to him, statement of a mystical truth and a palpable absurdity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I'm fat, but I'm thin inside... there's a thin man inside every fat man."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Money, money, all is money! Could you write even a penny novelette without money to put heart in you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Bombing is not especially inhumane. War itself is inhumane and the bombing plane, which is used to paralyse industry and transport, is a relatively civilised weapon. 'Normal' or 'legitimate' warfare is just as destructive of inanimate objects and enormously so of human lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Comrades,\" he said, \"here is a point that must be settled. The wild creatures, such as rats and rabbits\u2013are they our friends or our enemies? Let us put it to the vote. I propose this question to the meeting: Are rats comrades?\" The vote was taken at once, and it was agreed by an overwhelming majority that rats were comrades. There were only four dissentients, the three dogs and the cat, who was afterwards discovered to have voted on both sides."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Most revolutionaries are potential Tories, because they imagine that everything can be put right by altering the shape of society; once that change is effected, as it sometimes is, they see no need for any other."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: One wants to live, of course, indeed one only stays alive by virtue of the fear of death."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: He would say that God had given him a tail to keep the flies off, but that he would sooner have had no tail and no flies."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: No one, at any rate no English writer, has written better about childhood than Dickens. In spite of all the knowledge that has accumulated since, in spite of the fact that children are now comparatively sanely treated, no novelist has shown the same power of entering into the child's point of view."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If you ask any ordinary reader which of Dickens's proletarian characters he can remember, the three he is almost certain to mention are Bill Sykes, Sam Weller and Mrs. Gamp. A burglar, a valet and a drunken midwife-not exactly a representative cross-section of the English working class."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Processions, meetings, military parades, lectures, waxwork displays, film shows, telescreen programs all had to be organized; stands had to be erected, effigies built, slogans coined, songs written, rumours circulated, photographs faked."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: they had come to a time when no one dared speak his mind, when fierce, growling dogs roamed everywhere, and when you had to watch your comrades torn to pieces after confessing to shocking crimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Never, for any reason on earth, could you wish for an increase in pain. Of pain you could wish only one thing: that it should stop."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: So long as human beings stay human, death and life are the same thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: For after all, what is there behind, except money? Money for the right kind of education, money for influential friends, money for leisure and peace of mind, money for trips to Italy. Money writes books, money sells them. Give me not righteousness, O lord, give me money, only money."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: We were once told that the aeroplane had \"abolished frontiers\"; actually it is only since the aeroplane became a serious weapon that frontiers have become definitely impassable."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: If you set yourself to it, you can live the same life, rich or poor. You can keep on with your books and your ideas. You just got to say to yourself, \"I'm a free man in here\" - he tapped his forehead - \"and you're all right."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: There, comrades, is the answer to all our problems. It is summed up in a single word-- Man"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: Until one has some kind of professional relationship with books, one does not discover how bad the majority of them are."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: And it is a great thing to die in your own bed, though it is better still to die in your boots."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed. But always\u2014 do not forget this, Winston\u2014 always there will be the intoxication of power, constantly increasing and constantly growing subtler. Always, at every moment, there will be the thrill of victory, the sensation of trampling on an enemy who is helpless. If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face\u2014 forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: I suppose there is no place in the world where snobbery is quite so ever-present or where it is cultivated in such refined and subtle forms as in an English public school. Here at least one cannot say that English \u2018education\u2019 fails to do its job. You forget your Latin and Greek within a few months of leaving school \u2014 I studied Greek for eight or ten years, and now, at thirty-three, I cannot even repeat the Greek alphabet \u2014 but your snobbishness, unless you persistently root it out like the bindweed it is, sticks by you till your grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: ...the consciousness of being at war, and therefore in danger, makes the handing-over of all power to a small caste seem the natural, unavoidable condition of survival."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The existence of good bad literature\u2014the fact that one can be amused or excited or even moved by a book that one's intellect simply refuses to take seriously\u2014is a reminder that art is not the same thing as cerebration."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Orwell: The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do not care which of them you think White."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I wish it need not have happened in my time,\" said Frodo. \"So do I,\" said Gandalf, \"and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: All that is gold does not glitter,\nNot all those who wander are lost;\nThe old that is strong does not wither,\nDeep roots are not reached by the frost.\n\nFrom the ashes a fire shall be woken,\nA light from the shadows shall spring;\nRenewed shall be blade that was broken,\nThe crownless again shall be king."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Above all shadows rides the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: War must be, while we defend our lives against a destroyer who would devour all; but I do not love the bright sword for its sharpness, nor the arrow for its swiftness, nor the warrior for his glory. I love only that which they defend."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The main mark of modern governments is that we do not know who governs, de facto any more than de jure. We see the politician and not his backer; still less the backer of the backer; or, what is most important of all, the banker of the backer."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Maybe the paths that you each shall tread are already laid before your feet though you do not see them"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It is useless to meet revenge with revenge; it will heal nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Fear both the heat and the cold of your heart, and strive for patience, if you can."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It's the job that's never started as takes longest to finish."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Even the smallest person can change the course of the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something. You certainly usually find something, if you look, but it is not always quite the something you were after."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: For still there are so many things that I have never seen: in every wood in every spring there is a different green."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The wise speak only of what they know"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: A man that flies from his fear may find that he has only taken a short cut to meet it."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There is a place called \u2018heaven\u2019 where the good here unfinished is completed; and where the stories unwritten, and the hopes unfulfilled, are continued. We may laugh together yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: No half-heartedness and no worldly fear must turn us aside from following the light unflinchingly."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Deeds will not be less valiant because they are unpraised."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Do not spoil the wonder with haste!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: His grief he will not forget; but it will not darken his heart, it will teach him wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There are no safe paths in this part of the world. Remember you are over the Edge of the Wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places; but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I sit beside the fire and think of people long ago, and of people who will see a world that I shall never know."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: False hopes are more dangerous than fears."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Courage is found in unlikely places."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The Resurrection was the greatest \u2018eucatastrophe\u2019 possible in the greatest Fairy Story \u2014 and produces that essential emotion: Christian joy which produces tears because it is qualitatively so like sorrow, because it comes from those places where Joy and Sorrow are at one, reconciled, as selfishness and altruism are lost in Love."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The most improper job of any man, even saints (who at any rate were at least unwilling to take it on), is bossing other men. Not one in a million is fit for it, and least of all those who seek the opportunity."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I am not a 'democrat' only because 'humility' and equality are spiritual principles corrupted by the attempt to mechanize and formalize them, with the result that we get not universal smallness and humility, but universal greatness and pride, till some Orc gets hold of a ring of power--and then we get and are getting slavery."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: You have to understand the good in things, to detect the real evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: My political opinions lean more and more to Anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs)."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: A story must be told or there'll be no story, yet it is the untold stories that are most moving."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I am dreading the publication, for it will be impossible not to mind what is said. I have exposed my heart to be shot at."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Oft hope is born when all is forlorn."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Short cuts make long delays."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Why was I chosen?' 'Such questions cannot be answered,' said Gandalf. 'You may be sure that it was not for any merit that others do not possess. But you have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Deep roots are not reached by the frost."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Fantasy remains a human right: we make in our measure and in our derivative mode, because we are made: and not only made, but made in the image and likeness of a Maker."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: American English is essentially English after having been wiped off with a dirty sponge."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Where there are so many, all speech becomes a debate without end. But two together may perhaps find wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Pippin: I didn't think it would end this way.\nGandalf: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path... One that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass... And then you see it.\nPippin: What? Gandalf?... See what?\nGandalf: White shores... and beyond, a far green country under a swift sunrise.\nPippin: Well, that isn't so bad.\nGandalf: No... No it isn't."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Don't adventures ever have an end? I suppose not. Someone else always has to carry on on the story."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Do you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I warn you, if you bore me, I shall take my revenge."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: History often resembles myth, because they are both ultimately of the same stuff."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: You aren't nearly through this adventure yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: All have their worth and each contributes to the worth of the others."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth'."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Things will go as they will, and there is no need to hurry to meet them."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: For you do not yet know the strengths of your hearts, and you cannot foresee what each may meet on the road."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Advice is a dangerous gift, even from the wise to the wise, and all courses may run ill."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: evil labours with vast power and perpetual success - in vain: preparing always only the soil for unexpected good to sprout in."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Often does hatred hurt itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Out of the darkness of my life, so much frustrated, I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament \u2026 There you will find romance, glory, honour, fidelity, and the true way of all your loves upon earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I have in this War a burning private grudge \u2014 which would probably make me a better soldier at 49 than I was at 22: against that ruddy little ignoramus Adolf Hitler (for the odd thing about demonic inspiration and impetus is that it in no way enhances the purely intellectual stature: it chiefly affects the mere will). Ruining, perverting, misapplying, and making for ever accursed, that noble northern spirit, a supreme contribution to Europe, which I have ever loved, and tried to present in its true light."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Courage will now be your best defence against the storm that is at hand-\u2014that and such hope as I bring."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There is nothing like looking, if you want to find something."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The treacherous are ever distrustful."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The burned hand teaches best. After that, advice about fire goes to the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Home is now behind you, the world is ahead!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Many folk like to know beforehand what is to be set on the table; but those who have laboured to prepare the feast like to keep their secret; for wonder makes the words of praise louder."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The only cure for sagging or fainting faith is Communion. Though always Itself, perfect and complete and inviolate, the Blessed Sacrament does not operate completely and once for all in any of us. Like the act of Faith it must be continuous and grow by exercise. Frequency is of the highest effect. Seven times a week is more nourishing than seven times at intervals."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The future, good or ill, was not forgotten, but ceased to have any power over the present. Health and hope grew strong in them, and they were content with each good day as it came, taking pleasure in every meal, and in every word and song."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Indeed in nothing is the power of the Dark Lord more clearly shown than in the estrangement that divides all those who still oppose him."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I am a Christian\u2026so that I do not expect \u2018history\u2019 to be anything but a \u2018long defeat\u2019 \u2014 though it contains (and in a legend may contain more clearly and movingly) some samples or glimpses of final victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Do we walk in legends or on the green earth in the daylight?' A man may do both,' said Aragorn. 'For not we but those who come after will make the legends of our time. The green earth, say you? That is a mighty matter of legend, though you tread it under the light of day!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Why must you speak your thoughts? Silence, if fair words stick in your throat, would serve all our ends better."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Go back?\" he thought. \"No good at all! Go sideways? Impossible! Go forward? Only thing to do! On we go!\" So up he got, and trotted along with his little sword held in front of him and one hand feeling the wall, and his heart all of a patter and a pitter."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Dwarves are not heroes, but a calculating folk with a great idea of the value of money; some are tricky and treacherous and pretty bad lots; some are not but are decent enough people like Thorin and Company, if you don't expect too much."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The road goes ever on and on"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The world changes, and all that once was strong now proves unsure."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I will not walk backward in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: All that is gold does not glitter."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Adventures are not all pony-rides in May-sunshine."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: All my own small perception of beauty both in majesty and simplicity is founded."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I do not believe this darkness will endure."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The news today about 'Atomic bombs' is so horrifying one is stunned. The utter folly of these lunatic physicists to consent to do such work for war-purposes: calmly plotting the destruction of the world! Such explosives in men's hands, while their moral and intellectual status is declining, is about as useful as giving out firearms to all inmates of a gaol and then saying that you hope 'this will ensure peace'. But one good thing may arise out of it, I suppose, if the write-ups are not overheated: Japan ought to cave in. Well we're in God's hands. But He does not look kindly on Babel-builders."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Home is behind, the world ahead, And there are many paths to tread Through shadows to the edge of night, Until the stars are all alight. Then world behind and home ahead, We'll wander back and home to bed. Mist and twilight, cloud and shade, Away shall fade! Away shall fade!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Good Morning!\u201d said Bilbo, and he meant it. The sun was shining, and the grass was very green. But Gandalf looked at him from under long bushy eyebrows that stuck out further than the brim of his shady hat. \u201cWhat do you mean?\u201d he said. \u201cDo you wish me a good morning, or mean that it is a good morning whether I want it or not; or that you feel good this morning; or that it is a morning to be good on?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There cannot be any 'story' without a fall - all stories are ultimately about the fall - at least not for human minds as we know them and have them."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so \u2014 in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I will not say, do not weep, for not all tears are an evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Fear nothing! Have peace until the morning! Heed no nightly noises!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: A hunted man sometimes wearies of distrust and longs for friendship."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: But I have been too deeply hurt, Sam. I tried to save the Shire, and it has been saved, but not for me. It must often be so, Sam, when things are in danger: some one has to give them up, lose them, so that others may keep them."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: A sudden understanding, a pity mixed with horror, welled up in Bilbo's heart: a glimpse of endless unmarked days without light or hope of betterment, hard stone, cold fish, sneaking and whispering. All these thoughts passed in a flash of a second. He trembled. And then quite suddenly in another flash, as if lifted by a new strength and resolve, he leaped."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The Resurrection is the eucatastrophe of the story of the Incarnation - This story begins and ends in joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I sit beside the fire and think of all that I have seen, of meadow-flowers and butterflies in summers that have been; Of yellow leaves and gossamer in autumns that there were, with morning mist and silver sun and wind upon my hair."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: No language is justly studied merely as an aid to other purposes. It will in fact better serve other purposes, philological or historical, when it is studied for love, for itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It needs but one foe to breed a war, and those who have not swords can still die upon them."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: My name is growing all the time, and I\u2019ve lived a very long, long time; so my name is like a story. Real names tell you the story of the things they belong to in my language, in the Old Entish as you might say. It is a lovely language, but it takes a very long time to say anything in it, because we do not say anything in it, unless it is worth taking a long time to say, and to listen to."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I am in fact a Hobbit in all but size. I like gardens, trees, and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking; I like, and even dare to wear in these dull days, ornamental waistcoats. I am fond of mushrooms (out of a field); have a very simple sense of humor (which even my appreciative critics find tiresome); I go to bed late and get up late (when possible). I do not travel much."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The burned hand teaches best."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Far over the Misty Mountains cold, To dungeons deep and caverns old, We must away, ere break of day, To seek our pale enchanted gold. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fell like ringing bells, In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. The pines were roaring on the heights, The wind was moaning in the night, The fire was red, it flaming spread, The trees like torches blazed with light."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There is more in you of good than you know, child of the kindly West. Some courage and some wisdom, blended in measure. If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Let the unseen days be. Today is more than enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: For nothing is evil in the beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There are some things that it is better to begin than to refuse, even though the end may be dark."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I put before you the one great thing to love on earth: the Blessed Sacrament."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The quiet was so deep that their feet seemed to thump along while all the trees leaned over them and listened."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Of course, it is likely enough, my friends,' he said slowly, 'likely enough that we are going to our doom: the last march of the Ents. But if we stayed home and did nothing, doom would find us anyway, sooner or later. That thought has long been growing in our hearts; and that is why we are marching now. It was not a hasty resolve. Now at least the last march of the Ents may be worth a song."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: You can make the Ring into an allegory of our own time, if you like: and allegory of the inevitable fate that waits for all attempts to defeat evil power by power."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: When Summer lies upon the world, and in a noon of gold, Beneath the roof of sleeping leaves the dreams of trees unfold; When woodland halls are green and cool, and wind is in the West, Come back to me! Come back to me, and say my land is best!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Such is of the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: In doubt a man of worth will trust to his own wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Nearly all marriages, even happy ones, are mistakes: in the sense that almost certainly (in a more perfect world, or even with a little more care in this very imperfect one) both partners might be found more suitable mates. But the real soul-mate is the one you are actually married to."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: For victory is victory, however small, nor is its worth only from what follows from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Don't go where I can't follow!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Well, here at last, dear friends, on the shores of the Sea comes the end of our fellowship in Middle-earth. Go in peace! I will not say: do not weep; for not all tears are an evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, Seven for the Dwarf-lords in halls of stone, Nine for Mortal Men, doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them. In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: But he that sows lies in the end shall not lack of a harvest, and soon he may rest from toil indeed, while others reap and sow in his stead."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Your time may come. Do not be too sad, Sam. You cannot be always torn in two. You will have to be one and whole, for many years. You have so much to enjoy and to be, and to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to the circles of the world, and beyond them is more than memory."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?\" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's back."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Fa\u00ebrie contains many things besides elves and fays, and besides dwarfs, witches, trolls, giants, or dragons; it holds the seas, the sun, the moon, the sky; and the earth, and all things that are in it: tree and bird, water and stone, wine and bread, and ourselves, mortal men, when we are enchanted."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There was a deep silence, only scraped on its surfaces by the faint quiver of empty seed-plumes, and broken grass-blades trembling in small air-movements they could not feel. 'Not a bird!' said Sam mournfully. 'No, no birds,' said Gollum. 'Nice birds!' He licked his teeth. 'No birds here. There are snakeses, wormses, things in the pools. Lots of things, lots of nasty things. No birds,' he ended sadly. Sam looked at him with distaste."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: After all, I believe that legends and myths are largely made of 'truth', and indeed present aspects of it that can only be received in this mode; and long ago certain truths and modes of this kind were discovered and must always reappear."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It was a hobbit hole, and that means comfort"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Leave him! I said. I never mean to. I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon; and if any of these Black Riders try to stop him, they'll have Sam Gamgee to reckon with, I said. They laughed."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It was at this point that Bilbo stopped. Going on from there was the bravest thing he ever did. The tremendous things that happened afterward were as nothing compared to it. He fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: He was kindhearted, in a way. You know the sort of kind heart: it made him uncomfortable more often than it made him do anything; and even when he did anything, it did not prevent him from grumbling, losing his temper and swearing (mostly to himself)."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: He used often to say there was only one Road; that it was like a great river: its springs were at every doorstep, and every path was its tributary. 'It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out of your door,' he used to say. 'You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The realm of fairy-story is wide and deep and high and filled with many things: all manner of beasts and birds are found there; shoreless seas and stars uncounted; beauty that is an enchantment, and an ever-present peril; both joy and sorrow as sharp as swords."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I have spoken words of hope. But only of hope. Hope is not victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed and all its fear pass away."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There I lay staring upward, while the stars wheeled over... Faint to my ears came the gathered rumor of all lands: the springing and the dying, the song and the weeping, and the slow everlasting groan of overburdened stone."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: True courage is about knowing not when to take a life, but when to spare one."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Faithful heart may have froward tongue."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Now it is a strange thing, but things that are good to have and days that are good to spend are soon told about, and not much to listen to; while things that are uncomfortable, palpitating, and even gruesome, may make a good tale, and take a deal of telling anyway."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I am going with him, if he climbs to the Moon."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: For even the very wise cannot see all ends."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I don't know, and I would rather not guess."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Life is rather above the measure of us all (save for a very few perhaps). We all need literature that is above our measure--though we may not have sufficient energy for it all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The mind that thought of light, heavy, grey, yellow, still, swift, also conceived of magic that would make heavy things light and able to fly, turn grey lead into yellow gold, and the still rock into a swift water. If it could do the one, it could do the other; it inevitably did both. When we can take green from grass, blue from heaven, and red from blood, we have already an enchanter's power."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: We meet again, at the turn of the tide. A great storm is coming, but the tide has turned."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I would have things as they were in all the days of my life, and in the days of my longfathers before me: to be the Lord of this City in peace, and leave my chair to a son after me, who would be his own master and no wizard's pupil."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Farewell, and may the blessing of Elves and Men and all Free Folk go with you. May the stars shine upon your faces!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The one small garden of a free gardener was all his need and due, not a garden swollen to a realm;  his own hands to use, not the hands of others to command."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And he took her in his arms and kissed her under the sunlit sky, and he cared not that they stood high upon the walls in the sight of many."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I'm in a position where it doesn't matter what people think of me now. "
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Few other griefs amid the ill chances of this world have more bitterness and shame for a man's heart than to behold the love of a lady so fair and brave that cannot be returned."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: He was tall as a young tree, lithe, immensely strong, able swiftly to draw a great war-bow and shoot down a Nazg\u00fbl, endowed with the tremendous vitality of Elvish bodies, so hard and resistant to hurt that he went only in light shoes over rock or through snow, the most tireless of all the Fellowship."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It's a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: 'Celtic' is a magic bag, into which anything may be put, and out of which almost anything may come. Anything is possible in the fabulous Celtic twilight, which is not so much a twilight of the gods as of the reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: his old life lay behind in the mists, dark adventure lay in front."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: To crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Farewell we call to hearth and hall! Though wind may blow and rain may fall. We must away ere the break of day. Far over wood and mountain tall."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And sometimes you didn't want to know the end\u2026 because how could the end be happy?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Torment in the dark was the danger that I feared, and it did not hold me back. But I would not have come, had I known the danger of light and joy. Now I have taken my worst wound in this parting, even if I were to go this night straight to the Dark Lord. Alas for Gimli son of Gl\u00f3in!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Haldir had gone on and was now climbing to the high flet. As Frodo prepared to follow him, he laid his hand upon the tree beside the ladder: never before had he been so suddenly and so keenly aware of the feel and texture of a tree's skin and of the life within it. He felt a delight in wood and the touch of it, neither as forester nor as carpenter; it was the delight of the living tree itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I sang of leaves, of leaves of gold, and leaves of gold there grew."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Farewell,\" they cried, \"Wherever you fare till your eyries receive you at the journey's end!\" That is the polite thing to say among eagles. \"May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks,\" answered Gandalf, who knew the correct reply."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Their 'magic' is Art, delivered from many of its human limitations."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I wish I was at home in my nice hole by the fire, with the kettle just beginning to sing!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Let him not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: If people were in the habit of refering to 'King George's council, Winston and his gang,' it would go a long way to clearing thought, and reducing the frightful landslide into Theyocracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Criticism - however valid or intellectually engaging - tends to get in the way of a writer who has anything personal to say. A tightrope walker may require practice, but if he starts a theory of equilibrium he will lose grace (and probably fall off)."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: But I am the real Strider, fortunately. I am Aragorn son of Arathorn; and if by life or death I can save you, I will."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: \"That's done it!\" said Sam. \"Now I've rung the front-door bell!\""
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: A few melancholy birds were pipping and wailing, until the round red sun sank slowly into the western shadows; then an empty silence fell"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There is no ship now that can bear me hence"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Where will wants not, a way opens."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: For a while they stood there, like men on the edge of a sleep where nightmare lurks, holding it off, though they know that they can only come to morning through the shadows."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Without the high and noble the simple and vulgar is utterly mean; and without the simple and ordinary the noble and heroic is meaningless"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path, one that we all must take. The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all turns to silver glass, and then you see it."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: For I am Saruman the Wise, Saruman Ring-maker, Saruman of Many Colours!' I looked then and saw that his robes, which had seemed white, were not so, but were woven of all colours, and if he moved they shimmered and changed hue so that the eye was bewildered. I liked white better,' I said. White!' he sneered. 'It serves as a beginning. White cloth may be dyed. The white page can be overwritten; and the white light can be broken.' In which case it is no longer white,' said I. 'And he that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.' - Gandalf"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done so since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence. I much prefer history \u2013 true or feigned\u2013 with its varied applicability to the thought and experience of readers. I think that many confuse applicability with allegory, but the one resides in the freedom of the reader, and the other in the purposed domination of the author."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: If this is victory, then our hands are too small to hold it."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: No taste of food, no feel of water, no sound of wind, no memory of tree or grass or flower, no image of moon or star are left to me. I am naked in the dark, Sam, and there is no veil between me and the wheel of fire. I begin to see it even with my waking eyes, and all else fades."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible, and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I remember nothing about it except a philological fact. My mother said nothing about the dragon, but pointed out that one could not say 'a green great dragon', but had to say 'a great green dragon'. I wondered why, and still do. The fact that I remember this is possibly significant, as I do not think I ever tried to write a story again for many years, and was taken up with language."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Handsome is as handsome does"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Great engines crawled across the field; and in the midst was a huge ram, great as a forest-tree a hundred feet in length, swinging on mighty chains. Long had it been forging in the dark smithies of Mordor, and its hideous head, founded of black steel, was shaped in the likeness of a ravening wolf; on it spells of ruin lay. Grond they named it, in memory of the Hammer of the Underworld of old. Great beasts drew it, orcs surrounded it, and behind walked mountain-trolls to wield it."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along. To look ahead,' said he. And what brought you back in the nick of time?' Looking behind,' said he."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: To whatever end. Where is the horse and the rider? Where is the horn that was blowing? They have passed like rain on the mountains. Like wind in the meadow. The days have gone down in the west. Behind the hills, into shadow. How did it come to this?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I have an unsatisfied desire to shoot well with a bow."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Upon the hearth the fire is red, Beneath the roof there is a bed; But not yet weary are our feet, Still round the corner we may meet A sudden tree or standing stone That none have seen but we alone. Tree and flower and leaf and grass, Let them pass! Let them pass!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Arise, arise, Riders of Th\u00e9oden! Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter! spear shall be shaken, shield be splintered, a sword-day, a red day, ere the sun rises! Ride now, ride now! Ride to Gondor!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Time doesn't seem to pass here: it just is."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It is plain that we were meant to go together."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I am old, Gandalf. I don't look it, but I am beginning to feel it in my heart of hearts. Well-preserved indeed! Why, I feel all thin, sort of stretched, if you know what I mean: like butter that has been scraped over too much bread. That can't be right. I need a change, or something."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I must indeed abide the Doom of Men whether I will or nill: the loss and the silence. But I say to you, King of the Numenoreans, not till now have I understood the tale of your people and their fall. As wicked fools I scorned them, but I pity them at last. For if this is indeed, as the Elves say, the gift of the One to Men, it is bitter to receive."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision. That is why I have not put in, or have cut out, practically all references to anything like 'religion', to cults or practices, in the imaginary world. For the religious element is absorbed into the story and the symbolism."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The enemy? His sense of duty was no less than yours, I deem. You wonder what his name is, where he came from. And if he was really evil at heart. What lies or threats led him on this long march from home. If he would not rather have stayed there in peace. War will make corpses of us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It is said by the Eldar that in water there lives yet the echo of the Music of the Ainur more than in any substance that is in this Earth; and many of the Children of Il\u00favatar hearken still unsated to the voices of the Sea, and yet know not for what they listen."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And some things that should not have been forgotten were lost. History became legend. Legend became myth. And for two and a half thousand years, the ring\ufeff passed out of all knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: To think I should have lived to be goodmorninged by Belladonna Took's son, as if I was selling buttons at the door!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: You may not like my burglar, but please don't damage him."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Rover did not know in the least where the moon's path led to, and at present he was much too frightened and excited to ask, and anyway he was beginning to get used to extraordinary things happening to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Is it nice, my preciousss? Is it juicy? Is it scrumptiously crunchable?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Love not too well the work of thy hands and the devices of thy heart; and remember that the true hope of the Noldor lieth in the West, and cometh from the Sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It cannot be seen, cannot be felt, Cannot be heard, cannot be smelt, It lies behind stars and under hills, And empty holes it fills, It comes first and follows after, Ends life, kills laughter."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: If we all got angry together something might be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And thou, Melkor, shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite. For he that attempteth this shall prove but mine instrument in the devising of things more wonderful, which he himself hath not imagined."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: O! Where are you going With beards all a-wagging? No knowing, no knowing What brings Mister Baggins, And Balin and Dwalin down into the valley in June ha! ha!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It is perilous to study too deeply the arts of the Enemy, for good or for ill."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It is ever so with the things that Men begin: there is a frost in Spring, or a blight in Summer, and they fail of their promise."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: What does your heart tell you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I do not know what is happening. The reason of my waking mind tells me that great evil has befallen and we stand at the end of days. But my heart says nay; and all my limbs are light, and a hope and joy are come to me that no reason can deny. [...] I do not believe that darkness will endure!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I don't want to be in a battle. But waiting on the edge of one I can't escape is even worse."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I wisely started with a map."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It is wisdom to recognize necessity when all other courses have been weighed, though as folly it may appear to those who cling to false hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Few can foresee whither their road will lead them, till they come to its end."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which 'Escape' is now so often used. Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than jailers and prison-walls?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Trolls are slow in the uptake, and mighty suspicious about anything new to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I will take the Ring\", he said, \"though I do not know the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: That is the purpose for which you are called hither. Called, is say, though I have not called you to me, strangers from distant lands. You have come and are here met, in this very nick of time, by chance as it may seem. Yet it is not so. Believe rather that it is so ordered that we, who sit here, and none others, must now find counsel for the peril of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I have no help to send, therefore I must go myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The washing-up was so dismally real that Bilbo was forced to believe the party of the night before had not been part of his bad dreams, as he had rather hoped."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Most English-speaking people, for instance, will admit that cellar door is 'beautiful', especially if dissociated from its sense (and its spelling). More beautiful than, say, sky, and far more beautiful than beautiful. Well then, in Welsh for me cellar doors are extraordinarily frequent."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: If you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite so many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: His rage passes description - the sort of rage that is only seen when rich folk that have more than they can enjoy suddenly lose something that they have long had but have never before used or wanted."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: it was easier to believe in the Dragon and less easy to believe in Thorin in these wild parts"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: A safe fairyland is untrue to all worlds."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Truly songs and tales fall utterly short of the reality, O Smaug the Chiefest and greatest of Calamities."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: On their deathbed men will speak true, they say."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Never laugh at live dragons."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I cannot,' said Merry. 'I have never seen them. I have never been outside of my own land before. And if I had known what the world outside was like, I don't think I should have had the heart to leave it."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Voiceless it cries, Wingless flutters, Toothless bites, Mouthless mutters."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Great heart will not be denied."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Things are drawing towards the end now, unless I am mistaken. There is an unpleasant time just in front of you; but keep your heart up!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I wish life was not so short. Languages take such a time, and so do all the things one wants to know about."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Art is the human process that produces by the way (it is not its only or ultimate object) Secondary Belief."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Tall ships and tall kings Three times three, What brought they from the foundered land Over the flowing sea? Seven stars and seven stones And one white tree. (The Two Towers)"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: If you want to know what cram is, I can only say that I don\u2019t know the recipe; but it is biscuitish, keeps good indefinitely, is supposed to be sustaining, and is certainly not entertaining, being in fact very uninteresting except as a chewing exercise."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And he sang to them, now in the Elven tongue, now in the speech of the West, until their hearts, wounded with sweet words, overflowed, and their joy was like swords, and they passed in thought out to regions where pain and delight flow together and tears are the very wine of blessedness."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Aure entuluva! day shall come again!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Suddenly Faramir stirred, and he opened his eyes, and he looked on Aragorn who bent over him; and a light of knowledge and love was kindled in his eyes, and he spoke softly. 'My lord, you called me. I come. What does the king command?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And here he was, a little halfling from the Shire, a simple hobbit of the quiet countryside, expected to find a way where the great ones could not go, or dared not go. It was an evil fate."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It is mine, I tell you. My own. My precious. Yes, my precious."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I want to be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown shall be upholden, His harp shall be restrung, His halls shall echo golden To songs of yore re-sung. The woods shall wave on mountains. And grass beneath the sun; His wealth shall flow in fountains And the rivers golden run. The streams shall run in gladness, The lakes shall shine and burn, And sorrow fail and sadness At the Mountain-king\u2019s return!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: You must understand, young Hobbit, it takes a long time to say anything in Old Entish. And we never say anything unless it is worth taking a long time to say."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And now at last it comes. You will give me the Ring freely! In place of the Dark Lord you will set up a Queen. And I shall not be dark, but beautiful and terrible as the Morning and the Night! Fair as the Sea and the Sun and the Snow upon the Mountain! Dreadful as the Storm and the Lightning! Stronger than the foundations of the earth. All shall love me and despair!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: He loved mountains, or he had loved the thought of them marching on the edge of stories brought from far away; but now he was borne down by the insupportable weight of Middle-earth. He longed to shut out the immensity in a quiet room by a fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It was just as the 1914 War burst on me that I made the discovery that 'legends' depend on the language to which they belong; but a living language depends equally on the 'legends' which it conveys by tradition. ... Volapuk, Esperanto, Ido, Novial, &c &c are dead, far deader than ancient unused languages, because their authors never invented any Esperanto legends."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Curse us and crush us, my precious is lost!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: You have nice manners for a thief and a liar,\" said the dragon."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: After some while Bilbo became impatient. \"Well, what is it?\" he said. \"The answer's not a kettle boiling over, as you seem to think by the noise you are making."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The stars are far brighter Than gems without measure, The moon is far whiter Than silver in treasure; The fire is more shining On hearth in the gloaming Than gold won by mining, So why go a-roaming? O! Tra-la-la-lally Come back to the Valley."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Faerie is a perilous land, and in it are pitfalls for the unwary, and dungeons for the overbold."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Some sang too that Thror and Thrain would come back one day and gold would flow in rivers, through the mountain-gates, and all that land would be filled with new song and new laughter. But this pleasant legend did not much affect their daily business."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: But do you remember Gandalf\u2019s words: Even Gollum may have something yet to do? But for him, Sam, I could not have destroyed the Ring. The Quest would have been in vain, even at the bitter end. So let us forgive him! For the Quest is achieved, and now all is over. I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Frodo drew himself up, and again Sam was startled by his words and his stern voice. 'On the Precious? How dare you?' he said. 'Think! Would you commit your promise to that, Smeagol? It will hold you. But it is more treacherous than you are. It may twist your words. Beware!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: So comes snow after fire, and even dragons have their endings."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Elvish singing is not a thing to miss, in June under the stars, not if you care for such things."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: You renounce your friendship even in the hour of our need ' he said. 'Yet you were glad indeed to receive our aid when you came at last to these shores fainthearted loiterers and well-nigh emptyhanded. In huts on the beaches would you be dwelling still had not the Noldor carved out your haven and toiled upon your walls."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And when [B\u00ebor] lay dead, of no wound or grief, but stricken by age, the Eldar saw for the first time the swift waning of the life of Men, and the death of weariness which they knew not in themselves; and they grieved greatly for the loss of their friends. But B\u00ebor at the last had relinquished his life willingly and passed in peace; and the Eldar wondered much at the strange fate of Men, for in all their lore there was no account of it, and its end was hidden from them."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I stand in Minas Anor, the Tower of the Sun; and behold! the Shadow has departed! I will be a Shieldmaiden no longer, nor vie with the great Riders, nor take joy only in the songs of slaying. I will be a healer, and love all things that grow and are not barren."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I will not give you counsel, saying do this, or do that. For not in doing or contriving, nor in choosing between this course and another, can I avail; but only in knowing what was and is, and in part also what shall be."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Tears unnumbered ye shall shed."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Thank you, Sam,\" he said in a cracked whisper. \"How far is there to go?\" I don't know,\" said Sam, \"because I don't know where we're going."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And that's the way of a real tale. Take any one that you're fond of. You may know, or guess, what kind of a tale it is, happy-ending or sad-ending, but the people in it don't know. And you don't want them to."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: We set out to save the Shire, Sam and it has been saved - but not for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Let this be the hour when we draw swords together. Fell deeds awake. Now for wrath, now for ruin, and the red dawn. Forth, Eorlingas!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: What a pity that Bilbo did not stab that vile creature, when he had a chance!' Pity? It was Pity that stayed his hand. Pity, and Mercy: not to strike without need. And he has been well rewarded, Frodo. Be sure that he took so little hurt from the evil, and escaped in the end, because he began his ownership of the Ring so. With Pity."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Don't tell us about dreams \u2013 dream dinners aren't any good and we can't share them."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?\" A great Shadow has departed,\" said Gandalf, and then he laughed and the sound was like music, or like water in a parched land; and as he listened the thought came to Sam that he had not heard laughter, the pure sound of merriment, for days upon days without count."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And the ship went out into the High Sea and passed into the West, until at last on a night of rain Frodo smelled a sweet fragrance on the air and heard the sound of singing that came over the water. And then it seemed to him that as in his dream in the house of Bombadil, the grey rain-curtain turned all to silver glass and was rolled back, and he beheld white shores and beyond them a far green country under a swift sunrise."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: You cannot pass,\" he said. The orcs stood still, and a dead silence fell. \"I am a servant of the Secret Fire, wielder of the flame of Anor. You cannot pass. The dark fire will not avail you, flame of Ud\u00fbn. Go back to the Shadow! You cannot pass."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Don't leave me here alone! It's your Sam calling. Don't go where I can't follow! Wake up, Mr. Frodo!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends. I have not much hope that Gollum can be cured before he dies, but there is a chance of it. And he is bound up with the fate of the Ring. My heart tells me that he has some part to play yet, for good or ill, before the end; and when that comes, the pity of Bilbo may rule the fate of many - yours not least."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: You are a set of deceitful scoundrels! But bless you! I give in. I will take Gildor's advice. If the danger were not so dark, I should dance for joy. Even so, I cannot help feeling happy; happier than I have felt for a long time."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: But who knows what she spoke to the darkness, alone, in the bitter watches of the night, when all her life seemed shrinking, and the walls of her bower closing in about her, a hutch to trammel some wild thing in?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Bilbo saw that the moment had come when he must do something."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Many are the strange chances of the world, and help oft shall come from the hands of the weak when the Wise falter."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It gives me great pleasure, a good name. I always in writing start with a name. Give me a name and it produces a story, not the other way about normally."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: My friend, you had horses, and deed of arms, and the free fields; but she, being born in the body of a maid, had a spirit and courage at least the match of yours. Yet she was doomed to wait upon an old man, whom she loved as a father, and watch him falling into a mean dishonoured dotage; and her part seemed to her more ignoble than that of the staff he leaned on. -Gandalf to Eomer, of Eowyn"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: My dear Frodo!\u2019 exclaimed Gandalf. \u2018Hobbits really are amazing creatures, as I have said before. You can learn all that there is to know about their ways in a month, and yet after a hundred years they can still surprise you at a pinch."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Where iss it, where iss it: my Precious, my Precious? It's ours, it is, and we wants it."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Then Aragorn was abashed, for he saw the elven-light in her eyes and the wisdom of many days; yet from that hour he loved Arwen Und\u00f3miel daughter of Elrond."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Silver flow the streams from Celos to Erui In the green fields of Lebennin! Tall grows the grass there. In the wind from the Sea The white lilies sway, And the golden bells are shaken of mallos and alfirin In the green fields of Lebennin, In the wind from the Sea!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: My advice to all who have the time or inclination to concern themselves with the international language movement would be: 'Back Esperanto loyally.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Gandalf! I thought you were dead! But then I thought I was dead myself. Is everything sad going to come untrue? What's happened to the world?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: A year shall I endure for every day that passes until your return."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful 'sub-creator'. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is 'true': it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it were, inside. The moment disbelief arises, the spell is broken; the magic, or rather art, has failed. You are then out in the Primary World again, looking at the little abortive Secondary World from outside."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Never laugh at live dragons, Bilbo you fool!\" he said to himself, and it became a favourite saying of his later, and passed into a proverb. \"You aren't nearly through this adventure yet,\" he added, and that was pretty true as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And then all the host of Rohan burst into song, and they sang as they slew, for the joy of battle was on them, and the sound of their singing that was fair and terrible came even to the City."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Fantasy (in this sense) is, I think, not a lower but a higher form of Art, indeed the most nearly pure form, and so (when achieved) the most potent."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And what do you wish?' he said at last. 'That what should be shall be,' she answered."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: If thou hadst thy will what wouldst thou reserve?\" said Manwe. \"Of all thy realm what dost thou hold dearest?\" All have their worth,\" said Yavanna, \"and each contributes to the worth of the others. But the kelvar can flee or defend themselves, whereas the olvar that grow cannot. And among these I hold trees dear. Long in the growing, swift shall they be in the felling, and unless they pay toll with fruit upon their bough little mourned in their passing. So I see in my thought, would that the trees might speak on behalf of all things that have roots, and punish those that wrong them!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The whole thing is quite hopeless, so it's no good worrying about tomorrow. It probably won't come."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Let him go, you filth! Let him go! You will not touch him again!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: After some time he felt for his pipe. It was not broken, and that was something. Then he felt for his pouch, and there was some tobacco in it, and that was something more. Then he felt for matches and he could not find any at all, and that shattered his hopes completely."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And still Meriadoc the hobbit stood there blinking through his tears, and no one spoke to him, indeed none seemed to heed him. He brushed away the tears, and stooped to pick up the green shield that Eowyn had given him, and he slung it at his back. Then he looked for his sword that he had let fall; for even as he struck his blow his arm was numbed, and now he could only use his left hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: That was the most awkward Wednesday he ever remembered."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Indeed you did your best...I hope that it may be long before you find yourself in such a tight corner again between two such terrible old men. ~ Gandalf to Pippin"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Gil-galad was an Elven-king. Of him the harpers sadly sing: the last whose realm was fair and free between the Mountains and the Sea. His sword was long, his lance was keen, his shining helm afar was seen; the countless stars of heaven's field were mirrored in his silver shield. But long ago he rode away, and where he dwelleth none can say; for into darkness fell his star in Mordor where the shadows are."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Shadowfax tossed his head and cried aloud, as if a trumpet had summoned him to battle. Then he sprang forward. Fire flew from his feet; night rushed over him. As he fell slowly into sleep, Pippin had a strange feeling: he and Gandalf were still as stone, seated upon the statue of a running horse, while the world rolled away beneath his feet with a great noise of wind."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: In that hour of trial it was the love of his master that helped most to hold him firm; but also deep down in him lived still unconquered his plain hobbit-sense: he knew in the core of his heart that he was not large enough to bear such a burden, even if such visions were not a mere cheat to betray him."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: We wants it, we needs it. Must have the precious. They stole it from us. Sneaky little hobbitses. Wicked, tricksy, false!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I can put it no plainer than by saying that Bilbo was meant to find the Ring, and not by its maker. In which case you also were meant to have it. And that may be an encouraging thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It would be the death of you to come with me, Sam,\" said Frodo, \"and I could not have borne that.\" \"Not as certain as being left behind,\" said Sam. \"But I am going to Mordor.\" \"I know that well enough, Mr. Frodo. Of course you are. And I'm coming with you."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: But you speak of Master Gandalf, as if he was in a story that had come to an end.' 'Yes, we do,' said Pippin sadly. 'The story seems to be going on, but I am afraid Gandalf has fallen out of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: You will notice already that Mr. Baggins was not quite so prosy as he liked to believe, also that he was very fond of flowers."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Now and again he spoke to those that served him and thanked them in their own language. They smiled at him and said laughing: 'Here is a jewel among hobbits!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: If you have ever seen a dragon in a pinch, you will realize that this was only poetical exaggeration applied to any hobbit, even to Old Took's great-granduncle Bullroarer, who was so huge (for a hobbit) that he could ride a horse. He charged the ranks of the goblins of Mount Gram in the Battle of the Green Fields, and knocked their king Golfibul's head clean off with a wooden club. It sailed a hundred yards through the air and went down a rabbit-hole, and in this way the battle was won and the game of Golf was invented at the same moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Ho! Tom Bombadil, Tom Bombadillo! By water, wood and hill, by reed and willow, By fire, sun and moon, harken now and hear us! Come, Tom Bombadil, for our need is near us!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Sleep! I feel the need of it, as never I thought any dwarf could , riding is tiring work. Yet my axe is restless in my hand. Give me a row of orc-necks and room to swing and all weariness will fall from me!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Old Tom Bombadil is a merry fellow, Bright blue his jacket is, and his boots are yellow. None has ever caught him yet, for Tom, he is the Master: His songs are stronger songs, and his feet are faster."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Arise now, arise, Riders of Th\u00e9oden! Dire deeds awake, dark is it eastward. Let horse be bridled, horn be sounded! Forth Eorlingas!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I am glad you are here with me. Here at the end of all things, Sam."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Come, Mr. Frodo!' he cried. 'I can't carry it for you, but I can carry you and it as well. So up you get! Come on, Mr. Frodo dear! Sam will give you a ride. Just tell him where to go, and he'll go"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I should say that, in addition to my tree-love (it was originally called The Tree), it arose from my own pre-occupation with the Lord of the Rings, the knowledge that it would be finished in great detail or not at all, and the fear (near certainty) that it would be 'not at all'. The war had arisen to darken all horizons. But no such analyses are a complete explanation even of a short story."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The world is indeed full of peril and in it there are many dark places."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Gandalf: Three hundred lives of men I have walked this earth and now I have no time."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Yet seldom do they fail of their seed, And that will lie in the dust and rot to spring up again in times and places unlooked-for. The deeds of Men will outlast us."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: This thing all things devours: Birds, beasts, trees, flowers; Gnaws iron, bites steel; Grinds hard stones to meal; Slays king, ruins town, And beats high mountain down."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: For the trouble with the real folk of Faerie is that they do not always look like what they are; and they put on the pride and beauty that we would fain wear ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I cordially dislike allegory in all its manifestations, and always have done since I grew old and wary enough to detect its presence."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Cold be hand and heart and bone, and cold be sleep under stone: never more to wake on stony bed, never, till the Sun fails and the Moon is dead. In the black wind the stars shall die, and still on gold here let them lie, till the dark lord lifts his hand over dead sea and withered land."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: We were born in a dark age out of due time (for us). But there is this comfort: otherwise we should not know, or so much love, what we do love. I imagine the fish out of water is the only fish to have an inkling of water."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: He drew a deep breath. 'Well, I'm back,' he said."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I should like to save the Shire, if I could - though there have been times when I thought the inhabitants too stupid and dull for words, and have felt that an earthquake or an invasion of dragons might be good for them. But I don't feel like that now. I feel that as long as the Shire lies behind, safe and comfortable, I shall find wandering more bearable: I shall know that somewhere there is a firm foothold, even if my feet cannot stand there again."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Hinder me? Thou fool. No living man may hinder me!\" \u201cBut no living man am I!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And yet, Eomer, I say to you that she loves you more truly than me, for you she loves and knows; but in me she loves only a shadow and a thought: a hope of glory and great deeds, and lands far from the fields of Rohan. - Aragorn to Eomer, of Eowyn"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Books ought to have good endings.How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Sam, clinging to Frodo's arm, collapsed on a step in the black darkness. 'Poor old Bill!' he said in a choking voice. 'Poor old Bill! Wolves and snakes! But the snakes were too much for him. I had to choose, Mr. Frodo. I had to come with you."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Perilous to us all are the devices of an art deeper than we possess ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Somehow the killing of the giant spider, all alone by himself in the dark without the help of the wizard or the dwarves or of anyone else, made a great difference to Mr. Baggins. He felt a different person, and much fiercer and bolder in spite of an empty stomach, as he wiped his sword on the grass and put it back into its sheath."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Hobbits delighted in such things, if they were accurate; they liked to have books filled with things that they already knew, set out fair and square with no contradictions."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Already he was a very different hobbit from the one that had run out without a pocket-handkerchief from Bag-End long ago. He had not had a pocket-handkerchief for ages."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Elrond raised his eyes and looked at him, and Frodo felt his heart pierced by the sudden keenness of the glance. 'If I understand aright all that I have heard,' he said, 'I think that this task is appointed for you, Frodo; and that if you do not find a way, no one will."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Better mistrust undeserved than rash words."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: No onslaught more fierce was ever seen in the savage world of beasts, where some desperate small creature armed with little teeth, alone, will spring upon a tower of horn and hide that stands above its fallen mate."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: For the less even as for the greater there is some deed that he may accomplish but once only; and in that deed his heart shall rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: We are truth-speakers, we men of Gondor. We boast seldom, and then perform, or die in the attempt. \"Not if I found it on the highway would I take it,\" I said. Even if I were such a man as to desire this thing, and even though I knew not clearly what this thing was when I spoke, still I should take those words as a vow, and be held by them."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: We don't want any adventures here! You might try over the Hill or Across the Water."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Well, you have now, Sam, dear Sam,' said Frodo, and he lay back in Sam's gentle arms, closing his eyes, like a child at rest when night-fears are driven away by some loved voice or hand. Sam felt that he could sit like that in endless happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Of the twelve companions of Thorin, ten remained. Fili and Kili had fallen defending him with shield and body, for he was their mother\u2019s elder brother."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Those were happier days, when there was still close friendship at times between folk of different race, even between Dwarves and Elves.' It was not the fault of the Dwarves that the friendship waned,' said Gimli. I have not heard that it was the fault of the Elves,' said Legolas. I have heard both,' said Gandalf[.]"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: All shall love me and despair."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind,\" said Sam. \"And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up myself, if it breaks my back and heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Don't dip your beard in the foam, Father!\" They cried to Thorin. \"It is long enough without watering it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Don't the great tales never end?\" \"No, they never end as tales,\" said Frodo. \"But the people in them come, and go when their part's ended. Our part will end later \u2013 or sooner."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: He told them tales of bees and flowers, the ways of trees, and the strange creatures of the Forest, about the evil things and the good things, things friendly and things unfriendly, cruel things and kind things, and secrets hidden under brambles."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The Bagginses had lived in the neighbourhood of The Hill for time out of mind, and people considered them very respectable, not only because most of them were rich, but also because they never had any adventures or did anything unexpected: you could tell what a Baggins would say on any question without the bother of asking him."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There is little or no magic about them, except the ordinary everyday sort which helps them to disappear quietly and quickly when large stupid folk like you and me come blundering along, making a noise like elephants which they can hear a mile off."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The world was fair, the mountains tall In Elder Days before the fall."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There was Eru, the One, who in Arda is called Il\u00favatar; and he made first the Ainur, the Holy Ones, that were the offspring of his thought, and they were with him before aught else was made."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: That's what I meant,' said Pippin. 'We hobbits ought to stick together, and we will. I shall go, unless they chain me up. There must be someone with intelligence in the party."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going because they were holding on to something.... That there's some good in the world, Mr. Frodo, and it's worth fighting for."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Did he say:\"Hullo,Pippin!This is a pleasant surprise!\"?No,indeed!He said:\"Get up,you tom-fool of a Took!Where,in the name of wonder,in all this ruin is Treebeard?I want him.Quick\" -Pippin Took"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Wars are not favourable to delicate pleasures."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Many evil things there are that your strong walls and bright swords do not stay."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The Darkness has begun. There will be no dawn."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It is mine to give to whom I will, like my heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Much of the same sort of degraded and filthy talk can still be heard among the orc-minded; dreary and repetitive with hatred and contempt, too long removed from good to retain even verbal vigour, save in the ears of those to whom only the squalid sounds strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: He was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Splendid! They used to go up like great lilies and snapdragons and laburnums of fire and hang in the twilight all evening!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: But the enemy has the move, and he is about to open his full game. And pawns are as likely to see as much of it as any. Sharpen your blade!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: When Mr. Bilbo Baggins of Bag End announced that he would shortly be celebrating his eleventy-first birthday with a party of special magnificence, there was much talk and excitement in Hobbiton."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Outside the ring of dancing warriors with spears and axes stood wolves at a respectful distance, watching and waiting."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Go not to the Elves for counsel,\n for they will say both no and yes.\n Elves seldom give unguarded advice,\n for advice is a dangerous gift,\n even from the wise to the wise,\n and all courses may run ill."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Over hill and under hill"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I'm going on an adventure!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: This of course is the way to talk to dragons, if you don't want to reveal your proper name which is wise, and don't want to infuriate them by a flat refusal which is also very wise. No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time to trying to understand it."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: deep they delved us, fair they wrought us, high they builded us; but they are gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Who are you, Master?' he asked. 'Eh, what?' said Tom sitting up, and his eyes glinting in the gloom. 'Don't you know my name yet? That's the only answer. Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: To the sea, to the sea! The white gulls are crying, The wind is blowing, and the white foam is flying. West, west away, the round sun is falling, Grey ship, grey ship, do you hear them calling, The voices of my people that have gone before me? I will leave, I will leave the woods that bore me; For our days are ending and our years failing. I will pass the wide waters lonely sailing. Long are the waves on the Last Shore falling, Sweet are the voices in the Lost Isle calling, In Eressea, in Elvenhome that no man can discover, Where the leaves fall not: land of my people forever!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: But Sam turned to Bywater, and so came back up the Hill, as day was ending once more. And he went on, and there was yellow light, and fire within; and the evening meal was ready, and he was expected. And Rose drew him in, and set him in his chair, and put little Elanor upon his lap. He drew a deep breath. \u2018Well, I\u2019m back,\u2019 he said"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Struck by lightning! Struck by lightning!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Then Morgoth stretching out his long arm towards Dor-lomin cursed Hurin and Morwen and their offspring, saying: 'Behold! The shadow of my thought shall lie upon them wherever they go, and my hate shall pursue them to the ends of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Arrow! Black arrow! I have saved you to the last. You have never failed me and I have always recovered you. I had you from my father and he from of old. If ever you came from the forges of the true king under the Mountain, go now and speed well!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: He [Bilbo] fought the real battle in the tunnel alone, before he ever saw the vast danger that lay in wait."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Bilbo lay with his eyes shut, gasping an taking pleasure in the feel of the fresh air again, and hardly noticing the excitement of the dwarves, or how they praised him and patted him on the back and put themseves and all their families for generations to come at his service."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: His face was sad and stern because of the doom that was laid on him, and yet hope dwelt ever in the depths of his heart, from which mirth would arise at times like a spring from a rock."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And if Sam considered himself lucky, Frodo knew he was more lucky himself; for there was not a hobbit in the Shire that was looked after with such care."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: For it is easier to shout 'Stop', than to do it"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And she looked at him and saw the grave tenderness in his eyes, and yet knew, for she was bred among men of war, that here was one whom no Rider of the Mark could outmatch in battle."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Here was one with an air of high nobility such as Aragorn at times revealed, less high perhaps, yet also less incalculable and remote: one of the Kings of Men born into a later time, but touched with the wisdom and sadness of the Eldar Race. He knew now why Beregond spoke his name with love. He was a captain that men would follow, that he would follow, even under the shadow of the black wings."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: No, my heart will not yet despair. Gandalf fell and has returned and is with us. We may stand, if only on one leg, or at least be left still upon our knees."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There are many things in the deep waters; and seas and lands may change. And it is not our part here to take thought only for a season, or for a few lives of Men, or for a passing age of the world. We should seek a final end of this menace, even if we do not hope to make one."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Evidently we look so much alike that your desire to make an incurable dent in my hat must be excused."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Being a cheerful hobbit, he had not needed hope, as long as despair could be postponed. (Of Sam)"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Have you thought of an ending?' 'Yes , several, and all are dark and unpleasant,' said Frodo. 'Oh , that won't do!' said Bilbo. 'Books ought to have good endings. How would this do: and they all settled down and lived together happily ever after?' 'It will do well, if it ever comes to that,' said Frodo."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Oh! That was poetry!\" said Pippin. \"Do you really mean to start before the break of day?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Here you find us sitting on a field of victory, amid the plunder of armies, and you wonder how we came by a few well-earned comforts!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: O Elbereth! Gilthoniel! We still remember, we who dwell In this far land beneath the trees. Thy starlight on the Western Seas."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Seek for the Sword that was broken In Imladris it dwells; There shall be counsels taken Stronger than Morgul-spells. There shall be shown a token That Doom is near at hand, For Isuldur's Bane shall waken, And the halfling forth shall stand."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The way is shut. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I wished to be loved by another. But I desire no man's pity."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: A sister they had, Galadriel, most beautiful of all the house of Finw\u00eb; her hair was lit with gold as though it had caught in a mesh the radiance of Laurelin."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Take now this Ring,' he said; 'for thy labours and thy cares will be heavy, but in all it will support thee and defend thee from weariness. For this is the Ring of Fire, and herewith, maybe, thou shalt rekindle hearts to the valour of old in a world that grows chill."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Nay! Alas for us all! And for all that walk in the world in these after-days. For such is the way of it: to find and lose, as it seems to those whose boat is on the running stream. But I count you blessed [...] for your loss you suffer of your own free will, and you might have chosen otherwise. But you have not forsaken your companions, and the least reward that you shall have is that the memory of Lothl\u00f3rien shall remain ever clear and unstained in your heart, and shall neither fade nor grow stale."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: What have I got in my pocket?\" he said aloud. He was talking to himself, but Gollum thought it was a riddle, and he was frightfully upset. \"Not fair! not fair!\" he hissed. \"It isn't fair, my precious, is it, to ask us what it's got in it's nassty little pocketsess?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Gandalf thought of most things; and though he could not do everything, he could do a great deal for friends in a tight corner."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And now leave me in peace for a bit! I don't want to answer a string of questions while I am eating. I want to think!\" \"Good Heavens!\" said Pippin. \"At breakfast?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There was a little corner of his mind that was still his own, and light came through it, as though a chink in the dark: light out of the past. It was actually pleasant, I think, to hear a kindly voice agin, bringing up memories of wind, and trees, and sun on the grass, and such forgotten things."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: We are lost, lost,' said Gollum. 'No name, no business, no Precious, nothing. Only empty. Only hungry; yes, we are hungry. A few little fishes, nasty bony little fishes, for a poor creature, and they say death. So wise they are; so just, so very just"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Memory is not what the heart desires. That is only a mirror, be it clear as Kheled-zaram. Or so says the heart of Gimli the Dwarf."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: But no living man am I! You look upon a woman. \u00c9owyn I am, \u00c9omund's daughter. You stand between me and my lord and kin. Begone, if you be not deathless! For living or dark undead, I will smite you, if you touch him."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the arms of Tin\u00faviel. But she chose mortality, and to die from the world, so that she might follow him; and it is sung that they met again beyond the Sundering Seas, and after a brief time walking alive once more in the green woods, together they passed, long ago, beyond the confines of this world. So it is that L\u00fathien Tin\u00faviel alone of the Elf-kindred has died indeed and left the world, and they have lost her whom they most loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: What did I tell you, Mr. Pippin?' said Sam, sheathing his sword. 'Wolves won't get him. That was an eye-opener, and no mistake! Nearly singed the hair off my head!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: But fear no more! I would not take this thing, if it lay by the highway. Not were Minas Tirith falling in ruin and I alone could save her, so, using the weapon of the Dark Lord for her good and my glory. No, I do not wish for such triumphs, Frodo son of Drogo."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Saruman,\" I said, standing away from him, \"only one hand at a time can weild the One, and you know that well, so do not trouble to say we!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Surely you don\u2019t disbelieve the prophecies, because you had a hand in bringing them about yourself? You don\u2019t really suppose, do you, that all your adventures and escapes were managed by mere luck, just for your sole benefit? You are a very fine person, Mr. Baggins, and I am very fond of you; but you are only quite a little fellow in a wide world after all!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Nobody believes me when I say that my long book is an attempt to create a world in which a form of language agreeable to my personal aesthetic might seem real. But it is true."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Your lullaby would waken a drunken goblin!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The dragon is withered, His bones are now crumbled; His armour is shivered, His splendour is humbled! Though sword shall be rusted, And throne and crown perish With strength that men trusted And wealth that they cherish, Here grass is still growing, And leaves are yet swinging, The white water flowing, And elves are yet singing Come! Tra-la-la-lally! Come back to the valley!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Gandalf, dwarves and Mr. Baggins! We are met together in the house of our friend and fellow conspirator, this most excellent and audacious hobbit\u2014may the hair on his toes never fall out!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: If you're referring to the incident with the dragon, I was barely involved. All I did was give your uncle a little nudge out of the door."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I knew that danger lay ahead, of course; but I did not expect to meet it in our own Shire. Can't a hobbit walk from the Water to the River in peace?\" \"But it is not your own Shire,\" said Gildor. \"Others dwelt here before hobbits were; and others will dwell here again when hobbits are no more. The wide world is all about you: you can fence yourselves in, but you cannot for ever fence it out."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The Dark Lord has Nine. But we have One, mightier than they: the White Rider. He has passed through the fire and the abyss, and they shall fear him. We will go where he leads."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Then holding the star aloft and the bright sword advanced, Frodo, hobbit of the Shire, walked steadily down to meet the eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his foes shall fall. The sword is sharp, the spear is long, The arrow swift, the Gate is strong; The heart is bold that looks on gold; The dwarves no more shall suffer wrong. The dwarves of yore made mighty spells, While hammers fells like ringing bells In places deep, where dark things sleep, In hollow halls beneath the fells. -from The Hobbit (Dwarves Battle Song)"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Tomorrow we may come this way, And take the hidden paths that run Towards the Moon or to the Sun"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Aiya Earendil Elenion Ancalima!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I wonder if people will ever say, 'Let's hear about Frodo and the Ring.' And they'll say 'Yes, that's one of my favorite stories. Frodo was really courageous, wasn't he, Dad?' 'Yes, my boy, the most famousest of hobbits. And that's saying a lot.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And long there he lay, an image of the splendour of the Kings of Men in glory undimmed before the breaking of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There was some murmuring, but also some grins on the faces of the men looking on: the sight of their Captain sitting on the ground and eye to eye with a young hobbit, legs well apart, bristling with wrath, was one beyond their experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggled on."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And its object is Art not power, sub-creation not domination and tyrannous re-forming of Creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Well, you can go on looking forward,\" said Gandalf. \"There may be many unexpected feasts ahead of you."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Yes, I am white now,' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Alive without breath, As cold as death; Never thirsty, ever drinking, All in mail never clinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Roads go ever ever on, Over rock and under tree, By caves where never sun has shone, By streams that never find the sea; Over snow by winter sown, And through the merry flowers of June, Over grass and over stone, And under mountains of the moon. Roads go ever ever on Under cloud and under star, Yet feet that wandering have gone Turn at last to home afar. Eyes that fire and sword have seen And horror in the halls of stone Look at last on meadows green And trees and hills they long have known"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It matters little who is the enemy, if we cannot beat off his attack."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Third time pays for all"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Far, far below the deepest delvings of the dwarves, the world is gnawed by nameless things."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Aragorn threw back his cloak. The elven-sheath glittered as he grasped it, and the bright blade of And\u00faril shone like a sudden flame as he swept it out. 'Elendil!' he cried. 'I am Aragorn, son of Arathorn, and am called Elessar, the Elfstone, D\u00fanadan, the heir of Isildur Elendil's son of Gondor. Here is the Sword that was Broken and is forged again! Will you aid me or thwart me? Choose swiftly!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: How could such a large door be kept secret from everybody outside, apart from the dragon?\" [Bilbo] asked. He was only a little hobbit you must remember."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Memory is not what the heart desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I am in fact a hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated)."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I don't deny it,\" said Frodo, looking at Sam, who was now grinning. \"I don't deny it, but I'll never believe you are sleeping again, whether you snore or not. I shall kick you hard to make sure."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Mind your P's and Q's."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Go back! Fall into the nothingness that awaits you and your Master."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: For I am the daughter of Elrond. I shall not go with him when he departs to the Havens: for mine is the choice of Luthien, and as she so have I chosen, both the sweet and the bitter."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Then she fell on her knees, saying: 'I beg thee!' 'Nay, lady,' he said, and taking her by the hand he raised her. The he kissed her hand, and sprang into the saddle, and rode away, and did not look back; and only those who knew him well and were near to him saw the pain that he bore."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Journey\u2019s end In western lands beneath the Sun The flowers may rise in Spring, The trees may bud, the waters run, The merry finches sing. Or there maybe 'tis cloudless night, And swaying branches bear The Elven-stars as jewels white Amid their branching hair. Though here at journey's end I lie In darkness buried deep, Beyond all towers strong and high, Beyond all mountains steep, Above all shadows rides the Sun And Stars for ever dwell: I will not say the Day is done, Nor bid the Stars farewell.J."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Then Aragorn stooped and looked in her face, and it was indeed white as a lily, cold as frost, and hard as graven stone. But he bent and kissed her on the brow, and called her softly, saying: '\u00c9owyn \u00c9omund's daughter, awake! For your enemy has passed away!' - Aragorn &amp; \u00c9owyn"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: In one thing you have not changed, dear friend,\" said Aragorn: \"you still speak in riddles.\" \"What? In riddles?\" said Gandalf. \"No! For I was talking aloud to myself. A habit of the old: they choose the wisest person present to speak to; the long explanations needed by the young are wearying."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Ho! Ho! Ho! To the bottle I go To heal my heart and drown my woe Rain may fall, and wind may blow And many miles be still to go But under a tall tree will I lie And let the clouds go sailing by"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house. But... I can ride and wield blade, and I do not fear either pain or death."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: What course am I to take?\" \"Towards danger; but not too rashly, nor too straight."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The strongest must seek a way, say you? But I say: let a ploughman plough, but choose an otter for swimming, and for running light over grass and leaf, or over snow- an Elf!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And Gandalf said: \"This is your realm, and the heart of the greater realm that shall be. The Third Age of the world is ended, and the new age is begun; and it is your task to order its beginning and to preserve what must be preserved. For though much has been saved, much must now pass away; and the power of the Three Rings also is ended. And all the lands that you see, and those that lie round about them, shall be dwellings of Men. For the time comes of the Dominion of Men, and the Elder Kindred shall fade or depart."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Alas, not me, lord!\" she said. \"Shadow lies on me still. Look not to me for healing! I am a shieldmaiden and my hand is ungentle."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Together we will take the road that leads into the West, And far away will find a land where both our hearts may rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Pippin glanced in some wonder at the face now close beside his own, for the sound of that laugh had been gay and merry. Yet in the wizard's face he saw at first only lines of care and sorrow; though as he looked more intently he perceived that under all there was a great joy: a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, were it to gush forth."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Then shouldering their burdens, they set off, seeking a path that would bring them over the grey hills of the Emyn Muil, and down into the Land of Shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: This is a story of how a Baggins had an adventure, and found himself doing and saying things altogether unexpected."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It is the way of my people to use light words at such times and say less than they mean. We fear to say too much. It robs us of the right words when a jest is out of place."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate. . . If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I shall claim full amends for every fall and stubbed toe, if you do not lead us well."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Fool of a Took!\" he growled. \"This is a serious journey, not a hobbit walking-party. Throw yourself in next time, and then you will be no further nuisance."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and the lights in the windows went out. A voice shouted in the dark: 'Who's that? Be off! You can't come in. Can't you read the notice: No admittance between sundown and sunrise?' 'Of course we can't read the notice in the dark,' Sam shouted back. 'And if hobbits of the Shire are to be kept out in the wet on a night like this, I'll tear down your notice when I find it."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The Sword of Elendil was forged anew by Elvish smiths, and on its blade was traced a device of seven stars set between the crescent Moon and rayed Sun, and about them was written many runes; for Aragorn son of Arathorn was going to war upon the marches of Mordor. Very bright was that sword when it was made whole again; the light of the sun shone redly in it, and the light of the moon shone cold, its edge was hard and keen. And Aragorn gave it a new name and called it And\u00faril, Flame of the West."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: That was Thorin's style. He was an important dwarf. If he had been allowed, he would probably have gone on like this until he was out of breath, without telling anyone there anything that was not known already. But he was rudely interrupted."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: 'Nonetheless day will bring hope to me,' said Aragorn. 'Is it not said that no foe has ever taken the Hornburg, if men defended it?' 'So the minstrels say,' said \u00c9omer. 'Then let us defend it, and hope!' said Aragorn."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I am in fact, a hobbit in all but size"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Out of doubt, out of dark to the day's rising I came singing into the sun, sword unsheathing. To hope's end I rode and to heart's breaking: Now for wrath, now for ruin and a red nightfall!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Orcs, and talking trees, and leagues of grass, and galloping riders, and glittering caves, and white towers and golden halls, and battles, and tall ships sailing, all these passed before Sam's mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The Road goes ever on and on Down from the door where it began. Now far ahead the Road has gone, And I must follow, if I can, Pursuing it with eager feet, Until it joins some larger way Where many paths and errands meet. And whither then? I cannot say"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: That's the only place in all the lands we've ever heard of that we don't want to see any closer; and that's the one place we're trying to get to! And that's just where we can't get, nohow."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I threw down my enemy, and he fell from the high place and broke the mountain-side where he smote it in his ruin."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Go not to the Elves for counsel, for they will say both no and yes."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Lazy Lob and crazy Cob are weaving webs to wind me. I am far more sweet than other meat, but still they cannot find me! Here am I, naughty little fly; you are fat and lazy. You cannot trap me, though you try, in your cobwebs crazy."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: If you mean you think it is my job to go into the secret passage first, O Thorin Thrain\u2019s son Oakenshield, may your beard grow ever longer,\u201d he said crossly, \u201csay so at once and have done!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: So, though there was still some store of weapons in the Shire, these were used mostly as trophies, hanging above hearths or on walls, or gathered into the museum at Michel Delving. The Mathom-house it was called; for anything that Hobbits had no immediate use for, but were unwilling to throw away, they called a mathom. Their dwellings were apt to become rather crowded with mathoms, and many of the presents that passed from hand to hand were of that sort."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked)."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Hobbits are an unobtrusive but very ancient people, more numerous formerly than they are today; for they love peace and quiet and good tilled earth: a well-ordered and well-farmed countryside was their favourite haunt."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There was a solemn article in the local paper seriously advocating systematic exterminating of the entire German nation as the only proper course after military victory: because, if you please, they are rattlesnakes, and don't know the difference between good and evil! (What of the writer?) The Germans have just as much right to declare the Poles and Jews exterminable vermin, subhuman, as we have to select the Germans: in other words, no right, whatever they have done."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I have never had much confidence in my own work, and even now when I am assured (still much to my grateful surprise) that it has value for other people, I feel diffident, reluctant as it were to expose my world of imagination to possibly contemptuous eyes and ears."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Fair speech may hide a foul heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: We have sworn, and not lightly. This oath we will keep. We are threatened with many evils, and treason not least; but one thing is not said: that we shall suffer from cowardice, from cravens or the fear of cravens. Therefore I say that we will go on, and this doom I add: the deeds that we shall do shall be the matter of song until the last days of Arda."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And you, Ringbearer' she said, turning to Frodo. 'I come to you last who are not last in my thoughts. For you I have prepared this.' She held up a small crystal phial: it glittered as she moved it and rays of white light sprang from her hand. 'In this phial,' she said,' is caught the light of Earendil's star, set amid the waters of my fountain. It will shine still brighter when night is about you. May it be a light to you in dark places, when all other lights go out.  Frodo took the phial, and for a moment as it shone between them, he saw her again standing like a queen, great and beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Then hope unlooked-for came so suddenly to Eomer's heart, and with it the bite of care and fear renewed, that he said no more, but turned and went swiftly from the hall."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Speak no evil of the Lady Galadriel!\" said Aragorn sternly. \"You know not what you say. There is in her and in this land, no evil, unless a man bring it hither himself. Then let him beware!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I'm looking for someone to share in an adventure."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I don't see why the likes o' thee \nWithout axin' leave should go makin' free \nWith the shank or the shin o' my father's kin; \nSo hand the old bone over! \n Rover! Trover! \nThough dead he be, it belongs to he; \nSo hand the old bnone over!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Tell me, who are you, alone, yourself and nameless?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Fare well we call to hearth and hall Though wind may blow and rain may fall We must away ere break of day Over the wood and mountain tall To Rivendell where Elves yet dwell In glades beneath the misty fell Through moor and waste we ride in haste And wither then we cannot tell With foes ahead behind us dread Beneath the sky shall be our bed Until at last our toil be sped Our journey done, our errand sped We must away! We must away! We ride before the break of day!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: What has roots as nobody sees, Is taller than trees Up, up it goes, And yet never grows? A mountain."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Let us remember that a traitor may betray himself and do good that he does not intend. It can be so, sometimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: He raised his staff. There was a roll of thunder. The sunlight was blotted out from the eastern windows; the whole hall became suddenly dark as night. The fire faded to sullen embers. Only Gandalf could be seen, standing white and tall before the blackened hearth."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And there was Frodo, pale and worn, and yet himself again; and in his eyes there was peace now, neither strain of will, nor madness, nor any fear. His burden was taken away."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Then Frodo came forward and took the crown from Faramir and bore it to Gandalf; and Aragorn knelt, and Gandalf set the White Crown upon his head and said: Now come the days of the King, and may they be blessed while the thrones of the Valar endure!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Their horses were of great stature, strong and clean-limbed; their gray coats glistened, their long tails flowed in the wind, their manes were braided on their proud necks."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: It was an evil doom that set her in his path. For she is a fair maiden, fairest lady of a house of queens. And yet I know not how I should speak of her. When I first looked on her and perceived her unhappiness, it seemed to me that I saw a white flower standing straight and proud, shapely as a lily and yet knew that it was hard, as if wrought by elf-wrights out of steel."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I desired dragons with a profound desire. Of course, I in my timid body did not wish to have them in the neighborhood. But the world that contained even the imagination of F\u00e1fnir was richer and more beautiful, at whatever the cost of peril."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The way is shut. Then they halted and looked at him and saw that he lived still; but he did not look at them. The way is shut, his voice said again. It was made by those who are Dead, and the Dead keep it, until the time comes. The way is shut."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Over the field rang his clear voice calling: \u2018Death! Ride, ride to ruin and the world\u2019s ending!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: If this nice friendliness would spread about in Mordor, half our trouble would be over."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The woman turned and went slowly into the house. As she passed the doors she turned and looked back. Grave and thoughtful was her glance, as she looked on the king with cool pity in here eyes. Very fair was her face, and her long hair was like a river of gold. Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Thus Aragorn for the first time in the full light of day beheld \u00c9owyn, Lady of Rohan, and thought her fair, fair and cold, like a morning of pale spring that is not yet come to womanhood. And she was now suddenly aware of him: tall heir of kings, wise with many winters, greycloaked, hiding a power that yet she felt. For a moment still as stone she stood, then turning swiftly she was gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: What do you fear, lady?' he asked. 'A cage,' she said."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: As she stood before Aragorn she paused suddenly and looked upon him, and her eyes were shining. And he looked down upon her fair face and smiled; but as he took the cup, his hand met hers, and he knew that she trembled at the touch."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Then Elrond and Galadriel rode on; for the Third Age was over and the Days of the Rings were passed and an end was come of the story and song of those times."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Shall we mourn here deedless forever a shadow-folk mist-haunting dropping vain tears in the thankless sea"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: He knew that all the hazards and perils were now drawing together to a point: the next day would be a day of doom, the day of final effort or disaster, the last gasp."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly it did not seem of any particular use at the moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: please don't cook me, kind sirs! I am a good cook myself, and cook better than I cook, if you see what I mean."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Far over misty mountains cold To dungeons deep and caverns old We must away, ere break of day, To find our long-forgotten gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: All the same, I should like it all plain and clear,\" said he obstinately, putting on his business manner (usually reserved for people who tried to borrow money off him), and doing his best to appear wise and prudent and professional and live up to Gandalf's recommendation. \"Also I should like to know about risks, out-of-pocket expenses, time required and remuneration, and so forth\"--by which he meant: \"What am I going to get out of it ? and am I going to come back alive?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: His love for Frodo rose above all other thoughts, and forgetting his peril he cried aloud: 'I'm coming Mr. Frodo!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Hammer and tongs! I am so torn between rage and joy, that if I do not burst, it will be a marvel!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: We must do without hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Among the tales of sorrow and of ruin that came down to us from the darkness of those days there are yet some in which amid weeping there is joy and under the shadow of death light that endures. And of these histories most fair still in the ears of the Elves is the tale of Beren and L\u00fathien"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Farewell! O Gandalf! May you ever appear where you are most needed and least expected!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Stir not the bitterness in the cup that I mixed for myself,' said Denethor. 'Have I not tasted it now many nights upon my tongue, foreboding that worse lay in the dregs?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: the association of children and fairy-stories is an accident of our domestic history. Fairy-stories have in the modern lettered world been relegated to the \u201cnursery,\u201d as shabby or old-fashioned furniture is relegated to the play-room, primarily because the adults do not want it, and do not mind if it is misused."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: If only that dratted wizard would leave young Frodo alone, perhaps he'll settle down and grow some hobbit-sense,' they said. And to all appearance the wizard did leave Frodo alone, and he did settle down, but the growth of hobbit-sense was not very noticable."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There are other men, and other lives, and time still to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: The wolf that one hears is worse than the orc that one fears."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Do not scorn pity that is the gift of a gentle heart, \u00c9owyn!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Chip the glasses and crack the plates! / Blunt the knives and bend the forks! / That's what Bilbo Baggins hates."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There are many powers in the world, for good or for evil. Some are greater than I am. Against some I have not yet been measured. But my time is coming."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Now I know what a piece of bacon feels like when it is suddenly picked out of the pan on a fork and put back on the shelf!\" \"No you don't!\" he heard Dori answering, \"because the bacon knows that it will get back in the pan sooner or later; and it is to be hoped we shan't. Also eagles aren't forks!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: But do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And what would you do, if an uninvited dwarf came and hung his things up in your hall without a word of explanation?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Much evil must befall a country before it wholly forgets the Elves, if once they dwelt there."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I hope I never smell the smell of apples again!\" said Fili. \"My tub was full of ut. To smell apples everlastingly when you can scarcely move and are cold and sick with hunger is maddening. I could eat anything in the wide world now for hours on end - but not an apple!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: He did not go much further, but sat down on the cold floor and gave himself up to complete miserableness, for a long while. He thought of himself frying bacon and eggs in his own kitchen at home - for he could feel inside that it was high time for some meal or other; but that only made him miserabler."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: No Victory Without Suffering"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And amid all the splendours of the World, its vast halls and spaces, and its wheeling fires, Il\u00favatar chose a place for their habitation in the Deeps of Time and in the midst of the innumerable stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things fly away like cage-birds."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Help means ruin and saving means slaying."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: There was a fire in the wide hearth before them, and it was burning with a sweet smell, as if it were built of apple-wood."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: They must understand that \u2013 Elrond and the Council, and the great Lords and Ladies with all their wisdom. Their plans have gone wrong. I can't be their Ring-bearer. Not without Mr. Frodo."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: A nice pickle they were all in now: all neatly tied up in sacks, with three angry trolls (and two with burns and bashes to remember) sitting by them, arguing whether they should roast them slowly, or mince them fine and boil them, or just sit on them one by one and squash them into jelly."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin\u2019s Day will shine upon the key-hole."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Clap! Snap! the black crack! Grip, grab! Pinch, nab! And down down to Goblin-town You go, my lad! Clash, crash! Crush, smash! Hammer and tongs! Knocker and gongs! Pound, pound, far underground! Ho, ho! my lad! Swish, smack! Whip crack! Batter and beat! Yammer and bleat! Work, work! Nor dare to shirk, While Goblins quaff, and Goblins laugh, Round and round far underground Below, my lad!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!\u201d he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say \u2018out of the frying-pan into the fire\u2019 in the same sort of uncomfortable situations."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Fifteen birds in five firtrees, their feathers were fanned in a fiery breeze! But, funny little birds, they had no wings! O what shall we do with the funny little things? Roast 'em alive, or stew them in a pot; fry them, boil them and eat them hot?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Burn, burn tree and fern! Shrivel and scorch! A fizzling torch To light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Bake and toast \u2018em, fry and roast \u2018em! till beards blaze, and eyes glaze; till hair smells and skins crack, fat melts, and bones black in cinders lie beneath the sky! So dwarves shall die, and light the night for our delight, Ya hey! Ya-harri-hey! Ya hoy!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Farewell! wherever you fare, till your eyries receive you at the journey\u2019s end!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: They were frightfully angry. Quite apart from the stones no spider has ever liked being called Attercop, and Tomnoddy of course is insulting to anybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: For the rest, they shall represent the other Free Peoples of the World: Elves, Dwarves, and Men, Legolas shall be for the Elves; and Gimli son of Gloin for the Dwarves. They are willing to go at least to the passes of the Mountains, and maybe beyond. For Men you shall have Aragorn son of Arathorn, for the Ring of Isildur concerns him closely."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: \"We will make such a chase as shall be accounted a marvel among the Three Kindreds: Elves, Dwarves and Men. Forth the Three Hunters!\" Like a deer he sprang away. Through the trees he sped. On and on he led them, tireless and swift, now that his mind was at last made up. The woods about the lake they left behind. Long slopes they climbed, dark, hard-edged against the sky already red with sunset. They passed away, grey shadows in a stony land."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: And it is not always good to be healed in body. Nor is it always evil to die in battle, even in bitter pain. Were I permitted, in this dark hour I would choose the latter."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: But the only measure that he knows is desire desire for power and so he judges all hearts. Into his heart the thought will not enter that any will refuse it that having the Ring we may seek to destroy it. If we seek this we shall put him out of reckoning."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: My Precious, my Precious."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Dear me! We Tooks and Brandybucks, we can't live long on the heights.' 'No,' said Merry. 'I can't. Not yet, at any rate. But at least, Pippin, we can now see them, and honour them. It is best to love first what you are fitted to love, I suppose: you must start somewhere and have some roots, and the soil of the Shire is deep. Still there are things deeper and higher; and not a gaffer could tend his garden in what he calls peace but for them, whether he knows about them or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Goodbye, master, my dear! Forgive your Sam. He'll come back to this spot when the job's done - if he manages it. And then he'll not leave you again. Rest you quiet till I come; and may no foul creature come anigh you! And if the Lady could hear me and give me one wish, I would wish to come back and find you again. Good bye!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: A great dread fell on him, as if he was awaiting the pronouncement of some doom that he had long foreseen and vainly hoped might after all never be spoken. An overwhelming longing to rest and remain at peace by Bilbo's side in Rivendell filled all his heart. At last with an effort he spoke, and wondered to hear his own words, as if some other will was using his small voice. \"I will take the Ring,\" he said, \"though I do not know the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: He is not half through yet, and to what he will come in the end not even Elrond can foretell. Not to evil, I think. He may become like a glass filled with a clear light for eyes to see that can."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: But to Sam the evening deepened to darkness as he stood at the Haven; and as he looked at the grey sea he saw only a shadow in the waters that was soon lost in the West. There he stood far into the night, hearing only the sigh and murmur of the waves on the shores of Middle-Earth, and the sound of them sank deep into his heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Renewed shall be blade that was broken, \n The crownless again shall be king."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I have talked quite long enough about my own follies. The thing is to finish the thing as devised and then let it be judged. But forgive me! It is written in my life-blood, such as that is, thick or thin; and I can no other."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I'm a Roman Catholic! A devout Roman Catholic."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I should have said Welsh has always attracted me.  By its style and sound more than any other, ever though I first only saw it on coal trucks, I always wanted to know what it was about."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Ultimately we've only got humanity to work with.  It's only clay we've got."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Most people have made this mistake of thinking Middle-earth is a particular kind of earth or is another planet of the science fiction sort but it's just an old fashioned word for this world we live in, as imagined surrounded by the Ocean."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I'd got hobbits on my hands hadn't I?"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: People remember Longfellow wrote Hiawatha, quite forget he was a Professor of Modern Languages!"
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: I don't feel any guilt complex about The Lord of the Rings."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Slight changes simply make a blur."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just at the age when imagination is opening out, suddenly find yourself in a quiet Warwickshire village, I think it engenders a particular love of what you might call central Midlands English countryside. Based on good water, stones and elm trees and small quiet rivers and so on, and of course, rustic people about."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: At my age I'm exactly the kind of person who has lived through one of the most quickly changing periods known to history. Surely there could never be in seventy years so much change."
  },
  {
    "text": "J. R. R. Tolkien: Very potent influence on myself has been Finnish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It isn't what we say or think that defines us, but what we do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It is very unfair to judge any body's conduct, without an intimate knowledge of their situation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There is no charm equal to tenderness of heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: And sometimes I have kept my feelings to myself, because I could find no language to describe them in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: But people themselves alter so much, that there is something new to be observed in them for ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I was quiet but I was not blind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its fragrance on the desert air."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Such a letter was not to be soon recovered from. . . . Every moment rather brought fresh agitation. It was an overpowering happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Facts or opinions which are to pass through the hands of so many, to be misconceived by folly in one, and ignorance in another, can hardly have much truth left."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: If I could but know his heart, everything would become easy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: My heart is, and always will be, yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It's such a happiness when good people get together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of any thing than of a book! -- When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: What is right to be done cannot be done too soon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Where an opinion is general, it is usually correct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The more I see of the world, the more am i dissatisfied with it; and everyday confirms my belief of the inconsistencies of all human."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I am excessively diverted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Indulge your imagination in every possible flight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience- or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The distance is nothing when one has a motive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: One word from you shall silence me forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I wish, as well as everybody else, to be perfectly happy; but, like everybody else, it must be in my own way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There are secrets in all families."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You must learn some of my philosophy. Think only of the past as its remembrance gives you pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You expect me to account for opinions which you choose to call mine, but which I have never acknowledged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation; that is what I call good company."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Success supposes endeavour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: To sit in the shade on a fine day and look upon verdure is the most perfect refreshment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A man who has nothing to do with his own time has no conscience in his intrusion on that of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves; vanity, to what we would have others think of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: To love is to burn, to be on fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She is loveliness itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The less said the better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: But indeed I would rather have nothing but tea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Each found her greatest safety in silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Let us have the luxury of silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Sometimes the last person on earth you want to be with is the one person you can't be without."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Do not give way to useless alarm; though it is right to be prepared for the worst, there is no occasion to look on it as certain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: ...when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Every moment had its pleasure and its hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You must be the best judge of your own happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable If I have not an excellent library."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It is very difficult for the prosperous to be humble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Time will explain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Good apple pies are a considerable part of our domestic happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: but for my own part, if a book is well written, I always find it too short."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: But remember that the pain of parting from friends will be felt by everybody at times, whatever be their education or state. Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience; or give it a more fascinating name: call it hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Know your own happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: If I loved you less, I might be able to talk about it more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: To be fond of dancing was a certain step towards falling in love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Beware how you give your heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She was one of those, who, having, once begun, would be always in love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Which of all my important nothings shall I tell you first?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I am not at all in a humour for writing; I must write on till I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: General benevolence, but not general friendship, made a man what he ought to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I may have lost my heart, but not my self-control."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Without music, life would be a blank to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: To wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Friendship is certainly the finest balm for the pangs of disappointed love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;\u2014it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: To flatter and follow others, without being flattered and followed in turn, is but a state of half enjoyment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I should infinitely prefer a book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Nobody minds having what is too good for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I do not find myself making any use of the word sacrifice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Follies and nonsense, whims and inconsistencies do divert me, I own, and I laugh at them whenever I can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope...I have loved none but you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Those who have not more must be satisfied with what they have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Those who do not complain are never pitied."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight and a half years ago. Dare not say that a man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you. Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: How wonderful, how very wonderful the operations of time, and the changes of the human mind!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I have not the pleasure of understanding you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: My characters shall have, after a little trouble, all that they desire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Angry people are not always wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There will be little rubs and disappointments everywhere, and we are all apt to expect too much; but then, if one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Where the waters do agree, it is quite wonderful the relief they give."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: We do not suffer by accident."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The Very first moment I beheld him, my heart was irrevocably gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: a vast deal may be done by those who dare to act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Nothing amuses me more than the easy manner with which everybody settles the abundance of those who have a great deal less than themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Everybody likes to go their own way\u2013to choose their own time and manner of devotion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness ... Shyness is only the effect of a sense of inferiority in some way or other. If I could persuade myself that my manners were perfectly easy and graceful, I should not be shy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The evergreen!  How beautiful, how welcome, how wonderful the evergreen! When one thinks of it, how astonishing a variety of nature!  In some countries we know that the tree that sheds its leaf is the variety, but that does not make it less amazing, that the same soil and the same sun should nurture plants differing in the first rule and law of their existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It is not every man's fate to marry the woman who loves him best"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Imust have a London audience.I could never preach, but to the educated; to those who were capable of estimating my composition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She was sensible and clever, but eager in everything; her sorrows, her joys, could have no moderation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Fine dancing, I believe like virtue, must be its own reward. Those who are standing by are usually thinking of something very different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Indeed, I am very sorry to be right in this instance. I would much rather have been merry than wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It taught me to hope, as I had scarcely ever allowed myself to hope before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: He is a gentleman; I am a gentleman's daughter; so far we are equal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: One cannot have too large a party. A large party secures its own amusement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I believe you [men] capable of everything great and good in your married lives. I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as - if I may be allowed the expression, so long as you have an object. I mean, while the woman you love lives, and lives for you. All the privilege I claim for my own sex (it is not a very enviable one, you need not covet it) is that of loving longest, when existence or when hope is gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Her eye fell everywhere on lawns and plantations of the freshest green; and the trees, though not fully clothed, were in that delightful state when farther beauty is known to be at hand, and when, while much is actually given to the sight, more yet remains for the imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I am only resolved to act in that manner, which will, in my own opinion, constitute my happiness, without reference to you, or to any person so wholly unconnected with me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: When I look out on such a night as this, I feel as if there could be neither wickedness nor sorrow in the world; and there certainly would be less of both if the sublimity of Nature were more attended to, and people were carried more out of themselves by contemplating such a scene."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I am now convinced that I have never been much in love; for had I really experienced that pure and elevating passion, I should at present detest his very name, and wish him all manner of evil. But my feelings are not only cordial towards him; they are even impartial towards her. I cannot find out that I hate her at all, or that I am in the least unwilling to think her a very good sort of girl. There can be no love in all this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: With a book he was regardless of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I must have my share in the conversation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Time did not compose her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Arguments are too much like disputes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Run mad as often as you choose, but do not faint!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I will only add, God bless you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: In nine cases out of ten, a woman had better show more affection than she feels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I am all astonishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: No young lady can be justified in falling in love before the gentleman's love is declared, it must be very improper that a young lady should dream of a gentleman before the gentleman is first known to have dreamt of her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She was happy, she knew she was happy, and knew she ought to be happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The enthusiasm of a woman's love is even beyond the biographer's."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Whatever bears affinity to cunning is despicable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Fine dancing, I believe, like virtue, must be its own reward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A Woman never looks better than on horseback"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Obstinate, headstrong girl!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I could easily forgive his pride, if he had not mortified mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: [I]t is well to have as many holds upon happiness as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You ought certainly to forgive them as a Christian, but never to admit them in your sight, or allow their names to be mentioned in your hearing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: An annuity is a very serious business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Marriage is indeed a maneuvering business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I have not wanted syllables where actions have spoken so plainly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You have delighted us long enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Oh, Lizzy! do anything rather than marry without affection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I will not allow it to be more man's nature than woman's to be inconstant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: What a shame, for I dearly love to laugh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Mary wished to say something very sensible, but knew not how."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: If any young men come for Mary or Kitty, send them in, for I am quite as leisure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The more I know of the world, the more I am convinced that I shall never see a man whom I can really love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A novel must show how the world truly is. Somehow, reveals the true source of our actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Without scheming to do wrong, or to make others unhappy, there may be error and there may be misery. Thoughtlessness, want of attention to other people's feelings, and want of resolution, will do the business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I am sorry to tell you that I am getting very extravagant and spending all my money: and what is worse for you, I have been spending yours too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Nobody could catch cold by the sea; nobody wanted appetite by the sea; nobody wanted spirits; nobody wanted strength. Sea air was healing, softening, relaxing - fortifying and bracing - seemingly just as was wanted - sometimes one, sometimes the other. If the sea breeze failed, the seabath was the certain corrective; and where bathing disagreed, the sea air alone was evidently designed by nature for the cure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: From politics it was an easy step to silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: An artist cannot do anything slovenly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Pray, pray be composed, and do not betray what you feel to every body present"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Here I have opportunity enough for the exercise of my talent, as the chief of my time is spent in conversation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You have qualities which I had not before supposed to exist in such a degree in any human creature. You have some touches of the angel in you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Seldom, very seldom, does complete truth belong to any human disclosure; seldom can it happen that something is not a little disguised, or a little mistaken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Have a little compassion on my nerves. You tear them to pieces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It is only a novel... or, in short, only some work in which the greatest powers of the mind are displayed, in which the most thorough knowledge of human nature, the happiest delineation of its varieties, the liveliest effusions of wit and humour, are conveyed to the world in the best-chosen language"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There is, I believe, in every disposition a tendency to some particular evil, a natural defect, which not even the best education can overcome.\" \"And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.\" \"And yours,\" he replied with a smile, \"is wilfully to misunderstand them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. However little known the feelings or views of such a man may be on his first entering a neighbourhood, this truth is so well fixed in the minds of the surrounding families, that he is considered as the rightful property of someone or other of their daughters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: What dreadful hot weather we have! It keeps one in a continual state of inelegance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I certainly must,' said she. 'This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of everything's being dull and insipid about the house! I must be in love; I should be the oddest creature in the world if I were not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: An agreeable manner may set off handsome features, but can never alter plain ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Do you talk by rule, then, while you are dancing?\" Sometimes. One must speak a little, you know. It would look odd to be entirely silent for half an hour together, and yet for the advantage of some, conversation ought to be so arranged as that they may have the trouble of saying as little as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: They are much to be pitied who have not been given a taste for nature early in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Nothing is more deceitful than the appearance of humility. It is often only carelessness of opinion, and sometimes an indirect boast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of any body else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Maybe it\u2019s that I find it hard to forgive the follies and vices of others, or their offenses against me. My good opinion, once lost, is lost forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I have now attained the true art of letter-writing, which we are always told, is to express on paper exactly what one would say to the same person by word of mouth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I have been a selfish being all my life, in practice, though not in principle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: If I had ever learnt, I should have been a great proficient."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: At my time of life opinions are tolerably fixed. It is not likely that I should now see or hear anything to change them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: From the very beginning\u2014 from the first moment, I may almost say\u2014 of my acquaintance with you, your manners, impressing me with the fullest belief of your arrogance, your conceit, and your selfish disdain of the feelings of others, were such as to form the groundwork of disapprobation on which succeeding events have built so immovable a dislike; and I had not known you a month before I felt that you were the last man in the world whom I could ever be prevailed on to marry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: For what do we live, but to make sport for our neighbors and laugh at them in our turn?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: To be sure you know no actual good of me, but nobody thinks of that when they fall in love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It is happy for you that you possess the talent of flattering with delicacy. May I ask whether these pleasing attentions proceed from the impulse of the moment, or are they the result of previous study?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Pride... is a very common failing, I believe. By all that I have ever read, I am convinced that it is very common indeed; that human nature is particularly prone to it, and that there are very few of us who do not cherish a feeling of self-complacency on the score of some quality or the other, real or imaginary. Vanity and pride are different things, though the words are often used synonymously. A person may be proud without being vain. Pride relates more to our opinion of ourselves, vanity to what we would have others think of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Oh! write, write. Finish it at once. Let there be an end of this suspense. Fix, commit, condemn yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you. -Mr. Darcy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There are certainly not so many men of large fortune in the world, as there are pretty women to deserve them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: If a woman is partial to a man, and does not endeavour to conceal it, he must find it out.\" -Elizabeth"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I have frequently detected myself in such kind of mistakes... in a total misapprehension of character at some point or other: fancying people so much more gay or grave, or ingenious or stupid than they really are, and I can hardly tell why, or in what the deception originated. Sometimes one is guided by what other people say of them, without giving oneself time to deliberate and judge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Where shall we see a better daughter, or a kinder sister, or a truer friend?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I have always maintained the importance of Aunts"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Yes, vanity is a weakness indeed. But pride - where there is a real superiority of mind, pride will be always under good regulation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I certainly will not persuade myself to feel more than I do. I am quite enough in love. I should be sorry to be more"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I am not born to sit still and do nothing. If I lose the game, it shall not be from not striving for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I could not sit seriously down to write a serious Romance under any other motive than to save my life, &amp; if it were indispensable for me to keep it up &amp; never relax into laughing at myself or other people, I am sure I should be hung before I had finished the first chapter. No - I must keep my own style &amp; go on in my own way; and though I may never succeed again in that, I am convinced that I should totally fail in any other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I lay it down as a general rule, Harriet, that if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better for it. Neatness and fashion are enough for the former, and a something of shabbiness or impropriety will be most endearing to the latter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: He then departed, to make himself still more interesting, in the midst of a heavy rain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A lady, without a family, was the very best preserver of furniture in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There is no reason in the world why you should not be important where you are known. You have good sense, and a sweet temper, and I am sure you have a grateful heart, that could never receive kindness without hoping to return it. I do not know any better qualifications for a friend and companion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: An unhappy alternative is before you, Elizabeth. From this day you must be a stranger to one of your parents. Your mother will never see you again if you do not marry Mr. Collins, and I will never see you again if you do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Incline us oh God! to think humbly of ourselves, to be severe only in the examination of our own conduct, to consider our fellow-creatures with kindness, and to judge of all they say and do with that charity which we would desire from them ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Elizabeth had never been more at a loss to make her feelings appear what they were not. It was necessary to laugh, when she would rather have cried."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding?joining with their greatest enemies in bestowing the harshest epithets on such works, and scarcely ever permitting them to be read by their own heroine, who, if she accidentally take up a novel, is sure to turn over its insipid leaves with disgust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Told herself likewise not to hope. But it was too late. Hope had already entered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You are mistaken, Mr. Darcy, if you suppose that the mode of your declaration affected me in any other way, than as it spared the concern which I might have felt in refusing you, had you behaved in a more gentlemanlike manner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: What strange creatures brothers are!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: ... But he recommended the books which charmed her leisure hours, he encouraged her taste, and corrected her judgment; he made reading useful by talking to her of what she read, and heightened its attraction by judicious praise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I can recollect nothing more to say at present; perhaps breakfast may assist my ideas. I was deceived -- my breakfast supplied only two ideas -- that the rolls were good and the butter bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There is one thing, Emma, which a man can always do if he chooses, and that is his duty; not by manoeuvring and finessing, but by vigour and resolution. - Mr. Knightley"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The mere habit of learning to love is the thing; and a teachableness of disposition in a young lady is a great blessing"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It would be most right, and most wise, and, therefore must involve least suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I should not mind anything at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Never could I expect to be so truly beloved and important; so always first and always right in any man's eyes as I am in my father's."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Another stupid party . . . with six people to look on, and talk nonsense to each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: And now I may dismiss my heroine to the sleepless couch, which is the true heroine's portion - to a pillow strewed with thorns and wet with tears. And lucky may she think herself, if she get another good night's rest in the course of the next three months."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A mother would have been always present. A mother would have been a constant friend; her influence would have been beyond all other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: But Shakespeare one gets acquainted with without knowing how. It is a part of an Englishman's constitution. His thoughts and beauties are so spread abroad that one touches them everywhere; one is intimate with him by instinct. No man of any brain can open at a good part of one of his plays without falling into the flow of his meaning immediately."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: My dear Mr. Bennet,\" said his lady to him one day, \"have you heard that Netherfield Park is let at last?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Mr. Darcy began to feel the danger of paying Elizabeth too much attention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: How much I love every thing that is decided and open!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The post office has a great charm at one point of our lives. When you have lived to my age, you will begin to think letters are never worth going through the rain for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I am happier than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh. Mr. Darcy sends you all the love in the world, that he can spare from me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I am rather impatient to know the fate of my best gown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: An egg boiled very soft is not unwholesome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She attracted him more than he liked."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Every young lady may feel for my heroine in this critical moment, for every young lady has at some time or other known the same agitation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I would much rather have been merry than wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Everything nourishes what is strong already"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: ...I will not allow books to prove any thing.\" \"But how shall we prove any thing?\" \"We never shall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I do not find it easy to talk to people I don't know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I am excessively fond of a cottage; there is always so much comfort, so much elegance about them. And I protest, if I had any money to spare, I should buy a little land and build one myself, within a short distance of London, where I might drive myself down at any time, and collect a few friends about me and be happy. I advise everybody who is going to build, to build a cottage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: But your mind is warped by an innate principle of general integrity, and, therefore, not accessible to the cool reasonings of family partiality, or a desire of revenge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance. If the dispositions of the parties are ever so well known to each other or ever so similar beforehand, it does not advance their felicity in the least. They always continue to grow sufficiently unlike afterwards to have their share of vexation; and it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Ah, mother! How do you do?' said he, giving her a hearty shake of the hand; 'Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch...' On his two younger sisters he then bestowed an equal portion of his fraternal tenderness, for he asked each of them how they did, and observed that they both looked very ugly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: there is not one in a hundred of either sex, who is not taken in when they marry. ... it is, of all transactions, the one in which people expect most from others, and are least honest themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Where any one body of educated men, of whatever denomination, are condemned indiscriminately, there must be a deficiency of information, or...of something else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I am no indiscriminate novel reader. The mere trash of the common circulating library I hold in the highest contempt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The most incomprehensible thing in the world to a man, is a woman who rejects his offer of marriage!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Dear Diary, Today I tried not to think about Mr. Knightly. I tried not to think about him when I discussed the menu with Cook... I tried not to think about him in the garden where I thrice plucked the petals off a daisy to ascertain his feelings for Harriet. I don't think we should keep daisies in the garden, they really are a drab little flower. And I tried not to think about him when I went to bed, but something had to be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be dictated to by a watch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: My good opinion once lost is lost forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: No one can be really esteemed accomplished who does not greatly surpass what is usually met with."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I have no more to say. If this be the case, he deserves you. I could not have parted with you, my Lizzy, to any one less worthy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Yes, I found myself, by insensible degrees, sincerely fond of her; and the happiest hours of my life were what I spent with her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: One has not great hopes from Birmingham. I always say there is something direful in the sound."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Young ladies should take care of themselves. Young ladies are delicate plants. They should take care of their health and their complexion. My dear, did you change your stockings?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The family of Dashwood had long been settled in Sussex. Their estate was large, and their residence was at Norland Park, in the centre of their property, where, for many generations, they had lived in so respectable a manner as to engage the general good opinion of their surrounding acquaintance. The late owner of this estate was a single man, who lived to a very advanced age, and who for many years of his life, had a constant companion and housekeeper in his sister."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She had been forced into prudence in her youth, she learned romance as she grew older: the natural sequel of an unnatural beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: one day in the country is exactly like another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I know so many who have married in the full expectation and confidence of some one particular advantage in the connection, or accomplishment, or good quality in the person, who have found themselves entirely deceived, and been obliged to put up with exactly the reverse. What is this but a take in?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It is wonderful, for almost all his actions may be traced to pride;-and pride has often been his best friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Where a man does his best with only moderate powers, he will have the advantage over negligent superiority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Mr. Bennet's expectations were fully answered. His cousin was as absurd as he had hoped, and he listened to him with the keenest enjoyment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: On every formal visit a child ought to be of the party, by way of provisions for discourse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: One man's style must not be the rule of another's."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: No- I cannot talk of books in a ballroom; my head is always full of something else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I do not think it worth while to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: One cannot fix one's eyes on the commonest natural production without finding food for a rambling fancy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I am the happiest creature in the world. Perhaps other people have said so before, but not one with such justice. I am happier even than Jane; she only smiles, I laugh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You want to tell me, and I have no objection to hearing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: This was a lucky recollection -- it saved her from something like regret."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: But there was happiness elsewhere which no description can reach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Every savage can dance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: How horrible it is to have so many people killed! And what a blessing that one cares for none of them!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Unjust I may have been, weak and resentful I have been, but never inconstant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There is not the hundredth part of the wine consumed in this kingdom that there ought to be. Our foggy climate wants help."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I do suspect that he is not really necessary to my happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I do not know whether it ought to be so, but certainly silly things do cease to be silly if they are done by sensible people in an impudent way.  Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and she feels that she may exert all her powers of pleasing without suspicion. All is safe with a lady engaged; no harm can be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She began now to comprehend that he was exactly the man who, in disposition and talents, would most suit her. His understanding and temper, though unlike her own, would have answered all her wishes. It was an union that must have been to the advantage of both: by her ease and liveliness, his mind might have been softened, his manners improved; and from his judgement, information, and knowledge of the world, she must have received benefit of greater importance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There could have been no two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The longer they were together the more doubtful seemed the nature of his regard, and sometimes for a few painful minutes she believed it to be no more than friendship"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I have faults enough, but they are not, I hope, of understanding. My temper I dare not vouch for. It is, I believe, too little yielding\u2014 certainly too little for the convenience of the world. I cannot forget the follies and vices of other so soon as I ought, nor their offenses against myself. My feelings are not puffed about with every attempt to move them. My temper would perhaps be called resentful. My good opinion once lost, is lost forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You are too generous to trifle with me. If your feelings are still what they were last April, tell me so at once. My affections and wishes are unchanged; but one word from you will silence me on this subject for ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She knew that when she played she was giving pleasure only to herself; but this was no new sensation"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: His own enjoyment, or his own ease, was, in every particular, his ruling principle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: people always live for ever when there is an annuity to be paid them"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Perfect happiness, even in memory, is not common."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Why not seize the pleasure at once? -- How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I do not cough for my own amusement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering. For weeks, Marianne, I've had this pressing on me without being at liberty to speak of it to a single creature. It was forced on me by the very person whose prior claims ruined all my hope. I have endured her exultations again and again whilst knowing myself to be divided from Edward forever. Believe me, Marianne, had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: her spirits wanted the solitude and silence which only numbers could give."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: If things are going untowardly one month, they are sure to mend the next."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: None but a woman can teach the science of herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It is the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoy it completely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There is safety in reserve, but no attraction. One cannot love a reserved person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There is a quickness of perception in some, a nicety in the discernment of character, a natural penetration, in short, which no experience in others can equal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: How she might have felt had there been no Captain Wentworth in the case, was not worth enquiry; for there was a Captain Wentworth: and be the conclusion of the present suspense good or bad, her affection would be his forever. Their union, she believed, could not divide her more from other men, than their final separation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does. And men take care that they should."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Vanity, not love, has been my folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I want nothing but death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: By the bye, as I must leave off being young, I find many douceurs in being a sort of chaperon , for I am put on the sofa near the fire and can drink as much wine as I like."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I have made myself two or three caps to wear of evenings since I came home, and they save me a world of torment as to hair-dressing, which at present gives me no trouble beyond washing and brushing, for my long hair is always plaited up out of sight, and my short hair curls well enough to want no papering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Without thinking highly either of men or of matrimony, marriage had always been her object; it was the only honourable provision for well-educated young women of small fortune, and however uncertain of giving happiness, must be their pleasantest preservative from want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.... The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars and pestilences in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There, he had seen every thing to exalt in his estimation the woman he had lost, and there begun to deplore the pride, the folly, the madness of resentment, which had kept him from trying to regain her when thrown in his way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: This is an evening of wonders, indeed!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Now they were as strangers; nay worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A man does not recover from such devotion of the heart to such a woman! He ought not; he does not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: What are men to rocks and mountains?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Nothing ever fatigues me, but doing what I do not like."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: We met Dr. Hall in such deep mourning that either his mother, his wife, or himself must be dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Better be without sense than misapply it as you do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: And you are never to stir out of doors till you can prove that you have spent ten minutes of every day in a rational manner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She denied none of it aloud, and agreed to none of it in private."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: They parted at last with mutual civility, and possibly a mutual desire of never meeting again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: My good qualities are under your protection, and you are to exaggerate them as much as possible; and, in return, it belongs to me to find occasion for teasing and quarreling with you as often as may be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Oh! I am delighted with the book! I should like to spend my whole life in reading it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She was humbled, she was grieved; she repented, though she hardly knew of what. She became jealous of his esteem, when she could no longer hope to be benefited by it. She wanted to hear of him, when there seemed the least chance of gaining intelligence. She was convinced that she could have been happy with him, when it was no longer likely they should meet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Let other pens dwell on guilt and misery. I quit such odious subjects as soon as I can, impatient to restore everybody not greatly in fault themselves to tolerable comfort, and to have done with all the rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: What! Would I be turned back from doing a thing that I had determined to do, and that I knew to be right, by the airs and interference of such a person, or any person I may say? No, I have no idea of being so easily persuaded. When I have made up my mind, I have made it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There could have never been two hearts so open, no tastes so similar, no feelings so in unison, no countenances so beloved. Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A person who can write a long letter with ease, cannot write ill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I have been used to consider poetry as \"the food of love\" said Darcy. \"Of a fine, stout, healthy love it may. Everything nourishes what is strong already. But if it be only a slight, thin sort of inclination, I am convinced that one good sonnet will starve it entirely away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I always deserve the best treatment because I never put up with any other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Yes, you know enough of my frankness to believe me capable of that. After abusing you so abominably to your face, I could have no scruple in abusing you to all your relations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Mr. Bennet, how can you abuse your own children in such a way? You take delight in vexing me. You have no compassion for my poor nerves.\" \"You mistake me, my dear. I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends. I have heard you mention them with consideration these last twenty years at least."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She felt that she could so much more depend upon the sincerity of those who sometimes looked or said a careless or a hasty thing, than of those whose presence of mind never varied, whose tongue never slipped."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A fondness for reading, which, properly directed, must be an education in itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Everybody has their taste in noises as well as in other matters; and sounds are quite innoxious, or most distressing, by their sort rather than their quantity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I assure you. I have no notion of treating men with such respect. That is the way to spoil them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I wrote without much effort; for I was rich, and the rich are always respectable, whatever be their style of writing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: We can all begin freely\u2014a slight preference is natural enough; but there are very few of us who have heart enough to be really in love without encouragement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A woman of seven and twenty, said Marianne, after pausing a moment, can never hope to feel or inspire affection again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A persuadable temper might sometimes be as much in favour of happiness as a very resolute character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: If the heroine of one novel be not patronized by the heroine of another, from whom can she expect protection and regard?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It is your turn to say something now, Mr. Darcy. I talked about the dance, and you ought to make some kind of remark on the size of the room, or the number of couples."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: she was oppressed, she was overcome by her own felicity; and happily disposed as is the human mind to be easily familiarized with any change for the better, it required several hours to give sedateness to her spirits, or any degree of tranquillity to her heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I could not be happy with a man whose taste did not in every point coincide with my own. He must enter in all my feelings; the same books, the same music must charm us both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I am not romantic, you know; I never was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Provided that nothing like useful knowledge could be gained from them, provided they were all story and no reflection, she had never any objection to books at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Are the shades of Pemberley to be thus polluted?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: How can you contrive to write so even?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: How can I dispose of myself with it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Everybody's heart is open, you know, when they have recently escaped from severe pain, or are recovering the blessing of health."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It is a difference of opinion which does not admit of proof. We each begin probably with a little bias towards our own sex, and upon that bias build every circumstance in favour of it which has occurred within our own circle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Mr. Knightley, if I have not spoken, it is because I am afraid I will awaken myself from this dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. \"I do not attempt to deny,\" said she, \"that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him.\" Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: \"Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment.\" Elinor could not help laughing. \"Excuse me,\" said she, \"and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: One cannot know what a man really is by the end of a fortnight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I am certainly the most fortunate creature that ever existed!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Loss of virtue in a female is irretrievable; that one false step involves her in endless ruin; that her reputation is no less brittle than it is beautiful; and that she cannot be too much guarded in her behaviour towards the undeserving of the other sex."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There is hardly any personal defect... which an agreeable manner might not gradually reconcile one to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She had nothing to wish otherwise, but that the days did not pass so swiftly. It was a delightful visit;-perfect, in being much too short."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Her mind was all disorder. The past, present, future, every thing was terrible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: What do you know of my heart? What do you know of anything but your own suffering?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence \u2013 \u201cSurely, if there be constant attachment on each side, our hearts must understand each other ere long. We are not boy and girl, to be captiously irritable, misled by every moment\u2019s inadvertence, and wantonly playing with our own happiness.\u201d And yet, a few minutes afterwards, she felt as if their being in company with each other, under their present circumstances, could only be exposing them to inadvertencies and misconstructions of the most mischievous kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: What praise is more valuable than the praise of an intelligent servant?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: But to live in ignorance on such a point was impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You may only call me \"Mrs. Darcy\"... when you are completely, and perfectly, and incandescently happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Brandon is just the kind of man whom every body speaks well of, and nobody cares about; whom all are delighted to see, and nobody remembers to talk to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I have no talent for certainty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The wisest and the best of men, nay, the wisest and best of their actions, may be rendered ridiculous by a person whose first object in life is a joke."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone for ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I am not fond of the idea of my shrubberies being always approachable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Sense will always have attractions for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It is particularly incumbent on those who never change their opinion, to be secure of judging properly at first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The younger brother must help to pay for the pleasures of the elder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Surprises are foolish things. The pleasure is not enhanced, and the inconvenience is often considerable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: to hope was to expect"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: To be claimed as a good, though in an improper style, is at least better than being rejected as no good at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Evil to some is always good to others"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: But to appear happy when I am so miserable \u2014 Oh! who can require it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She was feeling, thinking, trembling about everything; agitated, happy, miserable, infinitely obliged, absolutely angry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Till this moment I never knew myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Let us have no ranting tragedies. Too many charactersNot a tolerable woman's part in the play."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: This sweetest and best of all creatures, faultless in spite of all her faults."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Yet there it was not love. It was a little fever of admiration; but it might, probably must, end in love with some"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I have no pretensions whatever to that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I have never yet known what it was to separate esteem from love"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You are very kind in planning presents for me to make, and my mother has shown me exactly the same attention; but as I do not choose to have generosity dictated to me, I shall not resolve on giving my cabinet to Anna till the first thought of it has been my own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us. You are forced on exertion. You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She [Mary I] married Philip King of Spain, who in her sister's reign, was famous for building Armadas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation. He had been remarkably handsome in his youth; and, at fifty-four, was still a very fine man. Few women could think more of their personal appearance than he did, nor could the valet of any new made lord be more delighted with the place he held in society. He considered the blessing of beauty as inferior only to the blessing of a baronetcy; and the Sir Walter Elliott, who united these gifts, was the constant object of his warmest respect and devotion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I encourage him to be in his garden as often as possible. Then he has to walk to Rosings nearly every day. ... I admit I encourage him in that also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She had nothing to do but to forgive herself and be happier than ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: And what am I to do on the occasion? -- It seems an hopeless business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: They were within twenty yards of each other, and so abrupt was his appearance, that it was impossible to avoid his sight. Their eyes instantly met, and the cheeks of each were overspread with the deepest blush. He absolutely started, and for a moment seemed immoveable from surprise; but shortly recovering himself, advanced towards the party, and spoke to Elizabeth, if not in terms of perfect composure, at least of perfect civility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Your countenance perfectly informs me that you were in company last night with the person, whom you think the most agreeable in the world, the person who interests you at this present time, more than all the rest of the world put together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You must really begin to harden yourself to the idea of being worth looking at."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I have had to contend against the unkindness of his sister, and the insolence of his mother; and have suffered the punishment of an attachment, without enjoying its advantages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Upon the whole, therefore, she found, what has been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself. It was consequently necessary to name some other period for the commencement of actual felicity; to have some other point on which her wishes and hopes might be fixed, and by again enjoying the pleasure of anticipation, console herself for the present, and prepare for another disappointment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: We must consider what Miss. Fairfax quits, before we condemn her taste for what she goes to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It is indolence... Indolence and love of ease; a want of all laudable ambition, of taste for good company, or of inclination to take the trouble of being agreeable, which make men clergymen. A clergyman has nothing to do but be slovenly and selfish; read the newspaper, watch the weather, and quarrel with his wife. His curate does all the work and the business of his own life is to dine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It would be mortifying to the feelings of many ladies, could they be made to understand how little the heart of a man is affected by what is costly or new in their attire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: And to all this she must yet add something more substantial, in the improvement of her mind by extensive reading."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Mr. Collins is a conceited, pompous, narrow-minded, silly man; you know he is, as well as I do; and you must feel, as well as I do, that the woman who married him cannot have a proper way of thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: My object then,\" replied Darcy, \"was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Marianne Dashwood was born to an extraordinary fate. She was born to discover the falsehood of her own opinions, and to counteract, by her conduct, her most favourite maxims."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Then it would not be so strong a sense. If it failed to produce equal exertion, it could not be an equal conviction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: We do not look in great cities for our best morality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: \u201cIt is not everyone,\u201d said Elinor, \u201cwho has your passion for dead leaves.\u201d"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Sitting with her on Sunday evening - a wet Sunday evening - the very time of all others when if a friend is at hand the heart must be opened, and every thing told."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: If there is any thing disagreeable going on, men are always sure to get out of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: there is not the least wit in my nature. I am a very matter of fact, plain spoken being, and may blunder on the borders of a repartee for half an hour together without striking it out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She was not often invited to join in the conversation of the others, nor did she desire it. Her own thoughts and reflections were habitually her best companions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: But Catherine did not know her own advantages - did not know that a good-looking girl, with an affectionate heart and a very ignorant mind, cannot fail of attracting a clever young man, unless circumstances are particularly untoward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Catherine had never wanted comfort more, and he [Henry] looked as if he was aware of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: May I ask you what these questions tend?' 'Merely to the illustration of your character,' said she, endeavouring to shake off her gravity. 'I am trying to make it out.' 'And what is your success?' She shook her head. 'I do not get on at all. I hear such different accounts of you as puzzle me exceedingly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Trusting that you will some time or other do me greater justice than you can do now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: it is a shocking trick for a young person to be always lolling upon a sofa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Well, my dear,\" said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, \"if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness\u2014if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: He may live in my memory as the most amiable man of my acquaintance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: If gratitude and esteem are good foundations of affection, Elizabeth's change of sentiment will be neither improbable nor faulty. But if otherwise--if regard springing from such sources is unreasonable or unnatural, in comparison of what is so often described as arising on a first interview with its object, and even before two words have been exchanged, nothing can be said in her defence, except that she had given somewhat of a trial to the latter method in her partiality for Wickham, and that its ill success might, perhaps, authorise her to seek the other less interesting mode of attachment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It was not in her nature, however, to increase her vexations by dwelling on them. She was confident of having performed her duty, and to fret over unavoidable evils, or augment them by anxiety, was not part of her disposition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Reflection must be reserved for solitary hours; whenever she was alone, she gave way to it as the greatest relief; and not a day went by without a solitary walk, in which she might indulge in all the delight of unpleasant recollections."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A man always imagines a woman to be ready for anybody who asks her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Dearest, loveliest Elizabeth! What do I not owe you! You taught me a lesson, hard indeed at first, but most advantageous. By you, I was properly humbled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Vanity was the beginning and the end of Sir Walter Elliot's character; vanity of person and of situation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Had I not been bound to silence I could have provided proof enough of a broken heart, even for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I do not like to have people throw themselves away; but everybody should marry as soon as they can do it to advantage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: If you were to give me forty such men, I never could be so happy as you. Till I have your disposition, your goodness, I never can have your happiness. No, no, let me shift for myself; and, perhaps, if I have very good luck, I may meet with another Mr. Collins in time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A scheme of which every part promises delight, can never be successful; and general disappointment is only warded off by the defence of some little peculiar vexation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: In vain have I struggled. It will not do. My feelings will not be repressed. You must allow me to tell you how ardently I admire and love you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The sooner every party breaks up the better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: To begin perfect happiness at the respective ages of 26 and 18 is to do pretty well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Good company requires only birth, education, and manners, and with regard to education is not very nice. Birth and good manners are essential; but a little learning is by no means a dangerous thing in good company; on the contrary, it will do very well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: All the privilege I claim for my own sex ... is that of loving longest, when existence or hope is gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: To take a dislike to a young man, only because he appeared to be of a different disposition from himself, was unworthy the real liberality of mind"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I would rather have young people settle on a small income at once, and have to struggle with a few difficulties together, than be involved in a long engagement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She wished such words unsaid with all her heart"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Men of sense, whatever you may choose to say, do not want silly wives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: We are all fools in love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I mean to be too rich to lament or to feel anything of the sort. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. It certainly may secure all the myrtle and turkey part of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I begin already to weigh my words and sentences more than I did, and am looking about for a sentiment, an illustration, or a metaphor in every corner of the room. Could my Ideas flow as fast as the rain in the Storecloset it would be charming."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Laugh as much as you choose, but you will not laugh me out of my opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A sick child is always the mother's property; her own feelings generally make it so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: but a sanguine temper, though for ever expecting more good than occurs, does not always pay for its hopes by any proportionate depression. it soon flies over the present failure, and begins to hope again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Dare not say that man forgets sooner than woman, that his love has an earlier death. I have loved none but you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I have been meditating on the very great pleasure which a pair of fine eyes in the face of a pretty woman can bestow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Fraternal love, sometimes almost every thing, is at others worse than nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I am fond of history and am very well contented to take the false with the true. In the principal facts they have sources of intelligence in former histories and records, which may be as much depended on, I conclude, as anything that does not actually pass under ones own observation; and as for the little embellishments you speak of, they are embellishments, and I like them as such."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Stupid men are the only ones worth knowing after all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: And if I had not a letter to write myself, I might sit by you and admire the evenness of your writing, as another young lady once did. But I have an aunt too, who must not be longer neglected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: As a brother, a landlord, a master, she considered how many people's happiness were in his guardianship! -- How much of pleasure or pain it was in his power to bestow! -- How much of good or evil must be done by him!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: When once married people begin to attack me with, 'Oh! you will think very differently, when you are married,' I can only say, 'No I shall not'; and then they say again, 'Yes you will,' and there is an end to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Oh!\u201d said she, \u201cI heard you before, but I could not immediately determine what to say in reply. You wanted me, I know, to say \u2018Yes,\u2019 that you might have the pleasure of despising my taste; but I always delight in overthrowing those kind of schemes, and cheating a person of their premeditated contempt. I have, therefore made up my mind to tell you, that I do not want to dance a reel at all--and now despise me if you dare.\u201d \u201cIndeed I do not dare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet: I send no compliments to your mother. You deserve no such attention. I am most seriously displeased."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Too many cooks spoil the broth"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: He listened to her with silent attention, and on her ceasing to speak, rose directly from his seat, and after saying in a voice of emotion, 'To your sister I wish all imaginable happiness; to Willoughby, that he may endeavor to deserve her,' took leave, and went away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It was for the sake of what had been, rather than what was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Is there not something wanted, Miss Price, in our language - a something between compliments and - and love - to suit the sort of friendly acquaintance we have had together?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Upon the whole, therefore, she found what had been sometimes found before, that an event to which she had looked forward with impatient desire, did not, in taking place, bring all the satisfaction she had promised herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Her pleasure in the walk must arise from the exercise and the day, from the view of the last smiles of the year upon the tawny leaves and withered hedges, and from repeating to herself some few of the thousand poetical descriptions extant of autumn-that season of peculiar and inexhaustible influence on the mind of taste and tenderness-that season which has drawn from every poet worthy of being read some attempt at description, or some lines of feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Here and there, human nature may be great in times of trial, but generally speaking it is its weakness and not its strength that appears in a sick chamber; it is selfishness and impatience rather than generosity and fortitude, that one hears of. There is so little real friendship in the world! \u2013 and unfortunately' (speaking low and tremulously) 'there are so many who forget to think seriously till it is almost too late."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Marry me. Marry me, my wonderful, darling friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: What have wealth or grandeur to do with happiness?\" Grandeur has but little,\" said Elinor, \"but wealth has much to do with it.\" Elinor, for shame!\" Said Marianne. \"Money can only give happiness where there is nothing else to give it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I never will be tricked into it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There seemed a gulf impassable between them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: If I was wrong in yielding to persuasion once, remember that it was to persuasion exerted on the side of safety, not of risk. When I yielded, I thought it was to duty; but no duty could be called in aid here. In marrying a man indifferent to me, all risk would have been incurred and all duty violated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She is probably by this time as tired of me, as I am of her; but as she is too Polite and I am too civil to say so, our letters are still as frequent and affectionate as ever, and our Attachment as firm and sincere as when it first commenced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: ... professing myself moreover convinced that the general's unjust interference, so far from being really injurious to their felicity, was perhaps rather conducive to it, by improving their knowledge of each other, and adding strength to their attachment, I leave it to be settled, by whomsoever it may concern, whether the tendency of this work be altogether to recommend parental tyranny, or reward filial disobedience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Life could do nothing for her, beyond giving time for a better preparation for death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Thus much indeed he was obliged to acknowledge - that he had been constant unconsciously, nay unintentionally; that he had meant to forget her, and believed it to be done. He had imagined himself indifferent, when he had only been angry; and he had been unjust to her merits, because he had been a sufferer from them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There are few people whom I really love and still fewer of whom I think well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Every impulse of feeling should be guided by reason; and, in my opinion, exertion should always be in proportion to what is required."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: To be so bent on Marriage - to pursue a man merely for the sake of situation - is a sort of thing that shocks me; I cannot understand it. Poverty is a great Evil, but to a woman of Education and feeling it ought not, it cannot be the greatest. I would rather be a teacher at a school (and I can think of nothing worse) than marry a man I did not like."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It was a gloomy prospect, and all that she could do was to throw a mist over it, and hope when the mist cleared away, she should see something else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: ... strange things may be generally accounted for if their cause be fairly seached out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: He certainly is very agreeable, and I give you leave to like him. You have liked many a stupider person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I am sure of this, that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would be not half the disorders in the world there are now. It would be a famous good thing for us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Had I been in love, I could not have been more wretchedly blind. But vanity, not love, has been my folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Men were put into the world to teach women the law of compromise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Oh! you are a great deal too apt, you know, to like people in general. You never see fault in any body. All the world are good and agreeable in your eyes. I never heard you speak ill of a human being in my life.\" \"I would wish not to be hasty in censuring any one; but I always speak what I think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: And have you never known the pleasure and triumph of a lucky guess? I pity you. I thought you cleverer; for depend upon it, a lucky guess is never merely luck. There is always some talent in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: How little of permanent happiness could belong to a couple who were only brought together because their passions were stronger than their virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: He was not an ill-disposed young man, unless to be rather cold hearted, and rather selfish, is to be ill-disposed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Women are the only correspondents to be depended on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The power of doing any thing with quickness is always much prized by the possessor, and often without any attention to the imperfection of the performance. - Mr Darcy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: she thought it was the misfortune of poetry, to be seldom safely enjoyed by those who enjoyed it completely; and that the strong feelings which alone could estimate it truly, were the very feelings which ought to taste it but sparingly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The evening ended with dancing. On its being proposed, Anne offered her services, as usual, and though her eyes would sometimes fill with tears as she sat at the instrument, she was extremely glad to be employed, and desired nothing in return but to be unobserved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: People that marry can never part, but must go and keep house together. People that dance only stand opposite each other in a long room for half an hour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Of this she was perfectly unaware; to her he was only the man who had made himself agreeable nowhere, and who had not thought her handsome enough to dance with."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: One half of her should not be always so much wiser than the other half."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: How hard it is in some cases to be believed!' 'And how impossible in others!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, the most rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Goldsmith tells us, that when lovely woman stoops to folly, she has nothing to do but to die; and when she stoops to be disagreeable, it is equally to be recommended as a clearer of ill-fame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A Mr. (save, perhaps, some half dozen in the nation,) always needs a note of explanation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Personal size and mental sorrow have certainly no necessary proportions. A large bulky figure has a good a right to be in deep affliction, as the most graceful set of limbs in the world. But, fair or not fair, there are unbecoming conjunctions, which reason will pa tronize in vain,--which taste cannot tolerate,--which ridicule will seize."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: What are you thinking of so earnestly?\" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; \"not of your partner, I hope, for, by that shake of the head, your meditations are not satisfactory.\" Catherine coloured, and said, \"I was not thinking of anything.\" That is artful and deep, to be sure; but I had rather be told at once that you will not tell me.\" Well then, I will not.\" Thank you; for now we shall soon be acquainted, as I am authorized to tease you on this subject whenever we meet, and nothing in the world advances intimacy so much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: He was the proudest, most disagreeable man in the world, and every body hoped that he would never come there again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A family of ten children will be always called a fine family, where there are heads and arms and legs enough for the number."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: When the evening was over, Anne could not be amused\u2026nor could she help fearing, on more serious reflection, that, like many other great moralists and preachers, she had been eloquent on a point in which her own conduct would ill bear examination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: No: the years which had destroyed her youth and bloom had only given him a more glowing, manly, open look, in no respect lessening his personal advantages. She had seen the same Frederick Wentworth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Faultless in spite of all her faults."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: [Mrs. Allen was] never satisfied with the day unless she spent the chief of it by the side of Mrs. Thorpe, in what they called conversation, but in which there was scarcely ever any exchange of opinion, and not often any resemblance of subject, for Mrs. Thorpe talked chiefly of her children, and Mrs. Allen of her gowns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Always resignation and acceptance. Always prudence and honour and duty. Elinor, where is your heart?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A man would always wish to give a woman a better home than the one he takes her from; and he who can do it, where there is no doubt of her regard, must, I think, be the happiest of mortals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I have not a doubt of your doing very well together. Your tempers are by no means unlike. You are each of you so complying, that nothing will ever be resolved on; so easy, that every servant will cheat you; and so generous, that you will always exceed your income."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: He could not forgive her, but he could not be unfeeling. Though condemning her for the past, and considering it with high and unjust resentment, though perfectly careless of her, and though becoming attached to another, still he could not see her suffer, without the desire of giving her relief. It was a remainder of former sentiment; it was an impulse of pure, though unacknowledged friendship; it was a proof of his own warm and amiable heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She would have liked to know how he felt as to a meeting. Perhaps indifferent, if indifference could exist under such circumstances. He must be either indifferent or unwilling. Has he wished ever to see her again, he need not have waited till this time; he would have done what she could not but believe that in his place she should have done long ago, when events had been early giving him the indepencence which alone had been wanting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She knew that what Marianne and her mother conjectured one moment, they believed the next: that with them, to wish was to hope, and to hope was to expect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I particularly recollect your saying one night, after they had been dining at Netherfield, 'SHE a beauty!--I should as soon call her mother a wit.' But afterwards she seemed to improve on you, and I believe you thought her rather pretty at one time.\" \"Yes,\" replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, \"but THAT was only when I first saw her, for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: that you seemed almost as fearful of notice and praise as other women were of neglect. (Edmund to Fanny)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: And your defect is a propensity to hate everybody.\" \"And yours,\" he replied with a smile, \"is willfully to misunderstand them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I love you. Most ardently."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Did not you? I did for you. But that is one great difference between us. Compliments always take you by surprise, and me never."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: All the world is good and agreeable in your eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It may be possible to do without dancing entirely. Instances have been known of young people passing many, many months successively without being at any ball of any description, and no material injury accrue either to body or mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The last few hours were certainly very painful,\" replied Anne: \"but when pain is over, the remembrance of it often becomes a pleasure. One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering-"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Not keep a journal! How are your absent cousins to understand the tenor of your life in Bath without one? How are the civilities and compliments of every day to be related as they ought to be, unless noted down every evening in a journal? How are your various dresses to be remembered, and the particular state of your complexion, and curl of your hair to be described in all their diversities, without having constant recourse to a journal?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A man . . . must have a very good opinion of himself when he asks people to leave their own fireside, and encounter such a day as this, for the sake of coming to see him. He must think himself a most agreeable fellow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: We must not be so ready to fancy ourselves intentionally injured. We must not expect a lively young man to be always so guarded and circumspect. It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us. Women fancy admiration means more than it does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Nay,\" cried Bingley, \"this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich, with a comfortable home and happy disposition, seemed to unite some of the best blessings of existence; and had lived nearly twenty-one years in the world with very little to distress or vex her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You either choose this method of passing the evening because you are in each other's confidence, and have secret affairs to discuss, or because you are conscious that your figures appear to the greatest advantage in walking;\u2014 if the first, I should be completely in your way, and if the second, I can admire you much better as I sit by the fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: We certainly do not forget you, so soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Could there be finer symptoms? Is not general incivility the very essence of love?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Elinor was to be the comforter of others in her own distresses, no less than in theirs; and all the comfort that could be given by assurances of her own composure of mind, and a very earnest vindication of Edward from every charge but of imprudence, was readily offered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A single woman with a narrow income must be a ridiculous, disagreeable old maid, the proper sport of boys and girls, but a single woman of fortune is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as anybody else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Expect a most agreeable letter; for not being overburdened with subject (having nothing at all to say) I shall have no check to my Genius from beginning to end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: it is better to know as little as possible of the defects of the person with whom you are to pass your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: If people like to read their books, it is all very well, but to be at so much trouble in filling great volumes, which, as I used to think, nobody would willingly ever look into, to be labouring only for the torment of little boys and girls, always struck me as a hard fate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: About thirty years ago, Miss Maria Ward of Huntingdon, with only seven thousand pounds, had the good luck to captivate Sir Thomas Bertram, of Mansfield Park, in the county of Northampton, and to be thereby raised to the rank of a baronet's lady, with all the comforts and consequences of an handsome house and large income."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Family connexions were always worth preserving, good company always worth seeking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Sir Walter Elliot, of Kellynch-hall, in Somersetshire, was a man who, for his own amusement, never took up any book but the Barontage; there he found occupation for an idle hour, and consolation in a distressed one; . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The post-office is a wonderful establishment! The regularity and dispatch of it! If one thinks of all that it has to do, and all that it does so well, it is really astonishing!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country. I have suspected it some time, but I am now convinced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Teach us almighty father, to consider this solemn truth, as we should do, that we may feel the importance of every day, and every hour as it passes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It was absolutely necessary to interrupt him now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I cannot comprehend the neglect of a family library in such days as these.\" - Mr. Darcy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: We all know him to be a proud, unpleasant sort of man; but this would be nothing if you really liked him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.\" \"Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I am no longer surprised at your knowing only six accomplished women. I rather wonder now at your knowing any."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: 'My fingers,' said Elizabeth, 'do not move over this instrument in the masterly manner which I see so many woman's do. They have not the same force of rapidity and do not possess the same expression. But then I have always supposed it to be my own fault - because I would not take the trouble of practicing. It is not that I do not believe my fingers as capable as any other woman's of superior execution.' \nDarcy smiled and said, 'You are perfectly right.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: When any two young people take it into their heads to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point, be they ever so poor, or ever so imprudent, or ever so little likely to be necessary to each other's ultimate comfort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Anne hoped she had outlived the age of blushing; but the age of emotion she certainly had not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I wish I might take this for a compliment; but to be so easily seen through I am afraid is pitiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There is nothing like employment, active indispensable employment, for relieving sorrow. Employment, even melancholy, may dispel melancholy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I have changed my mind, and changed the trimmings of my cap this morning; they are now such as you suggested."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Were I to fall in love, indeed, it would be a different thing! but I never have been in love; it is not my way, or my nature; and I do not think I ever shall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: If this man had not twelve thousand a year, he would be a very stupid fellow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I certainly have not the talent which some people possess,\" said Darcy, \"of conversing easily with those I have never seen before. I cannot catch their tone of conversation, or appear interested in their concerns, as I often see done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I might as well enquire,\u201d replied she, \u201cwhy with so evident a design of offending and insulting me, you chose to tell me that you liked me against your will, against your reason, and even against your character?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see respectably married, and she had now therefore nothing to do but to marry all the rest of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well\u2212informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A very narrow income has a tendency to contract the mind, and sour the temper. Those who can barely live, and who live perforce in a very small, and generally very inferior, society, may well be illiberal and cross."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She told the story, however, with great spirit among her friends; for she had a lively, playful disposition, which delighted in any thing ridiculous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Had Elizabeth been able to encounter his eye, she might have seen how well the expression of heartfelt delight, diffused over his face, became him; but, though she could not look, she could listen, and he told her of feelings, which, in proving of what importance she was to him, made his affection every moment more valuable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: ..that sanguine expectation of happiness which is happiness itself"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I use the verb 'to torment,' as I observed to be your own method, instead of 'to instruct,' supposing them to be now admitted as synonymous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me, and I am in no humor at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It is always incomprehensible to a man that a woman should ever refuse an offer of marriage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Her form, though not so correct as her sister's, in having the advantage of height, was more striking; and her face was so lovely, that when in the common cant of praise she was called a beautiful girl, truth was less violently outraged than usually happens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The ladies here probably exchanged looks which meant, 'Men never know when things are dirty or not;' and the gentlemen perhaps thought each to himself, 'Women will have their little nonsense and needless cares.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Her family had of late been exceedingly fluctuating. For many years of her life she had had two sons; but the crime and annihilation of Edward a few weeks ago, had robbed her of one; the similar annihilation of Robert had left her for a fortnight without any; and now, by the resurrection of Edward, she had one again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: At first sight, his address is certainly not striking; and his person can hardly be called handsome, till the expression of his eyes, which are uncommonly good, and the general sweetness of his countenance, is perceived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: We all love to instruct, though we can teach only what is not worth knowing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I have never yet found that the advice of a Sister could prevent a young Man's being in love if he chose it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A natural sequel of an unnatural beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It sometimes is a disadvantage to be so very guarded. If a woman conceals her affection from the object of it, she may loose the opportunity of fixing him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Do you not want to know who has taken it?\" cried his wife impatiently."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A report of a most alarming nature reached me two days ago."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: But if I were you, I would stand by the nephew. He has more to give."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A submissive spirit might be patient, a strong understanding would supply resolution, but here was something more; here was that elasticity of mind, that disposition to be comforted, that power of turning readily from evil to good, and of finding employment which carried her out of herself, which was from nature alone. It was the choicest gift of Heaven; and Anne viewed her friend as one of those instances in which, by a merciful appointment, it seems designed to counterbalance almost every other want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I do regard her as one who is too modest for the world in general to be aware of half her accomplishments, and too highly accomplished for modesty to be natural of any other woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I walk: I prefer walking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: And we mean to treat you all,' added Lydia, 'but you must lend us the money, for we have just spent ours at the shop out there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Whom are you going to dance with?' asked Mr. Knightley. She hesitated a moment and then replied, 'With you, if you will ask me.' Will you?' said he, offering his hand. Indeed I will. You have shown that you can dance, and you know we are not really so much brother and sister as to make it at all improper.' Brother and sister! no, indeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: [W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You think me foolish to call instruction a torment, but if you had been as much used as myself to hear poor little children first learning their letters and then learning to spell, if you had ever seen how stupid they can be for a whole morning together, and how tired my poor mother is at the end of it, as I am in the habit of seeing almost every day of my life at home, you would allow that to torment and to instruct might sometimes be used as synonymous words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It has sunk him, I cannot say how much it has sunk him in my opinion. So unlike what a man should be!-None of that upright integrity, that strict adherence to truth and principle, that distain of trick and littleness, which a man should display in every transaction of his life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I wonder who first discovered the efficacy of poetry in driving away love!- Elizabeth Bennet"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: His cold politeness, his ceremonious grace, were worse than anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Now be sincere; did you admire me for my impertinence?\" \"For the liveliness of your mind, I did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Yes,\" replied Darcy, who could contain himself no longer, \"but that was when I first knew her; for it is many months since I have considered her as one of the handsomest women of my acquaintance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It has been coming on so gradually, that I hardly know when it began. But I believe I must date it from my first seeing his beautiful grounds at Pemberley."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: We neither of us perform to strangers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Heaven forbid! -- That would be the greatest misfortune of all! -- To find a man agreeable whom one is determined to hate! -- Do not wish me such an evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Catherine hoped at least to pass uncensured through the crowd. As for admiration, it was always very welcome when it came, but she did not depend on it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Books--oh! no. I am sure we never read the same, or not with the same feelings.\" \"I am sorry you think so; but if that be the case, there can at least be no want of subject. We may compare our different opinions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There is a monsterous deal of stupid quizzing, &amp; common-place nonsense talked, but scarcely any wit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated. Every body allows that the talent of writing is particularly female. Nature might have done something, but I am sure it must be essentially assisted by the practice of keeping a journal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could,with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Catherine [...] enjoyed her usual happiness with Henry Tilney, listening with sparkling eyes to everything he said; and, in finding him irresistible, becoming so herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: A single woman, of good fortune, is always respectable, and may be as sensible and pleasant as any body else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: It does not appear to me that my hand is unworthy your acceptance, or that the establishment I can offer would be any other than highly desirable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient-at others so bewildered and weak-and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: He is also handsome,\" replied Elizabeth, \"which a young man ought likewise to be, if he possibly can. His character is thereby complete."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: There certainly was some great mismanagement in the education of those two young men. One has got all the goodness, and the other all the appearance of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: They gave themselves up wholly to their sorrow, seeking increase of wretchedness in every reflection that could afford it, and resolved against ever admitting consolation in future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Sophia shrieked and fainted on the ground \u2013 I screamed and instantly ran mad. We remained thus mutually deprived of our senses, some minutes, and on regaining them were deprived of them again. For an Hour and a Quarter did we continue in this unfortunate situation \u2013 Sophia fainting every moment and I running mad as often. At length a groan from the hapless Edward (who alone retained any share of life) restored us to ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I am afraid that the pleasantness of an employment does not always evince its propriety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: And from the whole she deduced this useful lesson, that to go previously engaged to a ball, does not necessarily increase either the dignity or enjoyment of a young lady."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then. It is something to think of, and gives her a sort of distinction among her companions"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She was stronger alone; and her own good sense so well supported her, that her firmness was as unshaken, her appearance of cheerfulness as invariable, as, with regrets so poignant and so fresh, it was possible for them to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She hardly knew how to suppose that she could be an object of admiration to so great a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: One cannot be always laughing at a man without now and then stumbling on something witty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The stream is as good as at first; the little rubbish it collects in the turnings is easily moved away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Respect for right conduct is felt by every body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The evil of the actual disparity in their ages (and Mr. Woodhouse had not married early) was much increased by his constitution and habits; for having been a valetudinarian all his life, without activity of mind or body, he was a much older man in ways than in years; and though everywhere beloved for the friendliness of his heart and his amiable temper, his talents could not have recommended him at any time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The truth is, that in London it is always a sickly season. Nobody is healthy in London, nobody can be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Let no one presume to give the feelings of a young woman on receiving the assurance of that affection of which she has scarcely allowed herself to entertain a hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Give me but a little cheerful company, let me only have the company of the people I love, let me only be where I like and with whom I like, and the devil may take the rest, say I."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Lovely & too charming Fair one, notwithstanding your forbidding Squint, your greazy tresses & your swelling Back, which are more frightful than imagination can paint or pen describe, I cannot refrain from expressing my raptures, at the engaging Qualities of your Mind, which so amply atone for the Horror, with which your first appearance must ever inspire the unwary visitor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I have a high respect for your nerves. They are my old friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Where the wound had been given, there must the cure be found, if any where."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Miss Morland, no one can think more highly of the understanding of women than I do. In my opinion, nature has given them so much, that they never find it necessary to use more than half."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: His feelings are warm, but I can imagine them rather changeable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I had a very pleasant evening, however, though you will probably find out that there was no particular reason for it; but I do not think it worthwhile to wait for enjoyment until there is some real opportunity for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: What one means one day, you know, one may not mean the next. Circumstances change, opinions alter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I read it [history] a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The quarrels of popes and kings, with wars or pestilences, in every page; the men all so good for nothing, and hardly any women at all \u2014 it is very tiresome: and yet I often think it odd that it should be so dull, for a great deal of it must be invention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: \u201cI often think,\u201d said she, \u201cthat there is nothing so bad as parting with one's friends. One seems so forlorn without them.\u201d"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: No man is offended by another man's admiration of the woman he loves; it is the woman only who can make it a torment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Oh! Single, my dear, to be sure! A single man of large fortune; four or five thousand a year. What a fine thing for our girls!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Not very good, I am afraid. But now really, do not you think Udolpho the nicest book in the world?\" \"The nicest\u2014by which I suppose you mean the neatest. That must depend upon the binding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: If you will thank me '' he replied let it be for yourself alone. That the wish of giving happiness to you might add force to the other inducements which led me on I shall not attempt to deny. But your family owe me nothing. Much as I respect them I believe I thought only of you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I do assure you, Sir, that I have no pretension whatever of that kind of elegance which consists in tormenting a respectable man. I would rather be paid the compliment of being believed sincere. I thank you again and again for the honour you have done me in your proposals, but to accept them is absolutely impossible. My feelings in every respect forbid it. Can I speak plainer? Do not consider me now as an elegant female intending to plague you, but as a rational creature speaking the truth from her heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Mr. Knightley seemed to be trying not to smile; and succeeded without difficulty, upon Mrs. Elton's beginning to talk to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: From a night of more sleep than she had expected, Marianne awoke the next morning to the same consciousness of misery in which she had closed her eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She was stronger alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: Marianne was silent; it was impossible for her to say what she did not feel, however trivial the occasion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You have no ambition, I well know. Your wishes are all moderate.' 'As moderate as those of the rest of the world, I believe. I wish as well as every body else to be perfectly happy, but like every body else it must be in my own way. Greatness will not make me so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: She was without any power, because she was without any desire of command over herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: \u2026she felt depressed beyond any thing she had ever known before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: He had an affectionate heart.  He must love somebody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: You men have none of you any hearts.' 'If we have not hearts, we have eyes; and they give us torment enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: But it is very foolish to ask questions about any young ladies \u2014 about any three sisters just grown up; for one knows, without being told, exactly what they are \u2014 all very accomplished and pleasing, and one very pretty. There is a beauty in every family. \u2014 It is a regular thing"
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: \u2026but then I am unlike other people I dare say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: I can never be important to any one.' 'What is to prevent you?' 'Every thing \u2014 my situation \u2014 my foolishness and awkwardness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Jane Austen: if a woman doubts as to whether she should accept a man or not, she certainly ought to refuse him. If she can hesitate as to `Yes,' she ought to say `No' directly. It is not a state to be safely entered into with doubtful feelings, with half a heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: You meet saints everywhere. They can be anywhere. They are people behaving decently in an indecent society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I myself feel that our country, for whose Constitution I fought in a just war, might as well have been invaded by Martians and body snatchers. Sometimes I wish it had been. What has happened, though, is that it has been taken over by means of the sleaziest, low-comedy, Keystone Cops-style coup d'etat imaginable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. Do it as well as you possibly can. You will get an enormous reward. You will have created something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Everything is nothing, with a twist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If your brains were dynamite there wouldn't be enough to blow your hat off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I don't know what's going on, and I'm probably not smart enough to understand if somebody was to explain it to me. All I know is we're being tested somehow, by somebody or some thing a whole lot smarter than us, and all I can do is be friendly and keep calm and try and have a nice time till it's over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: About belief or lack of belief in an afterlife: Some of you may know that I am neither Christian nor Jewish nor Buddist, nor a conventionally religious person of any sort. I am a humanist, which mean, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any expectation of rewards or punishments after I'm dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: While on the subject of burning books, I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and destroyed records rather than have to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.  So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House, the Supreme Court, the Senate, the House of Representatives, or the media. The America I loved still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Hate, in the long run, is about as nourishing as cyanide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves... It is in fact a crime for an American to be poor, even though America is a nation of poor. Every other nation has folk traditions of men who were poor but extremely wise and virtuous, and therefore more estimable than anyone with power and gold. No such tales are told by American poor. They mock themselves and glorify their betters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: And I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, 'If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Hello, babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. At the outside, babies, you've got about a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies - \"God damn it, you've got to be kind.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Science is magic that works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?'' That's how to pick a wife."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: All the people of all the nations which had fought in the First World War were silent during the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour of Armistice Day, which was the eleventh day of the eleventh month. It was during that minute in nineteen hundred and eighteen, that millions upon millions of human beings stopped butchering one another. I have talked to old men who were on battlefields during that minute. They have told me in one way or another that the sudden silence was the Voice of God. So we still have among us some men who can remember when God spoke clearly to mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: You are better than you think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If you can't write clearly, you probably don't think nearly as well as you think you do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Socialism\" is no more an evil word than \"Christianity.\" Socialism no more prescribed Joseph Stalin and his secret police and shuttered churches than Christianity prescribed the Spanish Inquisition. Christianity and socialism alike, in fact, prescribe a society dedicated to the proposition that all men, women, and children are created equal and shall not starve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Still and all, why bother? Here's my answer. Many people need desperately to receive this message: I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Time is liquid. One moment is no more important than any other and all moments quickly run away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed the first time. His ideas are just too liberal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash?....The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended family we call a congregation. It is a way to fight loneliness. Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so goddamned lonely anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: ...this is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I don't know about you, but I practice a disorganized religion. I belong to an unholy disorder. We call ourselves \"Our Lady of Perpetual Astonishment.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Extenuating circumstance to be mentioned on Judgment Day: We never asked to be born in the first place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There is love enough in this world for everybody, if people will just look."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: ... life, by definition, is never still."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Do I resent rich people? No. The best or worst I can do is notice them. I agree with the great Socialist writer George Orwell, who felt that rich people were poor people with money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: 'You hate America, don't you?' \n'That would be as silly as loving it,' I said. 'It's impossible for me to get emotional about it, because real estate doesn't interest me. It's no doubt a great flaw in my personality, but I can't think in terms of boundaries. Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can't believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pains cross boundaries at will.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Truth can be really powerful stuff if you're not expecting it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Doesn't anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The truth is, we know so little about life, we don't really know what the good news is and what the bad news is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: You want to know something? We are still in the Dark Ages. The Dark Ages--they haven't ended yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I say in speeches that a plausible mission of artists is to make people appreciate being alive at least a little bit. I am then asked if I know of any artists who pulled that off. I reply, 'The Beatles did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Your eloquence should be the servant of the ideas in your head. Your rule might be this: If a sentence, no matter how excellent, does not illuminate your subject in some new and useful way, scratch it out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. \"Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?\" she asked me. \"The big show is inside my head,\" I said."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of America wrote this date on blackboards again and again, and asked the children to memorize it with pride and joy: 1492. The teachers told the children that this was when their continent was discovered by human beings. Actually, millions of human beings were already living full and imaginative lives on the continent in 1492. That was simply the year in which sea pirates began to cheat and rob and kill them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: - Why me? - That is a very Earthling question to ask, Mr. Pilgrim. Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is. Have you ever seen bugs trapped in amber? - Yes. - Well, here we are, Mr. Pilgrim, trapped in the amber of this moment. There is no why."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The biggest truth to face now - what is probably making me unfunny now for the remainder of my life - is that I don't think people give a damn whether the planet goes or not. It seems to me as if everyone is living as members of Alcoholics Anonymous do, day by day. And a few more days will be enough. I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Being an American means never having to say you're sorry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If I were a physics teacher or a science teacher, it'd be on my mind all the time as how the hell we really got this way. It's a perfectly natural human thought and, okay, if you go into the science class you can't think this. Well, alright, as soon as you leave you can start thinking about it again without giving aid and comfort to the lunatic fringe of the Christian religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: You can't fight progress. The best you can do is ignore it, until it finally takes your livelihood and self-respect away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything\u2013and I advise you to do the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Every sentence must do one of two things-reveal character or advance the action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: What passes for culture in my head is really a bunch of commercials."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The library is full of stories of supposed triumphs which makes me very suspicious of it. It's misleading for people to read about great successes, since even for middle-class and upper-class white people, in my experience, failure is the norm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: This world is not a vale of sorrows if you will recognize discriminatingly what is truly excellent in it; and if you will avail yourself of it for mutual happiness and well-being. Therefore, let us explain as often as possible, and particularly at the departure of life, that we base our faith on firm foundations, on Truth for putting into action our ideas which do not depend on fables and ideas which Science has long ago proven to be false."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: To practice any art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow. So do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: People took such awful chances with chemicals and their bodies because they wanted the quality of their lives to improve. They lived in ugly places where there were only ugly things to do. They didn't own doodley-squat, so they couldn't improve their surroundings. so they did their best to make their insides beautiful instead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Love may fail, but  #\u200e courtesy  will prevail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The Great Depression was going on, so that the station and the streets teemed with homeless people, just as they do today. The newspapers were full of stories of worker layoffs and farm foreclosures and bank failures, just as they are today. All that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a Great Depression. We may even be hiding a Third World War."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Take it from somebody who has been around for a million years: When you get right down to it, food is practically the whole story every time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I'm mad about being old and I'm mad about being American. Apart from that, OK."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: He was talking about the sign that said 'THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE.' 'All knew was that I didn't want my daughter or anybody's child to see a message that negative every time she comes into the library,' he said. 'And then I found out it was you who was responsible for it.' 'What's so negative about it?' I said. 'What could be a more negative word than \"futility\"?' he said. '\"Ignorance,\"' I said."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Jokes can be noble. Laughs are exactly as honorable as tears. Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion, to the futility of thinking and striving anymore. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward - and since I can start thinking and striving again that much sooner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: People are lying all the time as to what a murderous nation we are. So let it be known. We're behaving abominably. It's like having a relative go absolutely nuts. Somebody has to say, \"I think Uncle Charlie's off his rocker.\" We are behaving in a bizarre manner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: As far as I'm concerned ... the Universe is a junk yard, with everything overpriced. I am through poking around in the junk heaps, looking for bargains. Every so-called bargain ... has been connected by fine wires to a dynamite bouquet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Ink and paper are as cheap as sand or water, almost. No board of directors has to convene in order to decide whether we can afford to write down this or that. I myself once staged the end of the world on two pieces of paper- at a cost of ...less than a penny, including wear and tear on my typewriter ribbon and the seat of my pants. \n 'Think of that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I just don't think people get off on language anymore. Language used to be an elevated art. It used to be for people what music can be. But people don't learn to do that anymore, so eloquence is merely a matter of waste. Who needs a good vocabulary and proper English? Eloquence - it's dead and who needs it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It goes against the American storytelling grain to have someone in a situation he can't get out of, but I think this is very usual in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Any form of government, not just Capitalism, is whatever people who have all our money, drunk or sober, sane or insane, decide to do today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: bergeron's epitaph for the planet, i remember, which he said should be carved in big letters in a wall of the grand canyon for the flying-saucer people to find was this: WE COULD HAVE SAVED IT, BUT WE WERE TOO DOGGONE CHEAP. only he didn't say \"doggone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Humor is a way of holding off how awful life can be, to protect yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Even as I speak, the very last polar bear may be dying of hunger on account of climate change, on account of us. And I sure miss the polar bears. Their babies are so warm and cuddly and trusting, just like ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: ... uncritical love is the only real treasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Indianapolis, Indiana is the first place in the United States of America where a white man was hanged for the murder of an Indian. The kind of people who'll hang a white man for murdering an Indian--that's the kind of people for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The most damning revelation you can make about yourself is that you do not know what is interesting and what is not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had a brother and a sister, a cat and a dog, and a mother and a father and uncles and aunts. And there's no way I can get there again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Roses are red, And ready for plucking, You're sixteen, And ready for high school."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I still believe that peace and plenty and happiness can be worked out some way. I am a fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them in order that the reader may see what they are made of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: All this happened, more or less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: \"Make me young, make me young, make me young!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: That's what is was to be young - to be enthusiastic rather than envious about the good work other people could do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The trouble with being a secular humanist is that we don't have a congregation. We don't meet so it's a very flimsy tribe, but there's a wonderful quotation from Nietzsche. Nietzsche said, Only a person of deep faith can afford the luxury of skepticism. Something perfectly is going on. I do not doubt it, but the explanations I hear do not satisfy me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The complicated futility of ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If it weren't for the message of mercy and pity in Jesus' Sermon on the Mount, I wouldn't want to be a human being. I would just as soon be a rattlesnake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The more pain I train myself to stand, the more I learn. You are afraid of pain now, Unk, but you won't learn anything if you don't invite the pain. And the more you learn, the gladder you will be to stand the pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Some jerk infected the Internet with an outright lie. It shows how easy it is to do and how credulous people are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The chief weapon of sea pirates, however, was their capacity to astonish. Nobody else could believe, until it was too late, how heartless and greedy they were."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Any scientist who can't explain to an eight-year-old what he is doing is a charlatan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The master of ceremonies asked people to say what they thought the function of the novel might be in modern society, and one critic said, \u201cTo provide touches of color in rooms with all-white walls.\u201d Another one said, \u201cTo describe blow-jobs artistically."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: They do not love one another because they do not love themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Question: What is the white stuff in bird poop?\r\nAnswer: That is bird poop, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Virtually every writer I know would rather be a musician."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: No art is possible without a dance with death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Americans, like human beings everywhere, believe many things that are obviously untrue, the monograph went on. Their most destructive untruth is that it is very easy for any American to make money. They will not acknowledge how in fact how hard money is to come by, and, therefore, those who have no money blame and blame and blame themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Novelists have, on the average, about the same IQs as the cosmetic consultants at Bloomingdale\u2019s department store. Our power is patience. We have discovered that writing allows even a stupid person to seem halfway intelligent, if only that person will write the same thought over and over again, improving it just a little bit each time. It is a lot like inflating a blimp with a bicycle pump. Anybody can do it. All it takes is time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Belief is nearly the whole of the universe whether based on truth or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If I hadn\u2019t spent so much time studying Earthlings,\" said the Tralfamadorian, \"I wouldn\u2019t have any idea what was meant by 'free will.' I've visited thirty-one inhabited planets in the universe, and I have studied reports on one hundred more. Only on Earth is there any talk of free will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: During my three years in Vietnam, I certainly heard plenty of last words by dying American footsoldiers. Not one of them, however, had illusions that he had somehow accomplished something worthwhile in the process of making the Supreme Sacrifice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: That is my principal objection to life, I think: It's too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If I were a younger man, I would write a history of human stupidity; and I would climb to the top of Mount McCabe and lie down on my back with my history for a pillow; and I would take from the ground some of the blue-white poison that makes statues of men; and I would make a statue of myself, lying on my back, grinning horribly, and thumbing my nose at You Know Who."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: That was what made them so hilarious and unafraid. That was the strength of the Nazis. [...] They understood God better than anyone. They knew how to make Him stay away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Vietnam was a country where America was trying to make people stop being communists by dropping things on them from airplanes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: A sane person to an insane society must appear insane."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If somebody says, \"I love you,\" to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that which the pistol-holder requires? \"I love you, too.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: All these years, I've been opening the window and making love to the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: This is a nation tragedy, of course - that we've changed from a society to an audience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: We are about to be attacked by Al Qaeda. Wave flags if you have them. That always seems to scare them away. I'm kidding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Every passing hour brings the Solar System forty three thousand miles closer to Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules \u2014 and still there are some misfits who insist that there is no such thing as progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If what Jesus said was good, what can it matter whether he was God or not?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: That's the point. Every kind of animal thinks its own kind of animal is wonderful. So people getting married think they're wonderful, and that they're going to have a baby-- that's wonderful, when actually they're as ugly as rhinoceroses. Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: In an unmoored life like mine, sleep and hunger and work arrange themselves to suit themselves, without consulting me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I had taught myself that a human being might as well look for diamond tiaras in the gutter as for rewards and punishments that were fair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, \"It might have been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: What is my definition of jazz? \"Safe sex of the highest order.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, I said, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There was no immunity to cuckoo ideas on Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not. So I will throw Veterans' Day over my shoulder. Armistice Day I will keep. I don't want to throw away any sacred things. What else is sacred? Oh, Romeo and Juliet, for instance. And all music is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It's all like an ocean!\" cried Dostoevski. I say it's all like cellophane."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I think that novels that leave out technology misrepresent life as badly as Victorians misrepresented life by leaving out sex."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long,\" she said in English. \"I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in it for me. I'd hoped that.\" \"My life is nothing but room for you.\" I said. \"It could never be filled by anyone but you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: How nice -- to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The moral of the story is we're here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don't realize, or they don't care, is we're dancing animals. You know, we love to move around."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If facts weren't funny, or scary, or couldn't make you rich, the heck with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There's only one rule that I know of, babies\u2014God damn it, you've got to be kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Ideas or the lack of them can cause disease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Music makes practically everybody fonder of life than he or she would be without it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The prostitutes worked for a pimp now. He was splendid and cruel. He was a god to them. He took their free will away from them, which was perfectly all right. They didn't want it anyway. It was as though they had surrendered themselves to Jesus, for instance, so they could live unselfishly and trustingly-except that they had surrendered to a pimp instead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It's the emptiest and yet the fullest of all human messages: 'Good-bye."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away - even if it's only a glass of water. Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Someday, someday, this crazy world will have to end, \nAnd our God will take things back that He to us did lend. \nAnd if, on that sad day, you want to scold our God, \nWhy just go ahead and scold Him. He'll just smile and nod."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres, and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. I have also told them not to work for companies which make massacre machinery, and to express contempt for people who think we need machinery like that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Where's evil? It's that large part of every man that wants to hate without limit, that wants to hate with God on its side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Any man who would change the World in a significant way must have showmanship, a genial willingness to shed other people's blood, and a plausible new religion to introduce during the brief period of repentance and horror that usually follows bloodshed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Anybody with any sense knows the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying for absolutely nothing in the Viet Nam War."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: One thing I found out was that we need extended families. We need gangs. And, of course, if they're tribes and clans and so forth have been dispersed by the industrial revolution by people looking for work wherever they can find it. And a nuclear family, a man, a woman and kids and a dog and cat is no survival scheme at all. Horribly vulnerable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of the Mafia."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Life is no way to treat an animal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: That's the secret of how to enjoy writing and how to make yourself meet high standards,\" said Mrs. Berman. \"You don't write for the whole world, and you don't write for ten people, or two. You write for just one person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If I was ever to have a child, this is what I'd tell it: 'Child,' I'd say, 'don't never mess with time. Keep now now and then then. And if you ever get lost in thick smoke, child, set still till it clears. Set still till you can see where you are and where you been and where you're going, child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Characters paralyzed by the meaninglessness of modern life still have to drink water from time to time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Americans... are forever searching for love in forms it never takes, in places it can never be. It must have something to do with the vanished frontier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: When the last living thing Has died on account of us, How poetical it would be If Earth could say, In a voice floating up Perhaps From the floor Of the Grand Canyon, \"It is done.\" People did not like it here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Perhaps, when we remember wars, we should take off our clothes and paint ourselves blue and go on all fours all day long and grunt like pigs. That would surely be more appropriate than noble oratory and shows of flags and well-oiled guns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into an adult conversation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I do feel that evolution is being controlled by some sort of divine engineer. I can't help thinking that. And this engineer knows exactly what he or she is doing and why, and where evolution is headed. That's why we've got giraffes and hippopotami and the clap."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better. I fully expected that by the time I was twenty-one, some scientist, maybe my brother, would have taken a color photograph of God Almighty\u2014and sold it to Popular Mechanics magazine. Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I've often thought there ought to be a manual to hand to little kids, telling them what kind of planet they're on, why they don't fall off it, how much time they've probably got here, how to avoid poison ivy, and so on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Why were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial  tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: One thing I learned, with permission of the school committee of Indianapolis, was that when a tyrant or a government gets in trouble it wonders what to do. Declare war! Then nothing else matters. It's like chess; when in doubt, castle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much. We are impossibly conceited animals, and actually dumb as heck. Ask any teacher. You don't even have to ask a teacher. Ask anybody. Dogs and cats are smarter than we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is what he hoped new truths might do for him: enable him to laugh at his troubles, to go on living, and to keep out of the North Wing of the Midland County General Hospital, which was for lunatics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The Fourteenth Book is entitled, \"What can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the Experience of the Past Million Years?\" It doesn't take long to read The Fourteenth Book. It consists of one word and a period. This is it: \"Nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The most racist, nastiest act by America, after human slavery, was the bombing of Nagasaki. Not of Hiroshima, which might have had some military significance. But Nagasaki was purely blowing away yellow men, women, and children. I'm glad I'm not a scientist because I'd feel so guilty now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The worst thing about film, from my point of view, is that it cripples illusions which I have encouraged people to create in their heads. Film doesn't create illusion. It makes them impossible. It is a bullying form of reality, like the model rooms in the furniture department of Bloomingdale's."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Mere opinions, in fact, were as likely to govern people's actions as hard evidence, and were subject to sudden reversals as hard evidence could never be. So the Galapagos Islands could be hell in one moment and heaven in the next, and Julius Caesar could be a statesman in one moment and a butcher in the next, and Ecuadorian paper money could be traded for food, shelter, and clothing in one moment and line the bottom of a birdcage in the next, and the universe could be created by God Almighty in one moment and by a big explosion in the next--and on and on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: You know \u2014 we've had to imagine the war here, and we have imagined that it was being fought by aging men like ourselves. We had forgotten that wars were fought by babies. When I saw those freshly shaved faces, it was a shock. \"'My God, my God \u2014 ' I said to myself, 'It's the Children's Crusade."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Trout's leading robot looked like a human being, and could talk and dance and so on, and go out with girls. And nobody held it against him that he dropped jellied gasoline on people. But they found his halitosis unforgivable. But then he cleared that up, and he was welcomed to the human race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: But there\u2019s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it\u2019s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this rise and fall here [indicates blackboard]. The truth is, we know so little about life, we don\u2019t really know what the good news is and what the bad news is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The time would not pass. Somebody was playing with the clocks, and not only the electronic clocks but the wind-up kind too. The second hand on my watch would twitch once, and a year would pass, and then it would twitch again. There was nothing I could do about it. As an Earthling I had to believe whatever clocks said -and calendars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The book was Maniacs in the Fourth Dimension, by Kilgore Trout. It was about people whose mental diseases couldn't be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn't see those causes at all, or even imagine them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Fathers are always so proud the first time they see their sons in uniform,\" she said. \"I know Big John Karpinski was,\" I said. He is my neighbor to the north, of course. Big John's son Little John did badly in high school, and the police caught him selling dope. So he joined the Army while the Vietnam War was going on. And the first time he came home in uniform, I never saw Big John so happy, because it looked to him as though Little John was all straightened out and would amount to something. But then Little John came home in a body bag."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The German philosopher Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche, who had syphilis, said that only a person of deep faith could afford the luxury of religious skepticism. Humanists, by and large educated, comfortably middle-class persons with rewarding lives like mine, find rapture enough in secular knowledge and hope. Most people can't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Dr. Brainard Keyes Bullard, President of Wyandotte College, said in an address tonight that most of the worlds ills can be traced to the fact that Mans knowledge of himself has not kept pace with his knowledge of the physical world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I guess everybody who isn't dead yet is a survivor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: George W. Bush has gathered around him upper-crust C-students who know no history or geography."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Swoopers write a story quickly, higgledy-piggledy, crinkum-crankum, any which way. Then they go over it again painstakingly, fixing everything that is just plain awful or doesn\u2019t work. Bashers go one sentence at a time, getting it exactly right before they go on to the next one. When they\u2019re done they\u2019re done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: One might be led to suspect that there were all sorts of things going on in the Universe which he or she did not thoroughly understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It is time for me to be dead for a little while - and then live again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: ...we took the 10 machines we agreed were the most beguiling, and we put them on permanent exhibit in the foyer of this library underneath a sign whose words can surely be applied to this whole ruined planet nowadays: THE COMPLICATED FUTILITY OF IGNORANCE"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The world is full of people who are very clever at seeming much smarter than they really are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I don't think there would be many jokes, if there weren't constant frustration and fear and so forth. It's a response to bad troubles like crime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Take life seriously but none of the people in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Mankind flung its advance agents ever outward, ever outward. Eventually it flung them out into space, into the colorless, tasteless, weightless sea of outwardness without end. It flung them like stones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Scientific truth was going to make us so happy and comfortable. What actually happened when I was twenty-one was that we dropped scientific truth on Hiroshima."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Just because we think we're so wonderful doesn't mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide. For want of anything better to do, we became fans of collisions. Sometimes I wrote well about collisions, which meant I was a writing machine in good repair. Sometimes I wrote badly, which meant I was a writing machine in bad repair. I no more harbored sacredness than did a Pontiac, a mousetrap, or a South Bend Lathe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Thank God for novelists. Thank God there are people willing to write everything down. Otherwise, so much would be forgotten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The sermon was based on what he claimed was a well-known fact, that there were no Atheists in foxholes. I asked Jack what he thought of the sermon afterwards, and he said, \"There's a Chaplain who never visited the front."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The government satirizes itself. All we can wish is that there will be a large number of Americans who will realize how dumb this all is, and how greedy and how vicious. Such an audience is dwindling all the time because of TV."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: War is now a form of TV entertainment, and what made the First World War so particularly entertaining were two American inventions, barbed wire and the machine gun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: After the First World War, Germany was trying to build a democracy. Then when the Reichstag, the legislature, was burned down in 1933, this was seen as such an emergency that human rights had to be suspended. The attack on the World Trade Towers has allowed Bush and his gang to do anything. What are we to do now? I say when there's a code red, we should all run around like chickens with our heads cut off. I don't feel that we are in any great danger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Human beings will believe in all kinds of things that aren't true, and that's okay. And TV is a part of that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It's an astonishing skill that people can read, and read well. Very few people can read well. For instance, I have to be very careful with irony, saying something while meaning the exact opposite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There were lots of things to stop and see-and then it was time to go, always time to go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my ideas with jokes, rather than with oceanic tragedy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. \"My boy,\" he said, \"you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The right of the people to peacefully assemble and petition their government for a redress of grievances is now worth a pitcher of warm spit. That's because TV will not come and treat it respectfully. Television is really something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Also, I think that, you know, it's tribal behavior. I don't think that Pat Robertson, for instance, doubts that we evolved. He is simply representing a tribe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everything is supposed to be very quiet after a massacre, and it always is, except for the birds. And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like \"Poo-tee-weet?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Honest to God, Bill, the way things are going, all I can think of is that I'm a character in a book by somebody who wants to write about somebody who suffers all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected. So it goes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I wish that people who are conventionally supposed to love each other would say to each other, when they fight, \"Please - a little less love, and a little more common decency.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: That speci\ufb01c remedy for the worldwide epidemic of depression is a gift called the blues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I urge you to please notice when you are happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Anything can make me stop and look and wonder, and sometimes learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I was taught in the sixth grade that we had a standing army of just over a hundred thousand men and that the generals had nothing to say about what was done in Washington. I was taught to be proud of that and to pity Europe for having more than a million men under arms and spending all their money on airplanes and tanks. I simply never unlearned junior civics. I still believe in it. I got a very good grade."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: What a bummer it is to be a human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: But I replied that what made being alive almost worthwhile for me, besides music, was all the saints I met, who could be anywhere. By saints I meant people who behaved decently in a strikingly indecent society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: . . . but the Universe is an awfully big place. There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I can think of no more stirring symbol of man's humanity to man than a fire engine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: all that has changed, in my opinion, is that, thanks to television, we can hide a great depression. we may even be hiding a third world war"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Oh, God \u2014 the lives people try to lead. Oh, God \u2014 what a world they try to lead them in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you're a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: What you can become is the miracle you were born to be through the work that you do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: A great swindle of our time is the assumption that science has made religion obsolete. All science has damaged is the story of Adam and Eve and the story of Jonah and the Whale. Everything else holds up pretty well, particularly lessons about fairness and gentleness. People who find those lessons irrelevant in the twentieth century are simply using science as an excuse for greed and harshness. Science has nothing to do with it, friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: \"Self-taught, are you?\" Julian Castle asked Newt. \"Isn't everybody?\" Newt inquired. \"Very good answer.\" Castle was respectful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: People hate it when they're tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it's a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets they've been told or haven't been told. They're talking about intimate things, family things, love things,\" that nice old lady said to me. \"Mr. Hoenikker had all those things in his life, the way every living person has to, but they weren't the main things with him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: the late twentieth century will go down in history, i'm sure, as an era of pharmaceutical buffoonery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: THE YEAR WAS 2081, and everybody was finally equal. They weren't only equal before God and the law. They were equal every which way. Nobody was smarter than anybody else. Nobody was better looking than anybody else. Nobody was stronger or quicker than anybody else. All this equality was due to the 211th, 212th, and 213th Amendments to the Constitution, and to the unceasing vigilance of agents of the United States Handicapper General."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a common combination on the planet Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I think it can be tremendously refreshing if a creator of literature has something on his mind other than the history of literature so far. Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The Contessa was surely way ahead of her time, too, in believing that men were not only usless and idiotic, but downright dangerous. That idea wouldn't catch on big in her native country until the last three years of the Vietnam War."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: They tell him that there is no why, since the moment simply is and since all of them are trapped in the moment, like bugs in amber."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Sometimes I wonder if he wasn't born dead. I never met a man who was less interested in the living. Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Is there nothing I have done which will outlive me, other than the opprobrium of my first wife and sons and grandchildren? Do I care? Doesn't everybody? Poor me. Poor practically everybody, with so little durable good to leave behind!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Human beings are chimpanzees who get crazy drunk on power. By saying that our leaders are power-drunk chimpanzees, am I in danger of wrecking the morale of our soldiers fighting and dying in the Middle East? Their morale, like so many bodies, is already shot to pieces. They are being treated, as I never was, like toys a rich kid got for Christmas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, \"You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Our president is a Christian? So was Adolf Hitler. What can be said to our young people, now that psychopathic personalities, which is to say persons without consciences, without senses of pity or shame, have taken all the money in the treasuries of our government and corporations, and made it all their own?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Has any psychological experiment yielded a more delightful suggestion than this one: that there is a part of the mind without ambition or information, which nonetheless is expert on what is beautiful?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I do not say that children at war do not die like men, if they have to die. To their everlasting honor and our everlasting shame, they do die like men, thus making possible the manly jubilation of patriotic holidays. But they are murdered children all the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: What's the point of being alive,\" she said, \"if you're not going to communicate?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Artists are useful to society because they are so sensitive. \n They are supersensitive. \n They keel over like canaries in coal mines filled with poison gas, \n long before more robust types realize that any danger is there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: \"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before,\" Bokonon tells us. \"He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Make love when you can. It's good for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: That\u2019s the attractive thing about war,\u201d said Rosewater. \u201cAbsolutely everybody gets a little something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: That\u2019s the secret of artistic unity. Anybody can achieve it, if he or she will make something with only one person in mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: All persons, living and dead, are purely coincidental."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: What we will be seeking... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Ignore the awful times, and concentrate on the good ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Moderate giftedness has been made worthless by the printing press and radio and television and satellites and all that. A moderately gifted person who would have been a community treasure a thousand years ago has to give up, has to go into some other line of work, since modern communications put him or her into daily competition with nothing but world's champions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: They like life alright, but that they would like it even better if they could know that it was going to end sometime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: This person has just arrived on this planet, knows nothing about it, has no standards by which to judge it. This person does not care what it becomes. It is eager to become absolutely anything it is supposed to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city can do when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Where men had once howled and hacked at one another, and fought nip-and-tuck with nature as well, the machines hummed and whirred and clicked, and made parts for baby carriages and bottle caps, motorcycles and refrigerators, television sets and tricycles-the fruits of peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I apologize because of the terrible mess the planet is in. But it has always been a mess. There have never been any 'Good Old Days,' there have just been days. And as I say to my grandchildren, 'Don't look at me. I just got here myself.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The Earthlings behaved at all times as though there were a big eye in the sky\u2014as though that big eye were ravenous for entertainment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To make sure of this, they performed an experiment. They put the idea into Earthlings' heads that the whole Universe had been created by one big animal who looked just like them. He sat on a throne with a lot of less fancy thrones all around him. When people died they got to sit on those other thrones forever because they were such close relatives of the Creator. The people down here just ate that up!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Scum of the Earth as some may be in their daily lives, they can all be saints in emergencies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The umpire had comical news. The congregation had been theoretically spotted from the air by a theoretical enemy. They were all theoretically dead now. The theoretical corpses laughed and ate a hearty noontime meal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: After the thing went off, after it was a sure thing that America could wipe out a city with just one bomb, a scientist turned to Father and said, 'Science has now known sin.' And do you know what Father said? He said, 'What is sin?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: He had supposed for years that he had no secrets from himself. Here was proof that he had a great big secret somewhere inside, and he could not imagine what it was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There isn\u2019t any particular relationship between the messages, except that the author has chosen them carefully, so that, when seen all at once, they produce an image of life that is beautiful and surprising and deep. There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I try to keep deep love out of my stories because, once that particular subject comes up, it is almost impossible to talk about anything else. Readers don't want to hear about anything else. They go gaga about love. If a lover in a story wins his true love, that's the end of the tale, even if World War III is about to begin, and the sky is black with flying saucers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Don't put one foot in your job and the other in your dream, Ed. Go ahead and quit, or resign yourself to this life. It's just too much of a temptation for fate to split you right up the middle before you've made up your mind which way to go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The worst thing that could possibly happen to anybody would be to not be used for anything by anybody. Thank you for using me, even though I didn't want to be used by anybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The arts put man at the center of the universe, whether he belongs there or not. Military science, on the other hand, treats man as garbage - and his children, and his cities, too. Military science is probably right about the contemptibility of man in the vastness of the universe. Still - I deny that contemptibility, and I beg you to deny it, through the creation of appreciation of art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders and mountains and moons could be accused of being a little too phlegmatic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don't. You don't have to say why afterward. You don't have to say anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Don't you think that's the main reason people find [writing] so difficult? If they can write complete sentences and can use a dictionary, isn't that the only reason they find writing hard: they don't know or care about anything?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Son--they say there isn't any royalty in this country, but do you want me to tell you how to be king of the United States of America? Just fall through the hole in a privy and come out smelling like a rose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: We went to the New York World's Fair, saw what the past had been like, according to the Ford Motor Car Company and Walt Disney, saw what the future would be like, according to General Motors. And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren, so that the message of our principal art forms, movies and television and political speeches and newspaper columns, for the sake of the economy, simply has to be this: War is hell, all right, but the only way a boy can become a man is in a shoot-out of some kind, preferably, but by no means necessarily, on a battlefield."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Billy had a framed prayer on his office wall which expressed his method for keeping going, even though he was unenthusiastic about living. A lot of patients who saw the prayer on Billy\u2019s wall told him that it helped them to keep going, too. It went like this: \u201cGod grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and wisdom always to tell the difference.\u201d Among the things Billy Pilgrim could not change were the past, the present, and the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: You know what truth is? [...] It's some crazy thing my neighbor believes. If I want to make friends with him, I ask him what he believes. He tells me, and I say, \"Yeah, yeah - ain't it the truth?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I have become an enthusiast for the printed word again. I have to be that, I now understand, because I want to be a character in all of my works. I can do that in print. In a movie, somehow, the author always vanishes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass of water. The water was dead. So it goes. Air was trying to get out of the dead water. Bubbles were clinging to the walls of the glass, too weak to climb out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Billy Pilgrim says that the Universe does not look like a lot of bright little dots to the creatures from Tralfamadore. The creatures can see where each star has been and where it is going, so that the heavens are filled with rarefied, luminous spaghetti. And Tralfamadorians don't see human beings as two-legged creatures, either. They see them as great millepedes - \"with babies' legs at one end and old people's legs at the other,\" says Billy Pilgrim."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Incidentally, I am honorary president of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the great science fiction writer and biochemist Dr. Isaac Asimov. John Updike, who is religious, says I talk more about God than any seminarian. Socialism is, in fact, a form of Christianity, people wishing to imitate Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The dog, who had sounded so ferocious in the winter distances, was a female German Shepherd. She was shivering. Her tail was between her legs. She had been borrowed that morning from a farmer. She had never been to war before. She had no idea what game was being played. Her name was Princess."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Take it moment by moment, and you will find that we are all, as I\u2019ve said before, bugs in amber."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The triumph of anything is a matter of organization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: People who are wary of what they might find in a book if they opened one are right to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: That is the first thing I know for sure: (1.) If the questions don't make sense, neither will the answers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The function of the artist is to make people like life better than they have before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The name of the new religion,\" said Rumfoord, \"is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: On Tralfamadore, says Billy Pilgrim, there isn't much interest in Jesus Christ. The Earthling figure who is most engaging to the Tralfamadorian mind, he says, is Charles Darwin - who taught that those who die are meant to die, that corpses are improvements. So it goes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like \"Poo-tee-weet?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: ...when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I have had all I can stand of not taking myself seriously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Unhappy failures need not apply."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I would not be interested in writing if I didn't feel that what I wrote was an act of good citizenship or an attempt, at any rate, to be a good citizen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: And what is literature, Rabo,\" he said, \"but an insider's newsletter about affairs relating to molecules, of no importance to anything in the universe but a few molecules who have the disease called 'thought'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: egregious. most people think that word means terrible or unheard of or unforgivable. it has a much more interesting story than that to tell. it means \"outside the herd.\" imagine that - thousands of people, outside the herd."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The paintings by dead men who were poor most of their lives are the most valuable pieces in my collection. And if an artist wants to really jack up the prices of his creations, may I suggest this: suicide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the telephone. I get drunk, and I drive my wife away with a breath like mustard gas and roses. And then, speaking gravely and elegantly into the telephone, I ask the telephone operators to connect me with this friend or that one, from whom I have not heard in years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I was once asked if I had any ideas for a really scary reality TV show. I have one reality show that would really make your hair stand on end: \"C-Students from Yale\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Literature is by definition opinionated. It is bound to provoke the arguments in many quarters, not excluding the hometown or even the family of the author."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Evolution is so creative. That's how we got giraffes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Symbols can be so beautiful, sometimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There is this feeling that I have a destiny far away from the shallow and preposterous posing that is our life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I have no culture, no humane harmony in my brains. I can't live without a culture anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I've been living alone for so long, everything about me\u2019s private. I\u2019m surprised anyone\u2019s able to understand a word I say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I consider anybody a twerp who hasn't read the greatest American short story, which is 'Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge,' by Ambrose Bierce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: History is merely a list of surprises... It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I think... it is somehow very useful, and maybe even essential, for a fine artist to have to somehow make his peace on the canvas with all the things he cannot do. That is what attracts us to serious paintings, I think: that shortfall, which we might call 'personality,' or maybe even 'pain.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: We're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive. It's pretty dense kids who haven't figured that out by the time they're ten.... Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard and be misinformed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: People would be surprised if they knew how much in this world was due to prayers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: History! Read it and weep!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: When I worked with General Electric, again this was soon after the Second World War, you know, I was keeping up with new developments and they showed me a milling machine and this thing worked by punch cards - that's where computers were at that time, and everybody was sort of sheepish about how well this thing worked because in those days machinists were treated as though they were great musicians because they were virtuosos on these machines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There is no way a beautiful woman can live up to what she looks like for any appreciable length of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I found me a place where I can do good without doing any harm, and I can see I'm doing good, and them I'm doing good for know I'm doing it, and they love me, Unk, as best they can. I found me a home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Everything that ever has been always will be, and everything that ever will be always has been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The polls demonstrate that 50 percent of Americans who get their news from TV think Saddam Hussein was behind the Twin Towers attack. Man, have they got ways for getting half-truths out right away now, thanks to TV! I think TV is a calamity in a democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: You are reading a bold and universal headline which says ,\u2019I am here, I am here, I am here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: In 1844, Karl Marx said, \"Religion is the opiate of the masses.\" He said this at a time when opium and opium derivatives were the only painkillers. And he said it helped a little. He might as well have said, \"Religion is the aspirin of the people.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Each one of us has to be what he or she is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: In the era of big brains, life stories could end up any which way. Look at mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History is happening to us now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: How embarrassing to be human."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Anyway -- because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next -- and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis -- at any time of night or day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The arts are not a way to make a living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Big, undreamed-of things \u2014 the people on the edge see them first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I taught writing for a while and whenever somebody would tell me they were going to write about their dad, I would tell them they might as well go write about killing puppies because neither story was going to work. It just doesn't work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I saw a huge steam roller, It blotted out the sun. The people all lay down, lay down; They did not try to run. My love and I, we looked amazed Upon the gory mystery. \"Lie down, lie down!\" the people cried. \"The great machine is history!\" My love and I, we ran away, The engine did not find us. We ran up to a mountain top, Left history far behind us. Perhaps we should have stayed and died, But somehow we don't think so. We went to see where history'd been, And my, the dead did stink so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world \u2014 in the form of bad ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It is just an illusion here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone, it is gone forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Since Alice had never received any religious instruction, and since she had led a blameless life, she never thought of her awful luck as being anything but accidents in a very busy place. Good for her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: A sum of money is a leading character in this tale about people, just as a sum of honey might properly be a leading character in a tale about bees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Unusual travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: All the new technology seems redundant to me. I was quite happy with the United States mail service. And, I don't even have an answering machine, for God's sake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Tis better to have love and lust Than to let our apparatus rust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: What made marriage so difficult back then was yet again that instigator of so many other sorts of heartbreak: the oversize brain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Here is the solution to the American drug problem suggested a couple years back by the wife of our President: \"Just say no."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I hope that my ideas attract a lively dialogue, even if my sentences are simple. Simple sentences have always served me well. And I don't use semicolons. It's hard to read anyway, especially for high school kids. Also, I avoid irony, too. I don't like people saying one thing and meaning the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There are lots of things worth doing that are no way to make a living. They are agreeable ways to make a more agreeable life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: You were sick, but now you're well again, and there's work to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Don't worry about your father. He's a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: ...Skyscraper National Park"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Hitler at the end thought that he himself was one more casualty in the war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Sometimes I wonder about the Creator of the Universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I have wanted to give Iraq a lesson in democracy - because we're experienced with it, you know. And, in democracy, after a hundred years, you have to let your slaves go. And, after a hundred and fifty years, you have to let your women vote. And, at the beginning of democracy, is that quite a bit of genocide and ethnic cleansing is quite okay. And that's what's going on now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: You have to go, but I have to stay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: We're here on Earth to fart around"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Humor is an almost physiological response to fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Think of what a paradise this world would be if men were kind and wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Beer, of course, is actually a depressant, but poor people will never stop hoping otherwise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There is a riddle about a man who is locked in a room with nothing but a bed and a calendar, and the question is: How does he survive? The answer is: He eats dates from the calendar and drinks from the springs of the bed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: She broke my heart. I didn't like that much. But that was the price. In this world, you get what you pay for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: in nonsense is strength"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: See the cat? See the cradle?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Start [writing] as close to the end as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because you will be great entertainment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I think, therefore I am, therefore I am photographable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Praise or damn as you please, but do so rather flatly, pragmatically, with cunning attention to annoying or gratifying details. Be yourself. Be unique. Be a good editor. The Universe needs more good editors, God knows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being handed our heads with tweezers now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: As Marilee and I were dressing, I whispered to her that I loved her with all my heart. What else was there to say? 'You don't. You can't,' she said."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There is nothing like death to say what is always such an artificial thing to say: The End."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Let there be nothing harmonious about our children's playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: We would be a lot safer if the Government would take its money out of science and put it into astrology and the reading of palms. I used to think that science would save us, and science certainly tried. But we can't stand any more tremendous explosions, either for or against democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: During the Vietnam War, Abbie Hoffman announced that the new high was banana peels taken rectally. So then FBI scientists stuffed banana peels up their asses to find out if this was true or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Be fruitful, and multiply."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: But anyway, it's obvious through human experience that extended families and tribes are terribly important. We can do without an extended family as human beings about as easily as we can do without vitamins or essential minerals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The bounties of space, of infinite outwardness, were three: empty heroics, low comedy, and pointless death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It's a nice glass of champagne at the end of a life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The only thing I ever learned was that some people are lucky and other people aren't and not even a graduate of the Harvard Business School can say why."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If you actually are an educated, thinking person, you will not be welcome in Washington, D.C. I know a couple of bright seventh graders who would not be welcome in Washington D.C."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Bad guys turned informer. Good guys didn't - no matter when, no matter what."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There's a Chaplain who never visited the front."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I can't tell if you're serious or not,' said the driver. I won't know myself until I find out if life is serious or not,' said Trout. 'It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't necessarily mean it's serious, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It pains me even now, even a million years later, to write about such human misbehaviour. A million years later, I feel like apologizing for the human race. That\u2019s all I can say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I never asked to be born in the first place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: People aren\u2019t supposed to look back. I\u2019m certainly not going to do it anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: You can't help it but you were born without a heart. At least you tried to believe what the people with hearts believed \u2014 so you were a good man just the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: And what gift of America to the rest of the world is actually most appreciated by the rest of the world? It is African American jazz and its offshoots. What is my definition of jazz? Safe sex of the highest order."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If I should ever die, God forbid, I hope you will say, 'Kurt is up in heaven now.' That's my favorite joke."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was. We formed sort of a laser beam of protest. Every painter, every writer, every stand-up comedian, every composer, every novelist, every poet aimed in the same direction. Afterwards, the power of this incredible new weapon dissipated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The painting was framed in a misty view of sky, sea, and valley. Newt's painting was small, black, and warty. It consisted of scratches made in a black, gummy impasto. The scratches formed a sort of spider's web, and I wondered if they might not be the sticky nets of human futility hung up on a moonless night to dry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Farewell, hello, farewell, hello."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Earthlings are the great explainers, explaining why this event is structured as it is, telling how other events may be achieved or avoided."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: He was seemingly born not only with a gift for language, but with a particularly nasty clock which makes him go crazy every three years or so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There are plenty of good reasons for fighting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Harry closed his eyes. He never wanted to open them again. His heart sent this message to his molecules: \"For reasons obvious to all of us, this galaxy is dissolved!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Here's what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of what we're hooked on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Here is a les\u00adson in writ\u00ading. First rule: Do not use semi\u00adcolons. They are trans\u00adves\u00adtite her\u00admaph\u00adro\u00addites rep\u00adre\u00adsent\u00ading absolutely noth\u00ading. All they do is show you've been to col\u00adlege."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can't anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It was not the thought that God was cruel that froze me. I had taught myself never to expect anything from Him. What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that had flickered out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: . . . hummings and clickings could be heard-the sounds attendant to the flow of electrons, now augmenting one maze of electromagnetic crises to a condition that was translatable from electrical qualities and quantities to a high grade of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The champagne was dead. So it goes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand\u2014passive resistance and open displays of contempt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Educating a beautiful woman is like pouring honey into a fine Swiss watch: everything stops."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: My father said, \u2018When in doubt, castle.\u2019"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Most kids can't afford to go to Harvard to be misinformed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I never knew a writer's wife who wasn't beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I thought scientists were going to find out exactly how everything worked, and then make it work better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Everything of mine which has been filmed so far has been one character short, and that character is me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Nice, nice, very nice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Love is where you find it. I think it is foolish to go looking for it, and I think it can often be poisonous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: if there is a god, he sure hates people"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It's a small world. When you put it in a cemetery, it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I wish we had all been born birds instead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The mountebank told them that God was surely trying to kill them, possibly because He was through with them, and that they should have the good manners to die. This, as you can see, they did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Listen:\nBilly Pilgrim has come unstuck in time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: All this happened, more or less. The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people's vanity and foolishness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If you can do no good, at least do no harm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.\" \"What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I can have oodles of charm when I want to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: 1. Find a subject you care about. \n 2. Do not ramble, though. \n 3. Keep it simple. \n 4. Have the guts to cut. \n 5. Sound like yourself. \n 6. Say what you mean to say. \n 7. Pity the readers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: All of the true things I am about to tell you are shameless lies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I know of very few people who are dreaming of a world for their grandchildren."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: A nice thing about war-not that anything about war is nice, I guess-is that while it's going on and you're in it, you never worry about doing the right thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I would have been dead if it weren't for that great gift to civilization from the Chemistry Department of Harvard, which was napalm, or sticky jellied gasoline."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Women are so useless and unimaginative, aren't they? All they ever think of planting in the dirt is the seed of something beautiful or edible. The only missile they can ever think of throwing at anybody is a ball or a bridal bouquet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Only in books do we learn what\u2019s really going on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Reading a novel, War and Peace for example, is no Catnap. Because a novel is so long, reading one is like being married forever to somebody nobody knows or cares about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Pay no attention to Caesar. Caesar doesn't have the slightest idea what's really going on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If what Billy Pilgrim learned from the Tralfamadorians is true, that we will all live forever, no matter how dead we may sometimes seem to be, I am not overjoyed. Still--if I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The highest treason in the USA is to say Americans are not loved, no matter where they are, no matter what they are doing there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: What can any one person do?' he said. 'Each person does a little something,' I said, 'and there you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The hare of history once more overtakes the tortoise of art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: He ate a pear. It was a hard one. It fought back against his grinding teeth. It snapped in juicy protest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: In this world, you get what you pay for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the person who falls has had all the advantages!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: How\u2019s the patient?\u201d asked Derby. \u201cDead to the world.\u201d \u201cBut not actually dead.\u201d \u201cNo.\u201d \u201cHow nice - to feel nothing, and still get full credit for being alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Suicide is the punctuation mark at the end of many artistic careers"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: So let's give another big tax cut to the super-rich. That'll teach bin Laden a lesson he won't soon forget."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Nothing in this book is true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The big show is inside my head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I think about my education sometimes. I went to the University of Chicago for awhile after the Second World War. I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still. Another thing they taught was that no one was ridiculous or bad or disgusting. Shortly before my father died, he said to me, \u2018You know \u2013 you never wrote a story with a villain in it.\u2019 I told him that was one of the things I learned in college after the war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: You had to get everything exactly right or the editors would give you hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: They were lovebirds. They entertained each other endlessly with little gifts: sights worth seeing out the plane window, amusing or instructive bits from things they read, random recollections of times gone by. They were, I think, a flawless example of what Bokonon calls a duprass, which is a karass composed of only two persons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: High school is closer to the core of the American experience than anything else I can think of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Take care of the people, and God Almighty will take care of Himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren\u2019t loved wherever they go, whatever they do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: As in my other works of fiction: All persons living and dead are purely coincidental, and should not be construed. No names have been changed to protect the innocent. Angels protect the innocent as a matter of Heavenly routine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean, I feel as though I am swimming in chicken soup."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I was a student in the Department of Anthropology. At that time, they were teaching that there was absolutely no difference between anybody. They may be teaching that still."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Like all real heroes, Charley had a fatal flaw. He refused to believe that he had gonorrhea, whereas the truth was that he did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: ... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Rome wasn't built in a day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The public health authorities never mention the main reason many Americans have for smoking heavily, which is that smoking is a fairly sure, fairly honorable form of suicide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I pity the Jews trying to get through life with only half a Bible. That's like trying to get from here to San Francisco with a road map that stops at Dubuque, Iowa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: We are what we pretend to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I want a military funeral when I die\u0097the bugler, the flag on the casket, the ceremonial firing squad, the hallowed ground.... It will be a way of achieving what I've always wanted more than anything\u0097something I could have had, if only I'd managed to get myself killed in the war.... The unqualified approval of my community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, \u201cI never asked to be born in the first place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: What geography can give all Middle Westerners, along with the fresh water and topsoil, if they let it, is awe for an Edenic continent stretching forever in all directions. Makes you religious. Takes your breath away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It is never a mistake to say good-bye."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Son,' my father said to me, 'someday this will all be yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: We few, we happy few, we band of brothers - joined in the serious business of keeping our food, shelter, clothing and loved ones from combining with oxygen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; \"Of course I love you, So let's have a kid. Who will say exactly What its parents did; 'Of course I love you, So let's have a kid Who will say exactly What its parents did -'\" Et cetera. -NOBLE CLAGGETT (1947-1966)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Never index your own book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: That's what my books are, now that I'm a grownup - mosaics of jokes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Maybe they invited me because they know I have a tuxedo"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled \"Science Fiction\" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If this isn't nice, I don't know what is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It is, in the imagination of combat's fans, the divinely listless loveplay that follows the orgasm of victory. It is called 'mopping up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: God damn it, you've got to be kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Men are jerks. Women are psychotic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I love you, because the love you gave me was the only love I've ever had, the only love I ever will have"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Out in the world I go! Muggers! Autograph hounds! Junkies! People with real jobs! Maybe an easy lay! United Nation functionaries and diplomats!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he'd been drunk the night before, he would always answer offhandedly, 'Oh, I imagine.' I've always liked that answer. It acknowledges life as a dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: In the water I am beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is \"So it goes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I don't reveal to her that I love her. I keep poker faced. She might as well be looking at a cantaloupe, there is so little information in my face, but my heart is beating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Terry Kitchen asked me one time why, since I had so few gifts as a husband and father, I had gotten married. And I heard myself say: \"That's the way the post-war movie goes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Man created the checkerboard; God created the karass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: America is the wealthiest nation on Earth, but its people are mainly poor, and poor Americans are urged to hate themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I chose cultural anthropology, since it offered the greatest opportunity to write high-minded balderdash."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: If I am going to spend eternity visiting this moment and that, I'm grateful that so many of those moments are nice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: As for myself: I had come to the conclusion that there was nothing sacred about myself or about any human being, that we were all machines, doomed to collide and collide and collide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I'm a painter in my dreams, you know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class. With George Bush, that charge would never stick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I've been drawing all my life, just as a hobby, without really having shows or anything. It's just an agreeable thing to do, and I recommend it to everybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It seems to me divorce is so common now. It ought to be more institutionalized. It's like a head-on collision every time. It's supposed to be a surprise but it's commonplace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Every writer has to write his speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I myself grew up when radio was very important. I'd come home from school and turn on the radio. There were funny comedians and wonderful music, and there were plays. I used to pass time with radio."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: It's incumbent on the President to entertain. Clinton did a better job of it - and was forgiven for the scandals, incidentally. Bush is entertaining us with what I call the Republican Super Bowl, which is played by the lower classes using live ammunition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Where you can see tribal behavior now is in this business about teaching evolution in a science class and intelligent design. It's the scientists themselves are behaving tribally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: George Bush and his gang imagine they are being political geniuses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Kurt Vonnegut: Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If you make it a habit not to blame others, you will feel the growth of the ability to love in your soul, and you will see the growth of goodness in your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: A man is like a fraction whose numerator is what he is and whose denominator is what he thinks of himself. The larger the denominator, the smaller the fraction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Seize the moments of happiness, love and be loved! That is the only reality in the world, all else is folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If you want to be happy, try only to please God, not people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Nothing is so necessary for a young man as the company of intelligent women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Real wisdom is not the knowledge of everything, but the knowledge of which things in life are necessary, which are less necessary, and which are completely unnecessary to know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The strongest of all warriors are these two \u2014 Time and Patience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: What is important is not the quantity of your knowledge but its quality. You can know many things without knowing the most important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Memento mori - remember death! These are important words. If we kept in mind that we will soon inevitably die, our lives would be completely different. If a person knows that he will die in a half hour, he certainly will not bother doing trivial, stupid, or, especially, bad things during this half hour. Perhaps you have half a century before you die-what makes this any different from a half hour?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: It is not beauty that endears, it's love that makes us see beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Read less, study less, but think more"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Very often, all the activity of the human mind is directed not in revealing the truth, but in hiding the truth"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The most important knowledge is that which guides the way you lead your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Life could be limitless joy, if we would only take it for what it is, in the way it is given to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Wealth is a great sin in the eyes of God. Poverty is a great sin in the eyes of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: People try to do all sorts of clever and difficult things to improve life instead of doing the simplest, easiest thing-refusing to participate in activities that make life bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If people tell you that \n you should live your life preparing for the future, do not believe \n them. Real Life is found only in the present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I have to create a circle of reading for myself: Epictetus, Marcus Aurelius, Lao-Tzu, Buddha, Pascal, The New Testament. This is also necessary for all people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Until you do what you believe in, you don't know whether you believe it or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If you see that some aspect of your society is bad, and you want to improve it, there is only one way to do so: you have to improve people. And in order to improve people, you begin with only ONE thing: you can become better yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Just as one candle lights another and can light thousands of other candles, so one heart illuminates another heart and can illuminate thousands of other hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If you want to be happy, be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Dear Lord, what a madhouse the world is!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow- witted man if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Patriotism in its simplest, clearest, and most indubitable meaning is nothing but an instrument for the attainment of the government's ambitious and mercenary aims, and a renunciation of human dignity, common sense, and conscience by the governed, and a slavish submission to those who hold power. That is what is really preached wherever patriotism is championed. Patriotism is slavery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life\u2014becoming a better person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Boredom: the desire for desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: You can love a person dear to you with a human love, but an enemy can only be loved with divine love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Men pray to the Almighty to relieve poverty. But poverty comes not from God's laws-it is blasphemy of the worst kind to say that. Poverty comes from man's injustice to his fellow man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Love is life. All, everything that I understand, I understand only because I love. Everything is, everything exists, only because I love. Everything is united by it alone. Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The most important time is Now"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: \u2026the majority of men do not think in order to know the truth, but in order to assure themselves that the life which they lead, and which is agreeable and habitual to them, is the one which coincides with the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The difference between real material poison and intellectual poison is that most material poison is disgusting to the taste, but intellectual poison, which takes the form of cheap newspapers or bad books, can unfortunately sometimes be attractive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: People involve themselves in countless activities which they consider to be important, but they forget about one activity which is more important and necessary than any other, and which includes all other things: the improvement of their soul"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Everything depends on upbringing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: To get rid of an enemy one must love him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Better to know a few things which are good and necessary than many things which are useless and mediocre"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Art lifts man from his personal life into the universal life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: it is hard for anyone who is dissatisfied not to blame some one else, and especially the person nearest of all to him, for the ground of his dissatisfaction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Respect was invented to cover the empty place where love should be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Am I mad, to see what others do not see, or are they mad who are responsible for all that I am seeing?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Everything comes in time to him who knows how to wait. There is nothing stronger than those two: patience and time, they will do it all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: A battle is won by him who is firmly resolved to win it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: ...the more he did nothing, the less time he had to do anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The best thoughts most often come in the morning after waking, while still in bed or while walking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: it's much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Without knowing what I am and why I am here, life is impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: A person who has spoiled his stomach will criticize his meal saying that the food is bad; the same thing happens with people who are not satisfied with their lives"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: What a strange illusion it is to suppose that beauty is goodness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The kinder and the more thoughtful a person is, the more kindness he can find in other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Only people who are capable of loving strongly can also suffer great sorrow, but this same necessity of loving serves to counteract their grief and heals them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Perhaps it's because I appreciate all I have so much that I don't worry about what I haven't got."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I sit on a man's back, choking him and making him carry me, and yet assure myself and others that I am very sorry for him and wish to ease his lot by all possible means - except by getting off his back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The most mentally deranged people are certainly those who see in others indications of insanity they do not notice in themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If goodness has causes, it is not goodness; if it has effects, a reward, it is not goodness either. So goodness is outside the chain of cause and effect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Energy is based on love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The true office of any faith is to give life a meaning which death cannot destroy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: To say that you can love one person all your life is just like saying that one candle will continue burning as long as you live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Every heart has its own skeletons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The greater the state, the more wrong and cruel its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If you look for perfection, you'll never be content."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: For a few seconds they looked silently into each other's eyes, and the distant and impossible suddenly became near, possible, and inevitable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Just imagine that the purpose of life is happinesss only- \n then life becomes a cruel and senseless thing.You have to embrace what the wisdom of humanity,your intellect and your heart tell you: that the meaning of life is to serve the force that sent you into the world.Then life becomes a joy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Science is meaningless because it gives no answer to our question, the only question important for us: 'What shall we do and how shall we live?'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: There can be only one permanent revolution- a moral one: the regeneration of the inner man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: There are two Gods, there is the God that people generally believe in - a God who has to serve them. This God does not exist. But the God whom people forget - the God whom we all have to serve - exists, and is the prime cause of our existence and of all that we perceive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: But Christ could certainly not have established the Church. That is, the institution we now call by that name, for nothing resembling our present conception of the Church-with its sacraments, its hierarchy, and especially its claim to infallibility-is to be found in Christ's words or in the conception of the men of his time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The only significance of life consists in helping to establish the kingdom of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Governments not only are not necessary, but are harmful and most highly immoral institutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Understand then all of you, especially the young, that to want to impose an imaginary state of government on others by violence is not only a vulgar superstition, but even a criminal work. Understand that this work, far from assuring the well-being of humanity is only a lie, a more or less unconscious hypocrisy, camouflaging the lowest passions we posses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The only absolute knowledge attainable by man is that life is meaningless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: It seems that it is impossible to live without discovering the purpose of your life. And the first thing which a person should do is to understand the meaning of life. But the majority of people who consider themselves to be educated are proud that they have reached such great height that they cease to care about the meaning of existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: We're asleep until we love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I think... if it is true that there are as many minds as there are heads, then there are as many kinds of love as there are hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: It is terrible when people do not know God, but it is worse when people identify as God what is not God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If a man does not work at necessary and good things, then he will work at unnecessary and stupid things"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Faith is the force of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Human love serves to love those dear to us but to love one's enemies we need divine love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: There can be only one permanent revolution - a moral one; the regeneration of the inner man. How is this revolution to take place? Nobody knows how it will take place in humanity, but every man feels it clearly in himself. And yet in our world everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: All men's instincts, all their impulses in life, are efforts to increase their freedom. Wealth and poverty, health and disease, culture and ignorance, labor and leisure, repletion and hunger, virtue and vice, are all terms for greater or less degree of freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: By words one transmits thoughts to another, by means of art, one transmits feelings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: All the variety, all the charm, all the beauty of life is made up of light and shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The two most powerful warriors are patience and time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: All violence consists in some people forcing others, under threat of suffering or death, to do what they do not want to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The true meaning of Christ's teaching consists in the recognition of love as the supreme law of life, and therefore not admitting any exceptions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: And where love ends, hate begins"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: It is no sin to look at a nice girl."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: For if we allow that human life is always guided by reason, we destroy the premise that life is possible at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: \u0670\"The Most difficult thing but an essential one \u2013 is to love Life, to love it even while one suffers, because Life is all, Life is God, and to love Life means to love God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The truth is obtained like gold, not by letting it grow bigger, but by washing off from it everything that isn't gold"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Be bad, but at least don't be a liar, a deceiver!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Where did I get it from? Was it by reason that I attained to the knowledge that I must love my neighbour and not throttle him? They told me so when I was a child, and I gladly believed it, because they told me what was already in my soul. But who discovered it? Not reason! Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In difficult circumstances always act on first impressions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If you do not know your place in the world and the meaning of your life, you should know there is something to blame; and it is not the social system, or your intellect, but the way in which you have directed your intellect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: ... women are the pivot round which the world turns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: God is that infinite All of which man knows himself to be a finite part."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: There's a way out of every situation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Writing laws is easy, but governing is difficult."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The changes in our life must come from the impossibility to live otherwise than according to the demands of our conscience not from our mental resolution to try a new form of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness. A handsome woman talks nonsense, you listen and hear not nonsense but cleverness. She says and does horrid things, and you see only charm. And if a handsome woman does not say stupid or horrid things, you at once persuade yourself that she is wonderfully clever and moral."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: You consider war to be inevitable? Very good. Let everyone who advocates war be enrolled in a special regiment of advance-guards, for the front of every storm, of every attack, to lead them all!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Suddenly I heard the words of Christ and understood them, and life and death ceased to seem to me evil, and instead of despair I experienced happiness and the joy of life undisturbed by death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Conceit is incompatible with understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what?... All will end in death, all!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The feeling of patriotism - It is an immoral feeling because, instead of confessing himself a son of God . . . or even a free man guided by his own reason, each man under the influence of patriotism confesses himself the son of his fatherland and the slave of his government, and commits actions contrary to his reason and conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The struggle with evil by means of violence is the same as an attempt to stop a cloud, in order that there may be no rain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Something magical has happened to me: like a dream when one feels frightened and creepy, and suddenly wakes up to the knowledge that no such terrors exist. I have wakened up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Art is a microscope which the artist fixes on the secrets of his soul, and shows to people these secrets which are common to all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I imagine, joking apart, that to know love, one must make mistakes and then correct them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Where there is a man who does not labor because another is compelled to work for him, there slavery is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The Anarchists are right in everything; in the negation of the existing order, and in the assertion that, without authority, there could not be worse violence than that of authority under existing conditions. They are mistaken only in thinking that Anarchy can be instituted by a revolution. \"To establish Anarchy.\" \"Anarchy will be instituted.\" But it will be instituted only by there being more and more people who do not require protection from governmental power, and by there being more and more people who will be ashamed of applying this power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The truth is that the State is a conspiracy designed not only to exploit, but above all to corrupt its citizens... Henceforth, I shall never serve any government anywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: He felt now that he was not simply close to her, but that he did not know where he ended and she began."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of my routine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In life, in true life, there can be nothing better than what is. Wanting something different than what is, is blasphemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: How can one be well...when one suffers morally?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In order to get the power and retain it, it is necessary to love power; but love of power is not connected with goodness, but with qualities which are the opposite of goodness, such as pride, cunning, cruelty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: How important the concept of God is, and how instead of valuing what has been given us, we with light hearts spurn it because of absurdities that have been attached to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Hypocrisy in anything whatever may deceive the cleverest and most penetrating man, but the least wide-awake of children recognizes it, and is revolted by it, however ingeniously it may be disguised."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The Kingdom of God is Within You."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: A quiet secluded life in the country, with the possibility of being useful to people to whom it is easy to do good, and who are not accustomed to have it done to them; then work which one hopes may be of some use; then rest, nature, books, music, love for one's neighbor \u2014 such is my idea of happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Where there is love, there is God also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: It's not given to people to judge what's right or wrong. People have eternally been mistaken and will be mistaken, and in nothing more than in what they consider right and wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I don't want to prove anything; I merely want to live, to do no one harm but myself. I have the right to do that, haven't I?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If so many men, so many minds, certainly so many hearts, so many kinds of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: It's all God's will: you can die in your sleep, and God can spare you in battle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: You're not going to be different ... you're going to be the same as you've always been; with doubts, everlasting dissatisfaction with yourself, vain efforts to amend, and falls, and everlasting expectation, of a happiness which you won't get, and which isn't possible for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: For man to be able to live he must either not see the infinite, or have such an explanation of the meaning of life as will connect the finite with the infinite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: We live in this world like a child who enters a room where a clever person is speaking. The child did not hear the beginning of the speech, and he leaves before the end; and there are certain things which he hears but does not understand"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The whole trouble lies in that people think that there are conditions excluding the necessity of love in their intercourse with man, but such conditions do not exist. Things may be treated without love; one may chop wood, make bricks, forge iron without love, but one can no more deal with people without love than one can handle bees without care."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: What is important is not the length of life, but the depth of life. What is important is not to make life longer, but to take your soul out of time, as every sublime act does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I am always with myself, and it is I who am my tormentor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Death destroys the body, as the scaffolding is destroyed after the building is up and finished. And he whose building is up rejoices at the destruction of the scaffolding and of the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: He had heard that women often love plain ordinary men, but he did not believe it, because he judged by himself and he could only love beautiful mysterious exceptional women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: One must be cunning and wicked in this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Pierre was right when he said that one must believe in the possibility of happiness in order to be happy, and I now believe in it. Let the dead bury the dead, but while I'm alive, I must live and be happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: When you understand that you will die to-morrow, if not to-day, and nothing will be left, then everything is so unimportant!... So one goes on living, amusing oneself with hunting, with work - anything so as not think of death"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Human science fragments everything in order to understand it, kills everything in order to examine it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Art is not, as the metaphysicians say, the manifestation of some mysterious idea of beauty or God; it is not, as the aesthetical physiologists say, a game in which man lets off his excess of stored-up energy; it is not the expression of man's emotions by external signs; it is not the production of pleasing objects; and, above all, it is not pleasure; but it is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feelings, and indispensable for the life and progress toward well-being of individuals and of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Those whom God wishes to destroy he drives mad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If he be really and seriously seeking to live a good life, the first thing from which he will abstain will always be the use of animal food, because ...its use is simply immoral, as it involves the performance of an act which is contrary to the moral feeling - killing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: You see, if you take pains and learn in order to get a reward, the work will seem hard; but when you work... if you love your work, you will find your reward in that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Just when the question of how to live had become clearer to him, a new insoluble problem presented itself - Death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: But our idea is that the wolves should be fed and the sheep kept safe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Often a man goes on for years imaging that the religious teaching that had been imparted to him since childhood is still intact, while all the time there is not a trace of it left in him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: As soon as men live entirely in accord with the law of love natural to their hearts and now revealed to them, which excludes all resistance by violence, and therefore hold aloof from all participation in violence - as soon as this happens, not only will hundreds be unable to enslave millions, but not even millions will be able to enslave a single individual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: To us, it is incomprehensible that millions of Christian men killed and tortured each other because Napoleon was ambitious or Alexander was firm, or because England's policy was astute or the Duke of Oldenburg was wronged. We cannot grasp what connection such circumstances have the with the actual fact of slaughter and violence: why because the Duke was wronged, thousands of men from the other side of Europe killed and ruined the people of Smolensk and Moscow and were killed by them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: A Russian should rejoice if Poland, the Baltic Provinces, Finland, Armenia, should be separated, freed from Russia; so with an Englishman in regard to Ireland, India and other possessions; and each should help to do this, because the greater the state, the more wrong and cruel is its patriotism, and the greater is the sum of suffering upon which its power is founded. Therefore, if we really wish to be what we profess to be, we must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening, and help this forward with all our might."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: He stepped down, trying not to look long at her, as if she were the sun, yet he saw her, like the sun, even without looking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In order to carry through any undertaking in family life, there must necessarily be either complete division between the husband and wife, or loving agreement. When the relations of a couple are vacillating and neither one thing nor the other, no sort of enterprise can be undertake. Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Some mathematician said that pleasure lies not in discovering the truth but in searching for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Under the influence of music, it seems that I feel what I do not really feel, that I understand what I do not understand, that I do what I cannot do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Spring is the time of plans and projects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Man by violating his own feelings becomes cruel. And how deeply seated in the human heart is the injunction not to take life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: There is nothing more harmful to you than improving only your material, animal side of life.  There is nothing more beneficial, both for you and for others, than activity directed to the improvement of your soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Our body is a machine for living. It is organized for that, it is its nature. Let life go on in it unhindered and let it defend itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: she smiled at him, and at her own fears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Genuine religion is not about speculating about God or the soul or about what happened in the past or will happen in the future; it cares only about one thing finding out exactly what should or should not be done in this lifetime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Anything is better than lies and deceit!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I did not myself know what I wanted: I feared life, desired to escape from it, yet still hoped something of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If you love me as you say you do,' she whispered, 'make it so that I am at peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Love is God, and to die means that I, a particle of love, shall return to the general and eternal source."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I believe in one, incomprehensible God, the immortality of the soul and eternal retribution for our acts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Our whole life is taken up with anxiety for personal security, with preparations for living, so that we really never live at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Man recognizes that he will not die, only when he recognizes that he was never born, but always has been, is, and will be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Man cannot possess anything as long as he fears death. But to him who does not fear it, everything belongs. If there was no suffering, man would not know his limits, would not know himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Art is a human activity consisting in this, that one man consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others feelings he has lived through, and that other people are infected by these feelings, and also experience them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Three things are needed to educate the peasantry: schools, schools, and schools."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Each time of life has its own kind of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The magnanimity and sensibility of a lady who faints when she sees a calf being killed: she is so kindhearted that she can't look at blood, but enjoys eating the calf served up with sauce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Never did Christ utter a single word attesting to a personal resurrection and a life beyond the grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Regard the society of women as a necessary unpleasantness of social life, and avoid it as much as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Love is the only way to rescue humanity from all ills."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: But that's just the aim of civilization - to make everything a source of enjoyment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Only greatly insolent people establish a religious law which is to be taken for granted by others, which should be accepted by everyone on faith, without any discussion or doubts. Why must people do this?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: ... in marriage the great thing was love, and that with love one would always be happy, for happiness rests only on oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The improvement of life was only accomplished to the extent to which it was based on a change of consciousness, that is, to the extent to which the law of violence was replaced in men's consciousness by the law of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: They ought to find out how to vaccinate for love, like smallpox."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If patriotism is good, then Christianity, which gives peace, is an idle dream, and the sooner this teaching is eradicated, the better. But if Christianity really gives peace, and if we really want peace, then patriotism is a leftover from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and taught, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule. If Christianity is the truth, and if we wish to live in peace, then we must not only have no sympathy for the power of our country, but must even rejoice in its weakening and contribute to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Every man had his personal habits, passions, and impulses toward goodness, beauty, and truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: And so he who looks down at his feet will not know the truth, but he who discerns by the sun which way to go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The highest wisdom has but one science-the science of the whole-the science explaining the whole creation and man's place in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own: under the influence of music I have the illusion of feeling things I don't really feel, of understanding things I don't understand, being able to do things I'm not able to do... Can it really be allowable for anyone who feels like it to hypnotize another person, or many other persons, and then do what he likes with them? Particularly if the hypnotist is the first unscrupulous individual who happens to come along?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I feel not only that I cannot disappear, as nothing disappears in the world, but that I will always be and have always been. I feel that, besides me, above me, spirits live, and that in this world there is truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: My principal sin is doubt. I doubt everything, and am in doubt most of the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Every reform by violence is to be deprecated, because it does little to correct the evil while men remain as they are, and because wisdom has no need of violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In a writer there must always be two people - the writer and the critic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Government is violence, Christianity is meekness, non-resistance, love. And, therefore, government cannot be Christian, and a man who wishes to be a Christian must not serve government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The Lord had given them the day and the Lord had given them the strength. And the day and the strength had been dedicated to labor, and the labor was its reward. Who was the labor for? What would be its fruits? These were irrelevant and idle questions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Honest work is much better than a mansion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: True science investigates and brings to human perception such truths and such knowledge as the people of a given time and society consider most important. Art transmits these truths from the region of perception to the region of emotion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: There are such repulsive faces in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: But that had been grief--this was joy. Yet that grief and this joy were alike outside all the ordinary conditions of life; they were loopholes, as it were, in that ordinary life through which there came glimpses of something sublime. And in the contemplation of this sublime something the soul was exalted to inconceivable heights of which it had before had no conception, while reason lagged behind, unable to keep up with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: No one has yet added up all the heavy, stress-filled workdays as well as the hundreds, perhaps thousands, of lives that are wasted to produce the world's amusements. It is for this reason that \"amusements\" are not so amusing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Why am I going?\" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. \"You know that I am going in order to be where you are,\" said he. \"I cannot do otherwise.\" \"Not a word, not a movement of yours will I ever forget, nor can I."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: When it is impossible to stretch the very elastic threads of historical ratiocination any farther, when actions are clearly contrary to all that humanity calls right or even just, the historians produce a saving conception of 'greatness.' 'Greatness,' it seems, excludes the standards of right and wrong. For the 'great' man nothing is wrong, there is no atrocity for which a 'great' man can be blamed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: One may say with one's lips: \u201cI believe that the world was created six thousand years ago;\u201d or, \u201cI believe that Jesus flew away into the skies and is sitting on the right hand of the Father;\u201d or, \u201cGod is One, and also Three;\u201d \u2014 but no one can believe it, because the words have no sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In our age the common religious perception of men is the consciousness of the brotherhood of man - we know that the well-being of man lies in the union with his fellow men. True science should indicate the various methods of applying this consciousness to life. Art should transform this perception into feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The vocation of every man and woman is to serve other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Only those live who do good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Kings are the slaves of history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: To destroy governmental violence, only one thing is needed: It is that people should understand that the feeling of patriotism, which alone supports that instrument of violence, is a rude, harmful, disgraceful, and bad feeling, and, above all, is immoral."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Friends we shall never be, you know that yourself. Whether we shall be the happiest or the wretchedest of people--that's in your hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In former times the chief method of justifying the use of violence and thereby infringing the law of love was by claiming a divine right for the rulers: the Tsars, Sultans, Rajahs, Shahs and other heads of states."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Though the doctors treated him, let his blood, and gave him medications to drink, he nevertheless recovered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Music makes me forget my real situation. It transports me into a state which is not my own. Under the influence of music I really seem to feel what I do not feel, to understand what I do not understand, to have powers which I cannot have. Music seems to me to act like yawning or laughter; I have no desire to sleep, but I yawn when I see others yawn; with no reason to laugh, I laugh when I hear others laugh. And music transports me immediately into the condition of soul in which he who wrote the music found himself at that time. ~The Kreutzer Sonata"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I'd rather end up wishing I hadn\u2019t than end up wishing I had."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Though it is possible to utter words only with the intention to fulfill the will of God, it is very difficult not to think about the impression which they will produce on men and not to form them accordingly. But deeds you can do quite unknown to men, only for God. And such deeds are the greatest joy that a man can experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: God forgive me everything!' she said, feeling the impossibility of struggling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: When a man sees a dying animal, horror comes over him: that which he himself is, his essence, is obviously being annihilated before his eyes--is ceasing to be. But when the dying one is a person, and a beloved person, then, besides a sense of horror at the annihilation of life, there is a feeling of severance and a spiritual wound which, like a physical wound, sometimes kills and sometimes heals, but always hurts and fears any external, irritating touch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In infinite time, in infinite matter, in infinite space, is formed a bubble organism, and that bubble lasts a while and bursts, and that bubble is Me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: To speak of it would be giving importance to that which has none."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: From the self-confidence with which he spoke no one could tell whether what he said was very clever or very stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: And those who only know the non-platonic love have no need to talk of tragedy. In such love there can be no sort of tragedy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The compassionate are not rich; therefore, the rich are not compassionate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is a great matter. Art is an organ of human life, transmitting man's reasonable perception into feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: You will die and it will all be over. You will die and find out everything or cease asking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The sole meaning of life is to serve humanity by contributing to the establishment of the kingdom of God, which can only be done by the recognition and profession of the truth by every man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If you want to be happy, be happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: As long as there are slaughter houses there will always be battlefields."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The best generals I have known were... stupid or absent-minded men. Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes - love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt. He should be limited, firmly convinced that what he is doing is very important (otherwise he will not have sufficient patience), and only then will he be a brave leader. God forbid that he should be humane, should love, or pity, or think of what is just and unjust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: My life had come to a sudden stop. I was able to breathe, to eat, to drink, to sleep. I could not, indeed help doing so; but there was no real life in me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The Jew - is the symbol of eternity. ... He is the one who for so long had guarded the prophetic message and transmitted it to all mankind. A people such as this can never disappear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side! If it is not the right way, then show me another way; but if I stagger and lose the way, you must help me, you must keep me on the true path, just as I am ready to support you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Music makes me forget myself, my true condition, it carries me off into another state of being, one that isn't my own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I have now understood that though it seems to men that they live by care for themselves, in truth it is love alone by which they live. He who has love, is in God, and God is in him, for God is love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: He sought his former accustomed fear of death and did not find it. \"Where is it? What death?\" There was no fear because there was no death. In place of death there was light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I have learned what must be, and therefore have come to see the whole horror of what is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: There can be no peace for us, only misery, and the greatest happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: She had no need to ask why he had come. She knew as certainly as if he had told her that he was here to be where she was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered, with difficulty recognizing in it the beauty for which he picked and ruined it. And in spite of this he felt that then, when his love was stronger, he could, if he had greatly wished it, have torn that love out of his heart; but now when as at that moment it seemed to him he felt no love for her, he knew that what bound him to her could not be broken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: But every acquisition that is disproportionate to the labor spent on it is dishonest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Smiling with pleasure, they went through their memories, not sad, old people's memories, but poetic, youthful ones, those impressions from the very distant past where dream merges with reality, and they laughed softly, rejoicing at something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and danger and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: It's like scarlet fever: one has to get it over.\" \"Then one should invent a way of inoculating love, like vaccination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: But the older he grew and the more intimately he came to know his brother, the oftener the thought occurred to him that the power of working for the general welfare \u2013 a power of which he felt himself entirely destitute \u2013 was not a virtue but rather a lack of something: not a lack of kindly honesty and noble desires and tastes, but a lack of the power of living, of what is called heart \u2013 the aspiration which makes a man choose one out of all the innumerable paths of life that present themselves, and desire that alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: And all these people lived not by reason of any care they had for themselves, but by the love for them that was in other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I have discovered nothing. I have only found out what I knew. I understand the force that in the past gave me life, and now too gives me life. I have been set free from falsity, I have found the Master."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: We love people not so much for the good they've done us, as for the good we've done them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: He could not be mistaken. There were no other eyes like those in the world. There was only one creature in the world who could concentrate for him all the brightness and meaning of life. It was she. It was Kitty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I think that when you remember, remember, remember everything like that, you could go on until you remember what was there before you were in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The only happy marriages I know are arranged ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: And Levin, a happy father and a man in perfect health, was several times so near suicide that he hid the cord, lest he be tempted to hang himself, and was afraid to go out with his gun, for fear of shooting himself. But Levin did not shoot himself, and did not hang himself; he went on living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In all human sorrow nothing gives comfort but love and faith, and that in the sight of Christ's compassion for us no sorrow is trifiling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: And that which yesterday was the novel opinion of one man, to-day becomes the general opinion of the majority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Only the truth and its expression can establish that new public opinion which will reform the ancient obsolete and pernicious order of life; and yet we not only do not express the truth we know, but often even distinctly give expression to what we ourselves regard as false. If only free men would not rely on that which has no power, and is always fettered upon external aids; but would trust in that which is always powerful and free the truth and its expression!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: He soon felt that the fulfillment of his desires gave him only one grain of the mountain of happiness he had expected. This fulfillment showed him the eternal error men make in imagining that their happiness depends on the realization of their desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: But if Christianity really gives peace, and we really want peace, patriotism is a survival from barbarous times, which must not only not be evoked and educated, as we now do, but which must be eradicated by all means, by means of preaching, persuasion, contempt, and ridicule."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: There are two methods of human activity - and according to which one of these two kinds of activity people mainly follow, are there two kinds of people: One use their reason to learn what is good and what is bad and they act according to this knowledge; the other act as they want to and then they use their reason to prove that that which they did was good and that which they didn't do was bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: No one is satisfied with his position, but every one is satisfied with his wit"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Either you are so underdeveloped that you can't see all that you can do, or you won't sacrifice your ease, your vanity, or whatever it is, to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I felt a wish never to leave that room - a wish that dawn might never come, that my present frame of mind might never change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: God gave the day, God gave the strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: And the angel said - \"I have learned that every man lives not through care of himself, but by love\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore art is the highest means of knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In order to understand, observe, deduce, man must first be conscious of himself as alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I must have physical exercise, or my temper'll certainly be ruined."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I always loved you, and if one loves anyone, one loves the whole person, just as they are and not as one would like them to be. -Dolly"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Happy people have no history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Every one who has a heart and eyes sees that you, working men, are obliged to pass your lives in want and in hard labor, which is useless to you, while other men, who do not work, enjoy the fruits of your labor that you are the slaves of these men, and that this ought not to exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: He looked at her as a man might look at a faded flower he had plucked, in which it was difficult for him to trace the beauty that had made him pick and so destroy it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: He liked to fish; he seemed to take pride in being able to like such a stupid occupation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In order to correctly define art, it is necessary, first of all, to cease to consider it as a means to pleasure and consider it as one of the conditions of human life. ...Reflecting on it in this way, we cannot fail to observe that art is one of the means of effective communication between people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: \"A real work of art destroys, in the consciousness of the receiver, the separation between himself and the artist.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: One must put oneself in every one's position. To understand everything is to forgive everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I asked: 'What is the meaning of my life, beyond time, cause, and space?' And I replied to quite another question: 'What is the meaning of my life within time, cause, and space?' With the result that, after long efforts of thought, the answer I reached was: 'None'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Wealth brings a heavy purse; poverty, a light spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Condemn me if you choose - I do that myself, - but condemn me, and not the path which I am following, and which I point out to those who ask me where, in my opinion, the path is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Today, nobody sees, or wishes to see, that in our time the enslavement of the majority of men is based on money taxes, levied on land and otherwise, which are collected by government from the subjects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Christianity in its true sense puts an end to the State. It was so understood from its very beginning, and for that Christ was crucified."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: To love life is to love God. Harder and more blessed than all else is to love this life in one's sufferings, in undeserved sufferings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Tell people that war is an evil, and they will laugh; for who does not know it? Tell them that patriotism is an evil, and most of them will agree, but with a reservation. \"Yes,\" they will say, \"wrong patriotism is an evil; but there is another kind, the kind we hold.\" But just what this good patriotism is, no one explains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: When joy disappears, look for your mistake"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: You say: I am not free. But I have raised and lowered my arm. Everyone understands that this illogical answer is an irrefutable proof of freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The more mental effort he made the clearer he saw that it was undoubtedly so: that he had really forgotten and overlooked one little circumstance in life - that Death would come and end everything, so that it was useless to begin anything, and that there was no help for it, Yes it was terrible but true"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Physical violence is the basis of authority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Nowhere nor in anything, except in the assertion of the Church, can we find that God or Christ founded anything like what churchmen understand by the Church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: School is established, not in order that it should be convenient for the children to study, but that teachers should be able to teach in comfort. The children's conversations, motion, merriment are not convenient for the teacher, and so in the schools, which are built on the plan of prisons, are prohibited."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw nothing but the sand; yet there were brighter moments when she felt nothing but joy, saw nothing but the gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Ivan Ilych's life had been most simple and most ordinary and therefore most terrible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: A new conception of life cannot be imposed on men; it can only be freely assimilated. And it can only be freely assimilated in two ways: one spiritual and internal, the other experimental and external."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Darkness had fallen upon everything for him; but just because of this darkness he felt that the one guiding clue in the darkness was his work, and he clutched it and clung to it with all his strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: There will be today, there will be tomorrow, there will be always, and there was yesterday, and there was the day before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The soul is immortal- well then, if I shall always live, I must have lived before, lived for a whole eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Like all mad men, I thought everyone was mad except myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Her face was brilliant and glowing; but this glow was not one of brightness; it suggested the fearful glow of a conflagration in the midst of a dark night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Whatever question arose, a swarm of these drones, without having finished their buzzing on a previous theme, flew over to the new one and by their hum drowned and obscured the voices of those who were disputing honestly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Several times I asked myself, \"Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?\" And I searched for an answer to my questions in every area of knowledge acquired by man. For a long time I carried on my painstaking search; I did not search casually, out of mere curiosity, but painfully, persistently, day and night, like a dying man seeking salvation. I found nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Knowledge is real knowledge only when it is acquired by the efforts of your intellect, not by memory"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Art is not a pleasure, a solace, or an amusement; art is great matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: There lay between them, separating them, that same terrible line of the unknown and of fear, like the line separating the living from the dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: He remembered his mother's love for him, and his family's, and his friends', and the enemy's intention to kill him seemed impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Here's my advice to you: don't marry until you can tell yourself that you've done all you could, and until you've stopped loving the women you've chosen, until you see her clearly, otherwise you'll be cruelly and irremediably mistaken. Marry when you're old and good for nothing...Otherwise all that's good and lofty in you will be lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: At that instant he knew that all his doubts, even the impossibility of believing with his reason, of which he was aware in himself, did not in the least hinder his turning to God. All of that now floated out of his soul like dust. To whom was he to turn if not to Him in whose hands he felt himself, his soul, and his love?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: True art and true science possess two unmistakable marks: the first, an inward mark, which is this, that the servitor of art and science will fulfil his vocation, not for profit but with self- sacrifice; and the second, an external sign, his productions will be intelligible to all the people whose welfare he has in view."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: There are many faiths, but the spirit is one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Men need only trust in Christ's teaching and obey it, and there will be peace on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: It's hard to love a woman and do anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: He felt all the torment of his and her position, all the difficulties they were surrounded by in consequence of their station in life, which exposed them to the eyes of the whole world, obliged them to hide their love, to lie and deceive, and again to lie and deceive, to scheme and constantly think about others while the passion that bound them was so strong that they both forgot everything but their love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: It is this law of love and its recognition as a rule of conduct in all our relations with friends, enemies and offenders which must inevitably bring about the complete transformation of the existing order of things,\r\nnot only among Christian nations, but among all the peoples of the globe"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: With friends, one is well; but at home, one is better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: These loaves, pigeons, and two little boys seemed unearthly. It all happened at the same time: a little boy ran over to a pigeon, glancing over at Levin with a smile; the pigeon flapped its wings and fluttered, gleaming in the sunshine among the snowdust quivering in the air, while the smell of freshly baked bread was wafted out of a little window as the loaves were put out. All this together was so extraordinarily wonderful that Levin burst out laughing and crying for joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In the best, the friendliest and simplest relations flattery or praise is necessary, just as grease is necessary to keep wheels turning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Art is not a handicraft, it is the transmission of feeling the artist has experienced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Well, my theory is this: war is such a terrible, such an atrocious, thing that no man, at least no Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of beginning it; but it belongs to government alone, when it becomes inevitable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: He stepped down, avoiding any long look at her as one avoids long looks at the sun, but seeing her as one sees the sun, without looking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: War is not a polite recreation but the vilest thing in life, and we ought to understand that and not play at war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Man lives consciously for himself, but is an unconscious instrument in the attainment of the historic, universal, aims of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Woman is generally so bad that the difference between a good and a bad woman scarcely exists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: You've said nothing, of course, and I ask nothing,\" he was saying; \"but you know that friendship's not what I want: that there's only one happiness in life for me, that word that you dislike so...yes, love!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If there existed no external means for dimming their consciences, one-half of the men would at once shoot themselves, because to live contrary to one's reason is a most intolerable state, and all men of our time are in such a state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: She was in that highly-wrought state when the reasoning powers act with great rapidity: the state a man is in before a battle or a struggle, in danger, and at the decisive moments of life - those moments when a man shows once and for all what he is worth, that his past was not lived in vain but was a preparation for these moments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Power is a word the meaning of which we do not understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Why nowadays there's a new fashion every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: [D]iscipline consists in this, that the men who undergo the instruction and have followed it for a certain time are completely deprived of everything which is precious to a man-of the chief human property, rational freedom-and become submissive, machine-like implements of murder in the hands of their organized hierarchic authorities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: He is not apprehended by reason, but by life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: And whatever people might say about the time having come when young people must arrange their future for themselves, she could not believe it any more than she could believe that loaded pistols could ever be the best toys for five-year-old children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The military world is characterized by the absence of freedom - in other words, a rigorous discipline-enforced inactivity, ignorance, cruelty, debauchery and drunkenness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The happiness of men consists in life. And life is in labor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served as little as possible . . . and to serve others as much as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: It is a harmful feeling, because it disturbs advantageous and joyous, peaceful relations with other peoples, and above all produces that governmental organization under which power may fall, and does fall, into the, hands of the worst men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If it were not so frightening it would be amusing to observe the pride and complacency with which we, like children, take apart the watch, pull out the spring and make a toy of it, and are then surprised when the watch stops working."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: But men are now united in states; that work is done; why now maintain exclusive devotion to one's own state, when this produces terrible evils for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: You can't imagine what a pleasure this complete laziness is to me: not a thought in my brain- you might send a ball rolling through it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Then he thought himself unhappy, but happiness was all in the future; now he felt that the best happiness was already in the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The march of humanity, springing as it does from an infinite multitude of individual wills, is continuous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: War is not courtesy but the most horrible thing in life; and we ought to understand that, and not play at war. We ought to accept this terrible necessity sternly and seriously. It all lies in that: get rid of falsehood and let war be war and not a game."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: There are people who, on meeting a successful rival, no matter in what, are at once disposed to turn their backs on everything good in him, and to see only what is bad. There are people, on the other hand, who desire above all to find in that lucky rival the qualities by which he has outstripped them, and seek with a throbbing ache at heart only what is good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: When an individual passes from one period of life to another a time comes when he cannot go on in senseless activity and excitement as before, but has to understand that although he has out-grown what before used to direct him, this does not mean that he must live without any reasonable guidance, but rather that he must formulate for himself an understanding of life corresponding to his age, and having elucidated it must be guided by it. And in the same way a similar time must come in the growth and development of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: There was no solution, save that universal solution which life gives to all questions, even the most complex and insolvable: One must live in the needs of the day--that is, forget oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Pierre looked into the sky, into the depths of the retreating, twinkling stars. \"And all this is mine, and all this is in me, and all this is me!\" thought Pierre. \"And all this they've caught and put in a shed and boarded it up!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I now understand that my welfare is only possible if I acknowledge my unity with all the people of the world without exception."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: An agile but unintelligent and abnormal German, possessed of the mania of grandeur."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Work is the inevitable condition of human life, the true source of human welfare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I have nothing to make me miserable,\" she said, getting calmer; \"but can you understand that everything has become hateful, loathsome, coarse to me, and I myself most of all? You can't imagine what loathsome thoughts I have about everything.\" \"Why, whatever loathsome thoughts can you have?\" asked Dolly, smiling. \"The most utterly loathsome and coarse; I can't tell you. It's not unhappiness, or low spirits, but much worse. As though everything that was good in me was all hidden away, and nothing was left but the most loathsome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Where is there any book of the law so clear to each man as that written in his heart?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: At school he had done things which had formerly seemed to him very horrid and made him feel disgusted with himself when he did them; but when later on he saw that such actions were done by people of good position and that they did not regard them as wrong, he was able not exactly to regard them as right, but to forget about them entirely or not be at all troubled at remembering them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: And you know, there's less charm in life when you think about death--but it's more peaceful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The most important person is the one you are with in this moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: What is reason given me for, if I am not to use it to avoid bringing unhappy beings into the world!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I often think how unfairly life's good fortune is sometimes distributed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The question of how things will settle down is the only important question."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Life did not stop, and one had to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: We must not only cease our present desire for the growth of the state, but we must desire its decrease, its weakening."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Teach French and unteach sincerity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: but my life now, my whole life apart from anything that can happen to me, every minute of it is no more meaningless, as it was before, but it has the positive meaning of goodness, which I have the power to put into it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Konstantin Levin did not like talking and hearing about the beauty of nature. Words for him took away the beauty of what he saw."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If I know the way home and am walking along it drunkenly, is it any less the right way because I am staggering from side to side!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: It will pass, it will all pass, we're going to be so happy! If our love could grow any stronger it would grow stronger because there is something horrifying in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: ... a man has to think of his soul before everything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: One must do one of two tings: either admit that the existing order of society is just, and then stick up for one's rights in it;or acknowledge that you are enjoying unjust privileges, as i do, and then enjoy them and be satisfied."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: After the doctor's departure Koznyshev felt inclined to go to the river with his fishing rod. He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Both salvation and punishment for man lie in the fact that if he lives wrongly he can befog himself so as not to see the misery of his position."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In historic events, the so-called great men are labels giving names to events, and like labels they have but the smallest connection with the event itself. Every act of theirs, which appears to them an act of their own will, is in an historical sense involuntary and is related to the whole course of history and predestined from eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Go take the mother's soul, and learn three truths: Learn What dwells in man, What is not given to man , and What men live by . When thou hast learnt these things, thou shalt return to heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In spite of death, he felt the need of life and love. He felt that love saved him from despair, and that this love, under the menace of despair, had become still stronger and purer. The one mystery of death, still unsolved, had scarcely passed before his eyes, when another mystery had arisen, as insoluble, urging him to love and to life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Man has received direct from God only one instrument wherewith to know himself and to know his relation to the universe--he has no other--and that instrument is reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won't come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Just as a painter needs light in order to put the finishing touches to his picture, so I need an inner light, which I feel I never have enough of in the autumn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Perhaps it is even more important to know what one should not think about than what one should think about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The best method for a given teacher is the one which is most familiar to the teacher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Doctoring her seemed to her as absurd as putting together the pieces of a broken vase. Her heart was broken. Why would they try to cure her with pills and powders?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: We are all created to be miserable, and that we all know it, and all invent means of deceiving each other. And when one sees the truth, what is one to do?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: He knew she was there by the joy and terror that took possession of his heart [...] Everything was lit up by her. She was the smile that brightened everything around."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Nothing prevents our denying life by suicide. well then, kill yourself, and you won't discuss. If life displeases you, kill yourself! You live, and cannot understand the meaning of life - then finish it, and do not fool about in life, saying and writing that you do not understand it. You have come into good company where people are contented and know what they are doing; if you find it dull and repulsive - go away!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: excuse me' he added, taking the opera glasses out of her hands and looking over her bare shoulder at the row of boxes opposite, 'i'm afraid i'm becoming ridiculous"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Our body is a machine for living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Art can compel people freely, gladly, and spontaneously to sacrifice themselves in the service of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: History, that is to say, the unconscious, universal life of humanity, in the aggregate, every moment profits by the life of kings for itself, as an instrument for the accomplishment of its own ends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: He was right in saying that the only certain happiness in life is to live for others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Prayer is addressed to the personal God, not because he is personal indeed, I know for certain that he is not personal, because personality is limitation, while God is unlimited."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Great works of art are only great because they are accessible and comprehensible to everyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: And yet, now that years have passed, I recall it and wonder that it could distress me so much. It will be the same thing, too, with this trouble. Time will go by and I shall not mind about this either."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Levin scowled. The humiliation of his rejection stung him to the heart, as though it were a fresh wound he had only just received. But he was at home, and at home the very walls are a support."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Can it be that I have overlooked something, that there is something which I have failed to understand? Is it not possible that this state of despair is common to everyone?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: It is very difficult to tell the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In vain do science and philosophy pose as the arbiters of the human mind, of which they are in fact only the servants. Religion has provided a conception of life, and science travels in the beaten path. Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Stepan Arkadyevitch had not chosen his political opinions or his views; these political opinions and views had come to him of themselves, just as he did not choose the shapes of his hat and coat, but simply took those that were being worn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Man's mind cannot grasp the causes of events in their completeness, but the desire to find the causes is implanted in man's soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: As often happens between men who have chosen different pursuits, each, while in argument justifying the other's activity, despised it in the depth of his heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Power, from the standpoint of experience, is merely the relation that exists between the expression of someone's will and the execution of that will by others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Art is a means of union among men, joining them together in the same feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: What am I coming for?\" he repeated, looking straight into her eyes. \"You know that I have come to be where you are,\" he said; \"I can't help it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The antagonism between life and conscience may be removed in two ways: by a change of life or by a change of conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The chief attraction of military service has consisted and will consist in this compulsory and irreproachable idleness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: This is where the strength of the physician lies, be he a quack, a homeopath or an allopath. He supplies the perennial demand for comfort, the craving for sympathy that every human sufferer feels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The higher a man's conception of God, the better will he know Him.  And the better he knows God, the nearer will he draw to Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: And the light by which she had read the book filled with troubles, falsehoods, sorrow, and evil, flared up more brightly than ever before, lighted up for her all that had been in darkness, flickered, began to grow dim, and was quenched forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: At moments of departure and a change of life, people capable of reflecting on their actions usually get into a serious state of mind. At these moments they usually take stock of the past and make plans for the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Meanwhile spring arrived. My old dejection passed away and gave place to the unrest which spring brings with it, full of dreams and vague hopes and desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I wanted to run after him, but remembered that it is ridiculous to run after one's wife's lover in one's socks; and I did not wish to be ridiculous but terrible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Religion reveals the meaning of life, and science only applies this meaning to the course of circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Woman, you see, is an object of such a kind that study it as much as you will, it is always quite new."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Religions are the exponents of the highest comprehension of life... within a given age in a given society... a basis for evaluating human sentiments. If feelings bring people nearer to the religion's ideal... they are good; if these estrange them from it, and oppose it, they are bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Humanity unceasingly strives forward from a lower, more partial and obscure understanding of life to one more general and more lucid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Then we should find some artificial inoculation against love, as with smallpox."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Do not resist the evil-doer and take no part in doing so, either in the violent deeds of the administration, in the law courts, the collection of taxes, or above all in soldiering, and no one in the world will be able to enslave you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Division of labor is a justification for sloth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: To evoke in oneself a feeling one has once experienced, and having evoked it in oneself, then by means of movements, lines, colors, sounds, or forms expressed through words, so to convey this so that others may experience the same feeling - this is the activity of art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: It is a rude feeling, because it is natural only to people standing on the lowest level of morality, and expecting from other nations such outrages as they themselves are ready to inflict."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The higher a man stands on the social ladder, the greater the number of people he is connected with, the more power he has over other people, the more obvious is the predestination and inevitability of his every action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: It seems as though mankind has forgotten the laws of its divine Saviour, Who preached love and forgiveness of injuries\u2014and that men attribute the greatest merit to skill in killing one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The appreciation of the merits of art (of the emotions it conveys) depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The law of violence is not a law, but a simple fact which can only be a law when it does not meet with protest and opposition. It is like the cold, darkness and weight, which people had to put up with until recently when warmth, illumination and leverage were discovered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: When Levin thought what he was and what he was living for, he could find no answer to the questions and was reduced to despair; but when he left off questioning himself about it, it seemed as though he knew both what he was and what he was living for, acting and living resolutely and without hesitation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of the ills from which mankind is suffering, and that, consequently, this feeling - should not be cultivated, as is now being done, but should, on the contrary, be suppressed and eradicated by all means available to rational men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: By patriotism is meant, not only spontaneous, instinctive love for one's own nation, and preference for it above all other nations, but also the belief that such love and preference are good and useful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Don\u2019t you know that you are all my life to me? ...But peace I do not know, and can\u2019t give to you. My whole being, my love...yes! I cannot think about you and about myself separately. You and I are one to me. And I do not see before us the possibility of peace either for me or for you. I see the possibility of despair, misfortune...or of happiness-what happiness!...Is it impossible?\" Vronksy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: We call beauty that which supplies us with a particular pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: We shall all of us die, so why should I grudge a little trouble?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Is it possible to say what one really feels?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Many families remain for years in the same place, though both husband and wife are sick of it, simply because there is neither complete division nor agreement between them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: That only shows you have no heart,\u2019 she said. But her eyes said that she knew he had a heart, and that was why she was afraid of him"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: She did not want to talk of her sorrow, but with that sorrow in her heart she could not talk of outside matters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The earth is the general and equal possession of all humanity and therefore cannot be the property of individuals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: A holy spirit lives within you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The subject of history is the life of peoples and of humanity. To catch and pin down in words--that is, to describe directly the life, not only of humanity, but even of a single people, appears to be impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Ivan Ilych saw that he was dying, and he was in continual despair. In the depth of his heart he knew he was dying, but not only was he not accustomed to the thought, he simply did not and could not grasp it. The syllogism he had learnt from Kiesewetter's Logic: \"Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal,\" had always seemed to him correct as applied to Caius, but certainly not as applied to himself. That Caius - man in the abstract - was mortal, was perfectly correct, but he was not Caius, not an abstract man, but a creature quite, quite separate from all others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Power is the relation of a given person to other persons, in which the more this person expresses opinions, theories and justifications of the collective action the less is his participation in that action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I don\u2019t count life as life without love"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Enough or not...it will have to do"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Art should cause violence to be set aside and it is only art that can accomplish this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: God is the same everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: It's not so much that he can't fall in love, but he has not the weakness necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?\" suddenly came into his head. \"But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Anna smiled,as people smile at the weaknesses of those they love. . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: She put both her hands on his shoulders and gazed at him long, with a deep look of ecstasy and yet searchingly. She scrutinized his face to make up for the time she had not seen him. She compared, as she did at every interview with him, the image her fancy painted of him (incomparably finer than, and impossible in actual existence) with his real self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: There is one thing, and only one thing, in which it is granted to you to be free in life, all else being beyond your power: that is to recognize and profess the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: We acknowledge God only when we are conscious of His manifestation in us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Pretence about anything sometimes deceives the wisest and shrewdest man, but, however cunningly it is hidden, a child of the meanest capacity feels it and is repelled by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: He felt that he was himself and did not wish to be anyone else. He only wished now to be better than he had been formerly"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: When one's head is gone one doesn't weep for one's hair!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I am sure that nothing has such a decisive influence upon a man's course as his personal appearance, and not so much his appearance as his belief in its attractiveness or unattractiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: In the spiritual realm nothing is indifferent: what is not useful is harmful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: No matter when, at whatever moment, if she were asked what she was thinking about she could reply quite correctly - one thing, her happiness and her unhappiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: There are always so many conjectures as to the issue of any event that, whatever the outcome, there will always be people to say: 'I said then that it would be so'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The workmen's revolution, with the terrors of destruction and murder, not only threatens us, but we have already been living upon its verge during the last thirty years, and it is only by various cunning devices that we have been postponing the crisis. The hatred and contempt of the oppressed people are increasing, and the physical and moral strength of the richer classes are decreasing: the deceit which supports all this is wearing out, and the rich classes have nothing wherewith to comfort themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Vengeance is mine; I will repay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The essence of any religion lies solely in the answer to the question: why do I exist, and what is my relationship to the infinite universe that surrounds me?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Giving alms is only a virtuous deed when you give money that you yourself worked to get."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Well, so it isn't time yet to die, is it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Man survives earthquakes, epidemics, the horrors of disease, and all the agonies of the soul, but for all time his tormenting tragedy is, and will be, the tragedy of the bedroom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Pierre was one of those people who are strong only when they feel themselves perfectly pure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The role of the disappointed lover of a maiden or of any single woman might be ridiculous; but the role of a man who was pursuing a married woman, and who made it the purpose of his life at all cost to draw her into adultery, was one which had in it something beautiful and dignified and could never be ridiculous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Seize the moment of happiness... love and be loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: One is ashamed to say how little is needed for all men to be delivered from those calamities which now oppress them; it is only needful not to lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: What an immense mass of evil must result...from allowing men to assume the right of anticipating what may happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The error arises from the learned jurists deceiving themselves and others, by asserting that government is not what it really is, one set of men banded together to oppress another set of men , but, as shown by science, is the representation of the citizens in their collective capacity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: but that what was for him the greatest and most cruel injustice appeared to others a quite ordinary occurrence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: Error is the force that welds men together; truth is communicated to men only by deeds of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: The activity of art is... as important as the activity of language itself, and as universal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leo Tolstoy: If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and [how] hard it is to undo that work again!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If we were meant to talk more than listen, we would have two mouths and one ear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are laws to protect the freedom of the press's speech, but none that are worth anything to protect the people from the press"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Every civilization carries the seeds of its own destruction, and the same cycle shows in them all. The Republic is born, flourishes, decays into plutocracy, and is captured by the shoemaker whom the mercenaries and millionaires make into a king. The people invent their oppressors, and the oppressors serve the function for which they are invented."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Suppose you were an idiot, and suppose you were a member of Congress; but I repeat myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A man's character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The newspaper that obstructs the law on a trivial pretext, for money's sake, is a dangerous enemy to the public weal. That awful power, the public opinion of a nation, is created in America by a horde of ignorant, self-complacent simpletons who failed at ditching and shoemaking and fetched up in journalism on their way to the poorhouse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The nation is divided, half patriots and half traitors, and no man can tell which from which."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Education is what you must acquire without any interference from your schooling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I hate to hear people say this Judge will vote so and so, because he is a Democrat -- and this one so and so because he is a Republican. It is shameful. The Judges have the Constitution for their guidance; they have no right to any politics save the politics of rigid right and justice when they are sitting in judgment upon the great matters that come before them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Never put off till tomorrow what you can do day after tomorrow just as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion--several of them. He is the only animal that loves his neighbor as himself and cuts his throat if his theology isn't straight. He has made a graveyard of the globe in trying his honest best to smooth his brother's path to happiness and heaven....The higher animals have no religion. And we are told that they are going to be left out in the Hereafter. I wonder why? It seems questionable taste."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Do something everyday that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I don't like to commit myself about heaven and hell - you see, I have friends in both places."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There was never yet an uninteresting life. Such a thing is an impossibility. Inside of the dullest exterior there is a drama, a comedy, and a tragedy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: But who prays for Satan? Who, in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be \u2014 a Christian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Apparently there is nothing that cannot happen today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The common eye sees only the outside of things, and judges by that, but the seeing eye pierces through and reads the heart and the soul, finding there capacities which the outside didn't indicate or promise, and which the other kind of eye couldn't detect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To lodge all power in one party and keep it there is to insure bad government and the sure and gradual deterioration of the public morals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Sacred cows make the best hamburger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The more things are forbidden, the more popular they become."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We teach them to take their patriotism at second-hand; to shout with the largest crowd without examining into the right or wrong of the matter -- exactly as boys under monarchies are taught and have always been taught. We teach them to regard as traitors, and hold in aversion and contempt, such as do not shout with the crowd, and so here in our democracy we are cheering a thing which of all things is most foreign to it and out of place -- the delivery of our political conscience into somebody else's keeping. This is patriotism on the Russian plan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is no such thing as a new idea. It is impossible. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope. We give them a turn and they make new and curious combinations. We keep on turning and making new combinations indefinitely; but they are the same old pieces of colored glass that have been in use through all the ages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is wiser to find out than to suppose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Everyone is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink - under any circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Man is the only Patriot. He sets himself apart in his own country, under his own flag, and sneers at the other nations, and keeps multitudinous uniformed assassins on hand at heavy expense to grab slices of other people's countries, and keep them from grabbing slices of his. And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man - with his mouth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If a person offends you, and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures; simply watch your chance, and hit him with a brick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is a charm about the forbidden that makes it unspeakably desirable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If there is a God, he is a malign thug."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Heaven goes by favor. If it went by merit, you would stay out and your dog would go in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am always on the side of the revolutionists, because there never was a revolution unless there were some oppressive and intolerable conditions against which to revolute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: \u201cYe shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.\u201d Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Among other common lies, we have the silent lie - the deception which one conveys by simply keeping still and concealing the truth. Many obstinate truth-mongers indulge in this dissipation, imagining that if they speak no lie, they lie not at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Denial ain't just a river in Egypt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The best minds will tell you that when a man has begotten a child he is morally bound to tenderly care for it, protect it from hurt, shield it from disease, clothe it, feed it, bear with its waywardness, lay no hand upon it save in kindness and for its own good, and never in any case inflict upon it a wanton cruelty. God's treatment of his earthly children, every day and every night, is the exact opposite of all that, yet those best minds warmly justify these crimes, condone them, excuse them, and indignantly refuse to regard them as crimes at all, when he commits them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Adam was not alone in the Garden of Eden, however, and does not deserve all the credit; much is due to Eve, the first woman, and Satan, the first consultant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I can live for two months on a good compliment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Our best built certainties are but sand-houses and subject to damage from any wind of doubt that blows"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Nothing that grieves us can be called little: by the eternal laws of proportion a child's loss of a doll and a king's loss of a crown are events of the same size."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All good things arrive unto them that wait - and don't die in the meantime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The lack of money is the root of all evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The government is merely a servant\u2015merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade, without further introduction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In religion and politics, people's belief's and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We had a sunset of a very fine sort.  The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I've never let my school interfere with my education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: One learns peoples through the heart, not the eyes or the intellect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creatures that cannot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Too much of anything is bad, but too much good whiskey is barely enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Adam was but human\u2014this explains it all. He did not want the apple for the apple's sake, he wanted it only because it was forbidden. The mistake was in not forbidding the serpent; then he would have eaten the serpent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Work and play are words used to describe the same thing under differing conditions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native criminal class except Congress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Both marriage and death ought to be welcome: the one promises happiness, doubtless the other assures it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We despise all reverences and all objects of reverence which are outside the pale of our list of sacred things. And yet, with strange inconsistency, we are shocked when other people despise and defile the things which are holy to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I notice that you use plain, simple language, short words and brief sentences. That is the way to write English - it is the modern way and the best way. Stick to it; don't let fluff and flowers and verbosity creep in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are many humorous things in the world; among them, the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Nature knows no indecencies; man invents them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I could never learn to like her, except on a raft at sea with no other provisions in sight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The history of our race, and each individual\u2019s experience, are sown thick with evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Humor is the good natured side of a truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is a mistake that there is no bath that will cure people's manners, but drowning would help."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than Methuselah saw in his whole lifetime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The Bible has noble poetry in it... and some good morals and a wealth of obscenity, and upwards of a thousand lies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Honesty: The best of all the lost arts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I simply can\u00b4t resist a cat, particularly a purring one. They are the cleanest, cunningest, and most intelligent things I know, outside of the girl you love, of course."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I take my only exercise acting as a pallbearer at the funerals of my friends who exercise regularly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: He is useless on top of the ground; he ought to be under it, inspiring the cabbages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Be good and you will be lonely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To trust the God of the Bible is to trust an irascible, vindictive, fierce and ever fickle and changeful master."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Principles aren't of much account anyway, except at election time. After that you hang them up to let them season."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am able to say that while I am not ruggedly well, I am not ill enough to excite an undertaker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When a teacher calls a boy by his entire name, it means trouble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are lies, damned lies and statistics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Part of the secret of a success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Senator: Person who makes laws in Washington when not doing time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It were not best that we should all think alike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What is Man? Man is a noisome bacillus whom Our Heavenly Father created because he was disappointed in the monkey."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is nothing so annoying as to have two people talking when you're busy interrupting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought -a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You need not expect to get your book right the first time. Go to work and revamp or rewrite it. God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention. These are God's adjectives. You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His works must be contemplated with respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All men have heard of the Mormon Bible, but few except the \"elect\" have seen it, or, at least, taken the trouble to read it. I brought away a copy from Salt Lake. The book is a curiosity to me, it is such a pretentious affair, and yet so \"slow,\" so sleepy; such an insipid mess of inspiration. It is chloroform in print. If Joseph Smith composed this book, the act was a miracle \u2014 keeping awake while he did it was, at any rate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Of the delights of this world man cares most for sexual intercourse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I admire him, I frankly confess it; and when his time is come I shall buy a piece of the rope for a keepsake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A circle is a round straight line with a hole in the middle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Supposing is good, but finding out is better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing and predatory as it is - in our country particularly, and in all other Christian countries in a somewhat modified degree - it is still a hundred times better than the Christianity of the Bible, with its prodigious crime- the invention of Hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Obscurity and a competence\u2014that is the life that is best worth living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Life should begin with age and its privileges and accumulations, and end with youth and its capacity to splendidly enjoy such advantages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What would men be without women? Scarce, sir...mighty scarce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: But who prays for Satan? Who in eighteen centuries, has had the common humanity to pray for the one sinner that needed it most, our one fellow and brother who most needed a friend yet had not a single one, the one sinner among us all who had the highest and clearest right to every Christian's daily and nightly prayers, for the plain and unassailable reason that his was the first and greatest need, he being among sinners the supremest?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All emotion is involuntary when genuine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The easy confidence with which I know another man's religion is folly teaches me to suspect that my own is also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The partitions of the houses were so thin we could hear the women occupants of adjoining rooms changing their minds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Everybody's private motto: It's better to be popular than right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Let us be thankful for the fools. But for them the rest of us could not succeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Buy land, they're not making it anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If you invent two or three people and turn them loose in your manuscript, something is bound to happen to them -- you can't help it; and then it will take you the rest of the book to get them out of the natural consequences of that occurrence, and so first thing you know, there's your book all finished up and never cost you an idea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In religion and politics people\u2019s beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second-hand, and without examination, from authorities who have not themselves examined the questions at issue but have taken them at second-hand from other non-examiners, whose opinions about them were not worth a brass farthing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I haven't a particle of confidence in a man who has no redeeming petty vices whatsoever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I would like to live in Manchester, England. The transition between Manchester and death would be unnoticeable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Let us consider that we are all partially insane. It will explain us to each other; it will unriddle many riddles; it will make clear and simple many things which are involved in haunting and harassing difficulties and obscurities now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have been complimented many times and they always embarrass me; I always feel that they have not said enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism is loyalty to the Nation all the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Damn these human beings; if I had invented them I would go hide my head in a bag."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The institution of royalty in any form is an insult to the human race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The finest clothing made is a person's own skin, but, of course, society demands something more than this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Everything has its limit - iron ore cannot be educated into gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: He charged nothing for his preaching and it was worth it too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: July 4. Statistics show that we lose more fools on this day than in all the other days of the year put together. This proves, by the number left in stock, that one fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Praise is well, compliment is well, but affection-that is the last and most precious reward that any man can win, whether by character or achievement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We consider that any man who can fiddle all through one of those Virginia Reels without losing his grip may be depended upon in any kind of musical emergency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When in doubt tell the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I believe that our Heavenly Father invented man because he was disappointed in the monkey. I believe that whenever a human being, of even the highest intelligence and culture, delivers an opinion upon a matter apart from his particular and especial line of interest, training and experience, it will always be an opinion of so foolish and so valueless a sort that it can be depended upon to suggest to our Heavenly Father that the human being is another disappointment and that he is no considerable improvement upon the monkey."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: No real gentleman will tell the naked truth in the presence of ladies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am quite sure now that often, very often, in matters concerning religion and politics a man's reasoning powers are not above the monkey's."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All the territorial possessions of all the political establishments in the earth--including America, of course-- consist of pilferings from other people's wash. No tribe, howsoever insignificant, and no nation, howsoever mighty occupies a foot of land that was not stolen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Hain't we got all the fools in town on our side? And hain't that a big enough majority in any town?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is noble to teach oneself; it is still nobler to teach others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Ignorant people think it is the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it is the sickening grammar that they use."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Truth is the most valuable thing we have. Let us economize it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Always obey your parents - when they are present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: No church property is taxed and so the infidel and the atheist and the man without religion are taxed to make up the deficit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A woman springs a sudden reproach upon you which provokes a hot retort, and then she will presently ask you to apologize."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I like a good story well told. That is the reason I am sometimes forced to tell them myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You can tell German wine from vinegar by the label."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Vote: The only commodity that is peddleable without a license."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: 'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Seasickness: at first you are so sick you are afraid you will die, and then you are so sick you are afraid you won't die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You may say a cat uses good grammar. Well, a cat does -- but you let a cat get excited once; you let a cat get to pulling fur with another cat on a shed, nights, and you'll hear grammar that will give you the lockjaw. Ignorant people think it's the noise which fighting cats make that is so aggravating, but it ain't so; it's the sickening grammar they use."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To be satisfied with what one has; that is wealth. As long as one sorely needs a certain additional amount, that man isn't rich."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Cold! If the thermometer had been an inch longer we'd all have frozen to death!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When a person cannot deceive himself the chances are against his being able to deceive other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A man with a hump-backed uncle mustn't make fun of another man's cross-eyed aunt"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You are a coward when you even seem to have backed down from a thing you openly set out to do"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We like a man to come right out and say what he thinks- if we agree with him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Distance lends enchantment to the view."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Humor is mankind's greatest blessing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Use the right word, not its second cousin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I never could keep a promise. I do not blame myself for this weakness, because the fault must lie in my physical organization. It is likely that such a very liberal amount of space was given to the organ which enables me to make promises that the organ which should enable me to keep them was crowded out. But I grieve not. I like no half-way things. I had rather have one faculty nobly developed than two faculties of mere ordinary capacity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The church is always trying to get other people to reform, it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little, by way of example"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are no grades of vanity; there are only grades of ability in concealing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Irreverence is the champion of liberty and its only sure defense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What is human life? The first third a good time; the rest remembering about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Prosperity is the best protector of principle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Grief can take care if itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Of all the unchristian beverages that ever passed my lips, Turkish coffee is the worst. The cup is small, it is smeared with grounds; the coffee is black, thick, unsavory of smell, and execrable in taste. The bottom of the cup has a muddy sediment in it half an inch deep. This goes down your throat, and portions of it lodge by the way, and produce a tickling aggravation that keeps you barking and coughing for an hour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Go and surprise the whole country by doing something right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: An uneasy conscience is a hair in the mouth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The unspoken word is capital. We can invest it or we can squander it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Thou shalt not commit adultry is a command which makes no distinction between the following persons. They are all required to obey it: children at birth. Children in the cradle. School children. Youths and maidens. Fresh adults. Older ones. Men and women of 40. Of 50. Of 60. Of 70. Of 80. Of 100. The command does not distribute its burden equally, and cannot. It is not hard upon the three sets of children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have been studying the traits and dispositions of the \"lower animals\" (so called) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result humiliating to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Love is not a product of reasonings and statistics. It just comes-none knows whence-and cannot explain itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To string incongruities and absurdities together in a wandering and sometimes purposeless way, and seem innocently unaware that they are absurdities, is the basis of the American art, if my position is correct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have no race prejudices, and I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being-that is enough for me; he can't be any worse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I always take Scotch whiskey at night as a preventive of toothache. I have never had the toothache; and what is more, I never intend to have it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The new political gospel: public office is private graft."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When I was younger I could remember anything, whether it happened or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Optimist: day dreamer more elegantly spelled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: [Patriotism] ...is a word which always commemorates a robbery. There isn't a foot of land in the world which doesn't represent the ousting and re-ousting of a longline of successive \"owners\" who each in turn, as \"patriots\" with proud swelling hearts defended it against the next gang of \"robbers\" who came to steal it and did -- and became swelling-hearted patriots in their turn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Men and women -- even man and wife are foreigners. Each has reserves that the other cannot enter into, nor understand. These have the effect of frontiers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There ought to be a room in every house to swear in. It's dangerous to have to repress an emotion like that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Do something everyday that you don't want to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It's spring fever. That is what the name of it is. And when you've got it, you want\u2014oh, you don't quite know what it is you do want, but it just fairly makes your heart ache, you want it so!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Familiarity breeds contempt - and children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is easier to stay out than get out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What is the difference between a taxidermist and a tax collector? The taxidermist takes only your skin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If it is a Miracle, any sort of evidence will answer, but if it is a Fact, proof is necessary"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A policeman in plain clothes is a man; in his uniform he is ten. Clothes and title are the most potent thing, the most formidable influence, in the earth. They move the human race to willing and spontaneous respect for the judge, the general, the admiral, the bishop, the ambassador, the frivolous earl, the idiot duke, the sultan, the king, the emperor. No great title is efficient without clothes to support it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are several good protections against temptation, but the surest is cowardice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There ain't no way to find out why a snorer can't hear himself snore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Marriage -- yes, it is the supreme felicity of life. I concede it. And it is also the supreme tragedy of life. The deeper the love the surer the tragedy. And the more disconsolating when it comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We are all beggars, each in his own way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Right is right, and wrong is wrong, and a body ain\u2019t got no business doing wrong when he ain\u2019t ignorant and knows better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The weakest of all weak things is a virtue that has not been tested in the fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Never do wrong when people are looking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I like the truth sometimes, but I don't care enough for it to hanker after it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency - and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be \"consistent,\" unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We are always more anxious to be distinguished for a talent which we do not possess, than to be praised for the fifteen which we do possess."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Never knew before what eternity was made for. It is to give some of us a chance to learn German."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Do not offer a compliment and ask a favor at the same time. A compliment that is charged for is not valuable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: This is a Christian country. Why, so is hell. Inasmuch as Strait is the way and narrow is the gate, and few - few - are they that enter in thereat has had the natural effect of making hell the only really prominent Christian community in any of the worlds; but we don't brag of this and certainly it is not proper to brag and boast that America is a Christian country when we all know that certainly five-sixths of our population could not enter in at the narrow gate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If Christians should vote their duty to God at the polls, they would carry every election, and do it with ease. They would elect every clean candidate in the United States, and defeat every soiled one. Their prodigious power would be quickly realized and recognized, and afterward there would be no unclean candidates upon any ticket, and graft would cease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Patriotism is usually the refuge of the scoundrel. He is the man who talks the loudest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The Church has opposed every innovation and discovery from the day of Galileo down to our own time, when the use of anesthetics in childbirth was regarded as a sin because it avoided the biblical curse pronounced against Eve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When in doubt, tell the truth. That maxim I did invent, but never expected it to be applied to me. I did say, \"When you are in doubt,\" but when I am in doubt myself I use more sagacity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is a worthy thing to fight for one's freedom; it is another sight finer to fight for another man's."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I smoke in moderation. Only one cigar at a time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To be, or not to be; that is the bare bodkin That makes calamity of so long life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Necessity is the mother of taking chances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The average man is what his environment and his superstitions have made him; and their function is to make him an ass. He can't add up three or four new circumstances together and perceive what they mean; it is beyond him. He is not capable of observing for himself; he has to get everything at second-hand. If what are miscalled the lower animals were as silly as man is, they would all perish from the earth in a year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Wagner\u2019s music is better than it sounds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Sometimes too much to drink is barely enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When I'm playful I use the meridians of longitude and parallels of latitude for a seine, and drag the Atlantic Ocean for whales. I scratch my head with the lightning and purr myself to sleep with the thunder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In my experience, previously counted chickens never do hatch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is sound judgment to put on a bold face and play your hand for a hundred times what it is worth; forty-nine times out of fifty nobody dares to call it, and you roll in the chips."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Figures often beguile me, particularly when I have the arranging of them myself; in which case the remark attributed to Disraeli would often apply with justice and force: \"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Carlyle said 'a lie cannot live.' It shows that he did not know how to tell them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to me that he is the Unreasoning Animal... In truth, man is incurably foolish. Simple things which the other animals easily learn, he is incapable of learning. Among my experiments was this. In an hour I taught a cat and a dog to be friends. I put them in a cage. In another hour I taught them to be friends with a rabbit. In the course of two days I was able to add a fox, a goose, a squirrel and some doves. Finally a monkey. They lived together in peace; even affectionately."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Names are not always what they seem. The common Welsh name Bzjxxllwcp is pronounced Jackson."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If you tell the truth you do not need a good memory!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its officeholders. The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing; it is the thing to watch over, and care for, and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous, they are its mere clothing, and clothing can wear out, become ragged, cease to be comfortable, cease to protect the body from winter, disease, and death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It usually takes me more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Principles have no real force except when one is well-fed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is probably no pleasure equal to the pleasure of climbing a dangerous Alp; but it is a pleasure which is confined strictly to people who can find pleasure in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have carried a revolver; lots of us do, but they are the most innocent things in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: ...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. We have two opinions: one private, which we are afraid to express; and another one - the one we use - which we force ourselves to wear to please Mrs. Grundy, until habit makes us comfortable in it, and the custom of defending it presently makes us love it, adore it, and forget how pitifully we came by it. Look at it in politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We have infinite trouble in solving man-made mysteries; it is only when we set out to discover \"the secret of God\" that our difficulties disappear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Every citizen of the republic ought to consider himself an unofficial policeman, and keep unsalaried watch and ward over the laws and their execution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have been scientifically studying the traits and dispositions of the \"lower animals\" (so-called,) and contrasting them with the traits and dispositions of man. I find the result profoundly humiliating to me. For it obliges me to renounce my allegiance to the Darwinian theory of the Ascent of Man from the Lower Animals; since it now seems plain to me that that theory ought to be vacated in favor of a new and truer one, this new and truer one to be named the Descent of Man from the Higher Animals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is not best that we should all think alike; it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In my schoolboy days I had no aversion to slavery. I was not aware there was anything wrong about it. No-one arraigned it in my hearing; the local papers said nothing against it; the local pulpit taught us that God approved it, that it was a holy thing, and that the doubter need only look in the Bible if he wished to settle his mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All Congresses and Parliaments have a kindly feeling for idiots, and a compassion for them, on account of personal experience and heredity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Wit is the sudden marriage of ideas which before their union were not perceived to have any relation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What God lacks is convictions- stability of character. He ought to be a Presbyterian or a Catholic or something- not try to be everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Genius, like gold and precious stones, \n is chiefly prized because of its rarity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Golf is a good walk spoiled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Architects cannot teach nature anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day, he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Seventy is old enough. After that there is too much risk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Martyrdom covers a multitude of sins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Indecency, vulgarity, obscenity - these are strictly confined to man; he invented them. Among the higher animals there is no trace of them. They hide nothing. They are not ashamed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Many public-school children seem to know only two dates\u20141492 and 4th of July; and as a rule they don't know what happened on either occasion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The pause - that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, howsoever felicitous, could accomplish it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There comes a time in every rightly constructed boy's life when he has a raging desire to go somewhere and dig for hidden treasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Drag your thoughts away from your troubles... by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I never can think of Judas Iscariot without losing my temper. To my mind Judas Iscariot was nothing but a low, mean, premature, Congressman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is a time when one\u2019s spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. It is a time when one is filled with vague longings; when one dreams of flight to peaceful islands in the remote solitudes of the sea, or folds his hands and says, What is the use of struggling, and toiling and worrying any more? let us give it all up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Definite speech means clarity of mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When even the brightest mind in our world has been trained up from childhood in a superstition of any kind, it will never be possible for that mind, in its maturity, to examine sincerely, dispassionately, and conscientiously any evidence or any circumstance which shall seem to cast a doubt upon the validity of that superstition. I doubt if I could do it myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It liberates the vandal to travel-you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I think we never become really and genuinely our entire and honest selves until we are dead--and not then until we have been dead years and years. People ought to start dead, and they would be honest so much earlier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We could use up two Eternities in learning all that is to be learned about our own world and the thousands of nations that have arisen and flourished and vanished from it. Mathematics alone would occupy me eight million years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Prohibition only drives drunkenness behind doors and into dark places, and does not cure it or even diminish it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: He wa'n't no common dog, he wa'n't no mongrel; he was a composite. A composite dog is a dog that is made up of all the valuable qualities that's in the dog breed-kind of a syndicate; and a mongrel is made up of all riffraff that's left over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is in life only one moment and in eternity only one. It is so brief that it is represented by the fleeting of a luminous mote through the thin ray of sunlight - and it is visible but a fraction of a second. The moments that preceded it have been lived, are forgotten and are without value; the moments that have not been lived have no existence and will have no value except in the moment that each shall be lived. While you are asleep you are dead; and whether you stay dead an hour or a billion years the time to you is the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to; but a hog is different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In God We Trust. I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There was no place in the land where the seeker could not find some small budding sign of pity for the slave. No place in all the land but one - the pulpit. It yielded last; it always does. It fought a strong and stubborn fight, and then did what it always does, joined the procession - at the tail end. Slavery fell. The slavery texts in the Bible remained; the practice changed; that was all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142. This is no time to be flitting about the earth. I must cease from the activities proper to youth and begin to take on the dignities and gravities and inertia proper to that season of honorable senility which is on its way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: My memory was never loaded with anything but blank cartridges."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: At noon I observed a bevy of nude young native women bathing in the sea, and I went and sat down on their clothes to keep them from being stolen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Virtue has never been as respectable as money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: And how moving is the eloquence of the untaught when it is the heart that is speaking!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Modesty antedates clothes and will be resumed when clothes are no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am only human, although I regret it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The offspring of riches: Pride, vanity, ostentation, arrogance, tyranny"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Men think they think upon the great political questions, and they do; but they think with their party, not independently; they read its literature, but not that of the other side"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are 869 different forms of lying, but only one of them has been squarely forbidden. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The idea that no gentleman ever swears is all wrong. He can swear and still be a gentleman if he does it in a nice and benevolent and affectionate way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It's lovely to live on a raft. We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made or only just happened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: An American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi-Gras in New Orleans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Don't explain your author, read him right and he explains himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Simplified spelling is all right, but, like chastity, you can carry it too far."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Work is a necessary evil to be avoided."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Strip the human race, absolutely naked, and it would be a real democracy. But the introduction of even a rag of tiger skin, or a cowtail, could make a badge of distinction and be the beginning of a monarchy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year, and I expect to go out with it. It will be the greatest disappointment of my life if I don't go out with Halley's Comet. The Almighty has said, no doubt: \"Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Some men worship rank, some worship heroes, some worship power, some worship God, and over these ideals they dispute-but they all worship money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: She was not quite what you would call refined. She was not quite what you would call unrefined. She was the kind of person that keeps a parrot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, politics or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies. Broadly speaking, there are none but corn-pone opinions.  And broadly speaking, Corn-Pone stands for Self-Approval.  Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people. The result is Conformity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless. Observe the ass, for instance: his character is about perfect, he is the choicest spirit among all the humbler animals, yet see what ridicule has brought him to. Instead of feeling complimented when we are called an ass, we are left in doubt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To be human is to have one's little modicum of romance secreted away in one's composition. One never ceases to make a hero of one's self, (in private,) during life, but only alters the style of heroism from time to time as the drifting years belittle certain gods of his admiration and raise up others in their stead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, &amp; those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied with drink."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A thing long expected takes the form of the unexpected when at last it comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Whatever you say, say it with conviction"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I know all those people. I have friendly, social, and criminal relations with the whole lot of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The face of the water, in time, became a wonderful book- a book that was a dead language to the uneducated passenger, but which told its mind to me without reserve, delivering its most cherished secrets as clearly as if it uttered them with a voice. And it was not a book to be read once and thrown aside, for it had a new story to tell every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Man is a Religious Animal. He is the only Religious Animal. He is the only animal that has the True Religion - several of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In America, we hurry-which is well; but when the day's work is done, we go on thinking of losses and gains, we plan for the morrow, we even carry our business cares to bed with us...we burn up our energies with these excitements, and either die early or drop into a lean and mean old age at a time of life which they call a man's prime in Europe...What a robust people, what a nation of thinkers we might be, if we would only lay ourselves on the shelf occasionally and renew our edges!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Solomon, who was one of the Deity's favorites, had a copulation cabinet composed of seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines. To save his life he could not have kept two of these young creatures satisfactorily refreshed, even if he had fifteen experts to help him. Necessarily almost the entire thousand had to go hungry for years and years on a stretch. Conceive of a man hardhearted enough to look daily upon all that suffering and not be moved to mitigate it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: He liked to like people, therefore people liked him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I don't know of a single foreign product that enters this country untaxed, except the answer to prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: His head was an hour-glass; it could stow an idea, but it had to do it a grain at a time, not the whole idea at once."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is a good thing to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and tangible benefit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: No real estate is permanently valuable but the grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more restful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: As soon as a man recognizes that he has drifted into age, he gets reminiscent. He wants to talk and talk; and not about the present or the future, but about his old times. For there is where the pathos of his life lies - and the charm of it. The pathos of it is there because it was opulent with treasures that are gone, and the charm of it is in casting them up from the musty ledgers and remembering how rich and gracious they were."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is human life. We are blown upon the world; we float buoyantly upon the summer air a little while, complacently showing off our grace of form and our dainty iridescent colors; then we vanish with a little puff, leaving nothing behind but a memory - and sometimes not even that. I suppose that at those solemn times when we wake in the deeps of the night and reflect, there is not one of us who is not willing to confess that he is really only a soap-bubble, and as little worth the making."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There has been much tragedy in my life; at least half of it actually happened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is, I dunno. If The Eiffel Tower were now to represent the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; and anybody would perceive that the skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would, I dunno."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If you are with the quality, or at a funeral, or trying to go to sleep when you ain't sleepy - if you are anywheres where it won't do for you to scratch, why you will itch all over in upwards of a thousand places."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I was born modest; not all over, but in spots."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Be virtuous and you will be eccentric."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A dozen direct censures are easier to bear than one morganatic compliment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All schools, all colleges, have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal, valuable knowledge. The theological knowledge which they conceal cannot justly be regarded as less valuable than that which they reveal. That is, when a man is buying a basket of strawberries it can profit him to know that the bottom half of it is rotten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world and it's efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read-"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Peace by persuasion has a pleasant sound, but I think we should not be able to work it. We should have to tame the human race first, and history seems to show that that cannot be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Eloquence is the essential thing in a speech, not information."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The art of prophecy is very difficult, especially with respect to the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We can secure other people's approval, if we do right and try hard; but our own is worth a hundred of it, and no way has been found out of securing that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I thought tamarinds were made to eat, but that was probably not the idea. I ate several, and it seemed to me that they were rather sour that year. They pursed up my lips, till they resembled the stem-end of a tomato, and I had to take my sustenance through a quill for twenty-four hours. They sharpened my teeth till I could have shaved with them, and gave them a 'wire edge' that I was afraid would stay; but a citizen said 'no, it will come off when the enamel does' - which was comforting, at any rate. I found, afterward, that only strangers eat tamarinds - but they only eat them once."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What ought to be done to the man who invented the celebrating of anniversaries? Mere killing would be too light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: As an example to others, and not that I care for moderation myself, it has always been my rule never to smoke when asleep, and never to refrain from smoking when awake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: An occasional compliment is necessary to keep up one's self-respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: But death was sweet, death was gentle, death was kind; death healed the bruised spirit and the broken heart, and gave them rest and forgetfulness; death was man\u2019s best friend; when man could endure life no longer, death came and set him free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A crime persevered in a thousand centuries ceases to be a crime, and becomes a virtue. This is the law of custom, and custom supersedes all other forms of law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It's an epitome of life. The first half of it consists of the capacity to enjoy without the chance; the last half consists of the chance without the capacity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Books are the liberated spirits of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Will a day come when the race will detect the funniness of these juvenilities and laugh at them\u2014and by laughing at them destroy them? For your race, in its poverty, has unquestionably one really effective weapon\u2014laughter. Power, Money, Persuasion, Supplication, Persecution--these can lift at a colossal humbug,\u2014push it a little\u2014 crowd it a little\u2014weaken it a little, century by century: but only Laughter can blow it to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of Laughter nothing can stand. - \"The Chronicle of Young Satan,\" Mysterious Stranger Manuscripts"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If we only had some God in the country's laws, instead of being in such a sweat to get him into the Constitution, it would be better all around."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am not the editor of a newspaper and shall always try to do right and be good so that God will not make me one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A home without a cat \u2014 and a well-fed, well-petted and properly revered cat \u2014 may be a perfect home, perhaps, but how can it prove title?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To eat is human, to digest, divine"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong, but no matter, the crowd follows it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: ... the English alphabet is pure insanity..., It can hardly spell any word in the language with any degree of certainty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I don't believe there is anything in the whole earth that you can't learn in Berlin except the German language."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is no such thing as material covetousness. All covetousness is spiritual. ...Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Concerning the difference between man and the jackass: some observers hold that there isn't any. But this wrongs the jackass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Plain question and plain answer make the shortest road out of most perplexities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You may say organize, organize, organize; but there may be so much organization that it will interfere with the work to be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The higher animals get their teeth without pain or inconvenience. Man gets his through months and months of cruel torture; he will never get a set which can really be depended on 'till a dentist makes him one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We had the sky up there, all speckled with stars, and we used to lay on our backs and look up at them, and discuss about whether they was made, or only just happened - Jim he allowed they was made, but I allowed they happened; I judged it would have took too long to make so many. Jim said the moon could a laid them; well that looked kind of reasonable, so I didn't say nothing against it, because I've seen a frog lay most as many, so of course It could be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are only two forces that can carry light to all the corners of the globe... the sun in the heavens and the Associated Press down here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the truth, partial revealments of the truth, with hardly an instance of plain straight truth, the remorseless truth is there, between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell... the result being that the reader knows the author in spite of his wily diligences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You try to tell me anything about the newspaper business! Sir, I have been through it from Alpha to Omaha, and I tell you that the less a man knows the bigger the noise he makes and the higher the salary he commands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Ah, that shows you the power of music, that magician of magician, who lifts his wand and says his mysterious word and all things real pass away and the phantoms of your mind walk before you clothed in flesh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give you an opportunity to commit more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The Church worked hard at it night and day during nine centuries and imprisoned, tortured, hanged, and burned whole hordes and armies of witches, and washed the Christian world clean with their foul blood. Then it was discovered that there was no such thing as witches, and never had been. One doesn't know whether to laugh or to cry. Who discovered that there was no such thing as a witch - the priest, the parson? No, these never discover anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have never seen what to me seemed an atom of proof that there is a future life. And yet-I am inclined to expect one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Start it at no particular time of your life; wander at your free will all over your life; talk only about the thing which interests you for the moment; drop it the moment its interest threatens to pale."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Rise early. It is the early bird that catches the worm. Don't be fooled by this absurd law; I once knew a man who tried it. He got up at sunrise and a horse bit him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditchdigging. It is the insanest of all recreations. The inventor of it overlooked no detail that could furnish weariness, distress, harassment, and acute and long-sustained misery of mind and body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Love is madness, if thwarted it develops fast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Intellectual food is like any other; it is pleasanter and more beneficial to take it with a spoon than a shovel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The pitifulest thing out is a mob; that's what an army is--a mob; they don't fight with courage that's born in them, but with courage that's borrowed from their mass, and from their officers. But a mob without any MAN at the head of it is BENEATH pitifulness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When the human race has once acquired a superstition, nothing short of death is ever likely to remove it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: April 1. This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three hundred and sixty-four."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I was gratified to be able to answer promptly, and I did. I said I didn't know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We were good boys, good Presbyterian boys, and loyal and all that; anyway, we were good Presbyterian boys when the weather was doubtful; when it was fair, we did wander a little from the fold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are three infallible ways of pleasing an author, and the three form a rising scale of compliment: 1, to tell him you have read one of his books; 2, to tell him you have read all of his books; 3, to ask him to let you read the manuscript of his forthcoming book. No. 1 admits you to his respect; No. 2 admits you to his admiration; No. 3 carries you clear into his heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Herschel removed the speckled tent-roof from the world and exposed the immeasurable deeps of space, dim-flecked with fleets of colossal suns sailing their billion-leagued remoteness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Self-approval is acquired mainly from the approval of other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It{California} is the land where the fabled Aladdin's Lamp lies buried-and she {San Francisco} is the new Aladdin who shall seize it from its obscurity and summon the genie and command him to crown her with power and greatness and bring to her feet the hoarded treasures of the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It takes me a long time to lose my temper, but once lost I could not find it with a dog."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Lord save us all from a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I suppose, just as an honest man in politics shines more than he would elsewhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Of course, no man is entirely in his right mind at any time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: After a few months' acquaintance with European 'coffee' one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the rich beverage of home, with it's clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I was sorry to have my name mentioned as one of the great authors, because they have a sad habit of dying off. Chaucer is dead, Spencer is dead, so is Milton, so is Shakespeare, and I\u2019m not feeling so well myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It will take mind and memory months and possibly years to gather together the details, and thus learn and know the whole extent of the loss."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A man accustomed to American food and American domestic cookery would not starve to death suddenly in Europe, but I think he would gradually waste away, and eventually die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is not worth while to try to keep history from repeating itself, for man's character will always make the preventing of the repetitions impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In the laboratory there are no fustian ranks, no brummagem aristocracies; the domain of Science is a republic, and all its citizens are brothers and equals, its princes of Monaco and its stonemasons of Cromarty meeting, barren of man-made gauds and meretricious decorations, upon the one majestic level!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We don't cut up when mad men are bred by the old legitimate regular stock religions, but we can't allow wildcat religions to indulge in such disastrous experiments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: New Year's is a harmless annual  institution, of no particular use to  anybody save as a scapegoat for  promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls  and humbug resolutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are no accidents, all things have a deep and calculated purpose; sometimes the methods employed by Providence seem strange and incongruous, but we have only to be patient and wait for the result: then we recognize that no others would have answered the purpose, and we are rebuked and humbled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The spirit of Christianity proclaims the brotherhood of the race and the meaning of that strong word has not been left to guesswork, but made tremendously definite - the Christian must forgive his brother man all crimes he can imagine and commit, and all insults he can conceive and utter - forgive these injuries how many times? - seventy times seven - another way of saying there shall be no limit to this forgiveness. That is the spirit and the law of Christianity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Never tell a lie-except for practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Epitaphs are cheap, and they do a poor chap a world of good after he is dead, especially if he had hard luck while he was alive. I wish they were used more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Let us be grateful to Adam: he cut us out of the blessing of idleness and won for us the curse of labor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Sufficient unto the day is one baby. As long as you are in your right mind don't you ever pray for twins. Twins amount to a permanent riot; and there ain't any real difference between triplets and a insurrection. - The Babies speech 1879"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is yet another Civilized Power, with its banner of the Prince of Peace in one hand and its loot-basket and its butcher-knife in the other. Is there no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level?."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there is a misunderstanding about a boundary line or a hamper of fish or some other squalid matter, see patriotism rise, and hear him split the universe with is war-whoop. The spirit of patriotism being in its nature jealous and selfish, is just in man's line, it comes natural to him - he can live up to all its requirements to the letter; but the spirit of Christianity is not in its entirety possible to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: [I] shall never use profanity except in discussing house rent and taxes. Indeed, upon second thought, I will not use it then, for it is unchristian, inelegant, and degrading--though to speak truly I do not see how house rent and taxes are going to be discussed worth a cent without it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have a religion-but you will call it blasphemy. It is that there is a God for the rich man but none for the poor.....Perhaps your religion will sustain you,will feed you-I place no dependence in mine. Our religions are alike, though, in one respect-neither can make a man happy when he is out of luck."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Are you so unobservant as not to have found out that sanity and happiness are an impossible combination?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have achieved my seventy years in the usual way: by sticking strictly to a scheme of life which would kill anybody else... I will offer here, as a sound maxim, this: That we can't reach old age by another man's road."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Our Bible reveals to us the character of our god with minute and remorseless exactness... It is perhaps the most damnatory biography that exists in print anywhere. It makes Nero an angel of light and leading by contrast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Broad, wholesome, charitable views .. can not be acquired by vegetating in one's little corner of the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A jackass has that kind of strength, and puts it to a useful purpose, and is valuable to the world because he is a jackass; but anobleman is not valuable because he is a jackass. It is a mixture that is always ineffectual, and should never have been attempted in the first place. And yet, once you start a mistake, the trouble is done and you never know what is going to come of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The primary rule of business success is loyalty to your employer. That's all right as a theory. What is the matter with loyalty to yourself?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What a world of trouble those who never marry escape! There are many happy matches, it is true, and sometimes \"my dear,\" and \"my love\" come from the heart; but what sensible bachelor, rejoicing in his freedom and years of discretion, will run the tremendous risk?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The low level which commercial morality has reached in America is deplorable. We have humble God fearing Christian men among us who will stoop to do things for a million dollars that they ought not to be willing to do for less than 2 millions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Man is the only animal that deals in that atorcity of atrocities, War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The soul and substance of what customarily ranks as patriotism is moral cowardice -- and always has been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: He was endowed with a stupidity which by the least little stretch would go around the globe four times and tie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is at our mother's knee that we acquire our noblest and truest and highest ideals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars - all over Europe, all over the world. \"Sometimes in the private interest of royal families,\" Satan said, \"sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose - there is no such war in the history of the race.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is your human environment that makes climate"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Write without pay until somebody offers to pay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: That's the difference between governments and individuals. Governments don't care, individuals do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: One must travel, to learn. Every day, now, old Scriptural phrases that never possessed any significance for me before, take to themselves a meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We are all alike, on the inside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You can't pray a lie -- I found that out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: An author values a compliment even when it comes from a source of doubtful competency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have witnessed and greatly enjoyed the first act of everything which Wagner created, but the effect on me has always been so powerful that one act was quite sufficient; whenever I have witnessed two acts I have gone away physically exhausted; and whenever I have ventured an entire opera the result has been the next thing to suicide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself envied."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The blunting effects of slavery upon the slaveholder's moral perceptions are known and conceded the world over; and a priveleged class, an aristocracy, is but a band of slaveholders under another name."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It takes some little time to accept and realize the fact that while you have been growing old, your friends have not been standing still, in that matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All generalizations are false, including this one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You take the lies out of him, and he'll shrink to the size of your hat; you take the malice out of him, and he'll disappear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have never taken any exercise, except sleeping and resting, and I never intend to take any. Exercise is loathsome. And it cannot be any benefit when you are tired; and I was always tired."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Put no trust in the benefits to accrue from early rising, as set forth by the infatuated Franklin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If I had been helping the Almighty when he created man, I would have had him begin at the other end, and start human beings with old age. How much better to start old and have all the bitterness and blindness of age in the beginning!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Some civilized women would lose half their charm without dress and some would lose all of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Forget and forgive. This is not difficult when properly understood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It has been said that a Scotchman has not seen the world until he has seen Edinburgh; and I think that I may say that an American has not seen the United States until he has seen Mardi Gras in New Orleans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In all the ages, three-fourths of the support of the great charities has been conscience money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: He is now rising from affluence to poverty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I pledged myself to smoke but one cigar a day. I kept the cigar waiting until bedtime, then I had a luxurious time with it. But desire persecuted me every day and all day long. I found myself hunting for larger cigars...within the month my cigar had grown to such proportions I could have used it as a crutch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In literature imitations do not imitate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Monarchies, aristocracies, and religions are all based upon that large defect in your race - the individual's distrust of his neighbor, and his desire, for safety's or comfort's sake, to stand well in his neighbor's eye. These institutions will always remain, and always flourish, and always oppress you, affront you, and degrade you, because you will always be and remain slaves of minorities. There was never a country where the majority of the people were in their secret hearts loyal to any of these institutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is no humor in heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, one when he was a boy and one when he was a man"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: ...heaven for climate, and hell for society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I wish Europe would let Russia annihilate Turkey a little--not much, but enough to make it difficult to find the place again without a divining-rod or a diving-bell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather... In the spring I have counted one hundred and twenty-six different kinds of weather inside of four and twenty hours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: One of the most striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The frankest and freest and privatest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When the time comes that a man has had his dinner, then the true man comes to the surface"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Experience is an author's most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When you want genuine music -- music that will come right home to you like a bad quarter, suffuse your system like strychnine whisky, go right through you like Brandreth's pills, ramify your whole constitution like the measles, and break out on your hide like the pin-feather pimples on a picked goose, -- when you want all this, just smash your piano, and invoke the glory-beaming banjo!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It was the schoolboy who said, \"\"Faith is believing what you know ain't so.\"\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A baby is an inestimable blessing and bother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All my life I have been honest-comparatively honest. I could never use money I had not made honestly-I could only lend it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: But I reckon I got to light out for the Territory ahead of therest, because Aunt Sally she's going to adopt me and sivilize me, and I can't stand it. I been there before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is higher and nobler to be kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: But it is a blessed provision of nature that at times like these, as soon as a man's mercury has got down to a certain point there comes a revulsion, and he rallies. Hope springs up, and cheerfulness along with it, and then he is in good shape to do something for himself, if anything can be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is human to exaggerate the merits of the dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Intellectual ''work'' is misnamed; it is a pleasure, a dissipation, and is its own highest reward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I think I can say, and say with pride, that we have some legislatures that bring higher prices than any in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Eight grown Americans out of ten dread the coming of the Fourth, with its pandemonium and its perils, and they rejoice when it is gone-if still alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When a humorist ventures upon the grave concerns of life he must do his job better than another man or he works harm to his cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone, you may still exist, but you have ceased to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Any emotion, if it is sincere, is involuntary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When red-headed people are above a certain social grade their hair is auburn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Barring that natural expression of villainy which we all have, the man looked honest enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If we should deal out justice only, in this world, who would escape?  No, it is better to be generous, and in the end more profitable, for it gains gratitude for us, and love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is often the case that a man who can't tell a lie thinks he is the best judge of one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A photograph is a most important document, and there is nothing more damning to go down to posterity than a silly, foolish smile caught and fixed forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is easy to find fault, if one has that disposition. There was once a man who, not being able to find any other fault with his coal, complained that there were too many prehistoric toads in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Hunger is the handmaid of genius"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools always speak the truth. The deduction is plain: adults and wise persons never speak it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You can't throw too much style into a miracle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: He had the calm confidence of a Christian with four aces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is not a single celebrated Southern name in any of the departments of human industry except those of war, assassination, lynching, murder, the duel, repudiation, & massacre."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Geological time is not money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It was not that Adam ate the apple for the apple's sake, but because it was forbidden. It would have been better for us-oh infinitely better for us-if the serpent had been forbidden"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: [The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The gods offer no rewards for intellect. There was never one yet that showed any interest in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: in order to make a man or boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It takes a heap of sense to write good nonsense"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians. Now, to go and stick one at the very head of the government couldn't be wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The way it is now, the asylums can hold the sane people, but if we tried to shut up the insane we should run out of building materials."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Prosperity is the surest breeder of insolence I know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It has always been a peculiarity of the human race that it keeps two sets of morals in stock-the private and the real, and the public and the artificial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The insincerity of man-all men are liars, partial or hiders of facts, half tellers of truths, shirks, moral sneaks. When a merely honest man appears he is a comet-his fame is eternal-needs no genius, no talent-mere honesty"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Unexpected money is a delight. The same sum is a bitterness when you expected more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We write frankly and freely, but then we modify before we print."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I cannot keep from talking, even at the risk of being instructive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I said there was nothing so convincing to an Indian as a general massacre. If he could not approve of the massacre, I said the next surest thing for an Indian was soap and education. Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run; because a half-massacred Indian may recover, but if you educate him and wash him, it is bound to finish him some time or other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over their dignity; that focuses their vision true--humor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Guides cannot master the subtleties of the American joke."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In other localities certain places in the streams are much better than others, but at Niagara one place is just as good as another, for the reason that the fish do not bite anywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Tell the truth or trump-but get the trick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The average American's simplest and commonest form of breakfast consists of coffee and beefsteak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have always been rather better treated in San Francisco than I actually deserved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is nothing more awe-inspiring than a miracle except the credulity that can take it at par."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What are the proper proportions of a maxim? A minimum of sound to a maximum of sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Duties are not performed for duty's sake, but because their neglect would make the man uncomfortable. A man performs but one duty - the duty of contenting his spirit, the duty of making himself agreeable to himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: My sister...was an interested and zealous invalid during sixty-five years, tried all the new diseases as fast as they came out, and always enjoyed the newest one more than any that went before; my brother had accumulated forty-two brands of Christianity before he was called away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: None but the dead have free speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Whose property is my body? Probably mine. I so regard it. If I experiment with it, who must be answerable? I, not the State. If I choose injudiciously, does the state die? Oh, no."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The choir always tittered and whispered all through the service. There was once a church choir that was not ill-bred, but I have forgotten where it was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Truth is mighty and will prevail. There is nothing wrong with this, except that it ain't so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The Public is merely a multiplied 'me.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am not given to exaggeration, and when I say a thing I mean it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Go to bed early, get up early-this is wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: But it warn't no time to be sentimentering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Man can seldom - very, very, seldom - fight a winning fight against his training; the odds are too heavy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Doesn't make any difference who we are or what we are, there's always somebody to look down on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: [N]o country can be well governed unless its citizens as a body keep religiously before their minds that they are the guardians of the law and that the law officers are only the machinery for its execution, nothing more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Make your mark in New York and you are a made man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What a man wants with religion in these breadless times, surpasses my comprehension."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To us, our house was not unsentient matter -- it had a heart, and a soul, and eyes to see us with; and approvals and solicitudes and deep sympathies; it was of us, and we were in its confidence, and lived in its grace and in the peace of its benediction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Men are easily dealt with--but when you get the women started, you are in for it, you know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am an anti-imperialist. I am opposed to having the eagle put its talons on any other land."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Citizenship is what makes a republic - monarchies can get along without it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When you catch an adjective, kill it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We recognize that there are no trivial occurrences in life if we get the right focus on them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have been born more times than anybody except Krishna."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: That is just the way with some people. They get down on a thing when they don\u2019t know nothing about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Yesterday, everybody smoked his last cigar, took his last drink and swore his last oath. Today, we are a pious and exemplary community. Thirty days from now, we shall have cast our reformation to the winds and gone to cutting our ancient shortcomings considerably shorter than ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: My philological studies have satisfied me that a gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years. It seems manifest, then, that the latter tongue ought to be trimmed down and repaired. If it is to remain as it is, it ought to be gently and reverently set aside among the dead languages, for only the dead have time to learn it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A cat is more intelligent than people believe, and can be taught any crime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: But the elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Where prejudice exists it always discolors our thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is no harm to be an ass, if one is content to bray and not kick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If a spectacle is going to be particularly imposing I prefer to see it through somebody else's eyes, because that man will always exaggerate. Then I can exaggerate his exaggeration, and my account of the thing will be the most impressive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: As to the adjective: when in doubt, strike it out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Homely truth is unpalatable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What's the use you learning to do right , when it's troublesome to do right and it ain't no trouble to do wrong, and the wages is just the same?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: How lovely is death; and how niggardly it is doled out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I was educated, I was trained, I was a Presbyterian and I knew how these things are done. I knew that in Biblical times if a man committed a sin the extermination of the whole surrounding nation-cattle and all-was likely to happen. I knew that Providence was not particular about the rest, so that He got somebody connected with the one He was after."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Age enlarges and enriches the powers of some musical instruments - notably those of the violin - but it seems to set a piano's teeth on edge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: At 50, a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In America-as elsewhere-free speech is confined to the dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The sole impulse which dictates and compels a man's every act: the imperious necessity of securing his own approval, in every emergency and at all costs.... It is our only spur, our whip, our goad, our impelling power; we have no other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is easy to see that the inventor of the heaven did not originate the idea, but copied it from the show-ceremonies of some sorry little sovereign State up in the back settlements of the Orient somewhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I wish I could make him understand that a loving good heart is riches enough, and that without it intellect is poverty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: whenever the literary german dives into a sentence, this is the last you are going to see of him till he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are most economical in its use."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Laughter without a tinge of philosophy is but a sneeze of humor. Genuine humor is replete with wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: My mother had a slender, small body, but a large heart-a heart so large that everybody's joys found welcome in it, and hospitable accommodation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Optimist: Person who travels on nothing from nowhere to happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The report of my death was an exaggeration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The critic's symbol should be the tumble-bug: he deposits his egg in somebody else's dung, otherwise he could not hatch it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Civilizations proceed from the heart rather than from the head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It takes a thousand men to invent a telegraph, or a steam engine, or a phonograph, or a photograph, or a telephone or any other important thing-and the last man gets the credit and we forget the others. He added his little mite - that is all he did. These object lessons should teach us that ninety-nine parts of all things that proceed from the intellect are plagiarisms, pure and simple; and the lesson ought to make us modest. But nothing can do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I don't see any use in having a uniform and arbitrary way of spelling words. We might as well make all clothes alike and cook all dishes alike. Sameness is tiresome; variety is pleasing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking. And out of it we get an aggregation which we consider a boon. Its name is public opinion. It is held in reverence. Some think it the voice of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Preachers are always pleasant company when they are off duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All schools, all colleges have two great functions: to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Who would find out that I am a natural fool if I kept always cool and never let nature come to the surface? Nobody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What a man misses mostly in heaven is company."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is not worth while to strain one's self to tell the truth to people who habitually discount everything you tell them, whether it is true or isn't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Sometimes people do get hurt"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The self taught man seldom knows anything accurately, and he does not know a tenth as much as he could have known if he had worked under teachers, and besides, he brags, and is the means of fooling other thoughtless people into going and doing as he himself has done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The humorist who invented trial by jury played a colossal practical joke upon the world, but since we have the system we ought to try and respect it. A thing which is not thoroughly easy to do, when we reflect that by command of the law a criminal juror must be an intellectual vacuum, attached to a melting heart and perfectly macaronian bowels of compassion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Now what I contend is that my body is my own, at least I have always so regarded it. If I do harm through my experimenting with it, it is I who suffer, not the state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Religion consists in a set of things which the average man thinks he believes and wishes he was certain of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A dream...I was trying to explain to St. Peter, and was doing it in the German tongue, because I didn't want to be too explicit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Conservatism is the blind and fear-filled worship of dead radicals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are some books that refuse to be written. They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. It isn't because the book is not there and worth being written -- it is only because the right form of the story does not present itself. There is only one right form for a story and if you fail to find that form the story will not tell itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A discriminating irreverence is the creator and protector of human liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have not professionally dealt in truth. Many when they come to die have spent all the truth that was in them, and enter the next world as paupers. I have saved up enough to make an astonishment there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It used to be a good hotel, but that proves nothing - I used to be a good boy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It was a splendid population - for all the slow, sleepy, sluggish-brained sloths stayed at home - you never find that sort of people among pioneers - you cannot build pioneers out of that sort of material. It was that population that gave to California a name for getting up astounding enterprises and rushing them through with a magnificent dash and daring and a recklessness of cost or consequences, which she bears unto this day - and when she projects a new surprise the grave world smiles as usual and says, \"Well, that is California all over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A sin takes on a new and real terror when there seems a chance that it is going to be found out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The wise thing is for us diligently to train ourselves to lie thoughtfully, judiciously; to lie with a good object, and not an evil one; to lie for others' advantage, and not our own; to lie healingly, charitably, humanely, not cruelly, hurtfully, maliciously; to lie gracefully and graciously, not awkwardly and clumsily; to lie firmly, frankly, squarely, with head erect, not haltingly, tortuously, with pusillanimous mien, as being ashamed of our high calling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is hopeless for the occasional visitor to try to keep up with Chicago-she outgrows his prophecies faster than he can make them. She is always a novelty; for she is never the Chicago you saw when you passed through the last time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: One is apt to overestimate beauty when it is rare"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The house was as empty as a beer closet in premises where painters have been at work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first things the little boys and girls learn is to be righteous and holy and not piss against the wall. They study those passages more than they study any others, except those which incite to masturbation. Those they hunt out and study in private."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I played Chess with him and would have beaten him sometimes only he always took back his last move, and ran the game out differently"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In Boston they ask, how much does he know? In New York, how much is he worth? In Philadelphia, who were his parents?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Well, Ben Rogers, if I was as ignorant as you I wouldn't let on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Familiarity breeds contempt. How accurate that is. The reason we hold truth in such respect is because we have so little opportunity to get familiar with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The devil's aversion to holy water is a light matter compared with a despots dread of a newspaper that laughs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else -- these are things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The exquisitely bad is as satisfying to the soul as the exquisitely good. Only the mediocre is unendurable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Humor is the great thing, the saving thing after all. The minute it crops up, all our hardnesses yield, all our irritations, and resentments flit away, and a sunny spirit takes their place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am personally acquainted with hundreds of journalists, and the opinion of the majority of them would not be worth tuppence in private, but when they speak in print it is the newspaper that is talking (the pygmy scribe is not visible) and then their utterances shake the community like the thunders of prophecy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Nothing helps scenery like bacon and eggs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have been cautioned to talk but be careful not to say anything. I do not consider this a difficult task."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What is the real function, the essential function, the supreme function, of language? Isn't it merely to convey ideas and emotions? Certainly. Then if we can do it with words of fonetic brevity and compactness, why keep the present cumbersome forms?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I cannot see how a man of any large degree of humorous perception can ever be religious -- unless he purposely shut the eyes of his mind &amp; keep them shut by force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Custom is petrification, nothing but dynamite can dislodge it for a century."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Often the surest way to convey misinformation is to tell the strict truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is better to take what does not belong to you than to let it lie around neglected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Tom appeared on the sidewalk with a bucket of whitewash and a long-handled brush. He surveyed the fence, and all gladness left him and a deep melancholy settled down upon his spirit. Thirty yards of board fence nine feet high. Life to him seemed hollow, and existence but a burden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have done more for San Francisco than any of its old residents. Since I left there it has increased in population fully 300,000. I could have done more - I could have gone earlier - it was suggested."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When a person is accustomed to one hundred and thirty-eight in the shade, his ideas about cold weather are not valuable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: God's noblest work. Man who found it out? Man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I said there was but one solitary thing about the past worth remembering, and that was the fact that it is past-can't be restored."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are some natures which never grow large enough to speak out and say a bad act is a bad act, until they have inquired into the politics or the nationality of the man who did it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are no standards of taste in wine... Each man's own taste is the standard, and a majority vote cannot decide for him or in any slightest degree affect the supremacy of his own standard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It used to take me all vacation to grow a new hide in place of the one they flogged off me during school term."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When your watch gets out of order you have choice of two things to do: throw it in the fire or take it to the watch-tinker. The former is the quickest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Sometimes you gwyne to git hurt, en sometimes you gwyne to git sick; but every time you's gwyne to git well agin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Comedy keeps the heart sweet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We must put up with clothes as they are they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us to advertise what we wear them to conceal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A street in Constantinople is a picture which one ought to see once-not oftener."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Names are not always what they seem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If you had made the acquiring of ignorance the study of your life, you could not have graduated with higher honor than you could to-day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. Play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: An injurious truth has no merit over an injurious lie. Neither should ever be uttered. The man who speaks an injurious truth, lest his soul be not saved if he do otherwise, should reflect that that sort of a soul is not strictly worth saving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What a man sees in the human race is merely himself in the deep and honest privacy of his own heart. Byron despised the race because he despised himself. I feel as Byron did, and for the same reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: ....honest men are few when it comes to themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying that such a laugh was money in a man's pocket, because it cut down the doctor's bills like everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A man has no business to be depressed by a disappointment, anyway; he ought to make up his mind to get even."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is no character, howsoever good and fine, but it can be destroyed by ridicule, howsoever poor and witless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In statesmanship get formalities right, never mind about the moralities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Scientists have odious manners, except when you prop up their theory; then you can borrow money off them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Man seems to be a rickety poor sort of thing, any way you take him; a kind of British Museum of infirmities and inferiorities. He is always undergoing repairs. A machine that was as unreliable as he is would have no market."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Every man is in his own person the whole human race without a detail lacking....I knew I should not find in any philosophy a single thought which had not passed through my own head, nor a single thought which had not passed through the heads of millions and millions of men before I was born."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: That optimist of yours is always ready to turn hell's backyard into a play-ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: ...fry me an optimist for breakfast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Yes, always avoid violence. In this age of charity and kindliness, the time has gone by for such things. Leave dynamite to the low and unrefined."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Nature makes the locust with an appetite for crops; man would have made him with an appetite for sand"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The calamity that comes is never the one we had prepared ourselves for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Optimist: day-dreamer in his small clothes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Morals consist of political morals, commercial morals, ecclesiastical morals, and morals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I do not want Michael Angelo for breakfast-but for luncheon-for dinner- for tea-for supper-for between meals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: France has usually been governed by prostitutes"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It may have happened, it may not have happened but it could have happened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two million dollars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The old saw says - 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Experience knows better; experience says, If you want to convince do it yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: No man, deep down in the privacy of his heart, has any considerable respect for himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The proverb says, \"Born lucky, always lucky,\" and I am very superstitious. As a small boy I was notoriously lucky. It was usual for one or two of our lads (per annum) to get drowned in the Mississippi or in Bear Creek, but I was pulled out in a 2/3 drowned condition 9 times before I learned to swim, and was considered to be a cat in disguise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It may be called the Master Passion, the hunger for self-approval."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: One must keep one's character. Earn a character first if you can, and if you can't, then assume one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I wonder how much it would take to buy a soap bubble, if there were only one in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A railroad is like a lie you have to keep building it to make it stand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: He has been a doctor a year now and has had two patients - no, three, I think - yes, it was three; I attended their funerals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Wine is a clog to the pen, not an inspiration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have damaged my intellect trying to imagine why a man should want to invent a repeating clock, and how another man could be found to lust after it and buy it. The man who can guess these riddles is far on the way to guess why the human race was invented - which is another riddle which tires me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Demagogue--a vessel containing beer and other liquids."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The old saw says, 'Let a sleeping dog lie.' Right. Still, when there is much at stake it is better to get a newspaper to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is no use to keep private information which you can't show off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Experience of life (not of books) is the only capital usable in such a book as you have attempted; one can make no judicious use of this capital while it is new."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A man can be a Christian or a patriot, but he can't legally be a Christian and a patriot - except in the usual way: one of the two with the mouth, the other with the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Pity is for the living, envy is for the dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: War talk by men who have been in a war is always interesting; whereas moon talk by a poet who has not been in the moon is likely to be dull."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is agreed, in this country, that if a man can arrange his religion so that it perfectly satisfies his conscience, it is not incumbent on him to care whether the arrangement is satisfactory to anyone else or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: France has neither winter nor summer nor morals. Apart from these drawbacks it is a fine country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I think a compliment ought always to precede a complaint, where one is possible, because it softens resentment and insures for the complaint a courteous and gentle reception."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Let your secret sympathies and your compassion be always with the under dog in the fight -- this is magnanimity; but bet on the other one -- this is business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Pessimist: The optimist who didn't arrive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: No one can write perfect English and keep it up through a stretch of ten chapters. It has never been done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You want to be very careful about lying; otherwise you are nearly sure to get caught."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have tried getting up early, and I have tried getting up late-and the latter agrees with me best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All scenery in California requires distance to give it its highest charm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To create man was a quaint and original idea, but to add the sheep was tautology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Not a single right is indestructible: a new might can at any time abolish it, hence, man possesses not a single permanent right. God is Might (and He is shifty, malicious, and uncertain)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Whenever the human race assembles to a number exceeding four, it cannot stand free speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What's your name?\" \"Becky Thatcher. What's yours? Oh, I know. It's Thomas Sawyer.\" \"That's the name they lick me by. I'm Tom when I'm good. You call me Tom, will you?\" \"Yes"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To be busy is man's only happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The Creator made Italy from designs by Michelangelo."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says - \"Yes; the little ones does\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Morals are not the important thing-nor enlightenment-nor civilization. A man can do absolutely well without them, but he can't do without something to eat. The supremest thing is the need of the body, not of the mind and spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I don't know anything about this man. Anyhow, I only know two things about him. One is, he has never been in jail, and the other is, I don't know why."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The dreamer's valuation of a thing lost - not another man's - is the only standard to measure it by, and his grief for it makes it large and great and fine, and is worthy of our reverence in all cases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Remember this, take this to heart, live by it, die for it if necessary: that our patriotism is medieval, outworn, obsolete; that the modern patriotism, the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am the entire human race compacted together. I have found that there is no ingredient of the race which I do not possess in either a small way or a large way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I couldn't bear to think about it; and yet, somehow, I couldn't think about nothing else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To say a compliment well is a high art and few possess it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The funniest things are the forbidden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What, then, is the true Gospel of consistency? Change. Who is the really consistent man? The man who changes. Since change is the law of his being, he cannot be consistent if he stick in a rut."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: That is the way we are made: we don't reason, where we feel; we just feel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I know the look of an apple that is roasting and sizzling on the hearth on a winter's evening, and I know the comfort that comes of eating it hot, along with some sugar and a drench of cream... I know how the nuts taken in conjunction with winter apples, cider, and doughnuts, make old people's tales and old jokes sound fresh and crisp and enchanting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Public opinion is held in reverence.  It settles everything.  Some think it is the voice of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If the statistics are right, the Jews constitute but one percent of the human race. It suggests a nebulous dim puff of star dust lost in the blaze of the Milky Way. Properly the Jew ought hardly to be heard of, but he is heard of, has always been heard of. He is as prominent on the planet as any other people, and his commercial importance is extravagantly out of proportion to the smallness of his bulk. His contributions to the world's list of great names in literature, science, art, music, finance, medicine, and abstruse learning are also away out of proportion to the weakness of his numbers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Children and fools always speak the truth"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: So you see, the quality of humor is not a personal or a national monopoly. It's as free as salvation, and, I am afraid, far more widely distributed. But it has its value, I think. The hard and sordid things of life are too hard and too sordid and too cruel for us to know and touch them year after year without some mitigating influence, some kindly veil to draw over them, from time to time, to blur the craggy outlines, and make the thorns less sharp and the cruelties less malignant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What is it that strikes a spark of humor from a man? It is the effort to throw off, to fight back the burden of grief that is laid on each one of us. In youth we don't feel it, but as we grow to manhood we find the burden on our shoulders. Humor? It is nature's effort to harmonize conditions. The further the pendulum swings out over woe the further it is bound to swing back over mirth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Except a person be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is nothing but that frail breastwork of earth between the people and destruction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Wilson stopped and stood silent. Inattention dies a quick and sure death when a speaker does that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: How stunning are the changes which age makes in a man while he sleeps!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Some things you can't find out; but you will never know you can't by guessing and supposing: no, you have to be patient and go on experimenting until you find out that you can't find out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Etiquette requires us to admire the human race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: No throne exists that has a right to exist, and no symbol of it, flying from any flagstaff, is righteously entitled to wear any device but the skull and crossbones of that kindred industry which differs from royalty only businesswise-merely as retail differs from wholesale."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The moral sense enables one to perceive morality, and avoid it. The immoral sense enables one to perceive immorality and enjoy it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If man had created man, he would be ashamed of his performance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an inquisition. One is the system of degraded barbarians, the other of enlightened civilized people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am admonished in many ways that time is pushing me inexorably along. I am approaching the threshold of age; in 1977 I shall be 142."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: These people\u00b4s God has shown them by a million acts that he respects none of the Bible\u00b4s statues. He breaks every one of them himself, adultery and all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can \"show off\" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Man proposes, but God blocks the game."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is not best to use our morals weekdays, it gets them out of repair for Sunday."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: How charmed I am when I overhear a German word which I understand!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The exercise of an extraordinary gift is the supremest pleasure in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Honor is a harder master than the law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We chase phantoms half the days of our lives. It is well if we learn wisdom even then, and save the other half."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Human nature is the same everywhere; it deifies success, it has nothing but scorn for defeat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I think that the reason why we Americans seem to be so addicted to trying to get rich suddenly is merely because the opportunity to make promising efforts in that direction has offered itself to us with a frequency out of all proportion to the European experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Wherefore being all of one mind, we do highly resolve that government of the grafted by the grafter for the grafter shall not perish from the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The real yellow peril: Gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When a man arrives at great prosperity God did it: when he falls into disaster he did it himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is curious and interesting to notice what an attraction a fussy, mincing, nickel-plated word has for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Life does not consist mainly  - or even largely -   of facts and happenings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You can't keep a juvenile moral institution alive on two displays of its sash per year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I have had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless this beneficient institution. In all my experiences of life, I have seen nothing so seraphic as the look that comes into a freshly mutilated man's face when he feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand and finds his accident ticket all right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Behold, the fool saith, \"Put not all thine eggs in the one basket\" - which is but a matter of saying, \"Scatter your money and your attention\"; but the wise man saith, \"Pull all your eggs in the one basket and - WATCH THAT BASKET.\" - Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Some of us cannot be optimists, but all of us can be bigamists"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of aerial navigation-and along with that belief is the hope that that genius will reveal his miracle before they die, and likewise a dread that he will poke off somewhere and die himself before he finds out that he has such a wonder lying dormant in his brain. We all know the air can be navigated-therefore, hurry up your sails and bladders-satisfy us-let us have peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: An inglorious peace is better than a dishonorable war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: This is the fairest picture on our planet, the most enchanting to look upon, the most satisfying to the eye and spirit. To see the sun sink down, drowned in his pink and purple and golden floods, and overwhelm Florence with tides of color that make all the sharp lines dim and faint and turn the solid city to a city of dreams, is a sight to stir the coldest nature, and make a sympathetic one drunk with ecstasy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: ...we all know that in all matters of mere opinion that [every] man is insane-just as insane as we are...we know exactly where to put our finger upon his insanity: it is where his opinion differs from ours....All Democrats are insane, but not one of them knows it. None but the Republicans. All the Republicans are insane, but only the Democrats can perceive it. The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Concentration of power in a political machine is bad; and an Established Church is only a political machine; it was invented for that; it is nursed, cradled, preserved for that; it is an enemy to human liberty, and does no good which it could not better do in a split-up and scattered condition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Where every man in a state has a vote, brutal laws are impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: More than once I had seen a noble who had gotten his enemy at a disadvantage stop to pray before cutting his throat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Gold in its native state is but dull, unornamental stuff, and only lowborn metals excite the admiration of the ignorant with an ostentatious glitter. However, like the rest of the world, I still go on underrating men of gold and glorifying men of mica."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Two things seemed pretty apparent to me. One was that in order to be a pilot a man had to learn more than any one man ought to learn; and the other was that he must learn it all over again in a different way every 24 hours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We have to be despised by somebody whom we regard as above us, or we are not happy; we have to have somebody to worship and envy,or we cannot be content. In America we manifest this in all the ancient and customary ways. In public we scoff at titles and hereditary privilege, but privately we hanker after them, and when we get a chance we buy them for cash and a daughter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is easy to make plans in this world; even a cat can do it; and when one is out in those remote oceans it is noticeable that a cat's plans and a man's are worth about the same. There is much the same shrinkage in both, in the matter of values."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The ordinary chestnut can beget a sickly and reluctant laugh, but it takes a horse chestnut to fetch the gorgeous big horse-laugh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To be a patriot, one had to say, and keep on saying, \"Our Country, right or wrong,\" and urge on the little war. Have you not perceived that that phrase is an insult to the nation?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider\u2019s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Kings cannot ennoble thee, thou good, great soul, for One who is higher than kings hath done that for thee; but a king can confirm thy nobility to men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If God is what people say there can be no one in the universe so unhappy as He; for He sees unceasingly myriads of His creatures suffering unspeakable miseries--and besides this foresees how they are going to suffer during the remainder of their lives. One might as well say, \"As unhappy as God.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is no family in America without a clock, and consequently there is no fair pretext for the usual Sunday medley of dreadful sounds that issues from our steeples."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: An ecstasy is a thing that will not go into words; it feels like music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Suddenly the nickel-clad horse takes the bit in its mouth and goes slanting for the curbstone defying all prayers and all your powers to change its mind - your heart stands still, your breath hangs fire, your legs forget to work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Persons who think there is no such thing as luck good or bad are entitled to their opinion, although I think they ought to be shot for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: They do say that when a man starts down hill everybody is ready to help him with a kick, and I suppose it is so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Do right and you will be conspicuous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: God pours out love upon all with a lavish hand -- but He reserves vengeance for His very own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: One of the brightest gems in the New England weather is the dazzling uncertainty of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Is not this insanity plea becoming rather common? Is it not so common that the reader confidently expects to see it offered in every criminal case that comes before the courts?... Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Nearly all black and brown skins are beautiful, but a beautiful white skin is rare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am content to be a bric-a-bracker and a Ceramiker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We Americans worship the almighty dollar! Well, it is a worthier god than Heredity Privilege."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Who are the oppressors? The few: the King, the capitalist, and a handful of other overseers and superintendents. Who are the oppressed? The many: the nations of the earth; the valuable personages; the workers; they that make the bread that the soft-handed and idle eat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Jane Austen's books, too, are absent from this library. Just that one omission alone would make a fairly good library out of a library that hadn't a book in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The signs of excessive indulgence in this destructive pastime are easily detectable. They are these: A disposition to eat, to drink, to smoke, to meet together convivially, to laugh, to joke, and tell indelicate stories\u2014 and mainly, a yearning to paint pictures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: From his cradle to his grave a man never does a single thing which has any FIRST AND FOREMOST object but one -- to secure peace of mind, spiritual comfort, for HIMSELF."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The kernel, the soul \u0097 let us go further and say the substance, the bulk, the actual and valuable material of all human utterances \u0097 is plagiarism. For substantially all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources, and daily used by the garnerer with a pride and satisfaction born of the superstition that he originated them; whereas there is not a rag of originality about them anywhere except the little discoloration they get from his mental and moral calibre and his temperament, and which is revealed in characteristics of phrasing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The kingly office is entitled to no respect. It was originally procured by the highwayman's methods. It remains a perpetuated crime, can never be anything but the symbol of a crime. It is no more entitled to respect than is the flag of a pirate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Stars are good too. I wish I could get some to put in my hair. But I suppose I never can. You would be surprised to find how far off they are, for they do not look it. When they first showed last night I tried to knock some down with a pole, but it didn't reach, which astonished me. Then I tried clods till I was all tired out, but I never got one. I did make some close shots, for I saw the black blot of the clod sail right into thee midst of the golden clusters forty or fifty times, just barely missing them, and if I could've held out a little longer, maybe I could've got one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A crowded police docket is the surest of all signs that trade is brisk and money plenty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of \"Mr. Secretary,\" gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What marriage is to morality, a properly conducted licensed liquor traffic is to sobriety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: That is their way, those plagues, those scientists - peg, peg, peg - dig, dig, dig - plod, plod, plod. I wish I could catch a cargo of them for my place; it would be an economy. Yes, for years, you see. They never give up. Patience, hope, faith, perseverance; it is the way of all the breed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The highest perfection of politeness is only a beautiful edifice, built, from the base to the dome, of ungraceful and gilded forms of charitable and unselfish lying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: My heart goes out to anyone who is making his first appearance before an audience of human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: God was left out of the Constitution but was furnished a front seat on the coins of the country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The miracle or the power that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application and perseverance under the promptings of a brave, determined spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: One must travel, to learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Conformity\u2014the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The election makes me think of a story of a man who was dying. He had only two minutes to live, so he sent for a clergyman and asked him, \"Where is the best place to go to?\" He was undecided about it. So the minister told him that each place had its advantages--heaven for climate, and hell for society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A private should preserve a respectful attitude toward his superiors, and should seldom or never proceed so far as to offer suggestions to his general in the field. If the battle is not being conducted to suit him, it is better for him to resign. By the etiquette of war, it is permitted to none below the rank of newspaper correspondent to dictate to the general in the field."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A man's house burns down. The smoking wreckage represents only a ruined home that was dear through years of use and pleasant associations. By and by, as the days and weeks go on, first he misses this, then that, then the other thing. And when he casts about for it he finds that it was in that house. Always it is an essential - here was but one of its kind. It cannot be replaced. It was in that house. It is irrevocably lost...It will be years before the tale of lost essentials is complete, and not till then can he truly know the magnitude of his disaster."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.  The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The humorous story is told gravely; the teller does his best to conceal the fact that he even dimly suspects that there is anything funny about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You see, he knew his own laws just as other people so often know the laws: by words, not by effects. They take a meaning, and get to be very vivid, when you come to apply them to yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Nations do not think, they only feel. They get their feelings at second hand through their temperaments, not their brains. A nation can be brought -- by force of circumstances, not argument -- to reconcile itself to any kind of government or religion that can be devised; in time it will fit itself to the required conditions; later it will prefer them and will fiercely fight for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You have noticed that the human being is a curiosity. In times past he has had (and worn out and flung away) hundreds and hundreds of religions; today he has hundreds and hundreds of religions, and launches not fewer than three new ones every year. I could enlarge on that number and still be within the facts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR per G.G., CHIEF OF ORDNANCE"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Sum all the gifts that man is endowed with, and we give our greatest share of admiration to his energy. And today, if I were a heathen, I would rear a statue to Energy and fall down and worship it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are those who imagine that the unlucky accidents of life\u0097life's \"experiences\"\u0097are in some way useful to us. I wish I could find out how. I never know one of them to happen twice. They always change off and swap around and catch you on your inexperienced side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Against a diseased imagination demonstration goes for nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have never examined the subject of humor until now. I am surprised to find how much ground it covers. I have got its divisions and frontiers down on a piece of paper. I find it defined as a production of the brain, as the power of the brain to produce something humorous, and the capacity of percieving humor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If there is one thing that will make a man peculiarly and insufferable self-conceited, it is to have his stomach behave itself, the first day at sea, when nearly all his comrades are seasick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Hotels are the only proper places for lecturers. When I am ill-natured I so enjoy the freedom of a hotel where I can ring up a domestic and give him a quarter and then break furniture over him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When grown-up persons indulge in practical jokes, the fact gauges them. They have lived narrow, obscure, and ignorant lives, and at full manhood they still retain and cherish a job lot of left-over standards and ideals that would have been discarded with their boyhood if they had then moved out into the world and a broader life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Happiness ain't a thing in itself - it's only a contrast with something that ain't pleasant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Whenever he was out of luck and a little down-hearted, he would fall to mourning over the loss of a wonderful cat he used to own (for where women and children are not, men of kindly impulses take up with pets, for they must love something)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When an honest writer discovers an imposition it is his simple duty to strip it bare and hurl it down from its place of honor, no matter who suffers by it; any other course would render him unworthy of the public confidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: ...Man is a marvelous curiosity. When he is at his very very best he is a sort of low grade nickel-plated angel; at his worst he is unspeakable, unimaginable; and first and last and all the time he is a sarcasm. Yet he blandly and in all sincerity calls himself the 'noblest work of God.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie - I found that out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Our Congresses consist of Christians. In their private life they are true to every obligation of honor; yet in every session they violate them all, and do it without shame. Because honor to party is above honor to themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I persuaded him to throw the dirk away; and it was as easy as persuading a child to give up some bright fresh new way of killing itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Experience teaches us only one thing at a time   - and hardly that, in my case."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Look at the mother of Washington! She raised a boy that could not tell a lie--could not tell a lie! But he never had any chance. It might have been different if he had belonged to the Washington Newspaper Correspondents' Club"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The xmas holidays have this high value: that they remind Forgetters of the Forgotten, & repair damaged relationships."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Perfect grammar - persistent, continuous, sustained - is the fourth dimension, so to speak; many have sought it, but none has found it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We take a natural interest in novelties, but it is against nature to take an interest in familiar things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Ignorance, intolerance, egotism, self-assertion, opaque perception, dense and pitiful chuckle headedness - and an almost pathetic unconsciousness of it all, that is what I was at nineteen and twenty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Everybody lies...every day, every hour, awake, asleep, in his dreams, in his joy, in his mourning. If he keeps his tongue still his hands, his feet, his eyes, his attitude will convey deception."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Leaving out the gamblers, the burglars, and the plumbers, perhaps we do put our trust in God after a fashion. But, after all, it is an overstatement. If the cholera or black plague should come to these shores, perhaps the bulk of the nation would pray to be delivered from it, but the rest would put their trust in The Health Board."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Compliments make me vain: & when I am vain, I am insolent & overbearing. It is a pity, too, because I love compliments. I love them even when they are not so. My child, I can live on a good compliment two weeks with nothing else to eat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Simple rules for saving money: To save half, when you are fired by an eager impulse to contribute to a charity, wait and count to forty. To save three quarters, count sixty. To save all, count sixty-five."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am technically \"boss\" of the family which I am carrying along-but I am grateful to know that it is only technically - that the real authority rests on the other side of the house. It is placed there by a beneficent Providence, who foresaw before I was born, or, if he did not, he has found it out since - that I am not in any way qualified to travel alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are women who have an indefinable charm in their faces which makes them beautiful to their intimates, but a cold stranger who tried to reason the matter out and find this beauty would fail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Each season brings a world of enjoyment and interest in the watching of its unfolding, its gradual harmonious development, its culminating graces-and just as one begins to tire of it, it passes away and a radical change comes, with new witcheries and new glories in its train."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Written things are not for speech; their form is literary; they are stiff, inflexible, and will not lend themselves to happy and effective delivery with the tongue-where their purpose is to merely entertain, not instruct; they have to be limbered up, broken up, colloquialized and turned into common forms of premeditated talk-otherwise they will bore the house and not entertain it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Troubles are only mental; it is the mind that manufactures them, and the mind can gorge them, banish them, abolish them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A good legible label is usually worth, for information, a ton of significant attitude and expression in a historical picture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I speak French with timidity, and not flowingly--except when excited. When using that language I have often noticed that I have hardly ever been mistaken for a Frenchman, except, perhaps, by horses; never, I believe, by people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is nothing in the world like persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Change is the handmaiden Nature requires to do her miracles with."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A man who is not born with the novel-writing gift has a troublesome time of it when he tries to build a novel. I know this from experience. He has no clear idea of his story; in fact he has no story. He merely has some people in his mind, and an incident or two, also a locality, and he trusts he can plunge those people into those incidents with interesting results."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak -- like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support -- something that ought to be arrested."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There's a good spot tucked away somewhere in everybody. You'll be a long time finding it, sometimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am a democrat only on principle, not by instinct, nobody is that. Doubtless some people say they are, but this world is grievously given to lying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A joke, even if it be a lame one, is nowhere so keenly relished or quickly applauded as in a murder trial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What a wee little part of a person's life are his acts and his words! His real life is led in his head, and is known to none but himself. All day long, the mill of his brain is grinding, and his thoughts, not those of other things, are his history. These are his life, and they are not written. Everyday would make a whole book of 80,000 words -- 365 books a year. Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man -- the biography of the man himself cannot be written."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Travel has no longer any charm for me. I have seen all the foreign countries I want to except heaven & hell & I have only a vague curiosity about one of those."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The idea that a baby doesn't amount to anything! Why, one baby is just a house and a front yard full by itself. One baby can, furnish more business than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to. He is enterprising, irrepressible, brimful of lawless activities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You don't know about me, without you have read a book by the name of 'The Adventures of Tom Sawyer,' but that ain't no matter. That book was made by a Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: That is an editor. He is trying to think of a word. He props his feet on a chair, which is the editor's way; then he can think better. I do not care much for this one; his ears are not alike; still, editor suggests the sound of Edward, and he will do. I could make him better if I had a model, but I made this one from memory. But is no particular matter; they all look alike, anyway. They are conceited and troublesome, and don't pay enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Civilization largely consists in hiding human nature. When the barbarian learns to hide it we account him enlightened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Perhaps no poet is a conscious plagiarist, but there seems to be warrant for suspecting that there is no poet who is not at one time or another an unconscious one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I heard a Californian student in Heidelberg say, in one of his calmest moods, that he would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When politics enter into municipal government, nothing resulting therefrom in the way of crimes and infamies is then incredible. It actually enables one to accept and believe the impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Another editor. That thing behind his ear is his pencil. Whenever he finds a bright thing in your manuscript he strikes it out with that. That does him good, and makes him smile and show his teeth, the way he is doing in the picture. This one has just been striking out a smart thing, and now he is sitting there with his thumbs in his vest-holes, gloating. They are full of envy and malice, editors are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Greece is a bleak, unsmiling desert, without agriculture, manufactures or commerce, apparently. What supports its poverty-stricken people or its Government, is a mystery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The Germans have an inhuman way of cutting up their verbs. Now a verb has a hard time enough of it in this world when it's all together. It's downright inhuman to split it up. But that's just what those Germans do. They take part of a verb and put it down here, like a stake, and they take the other part of it and put it away over yonder like another stake, and between these two limits they just shovel in German. from \"Disappearance of Literature"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If the Christians of America could be persuaded to vote God and a clean ticket, it would bring about a moral revolution that would be incalculably beneficent. It would save the country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: One can enjoy a rainbow without necessarily forgetting the forces that made it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Grown people everywhere are always likely to cling to the religion they were brought up in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The law of work does seem utterly unfair-but there it is, and nothing can change it: the higher the pay in enjoyment the worker gets out of it, the higher shall be his pay in cash, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When there was room on the ledge outside of the pots and boxes for a cat, the cat was there- in sunny weather- stretched at full length, asleep and blissful, with her furry belly to the sun and a paw curved over her nose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If you shamefully misuse a cat once she will always maintain a dignified reserve toward you afterward. You will never get her full confidence again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When I was fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have him around. When I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years. See what happens when you \"know it all\", at any stage of life? Farther down the track you may see clearly how certain personal opinions, held onto too tightly, could be fogging up the view, and providing incorrect insight. Prosperity is the best protector of principle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Every improvement that is put upon the real estate is the result of an idea in somebody's head. The skyscraper is another idea; the railroad is another; the telephone and all those things are merely symbols which represent ideas. An andiron, a wash-tub, is the result of an idea that did not exist before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Every man is wholly honest to himself and to God, but not to any one else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: No man is straitly honest to any but himself and God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Weather is a literary specialty, and no untrained hand can turn out a good article on it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Such is professional jealousy; a scientist will never show any kindness for a theory which he did not start himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All right, then, I'll go to hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have been an author for 20 years and an ass for 55."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is a dear and lovely disposition, and a most valuable one, that can brush away indignities and discourtesies and seek and find the pleasanter features of an experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We never knew an ignorant person yet but was prejudiced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: ...one should be gentle with the ignorant, for they are the chosen of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A marriage. . .will give a new gladness to the sunshine, a new fragrance to the flowers, a new beauty to the earth, and a new mystery to life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: God only exhibits his thunder and lightning at intervals, and so they always command attention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Labor in loneliness is irksome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In truth I care little about any party's politics\u0097the man behind it is the important thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I always did hate for anyone to know what my plans or hopes or prospects were\u0097for, if I kept people in ignorance in these matters, no one could be disappointed but myself, if they were not realized."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: People who always feel jolly, no matter where they are or what happens to them\u0097who have the organ of hope preposterously developed\u0097who are endowed with an uncongealable sanguine temperament\u0097who never feel concerned about the price of corn\u0097and who cannot, by any possibility, discover any but the bright side of a picture\u0097are very apt to go to extremes, and exaggerate with 40-horse microscopic power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am as prompt as a clock, if I only know the day a thing is wanted\u0097otherwise I am a natural procrastinaturalist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Low comedies are written for the drawing-room, the kitchen and the stable, and if you cut out the kitchen and the stable the drawing-room can't support the play by itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I never made a success of a lecture delivered in a church yet. People are afraid to laugh in a church. They can't be made to do it in any possible way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The citizen who thinks he sees that the commonwealth's political clothes are worn out, and yet holds his peace and does not agitate for a new suit, is disloyal, he is a traitor. That he may be the only one who thinks he sees this decay, does not excuse him: it is his duty to agitate anyway, and it is the duty of others to vote him down if they do not see the matter as he does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: An injurious lie is an uncommendable thing; and so, also, and in the same degree, is an injurious truth a fact that is recognized by the law of libel ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Brooklyn praise is half slander."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Pilgrim's Progress , about a man that left his family, it didn't say why. I read considerable in it now and then. The statements was interesting, but tough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Surely the test of a novel's characters is that you feel a strong interest in them and their affairs the good to be successful, the bad to suffer failure. Well, in John Ward, you feel no divided interest, no discriminating interest you want them all to land in hell together, and right away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: when you recollect something which belonged in an earlier chapter, do not go back, but jam it in where you are . Discursiveness does not hurt an autobiography in the least."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: from the beginning of my sojourn in this world there was a persistent vacancy in me where the industry ought to be. (Ought to was is better, perhaps, though the most of the authorities differ as to this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: He [George Washington Cable] has taught me to abhor and detest the Sabbath day and hunt up new and troublesome ways to dishonor it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is a mystery that is hidden from me by reason that the emergency requiring the fathoming of it hath not in my life-days occurred, and so, not having no need to know this thing, I abide barren of the knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: it is not wise to keep the fire going under a slander unless you can get some large advantage out of keeping it alive. Few slanders can stand the wear of silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: As I slowly grow wise I briskly grow cautious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There has never been a Protestant boy nor a Protestant girl whose mind the Bible has not soiled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: No one can tell me what is a good cigar - for me. I am the only judge. People who claim to know say that I smoke the worst cigars in the world. They bring their own cigars when they come to my house."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The heart is the real fountain of youth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is better to support schools than jails."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: How superbly brave is the Englishman in the presence of the awfulest forms of danger and death; and how abject in the presence of any and all forms of hereditary rank."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Custom is custom: it is built of brass, boiler-iron, granite; facts, reasonings, arguments have no more effect upon it than the idle winds have upon Gibraltar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: For a male person bric-a-brac hunting is about as robust a business as making doll-clothes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The very \"marks\" on the bottom of a piece of rare crockery are able to throw me into a gibbering ecstasy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It was in Warwick Castle that I came across the curious stranger whom I am going to talk about. He attracted me by three things: his candid simplicity, his marvelous familiarity with ancient armor, and the restfulness of his company--for he did all the talking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: This is the year 1492. I am eighty-two years of age. The things I am going to tell you are things which I saw myself as a child and as a youth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It was in 1590--winter. Austria was far away from the world, and asleep; it was still the Middle Ages in Austria, and promised to remain so forever. Some even set it away back centuries upon centuries and said that by the mental and spiritual clock it was still the Age of Belief in Austria. But they meant it as a compliment, not a slur, and it was so taken, and we were all proud of it. I remember it well, although I was only a boy; and I remember, too, the pleasure it gave me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In the ancient city of London, on a certain autumn day in the second quarter of the sixteenth century, a boy was born to a poor family of the name of Canty, who did not want him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If you've got a nice fresh corpse, fetch him out!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Thanksgiving Day - Let all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks, now, but the turkeys. In the island of Fiji they do not use turkeys, they use plumbers. It does not become you and me to sneer at Fiji."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Be good and you'll be lonesome"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are several kinds of stories, but only one difficult kind-the humorous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You need not expect to get your book right the first time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When I reflect upon the number of disagreeable people who I know have gone to a better world, I am moved to lead a different life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The catfish is Plenty good enough fish for anyone"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I was born modest, but it didn't last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Mine was a trained Presbyterian conscience and knew but the one duty - to hunt and harry its slave upon all pretexts and on all occasions, particularly when there was no sense nor reason in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Presbyterianism without infant damnation would be like the dog on the train that couldn't be identified because it had lost its tag."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It has taken a weary long time to persuade American Presbyterians to give up infant damnation and try to bear it the best they can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What do you think of the human mind? I mean, in case you think there is a human mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When you got to the table you couldn't go right to eating, but you had to wait for the widow to tuck down her head and grumble a little over the victuals, though there warn't really anything the matter with them. That is, nothing only everything was cooked by itself. In a barrel of odds and ends it is different; things get mixed up, and the juice kind of swaps around, and the things go better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All gentle cant and philosophizing to the contrary notwithstanding, no people in this world ever did achieve their freedom by goody-goody talk and moral suasion: it being immutable law that all revolutions that will succeed, must begin in blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Knighterrantry is a most chuckleheaded trade, and it is tedious hard work, too, but I begin to see that there is money in it, after all, if you have luck. Not that I would ever engage in it, as a business, for I wouldn't. No sound and legitimate business can be established on a basis of speculation. A successful whirl in the knighterrantry line--now what is it when you blow away the nonsense and come down to the cold facts? It's just a corner in pork, that's all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You may call a jay a bird. Well, so he is, in a measure--because he's got feathers on him, and don't belong to no church, perhaps;but otherwise he is just as much a human as you be. And I'll tell you for why. A jay's gifts and instincts, and feelings, and interests, cover the whole ground. A jay hasn't got any more principle than a Congressman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Sometimes I lifted a chicken that warn't roosting comfortable, and took him along. Pap always said, take a chicken when you get achance, because if you don't want him yourself you can easy find somebody that does, and a good deed ain't ever forgot. I never see papa when he didn't want the chicken himself, but that is what he used to say, anyway."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Taking the pledge will not make bad liquor good, but it will improve it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Nothing is made in vain, but the fly came near it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have at last, after several months' experience, made up my mind that [New York] is a splendid desert--a domed and steepled solitude, where the stranger is lonely in the midst of a million of his race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: My father and I were always on the most distant terms when I was a boy--a sort of armed neutrality, so to speak. At irregular intervals this neutrality was broken, and suffering ensued; but I will be candid enough to say that the breaking and the suffering were always divided up with strict impartiality between us--which is to say, my father did the breaking, and I did the suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What is there in Rome for me to see that others have not seen before me? What is there for me to touch that others have not touched? What is there for me to feel, to learn, to hear, to know, that shall thrill me before it pass to others? What can I discover?--Nothing. Nothing whatsoever. One charm of travel dies here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In the small town of Hannibal, Missouri, when I was a boy, everybody was poor, but didn't know it; and everybody was comfortable and did know it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We can't always have the beautiful aspect of things. Let us make the most of our sights that are beautiful and let the others go"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Music is a good thing; and after all that soul-butter and hogwash, I never see it freshen up things so, and sound so honest and bully."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We often feel sad in the presence of music without words; and often more than that in the presence of music without music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All human rules are more or less idiotic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The best of us would rather be popular than right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am losing enough sleep to supply a worn-out army."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The highest pleasure to be got out of freedom, and having nothing to do, is labor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Do your duty today and repent tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Circumstance - which moves by laws of its own, regardless of parties and policies, and whose decrees are final and must be obeyed by all - and will be"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: By and by when each nation has 20,000 battleships and 5,000,000 soldiers we shall all be safe and the wisdom of statesmanship will stand confirmed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What is the chief end of man?-to get rich. In what way?-dishonestly if we can; honestly if we must. Who is God, the one and only true? Money is God. Gold and Greenbacks and Stock-father, son, and ghosts of same, three persons in one; These are the true and only God, mighty and supreme."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: ...many foolish persons, wanderers from other parts, have the vain fashion of graving their names and the obscure places whence they come, upon its stones, which is silly and marketh the doer for a fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A half-educated physician is not valuable. He thinks he can cure everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Whenever a copyright law is to be made or altered, then the idiots assemble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Everything human is pathetic"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Don't you know that the very thing a man dreads is the thing that always happens?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Like most people, I often feel mean, and act accordingly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There's something in it when a body like the widow or the parson prays, but it don't work for me, and I reckon it don't work for only just the right kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is no accounting for human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Cooper's art has some defects. In one place in 'Deerslayer,' and in the restricted space of two-thirds of a page, Cooper has scored 114 offences against literary art out of a possible 115. It breaks the record."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I'm the only person who has ever found the right way to build an autobiography."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When I take up one of Jane Austen's books ... I feel like a barkeep entering the kingdom of heaven. I know what his sensation would be and his private comments. He would not find the place to his taste, and he would probably say so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It consists mainly  of the storm of thoughts  that is forever  blowing through one's head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The equator was wisely put where it is, because if it had been run through Europe all the kings would have tried to grab it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: An occultation of Venus is not half so difficult as an eclipse of the sun, but because it comes seldom the world thinks it's a grand thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Constellations have always been troublesome things to name. If you give one of them a fanciful name, it will always refuse to live up to it; it will always persist in not resembling the thing it has been named for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To be vested with enormous authority is a fine thing; but to have the on-looking world consent to it is finer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The spirit of wrath - not the words - is the sin; and the spirit of wrath is cursing. We begin to swear before we can talk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Being rich ain't what it's cracked up to be. It's just worry and worry, and sweat and sweat, and a-wishing you was dead all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We all like to see people sea-sick when we are not ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The best and most telling speech is not the actual impromptu one but the counterfeit of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When it comes down to pure ornamental cursing, the native American is gifted above the sons of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There isn't anything you can't stand if you are only born and bred to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is only one good sex. The female one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Ours is the \"land of the free\"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Never waste a lie; you never know when you may need it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I like criticism, but it must be my way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Adam was the author of sin, and I wish he had taken out an international copyright on it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A historian who would convey the truth has got to lie. Often he must enlarge the truth by diameters, otherwise his reader would not be able to see it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A banquet is probably the most fatiguing thing in the world except ditch digging."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is sound statesmanship to add two battleships every time our neighbour adds one and two stories to our skyscrapers every time he piles a new one on top of his to threaten our light. There is no limit to this soundness but the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Imagination labors best in distant fields."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Balloon: Thing to take meteroric observations and commit suicide with."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Benefit of clergy: Half-rate on the railroad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Even popularity can be overdone. In Rome, along at first, you are full of regrets that Michelangelo died; but by and by, you only regret that you didn't see him do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: First catch your Boer, then kick him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Golden rule: Made of hard metal so it could stand severe wear, it not being known at that time that butter would answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Good wine needs no bush; a jug is the thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Honesty is often the best policy, but sometimes the appearance of it is worth six of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: None of us can have as many virtues as the fountain-pen, or half its cussedness; but we can try."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The Autocrat of Russia possesses more power than any other man in the earth; but he cannot stop a sneeze."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Better a broken promise than none at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are times when one would like to hang the whole human race, and finish the farce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The educated Southerner has no use for an 'r', except at the beginning of a word."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Prophesy is a good line of business, but it is full of risks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We may not pay Satan reverence, for that would be indiscreet, but we can at least respect his talents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Human pride is not worthwhile; there is always something lying in wait to take the wind out of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You have heretofore found out, by my teachings, that man is a fool; you are now aware that woman is a damned fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Wheresoever she was, there was Eden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If everyone was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I don't want no better book than what your face is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it. . . . The work that is really a man's own work is play and not work at all. . . . When we talk about the great workers of the world we really mean the great players of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are those who scoff at the schoolboy, calling him frivolous and shallow: Yet it was the schoolboy who said 'Faith is believing what you know ain't so'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Now when I had mastered the language of this water, and had come to know every trifling feature that bordered the great river as familiarly as I knew the letters of the alphabet, I had made a valuable acquisition. But I had lost something, too. I had lost something which could never be restored me while I lived. All the grace, the beauty, the poetry, had gone out of the majestic river!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I said nothing of the sort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: One of the proofs of the immortality of the soul is that myriads have believed it. They also believed the world was flat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Which is him?\" The grammar was faulty, maybe, but we could not know, then, that it would go in a book someday."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I was born lazy. I am no lazier now than I was forty years ago, but that is because I reached the limit forty years ago. You can't go beyond possibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: She remained both girl and woman to the last day of her life. Under a grave and gentle exterior burned inextinguishable fires of sympathy, energy, devotion, enthusiasm, and absolutely limitless affection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I do not like work even when someone else is doing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If books are not good company, where shall I find it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Being made merely in the image of God but not otherwise resembling him enough to be mistaken by anybody but a very near sighted person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that the savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When I am king they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teachings out of books, for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The average man don't like trouble and danger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All kings is mostly rapscallions, as fur as I can make out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When the Lord finished the world, he pronounced it good. That is what I said about my first work, too. But Time, I tell you, Time takes the confidence out of these incautious opinions. It is more than likely that He thinks about the world, now, pretty much as I think about the Innocents Abroad. The fact is, there is a trifle too much water in both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The proverb says that Providence protects children and idiots. This is really true. I know because I have tested it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I think the Cincinnati Enquirer must be edited by children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: S'pose a man was to come to you and say Pollyvoo-franzy - what would you think?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: All say, \u2018how hard it is that we have to die\u2019 -- a strange complaint to come from the mouths of those who have had to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What a curious kind of fool a girl is. Never been licked in school. What's a licking?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A sound heart is a surer guide than an ill-trained conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Ah, if he could only die temporarily!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To write without pay until somebody offers pay. If nobody offers pay within three years, the candidate may look upon this circumstance with the most implicit confidence as the sign that sawing wood is what he was intended for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Stars and shadows ain't good to see by."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The joy of killing! the joy of seeing killing done - these are traits of the human race at large."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: He was sunshine most always-I mean he made it seem like good weather."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It didn't take me long to make up my mind that these liars warn't no kings nor dukes at all, but just low-down humbugs and frauds. But I never said nothing, never let on; kept it to myself; it's the best way; then you don't have no quarrels, and don't get into no trouble. If they wanted us to call them kings and dukes, I hadn't no objections, 'long as it would keep peace in the family; and it warn't no use to tell Jim, so I didn't tell him. If I never learnt nothing else out of pap, I learnt that the best way to get along with his kind of people is to let them have their own way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We catched fish, and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big still river, laying on our backs looking up at the stars, and we didn\u2019t ever feel like talking loud, and it warn\u2019t often that we laughed, only a kind of low chuckle. We had mighty good weather, as a general thing, and nothing ever happened to us at all, that night, nor the next, nor the next."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Human beings can be awful cruel to one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A brown spotted lady-bug climbed the dizzy height of a grass blade, and Tom bent down close to it and said, \"Lady-bug, lady-bug, fly away home, your house is on fire, your children's alone,\" and she took wing and went off to see about it -- which did not surprise the boy, for he knew of old that this insect was credulous about conflagrations, and he had practised upon its simplicity more than once."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When you catch an adjective, kill it. No, I don't mean utterly, but kill most of them--then the rest will be valuable. They weaken when they are close together. They give strength when they are far apart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Saturday morning was come, and all the summer world was bright and fresh, and brimming with life. There was a song in every heart; and if the heart was young, the music issued at the lips. There was cheer in every face and a spring in every step. The locust-trees were in bloom, and the fragrance of the blossoms filled the air. Cardiff Hill, beyond the village and above, it was green with vegetation, and it lay just far enough away to seem a Delectable Land, dreamy, reposeful, and inviting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: a fully belly is little worth where the mind is starved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is better to be alone than unwelcome. - Eve"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Tom said to himself that it was not such a hollow world, after all. He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it -- namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You don't know about me without you have read a book by the name of The Adventures of Tom Sawyer; but that ain't no matter. That book was made by Mr. Mark Twain, and he told the truth, mainly. There was things which he stretched, but mainly he told the truth. That is nothing. I never seen anybody but lied one time or another, without it was Aunt Polly, or the widow, or maybe Mary. Aunt Polly\u2014Tom's Aunt Polly, she is\u2014and Mary, and the Widow Douglas is all told about in that book, which is mostly a true book, with some stretchers, as I said before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I felt so lonesome I most wished I was dead. The stars were shining, and the leaves rustled in the woods ever so mournful; and I heard an owl, away off, who-whooing about somebody that was dead, and a whippowill and a dog crying about somebody that was going to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Schoolboy days are no happier than the days of afterlife, but we look back upon them regretfully because we have forgotten our punishments at school and how we grieved when our marbles were lost and our kites destroyed \u2013 because we have forgotten all the sorrows and privations of the canonized ethic and remember only its orchard robberies, its wooden-sword pageants, and its fishing holidays."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Let us draw the curtain of charity over the rest of this scene"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I was standing in our dining-room thinking of nothing in particular, when a cablegram was put into my hand. It said, 'Susy was peacefully released today.' It is one of the mysteries of our nature that a man, all unprepared, can receive a thunder-stroke like that and live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Time and tide wait for no man. A pompous and self-satisfied proverb, and was true for a billion years; but in our day of electric wires and water-ballast we turn it around: Man waits not for time nor tide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: How slow and still the time did drag along."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Tomorrow night I appear for the first time before a Boston audience - 4000 critics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We can't reach old age by another man's road."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Whoever has lived long enough to find out what life is, knows how deep a debt of gratitude we owe to Adam, the first great benefactor of our race. He brought death into the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Information appears to stew out of me naturally, like the precious otter of roses out of the otter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: ...majority Patriotism is the customary Patriotism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: ...one of the first achievements of the legislature was to institute a ten-thousand-dollar agricultural fair to show off forty dollars' worth of pumpkins in - however, the Territorial legislature was usually spoken of as the \"asylum\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: My land, the power of training! Of influence! Of education! It can bring a body up to believe anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I do not know what we should do without the pulpit. We could better spare the sun-the moon, anyway."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I don't mind what the opposition say of me so long as they don't tell the truth about me. But when they descend to telling the truth about me I consider that this is taking an unfair advantage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Never learn to do anything: if you don't learn, you'll always find someone else to do it for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The business aspects of the Fourth of July is not perfect as it stands. See what it costs us every year with loss of life, the crippling of thousands with its fireworks, and the burning down of property. It is not only sacred to patriotism and universal freedom, but to the surgeon, the undertaker, the insurance offices - and they are working it for all it is worth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Whatever a man's age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright-colored flower in his button-hole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Life was a fairy-tale, then, it is a tragedy now. When I was 43 and John Hay 41 he said life was a tragedy after 40, and I disputed it. Three years ago he asked me to testify again: I counted my graves, and there was nothing for me to say. I am old; I recognize it but I don't realize it. I wonder if a person ever really ceases to feel young - I mean, for a whole day at a time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am aware that I am very old now; but I am also aware that I have never been so young as I am now, in spirit, since I was fourteen and entertained Jim Wolf with the wasps. I am only able to perceive that I am old by a mental process; I am altogether unable to feel old in spirit. It is a pity, too, for my lapses from gravity must surely often be a reproach to me. When I am in the company of very young people I always feel that I am one of them, and they probably privately resent it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Evolution is the law of policies: Darwin said it, Socrates endorsed it, Cuvier proved it and established it for all time in his paper on The Survival of the Fittest. These are illustrious names, this is a mighty doctrine: nothing can ever remove it from its firm base, nothing dissolve it, but evolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession of Siamese Twins, the whole evolved by natural and orderly processes from one microscopic parent germ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Chastity - you can carry it too far."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Modesty died when clothes were born."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Have a place for everything and keep the thing somewhere else. This is not advice, it is merely custom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: 'Don't you worry, and don't you hurry.' I know that phrase by heart, and if all other music should perish out of the world it would still sing to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Germany, the diseased world's bathhouse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Had double chins all the way down to his stomach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Irrevence is another person's disrespect to your god; there isn't any word that tells what your disrespect to his god is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I purpose publishing these Letters here in the world before I return to you. Two editions. One, unedited, for Bible readers and their children; the other, expurgated, for persons of refinement"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Well, no doubt it's a blessed thing to have an imagination that can always make you satisfied, no matter how you are fixed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I would not read the proof of one of my books for any fair & reasonable sum whatever, if I could get out of it. The proof-reading on the P & Pauper cost me the last rags of my religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have thought many times since that if poets when they get discouraged would blow their brains out, they could write very much better when they got well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It makes one hope and believe that a day will come when, in the eye of the law, literary property will be as sacred as whiskey, or any other of the necessaries of life. It grieves me to think how far more profound and reverent a respect the law would have for literature if a body could only get drunk on it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I don't believe any of you have ever read Paradise Lost, and you don't want to. That's something that you just want to take on trust. It's a classic ... something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is only one expert who is qualified to examine the souls and the life of a people and make a valuable report - the native novelist. ... And when a thousand able novels have been written, there you have the soul of the people; and not anywhere else can these be had."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have no liking for novels or stories - none in the world; and so, whenever I read one - which is not oftener than once in two years, and even in these same cases I seldom read beyond the middle of the book - my distaste for the vehicle always taints my judgment of the literature itself, as a matter of course; and also of course makes my verdict valuless. Are you saying \"You have written stories yourself.\" Quite true: but the fact that an Indian likes to scalp people is no evidence that he likes to be scalped."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Well, my book is written-let it go. But if it were only to write over again there wouldn't be so many things left out. They burn in me; and they keep multiplying; but now they can't ever be said. And besides, they would require a library-and a pen warmed up in hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Anybody can have ideas-the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The Germans are exceedingly fond of Rhine wines; they are put up in tall, slender bottles, and are considered a pleasant beverage. One tells them from vinegar by the label."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Creed and opinion change with time, and their symbols perish; but Literature and its temples are sacred to all creeds and inviolate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Comedy keeps the heart sweet; but we all know that there is wholesome refreshment for both mind and heart in an occasional climb among the pomps of the intellectual snow-summits built by Shakespeare and those others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I told that girl, in the kindest, gentlest way, that I could not consent to deliver judgment upon any one's manuscript, because an individual's verdict was worthless. It might underrate a work of high merit and lose it to the world, or it might overrate a trashy production and so open the way for its infliction upon the world. I said that the great public was the only tribunal competent to sit in judgment upon a literary effort, and therefore it must be best to lay it before that tribunal in the outset, since in the end it must stand or fall by that mighty court's decision any way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Well - Patriotism has its laws. And it also is a perfectly definite one, there are not vaguenesses about it. It commands that the brother over the border shall be sharply watched and brought to book every time he does us a hurt or offends us with an insult."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: As I have said before, I never had any large respect for good spelling. That is my feeling yet. Before the spelling-book came with its arbitrary forms, men unconsciously revealed shades of their characters, and also added enlightening shades of expression to what they wrote by their spelling, and so it is possible that the spelling-book has been a doubtful benevolence to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Satan (impatiently) to Newcomer: The trouble with you Chicago people is, that you think you are the best people down here; whereas you are merely the most numerous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We may not doubt that society in heaven consists mainly of undesirable persons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It's my opinion that every one I know has morals, though I wouldn't like to ask. I know I have. But I'd rather teach them than practice them any day. \"Give them to others\"-that's my motto."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We get our morals from books. I didn't get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: As by the fires of experience, so by commission of crime you learn real morals. Commit all crimes, familiarize yourself with all sins, take them in rotation (there are only two or three thousand of them), stick to it, commit two or three every day, and by and by you will be proof against them. When you are through you will be proof against all sins and morally perfect. You will be vaccinated against every possible commission of them. This is the only way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: ...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is easier for a cannibal to enter the Kingdom of Heaven through the eye of a rich man's needle that it is for any other foreigner to read the terrible German script."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: ...the circumstances and the atmosphere always have so much to do in directing a conversation, especially a German conversation, which is only a kind of an insurrection, anyway."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It's awful undermining to the intellect, German is; you want to take it in small doses, or first you know your brains all run together, and you feel them flapping around in your head same as so much drawn butter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I would not rob you of your food or your clothes or your umbrella, but if I caught your German out I would take it. But I don't study any more,- I have given it up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I can understand German as well as the maniac that invented it, but I talk it best through an interpreter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it and hurt yourself. There is nothing like that feature to make you attend strictly to business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: ....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The moral of it is this: If you are of any account, stay at home and make your way by faithful diligence; but if you are 'no account,' go away from home, and then you will have to work, whether you want to or not. Thus you become a blessing to your friends by ceasing to be a nuisance to them-if the people you go among suffer by the operation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The silent colossal National Lie that is the support and confederate of all the tyrannies and shams and inequalities and unfairnesses that afflict the peoples \u2014 that is the one to throw bricks and sermons at."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Only laughter can blow [a colossal humbug] to rags and atoms at a blast. Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am not an American. I am the American."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: True irreverence is disrespect for another man's god."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The New York papers have long known that no large question is ever really settled until I have been consulted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Can it be possible that the painters make John the Baptist a Spaniard in Madrid and an Irishman in Dublin?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Wit and Humor - if any difference, it is in duration - lightning and electric light. Same material, apparently; but one is vivid, and can do damage - the other fools along and enjoys elaboration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have criticized absent people so often, and then discovered, to my humiliation, that I was talking with their relatives, that I have grown superstitious about that sort of thing and dropped it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The frankest and freest product of the human mind and heart is a love letter; the writer gets his limitless freedom of statement and expression from his sense that no stranger is going to see what he is writing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The human race was always interesting and we know by its past that it will always continue so, monotonously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Patriotism is merely a religion-love of country, worship of country, devotion to the country's flag and honor and welfare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If all men were rich, all men would be poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I begin to see that a man's got to be in his own heaven to be happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: One thing at a time, is my motto - and just play that thing for all it is worth, even if it's only tto pair and a jack."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Circumstances make man, not man circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The man who is ostentatious of his modesty is twin to the statue that wears a fig-leaf."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more deadly in the long run. Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval - a thing which, to the general run of the human race, is more dreaded than wolves and death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You can't make a life over. Society wouldn't let you if you would."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I could have become a soldier if I had waited; I knew more about retreating than the man who invented retreating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: More than one cigar at a time is excessive smoking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I will remark in the way of general information, that in California, that land of felicitous nomenclature, the literary name of this sort of stuff is \"hogwash\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Between believing a thing and thinking you KNOW is only a small step and quickly taken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The timid man yearns for full value and demands a tenth. The bold man strikes for double value and compromises on par."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Warm summer sun, shine kindly here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The humorous story is American, the comic story is English, the witty story is French. The humorous story depends for its effect upon the manner of the telling;the comic and the witty story upon the matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A man may have no bad habits and have worse"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is nothing that saps one's confidence as the knowing how to do a thing"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Children have but little charity for one another's defects"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The piano may do for love-sick girls who lace themselves to skeletons, and lunch on chalk, pickles and slate pencils, but give me the banjo."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In the South the war is what A.D. is elsewhere; they date from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: But we are all insane, anyway. Note the mountain-climbers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Really, what we want now, is not laws against crime, but a law against insanity. That is where the true evil lies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What is there that confers the noblest delight? What is that which swells a man's breast with pride above that which any other experience can bring to him? Discovery!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth. No smallest atom of our moral, mental, or physical structure can stand still a year. It grows - it must grow; nothing can prevent it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I was in one of the most grand attitudes I ever struck, with my arm stretched up pointing to the sun. It was a noble effect. You could see the shudder sweep the mass like a wave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is no such thing as a new idea. We simply take a lot of old ideas and put them into a sort of mental kaleidoscope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A gifted person ought to learn English (barring spelling and pronouncing) in thirty hours, French in thirty days, and German in thirty years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Why should anybody want to save the human race, or damn it either? Does God want its society? Does Satan?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: By common consent of all the nations and all the ages the most valuable thing in this world is the homage of men, whether deserved or undeserved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I love to revel in philosophical matters-especially astronomy. I study astronomy more than any other foolishness there is. I am a perfect slave to it. I am at it all the time. I have got more smoked glass than clothes. I am as familiar with the stars as the comets are. I know all the facts and figures and have all the knowledge there is concerning them. I yelp astronomy like a sun-dog, and paw the constellations like Ursa Major."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Nothing seems to please a fly so much as to be taken for a currant; and if it can be baked in a cake and palmed off on the unwary, it dies happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are too many stars in some places and not enough in others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Conscience, man's moral medicine chest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Wherefore, I beseech you let the dog and the onions and these people of the strange and godless names work out their several salvations from their piteous and wonderful difficulties without help of mine, for indeed their trouble is sufficient as it is, whereas an I tried to help I should but damage their cause the more and yet mayhap not live myself to see the desolation wrought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When some men discharge an obligation, you can hear the report for miles around."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: They all laid their heads together like as many lawyers when they are gettin' ready to prove that a man's heirs ain't got any right to his property."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: For instance, take this sample: he has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights, the one ecstasy that stands first and foremost in the heart of every individual of his race - and of ours - sexual intercourse!It is as if a lost and perishing person in a roasting desert should be told by a rescuer he might choose and have all longed-for things but one, and he should elect to leave out water!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Would it not be prudent to get our civilization tools together, and see how much stock is left on hand in the way of Glass Beads and Theology, and Maxim Guns and Hymn Books, and Trade Gin and Torches of Progress and Enlightenment (patent adjustable ones, good to fire villages with, upon occasion), and balance the books, and arrive at the profit and loss, so that we may intelligently decide whether to continue the business or sellout the property and start a new Civilization Scheme on the proceeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Is it, perhaps, possible that there are two kinds of Civilization-one for home consumption and one for the heathen market?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There is no salvation for us but to adopt Civilization and lift ourselves down to its level."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The peoples furthest from civilization are the ones where equality between man and woman are furthest apart-and we consider this one of the signs of savagery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: My idea of our civilization is that it is a shoddy, poor thing and full of cruelties, vanities, arrogances, meannesses and hypocrisies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If you will notice, there is seldom a telegram in a paper which fails to show up one or more members & beneficiaries of our Civilization as promenading with his shirt-tail up & the rest of his regalia in the wash."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The smallest minds and the selfishest souls and the cowardliest hearts that God makes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The lightning there is peculiar; it is so convincing, that when it strikes a thing it doesn't leave enough of that thing behind for you to tell whether-Well, you'd think it was something valuable, and a Congressman had been there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of growths"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I never write Metropolis for seven cents because I can get the same price for city. I never write policeman because I can get the same money for cop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The more you join with people in their joys and their sorrows, the more nearer and dearer they come to be to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If there wasn't anything to find out, it would be dull. Even trying to find out and not finding out is just as interesting as trying to find out and finding out; and I don't know but more so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In Austria an editor who can write well is valuable, but he is not likely to remain so unless he can handle a sabre with charm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Heaven is the very last place to come to rest and don't you be afraid to bet on that!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is plain that there is one moral law for heaven and another for the earth. The pulpit assures us that wherever we see suffering and sorrow, which we can relieve and do not, we sin, heavily. There was never yet a case of suffering or sorrow which God could not relieve. Does He sin then?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: As for the dinosaur - But Noah's conscience was easy; it was not named in his cargo list and he and the boys were not aware that there was such a creature. He said he could not blame himself for not knowing about the dinosaur, because it was an American animal and America had not then been discovered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: ...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the laws of Nature. This is the case among all the nations, both civilized and savage. It is a grotesquerie, but when the human race is not grotesque it is because it is asleep and losing its opportunity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The banging and slamming and booming and crashing were something beyond belief. [On Lohengrin]"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The cigar-box which the European calls a 'lift' needs but to be compared with our elevators to be appreciated. The lift stops to reflect between floors. That is all right in a hearse, but not in elevators. The American elevator acts like a man's patent purge-it works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The editor of a newspaper cannot be independent, but must work with one hand tied behind him by party and patrons, and be content to utter only half or two-thirds of his mind . writers of all kinds are manacled servants of the public. We write frankly and fearlessly, but then we \"modify\" before we print."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Wisdom teaches us that none but birds should go out early, and that not even birds should do it unless they are out of worms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Next you'd see a raft sliding by, away off yonder, and maybe a galoot on it chopping. . . you'd see the ax flash and come down-you don't hear nothing; you see the ax go up again, and by the time it's above the man's head then you hear the k'chunk!-it had took all that time to come over the water."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Sagebrush is a very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child the mule."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born -a hundred million years -and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together. There was a peace, a serenity, an absence of all sense of responsibility, an absence of worry, an absence of care, grief, perplexity; and the presence of a deep content and unbroken satisfaction in that hundred million years of holiday which I look back upon with a tender longing and with a grateful desire to resume, when the opportunity comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: That reminds me to remark, in passing, that the very first official thing I did, in my administration-and it was on the first day of it, too-was to start a patent office; for I knew that a country without a patent office and good patent laws was just a crab, and couldn't travel any way but sideways or backways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If to be interesting is to be uncommonplace, it is becoming a question, with me, if there are any commonplace people"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We do not get ice-cream every where, and so, when we do, we are apt to dissipate to excess."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There was a great difference in boats, of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is more trouble to make a maxim than it is to do right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We don't care to eat toadstools that think they are truffles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: But old fools is the biggest fools there is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: But the people cannot have wells, and so they take rain-water. Neither can they conveniently have cellars or graves, the town being built upon \"made ground\"; so they do without both, and few of the living complain, and none of the others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The fear of lightning is one of the most distressing infirmities a human being can be afflicted with. It is mostly confined to women, but now and then you find it in a little dog, and sometimes a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: As to the human race. There are many pretty and winning things about the human race. It is perhaps the poorest of all the inventions of all the gods but it has never suspected it once. There is nothing prettier than its naive and complacent appreciation of itself. It comes out frankly and proclaims without bashfulness or any sign of a blush that it is the noblest work of God. It has had a billion opportunities to know better, but all signs fail with this ass. I could say harsh things about it but I cannot bring myself to do it-it is like hitting a child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There isn't any way to libel the human race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Is the human race a joke? Was it devised and patched together in a dull time when there was nothing important to do?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The symbol of the race ought to be a human being carrying an ax, for every human being has one concealed about him somewhere, and is always seeking the opportunity to grind it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to scoff at each other... Oh, we are a nasty little lot-& to think there are people who would like to save us & continue us. It won't happen if I have any influence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Custom is, to think a handsome thing in private but tame it down in the utterance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The existing phrasebooks are inadequate. They are well enough as far as they go, but when you fall down and skin your leg they don't tell you what to say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: By law of periodical repetition, everything which has happened once must happen again and again -- and not capriciously, but at regular periods, and each thing in its own period, not another's and each obeying its own law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It isn't safe to sit in judgment upon another person's illusion when you are not on the inside. While you are thinking it is a dream, he may be knowing it is a planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: As a thinker and planner the ant is the equal of any savage race of men; as a self-educated specialist in several arts she is the superior of any savage race of men; and in one or two high mental qualities she is above the reach of any man, savage or civilized!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Out of the unconscious lips of babes and sucklings are we satirized."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Ethical man: A Christian holding four aces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We laugh and laugh. Then cry and cry- Then feebler laugh, Then die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Astonishing things can be done with the human memory if you will devote it faithfully to one particular line of business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The radical of one century is the conservative of the next."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The Moral Sense teaches us what is right, and how to avoid it-when unpopular."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You must not pay a person a compliment, and then straightway follow it with a criticism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To go abroad has something of the same sense that death brings. I am no longer of ye-what ye say of me is now of no consequence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The people of those foreign countries are very, very ignorant. They looked curiously at the costumes we had brought from the wilds of America. They observed that we talked loudly at table sometimes. They noticed that we looked out for expenses and got what we conveniently could out of a franc, and wondered where in the mischief we came from. In Paris they just simply opened their eyes and stared when we spoke to them in French! We never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A jay hasnt got any more principle than a Congressman. A jay will lie, a jay will steal, a jay will deceive, a jay will betray; and four times out of five, a jay will go back on his solemnest promise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Beautiful credit! The foundation of modern society. Who shall say that this is not the golden age of mutual trust, of unlimited reliance upon human promises? That is a peculiar condition of society which enables a whole nation to instantly recognize point and meaning in the familiar newspaper anecdote, which puts into the mouth of a distinguished speculator in lands and mines this remark: -- I wasn't worth a cent two years ago, and now I owe two millions of dollars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Man is the only creature who has a nasty mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: ...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have attended operas, whenever I could not help it, for fourteen years now; I am sure I know of no agony comparable to the listening to an unfamiliar opera."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Newport, Rhode Island, that breeding place-that stud farm, so to speak-of aristocracy; aristocracy of the American type."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: From the dome of St. Peter's one can see every notable object in Rome... He can see a panorama that is varied, extensive, beautiful to the eye, and more illustrious in history than any other in Europe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: To one in sympathy with nature, each season, in its turn, seems the loveliest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: My axiom is, to succeed in business: avoid my example."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When we do not know a person - and also when we do - we have to judge his size by the size and nature of his achievements, as compared with the achievements of others in his special line of business - there is no other way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I've come loaded with statistics, for I've noticed that a man can't prove anything without statistics. No man can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The minute we get reconciled to a person, how willing we are to throw aside little needless punctilios and pronounce his name right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We called him Barney for short. We couldn't use his real name, there wasn't time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If it would not look too much like showing off, I would tell the reader where New Zealand is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It's so damned humiliating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is discouraging to try to penetrate a mind like yours.  You ought to get it out and dance on it.  That would take some of the rigidity out of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Christianity will doubtless still survive in the earth ten centuries hence- stuffed and in a museum."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The world has corrected the Bible. The church never corrects it; and also never fails to drop in at the tail of the procession-and take the credit of the correction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Missionarying was a better thing in those days than it is in ours. All you had to do was to cure the head savage\u00b4s sick daughter by a miracle- a miracle like the miracle of Lourdes in our day, for instance- and immediately that head savage was your convert, and filled to the eyes with a new convert\u00b4s enthusiasm. You could sit down and make yourself easy now. He would take the ax and convert the rest of the nation himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I bring you this stately matron named Christendom, returning bedraggled, besmirched, and dishonored from pirate raids in Kiao-Chow, Manchuria, South Africa, and the Phillipines, with her soul full of meanness, her pocket full of boodle, and her mouth full of pious hypocrisies. Give her soap and a towel, but hide the looking-glass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It was the most earnest ambition I ever had....Not that I ever really wanted to be a preacher, but because it never occurred to me that a preacher could be damned. It looked like a safe job."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with the blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A healthy and wholesome cheerfulness is not necessarily impossible to any occupation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A group of men in evening clothes looks like a flock of crows, and is just about as inspiring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is my custom to keep on talking until I get the audience cowed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is wrong. There is no other time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is easier to manufacture seven facts out of whole cloth than one emotion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: History teaches us that whenever a weak and ignorant people possess a thing which a strong and enlightened people want, it must be yielded up peaceably."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Conductor, when you receive a fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare. A blue trip slip for an eight-cent fare, A buff trip slip for a six-cent fare, A pink trip slip for a three-cent fare, Punch in the presence of the passenjare! Punch, brothers! punch with care! Punch in the presence of the passenjare!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: No one has ever seen a Republican mass meeting that was devoid of the perception of the ludicrous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In prayer we call ourselves 'worms of the dust', but it is only on a sort of tacit understanding that the remark shall not be taken at par."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The lie, as a virtue, a principle, is eternal; the lie, as a recreation, a solace, a refuge in time of need, the fourth Grace, the tenth Muse, man's best and surest friend is immortal"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Eternal rest sounds comforting in the pulpit; well, you try it once, and see how heavy time will hang on your hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: And so I am become a knight of the Kingdom of Dreams and Shadows"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The two Great Unknowns, the two Illustrious Conjecturabilities! They are the best known unknown persons that have ever drawn breath upon the planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There's some human instinct which makes a man treasure what he is not to make any use of, because everybody does not possess it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The castle-building habit, the day-dreaming habit - how it grows! what a luxury it becomes; how we fly to its enchantments at every idle moment, how we revel in them, steep our souls in them, intoxicate ourselves with their beguiling fantasies - oh, yes, and how soon and how easily our dream-life and our material life become so intermingled and so fused together that we can't quite tell which is which, anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Was it my conspicuousness that distressed me? Not at all. It was merely that I was not beautifully conspicuous but uglily conspicuous - it makes all the difference in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is not in the least likely that any life has ever been lived which was not a failure in the secret judgment of the person who lived it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: This autobiography of mine is a mirror, and I am looking at myself in it all the time. Incidentally I notice the people that pass along at my back - I get glimpses of them in the mirror - and whenever they say or do anything that can help advertise me and flatter me and raise me in my own estimation, I set these things down in my autobiography."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A man may plan as much as he wants to, but nothing of consequence is likely to come of it until the magician circumstance steps in and takes the matter off his hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I am living a new and exalted life of late. It steeps me in a sacred rapture to see a portrait develop and take soul under my hand. First, I throw off a study - just a mere study, a few apparently random lines - and to look at it you would hardly ever suspect who it was going to be; even I cannot tell, myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I believe I have had the most trouble with a portrait which I painted in installments - the head on one canvas and the bust on another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: No, I have no desire for riches. Honest poverty and a conscience, torpid through virtuous inaction, are more to me than corner lots and praise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: But soft you, the fair Ophelia: Ope not thy ponderous and marble jaws, But get thee to a nunnery - go!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: They spell it da Vinci and pronounce it da Vinchy. Foreigners always spell better than they pronounce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I reverently believe that the Maker who made us all makes everything in New England but the weather. I don't know who makes that, but I think it must be raw apprentices in the weather clerk's factory who experiment and learn how, in New England, for board and clothes, and then are promoted to make weather for countries that require a good article, and will take their custom elsewhere if they don't get it..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is poison - rank poison - to knuckle down to care and hardships. They must come to us all, albeit in different shapes, and we may not escape them. It is not possible. But we may swindle them out of half of their puissance with a stiff upper lip."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: As a rule we develop a borrowed European idea forward, and ... Europe develops a borrowed American idea backwards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Thanksgiving day. Let us all give humble, hearty, and sincere thanks now, but the turkeys."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We like to read about rich people in the newspapers; the papers know it, and they do their best to keep this appetite liberally fed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The community is eminently Portuguese - that is to say, it is slow, poor, shiftless, sleepy, and lazy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You ought never to sass old people- unless they sass you first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Drop this mean and sordid and selfish devotion to the saving of your shabby little souls, and hunt up something to do that's got some dignity to it! Risk your souls! Risk them in good causes; then if you lose them, why should you care? Reform!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Even the clearest and most perfect circumstantial evidence is likely to be at fault, after all, and therefore ought to be received with great caution. Take the case of any pencil, sharpened by any woman; if you have witnesses, you will find she did it with a knife; but if you take simply the aspect of the pencil, you will say that she did it with her teeth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We all know about the habits of the ant, we know all about the habits of the bee, but we know nothing at all about the habits of the oyster. It seems almost certain that we have been choosing the wrong time for studying the oyster."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Frankenstein took some flesh and bones and blood and made a man out of them; the man ran away and fell to raping and robbing and murdering everywhere, and Frankenstein was horrified and in despair, and said, I made him, without asking his consent, and it makes me responsible for every crime he commits. I am the criminal, he is innocent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I can speak French but I cannot understand it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There are no witches. The witch text remains; only the practice has changed. Hell fire is gone, but the text remains. Infant damnation is gone, but the text remains. More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the texts that authorized them remain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Where was the use, originally, in rushing this whole globe through in six days? It is likely that if more time had been taken in the first place, the world would have been made right, and this ceaseless improving and repairing would not be necessary now. But if you hurry a world or a house, you are nearly sure to find out by and by that you have left out a towhead, or a broom-closet, or some other little convenience, here and there, which has got to be supplied, no matter how much expense or vexation it may cost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher\u00b4s soft heart to run away with his soft head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Twenty-four years ago I was strangely handsome; in San Francisco in the rainy season I was often mistaken for fair weather."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The observance of Thanksgiving Day-as a function-has become general of late years. The Thankfulness is not so general. This is natural. Two-thirds of the nation have always had hard luck and a hard time during the year, and this has a calming effect upon their enthusiasm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Always obey your parents. When they are present. This is the best policy in the long run. Because if you don't, they will make you. Most parents think they know better than you do, and you can generally make more by humoring that superstition than you can by acting on your own better judgment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: No man that has ever lived has done a thing to please God--primarily. It was done to please himself, then God next."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Warm summer sun, shine kindly here. Warm southern wind, blow softly here. Green sod above, lie light, lie light. Good night, dear Heart, Good night, good night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: When one reads Bibles, one is less surprised at what the Deity knows than at what He doesn't know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: In God We Trust.  It is the choicest compliment that has ever been paid us, and the most gratifying to our feelings.  It is simple, direct, gracefully phrased; it always sounds well - In God We Trust.  I don't believe it would sound any better if it were true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Foreigners cannot enjoy our food, I suppose, any more than we can enjoy theirs. It is not strange; for tastes are made, not born. I might glorify my bill of fare until I was tired; but after all, the Scotchman would shake his head and say, 'Where's your haggis?' and the Fijan would sigh and say, 'Where's your missionary?'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You can never find a Christian who has acquired this valuable knowledge, this saving knowledge, by any process but the everlasting and all-sufficient 'people say.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: If the bubble reputation can be obtained only at the cannon's mouth, I am willing to go there for it, provided the cannon is empty. If it is loaded my immortal and inflexible purpose is to get over the fence and go home. My invariable practice in war has been to bring out of every fight two-thirds more men than when I went in. This seems to me Napoleonic in its grandeur."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A wanton waste of projectiles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: The motto stated a lie. If this nation has ever trusted in God, that time has gone by; for nearly half a century almost its entire trust has been in the Republican party and the dollar--mainly the dollar. I recognize that I am only making an assertion and furnishing no proof; I am sorry, but this is a habit of mine; sorry also that I am not alone in it; everybody seems to have this disease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Now I can only pray that there may be a God -- and a heaven -- or something better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: None of us can be as great as God, but any of us can be as good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Humorists of the 'mere' sort cannot survive. Humor is only a fragrance, a decoration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Humor must be one of the chief attributes of God. Plants and animals that are distinctly humorous in form and characteristics are God's jokes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Baseball is the very symbol, the outward and visible expression of the drive and push and rush and struggle of the raging, tearing, booming nineteenth century."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Where are there are two desires in a man's heart he has no choice between the two but must obey the strongest, there being no such thing as free will in the composition of any human being that ever lived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: He does not care for flowers. Calls them rubbish, and cannot tell one from another, and thinks it is superior to feel like that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: That is a simple rule, and easy to remember. When I, a thoughtful and unblessed Presbyterian, examine the Koran, I know that beyond any question every Mohammedan is insane; not in all things, but in religious matters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Frankness is a jewel; only the young can afford it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Authorship is not a trade, it is an inspiration; authorship does not keep an office, its habitation is all out under the sky, and everywhere the winds are blowing and the sun is shining and the creatures of God are free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: You thunder and lightning too much; the reader ceases to get under the bed, by and by."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Women cannot receive even the most palpably judicious suggestion without arguing it; that is, married women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: I have traveled more than anyone else, and I have noticed that even the angels speak English with an accent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Training- training is everything; training is all there is to a person. We speak of nature; it is folly; there is no such thing as nature; what we call by that misleading name is merely heredity and training. We have no thoughts of our own, no opinions of our own; they are transmitted to us, trained into us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: Annihilation has no terrors for me, because I have already tried it before I was born --a hundred million years --and I have suffered more in an hour, in this life, than I remember to have suffered in the whole hundred million years put together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: We adore titles and heredities in our hearts and ridicule them with our mouths. This is our democratic privilege."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mark Twain: But that's always the way; it don't make no difference whether you do right or wrong, a person's conscience ain't got no sense, and just goes for him anyway.  If I had a yaller dog that didn't know no more than a person's conscience does I would pison him.  It takes up more room than all the rest of a person's insides, and yet ain't no good, nohow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Good to evil seems evil"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Looking back over a lifetime, you see that love was the answer to everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We are cups, constantly and quietly being filled. The trick is knowing how to tip ourselves over and let the beautiful stuff out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Through lack of education, we're not teaching kids to read and write. So there is the danger that you raise up a generation of morons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Action is hope. There is no hope without action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The television, that insidious beast, that Medusa which freezes a billion people to stone every night, staring fixedly, that Siren which called and sang and promised so much and gave, after all, so little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: A book is a loaded gun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The minute you get a religion you stop thinking. Believe in one thing too much and you have no room for new ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Your intuition knows what to write, so get out of the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators, the word 'intellectual,' of course, became the swear word it deserved to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while. How long is it since you were really bothered? About something important, about something real?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good, you have to practice, practice, practice. If you don't love something, then don't do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Insanity is relative. It depends on who has who locked in what cage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it. Better yet, build it. Predicting the future is much too easy, anyway. You look at the people around you, the street you stand on, the visible air you breathe, and predict more of the same. To hell with more. I want better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I have never listened to anyone who criticized my taste in space travel, sideshows or gorillas. When this occurs, I pack up my dinosaurs and leave the room."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I don't believe in government. I hate politics. I'm against it. And I hope that sometime this fall, we can destroy part of our government, and next year destroy even more of it. The less government, the happier I will be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: If you enjoy living, it is not difficult to keep the sense of wonder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with everybody else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Some people turn sad awfully young. No special reason, it seems, but they seem almost to be born that way. They bruise easier, tire faster, cry quicker, remember longer and, as I say, get sadder younger than anyone else in the world. I know, for I'm one of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You're afraid of making mistakes. Don't be. Mistakes can be profited by. Man, when I was young I shoved my ignorance in people's faces. They beat me with sticks. By the time I was forty my blunt instrument had been honed to a fine cutting point for me. If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Living at risk is jumping off the cliff and building your wings on the way down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I don't try to describe the future. I try to prevent it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: There was always a minority afraid of something, and a great majority afraid of the dark, afraid of the future, afraid of the past, afraid of the present, afraid of themselves and shadows of themselves"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: If you stuff yourself full of poems, essays, plays, stories, novels, films, comic strips, magazines, music, you automatically explode every morning like Old Faithful. I have never had a dry spell in my life, mainly because I feed myself well, to the point of bursting. I wake early and hear my morning voices leaping around in my head like jumping beans. I get out of bed to trap them before they escape."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, \"I shall do a story to improve mankind.\" Well, it's nonsense. All the great stories, all the really worthwhile plays, are emotional experiences. If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. A story is the same way. You either feel a story and need to write it, or you better not write it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The important thing is to be in love with something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I\u2019ve learned that by doing things, things get done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Death doesn't exist. It never did, it never will. But we've drawn so many pictures of it, so many years, trying to pin it down, comprehend it, we've got to thinking of it as an entity, strangely alive and greedy. All it is, however, is a stopped watch, a loss, an end, a darkness. Nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts. Whose people passing at night on the empty walks sound like rain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: A life's work should be based on love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The problem in our country isn't with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us - it's all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. The average TV ad has 120 images a minute. Everything just falls off your mind. You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I believe the universe created us - we are an audience for miracles. In that sense, I guess, I'm religious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Work is the only answer. I have three rules to live by. One, get your work done. If that doesn't work, shut up and drink your gin. And when all else fails, run like hell!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Don't think about things, just do them; don't predict them, just make them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You knew the sweetness of now, now, TONIGHT! who cares for tomorrow, tomorrow is nothing, yesterday is over and done, tonight live, tonight!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I don't think about what I do. I do it. That's Buddhism. I jump off the cliff and build my wings on the way down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We need not to be let alone. We need to be really bothered once in a while."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: If you love people you criticize them, and if you don't love them you don't criticize them, you let them go to hell, don't you? To help any kind of friendship, your marriage, your children, you criticize because you love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Every morning I jump out of bed and step on a landmine. The landmine is me. After the explosion, I spent the rest of the day putting the pieces together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Stuff your eyes with wonder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I don't decide. My secret self decides. I just go with my subconscious. If it wants to do a poem, I do a poem, and if it wants to do a play, I do a play. So I'm not in charge, I'm not in control."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Last night I thought about all the kerosene I've used in the past ten years. And I thought about books. And for the first time I realized that a man was behind each one of the books. A man had to think them up. A man had to take a long time to put them down on paper. And I'd never even thought that thought before...It took some man a lifetime maybe to put some of his thoughts down, looking around at the world and life, and then I come along in two minutes and boom! it's all over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: A science fiction story is just an attempt to solve a problem that exists in the world, sometimes a moral problem, sometimes a physical or social or theological problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: My stories run up and bite me on the leg - I respond by writing down everything that goes on during the bite. When I finish, the idea lets go and runs off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: But souls can't be sold. They can only be lost and never found again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The important thing of any time you live in is to be in love yourself. You float above your time then. It's what you want that counts, not what your time wants."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: To feed your Muse, then, you should always have been hungry about life since you were a child. If not, it is a little late to start."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: A conglomerate heap of trash, that's what I am. But it burns with a high flame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Any carefully planned thing destroys the creativity. You can't think your way through a story; you have to live it. So, you don't build a story; you allow it to explode."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: ...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: In my later years I have looked in the mirror each day and found a happy person staring back. Occasionally I wonder why I can be so happy. The answer is that every day of my life I've worked only for myself and for the joy that comes from writing and creating. The image in my mirror is not optimistic, but the result of optimal behavior."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: There is only one type of story in the world-your story."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: There's a lot of crap out there. Most of the science fiction films alone are abominations, you know. They're mindless. So you can't learn from those kinds of films."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I don't like realism. We already know the real facts about li[fe], most of the basic facts. I'm not interested in repeating what we already know. We know about sex, about violence, about murder, about war. All these things, by the time we're 18, we're up to here. From there on we need interpreters. We need poets. We need philosophers. We need theologians, who take the same basic facts and work with them and help us make do with those facts. Facts alone are not enough. It's interpretation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I've never been in charge of my stories, they've always been in charge of me. As each new one has called to me, ordering me to give it voice and form and life, I've followed the advice I've shared with other writers over the years: jump off the cliff and build your wings on the way down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We have everything we need to be happy, but we aren't happy. Something's missing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip, for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Do what you love, don't do anything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Everything is generated through your own will power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Most of my stories are ideas in action. In other words, I get a concept, and I let it run away. I find a character to act out the idea. And then the story takes care of itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: It didn't come from the Government down. There was no dictum, no declaration, no censorship, to start with, no! Technology, mass exploitation, and minority pressure carried the trick, thank God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I laugh until I weep And weep until I smile"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: There must be something in books, something we can\u2019t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don\u2019t stay for nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You grow ravenous. You run fevers. You know exhilarations. You can't sleep at night, because your beast-creature ideas want out and turn you in your bed. It is a grand way to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they!--when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We have our Arts so we won't die of Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Go out and make your own speeches. People need you. Go on TV. It can be done. After you speak up a few times, people say, \"Hey, we got a crazy man in the community,\" and they'll begin talking to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Mysteries abound where most we seek for answers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Facts quite often, I fear to confess, like lawyers, put me to sleep at noon. Not theories, however. Theories are invigorating and tonic. Give me an ounce of fact and I will produce you a ton of theory by tea this afternoon. That is, after all, my job."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Out in the world not much happened. But here in the special night, a land bricked with paper and leather anything might happen, always did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I don't talk things, sir. I talk the meaning of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We have too many cellphones. We've got too many internets. We have got to get rid of those machines. We have too many machines now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You don't pay any attention to anything anyone else says, no opinions. The important thing is to explode with a story, to emotionalize a story, not to think it. You start thinking - the story's going to die on its feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Fantasies are things that can't happen, and science fiction is about things that can happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: But you can't make people listen. They have to come round in their own time, wondering what happened and why the world blew up around them. It can't last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: ...if you are writing without zest, without gusto, without love, without fun, you are only half a writer. It means you are so busy keeping one eye on the commercial market, or one ear peeled for the avant-garde coterie, that you are not being yourself. You don't even know yourself. For the first thing a writer should be is-- excited. He should be a thing of fevers and enthusiasms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: All of my writing is God-given."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You don\u2019t question Providence. If you can\u2019t have the reality, a dream is just as good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/FourSquareGospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain porridge unleavened literature, licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Don't write for money. Write because you love to do something. If you write for money, you won't write anything worth reading."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Screenplays are not writing. They're a fake form of writing. It's a lot of dialogue and very little atmosphere. Very little description. Very little character work. It's very dangerous. You'll never learn to write."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I did what most writers do at their beginnings: emulated my elders, imitated my peers, thus turning away from any possibility of discovering truths beneath my skin and behind my eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: All of us, no matter how we look born into this world, feel something like the Hunchback. It doesn't matter if you have a beautiful face or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn't exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The history of science fiction started in the caves 20,000 years ago. The ideas on the walls of the cave were problems to be solved. It's problem solving. Primitive scientific knowledge, primitive dreams, primitive blueprinting: to solve problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Why love the woman who is your wife? Her nose breathes in the air of a world that I know; therefore I love that nose. Her ears hear music I might sing half the night through; therefore I love her ears. Her eyes delight in seasons of the land; and so I love those eyes. Her tongue knows quince, peach, chokeberry, mint and lime; I love to hear it speaking. Because her flesh knows heat, cold, affliction, I know fire, snow, and pain. Shared and once again shared experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: A stranger is shot in the street, you hardly move to help. But if, half an hour before, you spent just ten minutes with the fellow and knew a little about him and his family, you might just jump in front of his killer and try to stop it. Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know is bad, or amoral, at least. You can\u2019t act if you don\u2019t know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: If I was ever a rare fine summer person, that's long ago. Most of us are half-and-half. The August noon in us works to stave off the November chills. We survive by what little Fourth of July wits we've stashed away. But there are times when we're all autumn people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: And he remembered thinking then that if she died, he was certain he wouldn't cry. For it would be the dying face of an unknown, a street face, a newspaper image, and it was suddenly so very wrong that he had begun to cry, not at death but at the thought of not crying at death, a silly empty man near a silly empty woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Life is like underwear, should be changed twice a day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Our civilization is flinging itself to pieces. Stand back from the centrifuge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Into the air, over the valleys, under the stars, above a river, a pond, a road, flew Cecy. Invisible as new spring winds, fresh as the breath of clover rising from twilight fields, she flew."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: There is no future for e-books, because they are not books. E-books smell like burned fuel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: If teachers and grammar school editors find my jawbreaker sentences shatter their mushmilk teeth, let them eat stale cake dunked in weak tea of their own ungodly manufacture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Poverty made a sound like a wet cough in the shadows of the room."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: It was a pleasure to burn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband patiently. 'Our scientists have said there's far too much oxygen in their atmosphere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: He stood breathing, and the more he breathed the land in, the more he was filled up with all the details of the land. He was not empty. There was more than enough here to fill him. There would always be more than enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: First of all, it was October, a rare month for boys."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I'm seventeen and I'm crazy. My uncle says the two always go together. When people ask your age, he said, always say seventeen and insane."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Oh God, the terrible tyranny of the majority. We all have our harps to play. And it's up to you to know with which ear you'll listen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The gods had gone away, and the ritual of the religion continued senselessly, uselessly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The sun burnt every day. It burnt time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We are all . . . children of this universe. Not just Earth, or Mars, or this system, but the whole grand fireworks. And if we are interested in Mars at all, it is only because we wonder over our past and worry terribly about our possible future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I'm interested in having fun with ideas, throwing them up in the air like confetti and then running under them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The women in my life have all been librarians, English teachers, or booksellers. If they couldn't speak pidgin Tolstoy, articulate Henry James, or give me directions to Usher and Ox, it was no go. I have always longed for education, and pillow talk's the best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Why the Egyptian, Arabic, Abyssinian, Choctaw? Well, what tongue does the wind talk? What nationality is a storm? What country do rains come from? What color is lightning? Where does thunder goe when it dies?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: These are all novels, all about people that never existed, the people that read them it makes them unhappy with their own lives. Makes them want to live in other ways they can never really be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: A good night sleep, or a ten minute bawl, or a pint of chocolate ice cream, or all three together, is good medicine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Suddenly the day was gone, night came out from under each tree and spread."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Without libraries what have we? We have no past and no future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We were put here as witnesses to the miracle of life. We see the stars, and we want them. We are beholden to give back to the universe. If we make landfall on another star system, we become immortal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: My job is to help you fall in love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We meet on the common ground of an uncommon age and share out our gifts of dark and light, good and bad, simple joy and not so simple sorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: In sum, do not insult me with the beheadings, finger choppings or the lung-deflations you plan for my works. I need my head to shake or nod, my hand to wave or make into a fist, my lungs to shout or whisper with. I will not go gently onto a shelf, degutted, to become a non-book. All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try. And no one can help me. Not even you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: In that film Love Story, there's a line, \"Love means never having to say you're sorry.\" That's the dumbest thing I ever heard. Love means saying you're sorry every day for some little thing or other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Digression is the soul of wit. Take the philosophic asides away from Dante, Milton or Hamlet's father's ghost and what stays is dry bones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: What are the best things and the worst things in your life, and when are you going to get around to whispering or shouting them?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Venice was and is full of lost places where people put up for sale the last worn bits of their souls, hoping no one will buy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The average TV commercial of sixty seconds has one hundred and twenty half-second clips in it, or one-third of a second. We bombard people with sensation. That substitutes for thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You can\u2019t learn to write in college. It\u2019s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do-and they don\u2019t. They have prejudices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Well, after all, this is the age of the disposable tissue. Blow your nose on a person, wad them, flush them away, reach for another, blow, wad, flush. Everyone using everyone else's coattails. How are you supposed to root for the home team when you don't even have a program or know the names? For that matter, what color jersey's are they reading as they trot out to the feild?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The autumn leaves blew over the moonlit pavement in such a way as to make the girl who was moving there seem fixed to a sliding walk, letting the motion of the wind and the leaves carry her forward. [...] The trees overhead made a great sound of letting down their dry rain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Science fiction is the most important literature in the history of the world, because it's the history of ideas, the history of our civilization birthing itself. ...Science fiction is central to everything we've ever done, and people who make fun of science fiction writers don't know what they're talking about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Those who live in the best cliffs think they are better than us. That is always man's attitude when he has power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We must move into the universe. Mankind must save itself. We must escape the danger of war and politics. We must become astronauts and go out into the universe and discover the God in ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: ...passing swiftly on toward further darknesses, but moving also toward a new sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: It doesn't matter what you do...so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Why would you clone people when you can go to bed with them and make a baby? C'mon, it's stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Only if the third necessary thing could be given us. Number one, as I said: quality of information. Number two: leisure to digest it. And number three: the right to carry out actions based on what we learn from the interaction of the first two."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Life should be touched, not strangled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Long before you knew what death was you were wishing it on someone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: At the top of your lungs, shout and listen to the echoes. You must live life at the top of your voice!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I shall remain on Mars and read a book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I'm not a serious person, and I don't like serious people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You don't have to worry about the future, you don't worry about the past - you just explode."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: No person ever died that had a family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Write what you love and love what you write."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: My passions drive me to the typewriter every day of my life, and they have driven me there since I was twelve. So I never have to worry about schedules. Some new thing is always exploding in me, and it schedules me, I don\u2019t schedule it. It says: Get to the typewriter right now and finish this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Touch a scientist and you touch a child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Why is it,\" he said, one time, at the subway entrance, \"I feel I've known you so many years?\" \"Because I like you,\" she said, \"and I don't want anything from you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We earth men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family. I'll be around a long time. A thousand years from now, a whole township of my offspring will be biting sour apples in the gumwood shade."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Video games are a waste of time for men with nothing else to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Beer's intellectual. What a shame so many idiots drink it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I have four daughters and eight grandchildren. My soul lives on in them. That's immortality. That's the only immortality I care about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I'm so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don't have the guts to take their names out of the book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I have spent my life going from mania to mania. Somehow it has all paid off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You ask Why to a lot of things and you wind up very unhappy indeed, if you keep at it. The poor girl's better off dead"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Everyone has a telephone. Whether they can afford it or not. It's one of those things that people have, regardless of their income."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The automobile is the most dangerous weapon in our society - cars kill more than wars do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Men read science fiction to build the future. Women don't need to read it. They are the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I believe in having fun first, and along the way, if you teach people, if you influence people, well and good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: When I started writing seriously, I made the major discovery of my life - that I am right and everybody else is wrong if they disagree with me. What a great thing to learn: Don't listen to anyone else, and always go your own way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M. So as not to be dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Miraculously, smoke curled out of his own mouth, his nose, his ears, his eyes, as if his soul had been extinguished within his lungs at the very moment the sweet pumpkin gave up its incensed ghost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: When you reach the stars, boy, yes, and live there forever, all the fears will go, and Death himself will die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Those who don't build must burn. It's as old as history and juvenile delinquents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Hello!\" He said hello and then said, \"What are you up to now?\" \"I'm still crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it. \"I don't think I'd like that,\" he said. \"You might if you tried.\" \"I never have.\" She licked her lips. \"Rain even tastes good.\" \"What do you do, go around trying everything once?\" he asked. \"Sometimes twice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion now. It's learning how to breathe all over again. And how to lie in the sun getting a tan, letting the sun work into you. And how to hear music and how to read a book. What does your civilization offer?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Do you ever read any of the books you burn?\" He laughed. \"That's against the law!\" \"Oh. Of course."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth. Such are the autumn people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Self-consciousness is the enemy of all art, be it acting, writing, painting, or living itself, which is the greatest art of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is gift and a privilege, not a right. We must earn life once it has been awarded us. Life asks for rewards back because it has favored us with animation. So while our art cannot, as we wish it could, save us from wars, privation, envy, greed, old age, or death, it can revitalize us amidst it all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: They stood there, King of the Hill, Top of the Heap, Ruler of All They Surveyed, Unimpeachable Monarchs and Presidents, trying to understand what it meant to own a world and how big a world really was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: If you're reluctant to weep, you won't live a full and complete life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The sun burnt every day. It burnt Time. The world rushed in a circle and turned on its axis and time was busy burning the years and the people anyway, without any help from him. So if he burnt things with the firemen, and the sun burnt Time, that meant everything burnt!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: It is good to renew one's wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You should love literature. You should live in the library. Forget about films."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I'll tell you,\" said Beatty, smiling at his cards. \"That made you for a little while a drunkard. Read a few lines and off you go over the cliff. Bang, you're ready to blow up the world, chop off heads, knock down women and children, destroy authority. I know. I've been through it all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: In science fiction, we dream. In order to colonize in space, to rebuild our cities, which are so far out of whack, to tackle any number of problems, we must imagine the future, including the new technologies that are required."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The terrible tyranny of the majority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The gift of life is so precious that we should feel an obligation to pay back the universe for the gift of being alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I believe in Darwin and God together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Science and religion have to go hand in hand with the mystery, because there's a certain point beyond which you say, \"There are no answers.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I don't believe in being serious about anything. I think life is too serious to be taken seriously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We've let too much time go by. We've been busy with war instead of being busy with peace. And that's what space travel is all about. It's all about peace and exploration and wonder and beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I don't like being up high. It took me three days to get to the top of the Eiffel Tower."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: How many times can a man go down and still be alive?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: My characters talk to one another, and when it reaches a certain pitch of excitement I jump out of bed and run and trap them before they are gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: That country whose people are autumn people, thinking only autumn thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Everything is generated through your own will power. You don't have to do anything you don't want to do. This is a democracy. You go where you want to go and do what you want to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Somewhere in him, a shadow turned mournfully over. You had to run with a night like this so the sadness could not hurt"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I'm numb and I'm tired. Too much has happened today. I feel as if I'd been out in a pounding rain for forty-eight hours without an umbrella or a coat. I'm soaked to the skin with emotion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Oh, what strange wonderful clocks women are. They nest in Time. They make the flesh that holds fast and binds eternity. They live inside the gift, know power, accept, and need not mention it. Why speak of time when you are Time, and shape the universal moments, as they pass, into warmth and action?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Joy is the grace we say to God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Those women like to see their tongues dance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Those who don't build must burn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: People ask me to predict the future, when all I want to do is prevent it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: But no man's a hero to himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better\u2026 And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn\u2019t do that for you. I\u2019m sorry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I am not a science fiction writer. I am a fantasy writer. But the label got put on me and stuck."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: All you umpires, back to the bleachers. Referees, hit the showers. It's my game. I pitch, I hit, I catch. I run the bases. At sunset, I've won or lost. At sunrise, I'm out again, giving it the old try."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: There's no reason to burn books if you don't read them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Do you know that books smell like nutmeg or some spice from a foreign land? I loved to smell them when I was a boy. Lord, there were a lot of lovely books once, before we let them go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I've always known that the quality of love was the mind, even though the body sometimes refuses this knowledge. The body lives for itself. It lives only to feed and wait for the night. It's essentially nocturnal. But what of the mind which is born of the sun, William, and must spend thousands of hours of a lifetime awake and aware? Can you balance off the body, that pitiful, selfish thing of night against a whole lifetime of sun and intellect? I don't know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it\u2019ll make sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I never went to college, so I went to the library."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Find out what your hero or heroine wants, and when he or she wakes up in the morning, just follow him or her all day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You must never name the goal. You must never tell us the target you're hitting for. You must automatically go toward it without ever naming it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Your mind's always juggling, isn't it?-mirrors, torches, plates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: All isn't well with the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: What church could compete with the fireworks of the pure soul?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past - a combination of both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: All flesh is one: what matter scores; Or color of the suit Or if the helmet glints with blue or gold? All is one bold achievement, All is fine spring-found-again-in-autumn day When juices run in antelopes along our blood, And green our flag, forever green..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Space travel is life-enhancing, and anything that's life-enhancing is worth doing. It makes you want to live forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: And there, row upon row, with the soft gleam of flowers opened at morning, with the light of this June sun glowing through a faint skin of dust, would stand the dandelion wine. Peer through it at the wintry day - the snow melted to grass, the trees were reinhabitated with bird, leaf, and blossoms like a continent of butterflies breathing on the wind. And peering through, color sky from iron to blue. Hold summer in your hand, pour summer in a glass, a tiny glass of course, the smallest tingling sip for children; change the season in your veins by raising glass to lip and tilting summer in"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: It was in their friendship they just wanted to run forever, shadow and shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Cram them full of non-combustible data, chock them so damned full of 'facts' they feel stuffed, but absolutely 'brilliant' with information. Then they\u2019ll feel they\u2019re thinking, they\u2019ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they\u2019ll be happy, because facts of that sort don\u2019t change. Don\u2019t give them any slippery stuff like philosophy or sociology to tie things up with. That way lies melancholy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: That's the wonderful thing about man; he never gets so discouraged or disgusted that he gives up doing it all over again, because he knows very well it is important and WORTH the doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The purpose of fiction is not to nail you to the ground as facts do, but to take you to the edge of the cliff and kick you off so you build your wings on the way down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You can't learn to write that way - by writing directly for the screen. Wait until you're 30. But in the meantime write 200 short stories. You've got to learn how to write!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: People try to force things. It's disastrous. Just leave your mind alone. Your intuition knows what it wants to write, so get out of the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The whole concept of higher education is negated unless the sole criterion used to determine if students qualify is the grades they score on standardized tests. Education is purely an issue of learning - we can no longer afford to have it polluted by damn politics. Leave pollution up to the politicians"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Sometimes you have intuitive insight about how you think things are going to be, and you write that. Other times you fantasize completely, which has nothing to do with predicting the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The Greek philosophies teach us that we are a combination of dark and light, good and evil, and murderer and savior, hmm? And until we know this completely about ourselves we cannot love well, and we cannot forgive ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Mars is empty now. Five hundred years from now, it'll be full of people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Science fiction is a great way to pretend you are writing about the future when in reality you are attacking the recent past and the present. You can criticize communists, racists, fascists or any other clear and present danger, and they can't imagine you are writing about them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I believe in creative failing - to contine to write poems that fail and fail and fail until a day comes when you've got a thousand poems behind you and you're relaxed and you finally write a good poem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Kids love me because I write stories that tell them about their capacity for evil. I'm one of the few writers who lets you cleanse yourself that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The world doesn't give a damn about you unless you do something. Those are the rules; I didn't make them. If you are lazy, if you don't get the work that you love done, the world won't care if you die tomorrow and go into the grave and are gone and forgotten forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: There are certain kinds of people who write science fiction. I think a lot of us married late. A lot of us are mama's boys. I lived at home until I was 27. But most of the writers I know in any field, especially science fiction, grew up late. They're so interested in doing what they do and in their science, they don't think about other things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: As a result of reading science fiction when I was eight, I grew up with an interest in music, architecture, city planning, transportation, politics, ethics, aesthetics on any level, art...it's just total! It's a complete commitment to the whole human race on all the Earth. That's what science fiction is about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The most dangerous thing you can do is know who you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: My stories are warnings; they're not predictions. If they were predictions, I wouldn't do them. Because then I'd be part of the doom-ridden psychology. But every time I name a problem, I try to give a solution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: When you grow up in science fiction you grow up in everything! It's the greatest and only field worth growing up in. It's the total field."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: If someone sends you a love letter you've got to answer back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I'm trying to teach people of all ages to, number one: how to criticize, how to offer creative analysis on top of that, how to try to build things in a new direction and how to compliment people when the thing gets done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: There are too many of us, he thought. There are billions of us and that's too many. Nobody knows anyone. Strangers come and violate you. Strangers come and cut your heart out. Strangers come and take your blood. Good God, who were those men? I never saw them before in my life!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You either have an imaginative mind or you don't. All of my writing is God-given. I don't write my stories - they write themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I am a dedicated madman, and that becomes its own training. If you can't resist, if the typewriter is like candy to you, you train yourself for a lifetime. Every single day of your life, some wild new thing to be done. You write to please yourself. You write for the joy of writing. Then your public reads you and it begins to gather around your selling a potato peeler in an alley, you know. The enthusiasm, the joy itself draws me. So that means every day of my life I've written. When the joy stops, I'll stop writing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Old men only lie in wait for people to ask them to talk. Then they rattle on like a rusty elevator wheezing up a shaft."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: To solve the drug problem, we have to start at the root - first grade. If a boy has all the toys in his head that reading can give him, and you hook him into science fiction, then you've got the future secured."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I was partially raised by an aunt who was a dress designer, so I was around her studio all of my early life. I know materials. I can look through Harper's Bazaar and decide what works and what doesn't, or any other magazine, Seventeen if you wish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: My parents read the comics to me, and I fell in love with comic strips. I've collected them all of my life. I have a complete collection of all the \"Buck Rogers\" Sunday funnies and daily paper strips, I have all of \"Prince Valiant\" put away, all of \"Tarzan,\" which appeared in the Sunday funnies in 1932 right on up through high school. So I've learned a lot from reading comics as a child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Most members of Congress are politicians. They're bores. They're damn boring. They have no imagination, and they don't know how to imagine the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We're a free society; we've got television. We have radio. We have newspapers. We have the videocassette, which is coming into play. These are new freedoms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I\u2019m the thing you most desire, you represent the thing I least desire, death. It\u2019s just the opposite of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: ...trees to cool the towns in the boiling summer, trees to hold back the winter winds. There were so many things a tree could do: add color, provide shade, drop fruit, or become a children's playground, a whole sky universe to climb and hang from; an architecture of food and pleasure, that was a tree. But most of all the trees would distill an icy air for the lungs, and a gentle rustling for the ear when you lay nights in your snowy bed and were gentled to sleep by the sound."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I have something to fight for and live for; that makes me a better killer. I've got what amounts to a religion , now ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: All silence is. All emptiness. And now: The dawn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Beware the autumn people"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We Earth Men have a talent for ruining big, beautiful things. The only reason we didn't set up hot-dog stands in the midst of the Egyptian temple of Karnak is because it was out of the way and served no large commercial purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Garrett,\" said Stendahl, \"do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I ate them like salad, books were my sandwich for lunch, my tiffin and dinner and midnight munch. I tore out the pages, ate them with salt, doused them with relish, gnawed on the bindings, turned the chapters with my tongue! Books by the dozen, the score and the billion. I carried so many home I was hunchbacked for years. Philosophy, art history, politics, social science, the poem, the essay, the grandiose play, you name 'em, I ate 'em."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped reading of its own accord."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Important thing is not the me that's lying here, but the me that's sitting on the edge of the bed looking back at me, and the me that's downstairs cooking supper, or out in the garage under the car, or in the library reading. All the new parts, they count. I'm not really dying today. No person ever died that had a family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: He felt his smile slide away, melt, fold over and down on itself like a tallow skin, like the stuff of a fantastic candle burning too long and now collapsing and now blown out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Monday burn Millay, Wednesday Whitman, Friday Faulkner, burn 'em to ashes, then burn the ashes. That's our official slogan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Putting out the stars and extinguishing the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I never consciously place symbolism in my writing. That would be a self-conscious exercise and self-consciousness is defeating to any creative act. Better to get the subconscious to do the work for you, and get out of the way. The best symbolism is always unsuspected and natural. During a lifetime, one saves up information which collects itself around centers in the mind; these automatically become symbols on a subliminal level and need only be summoned in the heat of writing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Nobody listens anymore. I can't talk to the walls because they're yelling at me, I can't talk to my wife; she listens to the walls. I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough it'll make sense. And I want you to teach me to understand what I read."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Don't they get afraid, then?\" \"They have a religion for that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The home environment can undo a lot you try to do at school."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Remember, Montag, we're the happiness boys. We stand against the small tide of those who want to make everyone unhappy with conflicting theory and thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The psychiatrist wants to know why I go out and hike around in the forests and watch the birds and collect butterflies. I'll show you my collection some day.Good.They want to know what I do with my time. I tell them that sometimes I just sit and think. But I won't tell them what. I've got them running. And sometimes, I tell them, I like to put my head back, like this, and let the rain fall in my mouth. It tastes just like wine. Have you ever tried it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: From now on I hope always to educate myself as best I can. But lacking this, in future I will relaxedly turn back to my secret mind to see what it has observed when I thought I was sitting this one out. We never sit anything out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I love you and I forgive you. I am like you and you are like me. I love all people. I love the world. I love creating. Everything in our life should be based on love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: And when he died, I suddenly realized I wasn't crying for him at all, but for the things he did. I cried because he would never do them again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Mr. Montag, you are looking at a coward. I saw the way things were going a long time back. I said nothing. I am one of the innocents who could have spoken up and out when no one would listen to the 'guilty,' but I did not speak and thus became guilty myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever seventy. You're in the present, you're trapped in a young now or an old now, but there is no other now to be seen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Good writers touch life often."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: When the wind is right, a faint odor of kerosene is exhaled from Senator McCarthy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Here at this far lost end of the continent, where the trail wagons had stopped and the people with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The sun rose yellow as a lemon.The sky was round and blue.The birds looped clear water songs in the air.Will and Jim leaned from their windows.Nothing had changed.Except the look in Jim's eyes.Last night. . . said Will. Did or didn't it happen?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The trouble with Jim was he looked at the world and could not look away. And when you never look away all your life, by the time you are thirteen you have done twenty years taking in the laundry of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The only science fiction I have written is Fahrenheit 451. It's the art of the possible. Science fiction is the art of the possible. It could happen. It has happened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I started writing every day. I never stopped."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The train skimmed on softly, slithering, black pennants fluttering, black confetti lost on its own sick-sweet candy wind, down the hill, with the two boys pursuing, the air was so cold they ate ice cream with each breath."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The first stories I wrote when I was 12 were about Mars and landing on Mars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Far away, in the meadow, shadows flickered in the Mirror's Maze, as if parts of someone's life, yet unborn, were trapped there, waiting to be lived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The merry-go-round was running, yes, but... It was running backward. The small calliope inside the carousel machinery rattle-snapped its nervous-stallion shivering drums, clashed its harvest-moon cymbals, toothed its castanets, and throatily choked and sobbed its reeds, whistles, and baroque flutes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You're insane!\" \"I won't argue that point."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We are living in a time when flowers are trying to live on flowers, instead of on good rain and black loam."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: It was only the other night everything was fine and the next thing I know Im drowning. How many times can a man go down and still be alive? I can't breathe"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: For it is a mad world and it will get madder if we allow the minorities, be they dwarf or giant, orangutan or dolphin, nuclear-head or water-conversationalist, pro-computerologist or Neo-Luddite, simpleton or sage, to interfere with aesthetics. The real world is the playing ground for each and every group, to make or unmake laws. But the tip of the nose of my book or stories or poems is where their rights end and my territorial imperatives begin, run and rule."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The river was mild and leisurely, going away from the people who ate shadows for breakfast and steam for lunch and vapors for supper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Really knowing is good. Not knowing, or refusing to know, is bad, or amoral, at least. You can't act if you don't know. Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You're peculiar, you're aggravating, yet you're easy to forgive. You say you're seventeen?..How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: It's poor judgment', said Grandpa 'to call anything by a name. We don't know what a hobgoblin or a vampire or a troll is. Could be lots of things. You can't heave them into categories with labels and say they'll act one way or another. That'd be silly. They're people. People who do things. Yes, that's the way to put it. People who *do* things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: So in sum, what are we? We are the creatures that know and know too much. That leaves us with such a burden again we have a choice, to laugh or cry. No other animal does either. We do, depending on the season and the need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: There is more than one way to burn a book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I have fun with ideas; I play with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I often wonder if God recognizes His own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I write all of my novels and stories, as you have seen, in a great surge of delightful passion. Only recently, glancing at the novel, I realized that Montag is named after a paper manufacturing company. And Faber, of course, is a maker of pencils! What a sly thing my subconscious was, to name them thus. And not tell me!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: His flesh took paleness from his bones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Grandfather's been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint. He touched me. As I said earlier, he was a sculptor. 'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Most of us can't rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven't time, money or that many friends. The things you're looking for... are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I don't believe in colleges and universities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: ...We're allotted a little space on earth and that we survive in that wilderness that can take back what it has given, as easily as blowing its breath on us or sending the sea to tell us we are not so big. When we forget how close the wilderness is in the night, my grandpa said, someday it will come in and get us, for we will have forgotten how terrible and real it can be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: But we do need a breather. We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books are to remind us what asses and fools we are. They\u2019re Caesar\u2019s praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, \u2018Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.\u2019 Most of us can\u2019t rush around, talk to everyone, know all the cities of the world, we haven\u2019t time, money or that many friends. The things you\u2019re looking for, Montag, are in the world, but the only way the average chap will ever see ninety-nine per cent of them is in a book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: He wore his happiness like a mask and the girl had run off across the lawn with the mask and there was no way of going to knock on her door and ask for it back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: What are you up to now?\" \"I'm sill crazy. The rain feels good. I love to walk in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I felt a bit bookish, cut off from life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I feel like I\u2019ve been saving up a lot of things, and I don\u2019t know what."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: It could reach up and grab the moon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that, we will live forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: If you can't read and write you can't think. Your thoughts are dispersed if you don't know how to read and write. You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Ah, art! Ah, life! The pendulum swinging back and forth, from complex to simple, again to complex. From romantic to realistic, back to romantic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The jungle looked back at them with a vastness, a breathing moss-and-leaf silence, with a billion diamond and emerald insect eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I wonder how many men, hiding their youngness, rise as I do, Saturday mornings, filled with the hope that Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam and Daffy Duck will be there waiting as our one true always and forever salvation?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I\u2019m really alive! he thought. I never knew it before, or if I did I don\u2019t remember!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The stars are yours, if you have the head, the hands, and the heart for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Science-fiction balances you on the cliff. Fantasy shoves you off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon, last night. The others would never do that. The others would walk off and leave me talking. Or threaten me. No one has time any more for anyone else. You're one of the few who put up with me. That's why I think it's so strange you're a fireman, it just doesn't seem right for you, somehow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The books leapt and danced like roasted birds, their wings ablaze with red and yellow feathers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Halloween. Sly does it. Tiptoe catspaws. Slide and creep. But why? What for? How? Who? When! Where did it all begin? 'You don't know, do you?' asks Carapace Clavicle Moundshroud climbing out under the pile of leaves under the Halloween Tree. 'You don't really know!'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Acting without knowing takes you right off the cliff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Through neglect, ignorance, or inability, the new intellectual Borgias cram hairballs down our throats and refuse us the convulsion that could make us well. They have forgotten, if they ever knew, the ancient knowledge that only by being truly sick can one regain health. Even beasts know when it is good and proper to throw up. Teach me how to be sick then, in the right time and place, so that I may again walk in the fields and with the wise and smiling dogs know enough to chew sweet grass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I feel I'm doing what I should've done a lifetime ago. For a little while I'm not afraid. Maybe it's because I'm doing the right thing at last. Maybe it's because I've done a rash thing and don't want to look the coward to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Thinking little at all about nothing in particular."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Christ is one of the 'family' now. I often wonder if God recognizes his own son the way we've dressed him up, or is it dressed him down? He's regular peppermint stick now, all sugar crystal and saccharine - when he isn't making veiled references to certain commercial products that ever worshiper absolutely needs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Chock them so ... full of \"facts\" they feel stuffed, but absolutely \"brilliant\" with information. Then they'll feel they're thinking, they'll get a sense of motion without moving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea. She talked to him for what seemed a long while and she talked about this and she talked about that and it was only words, like the words he had heard once in a nursery at a friend's house, a two-year-old child building word patters, like jargon, making pretty sounds in the air."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I was doing a terrible thing in using the very books you clung to, to rebut you on every hand, on every point! What traitors books can be! You think they're backing you up, and then they turn on you. Others can use them, too, and there you are, lost in the middle of the moor, in a great welter of nouns and verbs and adjectives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Everything that happens before Death is what counts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: If Blake said that, said Father Brian, he never lived in Dublin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there\u2019s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I'll hold on to the world tight some day. I've got one finger on it now; that's a beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Kerosene,\" he said, because the silence had lengthened, \"is nothing but perfume to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected, and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and some for touching. And some days were good for all the senses at once. This day now, he nodded, smelled as if a great and nameless orchard had grown up overnight beyond the hills to fill the entire visible land with its warm freshness. The air felt like rain, but there were no clouds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were headed for shore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: There where hundreds of graves. There where hundreds of women. There were hundreds of daughters. There were hundreds of sons. And hundreds upon hundreds upon thousands of candles. The whole graveyard was one swarm of candleshine as if a population of fireflies had heard of a Grand Conglomeration and had flown here to settle in and flame upon the stones and light the brown faces and the dark eyes and the black hair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: ..holding a book but reading the empty spaces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: And I saw then and there you take a man half-bad and a women half-bad and put their two good halves together and you got one human all good to share between."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Sandwich outdoors isn\u2019t a sandwich anymore. Tastes different than indoors, notice? Got more spice. Tastes like mint and pinesap. Does wonders for the appetite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: But remember that the Captain belongs to the most dangerous enemy to truth and freedom, the solid unmoving cattle of the majority"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I like to smell things and look at things, and sometimes stay up all night, walking, and watch the sun rise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I think the only way we can grow and get on in this world is to accept the fact we're not perfect and live accordingly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: How long has it been since you wrote a story where your real love or your real hatred somehow got onto the paper? When was the last time you dared release a cherished prejudice so it slammed the page like a lightning bolt?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I don't know anything anymore"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Ask no guarantees, ask for no security, there never was such an animal. And if there was it would be related to the great sloth which hangs upside down in a tree all day every day, sleeping its life away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The father hesitated only a moment. He felt the vague pain in his chest. If I run, he thought, what will happen? Is Death important? No. Everything that happens before Death is what counts. And we've done fine tonight. Even Death can't spoil it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: ... bums on the outside, libraries inside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: He knew what the wind was doing to them, where it was taking them, to all the secret places that were never so secret again in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You'll be found, your nickels, dimes and Indian-heads fused by electroplating. Abe Lincolns melted into Miss Columbias, eagles plucked raw on the backs of quarters, all run to quicksilver in your jeans. More! Any boy hit by lightning, lift his lid and there on his eyeball, pretty as the Lord's Prayer on a pin, find the last scene the boy ever saw! A box-Brownie photo, by God, of that fire climbing down the sky to blow you like a penny whistle, suck your soul back up along the bright stair!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I\u2019ve often been accused of being too emotional and sentimental, but I believe in honest sentiment, and the need to purge ourselves at certain times, which is ancient. Men would live at least five or six more years and not have ulcers if they could cry better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The zipper displaces the button and a man lacks just that much time to think while dressing at dawn, a philosophical hour, and thus a melancholy hour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I want to feel all there is to feel, he thought. Let me feel tired, now, let me feel tired. I mustn't forget, I'm alive, I know I'm alive, I mustn't forget it tonight or tomorrow or the day after that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Digression is the soul of wit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Who has more pockets than a magician? A boy. Whose pockets contain *more* than a magicians? A boy's."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Shut the door, they're coming through the window, shut the window, they're coming through the door,\" are the words to an old song. They fit my lifestyle with newly arriving butcher/censors every month. Only six weeks ago, I discovered that, over the years, some cubby-hole editors at Ballantine Books, fearful of contaminating the young, had, bit by bit, censored some 75 separate sections from the novel. Students, reading the novel which, after all, deals with censorship and book-burning in the future, write to tell me of this exquisite irony."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She was only standing, weaving from side to side, her eyes fixed upon a nothingness in the wall as if they had struck her a terrible blow upon the head. Her tongue was moving in her mouth, and her eyes seemed to be trying to remember something, and then they remembered and her tongue moved again: \"Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: MOTHER: Why, just lying there, Jim, you run so fast. I never saw anyone move so much, just sleeping. Promise me, Jim. Wherever you go and come back, bring lots of kids. Let them run wild. Let me spoil them, some day. JIM: I'm never going to own anything that can hurt me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: He raged for hours. And the skeleton, ever the frail and solelmn philosopher, hung quietly inside, saying not a word, suspended like a delicate insect within a chrysalis, waiting and waiting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Writing is supposed to be difficult, agonizing, a dreadful exercise, a terrible occupation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Any man who can take a TV wall apart and put it back together again, and most men can nowadays, is happier than any man who tries to slide-rule, measure, and equate the universe, which just won't be measured or equated without making man feel bestial and lonely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: And some day well remember so much that well build the biggest goddam steamshovel in history and dig the biggest grave of all time and shove war in and cover it up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: They walked still farther and the girl said, \"Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?\" No. Houses have always been fireproof, take my word for it.\" Strange. I heard once that a long time ago houses used to burn by accident and they needed firemen to stop the flames."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: \"That's sad,\" said Montag, quietly, \"because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The Martians were there - in the canal - reflected in the water.... The Martians stared back up at them for a long, long silent time from the rippling water."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: They are so confident that they will run on forever. But they won't run on. They don't know that this is all one huge big blazing meteor that makes a pretty fire in space, but that some day it'll have to hit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Is it true, the world works hard and we play? Is that why we're hated so much?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: He says I'm a regular onion! I keep him busy peeling away the layers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: He had never liked October. Ever since he had first lay in the autumn leaves before his grandmother's house many years ago and heard the wind and saw the empty trees. It had made him cry, without a reason. And a little of that sadness returned each year to him. It always went away with spring. But, it was a little different tonight. There was a feeling of autumn coming to last a million years. There would be no spring. (\"The October Game\")"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I'm inclined to believe you need the psychiatrist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: It's rare you get an idea from a dream. I can't really recall a story that ever worked out that way. I think in 35 years of writing, that I've ever had a dream that held up. They're much too dislocated"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Ideas and philosophies change just as machines do. Religions changed because of the birth control pill. Politics changes because of the hydrogen bomb. All because of science fictional inventions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You take the books, you lie there in the pools of light and you drink life. That is how intensely I have loved libraries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I'm scared of myself. I think I'd be a bad driver. I'm scared of cars, period. I've had too many friends killed now, and I've seen too many people killed in my life when I drove across the country when I was 12. I'm sure that has a lot to do with it. If you see a few real dead bodies with brains on the pavement, it does a lot to change your attitude. It means you can get it too. I've had a lot of relatives killed. I've had a lot of dear friends killed. It's stupid. The whole activity is stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I'm not a science-fiction writer. I've only written one book that's science fiction, and that's Fahrenheit 451. All the others are fantasy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I've been writing every day of my life for 65 years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Men are nuts. Young men are crazy. We all love toys. I'm toy oriented. I write about toys. I've got a lot of toys. Hundreds of things. But computers are toys, and men like to mess around with smart dumb things. They feel creative."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The moon is a good, solid base to build a space travel organization in the community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We should have stayed on the moon. We should have made moon the base, instead of building space stations, which are fragile and which fly apart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We can't live alone in any society. But the best way to help a society or group, is to be the best individual in it that we can be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Once you let yourself begin to be grown-up, you face a world full of problems you can't solve. The politicians and specialists - adults, all - have a hard enough time trying to figure out where to look. It doesn't have to be that way. The greatest solutions in society are reached by corporate thinking, ruled by a motive to either make a profit or go out of business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I had decided to be a magician well before I decided to be a writer. I was the little boy who would get up on-stage and do magic wearing a fake mustache, which would fall off during the performance. I'm still trying to perform those tricks. Now I do it with writing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The very first experiments with building rockets and firing them off were carried out by students at Cal Tech in 1937, '38 and '39. And later these people put together these jet propulsion labs in Pasadena and wound up sending aircraft and spacecraft to the moon. So it all began very primitively with love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: We're going to become the martians when we land there. When we explore and build communities, we become the martians. That's a wonderful destiny for all of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself with all kinds of stories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: You learn to live with your crazy enthusiasms which nobody else shares, and then you find a few other nuts like yourself, and they're your friends for a lifetime. That's what friends are, the people who share your crazy outlook and protect you from the world, because nobody else is going to give a damn what you're doing, so you need a few other people like yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: The reason I shift gears constantly, why I'm doing an opera, why I've done essays, why I've written poetry for years that nobody wanted, why I do short stories and novels and screenplays... is so I will have new ways of failing. This means becoming a student again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I can write faster on a typewriter than you can on a computer. I do 120 words a minute, and you can't do that on a computer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I don't write science fiction. I've only done one science fiction book and that's Fahrenheit 451, based on reality. Science fiction is a depiction of the real. Fantasy is a depiction of the unreal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: Hollywood was a good influence because I was madly in love with films, and the films had a direct influence on me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ray Bradbury: I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man's life."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I learn a great deal by merely observing you, and letting you talk as long as you please, and taking note of what you do not say."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Every moment is a fresh beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Humility is the most difficult of all virtues to achieve; nothing dies harder than the desire to think well of self."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: For most of us, there is only the unattended \n Moment, the moment in and out of time, \n The distraction fit, lost in a shaft of sunlight, \n The wild thyme unseen, or the winter lightning \n Or the waterfall, or music heard so deeply \n That it is not heard at all, but you are the music \n While the music lasts"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Poetry may make us from time to time a little more aware of the deeper, unnamed feelings which form the substratum of our being, to which we rarely penetrate; for our lives are mostly a constant evasion of ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We shall not cease from exploring,\nAnd the end of our exploring\nWill be to arrive where we started\nAnd know the place for the first time."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: At the still point, there the dance is."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The majority of mankind is lazyminded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: You will find that you survive humiliation. And that's an experience of incalculable value."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Success is relative. It is what we make of the mess we have made of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We had the experience, but we missed the meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The darkness declares the glory of light."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: If you aren't in over your head, how do you know how tall you are?"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: A national culture, if it is to flourish, should be a constellation of cultures, the constitutes of which, benefiting each other, benefit the whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: A wrong attitude toward nature implies, somewhere, a wrong attitude toward God."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The circle of our understanding is a very restricted area."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: In order to arrive at what you are not, you must go through the way in which you are not."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Humankind cannot bear very much reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Men tighten the knot of confusion Into perfect misunderstanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: In life there is not time to grieve long."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The True Church can never fail. For it is based upon a rock."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: In the mountains, there you feel free."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: If you want it you must obtain it by great labor."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: It is obvious that we can no more explain a passion to a person who has never experienced it than we can explain light to the blind."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: You are the music while the music lasts."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: April is the cruelest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land, mixing memory and desire, stirring dull roots with spring rain."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Where does one go from a world of insanity? Somewhere on the other side of despair."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: People exercise an unconscious selection in being influenced."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Not the intense moment Isolated, with no before and after, But a lifetime burning in every moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Distracted from distraction by distraction"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: What we know of other people's only our memory of the moments during which we knew them."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: If you will not have God (and He is a jealous God), you should pay your respects to Hitler or Stalin."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Everyone's alone - or so it seems to me. They make noises, and think they are talking to each other; They make faces, and think they understand each other. And I'm sure they don't. Is that a delusion?"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: O Lord, deliver me from the man of excellent intention and impure heart: for the heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Do I dare disturb the universe?"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: life is long between the desire and the spasm."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Love is most nearly itself When here and now cease to matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The naming of cats is a difficult matter. It isn't just one of your holiday games. You may think at first I'm mad as a hatter. When I tell you a cat must have three different names."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Disillusion can become itself an illusion If we rest in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Teach us to care and not to care"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I said to my soul, be still, and let the dark come upon you Which shall be the darkness of God. . . . So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: In the faint moonlight, the grass is singing"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The more perfect the artist, the more completely separate in him will be the man who suffers and the mind which creates."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know what hope is, until you have lost it. You only know what it is not to hope: You do not know what it is to have hope taken from you Or to fling it away, to join the legion of the hopeless Unrecognized by other men, though sometimes by each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything)"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Unreal friendship may turn to real But real friendship, once ended, cannot be mended"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We are being made aware that the organization of society on the principle of private profit, as well as public destruction, is leading both to the deformation of humanity by unregulated industrialism, and to the exhaustion of natural resources, and that a good deal of our material progress is a progress for which succeeding generations may have to pay dearly."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: With cats, some say, one rule is true: Don't speak till you are spoken to."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: music heard so deeply That it is not heard at all, but you are the music While the music lasts."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We had the experience but missed the meaning. And approach to the meaning restores the experience in a different form."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The destination cannot be described; / You will know very little until you get there; / You will journey blind."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: But the Church cannot be, in any political sense, either conservative or liberal, or revolutionary. Conservatism is too often conservation of the wrong things: liberalism a relaxation of discipline; revolution a denial of the permanent things."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: To make an end is to make a beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Footfalls echo in the memory, down the passage we did not take, towards the door we never opened, into the rose garden."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: So I find words I never thought to speak In streets I never thought I should revisit When I left my body on a distant shore."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I must tell you that I should really like to think there's something wrong with me- Because, if there isn't, then there's something wrong with the world itself-and that's much more frightening! That would be terrible. So I'd rather believe there is something wrong with me, that could be put right."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: It takes so many years to learn that one is dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: For last year's words belong to last year's language And next year's words await another voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Not less of love, but expanding Of love beyond desire, and so liberation From the Future as well as the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Friendship should be more than biting time can sever."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The poet's mind is in fact a receptacle for seizing and storing up numberless feelings, phrases, images, which remain there until all the particles which can unite to form a new compound are present together."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Love compels cruelty To those who do not understand love."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We must always take risks. That is our destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Poets in our civilization, as it exists at present, must be difficult...The poet must become more and more comprehensive, more allusive, more indirect, in order to force, to dislocate if necessary, language into its meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: No place of grace for those who avoid the Face. No time to rejoice for those who walk among noise and deny the Voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Love is most nearly itself\r\nWhen here and now cease to matter.\r\nOld men ought to be explorers\r\nHere or there does not matter\r\nWe must be still and still moving\r\nInto another intensity\r\nFor a further union, a deeper communion\r\nThrough the dark cold and the empty desolation,\r\nThe wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters\r\nOf the petrel and the porpoise."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Time present and time past Are both perhaps present in time future, And time future contained in time past. If all time is eternally present All time is unredeemable."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Time past and time future allow but a little consciousness. To be conscious is not to be in time."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Home is where one starts from."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: And right action is freedom From past and future also."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The end is where we start from."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Liberty is a different kind of pain from prison."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: If all time is eternally present, all time is unredeemable"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Of lovers whose bodies smell of each other Who think the same thoughts without need of speech"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I read, much of the night, and go south in the winter."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Light Light The visible reminder of Invisible Light."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky Like a patient etherised upon a table; Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets, The muttering retreats 5 Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells: Streets that follow like a tedious argument Of insidious intent To lead you to an overwhelming question \u2026 10 Oh, do not ask, \u201cWhat is it?\u201d Let us go and make our visit. In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: As we grow older, the world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicated of dead and living."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Our difficulties of the moment must always be dealt with somehow, but our permanent difficulties are difficulties of every moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before: though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Accident is design / And design is accident / In a cloud of unknowing."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Words strain, crack, and sometime break, under the burden."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Between the desire And the spasm, Between the potency And the existence, Between the essence And the descent, Falls the Shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We read many books, because we cannot know enough people."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I suspect that in our loathing of totalitarianism, there is infused a good deal of admiration for its efficiency."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: In my beginning is my end."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: There will be time, there will be time To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: If one has to earn a living, therefore, the safest occupation is that most remote from the arts."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The soul of Man must quicken to creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you I will show you fear in a handful of dust"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Shape without form, shade without color, Paralyzed force, gesture without motion; Those who have crossed With direct eyes, to death's other Kingdom Remember us-if at all-not as lost Violent souls, but only As the hollow men The stuffed men."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Old men ought to be explorers."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Words strain, Crack and sometimes break, under the burden, Under the tension, slip, slide, perish, Decay with imprecision, will not stay in place, Will not stay still."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair-"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: When oxygen and sulphur dioxide are mixed in the presence of a filiament of platinum, they form sulphurous acid. This combination takes place only if the platinum is present; nevertheless the newly formed acid contains no trace of platinum, and the platinum itself is apparently unaffected: has remained inert, neutral, and unchanged. The mind of the poet is the shred of platinum."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Hurry up, please, its time."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Time present and time past / are both perhaps present in time future."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality, but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotions know what it means to want to escape from these things."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: It is not enough to understand what we ought to be, unless we know what we are; and we do not understand what we are, unless we know what we ought to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: These fragments I have shored against my ruins"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: In the life of one man, never The same time returns."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Men have left GOD not for other gods, they say, but for no God; and this has never happened before."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The last temptation is the greatest treason: to do the right deed for the wrong reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The sense of wellbeing! Its often with us When we are young, but then it's not noticed; And by the time one has grown to consciousness It comes less often."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: After such knowledge, what forgiveness?"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Every phrase and every sentence is an end and a beginning, every poem an epitaph."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still. Pray for us sinners now and at the hour of our death Pray for us now and at the hour of our death."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The wounded surgeon plies the steel\r\nThat questions the distempered part;\r\nBeneath the bleeding hands we feel\r\nThe sharp compassion of the healer's art\r\nResolving the enigma of the fever chart."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: So the lover must struggle for words."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: There is one who remembers the way to your door: Life you may evade, but Death you shall not."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: All cases are unique and very similar to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: No artist produces great art by a deliberate attempt to express his own personality."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: My nerves are bad to-night. Yes, bad. Stay with me. 'Speak to me. Why do you never speak? Speak. 'What are you thinking of? What thinking? What? 'I never know what you are thinking. Think."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: For you know only a heap of broken images"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The good poet welds his theft into a whole of feeling which is unique, utterly different from that from which it was torn; the bad poet throws it into something which has no cohesion."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: In order to possess what you do not possess, you must go by the way of dispossession."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: There is no such thing as a lost cause, because there is no such thing as a gained cause"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: A people without history\r\nIs not redeemed from time, for history is a pattern\r\nOf timeless moments."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The winter evening settles down\nWith smell of steaks in passageways."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Hell is oneself, hell is alone, the other figures in it merely projections. There is nothing to escape from and nothing to escape to. One is always alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The dove descending breaks the air With flame of incandescent terror Of which the tongues declare The one discharge from sin and error. The only hope, or else despair Lies in the choice of pyre or pyre- To be redeemed from fire by fire. Who then devised the torment? Love. Love is the unfamiliar Name Behind the hands that wove The intolerable shirt of flame Which human power cannot remove. We only live, only suspire Consumed by either fire or fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Someone said, 'The dead writers are remote from us because we know so much more than they did.' Precisely, and they are that which we know."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: There are three conditions which often look alike Yet differ completely, flourish in the same hedgerow: Attachment to self and to things and to persons, detachment From self and from things and from persons; and, growing between them, indifference, ... ."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: When a great poet has lived, certain things have been done once for all, and cannot be achieved again."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Culture is the one thing that we cannot deliberately aim at. It is the product of a variety of more or less harmonious activities, each pursued for its own sake."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: time past and time future what might have been and what has been point to one end, which is always present."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Where shall the word be found, where will the word / Resound? Not here, there is not enough silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: He who was living is now dead We who were living are now dying With a little patience."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The business of the poet is not to find new emotions, but to use the ordinary ones and, in working them up into poetry, to express feelings which are not in actual emotions at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Our emotions Are only \u201cincidents\u201d In the effort to keep day and night together."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: When a poet's mind is perfectly equipped for its work, it is constantly amalgamating disparate experience ?in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: A tradition without intelligence is not worth having."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: And indeed there will be time for the yellow smoke that slides along the street rubbing its back upon the window-panes; there will be time , there will be time to prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet; there will be time to murder and create, and time for all the works and days of hands that lift and drop a question on your plate; time for you and time for me, and time yet for a hundred indecisions, and for a hundred visions and revisions, before the taking of toast and tea."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: War among men defiles this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative; in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, and I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, and in short, I was afraid."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: What a poem means is as much what it means to others as what it means to the author; and indeed, in the course of time a poet may become merely reader in respect to his own works, forgetting his original meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I believe the moment of birth Is when we have knowledge of death I believe the season of birth Is the season of sacrifice."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The only hope, or else despair\r\nLies in the choice of pyre or pyre -\r\nTo be redeemed from fire by fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: When we read of human beings behaving in certain ways, with the approval of the author, who gives his benediction to this behavior by his attitude towards the result of the behavior arranged by himself, we can be influenced towards behaving in the same way."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I do not believe that any writer has ever exposed this bovarysme, the human will to see things as they are not, more clearly than Shakespeare."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Fare forward, travellers! not escaping from the past\r\nInto different lives, or into any future;\r\nYou are not the same people who left that station\r\nOr who will arrive at any terminus,\r\nWhile the narrowing rails slide together behind you."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The fool,fixed in his folly,may think He can turn the wheel on which he turns."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: O dark dark dark. They all go into the dark, The vacant interstellar spaces, the vacant into the vacant"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I am tired with my own life and the lives of those after me,\nI am dying in my own death and the deaths of those after me."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: O father, father\r\nGone from us, lost to us,\r\nThe church lies bereft,\r\nAlone,\r\nDesecrated, desolated.\r\nAnd the heathen shall build\r\nOn the ruins\r\nTheir world without God.\r\nI see it.\r\nI see it."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: There is, it seems to us, At best, only a limited value In the knowledge derived from experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Art never improves, but... the material of art is never quite the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Death has a hundred hands and walks by a thousand ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: For I have known them all already, known them all\u2014 Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Who is the third who walks always beside you? When I count, there are only you and I together But when I look ahead up the white road There is always another one walking beside you Gliding wrapt in a brown mantle, hooded I do not know whether a man or a woman -But who is that on the other side of you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Love is the unfamiliar Name\r\nBehind the hands that wove\r\nThe intolerable shirt of flame\r\nWhich human power cannot remove."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Time for you and time for me, And time yet for a hundred indecisions, And for a hundred visions and revisions, Before the taking of a toast and tea."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Yet with these April sunsets, that somehow recall My buried life, and Paris in the spring, I feel immeasurably at peace, and find the world To be wonderful and youthful afterall"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The tiger springs in the new year. Us he devours."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: In our rhythm of earthly life we tire of light. We are glad when the day ends, when the play ends; and ecstasy is too much pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Every nation, every race, has not only its own creative, but its own critical turn of mind; and is even more oblivious of the shortcomings and limitations of its critical habits than of those of its creative genius."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: My life is light, waiting for the death wind, Like a feather on the back of my hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Signs are taken for wonders. / 'We would see a sign!' / The word within a word, unable to speak a word, / Swaddled with darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Taking the question in general, I should say, in the case of many poets, that the most important thing for them to do ... is to write as little as possible"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We have all our private terrors, our particular shadows, our secret fears. We are afraid in a fear which we cannot face, which none understands, and our hearts are torn from us, our brains unskinned like the layers of an onion, ourselves the last."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Envy is everywhere. Who is without envy? And most people Are unaware or unashamed of being envious."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: When lovely woman stoops to folly and Paces about her room again, alone, She smooths her hair with automatic hand, And puts a record on the gramophone."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We fight for lost causes because we know that our defeat and dismay may be the preface to our successors' victory, though that victory itself will be temporary; we fight rather to keep something alive than in the expectation that anything will triumph."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: April is the cruellest month."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: If time and space, as sages say, Are things which cannot be, The sun which does not feel decay No greater is than we. So why, Love, should we ever pray To live a century? The butterfly that lives a day Has lived eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: At the still point of the turning world.  Neither flesh nor fleshless;  Neither from nor towards;  at the still point, there the dance is, But neither arrest nor movement.  And do not all it fixity, Where past and future are gathered.  Neither movement from nor towards, Neither ascent nor decline.  Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The work of creation is never without travail."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is Incarnation."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I don't believe one grows older. I think that what happens early on in life is that at a certain age one stands still and stagnates."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: If we all were judged according to the consequences Of all our words and deeds, beyond the intention And beyond our limited understanding Of ourselves and others, we should all be condemned."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red rock, (Come in under the shadow of this red rock), And I will show you something different from either Your shadow at morning striding behind you Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you; I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The endless cycle of idea and action, Endless invention, endless experiment, Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; Knowledge of words, and ignorance of the Word. All our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, All our ignorance brings us nearer to death, But nearness to death no nearer to God. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? The cycles of Heaven in twenty centuries Bring us farther from God and nearer to the Dust."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I am glad you have a Cat, but I do not believe it is So remarkable a cat as My Cat. My Cat is a Lilliecat Hubvously. What a lilliecat it is. There never was such a Lilliecat. Its Name is JELLYORUM and its one Idea is to be Usefull!!"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Because I know that time is always time and place is always place and only place. And what is actual is actual only for one time. And only for one place. I rejoice that things are as they are."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one in her fingers while she talks. \"Ah, my friend, you do not know, you do not know What life is, you who hold it in your hands\"; (slowly twisting the lilac stalks) \"You let it flow from you, you let it flow, And youth is cruel, and has no remorse And smiles at situations which it cannot see.\" I smile, of course, And go on drinking tea."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends, And how, how rare and strange it is, to find In a life composed so much, so much of odds and ends, (For indeed I do not love it ... you knew? you are not blind! How keen you are!) To find a friend who has these qualities, Who has, and gives Those qualities upon which friendship lives. How much it means that I say this to you- Without these friendships-life, what cauchemar!"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: You gave me hyacinths first a year ago; They called me the hyacinth girl.' \u2014Yet when we came back, late, from the Hyacinth garden, Your arms full, and your hair wet, I could not Speak, and my eyes failed, I was neither Living nor dead, and I knew nothing, Looking into the heart of light, the silence. Od' und leer das Meer."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Each way means loneliness -- and communion."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I think we are in rats\u2019 alley Where the dead men lost their bones."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The bad poet is usually unconscious where he ought to be conscious, and conscious where he ought to be unconscious."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: And all shall be well and/ All manner of thing shall be well/ By the purification of the motive/ In the ground of our beseeching"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: No scheme for a change of society can be made to appear immediately palatable, except by falsehood, until society has become so desperate that it will accept any change."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Trying to use words, and every attempt Is a wholly new start, and a different kind of failure Because one has only learnt to get the better of words For the thing one no longer has to say, or the way in which One is no longer disposed to say it. And so each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Do I dare Disturb the universe? In a minute there is time For decisions and revisions which a minute will reverse."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Birth, and copulation, and death; that's all the facts when you come to brass tacks."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Before a cat will condescend to treat you as a trusted friend, some little token of esteem is needed, like a dish of cream."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: That is not it at all, That is not what I meant, at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I had seen birth and death but had thought they were different."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Stand on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Human kind cannot bear much reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The only wisdom we can hope to acquire Is the wisdom of humility: humility is endless. The houses are all gone under the sea. The dancers are all gone under the hill."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: One starts an action simply because one must do something."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Except for the point, the still point, There would be no dance, and there is only the dance"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time. Through the unknown, remembered gate When the last of earth left to discover Is that which was the beginning; At the source of the longest river The voice of the hidden waterfall And the children in the apple-tree Not known, because not looked for But heard, half-heard, in the stillness Between two waves of the sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Because these wings are no longer wings to fly But merely vans to beat the air The air which is now thoroughly small and dry Smaller and dryer than the will Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Again I must remind you that a dog's a dog-a cat's a cat."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not, You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy. In order to arrive at what you do not know You must go by a way which is the way of ignorance. In order to possess what you do not possess You must go by the way of dispossession. In order to arrive at what you are not You must go through the way in which you are not. And what you do not know is the only thing you know And what you own is what you do not own And where you are is where you are not."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: A good deal of confusion could be avoided, if we refrained from setting before the group, what can be the aim only of the individual; and before society as a whole, what can be the aim only of the group."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Where there is no temple there shall be no homes."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The majority of poems one outgrows and outlives, as one outgrows and outlives the majority of human passions."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: not fare well, but fare forward"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Gradually we come to admit that Shakespeare understands a greater extent and variety of human life than Dante; but that Dante understands deeper degrees of degradation and higher degrees of exaltation."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Any religion is forever in danger of petrifaction into mere ritual and habit, though ritual and habit be essential to religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors and issues."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: No poet, no artist of any art, has his complete meaning alone. His significance, his appreciation is the appreciation of his relation to the dead poets and artists. You cannot value him alone; you must set him, for contrast and comparison, among the dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I've been born, and once is enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: He laughed like an irresponsible foetus."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: You have learned enough to see that cats are much like you and me."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I am moved by fancies that are curled, around these images and cling, the notion of some infinitely gentle, infinitely suffering thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: When a Cat adopts you, and I am not superstitious at all I don't mean only Black cats there is nothing to be done about it except to put up with it and wait until the wind changes."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Neither way is better. / Both ways are necessary. / It is also necessary / To make a choice between them."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Here between the hither and the farther shore\r\nWhile time is withdrawn, consider the future\r\nAnd the past with an equal mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us... and we drown."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Past art is subject to change."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: No generation is interested in art in quite the same way as any other; each generation, like each individual, brings to the contemplation of art its own categories of appreciation, makes its own demands upon art, and has its own uses for art."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: This is the feeling for syllable and rhythm, penetrating far below the conscious levels of thought and feeling, invigorating every word."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: To justify Christian morality because it provides a foundation of morality, instead of showing the necessity of Christian morality from the truth of Christianity, is a very dangerous inversion."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The overwhelming pressure of mediocrity, sluggish and indomitable as a glacier, will mitigate the most violent, and depress the most exalted revolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The Church must be forever building, for it is forever decaying within and attacked from without."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: And the end and the beginning were always there Before the beginning and after the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Only through time time is conquered"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We see the light but see not whence it comes. O Light Invisible, we glorify Thee!"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: But what have I, but what have I, my friend,\r\nTo give you, what can you receive from me?\r\nOnly the friendship and the sympathy\r\nOf one about to reach her journey's end."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I would meet you upon this honestly. I that was near your heart was removed therefrom To lose beauty in terror, terror in inquisition. I have lost my passion: why should I need to keep it Since what is kept must be adulterated? I have lost my sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch: How should I use them for your closer contact?"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Ambition fortifies the will of man to become ruler over other men: it operates with deception, cajolery, and violence, it is the action of impurity upon impurity."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Because I know that time is always time And place is always and only place."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: And would it have been worth it, after all, Would it have been worth while, After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets, After the novels, after the teacups, after the skirts that trail along the floor - And this, and so much more? -"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The only way of expressing emotion in the form of art is by finding an \"objective correlative\"; in other words, a set of objects, a situation, a chain of events which shall be the formula for that particular emotion; such that when the external facts, which must terminate in sensory experience, are given, the emotion is immediately evoked."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: It's harder to confess the sin that no one believes in Than the crime that everyone can appreciate. For the crime is in relation to the law And the sin is in relation to the sinner."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: That was my way of putting it-not very satisfactory: A periphrastic study in a worn-out poetical fashion, Leaving one still with the intolerable wrestle With words and meanings."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We must learn to suffer more."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: It is a test (a positive test, I do not assert that it is always valid negatively), that genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: And indeed there will be time To wonder, \"Do I dare?\" and, \"Do I dare?\" Time to turn back and descend the stair, With a bald spot in the middle of my hair."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: You must not on any account give me credit for being penetrating. I have impressed people that way before, and the result is always disaster."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The nightingales are singing near The Convent of the Sacred Heart, And sang within the bloody wood When Agamemnon cried aloud, And let their liquid siftings fall To stain the stiff dishonored shroud."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Desire itself is movement\r\nNot in itself desirable;\r\nLove is itself unmoving,\r\nOnly the cause and end of movement,\r\nTimeless, and undesiring\r\nExcept in the aspect of time\r\nCaught in the form of limitation\r\nBetween un-being and being."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be; Am an attendant lord, one that will do To swell a progress, start a scene or two, Advise the prince; no doubt, an easy tool, Deferential, glad to be of use, Politic, cautious, and meticulous; Full of high sentence, but a bit obtuse; At times, indeed, almost ridiculous\u2014 Almost, at times, the Fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, Have the strength to force the moment to its crisis? But though I have wept and fasted, wept and prayed, Though I have seen my head (grown slightly bald) brought in upon a platter, I am no prophet--and here's no great matter; I have seen the moment of my greatness flicker, I have seen the eternal Footman hold my coat, and snicker, And in short, I was afraid."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Home is where one starts from.  As we grow older \r\nThe world becomes stranger, the pattern more complicatied \r\nOf dead and living,  Not the intense moment \r\nIsolated, with no before and after, \r\nBut a lifetime burning in every moment . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Till Human voices wake us, and we drown."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: This is one moment, / But know that another / Shall pierce you with a sudden painful joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: A good poet will usually borrow from authors remote in time, or alien in language, or diverse in interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Here were decent godless people;\n Their only monument the asphalt road\n And a thousand lost golf balls."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: History may be servitude. History may be freedom. See, now they vanish. The faces and places, with the self which, as it could, loved them, to become renewed, transfigured, in another pattern."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Can we only love\r\nSomething created in our own imaginations?"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Winter kept us warm, covering Earth in forgetful snow"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: With Cats, some say, one rule is true: Don\u2019t speak till you are spoken to. Myself, I do not hold with that \u2014 I say, you should ad-dress a Cat. But always keep in mind that he Resents familiarity. I bow, and taking off my hat, Ad-dress him in this form: O Cat! But if he is the Cat next door, Whom I have often met before (He comes to see me in my flat) I greet him with an oopsa Cat! I think I've heard them call him James \u2014 But we've not got so far as names."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Webster was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Poetry is a mug's game."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Should I, after tea and cakes and ices, have the strength to force the moment to its crisis?"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth were only accidental stars with a talent for squad-drill."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Moving between the legs of tables and of chairs, rising or falling, grasping at kisses and toys, advancing boldly, sudden to take alarm, retreating to the corner of arm and knee, eager to be reassured, taking pleasure in the fragrant brilliance of the Christmas tree."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: And the lost heart stiffens and rejoices in the lost lilac and the lost sea voices and the weak spirit quickens to rebel for the bent golden-rod and the lost sea smell quickens to recover."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We took up\nour positions, in obedience to instructions."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: For every life and every act consequence of good and evil can be shown and as in time results of many deeds are blended so good and evil in the end become confounded."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: In my beginning is my end. In succession Houses rise and fall, crumble, are extended, Are removed, destroyed, restored, or in their place Is an open field, or a factory, or a by-pass. Old stone to new building, old timber to new fires, Old fires to ashes, and ashes to the earth Which is already flesh, fur and faeces, Bone of man and beast, cornstalk and leaf."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: To arrive where you are, to get from where you are not / You must go by a way wherein there is no ecstasy."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Before a Cat will condescend To treat you as a trusted friend, Some little token of esteem Is needed, like a dish of cream; And you might now and then supply Some caviare, or Strassburg Pie, Some potted grouse, or salmon paste \u2014 He's sure to have his personal taste. (I know a Cat, who makes a habit Of eating nothing else but rabbit, And when he's finished, licks his paws So's not to waste the onion sauce.) A Cat's entitled to expect These evidences of respect. And so in time you reach your aim, And finally call him by his name."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The endless cycle of idea and action, / Endless invention, endless experiment, / Brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; / Knowledge of speech, but not of silence; / Knowledge of words, and ignorance of The Word."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Do not let me hear\nOf the wisdom of old men, but rather of their folly,\nTheir fear of fear and frenzy, their fear of possession,\nOf belonging to another, or to others, or to God.\nThe only wisdom we can hope to acquire\nIs the wisdom of humility: humility is endless."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: If you find examples of humanism which are anti-religious, or at least in opposition to the religious faith of the place and time, then such humanism is purely destructive, for it has never found anything to replace what it has destroyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: At the still point of the turning world. Neither flesh nor fleshless; Neither from nor towards; at the still point, there the dance is."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: [On The Waste Land:] Various critics have done me the honor to interpret the poem in terms of criticism of the contemporary world, have considered it, indeed, as an important bit of social criticism. To me it was only the relief of a personal and wholly insignificant grouse against life; it is just a piece of rhythmical grumbling."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The winter evening settles down With smell of steaks in passageways. Six o'clock. The burnt-out ends of smoky days. And now a gusty shower wraps The grimy scraps Of withered leaves about your feet And newspapers from vacant lots; The showers beat On broken blinds and chimney-pots, And at the corner of the street A lonely cab-horse steams and stamps. And then the lighting of the lamps."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We shall not cease from exploration"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws?\nShe tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The communication of the dead is tongued with fire beyond the language of the living."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: All dash to and fro in motor cars. Familiar with the roads and settled nowhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Here I am, an old man in a dry month,\nBeing read to by a boy, waiting for rain."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: A cold coming we had of it, Just the worst time of the year For a journey, and such a long journey: The ways deep and the weather sharp, The very dead of winter."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Paint me the bold anfractuous rocks Faced by the snarled and yelping seas."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The yellow fog that rubs its back upon the window-panes The yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle on the window-panes Licked its tongue into the corners of the evening Lingered upon the pools that stand in drains Let fall upon its back the soot that falls from chimneys Slipped by the terrace, made a sudden leap And seeing that it was a soft October night Curled once about the house, and fell asleep"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Tennyson and Browning are poets, and they think; but they do not feel their thought as immediately as the odour of a rose. A thought to Donne was an experience; it modified his sensibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: There will be time to murder and create."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I do not approve the extermination of the enemy; the policy of exterminating or, as it is barbarously said, liquidating enemies, is one of the most alarming developments of modern war and peace, from the point of view of those who desire the survival"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: His laughter tinkled among the teacups."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The dream crossed twilight between birth and dying."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Uncorseted, her friendly bust Gives promise of pneumatic bliss."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: A woman drew her long black hair out tight, And fiddled whisper music on those strings, And bats with baby faces in the violet light Whistled, and beat their wings, And crawled head downward down a blackened wall."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: A book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: And voices singing out of empty cisterns and exhausted wells."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Sister, mother \n And spirit of the river, spirit of the sea, \n Suffer me not to be separated And let my cry come unto Thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: To men of a certain type The suspicion that they are incapable of loving Is as disturbing to their self-esteem As, in cruder men, the fear of impotence."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: In spite of all the dishonour, the broken standards, the broken lives, The broken faith in one place or another, There was something left that was more than the tales Of old men on winter evenings."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Between the idea And the reality Between the motion And the act Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom Between the conception And the creation Between the emotion And the response Falls the Shadow Life is very long Between the desire And the spasm Between the potency And the existence Between the essence And the descent Falls the Shadow For Thine is the Kingdom For Thine is Life is For Thine is the This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends This is the way the world ends Not with a bang but a whimper."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The usual dog about the town is much inclined to play the clown."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The historical sense compels a man to write not merely with his own generation in his bones, but with a feeling that the whole of literature from Homer and within it the whole of the literature of his own country has a simultaneous existence and composes a simultaneous order."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Words move, music moves Only in time; but that which is only living Can only die. Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: It is worth while dying, to find out what life is."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I am no prophet-and here's no great matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Lady of silences\r\nCalm and distressed\r\nTorn and most whole\r\nRose of memory\r\nRose of forgetfulness\r\nExhausted and life-giving\r\nWorried reposeful\r\nThe single Rose\r\nIs now the Garden\r\nWhere all loves end\r\nTerminate torment\r\nOf love unsatisfied\r\nThe greater torment\r\nOf love satisfied\r\nEnd of the endless\r\nJourney to no end\r\nConclusion of all that\r\nIs inconclusible\r\nSpeech without word and\r\nWord of no speech\r\nGrace to the Mother\r\nFor the Garden\r\nWhere all love ends."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I have a Gumbie Cat in mind, her name is Jennyanydots;Her coat is one of the tabby kind,with tiger stripes and lepard spots."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The hippopotamus's day Is passed in sleep; at night he hunts; God works in a mysterious way- The Church can sleep and feed at once."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The single Rose\r\nIs now the Garden\r\nWhere all loves end"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Although I do not hope to turn again\r\nAlthough I do not hope\r\nAlthough I do not hope to turn"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I shall not want Honor in Heaven For I shall meet Sir Philip Sidney And have talk with Coriolanus And other heroes of that kidney."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Would it have been worth while, To have bitten off the matter with a smile, To have squeezed the universe into a ball To roll it towards some overwhelming question"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi throbbing waiting I Tiresias, though blind, throbbing between two lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: After such knowledge, what forgiveness? Think now History has many cunning passages, contrived corridors And issues, deceives with whispering ambitions Guides us by vanities."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We must believe that \"emotion recollected in tranquillity\" is an inexact formula. For it is neither emotion, nor recollection, nor without distortion of meaning, tranquillity. It is a concentration, and a new thing resulting from the concentration of a very great number of experiences which to the practical and active person would not seem to be experiences at all; it is a concentration which does not happen consciously or of deliberation. These experiences are not \"recollected\" and they finally unite in an atmosphere which is \"tranquil\" only in that it is a passive attending upon the event."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The greatness of literature cannot be determined solely by literary standards though we must remember that whether it is literature or not can be determined only by literary standards."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We do not quite say that the new is more valuable because it fits in; but its fitting in is a test of its value - a test, it is true, which can only be slowly and cautiously applied, for we are none of us infallible judges of conformity."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: But at my back from time to time I hear The sound of horns and motors, which shall bring Sweeney to Mrs. Porter in the spring. O the moon shone bright on Mrs. Porter And on her daughter They wash their feet in soda water."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: They don't understand what it is to be awake, / To be living on several planes at once / Though one cannot speak with several voices at once."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Each venture Is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate With shabby equipment always deteriorating In the general mess of imprecision of feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The past and future / Are conquered, and reconciled."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Upon the glazen shelves kept watch Matthew and Waldo, guardians of the faith The army of unalterable law."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The dripping blood our only drink, The bloody flesh our only food: In spite of which we like to think That we are sound, substantial flesh and blood Again, in spite of that, we call this Friday good."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: It is impossible to say just what I mean!"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Cling, swing, Spring, sing, Swing up into the apple tree."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I should have been a pair of ragged claws/ Scuttling across the floors of silent seas."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The chief danger about Paris is that it is such a strong stimulant."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The Pekes and the Pollicles, everyone knows, Are proud and implacable, passionate foes; It is always the same, wherever one goes. And the Pugs and the Poms, although most people say that they do not like fighting, will often display Every symptom of wanting to join in the fray. And they Bark bark bark bark bark bark Until you can hear them all over the park."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Because I do not hope to turn again Because I do not hope Because I do not hope to turn Desiring this man's gift and that man's scope I no longer strive to strive towards such things (Why should the aged eagle stretch its wings?) Why should I mourn The vanished power of the usual reign?"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I say to you: Make perfect your will. / I say: take no thought of the harvest, / But only of proper sowing."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Destiny waits in the hand of God, not in the hands of statesmen."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The Rum Turn Tugger is a terrible bore: When you let him in, then he wants to be out; He's always on the wrong side of every door, And as soon as he's at home, then he'd like to get about."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The naming of cats is a difficult matter"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Think neither fear nor courage saves us. Unnatural vices are fathered by our heroism. Virtues are forced upon us by our impudent crimes. These tears are shaken from the wrath-bearing tree."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I journeyed to London, to the timekept City, Where the River flows, with foreign flotations. There I was told: we have too many churches, And too few chop-houses."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: When the Stranger says: \"What is the meaning of this city? Do you huddle close together because you love each other?\" What will you answer? \"We all dwell together To make money from each other\"? or \"This is a community\"? Oh my soul, be prepared for the coming of the Stranger. Be prepared for him who knows how to ask questions."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We might remind ourselves that criticism is as inevitable as breathing, and that we should be none the worse for articulating what passes in our minds when we read a book and feel an emotion about it, for criticizing our own minds in their work of criticism."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: But it seems that something has happened that has never happened before; though we know not just when, or why, or how, or where. Men have left God not for gods, they say, but for no gods; and this has never happened before. That men both deny gods and worship gods, professing first Reason, and the money, and power, and what they call life, or race, or dialect.The church disowned, the tower overthrown, the bells upturned, what have we to do but stand with empty hands and palms upturned in an age which advances progressively backwards?"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We are not here to triumph by fighting, by strata gem, or by resistance, not to fight with beasts as men. We have fought the beast and have conquered. We have only to conquer now, by suffering. This is the easier victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: We ask only to be reassured About the noises in the cellar And the window that should not have been open"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Those who talk of the bible as a monument of English prose are merely admiring it as a monument over the grave of Christianity."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable, Patient to some degree, at first recognized as a frontier; Useful, untrustworthy, as a conveyor of commerce; Then only a problem confronting the builder of bridges. The problem once solved, the brown god is almost forgotten By the dwellers in cities-ever, however, implacable. Keeping his seasons, and rages, destroyer, reminder Of what men choose to forget. Unhonored, unpropitiated By worshippers of the machine, but waiting, watching and waiting."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Dayodhuam: I have heard the key Turn in the door once and turn once only We think of the key, each in his prison Thinking of the key, each confirms a prison."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: And indeed there will be time to wonder, 'Do I dare?', and 'Do I dare?"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Amongst the rock one cannot stop or think"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Fading, fading: strength beyond hope and despair climbing the third stair. Lord, I am not worthy Lord, I am not worthy but speak the word only."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The name that no human research can discover-- But THE CAT HIMSELF KNOWS, and will never confess. When you notice a cat in profound meditation, The reason, I tell you, is always the same: His mind is engaged in a rapt contemplation Of the thought, of the thought, of the thought of his name: His ineffable effable Effanineffable Deep and inscrutable singular Name."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: These are only hints and guesses, \nHints followed by guesses; and the rest\nIs prayer, observance, discipline, thought and action."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: And through the spaces of the dark Midnight shakes the memory As a madman shakes a dead geranium."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: No! I am not Prince Hamlet, nor was meant to be: am an attendant lord, one that will do to swell a progress, start a scene or two, advise the prince."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: \u2026Forgive us, O Lord, we acknowledge ourselves as type of the common man, Of the men and women who shut the door and sit by the fire; Who fear the blessing of God, the loneliness of the night of God, the surrender required, the deprivation inflicted; Who fear the injustice of men less than the justice of God; Who fear the hand at the window, the fire in the thatch, the fist in the tavern, the push into the canal, Less than we fear the love of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Oh, do not ask, 'What is it?'/Let us go and make our visit."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Turning Wearily, as one would turn to nod goodbye to Rochefoucauld, If the street were time and he as the end of the street."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: What have we given? My friend, blood shaking my heart The awful daring of a moment's surrender Which an age of prudence can never retract By this, and this only, we have existed."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I am aware of the damp souls of housemaids Sprouting despondently at area gates."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The hint half guessed, the gift half understood, is incarnation. Here the impossible union of spheres of existence is actual. Here the past and future are conquered and reconciled."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: the ordinary man's experience is chaotic, irregular, fragmentary. [He] falls in love or reads Spinoza, and these two experiences have nothing to do with each other, or with the noise of the typewriter, or the smell of cooking; in the mind of the poet these experiences are always forming new wholes"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Honest criticism and sensitive appreciation are directed not upon the poet but upon the poetry."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Composing on the typewriter, I find that I am sloughing off all my long sentences which I used to dote upon. Short, staccato, like modern French prose. The typewriter makes for lucidity, but I am not sure that it encourages subtlety."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat: If you offer him pheasant he would rather have grouse. If you put him in a house he would much prefer a flat, If you put him in a flat then he'd rather have a house. If you set him on a mouse then he only wants a rat, If you set him on a rat then he'd rather chase a mouse. Yes the Rum Tum Tugger is a Curious Cat - And there isn't any call for me to shout it: For he will do As he do do And there's no doing anything about it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I can connect Nothing with nothing"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The difference between being an elder statesman And posing successfully as an elder statesman Is practically negligible."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: I grow old \u2026 I grow old \u2026 I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Now that the lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: So first, your memory I'll jog, And say: A CAT IS NOT A DOG"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!"
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "T. S. Eliot: Macavity, Macavity, there's no one like Macavity, there never was a cat of such deceitfulness and sauvity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The heart becomes heroic through passion. It is no longer composed of anything but what is pure; it no longer rests upon anything but what is elevated and great."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: ...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Philosophy is the microscope of thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: He who is not master of his own thoughts is not accountable for his own deeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Youth is the future smiling at a stranger, which is itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Change your opinions, keep to your principles; change your leaves, keep intact your roots."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a mysterious transaction between the infinity of the soul and the infinity of the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Work, which makes a man free, and thought, which makes him worthy of freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Go to sleep in peace. God is awake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Let us fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices are the real murderers. The great dangers lie within ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: God is behind everything, but everything hides God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Knowledge is a weight added to conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The most terrible of motives and the most unanswerable of responses: Because."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Each of our passions, even love, has a stomach that must not be overloaded. We must in everything write the word 'finis' in time; we must restrain ourselves, when it becomes urgent; we must draw the bolt on the appetite, play a fantasia on the violin, then break the strings with our own hand. The Wise man is he who knows when and how to stop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The future has many names: For the weak, it means the unattainable. For the fearful, it means the unknown. For the courageous, it means opportunity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Not being heard is no reason for silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, and vice the real murderer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Nothing makes a man so adventurous as an empty pocket."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: What is the cat?\" he exclaimed. \"It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To love or have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Marius and Cosette did not ask where this would lead them. They looked at themselves as arrived. It is a strange pretension for men to ask that love should lead them somewhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Death belongs to God alone; by what right do men touch that unknown thing?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Where no plan is laid, where the disposal of time is surrendered merely to the chance of incident, chaos will soon reign."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: God has set his intentions in the flowers, in the dawn, in the spring, it is his will that we should love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The first symptom of true love in a man is timidity, in a young woman, boldness. This is surprising, and yet nothing is more simple. It is the two sexes tending to approach each other and assuming each the other's qualities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Too much improvisation leaves the mind stupidly void."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Nihilism has no substance. There is no such thing as nothingness, and zero does not exist. Everything is something. Nothing is nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clenched fist none."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: It is not so easy to keep silent when the silence is a lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Hypocrisy is nothing, in fact, but a horrible hopefulness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The delight we inspire in others has this enchanting peculiarity that, far from being diminished like every other reflection, it returns to us more radiant than ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Reality in strong doses frightens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Nothing is more dangerous than discontinued labor; it is habit lost. A habit easy to abandon, difficult to resume."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: What a gloomy thing, not to know the address of one's soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: It is God who makes woman beautiful, it is the devil who makes her pretty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Dry happiness is like dry bread. We eat, but we do not dine. I wish for the superfluous, for the useless, for the extravagant, for the too much, for that which is not good for anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over we realize this: that the human race has been roughly handled, but that it has advanced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Everybody has noticed the way cats stop and loiter in a half-open door. Hasn't everyone said to a cat: For heavens sake why don't you come in? With opportunity half-open in front of them, there are men who have a similar tendency to remain undecided between two solutions, at the risk of being crushed by fate abruptly closing the opportunity. The overprudent, cats as they are, and because they are cats, sometimes run more danger than the bold"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Philosophy is the microscope of thought. Everything desires to flee from it, but nothing escapes it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: ...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: One drop of wine is enough to redden a whole glass of water."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The hand which moves over the dial moves also among souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: He did not study God; he was dazzled by him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To love another person is to see the face of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A tempest ceases, a cyclone passes over, a wind dies down, a broken mast can be replaced, a leak can be stopped, a fire extinguished, but what will become of this enormous brute of bronze?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: It is not enough to be happy, one must be content."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: God knows better than we do what we need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: If I have not been exposed and am not in any danger of pursuit. But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuer that does not readily let go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: In saying no to progress, it is not the future which they condemn, but themselves. They give themselves a melancholy disease; they inoculate themselves with the past. There is but one way of refusing tomorrow, that is to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A man trying to escape never thinks himself sufficiently concealed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: God became man, granted. The devil became a woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Night and the day, when united, Bring forth the beautiful light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: He sought...to transform the grief which looks down into the grave by showing it the grief which looks up to the stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Man's greatest actions are performed in minor struggles. Life, misfortune, isolation, abandonment and poverty are battlefields which have their heroes - obscure heroes who are at times greater than illustrious heroes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To learn to read is to light a fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The day that a woman who is passing before you sheds a light upon you as she goes, you are lost, you love. You have then but one thing to do: to think of her so earnestly that she will be compelled to think of you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Do not ask the name of the person who seeks a bed for the night. He who is reluctant to give his name is the one who most needs shelter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: It is by suffering that human beings become angels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The three great problems of this century; the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: No doubt it was necessary to civilize man in relation to man. That work is already advanced and is making progress every day. But man must be civilized also in relation to nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To have lied is to have suffered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: It may be remarked in passing that success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblences to merit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Wisdom is a sacred communion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: From a political point of view, there is but one principle, the sovereignty of man over himself. This sovereignty of myself over myself is called Liberty"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Does not beauty confer a benefit upon us, even by the simple fact of being beautiful?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: In Shakespeare the birds sing, the bushes are clothed with green, hearts love, souls suffer, the cloud wanders, it is hot, it is cold, night falls, time passes, forests and multitudes speak, the vast eternal dream hovers over all. Sap and blood, all forms of the multiple reality, actions and ideas, man and humanity, the living and the life, solitudes, cities, religions, diamonds and pearls, dung-hills and charnelhouses, the ebb and flow of beings, the steps of comers and goers, all, all are on Shakespeare and in Shakespeare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Men hate those to whom they have to lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Caution is the eldest child of wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Melancholy is the pleasure of being sad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: One is not idle because one is absorbed. There is both visible and invisible labor. To contemplate is to toil, to think is to do. The crossed arms work, the clasped hands act. The eyes upturned to Heaven are an act of creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Morality is truth in full bloom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Men become accustomed to poison by degrees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: It is often our best friends who throw us down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: What makes night within us may leave stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There is nothing like a dream to create the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: War can only be qualified by its object, and there is neither foreign war nor civil war, there is only just or unjust war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: What is called honors and dignities, and even honor and dignity, is generally fool's gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Nothing discernible to the eye of the spirit is more brilliant or obscure than man; nothing is more formidable, complex, mysterious, and infinite. There is a prospect greater than the sea, and it is the sky; there is a prospect greater than the sky, and it is the human soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him \u2014 him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The flesh is the upper surface of the unknown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: In every cradle decked with rosy wreath Lurk germs of death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: When the heart is dry the eye is dry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Babylon violated diminishes Alexander; Rome enslaved diminishes Caesar; massacred Jerusalem diminishes Titus. Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: ...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The left-handed are precious; they take places which are inconvenient for the rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Have no fear of robbers or murderers. They are external dangers, petty dangers. We should fear ourselves. Prejudices are the real robbers; vices the real murderers. The great dangers are within us. Why worry about what threatens our heads or our purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Religion, Society, and Nature--these are the three struggles of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and which has the wider vision?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Diamonds are found only in the dark places of the earth, truths are found only in the depths of thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The earth is a great piece of stupidity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Monastic incarceration is castration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Men are still men. The despot's wickedness Comes of ill teaching, and of power's excess,-- Comes of the purple he from childhood wears, Slaves would be tyrants if the chance were theirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Fashions have done more harm than revolutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To know how to distinguish the agitation arising from covetousness, from the agitation arising from principles, to fight the one and aid the other, in this lies the genius and the power of great revolutionary leaders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: I advance in life, I grow more simple, and I become more and more patriotic for humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The greatest blunders, like the thickest ropes, are often compounded of a multitude of strands. Take the rope apart, separate it into the small threads that compose it, and you can break them one by one. You think, That is all there was! But twist them all together and you have something tremendous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: So your desire is to do nothing? Well, you shall not have a week, a day, an hour, free from oppression. You shall not be able to lift anything without agony. Every passing minute will make your muscles crack. What is feather to others will be a rock to you. The simplest things will become difficult. Life will become monstrous about you. To come, to go, to breathe, will be so many terrible tasks for you. Your lungs will feel like a hundred-pound weight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Happiness wishes everybody happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Ecclesiastes names thee Almighty, the Maccabees name thee Creator, the Epistle to the Ephesians names thee Liberty, Baruch names thee Immensity, the Psalms name thee Wisdom and Truth, John names thee Light, the Book of Kings names thee Lord, Exodus names thee Providence, Leviticus Sanctity, Esdras Justice, creation names thee God, man names thee Father; but Solomon names thee Compassion, which is the most beautiful of all thy names."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man \u2014 hope!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A fixed idea ends in madness or heroism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To love beauty is to see light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Nature, like a kind and smiling mother, lends herself to our dreams and cherishes our fancies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The malicious have a dark happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A garden to walk in and immensity to dream in--what more could he ask? A few flowers at his feet and above him the stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word \u2018she."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Love partakes of the soul itself. it is of the same nature. like it, it is a divine spark, like it, it is incorruptible, indivisible, imperishable, it is the point of fire which is within us, which is immortal and infinite, which nothing can limit and nothing can extinguish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: He was at his own request and through his own complicity driven out of all his happinesses one after the other; and he had this sorrow, that after having lost Cosette wholly in one day, he was afterwards obliged to lose her again in detail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: \u201cHelp me!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Love has no middle term; either it destroys, or it saves. All human destiny is this dilemma. This dilemma, destruction or salvation, no fate proposes more inexorably than love. Love is life, if it is not death. Cradle; coffin, too. The same sentiment says yes and no in the human heart. Of all the things God has made, the human heart is the one that sheds most light, and alas! most night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Are you afraid of the good you might do?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: And then, strange to say, the first symptom of true love in a young man is timidity; in a girl, it is boldness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Often the losing of a battle leads to the winning of progress. Less glory but greater liberty: the drum is silent and the voices of reason can be heard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: . . .where there is no more hope, song remains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A sewer is a cynic. It tells All."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The wind of revolutions is not tractable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Need is a low door which, when we must by stern necessity pass through, forces the greatest to bend down the most."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: During a wise man's whole life, his destiny holds his philosophy in a state of siege."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: He loved books; books are cold but safe friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The man who fights against his own country is never a hero."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A library implies an act of faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Superstitions, bigotries, hypocrisies, prejudices, these phantoms, phantoms though they be, cling to life; they have teeth and nails in their shadowy substance, and we must grapple with them individually and make war on them without truce; for it is one of humanity's inevitabilities to be condemned to eternal struggle with phantoms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A language does not become fixed. The human intellect is always on the march, or, if you prefer, in movement, and languages with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: We say that slavery has vanished from European civilization, but this is not true. Slavery still exists, but now it applies only to women and its name is prostitution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Civil war.... What did the words mean? Was there any such thing as \"foreign war\"? Was not all warfare between men warfare between brothers?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: She loved with so much passion as she loved with ignorance. She did not know whether it were good or evil, beneficent or dangerous, necessary or accidental, eternal or transitory, permitted or prohibited: she loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The sewer is the conscience of the city."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: How frightened hypocrisy hastens to defend itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The straight line, a respectable optical illusion which ruins many a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Anger may be foolish and absurd, and one may be wrongly irritated, but a man never feels outraged unless in some respect he is fundamentally right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: where would the shout of love begin, if not from the summit of sacrifice?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: I will be Chateaubriand or nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Thought is the labor of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: What is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: When a man understands the art of seeing, he can trace the spirit of an age and the features of a king even in the knocker on a door."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: As for methods of prayer, all of them are good as long as they are sincere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: What is fright by night is curiosity by day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Who then can calculate the path of the molecule? how do we know that the creations of worlds are not determined by the fall of grains of sand?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: \"Animals are happy,\" said the queen. \"They run no risk of going to hell.\" \"They are there already,\" replied Josiana."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Idleness is a mother. She has a son, robbery, and a daughter, hunger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: ...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: I'd like a drink. I desire to forget life. Life is a hideous invention by somebody I don't know. It doesn't last, and it's good for nothing. You break your neck simply living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: If suffer we must, let's suffer on the heights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: No one can keep a secret better than a child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Revolutions spring not from accident, but from necessity. A revolution is a return from the factitious to the real. It takes place because it must."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The owl goes not into the nest of the lark."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A faith is a necessity to a man. Woe to him who believes in nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all. Ever since history has been written, ever since philosophy has meditated, misery has been the garment of the human race; the moment has at length arrived for tearing off that rag, and for replacing, upon the naked limbs of the Man-People, the sinister fragment of the past with the grand purple robe of the dawn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: It is a terrible thing to be happy! How pleased we are with it! How all-sufficient we think it! How, being in possession of the false aim of life, happiness, we forget the true aim, duty!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: \"I should hope so,\" Laigle replied, \"for my coat and I live comfortably together. It has assumed all my wrinkles, does not hurt me anywhere, has moulded itself on my deformities, and is complacent to all my movements, and 1 only feel its presence because it keeps me warm.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Promise to give me a kiss on my brow when I am dead.--I shall feel it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To think of shadows is a serious thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Right is right only when entire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The cruel of heart have their own black happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: M. Mabeuf\u2019s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To die for lack of love is horrible. The asphyxia of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Forget not, never forget that you have promised me to use this silver to become an honest man.... Jean Valjean, my brother: you belong no longer to evil, but to good. It is your soul that I am buying for you. I withdraw it from dark thoughts and from the spirit of perdition, and I give it to God!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Be happy without picking flaws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Curiosity is gluttony. To see is to devour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: What's our baggage? Only vows,\r\nHappiness, and all our care,\r\nAnd the flower that sweetly shows\r\nNestling lightly in your hair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Let the one fight for his flag, and the other for his ideal, and let them both imagine that they are fighting for the country; the strife will be colossal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To err is human. To loaf is Parisian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: No matter who you are, the thought of so much suffering and degradation must cause you to shudder at the sight of a veil or cassock, those two shrouds of human invention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of soul and mind; distress is the nurse of self-respect; misfortune is a good breast for great souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The most beautiful of altars, he said, is the soul of an unhappy creature consoled and thankfing God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Progress is not accomplished in one stage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: People weighed down with troubles do not look back; they know only too well that misfortune stalks them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Liberation is not deliverance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Yes, instruction! Light! Light! Everything comes from light, and to everything it returns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Justice has its anger, my lord Bishop, and the wrath of justice is an element of progress. Whatever else may be said of it, the French Revolution was the greatest step forward by mankind since the coming of Christ. It was unfinished, I agree, but still it was sublime. It released the untapped springs of society; it softened hearts, appeased, tranquilized, enlightened, and set flowing through the world the tides of civilization. It was good. The French Revolution was the anointing of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: One cannot be a good historian of the outward, visible world without giving some thought to the hidden, private life of ordinary people; and on the other hand one cannot be a good historian of this inner life without taking into account outward events where these are relevant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The ode lives upon the ideal, the epic upon the grandiose, the drama upon the real."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The Parisian is to the French what the Athenian was to the Greeks: no one sleeps better than he, no one is more openly frivolous and idle, no one appears more heedless. But this is misleading. He is given to every kind of listlessness, but when there is glory to be won he may be inspired with every kind of fury. Give him a pike and he will enact the tenth of August, a musket and you have Austerlitz. He was the springboard of Napoleon and the mainstay of Danton. At the cry of \"la patrie\" he enrols, and at the call of liberty he tears up the pavements. Beware of him!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A bird sings, a child prattles, but it is the same hymn; hymn indistinct, inarticulate, but full of profound meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to the bully; he who is very pious is slightly sanctimonious; there are just as many vices to virtue as there are holes in the mantle of Diogenes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The nearer I approach the end, the plainer I hear around me the immortal symphonies of the worlds which invite me. It is marvelous, yet simple."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There is such a thing as the pressure of darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The paradise of the rich is made out of the hell of the poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: I represent a party which does not yet exist: the party Revolution-Civilization. This party will make the twentieth century. There will issue from it first the United States of Europe, then the United States of the World."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: One of the magnanimities of woman is to yield."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Years place at last a venerable crown upon a head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: M. Myriel had to undergo the fate of every newcomer in a little town, where there are many mouths which talk, and very few heads which think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: First problem. To produce wealth. Second problem. To distribute it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Nothing is so stifling as symmetry. Symmetry is boredom, the quintessence of mourning. Despair yawns. There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering - a hell of boredom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: What love commences can be finished by God alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: One cannot resist an idea whose time has come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The mountains, the forest, and the sea, render men savage; they develop the fierce, but yet do not destroy the human."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The world of sleep has an existence of its own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: She was sad with an obscure sadness of which she had not the secret herself. There was in her whole person the stupor of a life ended but never commenced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Table talk and Lovers' talk equally elude the grasp; Lovers' talk is clouds, table talk is smoke."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: In winter there is no heat, no light, no noon, evening touches morning, there is fog, and mist, the window is frosted, and you cannot see clearly. The sky is but the mouth of a cave. The whole day is the cave.... Frightful season! Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Great griefs exhaust. They discourage us with life. The man into whom they enter feels something taken from him. In youth, their visit is sad; later on, it is ominous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Marius and Cosette were in the dark in regard to each other. They did not speak, they did not bow, they were not acquainted; they saw each other; and, like the stars in the sky separated by millions of leagues, they lived by gazing upon each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: His universal compassion was due less to natural instinct, than to a profound conviction, a sum of thoughts that in the course of living had filtered through to his heart: for in the nature of man, as in rock, there may be channels hollowed by the dropping of water, and these can never be destroyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Though one believes in nothing, there are moments in life when one accepts the religion of the temple nearest at hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Everything bows to success, even grammar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The beautiful is as useful as the useful.\" He added after a moment\u2019s silence, \"Perhaps more so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Is it not a thing divine to have a smile which, none know how, has the power to lighten the weight of that enormous chain which all the living in common drag behind them?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: So a voice in the mountain is enough to let loose an avalanche. A word too much may be followed by a caving in. If the word had not been spoken, it would not have happened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: In the vast cosmical changes, the universal life comes and goes in unknown quantities, ... sowing an animalcule here, crumbling a star there, oscillating and ... entangling, from the highest to the lowest, all activities in the obscurity of a dizzying mechanism, hanging the flight of an insect upon the movement of the earth... Enormous gearing, whose first motor is the gnat, and whose last wheel is the zodiac."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Success is an ugly thing. Men are deceived by its false resemblances to merit.... They confound the brilliance of the firmament with the star-shaped footprints of a duck in the mud."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Not ill? No truly, I am young, healthful, and strong; the blood flows freely in my veins; my limbs obey my will; I am robust in mind and body, constituted for a long life. Yes, all this is true; and yet, nevertheless, I have an illness, a fatal illness,-an illness given by the hand of man!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Jean Prouvaire was timid only in repose. Once excited, he burst forth, a sort of mirth accentuated his enthusiasm, and he was at once both laughing and lyric."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To study in Paris is to be born in Paris!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Emotion is always new."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Nations, like stars, are entitled to eclipse. All is well, provided the light returns and the eclipse does not become endless night. Dawn and resurrection are synonymous. The reappearance of the light is the same as the survival of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: It is an unpleasant thing to go to bed without supper, it is a still less pleasant thing not to sup and not to know where one is to sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A wedding is not house-keeping."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A benevolent malefactor, merciful, gentle, helpful, clement, a convict, returning good for evil, giving back pardon for hatred, preferring pity to vengeance, preferring to ruin himself rather than to ruin his enemy, saving him who had smitten him, kneeling on the heights of virtue, more nearly akin to an angel than to a man. Javert was constrained to admit to himself that this monster existed. Things could not go on in this manner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A doctor\u2019s door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There is will in the thought, there is none in the dream. The dream, which is completely spontaneous, takes and keeps, even in the gigantic and the ideal, the form of our mind. Nothing springs more directly and more sincerely from the very bottom of our souls than our unreflected and indefinite aspirations towards the splendours of destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Sometimes he used a spade in his garden, and sometimes he read and wrote. He had but one name for these two kinds of labor; he called them gardening. \u2018The Spirit is a garden,\u2019 said he"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To meditate is to labour; to think is to act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: You have enemies? Why, it is the story of every man who has done a great deed or created a new idea. It is the cloud which thunders around everything that shines. Fame must have enemies, as light must have gnats. Do no bother yourself about it; disdain. Keep your mind serene as you keep your life clear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: ...It all seemed to him to have disappeared as if behind a curtain at a theater. There are such curtains that drop in life. God is moving on to the next act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Lastly, this threefold poetry flows from three great sources - The Bible, Homer, Shakespeare.... The Bible before the Iliad, the Iliad before Shakespeare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Why worry about what threatens our heads or purses? Let us think instead of what threatens our souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Love is the salutation of the angel to the stars"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, this is the miracle of genius."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Nobody loves the light like the blind man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A phenomenon often seen. A sceptic adhering to a believer; that is as simple as the law of the complementary colours. What we lack attracts us. Nobody loves the light like the blind man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Wonderful nature has a double meaning, which dazzles great minds and blinds uncultivated souls. When man is ignorant, when the desert is filled with visions, the darkness of solitude is added to the darkness of intelligence; hence, in man, the possibilities of perdition"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Waterloo is a battle of the first rank won by a captain of the second"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The persistence of an all-absorbing idea is terrible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: I was always a lover of soft-winged things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: One only needs to see a smile in a white crape bonnet in order to enter the palace of dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time, especially in that kind of mock rurality, ugly but odd, and partaking of two natures, which surrounds certain large cities, particularly Paris."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall tree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: All the human and animal manure which the world wastes, if returned to the land, instead of being thrown into the sea, would suffice to nourish the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Algebra applies to the clouds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Taste is the common sense of genius."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Sleep comes more easily than it returns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Melancholy is the happiness of being sad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Paris is a sum total. Paris is the ceiling of the human race. All this prodigious city is an epitome of dead and living manners and customs. He who sees Paris, seems to see all history through with the sky and constellations in the intervals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: People do not read stupidities with impunity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A mother's arms are made of tenderness and children sleep soundly in them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: True or false, that which is said of men often occupies as important a place in their lives, and above all in their destinies, as that which they do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: ...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Such is the remorseless progression of human society, shedding lives and souls as it goes on its way. It is an ocean into which men sink who have been cast out by the law and consigned, with help most cruelly withheld, to moral death. The sea is the pitiless social darkness into which the penal system casts those it has condemned, an unfathomable waste of misery. The human soul, lost in those depths, may become a corpse. Who shall revive it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: by making himself a priest made himself a demon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A saint addicted to excessive self-abnegation is a dangerous associate; he may infect you with poverty, and a stiffening of those joints which are needed for advancement-in a word, with more renunciation than you care for-and so you flee the contagion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: ...The girls chirped and chatted like uncaged warblers. They were delirious with joy... Intoxications of life\u2019s morning! Enchanted years! The wing of a dragonfly trembles! Oh, reader, whoever you may be, do you have such memories? Have you walked in the underbrush, pushing aside branches for the charming head behind you? Have you slid laughing, down some slope wet with rain, with the woman you loved?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To be a saint is the exception; to be a just person is the rule. Err, stumble, commit sin, but be one of the just."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Who then understands the reciprocal flux and reflux of the infinitely great and the infinitely small, the echoing of causes in the abysses of being, and the avalanches of creation?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Love is a fault; so be it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: But secondly you say 'society must exact vengeance, and society must punish'. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: For, to make deserts, God, who rules mankind, Begins with kings, and ends the work by wind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: God manifests himself to us in the first degree through the life of the universe, and in the second degree through the thought of man. The second manifestation is not less holy than the first. The first is named Nature, the second is named Art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The greatest products of architecture are less the works of individuals than of society; rather the offspring of a nation's effort, than the inspired flash of a man of genius."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The need of the immaterial is the most deeply rooted of all needs. One must have bread; but before bread, one must have the ideal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A strange thing has happened, do you know? I am in darkness. There is a person who, departing, took away the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Philosophy should be an energy; it should find its aim and its effect in the amelioration of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: We say and exclaim within ourselves without breaking silence, in a tumult where everything speaks except our mouths. The realities of the soul are none the less real for being invisible and impalpable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Marius was of the temperament that sinks into grief and remains there; Cosette was of the sort that plunges in and comes out again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: We must never fear robbers or murderers. They are dangers from outside, small dangers. It is ourselves we have to fear. Prejudice is the real robber, vice the real murderer. Why should we be troubled by a threat to our person or our pocket? What we have to beware of is the threat to our souls'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: If she gives me all her time it is because I have all her heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: His judgement demonstrates that one can be a genius and understand nothing of an art that is not one's own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: He left her. She was dissatisfied with him. He had preferred to incur her anger rather than cause her pain. He had kept all the pain for himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The mind's eye can nowhere find anything more dazzling or more dark than in man; it can fix itself upon nothing which is more awful, more complex, more mysterious, or more infinite. There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: My greatness does not extend to this shelf."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Dark Error's other hidden side is truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: ...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: I am in the night. There is a being who has gone away and carried the heavens with her. Oh! to be laid side by side in the same tomb, hand clasped in hand, and from time to time, in the darkness, to caress a finger gently, that would suffice for my eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: [T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Do not economize on the hymeneal rites; do not prune them of their splendor, nor split farthings on the day when you are radiant. A wedding is not house-keeping."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Here we stop. Upon the threshold of wedding nights stands an angel smiling, his finger on his lip."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: I only take a half share in the civil war; I am willing to die, I am not willing to kill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: At that moment of love, a moment when passion is absolutely silent under omnipotence of ecstasy, Marius, pure seraphic Marius, would have been more capable of visiting a woman of the streets than of raising Cosette\u2019s dress above the ankle. Once on a moonlit night, Cosette stopped to pick up something from the ground, her dress loosened and revealed the swelling of her breasts. Marius averted his eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The possibility of touch should increase respect. The down of the peach, the dust of the plum, the radiated crystal of snow, the butterfly\u2019s wing powdered with feathers, are gross things beside that chastity that does not even know it is chaste. The young maiden is only the glimmer of a dream and is not yet statue. Her alcove is hidden in the shadows of the ideal. The indiscreet touch of the eye desecrates this dim penumbra. Here, to gaze, is to profane."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: God whose gifts in gracious flood\nUnto all who seek are sent,\nOnly asks you to be good\nAnd is content."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: You say, \"Where goest Thou?\" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more; believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Gavroche had fallen only to rise again; he sat up, a long stream of blood rolled down his face, he raised both arms in air, looked in the direction whence the shot came, and began to sing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Brothers, he who dies here dies in the radiance of the future, and we are entering a tomb all flooded with the dawn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: For sight is woman-like and shuns the old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: If we must suffer, let us suffer nobly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: ...Man lives by affirmation even more than he does by bread."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: His whole life was now summed up in two words: absolute uncertainty within an impenetrable fog."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The wise man is he who knows when and how to stop"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There are things stronger than the strongest man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Primitive times are lyrical, ancient times epical, modern times dramatic. The ode sings of eternity, the epic imparts solemnity tohistory, the drama depicts life. The characteristic of the first poetry is ingeniousness, of the second, simplicity, of the third, truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: When, like an Emir of tyrannic power,\nSirius appears, and on the horizon black\nBids countless stars pursue their mighty track."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Love, thine is the future. Death, I use thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, there shall be in the future neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance nor blood for blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday.' No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now Friday."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Whenever we encounter the Infinite in man, however imperfectly understood, we treat it with respect. Whether in the synagogue, the mosque, the pagoda, or the wigwam, there is a hideous aspect which we execrate and a sublime aspect which we venerate. So great a subject for spiritual contemplation, such measureless dreaming - the echo of God on the human wall!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw. Germination includes the hatching of a meteor and the tap of a swallow's bill breaking the egg, and it leads forward the birth of an earth-worm and the advent of Socrates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: We should judge a man much more surely from what he dreams than from what he thinks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Thought is the work of the intellect, reverie is its self-indulgence. To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse a poison with a source of nourishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There exists, at the bottom of all abasement and misfortune, a last extreme which rebels and joins battle with the forces of law and respectability in a desperate struggle, waged partly by cunning and partly by violence, at once sick and ferocious, in which it attacks the prevailing social order with the pin-pricks of vice and the hammer-blows of crime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A thousand men enslaved fear one beast free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The word Gothic, in the sense in which it is generally employed, is wholly unsuitable, but wholly consecrated. Hence we accept it and we adopt it, like all the rest of the world, to characterize the architecture of the second half of the Middle Ages, where the ogive is the principle which succeeds the architecture of the first period, of which the semi-circle is the father."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: It is only barbarous nations who have a sudden growth after a victory"
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Symmetry is tedious, and tedium is the very basis of mourning. Despair yawns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Desiring always to be in mourning, he clothed himself with night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Without at all invalidating what we have just said, we believe that a perpetual remembrance of the tomb is proper for the living. On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A breath of Paris preserves the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The onward march of the human race requires that the heights around it constantly blaze with noble lessons of courage. Deeds of daring dazzle history and form one of man's guiding lights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Every idea must have a visible enfolding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: When two mouths, made sacred by love, draw near to each other to create, it is impossible, that above that ineffable kiss there should not be a thrill in the immense mystery of the stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Mirrors, those revealers of the truth, are hated; that does not prevent them from being of use."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Sire, you are looking at a plain man, and I am looking at a great man. Each of us may benefit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To rove about, musing, that is to say loitering, is, for a philosopher, a good way of spending time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: God in his harmony has equal ends\nFor cedar that resists and reed that bends;\nFor good it is a woman sometimes rules,\nHolds in her hand the power, and manners, schools,\nAnd laws, and mind; succeeding master proud,\nWith gentle voice and smiles she leads the crowd,\nThe somber human troop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: If it were (Is it not) outrageous that society should treat with such rigid precision those of its members who were most poorly endowed in the distribution or wealth that chance had made, and who were, therefore, most worthy of indulgence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Memory is a gulf that a word can move to its lowest depths."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Monsieur' to a convict is a glass of water to a man dying of thirst at sea; ignominy thirsts for respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: For true poetry, complete poetry, consists in the harmony of contraries. Hence, it is time to say aloud--and it is here above allthat exceptions prove the rule--that everything that exists in nature exists in art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There is a way of meeting error while on the road of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: We are for religion against the religions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: They adored each other; but still the permanent and the immutable subsist. We may love and laugh, pout, clasp hands, smile, and exchange endearments, but that does not affect eternity. Two lovers hide in the dusk of evening, amid flowers and the twittering of birds, and enchant each other with their hearts shinning in their eyes; but the stars in their course still circle through infinite space."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Whatever causes night in our souls may leave stars. Cimourdain was full of virtues and truth, but they shine out of a dark background."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: \u200e\"Dost thou understand? I love thee!\" he cried again.\"What love!\" said the unhappy girl with a shudder.He resumed,--\"The love of a damned soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Joy is the reflex of terror."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Should we continue to look upwards? Is the light we can see in the sky one of those which will presently be extinguished? The ideal is terrifying to behold... brilliant but threatened on all sides by the dark forces that surround it: nevertheless, no more in danger than a star in the jaws of the clouds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: It seems as though, at the approach of a certain dark hour, the light of heaven infills those who are leaving the light of earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Sublime upon sublime scarcely presents a contrast, and we need a little rest from everything, even the beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, \u2014 our thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To divinise is human, to humanise is divine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Never had the sky been more studded with stars and more charming, the trees more trembling, the odor of the grass more penetrating; never had the birds fallen asleep among the leaves with a sweeter noise; never had all the harmonies of universal serenity responded more thoroughly to the inward music of love; never had Marius been more captivated, more happy, more ecstatic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Let us admit, without bitterness, that the individual has his distinct interests and can, without felony, stipulate for those interests and defend them. The present has its pardonable amount of egotism; momentary life has its claims, and cannot be expected to sacrifice itself incessantly to the future. The generation which is in its turn passing over the earth is not forced to abridge its life for the sake of the generations, its equals after all, whose turn shall come later on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The fact is that the beautiful, humanly speaking, is merely form considered in its simplest aspect, in its most perfect symmetry, in its most entire harmony with our make-up. Thus the ensemble that it offers us is always complete, but restricted like ourselves. What we call the ugly, on the contrary, is a detail of a great whole which eludes us, and which is in harmony, not with man but with all creation. That is why it constantly presents itself to us in new but incomplete aspects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: All roads are blocked to a philosophy which reduces everything to the word 'no.' To 'no' there is only one answer and that is 'yes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: In 1815, M. Charles-Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D\u2014\u2014 He was an old man of about seventy-five years of age; he had occupied the see of D\u2014\u2014 since 1806."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: France is great because she is France."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Everything being a constant carnival, there is no carnival left."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: When we are at the end of life, to die means to go away; when we are at the beginning, to go away means to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible point of view. The submarine gulf is analogous to the realm of night and dreams. There also is sleep, unconsciousness, or at least apparent unconsciousness, of creation. There in the awful silence and darkness, the rude first forms of life, phantomlike, demoniacal, pursue their horrible instincts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There are souls which, crab-like, crawl continually toward darkness, going back in life rather than advancing in it, using what experience they have to increase their deformity, growing worse without ceasing, and becoming steeped more and more thoroughly in an intensifying wickedness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: In 1815, M. Charles Francois-Bienvenu Myriel was Bishop of D-----. He was a man of seventy-five, and had occupied the bishopric of D----- since 1806. Although it in no manner concerns, even in the remotest degree, what we have to relate, it may not be useless, were it only for the sake of exactness in all things, to notice here the reports and gossip which had arisen on his account from the time of his arrival in the diocese."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: Do you know what friendship is... it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: A queen, devoid of beauty is not queen;\nShe needs the royalty of beauty's mien."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Victor Hugo: The beginning as well as the end of all his thoughts was hatred of human law, that hatred which, if it be not checked in its growth by some providential event, becomes, in a certain time, hatred of society, then hatred of the human race, and then hatred of creation, and reveals itself by a vague and incessant desire to injure some living being, it matters not who."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: You must remember that some things legally right are not morally right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: What kills a skunk is the publicity it gives itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: A house divided against itself cannot stand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: You cannot build character and courage by taking away people's initiative and independence. You cannot help people permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other. And the same is true in all joint operations wherein those engaged can have none but a common end in view and can differ only as to the choice of means. In a storm at sea no one on board can wish the ship to sink, and yet not unfrequently all go down together because too many will direct and no single mind can be allowed to control."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Let every American, every lover of liberty, every well wisher to his posterity, swear by the blood of the Revolution, never to violate in the least particular, the laws of the country; and never to tolerate their violation by others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We have been preserved, these many years, in peace and prosperity. We have grown in numbers, wealth and power, as no other nation has ever grown. But we have forgotten God. We have forgotten the gracious hand which preserved us in peace, and multiplied and enriched and strengthened us; and we have vainly imagined, in the deceitfulness of our hearts, that all these blessings were produced by some superior wisdom and virtue of our own. Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving Grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: And having thus chosen our course, without guile, and with pure purpose, let us renew our trust in God, and go forward without fear, and with manly hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Behind the cloud the sun is still shining."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: In regards to this great Book [the Bible], I have but to say it is the best gift God has given to man. All the good the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this Book. But for it we could not know right from wrong. All things most desirable for man's welfare, here and hereafter, are found portrayed in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I had been told I was on the road to hell, but I had no idea it was just a mile down the road with a dome on it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have stepped out upon this platform that I may see you and that you may see me, and in the arrangement I have the best of the bargain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's for which the sheep thanks the shepherd as his liberator, while the wolf denounces him for the same act as the destroyer of liberty. Plainly, the sheep and the wolf are not agreed upon a definition of liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing. With some the word liberty may mean for each man to do as he pleases with himself, and the product of his labor; while with others, the same word many mean for some men to do as they please with other men, and the product of other men's labor. Here are two, not only different, but incompatible things, called by the same name - liberty. And it follows that each of the things is, by the respective parties, called by two different and incompatible names - liberty and tyranny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We live in the midst of alarms; anxiety beclouds the future; we expect some new disaster with each newspaper we read."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I will say, then, that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races: that I am not, nor ever have been, in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: History is not history unless it is the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: And whereas it is the duty of nations as well as of men, to own their dependence upon the overruling power of God ... and to recognize the sublime truth, announced in the Holy Scriptures and proven by all history, that those nations only are blessed whose God is the Lord."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Hypocrite: The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Don't interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: ...Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man-this race and that race and the other race being inferior, and therefore they must be placed in and inferior position...Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I fear you do not fully comprehend the danger of abridging the liberties of the people. Nothing but the sternest necessity can ever justify it. A government had better go to the extreme of toleration, than to do aught that could be construed into an interference with, or to jeopardize in any degree, the common rights of its citizens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I shall not do more than I can, and I shall do all I can to save the government, which is my sworn duty as well as my personal inclination. I shall do nothing in malice. What I deal with is too vast for malicious dealing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty \u2013 to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled, the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains, its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could do it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would do that. I have here stated my purpose according to my official duty, and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men, everywhere, could be free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Should my administration prove to be a very wicked one...or a very foolish one, if you, the people, are true to yourselves and the Constitution, there is little harm I can do, thank God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: May the Almighty grant that the cause of truth, justice, and humanity, shall in no wise suffer at my hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Democracy is \"government of, by and for the people\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Let the people know the truth and the country is safe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am not in favor of making voters or jurors of Negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that. What I do about slavery, and the colored race, I do because I believe it helps to save the Union; and what I forbear, I forbear because I do not believe it would help to save the Union."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: But fight we must; and conquer we shall; in the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: No country can sustain, in idleness, more than a small percentage of its numbers. The great majority must labor at something productive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I appeal to all loyal citizens to favor, facilitate and aid this effort to maintain the honor, the integrity, and the existence of our National Union, and the perpetuity of popular\ngovernment; and to redress wrongs already long enough endured."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Both read the same Bible, and pray to the same God; and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces; but let us judge not that we be not judged. The prayers of both could not be answered; that of neither has been answered fully."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am struggling to maintain the government, not to overthrow it. I am struggling especially to prevent others from overthrowing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words, \"And this too, shall pass away.\" How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If I am killed, I can die by once; but to live in constant dread of it, is to die over and over again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Wanting to work is so rare a merit, that it should be encouraged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Let no feeling of discouragement prey upon you, and in the end you are sure to succeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I don't believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good. So while we do not propose any war upon capital, we do wish to allow the humblest man an equal chance to get rich with everybody else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Don't worry when you are not recognized, but strive to be worthy of recognition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We have been the recipients of the choicest bounties of Heaven; we have been preserved these many years in peace and prosperity; we have grown in numbers, wealth, and power as no other nation has ever grown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It is the eternal struggle between these two principles - right and wrong. They are the two principles that have stood face to face from the beginning of time and will ever continue to struggle. It is the same spirit that says, \"You work and toil and earn bread, and I'll eat it.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief. Once relieved, its form of government is saved to the world; its beloved history, and cherished memories, are vindicated; and its happy future fully assured, and rendered inconceivably grand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Without the assistance of that Divine Being...I cannot succeed.  With that assistance I cannot fail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: You cannot help small men by tearing down big men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: There is a vague popular belief that lawyers are necessarily dishonest. I say vague, because when we consider to what extent confidence and honors are reposed in and conferred upon lawyers by the people, it appears improbable that their impression of dishonesty is very distinct and vivid. Yet the impression is common, almost universal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Marriage is neither heaven nor hell, it is simply purgatory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he [the president] is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature [of] things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: With high hope for the future, no prediction is ventured."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: When we were the political slaves of King George, and wanted to be free, we called the maxim that \"all men are created equal\" a self evident truth; but now when we have grown fat, and have lost all dread of being slaves ourselves, we have become so greedy to be masters that we call the same maxim \"a self evident lie\" The fourth of July has not quite dwindled away; it is still a great day-for burning fire-crackers!!!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Half finished work generally proves to be labor lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Familiarize yourselves with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them. Accustomed to trample on the rights of others, you have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I think that God means that we shall do more than we have yet done in furtherance of his plans and he will open the way for our doing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I know that the Lord is always on the side of the right. But it is my constant anxiety and prayer that I and this nation should be on the Lord's side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We cannot but believe that He who made the world still governs it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We can not have free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forego, or postpone a national election it might fairly claim to have already conquered and ruined us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Let us diligently apply the means, never doubting that a just God, in his own good time, will give us the rightful result."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Be not deceived. Revolutions do not go backward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The struggle of today is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We must settle this question now -- whether in a free government the minority have the right to break it up whenever they choose. If we fail, it will go far to prove the incapability of the people to govern themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We cannot escape history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have had so many evidences of [God's] direction, so many instances when I have been controlled by some other power than my own will, that I cannot doubt that this power comes from above."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Freedom is the natural condition of the human race, in which the Almighty intended men to live. Those who fight the purpose of the Almighty will not succeed. They always have been, they always will be beaten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: What is to be, will be, and no prayers of ours can arrest the decree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Teach hope to all, despair to none."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not our frowning battlements, our bristling sea coasts, our army and our navy... Our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in us. Our defense is in the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism at your own doors... You have lost the genius of your own independence and become the fit subjects of the first cunning tyrant who rises among you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Important principles may, and must, be inflexible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: On the whole, my impression is that mercy bears richer fruits than any other attribute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It is most cheering and encouraging for me to know that in the efforts which I have made and am making for the restoration of a righteous peace to our country, I am upheld and sustained by the good wishes and prayers of God's people. No one is more deeply than myself aware that without His favor our highest wisdom is but as foolishness and that our most strenuous efforts would avail nothing in the shadow of His displeasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The political horizon looks dark and lowering; but the people, under Providence, will set all right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Let us renew our trust in god, and go forward without fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Freedom is the last, best hope of earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: You are young, and I am older;\r\nYou are hopeful, I am not-\r\nEnjoy life, ere it grow colder-\r\nPluck the roses ere they rot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Surely God would not have created such a being as man, with an ability to grasp the infinite, to exist only for a day! No, no, man was made for immortality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I say 'try'; if we never try, we shall never succeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We can succeed only by concert. It is not 'can any of us imagine better?, but 'can we all do better?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The fiery trials through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor to the latest generation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have simply tried to do what seemed best each day, as each day came."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If all men were just, there still would be some, though not so much, need of government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Seriously, I do not think I am fit for the Presidency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Quarrel not at all.  No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We know nothing of what will happen in future, but by the analogy of experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Don't kneel to me, that is not right. You must kneel to God only, and thank Him for the liberty you will hereafter enjoy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am naturally anti-slavery. If slavery is not wrong, nothing is wrong. I can not remember when I did not so think, and feel. And yet I have never understood that the Presidency conferred upon me an unrestricted right to act officially upon this judgment and feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ans sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thence forward, and forever free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: By all means, don't say, \"if I can,\" say \"I will.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I do but quote from one of those speeches when I declare that \"I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as\nnaturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We must not promise what we ought not, lest we be called on to perform what we cannot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Killing the dog does not cure the bite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: You have confidence in yourself, which is valuable, if not an indispensable quality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: A capacity and taste for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The Bible says somewhere that we are desperately selfish. I think we would have discovered that fact without the Bible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If there is anything that a man can do well, I say let him do it. Give him a chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: This is essentially a people's contest... whose leading object is to elevate the condition of men - to lift artificial weights from all shoulders - to clear the paths of laudable pursuit for all - to afford all, an unfettered start and a fair chance, in the race of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Relying, as I do, upon the Almighty Power, and encouraged as I am by these resolutions which you have just read, with the support which I receive from Christian men, I shall not hesitate to use all the means at my control to secure the termination of this rebellion, and will hope for success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Allow me to assure you, that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The evacuation of Petersburg and Richmond, and the surrender of the principal insurgent army, give hope of a righteous and speedy peace whose joyous expression can not be restrained. In the midst of this, however, He, from Whom all blessings flow, must not be forgotten. A call for a national thanksgiving is being prepared, and will be duly promulgated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have always believed that a good laugh was good for both the mental and physical digestion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Do not destroy that immortal emblem of humanity, the Declaration of Independence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence? It is not...the guns of our war steamers, or the strength of our gallant and disciplined army...our reliance is in the love of liberty which God has planted in our bosoms..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: My paramount objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy Slavery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I fear explanations explanatory of things explained."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: A drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall. So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey which catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the highroad to his reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I trust that as He shall further open the way, I will be ready to walk therein, relying on His help and trusting in His goodness and wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If there is a worse place than Hell, I am in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Its authors meant it to be... a stumbling block to those who in after times might seek to turn a free people back into the hateful paths of despotism. They knew the proneness of prosperity to breed tyrants, and they meant when such should re-appear in this fair land and commence their vocation they should find left for them at least one hard nut to crack."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: There is more involved in this contest than is realized by every one. There is involved in this struggle the question whether your children and my children shall enjoy the privileges we have enjoyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I pray that our Heavenly Father may assuage the anguish of your bereavement, and leave you only the cherished memory of the loved and lost, and the solemn pride that must be yours, to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of Freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what's said against me won't amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: [I]f the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting, the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased, to be their own rulers, having, to that extent, practically resigned their Government, into the hands of that eminent tribunal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I do, therefore, invite my fellow citizens . . . to set apart and observe the last Thursday of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and Praise to our beneficent Father who dwelleth in the Heavens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The Almighty has His own purposes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am in favor of a national bank...in favor of the internal improvements system and a high protective tariff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Labor is the great source from which nearly all, if not all, human comforts and necessities are drawn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: You dislike the emancipation proclamation; and, perhaps, would have it retracted. You say it is unconstitutional - I think differently."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I intend no modification of my oft-expressed wish that all men everywhere could be free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: When I hear a man preach, I like to see him act as if he were fighting bees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right - stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The will of God prevails. In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be, wrong. God cannot be for and against the same thing at the same time. In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party - and yet the human instrumentalities, working just as they do, are of the best adaptation to effect His purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Anxiety beclouds the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Better give your path to a dog than be bitten by him in contesting for the right. Even killing the dog would not cure the bite"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can. As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man. There will still be business enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know that his hand is in it. If He has a place and work for me - and I think He has - I believe I am ready."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Well, I wish some of you would tell me the brand of whiskey that Grant drinks. I would like to send a barrel of it to my other generals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I shall adopt new views as fast as they shall appear to be true views."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: One eighth of the whole population were colored slaves, not distributed generally over the Union, but localized in the Southern part of it. These slaves constituted a peculiar and powerful interest. All knew that this interest was, somehow, the cause of the war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Free labor has the inspiration of hope; pure slavery has no hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: And, inasmuch [as] most good things are produced by labour, it follows that all such things of right belong to those whose labour has produced them. But it has so happened in all ages of the world, that some have laboured, and others have, without labour, enjoyed a large proportion of the fruits. This is wrong, and should not continue. To [secure] to each labourer the whole product of his labour, or as nearly as possible, is a most worthy object of any good government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Beavers build houses; but they build them in nowise differently, or better now, than they did, five thousand years ago. Ants, and honey-bees, provide food for winter; but just in the same way they did, when Solomon referred the sluggard to them as patterns of prudence. Man is not the only animal who labors; but he is the only one who improves his workmanship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Our political problem now is, \"Can we as a nation continue together permanently - forever - half slave and half free?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Such will be a great lesson of peace: teaching men that what they cannot take by an election, neither can they take it by war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I do not wish to be misunderstood upon this subject of slavery in this country. I suppose it may long exist, and perhaps the best way for it to come to an end peaceably is for it to exist for a length of time. But I say that the spread and strengthening and perpetuation of it is an entirely different proposition. There we should in every way resist it as a wrong, treating it as a wrong, with the fixed idea that it must and will come to an end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I do the very best I know how - the very best I can; and I mean to keep on doing so until the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him, who has never yet forsaken this favored land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present difficulty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have not permitted myself, gentlemen, to conclude that I am the best man in the country; but I am reminded, in this connection, of a story of an old Dutch farmer, who remarked to a companion once that \"it was not best to swap horses when crossing streams.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The human mind is impelled to action, or held in rest by some power, over which the mind itself has no control."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: As an individual who undertakes to live by borrowing, soon finds his original means devoured by interest, and next no one left to borrow from - so must it be with a government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Friends, I agree with you in Providence; but I believe in the Providence of the most men, the largest purse, and the longest cannon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Many free countries have lost their liberty, and ours may lose hers; but, if she shall, be it my proudest plume, not that I was the last to desert, but that I never deserted her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The legitimate object of government is to do for a community of people whatever they need to have done, but can not do at all, or can not so well do, for themselves \u2013 in their separate, and individual capacities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have never had a feeling politically that did not spring from the sentiments embodied in the Declaration of Independence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We will make converts day by day; we will grow strong by the violence and injustice of our adversaries.  And, unless truth be a mockery and justice a hollow lie, we will be in the majority after a while."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We shall not fail - if we stand firm, we shall not fail. Wise counsels may accelerate, or mistakes delay it, but, sooner or later, the victory is sure to come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I never encourage deceit, and falsehood, especially if you have got a bad memory, is the worst enemy a fellow can have. The fact is truth is your truest friend, no matter what the circumstances are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: When any church will inscribe over its altar, as its sole qualification for membership, the Savior's condensed statement of the substance of both law and Gospel, 'Thou shalt love the lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul and thy neighbor as thyself' that church will I join with all my heart and all my soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Every head should be cultivated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I expect to maintain this contest until successful, or till I die, or am conquered, or my term expires, or Congress or the country forsakes me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: With firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The better part of one's life consists of his friendships."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Intoxicated with unbroken success, we have become too self sufficient to feel the necessity of redeeming and preserving grace, too proud to pray to the God that made us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Writing is the great invention of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: With malice towards none; with charity for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: As President, I have no eyes but constitutional eyes; I cannot see you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Lincoln called laughter \"the joyous, beautiful, universal evergreen of life.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels. If any man ceases to attack me, I never remember the past against him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Care for him who shall have borne the battle"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: A house divided against itself cannot stand.\" I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved \u2014 I do not expect the house to fall \u2014 but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Labor is the true standard of value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We must work earnestly in the best light He gives us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I believe, if we take habitual drunkards as a class, their heads and their hearts will bear an advantageous comparison with those of any other class. There seems ever to have been a proneness in the brilliant and warm-blooded to fall into this vice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: With the fearful strain that is on me night and day, if I did not laugh I should die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations, and always changing easily with deliberate changes of popular opinions and sentiments, is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism. Unanimity is impossible. The rule of a minority, as a permanent arrangement, is wholly inadmissible; so that, rejecting the majority principle, anarchy or despotism in some form is all that is left."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: As a peacemaker the lawyer has superior opportunity of being a good man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I was raised to farm work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Truth is generally the best vindication against slander"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It is the man who does not want to express an opinion whose opinion I want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: To correct the evils, great and small, which spring from want of sympathy and from positive enmity among strangers, as nations or as individuals, is one of the highest functions of civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: All creation is a mine, and every man a miner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If we have no friends, we have no pleasure; and if we have them, we are sure to lose them, and be doubly pained by the loss."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert to fleece the people, and now that they have got into a quarrel with themselves, we are called upon to appropriate the people's money to settle the quarrel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I must keep some standard of principle fixed within myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: in times like the present, men should utter nothing for which they would not willingly be responsible through time and eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primmers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature. --as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: But I must add that the U.S. government must not, as by this order, undertake to run the churches. When an individual, in a church or out of it, becomes dangerous to the public interest, he must be checked; but let the churches, as such take care of themselves. It will not do for the U.S. to appoint Trustees, Supervisors, or other agents for the churches."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction ... nor of dungeons to ourselves. Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith, let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Military glory-that attractive rainbow, that rises in showers of blood-that serpent's eye, that charms to destroy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: That our government should have been maintained in its original form from its establishment until now, is not much to be wondered at. It had many props to support it through that period, which now are decayed, and crumbled away. Through that period, it was felt by all, to be an undecided experiment; now, it is understood to be a successful one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Negro equality, Fudge!! How long in the Government of a God great enough to make and maintain this Universe, shall there continue to be knaves to vend and fools to gulp, so low a piece of demagoguism as this?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise, for the redress of which, no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say, that, although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still while they continue in force, for the sake of example, they should be religiously observed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Discourage litigation. Persuade your neighbors to compromise whenever you can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: A majority held in restraint by constitutional checks and limitations...is the only true sovereign of a free people. Whoever rejects it does of necessity fly to anarchy or to despotism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day. Never let your correspondence fall behind. Whatever piece of business you have in hand, before stopping, do all the labor pertaining to it which can then be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The struggle of today, is not altogether for today - it is for a vast future also. With a reliance on Providence, all the more firm and earnest, let us proceed in the great task which events have devolved upon us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity. What one of us but can call to mind some relative more promising in youth than all his fellows, who has fallen a sacrifice to his rapacity?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: There is an important sense in which government is distinctive from administration. One is perpetual, the other is temporary and changeable. A man may be loyal to his government and yet oppose the particular principles and methods of administration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We have all heard of Young America. He is the most current youth of the age. Some think him conceited, and arrogant; but has he not reason to entertain a rather extensive opinion of himself? Is he not the inventor and owner of the present, and sole hope of the future?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: All that harms labor is treason to America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just- that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I believe it is an established maxim in morals that he who makes an assertion without knowing whether it is true or false, is guilty of falsehood; and the accidental truth of the assertion, does not justify or excuse him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It behooves us then to humble ourselves before the offended Power to confess our national sins and to pray for clemency and forgiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: While I am deeply sensible to the high compliment of a re-election; and duly grateful, as I trust, to Almighty God for having directed my countrymen to a right conclusion, as I think, for their own good, it adds nothing to my satisfaction that any other man may be disappointed or pained by the result."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Nothing new here, except my marrying, which to me is a matter of profound wonder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a right to hold them; that he is penetrating, so far as lies in his power, the human soul, and eradicating the light of reason and the love of liberty, when he is in every possible way preparing the public mind, by his vast influence, for making the institution of slavery perpetual and national."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: So viewing the issue, no choice was left but to call out the war power of the Government; and so to resist force, employed for its destruction, by force, for its preservation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: In regard to this Great Book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It is my pleasure that my children are free and happy, and unrestrained by parental tyranny. Love is the chain whereby to bind a child to its parents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am now the most miserable man living. If what I feel equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be one cheerful face on the earth. Whether I shall ever be better, I cannot tell; I awfully forebode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better, it appears to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: In this age, in this country, public sentiment is everything. With it, nothing can fail; against it, nothing can succeed. Whoever molds public sentiment goes deeper than he who enacts statutes, or pronounces judicial decisions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Let reverence for the laws . . . become the political religion of the nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: At the beginning of the war, and for some time, the use of colored troops was not contemplated; and how the change of purpose was wrought, I will not now take time to explain. Upon a clear conviction of duty I resolved to turn that element of strength to account; and I am responsible for it to the American people, to the christian world, to history, and on my final account to God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The Union, and the Constitution, are the picture of silver, subsequently framed around it. The picture was not made to conceal or destroy the apple, but to adorn and preserve it. The picture was made for the apple-not the apple for the picture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We better know there is a fire whence we see much smoke rising than we could know it by one or two witnesses swearing to it. The witnesses may commit perjury, but the smoke cannot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Without the Constitution and the Union, we could not have attained the result; but even these, are not the primary cause of our great prosperity. There is something back of these, entwining itself more closely about the human heart. That something, is the principle of \"Liberty to all\" the principle that clears the path for all-gives hope to all-and, by consequence, enterprize [sic], and industry to all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I do not deny the possibility that the people may err in an election; but if they do, the true [cure] is in the next election, and not in the treachery of the person elected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: My friends I now leave, not knowing when, or whether ever, I may return, with a task before me greater than that which rested upon Washington. Without the assistance of that Divine Being, who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance, I cannot fail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The strongest bond of human sympathy outside the family relation should be one uniting working people of all nations and tongues and kindreds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We were proclaiming ourselves political hypocrites before the world, by thus fostering Human Slavery and proclaiming ourselves, at the same time, the sole friends of Human Freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: As the patriots of seventy-six did to the support of the Declaration of Independence, so to the support of the Constitution and Laws, let every American pledge his life, his property, and his sacred honor;-let every man remember that to violate the law, is to trample on the blood of his father, and to tear the character of his own, and his children's liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The world is agreed that labor is the source from which human wants are mainly supplied. There is no dispute upon this point."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Let us re-adopt the Declaration of Independence, and with it, the practices, and policy, which harmonize with it. Let north and south - let all Americans - let all lovers of liberty everywhere - join in the great and good work. If we do this, we shall not only have saved the Union; but we shall have so saved it, as to make, and to keep it, forever worthy of the saving. We shall have so saved it, that the succeeding millions of free happy people, the world over, shall rise up, and call us blessed, to the latest generations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: No organic law can ever be framed with a provision specifically applicable to every question which may occur in practical administration. .. No foresight can anticipate nor any document of reasonable length contain express provisions for all possible questions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: War, at the best, is terrible, and this war of ours, in its magnitude and in its duration, is one of the most terrible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior ofcapital, and deserves muchthe higher consideration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It has been said that one bad general is better than two good ones, and the saying is true if taken to mean no more than that an army is better directed by a single mind, though inferior, than by two superior ones at variance and cross-purposes with each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Fellow-citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass, will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: In law it is good policy to never plead what you need not, lest you oblige yourself to prove what you can not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Adhere to your purpose and you will soon feel as well as you ever did. On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: My policy is to have no policy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Do the people of the South really entertain fears that a Republican administration would, directly, or indirectly, interfere with their slaves, or with them, about their slaves? If they do, I wish to assure you, as once a friend, and still, I hope, not an enemy, that there is no cause for such fears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am greatly obliged to you, and to all who have come forward at the call of their country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have an irrepressible desire to live till I can be assured that the world is a little better for my having lived in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Certainly there is no contending against the Will of God; but still there is some difficulty in ascertaining, and applying it, to particular cases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The man does not live who is more devoted to peace than I am. None who would do more to preserve it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: In the world's history certain inventions and discoveries occurred, of peculiar value, on account of their great efficiency in facilitating all other inventions and discoveries. Of these were the art of writing and of printing - the discovery of America, and the introduction of Patent-laws. The date of the first ... is unknown; but it certainly was as much as fifteen hundred years before the Christian era; the second-printing-came in 1436, or nearly three thousand years after the first. The others followed more rapidly - the discovery of America in 1492, and the first patent laws in 1624."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The Democracy of to-day hold the liberty of one man to be absolutely nothing, when in conflict with another mans right of property. Republicans, on the contrary, are for both the man and the dollar; but in cases of conflict, the man before the dollar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: A tendancy to melancholy...let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Fondly do we hope, ferverently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I sincerely wish war was a pleasanter and easier business than it is, but it does not admit of holidays."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Gold is good in its place, but living, brave, patriotic men are better than gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: There is a natural disgust in the minds of nearly all white people to the idea of indiscriminate amalgamation of the white and black races... A separation of the races is the only perfect preventive of amalgamation, but as an immediate separation is impossible, the next best thing is to keep them apart where they are not already together. If white and black people never get together in Kansas, they will never mix blood in Kansas..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Let us strive on to finish the work we are in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Nor must Uncle Sam's Web-feet be forgotten. At all the watery margins they have been present. Not only on the deep sea, the broadbay, and the rapid river, but also up the narrow muddy bayou, and wherever the ground was a little damp, they have been, and made their tracks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I cannot make it better known than it already is that I strongly favor colonization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government-that is despotism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The people know their rights, and they are never slow to assert and maintain them, when they are invaded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: These capitalists generally act harmoniously and in concert, to fleece the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Calling a tail a leg does not make it a leg."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: You are green, it is true; but they are green also. You are all green alike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The purposes of the Almighty are perfect, and must prevail, though we erring mortals may fail to accurately perceive them in advance. We hoped for a happy termination of this terrible war long before this; but God knows best, and has ruled otherwise. We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom, and our own error therein. Meanwhile we must work earnestly in the best lights He gives us, trusting that so working still conduces to the great ends He ordains. Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion, which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: God bless the Methodist Church - bless all the churches - and blessed be God, Who, in this our great trial, giveth us the churches."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I believe each individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruit of his labor, so far as it in no wise interferes with any other mans rightsthat each community, as a State, has a right to do exactly as it pleases with all the concerns within that State that interfere with the right of no other State, and that the general government, upon principle, has no right to interfere with anything other than that general class of things that does concern the whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Now I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If I gave McClellan all the men he asked for, they could not find room to lie down; they'd have to sleep standing up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: In the present civil war it is quite possible that God's purpose is something different from the purpose of either party."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets, and that when ballots have fairly and constitutionall y decided there can be no successful appeal back to bullets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am slow to learn and slow to forget that which I have learned. My mind is like a piece of steel, very hard to scratch any thing on it and almost impossible after you get it there to rub it out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: My old father used to have a saying:  If you make a bad bargain, hug it all the tighter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: As a general rule never take your whole fee in advance, nor any more than a small retainer. When fully paid beforehand, you are more than a common mortal if you can feel the same interest in the case, as if something was still in prospect for you, as well as for your client."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have never studied the art of paying compliments to women; but I must say that if all that has been said by orators and poets since the creation of the world in praise of women were applied to the women of America, it would not do them justice for their conduct during this war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: In this troublesome world, we are never quite satisfied. When you were here, I thought you hindered me some in attending to business; but now, having nothing but business---no variety---it has grown exceedingly tasteless to me. I hate to sit down and direct documents, and I hate to stay in this old room by myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Almost every thing, especially of governmental policy, is an inseparable compound of the two [good and evil]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The man who stands by and says nothing, when the peril of his government is discussed, can not be misunderstood. If not hindered, he is sure to help the enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: ...I do not mean to say that this general government is charged with the duty of redressing or preventing all the wrongs in the world; but I do think that it is charged with the duty of preventing and redressing all wrongs which are wrongs to itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Ready are we all to cry out and ascribe motives when our toes are pinched."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Bad promises are better broken than kept."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I can't spare this man, he fights!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: When you lack interest in the case the job will very likely lack skill and diligence in the performance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I confess I hate to see the poor creatures hunted down but I bite my lip and keep quiet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The will of God prevails."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have no wealthy or popular relations to recommend me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It is not the qualified voters, but the qualified voters who choose to vote, that constitute political power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have always wanted to deal with everyone I meet candidly and honestly. If I have made any assertion not warranted by facts, and it is pointed out to me, I will withdraw it cheerfully."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If there is anything which it is the duty of the whole people to never entrust to any hands but their own, that thing is the preservation and perpetuity of their own liberties and institutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Such a man the times have demanded, and such, in the providence of God was given us. But he is gone. Let us strive to deserve, as far as mortals may, the continued care of Divine Providence, trusting that, in future national emergencies, He will not fail to provide us the instruments of safety and security."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Nowhere in the world is presented a government of so much liberty and equality. To the humblest and poorest amongst us are held out the highest privileges and positions. The present moment finds me at the White House, yet there is as good a chance for your children as there was for my father's."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: What constitutes the bulwark of our own liberty and independence?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The occasion is piled high with difficulty. We must rise to the occasion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It is not our frowning battlements...or the strength our gallant and disciplined army? These are not our reliance against a resumption of tyranny in our fair land... Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as the heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The master not only governs the slave without his consent, but he governs him by a set of rules altogether different from those which he prescribes for himself. Allow ALL the governed an\nequal voice in the government, and that, and that only, is self-government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The people themselves, and not their servants, can safely reverse their own deliberate decisions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I hold that while a man exists, it is his duty to improve not only his own condition, but to assist in ameliorating mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It has been said of the world's history hitherto that might makes right. It is for us and for our time to reverse the maxim, and to say that right makes might."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: For it has been said, all that a man hath will he give for his life; and while all contribute of their substance the soldier puts his life at stake, and often yields it up in his country's cause. The highest merit, then is due to the soldier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The leading rule for the lawyer, as for the man of every other calling, is diligence. Leave nothing for to-morrow which can be done to-day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We trust, sir, that God is on our side. It is more important to know that we are on God's side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Writing, the art of communicating thoughts to the mind through the eye, is the great invention of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have endured a great deal of ridicule without much malice; and have received a great deal of kindness, not quite free from ridicule. I am used to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: You are ambitious, which, within reasonable bounds, does good rather than harm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It is not merely for to-day, but for all time to come that we should perpetuate for our children's children this great and free government, which we have enjoyed all our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: My God! My God! What will the country say?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Every blade of grass is a study; and to produce two, where there was but one, is both a profit and a pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I believe this Government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Public opinion in this country is everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Some day I shall be President."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Both parties deprecated war; but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive; and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I take it that it is best for all to leave each man free to acquire property as fast as he can. Some will get wealthy. I dont believe in a law to prevent a man from getting rich; it would do more harm than good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We must remember that the people of all the States are entitled to all the privileges and immunities of the citizen of the several States. We should bear this in mind, and act in such a way as to say nothing insulting or irritating. I would inculcate this idea, so that we may not, like Pharisees, set ourselves up to be better than other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It is safe to assert that no government proper ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury. Cast about, and see if this feeling has not injured every person you have ever known to fall into it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The Autocrat of all the Russias will resign his crown, and proclaim his subjects free republicans sooner than will our American masters voluntarily give up their slaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It is your business to rise up and preserve the Union and liberty, for yourselves, and not for me. I desire they shall be constitutionally preserved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: There is something so ludicrous in promises of good or threats of evil a great way off as to render the whole subject with which they are connected easily turned into ridicule."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: And I am glad to know that there is a system of labor - where the laborer can strike if he wants to! I would to God that such a system prevailed all over the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If there is no military need for the building, leave it alone, neither putting anyone in or out of it, except on finding some one preaching or practicing treason, in which case lay hands on him, just as if he were doing the same thing in any other building."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors to bullets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire for themselves, and secondly those who desire it for others. Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have just read your dispatch about sore-tongued and fatigued horses, Will you pardon me for asking what the horses of your army have done since the Battle of Antietam that fatigues anything?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I can only say that I have acted upon my best convictions, without selfishness or malice, and that by the help of God I shall continue to do so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: When I came of age I did not know much. Still somehow, I could read, write, and cipher to the Rule of Three.... The little advanceI now have upon this store of education, I have picked up from time to time under the pressure of necessity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The world has never had a good definition\n of the word liberty"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We think slavery a great moral wrong, and while we do not claim the right to touch it where it exists, we wish to treat it as a wrong in the territories, where our votes will reach it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Character is like a tree, and reputation is like its shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: So plain that no one, high or low, ever does mistake it, except in a plainly selfish way; for although volume upon volume is written to prove slavery a very good thing, we never hear of the man who wishes to take the good of it, by being a slave himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: In the early days of the world, the Almighty said to the first of our race \"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread\"; and since then, if we except the light and the air of heaven, no good thing has been, or can be enjoyed by us, without having first cost labour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Much is being said about peace; and no man desires peace more ardently than I. Still I am yet unprepared to give up the Union fora peace which, so achieved, could not be of much duration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I hold that if the Almighty had ever made a set of men that should do all the eating and none of the work, he would have made them with mouths only and no hands, and if he had ever made another class that he intended should do all the work and none of the eating, he would have made them without mouths and with all hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: That we we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain - that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom - and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Slavery is founded on the selfishness of man's nature - opposition to it on his love of justice. These principles are in eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Allow the president to invade a neighboring nation, whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such a purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Must a government be too strong for the liberties of its people or too weak to maintain its own existence?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this; secured to the inventor, for a limited time, the exclusive use of his invention; and thereby added the fuel of interest to the fire of genius, in the discovery and production of new and useful things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: He who does something at the head of one Regiment, will eclipse him who does nothing at the head of a hundred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: But, slavery is good for some people! ! ! As a good thing, slavery is strikingly peculiar, in this, that it is the only good thing which no man ever seeks the good of, for himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We believe that the spreading out and perpetuity of the institution of slavery impairs the general welfare. We believe - nay, we know, that that is the only thing that has ever threatened the perpetuity of the Union itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Let there be no compromise on the question of extending slavery. If there be, all our labor is lost, and, ere long, must be done again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: You think slavery is right and ought to be extended; while we think it is wrong and ought to be restricted. That I suppose is the rub. It certainly is the only substantial difference between us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I say now, however, as I have all the while said, that on the territorial question - that is, the question of extending slavery under the national auspices, - I am inflexible. I am for no compromise which assists or permits the extension of the institution on soil owned by the nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: That I am not a member of any Christian Church, is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures; and I have never spoken with intentional disrepect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We cannot ask a man what he will do, and if we should, and he should answer us, we should despise him for it. Therefore we must take a man whose opinions are known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Slavery is wrong. If Slavery is right, all words, acts, laws, and Constitutions against it, are themselves wrong, and should be silenced, and swept away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am for the people of the whole nation doing just as they please in all matters which concern the whole nation; for that of each part doing just as they choose in all matters which concern no other part; and for each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: To give victory to the right, not bloody bullets, but peaceful ballots only, are necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Some single mind must be master, else there will be no agreement in anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: And by virtue of the power, and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States, and parts of States, are, and henceforward shall be free; and that the Executive government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The solemn pride that must be yours to have laid so costly a sacrifice upon the altar of freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Being President is like the man who was tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail... A man in the crowd asked how he liked it, and his reply was that if it wasn't for the honor of the thing, he would much rather walk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Why don't you laugh? If I did not laugh I should die, and you need this medicine as much as I do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: This is a world of compensations; and he who would be no slave, must consent to have no slave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: In those days, our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all, and thought to include all; but now, to aid in the making the bondage of the negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, and sneered at, and construed, and hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this his almost chosen people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: There are few things wholly evil or wholly good. Almost everything, especially of government policy, is an inseparable compound of the two, so that our best judgment of the preponderance between them is continually demanded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: None seemed to think the injury arose from the use of a bad thing but from the abuse of a very good thing"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I can not but hate the prospect of slavery's expansion. I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world-enables the enemies of free institutions, with plausibility, to taunt us as hypocrites-causes the real friends of freedom to doubt our sincerity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Senator [Stephen] Douglas is of world-wide renown. All the anxious politicians of his party, or who have been of his party for years past, have been looking upon him as certainly, at no distant day, to be the President of the United States. They have seen in his round, jolly, fruitful face, post offices, land offices, marshalships, and cabinet appointments, chargeships and foreign missions, bursting and sprouting out in wonderful exuberance ready to be laid hold of by their greedy hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: This nation under God"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It is the quality of revolutions not to go by old lines or old laws; but to break up both, and make new ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The President to-night has a dream: - He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said: - \"He is a very common-looking man\". The President replied: - \"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I believe that every individual is naturally entitled to do as he pleases with himself and the fruits of his labor, so far as it in no way interferes with any other men's rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We accepted this war for an object, a worthy object, and the war will end when that object is attained. Under God, I hope it never will until that time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: All creation is a mine, and every man a miner. The whole earth, and all within it, upon it, and round about it, including himself ... are the infinitely various \"leads\" from which, man, from the first, was to dig out his destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Work, work, work, is the main thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: By the 'mud-sill' theory it is assumed that labor and education are incompatible; and any practical combination of them impossible. According to that theory, a blind horse upon a tread-mill, is a perfect illustration of what a laborer should be -- all the better for being blind, that he could not tread out of place, or kick understandingly. According to that theory, the education of laborers, is not only useless, but pernicious, and dangerous. In fact, it is, in some sort, deemed a misfortune that laborers should have heads at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Human-nature will not change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Whatever woman may cast her lot with mine, should any ever do so, it is my intention to do all in my power to make her happy and contented; and there is nothing I can imagine that would make me more unhappy than to fail in the effort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It is better then, to save the work while it is begun. You have done the labor; maintain it - keep it. If men choose to serve you, go with them; but as you have made up your organization upon principle, stand by it; for as surely as God reigns over you, and has inspired your mind, and given you a sense of propriety, and continues to give you hope, so surely will you still cling to these ideas, and you will at last come back after your wanderings, merely to do your work over again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Ere long the most valuable of all arts will be the art of deriving a comfortable subsistence from the smallest area of soil. No community where every member possesses the art can ever be the victim of oppression in any of its forms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Every man has a right to be equal with every other man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Received as I am by the members of a legislature the majority of whom do not agree with me in political sentiments, I trust that I may have their assistance in piloting the ship of state through this voyage, surrounded by perils as it is; for if it should suffer wreck now, there will be no pilot ever needed for another voyage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: And then, the negro being doomed, and damned, and forgotten, to everlasting bondage, is the white man quite certain that the tyrant demon will not turn upon him too?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We all declare for liberty, but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The President responded very impressively, saying that he was deeply sensible of his need of Divine assistance. He had sometime thought that perhaps he might be an instrument in God's hands of accomplishing a great work and he certainly was not unwilling to be. Perhaps, however, God's way of accomplishing the end which the memorialists have in view may be different from theirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I certainly know that if the war fails, the administration fails, and that I will be blamed for it, whether I deserve it or not. And I ought to be blamed, if I could do better. You think I could do better; therefore you blame me already. I think I could not do better; therefore I blame you for blaming me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression. My conscience is my own - my creators - not man's. I shall never sink the rights of mankind to the malice, wrong, or avarice of another's wishes, though those wishes come to me in the relation of client and attorney."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The severest justice may not always be the best policy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am a patient man--always willing to forgive on the Christian terms of repentance, and also to give ample time for repentance. Still, I must save this government, if possible. What I cannot do, of course I will not do, but it may as well be understood, once for all, that I shall not surrender this game leaving any available card unplayed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Near eighty years ago we began by declaring that all men are created equal; but now from that beginning we have run down to the other declaration, that for SOME men to enslave OTHERS is a \"sacred right of self-government.\" These principles can not stand together. They are as opposite as God and mammon; and whoever holds to the one, must despise the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Remembering that Peter denied his Lord with an oath, after most solemnly protesting that he never would, I will not swear I will make no committals; but I do think I will not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I think slavery is wrong, morally, and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Now, I confess myself as belonging to that class in the country who contemplate slavery as a moral, social and political evil, having due regard for its actual existence amongst us and the difficulties of getting rid of it in any satisfactory way, and to all the constitutional obligations which have been thrown about it; but, nevertheless, desire a policy that looks to the prevention of it as a wrong, and looks hopefully to the time when as a wrong it may come to an end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I think that one of the causes of these repeated failures is that our best and greatest men have greatly underestimated the size of this question (slavery). They have constantly brought forward small cures for great sores-plasters too small to cover the wound. That is one reason that all settlements have proved so temporary-so evanescent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I hold it to be a paramount duty of us in the free states, due to the Union of the states, and perhaps to liberty itself (paradox though it may seem) to let the slavery of the other states alone; while, on the other hand, I hold it to be equally clear, that we should never knowingly lend ourselves directly or indirectly, to prevent that slavery from dying a natural death--to find new places for it to live in, when it can no longer exist in the old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Again, a law may be both constitutional and expedient, and yet may be administered in an unjust and unfair way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I freely acknowledge myself the servant of the people, according to the bond of service - the United States Constitution; and that, as such, I am responsible to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The world has never had a good definition of the word liberty, and the American people, just now, are much in want of one. We all declare for liberty; but in using the same word we do not all mean the same thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Negroes, like other people, act upon motives. Why should they do anything for us, if we will do nothing for them? If they stake their lives for us, they must be prompted by the strongest motive, even the promise of freedom. And the promise being made, must be kept."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am a little uneasy about the abolishment of slavery in this District of Columbia."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. I am sure that either the one or the\nother class is mistaken in that belief, and perhaps in some respects both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Submitted to the Sec. of War. On principle I dislike an oath which requires a man to swear he has not done wrong. It rejects the Christian principle of forgiveness on terms of repentance. I think it is enough if the man does no wrong hereafter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in. That every man may receive at least a moderate education...appears to be an object of vital importance..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If elected I shall be thankful; if not, it will be all the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If as the friends of colonization hope, the present and coming generations of our countrymen shall by any means, succeed in freeing our land from the dangerous presence of slavery; and, at the same time, in restoring a captive people to their long-lost father-land, with bright prospects for the future; and this too, so gradually, that neither races nor individuals shall have suffered by the change, it will indeed be a glorious consummation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: You know I dislike slavery; and you fully admit the abstract wrong of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: When Judge Douglas says that whoever, or whatever community, wants slaves, they have a right to have them, he is perfectly logical if there is nothing wrong in the institution; but if you admit that it is wrong, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: How many times have I laughed at you telling me plainly that I was too lazy to be anything but a lawyer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This our convention understood to be the most oppressive of all kingly oppressions, and they resolved to so frame the constitution that no man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind, unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and a true maxim, that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I shall do less whenever I shall believe what I am doing hurts the cause and I shall do more whenever I shall believe doing more will help the cause. I shall try to correct errors when shown to be errors and I shall adopt new views so fast as they shall appear to be true views."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Towering genius disdains a beaten path ... It scorns to tread in the footsteps of any predecessor, however illustrious. It thirsts for distinction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to see it placed where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I repeat the declaration made a year ago, that 'while I remain in my present position I shall not attempt to retract or modify the emancipation proclamation, nor shall I return to slavery any person who is free by the terms of that proclamation, or by any of the Acts of Congress.' If the people should, by whatever mode or means, make it an Executive duty to re-enslave such persons, another, and not I, must be their instrument to perform it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If you intend to go to work there is no better place than right where you are; if you do not intend to go to work, you can not get along anywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Every man is proud of what he does well; and no man is proud of what he does not do well. With the former, his heart is in his work; and he will do twice as much of it with less fatigue. The latter performs a little imperfectly, looks at it in disgust, turns from it, and imagines himself exceedingly tired. The little he has done, comes to nothing, for want of finishing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: A jury too often has at least one member more ready to hang the panel than to hang the traitor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I know the hole he went in at, but I can't tell you what hole he will come out of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: As a nation we began by declaring that all me are created equal.  We now practically read it, all men are created equal except Negroes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Whatever spiteful fools may say, Each jealous ranting yelper, No woman ever went astray, Without a man to help her"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We must free the slaves or be ourselves subdued."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I never tire of reading Tom Paine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: ...I am exceedingly anxious that this Union, the Constitution, and the liberties of the people shall be perpetuated in accordance with the original idea for which that struggle was made, and I shall be most happy indeed if I shall be an humble instrument in the hands of the Almighty, and of this, his almost chosen people, for perpetuating the object of that great struggle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I do not understand that because I do not want a negro woman for a slave I must necessarily want her for a wife. My understanding is that I can just let her alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Suspicions which may be unjust need not be stated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Accounts of outrages committed by mobs form the every-day news of the times. They have pervaded the country from New England to Louisiana, they are neither peculiar to the eternal snows of the former nor the burning suns of the latter; they are not the creature of climate, neither are they confined to the slaveholding or the non-slaveholding States. Alike they spring up among the pleasure-hunting masters of Southern slaves, and the order-loving citizens of the land of steady habits. Whatever then their cause may be, it is common to the whole country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: All I ask for the negro is that if you do not like him, let him alone. If God gave him but little, that little let him enjoy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We know, Southern men declare that their slaves are better off than hired laborers amongst us. How little they know, whereof they speak! There is no permanent class of hired laborers amongst us. Twenty-five years ago, I was a hired laborer. The hired laborer of yesterday, labors on his own account today; and will hire others to labor for him tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The negative principle that no law is free law, is not much known except among lawyers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: And you are entirely free from head-ache? That is good -- good -- considering it is the first spring you have been free from it since we were acquainted. I am afraid you will get so well, and fat, and young, as to be wanting to marry again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens. Consequently I go for admitting all whites to the right of suffrage who pay taxes or bear arms, by no means excluding females."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The world shall know that I will keep my faith to friends and enemies, come what will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: No policy that does not rest upon some philosophical public opinion can be permanently maintained."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have neither time nor disposition to enter into discussion with the Friend, and end this occasion by suggesting for her consideration the question whether, if it be true that the Lord has appointed me to do the work she has indicated, it is not probable that he would have communicated knowledge of the fact to me as well as to her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I never knew a man who wished to be himself a slave. Consider if you know any good thing, that no man desires for himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Neither party expected for the war, the magnitude, or the duration, which it has already attained. Neither anticipated that the cause of the conflict might cease with, or even before, the conflict itself should cease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We must believe that He permits it [this war] for some wise purpose of his own, mysterious and unknown to us; and though with ourlimited understandings we may not be able to comprehend it, yet we cannot but believe, that he who made the world still governs it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am absent altogether too much to be a suitable instructor for a law-student. When a man has reached the age that Mr. Widner has,and has already been doing for himself, my judgment is, that he reads the books for himself without an instructor. That is precisely the way I came to the law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak, and as strong; as silly and as wise; asbad and good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am nothing, truth is everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: With educated people, I suppose, punctuation is a matter of rule; with me it is a matter of feeling. But I must say I have a great respect for the semicolin; it's a useful little chap"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If they do kill me, I shall never die another death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Our government rests in public opinion. Whoever can change public opinion, can change the government, practically just so much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The slave-breeders and slave-traders, are a small, odious and detested class, among you; and yet in politics, they dictate the course of all of you, and are as completely your masters, as you are the master of your own negroes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have always hated slavery, I think as much as any Abolitionist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The very spot where grew the bread that formed my bones, I see. How strange, old field, on thee to tread, and feel I'm part of thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: With the Catching Ends the Pleasure of the Chase."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity; and none will do it enthusiastically. Posterity has done nothing for us; and theorize on it as we may, practically we shall do very little for it, unless we are made to think we are at the same time doing something for ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Anybody will do for you, but not for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If all do not join now to save the good old ship of the Union this voyage nobody will have a chance to pilot her on another voyage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Lamon, that speech won't scour. It is a flat failure and the people are disappointed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I think to lose Kentucky is nearly the same as to lose the whole game."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: confused and Stunned, like a duck hit on the head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: A right result, at this time, will be worth more to the world, than ten times the men, and ten times the money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Legislation and adjudication must follow, and conform to, the progress of society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If I had my way, this war would never have been commenced. If I had been allowed my way this war would have been ended before this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: As to the whiskers, having never worn any, do you not think people would call it a piece of silly affectation if I were to begin it now?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Gen. Schurz thinks I was a little cross in my late note to you. If I was, I ask pardon. If I do get up a little temper I have no sufficient time to keep it up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I find quite as much material for a lecture in those points wherein I have failed, as in those wherein I have been moderately successful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: You already know I desire that neither Father or Mother shall be in want of any comfort either in health or sickness while they live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The matter of fees is important, far beyond the mere question of bread and butter involved. Properly attended to, fuller justice is done to both lawyer and client."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: You must think I am a high-priced man.... Fifteen dollars is enough for the job. I send you a receipt for fifteen dollars, and return to you a ten-dollar bill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am not an accomplished lawyer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: [If not re-elected in 1864] then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration; as he will have secured his election on such ground that he can not possibly save it afterwards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: You may have a wen or a cancer upon your person and not be able to cut it out lest you bleed to death; but surely it is no way tocure it, to engraft it and spread it over your whole body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: In using the strong hand, as now compelled to do, the government has a difficult duty to perform. At the very best, it will by turns do both too little and too much. It can properly have no motive of revenge, no purpose to punish merely for punishment's sake. While we must, by all available means, prevent the overthrow of the government, we should avoid planting and cultivating too many thorns in the bosom of society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I cannot speak so confidently about the fighting qualities of the Eastern men, or what are called Yankees - not knowing myself particularly to whom the appellation belongs - but this I do know - if the Southerners think that man for man they are better than our Illinois men, or western men generally, they will discover themselves in a grievous mistake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Never stir up litigation, a worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this, who can be more nearly a fiend than he who habitually overhauls the register of deeds in search of defects in titles, whereon to stir up strife, and put money in his pocket?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The demon of intemperance ever seems to have delighted in sucking the blood of genius and of generosity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: As our case is new, so we must think anew, and act anew."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Peace does not appear so distant as it did. I hope it will come soon, and come to stay; and so come as to be worth the keeping in all future time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: You say you will not fight to free negroes. Some of them seem willing to fight for you; but, no matter. Fight you, then exclusively to save the Union."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am much indebted to the good Christian people of the country for their constant prayers and consolations; and to no one of them, more than to yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Nevertheless, amid the greatest difficulties of my Administration, when I could not see any other resort, I would place my whole reliance on God, knowing that all would go well, and that He would decide for the right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Let none falter who thinks he is right, and we may succeed. But if, after all, we shall fail, be it so: we still shall have the proud consolation of saying to our consciences, and to the departed shade of our country's freedom, that the cause approved of our judgment and adored of our hearts, in disaster, in chains, in torture, in death, we never faltered in defending."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Thus let bygones be bygones. Let past differences, as nothing be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: No one has needed favours more than I, and generally, few have been less unwilling to accept them; but in this case, favour to me,would be injustice to the public, and therefore I must beg your pardon for declining it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: God must love the common man, he made so many of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Repeal the Missouri Compromise - repeal all compromises - repeal the Declaration of Independence - repeal all past history, you still can not repeal human nature. It still will be the abundance of man's heart, that slavery extension is wrong; and out of the abundance of his heart, his mouth will continue to speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I believe the declaration that \u2018all men are created equal\u2019 is the great fundamental principle upon which our free institutions rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Whether or not the world would be vastly benefited by a total banishment from it of all intoxicating drinks seems not now an open question. Three-fourths of mankind confess the affirmative with their tongues, and I believe all the rest acknowledge it in their hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: To secure to each laborer the whole product of his labor, or as nearly as possible, is a worthy object of any good government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem, as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: It may be affirmed, without extravagance, that the free institutions we enjoy, have developed the powers, and improved the condition, of our whole people, beyond any example in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here so nobly advanced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We have, as all will agree, a free Government, where every man has a right to be equal with every other man. In this great struggle, this form of Government and every form of human right is endangered if our enemies succeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: And while it has not pleased the Almighty to bless us with a return of peace, we can but press on, guided by the best light He gives, trusting that in His own good time, and wise way, all will yet be well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I hate it because of the monstrous injustice of slavery itself. I hate it because it deprives our republican example of its just influence in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Let us at all times remember that all American citizens are brothers of a common country, and should dwell together in bonds of fraternal feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: God can not be for, and against the same thing at the same time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If we cannot give freedom to every creature, let us do nothing that will impose slavery upon any other creature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I desire to see the time when education, and by its means, morality, sobriety, enterprise and industry shall become much more general than at present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The principles of Jefferson are the definitions and axioms of free society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Now what is Judge Douglas Popular Sovereignty? It is, as a principle, no other than that, if one man chooses to make a slave of another man, neither that other man nor anybody else has a right to object."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I do not think I could myself, be brought to support a man for office, whom I knew to be an open enemy of, and scoffer at, religion. Leaving the higher matter of eternal consequences, between him and his Maker, I still do not think any man has the right thus to insult the feelings, and injure the morals, of the community in which he may live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Great distance in either time or space has wonderful power to lull and render quiescent the human mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If we believe the Bible, we must accept the fact that, in the old days, God and his angels came to humans in their sleep and made themselves known in dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The one victory we can ever call complete will be that one which proclaims that there is not one slave or one drunkard on the face of God's green earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: And I do further recommend to my fellow-citizens aforesaid, that on that occasion they do reverently humble themselves in the dust, and from thence offer up penitent and fervent prayers and supplications to the great Disposer of events for a return of the inestimable blessings of peace, union, and harmony throughout the land which it has pleased him to assign as a dwelling-place for ourselves and for our posterity throughout all generations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The ant, who has toiled and dragged a crumb to his nest, will furiously defend the fruit of his labor, against whatever robber assails him. So plain, that the most dumb and stupid slave that ever toiled for a master, does constantly know that he is wronged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am not a very sentimental man; and the best sentiment I can think of is, that if you collect the signatures of all persons who are no less distinguished than I, you will have a very undistinguishing mass of names."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I cannot bring myself to believe that any human being lives who would do me any harm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Never let your correspondence fall behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have got you together to hear what I have written down. I do not wish your advice about the main matterfor that I have determined for myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If ever I feel the soul within me elevate and expand to those dimensions, not wholly unworthy of its almighty Architect, it is when I contemplate the cause of my country, deserted by all the world beside, and I standing up boldly, alone, hurling defiance at her victorious oppressors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: In the first place, I insist that our fathers did not make this nation half slave and half free, or part slave and part free. I insist that they found the institution of slavery existing here. They did not make it so, but they left it so because they knew of no way to get rid of it at that time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am always for the man who wishes to work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The petition of persons under eighteen, praying that I would free all slave children, and the heading of which petition it appears you wrote, was handed me a few days since by Senator Sumner. Please tell these little people I am very glad their young hearts are so full of just and generous sympathy, and that, while I have not the power to grant all they ask, I trust they will remember that God has, and that, as it seems, He wills to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: While we are grateful to all the brave men and officers for the events of the past few days, we should, above all, be very grateful to Almighty God, who gives us victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: To read in the Bible, as the word of God himself, that \"In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, [\"] and to preach there-from that, \"In the sweat of other mans faces shalt thou eat bread,\" to my mind can scarcely be reconciled with honest sincerity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Must I shoot a simple-minded soldier boy who deserts, while I must not touch a hair of the wily agitator who induces him to desert? I think that in such a cse to silence the agitator and save the boy is not only constitutional but withal a great mercy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: When the hour comes for dealing with slavery, I trust I will be willing to do my duty though it cost my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I do not allow myself to suppose that either the convention or the League, have concluded to decide that I am either the greatest or the best man in America, but rather they have concluded it is not best to swap horses while crossing the river, and have further concluded that I am not so poor a horse that they might not make a botch of it in trying to swap."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I go for all sharing the privileges of the government who assist in bearing its burdens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and that by religious men, who are equally certain that they represent the Divine will. ... I hope it will not be irreverent for me to say that if it is probable that God would reveal his will to others, on a point so connected with my duty, it might be supposed he would reveal it directly to me... These are not, however, the days of miracles ... I must study the plain physical facts of the case, ascertain what is possible, and learn what appears to be wise and right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: As labor is the common burden of our race, so the effort of some to shift their share of the burden onto the shoulders of others is the great durable curse of the race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Let us hopethat by the best cultivation of the physical world, beneath and around us; and the intellectual and moral world within us, we shall secure an individual, social and political prosperity and happiness, whose course shall be onward and upward, and which, while the earth endures, shall not pass away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I understand that it is a maxim of law, that a poor plea may be a good plea to a bad declaration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: You say men ought to be hung for the way they are executing the law; I say the way it is being executed is quite as good as any of its antecedents. It is being executed in the precise way which was intended from the first, else why does no Nebraska man express astonishment or condemnation? Poor Reeder is the only public man who has been silly enough to believe that anything like fairness was ever intended, and he has been bravely undeceived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: But let the past as nothing be. For the future my view is that the fight must go on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Others have been made fools of by the girls; but, this can never be with truth said of me. I most emphatically, in this instance,made a fool of myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The enthusiastic uprising of the people in our cause, is our great reliance; and we can not safely give it any check, even thoughit overflows, and runs in channels not laid down in any chart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I want in all cases to do right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education.... On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have seen your despatch expressing your unwillingness to break your hold where you are. Neither am I willing. Hold on with a bull-dog gripe, and chew & choke, as much as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Again I admonish you not to be turned from your stern purpose of defending your beloved country and its free institutions by any arguments urged by ambitious and designing men, but stand fast to the Union and the old flag."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: What I do say is, that no man is good enough to govern another man, without that other's consent. I say this is the leading principle - the sheet anchor of American republicanism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The prudent, penniless beginner in the world, labors for wages awhile, saves a surplus with which to buy tools or land, for himself; then labors on his own account another while, and at length hires another new beginner to help him. This, say its advocates, is free labor-the just and generous, and prosperous system, which opens the way for all-gives hope to all, and energy, and progress, and improvement of condition to all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If at any time all labour should cease, and all existing provisions be equally divided among the people, at the end of a single year there could scarcely be one human being left alive--all would have perished by want of subsistence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the first only is meritorious; and to it all the products of labour rightfully belong; but the two latter, while they exist, are heavy pensioners upon the first, robbing it of a large portion of it's just rights. The only remedy for this is to, as far as possible, drive useless labour and idleness out of existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: When I have a particular case in hand, I have that motive and feel an interest in the case, feel an interest in ferreting out the questions to the bottom, love to dig up the question by the roots and hold it up and dry it before the fires of the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Dear Sir: Yours of the 24th. asking 'the best mode of obtaining a thorough knowledge of the law' is received. The mode is very simple, though laborious, and tedious. It is only to get the books, and read, and study them carefully. Begin with Blackstone's Commentaries, and after reading it carefully through, say twice, take up Chitty's Pleading, Greenleaf's Evidence, & Story's Equity &c. in succession. Work, work, work, is the main thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public mind rested in the belief that it was in the course of ultimate extinction . . . . All I have asked or desired anywhere, is that it should be placed back again upon the basis that the Fathers of our government originally placed it upon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: While I have often said that all men out to be free, yet I would allow those colored persons to be slaves who want to be; and next to them those white persons who argue in favor of making other people slaves. I am in favor of giving an opportunity to such white men to try it on for themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If the negro is a man, why then my ancient faith teaches me that \u2018all men are created equal,' and that there can be no moral right in connection with one man's making a slave of another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Peace will come soon to stay, and so come as to be worth keeping in all future time. It will then have proved that among free men there can be no successful appeal from the ballot to the bullet, and that they who take such appeal are sure their cases and pay the costs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The love of property and consciousness of right and wrong have conflicting places in our organization, which often makes a man's course seem crooked, his conduct a riddle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Talk to the jury as though your client's fate depends on every word you utter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: No client ever had money enough to bribe my conscience or to stop its utterance against wrong, and oppression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: A universal feeling, whether well or ill founded, cannot be safely disregarded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Our strife pertains to ourselves-to the passing generations of men-and it can without convulsion be hushed forever with the passing of one generation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Singular indeed the people should be writhing under oppression and injury, and yet not one among them to be found, to raise the voice of complaint."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Capital has its rights, which are as worthy of protection as any other right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have a congenital aversion to failure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Our common country is in great peril, demanding the loftiest views, and boldest action to bring it speedy relief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The unpleasant events you are passing from will not have been profitless to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: My father, at the death of his father, was but six years of age; and he grew up, literally without education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The government will support you to the utmost of its ability, which is neither more nor less than it has done and will do for allcommanders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Now, and ever, I shall do all in my power for peace, consistently with the maintenance of government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Doubtless you begin to understand how disagreeable it is to me to do a thing arbitrarily, when it is unsatisfactory to others associated with me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The case of Andrews is really a very bad one, as appears by the record already before me. Yet before receiving this I had orderedhis punishment commuted to imprisonmentand had so telegraphed. I did this, not on any merit in the case, but because I am trying to evade the butchering business lately."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a success which gave me more pleasure than any I have had since."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Our eldest boy, Bob, has been away from us nearly a year at school, and will enter Harvard University this month. He promises verywell, considering we never controlled him much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I hold the value of life is to improve one's condition. Whatever is calculated to advance the condition of the honest, struggling laboring man, so far as my judgment will enable me to judge of a correct thing, I am for that thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be every where for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well. To His care commending you, as I hope in your prayers you will commend me, I bid you an affectionate farewell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I turn, then, and look to the American people and to that God who has never forsaken them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am very glad indeed to see you to-night, and yet I will not say I thank you for this call, but I do most sincerely thank Almighty God for the occasion on which you have called."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: God bless the soldiers and seamen, with all their brave commanders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. To deny it, however, in this case, is to deny that there is a God governing the world. It is a truth which I thought needed to be told; and as whatever of humilation there is in it, falls most directly on myself, I thought others might afford for me to tell it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you cannot fight always; and when, after much loss on both sides, and no gain on either, you cease fighting, the identical old questions as to terms of intercourse are again upon you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: May our children and our children's children to a thousand generations, continue to enjoy the benefits conferred upon us by a united country, and have cause yet to rejoice under those glorious institutions bequeathed us by Washington and his compeers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I believe I shall never be old enough to speak without embarrassment when I have nothing to talk about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country can not do this. They can but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Nobody has ever expected me to be President. In my poor, lean, lank face, nobody has ever seen that any cabbages were sprouting out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I have really got it into my head to try to be United States Senator, and, if I could have your support, my chances would be reasonably good. But I know, and acknowledge, that you have as just claims to the place as I have; and therefore I cannot ask you to yield to me, if you are thinking of becoming a candidate, yourself. If, however, you are not, then I should like to be remembered affectionately by you; and also to have you make a mark for me with the Anti-Nebraska members down your way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Senator Douglas holds, we know, that a man may rightfully be wiser today than he was yesterday - that he may rightfully change when he finds himself wrong. But can we, for that reason, run\nahead, and infer that he will make any particular change, of which he, himself, has given no intimation?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The foregoing history may not be precisely accurate in every particular; but I am sure it is sufficiently so, for all the uses I shall attempt to make of it, and in it, we have before us,\nthe chief material enabling us to correctly judge whether the repeal of the Missouri Compromise is right or wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: You have more of a feeling of personal resentment than I have. Perhaps, I have too little of it, but I never thought it paid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The Constitution is not a suicide pact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If you are resolutely determined to make a lawyer of yourself, the thing is more than half done already. It is but a small matter whether you read with anyone or not. I did not read with anyone. Get the books, and read and study them till you understand them in their principal features; and that is the main thing. It is of no consequence to be in a large town while you are reading. I read at New Salem, which never had three hundred people living in it. The books, and your capacity for understanding them, are just the same in all places."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: A fellow once came to me to ask for an appointment as a minister abroad. Finding he could not get that, he came down to some more modest position. Finally, he asked to be made a tide-waiter. When he saw he could not get that, he asked me for an old pair of trousers. It is sometimes well to be humble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: We meet this evening, not in sorrow, but in gladness of heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The power confided in me will be used to hold, occupy and possess the property and places belonging to the government, and to collect the duties and imposts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you.... You have no oath registered in Heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to preserve, protect and defend it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: An allusion has been made to the Homestead Law. I think it worthy of consideration, and that the wild lands of the country should be distributed so that every man should have the means and opportunity of benefitting his condition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws, the Union is unbroken; and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored; the nearer the Union will be 'the Union as it was'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I would like to speak in terms of praise due to the many brave officers and soldiers who have fought in the cause of the war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: But the proclamation, as law, either is valid, or is not valid. If it is not valid, it needs no retraction. If it is valid, it can not be retracted, any more than the dead can be brought to life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: With this honor devolves upon you also a corresponding responsibility. As the country herein trusts you, so under God it will sustain you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: The Father of Waters again goes unvexed to the sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If any personal description of me is thought desirable, it may be said, I am, in height, six feet, four inches, nearly; lean in flesh, weighing on an average one hundred and eighty pounds; dark complexion, with coarse black hair, and grey eyes -- no other marks or brands recollected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I never did ask more, nor ever was willing to accept less, than for all the States, and the people thereof, to take and hold their places, and their rights, in the Union, under the Constitution of the United States. For this alone have I felt authorized to struggle; and I seek neither more nor less now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: If I have one vice and I can call it nothing else it is not able to say 'no'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Glory to God in the highest, Ohio has saved the Nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Let no young man choosing the law for a calling for a moment yield to the popular belief -- resolve to be honest at all events; and if in your own judgment you cannot be an honest lawyer, resolve to be honest without being a lawyer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Few can be induced to labor exclusively for posterity - Posterity has done nothing for us"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I agree with you, Mr. Chairman, that the working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the more numerous, and as you added that those were the sentiments of the gentlemen present, representing not only the working class, but citizens of other callings than those of the mechanic, I am happy to concur with you in these sentiments, not only of the native born citizens, but also of the Germans and foreigners from other countries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Nations like individuals are subjected to punishments and chastisements in this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: And whereas this House desires to obtain a full knowledge of all the facts which go to establish whether the particular spot of soil which the blood of our citizens was so shed was, or was not, our own soil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Woe unto the world because of offenses; for it must needs be that offenses come, but woe to that man by whom the offense cometh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: the better angels of our nature"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self-interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: Shall we stop this bleeding?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Abraham Lincoln: I am the President of the United States of America, clothed in immense power! You will procure me these votes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are reminded that, in the fleeting time we have on this Earth, what matters is not wealth, or status, or power, or fame, but rather how well we have loved and what small part we have played in making the lives of other people better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don\u2019t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When times get tough, we don't give up. We get up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I accept that people are going to call me awful things every day, and I will always defend their right to do so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Change is never easy, but always possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Don't be afraid to ask questions. Don't be afraid to ask for help when you need it. I do that every day. Asking for help isn't a sign of weakness, it's a sign of strength. It shows you have the courage to admit when you don't know something, and to learn something new."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If poverty is a disease that infects the entire community in the form of unemployment and violence, failing schools and broken homes, then we can't just treat those symptoms in isolation . We have to heal that entire community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: While freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The peaceful transition of power is one of the hallmarks of our democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Most people who serve in Washington have been trained either as lawyers or as political operatives--professions that tend to place a premium on winning arguments rather than solving problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Why can't I just eat my waffle?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Evil does exist in the world. A non-violent movement could not have halted Hitler's armies. Negotiations cannot convince al Qaeda's leaders to lay down their arms. To say that force may sometimes be necessary is not a call to cynicism - it is a recognition of history; the imperfections of man and the limits of reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure... It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government's reckless fiscal policies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The things that led me to run for office - trying to figure out how we create an economy where everybody's got a fair shot and if you work hard, you can achieve your dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It ought to concern every person, because it is a debasement of our common humanity. It ought to concern every community, because it tears at our social fabric. It ought to concern every business, because it distorts markets. It ought to concern every nation, because it endangers public health and fuels violence and organized crime. I\u2019m talking about the injustice, the outrage, of human trafficking, which must be called by its true name - modern slavery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As you get older, your mind gets a little more set. And it needs the poking and prodding and breaking through of stereotypes that I think young people provide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Your ability to let go is part of the duty that you have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Fighting for what you think is right is always worth it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Don't shortchange the future, because of fear in the present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that Donald Trump is coming to this office with fewer set hard-and-fast policy prescriptions than a lot of other presidents might be arriving with."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Nobody is listening to your telephone calls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our nation owes a debt to its fallen heroes that we can never fully repay, but we can honor their sacrifice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We will finish the race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our destiny is not written for us, but by us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you\u2019re walking down the right path and you\u2019re willing to keep walking, eventually you\u2019ll make progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Every single one of you has something you're good at. Every single one of you has something to offer. And you have a responsibility to yourself to discover what that is. That's the opportunity an education can provide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We know that education is everything to our children's future. We know that they will no longer just compete for good jobs with children from Indiana, but children from India and China and all over the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The fact that we are here today to debate raising America's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase America's debt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There is not a liberal America and a conservative America - there is the United States of America. There is not a black America and a white America and latino America and asian America - there's the United States of America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Don't just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm not the strapping young Muslim socialist that I used to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The study of geography is about more than just memorizing places on a map. It's about understanding the complexity of our world, appreciating the diversity of cultures that exists across continents. And in the end, it's about using all that knowledge to help bridge divides and bring people together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Every country has violent, hateful, or mentally unstable people. What's different is not every country is awash with easily accessible guns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When people see opportunity, when they have a sense of control of their own destiny, then they're less vulnerable to the propaganda and twisted ideologies that have been attracting young people - particularly being turbocharged through social media."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: So I came to my Christian faith later in life, and it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead. Jesus Christ dying for my sins spoke to the humility we all have to have as human beings, that we're sinful and we're flawed and we make mistakes, and that we achieve salvation through the grace of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Every life must be given the chance to realize its full potential - that every life matters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you like your doctor or health care provider, you can keep them. If you like your health care plan, you can keep that, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Civility also requires relearning how to disagree without being disagreeable. Surely you can question my policies without questioning my faith or, for that matter, my citizenship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Higher education cannot be a luxury reserved just for a privileged few. It is an economic necessity for every family. And every family should be able to afford it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Throughout history, Islam has demonstrated through words and deeds the possibilities of religious tolerance and racial equality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think [Obamacare] will survive. Or it may be called something else. And as I said I don't don't mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I\u2019m convinced that a world in which girls are educated is a safer, more stable, more prosperous place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based on the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We will stand against violence and intimidation. We will stand for the rights and dignity of all human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Hope - Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've had every official in Hawaii, Democrat and Republican, every news outlet that has investigated this, confirm that, yes, in fact, I was born in Hawaii, Aug. 4, 1961, in Kapiolani Hospital."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our relationship with the European Union, which has done so much to promote stability, stimulate economic growth, and foster the spread of democratic values and ideals across the continent and beyond."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: No one nation can or should try to dominate another nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our founders made it extraordinarily difficult to amend the Constitution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's important to recognize that you can't have 100 percent security and also then have 100 percent privacy and zero inconvenience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Stamina. There is a greater physical element to this job than you would think, just being able to grind it out. And I think your ability to not just mentally and emotionally, but physically be able to say, \"We got this. We're going to be OK.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Islam is not part of the problem in combating violent extremism - it is an important part of promoting peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America's nurses are the beating heart of our medical system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important. And we are called to recognize and honor how critical every father is to that foundation. They are teachers and coaches. They are mentors and role models. They are examples of success and the men who constantly push us toward it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We\u2019ve got work to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The thing I know for sure is that at the end of my life, what I'm going to remember is the love I felt for my family and my friends, and whatever good I did for other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't believe we can get very far, with leaders who write off half the nation as a bunch of victims who never take responsibility for their own lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Every single thing I`ve done, from the Affordable Care Act to pushing to raise the minimum wage, to making sure that young people are able to go to college and get good job training, to what we`re pushing now in terms of sick paid leave,everything I do has been focused on how do we make sure the middle class is getting a fair deal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I thought I could start over, you see. But now I know you can never start over. Not really. You think you have control, but you are like a fly in somebody else's web. Sometimes I think that's why I like accounting. All day, you are only dealing with numbers. You add them, multiply them, and if you are careful, you will always have a solution. There's a sequence there. An order. With numbers, you can have control."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.\" (Victory Speech, Nov. 7, 2012)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm a warrior for the middle class."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't presume to have knowledge of what happens after I die. But I feel very strongly that whether the reward is in the here and now or in the hereafter, the aligning myself to my faith and my values is a good thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell.  I can't imagine that my God would allow some little Hindu kid in India who never interacts with the Christian faith to somehow burn for all eternity.  That's just not part of my religious makeup."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I do not talk to the FBI directors about pending investigations [on Hillary Clinton]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you've got a business - you didn't build that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You have social media and the Internet and immigration and so, suddenly, cultures are clashing and people feel as if they're less familiar with the people around them. That causes social anxieties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Someday, our children, and our children\u2019s children, will look at us in the eye and they'll ask us, did we do all that we could when we had the chance to deal with this problem and leave them a cleaner, safer, more stable world?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Your voice can change the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I strongly agree with Vice President Gore that we cannot drill our way to energy independence, but must fast-track investments in renewable sources of energy like solar power, wind power and advanced biofuels..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Generally the Constitution is a charter of negative liberties, says what the states can't do to you, says what the federal government can't do to you. But it doesn't say what the state or federal government must do on your behalf."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The easiest way to save money is to waste less energy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Let us each of us now embrace with solemn duty, and awesome joy, what is our lasting birthright. With common effort and common purpose, with passion and dedication, let us answer the call of history and carry into an uncertain future that precious light of freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe that this country succeeds when everyone gets a fair shot, when everyone does their fair share, when everyone plays by the same rules."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We do not benefit from a relationship with China or any other country in which we put our values and our ideals aside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If condoms and potentially microbicides can prevent millions of deaths [from AIDS], they should be made more widely available. I know that there are those who, out of sincere religious conviction, oppose such measures. And with these folks, I must respectfully but unequivocally disagree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: History doesn't always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In December, I agreed to extend the tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans because it was the only way I could prevent a tax hike on middle-class Americans. But we cannot afford $1 trillion worth of tax cuts for every millionaire and billionaire in our society. We can't afford it. And I refuse to renew them again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Four years ago, I promised to end the war in Iraq. We did. I promised to refocus on the terrorists who actually attacked us on 9/11. We have. We've blunted the Taliban's momentum in Afghanistan, and in 2014, our longest war will be over. A new tower rises above the New York skyline, al Qaeda is on the path to defeat, and Osama bin Laden is dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The number of Americans killed since 9/11 by terrorism, it's less than 100. If you look at the number that have been killed by gun violence, it's in the tens of thousands. And for us not to be able to resolve that issue has been something that is distressing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The future is ours to win. But to get there we can't just stand still."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Iran is a state sponsor of terrorism. And for them to be able to provide nuclear technology to non-state actors, that's unacceptable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We, the People, recognize that we have responsibilities as well as rights; that our destinies are bound together; that a freedom which only asks what's in it for me, a freedom without a commitment to others, a freedom without love or charity or duty or patriotism, is unworthy of our founding ideals, and those who died in their defense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Don't just buy a new video game, make one. \n Don't just download the latest app, help design it. \n Don't just play on your phone, program it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world - including in my own country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We may come from different places and have different stories, but we share common hopes, and one very American dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Holy Koran tells us, 'O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so that you may know one another.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you're a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes - and I see many of them in the audience here today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Love and hope can conquer hate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The future must not belong to those who slander the Prophet of Islam"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we aren't willing to pay a price for our values, then we should ask ourselves whether we truly believe in them at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The United States has been enriched by Muslim Americans. Many other Americans have Muslims in their families or have lived in a Muslim-majority country - I know, because I am one of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Gabby Giffords deserves a vote. The families of Newtown deserve a vote. The families of Aurora deserve a vote. The families of Oak Creek, and Tucson, and Blacksburg, and the countless other communities ripped open by gun violence - they deserve a simple vote."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's important to make sure that governments have some checks on what they do, that people can oversee what's being done so the government doesn't abuse it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What we can do is to live out our lives as best we can with purpose, and love, and joy. We can use each day to show those who are closest to us how much we care about them, and treat others with the kindness and respect that we wish for ourselves. We can learn from our mistakes and grow from our failures. And we can strive at all costs to make a better world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins.  And it's up to you to make that  happen.  Empathy is a quality of character that can  change the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: n case you missed it, this week, there was a tragedy in Kansas. Ten thousand people died - an entire town destroyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: ISIS is a virulent, nasty organization that has gained a foothold in ungoverned spaces effectively in Syria and parts of western Iraq. We have to take it seriously. They've shown in Paris what they can do in an organized fashion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: A child's course in life should be determined not by the zip code she's born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don`t think the Donald Trump`s qualified to be president of the United States, and every time he speaks, that opinion is confirmed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I actually believe that we need missile defense, because of Iran and North Korea and the potential for them to obtain or to launch nuclear weapons, but I also believe that, when we are only spending a few hundred million dollars on nuclear proliferation, then we're making a mistake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: All of us share this world for but a brief moment in time. The question is whether we spend that time focused on what pushes us apart, or whether we commit ourselves to an effort -- a sustained effort -- to find common ground, to focus on the future we seek for our children, and to respect the dignity of all human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Hope -- Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God\u2019s greatest gift to us...A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the best investments we can make in a child\u2019s life is high-quality early education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Muslim call to prayer is one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One thing I don't like is when you disrespect the law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If I did not love America, I wouldn't have moved here from Kenya."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There is a word in South Africa - Ubuntu - that describes his greatest gift: his recognition that we are all bound together in ways that can be invisible to the eye; that there is a oneness to humanity; that we achieve ourselves by sharing ourselves with others, and caring for those around us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have to uphold a free press and freedom of speech - because, in the end, lies and misinformation are no match for the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Here in the United States, hopefully, what we're building are not just pyramids, are not icons to one pharaoh. What we're building is a culture and a way of living together that we can look back on and say, [This] was good, was inclusive, was kind, was innovative, was able to fulfill the dreams of as many people as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Whatever we once were, we are no longer just a Christian nation; we are also a Jewish nation, a Muslim nation, a Buddhist nation, a Hindu nation, and a nation of nonbelievers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The public school system is not about educating black children. Never has been. Inner-city schools are about social control. Period. They\u2019re operated as holding pens\u2014miniature jails, really. It\u2019s only when black children start breaking out of their pens and bothering white people that society even pays any attention to the issue of whether these children are being educated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For too many of us, it's become safer to retreat into our own bubbles, whether in our neighborhoods or on college campuses, or places of worship or especially our social media feeds, surrounded by people who look like us and share the same political outlook and never challenge our assumptions. And increasingly, we become so secure in our bubbles that we start accepting only information, whether it's true or not, that fits our opinions, instead of basing our opinions on the evidence that is out there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [Fall of the Berlin Wall] is a reminder that the commitment of the United States, to Europe is enduring and it's rooted in the values we share; our commitment to democracy, our commitment to rule of law, our commitment to the dignity of all people in our own countries and around the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My Administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in Government. We will work together to ensure the public trust and establish a system of transparency, public participation, and collaboration. Openness will strengthen our democracy and promote efficiency and effectiveness in Government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Tonight, we gather to affirm the greatness of our nation - not because of the height of our skyscrapers, or the power of our military, or the size of our economy. Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We as a country have to do some soul-searching."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind. He arrived in our lives as an alien - but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit. He made us laugh. He made us cry. He gave his immeasurable talent freely and generously to those who needed it most - from our troops stationed abroad to the marginalized on our own streets. The Obama family offers our condolences to Robin\u2019s family, his friends, and everyone who found their voice and their verse thanks to Robin Williams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think perhaps education doesn\u2019t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There\u2019s only one thing we can be sure of, and that is the love that we have -- for our children, for our families, for each other.  The warmth of a small child\u2019s embrace -- that is true.  The memories we have of them, the joy that they bring, the wonder we see through their eyes, that fierce and boundless love we feel for them, a love that takes us out of ourselves, and binds us to something larger -- we know that\u2019s what matters.  We know we\u2019re always doing right when we\u2019re taking care of them, when we\u2019re teaching them well, when we\u2019re showing acts of kindness.  We don\u2019t go wrong when we do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity - it is a prerequisite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: So long as our relationship is defined by our differences, we will empower those who sow hatred rather than peace, those who promote conflict rather than the cooperation that can help all of our people achieve justice and prosperity. This cycle of suspicion and discord must end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's the idea held by generations of citizens who believed that America is a constant work in progress; who believed that loving this country requires more than singing its praises or avoiding uncomfortable truths. It requires the occasional disruption, the willingness to speak out for what's right, and shake up the status quo."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had - to find the greatness that lies within each of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm not talking about blind optimism, the kind of hope that just ignores the enormity of the tasks ahead or the road blocks that stand in our path. I'm not talking about the wishful idealism that allows us to just sit on the sidelines or shirk from a fight. I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all the evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America is number one in wind power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Writing has been an important exercise to clarify what I believe, what I see, what I care about, what my deepest values are. The process of converting a jumble of thoughts into coherent sentences makes you ask tougher questions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it's easy, but when it is hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek's optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity's future. I loved Spock."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You can't change Washington from the inside. You can only change it from the outside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that I'm a better speechwriter than my speechwriters. I know more about policies on any particular issue than my policy directors. And I'll tell you right now that I'm gonna think I'm a better political director than my political director."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For we, the people, understand that our country cannot succeed when a shrinking few do very well and a growing many barely make it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We're breaking protocol here. That's the good thing about being President - I can do whatever I want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America, we weaken our ties when we allow our political dialogue to become so corrosive that people of good character aren't even willing to enter into public service; so coarse with rancor that Americans with whom we disagree are seen not just as misguided but as malevolent. We weaken those ties when we define some of us as more American than others, when we write off the whole system as inevitably corrupt, and when we sit back and blame the leaders we elect without examining our own role in electing them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will sign a universal health-care bill into law by the end of my first term as president that will cover every American and cut the cost of a typical family\u2019s premium by up to $2,500 a year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Prosperity without freedom is just another form of poverty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Today we're seeing that climate change is about more than a few unseasonably mild winters or hot summers. It's about the chain of natural catastrophes and devastating weather patterns that global warming is beginning to set off around the world.. the frequency and intensity of which are breaking records thousands of years old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We're going to have to come together and take meaningful action to prevent more tragedies like this, regardless of the politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is American leadership at its best:  We stand with people who fight for their own freedom, and we rally other nations on behalf of our common security and common humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the challenges of a democratic government is making sure that even in the midst of emergencies and passions, we make sure that rule of law and the basic precepts of justice and liberty prevail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This victory alone is not the change we seek; it is only the chance for us to make that change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I wouldn't be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life's worst hazards and misfortune."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment, as a way to explain their frustrations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As we look forward to the New Year, let's resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: All of us - we should do everything we can to make sure this country lives up to our children's expectations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society like this, is to teach our kids enough critical thinking to be able to sort out what is true and what is false, what is contestable and what is incontestable. And we seem to have trouble with that. And our political system doesn't help."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Excuses are tools of the incompetent used to build bridges to nowhere and monuments of nothingness"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is that fundamental belief, it is that fundamental belief, I am my brother\u2019s keeper, I am my sister\u2019s keeper that makes this country work. It\u2019s what allows us to pursue our individual dreams and yet still come together as one American family. E pluribus unum. Out of many, one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think, as you get older, that's when your ambitions become \"peculiar\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will never apologize for saying that the future of humanity and the future of the world is going to be defined by what we have in common as opposed to those things that separate us and ultimately lead us into conflict."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Over the last 15 months, we've traveled to every corner of the United States. I've now been in 57 states? I think one left to go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a young person up through a big chunk of my adult life. I don't think it is more dangerous than alcohol."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I want every young man who sees me to know that I'm not that different from them. I wasn't born into wealth. I wasn't born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes - but I kept at it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. [...] That opposition hasn't changed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Politics has never been for the thin-skinned or the faint-of-heart, and if you enter the arena, you should expect to get roughed up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I actually think, when you're young, ambitions are somewhat common - you want to prove yourself. It may grow out of different life experiences. You may want to prove that you are worthy of the admiration of the demanding father. You may want to prove that you are worthy of the love of an absent father."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We the people declare today that the most evident of truth that all of us are created equal ... that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [White House is] the finest prison in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Under my plan of a cap-and-trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am asking my Attorney General to create a special unit of federal prosecutors and leading state attorneys general to expand our investigations into the abusive lending and packaging of risky mortgages that led to the housing crisis. This new unit will hold accountable those who broke the law, speed assistance to homeowners, and help turn the page on an era of recklessness that hurt so many Americans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm really excited about the prospect of a woman president of the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Physically, I feel probably as good as I've ever felt. And I've got as much energy as I ever did. But what you feel after eight years - and I think you'd feel this no matter what, but anytime you have a big transition, it gets magnified - is time passes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I would say of all the things that have happened during the course of my presidency the knowledge that you have hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed, millions who have been displaced, [makes me] ask myself what might I have done differently along the course of the last five, six years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Sometimes people just feel as if we want to try something to see if we can shake things up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And, you know, I don\u2019t want to have to worry that she is going to get sick as the consequence of having, having her lunch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We don't believe in a small America. We believe in a big America - a tolerant America, a just America, an equal America - that values the service of every patriot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We want our children to live in an America...that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have to make sure America writes the rules of the global economy, and we should do it today while our economy is in the position of global strength, because if we don't write the rules for trade around the world, guess what: China will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Even as Ramadan holds profound meaning for the world\u2019s 1.5 billion Muslims, it is also a reminder to people of all faiths of our common humanity and the commitment to justice, equality, and compassion shared by all great faiths. In that spirit, I wish Muslims across America and around the world a blessed month, and I look forward to again hosting an iftar dinner here at the White House. Ramadan Kareem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The President does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Usually, I'm pretty good about sorting through the options and then making decisions that I'm confident are the best decisions in that moment, given the information we have. But there are times where I think I wish I could have imagined a different level of insight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I consider it part of my responsibility as President of the United States to fight against negative stereotypes of Islam wherever they appear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land. Yes we can!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The thing that has disturbed me most about the Russian hacking episode is - and the thing that surprised me most has not been the fact of Russian hacking. The cyber world is full of information gathering, you know, propaganda, et cetera. I have been concerned about the degree to which, in some circles, you've seen people suggest that Vladimir Putin has more credibility than the U.S. government. I think that's something new."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Here's the truth: the Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran doesn't have a single one. But when the world was on the brink of nuclear holocaust, Kennedy talked to Khrushchev and he got those missiles out of Cuba. Why shouldn't we have the same courage and the confidence to talk to our enemies? That's what strong countries do, that's what strong presidents do, that's what I'll do when I'm president of the United States of America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We run everything to ground. If you see something, say something. Report your concerns to law enforcement. They will be looked at, they will be reviewed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's not a nice-to-have - it's a must-have. It's time we stop treating child care as a side issue, or a women's issue, and treat it like the national economic priority that it is for all of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are places I want to visit where if I'm wearing a baseball cap and some sunglasses I think I can get away with and mingle in a crowd."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is now our generation's task to carry on what those pioneers began. For our journey is not complete until our wives, our mothers and daughters can earn a living equal to their efforts. Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law - for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th president of the United States. And it will be up to him to set up a team that he thinks will serve him well and reflect his policies. It takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality. Hopefully, it`s a reminder that elections matter. I think it`s important for us to let him make his decisions, and I think the American people will judge over the course of the next couple of years whether they like what they see."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The friendship that we established early on in our marriage ... that carries you through tough times. That and a good sense of humor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As I've said, there were patriots who supported this war, and patriots who opposed it. And all of us are united in appreciation for our servicemen and women, and our hopes for Iraqis' future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The next phase and this is part of what I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration. There's a little perspiration involved in bringing about change too. That you have to be organized, that you have to vote even when it's not exciting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In the eyes of God, a child on the other side of the border is no less worthy of love and compassion than my own child. We - we can't distinguish between them in terms of their worth and their inherent dignity and that they're deserving of shelter and love and education and opportunity. We can't isolate ourselves. We can't hide behind a wall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You can put lipstick on a pig. It's still a pig."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For we have always understood that when times change, so must we, that fidelity to our founding principles requires new responses to new challenges, that preserving our individual freedoms ultimately requires collective action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've got a pen, and I've got a phone, and I can use that pen to sign executive orders and take executive action. I've got a pen to talk executive actions where congress won't. Where congress isn't acting, I'll act on my own. I have got a pen and I got a phone. And that is all I need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that the risk to all the progress we've made was at stake in the election because not just the president-elect but a lot of members of Congress, including now the Speaker of the House and the Senate majority leader, have said that their principal agenda was to undo a lot of this progress. But as I've been talking about over the last several days when it comes to health care, the gains that we've made are there. Twenty million people have health insurance that didn't have it before. The uninsured rate is the lowest it's ever been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Few challenges facing America and the world are more urgent than combating climate change. The science is beyond dispute and the facts are clear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Russians can't change us or significantly weaken us. They are a smaller country. They are a weaker country. Their economy doesn't produce anything that anybody wants to buy, except oil and gas and arms. They don't innovate. But they can impact us if we lose track of who we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little from the world and from themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We know we can't stop every act of violence, every act of evil in the world, but maybe we could try to stop one act of evil, one act of violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: But let me perfectly clear, because I know you'll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The cyber world is sort of the Wild, Wild West, and to some degree, we're asked to be the sheriff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My biggest frustration so far is the fact that this society has not been willing to take some basic steps to keep guns out of the hands of people who can do just unbelievable damage. We're the only developed country on Earth where this happens. ... And it happens once a week. And it's a one-day story. ... The country has to do some soul-searching on this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: How do we transform mere power into justice, mere sentiment into love?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The study of law can be disappointing at times, a matter of applying narrow rules and arcane procedure to an uncooperative reality; a sort of glorified accounting that serves to regulate the affairs of those who have power--and that all too often seeks to explain, to those who do not, the ultimate wisdom and justness of their condition. But that's not all the law is. The law is also memory; the law also records a long-running conversation, a nation arguing with its conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We need fathers to step up, to realize that their job does not end at conception; that what makes you a man is not the ability to have a child but the courage to raise one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One thing I will not compromise over is whether or not Congress should pay the tab for a bill they've already racked up. If Congress refuses to give the United States the ability to pay its bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy could be catastrophic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We can't drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times... and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. That's not leadership. That's not going to happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When times change, so must we."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: From the day I took office, I've been told that addressing our larger challenges is too ambitious; such an effort would be too contentious. I've been told that our political system is too gridlocked, and that we should just put things on hold for a while. For those who make these claims, I have one simple question: How long should we wait? How long should America put its future on hold?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You're not going to be able to make good decisions without building some relationship of trust between yourself and community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: All of us have a responsibility to work for the day when the mothers of Israelis and Palestinians can see their children grow up without fear; when the Holy Land of the three great faiths is the place of peace that God intended it to be; when Jerusalem is a secure and lasting home for Jews and Christians and Muslims, and a place for all of the children of Abraham to mingle peacefully together as in the story of Isra - (applause) - as in the story of Isra, when Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed, peace be upon them, joined in prayer.  (Applause.)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: To everyone in this Congress who still refuses to raise the minimum wage, I say this: If you truly believe you could work full-time and support a family on less than $15,000 a year, go try it. If not, vote to give millions of the hardest-working people in America a raise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This idea that America is somehow on the verge of collapse, this vision of violence and chaos everywhere, doesn't really jibe with the experience of most people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As a practical matter, it is hard to think of any society in human history in which a majority population has said that as a consequence of historic wrongs, we are now going to take a big chunk of the nation's resources over a long period of time to make that right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: That's why I stand here tonight. Because for two hundred and thirty two years, at each moment when that promise was in jeopardy, ordinary men and women - students and soldiers, farmers and teachers, nurses and janitors - found the courage to keep it alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Today, women make up about half our workforce. But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it\u2019s an embarrassment. Women deserve equal pay for equal work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It\u2019s not that I want to punish your success. I want to make sure that everybody who is behind you, that they\u2019ve got a chance for success, too. My attitude is that if the economy\u2019s good for folks from the bottom up, it\u2019s gonna be good for everybody. I think when you spread the wealth around, it\u2019s good for everybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've got to make sure that teachers are respected, that they are rewarded, that young people like yourself who have talent and want to work with people, that you're able to support yourself and live out a great life being a teacher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: On every front there are clear answers out there that can make this country stronger, but we're going to break through the fear and the frustration people are feeling. Our job is to make sure that even as we make progress, that we are also giving people a sense of hope and vision for the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The more freely information flows, the stronger the society becomes, because then citizens of countries around the world can hold their own governments accountable. They can begin to think for themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The United States does not have a monopoly on crazy people. It's not the only country that has psychosis. And yet we kill each other in these mass shootings at rates that are exponentially higher than anyone else. Well, what's the difference? The difference is that these guys can stack up a bunch of ammunition in their houses, and that's sort of par for the course."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Because of you, in Afghanistan we've broken the momentum of the Taliban. Because of you, we've begun a transition to the Afghans that will allow us to bring our troops home from there. And around the globe, as we draw down in Iraq, we have gone after al Qaeda so that terrorists who threaten America will have no safe haven, and Osama bin Laden will never again walk the face of this Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the things that I've learned, and I think we've all learned, is that we are not going to get the kind of decisive, permanent victories in this fight against terrorism that we would get from fighting another country. We're not going to get that MacArthur/Emperor moment, because by definition, even after decimating Al Qaeda in the Fata, even after taking out [Osama] bin Laden there's still people there who have both the interest and the capacity if we don't maintain vigilance to strike against the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we are going to solve the challenges we face, you need a President who will pursue genuine solutions day in and day out. And that is my commitment to you. We need immigration reform that will secure our borders, and punish employers who exploit immigrant labor; reform that finally brings the 12 million people who are here illegally out of the shadows by requiring them to take steps to become legal citizens. We must assert our values and reconcile our principles as a nation of immigrants and a nation of laws. That is a priority I will pursue from my very first day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don't break it. Don't break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That's not being faithful to what this country's about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: But it will depend on young people like you being open to new ideas and new possibilities. And it will require young people like you never to stereotype or assume the worst about other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I mean, if you think about - if you think about it, UPS and FedEx are doing just fine, right? No, they are. It's the Post Office that's always having problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Winston Churchill used to say that we, Americans, try every other option before we finally do the right thing. After everything else is exhausted we eventually do the right thing and I think that's true for Congress as well. And it's important for Americans to remember that politics has always been messy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Two-thirds of Americans believe that, after a baby's heart is beating and they can feel pain, that they need some protection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We all know a lot of people who died in 9/11, the World Trade Center. A lot of money funding that mission is directly tied - from the 9/11 Commission, directly tied to Iran, Hezbollah, Hamas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is our moment...while we breathe, we hope. And where we are met with cynicism and doubts and those who tell us that we can't, we will respond with that timeless creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes, we can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our objective is clear: we will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counter-terrorism strategy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have the authority to address the threat from Isil, but I believe we are strongest as a nation when the president and Congress work together. So I welcome congressional support for this effort in order to show the world that Americans are united in confronting this danger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Now, I swore an oath to uphold the laws on the books... Now, I know some people want me to bypass Congress and change the laws on my own... Believe me, the idea of doing things on my own is very tempting. I promise you. Not just on immigration reform. But that's not how - that's not how our system works. That's not how our democracy functions. Thats not how our Constitution is written."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard, it doesn't matter who you are or where you come from or what you look like or who you love. It doesn't matter whether you're black or white or Hispanic or Asian or Native American or young or old or rich or poor, able, disabled, gay or straight, you can make it here in America if you're willing to try."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Enforcement priorities developed by my administration are not affected by this ruling. This means that the people who might have benefited from the expanded deferred action policies, long-term residents raising children who are Americans or legal residents, they will remain low priorities for enforcement, as long as you have not committed a crime, our limited immigration enforcement resources are not focused on you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The most expensive care we can give, we're giving those Americans without insurance. It's kind of stupid that we're fighting the notion that we want to quit paying a hidden tax and be up front about covering people in a way that is cost-effective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we can\u2019t puncture some of the mythology around austerity, politics or tax cuts or the mythology that\u2019s been built up around the Reagan revolution, where somehow people genuinely think that he slashed government and slashed the deficit and that the recovery was because of all these massive tax cuts, as opposed to a shift in interest-rate policy - if we can\u2019t describe that effectively, then we\u2019re doomed to keep on making more and more mistakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You have to be involved during midterm elections, you have to care about what happens at a school board level."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Citizenship means standing up for the lives that gun violence steals from us each day. I have seen the courage of parents, students, pastors, and police officers all over this country who say 'we are not afraid,' and I intend to keep trying, with or without Congress, to help stop more tragedies from visiting innocent Americans in our movie theaters, shopping malls, or schools like Sandy Hook."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we are enforcing what should be the rules around Medicare and making sure the people are getting the bang for the buck, it's not going to be possible for insurance companies to simply pass on those costs to Medicare recipients, because ultimately it's Uncle Sam that's paying for those services anyway."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Independent economists say immigration reform will grow our economy and shrink our deficits by almost $1 trillion in the next two decades. And for good reason: when people come here to fulfill their dreams - to study, invent, and contribute to our culture - they make our country a more attractive place for businesses to locate and create jobs for everyone. So let's get immigration reform done this year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe there are too many children who need loving parents to deny one group of people adoption rights. A child will benefit from a healthy, loving home, whether the parents are gay or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The system isn't working when 12 million people live in hiding, and hundreds of thousands cross our borders illegally each year; when companies hire undocumented immigrants instead of legal citizens to avoid paying overtime or to avoid a union; when communities are terrorized by ICE immigration raids -- when nursing mothers are torn from their babies, when children come home from school to find their parents missing, when people are detained without access to legal counsel. When all that's happening, the system just isn't working."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You know, when Trayvon Martin was first shot I said that this could have been my son. Another way of saying that is Trayvon Martin could have been me 35 years ago. And when you think about why, in the African American community at least, there's a lot of pain around what happened here, I think it's important to recognize that the African American community is looking at this issue through a set of experiences and a history that doesn't go away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: They, and we, are the legacies of an unbroken chain of proud men and women who served their country with honor, who waged war so that we might know peace, who braved hardship so that we might know opportunity, who paid the ultimate price so that we might know freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We Americans are not an inherently more violent people than folks in other countries. We're not inherently more prone to mental health problems. The main difference that sets our nation apart is what makes us so susceptible to so many mass shootings is that we don't do enough, we don't take the basic commonsense actions to keep guns out of the hands of criminals and dangerous people. What's different in America is it's easy to get your hands on a gun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For the first time, preventing nuclear proliferation and nuclear terrorism is now at the top of America's nuclear agenda."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Sanctions alone could not stop Iran's nuclear program. But they did help bring Iran to the negotiating table."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's a utility in the democracy refreshing itself on an ongoing basis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't want my generals or my defense secretary or my national-security team to ever feel deploying weapons to kill people as routine or abstract, even if the targets are bad people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: So if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can; it's just that it will bankrupt them because they're going to be charged a huge sum for all that greenhouse gas that's being emitted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It was unknowable then, but so much of the progress that would define the 20th century, on both sides of the Atlantic, came down to the battle for a slice of beach only six miles long and two miles wide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I look forward to hosting an Iftar dinner celebrating Ramadan here at the White House later this week, and wish you a blessed month."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When people are judged by merit, not connections, then the best and brightest can lead the country, people will work hard, and the entire economy will grow - everyone will benefit and more resources will be available for all, not just select groups."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We can give our intelligence and law enforcement community the powers they need to track down and take out terrorists without undermining our commitment to the rule of law, or our basic rights and liberties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What I value most about Pastor Wright is not his day-to-day political advice. He's much more of a sounding board for me to make sure that I am speaking as truthfully about what I believe as possible and that I'm not losing myself in some of the hype and hoopla and stress that's involved in national politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When it comes to immigration, I have actually put more money, under my administration, into border security than any other administration previously. We've got more security resources at the border - more National Guard, more border guards, you name it - than the previous administration. So we've ramped up significantly the issue of border security."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am a strong believer in the free market. I am a strong believer in capitalism. But, I am also a strong believer that there are certain common goods - our air, our water, making sure that people are safe - that require to have some regulation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Although Israel was founded based on the historic Jewish homeland and the need to have a Jewish homeland, Israeli democracy has been premised on everybody in the country being treated equally and fairly. And I think that that is what's best about Israeli democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We need to teach our kids that it's not just the winner of the Super Bowl who deserves to be celebrated, but the winner of the science fair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government is an existing government employee committed to public integrity and willing to speak out. Such acts of courage and patriotism, which can sometimes save lives and often save taxpayer dollars, should be encouraged rather than stifled as they have been during the Bush administration. We need to empower federal employees as watchdogs of wrongdoing and partners in performance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Most people who meet my wife quickly conclude that she is remarkable. They are right about this. She is smart, funny and thoroughly charming... Often, after hearing her speak at some function or working with her on a project, people will approach me and say something to the effect of \"You know, I think the world of you, Barack, but your wife... wow!\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The emotions between the races could never be pure; even love was tarnished by the desire to find in the other some element that was missing in ourselves. Whether we sought out our demons or salvation, the other race would always remain just that: menacing, alien, and apart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is that promise that has always set this country apart-that through hard work and sacrifice, each of us can pursue our individual dreams but still come together as one American family, to ensure that the next generation can pursue their dreams as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If it is orderly and lawful, immigration is good for our economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: A better politics is one where we appeal to each other\u2019s basic decency instead of our basest fears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our journey is not complete until we find a better way to welcome the striving, hopeful immigrants who still see America as a land of opportunity, until bright young students and engineers are enlisted in our workforce rather than expelled from our country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Each and every time, a new generation has risen up and done what\u2019s needed to be done. Today we are called once more \u2014 and it is time for our generation to answer that call. For that is our unyielding faith \u2014 that in the face of impossible odds, people who love their country can change it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We cannot stop every act of senseless violence. We cannot know every evil that lurks in troubled minds. But if we can prevent even one tragedy like this, save even one life, spare other families what these families are going through, surely we've got an obligation to try."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I mean, I do think at a certain point you've made enough money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Pot had helped, and booze, maybe a little blow when you could afford it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We believe that big nations should not bully smaller nations, and that the sovereignty of nations must be respected. And we have long urged that disputes be resolved peacefully, including through mechanisms like international arbitration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Americans have always pursued our dreams within a free market that has been the engine of our progress. It's a market that has created a prosperity that is the envy of the world, and rewarded the innovators and risk-takers who have made America a beacon of science, and technology, and discovery. But the American economy has worked in large part because we have guided the market's invisible hand with a higher principle - that America prospers when all Americans can prosper. That is why we have put in place rules of the road to make competition fair, and open, and honest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril. There may still be disputes about exactly how much we're contributing to the warming of the earth's atmosphere and how much is naturally occurring, but what we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return. And unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels and chart a new course on energy in this country, we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don\u2019t belong on our streets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny ... and everything in between. But he was one of a kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The shadow of crisis has passed, and the State of the Union is strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the brightest lights of our time-a brilliant writer, a fierce friend, and a truly phenomenal woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The notion that we can control the flow of information is obsolete."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: A man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I get a thick book full of death, destruction, strife, and chaos. That's what I take with my morning tea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am absolutely certain that generations from now, we will be able to look back and tell our children that this was the moment when we began to provide care for the sick and good jobs to the jobless; this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal; this was the moment when we ended a war and secured our nation and restored our image as the last, best hope on earth. This was the moment - this was the time - when we came together to remake this great nation so that it may always reflect our very best selves and our highest ideals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The private sector is doing fine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008...That\u2019s why, over the past six years, we\u2019ve done more than ever before to combat climate change, from the way we produce energy, to the way we use it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My Administration will not authorize the indefinite military detention without trial of American citizens. Indeed, I believe that doing so would break with our most important traditions and values as a Nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As a student of history, I also know civilization's debt to Islam."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: While I understand the passions and the anger that arise over the death of Michael Brown, giving into that anger by looting or carrying guns, and even attacking the police only serves to raise tensions and stir chaos."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding, irksome diversity, while still insisting on a set of values that binds us together, and those who would seek, under whatever flag or slogan or sacred text, a certainty and simplification that justifies cruelty toward those not like us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When I was a kid, I inhaled. Frequently. That was the point."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If American workers are being denied their right to organize and collectively bargain when I'm in the White House, I'll put on a comfortable pair of shoes myself. I'll walk on that picket line with you as President of the United States of America, because workers deserve to know that somebody is standing in their corner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity. We will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the failure to do so would betray our children and future generations. Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires and crippling drought and more powerful storms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My only agenda for the next two years is the same as the one I\u2019ve had since the day I swore an oath on the steps of this Capitol\u200a\u2014\u200ato do what I believe is best for America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Long before being nerdy was cool, there was Leonard Nimoy.  Leonard was a lifelong lover of the arts and humanities, a supporter of the sciences, generous with his talent and his time.  And of course, Leonard was Spock.  Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek\u2019s optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity\u2019s future. I loved Spock."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If Iran cheats, the world will know it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will veto any effort to get rid of those automatic spending cuts to domestic and defense spending. There will be no easy off ramps on this one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's one issue that will define the contours of this century more dramatically than any other, and that is the urgent and growing threat of a changing climate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Secularists are wrong when they ask believers to leave their religion at the door before entering into the public square. Frederick Douglass, Abraham Lincoln, Williams Jennings Bryan, Dorothy Day, Martin Luther King - indeed, the majority of great reformers in American history - were not only motivated by faith, but repeatedly used religious language to argue for their cause. To say that men and women should not inject their \"personal morality\" into public policy debates is a practical absurdity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've now been in 57 states. I think one left to go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: another tradition to politics, a tradition (of politics) that stretched from the days of the country\u2019s founding to the glory of the civil rights movement, a tradition based on the simple idea that we have a stake in one another, and that what binds us together is greater than what drives us apart, and that if enough people believe in the truth of that proposition and act on it, then we might not solve every problem, but we can get something meaningful done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue generator, as opposed to serving the community, and that it systematically was biased against African-Americans in that city who were stopped, harassed, mistreated, abused, called names, fined."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The values that we talked about, the values democracy and free speech and international norms and rule of law, respecting the ability of other countries to determine their own destiny and preserve their sovereignty and territorial integrity. Things are not something that we can set aside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Unless you're one of the first Americans, a Native American, you came from someplace else. Somebody brought you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Now, I know that he's taken some flak lately, but no one is prouder to put this birth certificate to rest than The Donald. Now he can get to focusing on the issues that matter. Like, did we fake the moon landing? What really happened in Roswell? And where are Biggie and Tupac?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Ask Osama bin Laden and the 22-out-of-30 top al-Qaida leaders who've been taken off the field whether I engage in appeasement. Or whoever is left out there, ask them about that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think what you're seeing is a profound recognition on the part of the American people that gays and lesbians and transgender persons are our brothers, our sisters, our children, our cousins, our friends, our co-workers, and that they've got to be treated like every other American. And I think that principle will win out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Now let's make two things clear: ISIL is not 'Islamic.' No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of ISIL's victims have been Muslim. And ISIL is certainly not a state. It was formerly al Qaeda's affiliate in Iraq, and has taken advantage of sectarian strife and Syria's civil war to gain territory on both sides of the Iraq-Syrian border. It is recognized by no government, nor the people it subjugates. ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple. And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And whether I earned your vote or not, I have listened to you. I have learned from you. And you\u2019ve made me a better president. And with your stories and your struggles, I return to the White House more determined and more inspired than ever about the work there is to do and the future that lies ahead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Increasing America\u2019s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that 'the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The greatest threat to U.S. and global security is no longer a nuclear exchange between nations, but nuclear terrorism by violent extremists and nuclear proliferation to an increasing number of states."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you don't have good people, and you don't have a good process and you don't have, at some level, the basic reverence for [presidential] office, and an understanding of the incredible responsibilities and obligations, then, I think you can get into trouble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One faction of one party, in one house of Congress, in one branch of government, doesn't get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We may have different backgrounds, but we believe in the same dream that says this is a country where anything's possible. No matter who you are. No matter where you come from."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case, full stop, period."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Change doesn't come from Washington. Change comes to Washington"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't believe that the American people want us to focus on our job security. They want us to focus on their job security. I don't think they want more gridlock. I don't think they want more partisanship. I don't think they want more obstruction. They didn't send us to Washington to fight each other in some sort of political steel-cage match to see who comes out alive. That's not what they want. They sent us to Washington to work together, to get things done, and to solve the problems that they're grappling with every single day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I began feeling the way I imagine an actor or athlete must feel when, after years of commitment to a particular dream...he realizes that he's gone just about as far as talent or fortune will take him. The dream will not happen, and he now faces the choice of accepting this fact like a grownup and moving on to more sensible pursuits, or refusing the truth and ending up bitter, quarrelsome, and slightly pathetic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When we don't pay close attention to the decisions made by our leaders, when we fail to educate ourselves about the major issues of the day, when we choose not to make our voices and opinions heard, that's when democracy breaks down. That's when power is abused. That's when the most extreme voices in our society fill the void that we leave. That's when powerful interests and their lobbyists are most able to buy access and influence in the corridors of power - because none of us are there to speak up and stop them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I do believe, separate and apart from any particular election or movement, that we are going to have to guard against a rise in a crude sort of nationalism or ethnic identity or tribalism that is built around an us and a them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What the American people hope -\u0096 what they deserve -\u0096 is for all of us, Democrats and Republicans, to work through our differences; to overcome the numbing weight of our politics. For while the people who sent us here have different backgrounds, different stories, different beliefs, the anxieties they face are the same. The aspirations they hold are shared: a job that pays the bills; a chance to get ahead; most of all, the ability to give their children a better life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: A nation that can't control its energy sources can't control its future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the root of all our problems. Some of these same voices also do their best to gum up the works. They'll warn that tyranny is always lurking just around the corner. You should reject these voices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is the kindness to take in a stranger when the levees break; the selflessness of workers who would rather cut their hours than see a friend lose their job which sees us through our darkest hours. It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have to create that bridge for the future. And that means making sure we're paying attention to the wages of workers in countries, making sure that we're investing in their education and their skills."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Which passages of scripture should guide our public policy?  Should we go with Leviticus, which suggests slavery is OK and that eating shellfish is an abomination?  Or we could go with Deuteronomy, which suggests stoning your child if he strays from the faith?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe that marriage is the union between a man and a woman. Now, for me as a Christian - for me - for me as a Christian, it is also a sacred union. God's in the mix."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Affirmative action is not going to be the long-term solution to the problems of race in America, because, frankly, if you've got 50 percent of African-American or Latino kids dropping out of high school, it doesn't really matter what you do in terms of affirmative action. Those kids aren't going to college."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Any strategy to reduce intergenerational poverty has to be centered on work, not welfare--not only because work provides independence and income but also because work provides order, structure, dignity, and opportunities for growth in people's lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the challenges over the last decade is America has done experiments in nation building in places like Iraq and Afghanistan and we've neglected, for example, developing our own economy, our own energy sectors, our own education system. And it's very hard for us to project leadership around the world when we're not doing what we need to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In our household, the Bible, the Koran and the Bhagavad Gita sat on the shelf alongside books of Greek and Norse and African mythology"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's the best deal of, of this whole thing is it turns out I've got this nice home office. And at the end of the day, yeah, I can come home, even if I've got more work to do, I can have dinner with them. I can help them with their homework. I can tuck them in. If I've gotta go back to the office, I can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's immigrants. They have come here for the same reason that families have always come here-for the hope that in America, they could build a better life for themselves and their families. Like the waves of immigrants that came before them and the Hispanic Americans whose families have been here for generations, the recent arrival of Latino immigrants will only enrich our country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've seen those results in generations of Muslim immigrants - farmers and factory workers, helping to lay the railroads and build our cities, the Muslim innovators who helped build some of our highest skyscrapers and who helped unlock the secrets of our universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: While we have come a long way since the Stonewall riots in 1969, we still have a lot of work to do. Too often, the issue of LGBT rights is exploited by those seeking to divide us. But at its core, this issue is about who we are as Americans. It's about whether this nation is going to live up to its founding promise of equality by treating all its citizens with dignity and respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Even those who claim the Bible's inerrancy make distinctions between Scriptural edicts, sensing that some passages - the Ten Commandments, say, or a belief in Christ's divinity - are central to Christian faith, while others are more culturally specific and may be modified to accommodate modern life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is something that I'm sure I'd have serious debates with my fellow Christians about. I think that the difficult thing about any religion, including Christianity, is that at some level there is a call to evangelize and prostelytize. There's the belief, certainly in some quarters, that people haven't embraced Jesus Christ as their personal savior that they're going to hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go, when he is old he will not turn from it. I think faith and guidance can help fortify a young woman's sense of self, a young man's sense of responsibility, and a sense of reverence all young people for the act of sexual intimacy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: At some fundamental level, religion does not allow for compromise. It insists on the impossible. If God has spoken, then followers are expected to live up to God's edicts, regardless of the consequences. To base one's life on such uncompromising commitment may be sublime; to base our policy making on such commitments would be a dangerous thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You know, my faith is one that admits some doubt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S. Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The law is a powerful thing but the law doesn't always change what's in people's hearts. And so all of us have an obligation to think about how we're treating other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: A nation cannot prosper long when it favors only the prosperous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the things I think the next president has to do is to stop fanning people's fears. If we spend all our time feeding the American people fear and conflict and division, then they become fearful and conflicted and divided. And if we feed them hope and we feed them reason and tolerance, then they will become tolerant and reasonable and hopeful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Globalization is a fact, because of technology, because of an integrated global supply chain, because of changes in transportation. And we're not going to be able to build a wall around that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The biggest threat that we face right now is not a nuclear missile coming over the skies. It's in a suitcase. This is why the issue of nuclear proliferation is so important. It is the - the biggest threat to the United States is a terrorist getting their hands on nuclear weapons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We do not believe that in this country, freedom is reserved for the lucky, or happiness for the few."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Now let me be clear - I suffer no illusions about Saddam Hussein.  He is a brutal man.  A ruthless man.  A man who butchers his own people to secure his own power.  He has repeatedly defied UN resolutions, thwarted UN inspection teams, developed chemical and biological weapons, and coveted nuclear capacity.  He's a bad guy.  The world, and the Iraqi people, would be better off without him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Muslim leaders around the globe have to continue working with us to decisively and unequivocally reject the hateful ideology that groups like ISIL and al Qaeda promote. To speak out against not just acts of violence, but also those interpretations of Islam that are incompatible with the values of religious tolerance, mutual respect, and human dignity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I do not want two classes of citizens in this country. I want everybody to prosper. That's going to be a top priority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Literacy is the most basic currency of the knowledge economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We'll build new ties of trade and of commerce, culture and education that unleash the potential of the Iraqi people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am not in favor of concealed weapons. I think that creates a potential atmosphere where more innocent people could (get shot during) altercations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: True leadership will not be measured by the ability to muzzle dissent, or to intimidate and harass political opponents at home. The people of the world want change. They will not long tolerate those who are on the wrong side of history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are the change we have been waiting for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When people are oppressed, and human rights are denied - particularly along sectarian lines or ethnic lines - when dissent is silenced, it feeds violent extremism, it creates an environment that is ripe for terrorists to exploit. When peaceful, democratic change is impossible, it feeds into the terrorist propaganda that violence is the only answer available."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The politics around trade has always been tough, particularly in the Democratic party, because people have memories of outsourcing and job loss."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Through words he gave voice to the voiceless. Through deeds he gave courage to the faint of heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've protected thousands of people in Libya; we have not seen a single U.S. casualty; there's no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in November, and that's what we intend to deliver."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Operations in Iraq and Afghanistan and the war on terrorism have reduced the pace of military transformation and have revealed our lack of preparation for defensive and stability operations. This Administration has overextended our military."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity; on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our resources may be finite, but our will is infinite, and I am confident that if we come together and summon that great American spirit once again, we will meet the challenges of our time and write the next great chapter in our American story."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Tonight, more Americans are out of work and more are working harder for less. More of you have lost your homes and even more are watching your home values plummet. More of you have cars you can't afford to drive, credit card bills you can't afford to pay, and tuition that's beyond your reach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What we can be scientifically certain of is that our continued use of fossil fuels is pushing us to a point of no return"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have to think about affirmative action and craft it in such a way where some of our children, who are advantaged, aren't getting more favorable treatment than a poor white kid who struggled more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Democracy demands that the religiously motivated translate their concerns into universal, rather than religion-specific, values."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Everybody knows politics is a contact sport."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Every single American - gay, straight, lesbian, bisexual, transgender - every single American deserves to be treated equally in the eyes of the law and in the eyes of our society.  It\u2019s a pretty simple proposition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We, the people, still believe that our obligations as Americans are not just to ourselves, but to all posterity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And let me say this as a politician I can promise you this, political leaders will never take risks if the people do not push them to take some risks. You must create the change that you want to see."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The single biggest threat that we face is a nuclear weapon or some weapon of mass destruction. What that means is that we have to be extraordinarily aggressive and vigilant in controlling nuclear proliferation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You mention the Navy, for example, and the fact that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: His peaceful resistance shook the foundations of an empire, exposed the emptiness of a repressive ideology, and proved that moral leadership is more powerful than any weapon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't find a job in my White House."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Yes, we can. Yes, we can change. Yes, we can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The role of citizen in our democracy does not end with your vote."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Holy Koran teaches that whoever kills an innocent is as - it is as if he has killed all mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: To resolve this issue will require Iran to come to the table and discuss in a clear and forthright way how to prove to the international community that the intentions of their nuclear program are peaceful. [...] The question is going to be whether in these discussions they show themselves moving clearly in that direction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The United States will do what we must to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In dealing with those nations that break rules and laws, I believe that we must develop alternatives to violence that are tough enough to actually change behavior -- for if we want a lasting peace, then the words of the international community must mean something. Those regimes that break the rules must be held accountable. Sanctions must exact a real price. Intransigence must be met with increased pressure -- and such pressure exists only when the world stands together as one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The belief that peace is desirable is rarely enough to achieve it. Peace requires responsibility. Peace entails sacrifice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The world must come together to confront climate change. There is little scientific dispute that if we do nothing, we will face more drought, famine and mass displacement that will fuel more conflict for decades."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm not a particularly ideological person. There's things, some values I feel passionately about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When it comes to our foreign policy, you seem to want to import the foreign policies of the 1980s, just like the social policies of the 1950s and the economic policies of the 1920s."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm a strong believer in strong encryption."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The challenges posed by threats like terrorism, proliferation, and cyber attacks are not going away any time soon, and for our intelligence community to be effective over the long haul, we must maintain the trust of the American people and people around the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If any individual who objects to government policy can take it in their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will never be able to keep our people safe or conduct foreign policy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our intelligence agencies will continue to gather information about the intentions of governments - as opposed to ordinary citizens - around the world, in the same way that the intelligence services of every other nation does. We will not apologize simply because our services may be more effective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We cannot meet 21st Century challenges with a 20th Century bureaucracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are not a nation that says 'don't ask, don't tell.' We are a nation that says 'out of many, we are one.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The biggest challenge, I think, is always maintaining your moral compass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We cannot have a society, in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Because this is a country where everyone deserves the same freedom and opportunities to fulfill their dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power - including strong and principled diplomacy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Operation Iraqi Freedom is over, and the Iraqi people now have lead responsibility for the security of their country"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our Founding Fathers, faced with perils we can scarcely imagine, drafted a charter to assure the rule of law and the rights of man, a charter expanded by the blood of generations. Those ideals still light the world, and we will not give them up for expedience's sake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And above all, children need our unconditional love - whether they succeed or make mistakes; when life is easy and when life is tough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: That is the story of our history - whether it's the pursuit of prosperity for our people or the struggle for equality for all of our citizens, our commitment to stand up for our values abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place. Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We must carry forward the work of the women who came before us and ensure out daughters have no limits on their dreams, no obstacles to their achievements and no remaining ceilings to shatter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: No country should deny people their rights because of who they love, which is why we must stand up for the rights of gays and lesbians everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We honor those who walked so we could run. We must run so our children soar. And we will not grow weary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe that the starting point of faith is some doubt, not bein' so full of yourself and so confident that you are right and that God speaks only to us and doesn't speak to others, that God only cares about us and doesn't care about others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We cannot allow internet service providers to restrict the best access or to pick winners and losers in the online marketplace for services and ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are values that transcend race or culture, that move us forward, and there's an obligation for all of us individually as well as collectively to take responsibility to make those values lived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And, as a consequence of the pressure that we've applied over the last couple of weeks, we have Syria -- for the first time -- acknowledging that it has chemical weapons, agreeing to join the convention that prohibits the use of chemical weapons, and the Russians -- their primary sponsors -- saying that they will push Syria to get all of their chemical weapons out. The distance that we've traveled over these couple of weeks is remarkable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Jesus is an historical figure for me, and he's also a bridge between God and man, in the Christian faith, and one that I think is powerful precisely because he serves as that means of us reaching something higher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm a big believer in tolerance. I think that religion at it's best comes with a big dose of doubt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We think of faith as a source of comfort and understanding but find our expressions of faith sowing division; we believe ourselves to be a tolerant people even as racial, religious, and cultural tensions roil the landscape. And instead of resolving these tensions or mediating these conflicts, our politics fans them, exploits them,and drives us further apart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is America, and our commitment to religious freedom must be unshakeable. The principle that people of all faiths are welcome in this country, and will not be treated differently by their government, is essential to who we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There is probably a perverse pride in my administration... that we were going to do the right thing, even if short-term it was unpopular. And I think anybody who's occupied this office has to remember that success is determined by an intersection in policy and politics and that you can't be neglecting of marketing and P.R. and public opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are running out of time"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation. It's time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and work to restore America's place as the world leader in science and technology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I would meet directly with the leadership in Iran."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Even when folks are hitting you over the head, you can't stop marching. Even when they're turning the hoses on you, you can't stop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I commended Angela [Merkel] for her leadership along with President Hollande in working to resolve the conflict in Ukraine. We continued to stand with the people of Ukraine and for the basic principle that nations have a right to determine their own destiny and we discussed the importance of maintaining sanctions until Russia fully complies with the Minsk Agreement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am convinced that whenever we exaggerate or demonize, oversimplify or overstate our case, we lose. Whenever we dumb down the political debate, we lose. For it's precisely the pursuit of ideological purity, the rigid orthodoxy and the sheer predictability of our current political debate, that keeps us from finding new ways to meet the challenges we face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We must build a world free of unnecessary barriers, stereotypes, and discrimination. ... policies must be developed, attitudes must be shaped, and buildings and organizations must be designed to ensure that everyone has a chance to get the education they need and live independently as full citizens in their communities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Together we can change our culture for the better by ending violence against women and girls, artists have a unique power to change minds and attitudes and get us thinking and talking about what matters, and all of us, in our lives, have the power to set an example. Join our campaign to stop this violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Those who threaten Israel threaten us. Israel has always faced these threats on the frontlines. And I will bring to the White House an unshakable commitment to Israel's security. That starts with insuring Israel's qualitative military advantage. I will insure that Israel can defend itself from any threat - from Gaza to Tehran."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I take the Constitution very seriously. The biggest problems that we're facing right now have to do with [the president] trying to bring more and more power into the executive branch and not go through Congress at all. And that's what I intend to reverse when I'm President of the United States of America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: So we have a choice to make. We can once again let Washington's bad habits stand in the way of progress. Or we can pull together and say that in America, our destiny isn't written for us but by us. We can place good ideas ahead of old ideological battles, and a sense of purpose above the same narrow partisanship. We can act boldly to turn crisis into opportunity and, together, write the next great chapter in our history and meet the test of our time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Ultimately, I think the Equal Protection Clause does guarantee same-sex marriage in all fifty states."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For the United States of America, the best is yet to come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's nobody to guide through the process of becoming a man... to explain to them the meaning of manhood. And that's a recipe for disaster."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it. We cannot cede to other nations the technology that will power new jobs and new industries, we must claim its promise. That's how we will maintain our economic vitality and our national treasure-our forests and waterways, our crop lands and snow-capped peaks. That is how we will preserve our planet, commanded to our care by God. That's what will lend meaning to the creed our fathers once declared."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The laws of our land are catching up to the fundamental truth that millions of Americans hold in our hearts:  when all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The world thanks you for sharing Nelson Mandela with us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe when women succeed America succeeds!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We can still see God in other people and do our best to help them find their own grace. So that\u2019s what I strive to do and pray to do every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Weapons of war have no place on our streets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm a big football fan, but I have to tell you if I had a son, I'd have to think long and hard before I let him play football."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: No challenge poses a greater threat to future generations than climate change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is not some distant problem of the future. This is a problem that is affecting Americans right now. Whether it means increased flooding, greater vulnerability to drought, more severe wildfires - all these things are having an impact on Americans as we speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Today\u2019s decision was a victory for people all across this country whose lives will be more secure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think we need missile defense. But I want to make sure it works, that it's cost effective, that the technologies are operable, that it's our best possible strategy, and that hasn't been shown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Empowering women isn\u2019t just the right thing to do - it\u2019s the smart thing to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Above all, our freedom endures because of the men and women in uniform who defend it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What is required of us now is a new era of responsibility - a recognition, on the part of every American, that we have duties to ourselves, our nation, and the world, duties that we do not grudgingly accept but rather seize gladly, firm in the knowledge that there is nothing so satisfying to the spirit, so defining of our character, than giving our all to a difficult task. This is the price and the promise of citizenship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The theater is necessary. Dance is necessary. Song is necessary. The arts are necessary- they are a necessary part of our lives"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Rather than double-down on the top-down economics that let a fortunate few play by their own rules, let\u2019s embrace an economic patriotism that says we rise or fall together, as one nation, and as one people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And when it comes to developing the high standards we need, it's time to stop working against our teachers and start working with them. Teachers don't go in to education to get rich. They don't go in to education because they don't believe in their children. They want their children to succeed, but we've got to give them the tools. Invest in early childhood education. Invest in our teachers and our children will succeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you're an American and you are, you know, subscribing to the ideals and the creed and the values that we believe in as a country, you know, then we don't have a religious test in this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: John Kerry believes in an America where hard work is rewarded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: All too rarely do I hear people asking just what it is that we've done to make so many children's hearts so hard, or what collectively we might do to right their moral compass - what values we must live by."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Robin Williams was an airman, a doctor, a genie, a nanny, a president, a professor, a bangarang Peter Pan, and everything in between. But he was one of a kind....He arrived in our lives as an alien but he ended up touching every element of the human spirit"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Bush Administration's failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's hard to anticipate. I can tell you what I'm feeling right now is that I'm busier than I expected these last two weeks. A great deal of emotion around the people that I've worked with and the gratitude I feel for the sacrifices they've made on behalf of the American people, but also on behalf of me personally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am not opposed to all wars. I'm opposed to dumb wars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: That is our generation\u2019s task - to make these words, these rights, these values of life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness real for every American."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And I will do everything that I can as long as I am President of the United States to remind the American people that we are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are some who question the scale of our ambitions, who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short, for they have forgotten what this country has already done, what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The strongest democracies flourish from frequent and lively debate, but they endure when people of every background and belief find a way to set aside smaller differences in service of a greater purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Islam has always been a part of America\u2019s story.... And since our founding, American Muslims have enriched the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Islamic culture has given us majestic arches and soaring spires; timeless poetry and cherished music; elegant calligraphy and places of peaceful contemplation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe that there are many paths to the same place, and that is a belief that there is a higher power, a belief that we are connected as a people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: But at a time when our discourse has become so sharply polarized - at a time when we are far too eager to lay the blame for all that ails the world at the feet of those who think differently than we do - it's important for us to pause for a moment and make sure that we are talking with each other in a way that heals, not a way that wounds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by ending the subsidies for oil companies, and doubling down on clean energy that generates jobs and strengthens our security."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket\u2026 Because I\u2019m capping greenhouse gasses, coal power plants, natural gas\u2026you name it\u2026whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retro-fit their operations. That will cost money\u2026they will pass that money on to the consumers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I didn't become a Christian until many years later, when I moved to the South Side of Chicago after college. It happened not because of indoctrination or a sudden revelation, but because I spent month after month working with church folks who simply wanted to help neighbors who were down on their luck no matter what they looked like, or where they came from, or who they prayed to. It was on those streets, in those neighborhoods, that I first heard God's spirit beckon me. It was there that I felt called to a higher purpose - His purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This country of ours has more wealth than any nation, but that's not what makes us rich. We have the most powerful military on Earth, but that's not what makes us strong. Our universities and our culture are the envy of the world, but that's not what keeps the world coming to our shores. Instead, it is that American spirit - that American promise - that pushes us forward even when the path is uncertain; that binds us together in spite of our differences; that makes us fix our eye not on what is seen, but what is unseen, that better place around the bend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you actually took the number of Muslims Americans, we'd be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In my first term, I sang Al Green. In my second term, I'm going with Young Jeezy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The terrorists do not speak for over a billion Muslims who reject their hateful ideology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: On Easter I do reflect on the fact that as a Christian I am supposed to love, and I have to say that sometimes, when I've listened to less-than-loving expressions by Christians, I get concerned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: People in every country should be free to choose and live their faith based upon the persuasion of the mind, and the heart, and the soul. This tolerance is essential for religion to thrive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I do not believe being gay or lesbian is a choice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: To the Muslim world, we seek a new way forward, based on mutual interest and mutual respect. To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy. To those who cling to power through corruption and deceit and the silencing of dissent, know that you are on the wrong side of history; but that we will extend a hand if you are willing to unclench your fist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There\u2019s no black male my age, who\u2019s a professional, who hasn\u2019t come out of a restaurant and is waiting for their car and somebody didn\u2019t hand them their car keys."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Despite all the noise and hullabaloo - military cooperation, intelligence cooperation, all of that has continued. We have defended them consistently in every imaginable way. But I also believe that both for our national interests and Israel's national interests that allowing an ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians that could get worse and worse over time is a problem. And that settlements contribute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Even the smallest act of service, the simplest act of kindness, is a way to honor those we lost, a way to reclaim that spirit of unity that followed 9/11."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We don't have time for a meeting of the Flat Earth Society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Let it be said to our children's children that when we were tested we refused to let this journey end, that we didn't turn our back nor did we falter; and with eyes fixed on the horizon and God's grace upon us, we carried forth that great gift of freedom and delivered it safely to future generations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is time to do away with work place policies that belong in a Mad Men episode."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we\u2019re going to have arguments, let\u2019s have arguments\u200a\u2014\u200abut let\u2019s make them debates worthy of this body and worthy of this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think it's important to realize that I was actually black before the election."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We need to eradicate the slander that says a black youth with a book is acting white."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My identity might begin with the fact of my race, but it didn't, couldn't end there. At least that's what I would choose to believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've just concluded that for me personally it is important for me to go ahead and affirm that I think same-sex couples should be able to get married."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Never give up on your dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have to stand up for these issues when it's tough, and that's what I've done. I did it when I was in the state legislature, sponsoring the Illinois version of the DREAM Act, so that children who were brought here through no fault of their own are able to go to college, because we actually want well-educated kids in our country who are able to succeed and become part of this economy and part of the American dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Foreign Assistance is not an end in itself. The purpose of aid must be to create the conditions where it's no longer need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We believe that no matter where you live - whether a village in Punjab or the bylanes of Chandni Chowk, an old section of Kolkata or a new high-rise in Bangalore - every person deserves the same chance to live in security and dignity, to get an education, to find work, and to give their children a better future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe in the redemptive death and resurrection of Jesus Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In Iraq and Syria, American leadership - including our military power - is stopping ISIL's advance, instead of getting dragged into another ground war in the Middle East, we are leading a broad coalition, including Arab nations, to degrade and ultimately destroy this terrorist group."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have to all shoulder the responsibility for keeping the planet habitable, or we're going to suffer the consequences - together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Those who are already feeling the effects of climate change don't have time to deny it - they're busy dealing with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I [give] maybe the long-winded speeches that not everybody reads, but I can also do a slow jam on Jimmy Fallon better than most."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Contrary to the rumours you have heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-el, to save the planet Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We do not consider ourselves a Christian nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If all it took was someone proclaiming I believe Jesus Christ and that he died for my sins, and that was all there was to it, people wouldn't have to keep coming to church, would they."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America\u2019s possibilities are limitless, for we possess all the qualities that this world without boundaries demands: youth and drive; diversity and openness; an endless capacity for risk and a gift for reinvention. My fellow Americans, we are made for this moment, and we will seize it - so long as we seize it together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Unless we free ourselves from a dependence on these fossil fuels... we are condemning future generations to global catastrophe"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will promise you this, that if we have not gotten our troops out by the time I am president, it is the first thing I will do. I will get our troops home, we will bring an end to this war. You can take that to the bank."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Those of us who have the privilege to serve this country have an obligation to do our job as best we can. We come from different parties, but we are Americans first. And that's why disagreement cannot mean dysfunction. It can't degenerate into hatred. The American people's hopes and dreams are what matters, not ours. Our obligations are to them. Our regard for them compels us all, Democrats and Republicans, to cooperate, and compromise, and act in the best interests of our nation \u0096- one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Republicans in Congress have two choices here:  They can act responsibly, and pay America\u2019s bills; or they can act irresponsibly, and put America through another economic crisis.  But they will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe, in the words of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., that there is such a thing as being too late, and when it comes to climate change, that hour is almost upon us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In November [2016], Americans are gonna have to make a decision about what we care about and who we are. We get these spasms of politics around immigration and fearmongering and then our traditions and our history and our better impulses kick in. That's how we all ended up here. 'Cause I guarantee you at some point every one of us has somebody in our background who people didn't want coming here. And yet here we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: So Americans understand the costs of war. Yet as a country, we will never tolerate our security being threatened, nor stand idly by when our people have been killed. We will be relentless in defense of our citizens and our friends and allies. We will be true to the values that make us who we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Greek people are entrepreneurial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are war-torn countries, people full of poverty, who still voted, 60, 70 percent.  If here in the United States of America, we voted at 60 percent, 70 percent, it would transform our politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The young are going to be the messengers of this continued strengthening of the diversity in America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I did not suggest that Iran is a democracy; just the opposite. I talked about it being a repressive theocracy. What I think is indisputable is that even within this repressive regime, the political leaders there - including the Supreme Leader - are sensitive to the concerns of the population within bounds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think, the argument sometimes that I've had with folks who are much more interested in sort of race-specific programs is less an argument about what is practically achievable and sometimes maybe more an argument of \"We want society to see what's happened, and internalize it, and answer it in demonstrable ways.\" And those impulses I very much understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society's ills on the West - know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have made it clear that we will hunt down terrorists who threaten our country, wherever they are. That means I will not hesitate to take action against ISIL in Syria, as well as Iraq. This is a core principle of my presidency: if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Leadership isn't just legislation, that it's a matter of persuading people and giving them confidence, and bringing them together and setting a tone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let\u2019s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more carefully, to sharpen our instincts for empathy and remind ourselves of all the ways that our hopes and dreams are bound together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm less interested in how we label ourselves. I'm more interested in how we treat each other. And if we're treating each other right, then I can be African-American, I can be multi-racial, I can be you name it, what matters is, am I showing people respect, am I caring for one, for other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I always tell my staff, \"Better is good.\" I'll take better every time, because better is hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Faith doesn't mean that you don't have doubts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's particularly important that we reach out to everybody in our countries, those who feel disaffected, those who feel left behind by globalization and address their concerns in constructive ways as opposed to more destructive ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe that if we stop talking at one another and start talking with one another, we can get a lot done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will never forget that the only reason I'm standing here today is because somebody, somewhere stood up for me when it was risky. Stood up when it was hard. Stood up when it wasn't popular. And because that somebody stood up, a few more stood up. And then a few thousand stood up. And then a few million stood up. And standing up, with courage and clear purpose, they somehow managed to change the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: But we reject the belief that America must choose between caring for the generation that built this country and investing in the generation that will build its future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Now, I've lived long enough to know that race relations are better than they were 10 or 20 or 30 years ago no matter what some folks say. You can see it not just in statistics, you see it in the attitudes of young Americans across the political spectrum. But we're not where we need to be. And all of us have more work to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to Iran. I mean, you have a large country with a significant military that has proclaimed that Israel shouldn't exist, that has denied the Holocaust, that has financed Hezbollah, and as a consequence, there are missiles that are pointed towards Tel Aviv. There are very good reasons why Israelis are nervous about Iran's position in the world generally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm not somebody who is always comfortable with language that implies I've got a monopoly on the truth, or that my faith is automatically transferable to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Both our nations [Malasian and American] are committed to building a regional order where all nations play by the same rules and disputes are resolved peacefully and this visit will be an opportunity to continue deepening our cooperation on behalf of regional stability and prosperity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Because our right to worship freely and safely, that right was denied to Christians in Charleston, South Carolina, and that was denied Jews in Kansas City, and that was denied Muslims in Chapel Hill, and Sikhs in Oak Creek. They had rights too. Our right to peaceful assembly, that right was robbed from movie goers in Aurora and Lafayette."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Put simply, what I'd like to do is to see the first two years of community college free for everybody's who is willing to work for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What is important is that we make sure to work together, that we understand our strength comes from unity and not division."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that people are born with a certain makeup, and that we're all children of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My experience is that our intelligence officials try to do the right thing, but even with good intentions, sometimes they make mistakes. Sometimes they can be overzealous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Tonight, I can report to the American people and to the world that the United States has conducted an operation that killed Osama bin Laden, the leader of al Qaeda, and a terrorist who's responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent men, women, and children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think same sex couples should be able to get married."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We, the people, declare today that the most evident of truths - that all of us are created equal - is the star that guides us still; just as it guided our forebears through Seneca Falls, and Selma, and Stonewall; just as it guided all those men and women, sung and unsung, who left footprints along this great Mall, to hear a preacher say that we cannot walk alone; to hear a King proclaim that our individual freedom is inextricably bound to the freedom of every soul on Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: That just gives sort of the democracy an opportunity to test ideas, for those who lost to catch their breath, regain energy, re-energize themselves and then get back in the arena, and then we'll make some more progress in the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our job is not to ask that God respond to our notion of truth. Our job is to be true to Him, Hi-His word and His commandments, and we should assume humbly that we're confused and don't always know what we're doin' and we're staggerin' and stumblin' towards him and have some humility in that process."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The United States is not, and never will be, at war with Islam."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The day I'm inaugurated, this country looks at itself differently and the world looks at America differently. If you believe that we've got to heal America and we've got to repair our standing in the world, then I think my supporters believe that I am a messenger who can deliver that message around the world in a way that no other candidate can do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we are truly created equal then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have no more campaigns to run... I know because I won both of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have made it a top priority for my administration to deepen cooperation with Israel across the whole spectrum of security issues - intelligence, military, technology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Clearly, Iran has influence in Iraq. Iraq has a majority Shi'a population, they have relationships to Iran. Some are natural."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I intend to protect a free and open internet, extend its reach to every classroom, and every community, and help folks build the fastest networks, so that the next generation of digital innovators and entrepreneurs have the platform to keep reshaping our world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Ninety-eight percent of all American companies have fewer than 100 employees. Over half of all Americans work for a small business. Small businesses are the backbone of our nation\u2019s economy and we must protect this great resource.....Helping American small business is part of our movement for change and the end of politics as usual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: So my biggest fun has been watching my daughters grow up. Now, unfortunately they're hitting the age where they still love me, but they think I'm completely boring. And so they'll come in, pat me on the head, talk to me for 10 minutes, and then they're gone all weekend. Right? They break my heart! So now I've got to start thinking, Well what's going to replace that fun?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've got two daughters and I want to make sure that they have the same opportunities that anybody's sons have. That's part of what I'm fighting for as president of the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: At the dawn of the 21st century, where knowledge is literally power, where it unlocks the gates of opportunity and success, we all have responsibilities as parents, as librarians, as educators, as politicians, and as citizens to instill in our children a love of reading so that we can give them a chance to fulfill their dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are a nation of laws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe in American exceptionalism, just as I suspect that the Brits believe in British exceptionalism and the Greeks believe in Greek exceptionalism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Being a father is sometimes my hardest but always my most rewarding job. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Warren Court wasn't that radical. It didn't break free from the essential constraints that were placed by the founding fathers in the Constitution... I intend to succeed where they failed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our biggest challenges."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The fact is every single day in the ordinary American people, America's families have to make decisions about their families and that should be made by them, not by the Texas or United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: To look at long term trends in our economy, in our society, in the international sphere and using my best judgment, shape policies that will serve the American people, keep them safe, keep our economy growing, put people back to work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I remember when I was in Chicago and data started coming out that when black folks walk into an auto dealership, and women, too, to some degree, they are automatically given higher quotes, worse deals. And this was just documented extensively across auto dealerships around the country. There was a tax being imposed on black folks. By collecting that data, you can construct policies to combat that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm very consistent about spending time with family. And when you have dinner with your daughters - they'll keep you in your place and they'll teach you something about perspective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we choose to keep those tax breaks for millionaires and billionaires, if we choose to keep a tax break for corporate jet owners, if we choose to keep tax breaks for oil and gas companies that are making hundreds of billions of dollars, then that means we've got to cut some kids off from getting a college scholarship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that the Democrats can be successful nationally in the future if we are able to capture some of the complexity of people's lives right now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are a people of improbable hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -- all the fighting and all the dying, the bleeding and the building, and the training and the partnering -- all of it has led to this moment of success. Now, Iraq is not a perfect place. It has many challenges ahead. But we're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You and I, as citizens, have the obligation to shape the debates of our time, not only with the votes we cast, but the voices we lift in defense of our most ancient values and enduring ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Let's make two things clear: Isil is not \"Islamic.\" No religion condones the killing of innocents, and the vast majority of Isil's victims have been Muslim. And Isil is certainly not a state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our planet is changing in ways that will have profound impacts on all of humankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Citizenship means standing up for everyone's right to vote.***"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: No country on Earth would tolerate missiles raining down on its citizens from outside its borders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: A brighter future is ours to write. Let\u2019s begin this new chapter\u200a\u2014\u200atogether\u200a\u2014\u200aand let\u2019s start the work right now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The hard truth is carbon pollution has built up in our atmosphere for decades now. And even if we Americans do our part, the planet will slowly keep warming for some time to come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that Canada is one of the most impressive countries in the world, the way it has managed a diverse population, a migrant economy. The natural beauty of Canada is extraordinary. Obviously there is enormous kinship between the United States and Canada, and the ties that bind our two countries together are things that are very important to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Don't just buy a new video game. Make one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe that for all our imperfections, we are full of decency and goodness, and that the forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The countries who out-educate us today will out-compete us tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Now, some have said I blame too many problems on my predecessor, but let's not forget that's a practice that was initiated by George W. Bush."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are not at war with Islam. We are at war with people who have perverted Islam."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We're going to achieve our goal. We are going to degrade and ultimately defeat ISIL."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I delivered a clear and forceful message that although we recognize Russia's intelligence gathering will sometimes take place even if we don't like it, there's a difference between that than either meddling with elections or going after private organizations or commercial entities, and that we're monitoring it carefully, and we will respond appropriately if and when we see this happening."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think [ unpopular presidential candidates ] indicates, at least on the Democratic side, that we've got more work to do to strengthen our grassroots networks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: All the strands of my life came together and I really became a man when I moved to Chicago."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When it comes to preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, I will take no options off the table. ... That includes all elements of American power: a political effort aimed at isolating Iran, a diplomatic effort to sustain our coalition and ensure that the Iranian program is monitored, an economic effort that imposes crippling sanctions and, yes, a military effort to be prepared for any contingency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We're up against the conventional thinking that says your ability to lead as president comes from longevity in Washington or proximity to the White House. But we know that real leadership is about candor and judgment and the ability to rally Americans from all walks of life around a common purpose, a higher purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: ... our interests and our conscience compel us to act on behalf of those who long for freedom. And we must be a source of hope to the poor, the sick, the marginalized, the victims of prejudice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Whatever decisions I make are going to be based first on a strategy to keep us safe and then we'll figure out how to resource it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's so much active misinformation and it's packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Who you are, what you are, does not change after you occupy the oval office. All it does is magnify who you are. All it does is shine a spotlight on who you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If, technologically, it is possible to make an impenetrable device or system where the encryption is so strong that there's no key - there's no door at all - then how do we apprehend the child pornographer? How do we solve or disrupt a terrorist plot?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Because of the internet and communications, the clash of cultures is much more direct. People feel, I think, less certain about their identity, less certain about economic security."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I was pretty realistic to people about what we could get done, and the situation we were in, and trying to tamp down expectations. If you listen to my stump speeches, if you listen to what I said at Grant Park, I kept on saying, \"Look, this is not just about me, this is not going to happen in one year, or one term, or even one presidency.\" And we tried to layer into everything we were saying a sense of hope, but also realism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Elections are always a little bit funny. People start saying things and emphasizing differences. After the election, my hope is, is that people start emphasizing what we have in common."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Congress has become so dysfunctional that more and more of a burden is placed on the agencies to fill in the gaps. And the gaps get bigger and bigger because they're not constantly refreshed and tweaked."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think it's fair to say that [Donald Trump] and I are sort of opposites in some ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There is a big risk for the Republicans in a race, especially with Hillary Clinton as a likely Democratic nominee in a contest that will focus on the possibility of the first woman president to be six months suspending up the nomination of a black woman, who is imminently qualified."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Based on current surveys of public opinion in the United States, it turns out that the majority of Americans think I've done a pretty good job."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Whether we like it or not, we remain a dominant military superpower."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The point is ISIL leaders cannot hide. And our next message to them is simple - you are next."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Letting the free market do whatever it wants. That's not been historically how we grow. We have to invest in education, in rebuilding broadband lines and roads and runways, and it's important that we bring back American manufacturing and regulations to prevent consumers from being cheated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: No discrimination, that's what we're about as a country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's a reason why the NRA's not here. They're just down the street. And since this is the main reason they exist, you'd think that they'd be prepared to have a debate with a president."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are willing to uphold principles that have resulted in unprecedented prosperity and security throughout Europe and around the world. With the threat of climate change only becoming more urgent, Angela [Merkel] and I focused on the need for American and E.U. leadership to advance global cooperation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My job is exhilarating. It's challenging. I find that the governance part of it, the decision making part of it - actually comes - comes pretty naturally. I think I've got a great team. I think we're making good decisions. The the hardest thing about the job is staying focused. Because there's so many demands and decisions that are pressed upon you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We can't discount how scary and shaken not just the Turkish government is, but Turkish society is. Imagine if you had some rump group of military officials here in the United States who started flying off with F-16s or other artillery and were taking shots at government buildings, and people were killed and injured. People would be scared and rightfully so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There is a reason why George Washington is always one of the top three presidents, and it's not because of his prowess as a military leader; it's not because of the incredible innovations in policy that he introduced. It's because he knew when it was time to go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Did I recognize that there was anger or frustration in the American population? Of course I did. First of all, we had to fight back from the worst recession since the Great Depression, and I can guarantee you if your housing values have crashed and you've lost most of your pension and you've lost your job, you're going to be pretty angry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is what I would call old politics. This is the stuff we're trying to get rid of. Because the problem is, when we start breaking down into conservative and liberal, and we've got a bunch of set predispositions, whether it's on gun control, or its' on health care, any attempt to do health care is socialized medicine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: By hook or by crook, we're going to make sure that when I leave this office, that the country is more prosperous, more people have opportunity, kids have a better education, we're more competitive, climate change is being taken more seriously than it was.Those are going to be the measures by which I look back and say whether I've been successful as president."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If there's a senior citizen in downstate Illinois that's struggling to pay for their medicine and having to chose between medicine and the rent, that makes my life poorer even if it's not my grandparent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The problem is, that we've got a position, often times by the NRA that says any regulation whatsoever is the camel's nose under the tent. And that, I think, is not where the American people are at."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Obviously I'm grayer, a few more wrinkles. One of the things I'm proud about is that I think my basic character and outlook actually have not changed much. And people who are closest to me will tell you that the guy who came here is the same guy who's leaving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The violence engulfing the region today has made too many Israelis ready to abandon the hard work of peace. But let\u2019s be clear: the status quo in the West Bank and Gaza is not sustainable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The government of Libya announced the death of Moammar Gadhafi. This marks the end of a long and painful chapter for the people of Libya, who now have the opportunity to determine their own destiny in a new and democratic Libya. The Gadhafi regime ruled the Libyan people with an iron fist. The enormous potential of the Libyan people was held back and terror was used as a political weapon. The last major regime strongholds have fallen. The new government is consolidating the control over the country. And one of the world's longest-serving dictators is no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There is no excuse for not trying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What I'm interested in doing after I get out of the presidency is to make sure that I'm working with that next generation so that they understand you can't just rely on inspiration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Let us reach for the world that ought to be -- that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And yes, my plan will continue to reduce the carbon pollution that is heating our planet - because climate change is not a hoax. More droughts and floods and wildfires are not a joke. They're a threat to our children's future. And in this election, you can do something about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The United States is doing our part by increasing the number of refugees we resettle and I want again to commend Angela [Merkel], and more importantly, the German people for the extraordinary leadership and compassion that you have shown in the face of what I know is a very difficult challenge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Democrats are using the human trafficking bill's language that's been there for 40 years, regarding the use of federal funds for abortion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Without a deal [with Iran], the international sanctions regime will unravel with little ability to reimpose them. With this deal, we have the possibility of peacefully resolving a major threat to regional and international security. Without a deal, we risk even more war in the Middle East and other countries in the region would feel compelled to pursue their own nuclear programs, threatening a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think it was not a bad idea to wrap Barack Obama in the mantle of Teddy Roosevelt. He`s been assuming a sort of progressive mantle, and he ticked off some large and systemic problems that this country faces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I want to express our grieve and condolences to the families of two hostages: one American, Dr. Warren Weinstein and an Italian Giovanni LaPorto who were tragically killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that what is always true when you run against an incumbent president is, is that you end up talking more about that president's record than your vision for the future, and I think that the Democrats do have to present a proactive agenda and vision for the country and not simply run against something if they're going to be successful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Look at Chancellor [Angela] Merkel, her personal story helps to tell a story of incredible achievement that the German people have embarked on and I think is something that you should be very proud of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Part of what makes me most optimistic is if you look at the attitudes of young people. Across the board, young people are much more comfortable with respecting differences. They are much more comfortable with diversity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I wouldn't advise [people] to be silent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think the Turks' willingness to take seriously action on the borders to stop the flow of foreign fighters joining ISIL is significant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: So how do Latinos feel if there's a big investment just in the African American community, and they're looking around and saying, \"We're poor as well. What kind of help are we getting?\" Or Asian Americans who say, \"Look, I'm a first-generation immigrant, and clearly I didn't have anything to do with what was taking place.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Israel is a true friend. It is our greatest ally in the region. And if Israel is attacked, America will stand with Israel. I've made that clear throughout my presidency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it\u2019s not going to protect you from the coming storm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: All I care about is making sure that I leave behind an America that is stronger, more prosperous, more stable, more secure than it was when I came into office and that's going to continue to drive me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: People need to remember we are the governing party because we have diversity of opinion in our party. We're not pure. We have moderates and we have more progressives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'll remember the view out this window [from Oval Cabinet], because this is where we had our - the playground that we put in when Malia and Sasha came in. Being able every once in awhile to look out the window and see your daughters during the summer, swinging on that swing set, that made the presidency a little bit sweeter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Generally speaking in America, a lot of environmentally problematic facilities tend to be located in places where poor folks live because wealthier folks have the ability to say, \"not in my backyard.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we can make sure that that young boys starting at the age of three or four already knows their colors and their letters and are getting good preschool, and by the time they get into school they've got a good teacher and are getting the support that they need and are able to keep up with their classwork, that is going to do more to reduce the incarceration rate at the same time, obviously, as it increases the college enrollment rate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture. And I'm gonna make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Faced with the potential of mass atrocities and a call for help from the Libyan people, the United States and our friends and allies stopped Gadhafi's forces in their tracks. A coalition that included the United States, NATO and Arab nations persevered to protect Libyan civilians. So this is a momentous day in the history of Libya. The dark shadow of tyranny has been lifted, and with this enormous promise the Libyan people now have a great responsibility: to build an inclusive and tolerant and democratic Libya that stands as the ultimate rebuke to Gadhafi's dictatorship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Democrats are as concerned about raising our kids and making sure that the values of empathy and hard work and discipline and self-respect are instilled in our children, and I've got a six-year-old daughter and a three-year-old daughter, and I'm not afraid to talk about how I want to provide them with the sort of cultural framework that's going to allow them to be successful, happy people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I put forward a budget of what I called \"middle-class economics\" that continues to be fiscally prudent but makes necessary investments for us to continue the economic momentum and job growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We can have reasonable, thoughtful gun control measure that I think respect the Second Amendment and people's traditions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think I'm able to reach a lot of folks, despite the fact that the conventional news media sometimes says, \"You know, this speech is too long,\" or \"It's too complicated,\" or \"He needs to have better sound bites,\" or what have you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Having the United Kingdom in the European Union gives us much greater confidence about the strength of the transatlantic union and is part of the cornerstone of institutions built after World War II that has made the world safer and more prosperous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Everybody potentially can make the claim that we should all be treated fairly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's no doubt that probably at least once a week, maybe once a day, I said, \"Ah, I should have done that better.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Nothing in life that\u2019s worth anything is easy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's no straight line to progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Without regard to whether some place is wealthy or poor, everybody should have the chance at clean air and clean water."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In Texas, we hold very dear to intrusions against our personal liberty. We fight very hard against that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What a vindication of the belief that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, what a reminder of what Bobby Kennedy once said, about how small actions can be like pebbles being thrown into a still lake, and ripples of hope cascade outwards and change the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've been saying for years, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time on cyber security."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Call Loretta Lynch for a vote. Get her confirmed. Put her in place. Let her do her job."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It was into my father's image, the black man, son of Africa, that I'd packed all the attributes I sought in myself, the attributes of Martin and Malcolm, DuBois and Mandela."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'll be the first US president to not only visit Kenya and Ethiopia, but also to address the continent as a whole, building off the African summit that we did here which was historic and has, I think, deepened the kinds of already strong relationships that we have across the continent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't think there's anybody who's run a campaign like [Donald Trump] successfully in modern history, not that I can think of. And, as a consequence because he didn't have the supports of many of the establishment in his own party, because he ran sort of an improvisational campaign."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The spirit's there and that's not just my imagination. I think if you look at surveys and attitudes among young people, you see it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe we can seize this future together, because we are not as divided as our politics suggests. [...] We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions. [...] We are and forever will be the United States of America. [...] We will  continue our journey forward and remind the world just why it is that we live in the greatest nation on Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You have to exercise, or at some point you'll just break down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Steve was among the greatest of American innovators - brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it...The world has lost a visionary. And there may be no greater tribute to Steve's success than the fact that much of the world learned of his passing on a device he invented."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Recovery Act, which helped saved the economy and prevented us going into the Great Depression, was the largest investment in green technology, the largest investment in education. We rebuilt roads and bridges."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Legislatively, the thing I'm most proud of is healthcare, and I will continue to be most proud of it because not only do we have 30 million people who are going to get healthcare, we've got six million young people who are able to stay on their parents' plan until they're 26."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is about respect for women, the judgments that women make and their doctors about their reproductive health. It's an important part of who women are, their reproductive health."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've got some fundamental choices to make about the kind of country we want to be. Will we accept an economy where only a few of us do spectacularly well, or are we going to build an economy where everyone who works hard has a chance to get ahead?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: John Conyers and I were the ones who wrote the bill that provides for Medicare for all. And, so, even though the single-payer plan is not what's before the Congress, to expand Medicare, so that people 55 and up would be - would have the chance to buy in, that's - that would be a step in the right direction, no question about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all kind of mixed up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we're going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes, we're going to have to keep some fossil fuels in the ground rather than burn them and release more dangerous pollution into the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The quibble I have with President [Barack] Obama is,and I think some other people will have it, too is that the rhetoric is fine, and identifying the problem is fine. But it`s to use a football analogy, he sort of pushes it into the red zone, and then tends to settle for a field goal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Affordable Care Act is here to stay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think it's useful to keep in mind I've been now President for over seven years and gun sales don't seem to have suffered during that time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've been very good for gun manufacturers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I continue to believe that she has not jeopardized America's national security. Now, what I've also said is that, and she's acknowledged, that there's a carelessness in terms of managing emails that she has owned and she recognizes. But I also think it is important to keep this in perspective. This is somebody who has served her country for four years as secretary of state and did an outstanding job, and no one has suggested that in some ways, as a consequence of how she handled emails, that that detracted from her excellent ability to carry out her duties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For more than 60 years, the United States has stood by our allies and partners in the Asia Pacific. That includes our defence partnership with Singapore, which stretches back more than two decades."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As I got older, then my particular ambitions started cohering around creating a world in which people of different races or backgrounds or faiths can recognize each other's humanity, or creating a world in which every kid, regardless of their background, can strive and achieve and fulfill their potential."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is important to combine structural reforms and good fiscal stewardship with a growth strategy, because when your economy's growing and more revenue's coming in, that helps relieve debt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: People will still be looking to the United States. Our example will still carry great weight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It continues to be my strong belief that the way we are going to make sure that everybody feels a part of this global economy is not by shutting ourselves off from each other, even if we could, but rather by working together more effectively than we have in the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm trying to move an aircraft carrier here, I'm not just steering the speedboat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Race remains a potent and often divisive force in our society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What the American people understand is that I look at what we need to get done to keep the American people safe and to move our interests forward, and I make those decisions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I hope people appreciate Chancellor Merkel because, although she traditionally is considered center-right and I'm considered center-left, the truth is that we share those core values, and those are worth protecting. As the senior leader in Europe, as the leader who's been longest lasting, I think she has great credibility, and she is willing to fight for those values. I'm glad that she's there, and I think the German people should appreciate her. Certainly, I have appreciated her as a partner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I\u2019m asking you to believe. Not just in my ability to bring about real change in Washington...I\u2019m asking you to believe in yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Reading is the gateway skill that makes all other learning possible"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think I'm the best president I've ever been right now. And I think the team that is operating right now functions as well as any team that I've had. And so, you know, there is a part of you that thinks, \"Man, we're pretty good at this stuff right now.\" And you hate to see that talent disperse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You can be stylish, and powerful too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What matters is how well we have loved, and what small part we have played in making the lives around us better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm going to insist on making sure that we've got decent funding, that we've got enough teachers, that we've got computers in the classroom, but unless you turn off the television set and get over a certain anti-intellectualism that I think pervades some low-income communities, our children are not going to achieve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: But race is an issue that I believe this nation cannot afford to ignore right now. We would be making the same mistake that Reverend Wright made in his offending sermons about America - to simplify and stereotype and amplify the negative to the point that it distorts reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The reforms we seek would bring greater competition, choice, savings and inefficiencies to our health care system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I refuse to give in to the notion that the American people can't handle complicated information."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Yes, our greatness as a nation has depended on individual initiative, on a belief in the free market. But it has also depended on our sense of mutual regard for each other, of mutual responsibility. The idea that everybody has a stake in the country, that we're all in it together and everybody's got a shot at opportunity. Americans know this. We know that government can't solve all our problems - and we don't want it to. But we also know that there are some things we can't do on our own. We know that there are some things we do better together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge. Revolutions in technology and communication have created an entire economy of high-tech, high-wage jobs that can be located anywhere there's an internet connection. And today, a child in Chicago is not only competing for jobs with one in Boston, but thousands more in Bangalore and Beijing who are being educated longer and better than ever before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We don't quit. I don't quit. Let's seize this moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I do believe that Chancellor Merkel and Germany are a lynchpin in protecting the basic tenets of a liberal, market-based democratic order that has created unprecedented prosperity and security for Europe, but also for the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I mentioned charter schools, and experimenting with our school system, to make it work. I think that's something we really have to pay attention to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You have to be organized, that you have to vote even when it's not exciting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There is a little bit of that schoolyard attitude of, it's one thing for a guy your own size to mouth off to you, but if there's a little guy, you should just smack him around. And it's probably bad advice in the schoolyard. It's certainly not a good way to run a foreign policy because even when you are dealing with a non-peer, militarily, war is complicated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The only time I get frustrated with activist criticism is if I have recognized them, and invited them to work with me to figure out how we solve this problem that they're concerned about, and either they don't engage out of the sense of purity - \"I'm not going to shake his hand\" - or you're not sufficiently prepared so you don't even know what to ask for, or you're not being strategic as an activist and trying to figure out how the process has to work in order for you to get what you want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Obviously, we've all had disagreements and differences in the past. I suspect we'll have them again in the future. But last night as Americans learned that the United States had carried out an operation that resulted in the capture and death of Osama bin Laden. I think we experienced the same sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11. We were reminded again that there is a pride in what this nation stands for. And what we can achieve that runs far deeper than party, far deeper than politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the things I think we have to do is make sure that college is affordable for every young person in America. And I also think that we're going to have to rebuild our infrastructure, which is falling behind, our roads, our bridges, but also broadband lines that reach into rural communities. So there are some things that we've got to do structurally to make sure that we can compete in this global economy. We can't shortchange those things. We've got to eliminate programs that don't work, and we've got to make sure that the programs that we do have are more efficient and cost less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't have time to complain. I'm going to press on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's no doubt that I'm a better president now than when I first took office. This is not a job where there's a manual, and over time you get a better sense of what's important, what's not, how to see around corners and anticipate problems, as opposed to just managing problems once they've arrived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I haven't been sorting through each and every aspect of this. Here's what I know: Hillary Clinton was an outstanding Secretary of State. She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy.' Mr. Wallace pressed further on the jeopardy angle, and Mr. Obama responded again: 'I continue to believe that she has not jeopardized America's national security. Now what I've also said is that - and she has acknowledged - that there's a carelessness, in terms of managing emails...'\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America is governed by rules of law, and those are not ones that the President of the United States or anybody else can just set aside for the sake of expediency Even when we are deeply supportive of Turkish democracy, and even when we care deeply about any attempts to overthrow their government or any other illegal actions, we've got to go through a legal process."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When you try to sow the seeds of doubt in people`s minds about the legitimacy of our election, that undermines democracy. Then you`re doing the work of our adversaries for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I do think that this whole area of cyber is something that at an international level we have to work on and develop frameworks and international norms so that we don't see a cyber arms race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: While we breathe, we will hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have always believed that what brings us together is stronger than what pulls us apart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is in the interests of all of us - the United States, China and the rest of the world - to make sure that the rules of the road are upheld. These rules and norms are part of the foundation of regional stability, and they have allowed nations across the region, including China, to grow and prosper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Presidential elections always turn on personalities, they turn on how campaigns are run, they turn on natural desires for change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The journey will be difficult. The road will be long. I face this challenge with profound humility, and knowledge of my own limitations. But I also face it with limitless faith in the capacity of the American people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I marched with you in the streets of Chicago to meet our immigration challenge. I fought with you in the Senate for comprehensive immigration reform. And I will make it a top priority in my first year as President."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Isil poses a threat to the people of Iraq and Syria, and the broader Middle East - including American citizens, personnel and facilities. If left unchecked, these terrorists could pose a growing threat beyond that region, including to the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My top priority in any trade negotiation is expanding opportunity for hardworking Americans. It's no secret that past trade deals haven't always lived up to their promise, and that's why I will only sign my name to an agreement that helps ordinary Americans get ahead, the bill put forward today would help us write those rules in a way that avoids the mistakes from our past, seizes opportunities for our future and stays true to our values."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Starting today, we must pick ourselves up, dust ourselves off, and begin again the work of remaking America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Yes to trade, but trade that ensures that these other countries that trade with us aren't engaging in child labor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America at its best is inclusive and not exclusive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Reality has a way of asserting itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've got to stop the name-calling and we've got to stop looking at the next election. We've got to be focused on figuring out what we're doing for the next generation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We remember the grind of the insurgency -- the roadside bombs, the sniper fire, the suicide attacks. From the 'triangle of death' to the fight for Ramadi; from Mosul in the north to Basra in the south -- your will proved stronger than the terror of those who tried to break it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I know what the counterterrorism feels like because I was there. But I also operated within limits. And within the United States government, we've decided long ago that there are limits on what we're going to do in the war against terrorism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: At various periods in American history, people get pretty rambunctious when it comes to our democratic debate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have not always been in sync on every issue in terms of our core values, in terms of her integrity, her truthfulness, her thoughtfulness, [Angela Merkel] doing her homework, knowing her facts, her commitment to looking out for the interests of the German people first, but recognizing that part of good leadership on behalf of the nation requires engaging the world as a whole, and participating effectively in multilaterally institutions, I think she's been outstanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The truth is that America has been closely divided politically for quite some time. That was reflected in some of the challenges I had with the Republican Congress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Here in Europe some of the challenges have to do with structures that are so complicated. You've got Brussels, and you've got parliament, you've got councils and then you've got national governments. So people sometimes don't feel as if they know who's making decisions, and the more that we can bring people in and engage them, the better. Some of it is also cultural and social, people's sense of identity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't regret the fervor, because I do believe, in the African American community but also for other communities, and I know from talking to people, for communities around the world, the election of an African American to the most powerful office on Earth meant things had changed, and not just in superficial ways. That in some irreversible way the world was different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In order to make the tough decisions we have to know what our values are and who we're fighting for and our priorities and if we are spending $300 billion on tax cuts for people who don't need them and weren't even asking for them, and we are leaving out health care which is crushing on people all across the country, then I think we have made a bad decision and I want to make sure we're not shortchanging our long term priorities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The way we have to measure progress is not, \"Is there ever going to be an incident of racism in the country?\" It's, \"How does the majority of our country respond?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If the Court finds that there is not a state interest in discriminating and showing moral disapproval of homosexuality then we can't stop equal marriage rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When George Bush came into office, we had surpluses. And now we have half-a-trillion-dollar deficit annually. When George Bush came into office, our national debt was around $5 trillion. It's now over $10 trillion. We've almost doubled it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The old rules may say we can\u2019t protect our environment and promote economic growth at the same time, but in America, we\u2019ve always used new technologies - we\u2019ve used science; we\u2019ve used research and development and discovery to make the old rules obsolete."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Ultimately, the challenges of the 21st century can't be met without collective action. Agreement will almost never be easy, and results won't always come quickly. But I am committed to respecting different points of view, and to forging a consensus instead of dictating our terms... That's how we will advance and uphold our ideals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe the United States of America must remain a standard bearer in the conduct of war. That is what makes us different from those whom we fight. That is a source of our strength. That is why I prohibited torture. That is why I ordered the prison at Guantanamo Bay closed. And that is why I have reaffirmed America's commitment to abide by the Geneva conventions. We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I would say that I have been consistent in my broad view of how American power should be deployed, and the view that we underestimate our power when we restrict it to just our military power. We shortchange our influence and our ability to shape events when that's the only tool we think we have in the toolbox."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Because as tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service... I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is easy to get to a higher number when you are not asking anything difficult from yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our efforts will only be effective if ordinary citizens in other countries have confidence that the United States respects their privacy too. And the leaders of our close friends and allies deserve to know that if I want to learn what they think about an issue, I will pick up the phone and call them, rather than turning to surveillance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am a little jet lagged from my trip to Malaysia...The lengths we have to go to to get CNN coverage these days."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And terrorists who seek to harm our citizens will feel the long arm of American justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And to all those who have wondered if Americas beacon still burns as bright - tonight we proved once more that the true strength of our nation comes not from our the might of our arms or the scale of our wealth, but from the enduring power of our ideals: democracy, liberty, opportunity, and unyielding hope. For that is the true genius of America - that America can change. Our union can be perfected. And what we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Whatever success I have achieved, whatever positions of leadership I have held have depended less on Ivy League degrees or SAT scores or GPAs and have instead been due to that sense of connection and empathy, the special obligation I felt as a black man like you to help those who need it most, people who didn't have the opportunities that I had because there, but for the grace of God go I. I might have been in their shoes. I might have been in prison. I might have been unemployed. I might not have been able to support a family. And that motivates me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I refuse to leave our children with a debt that they cannot repay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we're going to prevent people from being susceptible to the false promises of extremism, then the international community has to offer something better and the United States intends to do its part."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Those aren't the kinds of folks who represent our core American values."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: To look at the issue of life and abortion, actually we're moving in that direction where most Americans oppose most abortions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Each wave of immigrants that have come in have been able to assimilate, integrate and then rise up and become part of this great American Dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Unemployment is low, incomes are up, poverty is down - and that's going to be a lasting change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Guaranteed, full stop, nobody gets treated differently when it comes to the Justice Department, because nobody is above the law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We do need to make sure that we have an orderly, lawful immigration process."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Part of what's changed in politics is social media and how people are receiving information."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Sometimes slow, steady effort is rewarded with justice that arrives like a thunderbolt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Tough talk often draws headlines, but war rarely conforms to slogans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I can be much more sarcastic and, I think, sometimes withering in my assessments of things than I allow to show in my public life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Reflecting on his years in prison, Nelson Mandela wrote that there were dark moments that tested his faith in humanity, but he refused to give up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have reaffirmed again and again that the United States is not and never will be at war with Islam. Islam teaches peace, and when it comes to America and Islam, there is no us and them, there's only us, because millions of Muslim Americans are part of the fabric of our country. So, we reject any suggestion of a clash of civilizations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have to deal with the 11 million individuals who are here illegally. The bill that Senator [Marco] Rubio put forward, I think is a great place to start."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Few artists have influenced the sound and trajectory of popular music more distinctly, or touched quite so many people with their talent. A strong spirit transcends rules,' Prince once said - and nobody's spirit was stronger, bolder, or more creative. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, his band, and all who loved him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: \"The Donald\" is not really a plans guy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Cutting benefits is not the right answer. Raising the retirement age is not the best option."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Iraq will require US occupation of undetermined length."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And what would help minority workers are the same things that would help white workers: the opportunity to earn a living wage, the education and training that lead to such jobs, labor laws and tax laws that restore some balance to the distribution of the nation's wealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are certain people in our popular culture that just capture people's imaginations. And in death, they become even larger. Now, I have to admit that it's also fed by a 24/7 media that is insatiable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Most Americans believe that escalation will not bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end, and that's why I've proposed not just a troop cap, but a phased redeployment that will start bringing our troops home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: John McCain likes to say that he'll follow bin Laden to the Gates of Hell - but he won't even go to the cave where he lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Senator McCain likes to talk about judgment, but really, what does it say about your judgment when you think George Bush has been right more than ninety percent of the time?  I don't know about you, but I'm not ready to take a ten percent chance on change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For the sake of our economy, our security, and the future of our planet, I will set a clear goal as President: in ten years, we will finally end our dependence on oil from the Middle East."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America, now is not the time for small plans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums.  If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If John McCain wants to have a debate about who has the temperament, and judgment, to serve as the next Commander-in-Chief, that's a debate I'm ready to have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are the party of Roosevelt.  We are the party of Kennedy.  So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country.  Don't tell me that Democrats won't keep us safe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you don't have any fresh ideas, then you use stale tactics to scare the voters.  If you don't have a record to run on, then you paint your opponent as someone people should run from.  You make a big election about small things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The very technologies that empower us to do great good can also be used to undermine us and inflict great harm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And then you've got President Clinton who made the case as only he can. After he spoke, somebody sent out a tweet- they said, you should appoint him secretary of explaining stuff. I like that- secretary of explaining stuff. Although, I have to admit, it didn't really say stuff. I cleaned that up a little bit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We know that the nation that goes all-in on innovation today will own the global economy tomorrow. This is an edge America cannot surrender."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Now, if you have or had one of these plans before the Affordable Care Act came into law and you really liked that plan, what we said was you can keep it if it hasn't changed since the law passed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over - unless we find new ways of producing energy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The world is complicated and full of grays, but there's still truth there to be found."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What we shouldn't be doing is trying to take away your rights to bargain for better wages or working conditions... These so-called \"right to work\" laws, they don't have to do with economics; they have everything to do with politics. What they're really talking about is giving you the right to work for less money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What I could not support was a dumb war, a rash war, a war based not on reason but on passion, not on principle but on politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My faith reminds me that we all are sinners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have seen, the desperation and disorder of the powerless: how it twists the lives of children on the streets of Jakarta or Nairobi in much the same way as it does the lives of children on Chicago 's South Side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've said very clearly, including in a State of the Union address, that I'm against 'don't ask, don't tell' and that we're going to end this policy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be pursued and they must be defeated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me, and a matter of bewilderment for my wife."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive.  Somebody invested in roads and bridges.  If you\u2019ve got a business - you didn\u2019t build that.  Somebody else made that happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our combat mission is ending, but our commitment to Iraq's future is not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I want to reform the tax code so that it's simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 - the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've persevered because of a belief we share with the Iraqi people - a belief that out of the ashes of war, a new beginning could be born in this cradle of civilization. Through this remarkable chapter in the history of the United States and Iraq, we have met our responsibility. Now, it's time to turn the page."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What I believe is that marriage is between a man and a woman, but what I also believe is that we have an obligation to make sure that gays and lesbians have the rights of citizenship that afford them visitations to hospitals, that allow them to be, to transfer property between partners, to make certain that they're not discriminated on the job."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant - Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world - including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu pandemic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our friends at the Republican convention were more than happy to talk about everything they think is wrong with America, but they didn't have much to say about how they'd make it right. They want your vote, but they don't want you to know their plan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm no longer just a candidate. I'm the President. I know what it means to send young Americans into battle, for I have held in my arms the mothers and fathers of those who didn't return. I've shared the pain of families who've lost their homes, and the frustration of workers who've lost their jobs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Now we're in the midst of not just advocating for change, not just calling for change - we're doing the grinding, sometimes frustrating work of delivering change - inch by inch, day by day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I said that America\u2019s role would be limited; that we would not put ground troops into Libya; that we would focus our unique capabilities on the front end of the operation and that we would transfer responsibility to our allies and partners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You can choose a future where more Americans have the chance to gain the skills they need to compete, no matter how old they are or how much money they have. Education was the gateway to opportunity for me. It was the gateway for Michelle. And now more than ever, it is the gateway to a middle-class life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What is a danger is that we stay stuck in a new normal where unemployment rates stay high, people who have jobs see their incomes go up, businesses make big profits. But they're learned to do more with less, and so they don't hire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think there are a whole host of things that are civil rights, and then there are other things - such as traditional marriage - that, I think, express a community's concern and regard for a particular institution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My task over the last two years hasn't just been to stop the bleeding. My task has also been to try to figure out how do we address some of the structural problems in the economy that have prevented more Googles from being created."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Now you have a choice: we can give more tax breaks to corporations that ship jobs overseas, or we can start rewarding companies that open new plants and train new workers and create new jobs here, in the United States of America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are patriots who opposed the war in Iraq and there are patriots who supported the war in Iraq. We are one people, all of us pledging allegiance to the stars and stripes, all of us defending the United States of America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What I think is fair to say is that, coming out of the Republican camp, there have been efforts to suggest that perhaps I'm not who I say I am when it comes to my faith - something which I find deeply offensive, and that has been going on for a pretty long time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president - with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR, and Lincoln - just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history. But, you know, but when it comes to the economy, we've got a lot more work to do. And we're gonna keep on at it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: So while an incredible amount of progress has been made, on this fifth anniversary, I wanted to come here and tell the people of this city directly: My administration is going to stand with you - and fight alongside you - until the job is done. Until New Orleans is all the way back, all the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Unlike my opponent, I will not let oil companies write this country's energy plan, or endanger our coastlines, or collect another $4 billion in corporate welfare from our taxpayers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Of course, there is no question that Libya - and the world - will be better off with Gaddafi out of power. I, along with many other world leaders, have embraced that goal, and will actively pursue it through non-military means. But broadening our military mission to include regime change would be a mistake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Of course, violence will not end with our combat mission. Extremists will continue to set off bombs, attack Iraqi civilians and try to spark sectarian strife. But ultimately, these terrorists will fail to achieve their goals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: So while I will never minimize the costs involved in military action, I am convinced that a failure to act in Libya would have carried a far greater price for America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I know that there are millions of Americans who are content with their health care coverage - they like their plan and, most importantly, they value their relationship with their doctor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Nobody wants to put the creditworthiness of the United States in jeopardy. Nobody wants to see the United States default. So we've got to seize this moment, and we have to seize it soon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I kept finding the same anguish, the same doubt; a self-contempt that neither irony nor intellect seemed able to deflect. Even DuBois\u2019s learning and Baldwin\u2019s love and Langston\u2019s humor eventually succumbed to its corrosive force, each man finally forced to doubt art\u2019s redemptive power, each man finally forced to withdraw, one to Africa, one to Europe, one deeper into the bowels of Harlem, but all of them in the same weary flight, all of them exhausted, bitter men, the devil at their heels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible; who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time; who still questions the power of our Democracy; Tonight is your answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: To all those watching tonight from beyond our shores, from parliaments and palaces, to those who are huddled around radios in the forgotten corners of the world, our stories are singular, but our destiny is shared, and a new dawn of American leadership is at hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We know the battle ahead will be long, but always remember that no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change. We have been told we cannot do this by a chorus of cynics. They will only grow louder and more dissonant. We've been asked to pause for a reality check. We've been warned against offering the people of this nation false hope. But in the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There will be setbacks and false starts. There are many who won't agree with every decision or policy I make as president. And we know the government can't solve every problem. But I will always be honest with you about the challenges we face. I will listen to you, especially when we disagree. And, above all, I will ask you to join in the work of remaking this nation, the only way it's been done in America for 221 years -- block by block, brick by brick, calloused hand by calloused hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It was as if he had come to mistrust words somehow. Words, and the sentiments words carried."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that we couldn't overcome after all, that all the education and good intentions in the world couldn't help you plug up the holes in the universe or give you the power to change its blind, mindless course."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I wonder, sometimes, whether men and women in fact are capable of learning from history--whether we progress from one stage to the next in an upward course or whether we just ride the cycles of boom and bust, war and peace, ascent and decline."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: That we are in the midst of crisis is now well understood. Our nation is at war, against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred. Our economy is badly weakened, a consequence of greed and irresponsibility on the part of some, but also our collective failure to make hard choices and prepare the nation for a new age. Homes have been lost; jobs shed; businesses shuttered. Our health care is too costly; our schools fail too many; and each day brings further evidence that the ways we use energy strengthen our adversaries and threaten our planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In ancient times and in our times, Muslim communities have been at the forefront of innovation and education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Number one, it is absolutely critical that we tone down the rhetoric when it comes to the immigration debate, because there has been an undertone that has been ugly. Oftentimes, it has been directed at the Hispanic community. We have seen hate crimes skyrocket in the wake of the immigration debate as it has been conducted in Washington, and that is unacceptable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Estiven Rodriguez couldn't speak a word of English when he moved to New York City at age nine. But last month, thanks to the support of great teachers and an innovative tutoring program, he led a march of his classmates - through a crowd of cheering parents and neighbors - from their high school to the post office, where they mailed off their college applications. And this son of a factory worker just found out he's going to college this fall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Number one, it is important that we fix the legal immigration system, because right now we've got a backlog that means years for people to apply legally. And what's worse is, we keep on increasing the fees, so that if you've got a hard working immigrant family, they've got to hire a lawyer; they've got to pay thousands of dollars in fees. They just can't afford it. And it's discriminatory against people who have good character, we should want in this country, but don't have the money. So we've got to fix that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've got a lot of work to do economically in this country to bring about a more just and fair economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We know the battle ahead will be long. But always remember that, no matter what obstacles stand in our way, nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think back to the day I drove Michelle and a newborn Malia home from the hospital nearly 11 years ago - crawling along, miles under the speed limit, feeling the weight of my daughter's future resting in my hands. I think about the pledge I made to her that day: that I would give her what I never had - that if I could be anything in life, I would be a good father. I knew that day that my own life wouldn't count for much unless she had every opportunity in hers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: ... I just want to remind the owners and the players: you guys make money because you have a whole bunch of fans out there who are working really hard. They buy tickets. They're watching on TV. Ya'll should be able to figure this out. Get this done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Scripture tells us to \"run with endurance the race that is set before us.\"  As we do, may God hold close those who\u2019ve been taken from us too soon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As the wealthiest nation on Earth, I believe the United States has a moral obligation to lead the fight against hunger and malnutrition, and to partner with others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Progress in the most impoverished parts of our world enriches us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Now, because he knows that his economic theories don't work, he's been spending these last few days calling me every name in the book. Lately he's called me a socialist for wanting to roll-back the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans so we can finally give tax relief to the middle class. I don't know what's next. By the end of the week he'll be accusing me of being a secret communist because I shared my toys in kindergarten. I shared my peanut butter and jelly sandwich."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think the irony ... is that I actually would like to see a relatively light touch when it comes to the government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is a matter of Congress authorizes spending. They order me to spend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The United States and Saudi Arabia have an extraordinary relationship and friendship that dates back to Franklin Roosevelt and King Faisal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As the United States begins a new chapter in our relationship with Cuba, we hope it will create an environment that improves the lives of the Cuban people, not because it is imposed by us, the United States, but through the talent and ingenuity and aspirations, and the conversations among Cubans from all walks of life so they can decide what the best course is for their prosperity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've got to be able to distinguish between dangerous individuals who need to be incapacitated and incarcerated versus young people who are in an environment in which they are adapting, but if given different opportunities, a different vision of life, could be thriving the way we are. That's what strikes me. There but for the grace of God. And that, I think, is something that we all have to think about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Here's the truth: even if countries like the United States curb our emissions, if growing countries like India - with soaring energy needs - don't also embrace cleaner fuels, then we don't stand a chance against climate change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think there are hard-liners inside of Iran that think it is the right thing to do to oppose us, to seek to destroy Israel, to cause havoc in places like Syria or Yemen or Lebanon, if they don't change at all, we're still better off having the deal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's been a lot of talk about body cameras as a silver bullet or a solution. I think the task force concluded that there is a role for technology to play in building additional trust and accountability, but it's not a panacea, it has to be embedded in a broader change in culture and a legal framework that ensures that people's privacy is respected and that not only police officers but the community themselves feel comfortable with how technologies are being used."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are reorganizing how we work with state and local governments to make sure that we are not prioritizing families [for deportation], and you are gonna see, I think, a substantial change even as the case works its way through the courts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You are part of the first generation of officers to begin your service in a world where the effects of climate change are so clearly upon us. Climate change will shape how every one of our services plan, operate, train, equip, and protect their infrastructure, today and for the long-term."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Young people: I understand this is important to you, but as you be thinking about climate change, the economy and jobs, war and peace, maybe way at the bottom you should be thinking about marijuana."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The kind of violence, looting, destruction that we saw from a handful of individuals in Baltimore, there's no excuse for that. That's not a statement. That's not politics. That's not activism. That's just criminal behavior."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We can seize this future together because we are not as divided as our politics suggests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our environment is too important to neglect and it's time for the federal government to focus on real solutions and live up to their promises."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our government shouldn't make promises we cannot keep, but we must keep the promises we've already made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Heaven forbid we've got a problem where we could have prevented a terrorist attack or apprehended someone who is engaged in dangerous activity, but we didn't do so simply because of inaction in the Senate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: A central notion in the Affordable Care Act was we had an inefficient system with a lot of waste that didn't also deliver the kind of quality that was needed that often put health care providers in a box where they wanted to do better for their patients, but financial incentives were skewed the other way... We don't need to reinvent the wheel; you're already figuring out what works to reduce infections in hospitals or help patients with complicated needs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Some of the same politicians and pundits that are so quick to reject the possibility of a diplomatic solution to Iran's nuclear program are the same folks who were so quick to go to war in Iraq and said it would take a few months."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we have the kinds of confirmation that we need, we will once again work with the international community and the organization charged with monitoring compliance by the Syrian government, and we will reach out to patrons of Assad like Russia to put a stop to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Let's also make sure that a high school diploma puts our kids on a path to a good job. Right now, countries like Germany focus on graduating their high school students with the equivalent of a technical degree from one of our community colleges, so that they're ready for a job. At schools like P-TECh in Brooklyn ... students will graduate with a high school diploma and an associate degree in computers or engineering. We need to give every American student opportunities like this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have a historic opportunity to prevent the spread of nuclear weapons in Iran, and to do so peacefully, with the international community firmly behind us. We should seize that chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like there's an occupying force, as opposed to a force that's part of the community that's protecting them and serving them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It would be good for the workers in Vietnam even as it helps make sure that they're not undercutting competition here in the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There is no doubt that thanks to the steps that we took early on to rescue our economy and to rebuild it on a new foundation, we are entering into the new year with new confidence that America is coming back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The authorization I propose would provide the flexibility to conduct ground combat operations in other more limited circumstances, such as rescue operations involving U.S. or coalition personnel or the use of special operations forces to take military action against ISIL leadership, it would also authorize the use of U.S. forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended, such as intelligence collection and sharing, missions to enable kinetic strikes or the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice and assistance to partner forces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It was young people who stubbornly insisted on justice, stubbornly refused to accept the world as it is that transformed not just the country but transformed the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's not enough to celebrate the ideals that we're built on, liberty and justice and equality for all. Those just can't be words on paper, the work of every generation is to make those words mean something, concrete in the lives of our children. And we won't get there as long as kids in Baltimore or Ferguson or New York or Appalachia or the Mississippi delta or the Pine Ridge reservation believe that their lives are somehow worthless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: No matter how long it takes, the United States will find and bring to justice the terrorists who are responsible for Kayla's captivity and death, ISIL is a hateful and abhorrent terrorist group whose actions stand in stark contrast to the spirit of people like Kayla."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: These are young people who made mistakes that aren't that different than the mistakes I made and the mistakes that a lot of you guys made, we have a tendency sometimes to almost take for granted or think it's normal that so many young people end up in our criminal justice system. It's not normal. ... What is normal is teenagers doing stupid things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Lieutenant al-Kaseasbeh's dedication, courage and service to his country and family represent universal human values that stand in opposition to the cowardice and depravity of ISIL, which has been so broadly rejected around the globe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Occasionally I would like the German people to give us the benefit of the doubt, given our history, as opposed to assuming the worst -- assuming that we have been consistently your strong partners and that we share a common set of values."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We will not hesitate to speak out when we see actions that contradict those values."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The notion that we would condition Iran not getting nuclear weapons in a verifiable deal on Iran recognizing Israel is really akin to saying that we won't sign a deal unless the nature of the Iranian regime completely transforms. And that is, I think, a fundamental misjudgment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America's strong bonds with Israel are well known - this bond is unbreakable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America is not - and never will be - at war with Islam. We will, however, relentlessly confront violent extremists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Jobs was brave enough to think differently, bold enough to believe he could change the world, and talented enough to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We don't really have any kind of regulatory structure at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I decided to become a community organizer ... Change won't come from the top, I would say. Change will come from a mobilized grass roots."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is our first task-caring for our children. It's our first job. If we don't get that right, we don't get anything right. That's how, as a society, we will be judged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My powers of empathy, my ability to reach into another's heart, cannot penetrate the blank stares of those who would murder innocents with abstract, serene satisfaction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I feel good when I'm engaged in what I think are the core issues of the society, and those core issues to me are what's happening to poor folks in this society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have a choice. We can shape our future, or let events shape it for us. And if we want to succeed, we can't fall back on the stale debates and old divides that won't move us forward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing na\u00efve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: That is the true genius of America-a faith in simple dreams, an insistence on small miracles."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: No development strategy can be based only upon what comes out of the ground, nor can it be sustained while young people are out of work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Tonight, let us think back to the sense of unity that prevailed on 9/11."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've been struck by how hungry we all are for a different kind of politics. So I've spent some time thinking about how I could best advance the cause of change and progress that we so desperately need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In the midst of economic recovery and global upheaval, disasters like this remind us of the common humanity that we share."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever price is required to secure our freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are very few moments in our lives where we have the privilege to witness history taking place. This is one of those moments. This is one of those times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest but who has the right information."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The question we ask today is not whether our government is too big or too small, but whether government works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will not stand by while the special interests use the same old tactics to keep things exactly the way they are ... Not this time. Not now."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You're going to face a choice in November. This is a choice between the policies that got us into this\r\nmess in the first place and the policies that got us out of this mess - and what the other side\r\nis counting on is people not having a good memory."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Will not collect a ransom in exchange for not crashing the American economy."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is our generation's task, then, to reignite the true engine of America's economic growth - a rising, thriving middle class."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Know that America is a friend of each nation and every man, woman, and child who seeks a future of peace and dignity...[For] we are shaped by every language and culture, drawn from every end of this Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My presidency is not over. I've got another five years coming up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As president, I'm committed to making Washington work better and rebuilding the trust of the people who sent us here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: All of us take offense to anyone who reaps the rewards of living in America without taking on the responsibilities of living in America. And undocumented immigrants who desperately want to embrace those responsibilities see little option but to remain in the shadows, or risk their families being torn apart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Even when our heart aches, we summon the strength that maybe we didn't even know we had, and we carry on; we finish the race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Thank you, Planned Parenthood. God bless you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For decades, we've been told that it doesn't make economic sense to switch to renewable energy. Today, that's no longer true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will cut investments in unproven missile defense systems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I love listening to these guys give us lectures about debt and deficits. I inherited a trillion-dollar deficit. ... This notion that somehow we caused the deficits is just wrong. It's just not true. ... If they start trying to give you a bunch of facts and figures suggesting that it's true, what they're not telling you is they baked all this stuff into the cake with those tax cuts and a prescription drug plan that they didn't pay for and the wars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Public school system status quo is indefensible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The market alone can't solve our health-care woes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are defined not by our borders but by our bonds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Freedom of Information Act should be administered with a clear presumption: In the face of doubt, openness prevails."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When this crisis began, crucial decisions about what would happen to some of the world's biggest companies - companies employing tens of thousands of people and holding trillions of dollars in assets - took place in hurried discussions in the middle of the night. We should not be forced to choose between allowing a company to fall into a rapid and chaotic dissolution or forcing taxpayers to foot the bill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our pride is based on a very simple premise, summed up in a declaration made over two hundred years ago."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We cannot have a society in which some dictator some place can start imposing censorship here in the United States. If somebody is able to intimidate folks out of releasing a satirical movie, imagine what's going to happen when they see a documentary they don't like or news reports they don't like.\""
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Al Qaeda, the Taliban, a whole host of networks that are bent on attacking America, who have a distorted ideology, who have perverted the faith of Islam, and so we have to go after them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: That's the true genius of America: that America can change. Our union can be perfected. What we've already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We consume about 25 percent of the world's oil. We only have 2 percent of the reserves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Some people in D.C. talk about me like a dog."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Rather than fight the same tired battles that have dominated Washington for decades, it's time to try something new. Let's invest in our people without leaving them a mountain of debt. Let's meet our responsibility to the citizens who sent us here. Let's try common sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Get informed, not by reading The Huffington Post."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will listen to you, especially when we disagree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We can't wait for Congress to do its job. So where they won't act, I will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As I travel around the world, it's fascinating; European leaders, Asian leaders, they all say to me, America is actually poised to be the world leader for another century - if we can fix some of this political dysfunction. ... We've got a lot of national security challenges, but if we get our economy together, and if we can get our political system to work well, I am really confident about our future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'll go anywhere and I'll do whatever it takes to get this done. It's too important for Washington to screw this up. Now's the time for us to work on what we all agree to, which is let's keep middle-class taxes low. That's what our economy needs. That's what the American people deserve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've been keeping my own naughty and nice list for Washington."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: So just to be clear, I'm not going to sign any package that somehow prevents the top rate from going up for folks at the top 2 percent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Whether our forebears were strangers who crossed the Atlantic or the Pacific or the Rio Grande, we are here only because this country welcomed them in and taught them that to be an American is about something more than what we look like, or what our last names are, or how we worship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Jesus Christ is the LORD. I believe in that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am a Christian. So, I have a deep faith. So I draw from the Christian faith...So, I'm rooted in the Christian tradition. I believe that there are many paths to the same place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'd say, probably, intellectually I've drawn as much from Judaism as any other faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Maybe you could be a great writer - maybe even good enough to write a book or articles in a newspaper - but you might not know it until you write that English paper - that English class paper that's assigned to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As progressives we believe in affordable health care for all Americans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have complete confidence in the American people and our legal traditions and the prosecutors, the tough prosecutors from New York who specialize in terrorism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Every decision, every debate, no matter how important it is, with the same question: 'What does this mean for the next election? What does it mean for your poll numbers? Is this good for the Democrats or good for the Republicans? Who won the news cycle?' That's just how Washington is. They can't help it. They're obsessed with the sport of politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: After a decade of profligacy, the American people are tired of politicians who talk the talk but don't walk the walk when it comes to fiscal responsibility. It's easy to get up in front of the cameras and rant against exploding deficits. What's hard is actually getting deficits under control. But that's what we must do. Like families across the country, we have to take responsibility for every dollar we spend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The boarded-up homes, the decaying storefronts, the aging church rolls, kids from unknown families who swaggered down the streets - loud congregations of teenage boys, teenage girls feeding potato chips to crying toddlers, the discarded wrappers tumbling down the block - all of it whispered painful truths."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You could see a man talking to himself as just plain crazy, or read about the criminal on the front page of the daily paper and ponder the corruption of the human heart, without having to think about whether the criminal or lunatic said something about your own fate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: So, let us summon a new spirit of patriotism, of responsibility, where each of us resolves to pitch in and work harder and look over not only ourselves, but each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The conservative revolution that Reagan helped usher in gained traction because Reagan's central insight - that the liberal welfare state had grown complacent and overly bureaucratic, with Democratic policy makers more obsessed with slicing the economic pie than with growing the pie - contained a good deal of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In the white community, the path to a more perfect union means acknowledging that what ails the African-American community does not just exist in the minds of black people; that the legacy of discrimination - and current incidents of discrimination, while less overt than in the past - are real and must be addressed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Ours is a nation of laws: of citizens who live under them and for the citizens who enforce them. So, to a community in Ferguson that is rightly hurting and looking for answers, let me call once again for us to seek some understanding rather than simply holler at each other. Let's seek to heal rather than to wound each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: No one is exempt from the call to find common ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I find it amusing that those who helped to authorize and engineer the biggest foreign policy disaster in our generation are now criticizing me for making sure that we are on the right battlefield and not the wrong battlefield in the war against terrorism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I found this national debt doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped into the Oval Office."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra.  Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.  But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations.  This new factory is the result of those loans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have Muslim members of my family. I have lived in Muslim countries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm a Christian by choice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be selecting my judges."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If everybody who voted in 2008 shows up in 2010, we will win this election. We will win this election."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What do you think a stimulus is? It\u2019s spending - that's the whole point! Seriously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like you're flying high at first, but it won't take long before you feel the impact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire career."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will continue to believe that Israel's security is paramount."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are not at war against Islam."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We will keep the promise of Social Security by taking the responsible steps to strengthen it - not by turning it over to Wall Street."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: With patient and firm determination, I am going to press on for jobs. I'm going to press on for equality. I'm going to press on for the sake of our children. I'm going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. I don't have time to feel sorry for myself. I don't have time to complain. I am going to press on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: People of Berlin - people of the world - this is our moment. This is our time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Now, anybody who thinks that we can move this economy forward with just a few folks at the top doing well, hoping that it's going to trickle down to working people who are running faster and faster just to keep up, you'll never see it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We cannot help but believe that the old hatreds shall someday pass; that the lines of tribe shall soon dissolve; that as the world grows smaller, our common humanity shall reveal itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I stand here today humbled by the task before us, grateful for the trust you have bestowed, mindful of the sacrifices borne by our ancestors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For as much as government can do and must do, it is ultimately the faith and determination of the American people upon which this nation relies. So let us mark this day with remebrance, of who we are and how far we have traveled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: That's just how white folks will do you. It wasn't merely the cruelty involved; I was learning that black people could be mean and then some. It was a particular brand of arrogance, an obtuseness in otherwise sane people that brought forth our bitter laughter. It was as if whites didn't know they were being cruel in the first place. Or at least thought you deserved of their scorn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: That's what the leadership was teaching me, day by day: that the self-interest I was supposed to be looking for extended well beyond the immediacy of issues, that beneath the small talk and sketchy biographies and received opinions, people carried with them some central explanation of themselves. Stories full of terror and wonder, studded with events that still haunted or inspired them. Sacred stories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In reaffirming the greatness of our nation, we understand that greatness is never a given. It must be earned. Our journey has never been one of shortcuts or settling for less. It has not been the path for the faint-hearted, for those who prefer leisure over work, or seek only the pleasures of riches and fame. Rather, it has been the risk-takers, the doers, the makers of things -- some celebrated, but more often men and women obscure in their labor -- who have carried us up the long, rugged path towards prosperity and freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For half of the world's population, roughly three billion people around the world living on less than two dollars a day, an election is at best a means, not an end; a starting point, not deliverance. These people are looking less for an \"electocracy\" than for the basic elements that for most of us define a decent life--food, shelter, electricity, basic health care, education for their children, and the ability to make their way through life without having to endure corruption, violence, or arbitrary power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm so overexposed, I'm making Paris Hilton look like a recluse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: But at the end of the day, the circumstances of your life what you look like, where you come from, how much money you have, what you've got going on at home that's no excuse ... Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up. No one's written your destiny for you. Here in America, you write your own destiny. You make your own future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Scientists and engineers ought to stand side by side with athletes and entertainers as role models."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: make away out of no way"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: That is the true genius of America, a faith in the simple dreams of its people, the insistence on small miracles. That we can say what we think, write what we think, without hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can have an idea and start our own business without paying a bribe or hearing a sudden knock on the door. That we can participate in the political process without fear of retribution, and that our votes will be counted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As citizens, we understand that it is not about what America may do for us. It's about what can be done by us, together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America must always lead on the world stage. If we don't, no one else will. The military that you have joined is, and always will be, the backbone of that leadership. But U.S. military action cannot be the only - or even primary - component of our leadership in every instance. Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The absence of hope can rot a society from within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We reject all efforts to denigrate the religious beliefs of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't look at my pension. It's not as big as yours so it doesn't take as long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Please proceed, Governor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I was able to see faith as more than just a comfort to the weary or a hedge against death; rather, it was an active, palpable agent in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We need not throw away 200 years of American jurisprudence while we fight terrorism. We need not choose between our most deeply held values, and keeping this nation safe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The true test of the American ideal is whether we're able to recognize our failings and then rise together to meet the challenges of our time. Whether we allow ourselves to be shaped by events and history, or whether we act to shape them. Whether chance of birth or circumstance decides life's big winners and losers, or whether we build a community where, at the very least, everyone has a chance to work hard, get ahead, and reach their dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: ... the fact is it didn't happen in the first month, the first six weeks, in a way that was at all acceptable. And since I'm in charge, obviously, we screwed it up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I never understood that line. The point was to inhale. That was the point."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Islam has always been part of America"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: we will encourage more Americans to study in Muslim communities"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: So I have known Islam on three continents before coming to the region where it was first revealed"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is true, I worry about the hype. The only person more over-hyped than me is you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's not because John McCain doesn't care. It's because John McCain doesn't get it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For decades, this great leader, often at Dr. King\u2019s side, was denied his rightful place in history because he was openly gay.  No medal can change that, but today, we honor Bayard Rustin\u2019s memory by taking our place in his march towards true equality, no matter who we are or who we love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its costs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For the sake of our children and our future, we must do more to combat climate change. Now, it's true that no single event makes a trend. But the fact is the 12 hottest years on record have all come in the last 15. Heat waves, droughts, wildfires, floods-all are now more frequent and more intense. We can choose to believe that Superstorm Sandy, and the most severe drought in decades, and the worst wildfires some states have ever seen were all just a freak coincidence. Or we can choose to believe in the overwhelming judgment of science-and act before it's too late."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: She is running around talking about how this is an insult to sportsmen, how she values the Second Amendment. She's talking like she's Annie Oakley."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The American people intuitively understand this, which is why the majority of Catholics practice birth control and some of those opposed to gay marriage nevertheless are opposed to a Constitutional amendment to ban it. Religious leadership need not accept such wisdom in counseling their flocks, but they should recognize this wisdom in their politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If people find that controversial then I would just refer them to the Sermon on the Mount."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We will send an additional 475 service members to Iraq. As I have said before, these American forces will not have a combat mission - we will not get dragged into another ground war in Iraq. But they are needed to support Iraqi and Kurdish forces with training, intelligence and equipment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It will take time to eradicate a cancer like Isil. And any time we take military action, there are risks involved - especially to the servicemen and women who carry out these missions. But I want the American people to understand how this effort will be different from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It will not involve American combat troops fighting on foreign soil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out Isil wherever they exist, using our air power and our support for partner forces on the ground. This strategy of taking out terrorists who threaten us, while supporting partners on the front lines, is one that we have successfully pursued in Yemen and Somalia for years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When we helped prevent the massacre of civilians trapped on a distant mountain, here's what one of them said: \"We owe our American friends our lives. Our children will always remember that there was someone who felt our struggle and made a long journey to protect innocent people.\" That is the difference we make in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Tonight, with a new Iraqi government in place, and following consultations with allies abroad and Congress at home, I can announce that America will lead a broad coalition to roll back this terrorist threat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In the fight against ISIL, we cannot rely on an Assad regime that terrorizes its people; a regime that will never regain the legitimacy it has lost. Instead, we must strengthen the opposition as the best counterweight to extremists like ISIL, while pursuing the political solution necessary to solve Syria's crisis once and for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Third, we will continue to draw on our substantial counterterrorism capabilities to prevent ISIL attacks. Working with our partners, we will redouble our efforts to cut off its funding; improve our intelligence; strengthen our defenses; counter its warped ideology; and stem the flow of foreign fighters into - and out of - the Middle East. And in two weeks, I will chair a meeting of the UN Security Council to further mobilize the international community around this effort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Fourth, we will continue providing humanitarian assistance to innocent civilians who have been displaced by this terrorist organization. This includes Sunni and Shia Muslims who are at grave risk, as well as tens of thousands of Christians and other religious minorities. We cannot allow these communities to be driven from their ancient homelands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America, our endless blessings bestow an enduring burden. But as Americans, we welcome our responsibility to lead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: That is the difference we make in the world.  And our own safety, our own security, depends upon our willingness to do what it takes to defend this nation and uphold the values that we stand for - timeless ideals that will endure long after those who offer only hate and destruction have been vanquished from the Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: By some estimates, the oil you recently discovered off the shores of Brazil could amount to twice the reserves we have in the United States. We want to work with you. We want to help with technology and support to develop these oil reserves safely, and when you're ready to start selling, we want to be one of your best customers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: But to truly transform our economy, protect our security, and save our planet from the ravages of climate change, we need to ultimately make clean, renewable energy the profitable kind of energy. So I ask this Congress to send me legislation that places a market-based cap on carbon pollution and drives the production of more renewable energy in America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We\u2019re making new investments in the development of gasoline and diesel and jet fuel that\u2019s actually made from a plant-like substance-algae... We could replace up to 17 percent of the oil we import for transportation with this fuel that we can grow right here in the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow and our planet began to heal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: With only 2 percent of the world's oil reserves, oil isn't enough. This country needs an all-out, all-of-the-above strategy that develops every available source of American energy. A strategy that's cleaner, cheaper, and full of new jobs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Some technologies don't pan out; some companies fail. But I will not walk away from the promise of clean energy. ... I will not cede the wind or solar or battery industry to China or Germany because we refuse to make the same commitment here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've subsidized oil companies for a century. That's long enough. It's time to end the taxpayer giveaways to an industry that rarely has been more profitable, and double-down on a clean energy industry that never has been more promising. Pass clean energy tax credits. Create these jobs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe that the best measure of whether a nation is going to be successful is whether they are tapping the talents of their women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We will continue to deepen our engagement using every element of American power - diplomacy, military, economic development, the power of our values and our ideals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In my heart I know you didn't come here just for me, you came here because you believe in what this country can be. In the face of war, you believe there can be peace. In the face of despair, you believe there can be hope. In the face of a politics that's shut you out, that's told you to settle, that's divided us for too long, you believe we can be one people, reaching for what's possible, building that more perfect union."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We remember the specter of sectarian violence -- al Qaeda's attacks on mosques and pilgrims, militias that carried out campaigns of intimidation and campaigns of assassination. And in the face of ancient divisions, you stood firm to help those Iraqis who put their faith in the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We remember the surge and we remember the Awakening -- when the abyss of chaos turned toward the promise of reconciliation. By battling and building block by block in Baghdad, by bringing tribes into the fold and partnering with the Iraqi army and police, you helped turn the tide toward peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And we remember the end of our combat mission and the emergence of a new dawn - the precision of our efforts against al Qaeda in Iraq, the professionalism of the training of Iraqi security forces, and the steady drawdown of our forces. In handing over responsibility to the Iraqis, you preserved the gains of the last four years and made this day possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: So here's what I want you to know, and here's what I want all our men and women in uniform to know: Because of you, we are ending these wars in a way that will make America stronger and the world more secure. Because of you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: People don't expect government to solve all their problems. But they sense, deep in their bones, that with just a slight change in priorities, we can make sure that every child in America has a decent shot at life, and that the doors of opportunity remain open to all. They know we can do better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You're the reason  why selfless soldiers won't be kicked out of the military because of who they are or who they love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void: lobbyists and special interests; the people with the $10 million checks who are trying to buy this election and those who are making it harder for you to vote; Washington politicians who want to decide who you can marry, or control health care choices that women should make for themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I was reminded that it is my obligation not only as an elected official in a pluralistic society, but also as a Christian, to remain open to the possibility that my unwillingness to support gay marriage is misguided."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What you saw was the people of New York having a debate, talking through these issues. It was contentious. It was emotional. But ultimately, they made a decision to recognize civil marriage. And I think that's exactly how things should work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We may disagree about gay marriage, but surely we can agree that it is unconscionable to target gays and lesbians for who they are - whether it's here in the United States or, as Hillary (Clinton) mentioned, more extremely in odious laws that are being proposed most recently in Uganda."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I support ensuring that committed gay couples have the same rights and responsibilities afforded to any married couple in this country. I believe strongly in stopping laws designed to take rights away and passing laws that extend equal rights to gay couples. I've required all agencies in the federal government to extend as many federal benefits as possible to LGBT families as the current law allows. And I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act and to pass the Domestic Partners Benefits and Obligations Act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You now have the potential of 200 people deciding who ends up being elected president every single time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We remain the most prosperous, powerful nation on Earth. Our workers are no less productive than when this crisis began. Our minds are no less inventive, our goods and services no less needed than they were last week or last month or last year"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't think that any economist disputes that we're in the worst economic crisis since the great depression. The good news is that we're getting a consensus around what needs to be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Let me tell you another place to look for some savings. We are currently spending $10 billion a month in Iraq when they have a $79 billion surplus. It seems to me that if we're going to be strong at home as well as strong abroad, that we have to look at bringing that war to a close."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Here's what I can tell the American people: 95 percent of you will get a tax cut. And if you make less than $250,000, less than a quarter-million dollars a year, then you will not see one dime's worth of tax increase."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We start this new year in the midst of an economic crisis unlike we have seen in our lifetime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Families across America are feeling the pinch as they watch debts mount, bills pile up and savings disappear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Let's not only provide a jumpstart to the economy and immediately or save 3 million jobs, but let's also put a down payment on some of the structural problems that we have in our economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Is this money well spent? This is taxpayer money, it is going to be adding to the deficit short term and if we can't justify it, then we're not going to spend tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, just to make somebody happy, if it's not good for the economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Insist that the first question each of us asks isn't \"What's good for me?\" but \"What's good for the country my children will inherit?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that we've had an economy that's been out of balance for too long. So the general principle of raising taxes on higher income Americans, like myself, and providing relief to those who haven't benefited as much from this new global economy, I think is a sound one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will eliminate capital-gains taxes for the small businesses and the startups that will create the high-wage, high-tech jobs of tomorrow"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And to those nations like ours that enjoy relative plenty, we say we can no longer afford indifference to the suffering outside our borders; nor can we consume the world's resources without regard to effect. For the world has changed, and we must change with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't have much patience for anyone who denies that this challenge is real."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I refuse to condemn your generation and future generations to a planet that's beyond fixing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: That bright blue ball rising over the moon's surface, containing everything we hold dear - the laughter of children, a quiet sunset, all the hopes and dreams of posterity - that's what's at stake. That's what we're fighting for. And if we remember that, I'm absolutely sure we'll succeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The problem with all these tired excuses for inaction is that it suggests a fundamental lack of faith in American business and American ingenuity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Those of us in positions of responsibility, we'll need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors, and more concerned with the judgment of posterity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We can't just drill our way out of the energy and climate challenge that we face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: A low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When the United States stands up for human rights, by example at home and by effort abroad, we align ourselves with men and women around the world who struggle for the right to speak their minds, to choose their leaders, and to be treated with dignity and respect. We also strengthen our security and well being, because the abuse of human rights can feed many of the global dangers that we confront - from armed conflict and humanitarian crises, to corruption and the spread of ideologies that promote hatred and violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: No country can hide from the dangers of carbon pollution"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The issue of climate change is one that we ignore at our own peril"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The silence killed your faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The pain I felt was my father's pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because the ordinary American citizen may not know whether or not this person is illegal or not. But, you know, the notion that we're going to criminalize priests, for example, or doctors who are providing services to individuals, and throw them in jail for doing what their calling asks them to do, which is to provide help and service to people in need, I think that is a mistake. I think that's out of America's character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: But I also want to give them a pathway so that they can earn citizenship, earn a legal status, start learning English, pay a significant fine, go to the back of the line, but they can then stay here and they can have the ability to enforce a minimum wage that they're paid, make sure the worker safety laws are available, make sure that they can join a union."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manufacturer's lobby."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: But shouldn't we also quit marketing murder as a game?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have the power to make the world we seek, but only if we have the courage to make a new beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's the answer told by lines that stretched around schools and churches in numbers this nation has never seen; by people who waited three hours and four hours, many for the very first time in their lives, because they believed that this time must be different, that their voice could be that difference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: More than a building that houses books and data, the library represents a window to a larger world, the place where we've always come to discover big ideas and profound concepts that help move the American story forward and the human story forward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are at a time in our country's history that inclusive language is better than exclusive language."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We also think this is a reminder of the long tradition of bipartisan foreign policy that has been the hallmark of America at moments of greatest need, and that's the kind of spirit that we hope will be reflected in our administration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You've got audiences cheering at the prospect of somebody dying because they don't have health care and booing a service member in Iraq because they're gay. That's not reflective of who we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For the Palestinians' efforts to delegitimize Israel will end in failure. Palestinian leaders will not achieve peace or prosperity if Hamas insists on a path of terror and rejection. And Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Israel must be able to defend itself - by itself - against any threat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As for Israel, our friendship is rooted deeply in a shared history and shared values. Our commitment to Israel's security is unshakeable. And we will stand against attempts to single it out for criticism in international forums."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Even while we may at times disagree, as friends sometimes will, the bonds between the United States and Israel are unbreakable and the commitment of the United States to the security of Israel is ironclad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The ultimate goal is two states for two people:  Israel as a Jewish state and the homeland for the Jewish people and the State of Palestine as the homeland for the Palestinian people - each state in joined self-determination, mutual recognition, and peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will call not just on Israel, but on the Palestinians, on the Arab States, and the international community to join us in this effort, because the burden of making hard choices must not be Israel\u2019s alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Even as we do all that's necessary to ensure Israel's security, even as we are clear-eyed about the difficult challenges before us, and even as we pledge to stand by Israel through whatever tough days lie ahead, I hope we do not give up on that vision of peace.  For if history teaches us anything, if the story of Israel teaches us anything, it is that with courage and resolve, progress is possible.  Peace is possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Michelle, I love you. The other night, I think the entire country saw just how lucky I am. Malia and Sasha, you make me so proud\u2026but don't get any ideas, you're still going to class tomorrow. And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: On this day, we gather because we have chosen hope over fear, unity of purpose over conflict and discord."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the proudest things of my three years in office is helping to restore a sense of respect for America around the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have become a symbol of the possibility of America returning to our best traditions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is very rare I come to an event where I\u2019m like the fifth or sixth most interesting person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don\u2019t believe it is possible to transcend race in this country. Race is a factor in this society. The legacy of Jim Crow and slavery has not gone away. It is not an accident that African-Americans experience high crime rates, are poor, and have less wealth. It is a direct result of our racial history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I can no more disown (Jeremiah Wright) than I can disown the black community. I can no more disown him than I can my white grandmother - a woman who helped raise me, a woman who sacrificed again and again for me, a woman who loves me as much as she loves anything in this world, but a woman who once confessed her fear of black men who passed by her on the street, and who on more than one occasion has uttered racial or ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Be conscious of God and speak always the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Now is the time for all of us to take our share of responsibility for a global response to global challenges."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My administration is committed to creating an unprecedented level of openness in government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: ISIL is a terrorist organization, pure and simple.  And it has no vision other than the slaughter of all who stand in its way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America does not presume to know what is best for everyone"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Like it or not, we have to have a financial system that is healthy and functioning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For top executives to award themselves these kinds of compensation packages in the midst of this economic crisis isn't just bad taste, it's bad strategy, and I will not tolerate it as president."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Medicare in particular, will run out of money, and we will not be able to sustain that program."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I favor legalizing same-sex marriages, and would fight efforts to prohibit such marriages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've called on Congress to repeal the so-called Defense of Marriage Act to help end discrimination to help end discrimination against same-sex couples in this country. Now, I want to add we have a duty to uphold existing law, but I believe we must do so in a way that does not exacerbate old divides. And fulfilling this duty in upholding the law in no way lessens my commitment to reversing this law. I've made that clear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have been to this point unwilling to sign on to same-sex marriage primarily because of my understandings of the traditional definitions of marriage. But I also think you're right that attitudes evolve, including mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Part of people's concern is just the sense that around the world the old order isn't holding and we're not quite yet to where we need to be in terms of a new order that's based on a different set of principles, that's based on a sense of common humanity, that's based on economies that work for all people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The United States was the first country to recognize Israel in 1948, minutes after its declaration of independence, and the deep bonds of friendship between the U.S. and Israel remain as strong and unshakeable as ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [America] will stand steadfast with Israel in pursuit of security and a lasting peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are certain things we can only do together. There are certain things only a union can do. Only a union could harness the courage of our pioneers to settle the American west, which is why President Abraham Lincoln passed a Homestead Act giving a tract of land to anyone seeking a stake in our growing economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The problem is that because the voucher wouldn't necessarily keep up with health care inflation, it was estimated that this would cost the average senior about $6,000 a year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The irony is that we've seen this model work really well in Massachusetts because Gov. Romney did a good thing, working with Democrats in the state to set up what is essentially the identical model and, as a consequence, people are covered there. It hasn't destroyed jobs. And as a consequence, we now have a system in which we have the opportunity to start bringing down costs as opposed to just leaving millions of people out in the cold.\" \"Gov. Romney said this has to be done on a bipartisan basis"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And I agree that the Democratic legislators in Massachusetts might have given some advice to Republicans in Congress about how to cooperate, but the fact of the matter is we used the same advisers and they say it's the same plan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What makes us exceptional - what makes us American - is our allegiance to an idea articulated in a declaration made more than two centuries ago: \u201cWe hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.\u201d"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Today we continue a never ending journey to bridge the meaning of those words with the realities of our time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For history tells us that while these truths may be self-evident, they've never been self-executing. That while freedom is a gift from God, it must be secured by his people here on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We, the people, still believe that every citizen deserves a basic measure of security and dignity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Not out of mere charity, but because peace in our time requires the constant advance of those principles that our common creed describes; tolerance and opportunity, human dignity and justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our journey is not complete until all our children... know that they are cared for and cherished and always safe from harm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will begin to remove our troops from Iraq immediately."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We should be more modest in our belief that we can impose democracy on a country through military force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This doesn't mean abandoning our values and ideals; wherever we can, it's in our interest to help foster democracy through the diplomatic and economic resources at our disposal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Let's be grateful for what we have. Let's be mindful of those who have less. Let's appreciate those who hold a special place in our lives, and make sure they know it. And let's think about those who can't spend the holiday with their loved ones - especially the members of our military serving overseas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Women can't wait for equal pay. And I won't stop fighting to address this inequality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In the Muslim world, this notion that somehow everything is the fault of the Israelis lacks balance - because there's two sides to every question. That doesn't mean that sometimes one side has done something wrong and should not be condemned. But it does mean there's always two sides to an issue. I say the same thing to my Jewish friends, which is you have to see the perspective of the Palestinians. Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is very important for I think those of us who desperately want peace, who see war as, at some level, a break-down, a manifestation of human weakness, to understand that sometimes it\u2019s also necessary \u2013 and you know, to \u2013 to be able to balance two ideas at the same time; that we are constantly striving for peace, we are doubling up on our diplomacy, we are going to actively engage, we are going to try to see the world through other people\u2019s eyes and not just our own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: That's where peace begins - not just in the plans of leaders, but in the hearts of people. Not just in some carefully designed process, but in the daily connections - that sense of empathy that takes place among those who live together in this land and in this sacred city of Jerusalem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: On my recent trip to Israel, I had the opportunity to visit Yad Vashem, Israel's national Holocaust memorial, and reaffirm our collective responsibility to confront anti-Semitism, prejudice, and intolerance across the world. On this Yom Hashoah, we must accept the full responsibility of remembrance, as nations and as individuals-not simply to pledge \"never again,\" but to commit ourselves to the understanding, empathy and compassion that is the foundation of peace and human dignity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Ultimately, peace is just not about politics. It's about attitudes; about a sense of empathy; about breaking down the divisions that we create for ourselves in our own minds and our own hearts that don't exist in any objective reality, but that we carry with us generation after generation. And I know, because America, we, too, have had to work hard over the decades, slowly, gradually, sometimes painfully, in fits and starts, to keep perfecting our union."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: They will tell you that the Americans who sleep in the streets and beg for food got there because they\u2019re all lazy or weak of spirit.  That the inner-city children who are trapped in dilapidated schools can\u2019t learn and won\u2019t learn and so we should just give up on them entirely.  That the innocent people being slaughtered and expelled from their homes half a world away are somebody else\u2019s problem to take care of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I hope you don\u2019t listen to this. I hope you choose to broaden, and not contract, your ambit of concern."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: American leadership is not simply a matter of going it alone and bearing all of the burden ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's time to put country ahead of party. It's time to put the next generation ahead of the next election."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: But while they're adding teachers in places like South Korea, we're laying them off in droves. It's unfair to our kids. It undermines their future and ours. And it has to stop. Pass this bill, and put our teachers back in the classroom where they belong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We forget now, but during his life, Dr. King wasn't always considered a unifying figure. Even after rising to prominence, even after winning the Nobel Peace Prize, Dr. King was vilified by many, denounced as a rabble rouser and an agitator, a communist and a radical. He was even attacked by his own people, by those who felt he was going too fast or those who felt he was going too slow; by those who felt he shouldn't meddle in issues like the Vietnam War or the rights of union workers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Hunger, disease and poverty can lead to global instability and leave a vacuum for extremism to fill. So instead of just managing poverty, we must offer nations and people a pathway out of poverty. And as president I've made development a pillar of our foreign policy, alongside diplomacy and defense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When all Americans are treated as equal we are all more free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: All people should be treated equally, regardless of who they are or who they love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are greater than the sum of our individual ambitions"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am designating a new Director of Recovery for Auto Communities and Workers to cut through red tape and ensure that the full resources of our federal government are leveraged to assist the workers, communities, and regions that rely on our auto industry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a socialist, for example?' Nobody can really give you a good answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If somebody was sending rockets into my house, where my two daughters sleep at night, I\u2019m going to do everything in my power to stop that, and I would expect Israelis to do the same thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Just from a political perspective, do you think the president of the United States going into re-election wants gas prices to go up higher? Look, here's the bottom line with respect to gas prices: I want gas prices lower because they hurt families."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am very proud of the fact I do not cheat when I'm playing golf."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you're willing to put in the work, the idea is that you should be able to raise a family and own a home, not go bankrupt because you got sick, 'cause you've got some health insurance that helps you deal with those difficult times; that you can send your kids to college; that you can put some money away for retirement. That's all most people want. Folks don't have unrealistic ambitions. They do believe that if they work hard, they should be able to achieve that small measure of an American dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: No deal means a greater chance of more war in the Middle East."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Of course, there's been a real debate about where to invest and where to cut, and I'm committed to working with members of both parties to cut our deficits and debt. But we can't simply cut our way to prosperity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: With respect to the pledge I made that if you like your plan you can keep it. The way I put that forward unequivocally ended up not being accurate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm here with the Girardo family here in St. Louis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Ten thousand people died, an entire town destroyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Come on! I just answered, like, eight questions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I bowled a 129... It was like the Special Olympics or something!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is my last election. After my election, I have more flexibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It probably wouldn't be good for our economy for a bunch of these jobs to come back because, there's no way that people could be getting paid a living wage on some of these jobs - at least in order to be competitive in an international setting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: A relentless focus on the outward markers of success can lead to complacency. It can make you lazy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't think [pot] is more dangerous than alcohol."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In the wealthiest nation on Earth \u2013 no illness or accident should lead to any family\u2019s financial ruin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Every woman should be in control of the decisions that affect her own health."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manfuacturer's lobby. But I also believe that when a gangbanger shoots indiscriminately into a crowd because he feels someone disrespected him, we have a problem of morality. Not only do we need to punish that man for his crime, but we need to acknowledge that there's a hole in his heart, one that government programs alone may not be able to repair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Turns out I'm really good at killing people. Didn't know that was gonna be a strong suit of mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The idea of America endures. Our destiny remains our choice. And tonight, more than two centuries later, it is because of our people that our future is hopeful, our journey goes forward, and the state of our union is strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We remain more than a collection of red states and blue states. We are and forever will be the United States of America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The flame of the diya, or lamp, reminds us that light will ultimately triumph over darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The trick is figuring out how do we structure government systems that pool resources, and hence facilitate some [wealth] redistribution, because I actually believe in redistribution, at least at a certain level, to make sure that everybody's got a shot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I refuse to accept any approach that isn't balanced. I'm not going to ask students and seniors and middle-class families to pay down the entire deficit while people like me, making over $250,000, aren't asked to pay a dime more in taxes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you want to know who we are, who America is, how we respond to evil-that's it: selflessly, compassionately, unafraid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There have been periods where the folks who were already here suddenly say, 'Well, I don't want those folks,' even though the only people who have the right to say that are some Native Americans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If a jayvee team puts on Lakers uniforms, that doesn't make them Kobe Bryant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: By 2025 we expect new spacecraft designed for long journeys to allow us to begin the first ever crewed missions beyond the Moon into deep space. So we'll start by sending astronauts to an asteroid for the first time in history. By the mid-2030s I believe we can send humans to orbit Mars and return them safely to Earth. And a landing on Mars will follow and I expect to be around in see it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As tough as things have been, I am convinced you are tougher. I've seen your passion and I've seen your service. I've seen you engage and I've seen you turn out in record numbers. I've heard your voices amplified by creativity and a digital fluency that those of us in older generations can barely comprehend. I've seen a generation eager, impatient even, to step into the rushing waters of history and change its course."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The goal of this office will not be to favor one religious group over another - or even religious groups over secular groups. It will simply be to work on behalf of those organizations that want to work on behalf of our communities, and to do so without blurring the line that our founders wisely drew between church and state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In Africa, you often see that the difference between a village where everybody eats and a village where people starve is government. One has a functioning government, and the other does not. Which is why it bothers me when I hear people say that government is the enemy. They don't understand its fundamental role."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I came in with a healthy skepticism about these programs. My team evaluated them. We scrubbed them thoroughly. We actually expanded some of the oversight, increased some of the safeguards. But my assessment, and my team's assessment was that they help us prevent terrorist attacks. In the abstract, you can complain about 'Big Brother' and how this is a potential program run amok. But when you actually look at the details, then, I think we've struck the right balance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I hoped for something else. It's a simple dream, but it speaks to us so powerfully because it is our dream - one that exists at the very center of the American experience. One that says if you're willing to work hard and take responsibility, then you'll have the chance to reach for something else; for something better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we truly believe in our public schools, then we have a moral responsibility to do better - to break the either-or mentality around school reform, and embrace a both-and mentality. Good schools will require both the structural reform and the resources necessary to prepare our kids for the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we hope to give our children a chance, it's time we start giving our teachers a chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The walls between old allies on either side of the Atlantic cannot stand. The walls between the countries with the most and those with the least cannot stand. The walls between races and tribes; natives and immigrants; Christian and Muslim and Jew cannot stand. These now are the walls we must tear down. We know they have fallen before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: These people are a part of me. And they are a part of America, this country that I love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Just as black anger often proved counterproductive, so have these white resentments distracted attention from the real culprits of the middle class squeeze - a corporate culture rife with inside dealing, questionable accounting practices, and short-term greed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The profound mistake of Reverend Wright's sermons is not that he spoke about racism in our society. It's that he spoke as if our society was static; as if no progress has been made; as if this country - a country that has made it possible for one of his own members to run for the highest office in the land and build a coalition of white and black; Latino and Asian, rich and poor, young and old - is still irrevocably bound to a tragic past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The greatest danger of all is to allow new walls to divide us from one another"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: No matter how much you've done, or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And as husbands and fathers and brothers, we have to step up - because every girl\u2019s life matters.  Every daughter deserves the same chance as our sons. Every woman should be able to go about her day - to walk the streets or ride the bus - and be safe, and be treated with respect and dignity. She deserves that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Across the globe there are girls who will one day lead nations, if only we afford them the chance to choose their own destinies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Like no other illness, AIDS tests our ability to put ourselves in someone else's shoes - to empathize with the plight of our fellow man. While most would agree that the AIDS orphan or the transfusion victim or the wronged wife contracted the disease through no fault of their own, it has too often been easy for some to point to the unfaithful husband or the promiscuous youth or the gay man and say This is your fault. You have sinned. I don't think that's a satisfactory response. My faith reminds me that we all are sinners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Sergeant first class Cory Remsburg never gives up and he does not quit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We will respond to the threat of climate change"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Become a teacher. Your country needs you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Some may still deny the overwhelming judgment of science, but none can avoid the devastating impact of raging fires, and crippling drought, and more powerful storms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America leads - not with bluster, but with persistent, steady resolve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As president of the United States, I don't bluff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When friends are in trouble, America Helps."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For the world has changed, and we must change with it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you like your health care plan, you can keep your health care plan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Boston is a tough and resilient town. So are its people. I'm supremely confident that Bostonians will pull together, take care of each other, and move forward as one proud city. And as they do, the American people will be with them every single step of the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Assault weapons ban reintroduced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our hearts are broken today for the parents and grandparents, sisters and brothers of these children and the families of the adults we lost....May god bless the memory of the victims and in the words of scripture heal the broken hearted and bind up their wounds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I didn't set a red line, the world set a red line"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We shouldn\u2019t have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are few things in life that are harder to find and more important to keep than love. Well, love and a birth certificate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are not a nation that says, 'Don\u2019t ask, don\u2019t tell.' We are a nation that says, 'Out of many, we are one.' We are a nation that welcomes the service of every patriot. We are a nation that believes that all men and women are created equal. Those are the ideals that generations have fought for. Those are the ideals that we upheld today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The UK is an extraordinary partner for America and a force for good in an unstable world. I hope it remains strong, robust and united."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I know that there are those who disagree with the overwhelming scientific evidence on climate change. But here's the thing -- even if you doubt the evidence, providing incentives for energy-efficien cy and clean energy are the right thing to do for our future -- because the nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy. And America must be that nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Every four minutes, another American home or business goes solar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is not class warfare. It\u2019s math."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We live in a complex world and at a challenging time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We remember, we rebuild, we come back stronger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I make no apologies for being reasonable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's time to recognize that under the equal protection clause of the United States [Constitution], same-sex couples should have the same rights as anybody else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I was a constitutional law professor, which means unlike the current president I actually respect the Constitution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Corporations aren\u2019t people. People are people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Women deserve equal pay for equal work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The forces that divide us are not as strong as those that unite us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The brain is a body part too; we just know less about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are places and moments in America where this nation\u2019s destiny has been decided...Selma is such a place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And if that child should ever get the chance to travel the world and someone should ask her where is she from, we believe that she should always be able to hold her head high with pride in her voice when she answers, \"I am an American.\" That is the course we seek. That is the change we are calling for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Nobody really thinks that Bush or McCain have a real answer for the challenges we face, so what they're going to try to do is make you scared of me. You know, he's not patriotic enough. He's got a funny name. You know, he doesn't look like all those other presidents on those dollar bills, you know. He's risky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I do love the Waldorf-Astoria, though. You know, I hear that from the doorstep you can see all the way to the Russian tea room."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have nothing to hide. I enjoy being myself. I'm not going to change who I am just because it's Halloween."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't want to be invited to the family hunting party."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I would have to investigate more of Bill's dancing abilities, you know, and some of this other stuff before I accurately judge whether he was in fact a brother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: After a breakthrough year for America, our economy is growing and creating jobs at the fastest pace since 1999."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are one nation under God, and we may call that God different names but we remain one nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you're one of the more than 250 million Americans who already have health insurance, you will keep your health insurance. This law will only make it more secure and more affordable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When what you\u2019re doing doesn\u2019t work for 50 years, it\u2019s time to try something new."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I happen to be a proponent of a single-payer universal health care plan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In America, there's a failure to appreciate Europe's leading role in the world. Instead of celebrating your dynamic union and seeking to partner with you to meet common challenges, there have been times where America has shown arrogance and been dismissive, even derisive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Palestinians will never realize their independence by denying the right of Israel to exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For now, decisions are upon us and we cannot afford delay. We cannot mistake absolutism for principle or substitute spectacle for politics, or treat name-calling as reasoned debate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: But something stirred across the country because of what happened in Selma, Alabama, because some folks were willing to march across a bridge. And so they [my parents] got together, Barack Obama Jr. was born. So don't tell me I don't have a claim on Selma, Alabama. Don't tell me I'm not coming home when I come to Selma, Alabama."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I did not run for office to be helping out a bunch of, you know, fat cat bankers on Wall Street."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And I believe the nation that invented the automobile cannot walk away from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I need you to go out and talk to your friends and talk to your neighbors. I want you to talk to them whether they are independent or whether they are Republican. I want you to argue with them and get in their face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What drags down our entire economy is when there's an ever-widening chasm between the ultra-rich and everybody else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've made it clear for years that the threat from Iran is grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There\u2019s no doubt that there\u2019s some folks who just really dislike me because they don\u2019t like the idea of a black President."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The first thing I'd do as president is sign the Freedom of Choice Act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Think about it: Iran, Cuba, Venezuela - these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The president does not have power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminent threat to the nation. As commander in chief, the president does have a duty to protect and defend the United States. In instances of self-defense, the president would be within his constitutional authority to act before advising Congress or seeking its consent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The small irritations or indignities that we experience are nothing compared to what a previous generation experienced... It\u2019s one thing for me to be mistaken for a waiter at a gala. It\u2019s another thing for my son to be mistaken for a robber and to be handcuffed or, worse, if he happens to be walking down the street and is dressed the way teenagers dress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm never surprised by controversies that are whipped up in Washington."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are a nation of Christians and Muslims, Jews and Hindus, and nonbelievers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Poorly secured nuclear material in the former Soviet Union, or secrets from a scientist in Pakistan could help build a bomb that detonates in Paris. The poppies in Afghanistan become the heroin in Berlin. The poverty and violence in Somalia breeds the terror of tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We will not apologise for our way of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We do not want to keep our troops in Afghanistan. We see no military - we seek no military bases there. It is agonizing for America to lose our young men and women. It is costly and politically difficult to continue this conflict. We would gladly bring every single one of our troops home if we could be confident that there were not violent extremists in Afghanistan and now Pakistan determined to kill as many Americans as they possibly can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As soon as the recovery is well under way, we need to set up a long-term plan to reduce the structural deficit and make sure we are not leaving a mountain of debt for the next generation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This kind of inequality - a level that we haven\u2019t seen since the Great Depression - hurts us all. When middle-class families can no longer afford to buy the goods and services that businesses are selling...it drags down the entire economy from top to bottom. America was built on the idea of broad-based prosperity... That\u2019s why a CEO like Henry Ford made it his mission to pay his workers enough so that they could buy the cars he made. It\u2019s also why a recent study showed that countries with less inequality tend to have stronger and steadier economic growth over the long run."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Inequality also distorts our democracy.  It gives an outsized voice to the few who can afford high-priced lobbyists and unlimited campaign contributions, and runs the risk of selling out our democracy to the highest bidder.  And it leaves everyone else rightly suspicious that the system in Washington is rigged against them - that our elected representatives aren't looking out for the interests of most Americans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This kind of gaping inequality gives lie to the promise that\u2019s at the very heart of America: that this is a place where you can make it if you try. We tell people - we tell our kids - that in this country, even if you\u2019re born with nothing, work hard and you can get into the middle class. We tell them that your children will have a chance to do even better than you do. That\u2019s why immigrants from around the world historically have flocked to our shores."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My expectation would be that if we can begin discussions soon, shortly after the Iranian elections, we should have a fairly good sense by the end of the year as to whether they are moving in the right direction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If Iran does not take steps in the near future to live up to its obligations, then the United States will not continue to negotiate indefinitely... Our patience is not unlimited."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Iran . . . has failed to take the opportunity to demonstrate that its nuclear program is peaceful . . . time is not unlimited."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Strong countries and strong presidents talk to their adversaries. That's what Kennedy did with Khrushchev. That's what Reagan did with Gorbachev. That's what Nixon did with Mao. I mean think about it. Iran, Cuba, Venezuela - these countries are tiny compared to the Soviet Union. They don't pose a serious threat to us the way the Soviet Union posed a threat to us. And yet we were willing to talk to the Soviet Union at the time when they were saying we're going to wipe you off the planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race and raise the prospect of a transfer of nuclear know-how to terrorists. Its president denies the Holocaust and threatens to wipe Israel off the map. The danger from Iran is grave, it is real."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The capacity of Iraq's security forces has improved, and Iraq's leaders have made strides toward political accommodation"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We're leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We're building a new partnership between our nations and we are ending a war not with a final battle but with a final march toward home. This is an extraordinary achievement"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Mr Speaker, Mr Vice President, members of Congress, distinguished guests, and fellow Americans, last month I went to Andrews Air Force Base and welcomed home some of our last troops to serve in Iraq. Together, we offered a final, proud salute to the colors under which more than a million of our fellow citizens fought, and several thousand gave their lives. We gather tonight knowing that this generation of heroes has made the United States safer and more respected around the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The only resolution is for the aspirations of both sides to be met through two states, where Israelis and Palestinians each live in peace and security. ... Israelis must acknowledge that just as Israel's right to exist cannot be denied, neither can Palestine's. The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The borders of Israel and Palestine should be based on the 1967 lines with mutually agreed swaps, so that secure and recognized borders are established for both states."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: None of this is fair to you. And should it continue, it will make it more difficult to keep attracting the kind of driven, patriotic, idealist Americans to public service that our citizens deserved and that our system of self-government demands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We stand with Israel as a Jewish democratic state because we know that Israel is born of firmly held values that we, as Americans, share: a culture committed to justice, a land that welcomes the weary, a people devoted to tikkun olam. ... So America's commitment ... and my commitment to Israel and Israel's security is unshakeable. It is unshakeable. ... I am proud to say that no U.S. administration has done more in support of Israel's security than ours. None. Don't let anybody else tell you otherwise. It is a fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Netanyahu made all sorts of claims. This was going to be a terrible deal. This was going to result in Iran getting 50 billion dollars worth of relief. Iran would not abide by the agreement. None of that has come true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My father's voice had nevertheless remained untainted, inspiring, rebuking, granting or withholding approval. 'You do not work hard enough, Barry. You must help in your people's struggle. Wake up, black man!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It will be up to each of you to make sure that young people, African Americans, Latinos and women who powered our victory in 2008 stand together once again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Whatever we think of the past, we must not be prisoners to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We don't turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up. We draw strength from our victories, and we learn from our mistakes, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, but we keep our eyes fixed on that distant horizon, knowing that Providence is with us, and that we are surely blessed to be citizens of the greatest nation on Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Every woman should have access to the healthcare that she needs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In addition to giving our children the science and math skills they need to compete in the new global context, we should also encourage the ability to think creatively that comes from a meaningful arts education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Of course, Israel cannot be expected to negotiate with anyone who is dedicated to its destruction. But while I know you have had differences with the Palestinian Authority, I believe that you do have a true partner in President Abbas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington -- it began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. ...This is your victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [A] family with two kids that earns the minimum wage still lives below the poverty line. That's wrong. That's why, since the last time this Congress raised the minimum wage, 19 states have chosen to bump theirs even higher. Tonight, let's declare that in the wealthiest nation on Earth, no one who works full-time should have to live in poverty, and raise the federal minimum wage to $9 an hour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: With effort we can protect the foundation of our democracy, for which so many marched across this bridge, the right to vote."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think Ronald Reagan changed the trajectory of America in a way that Richard Nixon did not and in a way that Bill Clinton did not. He put us on a fundamentally different path because the country was ready for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: All this marked them as vaguely liberal, although their ideas would never congeal into anything like a firm ideology; in this, too, they were American."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: But another thing I know is this \u2014 we can\u2019t steer ourselves out of this crisis by heading in the same, disastrous direction. We can\u2019t change direction with a new driver who wants to follow the same old map. And that\u2019s what this election is all about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We can\u2019t afford to be so worried about losing the next election that we lose the battles we owe to the next generation. The real gamble in this election is playing the same Washington game with the same Washington players and expecting a different result. And that\u2019s a risk we can\u2019t take."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we\u2019ve changed this country before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America will rise again. And hope will rise again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page of the policies of the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America, we cannot turn back. Not with so much work to be done. Not with so many children to educate, and so many veterans to care for. Not with an economy to fix and cities to rebuild and farms to save. Not with so many families to protect and so many lives to mend. America, we cannot turn back. We cannot walk alone. At this moment, in this election, we must pledge once more to march into the future. Let us keep that promise - that American promise - and in the words of Scripture hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I stand here today as hopeful as ever that the United States of America will endure, that it will prevail, that the dream of our founders will live on in our time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've got a tax code that is encouraging flight of jobs and outsourcing. And that's why we've specifically recommended in this campaign that Congress change our tax code so that we stop giving tax breaks to companies that are moving to Mexico and China and other places, and start putting those tax breaks into companies that are investing here in the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If there's one thing I would like to see, it'd be for us to be able to price the cost of carbon emissions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We need scientists to design new fuels. We need farmers to help grow them. We need engineers to invent new technologies. We need entrepreneurs to sell those technologies. We need workers to operate assembly lines that hum with high-tech, zero-carbon components. We need builders to hammer into place the foundations for a clean energy age. We need diplomats and businessmen and women, and Peace Corps volunteers to help developing nations skip past the dirty phase of development and transition to sustainable sources of energy. In other words, we need you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Yes, this is hard.  But there should be no question that the United States of America is stepping up to the plate.  We recognize our role in creating this problem; we embrace our responsibility to combat it.  We will do our part, and we will help developing nations do theirs.  But we can only succeed in combating climate change if we are joined in this effort by every nation - developed and developing alike.  Nobody gets a pass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We're showing that there's no excuse for other nations to come together, both developed and developing, to achieve a strong global climate agreement next year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Many of you know that I got my name, Barack, from my father. What you may not know is Barack is actually Swahili for 'That One.' And I got my middle name from somebody who obviously didn't think I'd ever run for president."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America is a land of big dreamers and big hopes. It is this hope that has sustained us through revolution and civil war, depression and world war, a struggle for civil and social rights and the brink of nuclear crisis. And it is because our dreamers dreamed that we have emerged from each challenge more united, more prosperous, and more admired than before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Only a handful of men and women leave an imprint on the conscience of a nation and on the history that they helped shape."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Libraries remind us that truth isn't about who yells the loudest, but who has the right information. Because even as we're the most religious of people, America's innovative genius has always been preserved because we also have a deep faith in facts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide it's time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us - on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My advice to African leaders is to make sure that if, in fact, China is putting in roads and bridges, number one, that they are hiring African workers; number two, that the roads don't just lead from the mine to the port to Shanghai."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Change has come to America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture and I'm going to make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Part of America's genius has always been its ability to absorb newcomers, to forge a national identity out of the disparate lot that arrived on our shores."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds; when we've been told that we're not ready, or that we shouldn't try, or that we can't, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people: Yes we can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. The United States has been one of the greatest sources of progress that the world has ever known. We were born out of revolution against an empire. We were founded upon the ideal that all are created equal. And we have shed blood and struggled for centuries to give meaning to those words, within our borders and around the world. We are shaped by every culture. Drawn from every end of the Earth, and dedicated to a simple concept, E pluribus unum: Out of many, one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that engagement with repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of indignation. But I also know that sanctions without outreach -- condemnation without discussion -- can carry forward only a crippling status quo. No repressive regime can move down a new path unless it has the choice of an open door."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Nowhere is it ordained that history moves in a straight line."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Suppressing ideas never succeeds in making them go away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When it comes to the war in Iraq, the time for promises and assurances for waiting and for patience is over. Too many lives have been lost, too many billions of dollars have been spent for us to trust the president on another tired and failed policy that's opposed by generals and experts, Democrats and Republicans, Americans and many of the Iraqis themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Their [the evangelicals'] success also points to a hunger for the product they are selling, a hunger that goes beyond any particular issue or cause... They need an assurance that somebody out there cares about them, is listening to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The war does not end when you come home. It lives on in memories of your fellow soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who gave their lives. It endures in the wound that is slow to heal, the disability that isn't going away, the dream that wakes you at night, or the stiffening in your spine when a car backfires down the street."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we think that we can secure our country by just talking tough without acting tough and smart, then we will misunderstand this moment and miss its opportunities. If we think that we can use the same partisan playbook where we just challenge our opponent's patriotism to win an election, then the American people will lose. The times are too serious for this kind of politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Do something, Congress. Do anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't want to pit Red America against Blue America. I want to be President of the United States of America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that one of the things that we all agree to is that the touchstone for economic policy is, does it allow the average American to find good employment and see their incomes rise; that we can't just look at things in the aggregate, we do want to grow the pie, but we want to make sure that prosperity is spread across the spectrum of regions and occupations and genders and races; and that economic policy should focus on growing the pie, but it also has to make sure that everybody has got opportunity in that system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Let's remember that our leadership is defined not just by our defense against threats, but by the enormous opportunities to do good and promote understanding around the globe \u0096 to forge greater cooperation, to expand new markets, to free people from fear and want. And no one is better positioned to take advantage of those opportunities than America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: To overcome extremism, we must also be vigilant in upholding the values our troops defend \u0096 because there is no force in the world more powerful than the example of America. That is why I have ordered the closing of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, and will seek swift and certain justice for captured terrorists \u0096 because living our values doesn't make us weaker, it makes us safer and it makes us stronger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: With the magnitude of the challenges we face right now, what we need in Washington are not more political tactics, we need more good ideas. We don't need more point scoring, we need more problem solving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America can do whatever we set our mind to. That is the story of our history, whether it's the pursuit of prosperity for our people, or the struggle for equality for all our citizens; our commitment to stand up for our values abroad, and our sacrifices to make the world a safer place. Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When we send our young men and women into harm's way, we have a solemn obligation not to fudge the numbers or shade the truth about why they're going, to care for their families while they're gone, to tend to the soldiers upon their return, and to never ever go to war without enough troops to win the war, secure the peace, and earn the respect of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We should never forget that God granted us the power to reason so that we would do His work here on Earth - so that we would use science to cure disease, and heal the sick, and save lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Whenever I write a letter to a family who has lost a loved one in Iraq, or read an email from a constituent who has dropped out of college because her student aid has been cut, I'm reminded that the actions of those in power have enormous consequences--a price that they themselves almost never have to pay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Absolutely. I think, I think the American people, at their core, are a decent people. I think that we still have prejudice in our midst, but I think that the vast majority of Americans are willing, are willing to judge people on the basis of their ideas and their character. And in the case of the presidency, I think what's most important is whether the American people think that you understand their hopes and dreams and struggles and whether they think you can actually help them achieve those hopes and dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Politics has become so bitter and partisan, so gummed up by money and influence, that we can't tackle the big problems that demand solutions. And that's what we have to change first. We have to change our politics, and come together around our common interests and concerns as Americans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In the end, no amount of American forces can solve the political differences that lie at the heart of somebody else's civil war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our government should work for us, not against us. It should help us, not hurt us. It should ensure opportunity not just for those with the most money and influence, but for every American who's willing to work. That's the promise of America - the idea that we are responsible for ourselves, but that we also rise or fall as one nation; the fundamental belief that I am my brother's keeper; I am my sister's keeper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You don't defeat a terrorist network that operates in eighty countries by occupying Iraq."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You know, when I made a series of overtures to the Republicans, going over to meet with both Republican caucuses, you know, putting three Republicans in my cabinet -- something that is unprecedented -- making sure that they were invited here to the White House to talk about the economic recovery plan, all those were not designed simply to get some short-term votes. They were designed to try to build up some trust over time. And I think that, as I continue to make these overtures, over time, hopefully that will be reciprocated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our challenges may be new. The instruments with which we meet them may be new. But those values upon which our success depends -- honesty and hard work, courage and fair play, tolerance and curiosity, loyalty and patriotism -- these things are old. These things are true. They have been the quiet force of progress throughout our history. What is demanded, then, is a return to these truths."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our factories; in the imaginations of our entrepreneurs and the pride of the hardest-working people on Earth. Those qualities that have made America the greatest force of progress and prosperity in human history we still possess in ample measure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What Americans expect from Washington is action that matches the urgency they feel in their daily lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is time to put in place tough, new common-sense rules of the road so that our financial market rewards drive and innovation, and punishes short-cuts and abuse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The consequences of war are dire, the sacrifices immeasurable. We may have occasion in our lifetime to once again rise up in defense of our freedom, and pay the wages of war. But we ought not\u200a\u0097\u200awe will not\u200a\u0097\u200atravel down that hellish path blindly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Hostility and hatred are no match for justice; they offer no pathway to peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I might have arguments with the size of Reagan's military buildup, but given the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, staying ahead of the Soviets militarily seemed a sensible thing to do. Pride in our country, respect for our armed services, a healthy appreciation for the dangers beyond our borders, an insistence that there was no easy equivalence between East and West--in all this I had no quarrel with Reagan. And when the Berlin Wall came tumbling down, I had to give the old man his due, even if I never gave him my vote."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Globalization makes our economy, our health, and our security all captive to events on the other side of the world. And no other nation on earth has a greater capacity to shape that global system, or to build consensus around a new set of international rules that expand the zones of freedom, personal safety, and economic well-being. Like it or not, if we want to make America more secure, we are going to have to help make the world more secure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The interests we share as human beings are far more powerful than the forces that drive us apart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think the big challenge that we've got on education is making sure that from kindergarten or prekindergarten through your 14th or 15th year of school, or 16th year of school, or 20th year of school, that you are actually learning the kinds of skills that make you competitive and productive in a modern, technological economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've called Chicago home for nearly 25 years. It's a city of broad shoulders and big hearts and bold dreams; a city of legendary sports figures, legendary sports venues, and legendary sports fans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When, you know, I'm busy and Nancy Pelosi is busy with our mop cleaning up somebody else's mess \u0096- we don't want somebody sitting back saying, you're not holding the mop the right way.  Why don't you grab a mop, why don't you help clean up. You're not mopping fast enough. That's a socialist mop. Grab a mop \u0096- let's get to work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Ultimately there is no dividing line between Main Street and Wall Street. We will rise or we will fall together as one nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The soldier 's courage and sacrifice is full of glory , expressing devotion to country , to cause, to comrades in arms. But war itself is never glorious , and we must never trumpet it as such."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Peace is far more preferable to war. [...] I believe that peace is the only path to true security. [...] And there is no question that the only path to peace is through negotiations ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our first and immutable commitment must be to the security of Israel, our only true ally in the Middle East and the only democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are some who might say that somebody named Barack Obama can't be elected senator in the state of Illinois. They're probably the same folks who said that a guy named Rod Blagojevich couldn't be elected governor of the state of Illinois."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm LeBron, baby. I can play on this level. I got some game."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Today, on this day of possibility, we stand in the shadow of a lanky, raw-boned man with little formal education who once took the stage at Old Main and told the nation that if anyone did not believe the American principles of freedom and equality, that those principles were timeless and all-inclusive, they should go rip that page out of the Declaration of Independence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Israel is our friend, that we will assist in their security."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We long for unity, but are unwilling to pay the price. But of course, true unity cannot be so easily won. It starts with a change in attitudes - a broadening of our minds, and a broadening of our hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm not denouncing the church, and I'm not interested in people who want me to denounce the church. It's not a church worthy of denouncing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am reminded every day of my life, if not by events, then by my wife, that I am not a perfect man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I honor, we honor the service of John McCain, and I respect his many accomplishments, even if he chooses to deny mine. My differences with him are not personal; they are with the policies he has proposed in this campaign."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Jerusalem will remain the capital of Israel, and it must remain undivided."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You can't just listen to Rush Limbaugh and get things done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The presidency has a funny way of making a person feel the need to pray."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Societies held together by fear and repression may offer the illusion of stability for a time, but they are built upon fault lines that will eventually tear asunder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Lincoln, they used to talk about him almost as bad as they talk about me. So democracy has never been for the faint of heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There was no such thing as Al Qaeda in Iraq, until George Bush and John McCain decided to invade Iraq."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Tim Kaine has a message of fiscal responsibility and generosity of spirit. That kind of message can sell anywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Markets will rise and fall, but this is the United States of America. No matter what some agency may say, we've always been and always will be a triple A country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: That's silly talk... Talk to my wife. She'll tell me I need to learn to just put my socks on the hamper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Michelle will tell you that when we get together for Christmas or Thanksgiving, it's like a little mini-United Nations... I've got relatives who look like Bernie Mac, and I've got relatives who look like Margaret Thatcher... We've got it all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I hope you guys are up for a fight. I hope you guys are game because I haven't been putting up with 19 months of airplanes and hotel food and missing my babies and my wife - I didn't put up for that stuff just to come in second."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: After I received the news, Malia walked in and said, \"Daddy, you won the Nobel Peace Prize, and it is Bo's birthday!\" And then Sasha added, \"Plus, we have a three-day weekend coming up.\" So it's good to have kids to keep things in perspective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we want to make the best products, we also have to invest in the best ideas... Every dollar we invested to map the human genome returned $140 to our economy... Today, our scientists are mapping the human brain to unlock the answers to Alzheimer's... Now is not the time to gut these job-creating investments in science and innovation. Now is the time to reach a level of research and development not seen since the height of the Space Race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I applaud the Supreme Court\u2019s decision to strike down the Defense of Marriage Act. This was discrimination enshrined in law. It treated loving, committed gay and lesbian couples as a separate and lesser class of people. The Supreme Court has righted that wrong, and our country is better off for it. We are a people who declared that we are all created equal - and the love we commit to one another must be equal as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You're likable enough, Hillary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't mind cleaning up the mess that some other folks made, that's what I signed up to do"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And with iPods and iPads, and Xboxes and PlayStations - none of which I know how to work - information becomes a distraction, a diversion, a form of entertainment, rather than a tool of empowerment, rather than the means of emancipation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We need to find a way forward to make sure that we can stop terrorists while protecting the privacy, and liberty, of innocent Americans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Granting such immunity undermines the constitutional protections Americans trust the Congress to protect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The programs that have been discussed over the last couple days in the press are secret in the sense that they are classified but they are not secret in the sense that when it comes to phone calls every member of Congress has been briefed on this program. With respect to all these programs the relevant intelligence committees are fully briefed on these programs. These are programs that have been authorized by broad bipartisan majorities repeatedly since 2006."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When it comes to telephone calls, nobody is listening to your telephone calls. That's not what this program is about. ... What the intelligence community is doing is looking at phone numbers, and durations of calls; they are not looking at people's names and they're not looking at content. ... If the intelligence committee actually wants to listen to a phone call they have to go back to a federal judge, just like they would in a criminal investigation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: With respect to the Internet and emails, this does not apply to U.S. citizens and it does not apply to people living in the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the things we're going to have to discuss and debate is how are we striking this balance between the need to keep the American people safe and our concerns about privacy. Because there are some trade-offs involved. I welcome this debate, and I think it's healthy for our democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: A number of countries, including some who have loudly criticized the NSA, privately acknowledge that America has special responsibilities as the world's only superpower, that our intelligence capabilities are critical to meeting these responsibilities, and that they themselves have relied on the information we obtain to protect their own people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Those who are troubled by our existing programs are not interested in a repeat of 9/11, and those who defend these programs are not dismissive of civil liberties. The challenge is getting the details right, and that's not simple."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Effective immediately, we will only pursue phone calls that are two steps removed from a number associated with a terrorist organization instead of three."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America, we are better than these last eight years. We are a better country than this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What we should be asking is not whether we need a big government or small government, but how we can create a smarter and better government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Abraham Lincoln and Millard Fillmore had the same title. They were both presidents of the United States, but their tenure in office and their legacy could not be more different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we choose only to expose ourselves to opinions and viewpoints that are in line to our own, we become more polarized, more set in our own ways. It will only reinforce and deepen the political divides in our country. But if we choose to actively seek out information that challenges our assumptions and beliefs, perhaps we can begin to understand where the people who disagree with us are coming from."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will never forget who this victory truly belongs to. It belongs to you. It belongs to you. I was never the likeliest candidate for this office. We didn't start with much money or many endorsements. Our campaign was not hatched in the halls of Washington. It began in the backyards of Des Moines and the living rooms of Concord and the front porches of Charleston. It was built by working men and women who dug into what little savings they had to give $5 and $10 and $20 to the cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation. Yes we can. It was whispered by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom through the darkest of nights. Yes we can. It was sung by immigrants as they struck out from distant shores and pioneers who pushed westward against an unforgiving wilderness. Yes we can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and, make no mistake, it will impact how our military defends our country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I would not be running for President if I didn't believe with all my heart that this is what the vast majority of Americans want for this country. This union may never be perfect, but generation after generation has shown that it can always be perfected. And today, whenever I find myself feeling doubtful or cynical about this possibility, what gives me the most hope is the next generation - the young people whose attitudes and beliefs and openness to change have already made history in this election."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And I want to work with this Congress, to make sure Americans already burdened with student loans can reduce their monthly payments, so that student debt doesn't derail anyone's dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We believed we could prepare our kids for a more competitive world. And today, our younger students have earned the highest math and reading scores on record. Our high school graduation rate has hit an all-time high. And more Americans finish college than ever before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My fellow Americans, we are and always will be a nation of immigrants. We were strangers once, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What I believe unites the people of this nation, regardless of race or region or party, young or old, rich or poor, is the simple, profound belief in opportunity for all - the notion that if you work hard and take responsibility, you can get ahead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: No other country in the world does what we do. On every issue, the world turns to us, not simply because of the size of our economy or our military might - but because of the ideals we stand for, and the burdens we bear to advance them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America isn't Congress. America isn't Washington. America is the striving immigrant who starts a business, or the mom who works two low-wage jobs to give her kid a better life. America is the union leader and the CEO who put aside their differences to make the economy stronger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Nations are more successful when their women are successful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The nation that leads the clean energy economy will be the nation that leads the global economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Climate change poses a direct threat to the infrastructure of America that we need to stay competitive in this 21st-century economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The path towards sustainable energy sources will be long and sometimes difficult. But America cannot resist this transition, we must lead it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We want our children to live in an America that isn't burdened by debt, that isn't weakened by inequality, that isn't threatened by the destructive power of a warming planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As long as countries like China keep going all in on clean energy, so must we."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The world is less violent than it has ever been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The day after the attack, governor, I stood in the Rose Garden and I told the American people and the world that we are going to find out exactly what happened. That this was an act of terror and I also said that we're going to hunt down those who committed this crime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When it comes to the budget, we know that we shouldn't be cutting more on core investments, like education, that are going to help us grow in the future. And we've already seen the deficit cut in half. It's going down faster than any time in the last 60 years. So why would we make more cuts in education, more cuts in basic research? Nobody thinks that's a good idea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I do not accept that we cannot find a common sense way to preserve our traditions, including our basic second amendment freedoms and the rights of law abiding gun owners, while at the same time reducing the gun violence that unleashes so much mayhem on a regular basis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Ultimately, only diplomacy can bring about a durable solution to the challenge posed by Iran's nuclear program. As President and Commander in Chief, I will do what is necessary to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon. However, I have a profound responsibility to try to resolve our differences peacefully, rather than rush towards conflict."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our country was born out of a desire to be free. And every day since, it's been protected by our men and women in uniform - people who believed so deeply in America, they were willing to give their lives for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Peace depends upon compromise among peoples who must live together long after our speeches are over, long after our votes have been tallied."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: These days, the House Republicans actually give John Boehner a harder time than they give me. Which means orange really is the new black."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: But the question is, do we care enough? Do we care enough to keep standing up for the country that we know is possible, even if it's hard, and even if it's politically uncomfortable? Do we care enough to sustain the passion and the pressure to make our communities safer and our country safer? Do we care enough to do everything we can to spare other families the pain that is felt here today?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I know CNN has taken some knocks lately but the fact is, I admire their commitment to covering all sides of the story, just in case one of them happens to be accurate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town couldn't do anything about it was stunning to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For the first time in our history, the winners of the White House Turkey Pardon were chosen through a highly competitive online vote. And once again, Nate Silver completely nailed it. The guy is amazing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Nobody's madder than me about the website not working as well as it should, which means it's going to get fixed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You want to be commander-in-chief? You can start by standing up for the men and women who wear the uniform of the United States, even when it's not politically convenient."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Today, I can report that, as promised, the rest of our troops in Iraq will come home by the end of the year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've got to change our regulatory system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Well, I think that when you think about the challenges we face, these are challenges that require us to look forward and not backwards. When it comes to the economy I think we have to recognize that we are now in a global economy. And that the measure of our success is: how well are we training our workers? How well are we investing in the new energy economy?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We can't, you know, use our military to make sure the planet doesn't get warmer. And so that kind of leadership, of being able to bring people together, to apply practical commonsense solutions based on facts, based on science, based on what works you know, that's been the approach I have taken consistently as a public servant. That's the kind of style that I think we need in the presidency right now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Michelle [Obama] never fully took to the scrutiny. I mean, she's thrived as a first lady, but it's not her preference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [Michelle Obama] was the hardest sell. And she never fully embraced being in the public spotlight, which is ironic, given how good she is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I look forward to teaching the occasional class, 'cause I was a professor. And I had fun doing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I would say to people is, that investigation, as it has already been stated, is a marathon and not a sprint. But it is one of great concern to the American people. And so we're committed to keeping people informed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our focus on the investigation is really wide-ranging. And we can't limit it to just one point in time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have concerns whenever we see people who have large stockpiles of weapons, or appear to be in the process of accumulating weapons and ammunition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I can't really characterize any country, except to say that we work well with a number of our foreign counterparts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think every case is different. Every situation is different. People come on the F.B.I.'s radar screen for a variety of reasons at a variety of times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The president [Barack Obama] understands that the country's very concerned about [terrorism] issue. And I think what you're going to hear from him is a discussion about what government's doing to ensure all of our highest priority, the protection of the American people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The terror attacks have reshaped the campaign and may have given another boost to Donald Trump."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We were still able to see the phone records of a potential terrorist cause, we held them, now you have to hope the phone company still has them, you have to argue with their chief counsel by the time you get access to it, and try to find out who they've been talking to before it's too late."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: California is our biggest economy. California is our biggest agricultural producer. So what happens here matters to every working American."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Building on our Young South-east Asian Leaders Initiative, I'm hopeful that we can continue expand the ties and cooperation between our young people and students."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I know that the politics around trade can be very difficult - especially in an election year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The United States is committed to a regional order rooted in international rules and norms, including freedom of navigation, and the peaceful resolution of disputes. That's the only way to ensure our common security."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Philippines made a lawful and peaceful effort to resolve their maritime claims with China using the tribunal established under the Law of the Sea Convention (Unclos). The tribunal's ruling delivered a clear and legally binding decision on maritime claims in the South China Sea as they relate to China and the Philippines - and that ruling should be respected. We believe this decision can and should serve as an opportunity to renew efforts to address maritime claims peacefully."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't think the Democrats should think in narrow tactical terms about mid-term elections."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's also wonderful to be back with my great friend and ally, Chancellor [Angela] Merkel. As I reflect back over the last eight years, I could not ask for a steadier or more reliable partner on the world stage, often through some very challenging times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: At a time when the European project is facing challenges, it's especially important to show the benefits of economic integration by continuing to invest in our people and working to reduce inequality, both within and across our countries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I reiterated our hope that negotiations over the United Kingdom's exit from the E.U. will be conducted in a smooth and orderly and transparent fashion and preserve as closely as possible the economic and political and security relationships between the U.K. and E.U."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: E.U. need to be nurtured and cultivated and protected and fought for because the achievements that we've seen on this continent, in contrast to a divided Europe of the previous century, are ones that remind us of how important it is that we work together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Both of our nations [America and Germany] were proud to join the Paris Climate Agreement which the world should work to implement quickly. Continued global leadership on climate in addition to increasing private investment and clean energy is gonna be critical to meeting this growing threat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As part of the coalition against ISIL, we are putting that terrorist network under tremendous pressure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are very grateful for the vital contributions Germany has made to this fight, training local forces in Iraq, sharing intelligence providing reconnaissance aircraft including the recent deployment of additional NATO AWACS."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As Iraqi forces continue the liberation of Mosul, I'm pleased that NATO will be meeting the commitment we made in Warsaw to begin training additional forces in Iraq."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've consistently said, we need to support charter schools. I think it is important to experiment, by looking at how we can reward excellence in the classroom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My sister is a teacher, so I am a strong support of teachers, but I'm not going to be bound by just a certain way of talking about these things, in order for us to move forward on behalf of our kids."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think a lot of teachers want to talk about how to continually improve performance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that the Democratic Party is a big tent, which means that there are positions I may not agree with."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that when it comes to issues of trade, I think it is important for us to be in favor of trade, but I also think it is important to make sure that we are putting in place the labor standards, the environmental standards, that are going to provide some of a fighting chance for American workers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In America, we want a peaceful planet. We want people to be able to enjoy their lives and know they're going to have a bright and prosperous future, not be at war. That's our purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will work every single day to make sure that America continues to be the greatest nation on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you can look back and say, \"The economy's better. Our security's better. The environment's better. Our kids' education is better,\" if you can say that you've made things better, then considering all the challenges out there, you should feel good. But I'm the first to acknowledge that I did not crack the code in terms of reducing this partisan fever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The problem is that, over time, big pieces of business that have to get done without leadership from Washington, don't get done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I would have I think made a bigger mistake if I had said, \"Eh, chemical weapons. That doesn't really change my calculus.\" I think it was important for me as president of the United States to send a message that in fact there is something different about chemical weapons [in Syria]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have a deep appreciation for the wisdom of this guy , George Washington."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've got to be able to have a conversation and recognize we're all Americans; we all want the best for this country. We may have some disagreements in terms of how to get there, but all of us want to make sure that our economy is strong, that jobs are growing. All of us want to make sure that people aren't bankrupt when they get sick. All of us want to make sure that young people can afford an education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The president and the executive branch are always going to have greater latitude and greater authority when it comes to protecting America because sometimes you just have to respond quickly and not everything that is a danger can be publicized and be subject to open debate, but there have to be some guardrails."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Like Joe Biden and so many other Americans, I've lost people I love deeply to cancer. I've heard often from those whose loved ones are suffering from Alzheimer's, addiction, and other debilitating diseases. Their heartbreak is real, and so we have a responsibility to respond with real solutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's something about these steps [in Oval Office] and thinking about everybody who's walked here and all the business that's been done here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have greater awareness of where we're falling short than we used to. Just take the example of community police relations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Generally speaking, Rand Paul is been more wrong than right. He has an isolationist view of the world that I don`t share."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is the defining issue of our time. This is a make-or-break moment for the middle class and for all those who are fighting to get into the middle class."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The United States believes that every nation should respect international law, including in the South China Sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [We] are focused on protecting and defending our common security and upholding a rules-based order that undergirds the peace and prosperity of the region and the world. In this work, we are grateful for our continued partnership with Singapore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You may want to prove that you're worthy of other kids or neighbors who were wealthier than you and teased you. You may want to prove that you're worthy of high expectations. But I do think that there is a youthful ambition that very much has to do with making your mark in the world. And I think that cuts across the experiences of a lot of people who end up achieving something significant in their field."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that at a certain stage those early ambitions burn away, partly because you achieve something, you get something done, you get some notoriety. And then the particularities of who you are and what your deepest commitments are begin expressing themselves. You're not just chasing the idea of \"me\" being important, but you, rather, are chasing a particular passion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The world only makes sense to me given my life and my background if, in fact, we're not just an assortment of tribes that can never understand each other, but that we're, rather, one common humanity that can meet and learn and love each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't want to jump the gun, [but] I will tell you, though, that my goal is to have the best possible government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Lincoln basically pulled in all the people who had been running against him into his Cabinet because, whatever personal feelings there were, the issue was 'How can we get this country through this time of crisis?'\u2009"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other people - some who get credit, some who don't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You look at something like health care, the Affordable Care Act. And for all the controversy, we now have 20 million people who have health insurance who didn't have it. It's actually proven to be more effective, cheaper than even advocates like me expected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm named Barack Hussein Obama. I'm African-\u00adAmerican."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Cuban people must know that they have a friend and partner in the United States of America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's no doubt that on the issue of abortion, oftentimes it's very difficult to split the difference, although we can agree on the notion that none of us are pro-abortion and all of us would like to see a reduction in unwanted pregnancies, for example, and we could focus on those issues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We continue to stand united with Germany and our NATO allies in our ongoing efforts to build peace and stability in Afghanistan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Angela [Merkel] and I also agreed the need for a comprehensive and humane response to the devastating humanitarian crisis in Syria and for the influx of migrants and refugees from around the world. We need to build on the progress achieved at the U.N. Refugee Summit, which yielded new commitments from some 50 nations and organizations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: American politics is always somewhat fluid. In this age of social media, it means that voters can swing back and forth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: First and foremost, it's important to remember that, from my perspective at least, my most important legacy was making sure that the world didn't go into a Great Depression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: With respect to some of the specific legislation or initiatives that I've made, it's true that Republicans often opposed these things. Sometimes they opposed them because I proposed them. Now that they are responsible for governing, I think they'll find that reversing them would be counterproductive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the hardest things in politics is to convince people to do things now that will have a good effect 20 or 30 years from now because politicians tend to have a short-term view. They are more attentive to things that people care about today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The good news is that the Paris Agreement is not just a bilateral agreement between the United States and some other country. You have 200 countries who came together. It's an international agreement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Historically, when a previous US administration enters into an agreement, it carries forward into the future administration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've always viewed the Paris Agreement as a starting point. If you look at all the commitments that have been made by all the countries, it's still not sufficient to deal with the very dangerous situation we face. What it has done is that it created an architecture whereby as technology improves, as we find new clean sources of energy, as we make our economies more efficient, then gradually we can turn up the dial and improve the outcomes of Paris."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I do think that all politicians today have to be more attentive to people wanting to be heard, wanting to have more control over their lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Internationally, I have obviously been deeply concerned about how we fight the terrorist threat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's true that I have not been able to completely close Guantanamo, but we've drastically reduced the population from 700 or so to around 60 now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Democracy is hard work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'll be honest, there have been times when I've listened to the rhetoric in Europe where an easy equivalent somehow between the United States and Russia and between how our governments operate versus other governments operate, where those distinctions aren't made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I can say to the German people that the United States has been good for Germany. Has looked out for Germany. Has provided security for Germany. Has helped rebuilt Germany. And unify Germany."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In an age where there's so much active misinformation and its packaged very well and it looks the same when you see it on a Facebook page or you turn on your television. Where some overzealousness on the part of, you know, a U.S. official is equated with constant and severe repression elsewhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [Donald Trump] ran an extraordinarily unconventional campaign and it resulted in the biggest political upset in perhaps modern political history. American history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What I said to Donald Trump was that what may work in generating enthusiasm or passion during elections may be different than what will work in terms of unifying the country and gaining the trust even of those who didn't support him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My hope is that's something [Donald Trump] is thinking about, because not only is the president of the United States somebody that the entire country looks to for direction but sets the agenda internationally in a lot of ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: With respect to Syria, we are going to continue to work as we have over the last five, six years to push towards a political transition and settlement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We made America more respected around the world, took on the mantle of leadership in the fight to protect this planet for our kids, and much, much more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will support Iraqis and Syrians fighting to reclaim their communities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is time for a new compact among the civilized peoples of this world to eradicate war at its most fundamental source: the corruption of young minds by violent ideology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's time to end the hypocrisy of those who accumulate wealth through the global economy, and then siphon funds to those who teach children to tear it down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Before I even came into office, I said that preventing Iran from getting a nuclear weapon was a priority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In the past, there have been a range of treaties that divided Congress and every administration was able to get them through."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The degree of polarization that currently exists in Washington is such where I think it's fair to say if I presented a cure for cancer, getting legislation passed to move that forward would be a nail-biter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The map isn't always the territory, and you have to kind of walk through it to get a feel for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I want to thank the Greek people publicly for their humanitarian response to the crisis of so many migrants and refugees seeking safety in Europe. Greeks, especially on the islands, have shown extraordinary compassion and they've rightly earned the admiration of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Greek people have gone through some very difficult times and there's still a hard road ahead, but despite those hardships, Greece has continued to be a reliable ally, has shown true compassion to fellow human beings in need. It's an example of the Greek character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Sometimes if your only approach is cutting spending at a time when the economy's contracting, then the economy will contract further."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The United States has to go through structural reforms in terms of improving our education system or revamping our infrastructure or, you know, looking at some regulations that weren't properly controlling excesses on Wall Street."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My hope is that more and more investors around the world see an opportunity to do business in Greece."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: No two countries are identical, and obviously, there's a difference between a referendum on a very complex relationship between Great Britain and the rest of Europe, and a presidential election in the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have to deal with issues like inequality, we have deal with issues of economic dislocation, we have to deal with peoples fears that their children won't do as well as they have. The more aggressively and effectively we deal with those issues, the less those fears may channel themselves into counter-productive approaches that pit people against each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Congress is hard to deal with, dealing with, you know, multiple parliaments and commissions and unions and this and that and the other, that's very complicated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We know what happens when Europeans start dividing themselves up and emphasizing their differences and seeing a competition between various countries in a zero sum way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is a time of great change in the world but America's always been a pillar of strength and a beacon of hope to peoples around the globe and that's what it must continue to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For Democrats who are feeling completely discouraged, I've been trying to remind them, everybody remembers my Boston speech in 2004. They may not remember me showing up here in 2005 when John Kerry had lost a close election, Tom Daschle, the leader of the Senate, had been beaten in an upset. Ken Salazar and I were the only two Democrats that won nationally. Republicans controlled the Senate and the House, and two years later, Democrats were winning back Congress, and four years later I was President of the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There was a time when if you had a financial crisis in Southeast Asia somewhere, it had no impact on our markets. Today it does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The amount of information, the amount of incoming that any administration has to deal with today and respond to much more rapidly than ever before, that makes it different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Elections matter and voting counts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Some of Donald Trump's gifts that obviously allowed him to execute one of the biggest political upsets in history, those are ones that hopefully he will put to good use on behalf of all the American people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The American people recognize that their careers or their kids' careers are going to have to be more dynamic. That they might not be working at a single plant for 30 years. That they might have to change careers. They might have to get more education. They might have to retool or retrain. And I think the American people are game for that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those gaps. That those were wrongs done to the black community as a whole, and black families specifically, and that in order to close that gap, a society has a moral obligation to make a large, aggressive investment, even if it's not in the form of individual reparations checks, but in the form of a Marshall Plan, in order to close those gaps. It is easy to make that theoretical argument."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have much more confidence in my ability, or any president or any leader's ability, to mobilize the American people around a multiyear, multibillion-dollar investment to help every child in poverty in this country than I am in being able to mobilize the country around providing a benefit specific to African Americans as a consequence of slavery and Jim Crow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that part of my optimism comes from the belief that we as a people could actually, regardless of all the disadvantage of the past, regardless of the fact that a lot of other folks got a head start in the race, if we were able to make the race fair right now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Imagine if you had genuine, high-quality early-childhood education for every child, and suddenly every black child in America - but also every poor white child or Latino [child], but just stick with every black child in America - is getting a really good education. And they're graduating from high school at the same rates that whites are, and they are going to college at the same rates that whites are, and they are able to afford college at the same rates because the government has universal programs. So now they're all graduating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [The Americans] believe in the idea that Jamal and Johnny should be treated equally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [The Americans] believe in the idea that a child shouldn't be consigned to poverty just because of circumstances of their birth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Now, in practice, in daily social interactions, etc., there may be all kinds of biases and prejudices that are unspoken, that people aren't aware of, that affect who's hired, and who gets loans, and how kids are treated in school. But it's a powerful thing if you have on your side an idea that the overwhelming majority of people believe in because that's how you can build a consensus that's lasting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very easily in the minds of a lot Americans feel like, \"Now I'm being treated unfairly.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I want my children - I want Malia and Sasha - to understand that they've got responsibilities beyond just what they themselves have done. That they have a responsibility to the larger community and the larger nation, that they should be sensitive to and extra thoughtful about the plight of people who have been oppressed in the past, are oppressed currently."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It requires enormous energy for us to cut the African American uninsured rate by a third. A lot of scars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we win all those fights, and now let's say the income gap, and the wealth gap, and the education gap have for the most part been closed - let's say hypothetically, , first of all, America as a whole would be a lot richer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Let's say hypothetically, knowing what we know now about public policy, that we could close the education gap so that it was only a couple percentage points, and we could make sure that hiring barriers and educational barriers had been leveled down, and unemployment among African Americans right now instead of being double was only 10 percent higher than white unemployment - if we got to that point , America as a whole would be a lot richer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I actually believe that some residue of discrimination would lessen, because it's my view that there is a certain percentage of the white population that stereotypes and makes assumptions about African Americans because they don't inject the history of slavery and Jim Crow into current incarceration rates, or crime rates, or poverty rates, or what have you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's a generational project just to get America to live up fully to its ideals and to have the kind of society where everybody has a shot, and every kid is getting a good education, and people are getting living wages, and they have decent retirement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: That support has been so constant and gracious and loving. Michelle and I have never felt as if, at any stage, folks didn't have our backs. And as a consequence, I think that just spurred us on that much more to make us want to do the right thing, and do our best in the positions that we have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When we were working on immigration reform and there was a young Latino man, young immigration activist here who, in the Roosevelt Room, refused to shake my hand.He made a point of saying, \"I can't shake your hand; you're deporting too many people.\" And I just said to him, \"Young man, I'm glad that you feel so passionately about this issue, but you're with the president right now in the White House. You've got to think about what's going to be most effective in getting what you need, what you're trying to accomplish. Because this may not be your best strategy.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm not saying I'm impervious to criticism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the things that you come pretty early on to understand in this job, and you start figuring out even during the course of the campaign, is that there's Barack Obama the person and there's Barack Obama the symbol, or the office holder, or what people are seeing on television, or just a representative of power. And so when people criticize or respond negatively to me, usually they're responding to this character that they're seeing on TV called Barack Obama, or to the office of the presidency and the White House and what that represents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: That applies, by the way, even to some of the folks who are now [Donald] Trump supporters. They're responding to a fictional character named Barack Obama who they see on Fox News or who they hear about through Rush Limbaugh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's useful for activists just to be out there to keep you mindful and not get complacent, even if ultimately you think some of their criticism is misguided."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that where I've gotten frustrated during the course of my presidency has never been because I was getting pushed too hard by activists to see the justness of a cause or the essence of an issue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The problem was, and we saw some of this in the immigration-reform issues as well, was they hadn't done sufficient homework to know that I didn't have all the capacity they thought I did in order to just execute this through the stroke of a pen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: That sort of lack of awareness on the part of an activist about the constraints of our political system and the constraints on this office, I think, sometimes would leave me to mutter under my breath. Very rarely did I lose it publicly. Yeah, usually I'd just smile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It wasn't until about a year, year and a half in where I began to realize that the Pentagon and our national-security apparatus and the CIA were all getting too comfortable with the technology as a tool to fight terrorism, and not being mindful enough about how that technology is being used and the dangers of a form of warfare that is so detached from what is actually happening on the ground. And so we initiated this big process to try to get it in a box."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The truth is that, in trying to get at terrorists who are in countries that either are unwilling or unable to capture those terrorists or disable them themselves, there are a lot of situations where the use of a drone is going to result in much fewer civilian casualties and much less collateral damage than if I send in a battalion of marines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You wouldn't know that if you talked to Human Rights Watch or Amnesty International or some of the international activist organizations. Certainly you wouldn't know that if you were talking to some of the writers who criticize our drone policy. But I've actually told my staff it's probably good that they stay critical of this policy, even though I think right now we're doing the best that we can in a dangerous world with terrorists who would gladly blow up a school bus full of American kids if they could."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When you take on the position of president, you are committing yourself to, first and foremost, protecting the American people. You are accepting an institutional role that requires you to make hard decisions and hard choices, and as a consequence you have to take your moral sense and not put it aside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Going back to the discussion we were having about immigration reform, some of the most challenging discussions I've had are with activists who essentially would argue that any immigrant from Central America, let's say, who gets here to this country should be allowed to stay because their country is dangerous, their country is poor, and the opportunities for that mom and that kid are much greater here, and why would you send them back?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I said to one young activist who herself was the daughter of an undocumented worker, and so could speak from a very personal and legitimate perspective - I remember saying to her: I agree with you, from a moral perspective, that a child from Honduras is worth the same as my daughter. God is not a respecter of boundaries; he's not saying that American kids deserve a better life than Honduran kids. But I'm the president of the United States, and the nation-state by definition means that boundaries mean something and borders mean something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I can say with confidence that I never bought into the hype, and I made sure that the people around me didn't buy into the hype, and I did not surround myself with people who fed me the hype. And I'm glad of that as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In many ways [those middle-aged black ladies] my touchstone, because they are what I meant when I talked about the audacity of hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Those are the ladies sitting in church. And in the same way that they might feel a joy and release on Sunday, they are still going to work on Monday. And that's who I was listening to during this process. And if at the end of my presidency they feel like I did a pretty good job, then I'll feel pretty good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I want to deal with the homeless situation here in Washington, D.C. I think it is a travesty that we've got men - and increasingly women - families, across the street and the in shadow of this great capital, that shows a lack of concern, not just for the capital, but for American, when we are allowing something like that to happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are going to trace more effectively, how these guns are ending up on the streets, to unscrupulous gun dealers, who often times are selling to straw purchasers. And cracking down on the various loopholes that exist in terms of background checks for children, the mentally ill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Any discuss about taxes ends up being, are you raising them or lowering them, as the opposed to the question I ask - are we raising them for high income individuals that can afford it, and lowering them for lower income people who really need help. Those old categories don't work, and they're preventing us from solving them problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we have a phased redeployment where we're as careful getting out as we were careless getting in, then there's not reason why we shouldn't be able to prevent the wholesale slaughter I think some people have suggested might occur."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are engaging in the diplomatic efforts that are required within Iraq among the Shia, the Sunni and the Kurd, among friends, like Egypt, and Turkey and Saudi Arabia, but also enemies like Iran and Syria. They have to have buy-in into that process."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've said consistently that I always reserve the right, in conjunction with a broader international effort, to prevent genocide or any wholesale slaughter than might happen inside of Iraq or anyplace else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that America has to stand with democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are people in Iran who have the same aspirations as people all around the world for a better life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think the American people recognize is after a decade of war it's time to do some nation building here at home. And what we can now do is free up some resources, to, for example, put Americans back to work, especially our veterans, rebuilding our roads, our bridges, our schools, making sure that, you know, our veterans are getting the care that they need when it comes to post-traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury, making sure that the certifications that they need for good jobs of the future are in place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Mitt Romney is familiar with jobs being shipped overseas because he invested in companies that were shipping jobs overseas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Having a tax code that rewards companies that are shipping jobs overseas instead of companies that are investing here in the United States, that will not make us more competitive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I want to control our own energy by developing oil and natural gas but also the energy sources of the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I want to reduce America's deficit by cutting spending that we don't need but also by asking the wealthy to do a little bit more so that we can invest in things like research and technology that are the key to a 21st century economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Losing the PR battles, particularly about healthcare, translated into losing his Democratic majorities in Congress, beginning with a Republican landslide in the midterm election of 2010."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Members of Congress on both sides of the aisle, are motivated by all kinds of issues. They're sincerely interested in the economy, in terrorism, in social issues. But the one overriding thing they're interested in is getting reelected. And if they think that it's harder for them to get reelected by cooperating with each other, then they won't cooperate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Supreme Court nominations [example]. I mean, the fact that Mitch McConnell, the leader of the Republicans, was able to just stop a nomination almost a year before the next election and really not pay a political price for it, that's a sign that the incentives for politicians in this town to be so sharply partisan have gotten so outta hand that we're weakening ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Tea Party I have huge disagreements with, obviously. But I give them credit for having activated themselves. And they made a difference in terms of moving the Republican Party, in terms of moving the country in a particular direction. It's a direction I disagreed with. But it showed that, in fact, you get involved, if your voice is heard it has an impact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that [Donald Trump] clearly was able to tap into a lot of grievances. And he has a talent for making a connection with his supporters that overrode some of the traditional benchmarks of how you'd run a campaign or conduct yourself as a presidential candidate. What will be interesting to see is how that plays out during the course of his presidency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [With Donald Trump] we are moving into an era where a lot of people get their information through tweets and sound bites and some headline that comes over their phone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that there's a power in that [information through tweets and sound bites ]. There's also a danger, what generates a headline or stirs up a controversy and gets attention isn't the same as the process required to actually solve the problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One thing both men have in common is a love of golf and a shared knowledge of the word \"mulligan,\" which means a do-over to replace a lousy shot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are reaching a tipping where the pace of settlements, during the course of my presidency has gotten so substantial that it's getting harder and harder to imagine an effective, contiguous Palestinian state. And I think it would have long-term consequences for peace and security in the region, and the United States, because of our investment in the region, and because we care so deeply about Israel, I think has a legitimate interest in saying to a friend, \"This is a problem.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our kids grew up here [in the White House]. Some of our best friends have been made here in this place. There have been moments that were highlights for us - that - you know, are going to be hard to duplicate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think we've set the bar with respect to the notion that it is possible to provide health care for people. Now I know that the incoming Congress and administration talks about repealing it. But we've set a bar that shows that this can be done. And that core principle is one that the majority of Americans, including supporters of Donald Trump believe in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am looking forward to getting out of the bubble. I am glad that I'm leaving this place at a relatively young age, at 55. So I have the opportunity for a second maybe even a third act in a way that I think would be tougher if I were, you know, the age of some presidents when they left."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've got a grocery bill at the end of every month.Our toothpaste, our orange juice, that all gets paid. But I - it is true that I don't carry my wallet that often."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [We should beware] that our democracy stays healthy. And making sure that we maintain that sense of solidarity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The ability of Republican leaders to rile up their base - helped along by folks like Rush Limbaugh, some commentators on Fox News - I think created an environment in which Republican voters would punish Republicans for cooperating with me. That hothouse of back-and-forth argument and - and really sharp partisanship I think has been harmful to America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Part of the power of the Internet is that information flows out there and it's generally not censored and it's generally not controlled by any single authority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We don't make determinations about who we love. And that's why I think that discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My hope is that we can get a Republican-Democratic agreement on how we strengthen Social Security as well as looking at some of these other major expenditures that we have that we've got to deal with to make sure that we're not just leaving you guys with a mountain of debt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think there are a lot of people who are involved in the Tea Party who have very real and sincere concerns about spending that's out of control or generally philosophically believe that the government should be less involved in certain aspects of American life rather than more involved. And they have every right and obligation as citizens to be involved and engaged in this process."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One thing I think we have to do is to make sure that the undocumented workers who are living in America today, that they have to take responsibility. They've got to register, pay a fine, pay their back taxes, learn English and then get on a pathway in which they could have the prospect of being here legally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When you're out of work and you can't buy a home or you've lost your home and you're worried about paying your bills, then you become more worried about what other folks are doing. And sometimes that organizes itself around kind of a tribal attitude, and issues of race become more prominent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've now got a group of young people in this country who for all practical purposes are American. They grew up here. They've gone to school here. They don't know anything other than being American kids. But their parents may have brought them here without all the proper paperwork - might have brought them here when they were three, might have brought them here when they were five. And so, lo and behold, by the time they finish school, and they're ready to go to college, they find out they can't go to college and, in fact, their status as Americans are threatened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The more we are using clean energy, renewable energy sources, the less environmentally problematic facilities end up being a problem for everybody, but particularly for folks who have to suffer the consequences of some of these facilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we have actionable intelligence about high value terrorist targets and President [Pervez] Musharraf will not act, we will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [White House] feels even more like home now because you have all these memories that were formed watching your kids grow up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I, more than anything, obviously the presidency is the people, and it's been interesting the emotions in the last few months. What you realize is that you may never have the team that is together in the same way, under the same pressures, and the attachments that you make to folks from your chief of staff down to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We had a farewell dinner for some of my senior staff, and generally everybody likes to talk about how cool I was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [The White House staff] start bringing in their kids, who you think should be babies and now are in second grade or something, and you've watched them grow up. So I think what ends up happening is you end up maintaining those networks and those contacts, but the concentrated interactions and experience that you have here, I don't think, I don't expect you can duplicate anyplace else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we're not vigilant foreign countries can have an impact on the political debate in the United States in ways that might not have been true 10, 20, 30 years ago in - in part because of the way news is transmitted and in part because so many people are skeptical of mainstream news organizations that - everything's true and everything's false."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In that kind of environment, where there's so much skepticism about information that's coming in, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time thinking about how do we protect our democratic process."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that what is true is that the Russians intended to meddle, and they meddled. And it could be another country in the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The conversations have been cordial. [Donald Trump] has been open to suggestions, and the main thing that I've tried to transmit is that there's a different between governing and campaigning, so that what he has to appreciate is as soon as you walk into this office after you've been sworn in, you're now in charge of the largest organization on Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You can't manage [country] the way you would manage a family business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've enjoyed the conversations that we've had. [Donald Trump] is somebody who I think is not lacking in confidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Let's say I'm on the policy wonk end of the spectrum. As much as I can dive into a briefing book and really work to master various subjects that come before my desk, I'm still not an expert on a huge amount of the stuff that we work on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've said to [Donald Trump], and I think others have said to him that the day that he is the President of the United States, there are world capitals and financial markets and people all around the world who take really seriously what he says, and in a way that's just not true before you're actually sworn in as president."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The rise in health care costs since Obamacare, the Affordable Care Act was passed, have been at their lowest rate in 50 years. Those savings have extended the Medicare trust fund by 11 years. So we've got a baseline of facts.So it is true theoretically that all that progress can be undone, and suddenly 20 million people or more don't have health insurance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think Republicans now are recognizing that [Obamacare cancellation] may not be what the American people, including even [Donald] Trump voters, are looking for. And my hope is that the president-elect, members of Congress from both parties look at, \"Where have we objectively made progress, where things are working better?\" Don't undo things just because I did them. I don't have pride of authorship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm skeptical that [the Republicans] can do [something better with healthcare] mainly because for seven years now, including when we first tried to pass health care, I said to 'em, \"Okay, if [Obamacare] doesn't work tell me what does.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the gratifying things, I think, about the end of my presidency even though admittedly my successor ran against a lot of what we stood for, is when you look at the individual issues and the progress that we've made on a lot of those issues, we got the support of a pretty decent majority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If in fact the Republicans make some modifications [of Obamacare], some of which I may have been seeking previously, but they wouldn't cooperate because they didn't wanna make the system work, and re-label it as Trumpcare, I'm fine with that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Toughest decision was early in my presidency when I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan. As somebody who had run to end a large troop presence overseas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What we have done, I think, is build a model from a lot of hard lessons in Afghanistan and Iraq but in other places around the world, where we are working with them in an advisory capacity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We don't have this huge footprint, we are less likely to be targeted as, you know, occupiers [in Afghanistan and Iraq]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [Our troops in Iraq and Afganistan] does give us the ability to make sure that we are strengthening those folk who are interested in building up their countries rather than destroying them, and doing so in a way that is sustainable and doesn't put a constant burden on the amazing men and women that we've got in uniform."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think we did a really good job in saving this economy and putting us back on the track of growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In 2010 there were a lot of folks who were still out of work. There were a lot of folks who had lost their homes or saw their home values plummet, their 401k's plummet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I started as a community organizer. Every one of my campaigns was premised on getting new people involved. And if there's a theme in my public career it's that if ordinary people get involved then good things happen. So I want to see the Democratic Party move in that direction. And what that means is that we aren't just micro-targeting to eke out presidential victories; it means that we're showing up in places where right now we're not winning a lot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you look at sort of how politics has divided itself here in this country, the big divide right now is between urban areas, which have become increasingly Democratic, and rural or exurban areas that feel as if they're being ignored."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we're not there making the argument then the cultural gulf that Republicans try to exploit saying, \"Ah, these city slickers: they're all looking down on you, they don't care about you. They're just trying to help out their various special interest constituencies,\" that argument ends up being successful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I invigorated the grassroots in the Republican Party as well as the Democratic Party."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Health care got done because there were a lot of people out there who aren't professional politicians, but are citizens, who pushed for it even when the politics was hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think I did in the sense that there's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible. And that generation, it's coming."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I can document this past week [of presidency] we've put out memos from every agency showing what did we do. Try to be as honest as possible. There's a little hype involved obviously. It's spin because it's our agencies. We feel some pride about it. But tried to be self-critical as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What is true, though, is now we've got a bunch of videos that whatever side of the issue you're on, raises the temperature on these issues and makes people really focused ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is important for us to understand that the way we are perceived in the world is going to make a difference, in terms of our capacity to get cooperation and root out terrorism. And one of the things that I intend to do as president is to restore America's standing in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think it is possible for the world to see a Palestinian state - I'm not going to put a time frame on it - that is contiguous, that allows freedom of movement for its people, that allows for trade with other countries, that allows the creation of businesses and commerce so that people have a better life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When I think about what I'm going through, as President, it doesn't compare to what the folks that I'm representing are going through. They're losing jobs. They're trying to figure out how to pay their medical bills. They've seen retirements suddenly dissipate because of what's happening in the stock market. And so as tough as the job might be, and the politics of Washington can sometimes be I'm always reminded of how fortunate I am to be here, and what an extraordinary responsibility I have to try to deliver on some of the promises that I made during the election."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Go back to - my first campaign for the United States Senate. I got a bunch of people now talking about inequality. But back then they sure weren't. Back then, folks were saying I was preaching class warfare. Now it's suddenly their campaign platform."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've been talking about things like reversing the rise of inequality and strengthening social\nmobility,since before it was cool."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Nobody likes taxes. I would prefer that none of us had to pay taxes, including myself."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The trade agreement itself does have labor and environmental protections, but we have to stand for human rights and we have to make sure that violence isn't being perpetrated against workers who are just trying to organize for their rights."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Iran has made vile comments, anti-Semitic comments, comments about the destruction of Israel. It is precisely for that reason that even before I became president, I said Iran could not have a nuclear weapon."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What we have done though is consistently looked for additional opportunities to get stuff done. Wherever we see a possibility of increasing wages, creating more jobs, making sure that more people are able to access opportunity, we're gonna seize it."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Those opportunity gaps begin early, often at birth. And they compound over time, becoming harder and harder to bridge, making too many young men and women feel like, no matter how hard they try, they may never achieve their dreams."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that leadership more than anything is about setting a course and describing a vision for people."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Whenever I look at the history of presidents I deeply admire - the one thing that I'm always struck by is persistence. It's a quality that's underrated. Being able to plough through, being able to stay buoyant in the face of challenges."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: A lot of pictures of yourself - you know, it's a little narcissistic."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known. I believe in self-reliance and individual initiative and risk-takers being rewarded. But I also believe that everybody should have a fair shot and everybody should do their fair share and everybody should play by the same rules, because that's how our economy's grown. That's how we built the world's greatest middle class."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My abiding faith in the American people is undiminished. That's still what drives me every single day."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you look at how I've tried to and how I'll continue to try to govern, I'm not driven by some ideological agenda. I'm a pretty practical guy and I just want to make sure that things work."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have an epidemic of fatherlessness here, and that's what I agree with the president [Barack Obama] on, and we should be doing more to promote and protect marriage as between a man and a women for the needs of our children."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think it's really important to enlarge the issue behind abortion. I have been serving for over two decades and I have seen year in and year out largely the Republicans voting against women's contraception, family planning."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: They [ Respublicans] wanna argue the sensational which is about abort not certain cases of abortion, but the fact is it's a fundamental disrespect for women - women's judgment about the sizing and time of their families."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My view is that discrimination against anyone at the ballot box is wrong and should have the full enforcement of the federal government."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What we want is for people to know that you can get affordable health care and most young Americans, they're not covered and the truth is they can get coverage all for what it costs to pay your cell phone bill."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Those who adhere to the ideology of rejecting Israel\u2019s right to exist, they might as well reject the earth beneath them or the sky above, because Israel is not going anywhere."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm willing to work with anyone of either party who has a good idea and the commitment to see through. And we should all expect you to hold us accountable for our progress or our failure to deliver."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't want to make promises, not knowing what the situation's going to be three or four years out."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we're trying to protect the American public, we should not put in place a travel ban."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My goal is not to resolve conflicts and tensions in the region through more war. My goal is to make sure that, you know, we are able to negotiate a deal that we can verify."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Rand`s [Paul] a libertarian. He has a view of the world that I don`t share. He said that we shouldn`t have any troops in Iraq. He agreed with Obama that was a disaster. When there was a chance to do something constructive about Syria with a no-fly zone, he said we don`t need one."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think sometimes Europe may take for granted the extraordinary progress that's been made over the last 40, 50 years. I recognize that sometimes there is great frustration that arises out of the euro zone or out of the EU."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that Mr. Snowden raised some legitimate concerns. How he did it was something that did not follow the procedures and practices of our intelligence community. If everybody took the approach that I make my own decisions about these issues, then it would be very hard to have an organized government or any kind of national security system."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We do have to balance this issue of privacy and security. Those who pretend that there's no balance that has to be struck and think we can take a 100-percent absolutist approach to protecting privacy don't recognize that governments are going to be under an enormous burden to prevent the kinds of terrorist acts that not only harm individuals, but also can distort our society and our politics in very dangerous ways."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our lives are now in a telephone, all our data, all our finances, all our personal information, and so it's proper that we have some constraints on that. But it's not going to be 100 percent. If it is 100 percent, then we're not going to be able to protect ourselves and our societies from some people who are trying to hurt us."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our vulnerability to Russia or any other foreign power is directly related to how divided, partisan, dysfunctional our political process is. That's the thing that makes us vulnerable."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [People] are looking for some means of control and what that means is is that the politics in all of our countries is gonna require us to manage technology and global integration and all these demographic shifts in a way that makes people feel more control, that gives them more confidence in their future."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that our politics everywhere are gonna be going through this bumpy phase. But as long as we stay true to our Democratic principles, as long as elections have integrity, as long as we respect freedom of speech, freedom of religion, as long as there are checks and balances in our governments so that the people have the ability to not just make judgments about how well government is serving them but also change governments if they're not serving them well, then I have confidence that over the long term, progress will continue."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [Young people] are much less likely to express attitudes that defied us between us and them. They see themselves as part of a global economy that they can navigate successfully."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are growing the economy in smart ways and rebuilding our infrastructure and investing in science and development and that we stay true to those values that helped to get us here."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I would not advise people who feel strongly or are concerned about some of the issues that have been raised during the course of the [president electing] campaign."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What I consistently say to young people - I say it in the United States, but I'll say it here in Germany and across Europe: Do not take for granted our systems of government and our way of life. I think there is a tendency, because we have lived in an era that has been largely stable and peaceful, at least in advanced countries, where living standards have generally gone up, there is a tendency I think to assume that that's always the case."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The good news is I think there are a lot of young people certainly who were involved in my campaigns, and I think continue to be involved in work not just politically, but through nonprofits and other organizations, that can carry this hard work of democracy forward."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you look at Libya, I was deeply concerned about what would happen after Qaddafi was gone."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's no way to resolve Syria without Iran being involved, given its financing of Assad and the fact that Hezbollah is probably the most effective fighting force that Assad can count on."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think it's true that we shouldn't apply a strict litmus test and the most important thing in any judge is their capacity to provide fairness and justice to the American people."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that it's important for judges to understand that if a woman is out there trying to raise a family, trying to support her family, and is being treated unfairly, then the court has to stand up, if nobody else will. And that's the kind of judge that I want."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I could say, as a member of Congress, we usually get an alert if something is going to happen at the Capitol."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We invest in early childhood education. We invest additional job training dollars. We make sure that we've got a strong research and development strategy so that we continue to innovate. Rebuilding our infrastructure, which we know will attract businesses."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What you have to do is to look at what's going to keep our economic growth going, what's going to make sure jobs are being created."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are not going to have a situation where our education spending goes back to its lowest level since the year 2000 despite a larger population and more kids to educate. We know that the single most important thing in terms of how well we can compete around the world is the quality of our workforce. We can't do that to our kids."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We continue to believe that a two-state solution is the only way for the long-term security of Israel, if it wants to stay both a Jewish state and democratic."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We're going to make sure, regardless of disagreements we have on policy, that our military and intelligence cooperation to keep the Israeli people safe continues and that cooperation also helps the American people stay safe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The changes in thinking about same-sex marriage have come slowly at first and then in rapid course. If such change is possible in this area, is it also possible in the vexed and sordid realm of race relations?"
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I can't even get a credit card without three credit bureaus saying I'm good enough."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up to the point of viability."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe it`s important to be open and honest, especially with your friends."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Reversing structural problems in our economy that have been building up for two decades, that was gonna take time. It was gonna take more than a year. It was gonna take more than two years. It was gonna take more than one term. Probably takes more than one president."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The United States often finds itself in a situation where if it goes in militarily then it is criticized for going in militarily, and if it doesn't go in militarily, then people say, why aren't you doing something militarily?"
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: He [Barack Obama] might have a pen, and he might have a phone, but what he does not have is the constitutional power to run this country like a dictator."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Here at home, we will strengthen our defenses but not succumb to a siege mentality that sacrifices the open society and liberties and values that we cherish as Americans, because great and proud nations don't hunker down and hide behind walls of suspicion and mistrust."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We must begin by acknowledging a hard truth. We will not eradicate violent conflict in our lifetimes. There will be times when nations, acting individually or in concert, will find the use of force not only necessary but morally justified."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The United States of America has helped underwrite the global security for more than six decades with the blood of our citizens and the strength of our arms. The service and sacrifice of our men and women in uniform has promoted peace and prosperity from Germany to Korea and enabled democracy to take hold in places like the Balkans."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We're going to reverse a trend that is killing most families in this country, and that is they're having to go in their pocket for more and more money for health care every year."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The fear among economists across the political spectrum that was - was that we were rapidly plummeting towards a second Great Depression. So, in the weeks and months that followed, we undertook a series of difficult steps to prevent that outcome. And we were forced to take those steps largely without the help of an opposition party, which, unfortunately, after having presided over the decision-making that had led to the crisis, decided to hand it over to others to solve."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Many of us were kind of irritated with Obama for larding it with tax cut, which we didn't think was going to be stimulative."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What's good for America better damn well be good for General Motors."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What is certainly true is that the United States has to have a presence to promote the values that we care about."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Everything we've done has been designed to make sure that we address that number one priority. That's what the sanctions regime was all about. That's how we were able to mobilize the international community, including some folks that we are not particularly close to, to abide by these sanctions. That's how these crippling sanctions came about, was because we [USA] were able to gain global consensus that Iran having a nuclear weapon would be a problem for everybody."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Iran will for sure have pledged to the international community that it will not develop a nuclear weapon, and now will be subject to an additional protocol, a more vigorous inspection and monitoring regime that lasts in perpetuity."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Essentially, Iran was sanctioned because of what had happened at Fordow, its unwillingness to comply with previous U.N. security resolutions about their nuclear program, and as part of the package of sanctions that was slapped on them, the issue of arms and ballistic missiles were included."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The criminal-justice system is, obviously, the sole source of racial tension in this country [USA] or the key institution to resolving the opportunity gap. It is a part of the broader set of challenges that we face in creating a more perfect union."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What we have to do is make sure that here in America, if you work hard, you can get ahead. If you worked hard, not only did you have a good job, but you also had decent benefits, decent health care. We've got to make sure that we're doing everything we can to expand the middle class and people who are working hard can get into the middle class."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have to have better intelligence. We have to have better interdiction capabilities. And so the issue is not how much we spend or how hard we try; the issue is are we doing it the right way? Are we being smart about it?"
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Even limited military actions end up carrying with them great costs and unintended consequences."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I always enjoy watching Republicans compliment Bill Clinton now, because at the time, I'm sure he didn't feel a lot of the love."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the things I've learned about being president is that we'll work on issues for long periods of time, sometimes in obscurity."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think I have an ongoing conversation with God. I think throughout the day, I'm constantly asking myself questions about what I'm doing, why am I doing it."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the interesting things about being in public life is there are constantly these pressures being placed on you from different sides. To be effective, you have to be able to listen to a variety of points of view, synthesize viewpoints."
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    "text": "Barack Obama: I think it's perfectly consistent to say that I want my government to be operating for all faiths and all peoples, including atheists and agnostics, while also insisting that there are values tha tinform my politics that are appropriate to talk about."
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    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm blown away. I'm flabbergasted the president [Barack Obama] made the phone call to Rouhani after 30-plus, `79, 33 years or so. And there's a reason we haven't negotiated with Iran, because they're state-sponsored terrorists. They're the central bank for terrorism around the world."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: He [Barack Obama] talked about a crisises and he was blaming the Republicans on this crisises. It's like me blaming my wife for my drinking. I don't se how this is the Republicans fault."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I spoke on the phone with President Rouhani of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The two of us discussed our ongoing efforts to reach an agreement over Iran's nuclear program. While there will surely be important obstacles to moving forward and success is by no means guaranteed, I believe we can reach a comprehensive solution."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Iran's Supreme Court has issued a fatwa against the development of nuclear weapons. President [Hassan] Rouhani has indicated Iran will never develop nuclear weapons. I've made clear that we respect the right of the Iranian people to access peaceful nuclear energy in the context of Iran meeting its obligations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think it is important first of all that the president of the United States underscores our commitment to partnering with countries around the world, even though we're not intimidated by terrorist organisations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: FDR, JFK, LBJ [all Democratic presidents ] we have a pretty long list of presidents who maybe were not entirely forthcoming with intelligence information before they went to war, so I'd be cautious against making legal cases against the administration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We can't in any way criticize or at least indict or impeach administration [of Democratic presidents] for doing what they did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that most Americans don't resent people for getting rich. They want to get rich themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't think that hedge funds are bad per se. I think they're just one more financial tool. And in that sense, they're useful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through which I see the world is the lens that I grew up with. I am the product of a working class upbringing."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The president of the United States is supposed to lead the free world and not follow it. Other nations have been more outspoken. So, I hope that we'll hear more of this because young men and women taking to the streets in Tehran need our support. The signs are in English. They're basically asking for us to speak up on their behalf."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: American values and legal traditions do not permit the indefinite detention of people beyond our borders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have to enforce the laws we've already got, make sure that we're keeping guns out of the hands of criminals, those who are mentally ill. I also share your belief that weapons that were designed for soldiers in war theaters don't belong on our streets. And so what I'm trying to do is to get a broader conversation about how do we reduce the violence generally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe that the free enterprise system is the greatest engine of prosperity the world's ever known."
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  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have always had extraordinarily good relations with very conservative colleagues. And that's not because I agree with any of them or fudge on my positions, but people feel I listen to them and give them the benefit of the doubt. I assume the best of people. And that, I think, is an attitude that is maybe rare in politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: People take pride in being Irish-American and Italian-American. They have a particular culture that infuses the whole culture and makes it richer and more interesting. I think if we can expand that attitude to embrace African-Americans and Latino-Americans and Asian-Americans, then we will be in a position where all our kids can feel comfortable with the worlds they are coming out of, knowing they are part of something larger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The other reason might be that you want to talk to voters when you've got seven primaries in seven days. Understand what's happened in this race - where we campaign actively in a state, and voters have the chance to see me directly, they check under the hood, and they kick the tires, when we don't have as much time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is my strong belief that Israel has not just the right but the obligation to protect itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In our democracy and our civic discourse, it seems as if folks who take religion the most seriously are sometimes also those who are suspicious of those not like them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't think we should ever accept the idea that someone can come along and take away our safety and our freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Obviously, if Congress wants to talk about anything, we're happy to provide information. We're committed to moving forward under the current act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We do want people to know if in fact we learn of an incident that's focused on a particular city.If we learn of long-term planning, that's focused on a particular industry or infrastructure. And so we feel we have an obligation to let people know if we have information of a credible threat or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: ISIS is not an organization that can destroy the United States. This is not a huge industrial power that can pose great risks to us, institutionally or in a systematic way. But they can hurt us. And they can hurt our people and our families."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I make no apologies for us wanting to do this [bombing Iraq and Syria] appropriately and in a way that is consistent with American values."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Non-Islamic, non-foreign-motivated terrorist actions have killed at least as many Americans on American soil as those who were promoted by jihadists. But what we have also seen is ISIL evolve, because of the sophistication of their social media, to a point where they may be inspiring more attacks - even if they're self-initiated, even if they don't involve complex planning - than we would have seen some time ago."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you listen to the rhetoric, it is so over-the-top and so overheated, and most importantly, is not acknowledging the fact that there's nothing else [like guns] in our lives that we purchase where we don't try to make it a little safer if we can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I just want to repeat that there's nothing that we've proposed that would make it harder for you to purchase a firearm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In a moment when the outcome of our revolution was most in doubt the father of our nation ordered these words be read to the people. Let it be told to the future world that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country alarmed at one common danger came forth to meet it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As we keep up the pressure, our air campaign will continue to hit ISIL harder than ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For decades, our differences with Iran meant that our governments almost never spoke to each other. Ultimately, that did not advance America's interests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As I've said many times, the nuclear deal was never intended to resolve all of our differences with Iran. But still, engaging directly with the Iranian government on a sustained basis for the first time in decades has created a unique opportunity, a window, to try to resolve important issues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Over more than a decade, Iran had moved ahead with its nuclear program. And before the deal, it had installed nearly 20,000 centrifuges that could enrich uranium for a nuclear bomb."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Iran was nearing completion of a new reactor capable of producing plutonium for a bomb."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: International inspectors are on the ground and Iran is being subjected to the most comprehensive, intrusive inspection regime ever negotiated to monitor a nuclear program. Inspectors will monitor Iran's key nuclear facilities 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. For decades to come, inspectors will have access to Iran's entire nuclear supply chain. In other words, if Iran tries to cheat - if they try to find build a bomb covertly, we will catch them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The bottom line is this - whereas Iran was steadily expanding its nuclear program, we have now cut off every single path that Iran could have used to build a bomb."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Jason Rezaian is coming home. A courageous journalist for The Washington Post who wrote about the daily lives and hopes of the Iranian people, he's been held for a year and a half. He embodies the brave spirit that gives life to the freedom of the press. Jason has already been reunited with his wife and mom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Iran has agreed to deepen our coordination as we work to locate Robert Levinson, missing from Iran for more than eight years. Even as we rejoice in the safe return of others, we will never forget about Bob. Each and every day our hearts are with the Levinson family, and we will not rest until their family is whole again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Since 1981, after our nations severed diplomatic relations, we've worked through a international tribunal to resolve various claims between our countries. The United States and Iran are now settling a long-standing Iranian government claim against the United States government. Iran will be returned its own funds, including appropriate interest but much less than the amount Iran sought. With the nuclear deal done, prisoners released, the time was right to resolve this dispute as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Even as we implement the nuclear deal and welcome our Americans home, we recognize that there remain about differences between the United States and Iran. We remain steadfast in opposing Iran's destabilizing behavior elsewhere, including its against Israel and our Gulf partners and its support for violent proxies in places like Syria and Yemen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We still have sanctions on Iran for its violations of human rights, for its support of terrorism and for its ballistic missile program. And we will continue to enforce these sanctions vigorously. Iran's recent missile test, for example, was a violation of its international obligations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I do want to once again speak directly to the Iranian people. Yours is a great civilization with a vibrant culture that has so much to contribute to the world - in commerce and in science and in arts. For decades, your government's threats and actions to destabilize your region have isolated Iran from much of the world, and now our governments are talking with one another. Following the nuclear deal, you, especially young Iranians, have the opportunity to begin building new ties with the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Americans coming home, an Iran that has rolled back its nuclear program and accepted unprecedented monitoring of the program -these things are a reminder of what we can achieve when we lead with strength and with wisdom, with courage and resolve and patience. America can do and has done big things when we work together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We can lead this world and make it safer and more secure for our children and our grandchildren, for generations to come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's my job as President and Congress\u2019s job to maker sure that there\u2019s some rules of the road that people are going to abide by and that we\u2019ve got transparency and accountability that this stuff is being posted and one of the things that we are going to do is put together an independent board on the recovery package\u2026"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The banks, because of mismanagement, because of huge risk taking, are now in very vulnerable positions. We can expect that we're gonna have to do more to shore up the financial system. We also are gonna have to make sure that we set up financial regulations so that not only does this never happen again, but you start having some sort of - trust in how the credit markets work again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I do have confidence that we're gonna be able to get it right. But it's not gonna be overnight. And there's no silver bullets to this. The fact of the matter is, is that we are suffering from a massive hangover from a binge of risk taking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Some banks won\u2019t make it. Other banks are going to make sure that we strengthen. All deposits are going to be safe for ordinary people, but we\u2019re going to have to bring out some of these bad assets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't wanna preempt an announcement next week. And there's a lot of technical aspects to it. And if I - say - that we're doing one thing. then the markets might interpret it differently from what it ends up being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Nobody's cooler than my two girls. They just seem to take whatever comes with, you know - happiness and - steadiness. And they're loving school. They're making friends... and - they've already joined some clubs. And Sasha, you know - I think maybe to endear - myself to her, she - she decided she wanted to join a basketball team. So - what more could I want?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I do think Brexit vote speaks to the ongoing changes and challenges that are raised by globalisation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I can guarantee that not because I give Attorney General [Loretta] Lynch a directive. That is institutionally how we have always operated. I do not talk to the attorney general about pending investigations [On Hillary Clinton]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Just listen to what Mr. [Donald] Trump has to say and make your own judgment with respect to how confident you feel about his ability to manage things like our nuclear triad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Hillary Clinton has been in politics for the same reason I am - because we can improve other people's lives by doing this work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Hillary Clinton possesses an extraordinary intelligence and a remarkable work ethic. I am proud that she will be our next secretary of state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: State visits are often an opportunity for the United States to reaffirm our ties and friendship with our closest partners around the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This visit [to Singapore] is an occasion to mark the 50th anniversary our bilateral relationship with Singapore, which is one of our strongest and most reliable partners in South-east Asia."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: More broadly, Prime Minister Lee [Hsien Loong] and I will work to advance the US-Singapore partnership across the board. We're committed to sustaining the dynamism of our economies with the Trans-Pacific Partnership - the highest-standard trade agreement ever - which will support trade and innovation in both our countries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Singapore was the very first South-east Asian nation to join the global coalition against ISIL (ISIS) coalition, and we'll work to sustain our momentum in destroying that terrorist organisation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We continue to urge China and other claimants to work constructively to resolve these disagreements, so that the South China Sea - which is so vital to the global economy - can be defined by commerce and cooperation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Write anything you want because we'll never be heard from again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I found during the course of my political career on the national scene there's a point where the vanity burns away and you've had your fill of your name in the papers, or big adoring crowds, or the exercise of power. And for me that happened fairly quickly. And then you are really focused on: What am I going to get done with this strange privilege that's been granted to me? How do I make myself worthy of it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I see Donald Trump as a phenomenon of an expression of certain fears, certain resentments, that have been a running thread in American history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I know the American people. I've met a lot of them. I've met a lot more of them than any columnist has, or any talking head on TV has. And they're pretty sophisticated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When I read history, I [see] what typically happens to presidents and the other party during tumultuous times and how people react when the economy is collapsing and they're losing their homes, losing their pensions - it sort of tracks, what ended up happening, because some of that is human nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are problems that just end up being really hard and by definition the only problems that come to my desk are the ones that nobody else can solve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are things I cannot say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I want to make sure that we, as a nation, stay unified because that's how we're going to achieve our missions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You always hear about waste and abuse in Washington. And usually it doesn't mean much, because nobody ever finds where that waste and abuse is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The easiest way to get 15 minutes of fame is to be rude to somebody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical elements in that process."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Russians don't make determinations about what our defense posture is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Marco Rubio is one of those people. How does that work? How can you call him a con artist and dangerous, and object to all the controversial things he says, and then say, but I`m still going to vote for him? Come on, man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that to the extent that we focus on problems where we can build a moral and a political consensus, then I think that we move the country forward and when we are divided and our politics is focused on dividing, then I think we're less successful, not just from the perspective of the Democratic Party or the Republican Party but from the perspective of the nation as a whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've got an extraordinarily complex tax system that's full of loopholes that are exploited by special interests. I'd like to see those loopholes closed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: On Syria, it's clear that the indiscriminate attacks on civilians by the [Bashar] Assad regime and Russia will only worsen the humanitarian catastrophe and that a negotiated end to the conflict is the only way to achieve lasting peace in Syria."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: With respect to Russia, my principal approach to Russia has been constant since I first came into office. Russia is an important country. It is a military superpower. It has influence in the region and it has influence around the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't expect that the president-elect [Donald Trump] will follow exactly our blueprint or our approach, but my hope is that he does not simply take a real-politic approach and suggest that, you know, if we just cut some deals with Russia, even if it hurts people or even if it violates international norms, or even if it leaves smaller countries vulnerable or creates long-term problems in regions like Syria, that we just do whatever is convenient at the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I always say that campaigning and governing are two different things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My hope and expectation is that regardless of what Donald Trump said during the campaign, he's going to have to look carefully at the realities when he moves forward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is legitimate for the Turks to try to defend themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Cuba is actually one where I am more optimistic because of the unique nature of Cuba - 90 miles off our shore with a massive ex-patriot population, now Cuban-American population that still have deep links to the island. There I am more confident that over time that the winds of commerce and telecommunication and travel start shifting the nature of that regime. But that's a small country which has almost a unique relationship to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You don't like dealing with somebody who denies horrible things happening to your people or threatens future horrible things to your people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think we all know that world owes an enormous debt to Greece and the Greek people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: To this day, the United States is profoundly grateful for our friendship and alliance with Greece."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm personally very grateful to my many friends in the Greek-American community, sons and daughters of Greece who have found success in every walk of American life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In order to make reforms sustainable, the Greek economy needs the space to return to growth and start creating jobs again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We cannot simply look to austerity as a strategy and it is incredibly important that the Greek people see improvements in their daily lives so that they can carry with them the hope that their lives will get better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You can't entirely compare between the United States and Greece for a range of reasons, not just because of the size of the economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think raising wages, investing in infrastructure, making sure that people have access to good educations that equip them for the jobs of the future. Those are all agenda items that would help alleviate some of those economic pressures and dislocations that people are experiencing. The problem was I couldn't convince the Republican Congress to pass a lot of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The quicker you resolve the problems with banks and there's transparency in that process, the faster they recapitalize and are able to make investments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I still don't feel responsible for what Donald Trump says or does. But I do feel a responsibility as president of the United States to make sure that I facilitate a good transition and I present to him as well, as the American people my best thinking, my best ideas about how you move the country forward. To speak out with respect to areas where I think the Republican party's wrong, but to pledge to work with them on those things that I think will advance the causes of security and prosperity and justice and inclusiveness in America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think it's important not to start drawing parallels, for example, between Theresa May, a fairly traditional conservative politician, who's now prime minister and Le Pen in France. Those aren't the same and the situation in each country is different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There is enormous continuity beneath the day-to-day news that makes America that indispensable nation when it comes to maintaining order and promoting prosperity around the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think it's a healthy thing for the Democratic Party to go through some reflection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Democrats should not waiver on our core beliefs and principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Things change pretty rapidly. But they don't change inevitably. They change because you work for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You know, there are certain things that make for good sound bites but don't always translate into good policy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that Donald Trump successfully mobilized a big chunk of America to vote for him and he's going to win. He has won. He's going to be the next president and regardless of what experience or assumptions he brought to the office, this office has a way of waking you up and those - those aspects of his positions or predispositions that don't match up with reality, he will find shaken up pretty quick because reality has a way of asserting itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The American people want to make sure that the rules of the game are fair. And what that means is that if you look at surveys around Americans' attitudes on trade, the majority of the American people still support trade. But they're concerned about whether or not trade is fair, and whether we get the same access to other countries' markets that they have with us. Is there just a race to the bottom when it comes to wages, and so forth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Immigration is part of the reason why our economy is stronger and better positioned than most of our other competitors, is because we've got a younger population that's more dynamic when it comes to trade."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Donald Trump is somebody who I think likes to mix it up and to have a vigorous debate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: People who have health insurance are benefiting in all sorts of ways that they may not be aware of, everything from no longer having lifetime limits on the claims that they can make to seniors getting prescription drug discounts under Medicare to free mammograms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am going to be able to present to the incoming administration a country that is stronger. A federal government that is working better and more efficiently. A national security apparatus that is both more effective and truer to our values. Energy policies that are resulting in not just less pollution, but also more jobs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If, in [Federal Housing Administration] application, black folks were excluded from it, then you have to override that by going after those discriminatory practices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: People always - I think were surprised about me connecting with folks in small town Iowa. And the reason I did was - first of all, I had the benefit that at the time nobody expected me to win. And so I wasn't viewed through this prism of Fox News and conservative media making me scary. At the time, I didn't think seem scary, other than just having a funny name. I seemed young."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't have a philosophical objection, necessarily, to a travel ban if that is the thing that is going to keep the American people safe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What I want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Sometimes they're nothing, sometimes they're something, sometimes there's a connection that years later may show up. All of this information is useful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You bomb ISIL. You're not trying to bomb innocent people. And that requires intelligence and confidence in our military to be able to develop the kinds of targets that we need. We're already doing Special Forces, who are going to help us gather that intelligence and help advise and assist and train local forces so that they can go after ISIL in areas like Raqqah and Mosul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The challenge there is that ISIL doesn't have an air force, so the damage done there is not against ISIL, it's against the Syrian regime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: But what I would say to my successor is that it is important not just to shoot but to aim. And it is important, in this seat, to make sure that you're making your best judgments based on data, intelligence, the information that's coming from your commanders and folks on the ground and you're not being swayed by politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Arne Duncan is done more to bring our educational system, sometimes kicking and screaming, into the 21st century than anyone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: With the world's unprecedented inspections and access to Iran's program, we'll know if Iran ever tries to break out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've achieved this historic progress through diplomacy, without resorting to another war in the Middle East. I want to also point out that by working with Iran on this nuclear deal, we were better able to address other issues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We could come together, Democrats and Republicans, to find practical, commonsense solutions to health care, to education, to energy issues, because although I'm a proud Democrat, I'm a prouder American. And I think all of us believe, regardless of our party affiliations, that this is a critical time, where we've got to solve big problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you want some additional money for your school, we'll give it to you. But you've got to compete, show us that you're going to reform your education system so that our children are performing better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In America, we've set up a system whereby when you take on college debt, you will never have to pay more than 10 percent of your income in repayments. And what that will do is make sure that you will never be prevented from going to school just because of money. We want to make sure that you and others like you can succeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think there is nothing wrong with instituting policies that say that harassment of any form, whether it comes through the Internet or whether it happens to you face to face, is unacceptable; that we've got zero tolerance when it comes to sexual harassment, we have zero tolerance when it comes to harassing people because of their sexual orientation, because of their race, because of their ethnicity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Internet and Twitter and all these things are very powerful, but it also means sometimes that instead of having a dialogue we just start calling folks - calling each other names. And that's true on the left or the right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: African American boys oftentimes fall behind in school early, start feeling discouraged, check out, drop out, end up on the streets and then get into trouble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Going through the legislative process is always better, in part because it's harder to undo."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our intelligence communities spend a lot of time and effort gathering a lot of strands and a lot of data [on Russian hacking]. There are times where they're very cautious and they say, \"We think this is what happened, but we're not certain.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are gonna be elections coming up among our NATO allies that we have to pay attention to. I anticipate that this kind of thing can happen again here. And so in addition to the report assessing what exactly happened, what we have also done is to make sure that the Department of Homeland Security and our intelligence teams are working with the various folks who run our elections."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the things that I've urged the president-elect to do is to develop a strong working relationship with the intelligence community and I think it's important that Congress, on a bipartisan basis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It could be another election where the alignments between Republicans and Democrats are different than they were this time and who a foreign country prefers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I remember having meetings with Republican senators who initially had been trying to engage [Obamacare] but saw that the politics of 'no' were growing inside the Republican Party."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you think that we've overregulated in the environmental space what I can show you is that we have tripled the amount of wind power in this country, increased by tenfold the amount of solar power. We are producing as much oil and gas as we've ever produced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The American people are both anxious for change. We're in a time of flux."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The globe is shrinking, the information age is bringing a lot of changes. People are anxious about their future and their children's futures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Even on health care what you've seen is a lot of stories surfacing lately about people who said, \"Well, I voted for [Donald] Trump but I don't think he's really gonna take away my health care.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What I'm thinking about are the millions of people, many of whom write me very personal letters :\"Dear Mr. President: I did not vote for you. I was against Obamacare. And then my son who didn't have health insurance signed up and we just found out that he had an illness. And thankfully he's now covered, otherwise he might not have gotten treatment and I might have lost my house.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What is also true is that partly because my docket was really full here, so I couldn't be both chief organizer of the Democratic Party and function as Commander-in-Chief and President of the United States. We did not begin what I think needs to happen over the long haul, and that is rebuild the Democratic Party at the ground level."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When you look at what [new generation] believe in, how they value diversity, how they believe in science, how they care about the environment, how they believe in, you know, everybody getting a fair shot, how they believe in not discriminating against people for sexual orientation and you know, their belief that we have to work with other countries to create a more peaceful world and to alleviate poverty, that's the majority an entire generation that's coming up behind us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that dealing with guns is one way to handle the violent-crime issues that we have in this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You work with what you got."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Many of our ideas of democracy, so much of our literature and philosophy and science can be traced back to roots right here in Athens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm told there's a saying from those ancient times, kalos kai agathos, when someone or something is good and beautiful on the outside, but is also good and noble on the inside in terms of character and in terms of purpose. And I think that's a fine description of the friendship that exists between the Greek people and the American people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The interests of all Cypriots would be advanced with a bizonal bicommunal federation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When the economy is still struggling, putting people back to work, finding ways to spur economic activity, ultimately can help to reduce the structural deficits and debts that countries experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are enormous resources in Greece."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When the economy's shrinking, providing jobs, spending on things like infrastructure can actually increase revenue and drive down debt. And then, there's going to be a time at which point debt has to be taken care of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think at times of significant stress people are going to be looking for something and they don't always know exactly what it is that they're looking for and they may opt for change even if they're not entirely confident what that change will bring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The United States, we know what happens when we start dividing ourselves along lines of race or religion or ethnicity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the great things about the United States is that when it comes to world affairs, the president obviously is the leader of the Executive Branch, the Commander-in-Chief, the spokesperson for the nation, but the influence and the work that we have is the result not just of the president, it is the result of countless interactions and arrangements and relationships between our military and other militaries, and our diplomats and other diplomats, the intelligence officers and development workers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I insist on the dignity and God- given potential and work of every child, regardless of race or gender or sexual orientation or what zip code they were born in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe that we have better ideas. But I also believe that good ideas don't matter if people don't hear them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: How Donald Trump reaches out to groups that may not have supported him, how he signals his interest in their issues or concerns, I think those are the kinds of things that can set a tone that will help move things forward once he has actually taken office."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think the American people recognize that the world has shrunk. That it's interconnected. That you're not going to put that genie back in the bottle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Immigration keeps this country young, it keeps it dynamic, we have entrepreneurs and strivers who come here and are willing to take risks, and that's part of the reason why America historically has been successful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the things I advised Donald Trump to do was to make sure that, before he commits to certain courses of action, he has really dug in and thought through how various issues play themselves out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have to recognize we've got some big problems on race, just like we got still big problems on crime, just like we got big problems on just about everything. But we also have to make sure that we've - draw confidence from the progress that we have made, 'cause otherwise, you get into this cycle of cynicism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I warn young people that I interact with about this - you get into unrealistic expectations where you think that, \"Oh, we're gonna eliminate racism like that. After Obama's elected how could there be any racism?\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America is the greatest country on Earth. But because of some of the mistakes that have been made, we, I think, are going to have a lot of work to do in the next administration to restore that sense that America is that shining beacon on a hill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that the important point is we've got to have a president who understands the benefits of free trade but also is going to enforce unfair trade agreements and is going to stand up to other countries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will tell you, when 20 6-year-olds are gunned down and Congress literally does nothing, yeah that's the closest I came to feeling disgusted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Nobody gets to threaten the full faith and credit of the United States just to extract political concessions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: He [Barack Obama] talked about deficit reduction. This got me he was talking about how the deficit's being reduced faster in the last 60 years. That's because he's collected more taxes. That's like bragging that you paid your rent after you robbed a bank. It makes no sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: To try to blackmail a president into giving them some concessions on issues that have nothing to do with the budget."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Money is the original sin in politics and I am not sinless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you think that running your economy into the ground and having to send troops in in order to prop up your only ally is leadership, then we've got a different definition of leadership."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America must always lead on the world stage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I would love to see an America where race is understood in the same way that the ethnic diversity of the white population is understood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. It will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world. No act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We know that ISIL and other terrorist groups are actively encouraging people, around the world and in our country, to commit terrible acts of violence, oftentimes as lone-wolf actors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've evolved a lot since 9/11 also, in terms of our law enforcement capabilities, our intelligence capabilities, military, counterterrorism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are now at a point where because we in fact have been successful at stopping a number of plots, a threat has evolved. We do see these lone-wolf actors. We do see these encouragements for troubled individuals to pick up a gun and act out of this ideology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are on alert 24/7. And everything that you report will be investigated. We do it in private. We do it covertly. This could be a problem, it could simply be your neighbor having a bad day. But better be safe than sorry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We understand the concerns that people have with not only protecting our values, but our privacy interests as well. We think that the USA Freedom Act was a good resolution of that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think Barack Obama 'll talk about the actions that we've taken, not just since 9/11, but since Paris, to help keep the American people and American interests safe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Nothing will deter us from building the future we want for our children. What greater rejection of those who would tear down our world than marshaling our best efforts to save it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine. And, and from first graders in Newtown, first graders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We ask for nothing more than the chance to blaze our own trail, and yet each of us is only here because somebody, somewhere, helped us find our path. That`s part of what makes America exceptional. We are family and we`ll do anything to help each other along the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As I said in my State of the Union address ensuring the security of the United States and the safety of our people demands a smart, patient and disciplined approach to the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When our sailors in the Persian Gulf accidentally strayed into Iranian waters, that could have sparked a major international incident. Some folks here in Washington rushed to declare that it was the start of another hostage crisis. Instead, we worked directly with the Iranian government and secured the release of our sailors in less than 24 hours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Several Americans, unjustly detained by Iran, are finally coming home. In some cases, these Americans faced years of continued detention, and I've met with some of their families. I've seen their anguish, how they ache for their sons and husbands. I gave these families my word. I made a vow that we would do everything in our power to win the release of their loved ones, and we have been tireless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have a rare chance to pursue a new path, a different, better future that delivers progress for both our peoples and the wider world. That's the opportunity before the Iranian people. We need to take advantage of that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: But the basic principle that we\u2019re going to have to see some of this debt written down, that the government is going to have to support some banks, that others that are not viable, essentially that we\u2019re going to have to do something with those assets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We're starting to make some progress. But there's still gonna be some pain out there. If I don't have this done in three years, then there's gonna be a one-term proposition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have to make the very best judgments I can make in terms of what's gonna keep the American people safe. And is what, what's gonna uphold our Constitution and our traditions of due process."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Mexico is going to need the United States to cooperate in order to rid itself of the violence and corruption that results from the drug trade."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Sometimes we take somebody who's been in the trenches and fought the good fight and been steady for granted. Sometimes we act as if never having done something and not knowing what you're doing is a virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Sometimes Hillary Clinton doesn't get the credit she deserves. But the fact is, Hillary is steady, and Hillary is true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: By the way, you know, Mitt Romney and McCain, I don't agree with them, but they would have been okay. I could have been satisfied with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: At least Romney and McCain, they respect the rule of law. At least Romney and McCain, they understand their limitations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My God, Donald Trump is unfit! He's ill-tempered, he's unsuited, he is not qualified, he's unsuited to be president."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I look forward to hosting Prime Minister Lee [Hsien Loong], whose friendship and partnership I appreciate very much and with whom I've worked throughout my administration. This will also be an opportunity for me to reciprocate the hospitality that the Prime Minister and the people of Singapore showed to me during my visit to Singapore for the APEC summit in 2009."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: With Singapore's partnership, the United States in engaging more deeply across South-east Asia and Asean, which is central to the region's peace and prosperity. Singapore is an anchor for the US presence in the region, which is a foundation of stability and peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's no question that a lot of Americans on both the right and the left are expressing some fears and frustrations about the dislocations brought on by globalisation. Many of those frustrations are legitimate and they need to be addressed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The United States has been a Pacific nation for over two centuries. That's not going to change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's no wonder that America's engagement in the region has strong, sustained, bipartisan support. So I'll be handing my successor a strong foundation - including closer ties with Singapore - on which to continue building, and I'm optimistic that will happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My particular passion for Lincoln dates back from my earliest memories of politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For me, Lincoln is like just a handful of people - a Gandhi, or a Picasso, or a Martin Luther King Jr. - who is an original and captures something essential."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You could analyze me and say that my father leaving and being absent was a motivator for early ambition, trying to prove myself to this apparition who had vanished. You could argue that me being a mixed kid in a place where there weren't a lot of black kids around might have spurred on my ambitions. You could go through a whole litany of things that sparked me wanting to do something important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think it's fair to say that my temperament is steady - and on the buoyant side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: On the spectrum of successful politicians, I'm not introverted the way some have been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I like my quiet time. There is a writer's sensibility in me sometimes, where I step back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I see tragedy and comedy and pain and irony and all that stuff. But in the end I think life is fascinating, and I think people are more good than bad, and I think that the possibilities of prog\u00adress are real."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't buy the hype when everybody is saying how wonderful things are and how great I am, and I don't get too down when people say, \"This is a disaster and he's done for.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The pyramids are one of those things that live up to the hype. They're elemental in ways that are hard to describe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am a firm believer that you don't do anything significant by yourself. Again, maybe there are exceptions. There's the Picasso or the Mozart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think we should all hope for a Russia that is successful, where its people are employed and the economy is growing and they are having good relationships with their neighbors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In terms of my conversations with [Vladimir] Putin, these are conversations that took place before the election. As I indicated, there has been very clear proof that they have engaged in cyber attacks. This isn't new. It's not unique to Russia. There are a number of states where we've seen low-level cyber attacks and industrial espionage and, you know, other behavior that we think should be out of bounds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In America, one of our challenges, historically, is that we have very low voting rates, even during presidential elections."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What is true, and I think that we can't deny it, is that some of the same concerns about globalization, about technology, rapid social change that were reflected in Brexit, that's been reflected in some of the debates in Germany and France and other places, that those exist in the United States as well. My view is that over the long term, over the next 10, 15, 20 years, if we are able to address the legitimate economic concerns of those who feel left behind by globalization, then many of these tensions will be reduced. And we will see a world that is less divided."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When I turn over the keys to the president-elect, America will be much stronger than it was when I came into office."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I was elected because I believed in what we call \"grassroots politics,\" politics from the bottom up, not the top down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I was able to excite and engage people who previously hadn't been involved in politics, and part of the reason that I was able to be re-elected and stay relatively popular in the United States was because even when the economy was bad or we had problems, people sensed that I listened to them and I was on their side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In Europe, where the terrorist threat is probably greatest at the moment, the amount of information-sharing that's been taking place, the effectiveness of law enforcement across borders gives us the ability to protect ourselves while still being true to the basic precepts of our liberal democracies. I hope that that continues, and it is something that I think we should be worried about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the great qualities of Chancellor Merkel is that she is steady. She analyzes a situation. She's honest. Sometimes we've had disagreements, but when we do, it's very constructive. And we are consistently open with each other about how we should approach these issues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have to find ways in which, collectively, we agree there's some things that government needs to do to help protect us, that in this age of non-state actors who can amass great power, I want my government - and I think the German people should want their government - to be able to find out if a terrorist organization has access to a weapon of mass destruction that might go off in the middle of Berlin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Not much happens in Russia without Vladimir Putin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Rather than me sort of characterize the appropriateness or inappropriateness of what Donald Trump is doing at the moment, I think what we have to see is how will the President-elect operate, and how will his team operate, when they've been fully briefed on all these issues, they have their hands on all the levers of government, and they've got to start making decisions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Ultimately, I remain optimistic about not just America's future, but the direction that the world is growing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the great things about our democracy is it expresses itself in all sorts of ways. And that includes people protesting. I've been the subject of protests during the course of my eight years and I suspect that there's not a president in our history that at some point hasn't been subject to these protests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we are not serious about facts and what's true and what's not. And particularly in an age of social media where so many people are getting their information in sound bites and snippets off their phones, if we can't discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's a little perspiration involved in bringing about change too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Try to be as honest as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The biggest problems with Iran in the region are not due to the size of their resources, but due to the fact that they've been more effective in supporting proxies and stirring up dissension and conflict in the region than America or our allies have been in stopping those activities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are always going to be some complications."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Just because Iran and Syria may recognize Assad's weaknesses doesn't necessarily mean that Assad recognizes his weaknesses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Gulf States are extraordinarily suspicious of Iran for good reason. They view Iran as meddling in their affairs. They have seen Iran level asymmetric attacks against their facilities or their interests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm about to embark on what may be as important as an initiative as anything I do as President, trying to nudge the world in the direction of doing something serious about climate change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: How do we in the African American community build a culture in which we are saying to our kids, \"Here's what it takes to succeed. Here's the sacrifices you need to make to be able to get ahead. Here's how we support each other. Here's how we look out for each other.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is my view that if society was doing the right thing with respect to you, [and there were] programs targeted at helping people rise into the middle class and have a good income and be able to save and send their kids to school, and you've got a vigorous enforcement of anti-discrimination laws, then I have confidence in the black community's capabilities to then move forward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm not so optimistic as to think that you would ever be able to garner a majority of an American Congress that would make those kinds of investments above and beyond the kinds of investments that could be made in a progressive program for lifting up all people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Bernie Sanders would say, \"You still have millions of African Americans who aren't insured, and if we had a single-payer system, that wouldn't be the case.\" And that's true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is my judgment that had I spent the first two years trying to get a single-payer system, all those folks who now have health insurance that didn't have it would still be uninsured. And those are millions of people whose lives are impacted right now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I get letters from [people getting insurance] right now. \"You saved my child's life.\" \"I did not have to sell my home when my wife got sick.\" And that is what, as a policy maker, I'm trying to achieve during the short period of time that I'm here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Sometimes I wonder how much of these debates have to do with the desire, the legitimate desire, for that history to be recognized. Because there is a psychic power to the recognition that is not satisfied with a universal program, it's not satisfied by the Affordable Care Act, or an expansion of Pell grants, or an expansion of the earned-income tax credit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My hope would be that, as we're moving through the world right now, we're able to get that psychological or emotional peace by seeing very concretely our kids doing better and being more hopeful and having greater opportunities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There is a certain percentage of the white population ... if they started having more middle-class black kids who are friends with their kids, eating Cheerios in their kitchen, their attitudes start changing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't want to exaggerate; having as many African American men as we've had in the criminal-justice system, and the amount of time it takes for the damage done by that to wash through our society and our communities, the disadvantages born out of kids being undiagnosed with mental-health problems early, or not getting the kind of exposure to reading and math when they're 4 or 5 or 6 years old, that carries a cost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I do have an obligation to make sure that I am following some of the rules. I can't simply ignore laws that are out there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Undocumented workers can't report if they're not being paid overtime, or if their health and safety laws are being violated, of if they're not getting the minimum wage. And so a lot of times companies prefer to hire them in order to take advantage of them. We've got to crack down on those employers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Oftentimes, misunderstandings and antagonism surfaces most strongly when economic times are tough. And that's not surprising. If everybody is working and feeling good and making money and buying a new house and a big screen TV, you're less worried about what other folks are doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In America, we're getting too comfortable with our ability to take kinetic strikes around the world without having enough process to avoid consistently the kinds of civilian casualties that can end up actually hurting us in the war against radicalization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: How we think about terrorism has to be defined and specific enough that it doesn't lead us to think that any horrible actions that take place around the world that are motivated in part by an extremist Islamic ideology is a direct threat to us or something that we have to wade into."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have never had to travel more than thirty seconds from home to office, and it's because of that that I've been able to maintain, really a family life that has nurtured and sustained me during this time [of presidency]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: All I can say is [kids] have turned out to be terrific young women. We were concerned mostly about whether they'd develop an attitude, right?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [My kids] are, sweet, kind, funny, smart, respectful people, and they treat everybody with respect. That's not just the biases of a parent. We feel pretty good when we hear back from friends, cause they still have sleepovers and they go to other folks houses and when the parents say, oh you know, Malia, she's just so sweet, or Sasha helped to pick up the dishes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As you might imagine, if you're a teenager having a couple of people with microphones and guns always following you around, that could grate on them. But you know, they've handled it with grace and I give Michelle [Obama] most of the credit for how well they've done, but I also just think they are graceful, good young, young women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You not only do you appreciate the sacrifices people have made and the hours they've kept and the soccer games they missed and the birthday parties, but I also had a lot of young people who came in here [to White House], and this probably, you know, echoes with you, in your own experience, you were young when you got here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Now suddenly you got members of your [White House] team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm kind of a night owl."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: These kinds of tragedies [like shooting in Fort Lauderdale] have happened too often during the eight years that I've been president. The pain, the grief, the shock that they must be going through is enormous. I've asked me staff to reach out to the mayor down there and make sure that coordination between the state and local officials is what it should be. But I think we'll find out over the next 24 hours exactly how this happened and what motivated this individual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Russians sought to interfere with the election process - that the cyber hacking that took place by the Russians was part of that campaign, and that they had a clear preference in terms of outcomes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't think I underestimated [Vladimir Putin], but I think that I underestimated the degree to which, in this new information age, it is possible for misinformation for cyber hacking and so forth to have an impact on our open societies, our open systems, to insinuate themselves into our democratic practices in ways that I think are accelerating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The second thing we have to do is to make sure that all of us think about how we approach our elections and our democracy not only to secure them from vote tampering, but also to make sure that we understand when propaganda is being churned through the system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the things that I am concerned about is the degree to which we've seen a lot of commentary lately where there were, there are Republicans or pundits or cable commentators who seemed to have more confidence in Vladimir Putin than fellow Americans because those fellow Americans were Democrats. That cannot be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When I talked to [Donald Trump] about - our intelligence agencies, what I've said to him is - is that there are gonna be times where you've got raw intelligence that comes in and in my experience, over eight years, the intelligence community is pretty good about saying, \"Look, we can't say for certain what this means.\" But there are gonna be times where the only way you can make a good decision is if you have confidence that the process is working, and the people that you put in charge are giving you their very best assessments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You have to have a strong team around you [being a president]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that [having not a lot of time sweating the details] can be both a strength and a weakness. I think it depends on how [Donald Trump] approaches it. If it gives him fresh eyes, then that can be valuable. But it also requires you knowing what you don't know and putting in place people who do have the kinds of experience and background and knowledge that can inform good decision making."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I do make sure that I've got people who are experts that are helping me make the best decisions possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I said in a forum on health care if the Republicans can come up with a system that insures more people cheaper, better I will be the first one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [Afghanistan and Iraq] are still countries that are fragile enough that we're gonna have to partner with them in some way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you look at what happened, I came in the middle of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression. And unlike Franklin Delano Roosevelt who waited, well, didn't take office until about three years into the Great Depression, it was happening just as I was elected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If Democrats are not showing up in those [rural] places even if you're not gonna win right away but if you're not in there at least making an argument that, \"Hey, you know what? It's the Democrats who are trying to raise your minimum wage.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [The Democrats] have got to do a better job of showing up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I was able to do that [showing up of Democratic benefits] when I was the candidate. But I've not seen or presided over that kind of systematic outreach that I think needs to happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As I reflect back on what's worked for me in this [presidential] office it's been that I've gotten people who maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged. Ironically, I've even gotten the other side that maybe didn't believe in the process to get engaged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [The generation engaged, inspired, worked for change] that generation, it's coming. They're not the majority yet but they're gonna be the majority soon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that there's gonna be a lot of work to do in order to consolidate the transformations that I was interested in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to gets tougher the longer you do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think we've done a pretty good job staying in touch with the American people. But at a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: That's part of what I tried to describe to my team and supporters after the election, there was a lot of disappointment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What I've said to [my team] is, \"Look, we ran our leg of the race and we did a darn good job.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't think there's a lot of dispute for this. You can argue that we didn't get everything done that we wanted to get done, but I can make a really strong argument, and I think prove, that by almost every measure the country's better off now than when I started."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The truth of the matter is that the problem of police shootings and reactions in the community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The sort of seeing cruelty and callousness of that sort from young people is heartbreaking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that we are in a position to continue to make progress, but it's gonna require us to both recognize what the problems are, also recognize the progress we've made. Last point I'd make on this, since we're on criminal justice: During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: During the course of my presidency crime has been the lowest it's been probably since the '60s. Butyou wouldn't know it if you were watching TV or looking at the internet, and you certainly wouldn't know it, listening to this past [Donald Trump's] campaign."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are some exceptions: Chicago, my hometown, in particular. But overall in the country this is a much safer place than it used to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Balkanization of the media means that nobody is having a single conversation with a single set of agreed-upon facts and assumptions the way you had as recently as the 90s."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Generally speaking, people who know me will tell you that my public persona is not that different from my private persona."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There is a big part of me that has a writer's sensibility. And so that's how I think. That's how I pursue truth. That's how I hope to communicate truth to people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think part of the reason that I have been successful, though, despite maybe not always fitting my message into the pre-packaged formulas, is there is this whole other media ecology out there of the Internet and Instagram and memes and talk shows and comedy, and I'm pretty good at that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think I have a pretty good take on popular culture that maybe makes up for the fact that I'm not a sound-bite politician for the nightly news."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I know there are problems that I say to myself, If maybe I was a little more gifted I might have been able to solve. But that's not because I believe what I did was a mistake. It's that maybe it required the talents of a Lincoln."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There aren't a lot of situations where I look back and I say, The decision I actually made or the course we actually pursued was the wrong course."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Anybody who gets into bed and turns out the lights the first night in the White House probably feels a little bit of a start, where you say, \"Goodness ... \""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There wasn't a time where I felt fearful that I couldn't make the best decisions possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are institutional obligations I have to carry out that are important for a president of the United States to carry out, but may not always align with what I think would move the ball down the field on the issues that I care most deeply about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've said repeatedly that where we see terrorist organizations like al-Qaeda or ISIL, they have perverted and distorted and tried to claim the mantle of Islam for an excuse, for basically barbarism and death. These are people who kill children, kill Muslims, take sex slaves - there's no religious rationale that would justify in any way any of the things that they do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that there have been a number of public figures where you start hearing commentary that is dangerous because what it starts doing is it starts dividing us up as Americans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We can make sure that people who don't have health insurance can buy into an insurance pool that gives them better bargaining power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Every president who has tried to bring about big changes I think elicits the most passionate responses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you hear what people had to say about Abraham Lincoln or what they had to say about FDR, or what they had to say about Ronald Reagan when he first came in and was trying to change our approach to government, that elicited huge responses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Health care has become a proxy for a broader set of issues about how much government should be involved in our economy, particularly coming off a huge economic crisis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have no interest in increasing the size of government. I just want to make sure we have got a smart government that is regulating, for example, the financial institutions smartly, so I don't have to engage in any kind of bank bailouts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I want to make sure that as president of the United States that I'm not asserting in some way that my decisions overrule the decisions of prosecutors who are there to uphold the law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My core goal is to dismantle, defeat, destroy al Qaeda and its allies that killed Americans and are still plotting to go kill Americans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The only reason I send a single young man or woman in uniform anywhere in the world is because I think it's necessary to keep us safe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We're not going to put the cart before the horse and just think by sending more troops, we're automatically going to make Americans safe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don`t know if Donald Trump`s ever been to an actual polling place, but, you know, he doesn`t even worry if what he says is true. This is just about him worried that he`s losing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Where we get into problems, typically, is when our personal religious faith, or the community of faith that we participate in, tips into a sort of fundamentalist extremism, in which it's not enough for us to believe what we believe, but we start feeling obligated to, you know, hit you over the head because you don't believe the same thing. Or to treat you as somebody who's less than I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think the average American, if they go to the workplace, somebody's next to 'em, they're not poking around trying to figure out what their religious beliefs are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My question would be whether there is active persecution of atheists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are a lot of very religious scientists around. I think the problem here is that in our school systems, and to some degree - and this is where it is relevant - with school boards around the country that are mandating curriculums and textbooks, you start seeing this weird watering down of scientific fact so that our kids are growing up in an environment - and this connects to what I was saying earlier abou the media - where everything's contested. Where nothing is true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If it's on Facebook, it all looks the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The notion that somehow as a consequence of me knowing somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago, when I was 8 years old, somehow reflects on me and my values doesn't make much sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who, during his campaign, once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In fact, the American people did decide, back in 2012, when they elected me president of the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think I was able to talk to people about values in ways that people - in ways that resonated with folks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I do think that when you go into red states, they're - so-called red states - I think they're troubled with certain excesses with respect to the Patriot Act, but they're also concerned with making sure we're secure against terrorism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that people are concerned about the breakdown of the family but they also don't want to see discrimination against gays and lesbians who they work with and they want to be able to make sure that gays can visit each other in hospitals and be able to inherit property."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I very much believe in reforming the tax system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you want a model for what is possible, if you want to see how to build a peaceful and prosperous and dynamic society, then look at Berlin and look at Germany."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Chancellor [Angela] Merkel is perhaps the only leader left among our closest allies that was there when I arrived. So in some ways we are now the veterans of many challenges over the last eight years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Campaigning is different from governing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think Donald Trump is going to try as best he can to make sure that he delivers not only to the people who voted for him but for the people at large and the good thing is that there are going to be elections coming up so there's a built-in incentive for him to try to do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For now, whether you are young or whether you're young at heart, I do have one final ask of you as your president, the same thing I asked when you took a chance on me eight years ago. I am asking you to believe not in my ability to bring about change, but in yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you want to get at African American poverty, the income gap, wealth gap, achievement gap, that the most important thing is to make sure that the society as a whole does right by people who are poor, are working class, are aspiring to a better life for their kids."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Higher minimum wages, full-employment programs, early-childhood education: Those kinds of programs are, by design, universal, but by definition, because they are helping folks who are in the worst economic situations, are most likely to disproportionately impact and benefit African Americans. They also have the benefit of being sellable to a majority of the body politic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The same would be true for something like Social Security, where historically, if you just read the law and the fact that it excluded domestic workers or agricultural workers, you might not see race in it, unless you knew that that covered a huge chunk of African Americans, particularly in the South."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Does that mean that all vestiges of past discrimination would be eliminated, that the income gap or the wealth gap or the education gap [between Afro-Americans and white] would be erased in five years or 10 years? Probably not, and so this is obviously a discussion we've had before when you talk about something like reparations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You don't take it personally. You understand that if people are angry that somehow the government is failing, then they are going to look to the guy who represents government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think where I get frustrated at times was the belief that the president can do anything if he just decides he wants to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Even if the criticism is not always perfectly informed and in some cases I would deem unfair, just the noise, attention, fuss probably keeps powerful officials or agencies on their toes. And they should be on their toes when it comes to the use of deadly force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My first job as commander in chief is to keep the American people safe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Part of American leadership is making sure that we're doing nation building here at home. That will help us maintain the kind of American leadership that we need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Moammar Gadhafi had more American blood on his hands than any individual other than Osama bin Laden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America remains the one indispensable nation. And the world needs a strong America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will stand with Israel if they are attacked."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's no reason why Americans should die when Afghans are perfectly capable of defending their own country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In order for us to compete with China, we've also got to make sure, though, that we're taking - taking care of business here at home. If we don't have the best education system in the world, if we don't continue to put money into research and technology that will allow us to create great businesses here in the United States, that's how we lose the competition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Cutting our education budget, that's not a smart choice. That will not help America compete with China."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As Commander in Chief, I will maintain the strongest military in the world, keep faith with our troops and go after those who would do us harm. But after a decade of war, I think we all recognize we've got to do some nation building here at home, rebuilding our roads, our bridges and especially caring for our Veterans who sacrificed so much for our freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The campaign was a more significant training ground than I think people give it credit for. By the time I got here, I think I had a pretty good sense of what was required. But the circumstances in which I came in were different than most executives, right? The enterprise was in the midst of a major crisis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I just want to say that the only thing less popular than putting money into banks is putting money into the auto industry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In the campaign back in 2007, 2008, people would say, \"Oh, he's being na\u00efve. He thinks that there's no red states and blue states. And wait 'til he gets here.\" And I will confess that, I didn't fully appreciate the ways in which individual senators or members of Congress now are pushed to the extremes by their voter bases. I did not expect, particularly in the midst of crisis, just how severe that partisanship would be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think the American people can change Washington. But I think that it is not going to change, because somebody from on high directs that change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [Two of the most unpopular presidential candidates selected by the two parties in history] indicates that there is a lot of cynicism out there. It indicates that the corrosive nature of everything from talk radio to fake news to negative advertising has made people lack confidence in a lot of our existing institutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [Donald Trump] is in the process of building up an organization. And well, we'll have to see how that works. And it'll be a test, I think, for him and the people that he's designated to be able to execute on his vision."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't regret at all saying that if I saw Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons on his people that that would change my assessments in terms of what we were or were not willing to do in Syria."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If 90 percent or 95 percent of those - chemical stockpiles [in Syria] were eliminated, that's a lot of chemical weapons that are not right now in the hands of ISIL or Nusra or, for that matter, the regime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you're saying that Prime Minister [Benjamin] Netanyahu got fired up, he's been fired up repeatedly during the course of my presidency, around the Iran deal and around our consistent objection to settlements."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm not going to Wall Street [after the presidency]. The amount of time that I'll be investing in issues is going to be high. But it'll be necessarily in a different capacity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's some bittersweet feelings about leaving the people here [in the White House]. 'Cause even though all the team you assemble, you know, you're going to stay in touch with 'em, it's not the same, you know? The band kind of breaks up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: People'd be like, \"Oh, spending taxpayer money.\" It's like, \"No, no, I actually I'm paying for all of this. The only thing I don't pay for is Secret Service and an airplane.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America ranks 21st when it comes to math education. We rank 25th when it comes to science. We used to be number one in the proportion of college graduates. We now rank ninth. And at an age where knowledge, skills, are the determinant of how successful we're going to be, unless we reverse that we're going to keep slipping behind economically to a lot of other countries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Germany, South Korea - these are all countries that are investing massively in education. We've got to do the same thing in America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we've got very high standards, we expect a lot out of all of our young people, and we make sure that we have the best teachers possible in every classroom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I want every math teacher to know math. I want every science teacher to have expertise in science. I want them to know how to inspire and engage young people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What we may think is funny or cute may end up being powerfully hurtful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I agree with the basic principle that anybody who wants to serve in our armed forces and make sacrifices on our behalf, on behalf of our national security, anybody should be able to serve. And they shouldn't have to lie about who they are in order to serve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you ask the average person they'd tell ya, \"Naw, it's much more dangerous,\" despite the fact that violent crime has dropped precipitously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think I will still feel that same appreciation for what [Winston] Churchill and others have said is the worst form of government except all the alternatives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I was raised by a single mom who had to put herself through school while looking after two kids. And she worked hard every day and made a lot of sacrifices to make sure we got everything we needed. My grandmother, she started off as a secretary in a bank. She never got a college education, even though she was smart as a whip. And she worked her way up to become a vice president of a local bank, but she hit the glass ceiling. She trained people who would end up becoming her bosses during the course of her career."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Shaykh Bin Bayyah described his purpose. We must declare war on war so the outcome will be peace upon peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There is a theory that basically says that we can shred regulations and consumer protections and give more and more to the most, and somehow prosperity will trickle down. It hasn't worked. And I think that the fundamentals of the economy have to be measured by whether or not the middle class is getting a fair shake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We need more responsibility, but we need it not just when there's a crisis. I mean, we've had years in which the reigning economic ideology has been what's good for Wall Street, but not what's good for Main Street."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: No U.S. soldier ever dies in vain because they're carrying out the missions of their commander in chief. And we honor all the service that they've provided. Our troops have performed brilliantly. The question is for the next president, are we making good judgments about how to keep America safe precisely because sending our military into battle is such an enormous step."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Ironically, the single thing that has strengthened Iran over the last several years has been the war in Iraq. Iraq was Iran's mortal enemy. That was cleared away. And what we've seen over the last several years is Iran's influence grow. They have funded Hezbollah, they have funded Hamas, they have gone from zero centrifuges to 4,000 centrifuges to develop a nuclear weapon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We cannot tolerate a nuclear Iran. It would be a game changer. Not only would it threaten Israel, a country that is our stalwart ally, but it would also create an environment in which you could set off an arms race in this Middle East."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is absolutely important that we have a unified alliance and that we explain to the Russians that you cannot be a 21st-century superpower, or power, and act like a 20th-century dictatorship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The ideals and the values of the United States inspired the entire world. I don't think any of us can say that our standing in the world now, the way children around the world look at the United States, is the same. And part of what we need to do is to send a message to the world that we are going to invest in issues like education, we are going to invest in issues that relate to how ordinary people are able to live out their dreams. And that is something that I'm going to be committed to as president of the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the thing about being President - that can't be taught, you have to experience, is - there is the sheer weight of decision making. And when I make a decision to send 17,000 young Americans to Afghanistan - you can understand that intellectually. But understanding what that means for those families, for those young people - when you end up sitting at your desk, signing - a condolence letter to one of the family members of a fallen hero - you're reminded each and every day, at every moment, that - the decisions you make count."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have to be successful at the cutting-edge industries of the future like Twitter. But we also have always been a country that makes stuff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm not sure that the American people are looking for a lot of speeches. I think what they're looking for is action. But one of the things that I do think is important is to be able to explain to the American people what you're doing, and why you're doing it. That is something that I think every great president has been able to do. From FDR to Lincoln to John Kennedy to Eisenhower."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have been a strong proponent of pay-as-you-go. Every dollar that I've proposed, I've proposed an additional cut so that it matches."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you're really concerned about deficits, you cannot take seriously a budget that would give $30 billion a year worth of tax cuts to not just the top 1 percent but the top 0.1 percent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't expect to get 100 percent of what I want, but what we can't do is go back to the kind of top-down economics that doesn't work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What can I do to make sure that middle-class families are feeling more secure, that more young people are able to access opportunity, that we are safe, that we are working with our international partners to try to create more order at a time when there's a lot of chaos? How do we deal with terrorism in a way that's consistent with our values? As long as I stay focused on those north stars, then I tend not to get too rattled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think what grows the economy is when you get that tax credit that we put in place for your kids going to college. I think that grows the economy. I think what grows the economy is when we make sure small businesses are getting a tax credit for hiring veterans who fought for our country. That grows our economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I was never great, but I was a good [basketball] player, and I could play seriously. Now I'm like one of these old guys who's running around, and the guys I play with, who are all a lot younger, they sort of pity me and sympathize with me. They tolerate me, but we all know that I'm the weak link on the court. And I don't like being the weak link."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You might slow down a little bit, you might not jump as high as you used to, but I know what I'm doing and I'm fearless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: During the course of my presidency, it feels as if a couple times a year, I end up having to speak to the country and to speak to a particular community about a devastating loss. The grieving that the country feels is real, the sympathy, the prioritizing, the comforting of the families, all that\u2019s important. But I think part of the point that I wanted to make was that it\u2019s not enough just to feel bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When we think about immigration, we have to understand there are folks all around the world who still see America as the land of promise. And they provide us energy, and they provide us innovation. And they start companies like Intel and Google, and we want to encourage that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the great things about being commander in chief is getting to know our men and women in uniform in a very intimate way, whether it's visiting Walter Reed and seeing our wounded soldiers, or being on a base and talking to families, or interacting with them on missions. They're the best of the best: always thinking about the mission, not thinking about credit, not thinking about who's up front."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's important to know that the vast majority of people who were excited in 2008 are still really enthusiastic. We've got more volunteers now than ever, and they're engaged, they're motivated, they're not paying attention to the ups and downs of polls or Washington."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One thing you learn in this job [being US President] is that even if something's not your fault, you're still responsible. And that's how it should be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Politics in this country [USA] is always tough. It's always contentious, because this is a big country and a diverse country, and people have strong points of view, and we've got a great diversity of interests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are going through historic times, and my vision is a world, first of all, in which America continues to be that one indispensable nation. Because we're taking care of our own people, because our economy is strong and our middle class is growing, and people feel like hard work is rewarded, and we are continuing to expand opportunity and diversity and tolerance and respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Nobody cares how tough your upbringing was. Nobody cares if you suffered some discrimination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We wouldn't even be where we are had it not been that 70% of Hispanics voted for President Obama, voted Democratic in the last election. That caused an epiphany in the Senate, that's for sure. So all of a sudden we have already passed comprehensive immigration reform in the Senate. That's a big victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The senators know it's important to win statewide to have Hispanics and other immigrant populations supporting them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've been involved in the intelligence side of the federal government for a long time. We all know that we have to have a balance between security to protect the American people and liberty. We take an oath to protect and defend the constitution and the American people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My life story is something obviously that belongs to me very personally. And the fact of the matter is that I had choices and chances and opportunities that were provided to me, based on the way I was able to direct my own decision-making. And what I'm working to fight for is to make sure that all women have the ability to do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America is a country of strong families and strong values. My life's been blessed by both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The reason we're governing right now is because we defeated moderate Republicans with moderate Democrats. And people need to be patient about that and realize that compromise is not evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In Missouri, it's a 50/50 state, so I'm kind of used to half the state being mad at me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is a core principle of my presidency - if you threaten America, you will find no safe haven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There was never a promise that race relations in America would be entirely resolved during my presidency or anybody's presidency. I mean, this has been a running thread - and - and fault line in American life and American politics since its founding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Black children, white children, Latino children. America is becoming more diverse, it's becoming more tolerant as a consequence there's more interactions between groups. There are going be tensions that arise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The real problem, if you look at how, for example, Hezbollah got a lot of missiles that are a grave threat to Israel, it's not because they were legal, it's not because somehow that was authorized under international law; it was because there was insufficient intelligence or capacity to stop those shipments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm measuring my actions against that inner voice that for me at least is audible, is active, it tells me where I think I'm on track and where I think I'm off track."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The most powerful political moments for me come when I feel like my actions are aligned with a certain truth. I can feel it. When I'm talking to a group and I'm saying something truthful, I can feel a power that comes out of those statements that is different than when I'm just being glib or clever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Nothing is more powerful than the black church experience. A good choir and a good sermon in the black church, it's pretty hard not to be move and be transported."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am willing to work with anybody who wants to have a serious conversation about our fiscal future. We're not going to do this under the threat of blowing up the entire economy. I will not negotiate over Congress' responsibility to pay the bills that have already been racked up. I don't know how I can be more clear about this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Their foreign policy is so disjointed, confusing, and chaotic that, really, people need to reexamine those who want to be involved in every war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe we [americans] are strongest as a nation, when the president and Congress work together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As president, I decided that a strong, confident America could advance our national security by engaging directly with the Iranian government. We've seen the results."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Pastor Saeed Abedini is coming home. Held for three and a half years, his unyielding faith has inspired people around the world in the global fight to uphold freedom of religion. Now Pastor Abedini will return to his church and community in Idaho."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: People have to recognize that it\u2019s going to take some time for trust to be built not only between Democrats and Republicans, between Congress and the White House, between the House and the Senate. You know, we\u2019ve had a dysfunctional political system for a while now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we don\u2019t uphold our Constitution and our values, that over time, that will make us less safe and that will be a recruitment tool for organizations like Al Qaeda. That\u2019s what I have to keep my eye on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are not going to be able to rebuild Afghanistan into a Jeffersonian democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What we can do is make sure that Afghanistan is not a safe haven for Al Qaeda. What we can do it make sure that it is not destabilizing neighboring Pakistan, which has nuclear weapons. The key is we\u2019ve got to have a clear objective..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: And there\u2019s been drift in Afghanistan over the last couple of years. That\u2019s something that we intend to fix this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have complete confidence in Secret Service. These guys and gals are unbelievably professional. They know what they\u2019re doing and I basically do what they tell me to do. Now, sometimes I\u2019m the first one to admit that it chafes a little bit being inside this bubble. It\u2019s the hardest adjustment of being president, not being able to just take a walk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that the FDA has not been able to catch some of these things as quickly as I expect them to catch and so we\u2019re going to be doing a complete review of FDA operations. At bare minimum, we should be able to count on our government keeping our kids safe when they eat peanut butter. That\u2019s what Sasha eats for lunch. Probably three times a week..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You know, the bowling alley doesn\u2018t seem to be improving my game. That\u2018s the one thing I have noticed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You know, I think that we are going to be OK. Look, Malia is 10, so three years from now she is 13. Who knows what happens to teenagers?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There is a wonderful book called \"Gandhi's Truth,\" by Erik Erikson, the psychologist. It is a great book. And I remember reading that and thinking about this connection between what we think in our personal lives and how that manifests itself in our politics. Those are two books, just off the top, that I think are sort of representative of reading that I did at that time. I never get a chance to read anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Hillary Clinton was an outstanding secretary of state. She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When it comes to crime, the violent crime rate in America has been lowered during my presidency and any time in the last three, four decades."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think if you look at almost every year under every president over the last, I don't know, 20, 30 years, you're going to be hard-pressed to find a year in which the majority of Americans thought we were on the right track."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What we can do is to shape how that process of global integration proceeds, so that it's increasing opportunity for ordinary people, so that it's creating better jobs, so that we are strengthening protections for workers, so that we are addressing some of the environmental challenges that come with rapid growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Companies in Mexico are not going to do well if they don't have some connection to not just markets, but also suppliers and technology from the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Of course I have got concerns. Donald Trump and I differ on a whole bunch of issues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The bottom line is that it's hard to find a model in which you can practically administer and sustain political support for those kinds of efforts. And what makes America complicated as well is the degree to which this is not just a black/white society, and it is becoming less so every year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Let's also say that the Justice Department and the courts are making sure, as I've said in a speech before, that when Jamal sends his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 in, he's getting treated the same as when Johnny sends his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 in.Now, are we going to have suddenly the same number of CEOs, billionaires, etc., as the white community? In 10 years? Probably not, maybe not even in 20 years. But I guarantee you that we would be thriving, we would be succeeding. We wouldn't have huge numbers of young African American men in jail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We're still fighting to make sure that basic anti-discrimination laws are enforced, not just at the federal level, by the way, but throughout government and throughout the private sector? And those are fights that we can win because - and this is where I do believe America has changed - the majority, not by any means 100 percent, but the majority of Americans believe in the idea of nondiscrimination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Better may not be as good as the best, but better is surprisingly hard to obtain. And better is actually harder than worse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: To me the question right now is: How do I close that first three-quarters of the achievement gap, education gap, wealth gap? What gives me the best chance to do that? And I'm pretty darn sure that if America is a just society and treating people well right now, irrespective of past wrongs, that I'm going to close a big chunk of that gap. I've seen it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There have been times where, let's say on LGBT issues, when we were trying to end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, and I got the Pentagon and Bob Gates, a Republican holdover from the [George W.] Bush administration, to authorize a study of how you might end Don't Ask, Don't Tell, headed up by Jeh Johnson, who at that time was a council to the Justice Department. And it was going to take a year to conduct that study, issue a report, and figure out how it might be implemented, what effect it would have on unit cohesion and military effectiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Rather take that moral sense and apply it to the particulars of a job that is going to test those ethical and moral precepts differently than if you're a professor, or a business person, or a dad. And if I were not comfortable with the judicious use of our military to protect the American people, than I shouldn't have run for president. And having said that, I do think that the wisdom of a [Martin Luther] King or a [Mahatma] Gandhi can inform my decisions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have to be able to implement a policy that doesn't completely erase borders and boundaries. Not because I think that Honduran child who's gotten here is less worthy of love, attention, opportunity than my child, but because I'm the president of the United States of America and I'm not speaking as a religious leader."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For America to get more entangled militarily in Syria is a serious step, and we have to do so making absolutely certain that we know who we are helping; that we're not putting arms in the hands of folks who eventually could turn them against us or allies in the region."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: A political candidacy built around hope and change and compromise would eventually become a presidency of crisis and confrontation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I became a lightning rod for some partisan battles. I could not be prouder of the track record we've put together. By almost every measure, the country is significantly better off than when I came in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What has made America the wealthiest, most successful country on Earth historically has been our commitment to education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Historically - when you look at how America has evolved, typically we make progress on race relations in fits and starts. We make some progress, and then there's maybe some slippage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If war explodes in Sudan, it could have a destabilizing effect that creates more space for terrorist activity that could eventually be directed at our homeland."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've got to identify new strategies to use cleaner energy, because that is a recipe for reducing the overall amount of pollution that's out there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America is a nation of immigrants. And so the question is, how do we make legal immigration faster, less bureaucratic, cut the red tape?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we have Osama bin Laden in our sights and the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to take them out, then, I think that we have to act and we will take them out. We will kill bin Laden. We will crush al Qaeda. That has to be our biggest national security priority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think there are a lot of factors going into an election. I think the bottom line is - is that Donald Trump is gonna be sworn in as the 45th President of the United States of America. And it's not necessarily profitable to sort of try to untangle all the different factors that went into it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I hope that this [hacking] does not continue to be viewed purely through a partisan lens.I think there are Republicans as well as Democrats who are concerned about this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we get to a point where people in this country feel more affinity with a leader who is an adversary and view the United States and our way of life as a threat to him, then we're gonna have bigger problems than just cyber hacking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You [as a president] have to have a strong team around you. You have to have respect for institutions and the process to make good decisions because you are inherently reliant on other folks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: On the one hand information is moving quick or the way in which people consume information is changing so fast. Clearly this worked for [Donald Trump], and it gives him a direct connection to a lot of the people that voted for him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you think you got a better idea in terms of how to approach this that's not gonna result in more pollution, and more asthma, and more illness then put your ideas out there. But don't just oppose things because, \"This was Obama's agenda.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've been able to build up the Afghan security forces and stabilize it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [When I ordered 30,000 more troops into Afghanistan] that was the first time in which I looked out at a crowd of West Point graduates and knew that some of those might not come back because of that decision."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you look at the current Mosul campaign against ISIL, for example the few thousand troops that we have there to support that effort allows the Iraqi military to move forward in an effective way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've got to control our own energy. Now, not only oil and natural gas, which we've been investing in; but also, we've got to make sure we're building the energy source of the future, not just thinking about next year, but ten years from now, 20 years from now. That's why we've invested in solar and wind and biofuels, energy efficient cars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Let's take the money that we've been spending on war over the last decade to rebuild America, roads, bridges schools. We do those things, not only is your future going to be bright but America's future is going to bright as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I reserve the right, as president of the United States to meet with anybody at a time and place of my choosing if I think it's going to keep America safe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America can't provide health care to people who need it. We can't invest in science and technology, which will determine whether or not we are going to be competitive in the long term. There has never been a country on Earth that saw its economy decline and yet maintained its military superiority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The American people are going to have a good choice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Although there are some parallels to the problems that we're seeing now and what we say back in the '30s, no period is exactly the same. For us to simply recreate what existed back in the '30s in the 21st century, I think would be missing the boat. We've gotta come up with solutions that are true to our times and true to this moment. And that's gonna be our job. I think the basic principle that government has a role to play in kick starting an economy that has ground to a halt is sound."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think our basic principle that this is a free market system and that that has worked for us, that it creates innovation and risk taking, I think that's a principle that we've gotta hold to as well. But what I don't wanna do is get bottled up in a lot of ideology and is this conservative or liberal. My interest is finding something that works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have fought against spending. I have fought against special interests. I have fought for reform."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Do I wish that things were more orderly in Washington and rational and people listened to the best arguments and compromised and operated in a more thoughtful and organized fashion? Absolutely. But when you look at history that's been the exception rather than the norm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The alternative, no limits on Iran's nuclear program, no inspections, an Iran that's closer to a nuclear weapon, the risk of regional nuclear arms race, and the greater risk of war - all that would endanger our [American] security."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We [USA] don't have diplomatic leverage to eliminate every vestige of a peaceful nuclear program in Iran. What we do have the leverage to do is to make sure that they don't have a weapon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we're serious about building an economy that lasts, we have got to get serious about education. We are going to have to pick up our games and raise our standards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This comes from a group of people who`ve been wrong about every foreign policy issue over the last two decades. They supported Hillary Clinton`s war in Libya. They supported President [Barack] Obama`s bombing of Assad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If Mr. [Donald] Trump is up 10 or 15 points on Election Day and ends up losing, then, you know, maybe he can raise some questions. That doesn't seem to be the case at that moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we want to really reduce foreign influence on our elections, then we better think about how to make sure that our political process, our political dialogue is stronger than it's been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't have to negotiate an arms agreement with Great Britain or with France."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think we want to see new voices and new ideas emerge - that's part of the reason why term limits are a really useful thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We were very effective, and I was very effective, in shaping public opinion around my campaigns. But there were big stretches, while governing, where even though we were doing the right thing, we weren't able to mobilize public opinion firmly enough behind us to weaken the resolve of the Republicans to stop opposing us or to cooperate with us. And there were times during my presidency where I lost the PR battle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In the first two years, when I had a strong majority in the House and the Senate, we were as productive as any administration has been since the '60s. I mean, we got a lot done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: First of all, I think everybody has to acknowledge don't underestimate the guy [Donald Trump], because he's going to be 45th president of the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The one thing I've said to [Donald Trump] directly, and I would advise my Republican friends in Congress and supporters around the country, is just make sure that, as we go forward certain norms, certain institutional traditions don't get eroded, because there's a reason they're in place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I do think that saving the economy was a pretty big deal. We did a lot of stuff early that ended up having an impact. I believe that the work we've done in moving our energy future in a cleaner direction is going to stick even if some of the individual steps that we took are reversed by future administrations. I think that it's embedded itself in the economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: So many of my staff is young enough that they're going to do amazing things. And I'm going to be helping them try to do them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We buy our own toilet paper even here in the White House."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm not the caricature that you see on Fox News or Rush Limbaugh, but I'm somebody who is interested in solving problems and is pretty practical, and that, actually, a lot of the things that we've put in place worked better than people might think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Supreme Court had the choice not only which way to rule, pro- or anti-gay marriage rights, but also how they were going to rule. They could have ruled just federalism, saying, \"This isn't a matter for federal; this isn't a federal issue at all. States should decide it.\" Or they could decide it on equal protection grounds and say that, \"Gay discrimination is wrong.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Every major world religion has identified marriage as between a man and a woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think we're at a place wherea woman's health is danger because of whether this family planning or contraception or any issues that relate to women's health, there's an assault on that in the Congress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If I'm president, some day, young kids will look at the world differently. They will say, I could be president some day. They couldn't have said that before I came along. The world will see the United States in a different context, as a country of true opportunity for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Instead of giving in to cynicism and division, let's move forward with the confidence and optimism and unity that define us as a people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I face the world as it is and cannot stand idle in the face of threats to the American people. For make no mistake, evil does exist in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The president [Barack Obama] laid out his vision for foreign policy in a way that we hadn't heard before. And it could be summed up, I think, in two words - realistic idealism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't get too low when it's low. And what I found during the course of the presidency, and I suppose this is true in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news cycle to bear fruit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: To the extent that our political dialogue is such where everything is under suspicion, everybody is corrupt and everybody is doing things for partisan reasons, and all of our institutions are full of malevolent actors - if that's the storyline that's being put out there by whatever party is out of power, then when a foreign government introduces that same argument with facts that are made up, voters who have been listening to that stuff for years, who have been getting that stuff every day from talk radio or other venues, they're going to believe it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are times where I've made mistakes or our administration hasn't always aligned ourselves with the values we need to align ourselves with. It's a work of constant improvement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have not confronted forcefully enough the intolerance, sectarianism, and hopelessness that feeds violent extremism in too many parts of the globe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I do think that I have a better sense of how military action can result in unintended consequences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Globalization combined with technology, combined with social media and constant information, have disrupted people's lives sometimes in very concrete ways; a manufacturing plant closes and suddenly an entire town no longer has what was the primary source of employment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When you see a Donald Trump and a Bernie Sanders, very unconventional candidates, have considerable success, then obviously there's something there that's being tapped into; a suspicion on globalization, a desire to reign in it's excesses, a suspicion of elites and governing institutions that people feel may not be responsive to their immediate needs. And that sometimes gets wrapped up in issues of ethnic identify or religious identity or cultural identity, and that can be a volatile mix."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What the Paris agreement now does is say to China and India and other countries that are potentially polluting, come on board. Let's work together so you guys do the same thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The biggest threat, when it comes to climate change and pollution, isn't going to come from us because we only have 300 million people. It's going to come from China with over 1 billion people and India with over 1 billion people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One very difficult decision was deciding to vote against the appropriations bill for the war. I had consistently said that I wanted to make sure our troops got the adequate and training in the war effort, despite the fact that I opposed the war at the point that the president decided to double down and send more troops. I had to vote against funding as a way of bringing it back to the table. That was a difficult decision for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am confident that Assad's days are numbered. But what we can't do is to simply suggest that, as Governor Romney at times has suggested, that giving heavy weapons, for example, to the Syrian opposition is a simple proposition that would lead us to be safer over the long term."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: By 2016, the people who had looked to [Barack] Obama for change were looking somewhere else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Your kids grow up. I think they more than anything are making me feel as if, you know, you want to squeeze everything you got every single day out of this thing. Because it passes quick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In America, we started the public school system very early in the century, and as a consequence we had more skilled workers than any nation on Earth, which meant that we were more productive than any nation on Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In America, we then made a commitment, particularly after World War II with the GI Bill, to massively expand our commitment to college education, and that meant we had more engineers and we had more scientists and that meant we had better technology, which meant that we were more productive and we could succeed in the global marketplace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The amount of interaction, the amount of understanding that exists in your generation among people of different races and different creeds and different colors is unprecedented. And by the way, that goes - that cuts across party lines, that cuts across partisan lines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My strong preference has always been to legislate when I can get legislation done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: On September 11th, 2001, in our time of grief, the American people came together. We offered our neighbors a hand and we offered the wounded our blood. We reaffirmed our ties to each other and our love of community and country. On that day, no matter where we came from, what God we prayed to, or what race or ethnicity we were, we were united as one American family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You have people around the country who are benefitting from the steps that we've taken [with Obamacare] and as long as they continue to get helped, then at least I'll know in my own mind that the work we did here had a lasting impact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I had said from the start that I thought Iraq was a mistake, that we should have stayed focused on Afghanistan. I think it was the right decision because the Taliban at that point had gotten a lot of momentum before I'd gotten into office, partly because we hadn't been paying attention as much as we needed to to Afghanistan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It still puts burden on some troops of ours who are there [in Afghanistan and Iraq] as advisors and facilitators."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our alliances and partnerships are not directed against any nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The United States was proud to stand with the people of Germany as this nation and this continent reunited and rebuilt and reached for a better future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: On issues like Ukraine, on issues like Syria, we've had very significant differences [with Russia]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You haven't seen a lot of turnover in my campaign. And the culture of my campaign is one in which I think everybody feels a great sense of ownership."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What I've said is we're going to encourage democracy in Pakistan, expand our nonmilitary aid to Pakistan so that they have more of a stake in working with us, but insisting that they go after these militants."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think [ chief organizer of the Democratic Party ] it's something that I have an interest in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'd like to think that \"President Obama believed deeply in this democracy and the American people.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The two inaugurations were different. The first inauguration I was thinking to myself, \"Let's make sure I don't screw this up.\" I think there is - people always talk about how cool I am. I don't care how cool you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: John F.Kennedy gave probably the greatest inauguration speech ever that first time, but I guarantee you when he first walked out there he was thinking, \"Goodness gracious this is big and I better be up to the task.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What I remember thinking at that point, having gone through both the ups and downs of my first four years, and seeing the sea of people was, \"What a remarkable country this is and how lucky am I that we live in a place where the son of a single mom, not born into any kind of fame or fortune, in a pretty remote state somehow can end up be in a position to - to make a difference.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The most important thing we can do is to make sure that we are creating jobs in this country. But not just jobs, good paying jobs. Ones that can support a family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have seen violence and terror perpetrated by those who profess to stand up for faith, their faith. Professed to stand up for Islam, but in fact are betraying it. Humanity has been grappling with these questions throughout human history. And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Donald Trump is uniquely unqualified to be president."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Here`s a guy who says he`s a great businessman. But it seems like a lot of Trump's business is built around stiffing small businesses and workers out of what he owes them, work they`ve done. He thinks that`s cute or smart or funny to basically not pay somebody who`s done work for him and say go ahead and sue me because I`ve got more money than you and you can`t do anything about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Now, the Iranian people are a great people, and Persian civilization is a great civilization. Iran has acted in ways that's not conducive to peace and prosperity in the region: their threats against Israel; their pursuit of a nuclear weapon which could potentially set off an arms race in the region that would make everybody less safe; their support of terrorist organizations in the past - none of these things have been helpful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Now that Iran's actions have been verified, it can begin to receive relief from certain nuclear sanctions and gain access to its own money that had been frozen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The United States is imposing sanctions on individuals and companies working to advance Iran's ballistic missile program, and we are going to remain vigilant about it. We're not going to waver in the defense of our security or that of our allies and partners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are dangers that globalization increases inequality. There are dangers that because capital is mobile and workers are not, if we are not providing them sufficient protection, that they can be left behind in this process. And that's what we have to focus on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Over the past eight years, the United States has worked hard to deepen partnerships across the region and across South-east Asia in particular. We're now a part of the East Asia Summit and we have a strategic partnership with Asean. At the US-Asean Leaders Summit I hosted earlier this year in Sunnylands, California, we agreed to a set of principles that will shape the future peace and prosperity of the region, from promoting innovation and furthering economic integration to addressing transnational challenges like global health security and climate change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm confident that America's foreign policy rebalance to the region will endure beyond my presidency because it's in the national interest of the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are legitimate concerns and anxieties that the forces of globalisation are leaving too many people behind - and we have to take those concerns seriously and address them. But the answer isn't to turn inward and embrace protectionism. We can't just walk away from trade."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In a global economy where our economies and supply chains are deeply integrated, it's not even possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I do think that I am generally optimistic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My particular worries on any given day - how I'm doing in the polls or what somebody is saying about me... for good or for ill - isn't particularly relevant. What is relevant is: What am I building that lasts?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I was always amused that people were either skeptical or surprised that I would choose a Hillary Clinton as a secretary of state. To my mind, having somebody smart, tough, capable with her own stature, who could travel around the world and command the stage, was a huge asset."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't want ever to be a president who is comfortable and at ease with killing people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected. And that's the kind of culture that I think allows all of us, then, to believe what we want. That's freedom of conscience. That's what our Constitution guarantees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We seem to have trouble with [critical thinking]. And our political system doesn't help."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The last thing that I want to do is to have the United States be a foil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is my firm belief that it will be in the interests of the United States, especially our economic interests, to pursue comprehensive immigration reform."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When it comes to immigration, I think Americans expect that our immigration process is orderly and it is legal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have to focus on how do we ensure the economy works for everybody, and not just a few."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think it's very important to remember that so much of the work that gets done between countries is not done at the level of presidents, but is done within various agencies, whether it's law enforcement or economic ministries. And when they establish relationships and systems of communications and shared projects and shared visions, those structures continue even after any particular president is gone. It builds trust and understanding between countries that are critically important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am who I am. You sort of get what you see with me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are always things that I think I wish I could have done better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I can say across Europe that many principles that have been taken for granted here around free speech, and around civil liberties and an independent judiciary, and fighting corruption, those are principles that, you know, not perfectly but generally, we have tried to apply not just in our own country but also with respect to our foreign policy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I will continue to urge creditors to take the steps needed to put Greece on a path towards a durable economic recovery because it's in all of our interests that Greece succeeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: On behalf of the American people, just let me say that we are proud to count Greece as one of our closest allies and one of our greatest friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The dollar is the reserve currency of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you were president 50 years ago, the tragedy in Syria might not even penetrate what the American people were thinking about on a day to day basis. Today, they're seeing vivid images of a child in the aftermath of a bombing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have been blessed by having, and I admittedly am biased, some of the smartest, hardest-working, and good people in my administration that I think any president has ever had."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Donald Trump will be the next president, the 45th President of the United States. And it will be up to him to set up a team that he thinks will serve him well and reflect his policies. And those who didn't vote for him have to recognize that that's how democracy works. That's how this system operates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that whenever you have got an incoming president of the other side it takes a while for people to reconcile themselves with that new reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I thought Brittany Packnett, who was one of the Ferguson activists, really interesting, smart young lady, really impressive - you might want to talk with her. So she was one of the organizers of the Ferguson movement, ended up joining our task force. She came in here and she just knew her stuff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I would say this, I'll go back to those black ladies I was talking about who love them some Barack and love Michelle even more - and by the way, they are not middle-aged anymore, because I'm now middle-aged. So they're a little bit older. As fervent as they were, as excited and happy as they were when I was elected, they had to go to work the next morning. They still had trouble paying those bills. They might have still had a son who was in trouble with the law or couldn't get a job because of a felony record. They didn't stop being grounded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: After my election there was talk of a postracial America. And such a vision, however well intended, was never realistic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's not appealing to deal with countries that express hatred towards us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are gonna be a core set of values that shouldn't be up for debate. Should be our north star."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I reject discrimination against Muslim Americans - who are just as patriotic as we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: As long as I'm president of the United States Iran will not get a nuclear weapon. I made that clear when I came into office."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Beside the two wars he inherited in Iraq and Afghanistan, and promised to end, a financial crisis at home had pushed the United States to the brink of another Great Depression. When we spoke with the new president in March of 2009, the economy was losing 800,000 jobs a month, the government was throwing hundreds of billions of dollars at failing banks, and the auto industry was on the verge of collapse. Politically pummeled from all sides, Obama did his best to keep a sense of humor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I changed those things that were in direct - my direct control. I mean, I - look, I'm proud of the fact that, with two weeks to go, we're probably the first administration in modern history that hasn't had a major scandal in the White House."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: To sustain a governing majority, that requires an ability for Republicans and Democrats to find some common ground. And right now, the structure of the system is such where it makes it really hard for people to work together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have states. And we have cities. And we have counties. And we have the private sector. And - and so the country still works even when Washington's dysfunctional."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [Michelle Obama] used to say to our friends, \"Barack's exactly the kind of guy I want to be president. I just wish he didn't want to do it when I was married to him.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've been able to organize the international community around it in ways that aren't going to go back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that I'll always remember the bust of Dr. [Martin Luther] King. I thought having an American here who represented rhat civic spirit that got me into this [president] office was useful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What makes [cyber security] difficult is because it's not just a government problem. It is a private sector and government problem. And there's gotta be a lot more cooperation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am absolutely convinced that race relations on the whole are actually better now than they were 20 years [ago]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm not so out of touch that I don't see how young people interact today.It was horrific. And that's an example of something that it's not as if that's the first time that a hate crime has taken place in this country. Hate crimes have been taking place for hundreds of years in this country, but it's there on video."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we can't meet with our friends, I don't know how we're going to lead the world in terms of dealing with critical issues like terrorism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Donald Trump is like Hillary Clinton said, a man you can bait with a tweet is not a man you can trust with nuclear weapons. You can`t do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: All Americans should be deeply troubled by the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minnesota. We've seen such tragedies far too many times, and our hearts go out to the families and communities who've suffered such a painful loss."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Today, the world lost a creative icon. Michelle and I join millions of fans from around the world in mourning the sudden death of Prince."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: All the good things that are happening in America don't get reported on a lot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think since the systematic emergence of terrorism and the assassination attempts, everything has tightened. My hope is that it loosens back up once I leave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Everyone on my team should be extraordinarily proud of what they have done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: To young people: you have to stay encouraged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have somehow, continued to miss Oktoberfest so that's probably something that is better for me to do as a former president rather than as president, I'll have more fun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For me, personally, the most difficult moments had to do with not just terrorist attacks, but also shootings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Angela Merkel has been an extraordinary partner for me and for the United States throughout my presidency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We all want the Greek people to prosper, to be able to provide a good life for their families and their children. That would be good for Greece, that would be good for the European Union, good for the United States, and ultimately, good for the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My hope is Donald Trump makes things better. And if he does, we'll all benefit from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the structure of their societies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It may be something that future generations are more open to, but I am pretty confident that for the foreseeable future, using the argument of nondiscrimination, and \"Let's get it right for the kids who are here right now,\" and giving them the best chance possible, is going to be a more persuasive argument."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you're a progressive, you've got to be worried about how the federal government is spending its revenue, because we don't have enough money to spend on things like early childhood education that are so important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In the course of a healthy debate, we prioritize different goals, and the different means of reaching them. But without some common baseline of facts, without a willingness to admit new information and concede that your opponent might be making a fair point, and that science and reason matter - then we're going to keep talking past each other, and we'll make common ground and compromise impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We have to have a president who is clear that you don't deal with Russia based on staring into his eyes and seeing his soul. You deal with Russia based on, what are your - what are the national security interests of the United States of America? And we have to recognize that the way they've been behaving lately demands a sharp response from the international community and our allies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: More people are realising that ISIL's not a caliphate. It's a crime ring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My liberty depends on you being free, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Asia Pacific is home to nearly half the world's population, a growing middle class and holds so much opportunity for us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There's no one who I believe has ever captured the soul of America more profoundly than Abraham Lincoln has."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Everybody acknowledges that the current path we're on is unsustainable, not just for the people who don't have health insurance but for those who do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that the issues we have with science these days are not restricted to what's happening with respect to religion. There are a lot of very religious scientists around."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You [Bill Maher] seem to have done alright with your TV show... I mean, I don't get a sense... to the extent that they're boycotting you, it's because of your other wacky views rather than your particular views on religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: That is the nature of democracy. It is hard. It is not always inspiring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I wanna thank the German people for the incredible partnership that our countries have been able to establish all these years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's up to [Angela Merkel] whether she wants to stand again and then ultimately, it'll be up to the German people to decide what the future holds. If I were here and I were German and I had a vote, I might support her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The problem is that young people are less likely to vote than older people. What results is a situation in which sometimes the elections don't fully reflect the views of the American population."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: At a certain point you can't help but lose some feel for what's on the ground because you're not on the ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Maybe at the same time as I'm more confident today, I'm also more humble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There is a wide range of views within the Jewish community, so it's not monolithic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The ideas of ancient Greece helped inspire America's founding fathers as they reached for democracy. Our revolutionary ideas helped inspire Greeks as they sought their own freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I won Iowa not because the demographics dictated that I would win Iowa. It was because I spent 87 days going to every small town and fair and fish fry and BFW Hall, and there were some counties where I might have lost, but maybe I lost by 20 points instead of 50 points. There's some counties maybe I won, that people didn't expect, because people had a chance to see you and listen to you and get a sense of who you stood for and who you were fighting for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think Dona;d Trump is sincere in wanting to be a successful president and moving this country forward and I don't think any president ever comes in saying to himself \"I want to figure out how to make people angry or alienate half the country.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When you're a candidate and you say something that is inaccurate or controversial, it has less impact than it does when you're president of the United States. Everybody around the world's paying attention. Markets move. National security issues require a level of precision in order to make sure that you don't make mistakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Reinvigorating the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, making sure that in our Department of Education, where we see evidence of black boys being suspended at substantially higher rates than white boys for the same behavior, in the absence of that kind of rigorous enforcement of the nondiscrimination principle, then the long-standing biases that I believe have weakened, but are still clearly present in our society, assert themselves in ways that usually disadvantage African Americans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is why the anti-discrimination principle being enforced is important. Because it won't stop if some of the underlying biases aren't challenged and surfaced. And that in and of itself creates backlash and denial. This is what I mean when I say better is hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's the reason why I am always interested in engaging in people who are pushing us and pushing against the status quo. But having been an activist, the only thing that I'm always encouraging activists to do is, once you have raised the issue, and even through controversial means, you have to come behind it with an agenda and the possibility of reconciliation if power meets your demands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I don't regret the excitement, because I do think that it helped us accomplish as much as we did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You don't know how it would have turned out if [kids] would grown up in Chicago instead, and a more normal environment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Even when you go up ramp, and you think about [Franklin D. Roosevelt] wheeling himself up, you know, got a little cigarette holder in his mouth, and it, that, that awe that you feel, that reverence that you feel for the place never entirely leaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think the most important thing is to take the long view on things. We live in such a 24/7, Twitter-fed, constant news cycle, and everything's a crisis, everything is terrible, everything is doomsday, everything is - if it doesn't get solved tomorrow, your presidency is going off the rails."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My job is to keep my eye on the ball and to stay focused on what can we get done every single day to advance the vision and values that brought me here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: David [Cameron] has been an outstanding friend and partner on the global stage and, based on our conversation, I'm confident that the UK is committed to an orderly transition out of the EU."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We agreed that our economic and financial teams will remain in close contact as we stay focused on ensuring economic growth and financial stability."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I then spoke to chancellor (Angela) Merkel of Germany and we agreed that the United States and our European allies will work closely together in the weeks and months ahead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are certain occupations - probably, most prominently, politics - where there would be a bias against somebody who's agnostic or atheist in running for office."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you're reading something from a Nobel Prize-winning physicist next to some guy in his underwear writing in his basement, or his mom's basement, on text, it looks like it's equally plausible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Moral values includes the immorality of 45 million uninsured or the immorality of working people who are having trouble raising a family despite working full-time. That has to be part of the moral equation. And if we are able to frame things in that fashion, then I think we can be successful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Climate change is one of the issues I worry most about because its impacts are enormous. But they're gradual, they're not immediate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: You have to be involved in terms of what's happening in your local neighborhood and what issues are there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've always wanted to come to Greece."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: People are less certain of their national identities or their place in the world. It starts looking different and disorienting. And there is no doubt that that has produced populist movements both from the left and from the right in many countries in Europe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Being attentive to inequality and not tone deaf to it. But offering prescriptions that are actually going to help folks in communities that feel forgotten. That's going to be our most important strategy. And I think we can successfully do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is where I think policies do need to be somewhat race-specific, is making sure that institutions are not discriminatory. So you've got something like the FHA [Federal Housing Administration], which was on its face a universal program that involved a huge mechanism for wealth accumulation and people entering into the middle class."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I want to make sure America has got the best education system in the world. And we're retaining our workers for the jobs of tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you want to right-size executive power relative to the other branches of government, the best way to do that is to have a healthy Congress in which the two parties are debating, disagreeing, but also occasionally working together to pass legislation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: All of these different strands in me - the black, the white, the African - all of that has contributed directly to my success because when I meet people, I see a piece of myself in them. And maybe they see a piece of themselves in me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: A political consultant, when we first started thinking about Senate race, said, \"You can have one funny name. You can be 'Barack Smith.' Or you can be 'Joe Obama.' But 'Barack Obama' - that's not gonna work.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think you need to have people around you who can remind you that, actually, what you just said makes no sense. Fortunately, I have my wife to do that continually."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There is not a black America and a white America; a Latino America, an Asian America. There is the United States of America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What I want to communicate is the fact that in all my travels throughout the Muslim world, what I've come to understand is that regardless of your faith - and America is a country of Muslims, Jews, Christians, non-believers - regardless of your faith, people all have certain common hopes and common dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My job is to communicate to the American people that the Muslim world is filled with extraordinary people who simply want to live their lives and see their children live better lives. My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. But if you look at the track record America was not born as a colonial power, and that the same respect and partnership that America had with the Muslim world as recently as 20 or 30 years ago, there's no reason why we can't restore that. And that I think is going to be an important task."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We cannot solve the problems of America if every time somebody somewhere says something stupid, that everybody gets up in arms and we forget about the war in Iraq or we forget about the economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Thanksgiving reminds us that no matter our differences, we're still one people, part of something bigger than ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Our alliance with our NATO partners has been a cornerstone of U.S. foreign policy for nearly 70 years, in good times and in bad and through presidents of both parties because the United States has a fundamental interest in Europe's stability and security."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We shouldn't assume that government is always trying to do the wrong thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've got to make sure that our economy is strong at home so that we can project military power overseas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This massacre in Orlando is therefore a further reminder of how easy it is for someone to get their hands on a weapon that lets them shoot people in a school or in a house of worship or a movie theater or in a nightclub. And we have to decide if that's the kind of country we want to be. And to actively do nothing is a decision, as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My greatest hope is to be able to pass the same dreams and hopes and vision that I've been able to enjoy in my life, on to the next generation. Not just for my children - because with a mother like Michelle, my kids are going to be great - but for all children. There are too many children in this country for whom the American dream is so distant and the odds against them are so daunting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We should never hesitate to use military force, and I will not, as president, in order to keep the American people safe. But we have to use our military wisely. And we did not use our military wisely in Iraq."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What is true in the South is true for America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The United Kingdom and the European Union will remain indispensable partners of the United States even as they begin negotiating their ongoing relationship to ensure continued stability, security and prosperity for Europe, Great Britain and Northern Ireland, and the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Hillary Clinton was an outstanding secretary of state. She would never intentionally put America in any kind of jeopardy. And what I also know, because I handle a lot of classified information, is that there's classified and then there's classified. There's stuff that is really top secret top secret, and there's stuff that is being presented to the president or the secretary of state that you might not want on the transom or, you know, going out over the wire, but is basically stuff that you could get in open source."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Sometimes when these kinds of things happen, it can seem a little bit too much to bear. But what I want the people of Louisiana know is that you're not alone on this. Even after the TV cameras leave, the whole country is going to continue to support you and help you until we get folks back in their homes and lives are rebuilt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Donald Trump seems to do a good job mentioning his own name."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that sometimes the Democrats have to run upstream or swim upstream because we've got the Republicans making it out as if we don't care about these things, and we should be able to engage and be willing to engage in the discussion about morality and values."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Keeping our military strong means keepin' our families strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What we have to do moving forward is to make sure that small businesses that account for most of the job growth in our economy are getting the kind of financing that they need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We've got to make sure that we rebuild the infrastructure in America, because we used to be - have the best bridges, the best roads, the best airports. And now, when you go to China or you go to Europe, you see that they are outstripping us in terms of infrastructure. And if we put people back to work, that would be good not only in the short term, but it would also lay the foundation, the framework for long-term economic and job growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Ultimately peer pressure can lead people to bully, but peer pressure can also say bullying is not acceptable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In your generation, everybody is constantly bombarded with all kinds of different input from different cultures, and that's a strength, that's a positive thing. That's why I remain confident about America's ability to compete in the world, precisely because we've got a little bit of everybody in this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Health care costs generally have gone up at a significantly slower rate since ObamaCare was passed than they did before, which has saved the federal Treasury hundreds of billions of dollars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the things you discover about being president is that there are all these rules and norms and laws and you got to pay attention to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I look at some of the kids that I interact with, and they were born with so many disadvantages. And you could start off in your first interaction with them saying, \"Unless they get a lot of compensatory help, they're not going to be able to compete; they're just so far behind, and they're wounded and they're hurt.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have 90 percent or 95 percent support in the African American community and it's not sort of \"Well, he's black, so it's okay. We're not going to say anything even though we're seething.\" And I hang out with a lot of middle-aged black women, and they're not casual in their support of me. There's a lot of love forthcoming. Partly because they understand the constraints of this society. They know that this is hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I can think about what [Mahatma] Gandhi said or [Martin Luther] King said about violence begetting violence, and still be true to my job by asking myself the question whenever we're confronted with a situation where some may be arguing for military action: Will this actually result in America being safer, or the most lives being saved?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've got certain responsibilities that I have to carry out in a very specific institution and in a specific moment in time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We had to get out of Chicago so quick. Election night happens, suddenly I'm talking to Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson and trying to figure out whether the world's going to fly apart, and Michelle is trying to figure out where the girls are going to go to school. And we pack up and leave and basically our house in Chicago just became like a time capsule. My desk in my home office still had stacks of articles and bills and stuff from 2008."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think it is important that we are targeting HIV/AIDS resources into the communities where we're seeing the highest growth rates. That means education and prevention, particularly with young people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We think about the enormous costs of homelessness, or the enormous cost of HIV/AIDS, over the long term, as people visit emergency rooms, etc. The more we are investing in that ounce of prevention the better off we're going to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think we have two conflicting traditions in this country. I think it's important for us to recognize that we've got a tradition of handgun ownership and gun ownership generally. And a lot of people - law-abiding citizens use if for hunting, for sportsmanship, and for protecting their families. We also have a violence on the streets that is the result of illegal handgun usage. And so I think there is nothing wrong with a community saying we are going to take those illegal handguns off the streets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you've got a business, you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's one of the biggest benefits of being president that you really don't think about until you get here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When you've got little kids, and you're tucking them in. When you open a door and they're in their pajamas and they're, you know, wrestling with you and asking you, you know, to read to them and stuff, [The white House] starts feeling like home pretty quick. Not to mention having a mother-in-law upstairs, and the dog, and now two."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: There are times where I'd say the Oval Office, you use to gather the facts. The decisions you probably make late at night, or at least I do. But there are some times where you think you've made a decision, but during that walk, where you're announcing the decision, you've just got to make sure that, you're prepared to live with it, because as you know George, a lot of these decisions are not - the outcomes are uncertain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Shooting in Orlando is a sobering reminder that attacks on any American, regardless of race, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation, is an attack on all of us and on the fundamental values of equality and dignity that define us as a country. And no act of hate or terror will ever change who we are or the values that make us Americans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Nature is actually resilient, if we take care to just stop actively destroying it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Unless we are holding ourselves accountable day in, day out, not just when there's a crisis for folks who have power and influence and can hire lobbyists, but for the nurse, the teacher, the police officer, who, frankly, at the end of each month, they've got a little financial crisis going on. They're having to take out extra debt just to make their mortgage payments. We haven't been paying attention to them. And if you look at our tax policies in America, it's a classic example."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Cold War has been over for a long time. I'm not interested in having battles that, frankly, started before I was born."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When you've got a economy in which 40 percent of economic growth is happening in the financial sector, that turns out that was all an illusion, that it wasn't growth based on real products and services, but just a bunch of paper shuffling and a house of cards, then what's gonna emerge, at some point, is a sense of resentment, a sense that the system's rigged, and it's not working for ordinary people. And it's not fulfilling the basic American dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The American people are not expecting miracles. I think if you talk to the average person right now that they would say, 'Well, look, you know well, we're having a tough time right now. We've had tough times before.' 'And you know, we don't expect a new president can snap his fingers and suddenly everything is gonna be okay. But what we do expect is that the guy is gonna be straight with us. We do expect that he's gonna be working really hard for us.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Whether it's coming from FDR or it's coming from Ronald Reagan, if the idea is right for the times then we're gonna apply it. And things that don't work we're gonna get rid of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My tax plan will cut taxes for 95 percent of workers, because we need to put money back into the pockets of struggling middle-class families and close the egregious tax loopholes that have exploded over the last eight years. My plan eliminates capital gains taxes entirely for the small businesses and start-ups that are the backbone of our economy, as opposed to John McCain's plan, which would tax these businesses. John McCain is running to serve out a third Bush term. But the truth is, when it comes to taxes, that's not being fair to George Bush."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Leaving the broken system the way it is, that`s not a solution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The people of the United Kingdom have spoken, and we respect their decision. The special relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom is enduring, and the United Kingdom's membership in Nato remains a vital cornerstone of US foreign, security and economic policy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The American people are a non-ideological people. They very much are looking for common-sense, practical solutions to the problems that they face. Oftentimes they've got contradictory senses of various issues and policy positions and I don't think that either the Republican Party or the Democratic Party necessarily capture their deepest dreams when those parties are described in caricature or in policy terms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Don't get cynical. Don't ever think you can't make a difference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I am encouraged by the president-elect's [Donald Trump] insistence that NATO is a commitment that does not change. And his full commitment to NATO as the foundation for our international security I think is very important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If fake news that's being released by some foreign government is almost identical to reports that are being issued through partisan news venues, then it's not surprising that that foreign propaganda will have a greater effect, because it doesn't seem that far-fetched compared to some of the other stuff that folks are hearing from domestic propagandists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The fact that there is a robust debate in Congress is good. The fact that the debate sometimes seems unanchored to facts is not so good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Both President Kennedy and President Reagan were roundly criticized by parts of the foreign policy establishment that felt they were being weak by engaging our adversaries. So some of it is built into a political lexicon that makes you sound tougher if you don't talk to somebody, and rather, very loudly, wield a big stick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think the Greek people, although it is difficult and challenging and the politics of it I know are not good, should appreciate the fact that in this global economy, the Greek economy was going to have to go through some structural reforms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Since I've been in the Senate, is that my work with people like Tom Coburn on opening up transparency in government, making sure that every dollar the federal government spends that's out there - that that's all posted on a searchable database on the Internet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Libya is still a mess right now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Societies in which we are able to unify ourselves around values and ideals and character and how we treat each other and cooperation and innovation, ultimately are gonna be more successful than societies that don't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The federal government and our democracy is not a speedboat. It's an oceanliner, as I discovered when I came into office. It took a lot of really hard work for us to make significant policy changes, even in our first two years, when we had larger majorities than Mr. Trump will enjoy when he comes into office."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think what will happen with Donald Trump is there are going to be certain elements of his temperament that will not serve him well unless he recognizes them and corrects them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I say that is because those are the times where sometimes you feel actually a little bit hurt. Because you feel like saying to these folks, \"[Don't] you think if I could do it, I [would] have just done it. Do you think that the only problem is that I don't care enough about the plight of poor people, or gay people, or immigrants, or ...?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America is a strong and resilient country. And I know we will succeed, if we put aside partisanship and politics and work together as one nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I'm convinced we're going to rebuild not only the auto industry, but the economy better and stronger than before. And at its heart is going to be three powerful words: Made in America. Made in America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The key is whether or not we have got priorities that are working for you, as opposed to those who have been dictating the policy in Washington lately. And that's mostly lobbyists and special interests. We have got to put an end to that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Trump is not somebody who`s fit to be president in any circumstances. I would feel deeply frustrated, not because anything he said about me, but because I would fear for the future of our country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I do think that it is impossible for us to think only in terms of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict and not think in terms of what's happening with Syria or Iran or Lebanon or Afghanistan and Pakistan. These things are interrelated. And if we are looking at the region as a whole and communicating a message to the Arab world and the Muslim world, that we are ready to initiate a new partnership based on mutual respect and mutual interest, then I think that we can make significant progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Keep in mind that, when I came in, we had had a crisis that was the worst we've seen since the 1930s, and working with people like Chancellor Merkel, working with the G-20 and other institutions internationally, we were able to stabilize the financial system, stabilize the US economy and return to growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We can lose so much of what we've gained in terms of the kind of democratic freedoms and market-based economies and prosperity that we've come to take for granted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The greatest gift that Michelle and I have received over the last eight years has been the honor of serving as your President and First Lady. Together, we fought our way back from the worst recession in 80 years, and got unemployment to a nine-year low."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: By so many measures, our country is stronger and more prosperous than it was when we first got here. And I'm hopeful we'll build on the progress we've made in the years to come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Too often, we have failed to enforce international norms when it's inconvenient to do so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Iran is the latest expression of a deep, ancient, powerful culture that's different than ours. And we don't know how it's going to play itself out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's the job, I think, of leaders to try to address peoples' real legitimate concerns and channel them in the most constructive ways possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My conviction is that those fights need to be fought right now and can be won. And if in fact we have finite political capital, energy, resources, we need to win those fights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What is true is [Bashar] Assad got rid of his chemical weapons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [My kids] complained about Secret Service as they became teenagers, and Secret Service has done the very best job they could accommodating them, so it hasn't restricted any of their activities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's probably a prerequisite for the job, or at least you have to have enough craziness to think that you can do the job. I think that [Donald Trump] has not spent a lot of time sweating the details of, you know, all the policies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Just like I described in health care, yeah, somebody comes in, they got new ideas, maybe ideas that are completely opposite of my ideas. Maybe some of it goes, maybe some of that progress goes back. Maybe they think of some things we didn't think of, and so in some other areas - we can learn something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we fall into the trap of painting all Muslims with a broad brush and imply that we are at war with an entire religion, then we are doing the terrorists' work for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When any kind of military action is popular it's because either there's been a very clear, direct threat to us - 9/11 - or an administration uses various hooks to suggest that American interests were directly threatened - like in Panama or Grenada. And sometimes, those hooks are more persuasive than others, but typically, they're not put before Congress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My goal is to maintain the international norm on banning chemical weapons. I want that enforcement to be real. I want it to be serious. I want people to understand that gassing innocent people, delivering chemical weapons against children is not something we do. It's prohibited in active wars between countries. We certainly don't do it against kids. And we've got to stand up for that principle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This is my number one priority. I've got a lot of things on my plate. But my top priority is to defeat ISIL and to eliminate the scourge of this barbaric terrorism that's been taking place around the world. Groups like ISIL can't destroy us. They can't defeat us. They don't produce anything. They're not an existential threat to us. It is very important for us to not respond with fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We learn from our mistakes, we do some reflection, we lick our wounds, we brush ourselves off - then we go forward, with the presumption of good faith in our fellow citizens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Nobody said democracies supposed to be easy. It's hard. And in a big country like America, it probably should be hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When it comes to our military, what we have to think about is not, you know just budgets, we've got to think about capabilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: A nuclear Iran is a threat to America's national security, and it is a threat to Israel's national security. We cannot afford to have a nuclear arms race in the most volatile region of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When I came into office, the world was divided. Iran was resurgent. Iran is at its weakest point, economically, strategically, militarily, then since - then in many years. And we are going to continue to keep the pressure on to make sure that they do not get a nuclear weapon. That's in America's national interest and that will be the case so long as I'm president."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: China is both an adversary, but also a potential partner in the international community if it's following the rules. So my attitude coming into office was that we are going to insist that China plays by the same rules as everybody else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The reason I take pride for that is one of the things you worry about when you're in the bubble, and there's all this pomp and circumstance and hail to the chief is, do you lose touch with what you thought was important and what brought you here? And I'm proud that I don't think I have lost touch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I said this right after the election - we have to remind ourselves we're on the same team. Vladimir Putin's not on our team."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe in term limits for presidents because I think that there is no doubt I'm a better president now than I was when I start. I would argue that I am the best president I've ever been over the last year or two. My team is more effective than it's ever been.But what is also true is that number one, this is grueling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The more we can encourage participation, I think the better off we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: No single nation should pick and choose which nations holds nuclear weapons. And that's why I strongly reaffirmed America's commitment to seek a world in which no nations hold nuclear weapons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are unique among advanced countries that we don't have universal health care. My hope was that I was able to get a hundred percent of people health care while I was president. We didn't quite achieve that, but we were able to get 20 million people health care who didn't have it before. And obviously some of the progress we made is now imperiled because there's still a significant debate taking place in the United States. For those 20 million people, their lives have been better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The United States, therefore, works to ensure that any actions we take are consistent with international laws and norms - including those reflected in the Law of the Sea Convention. It's worth remembering that our presence in the region is nothing new."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We can be civil to each other, and we can try to express ourselves acknowledging that we're all patriots, we're all Americans, and not assume the absolute worst in people's motives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Do I need to apologize for Mr.[Tom] Coburn's statements? Because I certainly don't agree with those, either."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think the American people, you know, they're going to want that new car smell. They want to drive something off the lot that doesn't have as much mileage as me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If the global economy is unresponsive to people who feel left behind, if inequality continues to grow, then we could end up seeing more and more of these divisions arise throughout advanced economies around the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I went through six years of battles on health care because I didn't have $100 million worth of advertising saying how it would never work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Grace Bell lived in Belhaven, North Carolina her entire life, all 100 years of her life. Just a few weeks ago Republicans challenged her voter registration status and tried to remove her from the voter rolls. Now Grace got her voter registration reinstated. And you better believe she`s going to vote. But this 100-year old woman wasn`t alone in being targeted. The list of voters Republicans tried to purge was two-thirds black and Democratic. That didn`t happen by accident."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In order for us to solve many big problems around the world, it is in our interest to work with Russia and obtain their cooperation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It would be naive of me to suggest that with Russia committed militarily, as it is, to supporting what in many cases are barbarous tactics by the Assad regime to crush the opposition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the best parts of the holiday season is spending time with the special people in your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Those are values that help guide not just my family's Christian faith, but that of Jewish Americans, and Muslim Americans; nonbelievers and Americans of all backgrounds. And no one better embodies that spirit of service than the men and women who wear our country's uniform and their families."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that there is a particular mindset that was on display in the run-up to the Iraq war that continues to this day. Some of the folks who were involved in that decision either don't remember what they said or are entirely unapologetic about the results, but that views the Middle East as a place where force and intimidation will deliver on the security interests that we have, and that it is not possible for us to at least test the possibility of diplomacy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The Iranian people are getting restive because of the challenges that sanctions have posed to their economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What we've seen at least since 1979 is Iran making constant, calculated decisions that allow it to preserve the regime, to expand their influence where they can, to be opportunistic, to create what they view as hedges against potential Israeli attack in the form of Hezbollah and other proxies in the region."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: We are committed to a world in which we keep America safe, but we recognize that our power doesn't just flow from our extraordinary military but also flows from the strength in our ideals and our principles and our values."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the issues the Democrats have to be clear on is the given population distribution across the country. We have to compete everywhere. We have to show up everywhere. We have to work at a grassroots level, something that's been a running thread in my career."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I was watching a documentary that during the Bay of Pigs crisis JFK had about two weeks before anybody reported on it. Imagine that. I think it's fair to say that if something like that happens under a current president, they've got to figure out in about an hour what their response is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think if you worked at the community level in Chicago and then a politician on the South Side of Chicago, and worked at the state level, then you're pretty familiar with all the variations of politics in the African American community and criticisms you may get. If you're not familiar with those or you don't have a thick enough skin to take it, then you probably wouldn't have gotten here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's good to get fresh legs in [the White house]. I think that it refreshes our democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In the midst of this enormous economic crisis, I think Canada has shown itself to be a pretty good manager of the financial system and the economy in ways that we always - haven't always been here in the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think the most important thing for the public and the press is to just listen to what Donald Trump says and follow up and ask questions about what appear to be either contradictory or uninformed or outright wacky ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [ William Ayers] is an example of what I'm talking about. This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who's a professor of English in Chicago who I know and who I have not received some official endorsement from. He's not somebody who I exchange ideas from on a regular basis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Of course we [with Angela Merkel] discussed our commitment to meeting shared security challenges from countering cyber threats to ensuring that Iran continues to live up to the terms of the Iran nuclear deal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My hope is that the president-elect [Donald Trump] coming in takes a similarly constructive approach, finding areas where we can cooperate with Russia, where our values and interests align. But that the president-elect also is willing to stand up to Russia where they are deviating from our values and international norms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: My guiding principle as president has been to try to do the right thing even when it's not politically convenient."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: It's easier to make negative attacks and simplistic slogans [in social media] than it is to communicate complex policies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: In the United States, if 43 percent of eligible voters do not vote, then democracy is weakened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Here in Europe, I think that there are a lot of young people who forget the issues that were at stake during the Cold War."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I believe in term limits for presidents because I think that there is no doubt I'm a better president now than I was when I start."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've sought a constructive relationship with Russia, but what I have also been is realistic in recognizing that there is some significant differences in how Russia views the world and how we view the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: For people who have health insurance, we can provide health insurance reforms that make the insurance they have more secure. And we can do that mostly by using money that every expert agrees is being wasted and is currently in the existing health care system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Insurance companies, drug companies are going to have to be ponying up, partly because right now they're receiving huge subsidies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The other thing is going to be me being able to show not just the American people or the Israeli people but the world that, in fact, we have mechanisms in place that will prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I always tell young people in particular: Do not say that nothing's changed when it comes to race in America, unless you lived through being a black man in the 1950s or '60s or '70s."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The United States wants a strong United Kingdom as a partner. And the United Kingdom is at its best when it's helping to lead a strong Europe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: This kind of game in which anybody who I know, regardless of how flimsy the relationship is, that somehow their ideas could be attributed to me, I think the American people are smarter than that. They're not going to suggest somehow that that is reflective of my views, because it obviously isn't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think that when it comes to Social Security, all of us want to make sure that our senior citizens can retire with dignity and respect. And everybody has to be open-minded in thinking how do we firm up a system that, in fact, is going to be in difficulty in the coming years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: A lot of countries have advanced capabilities. And given the vulnerabilities of our infrastructure and our economies to digital platforms, we have to be careful in making sure that this doesn't become a lawless, low-level battlefield."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The values that we share - freedom of speech, freedom of religious practice, freedom for civil society, free and fair elections, all the innovation that's been created through a market-based economy - those things are ultimately going to be the path for us to continue into a better future. I hope that, despite some of the challenges we have, that people appreciate that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What is certainly true is that the American people, just like the German people, just like the British and people around the world, are seeing extraordinarily rapid change. The world is shrinking, the economies have become much more integrated and demographics are shifting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I absolutely think that when we talk about family, faith, community, I think it's important for Democrats to be able to connect with folks where they live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I absolutely think that it's possible for us to find common ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Perfect is unattainable. Better is possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What I want to try to do is unify the two wings of the Democratic Party. What's considered the more progressive wing of the Democratic Party - the more centrist wing of the party. I think we can craft an approach that is more American, pro-worker, pro-business, pro-growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: What I would advise, what I advised before the election, and what I will continue to advise after the election, is that elections matter; voting matters; organizing matters; being informed on the issues matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I've said many times around the world that like any government, like any country, like, any set of human institutions, we have our flaws. We've operated imperfectly. There are times we've made mistakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: When your team loses, everybody gets deflated. And it's hard, and it's challenging."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think when you're governing, it will become increasingly apparent that if you were to just eliminate trade deals with Mexico, for example, well, you've got a global supply chain. The parts that are allowing auto plants that were about to shut down to now employ double shifts is because they're bringing in some of those parts to assemble out of Mexico. And so it's not as simple as it might have seemed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If we got there and we looked up and we said, \"You know what? Black folks are still doing a little bit worse off than whites, but it's not like it was 20 years ago,\" then we can have a discussion about how do we get that last little bit. But that's a high-class problem to have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you have a family member who maybe is undocumented, then you have an even greater reason to vote."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: People are discouraged from voting and part of what is important for Latino citizens is to make your voice heard, because you're not just speaking for yourself. You're speaking for family members, friends, classmates of yours in school."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements, and that those achievements should not be taken for granted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think we would have made a lot more mistakes and would have accomplished a lot less had we not been grounded in some basic truths."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The first thing I would do would be to move forward with an agenda to make sure that we give D.C. the opportunity to elect its own representatives and have some political power on Capitol Hill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If I were German and I had a vote, I might support Angela Merkel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: [Young people] are showing enormous and entrepreneurship and working with each other across borders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If people, whether they are conservative or liberal, left or right, are unwilling to compromise and engage in the democratic process, and are taking absolutist views, and demonizing opponents, then democracy will break down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think my most important advice is to understand what are the foundations of a healthy democracy and how we have to engage in citizenship continuously, not just when something upsets us; not just when there's an election or when an issue pops up for a few weeks. It's hard work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I have got to figure out a system because I have bad filing, sorting, and organizing habits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If you look at countries like South Africa, where you had a black majority, there have been efforts to tax and help that black majority, but it hasn't come in the form of a formal reparations program."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: One of the things you learn as president is, as powerful as this office is, you have limited bandwidth. And the time goes by really quickly and you're constantly making choices, and there are pressures on you from all different directions - pressures on your attention, not just pressures from different constituencies. And so you have to be pretty focused about where can you have the biggest, quickest impact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: Sometimes it may seem as if progress is stalled but what history of post-war Germany shows is that strength and determination and focus and adherence to the values that we care about will result in a better future for our children and our grandchildren."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I try to make it a rule not to meddle in other people's politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I think what is true is that there's been an underlying division in the United States. Some of it has to do with the fact that economic growth and recovery tends to be stronger in the cities and in urban areas. In some rural areas, particularly those that were reliant on manufacturing, there has been weaker growth, stagnation, people feeling as if their children won't do as well as they will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: If everything seems to be the same and no distinctions are made, then we won't know what to protect. We won't know what to fight for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: The 20th Century was a bloodbath, and for all the frustrations and failures of the project to unify Europe, the last five decades have been periods of unprecedented peace, growth, and prosperity in Europe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Barack Obama: I know that gaps can be closed. And they can be closed substantially, more than I think we believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Make yourself sheep and the wolves will eat you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: When you are good to others, you are best to yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Freedom is not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: God heals, and the doctor takes the fees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A good example is the best sermon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In free governments the rulers are the servants, and the people their superiors and sovereigns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: When the well is dry, we know the worth of water."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Well done is better than well said."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion about the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Half the truth is often a great lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, creator of the Universe. That he governs it by his Providence. That he ought to be worshiped. That the most acceptable service we render him is doing good to his other children. That the soul of Man is immortal, and will be treated with justice in another life respecting its conduct in this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. Republics and limited monarchies derive their strength and vigor from a popular examination into the action of the magistrates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Women are books, and men the readers be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Happiness depends more on the inward disposition of mind than on outward circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Fear God, and your enemies will fear you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I have lived, Sir, a long time and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth -- that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? We have been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that \"except the Lord build they labor in vain that build it.\" I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better than the Builders of Babel"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Lost time is never found again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The noblest question in the world is: 'What good may I do in it?'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that would live in peace and at ease, must not speak all he knows nor judge all he sees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Who is strong? He that can conquer his bad habits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: You may delay, but time will not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A long life may not be good enough, but a good life is long enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Without Freedom of thought there can be no such thing as wisdom;and no such thing as public liberty, without freedom of speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A good conscience is a continual Christmas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The way to secure peace is to be prepared for war. They that are on their guard, and appear ready to receive their adversaries, are in much less danger of being attacked, than the supine, secure, and negligent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Speak little, do much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A false friend and a shadow attend only while the sun shines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Who is wise?\r\nHe that learns from everyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power. I am naturally very jealous for the rights and liberties of my country, and the least encroachment of those invaluable privileges is apt to make my blood boil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that cannot obey, cannot command."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: There is scarce a king in a hundred who would not, if he could, follow the example of Pharoah - get first all the people's money, then all their lands, and then make them and their children servants forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: There seem to be but three ways for a nation to acquire wealth. The first is by war, as the Romans did, in plundering their conquered neighbors. This is robbery. The second by commerce, which is generally cheating. The third by agriculture, the only honest way, wherein man receives a real increase of the seed thrown into the ground, in a kind of continual miracle, wrought by the hand of God in his favor, as a reward for his innocent life and his virtuous industry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: There is much difference between imitating a good man and counterfeiting him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: How many observe Christ's birthday! How few, His precepts!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If by the liberty of the press were understood merely the liberty of discussing the propriety of public measures and political opinions, let us have as much of it as you please: But if it means the liberty of affronting, calumniating and defaming one another, I, for my part, own myself willing to part with my share of it, whenever our legislators shall please so to alter the law and shall chearfully consent to exchange my liberty of abusing others for the privilege of not being abused myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Marriage is the most natural state of man, and therefore the state in which one is most likely to find solid happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A lie stands on one leg, truth on two."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Clean your finger before you point at my spots."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A Brother may not be a Friend, but a Friend will always be a Brother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Many a man thinks he is buying pleasure, when he is really selling himself to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Lose no time; be always employed in something useful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Sin is not hurtful because it is forbidden,\nbut it is forbidden because it is hurtful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: No gains without pains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Love your Enemies, for they tell you your Faults."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: You can not pluck roses without fear of thorns, Nor enjoy a fair wife without danger of horns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Many complain of their memory, few of their judgment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Beware of the young doctor and the old barber."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Silence - Speak not but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The discontented man finds no easy chair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The way to be safe is never to be secure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Diligence is the mother of good luck."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I have thought that wild flowers might be the alphabet of angels, \u2014 whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious truths, which it is not given our fallen nature to understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: God helps them that help themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Reading was the only amusement I allowed myself"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: It is hard for an empty bag to stand upright."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Virtue alone is sufficient to make a man great, glorious, and happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A man must have a good deal of vanity who believes, and a good deal of boldness who affirms, that all the doctrines he holds are true, and all he rejects are false."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; because I think a General Government necessary for us, and there is no form of government, but what may be a blessing to the people if well administered; and believe further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Great beauty, great strength, and great riches are really and truly of no great use; a right heart exceeds all"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Industry pays debts, while despair increases them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The tongue offends and the ears get the cuffing"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The rotten apple spoils his companion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Plough deep while sluggards sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Time is an herb that cures all Diseases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that best understands the world, least likes it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Keep conscience clear, then never fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The doors of wisdom are never shut."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Be civil to all; serviceable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: That there is one God, who made all things. That he governs the world by his providence. That he might be worshipped by adoration, prayer, and thanksgiving. But that the most acceptable service of God is doing good to Man. That the Soul is immortal. And that God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If you'd be wealthy, think of saving, more than of getting: The Indies have not made Spain rich, because her Outgoes equal her Incomes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: [T]he more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer . . . [taking] away from before their eyes the greatest of all inducements to industry, frugality, and sobriety, by giving them a dependence of somewhat else than a careful accumulation during youth and health for support in age and sickness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being. [...] I believe He is pleased and delights in the happiness of those He has created; and since without virtue man can have no happiness in this world, I firmly believe He delights to see me virtuous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Glass, China, and Reputation, are easily cracked, and never well mended."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: One Man may be more cunning than another, but not more cunning than every body else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He's the best physician that knows the worthlessness of most medicines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: At twenty years of age the will reigns; at thirty, the wit; and at forty, the judgment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Wish not so much to live long as to live well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Poverty wants some things, Luxury many things, Avarice all things"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, there would be very little printed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I would advise you to read with a pen in your hand and enter in a little book short hints of what you feel that is common or that may be useful; for this will be the best method of imprinting such portcullis in your memory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: What can laws do without morals?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The cat in gloves catches no mice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: But the most dangerous Hypocrite in a Common-Wealth, is one who leaves the Gospel for the sake of the Law: A Man compounded of Law and Gospel, is able to cheat a whole Country with his Religion, and then destroy them under Colour of Law: And here the Clergy are in great Danger of being deceiv'd, and the People of being deceiv'd by the Clergy, until the Monster arrives to such Power and Wealth, that he is out of the reach of both, and can oppress the People without their own blind Assistance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards; there it enters the roots of the vines, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: It is better to take many injuries than to give one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Hunger never saw bad bread."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fix'd in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Industry, perseverance, and frugality make fortune yield."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: As to Jesus of Nazareth, my opinion of whom you particularly desire, I think the system of Morals and his Religion, as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes; and I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his divinity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: For having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged, by better information or fuller consideration, to change opinions, even on important subjects, which I once thought right but found to be otherwise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Creditors have better memories than debtors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: There never was a good war, or a bad peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Let the child's first lesson be obedience, and the second will be what thou wilt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Necessity never made a good bargain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The second vice is lying, the first is running in debt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In New England they once thought blackbirds useless, and mischievous to the corn. They made efforts to destroy them. The consequence was, the blackbirds were diminished; but a kind of worm, which devoured their grass, and which the blackbirds used to feed on, increased prodigiously; then, finding their loss in grass much greater than their saving in corn, they wished again for their blackbirds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If you would keep your secret from an enemy, tell it not to a friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Promises may get thee friends, but non-performance will turn them into enemies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: After all, wedlock is the natural state of man. A bachelor is not a complete human being. He is like the odd half of a pair of scissors, which has not yet found its fellow, and therefore is not even half so useful as they might be together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Silence is not always a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a mark of folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Disdain the chain, preserve your freedom; and maintain your independency: be industrious and free; be frugal and free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Observe all men, thyself most."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If Men are so wicked as we now see them with Religion what would they be if without it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Thank God! we are in the full enjoyment of all these privileges. But can we be taught to prize them too much? or how can we prize them equal to their value, if we do not know their intrinsic worth, and that they are not a gift bestowed upon us by other men, but a right that belongs to us by the laws of God and nature?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Lighthouses are more helpful than churches."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: There is no little enemy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If you have time don't wait for time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: To be humble to superiors is a duty, to equals courtesy, to inferiors nobleness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He was so learned that he could name a horse in nine languages; so ignorant that he bought a cow to ride on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Who is rich? He that rejoices in his portion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: An honest Man will receive neither Money nor Praise that is not his due."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In success be moderate. Humility makes great men twice honourable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that is rich need not live sparingly,\nand he that can live sparingly need not be rich."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that speaks much, is much mistaken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: It is a bad temper of mind that takes delight in opposition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A penny saved is a penny earned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In other men we faults can spy,/ And blame the mote that dims their eye;/ Each little speck and blemish find;/ To our own stronger errors blind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Nothing is more fatal to health than an over care of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: When men differ in opinion, both sides ought equally to have the advantage of being heard by the public; when Truth and Error have fair play, the former is always an overmatch for the latter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Sloth, like rust, consumes faster than labor wears, while the used key is always bright."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: There will be sleeping enough in the grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A full Belly brings forth every Evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that won't be counseled can't be helped."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I therefore beg leave to move that henceforth prayers imploring the assistance of Heaven, and its blessing on our deliberations, be held in this Assembly every morning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that goes a borrowing goes a sorrowing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: But the eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. If all but myself were blind, I should want neither fine clothes, fine houses nor fine furniture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In the dark, all cats are grey."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Remember that credit is money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Happiness consists more in small conveniences or pleasures that occur every day, than in great pieces of good fortune that happen but seldom to a man in the course of his life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Practice makes perfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Eat few suppers, and you'll need few medicines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Women and wine, game and deceit, make the wealth small, and the want great"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: When you incline to have new clothes, look first well over the old ones, and see if you cannot shift with them another year, either by scouring, mending, or even patching if necessary. Remember, a patch on your coat, and money in your pocket, is better and more creditable, than a writ on your back, and no money to take it off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Don't go to the doctor with every distemper, nor to the lawyer with every quarrel, nor to the pot for every thirst."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: None but the well-bred man knows how to confess a fault, or acknowledge himself in an error."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Remember, that six pounds a year is but a groat a day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A man in a passion, rides a mad horse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: You will observe with concern how long a useful truth may be known, and exist, before it is generally received and practiced on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: When you speak to a man, look on his eyes; when he speaks to you, look on his mouth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may pervade all the Nations of the Earth, so that a Philosopher may set his Foot anywhere on its Surface, and say, 'This is my Country.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that can have patience can have what he will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Let every fart count as a peal of thunder for liberty. Let every fart remind the nation of how much it has let pass out of its control. It is a small gesture, but one that can be very effective - especially in a large crowd. So fart, and if you must, fart often. But always fart without apology. Fart for freedom, fart for liberty - and fart proudly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Don't you know, that all wives are in the right? It may be you don't, for you are yet a young husband."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Pardoning the Bad, is injuring the Good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I believe long habits of virtue have a sensible effect on the countenance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Praise little, dispraise less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I have sometimes almost wished it had been my destiny to be born two or three centuries hence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A quarrelsome man has no good neighbours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I think also, that general virtue is more probably to be expected and obtained from the education of youth, than from exhortations of adult persons; bad habits and vices of the mind being, like diseases of the body, more easily prevented than cured. I think moreover, that talents for the education of youth are the gift of God; and that he on whom they are bestowed, whenever a way is opened for use of them, is as strongly called as if he heard a voice from heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Scarcely was I arrived at fifteen years of age, when, after having doubted in turn of different tenets, according as I found them combated in the different books that I read, I began to doubt of Revelation itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his life than in giving him a thousand guineas. This sum may be soon spent, the regret only remaining of having foolishly consumed it; but in the other case, he escapes the frequent vexation of waiting for barbers, and of their sometimes dirty fingers, offensive breaths, and dull razors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: An old young man, will be a young old man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that pursues two hares at once, does not catch one and lets the other go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If you have no Honey in your Pot, have some in your Mouth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The early morning has gold in its mouth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The great secret of succeeding in conversation is to admire little, to hear much; always to distrust our own reason, and sometimes that of our friends; never to pretend to wit, but to make that of others appear as much as possibly we can; to hearken to what is said and to answer to the purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: We are spirits. That bodies should be lent us while they afford us pleasure, assist us in acquiring knowledge or in doing good to our fellow-creatures, is a kind of benevolent act of God. When they become unfit for these purposes and afford us pain instead of pleasure, instead of an aid become an encumbrance and answer none of these intentions for which they were given, it is equally kind and benevolent that a way is provided by which we get rid of them. Death is that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Where there is hunger, law is not regarded;\nand where law is not regarded, there will be hunger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I am lord of myself, accountable to none."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Eat not to dullness, drink not to elevation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If you would have a faithful servant, and one that you like, serve yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: History will also afford frequent opportunities of showing the necessity of a public religion, from its usefulness to the public; the advantage of a religious character among private persons; the mischiefs of superstition, and the excellency of the Christian religion above all others, ancient or modern."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The proof of gold is fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Those who in quarrels interpose, must often wipe a bloody nose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Many foxes grow gray but few grow good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If you would be loved, love, and be loveable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He is not well bred, that cannot bear ill breeding in others"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Little boats should keep near shore"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Are you angry that others disappoint you? Remember you cannot depend upon yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: An old man in a house is a good sign."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The borrower is a slave to the lender and the debtor to the creditor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Here is my Creed. I believe in one God, the Creator of the Universe. That He governs it by His Providence. That He ought to be worshipped."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Energy and persistence conquer all things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Fish and visitors stink in three days."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Be ashamed to catch yourself idle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Drive your business. Let not your business drive you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: So much for industry, my friends, and attention to one's own business; but to these we must add frugality if we would make our industry more certainly successful. A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose all his life to the grindstone, and die not worth a grout at last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth \u2014 that God governs in the affairs of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Necessity knows no law; I know some attorneys of the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Don't misinform your Doctor nor your Lawyer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Look before, or you'll find yourself behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: But our great security lies, I think, in our growing strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Pride is said to be the last vice the good man gets clear of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Can anything be constant in a world which is eternally changing?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The way to wealth is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality: that is, waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both. Without industry and frugality nothing will do, and with them everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Think of these things, whence you came, where you are going, and to whom you must account."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Nothing but Money, Is sweeter than Honey."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Lying rides upon debt's back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Without justice, courage is weak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: All would live long, but none would be old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The poor have little; beggars, none; the rich, too much; enough, not one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Be studious in your profession, and you will be learned. Be industrious and frugal, and you will be rich. Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy. Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least you will, by such conduct, stand the be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that lives well, is learned enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Hunger is the best pickle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Sloth and Silence are a Fool's Virtues"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: You may give give a man office, but you cannot give him discretion"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Quacks are the greatest liars in the world except their patients."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Enjoy the present hour, be mindful of the past; And neither fear nor wish the Approaches of the last. Learn of the skillful: He that teaches himself, hath a fool for his master."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Rarely use Venery but for Health or Offspring; Never to Dulness, Weakness, or the Injury of your own or another's Peace or Reputation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The busy man has few idle visitors; to the boiling pot the flies come not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: [E]very Man who comes among us, and takes up a piece of Land, becomes a Citizen, and by our Constitution has a Voice in Elections, and a share in the Government of the Country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The use of money is all the advantage there is in having money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I firmly believe this ... that without His  concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel: We shall be divided by our little partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and bye word down to future ages. And what is worse, mankind may hereafter from this unfortunate instance, despair of establishing governments by human wisdom and leave it to chance, war and conquest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: There's small Revenge in Words, but Words may be greatly revenged"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If you wou'd have Guests merry with your cheer, Be so your self, or so at least appear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Take one thing with another, and the world is a pretty good sort of a world, and it is our duty to make the best of it, and be thankful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride. Disguise it, struggle with it, beat it down, stifle it, mortify it as much as one pleases, it is still alive, and will every now and then peep out and show itself; you will see it, perhaps, often in this history; for, even if I could conceive that I had completely overcome it, I should probably be proud of my humility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The same man cannot be both Friend and Flatterer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Would you live with ease, Do what you ought, and not what you please."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: After getting the first hundred pounds, it is more easy to get the second."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all things easy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Read much, but not too many books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Let the experiment be made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Do not do that which you would not have known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The honest Man takes Pains, and then enjoys Pleasures; the knave takes Pleasure, and then suffers Pains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Creditors are a superstitious sect, great observers of set days and times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Tis a common observation here that our cause is the cause of all mankind, and that we are fighting for their liberty in defending our own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Order - Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: As we must account for every idle word, so must we account for every idle silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Death takes no bribes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: God works wonders now and then; Behold a lawyer, an honest man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Admiration is the daughter of ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A Man of Knowledge like a rich Soil, feeds If not a world of Corn, a world of Weeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Diligence overcomes difficulties; sloth makes them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowledgment of our services. But let us persevere through abuse and even injury. The internal satisfaction of a good conscience is always present, and time will do us justice in the minds of the people, even those at present the most prejudiced against us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Honesty is the best policy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Be sober and temperate, and you will be healthy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A word to the wise is enough, and many words won't fill a bushel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Spare when young, and spend when old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Avarice and Happiness never saw each other, how then should they become acquainted?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Be neither silly, nor cunning, but wise"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Be not sick too late, nor well too soon"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If you wou'd be reveng'd of your enemy, govern your self"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Pay what you owe and you'll know what's your own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: God helps those who help themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Religion I found to be without any tendency to inspire, promote, or confirm morality, serves principally to divide us and make us unfriendly to one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Indeed the general natural Tendency of Reading good History, must be, to fix in the Minds of Youth deep Impressions of the Beauty and Usefulness of Virtue of all Kinds, Publick Spirit, Fortitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that spends a Groat a day idly, spends idly above 6 l. a year, which is the Price of using 100 l."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Fools need advice most, but wise men only are the better for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Opportunity is the great bawd."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Pain wastes the Body, Pleasures the Understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I believe there is one Supreme most perfect being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Why should I give my Readers bad lines of my own when good ones of other People's are so plenty?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Trusting too much to others care is the ruin of many."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A Republic, if you can keep it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: An undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: For Age and Want save while you may; No morning Sun lasts a whole day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A man is sometimes more generous when he has but a little money than when he has plenty, perhaps through fear of being thought to have but little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Trouble springs from idleness, and grievous toil from needless ease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If we look back into history for the character of the present sects in Christianity, we shall find few that have not in their turns been persecutors, and complainers of persecution. The primitive Christians thought persecution extremely wrong in the Pagans, but practised it on one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Nothing is so tiresome to one's self, as well as so odious to others, as disguise and affectation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A little neglect may breed great mischief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Bad gains are true losses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The devil wipes his breech with poor folks' pride."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Wink at small faults; remember thou hast great ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: They who have nothing to trouble them,\nwill be troubled at nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not take care to support it so that its professors are obliged to call for help of the civil power, 'tis a sign, I apprehend, of its being a bad one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Distrust and caution are the parents of security."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Poverty often deprives a man of all spirit and virtue; it is hard for an empty bag to stand upright."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: An Egg to day is better than a Hen to-morrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Hear no ill of a friend, nor speak any of an enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Nine Men in Ten are Suicides."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I made the greater progress, from that clearness of head and quicker apprehension which generally attend temperance in eating and drinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Cunning proceeds from want of capacity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Suspicion may be no fault, but showing it may be a great one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Hot things, sharp things, sweet things, cold things All rot the teeth, and make them look like old things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: No nation was ever ruined by trade."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Where there's no law, there's no bread."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Men are subject to various inconveniences merely through lack of a small share of courage, which is a quality very necessary in the common occurrences of life, as well as in a battle. How many impertinences do we daily suffer with great uneasiness, because we have not courage enough to discover our dislike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Passion governs, and she never governs wisely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Nothing brings more pain than too much pleasure; nothing more bondage than too much liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The church, the state, and the poor, are 3 daughters which we should maintain, but not portion off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The worst wheel of the cart makes the most noise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I think vital religion has always suffered when orthodoxy is more regarded than virtue. The scriptures assure me that at the last day we shall not be examined on what we thought but what we did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Think What You Do When You Run in Debt: You Give to Another Power over Your Liberty"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: We may give advice, but we cannot give conduct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Strangers are welcome because there is room enough for them all, and therefore the old Inhabitants are not jealous of them; the Laws protect them sufficiently so that they have no need of the Patronage of great Men; and every one will enjoy securely the Profits of his Industry. But if he does not bring a Fortune with him, he must work and be industrious to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Genius without education is like silver in the mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Men and Melons are hard to know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: As often as we do good, we sacrifice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Love, Cough, & a Smoke, can't well be hid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Great talkers should be cropt, for they've no need of ears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Time is money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: What is the use of a new-born child ?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Cold & cunning come from the north: But cunning sans wisdom is nothing worth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Forewarn'd, forearm'd."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: There cannot be good living where there is not good drinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Three things are men most likely to be cheated in, a horse, a wig, and a wife."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The people heard it, and approved the doctrine, and immediately practiced the contrary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Diligence is the mother of good luck, and God gives all things to industry. Work while it is called today, for you know not how much you may be hindered by tomorrow. One today is worth two tomorrows; never leave that till tomorrow which you can do to-day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: When Wine enters, out goes the Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Life with Fools consists in Drinking; with the wise Man, living's Thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Lost time can never be found again"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: This modesty in a sect is perhaps a singular instance in the history of mankind, every other sect supposing itself in possession of all truth, and that those who differ are so far in the wrong ; like a man traveling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the fields on each side, but near him all appears clear, tho' in truth he is as much in the fog as any of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Little rogues easily become great ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that hath a calling, hath an office of profit and honor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In short, I conceive that great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by the false estimates they have made of the value of things, and by their giving too much for their whistles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Vicious actions are not hurtful because they are forbidden, but forbidden because they are hurtful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Let honesty be as the breath of thy soul; then shalt thou reach   the point of happiness, and independence shall be thy shield   and buckler, thy helmet and crown; then shall thy soul walk   upright, nor stoop to the silken wretch because he hath   riches, nor pocket an abuse because the hand which offers it   wears a ring set with diamonds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The ancients tell us what is best; but we must learn of the moderns what is fittest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Take Courage, Mortal; Death can't banish thee out of the Universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Little strokes fell great oaks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: History will also give occasion to expatiate on the advantage of civil orders and constitutions; how men and their properties are protected by joining in societies and establishing government; their industry encouraged and rewarded, arts invented, and life made more comfortable; the advantages of liberty, mischiefs of licentiousness, benefits arising from good laws and a due execution of justice. Thus may the first principles of sound politics be fixed in the minds of youth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Love well, whip well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that takes a wife, takes care"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The proud hate pride in others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Since I cannot govern my own tongue, though within my own teeth, how can I hope to govern the tongue of others?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A change of fortune hurts a wise man no more than a change of the moon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be, as Poor Richard says, \u201cthe greatest prodigality'; since, as he elsewhere tells us, 'Lost time is never found again'; and 'What we call time enough always proves little enough'. Let us then up and be doing, and doing to the purpose; so by diligence shall we do more with less perplexity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: When men are employed they are best contented."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the prejudices of the people, enlighten their ignorance, and convince them that their interests will be promoted by the proposed changes; and this is not the work of a day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: By failing to prepare, you are preparing to fail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A full Belly makes a dull Brain: The Muses starve in a Cook's Shop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: There are lazy minds as well as lazy bodies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: And where is the Prince who can afford to so cover his country with troops for its defense, as that ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might not in many places do an infinite deal of mischief, before a force could be brought together to repel them?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A highwayman is as much a robber when he plunders in a gang as when single; and a nation that makes an unjust war is only a great gang."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Doing an injury puts you below your enemy; revenging one make you but even with him; forgiving it sets you above him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: We hear of the conversion of water into wine at the marriage in Cana as of a miracle. But this conversion is, through the goodness of God, made every day before our eyes. Behold the rain which descends from heaven upon our vineyards, and which incorporates itself with the grapes, to be changed into wine; a constant proof that God loves us, and loves to see us happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Be not disturbed at trifles, or at accidents common or unavoidable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Some volumes against Deism fell into my hands ... they produced an effect precisely the reverse to what was intended by the writers; for the arguments of the Deists, which were cited in order to be refuted, appeared to me much more forcibly than the refutation itself; in a word, I soon became a thorough Deist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I am a mortal enemy to arbitrary government and unlimited power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: It would be thought a hard government that should tax its people one tenth part."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The moral and religious system which Jesus Christ transmitted to us is the best the world has ever seen, or can see."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If you desire many things, many things will seem few."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that raises a large family does, indeed, while he lives to observe them, stand a broader mark for sorrow; but then he stands a broader mark for pleasure too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Beauty and folly are old companions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Drive thy business or it will drive thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The used key is always bright."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Death is a fisherman, the world we see His fish-pond is, and we the fishes be; His net some general sickness; howe'er he Is not so kind as other fishers be; For if they take one of the smaller fry, They throw him in again, he shall not die: But death is sure to kill all he can get, And all is fish with him that comes to net."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Success has ruin'd many a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Let thy vices die before thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He's a fool that makes his doctor his heir."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Wherever desirable superfluities are imported, industry is excited, and thereby plenty is produced. Were only necessaries permitted to be purchased, men would work no more than was necessary for that purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Industry and patience are the surest means of plenty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The wise man draws more advantage from his enemies than the fool from his friends"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Tomorrow, every Fault is to be amended; but that Tomorrow never comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Much Virtue in Herbs, little in Men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Unless the Stream of their Importation could be turned... they will soon so outnumber us, that all the advantages we have, will not in my Opinion be able to preserve our Language, and even our Government will become precarious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: There is none deceived but he that trusts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The good will of the governed will be starved if not fed by the good deeds of the governors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Tis easy to see, hard to foresee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The greatest monarch on the proudest throne is obliged to sit upon his own arse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: It is observable that God has often called men to places of dignity and honor when they have been busy in the honest employment of their vocation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: When nature gave us tears, She gave us leave to weep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The first Degree of Folly, is to conceit one's self wise; the second to profess it; the third to despise Counsel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He's gone, and forgot nothing but to say farewell to his creditors"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Eyes and Priests Bear no Jests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Neglect mending a small fault and 'twill soon be a great one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that lives upon hope will die fasting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The most acceptable service of God is doing good to man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: E'er you remark another's sin, bid your own conscience look within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: When you taste honey, remember gall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that pays for work before it's done, has but a pennyworth for two pence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Virtue and Happiness are Mother and Daughter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: How can any Action be meritorious of Praise or Dispraise, Reward or Punishment, when the natural Principle of Self-Love is the only and the irresistible Motive to it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If you want a neat wife, choose her on a Saturday."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Most fools think they are only ignorant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: One today is worth two tomorrows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Hold your Council before Dinner; the full Belly hates Thinking as well as Acting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Learn of the skillful; he that teaches himself, has a fool for his master."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Would thou confound thy enemy, be good thyself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Trouble Springs From Idleness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Never spare the parson's wine nor the baker's pudding"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Take heed of the Vinegar of sweet Wine, and the Anger of Good-nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The Difficulty lies, in finding out an exact Measure but eat for Necessity, not Pleasure, for Lust knows not where Necessity ends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Hope is an essential constituent of human life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Neither a Fortress nor a Maidenhead will hold out long after they begin to parley."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The King's cheese is half wasted in parings: But no matter, 'tis made of the people's milk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Constant dropping wears away stones"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Force shites upon Reason's Back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Hope of gain lessens pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: All things are cheap to the saving, dear to the wasteful"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Don't think to hunt two hares with one dog."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Ill customs and bad advice are seldom forgotten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If thou hast wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He'll cheat without scruple, who can without fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Great good nature without prudence is a great misfortune."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: ...it is prodigious the quantity of good that may be done by one man if he will make a business of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A man may, if he knows not how to save as he gets, keep his nose to the grindstone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Keep flax from fire, and youth from gaming."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Content and Riches seldom meet together, Riches take thou, contentment I had rather."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: One mend-fault is worth two find-faults, but one find-fault is better than two make-faults."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A flatterer never seems absurd: The flatter'd always takes his word."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Cut the Wings of your Hens and Hopes, lest they lead you a weary Dance after them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If you'd lose a troublesome visitor, lend him money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I wish it were possible, from this instance, to invent a method of embalming drowned persons in such a manner that they may be recalled to life at any period, however distant; for having a very ardent desire to see and observe the state of America a hundred years hence, I should prefer to any ordinary death the being immersed in a cask of Madeira wine with a few friends till that time, to be then recalled to life by the solar warmth of my dear country!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Kings have long arms, but Misfortune longer: let none think themselves out of her reach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Don't think so much of your own Cunning, as to forget other Men's; a Cunning Man is overmatched by a cunning Man and a Half."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Get what you can, and what you get hold; 'tis the Stone that will turn all your Lead into Gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty, and supped with infamy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that's secure is not safe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Fools make feasts and wise men eat them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a benevolent man should allow a few faults in himself, to keep his friends in countenance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Praise to the undeserving is severe satire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: To be proud of knowledge is to be blind with light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Be temperate in wine, in eating, girls, & sloth; Or the Gout will seize you and plague you both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Do you love truth for truth's sake, and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If I knew a miser, who gave up every kind of comfortable living, all the pleasure of doing good to others, all the esteem of his fellow-citizens, and the joys of benevolent friendship, for the sake of accumulating wealth. Poor man, said I, you pay too much for your whistle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that rises late must trot all day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Wealth is not his that has it, but his that enjoys it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: There is no such thing as a good war or a bad peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The sleeping fox catches no poultry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more, and so on. Five shillings turned is six, turned again it is seven and threepence, and so on, till it becomes a hundred pounds. The more there is of it, the more it produces every turning, so that the profits rise quicker and quicker. He that kills a breeding sow, destroys all her offspring to the thousandth generation. He that murders a crown, destroys all that it might have produced, even scores of pounds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I imagine it great vanity in me to suppose that the Supremely Perfect does in the least regard such an inconsiderable nothing as man. More especially, since it is impossible for me to have any positive, clear idea of that which is infinite and incomprehensible, I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Approve not of him who commends all you say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Men take more pains to mask than mend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The next thing most like living one's life over again seems to be a recollection of that life, and to make that recollection as durable as possible by putting it down in writing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Two dry Sticks will burn a green One."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A full Belly is the Mother of all Evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Blame-all and Praise-all are two blockheads."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Success has ruined many a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Speak with contempt of none, from slave to king, The meanest Bee hath, and will use, a sting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Why does the blind man's wife paint herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Innocence is its own defense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In success be moderate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A man compounded of law and gospel is able to cheat a whole country with his religion and then destroy them under color of law"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that would travel much, should eat little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Many have quarreled about religion that never practice it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Private property ... is a Creature of Society, and is subject to the Calls of that Society, whenever its Necessities shall require it, even to its last Farthing, its contributors therefore to the public Exigencies are not to be considered a Benefit on the Public, entitling the Contributors to the Distinctions of Honor and Power, but as the Return of an Obligation previously received, or as payment for a just Debt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He does not possess wealth; it possesses him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The things which hurt, instruct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I resolve to speak ill of no man whatever, not even in a matter of truth; but rather by some means excuse the faults I hear charged upon others, and upon proper occasions speak all the good I know of everybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: You may sometimes be much in the Wrong, in owning your being in the Right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The poor man must walk to get meat for his stomach,\nthe rich man to get a stomach to his meat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If any form of government is capable of making a nation happy, ours I think bids fair now for producing that effect. But after all much depends upon the people who are governed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: As we benefit from the inventions of others, we should be glad to share our own ... freely and gladly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Fear to do ill, and you need fear else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Great spenders are bad lenders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Without industry and frugality, nothing will do; with them, everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Where liberty is, there is my country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If we are industrious, we shall never starve; for, at the workingman's house hunger looks in, but dares not enter. Nor will the bailiff or the constable enter, for industry pays debts, while despair increaseth them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Teach your child to hold his tongue; he'll learn fast enough to speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Bargaining has neither friends nor relations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: It is the will of God and Nature that these mortal bodies be laid aside, when the soul is to enter into real life; 'tis rather an embrio state, a preparation for living; a man is not completely born until he be dead:  Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Women are books, and men the readers be, Who sometimes in those books erratas see; Yet oft the reader's raptured with each line, Fair print and paper, fraught with sense divine; Tho' some, neglectful, seldom care to read, And faithful wives no more than bibles heed. Are women books? says Hodge, then would mine were An Almanack, to change her every year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Prodigality of Time produces Poverty of Mind as well as of Estate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two works, industry and frugality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Patience in Market, is worth Pounds in a year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I would rather have it said, 'He lived usefully,' than, 'He died rich.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I think opinions should be judged by their influences and effects; and if a man holds none that tend to make him less virtuous or more vicious, it may be concluded that he holds none that are dangerous, which I hope is the case with me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Games lubricate the body and the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Chess is so interesting in itself, as not to need the view of gain to induce engaging in it; and thence it is never played for money"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Finding myself to exist in the world, I believe I shall, in some shape or other, always exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Who pleasure gives, Shall joy receive"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Taxes are indeed very heavy - \n We are taxed twice as much by our Idleness. \n Three times as much by our Pride. \n And four times as much by our Folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I was surprised to find myself so much fuller of Faults than I had imagined, but I had the Satisfaction of seeing them diminish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that drinks fast, pays slow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In prosperous fortunes be modest and wise, The greatest may fall, and the lowest may rise: But insolent People that fall in disgrace, Are wretched and nobody pities their Case."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Do well by doing good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: To be proud of virtue, is to poison yourself with the Antidote."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: We are not so sensible of the greatest Health as of the least Sickness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Those have a short Lent who owe money to be paid at Easter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Dangerous, therefore, is it to take shelter under a tree, during a thunder-gust. It has been fatal to many, both men and beasts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Love your Neighbour; yet don't pull down your Hedge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Handle your tools without mittens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop of reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Take counsel in wine, but resolve afterwards in water."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If we lose our Money, it gives us some Concern. If we are cheated or robb'd of it, we are angry: But Money lost may be found; what we are robb'd of may be restored: The Treasure of Time once lost, can never be recovered; yet we squander it as tho' 'twere nothing worth, or we had no Use for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Resolve to perform what you ought;\nperform without fail what you resolve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: She laughs at everything you say. Why? Because she has fine teeth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Truth and sincerity have a certain distinguishing native lustre about them which cannot be perfectly counterfeited; they are like fire and flame, that cannot be painted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird, and withal a true original native of America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I have conceived a higher opinion of the natural capacities of the black race than I had ever before entertained. Their apprehension seems as quick, their memory as strong, and their docility in every respect equal to that of white children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: To all apparent beauties blind, each blemish strikes an envious mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I believe that Man is not the most perfect Being but One, rather that as there are many Degrees of Beings his Inferiors, so there are many Degrees of Beings superior to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A single man has not nearly the value he would have in a state of union. He is an incomplete animal. He resembles the odd half of a pair of scissors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Interest which blinds some People, enlightens others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: My father's little library consisted chiefly of books in polemic divinity, most of which I read, and have since often regretted that, at a time when I had such a thirst for knowledge, more proper books had not fallen in my way since it was now resolved I should not be a clergyman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The good Education of Youth has been esteemed by wise Men in all Ages, as the surest Foundation of the Happiness both of private Families and of Common-wealths. Almost all Governments have therefore made it a principal Object of their Attention, to establish and endow with proper Revenues, such Seminaries of Learning, as might supply the succeeding Age with Men qualified to serve the Publick with Honour to themselves, and to their Country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Historians relate not so much what is done as what they would have believed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Tolerate no Uncleanliness in Body, Clothes, or Habitation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Who judges best of a Man, his Enemies or himself?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A new truth is a truth, an old error is an error."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: An assembly of great men is the greatest fool upon earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that steals the old man's supper does him no wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Do good to thy friend to keep him, to thy enemy to gain him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A virtuous heretic shall be saved before a wicked Christian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: It's the easiest thing in the world for a man to deceive himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Since they are our right, let us be vigilant to preserve them uninfringed, and free from encroachments. If animosities arise, and we should be obliged to resort to party, let each of us range himself on the side which unfurls the ensigns of public good. Faction will then vanish, which, if not timely suppressed, may overturn the balance, the palladium of liberty, and crush us under its ruins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Would you persuade, speak of interest, not of reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Some men grow mad by studying much to know,\r\nBut who grows mad by studying good to grow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: What good shall I do this day?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Mine is better than ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Whoever feels pain in hearing a good character of his neighbor, will feel a pleasure in the reverse. And those who despair to rise in distinction by their virtues, are happy if others can be depressed to a level of themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The expenses required to prevent a war are much lighter than those that will, if not prevented, be absolutely necessary to maintain it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Many a long dispute among divines may be thus abridged: It is so; It is not so. It is so; it is not so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I know not which lives more unnatural lives, obeying husbands, or commanding wives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Strive to be the best and you may succeed: he may well win the race that runs by himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I consent Sir, to this Constitution because I expect no better, and because I am not sure, that it is not the best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: My List of Virtues contain'd at first but twelve: But a Quaker Friend having kindly inform'd me that I was generally thought proud; that my Pride show'd itself frequently in Conversation; that I was not content with being in the right when discussing any Point, but was overbearing & rather insolent; of which he convinc'd me by mentioning several Instances; - I determined endeavouring to cure myself ..., and I added Humility to my List, giving an extensive Meaning to the Word."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Snowy winter, a plentiful harvest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A ship under sail and a big-bellied woman, Are the handsomest two things that can be seen common."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: As Pride increases, Fortune declines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Paintings and fightings are best seen at a distance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: No man ever was glorious, who was not laborious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Men's minds do not die with their bodies but are made more happy or miserable after this life according to their actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: All the heavenly Bodies, the Stars and Planets, are regulated with the utmost Wisdom! And can we suppose less Care to be taken in the Order of the moral than in the natural System?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A light purse is a heavy curse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If you ride a horse, sit close and tight, if you ride a man, sit easy and light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Oh the wonderful knowledge to be found in the stars. Even the smallest things are written there ... if you had but skill to read."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: When Knaves betray each other, one can scarce be blamed or the other pitied."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Virtue may not always make a Face handsome, but Vice will certainly make it ugly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Traveling is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If it were not for the Belly, the Back might wear Gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and parliaments. If we can get rid of the former, we may easily bear the latter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: There have been as great souls unknown to fame as any of the most famous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: There are more old drunkards than old doctors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Better slip with foot than tongue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Do you sincerely declare that you love mankind in general, of what profession or religion soever? Do you think any person ought to be harmed in his body, name, or goods, for mere speculative opinions, or his external way of worship? Do you love truth for truth's sake; and will you endeavor impartially to find and receive it yourself, and communicate it to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Mankind are very odd creatures:\none half censure what they practice,\nthe other half practice what they censure;\nthe rest always say and do as they ought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I wish to live without committing any fault at any time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Singularity in the right hath ruined many; happy those who are convinced of the general opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: There are no ugly loves nor handsome prisons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Is there anything men take more pains about than to render themselves unhappy?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Revelation, indeed, as such had no influence on my mind"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Reader, I wish thee Health, Wealth, Happiness, And may kind Heaven thy Year's Industry bless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Graft good Fruit all, or graft not at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If any man flatters me, I'll flatter him again; tho' he were my best Friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: No longer virtuous no longer free; is a Maxim as true with regard to a private Person as a Common-wealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The thrifty maxim of the wary Dutch, Is to save all the Money they can touch"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The misers cheese is wholesomest"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: An ounce of wit that is bought, Is worth a pound that is taught."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A temperate Diet frees from Diseases; such are seldom ill, but if they are surprised with Sickness, they bear it better, and recover sooner; for most Distempers have their Original from Repletion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A little House well fill'd, a little Field well till'd, and a little Wife well will'd, are great Riches."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that sows Thorns, should never go barefoot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Evil, as evil, can never be chosen; and though evil is often the effect of our own choice, yet we never desire it but under the appearance of an imaginary good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Visit your Aunt, but not every Day; and call at your Brother's, but not every night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy. When you have bought one fine thing, you must buy ten more, that your appearance may be all of a piece; but it is easier to suppress the first desire than to satisfy all that follow it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Many have been ruined by buying good Pennyworths."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: That man alone loves himself rightly who procures the greatest possible good to himself through the whole of his existence and so pursues pleasure as not to give for it more than it is worth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He gives twice that gives soon, i.e., he will soon be called to give again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Justice is as strictly due between neighbor nations as between neighbor citizens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Let thy discontents be thy secrets; if the world knows them 'twill despise thee and increase them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Let our Fathers and Grandfathers be valued for their Goodness, ourselves for our own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A little sturdiness when superiors are much in the wrong sometimes occasions consideration. And there is truth in the old saying that if you make yourself a sheep, the wolves will eat you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Be not niggardly of what costs thee nothing, as courtesy, counsel, & countenance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Now I've a sheep and a cow, every body bids me good morrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The cunning man steals a horse, the wise man lets him alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Let me resolve to be virtuous, that I may be happy, that I may please Him, who is delighted to see me happy. Amen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: As charms are nonsense,\nnonsense is a charm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Acquire Riches by Industry and Frugality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge of her faults, and whether she has the virtues I imagine she has? Answer. Commend her among her female acquaintances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: On the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by the endeavor, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been had I not attempted it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: You will see in this my notion of good works, that I am far from expecting to merit heaven by them. By heaven we understand a state of happiness, infinite in degree, and eternal in duration. I can do nothing to deserve such rewards... Even the mixed imperfect pleasures we enjoy in this world, are rather from God's goodness than our merit, how much more such happiness of heaven!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: ... there is much truth in the Italian saying, 'Make yourselves sheep, and the wolves will eat you.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the House, they labor in vain that build it' I firmly believe this; by our partial local interests; our projects will be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and a by word down to future ages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The grand leap of the whale up the Fall of Niagara is esteemed, by all who have seen it, as one of the finest spectacles in nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Despair ruins some, presumption many."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Some make Conscience of wearing a Hat in the Church, who make none of robbing the Altar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: We are more thoroughly an enlightened people, with respect to our political interests, than perhaps any other under heaven. Every man among us reads, and is so easy in his circumstances as to have leisure for conversations of improvement and for acquiring information."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: An apple a day keeps the doctor away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Scarcely have I ever heard or read the introductory phrase, \"I may say without vanity,\" but some striking and characteristic instance of vanity has immediately followed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Conceiving God to be the fountain of wisdom, I thought it right and necessary to solicit his assistance for obtaining it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The electrical matter consists of particles extremely subtile, since it can permeate common matter, even the densest metals, with such ease and freedom as not to receive any perceptible resistance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The most trifling actions that affect a man's credit are to be regarded. The sound of your hammer at five in the morning, or at nine at night, heard by a creditor, makes him easy six months longer; but if he sees you at the billiard-table, or hears your voice at a tavern, when you should be at work, he sends for his money the next day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Kill no more pigeons than you can eat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If the new Universal History were also read, it would give a connected idea of human affairs, so far as it goes, which should be followed by the best modern histories, particularly of our mother country; then of these colonies; which should be accompanied with observations on their rise, increase, use to Great Britain, encouragements and discouragements, the means to make them flourish, and secure their liberties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If anyone should doubt whether the electrical matter passes through the substance of bodies, or only over along their surfaces, a shock from an electrified large glass jar, taken through his own body, will probably convince him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Electrical matter differs from common matter in this, that the parts of the latter mutually attract, those of the former mutually repel each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Be in general virtuous, and you will be happy. At least, you will by such conduct, stand the best chance for such consequences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The madness of mobs or the insolence of soldiers, or both, when too near to each other, occasion some mischief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Buy what thou hast no need of and ere long thou shalt sell thy necessities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Serving God is doing good to man, but praying is thought an easier service and therefore more generally chosen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Hast thou virtue? acquire also the graces and beauties of virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He who multiplies riches multiplies cares."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Nor is it of much Importance to us to know the Manner in which Nature executes her laws; 'tis enough to know the Laws themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I was put to the grammar-school at eight years of age, my father intending to devote me, as the tithe of his sons, to the service of the Church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: You must not, when you have gained a victory, use any triumphing or insulting expressions, nor show too much of the pleasure you feel; but endeavour to console your adversary, and make him less dissatisfied with himself by every kind and civil expression that may be used with truth; such as, you understand the game better than I, but you are a little inattentive, or, you play too fast; or, you had the best of the game, but something happened to divert your thoughts, and that turned it in my favour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A traveller should have a hog's nose, a deer's legs, and an ass's back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: What vast additions to the conveniences and comforts of living might mankind have acquired, if the money spent in wars had been employed in works of public utility; what an extension of agriculture even to the tops of our mountains; what rivers rendered navigable, or joined by canals; what bridges, aqueducts, new roads, and other public works, edifices, and improvements might not have been obtained by spending those millions in doing good, which in the last war have been spent in doing mischief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Give me yesterday's bread, this day's flesh, and last year's cider"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A man is not completely born until he is dead. Why then should we grieve that a new child is born among the immortals, a new member added to their happy society?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The things of this world take up too much of my time, of which indeed I have too little left, to undertake anything like a reformation in religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that doth what he should not, shall feel what he would not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I scarce ever heard or saw the introductory words, \"Without vanity I may say,\" etc., but some vain thing immediately followed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: ...till we are uneasy in Rest, we can have no Desire to move, and without Desire of moving there can be no voluntary Motion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Saying and Doing, have quarrel'd and parted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: She that paints her Face, thinks of her Tail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: As sore places meet most rubs, proud folks meet most affronts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: But they have two other Rights; those of sitting when they please, and as long as they please, in which methinks they have the advantage of your Parliament; for they cannot be dissolved by the Breath of a Minister, or sent packing as you were the other day, when it was your earnest desire to have remained longer together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Indeed, when religious people quarrel about religion, or hungry people quarrel about victuals, it looks as if they had not much of either among them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I believe ... that the soul of man is immortal and will be treated with justice in another life, respecting its conduct in this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The first mistake in public business is the going into it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Virtues,  of ...\r\nJustice: Wrong none by doing injuries or omitting the benefits that are your duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Let all Men know thee, but no man know thee thoroughly: Men freely ford that see the shallows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: And as to the Cares, they are chiefly what attend the bringing up of Children; and I would ask any Man who has experienced it, if they are not the most delightful Cares in the World; and if from that Particular alone, he does not find the Bliss of a double State much greater, instead of being less than he expected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: To the haranguers of the populace among the ancients, succeed among the moderns your writers of political pamphlets and news-papers, and your coffee-house talkers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Lawyers, Preachers, and Tomtits Eggs, there are more of them hatch'd than come to perfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: God will certainly reward virtue and punish vice, either here or hereafter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a Maxim that has been long and generally approved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I am on this account not displeased that the Figure is not known as a Bald Eagle, but looks more like a Turkey. For the Truth the Turkey is in Comparison a much more respectable Bird, and withal a true original Native of America... He is besides, though a little vain & silly, a Bird of Courage, and would not hesitate to attack a Grenadier of the British Guards who should presume to invade his Farm Yard with a red Coat on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I think with you, that nothing is of more importance for the public weal, than to form and train up youth in wisdom and virtue. Wise and good men are in my opinion, the strength of the state; more so than riches or arms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Thou can'st not joke an enemy into a friend,\nbut thou may'st a friend into an enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Duty is not beneficial because it is commanded,\nbut is commanded because it is beneficial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Those who are fear'd, are hated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: At the working man\u2019s house, hunger looks in but dares not enter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The exact Quantity and Quality being found out, is to be kept to constantly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: That Quantity that is sufficient, the Stomach can perfectly concoct and digest, and it sufficeth the due Nourishment of the Body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A greater Quantity of some things may be eaten than of others, some being of lighter Digestion than others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Prayers and Provender hinder no Journey."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Every accent, every emphasis, every modulation of voice, was so perfectly well turned and well placed, that, without being interested in the subject, one could not help being pleased with the discourse; a pleasure of much the same kind with that received from an excellent piece of music. This is an advantage itinerant preachers have over those who are stationary, as the latter can not well improve their delivery of a sermon by so many rehearsals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A wolf eats sheep but now and then, ten Thousands are devour'd by Men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Friends are the true Sceptres of Princes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Don't overload Gratitude; if you do, she'll kick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Pride gets into the Coach, and Shame mounts behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Many would live by their Wits, but break for want of Stock."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that by the Plough would thrive, Himself must either hold or drive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Tis a well spent penny that saves a groat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Fish & Visitors stink in 3 days."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Time eateth all things, could old poets say, The times are chang'd, our times drink all away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Wealth and Content are not always Bed-fellows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A little Religion, and a little Honesty, goes a great way in Courts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: From a child I was fond of reading, and all the little money that came into my hands was ever laid out in books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Liberality is not giving much, but giving wisely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Old boys have their playthings as well as young ones; the difference is only in the price."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If Jack's in love, he's no judge of Jill's beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: This gave me occasion to observe, that when Men are employ'd they are best contented. For on the Days they work'd they were good-natur'd and chearful; and with the consciousness of having done a good Days work they spent the Evenings jollily; but on the idle Days they were mutinous and quarrelsome, finding fault with their Pork, the Bread, and in continual ill-humour. (Autobiography, 1771)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Half-wits talk much, but say little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: O powerful goodness! Bountiful Father! Merciful Guide! Increase in me that wisdom which discovers my truest interest. Strengthen my resolution to perform what that wisdom dictates. Accept my kind offices to thy other children as the only return in my power for thy continual favours to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: There was great difference in persons; and discretion did not always accompany years, nor was youth always without it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Let thy discontents be thy secrets"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A friend in need is a friend indeed!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Love and toothache have many cures, but none infallible, except possession and dispossession."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A dying man can do nothing easy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: What is a butterfly? At best\r\nHe's but a caterpiller drest.\r\nThe gaudy Fop's his picture just."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions, for life is a kind of chess."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A man is not completely born until he is dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: It is very imprudent to deprive America of any of her privileges. If her commerce and friendship are of any importance to you, they are to be had on no other terms than leaving her in the full enjoyment of her rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Covetousness is ever attended with solicitude and anxiety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: It is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Life is a kind of chess."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: O Lazy bones! Dost thou think God would have given thee arms and legs, if he had not design'd thou should'st use them?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: What more valuable than Gold? Diamonds. Than Diamonds? Virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The importation of foreigners into a country that has as many inhabitants as the present employments and provisions for subsistence will bear, will be in the end no increase of people, unless the new comers have more industry and frugality than the natives, and then they will provide more subsistence, and increase in the country; but they will gradually eat the natives out. Nor is it necessary to bring in foreigners to fill up any occasional vacancy in a country for such vacancy will soon be filled by natural generation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Virtues,  of ...\r\nModeration: Avoid extremes. Forbear resenting injuries so much as you think they deserve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: It might be judged an affront to your understanding should I go about to prove this first principle; the existence of a Diety and that He is the Creator of the universe, for that would suppose you ignorant of what all mankind in all ages have agreed in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: By the word simplicity, is not always meant folly or ignorance; but often, pure and upright Nature, free from artifice, craft or deceitful ornament."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: It is the duty of mankind on all suitable occasions to acknowledge their dependence on the Divine Being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: When about 16 Years of Age, I happened to meet with a Book written by one Tryon, recommending a Vegetable Diet. I determined to go into it.... My refusing to eat Flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves; but I give it fair quarter, wherever I meet with it, being persuaded that it is often productive of good to the possessor, and to others who are within his sphere of action: and therefore, in many cases, it would not be altogether absurd if a man were to thank God for his vanity among the other comforts of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Not to oversee workmen is to leave them your purse open."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Perhaps I was too saucy and provoking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Squeamish stomachs cannot eat without pickles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I grew convinced that truth, sincerity and integrity in dealings between man and man were of the utmost importance to the felicity of life, and I formed written resolutions . . . to practice them ever while I lived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they could possibly have done, if instead of being beloved and respected they had been hated and feared by those they commanded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: 'Tis true there is much to be done, . . . but stick to it steadily, and you will see great effects, for constant dropping wears away stones . . . and little strokes fell great oaks, as Poor Richard says. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Industry and frugality, as the means of procuring wealth . . . thereby [secures] virtue, it being more difficult for a man in want to act always honestly. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A father's a treasure; a brother's a comfort; a friend is both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Evils come not, then our fears are vain; And if they do fear but augments the pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If a man would reap praise, you must sow the seeds, gentle words and useful deeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Drink does not drown care, but waters it, and makes it grow faster."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If your riches are yours, why don't you take them with you to the other world?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Some books we read, tho' few there are that hit the happy point where wisdom joins with wit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Whenever we attempt to mend the scheme of Providence and to interfere in the Government of the world, we had need be very circumspect lest we do more harm than good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In humility imitate Jesus and Socrates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Pride is as loud a beggar as want, and a great deal more saucy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Fond pride of dress is sure a very curse"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Most people dislike vanity in others, whatever share they have of it themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: That as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours, and this we should do freely and generously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: We are not certain, we are never certain. If we were we could reach some conclusions, and we could, at last, make others take us seriously.\nIn this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: An infallible Remedy for the Tooth-ach, viz Wash the Root of an aching Tooth, in Elder Vinegar, and let it dry half an hour in the Sun; after which it will never ach more; Probatum est."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: What signifies Philosophy that does not apply to some Use? May we not learn from hence, that black Clothes are not so fit to wear in a hot Sunny Climate or Season, as white ones; because in such Cloaths the Body is more heated by the Sun when we walk abroad, and are at the same time heated by the Exercise, which double Heat is apt to bring on putrid dangerous Fevers? The Soldiers and Seamen, who must march and labour in the Sun, should in the East or West Indies have an Uniform of white?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that scatters thorns, let him not go barefoot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Let thy maid servant be faithful, strong, and homely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Great talkers, little doers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: When men and woman die, as poets sung, his heart's the last part moves, her last, the tongue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Since thou are not sure of a minute, throw not away an hour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Industry need not wish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Gain may be temporary and uncertain; but ever while you live, expense is constant and certain: and it is easier to build two chimneys than to keep one in fuel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Laziness travels so slowly that poverty soon overtakes it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The happy State of Matrimony is, undoubtedly, the surest and most lasting Foundation of Comfort and Love . . . the Cause of all good Order in the World, and what alone preserves it from the utmost Confusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He is ill clothed that is bare of virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in the world nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Wouldst thou enjoy a long Life, a healthy Body, and a vigorous Mind, and be acquainted also with the wonderful Works of God? labour in the first place to bring thy Appetite into Subjection to Reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I have been apt to think that there has never been, nor ever will be, any such thing as a good war, or a bad peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: It seems to me, that if statesmen had a little more arithmetic, or were accustomed to calculation, wars would be much less frequent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I have heard that nothing gives an Author so great Pleasure, as to find his works respectfully quoted by other learned authors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: You and I were long friends: you are now my enemy, and I am yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The sun of liberty is set; you must light up the candle of industry and economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: To inquisitive minds like yours and mine the reflection that the quantity of human knowledge bears no proportion to the quantity of human ignorance must be in one view rather pleasing, viz., that though we are to live forever we may be continually amused and delighted with learning something new."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In going on with these Experiments, how many pretty systems do we build, which we soon find ourselves oblig'd to destroy! If there is no other Use discover'd of Electricity, this, however, is something considerable, that it may help to make a vain Man humble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A fine genius in his own country is like gold in the mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Do not, however, mistake me.  It is not to my good friend's heresy that I impute his honesty.  On the contrary, 'tis his honesty that brought upon him the character of a heretic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: What one relishes, nourishes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that sells upon Credit expects to lose 5 per Cent. By bad Debts; therefore he charges, on all he sells upon Credit, an Advance that shall make up that Deficiency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: 'Tis more noble to forgive, and more manly to despise, than to revenge an Injury."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Cheese and salt meat, should be sparingly eat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Use now and then a little Exercise a quarter of an Hour before Meals, as to swing a Weight, or swing your Arms about with a small Weight in each Hand; to leap, or the like, for that stirs the Muscles of the Breast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Gaining money by my industry and frugality, I lived very agreeably. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A fat kitchin, a lean Will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Hereafter, if you should observe an occasion to give your officers and friends a little more praise than is their due, and confess more fault than you can justly be charged with, you will only become the sooner for it, a great captain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I looked around for God's judgments, but saw no signs of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Here Skugg lies snug As a bug in a rug."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Make no expense but to do good to others or yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Grief for a dead Wife, and a troublesome Guest, Continues to the threshold, and there is at rest; But I mean such wives as are none of the best"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: There's many witty men whose brains can't fill their bellies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In every animal that walks upright, the deficiency of the Fluids that fill the Muscles appears first in the highest Part: The Face first grows lank and wrinkled; then the neck; then the breast and arms; the lower parts continuing to the last as plump as ever; so that covering all above with a basket, and regarding only what is below the girdle, it is impossible of two women to know an old from a young one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If you would know the value of money; go, and try to borrow some! For, he that goes a borrowing, goes a sorrowing! and indeed, so does he that lends to such people, when he goes to get it in again!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The Honey is sweet, but the Bee has a Sting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: We are a kind of posterity in respect to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: That which resembles most living one's life over again, seems to be to recall all the circumstances of it; and, to render this remembrance more durable, to record them in writing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: An iron rod being placed on the outside of a building from the highest part continued down into the moist earth, in any direction strait or crooked, following the form of the roof or other parts of the building, will receive the lightning at its upper end, attracting it so as to prevent it's striking any other part; and, affording it a good conveyance into the earth, will prevent its damaging any part of the building."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If a sound body and a sound mind, which is as much as to say health and virtue, are to be preferred before all other considerations, ought not men, in choosing a business either for themselves or children, to refuse such as are unwholesome for the body, and such as make a man too dependent, too much obliged to please others, and too much subjected to their humors in order to be recommended and get a livelihood?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Hope and faith may be more firmly built upon charity, than charity upon faith and hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The Golden Age was never the present age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Furnished as all Europe now is with Academies of Science, with nice instruments and the spirit of experiment, the progress of human knowledge will be rapid and discoveries made of which we have at present no conception. I begin to be almost sorry I was born so soon, since I cannot have the happiness of knowing what will be known a hundred years hence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that speaks ill of the mare will buy her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that's content hath enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Idleness is the Dead Sea that swallows all virtues. Be active in business, that temptation may miss her aim; the bird that sits is easily shot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Men differ daily about things which are subject to sense, is it likely then they should agree about things invisible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Certainlie these things agree, The Priest, the Lawyer, & Death all three: Death takes both the weak and the strong. The lawyer takes from both right and wrong, And the priest from living and dead has his Fee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If Pride leads the Van, Beggary brings up the Rear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: God bless the King, and grant him long to Reign."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Keep out of the Sight of Feasts and Banquets as much as may be; for 'tis more difficult to refrain good Cheer, when it's present, than from the Desire of it when it is away; the like you may observe in the Objects of all the other Senses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: A wicked Hero will turn his back to an innocent coward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: By diligence and patience, the mouse bit in two the cable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The generous Mind least regards money, and yet most feels the Want of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Great Modesty often hides great Merit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Epitaph on a scolding wife by her husband: Here my poor Bridget's corpse doth lie, she is at rest - and so am I!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Mary's mouth cost her nothing for she never opens it but at others' expense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Never praise your cider or your horse"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The good or ill hap of a good or ill life, is the good or ill choice of a good or ill wife."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In a discreet man's mouth, a public thing is private."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Speak and speed: the close mouth catches no flies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If we can sleep without dreaming, it is well that painful dreams are avoided. If, while we sleep, we can have any pleasing dreams, it is as the French say, tant gagne, so much added to the pleasure of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Christians are directed to have faith in Christ, as the effectual means of obtaining the change they desire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The riches of a country are to be valued by the quantity of labor its inhabitants are able to purchase, and not by the quantity of silver and gold they possess; which will purchase more or less labor, and therefore is more or less valuable, as is said before, according to its scarcity or plenty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: No better relation than a prudent and faithful friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: At a great pennyworth pause a while."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: an enormous proportion of property vested in a few individuals is dangerous to the rights, and destructive of the common happiness of mankind, and, therefore, every free state hath a right by its laws to discourage the possession of such property."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Philosophy as well as foppery often changes fashion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that resolves to mend hereafter, resolves not to mend now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Quarrels never could last long, if on one side only lay the wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Neglect kills injuries, revenge increases them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Nor eye in a letter, nor hand in a purse, nor ear in the secret of another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Grace thou thy house and let not that grace thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Mankind naturally and generally love to be flatter'd."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The good particular men may do separately, in relieving the sick, is small, compared with what they may do collectively."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Anger warms the invention, but overheats the oven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: If all but myself were blind, I should want neither a fine house nor fine furniture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: What's a Sun-Dial in the shade?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: I know as well as thee that I am no poet born\r\nIt is a trade, I never learnt nor indeed could learn\r\nIf I make verses-'tis in spite\r\nOf nature and my stars I write."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: What you would seem to be, be really."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Man is a tool-making animal"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Write with the learned, pronounce with the vulgar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: What science can there be more noble, more excellent, more useful for men, more admirably high and demonstrative, than this of mathematics?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: None are deceived but they that confide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chid for my singularity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: What maintains one vice would bring up two children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Remember this Saying, 'That the good Paymaster is Lord of another Man's Purse.' He that is known to pay punctually and exactly to the Time he promises, may at any Time, and on any Occasion, raise all the Money his Friends can spare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: Our friend and we were invited aboard on a party of pleasure, which is to last forever. His chair was ready first, and he has gone before us. We could not all conveniently start together; and why should you and I be grieved at this, since we are soon to follow, and know where to find him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: He that riseth late, must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Benjamin Franklin: In Truth I found myself incorrigible with respect to Order; and now I am grown old, and my Memory bad, I feel very sensibly the want of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: For our own success to be real, it must contribute to the success of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I once had a rose named after me and I was very flattered. But I was not pleased to read the description in the catalogue: no good in a bed, but fine up against a wall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: True patriotism springs from a belief in the dignity of the individual, freedom and equality not only for Americans but for all people on earth, universal brotherhood and good will, and a constant and earnest striving toward the principles and ideals on which this country was founded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I am who I am today because of the choices I made yesterday."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Someone once asked me what I regarded as the three most important requirements for happiness. My answer was: A feeling that you have been honest with yourself and those around you; a feeling that you have done the best you could both in your personal life and in your work; and the ability to love others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: You must do the things you think you cannot do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: It's your life - but only if you make it so. The standards by which you live must be your own standards, your own values, your own convictions in regard to what is right and wrong, what is true and false, what is important and what is trivial. When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else . . . you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier. We do not have to become heroes over night. Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appeared, discovering we have the strength to stare it down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education... The second way of enslaving a people is to suppress the sources of information, not only by burning books but by controlling all the other ways in which ideas are transmitted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, \u2018It can\u2019t be done.\u2019"
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: In the long run, we shape our lives, and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world ... Such are the places where every man, woman and child seeks equal justice, equal opportunity, equal dignity without discrimination. Unless these rights have meaning there, they have little meaning anywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: With the new day comes new strength and new thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: All of life is a constant education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Before we can make friends with anyone else, we must first make friends with ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Courage is more exhilarating than fear, and in the long run, it is easier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: We are afraid to care too much, for fear that the other person does not care at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Since everybody is an individual, nobody can be you. You are unique. No one can tell you how to use your time. It is yours. Your life is your own. You mold it. You make it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Enjoy every minute you have with those you love, my dear, for no one can take joy that is past away from you. It will be there in your heart to live on when the dark days come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The greatest tragedy of old age is the tendency for the old to feel unneeded, unwanted, and of no use to anyone; the secret of happiness in the declining years is to remain interested in life, as active as possible, useful to others, busy, and forward looking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Remember always that you have not only the right to be an individual; you have an obligation to be one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Sometimes I wonder if we shall ever grow up in our politics and say definite things which mean something, or whether we shall always go on using generalities to which everyone can subscribe, and which mean very little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: A number of people still think of the United States as being overwhelmingly English, Protestant, and white. This erroneous idea influences their whole outlook."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: a society in which there is widespread economic insecurity can turn freedom into a barren and vapid right for millions of people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: All of us in this country give lip service to the ideals set forth in the Bill of Rights and emphasized by every additional amendment, and yet when war is stirring in the world, many of us are ready to curtail our civil liberties. We do not stop to think that curtailing these liberties may in the end bring us a greater danger than the danger we are trying to avert."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: If the use of leisure time is confined to looking at TV for a few extra hours every day, we will deteriorate as a people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: We will have to want peace, want it enough to pay for it, before it becomes an accepted rule."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: When you adopt the standards and the values of someone else \u2026 you surrender your own integrity. You become, to the extent of your surrender, less of a human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The more we simplify our material needs the more we are free to think of other things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: We are given in our newspapers and on TV and radio exactly what we, the public, insist on having, and this very frequently is mediocre information and mediocre entertainment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: One thing life has taught me: if you are interested, you never have to look for new interests. They come to you. When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: When will our consciences grow so tender that we will act to prevent human misery rather than avenge it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.... The danger lies in refusing to face the fear, in not daring to come to grips with it. If you fail anywhere along the line it will take away your confidence. You must make yourself succeed every time. You must do the thing you think you cannot do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Each generation supposes that the world was simpler for the one before it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Of course, I do not believe in having everyone who is a liberal called a communist, or everyone who is conservative called a fascist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: A great deal of fear is a result of just \u201cnot knowing.\u201d We do not know what is involved in a new situation. We do not know whether we can deal with it. The sooner we learn what it entails, the sooner we can dissolve our fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying attention to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Where, after all, do universal human rights begin?  In small places, close to home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But if you have more projects than you have time for, you are not going to be an unhappy person. This is as much a question of having imagination and curiosity as it is of actually making plans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: We must know what we think and speak out, even at the risk of unpopularity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Your ambition should be to get as much life out of living as you possibly can, as much enjoyment, as much interest, as much experience, as much understanding. Not simply be what is generally called a 'success.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The mind must be trained, rather than the memory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: If we want a free and peaceful world, if we want to make the deserts bloom and man grow to greater dignity as a human being - we can do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: It is a brave thing to have courage to be an individual; it is also, perhaps, a lonely thing. But it is better than not being an individual, which is to be nobody at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product. For what keeps our interest in life and makes us look forward to tomorrow is giving pleasure to other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart. Don't be concerned about whether people are watching you or criticizing you. The chances are that they aren't paying any attention to you. It's your attention to yourself that is so stultifying. But you have to disregard yourself as completely as possible. If you fail the first time then you'll just have to try harder the second time. After all, there's no real reason why you should fail. Just stop thinking about yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I could not, at any age, be content to take my place by the fireside and simply look on. Life was meant to be lived. Curiosity must be kept alive. One must not, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.\" Another \"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In stopping to think through the meaning of what I have learned, there is much that I believe intensely, much I am unsure of. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: We will never have peace without friendship around the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Friendship with ones self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The trouble is that not enough people have come together with the firm determination to live the things which they say they believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The giving of love and understanding is an education in itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I think that somehow, we learn who we really are and then live with that decision."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: There is nothing to fear except fear it's self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Where, after all, do universal human rights begin? In small places, close to home - so close and so small that they cannot be seen on any maps of the world. Yet they are the world of the individual person...Withou t concerted citizen action to uphold them close to home, we shall look in vain for progress in the larger world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: We face the future fortified with the lessons we have learned from the past. It is today that we must create the world of the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: It's your life-but only if you make it so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: In our country we must trust the people to hear and see both the good and the bad and to choose the good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: It takes courage to love, but pain through love is the purifying fire which those who love generously know. We all know people who are so much afraid of pain that they shut themselves up like clams in a shell and, giving out nothing, receive nothing and therefore shrink until life is a mere living death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Curiously enough, it is often the people who refuse to assume any responsibility who are apt to be the sharpest critics of those who do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I never met Mahatma Gandhi, but, I think everyone felt they knew him even if they hadn't met him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I have never felt that anything really mattered but knowing that you stood for the things in which you believed and had done the very best you could."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to live together we have to talk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: We must be willing to learn the lesson that cooperation may imply compromise, but if it brings a world advance it is a gain for each individual nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: To undo a mistake is always harder than not to create one originally but we seldom have the foresight. Therefore we have no choice but to try to correct our past mistakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Change means the unknown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: This is not a time when women should be patient. We are in a war and we need to fight it with all our ability and every weapon possible. Women pilots, in this particular case, are a weapon waiting to be used."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: No human being can ever 'own' another, whether in friendship, love, marriage, or parenthood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: For all of us, as we grow older, perhaps the most important thing is to keep alive our love of others and to believe that our love and interest are as vitally necessary to them as to us. This is what makes us keep on growing and refills the fountains of energy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: If we do not pay for children in good schools, then we are going to pay for them in prisons and mental hospitals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: What counts, in the long run, is not what you read; it is what you sift through your own mind; it is the ideas and impressions that are aroused in you by your reading. It is the ideas stirred in your own mind, the ideas which are a reflection of your own thinking, which make you an interesting person"
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: It is always disagreeable to take stands. It is always easier to compromise, always easier to let things go. To many women, and I am one of them, it is extraordinarily difficult to care about anything enough to cause disagreement or unpleasant feelings, but I have come to the conclusion that this must be done for a time until we can prove our strength and demand respect for our wishes. We cannot even be of real service in the coming campaign and speak as a united body of women unless we have the respect of men and show that when we express a wish, we are willing to stand by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: All human beings have failings, all human beings have needs and temptations and stresses. Men and women who live together through long years get to know one another's failings; but they also come to know what is worthy of respect and admiration in those they live with and in themselves. If at the end one can say, This man used to the limit the powers that God granted him; he was worthy of love and respect and of the sacrifices of many people, made in order that he might achieve what he deemed to be his task, then that life has been lived well and there are no regrets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: At all times, day by day, we have to continue fighting for freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and freedom from want... for these are things that must be gained in peace as well as in war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: No man is defeated without until he has first been defeated within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: It seems to me that it is the basic right of any human being to work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: No leader can be too far ahead of his followers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I do not want church groups controlling the schools of our country. They must remain free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: True hospitality consists of giving the best of yourself to your guests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: In the long run there is no more exhilarating experience than to determine one's position, state it bravely and then act boldly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Up to a certain point it is good for us to know that there are people in the world who will give us love and unquestioned loyalty to the limit of their ability. I doubt, however, if it is good for us to feel assured of this without the accompanying obligation of having to justify this devotion by our behavior."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I am convinced that every effort must be made in childhood to teach the young to use their own minds. For one thing is sure: If they don't make up their minds, someone will do it for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: What one has to do usually can be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I know that we will be the sufferers if we let great wrongs occur without exerting ourselves to correct them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: To be a citizen in a democracy, a human being must be given a healthy start."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Happiness is not a goal, it is a by-product.  Paradoxically, the one sure way not to be happy is deliberately to map out a way of life in which one would please oneself completely and exclusively."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: It is not more vacation we need \u2014 it is more vocation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: If anyone were to ask me what I want out of life I would say- the opportunity for doing something useful, for in no other way, I am convinced, can true happiness be attained."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: One should always sleep in all of one's guest beds, to make sure that they are comfortable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Only a man's character is the real criterion of worth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: To leave the world richer\u2014that is the ultimate success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Have convictions. Be friendly. Stick to your beliefs as they stick to theirs. Work as hard as they do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The kind of man who thinks that helping with the dishes is beneath him will also think that helping with the baby is beneath him, and then he certainly is not going to be a very successful father."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy, I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this, too, shall pass!'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: We all create the person we become by our choices as we go through life. In a real sense, by the time we are adults, we are the sum total of the choices we have made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Usefulness, whatever form it may take, is the price we should pay for the air we breathe and the food we eat and the privilege of being alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Success must include two things: the development of an individual to his utmost potentiality and a contribution of some kind to one's world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Obedience may have its uses, but it is no substitute for willing, uncoerced co-operation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: First of my own personal requirements is inner calm. This, I think, is an essential. One of the secrets of using your time well is to gain a certain ability to maintain peace within yourself so that much can go on around you and you can stay calm inside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: It is curious how much more interest can be evoked by a mixture of gossip, romance and mystery than by facts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: If you have any interests you can gain a wider audience for those interests while the goldfish bowl is yours!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Each time you learn something new you must readjust the whole framework of your knowledge"
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: what we need in the world is manners ... I think that if, instead of preaching brotherly love, we preached good manners, we might get a little further. It sounds less righteous and more practical."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: We need emotional outlets in this country, and the more artistic people we develop the better it will be for us as a nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I received a most amusing postcard the other morning. Unfortunately, it was not signed in a readable manner so I cannot answer it privately. But it comes from Moblie, Ala., and says: 'Dear Mrs. Roosevelt: You have not answered my question, the amount of Negro blood you have in your veins, if any.' I am afraid none of us know how much nor what kind of blood we have in our veins, since chemically it is all the same. And most of us cannot trace our ancestry more than a few generations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: practically nothing we do ever stands by itself. If it is good, it will serve some good purpose in the future. If it is evil, it may haunt us and handicap our efforts in unimagined ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Choose a challenge instead of competence"
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: To me who dreamed so much as a child, who made a dreamworld in which I was the heroine of an unending story, the lives of people around me continued to have a certain storybook quality. I learned something which has stood me in good stead many times - The most important thing in any relationship is not what you get but what you give."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The mobilization of world opinion and methods of negotiation should be developed and used by every nation in order to strengthen the United Nations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: As life developed, I faced each problem as it came along. As my activities and work broadened and reached out, I never tried to shirk. I tried never to evade an issue. When I found I had something to do--I just did it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Mozart, who was buried in a pauper\u2019s grave, was one of the greatest successes we know of, a man who in his early thirties had poured out his inexhaustible gift of music, leaving the world richer because he had passed that way. To leave the world richer\u2014that is the ultimate success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: It has been a long fight to put the control of our economic system in the hands of the government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: How hard it is to project oneself into the future. We are always prone to think of the conditions which are with us today as being permanent conditions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: those who attack always do so with greater fervor than those who defend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: If you can develop this ability to see what you look at, to understand its meaning, to readjust your knowledge to this new information, you can continue to learn and to grow as long as you live and you\u2019ll have a wonderful time doing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I could not at any age be content to take my place in a corner by the fireside and simply look on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Autobiographies are only useful as the lives you read about and analyze may suggest to you something that you may find useful in your own journey through life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: One thing is for sure-none of the arts flourishes on censorship and repression. And by this time it should be evident that the American public is capable of doing its own censoring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The film industry is a great industry, with infinite possibilities for good and bad. Its primary purpose is to entertain people. On the side, it can do many other things. It can popularize certain ideals, it can make education palatable. But in the long run, the judge who decides whether what it does is good or bad is the man or woman who attends the movies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: What we must learn to do is to create unbreakable bonds between the sciences and the humanities. We cannot procrastinate. The world of the future is in our making. Tomorrow is now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: There is nothing to regret, either for those who go, or for those who stay behind \u2014 only an inheritance of good accomplishment to be lived up to by those who carry a loving memory in their hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I'm enormously interested in freedom and retaining the right to have whatever economy we want and to shape it as we want and a having sufficient Democracy so that the people actually hold their Government in their own hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The purpose of life afterall is to live it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: This is a time for action \u0097 not for war, but for mobilization of every bit of peace machinery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The motivating force of the theory of a Democratic way of life is still a belief that as individuals we live cooperatively, and, to the best of our ability, serve the community in which we live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: it is always easier to do nothing than to try a new line of action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Nothing alive can stand still, it goes forward or back. Life is interesting only as long as it is a process of growth; or, to put it another way, we can only grow as long as we are interested."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: ...conservation of land and conservation of people frequently go hand in hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: the fundamental right of freedom of thought and expression is essential. If you curtail what the other fellow says and does, you curtail what you yourself may say and do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: A woman has, first of all, her duties in their own home, and there are many women particularly when they're young, who can do an active job in their community like being a mayor, but who cannot go to Washington or Albany or wherever the capital of the state is. There are others who can, can leave home, whose children are older and so forth. I think it all is a personal decision."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: It seems to me that I cannot afford, as a self-respecting individual, to refuse to do a thing merely because it will make me disliked or bring down a storm of criticism on my head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: If you take stands in any way and people feel that you have any success in - a following, why those who disagree with you are going to feel very strongly about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Of course Mahatma Gandhi you might say did not have so much physical vigor but he certainly seemed to have extraordinary resistance, which perhaps is rather different from physical vigor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The choices we make are ultimately our responsibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Will people ever be wise enough to refuse to follow bad leaders or to take away the freedom of other people?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Strength that goes wrong is even more dangerous than weakness that goes wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: People who 'view with alarm' never build anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Every age is an unknown country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Our real battlefield today is Asia and our real battle is the one between democracy and communism. . . . We have to prove to the world and particularly to downtrodden areas of the world which are the natural prey to the principles of communist economics that democracy really brings about happier and better conditions for the people as a whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: There is a desire for progress in the hearts of all men, and it is the sense of frustration and inability to move forward that brings violent revolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The important thing is neither your nationality nor the religion you professed, but how your faith translated itself in your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I have learned long ago to possess my soul in patience and accept the inevitable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: ...so much attention is paid to the aggressive sins, such as violence and cruelty, and greed with all their tragic effects, that too little attention is paid to the passive sins, such as apathy and laziness, which in the long run can have a more devastating and destructive effect upon society than the others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: About the only value the story of my life may have is to show that one can, even without any particular gifts, overcome obstacles that seem insurmountable if one is willing to face the fact that they must be overcome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I consider those are rich who are doing something they feel worthwhile and which they enjoy doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The constant pressure to bring about conformity is a dangerous thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: If man is to be liberated to enjoy more leisure, he must also be prepared to enjoy this leisure fully and creatively."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I have always felt that it was important that everyone who was a worker join a labor organization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: You'll be \"damned if you do, and damned if you don't.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The family is the natural and fundamental group unit of society and is entitled to protection by society and the State."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Marriage and the up-bringing of children in the home require as well-trained a mind and as well-disciplined a character as any other occupation that might be considered a career."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: This freedom of which men speak, for which they fight, seems to some people a perilous thing. It has to be earned at a bitter cost and then \u0097 it has to be lived with. For freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: We have come to accept bigger and bigger things as meaning greater and greater efficiency, more and more prosperity and more and more freedom. The two do not go together of necessity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Be flexible, but stick to your principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: One of the best ways of enslaving a people is to keep them from education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: We stand today at the threshold of a great event both in the life of the United Nations and in the life of mankind, that is the approval by the General Assembly of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: There is in every country an antipathy to the foreigner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: This living in a democracy is a problem, isn't it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Curiosity must be kept alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Life was meant to be lived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I found that almost everyone had something interesting to contribute to my education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Do the things that interest you and do them with all your heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: There is a widespread understanding among the people of this nation, and probably among the people of the world, that there is no safety except through the prevention of war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I think it is impossible for one human being really to know another without first knowing and being at peace with himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The basis of all good human behavior is kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to believe that a woman can fill certain positions in public life as competently and adequately as a man. For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office. Every woman who fails in a public position confirms this, but every woman who succeeds creates confidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: ... any citizen should be willing to give all that he has to give his country in work or sacrifice in times of crisis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I do not think I will ever become deadened, because I live in other people's lives, I must admit there are times when it weighs medown because I can't do some of the things I want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I was perfectly certain that I had nothing to offer of an individual nature and that my only chance of doing my duty as the wife of a public official was to do exactly as the majority of women were doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: it is harder to be philosophical when you are young."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I have often thought that less is expected of the president of a great corporation than of an American wife."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Because they have so little, children must rely on imagination rather than experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I believe in active citizenship, for men and women equally, as a simple matter of right and justice. I believe we will have better government in all of our countries when men and women discuss public issues together and make their decisions on the basis of their different areas of experience and their common concern for the welfare of their families and their world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: A successful life for a man or for a woman seems to me to lie in the knowledge that one has developed to the limit the capacities with which one was endowed; that one has contributed something constructive to family and friends and to a home community; that one has brought happiness wherever it was possible; that one has earned one's way in the world, has kept some friends, and need not be ashamed to face oneself honestly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I often wonder how we can make the more fortunate in this country fully aware of the fact that the problem of the unemployed is not a mechanical one. It is a problem alive and throbbing with human pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I have a great belief in spiritual force, but I think we have to realize that spiritual force alone has to have material force with it so long as we live in a material world. The two together make a strong combination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: You need not be proud of me.... I'm only being active till you can be again--it isn't such a great desire on my part to serve theworld and I'll fall back into habits of sloth quite easily!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: We do not move forward by curtailing people's liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Perhaps in His wisdom the Almighty is trying to show us that a leader may chart the way, may point out the road to lasting peace, but that many leaders and many peoples must do the building."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: A democratic form of government, a democratic way of life, presupposes free public education over a long period; it presupposes also an education for personal responsibility that too often is neglected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The morality of a [political] party must grow out of the conscience and the participation of the voters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: For instance, it is certain that women do not want a woman for President. Nor would they have the slightest confidence in her ability to fulfill the functions of that office."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I wonder if Communists occupied in producing plays are not safer than Communists starving to death. I have always felt that whatever your beliefs might be, if you could earn enough to keep body and soul together and had to be pretty busy doing that, you would not be very apt to have time to plot the overthrow of any existing government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: If you prepare yourself at every point as well as you can, with whatever means you may have, however meager they may seem, you will be able to grasp opportunity for broader experience when it appears. Without preparation you cannot do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Every woman wants to be first to someone sometime in her life and that desire is the explanation for many strange things women do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: When you know to laugh and when to look upon things as too absurd to take seriously, the other person is ashamed to carry through even if he was serious about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Each of us has... all the time there is. Those years, weeks, hours, are the sands in the glass running swiftly away. To let them drift through our fingers is tragic waste. To use them to the hilt, making them count for something, is the beginning of wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: We have reached a point today where labor-saving devices are good only when they do not throw the worker out of his job."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: There is not human being from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: There are practical little things in housekeeping which no man really understands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: ...no matter how avid they themselves may be for praise and appreciation, people are often niggardly in giving it to others, however merited it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: If you approach each new person you meet in a spirit of adventure, you will find yourself endlessly fascinated by the new channels of thought and experience and personality that you encounter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: All wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Democracy cannot be static. Whatever is static is dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: the greatest luxury I know is sitting up reading in bed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: It is very difficult to have a free, fair and honest press anywhere in the world. In the first place, as a rule, papers are largely supported by advertising, and that immediately gives the advertisers a certain hold over the medium they use."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: talking too much is a far greater social fault than talking too little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: There are three fundamentals for human happiness - love and faith, and work which will produce at least a minimum of material security. These things must be made possible for all human beings, men and women alike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I'm sure that all the drivers and motorcycle police had once been racing drivers and were eager to get back to that profession."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: We can no longer oversimplify. We can no longer build lazy and false stereotypes: Americans are like this, Russians are like that, a Jew behaves in such a way, a Negro thinks in a different way. The lazy generalities - 'You know how women are ... Isn't that just like a man?' The world cannot be understood from a single point of view."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Get out of the way as quickly as you're not needed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: One of the blessings of age is to learn not to part on a note of sharpness, to treasure the moments spent with those we love, and to make them whenever possible good to remember, for time is short."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: At any age it does us no harm to look over our past shortcomings and plan to improve our characters and actions in the coming year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: When you are genuinely interested in one thing, it will always lead to something else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: No, I have never wanted to be a man. I have often wanted to be more effective as a woman, but I have never felt that trousers would do the trick!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I would not be happy unless I had some regular work to do every day and I imagine that I will always feel that way no matter how old I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I think we ought to impress on both our girls and boys that successful marriages require just as much work, just as much intelligence and just as much unselfish devotion, as they give to any position they undertake to fill on a paid basis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Human resources are the most valuable assets the world has. They are all needed desperately."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: The kind of propaganda that some of the religious groups, aided and abetted by the opposition, put forth in that campaign utterly disgusted me. If I needed anything to show me what prejudice can do to the intelligence of human beings that campaign was the best lesson I could have had."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: There is no more precious experience in life than friendship. And I am not forgetting love and marriage as I write this; the lovers, or the man and wife, who are not friends are but weakly joined together. One enlarges his circle of friends through contact with many people. One who limits those contacts narrows the circle and frequently his own point of view as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Most women, I think, though they may complain a little about this, would agree that meeting the needs of others is not a real burden; it is what makes life worth living. It is probably the deepest satisfaction a woman has."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Long ago, I made up my mind that, when things were said involving only me, I would pay no attention to them, except when valid criticism was carried by which I could profit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Friendship with oneself is all important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: It is our freedom to progress that makes us all want to live and to go on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I think that in great crises you need to have deep rooted convictions and I have a feeling from the kind of campaigns that I have watched Mr. Nixon in in the past that his convictions are not very strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: We all grow older and we all have to live with ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I wish I really knew what the Republican foreign policy has been. I don't. I am a Democrat, and I really don't know what it has been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I know that given great responsibility men sometimes change, but Mr. Nixon's Presidency would worry me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: To a certain extent I don't see any real need for socialism in the United States immediately, but things change and it may be that there will come a need for partial changes in our economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I have complete faith in the American people's ability if they know and if they have leadership."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I don't know much about Capitalism, but I do know about Democracy and freedom, and if Capitalism may change in many, many ways, I'm not really very much interested in Capitalism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I feel quite sure that what the American people lack is knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: You never have a normal family relationship in the White House; it's an impossible thing to have. You live in a goldfish bubble, and you snatch what you can for a personal life, but you never have a normal, natural existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: Mahatma Gandhi I would say had perhaps a greater spiritual quality whereas Winston Churchill had besides the courage, ability and above everything else, the ability to put into words what his people felt so that he could always lead them. And my own husband I think had great patience, which you need in a democracy because you have to come to do fundamental things, you have to have the patience to have people educated; and then I think he had a deep interest in human beings as human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I'm intensely anxious to preserve the freedom that gives you the right to think and to act and to talk as you please. That I think is essential to happiness and the life of the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I think the thing we must look for actually is a growth in our people and in whoever comes in a quality of courage to tell our people just what world conditions are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: I feel quite sure that the American people, if they have knowledge and leadership, can meet any crisis just as well as they met it over and over again in the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Eleanor Roosevelt: No one can move without some leadership."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: But if the laws are to be so trampled upon with impunity, and a minority is to dictate to the majority, there is an end put at one stroke to republican government, and nothing but anarchy and confusion is to be expected thereafter."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains taken to bring it to light."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Worry is the interest paid by those who borrow trouble."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Where are our Men of abilities? Why do they not come forth to save their Country?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I am sure that never was a people, who had more reason to acknowledge a Divine interposition in their affairs, than those of the United States; and I should be pained to believe that they have forgotten that agency, which was so often manifested during our Revolution, or that they failed to consider the omnipotence of that God who is alone able to protect them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: History and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Character enough of an opposite description ... My opinion is ... that you could as soon scrub the blackamore white, as to change the principles of a profest Democrat; and that he will leave nothing unattempted to overturn the Government of this Country."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The time is near at hand which must determine whether Americans are to be free men or slaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Happiness depends more upon the internal frame of a person\u2019s own mind, than on the externals in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I had always hoped that this land might become a safe and agreeable asylum to the virtuous and persecuted part of mankind, to whatever nation they might belong."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Religion and morality are the essential pillars of civil society."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: There is no practice more dangerous than that of borrowing money"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The time is now near at hand which must probably determine whether Americans are to be freemen or slaves; whether they are to have any property they can call their own; whether their houses and farms are to be pillaged and destroyed, and themselves consigned to a state of wretchedness from which no human efforts will deliver them. The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is much easier at all times to prevent an evil than to rectify mistakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits, and humbly to implore his protection and favors."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The power under the Constitution will always be in the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The bosom of America is open to receive not only the Opulent and respectable Stranger, but the oppressed and persecuted of all Nations And Religions; whom we shall wellcome to a participation of all our rights and previleges..."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I can only say that there is not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for the abolition of slavery."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The propitious smiles of Heaven, can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained..."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Example, whether it be good or bad, has a powerful influence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The fate of unborn millions will now depend, under God, on the courage and conduct of this army. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: We must consult our means rather than our wishes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: What astonishing changes a few years are capable of producing! I am told that even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror. From thinking proceeds speaking, thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous! What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and falacious! Would to God that wise measures may be taken in time to avert the consequences we have but too much reason to apprehend."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: While we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion. To the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The best and only safe road to honor, glory, and true dignity is justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To contract new debts is not the way to pay old ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence . . . the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Precedents are dangerous things; let the reins of government then be braced and held with a steady hand, and every violation of the Constitution be reprehended: If defective let it be amended, but not suffered to be trampled upon whilst it has an existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Bless my family, kindred, friends and country, be our God and guide this day and forever for His sake, who lay down in the grave and arose again for us, Jesus Christ our Lord. Amen."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Let me now warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another. In governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: A hundred thousand men, coming one after another, cannot move a Ton weight; but the united strength of 50 would transport it with ease."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Remember, officers and soldiers, that you are fighting for the blessings of liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Good moral character is the first essential in a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: At this auspicious period, the United States came into existence as a Nation; and if their Citizens should not be completely free and happy, the fault will be entirely their own."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: We are either a United people, or we are not. If the former, let us, in all maters of general concern act as a nation, which have national objects to promote, and a national character to support. If we are not, let us no longer act a farce by pretending to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Much indeed to be regretted, party disputes are now carried to such a length, and truth is so enveloped in mist and false representation, that it is extremely difficult to know through what channel to seek it. This difficulty to one, who is of no party, and whose sole wish is to pursue with undeviating steps a path which would lead this country to respectability, wealth, and happiness, is exceedingly to be lamented. But such, for wise purposes, it is presumed, is the turbulence of human passions in party disputes, when victory more than truth is the palm contended for."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Almighty and eternal Lord God, the great Creator of heaven and earth, and the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ; look down from heaven in pity and compassion upon me thy servant, who humbly prostrate myself before thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: A sensible woman can never be happy with a fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is impossible to account for the creation of the universe without the agency of a Supreme Being."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: No morn ever dawned more favorable than ours did; and no day was every more clouded than the present! Wisdom, and good examples are necessary at this time to rescue the political machine from the impending storm."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Observe good faith and justice toward all nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: But if we are to be told by a foreign Power . . . what we shall do, and what we shall not do, we have Independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Let no one go hungry away. If any of the kind of people should be in want of corn, supply their necessities, provided it does not encourage them in idleness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother. I attribute all my success in life to the moral, intellectual and physical education I received from her."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: [The spirit of party] opens the door to foreign influence and corruption, which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is the duty of all nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: May the same wonderworking Deity, who long since delivered the Hebrews from their Egyptian oppressors and planted them in the promised land, whose Providential agency has lately been conspicuous in establishing these United States as an independent nation, still continue to water them with the dews of Heaven and to make the inhabitants of every denomination participate in the temporal and spiritual blessings of that people whose God is Jehovah."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Differences in political opinions are as unavoidable as, to a certain point, they may perhaps be necessary; but it is exceedingly to be regretted that subjects cannot be discussed with temper on the one hand, or decisions submitted to without having the motives, which led to them, improperly implicated on the other; and this regret borders on chagrin when we find that men of abilities, zealous patriots, having the same general objects in view, and the same upright intentions to prosecute them, will not exercise more charity in deciding on the opinions and actions of one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The views of men can only be known, or guessed at, by their words or actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Labor to keep alive in your breast that little spark of celestial fire, called conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim tribute to patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness - these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens. . . . reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the Republican model of Government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Be courteous to all, but intimate with few."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: All combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle, and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force; to put, in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party, often a small but artful and enterprising minority of the community."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind, reason is of no use to us; the freedom of Speech may be taken away, and dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is one of the evils of democratical governments, that the people, not always seeing and frequently misled, must often feel before they can act."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: My aim has been... to keep the United States... independent of all and under the influence of none."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: ... happily the Government of the United States... gives to bigotry no sanction, to persecution no assistance."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distress of everyone, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I conceive a knowledge of books is the basis upon which other knowledge is to be built."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: If the minority, and a small one too, is suffered to dictate to the majority, after measures have undergone the most solemn discussions by the representatives of the people, and their will through this medium is enacted into a law, there can be no security for life, liberty, or property; nor, if the laws are not to govern, can any man know how to conduct himself in safety."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: We have abundant reason to rejoice that in this Land the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart. In this enlightened Age and in this Land of equal liberty it is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws, nor deprive him of the right of attaining and holding the highest Offices that are known in the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Without virtue, and without integrity, the finest talents and the most brilliant accomplishments can never gain the respect, and conciliate the esteem, of the truly valuable part of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Purity of morals [is] the only sure foundation of public happiness in any country."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is with pleasure I receive reproof, when reproof is due, because no person can be readier to accuse me, than I am to acknowledge an error, when I am guilty of one; nor more desirous of atoning for a crime, when I am sensible of having committed it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: [The spirit of party] serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms, kindles the animosity of one part against another."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Serious misfortunes, originating in misrepresentation, frequently flow and spread before they can be dissipated by truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people, that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights. For happily the government of the United States, which gives to bigotry no sanction - to persecution no assistance, requires only that they who live under its protection should demean themselves as good citizens."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence, (I conjure you to believe me fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of Republican Government."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing...is a vice so mean and low, without any temptation, that every man of sense and character detests and despises it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: WHEREAS it is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God, to obey His will, to be grateful for His benefits, and humbly to implore His protection and favour; and Whereas both Houses of Congress have, by their joint Committee, requested me \"to recommend to the people of the United States a DAY OF PUBLICK THANKSGIVING and PRAYER, to be observed by acknowledging with grateful hearts the many signal favors of Almighty God, especially by affording them an opportunity peaceably to establish a form of government for their safety and happiness.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: You do well to wish to learn our arts and ways of life, and above all, the religion of Jesus Christ. These will make you a greater and happier people than you are. Congress will do every thing they can to assist you in this wise intention."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Speak not injurious words neither in jest nor earnest; scoff at none, although they give occasion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by a difference of sentiments in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought to be deprecated. I was in hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy, which has marked the present age, would at least have reconciled Christians of every denomination so far that we should never again see the religious disputes carried to such a pitch as to endanger the peace of society."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The best means of forming a manly, virtuous, and happy people will be found in the right education of youth. Without this foundation, every other means, in my opinion, must fail."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is at all times more easy to make enemies than friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The Citizens of the United States of America have a right to applaud themselves for giving to Mankind examples of an enlarged and liberal policy: a policy worthy of imitation. All possess alike liberty of conscience and immunities of citizenship."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: My ardent desire is, and my aim has been, to comply strictly with all our engagements, foreign and domestic, but to keep the United States free from political connections with every other country; to see that they may be independent of all and under the influence of none."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: In offering to you, my countrymen, these counsels of an old and affectionate friend, I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish; that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations. ... moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of time more valuable."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The executive branch of this government never has, nor will suffer, while I preside, any improper conduct of its officers to escape with impunity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To please everybody is impossible; were I to undertake it, I should probably please nobody."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: True friendship is a plant of slow growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Let your heart feel for the afflictions and distresses of every one, and let your hand give in proportion to your purse; remembering always the estimation of the widow's mite, but, that it is not every one who asketh that deserveth charity; all, however, are worthy of the inquiry, or the deserving may suffer."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Let us with Caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: For the sake of humanity it is devoutly to be wished that the manly employment of agriculture and the humanizing benefits of commerce would supersede the waste of war and the rage of conquest; and the swords might be turned into ploughshares, the spears into pruning-hooks, and as the Scripture expresses it, \"the nations learn war no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I have often expressed my sentiments, that every man, conducting himself as a good citizen, and being accountable to God alone for his religious opinions, ought to be protected in worshipping the Deity according to the dictates of his own conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and individual happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To persevere in one's duty, and be silent is the best answer to calumny"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Let it simply be asked where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths, which are the instruments of investigation in the Courts of Justice? And let us with caution indulge the opposition, that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that National morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: We ought not to look back, unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear bought experience. To enveigh against things that are past and irremediable, is unpleasing; but to steer clear of the shelves and rocks we have struck upon, is the part of wisdom, equally as incumbent on political as other men, who have their own little bark, or that of others, to navigate through the intricate paths of life, or the trackless ocean, to the haven of security and rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To speak evil of any one, unless there is unequivocal proofs of their deserving it, is an injury for which there is no adequate reparation."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I was no party man myself, and the first wish of my heart was, if parties did exist, to reconcile them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: If I could have entertained the slightest apprehension that the Constitution framed in the Convention where I had the honor to preside might possibly endanger the religious rights of any ecclesiastical society, certainly I would never have placed my signature to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free Country should inspire caution in those entrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective Constitutional spheres; avoiding in the exercise of the Powers of one department to encroach upon another."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Undertake not what you cannot perform, but be careful to keep your promise."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Nothing is a greater stranger to my breast, or a sin that my soul more abhors, than that black and detestable one, ingratitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty and property better secured, or happiness more effectually dispensed to mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It should be the highest ambition of every American to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet unborn."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Not only do I pray for it, on the score of human dignity, but I can clearly forsee that nothing but the rooting out of slavery can perpetuate the existence of our union, by consolidating it in a common bond of principle."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Speak not evil of the absent for it is unjust."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Observe good faith and justice towards all Nations. Cultivate peace and harmony with all. Religion and morality enjoin this conduct; and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: My first wish is, to see this plague of mankind banished from the earth, and the sons and daughters of this world employed in more pleasing and innocent amusements, than in preparing implements, and exercising them, for the destruction of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: May the children of the stock of Abraham who dwell in this land continue to merit and enjoy the good will of the other inhabitants-while every one shall sit in safety under his own vine and fig tree and there shall be none to make him afraid. May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us all in our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To expect ... the same service from raw and undisciplined recruits, as from veteran soldiers, is to expect what never did and perhaps never will happen. Men, who are familiarized to danger, meet it without shrinking; whereas troops unused to service often apprehend danger where no danger is."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of Rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but according to their stations, to prevent it in others."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: My mother was the most beautiful woman I ever saw. All I am I owe to my mother."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Peace with all the world is my sincere wish. I am sure it is our true policy, and am persuaded it is the ardent desire of the government."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Being persuaded that a just application of the principles, on which the Masonic Fraternity is founded, must be promote of private virtue and public prosperity, I shall always be happy to advance the interests of the Society, and to be considered by them as a deserving brother."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: What a triumph for the advocates of despotism to find that we are incapable of governing ourselves, and that systems founded on the basis of equal liberty are merely ideal and fallacious."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: As I have heard, since my arrival at this place, a circumstantial account of my death and dying speech, I take this early opportunity of contradicting the first, and of assuring you, that I have not as yet composed the latter. But by the All-Powerful Dispensations of Providence, I have been protected beyond all human probability or expectation; for I had four bullets through my coat, and two horses shot under me, yet escaped unhurt, although death was leveling my companions on every side of me!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Laws or ordinances unobserved, or partially attended to, had better never have been made."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Like as a wise man in time of peace prepares for war."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To encourage literature and the arts is a duty which every good citizen owes to his country."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Harmony, liberal intercourse with all Nations, are recommended by policy, humanity and interest. But even our Commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand: neither seeking nor granting exclusive favours or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of Commerce, but forcing nothing; establishing with Powers so disposed; in order to give trade a stable course."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It would be peculiarly improper to omit in this first official act my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being Who rules over the universe, Who presides in the councils of nations, and Whose providential aids can supply every human defect."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: A natural parent has only two things principally to consider, the improvement of his son, and the finances to do it with."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: No taxes can be devised which are not more or less inconvenient and unpleasant."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention that of providing for the common defense will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: A part of the plan for creating discord, is, I perceive, to make me say things of others, and others of me, wch. have no foundation in truth. The first, in many instances I know to be the case; and the second I believe to be so; but truth or falsehood is immaterial to them, provided their objects are promoted."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The Constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole People is sacredly obligatory upon all."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: In executing the duties of my present important station, I can promise nothing but purity of intentions, and, in carrying these into effect, fidelity and diligence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connection as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Religion is as necessary to reason as reason is to religion. The one cannot exist without the other. A reasoning being would lose his reason, in attempting to account for the great phenomena of nature, had he not a Supreme Being to refer to; and well has it been said, that if there had been no God, mankind would have been obliged to imagine one."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day, that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with it, everything honorable and glorious."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The prospect, that a good general government will in all human probability be soon established in America, affords me more substantial satisfaction; than I have ever before derived from any political event. Because there is a rational ground for believing that not only the happiness of my own countrymen, but that of mankind in general, will be promoted by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: While we are contending for our own liberty, we should be very cautious not to violate the conscience of others, ever considering that God alone is the judge of the hearts of men, and to Him only in this case are they answerable."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: This spirit [of Party], unfortunately, is inseperable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human Mind. It exists under different shapes in all Governments, more or less stifled, controuled, or repressed; but, in those of the popular form it is seen in its greatest rankness and is truly their worst enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Being no bigot myself, I am disposed to indulge the professors of Christianity in the church that road to heaven which to them shall seem the most direct, plainest, easiest and least liable to exception."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I shall make it the most agreeable part of my duty to study merit, and reward the brave and deserving."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: There is nothing which can better deserve your patronage, than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is in every country the surest basis of public happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: A people... who are possessed of the spirit of commerce, who see and who will pursue their advantages may achieve almost anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern, some of them in our country and under our own eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Influence is not government."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: If they are good workmen, they may be from Asia, Africa or Europe; they may be Mahometans, Jews or Christians of any sect, or they may be Atheists."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The wishes of the people, seldom founded in deep disquisitions, or resulting from other reasonings than their present feelings, may not entirely accord with our true policy and interest. If they do not, to observe a proper line of conduct for promoting the one, and avoiding offence to the other, will be a work of great difficulty."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: May the father of all mercies scatter light, and not darkness, upon our paths, and make us in all our several vocations useful here, and in His own due time and way everlastingly happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: There exists in the economy and course of nature, an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness; between duty and advantage; between the genuine maxims of an honest and magnanimous policy, and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity; since we ought to be no less persuaded that the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: While just government protects all in their religious rites, true religion affords government its surest support."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Of all the animosities which have existed among mankind, those which are caused by difference of sentiment in religion appear to be the most inveterate and distressing, and ought most to be deprecated."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I heard the bullets whistle-- and believe me, there is something charming in the sound."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: One of the expedients of party to acquire influence, within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings, which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those, who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To constitute a dispute there must be two parties. To understand it well, both parties and all the circumstances must be fully heard; and to accommodate the differences, temper and mutual forbearance are requisite."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To enlarge the sphere of social happiness is worthy of the benevolent design of a Masonic institution; and it is most fervently to be wished, that the conduct of every member of the fraternity, as well as those publications, that discover the principles which actuate them, may tend to convince mankind that the grand object of Masonry is to promote the happiness of the human race."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection; that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The Arts and Sciences, essential to the prosperity of the State and to the ornament of human life, have a primary claim to the encouragement of every lover of his country and mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Democratical States must always feel before they can see: it is this that makes their Governments slow, but the people will be right at last."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Providence has at all times been my only dependence, for all other resources seemed to have failed us."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: My fervent supplications to that Almighty Being who rules over the universe; who presides in the councils of nations; and whose providential aid can supply every human defect; that his benediction may consecrate to the liberties and happiness of the People of the United States, a Government instituted by themselves for these essential purposes, and may enable every instrument employed in its administration to execute with success the functions allotted to his charge. In tendering this homage to the Great Author of every public and private good."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is the duty of all Nations to acknowledge the providence of Almighty God,. to obey his will, to be grateful for his benefits , and humbly to implore his protection and favor... beseech Him to pardon our national and other transgressions; to enable us all, whether in public or private stations, to perform our several and relative duties properly and punctually to render our National Government a blessing to all the people by constantly being a Government of wise, just, and constitutional laws, discreetly and faithfully executed and obeyed"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: At a distance from the theatre of action, truth is not always related without embellishment, and sometimes is entirely perverted, from a misconception of the causes which produce the effects that are the subjects of censure."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The establishment of Civil and Religious Liberty was the Motive which induced me to the Field - the object is attained - and it now remains to be my earnest wish & prayer, that the Citizens of the United States could make a wise and virtuous use of the blessings placed before them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Excessive partiality for one foreign nation and excessive dislike of another cause those whom they actuate to see danger only on one side, and serve to veil and even second the arts of influence on the other. Real patriots who may resist the intrigues of the favorite are liable to become suspected and odious, while its tools and dupes usurp the applause and confidence of the people, to surrender their interests."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The Independence and Liberty you possess are the work of joint councils and joint efforts, of common dangers, sufferings and successes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: We should not look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dearly bought experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I never mean, unless some particular circumstances should compel it, to possess another slave by purchase, it being among my first wishes to see some plan adopted, by which slavery in this country may be abolished by law."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Among many other weighty objections to the Measure, it has been suggested, that it has a tendency to introduce religious disputes into the Army, which above all things should be avoided, and in many instances would compel men to a mode of Worship which they do not profess."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: My anxious recollections, my sympathetic feeling, and my best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever, in any country, I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To point out the importance of circumspection in your conduct, it may be proper to observe that a good moral character is the first essential in a man, and that the habits contracted at your age are generally indelible, and your conduct here may stamp your character through life. It is therefore highly important that you should endeavor not only to be learned but virtuous."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Do not conceive that fine Clothes make fine Men, any more than fine feathers make fine Birds. A plain genteel dress is more admired and obtains more credit than lace and embroidery in the Eyes of the judicious and sensible."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To every description of citizens, let praise be given. but let them persevere in their affectionate vigilance over that precious depository of American happiness, the Constitution of the United States. Let them cherish it, too, for the sake of those who, from every clime, are daily seeking a dwelling in our land."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: [Let] the poor the needy and oppressed of the Earth, and those who want Land, resort to the fertile lands of our western country, the second land of Promise, and there dwell in peace, fulfilling the first and great commandment."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: A people contending for life and liberty are seldom disposed to look with a favorable eye upon either men or measures whose passions, interests or consequences will clash with those inestimable objects."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: ..avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertions in time of peace to discharge the debts, which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burthen, which we ourselves ought to bear."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I anticipate with pleasing expectations that retreat in which I promise myself to realize, without alloy, the sweet enjoyment of partaking, in the midst of my fellow citizens, the benign influence of good laws under a free government, the ever favorite object of my heart, and the happy reward, as I trust, of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is not the lowest priced goods that are always the cheapest - the quality is, or ought to be as much an object with the purchaser, as the price."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Sleep not when others speak, sit not when others stand, speak not when you should hold your peace, walk not when others stop."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: `Tis substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule indeed extends with more or less force to every species of free Government."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Let thy carriage be such as becomes a man grave settled and attentive to that which is spoken. Contradict not, at every turn, what others say."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European Ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humour or Caprice?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To place any dependence upon militia is assuredly resting upon a broken staff. Men just dragged from the tender scenes of domestic life, unaccustomed to the din of arms, totally unacquainted with every kind of military skill ... makes them timid and ready to fly from their own shadows."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: There is nothing that gives a man consequence, and renders him fit for command, like a support that renders him independent of everybody but the State he serves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other, betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter without adequate inducement or justification."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external trappings of elevated office. To me there is nothing in it, beyond the lustre which may be reflected from its connection with a power of promoting human felicity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I have no other view than to promote the public good, and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I am very glad to hear that the Gardener has saved so much of the St foin seed, & that of the India Hemp. Make the most you can of both, by sowing them again in drills... Let the ground be well prepared, and the Seed (St foin) be sown in April. The Hemp may be sown any where."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is easy to make acquaintances, but very difficult to shake them off, however irksome and unprofitable they are found, after we have once committed ourselves to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Why should I expect to be exempt from censure; the unfailing lot of an elevated station? My Heart tells me it has been my unremitted aim to do the best circumstances would permit; yet, I may have been very often mistaken in my judgment of the means."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection... and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacifick temper of the mind, which were the characteristicks of the divine Author of our blessed religion ; without an humble imitation of whose example, in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The tribute that is due to the talents, the rectitude, and the patriotism which adorn the characters selected to devise and adopt them. In these honorable qualifications, I behold the surest pledges, that as on one side, no local prejudices, or attachments; no seperate views, nor party animosities, will misdirect the comprehensive and equal eye which ought to watch over this great assemblage of communities and interests: so, on another, that the foundations of our National policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality..."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: My manner of living is plain and I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: All I am I owe to my mother."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Houses of Congress have . . . requested me to recommend to the people of the United States a day of public thanksgiving and prayer, to be observed by acknowledging, with grateful hearts, the many signal favors of Almighty God."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The liberty enjoyed by the people of these states of worshiping Almighty God agreebly to their conscience, is not only among the choicest of their blessings, but also of their rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The General hopes and trusts that every officer and man will endeavor to live and act as becomes a Christian soldier defending the dearest rights and liberties of his country."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause: And I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of \u27e8the present\u27e9 age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this Kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I consider it an indispensible duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God and those who have the superintendence of them into his Holy keeping."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The blessed Religion revealed in the word of God will remain an eternal and awful monument to prove that the best Institution may be abused by human depravity; and that they may even, in some instances be made subservient to the vilest purposes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Bad seed is a robbery of the worst kind: for your pocket-book not only suffers by it, but your preparations are lost and a season passes away unimproved."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: No people can be bound to acknowledge the invisible hand which conducts the affairs of men more than the people of the united States. Every step by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The foundations of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principles of private morality, and the preeminence of free government be exemplified by all the attributes which can win the affections of its citizens, and command the respect of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government, I have considered the first arrangement of the judicial department as essential to the happiness of the country, and to the stability of its political system."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is too probable that no plan we propose will be adopted. Perhaps another dreadful conflict is to be sustained. If, to please the people, we offer what we ourselves disprove, how can we afterwards defend our work? Let us raise a standard to which the wise and the honest can repair. The event is in the hand of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: A passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: In a free and republican government, you cannot restrain the voice of the multitude. Every man will speak as he thinks, or, more properly, without thinking, and consequently will judge of effects without attending to their causes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Life is always uncertain, and common prudence dictates to every man the necessity of settling his temporal concerns, while it is in his power, and while the mind is calm and undisturbed."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: We ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds, from being too strongly, and too early prepossessed in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: There is an opinion that parties in free countries are useful checks upon the administration of the government, and serve to keep alive the spirit of liberty. This, within certain limits, is probably true, and, in governments of a monarchical cast, patriotism may look with indulgence, if not with favor, upon the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I shall take my present leave - but not without resorting once more to the benign Parent of the Human Race in humble supplication [prayer] that since he has been pleased to favour the American people, with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquility, and dispositions for deciding with unparellelled unanimity on a form of Government, for the security of their Union, and the advancement of their happiness; so his divine blessing may be equally conspicuous in the enlarged views, the temperate consultations, and the wise measures on which the success of this Government must depend."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I earnestly pray that the Omnipotent Being who has not deserted the cause of America in the hour of its extremest hazard, will never yield so fair a heritage of freedom a prey to 'Anarchy' or 'Despotism'."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It has always been a source of serious reflection and sincere regret with me that the youth of the United States should be sent to foreign countries for the purpose of education. Although there are many who escape the danger of contracting principles unfavorable to republican governments, yet we ought to deprecate the hazard attending ardent and susceptible minds from being too strongly and too early prejudiced in favor of other political systems, before they are capable of appreciating their own."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I wish from my soul that the legislature of this State could see the policy of a gradual Abolition of Slavery."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: My manner of living is plain. I do not mean to be put out of it. A glass of wine and a bit of mutton are always ready; and such as will be content to partake of them are always welcome. Those, who expect more, will be disappointed, but no change will be effected by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, we should remember also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Be easy and condescending in your deportment to your officers, but not too familiar, lest you subject yourself to a want of respect, which is necessary to support a proper command."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Citizens by birth or choice of a common country, that country has a right to concentrate your affections. The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: No country upon earth ever had it more in its power to attain these blessings than United America. Wondrously strange, then, and much to be regretted indeed would it be, were we to neglect the means and to depart from the road which Providence has pointed us to so plainly; I cannot believe it will ever come to pass."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Discipline is the soul of an army."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: [T]he hour is fast approaching, on which the Honor and Success of this army, and the safety of our bleeding Country depend. Remember officers and Soldiers, that you are Freemen, fighting for the blessings of Liberty - that slavery will be your portion, and that of your posterity, if you do not acquit yourselves like men."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I can never think of promoting my convenience at the expense of a friend's interest and inclination."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: [It] is the juvenal period of life when friendships are formed, and habits established, that will stick by one."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will-or-what may be the issue of the contest. Speculation-peculation-engrossing-forestalling-with all their concomitants, afford too many melancholy proofs of the decay of public virtue; and too glaring instances of its being the interest and desire of too many, who would wish to be thought friends, to continue the war."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: We must take human nature as we find it, perfection falls not to the share of mortals."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It will at least be a recommendation to the proposed constitution that it is provided with more checks and barriers against the introduction of tyranny, and those of a nature less liable to be surmounted, than any government hitherto instituted among mortals hath possessed."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: At my age, and in my circumstances, what sinister object, or personal emolument had I to seek after, in this life? The growing infirmities of age and the increasing love of retirement, daily confirm my decided predilection for domestic life: and the great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: [V]irtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: For myself the delay [in assuming the office of the President] may be compared with a reprieve; for in confidence I assure you, with the world it would obtain little credit that my movements to the chair of Government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution: so unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties, without that competency of political skill, abilities and inclination which is necessary to manage the helm."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: True friendship is a plant of slow growth, and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity, before it is entitled to the appellation."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Happy, thrice happy shall they be pronounced hereafter, who have contributed any thing, who have performed the meanest office in erecting this stupendous fabrick of Freedom and Empire on the broad basis of Independency; who have assisted in protecting the rights of humane nature and establishing an Asylum for the poor and oppressed of all nations and religions."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: There was not a member of the Constitutional Convention who had the least objection to what is contended for by the advocates for a Bill of Rights and trial by jury."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: But lest some unlucky event should happen unfavorable to my reputation, I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity, I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The most certain way to make a man your enemy is to tell him you esteem him such."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: A person who is anxious to be a leader of the fashion, or one of the first to follow it, will certainly appear in the eyes of judicious men to have nothing better than a frequent change of dress to recommend him to notice."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Father I cannot tell a lie. I did it with my little hatchet."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: No man has a more perfect reliance on the alwise and powerful dispensations \n of the Supreme Being than I have,   nor thinks His aid more necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is the child of avarice, the brother of iniquity, and the father of mischief."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: No compact among men... can be pronounced everlasting and inviolable, and if I may so express myself, that no Wall of words, that no mound of parchment can be so formed as to stand against the sweeping torrent of boundless ambition on the one side, aided by the sapping current of corrupted morals on the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: As the first of every thing, in our situation will serve to establish a Precedent, it is devoutly wished on my part, that these precedents may be fixed on true principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: An army formed of good officers moves like clockwork; but there is no situation upon earth less enviable, nor more distressing, than that person's who is at the head of troops which are regardless of order and discipline."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Reason, too late perhaps, may convince you of the folly of misspending time."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: My observation is that whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty... it is worse executed by two persons, and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The alternate triumphs of different parties ... make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans digested by common counsels."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Good company will always be found much less expensive than bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Honesty is always the best policy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish, to have my whole conduct distinguished by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I am just going. Have me decently buried; and do not let my body be put into the Vault in less than three days after I am dead.... Tis well."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I never say anything of a man that I have the smallest scruple of saying to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is, therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted. This is true in part only, for like all things else, when nourished and supplied plentifully with ailment, it is rapid in its progress; but let these be withdrawn and it may be stifled in its birth or much stinted in its growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: If to be venerated for benevolence, if to be admired for talents, if to be esteemed for patriotism, if to be beloved for philanthropy, can gratify the human mind, you must have the pleasing consolation to know that you have not lived in vain. And I flatter myself that it will not be ranked among the least grateful occurrences of your life to be assured that, so long as I retain my memory, you will be thought on with respect, veneration, and affection by your sincere friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: So far as I am acquainted with the principles and doctrines of Freemasonry, I conceive it to be founded in benevolence and to be exercised only for the good of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is yet to be decided whether the Revolution must ultimately be considered as a blessing or a curse: a blessing or a curse, not to the present age alone, for with our fate will the destiny of unborn millions be involved."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: When Men are irritated, and the Passions inflamed, they fly hastily and cheerfully to Arms; but after the first emotions are over, to expect, among such People, as compose the bulk of an Army, that they are influenced by any other principles than those of Interest, is to look for what never did, and I fear never will happen"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Our cruel and unrelenting enemy leaves us only the choice of brave resistance, or the most abject submission. We have, therefore, to resolve to conquer or die."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: No measure can be more desirable, whether viewed with an eye to its intrinsic importance, or to the general sentiment and wish of the Nation than to establish a systematic and effectual arrangement for the regular redemption and discharge of the public debt."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: 'Tis folly in one Nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its Independence for whatever it may accept under that character; that by such acceptance, it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favours and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not giving more. There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate upon real favours from Nation to Nation. 'Tis an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I never did, nor do I believe I ever shall, give advice to a woman who is setting out on a matrimonial voyage; first, because I never could advise one to marry without her own consent; and, secondly, I know it is to no purpose to advise her to refrain when she has obtained it. A woman very rarely asks an opinion or requires advice on such an occasion, till her resolution is formed; and then it is with the hope and expectation of obtaining a sanction, not that she means to be governed by your disapprobation, that she applies."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Should any American soldier be so base and infamous as to injure any Canadian or Indian in his person or property, I do most earnestly enjoin you to bring him to such severe and exemplary punishment, as the enormity of the crime may require. Should it extend to death itself, it shall not be disproportioned to its guilt, at such a time and in such a cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Military arrangement, and movements in consequence, like the mechanism of a clock, will be imperfectand disordered by the want of a part."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Every post is honourable in which a man can serve his country."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The foundation of our national policy will be laid in the pure and immutable principle of private morality."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: System in all things should be aimed at; for in execution it renders every thing more easy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The consciousness of having discharged that duty which we owe to our country is superior to all other considerations."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: In disputes, be not so desirous to overcome as to not give liberty to each one to deliver his opinion and submit to the judgment of the major part, especially if they are judges of the dispute."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Unwilling am I, in the evening of a life nearly consumed in public cares, to quit a peaceful abode for an Ocean of difficulties"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Uniformity in the currency, weights, and measures of the United States is an object of great importance, and will, I am persuaded, be duly attended to."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Went to church and fasted all day."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Painful as the task is to describe the dark side of our affairs, it sometimes becomes a matter of indispensable necessity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil society. It was to be, in the first instance, in a considerable degree a government of accommodation as well as a government of Laws. Much was to be done by prudence, much by conciliation, much by firmness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is now no more that toleration is spoken of, as if it was by the indulgence of one class of people that another enjoyed the exercise of their inherent natural rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I can bear to hear of imputed or real errors. The man who wishes to stand well in the opinion of others must do this; because he is thereby enabled to correct his faults, or remove prejudices which are imbibed against him."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: [T]here is no truth more thoroughly established, than that there exists . . . an indissoluble union between virtue and happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: We must take care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments, in a respectable defensive posture."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Your late purchase of an estate in the colony of Cayenne, with a view to emancipating the slaves on it, is a generous and noble proof of your humanity. Would to God a like spirit would diffuse itself generally into the minds of the people of this country; but I despair of seeing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The art of war is at once comprehensive and complicated; ... it demands much previous study; and ... the possession of it, in its most improved and perfect state, is always a great moment to the security of a nation. This, therefore, ought to be a serious care of every government; and for this purpose, an academy, where a regular course of instruction is given, is an obvious expedient, which different nations have successfully employed."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The great Searcher of human hearts is my witness, that I have no wish, which aspires beyond the humble and happy lot of living and dying a private citizen on my own farm."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Liberty is indeed little less than a name, where the Government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of society within the limits prescribed by the law, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyme"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: This Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: In a word, if this country can steer clear of European politics, stand firm on its bottom, and be wise and temperate in its government, it bids fair to be one of the greatest and happiest nations in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Play not the Peacock, looking everywhere about you, to see if you be well deck't."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: ... in the present State of America, our welfare and prosperity depend upon the cultivation of our lands and turning the produce of them to the best advantage."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Offensive operations, often times, is the surest, if not the only means of defence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. It may, for a while, be irksome to do this, but that will wear off; and the practice will produce a rich harvest forever thereafter; whether in public or private walks of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It gives me real concern to observe ... that you should think it necessary to distinguish between my personal and public character, and confine your esteem to the former."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Every action in company ought to be with some sign of respect to those present."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings, did some business with and received the papers from the secretary of the Convention, and retired to meditate on the momentous work which had been executed."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I am now . . . on a subject, which fills me with inexpressible concern . . . . But as it has been a kind of destiny, that has thrown me upon this service, I shall hope that my undertaking it is designed to answer some good purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: [Avoid] likewise the accumulation of debt."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is . . . [the citizens] choice, and depends upon their conduct, whether they will be respectable and prosperous, or contemptable and miserable as a Nation. This is the time of their political probation; this is the moment when the eyes of the World are turned upon them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Impressed with a conviction that the due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good Government, I have considered the first arrangement of the Judicial department as essential to the happiness of our Country, and to the stability of its political system."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I die hard but am not afraid to go."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is in vain, I perceive, to look for ease and happiness in a world of troubles."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The true distinction ... between what is called a fine Regiment, and an indifferent one will ever, upon investigation, be found to originate in, and depend upon the care, or the inattention, of the Officers belonging to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Men's minds are as variant as their faces. Where the motives of their actions are pure, the operation of the former is no more to be imputed to them as a crime, than the appearance of the latter; for both, being the work of nature, are alike unavoidable."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Integrity and firmness is all I can promise; these, be the voyage long or short, never shall forsake me though I be deserted by all men. For of the consolations which are to be derived from these (under any circumstances) the world cannot deprive me."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The consideration that human happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected will always continue to prompt me to promote the former by inculcating the practice of the latter."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: A woman ... all beautiful and accomplished will, while her hand and heart are undisposed of, turn the heads and set the circle in which she moves on fire. Let her marry, and what is the consequence? The madness ceases and all is quiet again. Why? Not because there is any diminution in the charms of the lady, but because there is an end of hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Precedents are dangerous things; let the rein of government then be braced and held with a steady hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man, that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of his friends, and that the most liberal professions of good will are very far from being the surest marks of it. I should be happy that my own experience had afforded fewer examples of the little dependence to be placed upon them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state, with particular reference to the founding of them on geographical discriminations. Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party, generally."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a Nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human Nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: A variety in punishment is of utility, as well as a proportion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: As to pay, Sir, I beg leave to assure the Congress that as no pecuniary consideration could have tempted me to accept this arduous employment at the expense of my domestic ease and happiness, I do not wish to make any profit from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: America ... has ever had, and I trust she ever will have, my honest exertions to promote her interest. I cannot hope that my services have been the best; but my heart tells me they have been the best that I could render."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: A half-starved limping government, always moving upon crutches and tottering at every step."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: A man's intentions should be allowed in some respects to plead for his actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I am principled against selling negroes, as you would do cattle at a market."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I wish to walk in such a line as will give most general satisfaction."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The aggregate happiness of the society, which is best promoted by the practice of a virtuous policy, is, or ought to be, the end of all government . . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Let vice and immorality of every kind be discouraged as much as possible in your brigade; and, as a chaplain is allowed to each regiment, see that the men regularly attend during worship. Gaming of every kind is expressly forbidden, as being the foundation of evil, and the cause of many a brave and gallant officer's and soldier's ruin."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Merit rarely goes unrewarded."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: There is no restraining men's tongues or pens when charged with a little vanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: [The adoption of the Constitution] will demonstrate as visibly the finger of Providence as any possible event in the course of human affairs can ever designate it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations, in examples of justice and liberality."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Peace with all the world, is my sincere wish."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: In the discharge of this trust I will only say that I have, with good intentions, contributed toward the organization and administration of the Government the best exertions of which a very fallible judgment was capable."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The scheme, my dear Marqs. which you propose as a precedent, to encourage the emancipation of the black people of this Country from that state of Bondage in wch. they are held, is a striking evidence of the benevolence of your Heart. I shall be happy to join you in so laudable a work."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The crisis is arrived when we must assert our rights, or submit to every imposition, that can be heaped upon us, till custom and use shall make us as tame and abject slaves, as the blacks we rule over with such arbitrary sway."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: My ardent desire is... to keep the United States free from political connexions with every other Country. To see that they may be independent of all, and under the influence of none."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Promote then as an object of primary importance, Institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The advancement of agriculture, commerce and manufactures, by all proper means, will not, I trust, need recommendation. But I cannot forbear intimating to you the expediency of giving effectual encouragement as well to the introduction of new and useful inventions from abroad, as to the exertions of skill and genius in producing them at home."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: When in company, put not your hands to any part of the body, not usually discovered."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I am led to reflect how much more delightful to an undebauched mind is the task of making improvements on the earth, than all the vain glory which can be acquired from ravaging it by the most uninterrupted career of conquests."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Our conflict is not likely to cease so soon as every good man would wish. The measure of iniquity is not yet filled; and unless we can return a little more to first principles, and act a little more upon patriotic ground, I do not know when it will."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I will move gently down the stream of life until I sleep with my fathers."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The liberality of sentiment toward each other, which marks every political and religious denomination of men in this country, stands unparalleled in the history of nations."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Our country's honor calls upon us for a vigorous and manly exertion; and if we now shamefully fail, we shall become infamous to the whole world."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Like a young heir, come a little prematurely to a large inheritance, we shall wanton and run riot until we have brought our reputation to the brink of ruin, and then, like him, shall have to labor with the current of opinion, when COMPELLED perhaps, to do what prudence and common policy pointed out, as plain as any problem in Euclid, in the first instance."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The duty of holding a Neutral conduct may be inferred, without any thing more, from the obligation which justice and humanity impose on every nation, in cases in which it is free to act, to maintain inviolate the relations of Peace and amity toward other Nations."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon friendly terms with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth. To share in the broils of none. To fulfil our own engagements. To supply the wants, and be carriers for them all: Being thoroughly convinced that it is our policy and interest to do so."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen; and we shall most sincerely rejoice with you in the happy hour when the establishment of American Liberty, upon the most firm and solid foundations shall enable us to return to our Private Stations in the bosom of a free, peacefully and happy Country."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The inducements of interest for observing [neutral] conduct . . . has been to endeavour to gain time to our country to settle and mature its yet recent institutions, and to progress without interruption, to that degree of strength and consistency, which is necessary to give it, humanly speaking, the command of its own fortunes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days in peaceful retirement, making political pursuits yield to the more rational amusement of cultivating the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: By an ambitious chieftain, aiming only to aggrandize himself and establish his power, the subject might have been regarded in a different light; but the designs and actions of Washington centred in nobler objects, the freedom, tranquillity, and happiness of his country, in which he was to participate equally with every other citizen, neither seeking nor expecting any other preeminence than that of having been an instrument in the hand of Providence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Now therefore I do recommend and assign Thursday the 26th day of November next to be devoted by the People of these States to the service of that great and glorious Being, who is the beneficent Author of all the good that was, that is, or that will be."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is in extending our commercial relations to have as little political connection as possible... Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalships, interest, humor, or caprice?... It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The General most earnestly requires, and expects, a due observance of those articles of war, established for the government of the army which forbid profane cursing, swearing and drunkenness; and in like manner requires and expects, of all officers, and soldiers, not engaged on actual duty, a punctual attendance on divine service, to implore the blessings of heaven upon the means used for our safety and defence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To secure respect to a neutral flag requires a naval force organized and ready to vindicate it from insult or aggression."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Should the States reject this excellent Constitution, the probability is, an opportunity will never again offer to cancel another in peacethe next will be drawn in blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is not the mere study of the Law, but to become eminent in the profession of it, which is to yield honor and profit."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The company in which you will improve most will be least expensive to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I cannot conceive a rank more honorable, than that which flows from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Ours is a kind of struggle designed, I dare say, by Providence to try the patience, fortitude, and virtue of men. None, therefore, who is engaged in it, will suffer himself, I trust, to sink under difficulties, or be discouraged by hardships. If he cannot do as he wishes, he must do what he can."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The situation of the general government, if it can be called a government, is shaken to its foundation, and liable to be overturned by every blast."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: If there was the same propensity in mankind for investigating the motives, as there is for censuring the conduct, of public characters, it would be found that the censure so freely bestowed is oftentimes unmerited and uncharitable."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry will produce liberality of conduct; that mankind will reverse the absurd position that the many were, made for the few; and that they will not continue slaves in one part of the globe, when they can become freemen in another."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: In the composition of the human frame there is a good deal of inflammable matter, however dormant it may lie for a time."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: [T]he foundation of a great Empire is laid, and I please myself with a persuasion, that Providence will not leave its work imperfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Smaller societies must prepare the way for greater."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It rarely happens otherwise than that a thorough-faced coquette dies in celibacy, as a punishment for her attempts to mislead others, by encouraging looks, words, or actions, given for no other purpose than to draw men on to make overtures that they may be rejected."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The necessity of procuring good Intelligence is apparent & need not be further urged-All that remains for me to add, is, that you keep the whole matter as secret as possible. For upon Secrecy, Success depends in most Enterprizes of the kind, and for want of it, they are generally defeated, however well planned & promising a favourable issue."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The foundation of our Empire was not laid in the gloomy age of Ignorance and Superstition, but at an Epoch when the rights of mankind were better understood and more clearly defined, than at any former period."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To the efficacy and permanency of your union a government for the whole is indispensable."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: With a heart full of love and gratitude, I now take leave of you. I most devoutly wish that your later days may be as prosperous and happy as your former ones have been glorious and honorable. I cannot... I cannot come to each of you but shall feel obliged if each of you will come and take me by the hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I commend you, however, for passing the time in as merry a manner as you possibly could; it is assuredly better to go laughing than crying thro' the rough journey of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I only wish, while I am a servant of the public, to know the will of my masters, that I may govern my self accordingly."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: ... the benefit arising from moderate use of strong Liquor have been experienced in all Armies, and are not to be disputed."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: From thinking proceeds speaking; thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should unite in forming a system of national Government, so little liable to well founded objections."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Let experience solve it. To listen to mere speculation in such a case were criminal."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Jealousy, and local policy mix too much in all our public councils for the good government of the Union. In a words, the confederation appears to me to be little more than a shadow without the substance . . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Nothing short of self-respect and that justice which is essential to a national character ought to involve us in war."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: No distance can keep anxious lovers long asunder."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I wish the constitution, which is offered, had been made more perfect; but I sincerely believe it is the best that could be obtained at this time. And, as a constitutional door is opened for amendment hereafter, the adoption of it, under the present circumstances of the Union, is in my opinion desirable."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Men of real talents in Arms have commonly approved themselves patrons of the liberal arts and friends to the poets, of their own as well as former times. In some instances by acting reciprocally, heroes have made poets, and poets heroes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I go to the chair of government with feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation had a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of another; that every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Men are very apt to run into extremes, hatred to England may carry come into an excess of Confidence in France... I am heartily disposed to entertain the most favourable sentiments of our new ally and to cherish them in others to a reasonable degree; but it is a maxim founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I consider it an indubitable mark of mean-spiritedness and pitiful vanity to court applause from the pen or tongue of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is a maxim, founded on the universal experience of mankind, that no nation is to be trusted farther than it is bound by its interest; and no prudent statesman or politician will venture to depart from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Honesty will be found on every experiment, to be the best and only true policy; let us then as a Nation be just."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The determinations of Providence are always wise, often inscrutable; and, though its decrees appear to bear hard upon us at times, is nevertheless meant for gracious purposes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Nothing is more essential, than that permanent, inveterate antipathies against particular Nations, and passionate attachments for others, should be excluded; and that, in place of them, just and amicable feelings towards all should be cultivated."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: To me, it appears no unjust simile to compare the affairs of this great Continent to the mechanism of a clock, each state representing some one or other of the smaller parts of it which they are endeavoring to put in fine order without considering how useless & unavailing their labor is unless the great Wheel or Spring which is to set the whole in motion is also well attended to & kept in good order."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I am again called upon by the voice of my country to execute the functions of its Chief Magistrate."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The ways of Providence being inscrutable, and the justice of it not to be scanned by the shallow eye of humanity, nor to be counteracted by the utmost efforts of human power or wisdom, resignation, and as far as the strength of our reason and religion can carry us, a cheerful acquiescence to the Divine Will, is what we are to aim."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The signal instances of Providential goodness which we have experienced and which have now almost crowned our labors with complete success demand from us in a peculiar manner the warmest returns of gratitude and piety to the Supreme Author of all good."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is our policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: There never was a law yet made, I conceive, that hit the taste exactly of every man, or every part of the community; of course, if this be a reason for opposition, no law can be executed at all without force, and every man or set of men will in that case cut and carve for themselves; the consequences of which must be deprecated by all classes of men, who are friends to order, and to the peace and happiness of the country."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Require nothing unreasonable of your officers and men, but see that whatever is required be punctually complied with. Reward and punish every man according to his merit, without partiality or prejudice; hear his complaints; if well founded, redress them; if otherwise, discourage them, in order to prevent frivolous ones. Discourage vice in every shape, and impress upon the mind of every man, from the first to the lowest, the importance of the cause, and what it is they are contending for."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Where is the man to be found who wishes to remain indebted for the defense of his own person and property to the exertions, the bravery, and the blood of others, without making one generous effort to repay the debt of honor and gratitude?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is among the evils, and perhaps not the smallest, of democratical governments, that the people must feel before they will see. When this happens they are roused to action. Hence it is that those kinds of government are so slow."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Soap is another article in great demand--the Continental allowance is too small, and dear, as every necessary of life is now got, a soldier's pay will not enable him to purchase, by which means his consequent dirtiness adds not a little to the disease of the Army."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves, by artificial ties, in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Providence has done, and I am persuaded is disposed to do, a great deal for us; but we are not to forget the fable of Jupiter and the countryman."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Diffidence in an officer is a good mark because he will always endeavor to bring himself up to what he conceives to be the full line of his duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: I assure you very explicitly, that in my opinion the conscientious scruples of all men should be treated with great delicacy and tenderness: and it is my wish and desire, that the laws may always be extensively accommodated to them, as a due regard for the protection and essential interests of the nation may justify and permit."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: We should on all Occasions avoid a general Action, or put anything to the Risque, unless compelled by a necessity, into which we ought never to be drawn."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Thirteen sovereignties pulling against each other and all tugging at the federal head, will soon bring ruin on the whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: The unity of government which constitutes you one people is also now dear to you. It is justly so, for it is a main pillar in the edifice of your real independence, the support of your tranquility at home, your peace abroad, of your safety, of your prosperity, of that very liberty which you so highly prize."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: [L]eave nothing to the uncertainty of procuring a warlike apparatus at the moment of public danger."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Letters of friendship require no study."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington: Alas! Our dancing days are no more. We wish, however, all those who have a relish for so agreeable and innocent an amusement all the pleasure the season will afford them."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: For in a government of laws and not of men, no man, however prominent or powerful, and no mob however unruly or boisterous, is entitled to defy a court of law. If this country should ever reach the point where any man or group of men by force or threat of force could long defy the commands of our court and our Constitution, then no law would stand free from doubt, no judge would be sure of his writ, and no citizen would be safe from his neighbors."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The state is the servant of the citizen, and not his master."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: No responsibility of government is more fundamental than the responsibility of maintaining the highest standard of ethical behavior for those who conduct the public business."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If by a \"Liberal,\" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes that we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what they mean by a \"Liberal,\" then I'm proud to say that I'm a \"Liberal.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Only an educated and informed people will be a free people."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Too often we... enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: For in a democracy, every citizen, regardless of his interest in politics, \"hold office\"; every one of us is in a position of responsibility; and, in the final analysis, the kind of government we get depends upon how we fulfill those responsibilities. We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The unity of freedom has never relied on uniformity of opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Sometimes party loyalty asks too much."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Let us not be blind to our differences-but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Hold fast to the best of the past and move fast to the best of the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence \u2014 on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Economic growth without social progress lets the great majority of the people remain in poverty, while a privileged few reap the benefits of rising abundance."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: A nation reveals itself not only by the men it produces but also by the men it honors, the men it remembers."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country.\r\nMy fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The rights of man come not from the generosity of the state but from the hand of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: There is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history.  Only the strong, only the industrious, only the determined, only the courageous, only the visionary who determine the real nature of our struggle can possibly survive."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: In a time of turbulence and change, it is more true than ever that knowledge is power."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: So let us begin anew -- remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof. Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If we are strong, our strength will speak for itself. If we are weak, words will be of no help."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: A medical revolution has extended the life of our elder citizens without providing the dignity and security those later years deserve."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We, the people, are the boss, and we will get the kind of political leadership, be it good or bad, that we demand and deserve."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: One hundred years of delay have passed since President Lincoln freed the slaves, yet their heirs, their grandsons, are not fully free. They are not yet freed from the bonds of injustice. They are not yet freed from social and economic oppression. And this nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office; and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the\nsame."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The very word \"secrecy\" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: This is not a time to keep the facts from the people-to keep them complacent. To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public. For, as the poet Dante once said: 'The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Our nation is founded on the principal that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The ignorance of one voter in a democracy impairs the security of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The great enemy of truth is very often not the lie--deliberate, contrived and dishonest--but the myth--persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Too often we hold fast to the cliches of our forebears. We subject all facts to a prefabricated set of interpretations. We enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms, though arms we need; not as a call to battle, though embattled we are; but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle, year in and year out, 'rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation', a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny, poverty, disease and war itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: War will exist until that distant day when the conscientious objector enjoys the same reputation and prestige that the warrior does today."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Let us not despair but act. Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past - let us accept our own responsibility for the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: A great change is at hand, and our task, our obligation, is to make that revolution, that change, peaceful and constructive for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Everywhere immigrants have enriched and strengthened the fabric of American life."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: It is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high and tax revenues are too low and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now Cutting taxes now is not to incur a budget deficit, but to achieve the more prosperous, expanding economy which can bring a budget surplus."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Great crises produce great men, and great deeds of courage."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The very word 'secrecy' is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Those who foolishly sought power by riding the back of the tiger ended up inside"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Without debate, without criticism no administration and no country can succeed and no republic can survive."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition and both are necessary. I am not asking your newspapers to support the Administration, but I am asking your help in the tremendous task of informing and alerting the American people. For I have complete confidence in the response and dedication of our citizens whenever they are fully informed."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: There will always be dissident voices heard in the land, expressing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side and seeking influence without responsibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We need men who can dream of things that never were."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The future promise of any nation can be directly measured by the present prospects of its youth."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We can have faith in the future only if we have faith in ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Knowledge of the oceans is more than a matter of curiosity. Our very survival may hinge upon it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: It is insane that two men, sitting on opposite sides of the world, should be able to decide to bring an end to civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty, and all forms of human life."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The only valid test of leadership is the ability to lead, and lead vigorously."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: There's an old saying. Never send a boy to do a man's job, send a lady."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: It is time for a new generation of leadership."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We stand for freedom. That is our conviction for ourselves; that is our only commitment to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: A tax cut means higher family income and higher business profits and a balanced federal budget....As the national income grows, the federal government will ultimately end up with more revenues. Prosperity is the real way to balance our budget. By lowering tax rates, by increasing jobs and income, we can expand tax revenues and finally bring our budget into balance."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: This nation was founded by men of many nations and backgrounds. It was founded on the principle that all men are created equal, and that the rights of every man are diminished when the rights of one man are threatened ... It ought to to be possible, in short, for every American to enjoy the privileges of being American without regard to his race or his color."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The best road to progress is freedom's road."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Peace does not rest in the charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of all people. So let us not rest all our hopes on parchment and on paper, let us strive to build peace, a desire for peace, a willingness to work for peace in the hearts and minds of all of our people. I believe that we can. I believe the problems of human destiny are not beyond the reach of human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We must use time as a tool, not as a couch."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe -- the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: My call is not to those who believe they belong to the past. My call is to those who believe in the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Children are the world's most valuable resource and its best hope for the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Sincerity is always subject to proof."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Libraries should be open to all - except the censor."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Liberty without Learning is always in peril and Learning without Liberty is always in vain."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Lofty words cannot construct an alliance or maintain it; only concrete deeds can do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: When power leads man toward arrogance, poetry reminds him of his limitations. When power narrows the area of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything at retail, sells everything at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The men who create power\nmake an indispensable contribution\nto the nation's greatness.\nBut the men who question power make\na contribution just as indispensable\nfor they determine whether\nwe use power\nor power uses us."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The rising tide lifts all the boats."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The basic problems facing the world today are not susceptible to a military solution."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The world was not meant to be a prison in which man awaits his execution."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I can imagine no more rewarding a career. And any man who may be asked in this century what he did to make his life worthwhile, I think can respond with a good deal of pride and satisfaction: 'I served in the United States Navy."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: ... the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: No President should fear public scrutiny of his program. For from that scrutiny comes understanding; and from that understanding comes support or opposition and both are necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: For one true measure of a nation is its success in fulfilling the promise of a better life for each of its members. Let this be the measure of our nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: After visiting these places, you can easily understand how that within a few years Hitler will emerge from the hatred that surrounds him now as one of the most significant figures who ever lived. He had boundless ambition for his country which rendered him a menace to the peace of the world, but he had a mystery about him in the way that he lived and in the manner of his death that will live and grow after him. He had in him the stuff of which legends are made."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it is because in addition to the fact that the sea changes and the light changes, and ships change, it is because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have, in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the sea, whether it is to sail or to watch it we are going back from whence we came."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Mothers all want their sons to grow up to be president, but they don't want them to become politicians in the process."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If we cannot now end our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The true democracy, living and growing and inspiring, puts its faith in the people - faith that the people will not simply elect men who will represent their views ably and faithfully, but will also elect men who will exercise their conscientious judgment - faith that the people will not condemn those whose devotion to principle leads them to unpopular courses, but will reward courage, respect honor, and ultimately recognize right."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: But colonialism in its harshest forms is not only the exploitation of new nations by old, of dark skins by light, or the subjugation of the poor by the rich. My Nation was once a colony,\nand we know what colonialism means; the exploitation and subjugation of the weak by the powerful, of the many by the few, of the governed who have given no consent to be governed, whatever\ntheir continent, their class, their color."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Civility is not a sign of weakness."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The final and best means of strengthening demand among consumers and business is to reduce the burden on private income and the deterrence to private initiative which are imposed by our present tax system, and this administration pledged itself last summer to an across-the-board, top-to-bottom cut in personal and corporate income taxes to be enacted and become effective in 1963."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We are confronted primarily with a moral issue... whether all Americans are to be afforded equal rights and equal opportunities, whether we are going to treat our fellow Americans as we want to be treated."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: There is danger that totalitarian governments, not subject to vigorous popular debate, will underestimate the will and unity of democratic societies where vital interests are concerned."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: My fellow Americans, let us take that first step. Let us...step back from the shadow of war and seek out the way of peace. And if that journey is a thousand miles, or even more, let history record that we, in this land, at this time, took the first step."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Certain other societies may respect the rule of force--we respect the rule of law."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country's peril. In time of war, the government and the press have customarily joined in an effort based largely on self-discipline, to prevent unauthorized disclosures to the enemy. In time of \"clear and present danger,\" the courts have held that even the privileged rights of the First Amendment must yield to the public's need for national security."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I ask particularly that those of you who are now in school will prepare yourselves to bear the burden of leadership over the next 40 years here in the United States, and make sure that the United States - which I believe almost alone has maintained watch and ward for freedom - that the United States meet its responsibility. That is a wonderful challenge for us as a people."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Every area of trouble gives out a ray of hope; and the one unchangeable certainty is that nothing is certain or unchangeable."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The most effective means of upholding the law is not the State policeman or the marshals or the National Guard. It is you. It lies in your courage to accept those laws with which you\ndisagree as well as those with which you agree."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Immigration policy should be generous; it should be fair; it should be flexible. With such a policy we can turn to the world, and to our own past, with clean hands and a clear conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Peace is a daily, a weekly, a monthly process, gradually changing opinions, slowly eroding old barriers, quietly building new structures."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If at times our actions seem to make life difficult for others, it is only because history has made life difficult for us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: But if the life will not be easy, it will be rich and satisfying. For every young American who participates in the Peace Corps-who works in a foreign land-will know that he or she is sharing in the great common task of bringing to man that decent way of life which is the foundation of freedom and a condition of peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The basis of effective government is public confidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. Our requirements for world leadership, our hopes for economic growth, and the demands of citizenship itself in an era such as this all require the maximum development of every young American's capacity. The human mind is our fundamental resource."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Geography has made us neighbors. History has made us friends. Economics has made us partners, and necessity has made us allies. Those whom God has so joined together, let no man put asunder."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We in this country, in this generation, are, by destiny rather than choice, the watchmen on the walls of world freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Not every child has an equal talent or an equal ability or equal motivation, but they should have the equal right to develop their talent and their ability and their motivation, to make something of themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: A police state finds that it cannot command the grain to grow."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: It is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking his blessing and his help, but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: And when at some future date the high court of history sits in judgment on each of us, recording whether in our brief span of service we fulfilled our responsibilities to the state, our success or failure, in whatever office we hold, will be measured by the answers to four questions: First, were we truly men of courage... Second, were we truly men of judgment... Third, were we truly men of integrity... Finally, were we truly men of dedication?-"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: An economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough jobs or enough profits"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: All of us do not have equal talent, but all of us should have an equal opportunity to develop our talent."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The education of our people should be a lifelong process by which we continue to feed new vigor into the lifestream of the Nation through intelligent, reasoned decisions. Let us not think of education only in terms of its costs, but rather in terms of the infinite potential of the human mind that can be realized through education. Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength for our Nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If more politicians knew poetry, and more poets knew politics, I am convinced the world would be a little better place in which to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We in this country, in this generation, areby destiny rather than choicethe watchmen on the walls of world freedom. We ask, therefore, that we may be worthy of our power and responsibility, that we may exercise our strength with wisdom and restraint, and that we may achieve in our time and for all time the ancient vision of peace on earth, good will toward men. That must always be our goal, and the righteousness of our cause must always underlie our strength. For as was written long ago: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I look forward to an America which will reward achievement in the arts as we reward achievement in business or statecraft. I look forward to an America which will steadily raise the standards of artistic accomplishment and which will steadily enlarge cultural opportunities for all of our citizens. And I look forward to an America which commands respect throughout the world not only for its strength but for its civilization as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Our Constitution wisely assigns both joint and separate roles to each branch of the government; and a President and a Congress who hold each other in mutual respect will neither permit nor attempt any trespass."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The stories of past courage... can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The margin is narrow, but the responsibility is clear."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all \u2014 except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: And lastly, Chairman Khrushchev has compared the United States to a worn-out runner living on its past performance, and stated that the Soviet Union would out-produce the United States by 1970. Without wishing to trade hyperbole with the Chairman, I do suggest that he reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he his caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century, tempered by war, disciplined by a hard and bitter peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin. And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner!'"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I think when we talk about corporal punishment, and we have to think about our own children, and we are rather reluctant, it seems to me, to have other people administering punishment to our own children, because we are reluctant, it puts a special obligation on us to maintain order and to send children out from our homes who accept the idea of discipline. So I would not be for corporal punishment in the school, but I would be for very strong discipline at home so we don't place an unfair burden on our teachers."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: War and hunger and ignorance and despair know no religious barriers."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Let us think of education as the means of developing our greatest abilities, because in each of us there is a private hope and dream which, fulfilled, can be translated into benefit for everyone and greater strength of the nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Third, and finally, the educated citizen has an obligation to uphold the law. This is the obligation of every citizen in a free and peaceful society--but the educated citizen has a special responsibility by the virtue of his greater understanding. For whether he has ever studied history or current events, ethics or civics, the rules of a profession or the tools of a trade, he knows that only a respect for the law makes it possible for free men to dwell together in peace and progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The wave of the future is not the conquest of the world by a single dogmatic creed but the liberation of the diverse energies of free nations and free men."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger men."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We dare not forget that we are the heirs of that first revolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education. The human mind is our fundamental resource."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Race has no place in American life or law."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We celebrate the past to awaken the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: But I think it is also important that we pay tribute and acknowledge another great principle, and that is the principle of religious conviction. Religious freedom has no significance unless it is accompanied by conviction."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I believe in a president whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the nation, or imposed by the nation upon him as a condition to holding that office."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Each increase of tension\nhas produced an increase of arms;\neach increase of arms\nhas produced an increase of tension."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: In whatever area in life one may meet the challenges of courage, whatever may be the sacrifices he faces if he follows his conscience - the loss of his friends, his fortune, his contentment, even the esteem of his fellow men - each man must decide for himself the course he will follow. The stories of past courage can define that ingredient - they can teach, they can offer hope, they can provide inspiration. But they cannot supply courage itself. For this each man must look into his own soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Struggle for freedom. Where people are denied the right of choice, recourse to such struggle is the only means of achieving their liberties."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We can say with some assurance that, although children may be the victims of fate, they will not be the victims of our neglect."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: In our democracy every young person should have an equal opportunity to obtain a higher education, regardless of his station in life or financial means."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The highest duty of the writer, the composer, the artist, is to remain true to himself and to let the chips fall where they may."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: What we seek to advance, what we seek to develop in all of our colleges and universities, are educated men and women who can bear the burdens of responsible citizenship, who can make judgments about life as it is, and as it must be, and encourage the people to make those decisions which can bring not only prosperity and security, but happiness to the people of the United Sates and those who depend upon it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Finally, I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end; where all men and all churches are treated as equal; where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice; where there is no Catholic vote, no anti-Catholic vote, no bloc voting of any kind; and where Catholics, Protestants and Jews, at both the lay and pastoral level, will refrain from those attitudes of disdain and division which have so often marred their works in the past, and promote instead the American ideal of brotherhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: ... the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: probably the greatest concentration of talent and genius in this house except for perhaps those times when Thomas Jefferson ate alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: For plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I look forward to an america in which commands respect throughout the world, not only for its strength, but for its civilization as well. And I look forward to a world in which we will be safe not only for democracy and diversity but also for personal distinction."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Modern cynics and skeptics... see no harm in paying those to whom they entrust the minds of their children a smaller wage than is paid to those to whom they entrust the care of their plumbing."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant nor Jewish; where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches or any other ecclesiastical source; where no religious body seeks to impose its will directly or indirectly upon the general populace or the public acts of its officials; and where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Our true choice is not between tax reduction on the one hand and the avoidance of large federal deficits on the other. It is increasingly clear that no matter what party is in power, so long as our national security needs keep rising, an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates will never produce enough revenues to balance our budget, just as it will never produce enough jobs or enough profits."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Our goal is not victory of might but the vindication of right - not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: But because I am a Catholic, and no Catholic has ever been elected president, the real issues in this campaign have been obscured - perhaps deliberately, in some quarters less responsible than this. So it is apparently necessary for me to state once again not what kind of church I believe in - for that should be important only to me - but what kind of America I believe in."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity. The relationship between the soundness of the body and the activities of the mind is subtle and complex. Much is not yet understood. But we do know what the Greeks knew: that intelligence and skill can only function at the peak of their capacity when the body is healthy and strong; that hardy spirits and tough minds usually inhabit sound gods."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Our practical choice is not between a tax-cut deficit and a budgetary surplus. It is between two kinds of deficits: a chronic deficit of inertia, as the unwanted result of inadequate revenues and a restricted economy; or a temporary deficit of transition, resulting from a tax cut designed to boost the economy, increase tax revenues, and achieve -- and I believe this can be done -- a budget surplus. The first type of deficit is a sign of waste and weakness; the second reflects an investment in the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The tax on capital gains directly affects investment decisions, the mobility and flow of risk capital from static to more dynamic situations, the ease or difficulty experienced by new ventures in obtaining capital, and thereby the strength and potential for growth of the economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Every inhabitant of this planet must contemplate the day when this planet may no longer be habitable .. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The purpose of foreign policy is not to provide an outlet for our own sentiments of hope or indignation; it is to shape real events in a real world."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The Chinese use two brush strokes to write the word 'crisis.' One brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. In a crisis, be aware of the danger--but recognize the opportunity."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: No man who enters upon the office to which I have succeeded can fail to recognize how every president of the United States has placed special reliance upon his faith in God. Every president has taken comfort and courage when toldthat the Lord 'will be with thee. He will not fail thee nor forsake thee. Fear not-neither be thou dismayed.' Each of our presidents in his own way has placed a special trust in God. Those who were strongest intellectually were also strongest spiritually."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Our alliance is born, not of fear, but of hope. It is an alliance that advances what we are for, as well as opposes what we are against."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: First I believe that this Nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: One hundred and fifty years ago the vacant lands of the West were opened to private use. One hundred years ago the Congress passed the Homestead Act, probably the single greatest stimulus to national development ever enacted. Under the impetus of that Act and other laws, more than 1.1 billion acres of the original public main have been transferred to private and non-federal public ownership. The 768 million acres remaining in federal ownership are a valuable national asset."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We have all seen these circus elephants complete with tusks, ivory in their head and thick skins, who move around the circus ring and grab the tail of the elephant ahead of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The effort to improve the conditions of man, however, is not a task for the few. It is the task of all nations-acting alone, acting in groups, acting in the United Nations, for plague and pestilence, plunder and pollution, the hazards of nature and the hunger of children are the foes of every nation. The earth, the sea and the air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology and education can be the ally of every nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Freedom has many difficulties and democracy is not perfect, but we have never had to put up a wall to keep our people in."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: According to the ancient Chinese proverb, A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: There are many people in the world who really don't understand, or say they don't, what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin. There are some who say that communism is the wave of the future. Let them come to Berlin. And there are some who say in Europe and elsewhere we can work with the Communists. Let them come to Berlin. And there are even a few who say that it is true that communism is an evil system, but it permits us to make economic progress. Lass' sie nach Berlin kommen. Let them come to Berlin."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: It's only when they join together in a forward movement that this country moves ahead."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth. No single space project...will be more exciting, or more impressive to mankind, or more important...and none will be so difficult or expensive to accomplish."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The Federal Budget can and should be made an instrument of prosperity and stability, not a deterrent to recovery."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: It was involuntary. They sank my boat."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Too often in the past, we have thought of the artist as an idler and dilettante and of the lover of arts as somehow sissy and effete. We have done both an injustice. The life of the artist is, in relation to his work, stern and lonely. He has labored hard, often amid deprivation, to perfect his skill. He has turned aside from quick success in order to strip his vision of everything secondary or cheapening. His working life is marked by intense application and intense discipline."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty, which will protect the beauty of our natural environment, which will preserve the great old American houses and squares and parks of our national past and which will build handsome and balanced cities for our future."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: It is our task in our time and in our generation, to hand down undiminished to those who come after us, as was handed down to us by those who went before, the natural wealth and beauty which is ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: And so it is to the printing press--to the recorder of mans deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news-- that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: free and independent."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We must never forget that art is not a form of propaganda; it is a form of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Let us examine our attitude toward peace itself. Too many of us think it is impossible. Too many think it unreal. But that is a dangerous, defeatist belief. It leads to the conclusion that war is inevitable, that mankind is doomed, that we are gripped by forces we cannot control. We need not accept that view. Our problems are manmade; therefore they can be solved by man. And man can be as big as be wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I have seen in many places housing which has been developed under government influences, but I have never seen any projects in which governments have played their part which have fountains and statues and grass and trees, which are as important to the concept of the home as the roof itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: What really counts is not the immediate act of courage or of valor, but those who bear the struggle day in and day out - not the sunshine patriots but those who are willing to stand for a long period of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all people. For space science, like nuclear science and technology, has no conscience of its own. Whether it will become a force for good or ill depends on man, and only if the United States occupies a position of preeminence can we help decide whether this new ocean will be a sea of peace or a new terrifying theater of war."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I think it is appropriate that we pay tribute to this great constitutional principle which is enshrined in the First Amendment of the Constitution: the principle of religious independence, of religious liberty, of religious freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act. I do not speak for my church on public matters - and the church does not speak for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Our deep spiritual confidence that this nation will survive the perils of today - which may well be with us for decades to come - compels us to invest in our nation's future, to consider and meet our obligations to our children and the numberless generations that will follow."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Members of the Congress, the Constitution makes us not rivals for power but partners for progress. We are all trustees for the American people, custodians of the American heritage. It is my task to report the State of the Union--to improve it is the task of us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: And is not peace, in the last analysis, basically a matter of human rights -- the right to live out our lives without fear of devastation \u2013 the right to breathe air as nature provided it -- the right of future generations to a healthy existence?\" (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: There are those who regard this history of past strife and exile as better forgotten. But, to use the phrase of Yeats, let us not casually reduce \"that great past to a trouble of fools.\" For we need not feel the bitterness of the past to discover its meaning for the present and the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We will not prematurely or unnecessarily risk the costs of a worldwide nuclear war in which even the fruits of victory would be ashes in our mouth - but neither shall we shrink from that risk any time it must be faced."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Political sovereignty is but a mockery without the means of meeting poverty and illiteracy and disease. Self-determination is but a slogan if the future holds no hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I can't see that it's wrong to give him a little legal experience before he goes out to practice law."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Budget deficits are not caused by wild-eyed spenders, but by slow economic growth and periodic recessions. And any new recession would break all deficit records. In short, it is a paradoxical truth that tax rates are too high today and tax revenues are too low, and the soundest way to raise the revenues in the long run is to cut the rates now."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: It should be clear by now that a nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future. Only an America which has fully educated its citizens is fully capable of tackling the complex problems and perceiving the hidden dangers of the world in which we live. And only an America which is growing and prospering economically can sustain the worldwide defenses of freedom, while demonstrating to all concerned the opportunities of our system and society."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors. Together let us explore the stars, conquer the deserts, eradicate disease, tap the ocean depths, and encourage the arts and commerce."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: But I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high to permit the customary passions of political debate. We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future. As Winston Churchill said on taking office some twenty years ago: if we open a quarrel between the present and the past, we shall be in danger of losing the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute - where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic) how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom to vote - where no church or church school is granted any public funds or political preference - and where no man is denied public office merely because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the people who might elect him."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I am the Democratic Party's candidate for President, who happens also to be a Catholic."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: When consumers purchase more goods, plants use more of their capacity, men are hired instead of laid off, investment increases, and profits are high. Corporate tax rates must also be cut to increase incentives and the availability of investment capital."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If all of you had voted the other way - there's about 5500 of you here tonight - I would not be the President of the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I believe in an America where religious intolerance will someday end... where every man has the same right to attend or not attend the church of his choice."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: It is for these reasons that I believe we must expand day-care centers and provide other assistance which I have recommended to the Congress. At present, the total facilities of all the licensed day-care centers in the Nation can take care of only 185,000 children. Nearly 500,000 children under 12 must take care of themselves while their mothers work. This, it seems to me, is a formula for disaster."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The pay is good and I can walk to work."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: So let us begin anew - remembering on both sides that civility is not a sign of weakness, and sincerity is always subject to proof"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We must start now to provide additional stimulus to the modernization of American industrial plants I shall propose to the Congress a new tax incentive for businesses to expand their normal investment in plant and equipment."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: This is one country. It has become one country because all of us and all the people who came here had an equal chance to develop their talents. We cannot say to ten percent of the population that you can't have that right; that your children cannot have the chance to develop whatever talents they have; that the only way that they are going to get their rights is to go in the street and demonstrate. I think we owe them and we owe ourselves a better country than that."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Man will be what he was born to be: free and independent."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Our national conservation effort must include the complete spectrum of resources: air, water, and land; fuels, energy, and minerals; soils, forests, and forage; fish and wildlife. Together they make up the world of nature which surrounds us- of the American heritage."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: No one has been barred on account of his race from fighting or dying for America, there are no white or colored signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We shall be judged more by what we do at home than what we preach abroad."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Arms alone are not enough to keep the peace. It must be kept by men."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Sailing has given me some of the most pleasant and exciting moments of my life. It also has taught me something of the courage, resourcefulness, and strength of men who sail the seas in ships."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We stand today on the edge of a new frontier."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I believe in an America that is on the march - an America respected by all nations, friends and foes alike - an America that is moving, doing, working, trying - a strong America in a world\nof peace. That peace must be based on world law and world order, on the mutual respect of all nations for the rights and powers of others and on a world economy in which no nation lacks the\nability to provide a decent standard of living for all of its people."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: But Goethe tells us in his greatest poem that Faust lost the liberty of his soul when he said to the passing moment: \"Stay, thou art so fair.\" And our liberty, too, is endangered if we pause for the passing moment, if we rest on our achievements, if we resist the pace of progress. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past are certain to miss the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Washington is a city of Southern efficiency and Northern charm."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The success of this Government, and thus the success of our Nation, depends in the last analysis upon the quality.of our career services. The legislation enacted by the Congress, as well as the decisions made by me and by the department and agency heads, must all be implemented by the career men and women in the Federal service. In foreign affairs, national defense, science and technology, and a host of other fields, they face problems of unprecedented importance and perplexity. We are all dependent on their sense of loyalty and responsibility as well as their competence and energy."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: World peace, like community peace, does not require that each man love his neighbor - it requires only that they live together with mutual tolerance, submitting their disputes to a just and peaceful settlement."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: As they say on my own Cape Cod, a rising tide lifts all the boats. And a partnership, by definition, serves both partners, without domination or unfair advantage. Together we have been partners in adversitylet us also be partners in prosperity."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Now we have a problem in making our power credible, and Vietnam is the place."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I know there is a God - I see the storm coming and I see his hand in it - if he has a place then I am ready - we see the hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I am talking about genuine peace, the kind of peace that makes life on earth worth living, the kind that enables men and nations to grow and to hope and to build a better life for their children - not merely peace for Americans but peace for all men and women - not merely peace in our time but peace for all time."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The United States of America has no intention of finishing second in space. This effort is expensive-but it pays its way for freedom and for America."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Freedom is not merely a word or an abstract theory, but the most effective instrument for advancing the welfare of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I believe in an America that is officially neither Catholic, Protestant, or Jewish - where religious liberty is so indivisible that an act against one church is treated as an act against all."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Our growing softness, our increasing lack of physical fitness, is a menace to our security."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The human mind is our fundamental resource."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: It is with great satisfaction that I have signed into law the Social Security Amendments of 1961. They represent an additional step toward eliminating many of the hardships resulting from old age, disability, or the death of the family wage-earner. A nation's strength lies in the well-being of its people. The Social Security program plays an important part in providing for families, children, and older persons in time of stress, but it cannot remain static. Changes in our population, in our working habits, and in our standard of living require constant revision."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The processes of growth are gradual, bearing fruit in a decade, not a day."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: President Roosevelt and President Truman and President Eisenhower had the same experience, they all made the effort to get along with the Russians. But every time, finally it failed. And the reason it failed was because the Communists are determined to destroy us, and regardless of what hand of friendship we may hold out or what arguments we may put up, the only thing that will make that decisive difference is the strength of the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We have become more and more not a nation of athletes but a nation of spectators."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on from the reassuring repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Mythology distracts us everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Art is the great democrat, calling forth creative genius from every sector of society, disregarding race or religion or wealth or color"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The present tax codes inhibit the mobility and formation of capital, add complexities and inequities which undermine the morale of the taxpayer, and make tax avoidance rather than market factors a prime consideration in too many economic decisions."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days . . .nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We stand today on the edge of a new frontier - the frontier of the 1960's - a frontier of unknown opportunities and perils - a frontier of unfulfilled hopes and threats."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I not only could not stifle controversy among your readers.. I welcome it. This Administration intends to be candid about its errors; for as a wise man once said: \"An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it.\" We intend to accept full responsibility for our errors; and we expect you to point them out when we miss them."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: When power corrupts, poetry cleanses"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I am sorry to say that there is too much point to the wisecrack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If anyone is crazy enough to want to kill a president of the United States, he can do it. All he must be prepared to do is give his life for the president's."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The United States has to move very fast to even stand still."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We will neglect our cities to our peril, for in neglecting them we neglect the nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: And if we are to open employment opportunities in this country for members of all races and creeds, then the Federal Government must set an example. The President himself must set the key example. I am not going to promise a Cabinet post or any other post to any race or ethnic group. That is racism in reverse at its worst. So I do not promise to consider race or religion in my appointments if I am successful. I promise only that I will not consider them."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of a final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: There is a connection, hard to explain logically but easy to feel, between achievement in public life and progress in the arts. The age of Pericles was also the age of Phidias. The age of Lorenzo de Medici was also the age of Leonardo da Vinci. The age of Elizabeth was also the age of Shakespeare. And the New Frontier for which I campaign in public life, can also be a New Frontier for American art."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: To sound the alarm is not to panic but to seek action from an aroused public."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I know my Republican friends were glad to see my wife feeding an elephant in India. She gave him sugar and nuts. But of course the elephant wasn't satisfied."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Genuine peace must be the product of many nations, the sum of many acts. It must be dynamic, not static, changing to meet the challenge of each new generation. For peace is a process-a way of solving problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: This is a great country and requires a good deal of all of us, so I can imagine nothing more important than for all of you to continue to work in public affairs and be interested in them, not only to bring up a family, but also give part of your time to your community, your state, and your country."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: With all of the history of war, and the human race's history unfortunately has been a good deal more war than peace, with nuclear weapons distributed all through the world, and available, and the strong reluctance of any people to accept defeat, I see the possibility in the 1970's of the President of the United States having to face a world in which 15 or 20 or 25 nations may have these weapons."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Where nature makes natural allies of us all, we can demonstrate that beneficial relations are possible even with those with whom we most deeply disagree-and this must someday be the basis of world peace and world law."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The deadly arms race, and the huge resources it absorbs, have too long overshadowed all else we must do. We must prevent that arms race from spreading to new nations, to new nuclear powers and to the reaches of outer space."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: While it may be theoretically possible to demonstrate the risks inherent in any treaty... the far greater risk to our security are the risks of unrestricted testing, the risks of a nuclear arms race, the risks of new nuclear powers."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Now is the time...for this nation to take a clearly leading role in space achievement, which in many ways may hold the key to our future on Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: In free society art is not a weapon...Artists are not engineers of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We prefer world law in the age of self-determination to world war in the age of mass extermination."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration, and when peace comes we will gladly convert not our swords into plowshares, but our bombs into peaceful reactors, and our planes into space vessels. \"Pursue peace,\" the Bible tells us, and we shall pursue it with every effort and every energy that we possess. But it is an unfortunate fact that we can secure peace only by preparing for war."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If I had to live my life over again, I would have a different father, a different wife and a different religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Our way of life is under attack. Those who make themselves our enemy are advancing around the globe. The survival of our friends is in danger. And yet no war has been declared, no borders have been crossed by marching troops, no missiles have been fired."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: It is true that my predecessor did not object, as I do, to pictures of one's golf skill in action. But neither, on the other hand, did he ever bean a Secret Serviceman."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Nuclear weapons are so destructive and ballistic missiles are so swift, that any substantially increased possibility of their use or any sudden change in their deployment may well be regarded as a definite threat to peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Expansion and modernization of the nation's productive plant is essential to accelerate economic growth and to improve the international competitive position of American industry An early stimulus to business investment will promote recovery and increase employment."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Everything changes but change itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I'm always rather nervous about how you talk about women who are active in politics, whether they want to be talked about as women or as politicians."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: In serving his vision of the truth, the artist best serves his nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty... All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1000 days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin... And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: No country can possibly move ahead, no free society can possibly be sustained, unless it has an educated citizenry whose qualities of mind and heart permit it to take part in the complicated and increasingly sophisticated decisions that pour not only upon the President and upon the Congress, but upon all the citizens who exercise the ultimate power."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: A journey to Thousand miles begins with one step"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The very word Secrecy is repugnant in a free and open society."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Aggressive conduct, if allowed to go unchecked and unchallenged, ultimately leads to war."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I think 'Hail to the Chief' has a nice ring to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The earth, the sea and air are the concern of every nation. And science, technology, and education can be the ally of every nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Last year, more Americans went to symphonies than went to baseball games. This may be viewed as an alarming statistic, but I think that both baseball and the country will endure."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: For while this year it may be a Catholic against whom the finger of suspicion is pointed, in other years it has been, and may someday be again, a Jew\u2014 or a Quaker or a Unitarian or a Baptist. It was Virginia's harassment of Baptist preachers, for example, that helped lead to Jefferson's statute of religious freedom. Today I may be the victim, but tomorrow it may be you \u2014 until the whole fabric of our harmonious society is ripped at a time of great national peril."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The mere absence of war is not peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: But however close we sometimes seem to that dark and final abyss, let no man of peace and freedom despair. For he does not stand alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We must seek, above all, a world of peace; a world in which peoples dwell together in mutual respect and work together in mutual regard."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstone of our judgement."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Those who came before us made certain that this country rode the first waves of the industrial revolution, the first waves of modern invention and the first wave of nuclear power. And this generation does not intend to founder in the backwash of the coming age of space. We mean to be part of it-we mean to lead it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Since the time of the ancient Greeks, we have always felt that there was a close relationship between a strong, vital mind and physical fitness."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If my church attempted to influence me in a way which was improper or which affected adversely my responsibilities as a public servant sworn to uphold the Constitution, then I would reply to them that this was an improper action on their part. It was one to which I could not subscribe."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: In giving rights to others which belong to them, we give rights to ourselves and to our country"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: As science, of necessity, becomes more involved with itself, so also, of necessity, it becomes more international. I am impressed to know that of the 670 members of this Academy"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I have a nice home, the office is close by, and the pay is good."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Do you realize the responsibility I carry? I'm the only person standing between Richard Nixon and the White House."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: O God, thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I suppose if you could have only one thing, it would be that-energy. Without it, you haven't got a thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Unless liberty flourishes in all lands, it cannot flourish in one."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The great enemy of the truth is not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest but the myth persistent, persuasive and unrealistic."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: A nation can be no stronger abroad than she is at home. Only an America which practices what it preaches about equal rights and social justice will be respected by those whose choice affects our future."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Privilege is here, and with privilege goes responsibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I do not speak for my church on public matters; and the church does not speak for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I have said that control of arms is a mission that we undertake particularly for our children and our grandchildren and that they have no lobby in Washington."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Just as I went into politics because Joe died, if anything happened to me tomorrow, my brother Bobby would run for my seat in the Senate. And if Bobby died, Teddy would take over for him."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We shall pay any price, bear any burden, to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Peace is a process, a way of solving problems"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We live in a hemisphere whose own revolution has given birth to the most powerful force of the modern age; the search for freedom and self fulfillment of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: You have, at the same time, placed your confidence in me, and in my ability to render a free, fair judgment - to uphold the Constitution and my oath of office - and to reject any kind of religious pressure or obligation that might directly or indirectly interfere with my conduct of the Presidency in the national interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I am glad that Congress has recently authorized $800,000 to State welfare agencies to expand their day-care services during the remainder of this fiscal year. But we need much more. We need the $8 million in the 1965 budget for the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare allocated to this purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I just received the following wire from my generous Daddy; Dear Jack, Don't buy a single vote more than is necessary. I'll be damned if I'm going to pay for a landslide."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Anyone who is honestly seeking a job and can't find it, deserves the attention of the United States government, and the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: In a world of danger and trial, peace is our deepest aspiration."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: There are indications because of new inventions, that 10, 15, or 20 nations will have a nuclear capacity, including Red China, by the end of the Presidential office in 1964. This is extremely serious. I think the fate not only of our own civilization, but I think the fate of world and the future of the human race, is involved in preventing a nuclear war."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I would not look with favor upon a President working to subvert the First Amendment's guarantees of religious liberty ... Neither do I look with favor upon those who would work to subvert Article VI of the Constitution by requiring a religious test - even by indirection."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If I don't have a woman for three days, I get terrible headaches."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The great battleground for the defense and expansion of freedom today is the whole southern half of the globe... the lands of the rising peoples. Their revolution is the greatest in human history. They seek an end to injustice, tyranny and exploitation. More than an end, they seek a beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans, born in this century... unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed, and to which we are committed today."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: For if Freedom and Communism were to compete for mans allegiance in a world at peace, I would look to the future with ever increasing confidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Any danger spot is tenable if men, brave men, will make it so."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. When all are free, then we can look forward to that day when this city will be joined as one and this country and this great Continent of Europe in a peaceful and hopeful globe. When that day finally comes, as it will, the people of West Berlin can take sober satisfaction in the fact that they were in the front lines for almost two decades. All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words Ich bin ein Berliner."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The complacent, the self-indulgent, the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Most of us are conditioned for many years to have a political viewpoint - Republican or Democratic, liberal, conservative, or moderate. The fact of the matter is that most of the problems that we now face are technical problems, are administrative problems. They are very sophisticated judgments, which do not lend themselves to the great sort of passionate movements which have stirred this country so often in the past. - They deal with questions which are now beyond the comprehension of most men."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: United, there is little we cannot do in a host of cooperative ventures. Divided, there is little we can do-for we dare not meet a powerful challenge at odds and \nsplit asunder."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Acting on our own, by ourselves, we cannot establish justice throughout the world, but joined with other free nations, we can ... assist the developing nations to throw off the yoke of poverty."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If sometimes our great artists have been the most critical of our society, it is because their sensitivity and their concern for justice, which must motivate any true artist, makes him aware that our nation falls short of its highest potential. I see little of more importance to the future of our country and our civilization than full recognition of the place of the artist."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Our children and grandchildren are not merely statistics towards which we can be indifferent."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Suspicion on one side breeds suspicion on the other, and new weapons beget counter-weapons."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Easy money, sudden fortunes, increasingly powerful political machines and blatant corruption transformed much of the nation; and the Senate, as befits a democratic legislative body, accurately represented the nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The great revolution in the history of man, past, present and future, is the revolution of those determined to be free."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We believe that when men reach beyond this planet, they should leave their national differences behind them."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: For without belittling the courage with which men have died, we should not forget those acts of courage with which men have lived."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We are inclined to think that if we watch a football game or a baseball game, we have taken part in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: All over the world, particularly in the newer nations, young men are coming to power--men who are not bound by the traditions of the past--men who are not blinded by the old fears and hates and rivalries-- young men who can cast off the old slogans and delusions and suspicions."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: There has also been a change - a slippage - in our intellectual and moral strength. Seven lean years of drouth and famine have withered a field of ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We support the security of both Israel and her neighbors."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: In a time of domestic crisis, men of goodwill and generosity should be able to unite regardless of party or politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone-and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life-he [Churchill] mobilized the English language and sent it into battle."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Our privileges can be no greater than our obligations. The protection of our rights can endure no longer than the performance of our responsibilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Many years ago the great British explorer George Mallory, who was to die on Mount Everest, was asked why did he want to climb it. He said Because it is there. Well, space is there, and were going to climb it, and the moon and the planets are there, and new hopes for knowledge and peace are there."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: This country was founded by men and women who were dedicated or came to be dedicated to two propositions; first, a strong religious conviction, and secondly a recognition that this conviction could flourish only under a system of freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I think the American people expect more from us than cries of indignation and attack. The times are too grave, the challenge too urgent, and the stakes too high - to permit the customary passions of political debate."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Peace does not rest in charters and covenants alone. It lies in the hearts and minds of the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: All my life Ive known better than to depend on the experts. How could I have been so stupid, to let them go ahead?"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Student loans have been helpful to many. But they offer neither incentive nor assistance to those students who, by reason of family or other obligations, are unable or unwilling to go deeper into debt. ... It is, moreover, only prudent economic and social policy for the public to share part of the costs of the long period of higher education for those whose development is essential to our national economic and social well-being. All of us share in the benefits - all should share in the costs."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I look forward to an America which will not be afraid of grace and beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If an American, because his skin is dark, cannot eat lunch in a restaurant open to the public, if he cannot send his children to the best public school available, if he cannot vote for the public officials who represent him, if, in short, he cannot enjoy the full and free life which all of us want, then who among us would be content to have the color of his skin changed and stand in his place? Who among us would then be content with the counsels of patience and delay?"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Our responsibility is one of decision, for to govern is to choose."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke the blessings of peace. And, as we build an international capacity to keep peace, let us join in dismantling the national capacity to wage war."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: And so it is that I carry with me from this State to that high and lonely office to which I now succeed more than fond memories and fast friendships. The enduring qualities of Massachusetts - the common threads woven by the Pilgrim and the Puritan, the fisherman and the farmer, the Yankee and the immigrant - will not be and could not be forgotten in the Nations Executive Mansion. They are an indelible part of my life, my convictions, my view of the past, my hopes for the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Let both sides explore what problems unite us instead of belaboring those problems which divide us."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: So let us persevere. Peace need not be impracticable, and war need not be inevitable. By defining our goal more clearly, by making it seem more manageable and less remote, we can help all peoples to see it, to draw hope from it, and to move irresistibly toward it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Automation does not need to be our enemy. I think machines can make life easier for men, if men do not let the machines dominate them."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I believe in an America where the rights that I have described are enjoyed by all, regardless of their race or their creed or their national origin - where every citizen is free to think and speak as he pleases and write and worship as he pleases - and where every citizen is free to vote as he pleases, without instructions from anyone, his employer, the union leader or his clergyman."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: And this Nation, for all its hopes and all its boasts, will not be fully free until all its citizens are free."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The essence of Vanderbilt is still learning, the essence of its outlook is still liberty, and liberty and learning will be and must be the touchstones of Vanderbilt University and of any free university in this country or the world. I say two touchstones, yet they are almost inseparable, inseparable if not indistinguishable, for liberty without learning is always in peril, and learning without liberty is always in vain."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: All students, members of the faculty, and public officials in both Mississippi and the Nation will be able, it is hoped, to return to their normal activities with full confidence in the integrity of American law. This is as it should be, for our Nation is founded on the principle that observance of the law is the eternal safeguard of liberty and defiance of the law is the surest road to tyranny."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: While we shall negotiate freely, we shall not negotiate freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If there is one path above all others to war, it is the path of weakness and disunity."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I also want to take cognizance of the fact that this flight was made out in the open with all the possibilities of failure, which would have been damaging to our country's prestige. Because great risks were taken in that regard, it seems to me that we have some right to claim that this open society of ours which risked much, gained much."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: There is no sense in agreeing or desiring that the United States take an affirmative position in outer space, unless we are prepared to do the work and bear the burdens to make it\nsuccessful."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: A Canadian newspaperman said yesterday that this is the President's \"Easter egghead roll on the White House lawn.\" I want to deny that!"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war. We do not want a war. We do not now expect a war. This generation of Americans has already had enough - more than enough - of war and hate and oppression. We shall be prepared if others wish it. We shall be alert to try to stop it. But we shall also do our part to build a world of peace where the weak are safe and the strong are just. We are not helpless before that task or hopeless of its success. Confident and unafraid, we labor on - not toward a strategy of annihilation but toward a strategy of peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Will Rogers once said it is not the original investment in a Congressman that counts; it is the upkeep."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: To further the appreciation of culture among all the people, to increase respect for the creative individual, to widen participation by all the processes and fulfillments of artthis is one of the fascinating challenges of these days."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We cannot expect that everyone, to use the phrase of a decade ago, will talk sense to the American people. But we can hope that fewer people will listen to nonsense. And the notion that this Nation is headed for defeat through deficit, or that strength is but a matter of slogans, is nothing but just plain nonsense."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: History will not judge our endeavors--and a government cannot be selected--merely on the basis of color or creed or even party affiliation. Neither will competence and loyalty and stature, while essential to the utmost, suffice in times such as these."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Blight has descended on our regulatory agencies - and a dry rot, beginning in Washington, is seeping into every corner of America - in the payola mentality, the expense account way of life, the confusion between what is legal and what is right."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The world has been close to war before - but now man, who has survived all previous threats to his existence, has taken into his mortal hands the power to exterminate the entire species some seven times over."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Abroad, the balance of power is shifting. There are new and more terrible weapons - new and uncertain nations - new pressures of population and deprivation."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Courage--judgment--integrity--dedication--these are the historic qualities of the Bay Colony and the Bay State....And these are the qualities which, with God's help, this son of Massachusetts hopes will characterize our government's conduct in the four stormy years that lie ahead."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: This increase in the life span and in the number of our senior citizens presents this Nation with increased opportunities: the opportunity to draw upon their skill and sagacityand the opportunity to provide the respect and recognition they have earned. It is not enough for a great nation merely to have added new years to lifeour objective must also be to add new life to those years."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I ask that you offer to the political arena, and to the critical problems of our society which are decided therein, the benefit of the talents which society has helped to develop in you. I ask you to decide, as Goethe put it, whether you will be an anvilor a hammer. The question is whether you are to be a hammerwhether you are to give to the world in which you were reared and educated the broadest possible benefits of that education."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Is this Nation stating it cannot afford to spend an additional $600 million to help the developing nations of the world become strong and free and independentan amount less than this countrys annual outlay for lipstick, face cream, and chewing gum?"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: But wherever we are, we must all, in our daily lives, live up to the age-old faith that peace and freedom walk together. In too many of our cities today, the peace is not secure because freedom is incomplete.\" (John F. Kennedy, June 10, 1963, American University speech)"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Where else, in a non-totalitarian country, but in the political profession is the individual expected to sacrifice all-including his own career-for the national good?"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: There is nothing, I think, more unfortunate than to have soft, chubby, fat-looking children who go to watch their school play basketball every Saturday and regard that as their weeks exercise."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If we fail to encourage physical development and prowess, we will undermine our capcity for thought, for work, and for use of those skills vital to an expanding and complex America."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: This knowledge, the knowledge that the physical well-being of the citizen is an important foundation for all of the activities of the nation, is as old as Western civilization itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: No treaty, however much it may be to the advantage of all, however tightly it may be worded, can provide absolute security against the risks of deception and evasion. But it can, if it is sufficiently effective in its enforcement and if it is sufficiently in the interests of its signers, offer far more security and far fewer risks than an unabated, uncontrolled, unpredictable arms race."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The exploration of space will go ahead, whether we join in it or not, and it is one of the great adventures of all time, and no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The physical fitness of our citizens is a vital prerequisite to America's realization of its full potential as a nation, and to the opportunity of each individual citizen to make full and fruitful use of his capacities."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: To those peoples in the huts and villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves, for whatever period is required - not because the Communists may be doing it, not because we seek their votes, but because it is right. If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: That is the kind of America in which I believe. And it represents the kind of Presidency in which I believe - a great office that must neither be humbled by making it the instrument of any one religious group nor tarnished by arbitrarily withholding its occupancy from the members of any one religious group. I believe in a President whose religious views are his own private affair, neither imposed by him upon the Nation or imposed by the Nation upon him as a condition to holding that office."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: This Government, as promised, has maintained the closest surveillance of the Soviet Military buildup on the island of Cuba. Within the past week, unmistakable evidence has established the fact that a series of offensive missile sites is now in preparation on that imprisoned island. The purpose of these bases can be none other than to provide a nuclear strike capability against the Western Hemisphere."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Our economy today depends upon women in the labor force. One out of three workers is a woman. Today, there are almost 25 million women employed, and their number is rising faster than the number of men in the labor force."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: It is extremely important that adequate provision be made for reasonable levels of income to them, for the care of the children which they must leave at home or in school, and for protection of the family unit. One of the prime objectives of the Commission on the Status of Women, which I appointed 18 months ago, is to develop a program to accomplish these purposes."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We go into space because whatever mankind must undertake, free men must fully share."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The lower the family income, the higher the probability that the mother must work. Today, 1 out of 5 of these working mothers has children under 3. Two out of 5 have children of school age. Among the remainder, about 50 percent have husbands who earn less than $5,000 a year-many of them much less. I believe they bear the heaviest burden of any group in our Nation. Where the mother is the sole support of the family, she often must face the hard choice of either accepting public assistance or taking a position at a pay rate which averages less than two-thirds of the pay rate for men."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We also need the provisions in the tax bill that will permit working mothers to increase the deduction from income tax liability for costs incurred in providing care for their children while the mothers are working. In October the Commission on the Status of Women will report to me. This problem should have a high priority, and I think that whatever we leave undone this year we must move on this in January."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Khrushchev reminds me of the tiger hunter who has picked a place on the wall to hang the tiger's skin long before he has caught the tiger. This tiger has other ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We have some of the most influential Members of Congress here today, and I do hope that we can get this appropriation for these day-care centers, which seems to me to be money very wisely spent, and also under consideration of the tax bill, that we can consider the needs of the working mothers, and both of these will be very helpful, and I would like to lobby in their behalf."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: No government or social system is so evil that its people must be considered as lacking in virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: While much remains to be done to achieve full equality of economic opportunity-for the average woman worker earns only 60 percent of the average wage for men-this legislation is a significant step forward."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The Federal Government is the people and the budget is a reflection of their need."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: In a very real sense, it will not be one man going to the moon it will be an entire nation. For all of us must work to put him there."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Those whom nature hath so joined together, let no man put asunder"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I am grateful to those Members of Congress who worked so diligently to guide the Equal Pay Act through. It is a first step. It affirms our determination that when women enter the labor force they will find equality in their pay envelopes."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Partnership is not a posture but a process-a continuous process that grows stronger each year as we devote ourselves to common tasks."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: For I can assure you that we love our country, not for what it was, though it has always been great - not for what it is, though of this we are deeply proud - but for what it someday can, and, through the efforts of us all, someday will be."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: In seeking the help of the Congress and our countrymen, I pledged no easy answers. I pledged, and asked, only toil and dedication. These the Congress and the people have given in good measure."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The voters selected us, in short, because they had confidence in our judgement and our ability to exercise that judgement from a position where we could determine what were their own best interest, as a part of the nation's interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: There's an old saying that victory has a hundred fathers and defeat is an orphan.... I'm the responsible officer of the Government."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Every American ought to have the right to be treated as he would wish to be treated, as one would wish his children to be treated. This is not the case."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The White House was designed by Hoban, a noted Irish-American architect, and I have no doubt that he believed by incorporating several features of the Dublin style he would make it more homelike for any President of Irish descent. It was a long wait, but I appreciate his efforts."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The New Frontier of which I speak is not a set of promises, it is a set of challenges.\r\nIt sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intend to ask of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If scientific discovery has not been an unalloyed blessing, if it has conferred on mankind the power not only to create but also to annihilate, it has at the same time provided humanity with a supreme challenge and a supreme testing"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If a beach-head of cooperation may push back the jungle of suspicion, let both sides join in creating a new endeavor, not a new balance of power, but a new world of law, where the strong are just and the weak secure and the peace preserved. All this will not be finished in the first one hundred days. Nor will it be finished in the first one thousand days, nor in the life of this Administration, nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: In that case, there is no time to lose. Plant it this afternoon!"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Now let me make it clear that I believe there can only be one defense policy for the United States and that is summed up in the word 'first.' I do not mean first, but. I do not mean first, when. I do not mean first, if. I mean first - period."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: When I ran for Presidency of the United States, I knew that this country faced serious challenges, but I could not realize - nor could any man realize who does not bear the burdens of this office - how heavy and constant would be those burdens"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The United States, as the world knows, will never start a war."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Whether I serve one or two terms in the Presidency, I will find myself at the end of that period at what might be called the awkward age-too old to begin a new career and too young to write my memoirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: To that world assembly of sovereign states, the United Nations, our last best hope in an age where the instruments of war have far outpaced the instruments of peace, we renew our pledge of support - to prevent it from becoming merely a forum for invective - to strengthen its shield of the new and the weak - and to enlarge the area in which its writ may run."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: While we cannot guarantee that we shall one day be first, we can guarantee that any failure to make this effort will make us last."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: A wall is a hell of a lot better than a war."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Diplomacy and defense are not substitutes for one another. Either alone would fail."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If the economy of today were operating close to capacity levels with little unemployment, or if a sudden change in our military requirements should cause a scramble for men and resources, then I would oppose tax reductions as irresponsible and inflationary; and I would not hesitate to recommend a tax increase if that were necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask; why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas?"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: 'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for freedom. I know the United States Army will live up to its reputation for imagination, resourcefulness, and spirit as we meet this challenge."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: This is not the land of my birth, but it is the land for which I hold the greatest affection, and I certainly will come back in the springtime"
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: There are no 'white' or 'coloured' signs on the foxholes or graveyards of battle."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I must say that though other days may not be so bright, as we look toward the future, that the brightest days will continue to be those we spent with you here in Ireland."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: All of us in the Senate live in an iron lung-the iron lung of politics, and it is no easy task to emerge from that rarified atmosphere in order to breathe the same fresh air our constituents breathe."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I believe in an America ... where no public official either requests or accepts instructions on public policy from the Pope, the National Council of Churches, or any other ecclesiastical source."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Be strong and of good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We don't want to be like the leader in the French Revolution who said There go my people, I must find out where they are going so I can lead them."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Mr. Nixon has, in the last seven days, called me an economic ignoramus, a Pied Piper, and all the rest. I've just confined myself to calling him a Republican. But he says that is getting low."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes. It can no longer concern the Great Powers alone. For a nuclear disaster, spread by wind and water and fear, could well engulf the great and the small, the rich and the poor, the committed and the uncommitted alike. Mankind must put an end to war--or war will put an end to mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Lobbyists are in many cases expert technicians and capable of explaining complex and difficult subjects in a clear, understandable fashion. They engage in personal discussions with Members of Congress in which they can explain in detail the reasons for positions they advocate. Because our congressional representation is based on geographical boundaries, the lobbyists who speak for the various economic, commercial, and other functional interests of this country serve a very useful purpose and have assumed an important role in the legislative process."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: For to save mankind's future freedom, we must face up to any risk that is necessary. We will always seek peace - but we will never surrender."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Disarmament without checks is but a shadow - and a community without law is but a shell."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Nearly forty years ago, a distinguished Prime Minister of this country ... said, 'They may not be angels but they are at least our friends.'* I must say that I do not think that we probably demonstrated in that forty years that we are angels yet, but I hope we have demonstrated that we are at least friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: For only when our arms are sufficient beyond doubt can we be certain beyond doubt that they will never be employed."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The Family of Man is more than 3 billion strong. It lives in more than 100 nations. Most of its members are not white. Most of them are not Christians. Most of them know nothing about free enterprise or due process of law or the Australian ballot."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If this capsule history of our progress teaches us anything, it is that man, in his quest for knowledge and progress, is determined and cannot be deterred."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I'm an idealist without illusions."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Never have the nations of the world had so much to lose, or so much to gain. Together we shall save our planet, or together we shall perish in its flames."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: In addition, the United States Delegation will suggest a series of steps to improve the United Nations machinery for the peaceful settlement of disputes... - for extending the rule of international law. For peace is not solely a matter of military or technical problems - it is primarily a problem of politics and people."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: If the self-discipline of the free cannot match the iron discipline of the mailed fist, in economic, political, scientific, and all the other kinds of struggles, as well as the military, then the peril to freedom will continue to rise."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: The federal government's most useful role is not to rush into a program of excessive increases in public expenditures, but to expand the incentives and opportunities for private expenditures."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: A tired nation, said David Lloyd George, is a Tory nation, and the United States today cannot afford to be either tired or Tory."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: I am fully aware of the fact that the Democratic Party, by nominating someone of my faith, has taken on what many regard as a new and hazardous risk."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: Richard Cromwell was not fit to wear the mantle of his uncle."
  },
  {
    "text": "John F. Kennedy: It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Begin your day with prayer, and make it so soulful that it may remain with you until the evening."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is no school equal to a decent home and no teacher equal to a virtuous parent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To lose patience is to lose the battle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall... think of it, always."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is for us to make the effort. The result is always in God's hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The golden rule is to act fearlessly upon what one believes to be right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth resides in every human heart, and one has to search for it there, and to be guided by truth as one sees it. But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Keep your values positive, because your values become your destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God has no religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We but mirror the world. All the tendencies present in the outer world are to be found in the world of our body. If we could change ourselves, the tendencies in the world would also change. As a man changes his own nature, so does the attitude of the world change towards him. This is the divine mystery supreme. A wonderful thing it is and the source of our happiness. We need not wait to see what others do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Democracy disciplined and enlightened is the finest thing in the world. A democracy prejudiced, ignorant, superstitious, will land itself in chaos and may be self-destroyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Selfless action is a source of strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Don't listen to friends when the Friend inside you says \"Do this.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Government control gives rise to fraud, suppression of Truth, intensification of the black market and artificial scarcity. Above all, it unmans the people and deprives them of initiative, it undoes the teaching of self-help."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Silence becomes cowardice when occasion demands speaking out the whole truth and acting accordingly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state has become lawless or corrupt. And a citizen who barters with such a state shares in its corruption and lawlessness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Democracy is not a state in which people act like sheep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: You can chain me, you can torture me, you can even destroy this body, but you will never imprison my mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Illness or disease is only Nature's warning that filth has accumulated in some portion or other of the body; and it would surely be the part of wisdom to allow Nature to remove the filth, instead of covering it up with the help of medicines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Our ability to reach unity in diversity will be the beauty and the test of our civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A burning passion coupled with absolute detachment is the key to all success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Speak only if it improves upon the silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is nothing that wastes the body like worry, and one who has any faith in God should be ashamed to worry about anything whatsoever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior. Has she not greater intuition, is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater powers of endurance, has she not greater courage? Without her, man could not be. If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with woman. Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Where there is fear there is no religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My religion enables me, obliges me to imbibe all that is good in all the great religions of the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul. It is daily admission of one's weakness. It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good man will therefore resist an evil system or administration with his whole soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For me, the different religions are beautiful flowers from the same garden, or they are branches of the same majestic tree. Therefore, they are equally true, though being received and interpreted through human instruments equally imperfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Terrorism and deception are weapons not of the strong, but of the weak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It does not require money to be neat, clean and dignified."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What may appear as truth to one person will often appear as untruth to another person. But that need not worry the seeker. When there is honest effort, it will be realised that what appears to be different truths are like apparently different countless leaves of the same tree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love. Power based on love is a thousand times more effective and permanent then the one derived from fear of punishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day: - I shall not fear anyone on Earth. - I shall fear only God. - I shall not bear ill will toward anyone. - I shall not submit to injustice from anyone. - I shall conquer untruth by truth. And in resisting untruth, I shall put up with all suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Violence always thrived on counter violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man often becomes what he believes himself to be. If I keep on saying to myself that I cannot do a certain thing, it is possible that I may end by really becoming incapable of doing it. On the contrary, if I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Life is but an endless series of experiments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Where there is love there is life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hatred is not essential for nationalism. Race hatred will kill the real national spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The golden way is to be friends with the world and to regard the whole human family as one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Rights of true citizenship accrue only to those who serve the State to which they belong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The newspaperman has become a walking plague. He spreads the contagion of lies and calumnies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In the midst of darkness, light persists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Civil disobedience is the inherent right of a citizen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Prayer is an impossibility without a living faith in the presence of God within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Look at the sparrows; they do not know what they will do in the next moment. Let us literally live from moment to moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is no need of a teacher for those who know how to think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I am a man of peace. I believe in peace. But I do not want peace at any price."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The rich cannot accumulate wealth without the co-operation of the poor in society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My life is my message."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: True beauty consists of purity of heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man is born of woman, he is flesh of her flesh and bone of her bone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Adversity is the mother of progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: True education is that which proves useful in life and makes you industrious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Both heaven and hell are within us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is goodness as well as greatness in simplicity, not in wealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Do not judge others. Be your own judge and you will be truly happy. If you will try to judge others, you are likely to burn your fingers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Love never claims, it ever gives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Civil disobedience becomes a sacred duty when the state becomes lawless or corrupt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Journalism should never be prostituted for selfish ends or for the sake of merely earning a livelihood or, worse still, for amassing money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: President means chief servant"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The greater our innocence, the greater our strength and the swifter our victory"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I may be a despicable person, but when Truth speaks through me I am invincible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Prayer from the heart can achieve what nothing else can in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we are to reach real peace in this world and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with children; and if they will grow up in their natural innocence, we won't have to struggle; we won't have to pass fruitless idle resolutions, but we shall go from love to love and peace to peace, until at last all the corners of the world are covered with that peace and love for which consciously or unconsciously the whole world is hungering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I know that in embarking on non-violence I shall be running what might be termed a mad risk. But the victories of truth have never been won without risks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Self-suppression is often necessary in the interest of truth and nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All the great religions of the world inculcate equality and brotherhood of mankind and the virtue of toleration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realising Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Aggressive civil disobedience should be confined to a vindication of the right of free speech and free association."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Human life is a series of compromises, and it is not always easy to achieve in practice what one has found to be true in theory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is easy enough to say, I do not believe in God. For God permits all things to be said of Him with impunity. he looks at our acts. And any breach of His Law carries with it, not its vindictive, but it purifying, compelling punishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Mutual tolerance is a necessity for all time and for all races."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I learnt the lesson on nonviolence from my wife, when I tried to bend her to my will. Her determined resistance to my will on the one hand, and her quiet submission to the suffering my stupidity involved on the other, ultimately made me ashamed of myself and cured me of my stupidity in thinking that I was born to rule over her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No man loses his freedom except through his own weakness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say, religions are many, but as a tree, religion is only one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Bullies are always to be found where there are cowards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is an orderliness in the universe, there is an unalterable law governing everything and every being that exists or lives. It is no blind law; for no blind law can govern the conduct of living beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Exploitation of the poor can be extinguished not by effecting the destruction of a few millionaires, but by removing the ignorance of the poor and teaching them to non-cooperate with their exploiters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence is not a weapon of the weak. It is a weapon of the strongest and bravest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Satan mostly employs comparatively moral instruments and the language of ethics to give his aims an air of respectability."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A woman's intuition has often proved truer than a man's arrogant assumption of knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No matter how insignificant the thing you have to do, do it as well as you can, give it as much of your care and attention as you would give to the thing you regard as most important. For it will be by those small things that you shall be judged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I call myself a labourer because I take pride in calling myself a spinner, weaver, farmer and scavenger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The elephant needs a thousand times more food than the ant but that is not an indication of inequality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When every hope is gone, 'when helpers fail and comforts flee,' I find that help arrives somehow, from I know not where. Supplication, worship, prayer are no superstition; they are acts more real than the acts of eating, drinking, sitting or walking. It is no exaggeration to say that they alone are real, all else is unreal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I am conscious of my own limitations. That consciousness is my only strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To my mind, the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nothing is impossible for pure love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The greatest help you can give me is to banish fear from your hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Disobedience to be civil has to be open and nonviolent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Events that have happened during the past month have confirmed me in the opinion that the Imperial Government have acted in the Khilafat matter in an unscrupulous, immoral and unjust manner and have been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend their immorality. I can retain neither respect nor affection for such a Government. The attitude of the Imperial and Your Excellency's Governments on the Punjab question has given me additional cause for grave dissatisfaction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence becomes meaningless if violence is permitted for self-defence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Anger and intolerance are the twin enemies of correct understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do regard spinning and weaving as a necessary part of any national system of education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Whenever I see an erring man, I say to myself I have also erred; when I see a lustful man I say to myself, so was I once; and in this way I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have learnt through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power which can move the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Genuine laughter is true eloquence and more effective than speech"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man is sent into the world to perform his duty even at the cost of his life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The real love is to love them that hate you, to love your neighbor even though you distrust him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I hold no man to be indispensable for the welfare of the country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have worshipped woman as the living embodiment of the spirit of service and sacrifice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Once one assumes an attitude of intolerance, there is no knowing where it will take one. Intolerance, someone has said, is violence to the intellect and hatred is violence to the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Who can deny that much that passes for science and art today destroys the soul instead of uplifting it and instead of evoking the best in us, panders to our basest passions?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Public opinion alone can keep a society pure and healthy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Jealousy does not wait for reasons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Democracy is a great institution and, therefore, it is liable to be greatly abused."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore, set a limit to our indulgences. They saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is rich, or unhappy because he is poor.... Millions will always remain poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A satyagrahi lays down his life, but never gives up. That is the meaning of the 'do or die' slogan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We want freedom for our country, but not at the expense or exploitation of others, not so as to degrade other countries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Self-sacrifice of one innocent man is a million times more potent than the sacrifice of a million men who die in the act of killing others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Individual liberty and interdependence are both essential for life in society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Mankind is notoriously too dense to read the signs that God sends from time to time. We require drums to be beaten into our ears, before we should wake from our trance and hear the warning and see that to lose oneself in all, is the only way to find oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: High thinking is inconsistent with a complicated material life based on high speed and imposed on us by mammon worship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hate the sin and not the sinner' is a precept which, though easy enough to understand, is rarely practiced, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If I were a dictator, religion and state would be separate. I swear by my religion. I will die for it. But it is my personal affair. The state has nothing to do with it. The state would look after your secular welfare, health, communications, foreign relations, currency and so on, but not your or my religion. That is everybody's personal concern!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Journalism has become the art of \"intelligent anticipation of events.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The real meaning of economic equality is \"To each according to his need.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Anger, lust and such other evil passions raging in the heart are the real untouchables."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If I am true to myself, if I am true to mankind, if I am true to humanity, I must understand all the faults that human flesh is heir to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do believe that, where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence. I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonour. But I believe that nonviolence is infinitely superior to violence, forgiveness is more manly than punishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The very first step in nonviolence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Simplicity is the essence of universality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: History has no record of a nation having adopted nonviolent resistance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If I had no sense of humor I should long ago have committed suicide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Personally, I hold that a man, who deliberately and intelligently takes a pledge and then breaks it, forfeits his manhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A language is an exact reflection of the character and growth of its speakers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We have no evidence whatsoever that the soul perishes with the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy, and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Economic equality is the master-key to nonviolent independence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Government of the people by the people and for the people cannot be conducted at the bidding of one man, however great he may be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Civil disobedience is not only the natural right of a people, especially when they have no effective voice in their own Government, but that it is also a substitute for violence or armed rebellion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Corruption and hypocrisy ought not to be inevitable products of democracy, as they undoubtedly are today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If there is violence, it will certainly be crushed because violence can only end in a disgraceful rout."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The beauty of poetry is that the creation transcends the poet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Tolerance is the only thing that will enable persons belonging to different religions to live as good neighbours and friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Do not flatter yourselves with the belief that a mere recital of that celebrated verse in St. John makes a man a Christian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Imperialism is a negation of God. It does ungodly acts in the name of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Independence means voluntary restraints and discipline, voluntary acceptance of the rule of law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is weakness which breeds fear, and fear breeds distrust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Mass civil disobedience was for the attainment of independence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A country whose culture is based on nonviolence will find it necessary to have every home as much self-contained as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Full effort is full victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Responsibility will mellow and sober the youth and prepare them, for the burden they must discharge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Joy lies in the fight, in the attempt, in the suffering involved, not in the victory itself"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No matter how explicit the pledge, people will turn and twist the text to suit their own purpose"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The very word Islam means peace, which is nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God answers prayer in His own way, not ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To me I seem to be constantly growing. I must respond to varying conditions, yet remain changeless within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For me, humanitarian service, or rather service of all that lives, is religion. And I draw no distinction between such religion and politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust. The world crushes the dust under its feet, but the seeker after truth should so humble himself that even the dust could crush him. Only then, and not till then, will he have a glimpse of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man cannot be transformed from bad to good overnight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What will tell in the end will be character and not a knowledge of letters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: That economics is untrue which ignores or disregards moral values."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It hurts me to think that people in their rush for everything modern despise all their ancient traditions and ignore them in their lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God- given and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoints of the followers of these faiths, we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The secret of a happy life lies in renunciation. Renunciation is life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The press is called the Fourth Estate. It is definitely a power, but, to misuse that power is criminal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A true man of piety will consider himself a sinner and, therefore, untouchable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe that just as everyone inherits a particular form so does he inherit the particular characteristics and qualities of his progenitors, and to make this admission is to conserve one's energy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Satan's successes are the greatest when he appears with the name of God on his lips."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Schools and colleges are really a factory for turning out clerks for the Government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth is God, and truth overrides all our plans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Birth and death are not two different states, but they are different aspects of the same state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man's true wealth hereafter is the good he has done to his fellowmen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There are times when you have to obey a call which is the highest of all, i.e. the voice of conscience even though such obedience may cost many a bitter tear, and even more, separation from friends, from family, from the state, to which you may belong, from all that you have held as dear as life itself. For this obedience is the law of our being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave, his fetters fall. Freedom and slavery are mental states."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Gentleness, self-sacrifice and generosity are the exclusive possession of no one race or religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Retaliation is counter-poison and poison breeds more poison. The nectar of Love alone can destroy the poison of hate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No society can possibly be built on a denial of individual freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent nationalism is a necessary condition of corporate or civilized life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My religion teaches me to love all equally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When restraint and courtesy are added to strength, the latter becomes irresistible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Love is needed to strengthen the weak; love becomes tyrannical when it exacts obedience from an unbeliever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth. This is God's attribute alone. Relative truth is all we know. Therefore, we can only follow the truth as we see it. Such pursuit of truth cannot lead anyone astray."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: This feeling of helplessness in us has arisen from our deliberate dismissal of God from our common affairs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man becomes not the lord and master of all creation but he is its servant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Those who are truthful, nonviolent and brave do not cease to be so because of the stupidity of their leader."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Love and exclusive possession can never go together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is very significant that some of the most thoughtful and cultured men are partisans of a pure vegetable diet"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I may not unnerve myself while I can struggle against evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Each one prays to God according to his own light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is a first class human tragedy that people of the earth who claim to believe in the message of Jesus, whom they describe as the Prince of Peace, show little of that belief in actual practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Mere brave speech without action is letting off useless steam."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Just as the body cannot exist without blood, so the soul needs the matchless and pure strength of faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The greatest menace to the world today is the growing, exploiting, irresponsible imperialism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him. Will he gain anything by it? Will it restore him to a control over his own life and destiny? In other words, will it lead to swaraj for the hungry and spiritually starving millions?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My mission is to convert every Indian, every Englishman and finally the world to nonviolence for regulating mutual relations, whether political, economic, social or religious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Though I cannot claim to be a Christian in the sectarian sense, the example of Jesus suffering is a factor in the composition of my undying faith in non-violence which rules all my actions, worldly and temporal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A leader is useless when he acts against the promptings of his own conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Under democracy, individual liberty of opinion and action is jealously guarded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A democrat must be utterly selfless. He must think and dream not in terms of self or of party, but only of democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God is not outside this earthly case of ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Satan's snares are mostly subtly laid and are the most tempting when the dividing line between right and wrong is so thin as to be imperceptible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We cannot have real independence unless the people banish the touch-me-not spirit from their hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In a society based on nonviolence, the smallest nation will feel as tall as the tallest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Khadi is the sun of the village solar system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Islam stands for the unity and brotherhood of mankind, and not for disrupting the oneness of the human family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Freedom and slavery are mental states."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Unity, to be real, must stand the severest strain without breaking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I hold it a blasphemy to say that the Creator resides in a temple from which a particular class of His devotees sharing faith in it are excluded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: As the means, so the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The way of peace is the way of truth. Truthfulness is even more important than peacefulness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in my discernment of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The nation cannot be kept on the nonviolent path by violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We are merely instruments of the Almighty's will and therefore ignorant of what helps us forward and what acts as an impediment. We must thus rest satisfied with the knowledge only of the means and if these are pure, we can fearlessly leave the end to take care of itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Religions are different roads converging on the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? I believe that all religions of the world are true more or less. I say \"more or less\" because I believe that everything the human hand touches, by reason of the very fact that human beings are imperfect, becomes imperfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The world is weary of hate. We see the fatigue overcoming the Western nations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Political power means the capacity to regulate national life through national representatives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A nonviolent occupation is that occupation which is fundamentally free from violence and which involves no exploitation or envy of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Whatever can be useful to those starving millions is beautiful to my mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The need of the moment is not one religion, but mutual respect and tolerance of the devotees of the different religions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It dawned upon me that fasting could be made as powerful a weapon of indulgence as of restraint"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: You cannot cure a lesser evil by a greater evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Art to be art must soothe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Golden fetters are no less galling to a self-respecting man that iron ones; the sting lies in the fetters, not in the metal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A satyagrahi would neither retaliate nor would he submit to the criminal, but seek to cure him by curing himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The deepest spiritual truths are always unutterable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Each and every one of you should consider himself to be a trustee for the welfare of the rest of his fellow labourers and not be self-seeking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I consider Western Christianity in its practical working a negation of Christ's Christianity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Love is the subtlest force in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Strength of numbers is the delight of the timid. The Valiant in spirit glory in fighting alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For a non-violent person the whole world is one family. He will thus fear none, nor will others fear him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nothing will demoralize the nation so much as that we should learn to despise labour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What barrier is there that love cannot break?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The rishis, who discovered the law of nonviolence in the midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like the black, dead peace of the grave, but the living peace, the living happiness of a soul which is conscious of itself and conscious of having found its own abode in the heart of the Eternal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do feel that spiritual progress does demand at some stage that we should cease to kill our fellow creatures for the satisfaction of our bodily wants."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is impossible that God, who is the God of Justice, could have made the distinctions that men observe today in the name of religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Persistent questioning and healthy inquisitiveness are the first requisite for acquiring learning of any kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth never damages a cause that is just."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: They cannot take away our self-respect if we do not give it to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My faith runs so very much faster than my reason that I can challenge the whole world and say, 'God is, was and ever shall be'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The whole world is in the throes of a new birth. Anything done for a temporary gain would be tantamount to an abortion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A teacher who establishes rapport with the taught, becomes one with them, learns more from them than he teaches them. He who learns nothing from his disciples is, in my opinion, worthless. Whenever I talk with someone I learn from him. I take from him more than I give him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God chooses as His instrument the humblest and weakest of His creatures to fulfill Himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man has the supreme knack of deceiving himself; the Englishman is supremest among men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nothing can so quickly put the masses on their legs as the spinning wheel and all it means."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe that the yarn we spin is capable of mending the broken warp and woof of our life!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is no such thing as compulsion in the scheme of nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: True suffering does not know itself and never calculates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe that cunning is not only morally wrong but also politically expedient, and have therefore always discountenanced its use even from the practical standpoint."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that one that must be loved is not a friend. There is not merit in loving an enemy when you forget him for a friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I become more than ever convinced that it was not the sword that won a place for Islam in those days. It was the rigid simplicity, the utter self-effacement of Hussein, the scrupulous regard for pledges, his intense devotion to his friends and followers and his intrepidity, his fearlessness, his absolute trust in God and in his own mission. These and not the sword carried everything before them and surmounted every obstacle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Stoning prophets and erecting churches to their memory afterwards has been the way of the world through the ages. Today we worship Christ, but the Christ in the flesh we crucified."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Fear gone, there can be no hatred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All of us with one voice call one God differently as Parmatma, Ishwara, Shiva, Vishnu, Rama, Allah, Khuda, Dada-Hormuzda, Jehova, God and an infinite variety of names."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat for it is momentary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Untouchability is a many-headed monster and forms, some of them so subtle as not to be easily detected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth is what the voice within tells you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In nature there is a fundamental unity running through all the diversity we see about us. Religions are given to mankind so as to accelerate the process of realisation of fundamental unity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Freedom of the press is a precious privilege that no country can forego."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that too, unconditional assistance, Co-operation which needs consideration is as a commercial contract and not friendship. Conditional co-operation is like adulterated cement which does not bind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality. Man, for instance, cannot be untruthful, cruel or incontinent and claim to have God on his side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Religion is a thing to be lived. It is not merely sophistry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To die in the act of killing is, in essence, to die defeated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: As a rule, the mind, residing in a body that has become weakened by pampering, is also weak, and where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A resolute and wise refusal to take part in festivities will be an incentive for introspection and self-purification."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Civil disobedience does not admit of any violence or countenancing of violence directly or indirectly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every labourer is worthy of his hire. No country can produce thousands of unpaid whole-time workers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The purification required is not of untouchables but of the so-called superior castes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Good travels at a snail's pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is easy enough to be friendly to one's friends. But to befriend the one who regards himself as your enemy is the quintessence of true religion. The other is mere business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Out of the performance of duties flow rights, and those that knew and performed their duties came naturally by their rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we want to cultivate a true spirit of democracy we cannot afford to be intolerant. Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I am endeavouring to see God through service of humanity; for I know that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in everyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Religions are not for separating men from one another, they are meant to bind them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Employers ganging up against workers is like raising an army of elephants against ants."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Monotony is the law of nature. Look at the monotonous manner in which the sun rises. The monotony of necessary occupation is exhilarating and life giving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is no love where there is no will"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Why should men arrogate to themselves the right to regulate female purity?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Patience means self-suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Imitation is the sincerest flattery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We shall make progress towards Swaraj only if we do everything thoughtfully and with understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Is she not more self-sacrificing, has she not greater courage? Without her, man would not be. If nonviolence is to be the law of our being, the future is with women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A national spirit is necessary for national existence. A flag is a material aid to the development of such a spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nobody in this world possesses absolute truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To safeguard democracy the people must have a keen sense of independence, self-respect, and their oneness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa is a science. The word 'failure' has no place in the vocabulary of science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A spirit is not necessarily purer, because it is disembodied."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence is a universal principle and its operation is not limited by a hostile environment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Democracy comes naturally to him who is habituated normally to yield willing obedience to all laws, human or divine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err. It passes my comprehension how human beings, be they ever so experienced and able, can delight in depriving other human beings of that precious right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti-any Government, but I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug and anti-injustice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man's upward progress means ever increasing difficulty, which is to be welcomed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Proved right should be capable of being vindicated by right means as against the rude i.e. sanguinary means. Man may and should shed his own blood for establishing what he considers to be his right. He may not shed the blood of his opponent who disputes his 'right'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is a sad thing that our schoolboys look upon manual labour with disfavour, if not contempt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Religion of our conception, thus imperfect, is always subject to a process of evolution and re-interpretation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Buddha emphasized and re-declared the eternal and unalterable existence of the moral government of this universe. He unhesitatingly said that the law was God Himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: External fears cease of their own accord when once we have conquered these traitors within the camp."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It would conduce to national progress and save a great deal of time and trouble if we cultivated the habit of never supporting the resolutions either by speaking or voting for them if we had not either the intention or the ability to carry them out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: And everyone who wills can hear the Voice. It is within every one. But like everything else it requires previous and definite preparation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man must choose either of the two courses, the upward or the downward; but as he has the brute in him, he will more easily choose the downward course than the upward, especially when the downward course is presented to him in a beautiful garb. Man easily capitulates when sin is presented in the garb of virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A rabbit that runs away from the bull-terrier is not particularly non-violent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My idea of society is that while we are born equal, meaning that we have a right to equal opportunity, all have not the same capacity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent action means mobilization of world opinion in our favour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My knowledge of the letter of the Shastras is better, but of true religion they are able to give me but little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Even as wisdom often comes from the mouths of babes, so does it often come from the mouths of old people. The golden rule is to test everything in the light of reason and experience, no matter from where it comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I realized the true function of a lawyer was to unite parties riven asunder. The lesson was so indelibly burnt into me that a large part of my time during the twenty years of my practice as a lawyer was occupied in bringing about private compromises of hundreds of cases. I lost nothing thereby -- not even money, certainly not my soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A person unbound by vows can never be absolutely relied upon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A fearless woman who knows that her purity is her best shield can never be dishonoured."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Diversity there certainly is in the world, but it means neither inequality nor untouchability."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I'm a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Consciously or unconsciously, every one of us does render some service or other. If we cultivate the habit of doing this service deliberately, our desire for service will steadily grow stronger, and will make, not only for our own happiness, but that of the world at large."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If a man voluntarily allows himself to be crushed, he yields the oil of moral energy which sustains the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The weak can never forgive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Unlike the animal, God has given man the faculty of reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No empire intoxicated with the red wine of power and the plunder of weaker races has yet lived long in this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In this age of the rule of brute force, it is almost impossible for anyone to believe that any one else could possibly reject the law of the final supremacy of brute force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Far more indispensable then food for the physical body is spiritual nourishment for the soul. One can do without food for a considerable time, but a man of the spirit cannot exist for a single second without spiritual nourishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I am but a poor struggling soul yearning to be wholly good, wholly truthful and wholly non-violent in thought, word and deed, but ever failing to reach the ideal which I know to be true. It is a painful climb, but each step upwards makes me feel stronger and fit for the next."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Though God may be Love, God is Truth above all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hindu-Muslim unity, khaddar and removal of untouchability are to me the foundation of Swaraj."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: But you can wake a man only if he is really asleep. No effort that you make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A genuine satyagraha should never excite contempt in the opponent even when it fails to command regard or respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Forces of nature act in a mysterious manner. We can but solve the mystery by deducing the unknown result from the known results of similar events."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The law of sacrifice is uniform throughout the world. To be effective it demands the sacrifice of the bravest and the most spotless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If you want something really important to be done you must not merely satisfy the reason, you must move the heart also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hinduism is like the Ganga, pure and unsullied at its source but taking in its course the impurities in the way. Even like the Ganga it is beneficent in its total effect. It takes a provincial form in every province, but the inner substance is retained everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Love is a rare herb that makes a friend even of a sworn enemy and this herb grows out of nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Today the cities dominate and drain the villages so that they are crumbling to ruin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Restore the spinning wheel to its place and you will solve the problem of poverty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Woman in the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacities. She has the right to participate in the minutest details in the activities of man, and she has equal right to liberty of freedom and liberty with him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If I seem to take part in politics, it is only because politics encircles us today like the coil of a snake from which one cannot get out, no matter how much one tries. I wish therefore to wrestle with the snake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Palestine belongs to the Arabs in the same sense that England belongs to the English or France to the French."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Cowards can never be moral."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The avowed policy of non-co-operation has been not to make political use of the disputes between labour and capital."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I claim to be no more than the average person with less than average ability. I have not the shadow of a doubt that any man or woman can achieve what I have, if he or she would make the same effort and cultivate the same hope and faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is no one without faults, not even men of God. They are men of God not because they are faultless, but because they know their faults, they strive against them, they do not hide them, and are ever ready to correct themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Anything that exists is possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The purer I try to become, the nearer I feel to be to God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I consider writing as a fine art. We kill it by imposing the alphabet on little children and making it the beginning of learning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When there is war, the poet lays down the lyre, the lawyer his law reports, the schoolboy his books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A perfect Muslim is he from whose tongue and hands mankind is safe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I condemn, for all climes and for all times, secret murders and unfair methods even for a fair cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Heroes are made in the hour of defeat. Success is, therefore, well described as a series of glorious defeats."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There being no absolute and universal standard of right, terrorism must be held to be wrong in every case."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We cannot, in a moment, get rid of habits of a lifetime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There can be no rule of God in the present state of iniquitous inequalities in which a few roll in riches and the masses do not get enough to eat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If you will express the requisite purity of character in action, you cannot do it better than through the spinning wheel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Prayer is not asking. It is a longing of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is always the fear of self-righteousness possessing us, the fear of arrogating to ourselves a superiority that we do not possess."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Whatever I do is out of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Life is one indivisible whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The quest of Truth involves tapas-self-suffering-sometimes even unto death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Harijan service is a duty the caste Hindus owe to themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No one has the capacity to judge God. We are drops in that limitless ocean of mercy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Civil disobedience presupposes willing obedience of our self-imposed rules, and without it civil disobedience would be a cruel joke."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If non-violence is the Law of our being, the future is with Women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Violent nationalism, otherwise known as imperialism, is a curse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Labour, because it chose to remain unintelligent, either became subservient, or insolently believed in damaging the capitalists' goods and machinery or even in killing the capitalists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We often confuse spiritual knowledge with spiritual attainment.  Spirituality is not a matter of knowing scriptures and engaging in philosophical discussions.  It is a matter of heart culture, of unmeasurable strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hindu Dharma is like a boundless ocean teeming with priceless gems. The deeper you dive the more treasures you find."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In His boundless love God permits the atheist to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The whole existence of man is a ceaseless duel between the forces of life and death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: You cannot build nonviolence on a factory civilization, but it can be built on self-contained villages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hypocrisy and distortion are passing currents under the name of religion"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do not consider Hitler to be as bad as he is depicted. He is showing an ability which is amazing and he seems to be gaining his victories without much bloodshed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is wrong and immoral to seek to escape the consequences of one's acts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Through Khadi we teach the people the art of civil obedience to an institution which they have built up for themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is a heavy downpour of rain which drenches the soil to fullness; likewise only a profuse shower of love can overcome hatred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-co-operation between the forces of darkness and those of light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: ... man was not born a carnivorous animal, but born to live on the fruits and herbs that the earth grows. I know we must all err. I would give up milk if I could, but I cannot. I have made that experiment times without number. I could not, after a serious illness, regain my strength, unless I went back to milk. That has been the tragedy of my life. But the basis of my vegetarianism is not physical, but moral. If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef tea or mutton, even on medical advice, I would prefer death. That is the basis of my vegetarianism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Belief in non-violence is based on the assumption that human nature in the essence is one and therefore unfailingly responds to the advances of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is a vital connection between satyagraha and charkha, and the more I find that belief challenged, the more I am confirmed in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being. Without interrelation with society he cannot realize his oneness with the universe or suppress his egotism. His social interdependence enables him to test his faith and to prove himself on the touchstone of reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Faith is a function of the heart. It must be enforced by reason. The two are not antagonistic as some think. The more intense one's faith is, the more it whets one's reason. When faith becomes blind it dies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth has drawn me into the field of politics; and I can say without the slightest hesitation, and yet in all humility, that those who say that religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion means."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In the march towards Truth, anger, selfishness, hatred, etc., naturally give way, for otherwise Truth would be impossible to attain. A man who is swayed by passions may have good enough intentions, may be truthful in word, but he will never find the Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-violence and cowardice are contradictory terms. Non-violence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice. Non-violence springs from love, cowardice from hate. Non-violence always suffers, cowardice would always inflict suffering. Perfect non-violence is the highest bravery. Non-violent conduct is never demoralising; cowardice always is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A government builds its prestige upon the apparently voluntary association of the governed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God cannot be realized through intellect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: That nation is great which rests its head upon death as its pillow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: That religion and that nation will be blotted out of the face of the earth which pins its faith on injustice, untruth or violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Where there are millions upon millions of units of idle labour, it is no use thinking of labour-saving devices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I refuse to believe that the tendency of human nature is always downward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God can never be realized by one who is not pure of heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Before civil disobedience can be practised on a vast scale, people must learn the art of civil or voluntary obedience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For Hindus to expect Islam, Christianity or Zoroastrianism to be driven out of India is as idle a dream as it would be for Mussalmans to have only Islam of their imagination rule the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I abhor vivisection with my whole soul.  All the scientific discoveries stained with innocent blood I count as of no consequence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I came to the conclusion long ago . . . that all religions were true, and also that all had some error in them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Rama was not only on the lips of Hanuman. He was enthroned in his heart. He gave Hanuman exhaustless strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Meditation is waiting on God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No police officer could compel a satyagrahi to give evidence against a person who has confessed to him. A satyagrahi would never be guilty of a betrayal of trust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In the very act of my non-co-operation, I am seeking their co-operation in my campaign."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: As soon as we become one with the ocean in the shape of God, there is no more rest for us, nor indeed do we need rest any longer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The lower animals are our brethren. I include among them the lion and the tiger. We do not know how to live with these carnivorous beasts and poisonous reptiles because of our ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My whole soul rebels against the idea that Hinduism and Islam represent two antagonistic cultures and doctrines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is the absolute right of India to misgovern herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have nothing of the communalist in me because my Hinduism is all inclusive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Whomsoever you follow, howsoever great, see to it that you follow the spirit of the master and not imitate him mechanically."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Life and death are but phases of the same thing, the reverse and obverse of the same coin. Death is as necessary for man's growth as life itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I submit that scientists have not yet explored the hidden possibilities of the innumerable seeds, leaves and fruits for giving the fullest possible nutrition to mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: He who runs to the doctor, vaidya, or hakim for every little ailment, and swallows all kinds of vegetable and mineral drugs, not only curtails his life, but by becoming the slave of his body instead of remaining its master, loses self-control, and ceases to be a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Obedience to the law of bread labour will bring about a silent revolution in the structure of society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man's happiness really lies in contentment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A mother would never by choice sleep in a wet bed but she would gladly do so in order to spare the dry bed for her child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe that the sum total of the energy of mankind is not to bring us down but to lift us up, and that is the result of the definite, if unconscious, working of the law of love. The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is open to a war resister to judge between the combatants and wish success to the one who has justice on his side. By so judging he is more likely to bring peace between the two than by remaining a mere spectator."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My effort should never be to undermine another's faith but to make him a better follower of his own faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My greatest weapon is mute prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Violent means will give violent swaraj. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Morality is contraband in war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We do not need to proselytise either by our speech or by our writing. We can only do so really with our lives. Let our lives be open books for all to study."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A vow is fixed and unalterable determination to do a thing, when such a determination is related to something noble which can only uplift the man who makes the resolve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The goal ever recedes from us. The greater the progress the greater the recognition of our unworthiness. Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The sacrifice which causes sorrow to the doer of the sacrifice is no sacrifice. Real sacrifice lightens the mind of the doer and gives him a sense of peace and joy. The Buddha gave up the pleasures of life because they had become painful to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Heroes are made in the hour of defeat"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment hatred towards Englishmen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ours is one continual struggle against a degradation sought to be inflicted upon us by the Europeans, who desire to degrade us to the level of the raw Kaffir whose occupation is hunting, and whose sole ambition is to collect a certain number of cattle to buy a wife with and, then, pass his life in indolence and nakedness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In our progress towards the goal, we ever see more and more enchanting scenery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Religion is more than life. Remember that his own religion is the truest to every man even if it stands low in the scales of philosophical comparison."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the Empire. We believe in the righteousness of the cause, which it is our privilege to espouse. We have an abiding faith in the mercy of the Almighty God, and we have firm faith in the British Constitution. That being so, we should fail in our duty if we wrote anything with a view to hurt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Our aim is not to do things by violence to opponents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: True knowledge gives a moral standing and moral strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The State is the sum total of the sacrifice, on its behalf, of its members."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways. I am sensible of the fact that they are indescribable and inscrutable. But if mortal man will dare to describe them, he has no better medium than his own inarticulate speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God is not in Kaaba or in Kashi. He is within everyone of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God resides in every human form, indeed in every particle of His creations, in everything that is on his earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To me Truth is God and there is no way to find Truth except the way of nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For thousands to do to death a few hundreds is no bravery. It is worse than cowardice. It is unworthy of nationalism, of any religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every man has an equal right to the necessaries of life even as birds and beasts have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man who wants to control his animal passions easily does so if he controls his palate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The religion of nonviolence is not meant merely for therishis and saints."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For me nonviolence is a creed. I must act up to it, whether I am alone or have companions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent defence presupposes recklessness about one's life and property."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Compulsory obedience to a master is a state of slavery, willing obedience to one's father is the glory of son ship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Social service that savours of patronage is not service."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A slave-holder cannot hold a slave without putting himself or his deputy in the cage for holding the slave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man who behaves like a beast is worse than the beast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Cow protection is the gift of Hinduism to the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Sacrifice that causes pain is no sacrifice at all. True sacrifice is joy-giving and uplifting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If one takes care of the means, the end will take care of itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have endeavored to show that there is no real service of humanity in the profession of medicine and that it is injurious to mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The yajna of our age and for us is the spinning wheel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man is not at peace with himself till he has become like unto God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man is not to drown himself in the well of the Shastras, but he is to dive in their broad ocean and bring out pearls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one's belly, in order to be able to save one's head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I am a passionate seeker after truth which is but another name for God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The real difficulty is that people have no idea of what education truly is. We assess the value of education in the same manner as we assess the value of land or of shares in the stock-exchange market. We want to provide only such education as would enable the student to earn more. We hardly give any thought to the improvement of the character of the educated. The girls, we say, do not have to earn; so why should they be educated? As long as such ideas persist there is no hope of our ever knowing the true value of education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Bravery is not a quality of the body. It is of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The real property that a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No effort is complete without prayer - without definite recognition that the best human endeavor is of no effect if it has not God's blessing behind it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us. This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good heart whatever they might have to say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Now the law of nonviolence says that violence should be resisted not by counter-violence but by nonviolence. This I do by breaking the law and by peacefully submitting to arrest and imprisonment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well. There is nothing more potent than thought. Deed follows word and word follows thought. The word is the result of a mighty thought, and where the thought is mighty and pure the result is always mighty and pure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The greatness of a person lies in his heart, not in his head; that is intellect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Whilst I may not actually help anyone to retaliate, I must not let a coward seek shelter behind nonviolence so-called. Not knowing the stuff of which nonviolence is made, many have honestly believed that running away from danger every time was a virtue compared to offering resistance, especially when it was fraught with danger to one's life. As a teacher of nonviolence I must, so far as it is possible for me, guard against such an unmanly belief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every widow I have met has recognized in the wheel a dear forgotten friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God's word is : He who strives never perishes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When a man wants to make up with his Maker, he does not consult a third party."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man of God never strives after untruth and therefore he can never lose hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe in advaita, I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I cannot picture to myself a time when all mankind will have one religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A warrior lives on his wars, whether offensive or defensive. And he suffers a collapse if he finds that his warring capacity is unwanted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Contraceptives are an insult to womanhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is indeed a million times better to appear untrue before the world than to be untrue to ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A semi-starved nation can have neither religion nor art nor organization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Knowledge without devotion will be like a misfire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Without prayer there is no inward peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth is as hard as adamant and tender as a blossom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Happiness eludes us if we run after it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When a man gives way to anger, he only harms himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: War is an unmitigated evil. But it certainly does one good thing. It drives away fear and brings bravery to the surface."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back with gold; If thy life be rescued, life do not withhold. Thus the words and actions of the wise regard; Every little service tenfold they reward. But the truly noble know all men as one, And return with gladness good for evil done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The canker has so eaten into the society that in many cases the only meaning of education is a knowledge of English."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Urbanization in India is a slow but sure death for her villages and villagers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man cannot breathe with borrowed lungs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man can give up a right, but he may not give up a duty without being guilty of a grave dereliction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My dictionary has no such expression as a violent fight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I must refuse to believe that the Germans contemplate with equanimity the evacuation of cities like London for fear of destruction to be wrought by man's inhuman ingenuity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When a man vowed to nonviolence as the law governing human beings dares to refer to war, he can only do it so as to strain every nerve to avoid it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A satyagrahi exhausts all other means before he resorts to satyagraha."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A bogus Congress register can never lead you to Swaraj any more than a paper boat can help you to sail across the Padma."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If untouchability is an integral part of Hinduism, the latter is a spent bullet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God is that indefinable something which we all feel but which we do not know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man like me cannot but believe that this earthquake is a divine chastisement sent by God for our sins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We become Godlike to the extent we realize nonviolence, but we can never become wholly God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The khadi spirit means fellow-feeling with every human being on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For the courage of self-sacrifice, woman is any time superior to man, as I believe man is to woman for the courage of the brute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-co-operation and civil disobedience in terms of Swaraj are not to be thought of without substantial constructive effort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every Hindu boy and girl should possess sound Samskrit learning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man of truth must also be a man of care."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The more I reflect and look back on the past, the more vividly do I feel my limitations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The seeker after truth should be humbler than the dust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Music has given me peace. I can remember occasions when music instantly tranquillized my \n mind, when I was greatly agitated over something. Music has helped me to overcome anger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa and Truth are my two lungs. I cannot live without them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Charkha, which is the embodiment of willing obedience and calm persistence, must therefore succeed before there is civil disobedience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every woman will tell the curious that with the disappearance of the spinning wheel vanished India's happiness and prosperity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All faiths constitute a revelation of Truth, but all are imperfect and liable to error."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Real non-co-operation is non-co-operation with evil and not with the evil-doer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: At times, non-co-operation becomes as much a duty as co-operation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I isolate this non-co-operation from Sinn Feinism, for it is so conceived as to be incapable of being offered side by side with violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What can be richer and more fruitful than a greater fulfillment of the vow of nonviolence in thought, word and deed or the spread of that spirit?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Newspapers today have almost replaced the Bible, the Koran, the Gita and other religious scriptures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A Swaraj government means a government established by the free joint will of Hindus, Mussalmans and others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Human language can but imperfectly describe God's ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: That which is inherent in man is his virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-co-operation means refusal both to help the sinner in his sin and not to accept any help or gift from him till he has repented."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My personal religion peremptorily forbids me to hate anybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Swaraj is a hardy tree of patient growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have known many meat eaters to be far more nonviolent than vegetarians."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Blind adoration, in the age of action, is perfectly valueless, is often embarrassing and, equally, often painful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To a pure heart all hearts are pure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: True democracy is not inconsistent with a few persons representing the spirit, the hope and the aspirations of those whom they claim to represent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What crimes, for which we condemn the Government as satanic, have not we been guilty of towards our own untouchable brethren?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Is not education the art of drawing out full manhood of the children under training?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In a nonviolent army, the general and the officers are elected, or are as if elected, when their authority is moral and rests solely on the willing obedience of the rank and file."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Death is no fiend, he is the truest of friends. He delivers us from agony."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The more efficient a force is, the more silent and the more subtle it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My freedom from hatred - I would even claim for myself individually, my love - for those who consider themselves to be my enemies, does not make me blind to their faults."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha has been designed as an effective substitute for violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Roving dogs do not indicate the civilisation or compassion of the society. They betray on the country the ignorance and lethargy of its members."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek. If leaving duties unperformed we run after rights, they will escape us like a will-o'-the-wisp."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hinduism dies if untouchability lives, and untouchability has to die if Hinduism is to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: You can only have lasting peace based on justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do believe that where there is a choice between cowardice and non-violence I would advise violence. Thus when my eldest son asked me what he should have done, had he been present when I was almost fatally assaulted in 1908, whether he should have run away and seen me killed or whether he should have used his physical force which he could and wanted to use, and defended me, I told him that it was his duty to defend me even by using violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The cow can be saved only if buffalo-breeding is given up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Facts we would always place before our readers, whether they are palatable or not, and it is by placing them constantly before the public in their nakedness that the misunderstanding between the two communities in South Africa can be removed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is also a warning. It is a warning that, if nobody reads the writing on the wall, man will be reduced to the state of the beast, whom he is shaming by his manners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Democracy and violence can ill go together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The spirit of democracy cannot be established in the midst of terrorism, whether governmental or popular."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Passive resistance is a method of securing rights by personal suffering; it is the reverse of resistance by arms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: So far as I can see the atomic bomb has deadened the finest feeling that has sustained mankind for ages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We are the makers of our own state and...individuals who realize the fact need not, ought not, to wait for collective action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In this instance of the fire-arms, the Asiatic has been most improperly bracketed with the native. The British Indian does not need any such restrictions as are imposed by the Bill on the natives regarding the carrying of fire-arms. The prominent race can remain so by preventing the native from arming himself. Is there a slightest vestige of justification for so preventing the British Indian?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All the religions of the world describe God pre-eminently as the Friend of the friendless, Help of the helpless, and Protector of the weak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Mine is not a religion of the prison-house. It has room for the least among God's creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Assumption of superiority by any person over any other is a sin against God and man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Celibacy is a great help, inasmuch as it enables one to lead a life of full surrender to God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we will take care of today, God will take care of the morrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Often does good come out of evil. But that is God's, not man's plan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The common factor of all religions is nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My religion teaches me that a promise once made or a vow once taken for a worthy object may not be broken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If I had to face only the Sermon on the Mount and my own interpretation of it, I should not hesitate to say, 'O yes, I am a Christian.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Civil disobedience and excitement and intoxication go ill together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is a mark of wisdom not to kick away the very step from which we have risen higher. The removal of one step from a staircase brings down the whole of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nations are born out of travail and suffering"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Englishmen must learn to be Brahmins, not banias."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I will not be a traitor of God to please the whole world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man often becomes what he believes himself to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I regard myself as a soldier, though a soldier of peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: True ahimsa should wear a smile even on a deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For me every ruler is alien that defies public opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do regard Islam to be a religion of peace in the same sense as Christianity, Buddhism and Hinduism are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership, by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The only safe and honorable course for a self-respecting man is to do what I have decided to do, that is, to submit without protest to the penalty of disobedience ... not for want of respect for lawful authority, but in obedience to the higher law of our being, the voice of conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The true democrat is he who with purely nonviolent means defends his liberty and, therefore, his country's and ultimately that of the whole of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of the flesh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I am a seasoned soldier of nonviolence, and I have evidence enough to sustain my faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we had attained the full vision of Truth, we would no longer be seekers, but become one with God, for Truth is God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We should meet abuse by forbearance. Human nature is so constituted that if we take absolutely no notice of anger or abuse, the person indulging in it will soon weary of it and stop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: You can't lead a true life without suffering"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We should be able to refuse to live if the price of living be the torture of sentient beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is no reason to believe that there is one law for families and another for nations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: At times of writing I never think what I have said before. My aim is not to be consistent with my previous statements on a given question, but to be consistent with truth as it may present itself to me at a given moment. The result has been that I have grown from truth to truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Abstract truth has no value unless it incarnates in human beings who represent it, by proving their readiness to die for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Experience convinces me that permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth & violence. Even if my belief is a fond delusion, it will be admitted that it is a fascinating delusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-violence is not a quality to be evolved or expressed to order. It is an inward growth depending for sustenance upon intense individual effort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Means are not to be distinguished from ends. If violent means are used, there will be bad results."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence does not admit of running away from danger... . Between violence and cowardly flight I can only prefer violence to cowardice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond question. Whatever difficulties we encounter, whatever apparent reverses we sustain, we may not give up the quest for truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To give one's heart is to give all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A pacifism which can see the cruelties only of occasional military warfare and is blind to the continuous cruelties of our social system is worthless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Why, of all places in Johannesburg, the Indian location should be chosen for dumping down all kaffirs of the town, passes my comprehension. Of course, under my suggestion, the Town Council must withdraw the Kaffirs from the Location. About this mixing of the Kaffirs with the Indians I must confess I feel most strongly. I think it is very unfair to the Indian population, and it is an undue tax on even the proverbial patience of my countrymen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is not that I do not get angry. I don't give vent to my anger. I cultivate the quality of patience as angerlessness, and generally speaking, I succeed. But I only control my anger when it comes. How I find it possible to control it would be a useless question, for it is a habit that everyone must cultivate and must succeed in forming by constant practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the \"voice within\" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In the dictionary of satyagraha, there is no enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A courageous man prefers death to the surrender of self-respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A born democrat is a born disciplinarian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I would rather drown myself in the waters of the Sabarmati than harbour hate or animosity in my heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Of all the myriads of God, Daridranarayana is the most sacred inasmuch as it represents the untold millions of the poor people as distinguished from the few rich people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My own opinion is that just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problems must be one in essence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent non-co-operation with evil means co-operation with all that is good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The nation's non-co-operation is an invitation to the Government to co-operate with it on its own terms, as is every nation's right and every good government's duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Faith... must be enforced by reason... when faith becomes blind it dies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Men like me feel that untouchability is no integral part of Hinduism, it is an excrescence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Temple going is for the purification of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Complete civil disobedience is a state of peaceful rebellion, a refusal to obey every single state-made law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Service without humility is selfishness and egotism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Purity of life is the highest and truest art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Restraint never ruins one's health. What ruins it,is not restraint but outward suppression. A really self-restrained person grows every day from strength to strength and from peace to more peace. The very first step in self-restraint is the restraint of thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Well, India is a country of nonsense"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God, who is the embodiment of Truth and Right and Justice, can never have sanctioned a religion or practice which regards one - fifth of our vast population as untouchables."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God will cease to be God, if he brought into being a single person with the hall-mark of inferiority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In a strictly scientific sense God is at the bottom of both good and evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man who is intentionally unarmed relies upon the Unseen Force called God by poets, but called the Unknown by scientists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If there was any teacher in the world who insisted upon the inexorable law of cause and effect, it was Gautam, and yet my friends, the Buddhists outside India, would, if they could, avoid the effects of their own acts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Labour is priceless, not gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-co-operation with evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There can be no nonviolence offered by the militarily strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have no weapon but nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A nonviolent action accompanied by nonviolence in thought and word should never produce enduring violent reaction upon the opponent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Moral result can only be produced by moral restraints."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Prayer presupposes faith. No prayer is in vain. Prayer is like any other action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Worship or prayer is not to be performed with the lips, but with the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Confession of one's guilt purifies and uplifts. Its suppression is degrading and should always be avoided."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: 'Physician, heal thyself' is more true in matters religious than mundane."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In matters concerning religion, I consider myself not a child but an adult with 35 years of experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The method of satyagraha requires that the satyagrahi should never lose hope, so long as there is the slightest ground left for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Untouchability is a hydra-headed monster."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I regard untouchability as such a grave sin as to warrant divine chastisement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Vehement writing, even if it is charged with truth, is no answer to violent action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Koran says that there can be no heaven for one who sheds the blood of an innocent neighbour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The woman who knows and fulfils her duty realizes her dignified status."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: History is replete with instances of men, who, by dying with courage and compassion on their lips converted the hearts of their violent opponents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: You cannot neglect the nearer duty for the sake of a remote."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The real implication of equal distribution is that each man shall have the wherewithal to supply all his natural needs and no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Where there is no strength of mind there can be no strength of soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Unrestricted individualism is the law of the beast of the jungle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If India won her freedom through truth and non-violence, India would not only point the way to all the exploited Asiatic nations, she would become a torch-bearer for the Negro races."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Perfection is only an ideal for man; it cannot be attained, for man is made imperfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Pure motives can never justify impure or violent action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It only confirms me in my belief that there is no Swaraj without a settlement with the Mussalmans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non\u00adresistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self\u00adsuffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Performance of one's duties should be independent of public opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-violent resistance implies the very opposite of weakness. Defiance combined with non-retaliatory acceptance of repression from one's opponents is active, not passive. It requires strength, and there is nothing automatic or intuitive about the resoluteness required for using non-violent methods in political struggle and the quest for Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Life is an aspiration. Its mission is to strive after perfection, which is self-realization. The ideal must not be lowered because of our weaknesses or imperfections."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute, and he knows no law but that of physical might. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher laws - to the strength of the spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Never has man reached his destination by persistence in deviation from the straight path."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I contend that non-violent acts exert pressure far more effective than violent acts, for the pressure comes from goodwill and gentleness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A true soldier does not argue as he marches, how success is going to be ultimately achieved. But he is confident that if he only plays his humble part well, somehow or other the battle will be won. In is that spirit that every one of us should act. It is not given to us to know the future. But it is given to everyone of us to know how to do our own part well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Waiting on God means increasing purity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The untouchability of Hinduism is probably worse than that of the modern imperialists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The states can make the finest contribution to the building of India's future independence if they set the right example in their own territories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No religion which is narrow and which cannot satisfy the test of reason, will survive the coming reconstruction of society in which the values will have changed and character, not possession of wealth, title or birth, will be the test of merit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I cannot in all conscience agree to anyone being sent to the gallows. God alone can take life because He alone gives it . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Yet even differences prove helpful, where there are tolerance, charity and Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If I were asked to define the Hindu creed, I should simply say: search after Truth through non-violent means. Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: True love is boundless like the ocean and, swelling within one, spreads itself out and, crossing all boundaries and frontiers, envelops the whole world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hinduism insists on the brotherhood of not only all mankind but of all that lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The knowledge of the omnipresence of God also means respect for the lives even of those who may be called opponents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Law and the Lawgiver are one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Law is God. Anything attributed to Him is not a mere attribute. He is Truth, Love, Law and a million things that human ingenuity can name."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Law which governs all life is God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The restoration of free speech, free association and free press is almost the whole Swaraj."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Destruction of the churches and the like is not the way to Swaraj as defined by the Congress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every truth is self-acting and possesses inherent strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth is not truth merely because it is ancient. Nor is truth necessarily to be regarded with suspicion because it is ancient."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth to me is infinitely dearer than the 'mahatmaship' which is purely a burden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Tolstoy's so-called inconsistencies were a sign of his development and his passionate regard for truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Buddha renounced every worldly happiness because he wanted to share with the whole world his happiness which was to be had by men who sacrificed and suffered in the search for truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Death is at any time blessed but it is twice blessed for a warrior who dies for his cause, that is, truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For me there is a vital connection between the Bihar calamity and the untouchability campaign."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If the village worker is not a decent man or woman, conducting a decent home, he or she had better not aspire after the high privilege and honour of becoming a village worker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is not a moment when I do not feel the presence of a Witness whose eye misses nothing and with whom I strive to keep in tune."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we want to impart education best suited to the needs of the villagers, we should take the vidyapith to the villages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I would like to bury myself in an Indian village, preferably in a Frontier village."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Return to the villages means a definite, voluntary recognition of the duty of bread labour and all its connotes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Give the villagers village arithmetic, village geography, village history and the literary knowledge that they must use daily, i.e. reading and writing letters, etc."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We have to tackle the triple malady which holds our villages fast in its grip; want of corporate sanitation, deficient diet and inertia."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I hold that the world is sick of armed rebellions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I think it is wrong to expect certainties in this world, where all else but God that is Truth is an uncertainty. All that appears and happens about and around us is uncertain, transient. But there is a Supreme Being hidden therein as a Certainty, and one would be blessed if one could catch a glimpse of that Certainty and hitch one's waggon to it. The quest for that Truth is the summum bonum of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: True education must correspond to the surrounding circumstances or it is not a healthy growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It has often occurred to me that a seeker after truth has to be silent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago. And yet, the tragedy of it is that the so-called civilised men and nations conduct themselves as if the basis of society was violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: An opponent is entitled to the same regard for his principles as we would expect others to have for ours. Non-violence demands that we should see every opportunity to win over opponents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Indeed one's faith in one's plans and methods is truly tested when the horizon before one is the blackest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is quite proper to resist and attack a system, but to resist and attack its author is tantamount to resisting and attacking oneself, for we are all tarred with the same brush, and are children of one and the same Creator, and as such the divine powers within us are infinite. To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that Being, but with Him, the whole world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Suffering cheerfully endured, ceases to be suffering and is transmuted into an ineffable joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I can combine the greatest love with the greatest opposition to wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Mental violence has no potency and injures only the person whose thoughts are violent. It is otherwise with mental non-violence. It has potency which the world does not yet know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man who has broken with his past feels a different man. He will not feel it a shame to confess his past wrongs, for the simple reason that these wrongs do not touch him at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization, in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I know no diplomacy save that of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It will profit you nothing to remember old wrongs and nurse old enmities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-co-operation is a movement intended to invite Englishmen to co-operate with us on honourable terms or retire from our land."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Swaraj means, a state such that we can maintain our separate existence without the presence of the English."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: However virile the English language may be, it can never become the language of the masses of India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The English language is so elastic that you can find another word to say the same thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If the English educated neglect, as they have done and even now continue, as some do, to be ignorant of their mother tongue, linguistic starvation will abide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We, the English educated Indians, often unconsciously make the terrible mistake of thinking that the microscopic minority of the English-speaking Indians is the whole of India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My love of the British is equal to that of my own people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ram Mohan Roy would have been a greater reformer and Lokmanya Tilak a greater scholar if they had not to start with the handicap of having to think in English and transmit their thoughts chiefly in English."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: This belief in the necessity of English training has enslaved us. It has unfitted us for true national service."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It would be a sad day for India if it has to inherit the English scale and the English tastes so utterly unsuitable to the Indian environment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No matter what the cause was and wherever it was, Indian governments must never requisition the services of British soldiers to deal with civil disturbances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My faith in non-co-operation is as bright as ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My implicit faith in nonviolence does mean yielding to minorities when they are really weak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: With me the connection between the cosmic phenomena and human behaviour is a living faith that draws me nearer to God, humbles me and makes me readier for facing Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Without a belief in my programme and without an acceptance of my condition, you will ruin me, ruin yourselves and ruin the cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What faith can you place in a general or a soldier who lacks resolution and determination, who says, 'I shall keep guard as long as I can'?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God alone is immortal, imperishable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God does not punish directly. His ways are inscrutable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God gifted man with intellect so that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God has a thousand names, or rather He is Nameless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God has been described by all the scriptures of the world as protector and saviour of the sinner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God has blessed man with seed that has the highest potency and woman with a field richer than the richest earth to be found anywhere on his globe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is better to be charged with cowardice and weakness than to be guilty of denial of our oath and sin against God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It was manly and dignified to rely upon God for the dissolution of all troubles. He was the only infallible help, guide and friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Let us fear God and we shall cease to fear man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A living faith in God means acceptance of the brotherhood of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man alone is made in the image of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man can only conceive God within the limitation of his own mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man can only describe God in his own poor language."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man in the flesh is essentially imperfect. He may be described as being made in the image of God but is far from being God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man should earnestly desire the well - being of all God's creations and pray that we may have the strength to do so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No man has ever been able to describe God fully. The same holds true of ahimsa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The man who eats to live, who is friends with the five powers - earth, water, ether, sun and air - who is a servant of God, the Creator of all these, ought not to fall ill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The man who fears man falls from the estate of man. Fear God alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man cannot serve God and Mammon, nor be \"temperate and furious\" at the same time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Undoubtedly, prayer requires a living faith in God. Successful satyagraha is inconceivable without that faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The art of dying bravely and with honour does not need any special training, save a living faith in God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The eternal duel between Ormuzd and Ahriman, God and Satan, is raging in my breast, which is one among their billion battlefields."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The nonviolent man automatically becomes a servant of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The power we call God defies description."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The sum total of karma is God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Vedas are as indefinable as God and Hinduism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Though philosophical Hinduism has no other god but God, it cannot be denied that practical Hinduism is not so emphatically uncompromising as Islam."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When we fear God, then we shall fear no man, however high-placed he may be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Who is there in the world who can insult the God in the image?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Without living Truth, God is nowhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Without an unreserved surrender to His grace, complete mastery over thoughts is impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: You are not going to know the meaning of God or prayer unless you reduce yourself to a cipher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: You will not pit one word of God against another word of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hinduism has absorbed the best of all the faiths of the world and in that sense Hinduism is not an exclusive religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hinduism has become a conservative religion and, therefore, a mighty force because of the swadeshi spirit underlying it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hinduism has sinned in giving sanction to untouchability."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hinduism with its message of ahimsa is to me the most glorious religion in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Buddha never rejected Hinduism, but he broadened its base. He gave it a new life and a new interpretation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If God gives me the privilege of dying for the Hinduism of my conception, I shall have sufficiently died for the unity of all and even for Swaraj."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I must rebel against the idea that millions of Indians, who were Hindus, the other day, changed their nationality on adopting Islam as their religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I would far rather that Hinduism died than that untouchability lived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: An India awakened and free has a message of peace and goodwill to a groaning world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Through realization of freedom of India, I hope to realize and carry on the mission of brotherhood of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I want India to come into her own and that state cannot be better defined by any single word than Swaraj."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Freedom of India will demonstrate to all the exploited races of the earth that their freedom is very near."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To gain India's freedom, the capacity for suffering must go hand in hand with the capacity for ceaseless labour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I want for India complete independence in the full English sense of that English term."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I would not sell the vital interests of the untouchables for the sake of winning the freedom of India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I would bend the knee before the poorest scavenger, the poorest untouchable in India for having participated in crushing him for centuries; I would even take the dust off his feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My varnashram dharma teaches me that there must be some significance in the fact of my being born in India instead of in Europe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I am wedded to India because I owe my all to her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Even if the whole of India, ranged on one side, were to declare that Hindu-Muslim unity is impossible, I will declare that it is perfectly possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I hold too that whatever may be true of other countries, a bloody revolution will not succeed in India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I call the Lancashire trade immoral, because it was raised and is sustained on the ruin of millions of India's peasants."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If as a member of a slave nation I could deliver the suppressed classes from their slavery without freeing myself from my own, I would do so today. But it is an impossible task."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My interest in India's freedom will cease if she adopts violent means, for their fruit will not be freedom but slavery in disguise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I must declare that it is better for India do discard violence altogether even for defending her borders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Indian nationalism is not exclusive, nor aggressive, nor destructive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A free India will throw all her weight in favour of world disarmament and should herself be prepared to give a lead in this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God forbid that India should ever become a military nation, which would be a menace to the peace of the world, and yet if things went on as they were doing, what hope was there for India and, therefore, for the world?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Jail-going is only the beginning, not the end of satyagraha. The acme of satyagraha for us would be to lay down our lives for the defence of India's just cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Swaraj means ability to regard every inhabitant of India as our own brother or sister."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Idleness is the great plague of India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Mass illiteracy is India's sin and shame and must be liquidated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We Indians are one as no two Englishmen are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Khaddar brings a ray of hope to the widow's broken-up home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Organization of khaddar is infinitely better than co-operative societies or any other form of village organization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Khadi work without the mastery of the science of khadi will be love's labour lost in terms of Swaraj."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The message of khaddar can penetrate to the remotest villages if we only will that it shall be so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Labour has its unique place in a cultured human family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Unless our hands go hand in hand with our heads, we will be able to do nothing whatsoever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do not regard capital to be the enemy of labour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A scavenger who works in His service shares equal distinction with a king who uses his gifts in His name and is a mere trustee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A life without vows is like a ship without an anchor or like an edifice that is built on sand instead of a solid rock."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Life is greater than all art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A true life lived amongst the people is in itself an object-lesson that must produce its own effect upon immediate surroundings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Enlightened one has told you in never-to-be-forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow, a fleeting thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If I were over full of pity for the cow, I should sacrifice my life to save her but not take my brother's."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Love can never express itself by imposing sufferings on others. It can only express itself by self-suffering, by self-purification."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Of what avail is my love if it be only so long as I trust my friend?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The man of prayer will be at peace with himself and with the whole world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man who would interpret the scriptures must have the spiritual discipline."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence is the virtue of the manly. The coward is innocent of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Bravery is not man's monopoly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Men to be men must be able to trust their womenfolk, even as the latter are compelled to trust them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is for you and me to show that no vice is inherent in man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Swaraj of my dream is the poor man's Swaraj."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is my firm faith that man is by nature going higher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If Euclid's point, though incapable of being drawn by any human agency, has an imperishable value, my picture has its own for mankind to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I regard Duryodhana and his party as the baser impulses in man, and Arjuna and his party as the higher impulses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have discovered that man is superior to the system he propounds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Some form of common worship and a common place of worship appear to be a human necessity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A selfish basis would not serve the purpose of taking a man higher and higher along the paths of evolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No two men are absolutely alike, not even twins, yet there is much that is indispensably common to all mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Mankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The fact that mankind persists shows that the cohesive force is greater than the disruptive force, centripetal force greater than centrifugal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: That which makes man the mere plaything of fate is God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If it is man's privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter - dependent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man of truth must ever be confident, if he has also equal need to be diffident."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man, through the cow, is enjoined to realize his identity with all that lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced, exquisite consideration for one's neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Cow-slaughter and man-slaughter are in my opinion two sides of the same coin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If treachery is the reward of trust, will the man who trusts come to harm?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All great religions have rightly regarded kama as the arch-enemy of man, anger or hatred coming only in the second place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: He who runs may see that opium and such other intoxicants and narcotics stupefy a man's soul and reduce him to a level lower than that of beasts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Repression does for a true man or a nation what fire does for gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No one should dogmatize about the capacity of human nature for degradation or exaltation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Study men laying down their lives without hurting anyone else in the cause of their country's freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We burn the evil men do with their mortal remains. We treasure the memory of the good they do, and distance magnifies it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No nation being under another nation can accept gifts, and kick at the responsibility attached to those gifts, imposed by the conquering nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nations are not formed in a day, the formation requires years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A nation that is unfit to fight cannot, from experience, prove the virtue of not fighting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-co-operation is the quickest method of creating public opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-co-operation is an attempt to awaken the masses to a sense of their dignity and power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-co-operation means nothing less than training in self-sacrifice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-co-operation in itself is unnatural, vicious and sinful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-co-operation intended to pave the way to real honourable and voluntary co-operation based on mutual respect and trust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-co-operation in the political field is an extension of the doctrine as it is practised in the domestic field."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-co-operation enables us to show that in everything that matters we can be independent of the Government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The bravery of the nonviolent is vastly superior to that of the violent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Our struggle consists in showing that our nonviolence is neither a cloak to hide our violence or hatred, nor a preparation for violence in the near or distant future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence is not an easy thing to understand, still less to practice, weak as we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Appreciation of nonviolence means patient research and still more patient and difficult practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A little of true nonviolence acts in a silent, subtle, unseen way and leavens the whole society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and nonviolence are perhaps the activest forces you have in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Active nonviolence is necessary for those who will offer civil disobedience but the will and proper training are enough for the people to co-operate with those who are chosen for civil disobedience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If fighting for the legislatures meant a sacrifice of truth and nonviolence, democracy would not be worth a moment's purchase."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Tolstoy was the greatest apostle of nonviolence that the present age has produced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The panoplied warrior of truth and nonviolence is ever and incessantly active."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Indeed the very word, nonviolence, a negative word, means that it is an effort to abandon the violence that is inevitable in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence does not require any outside or outward training."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence cannot be learnt by staying at home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: That nonviolence which only an individual can use is not of much use in terms of society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Unless you go on discovering new applications of the law of nonviolence, you do not profit by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My nonviolence is made of stern stuff. It is firmer than the firmest metal known to scientists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My love for nonviolence is superior to every other thing, mundane or super mundane."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My creed of nonviolence does not favour the punishment of thieves and dacoits and even murderers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My creed of nonviolence is an extremely active force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent action without the co-operation of the heart and the head cannot produce the intended result."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A nonviolent person's life is always at the disposal of him who would take it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we are nonviolent through and through, our nonviolence would have been self-evident."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Whatever may be the pros and cons of going to the public theatre, it is a patent fact that it has undermined the morals and ruined the character of many a youth in his country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is a travesty of true religion to consider one's own religion as superior and other's as inferior."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha is itself an unmistakable mute prayer of an agonized soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha is a force that has come to stay. No force in the world can kill it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha does not begin and end with civil disobedience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A clear victory of satyagraha is impossible so long as there is ill will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I regard the constituent assembly as the substitute ofsatyagraha. It is constructive satyagraha."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Seeming failure is not of the law of satyagrahabut of incompetence of the satyagrahi by whatever cause induced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Force that the performance of duty naturally generates is the non-violent and invincible force that satyagraha brings into being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My satyagrahi spirit tells me that I may not retaliate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A satyagrahi cannot go to law for a personal wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have repeatedly stated that satyagraha never fails and that one perfect satyagrahi is enough to vindicate Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The satyagrahi strives to reach reason through the heart. The method of reaching the heart is to awaken public opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The satyagrahi should not have any hatred in his heart against the opponent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is no time limit for a satyagrahi nor is there a limit to his capacity for suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No confirmed satyagrahi is dismayed by dangers, seen or unseen, from his opponent's side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To die without killing is the badge of a satyagrahi."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A satyagrahi is nothing if not instinctively law-abiding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In the code of the satyagrahi, there is no such thing as surrender to brute force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If Swaraj is to be had by peaceful methods, it will only be attained by attention to every little detail of national life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I know that not only is Swaraj our birthright, but it is our sacred duty to win it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have had the hardihood to say that Swaraj could not be granted even by God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: With God as witness, I want to proclaim this truth, that the way of violence cannot bring Swaraj, it can only lead to disaster."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When large numbers of wholly innocent men are in jail, we may take it that Swaraj is at hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Prosecution of the constructive programme means constructing the structure of Swaraj."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Devotion to Truth is the sole justification for our existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth, you must reduce yourself to a zero."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Violence can only be effectively met by nonviolence. This is an old established truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do believe that ideas ripen quickly when nourished by the blood of martyrs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My opposition to the socialist and the other consists in attacking violence as a means of effecting any lasting reform."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I still somehow or other fancy that \"my philosophy\" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Charkha is an instrument of service."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The cause of the spinning wheel is too great and too good to have to rest on mere hero-worship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If the poet spun for half an hour daily, his poetry would gain in richness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God alone knows absolute Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God cannot be so cruel and unjust as to make the distinctions of high and low between man and man, and woman and woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God makes crooked straight for us and sets things right when they seem to go dead wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God of Truth and Justice can never create distinctions of high and low among His own children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God's laws are eternal and unalterable and not separable from God Himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God's time never stops."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God's ways are more than Man's arithmetic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do not want to live at the cost of the life even of a snake. I should let him bite me to death rather than kill him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What is gained by violence must be lost before superior violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Violence is a concession to human weakness, satyagraha is an obligation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Woman is, by habit or nature, queen of the household. She is not designed to organize on a large scale."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My quarrel with the advocates of contraceptives lies in their taking for granted that ordinary mortals cannot exercise self-control."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realise what a tremendous advantage she has over man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The world easily finds an honourable place for the magician who produces new and dazzling things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When I see a cow, it is not an animal to eat, it is a poem of pity for me and I worship it and I shall defend its worship against the whole world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All true art must help the soul to realize its inner self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Active nonviolence of the brave puts to flight thieves, dacoits, murderers, and prepares an army of volunteers ready to sacrifice themselves in quelling riots, in extinguishing fires and feuds, and so on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The dry knowledge of the three R's is not even now, it can never be, a permanent part of the villagers' life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Knowledge of the tallest scientist or the greatest spiritualist is like a particle of dust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Liberty is a dearly bought commodity and prisons are factories where it is manufactured."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No power on earth can resist the lovers of liberty who are ready not to kill opponents, but be killed by them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Individual liberty is allowed to man only to a certain extent. He cannot forget that he is a social being and his individual liberty has to be curtailed at every step."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Peace is unattained by part performance of conditions, even as a chemical combination is impossible without complete fulfillment of the conditions of attainment thereof."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Not to believe in the possibility of permanent peace is to disbelieve in the Godliness of human nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Renunciation is everyone's prerogative."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain, the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the ideal as time passes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If all simply insist on rights and no duties, there will be utter confusion and chaos."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The only things that separates us from the brute, with which we have so much in common, is the capacity to distinguish between right and wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Since one Satan is one too many for me, I would not multiply him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A fast to be true must be accompanied by a readiness to receive pure thoughts and determination to resist all Satan's temptations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Unless all the discoveries that you make have the welfare of the poor as the end in view, all your workshops will be really no better than Satan's workshops."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Service is not possible unless it is rooted in love orahimsa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The time is fast coming when politicians will cease to fear the religion of humanity and humanitarians will find entrance into political life indispensable for full service."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Birth-control through self-restraint is the most desirable, sensible and totally harmless method."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God sometimes does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Measures must always in a progressive society be held superior to men, who are after all imperfect instruments, working for their fulfilment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, his power is gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I appeal for cessation of hostilities, not because you are too exhausted to fight, but because war is bad in essence. You want to kill Nazism. You will never kill it by its indifferent adoption."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law, to the strength of the spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What is a man if he is not a thief who openly charges as much as he can for the goods he sells?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to man"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is better to allow our lives to speak for us than our words. God did not bear the cross only two thousand years ago. He bears it today, and he dies and is resurrected from day to day. It would be a poor comfort to the world if it had to depend on a historical God who died two thousand years ago. Do not, then, preach the God of history, but show him as he lives today through you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The first condition of humaneness is a little humility and a little diffidence about the correctness of one's conduct and a little receptiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All crime is a kind of disease and should be treated as such."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truthful movements spontaneously attract to themselves all manner of pure and disinterested help."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom, but an oceanic circle whose centre will be the individual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God's word is: \n 'He who strives never perishes.' \n I have implicit faith in that promise. \n Though, therefore, from my weakness \n I fail a thousand times, I shall not lose faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I own no enemy on earth. That is my creed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: But success and failure are of no account. They are God's concern, not mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have no secret methods. I know no diplomacy save that of truth. I have no weapon but non-violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is no non-violence if we merely love those that love us. It is non-violence only when we love those that hate us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-violence ... is the only thing that the atom bomb cannot destroy. I did not move a muscle when I first heard that the atom bomb had wiped out Hiroshima. On the contrary, I said to myself, Unless now the world adopts non-violence, it will spell certain suicide for mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What is wanted is a deliberate giving up of violence out of strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The truth is that God is the force. He is the essence of life. He is pure and undefiled consciousness. He is eternal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For me the only certain means of knowing God is nonviolence, ahimsa, love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence in politics is a new weapon in the process of evolution; its vast possibilities are yet unexplored."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence succeeds only when we have a real living faith in God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I am not built for academic writings. Action is my domain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Fasting is futile unless it is accompanied by an incessant longing for self-restraint."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A living faith cannot be manufactured by the rule of majority"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If everyone will try to understand the core of his own religion and adhere to it, and will not allow false teachers to dictate to him, there will be no room left for quarrelling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God to be God must rule the heart and transform it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Indeed, the test of orderliness in a country is not the number of millionaires it owns, but the absence of starvation among its masses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Tolerance incarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days' wonder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Its unadulterated belief in the oneness of God and a practical application of the truth of the brotherhood of man for those who are nominally within its fold are two distinctive contributions of Islam."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: True art must be evidence of happiness, contentment and purity of its authors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Bravery on the battlefield is impossible for us. Bravery of the soul still remains open to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: True paurusha, true bravery, consists in driving out the brute in us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Journalism has a distinct place in familiarizing and expressing public opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Newspapers have become more important to the average man than the scriptures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What better book can there be than the book of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The more I study Hindu scriptures, and the more I discuss them with Brahmins, the more I feel convinced that untouchability is the greatest blot upon Hinduism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Labour is a great leveler of all distinctions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What is true of the individual will be tomorrow true of the whole nation if individuals will but refuse to lose heart and hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: As the State is a soulless machine, it can never be weaned from violence to which it owes its very existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We want to go in for suffering, and there may be torture. If we put the women in front the Government may hesitate to inflict on us all the penalty that they might otherwise inflict."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Whatever one does cheerfully is good for health."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I hold that without truth and nonviolence there can be nothing but destruction of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The strength to kill is not essential for self-defence; one ought to have the strength to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Before [Hindus and Moslems] dare think of freedom, they must be brave enough to love one another, to tolerate one another's religion, even prejudices and superstitions, and to trust one another. This requires faith in oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth...as my life consists of nothing but those experiments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Never make a promise in haste."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The story of Ramakrishna is a story of religion in practice. His life enables us to see God face to face.... In this age of skepticism Ramakrishna presents an example of a bright and living faith which gives solace to thousands of men and women who would otherwise have remained without spiritual light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Spiritually, compulsory disarmament has made us unmanly, and the presence of an alien army of occupation, employed with deadly effect to crush in us the spirit of resistance, has made us think we cannot look after ourselves or put up a defense against foreign aggression, or even defend our homes and families."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The cry for peace will be a cry in the wilderness, so long as the spirit of nonviolence does not dominate millions of men and women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I am a poor mendicant. My earthly possessions consist of six spinning wheels, prison dishes, a can of goat's milk, six homespun loincloths and towels and my reputation, which cannot be worth much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man's triumph will consist in substituting the struggle for existence by a struggle for mutual service."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have called spinning the yajna of this age of India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If Gandhism means simply mechanically turning the spinning wheel, it deserves to be destroyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have pinned my faith to the spinning wheel. On it, I believe, the salvation of this country depends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For every minute that I spin, there is in me the consciousness that I am adding to the nation's wealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The spinning wheel and the spinning wheel alone will solve, if anything will solve, the problem of the deepening poverty of India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I would like to assure those who would serve Daridranarayana that there is music, art, economy and joy in the spinning wheel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The spinning wheel is as much a necessity of Indian life as air and water."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The spinning wheel is itself an exquisite piece of machinery. My head daily bows in reverence to its unknown inventor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is no \"playing with truth\" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When the wheel was accepted as part of the national flag, it was surely implied that the spinning wheel would hum in every household."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A plea for the spinning wheel is a plea for recognizing the dignity of labour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hunger is the argument that is driving India to the spinning wheel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: India as a nation can live and die only for the spinning wheel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Just as there are signs by which you can recognize violence with the naked eye, so is the spinning wheel to me a decisive sign of nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Between the two, the nationalist and the imperialist, there is no meeting ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence being the mightiest force in the world and also the most elusive in its working, demands the greatest exercise of faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In the midst of death life persists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Where love is, there God is also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I claim to represent all the cultures, for my religion, whatever it may be called, demands the fulfillment of all the cultures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha, of which civil resistance is but a part, is to me the universal law of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Khaddar is an attempt to revise and reverse the process and establish a better relationship between the cities and villages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The true source of rights is duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated? What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy. What is a war criminal? Was not war itself a crime against God and humanity, and, therefore, were not all those who sanctioned, engineered and conducted wars, war criminals? The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Healthy, well-informed, balanced criticism is the ozone of public life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A life of sacrifice is the pinnacle of art, and is full of true joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Faith is the function of the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Adaptability is not imitation. It means power of resistance and assimilation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Not to have control over the senses is like sailing in a rudderless ship, bound to break to pieces on coming in contact with the very first rock."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every worthy act is difficult. Ascent is always difficult. Descent is easy and often slippery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Good government is no substitute for self-government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have found by experience that man makes his plans to be upset by God, but, at the same time, where the ultimate goal is the search of truth, on matter how a man's plans are frustrated the issue is never injurious and often better than anticipated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe in conversion of mankind, not its destruction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The cause is everything. Those even who are dearest to us must be shunted for the sake of the cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Britain's success in the exploitation of non-European races raised the ambition of Bismarck and later Mussolini and others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: True morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding the true path for ourselves, and fearlessly following it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Of all the animal creations of God, main is the only animal who has been created in order that he may know his Maker. Man's aim is life is not therefore to add from day to day to his material prospects and to his material possessions, but his predominant calling is, from day to day to come nearer to his own Maker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The spirit of democracy... requires change of the heart... requires the inculcation of the spirit of brotherhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent attainment of self-government presupposes a non-violent control over the violent elements in the country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: War with all its glorification of brute force is essentially a degrading thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To say that a single human being, because of his birth, becomes an untouchable, unapproachable or invisible is to deny God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When a slave begins to take pride in his fetters and hugs them like precious ornaments, the triumph of the slave-owner is complete."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Your capacity to keep your vow will depend on the purity of your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The one condition for fighting for peace and liberty is to acquire self-restraint."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I shall, of course, die with nonviolence on my lips."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and untruth often co-exist; good and evil often are found together"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Machinery is the chief symbol of modern civilization; it represents a great sin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is a world-wide conflict between capital and labour, and the poor envy the rich."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Dignity of human nature requires that we must face the storms of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I look upon an increase in the power of the State with the greatest fear because, although while apparently doing good by minimizing exploitation, it does the greatest harm to mankind by destroying individuality which lies at the heart of all progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Law of Love, call it attraction, affinity, cohesion if you like, governs the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God never made man that he may consider another man as untouchable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The ideally non-violent state will be an ordered anarchy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To know music is to transfer it to life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is difficult, but not impossible, to conduct strictly honest business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To retaliate against the relatives of the co-religionists of the wrong-doer is a cowardly act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: How can one be compelled to accept slavery? I simply refuse to do the master's bidding. He may torture me, break my bones to atoms and even kill me. He will then have my dead body, not my obedience. Ultimately, therefore, it is I who am the victor and not he, for he has failed in getting me to do what he wanted done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The very essence of our civilization is that we give a paramount place to morality in all our affairs, public or private."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: But no one has a right to coerce others to act according to his own view of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrines of satya and ahimsa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When freedom is in jeopardy, non-co-operation may be a duty and prison may be a palace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Gita is not for those who have no faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: An institution that suffers from a plethora of leaders is surely in a bad way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The sole aim of journalism should be service."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Fear has its use but cowardice has none."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Surely, conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows His creatures' hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Economics that hurt the moral well-being of an individual or a nation are immoral and, therefore, sinful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No agreement between the British and Muslims can affect me. An agreement between Hindus and Muslims alone will affect me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hatred can be overcome only by love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Permanent good can never be the outcome of untruth and violence"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Liberty and democracy become unholy when their hands are dyed red with innocent blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hitler is a scourge sent by God to punish men for their iniquities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I still believe that man, not having been given the power of creation, does not posses the right of destroying the meanest creature that lives. The perogative of destruction belongs solely to the Creator of all that lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man has reason, discrimination and free-will such as it is. The brute has no such thing. It is not a free agent, and knows no distinction between virtue and vice, good and evil. Man, being a free agent, knows these distinctions, and when he follows his higher nature, shows himself far superior to the brute, but when he follows his baser nature can show himself lower than the brute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The chains of a slave are broken the moment he considers himself a free man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A nonviolent system of government is clearly an impossibility so long as the wide gulf between the rich and the hungry millions persists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: At the moment the British Common-wealth is a Commonwealth of White nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A nonviolent man cannot desire embarrassment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I cannot be subservient anywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The spinning wheel for us is the foundation for all public corporate life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Khadi mentality means decentralization of the production and distribution of the necessaries of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I will suffer the agony if that is to be my lot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence means an ocean of compassion. It means shedding from us every trace of ill will for others. It does not mean abjectness or timidity, or fleeing in fear. It means, on the contrary, firmness of mind and courage, a resolute spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My respectful study of other religions has not abated my reverence for or my faith in the Hindu scriptures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Mother cow is in many ways better than the mother who gave us birth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Doubt is invariably the result of want or weakness of faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Disobedience that is wholly civil should never provoke retaliation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction and, therefore, there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that law would a well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Who can make a more effective appeal to the heart than woman?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is no distrust of men and mankind in me. They will answer before God, so why should I worry?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man has always desired power. Ownership of property gives this power. Man hankers also after posthumous fame based on power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In any case, the fear of subservience is quite imaginary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No one can dominate a population of 80,000,000."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Whoever is victor, there should be, after the war, a commonwealth of all nations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Personally I like to believe that all become honest, the millennium is round the corner!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do not wish disaster to British arms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nothing is of a permanent nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man of faith does not bargain or stipulate with God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Kashmir is the real test of secularism in India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we are true servants of the masses, we would take pride in spinning for their sake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A nonviolent life is an act of self-examination and self-purification, whether by an individual, group or nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all embracing. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is not always, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good of humanity at large."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We must be ever courteous and patient with those who do not see eye to eye with us. We must resolutely refuse to consider our opponents as enemies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have been repeating over and over again that he who cannot protect himself or his nearest and dearest or their honour by non-violently facing death may and ought to do so by violently dealing with the oppressor. He who can do neither of the two is a burden. He has no business to be the head of a family. He must either hide himself, or must rest content to live for ever in helplessness and be prepared to crawl like a worm at the bidding of a bully."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God is omnipresent; even a pebble in the Narmada can represent Him and serve as an object of worship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A successful bloody revolution can only mean further misery for the masses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Peace through superior violence inevitably leads to the atom bomb and all that it stands for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When untouchability is rooted out, these distinctions will vanish and no one will consider himself superior to any other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If Britain were honest, which I dispute, she would then embrace all nations on terms of equality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I saw that bad handwriting should be regarded as a sign of an imperfect education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: You may have occasion to possess or use material things, but the secret of life lies in never missing them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God is the vital force or spirit which is all-pervading, all-embracing and, therefore, beyond human ken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The art of producing good music from a cultivated voice can be achieved by many, but the art of producing that music from the harmony of a pure life is achieved very rarely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Exercise of faith will be the safest where there is a clear determination summarily to reject all that is contrary to truth and love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In the application of the method of non-violence, one must believe in the possibility of every person, however depraved, being reformed under humane and skilled treatment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Learning takes us through many states of life, but it fails utterly in the hour of danger and temptation. Then faith alone saves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Self-restraint is the very keystone of the ethics of vow-taking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To call woman the weaker sex is a libel; it is man's injustice to woman. If by strength is meant brute strength, then, indeed, is woman less brute than man. If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa is the strongest force known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For India to enter into the race for armaments is to court suicide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is no such thing as 'Gandhism', and I do not want to leave any sect after me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The snakes have their place in the agricultural economy of the village, but our villagers do not seem realize it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I am not likely to obtain the result flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man lives freely only by his readiness to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Women are special custodians of all that is pure and religious in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ethically they had arrived at the conclusion that man's supremacy over lower animals meant not that the former should prey upon the latter, but that the higher should protect the lower, and that there should be mutual aid between the two as between man and man. They had also brought out the truth that man eats not for enjoyment but to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It may be long before the law of love will be recognised in international affairs. The machineries of government stand between and hide the hearts of one people from those of another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No charter of freedom will be worth looking at which does not ensure the same measure of freedom for the minorities as for the majority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We must learn to be self-reliant and independent of schools, courts, protection and patronage of a Government we seek to end, if it will not mend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nothing in the Shastra, which is manifestly contrary to universal truths and morals, can stand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Love never claims, it ever gives. Love ever suffers, never resents never revenges itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe in the absolute oneness of God and, therefore, also of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. The rays of the sun are many through refraction. But they have the same source. I cannot, therefore, detach myself from the wickedest soul (nor may I be denied identity with the most virtuous)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Even as satyagraha is a weapon unique of its kind and not one of the ordinary weapons used by people, so is Khadi, a unique article of commerce which will not, cannot, succeed on terms common to other articles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I know that man who forsakes Truth can forsake his country and his nearest and dearest ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To believe that what has not occurred in history will not occur at all, is to argue disbelief in the dignity of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion. It can be taken only with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Fasting and prayer are common injunctions in my religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Democracy, disciplined and enlightened, is the finest thing in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I would rather have India without education, if that is the price to be paid for making it dry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should reject that patriotism which sought to mount the distress or exploitation of other nationalities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Complete non-violence is complete absence of ill-will against all that lives. It therefore embraces even sub-human life, not excluding noxious insects and beasts. They have not been created to feed our destructive propensities. If we only knew the mind of the Creator, we should find their proper place in His creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To end slavery, you must overcome the mental and physical inertia of the masses and quicken their intelligence and creative faculty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I look upon air-power for destruction as a terrible crime against humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do not believe in the doctrine of the greatest good of the greatest number. The only real, dignified, human doctrine is the greatest good of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa, the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Study not man in his animal nature - man following the laws of the jungle - but study man in all his glory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God has blessed me with the mission to place nonviolence before the nation for adoption."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The spinning wheel means national consciousness and a contribution by every individual to a definite constructive national work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Men are good. But they are poor victims making themselves miserable under the false belief that they are doing good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: After long study and experience, I have come to the conclusion that (1) all religions are true; (2) all religions have some error in them; (3) all religions are almost as dear to me as my own Hinduism, in as much as all human beings should be as dear to one as one's own close relatives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A democratic organization has to dare to do the right at all costs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Why should I need an artist to explain a work of art to me? Why should it not speak out to me itself?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have known only one way of carrying on missionary work, viz., by personal example and discussion with searchers for knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and nonviolence are as old as the hills."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Indeed, a civil resister offers resistance only when peace becomes impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God took and needed no personal service. He served His creatures without demanding any service for Himself in return."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: He who has a living faith in God will not do evil deeds with name of God on his lips."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God's grace and revelation are the monopoly of no race or nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe in the absolute oneness of God and therefore of humanity. What though we have many bodies? We have but one soul. . . . I know God is neither in heaven nor down below, but in everyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the \"Kingdom of God\" within you and on this earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: He who spins before the poor, inviting them to do likewise, serves God as no one else does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The outward freedom that we shall attain will only be in exact proportion to the inward freedom to which we may have grown at a given moment. And if this is a correct view of freedom, our chief energy must be concentrated on achieving reform from within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For a firm believer in swadeshi, there need be no Pharisaical self-satisfaction in wearing khadi."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we have listening ears, God speaks to us in our own language, whatever that language be"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man does not live by destruction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For a fallen India to aspire to move the world and protect the weaker races is seemingly an impertinence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The mundane use of the Gayatri, its repetition for healing the sick, illustrates the meaning we have given to prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ravana was a rakshasa but this rakshasi of untouchability is even more terrible than Ravana."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Restraint never ruins one's health."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we weep for all the deaths in our country, the tears in our eyes would never dry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The hater hates not for the sake of hatred but because he wants to drive away from his country the hated being or beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In my humble opinion, non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. But in the past, non-cooperation has been deliberately expressed in violence to the evildoer. I am endeavoring to show my countrymen that violent non-cooperation only multiplies evil and that evil can only be sustained by violence. Withdrawal of support of evil requires complete abstention from violence. Non-violence implies voluntary submission to the penalty for non-cooperation with evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Khaddar delivers the poor from the bonds of the rich and creates a moral and spiritual bond between the classes and the masses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The spinning wheel is not meant to oust a single man or woman from his or her occupation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Khaddar does not displace a single cottage industry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A journalist's peculiar function is to read the mind of the country and to give definite and fearless expression to that mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To me, God is Truth and Love; God is ethics and morality: God is fearlessness. God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience... He is a personal God to those who need His personal presence. He is embodied to those who need His touch. He is the purest essence. He simply is to those who have faith. He is all things to all men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: That atomic energy though harnessed by American scientists and army men for destructive purposes may be utilised by other scientists for humanitarian purposes is undoubtedly within the realm of possibility. ... An incendiary uses fire for his destructive and nefarious purpose, a housewife makes daily use of it in preparing nourishing food for mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In this day of wonders no one will say that a thing or an idea is worthless because it is new. To say it is impossible because it is difficult is again not in consonance with the spirit of the age. Things undreamt of are daily being seen, the impossible is ever becoming possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Even if masses of people were to burn khadi publicly and say that it is an insane programme, I will declare that those people have gone mad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth and He tries you through and through."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No country can become a nation by producing a race of imitators."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To run away from danger, instead of facing it, is to deny one's faith in man and God, even one's own self. It were better for one to drown oneself than live to declare such bankruptcy of faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The spinning wheel is the one thing to which all must turn to in the Indian clime for the transition stage at any rate and the vast majority must for all time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My religion has no geographical limits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I want co-operation between nations for the salvaging of civilization, but co-operation presupposes free nations worthy of co-operation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Bible is as much a book of religion with me as the Gita and the Koran."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The object of basic education is the physical, intellectual and moral development of children through the medium of handicraft."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God rules even where Satan seems to hold sway, because the latter exists only on God's sufferance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I could not be leading a religious life unless I identified myself with the whole of mankind, and that I could not do unless I took part in politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My Swaraj takes note of bhangis, dheds, dublas and the weakest of the weak, and except the spinning wheel I know no other thing which befriends all these."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Many an individual has turned from the mean, personal, acquisitive point of view to one that sees society as a whole and works for its benefit. If there has been such a change in one person, there can be the same change in many."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The end of nonviolent 'war' is always an agreement, never dictation, much less humiliation of the opponent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There are innumerable definitions of God because his manifestations are innumerable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We have to make truth and non-violence not matters for mere individual practice but for practice by groups and communities and nations. That at any rate is my dream. I shall live and die in trying to realize it. My faith helps me to discover new truths every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A worker's capital is inexhaustible, incapable of being stolen, and bound to pay him a generous dividend all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: This mad rush for wealth must cease and the labourer must be assured not only of a living wage but, also a daily task that is not mere drudgery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every person in a well-ordered state is fully conscious of both his responsibilities and his rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from difficult situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they can solve their own difficulties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were instinctively violent, the world would end in no time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is no yajna (sacrifice) greater than spinning calculated to bring peace to the troubled spirit, to soothe the distracted student's mind, to spiritualize his life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No religion taught man to kill fellowmen because he held different opinions or was of another religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is no better way of industrializing the villages of India than the spinning wheel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In true democracy every man and woman is taught to think for himself or herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Withholding of payment of taxes is one of the quickest methods of overthrowing a government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God alone is the judge of true greatness because He knows men's hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A true and nonviolent combination of labour would act like a magnet attracting to it all the needed capital."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What is life worth without trials and tribulations which are the salt of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man the law-giver will have to pay a dreadful penalty for the degradation he has imposed upon the so called weaker sex."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is a crime and a sin to regard a person as untouchable because he is born in a particular community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Under my plan, the state will be there to carry out the will of the people, not to dictate to them or to force them to do its will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: [It] is impossible for us to establish a living vital connection with the masses unless we will work for them, through them and in their midst, not as their patrons but as their servants."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do not seek redemption from the consequences of my sin.  I seek to be redeemed from sin itself.  Until I have attained that end, I shall be content to be restless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We believe as much in the purity of race as we think they do... We believe also that the white race of South Africa should be the predominating race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Democracy is an impossible thing until the power is shared by all, but let not democracy degenerate into mobocracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: [I]t seems to me as clear as daylight that abortion would be a crime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Exploitation and domination of one nation over another can have no place in a world striving to put an end to all war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man who is truthful and does not mean ill even to his adversary will be slow to believe charges even against his foes. He will, however, try to understand the viewpoints of his opponents and will always keep an open mind and seek every opportunity of serving his opponents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The unlimited capacity of the plant world to sustain man at his highest is a region as yet unexplored by modern science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We may have our private opinions but why should they be a bar to the meeting of hearts?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My nationalism, fierce though it is, is not exclusive, is not devised to harm any nation or individual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I love Christianity, Islam and many other faiths - through Hinduism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My nationalism is as broad as my swadeshi, I want India's rise so that the whole world may benefit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Complete independence will be complete only to the extent of our approach in practice to truth and nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A country that is governed by its national army can never be morally free and, therefore, its so-called weakest member can never rise to his full moral height."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The man who coerces another not to eat fish commits more violence than he who eats it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Where my own mission is concerned, my thought is active, and I try to wish everyone well in spite of doubts and mistrust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If a man were so placed or could so place himself as to be absolutely above all dependence on his fellow-beings he would become so proud and arrogant as to be a veritable burden and nuisance to the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: That we should obey laws whether good or bad is a new-fangled notion. There was no such thing in former days. The people disregarded those laws they did not like and suffered the penalties for their breach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If you must kill English officials, why not kill me instead?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I claim to have been a lifelong and wholly disinterested friend of the British people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No police or military in the world can protect people who are cowards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: By spiritual training I mean education of the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A balanced intellect presupposes a harmonious growth of body, mind and soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The notion of education through handicrafts rises from the contemplation of truth and love permeating life's activities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Economic equality of my conception does not mean that every one will literally have the same amount."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What is equality of rights between a giant and a dwarf?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: They might kill me but they cannot kill Gandhism. If truth can be killed, Gandhism can be killed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is already enough superstition in our country. No effort should be spared to resist further addition in the shape of Gandhi worship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The stability of the State depends upon the readiness of every citizen to subordinate his rights to those of the rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Do not concentrate on showing the misdeeds of the government, for we have to convert and befriend those who run it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Surely Islam has nothing to fear from criticism even if it be unreasonable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The English peace is the peace of the grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Real power does not consist in the ability to inflict capital punishment upon the subjects, but in the will and the ability to protect the subjects against the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ramanama can be used only for a good, never for an evil end, or else thieves and robbers would be the greatest devotees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ramanama purifies while it cures, and, therefore, it elevates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Even Ramanama is by itself lifeless, but it has become a living symbol of the deity because millions of people have consecrated it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My motto is \"Unite now, today if you can; fight if you must. But in every case avoid British intervention.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Will Great Britain have an unwilling India dragged into war or a willing ally co-operating with her in the prosecution of a defence of true democracy?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Boycott brought about anyhow of British cloth cannot yield the same results as such boycott brought about by hand-spinning and khaddar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If India is not to declare spiritual bankruptcy, religious instruction of its youth must be held to be at least as necessary as secular instruction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: On India rests the burden of pointing the way to all the exploited races of the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If India becomes the slave of the machine, then, I say, heaven save the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: India's freedom must revolutionize the world's outlook upon Peace and War."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I invite even the school of violence to give this peaceful non-co-operation a trial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent non-co-operation, I am convinced, is a sacred duty at times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-co-operators will make a serious mistake if they seek to convert people to their creed by violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is the duty of a non-co-operator to preach disaffection towards the existing order of things. Non-co-operators are but giving disciplined expression to a nation's outraged feelings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We must treat arrest as the normal condition of the life of a non-co-operator."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Though a non-co-operator, I shall gladly subscribe to a bill to make it criminal for anybody to call me mahatma and to touch my feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The author of the Mahabharata has not established the necessity of physical warfare; on the contrary he has proved its futility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Woman is the embodiment of sacrifice and suffering and her advent to public life should, therefore, result in purifying it, in restraining unbridled ambition and accumulation of property."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Marriage must cease to be a matter of arrangement made by parents for money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Languages proclaim that woman is half of man, and by parity of reasoning, man is half of woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have mentally become a woman in order to steal into her heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Sorrow and suffering make for character if they are voluntarily borne, but not if they are imposed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In placing civil disobedience before constructive work I was wrong and I did not profit by the Himalayan blunder that I had committed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Disobedience, to be civil, implies discipline, thought, care, attention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ours is a civil fight, and imprisonment as a civil prisoner has got to be earned by the strict observance of the programme."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If they are truly nonviolent, they must also realize that civil disobedience is an impossibility till the preliminary work of construction is done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In a democratic scheme, money invested in the promotion of learning gives a tenfold return to the people even as a seed sown in good soil returns a luxuriant crop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Equality of sexes does not mean equality of occupations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I must fight unto the death the unholy attempt to impose British methods and British institutions on India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Indian struggle is not anti-British, it is anti-exploitation, anti-foreign rule, not anti-foreigners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe in the capacity of India to offer nonviolent battle to the English rulers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The builders of the British Indian Empire have patiently built its four pillars-the European interests, the army, the Indian princes and the communal divisions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It was not through democratic methods that Britain bagged India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Faith is like the Himalaya mountains which cannot possibly change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Work without faith is like an attempt to reach the bottom of a bottomless pit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A satyagrahi should have a living faith in God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God is certainly one. He has no second. He is unfathomable, unknowable and unknown to the vast majority of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God is continuously in action, without resting for a single moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: \"Do not worry in the least about yourself, leave all worry to God\" this appears to be the commandment in all religions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Even the atheists, who have pretended to disbelieve in God, have believed in Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: He is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if He ever does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Civilizations have come and gone and, in spite of our vaunted progress, I am tempted to ask again and again, 'To what purpose?'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Is a civilization worth the name, which requires, for its existence the very doubtful prop of a racial legislation and a lynch law?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Modern civilization has taught us to convert night into day and golden silence into brazen din and noise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Further march of civilization seems to employ increasing domination of man over beast, together with a growingly humane method of using them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The cow to me is a sermon on pity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The cow is the purest type of sub-human life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Mother cow is as useful dead as when she is alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Mother cow expects from us nothing but grass and grain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Cow protection means protection of the weak, the helpless, the dumb and the deaf."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Cow protection to me is infinitely more than mere protection of the cow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The central fact of Hinduism is cow protection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Cow-slaughter can never be stopped by law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Cowardice is incompatible with divine wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Could there be a greater proof of our cowardice than fighting amongst ourselves?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Far better than emasculation would be the bravery of those who use physical force. Far better than cowardice would be meeting one's death fighting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Islam was nothing if it did not spell complete democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No perfect democracy is possible without perfect nonviolence at the back of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The only force at the disposal of democracy is that of public opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The voice of the people may be said to be God's voice, the voice of the Panchayat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Means to be means must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we all discharge our duties, rights will not be far to seek."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A wretched parent who claims obedience from his children, without first doing his duty by them, excites nothing but contempt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: He who is ever brooding over result often loses nerve in the performance of his duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No people have risen who thought only of rights. Only those did so who thought of duties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No displeasure, even of the dearest friends, can put me off the duty I see clearly in front of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Education in the understanding of citizenship is a short-term affair if we are honest and earnest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Literacy in itself is no education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Literacy is not the end of education nor even the beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Real education has to draw out the best from the boys and girls to be educated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The prince and the peasant will not be equalized by cutting off the prince's head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Freedom battles are not fought without paying heavy prices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No government on earth can make men, who have realized freedom in their hearts, salute against their will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Freedom from all attachment is the realization of God as Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It will be hard to find a parallel in history in which unarmed people have represented the urge for freedom, turning their armlessness into the central means for deliverance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Though we are politically free, we are hardly free from the subtle domination of the West."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A slave has not the freedom even to do the right thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My Rama, the Rama of our prayers, is not the historical Rama, the son of Dasharatha, the king of Ayodhya."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In man, reason quickens and guides feelings; in brute, the soul lies ever dormant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Voluntary service of others demands the best of which one is capable, and must take precedence over service of self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: That prince is acceptable to me who becomes a prince among his people's servants."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: One's everyday life is never capable of being separated from his spiritual being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Unless we are able to evolve a spirit of mutual tolerance for diametrically opposite views, non co-operation is an impossibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: One has to speak out and stand up for one's convictions. Inaction at a time of conflagration is inexcusable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When the ego dies, the soul awakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nothing enduring can be built on violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Earth and heaven are in us"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A convert's enthusiasm for his new religion is greater than that of a person who is born in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I had learnt at the onset not to carry on public work with borrowed money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have even seen the writings suggesting that I am playing a deep game, that I am using the present turmoil to foist my fads on India, and am making religious experiments at India's expense. I can only answer that Satyagraha is made of sterner stuff. There is nothing reserved and nothing secret in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If India adopted the doctrine of love as an active part of her religion and introduced it in her politics. Swaraj would descend upon India from heaven. But I am painfully aware that that event is far off as yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is beyond my power to induce in you a belief in God. There are certain things which are self proved and certain which are not proved at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is impossible for me to reconcile myself to the idea of conversion after the style that goes on in India and elsewhere today. It is an error which is perhaps the greatest impediment to the world's progress toward peace. ... Why should a Christian want to convert a Hindu to Christianity? Why should he not be satisfied if the Hindu is a good or godly man?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Today I know that physical training should have as much place in the curriculum as mental training."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We are less than atoms, I say, because the atom obeys the law of its being, whereas we in the insolence of our ignorance deny the law of nature. But I have no argument to address to those who have no faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is wonderful, if we chose the right diet, what an extraordinarily small quantity would suffice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Much that we hug today as knowledge is ignorance pure and simple. It makes the mind wander and even reduces it to a vacuity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: As a splendid palace deserted by its inmates looks like a ruin, so does a man without character, all his material belongings notwithstanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Children inherit the qualities of the parents, no less than their physical features. Environment does play an important part, but the original capital on which a child starts in life is inherited from its ancestors. I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Only this much I knew - that under ideal conditions, true education could be imparted only by the parents, and that then there should be the minimum of outside help."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Complete independence through truth and non-violence means the independence of every unit, be it the humblest of the nation, without distinction of race, colour or creed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The only tyrant I accept in this world is the 'still small voice' within me. And even though I have to face the prospect of being a minority of one, I humbly believe I have the courage to be in such a hopeless minority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All have not the same capacity. I would allow a man of intellect to earn more, I would not cramp his talent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I came in contact with every known Indian anarchist in London. Their bravery impressed me, but I felt that their zeal was misguided. I felt that violence was no remedy for India's ills, and that her civilisation required the use of a different and higher weapon for self-protection. - Hind Swaraj"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We are constantly being astonished these days at the amazing discoveries in the field of violence. But I maintain that far more undreamt of and seemingly impossible discoveries will be made in the field of nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Men flocked to see it and ascended it as it was a novelty and of unique dimensions. It was the toy of the exhibition. So long as we are children we are attracted by toys, and the tower was a good demonstration of the fact that we are all children attracted by trinkets. That may be claimed to be the purpose served by the Eiffel Tower."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In fact, it is more correct to say that Truth is God, than to say that God is Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Don't talk about it. The rose doesn't have to propagate its perfume. It just gives it forth, and people are drawn to it. Live it, and people will come to see the source of your power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe in trusting. Trust begets trust. Suspicion is foetid and only stinks. He who trusts has never yet lost in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man of character will make himself worthy of any position he is given."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we are to make progress, we must not repeat history but make new history. We must add to inheritance left by our ancestors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-co-operation is the nation's notice that it is no longer satisfied to be in tutelage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A society or a nation constructed nonviolently must be able to withstand attack upon its structure from without or within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If every component part of the nation claims the right of self-determination for itself, there is no one nation and there is no independence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We are too near the scene of tragedy to realize that this canker or untouchability has traveled far beyond its prescribed limits and has sapped the very foundation of the whole nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My national service is part of my training for freeing my soul from the bondage of the flesh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I was a co-operator too in the sense that I non-co-operated for co-operation, and even then I said that if I could carry the country forward by co-operation I should co-operate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My non-co-operation is a token of my earnest longing for real heart co-operation in the place of co-operation falsely so called."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Reasoned and willing obedience to the laws of the State is the first lesson in non-co-operation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I retain the opinion that council entry is inconsistent with non-co-operation as I conceive it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence abhors fear and therefore, secrecy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: True nonviolence is mightier than the mightiest violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence and cowardice go ill together. True nonviolence is an impossibility without the possession of unadulterated fearlessness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence is the summit of bravery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence requires great patience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My religion forbids me to belittle or disregard other cultures, as it insists, under pain of civil suicide, upon imbibing and living my own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My religion teaches me that whenever there is distress which one cannot remove, one must fast and pray."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My religion teaches me that I should, by my personal conduct, instill into the minds of those who might hold different views the conviction that cow killing is a sin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To me the Mahabharata is a profoundly religious book, largely allegorical, in a way meant to be a historical record."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The fragrance of religious and spiritual life is much finer and subtler than that of the rose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Running away for fear of death, leaving one's dear ones, temples or music to take care of themselves, is irreligion; it is cowardice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Death on the battlefield is welcome to a soldier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Where death without resistance or death after resistance is the only way, neither party should think of resorting to law-courts or help from the government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What is imprisonment to the man who is fearless of death itself?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I came alone in this world, I have walked alone in the valley of the shadow of death, and I shall quit alone when the time comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Democracy necessarily means a conflict of will and ideas, involving sometimes a war of the knife between different ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Democracy can only represent the average if not less than the average."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Democracy demands patient instruction on it before legislation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In the days of democracy there is no such thing as active loyalty to a person. You are, therefore, loyal or disloyal to institutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: As a rule I had a distaste for any reading beyond my school books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When the fear of jail disappears, repression puts heart into the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: ...service can have no meaning unless one takes pleasure in it. When it is done for show or for fear of public opinion, it stunts the man and crushes his spirit. Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It was only in South Africa that I got over this shyness, though I never completely overcame it. It was impossible for me to speak impromptu. I hesitated whenever I had to face strange audiences and avoided making a speech whenever I could. Even today I do not think I could or would even be inclined to keep a meeting of friends engaged in idle talk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I felt that God could be realized only through service. And service for me was the service of India, because it came to me without my seeking, because I had an aptitude for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If I was to be their real teacher and guardian, I must touch their hearts, I must share their joys and sorrows, I must help them to solve the problems that faced them, and I must take along the right channel the surging aspirations of their youth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I want to realize brotherhood or identity not merely with the beings called human, but I want to realize identity with all life, even with such things as crawl upon earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I am part and parcel of the whole and cannot find God apart from the rest of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is the law of love that rules mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: That which looks for mercy from an opponent is not non-violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In the secret of my heart I am in perpetual quarrel with God that He should allow such things [as the war] to go on. My non-violence seems almost impotent. But the answer comes at the end of the daily quarrel that neither God nor non-violence is impotent. Impotence is in men. I must try on without losing faith even though I may break in the attempt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: [He] alone is truly nonviolent who remains nonviolent even though he has the ability to strike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No man could be actively nonviolent and not rise against social injustice, no matter where it occurred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All big things are made up of trifles.  My entire life has been built on trifles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The power of unarmed nonviolence is any day far superior to that of armed force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Forgiveness is the virtue of the brave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All truths, not merely ideas, but truthful faces, truthful pictures or songs, are highly beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The way to truth lies through ahimsa (nonviolence)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Let our lives be open books for all to study."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time. I must continue to bear testimony to truth even if I am forsaken by all. Mine may today be a voice in the wilderness, but it will be heard when all other voices are silenced, if it is the voice of Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hatred ever kills, love never dies. Such is the vast difference between the two... The duty of a human being is to diminish hatred and to promote love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man who throws himself on God ceases to fear man"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Even a believer in nonviolence has to say between two combatants which is less bad or whose cause is just."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence is an intensely active force when properly understood and used."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I cannot imagine anything nobler or more national than that for, say, one hour in the day we should all do the labor the poor must do, and thus identify ourselves with them and through them, with all mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized - the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live almost like animals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A full and candid admission of one's mistakes should make proof against its repetition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible, of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa, however imperfect or defective its practice might have been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha does not depend on outside help, it derives all its strength from within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Since satyagraha is a method of conversion and conviction, it seeks never to use the slightest coercion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha as conceived by me is a science in the making."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is claimed for satyagraha that it is a complete substitute for violence or war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For a satyagrahi brigade only those are eligible who believe in ahimsa and satya."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Swaraj of a people means the sum total of the Swaraj (self-rule) of individuals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Lovers of Swaraj cannot rest till a solution is found which would allay Mussalman apprehensions and yet not endanger Swaraj."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Civil disobedience is a preparation for mute suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Civil disobedience means capacity for unlimited suffering, without the intoxicating excitement of killing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: But I never again went through this street. There would be other men coming in this man's place and, ignorant of the incident, they would behave likewise. Why should I unnecessarily court another kick? I therefore selected a different walk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The incident deepened my feeling for the Indian settlers. I discussed with them the advisability of making a test case, if it were found necessary to do so, after having seen the British Agent in the matter of these regulations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Destruction is not the law of humans. Man lives freely only by his readiness to die, if need be, at the hands of his brother, never by killing him. Every murder or other injury, no matter for what cause, committed or inflicted on another is a crime against humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I must say that, beyond occasionally exposing me to laughter, my constitutional shyness has been no dis-advantage whatever. In fact I can see that, on the contrary, it has been all to my advantage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The mind may wander, but let not the senses wander with it. If the senses wander where the mind takes them, one is done for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is no easy task to do away with a thing that is established. We, therefore, say that the non-beginning of a thing is supreme wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: One of the objects of a newspaper is to understand popular feeling and to give expression to it; another is to arouse among the people certain desirable sentiments; and the third is fearlessly to expose popular defects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we are to stand the final heat of the battle, we must learn to stand our ground in the face of cavalry or baton charges and allow ourselves to be trampled under horses' hooves, or be bruised with baton charges."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What, however, left a deep impression on me was the reading of the Ramayana before my father. During part of his illness my father was in Porbandar. There every evening he used to listen to the Ramayana."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Selfishness is blind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If any Englishman dedicated his life to securing the freedom of India, resisting tyranny and serving the land, I should welcome that Englishman as an Indian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Through the deliverance of India, I seek to deliver the so-called weaker races of the earth from the crushing heels of Western exploitation in which England is the greatest partner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To get rid of the infatuation for English is one of the essentials of Swaraj."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A smattering of English is worse than useless; it is an unnecessary tax on our women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Let us learn from the English rulers the simple fact that the oppressors are blind to the enormity of their own misdeeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Britisher is the top dog and the Indian the underdog in his own country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: That I want to destroy British imperialism is another matter, but I want to do so by converting those who are associated with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is the faith and perseverance and single-mindedness with which Hitler has perfected his weapons of destruction that commands my admiration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God has given us only a limited sphere of action and a limited vision."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God has His own way of choosing His instruments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God Himself has reserved no right of revision of His own laws nor is there any need for Him for any such revision."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God is the shield of the nonviolent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God in his wisdom circumscribed man's vision, and rightly too, for otherwise man's conceit would know no bounds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God is always the upholder of justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God will rule the lives of all those who will surrender themselves without reservation to Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I call God long-suffering and patient precisely because He permits evil in the world. I know that He has no evil in Him and yet if there is evil, He is the author of it and yet untouched by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Calling them devadasis we insult God Himself in the name of religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Conversion without a clean heart is a denial of God and religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A person who believes in nonviolence believes in a living God. He cannot accept defeat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: One is ever young in the presence of the God of Truth, or Truth which is God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Our prayer is a heart search. It is a reminder to ourselves that we are helpless without His support."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Rama, Allah and God are to me convertible terms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: India's coming into her own will mean every nation doing likewise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In a true democracy of India, the unit is the village."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do not want India to rise on the ruin of other nations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by waiving the right of punishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I would far rather that India perished than that she won Her freedom at the sacrifice of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honour than that she should, in a cowardly manner, become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I would rather have India reduced to a state of pauperism than have thousands of drunkards in our midst."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If the Commander-in-Chief will look beyond the defence forces, he will discover that the real India is not military but peace-loving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Khadi to me is the symbol of unity of Indian humanity, of its economic freedom and equality and, therefore, ultimately, in the poetic expression of Jawaharlal Nehru, 'the livery of India's freedom'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The fragrance of nonviolence was never sweeter than it was today amidst the stink of violence of the most cowardly type that was being displayed in the cities of India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Our non-co-operation is with the system the English have established in India, with the material civilization and its attendant greed and exploitation of the weak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nothing depends upon the death of an individual, be he ever so great, but much depends upon the freedom of India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The whole of India was the home of every Indian who considered himself as one and behaved as such, no matter to what faith he belonged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Many persons claiming different faiths make us one and an indivisible nation. All these have an equal claim to be the nationals of India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The ideal is a synthesis of the different cultures that have come to stay in India, that have influenced Indian life, and that, in their turn, have themselves been influenced by the spirit of the soil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Unity among the different races and the different religions of India is indispensable to the birth of national life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The West has yet to discover anything so hygienic as the Indian toothstick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In this, of all the countries in the world, possession of inordinate wealth by individuals should be held as a crime against Indian humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We must break through the provincial crust if we are to reach the core of all-India nationalism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes and even India perishes, but if untouchability is eradicated from the Hindu heart, root and branch, then Hinduism has a definite message for the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Khadi service, village service and Harijan service are one in reality, though three in name."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Khadi will be the sun of the whole industrial solar system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I would ask you to come in Khadi, for Khadi links you with the fallen and the down-trodden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Khadi will cease to have any value in my eyes if it does not usefully employ the millions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Coal is not dear for the coal-miner who can use it there and then, nor is khadi dear for the villager who manufactures his own khadi."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The law of love knows no bounds of space or time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My fast is, among other things, meant to qualify me for achieving that equal and selfless love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My nonviolence demands universal love, and you are not a small part of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I cannot think of permanent enmity between man and man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Free, open love I have looked upon as dog's love. Secret love is, besides, cowardly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have recognized that the nation has the right, if it so wills, to vindicate her freedom even by actual violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence is the rock on which the whole structure of non-co-operation is built."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For satyagraha and its offshoots, non-co-operation and civil resistance, are nothing but new names for the law of suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-co-operation and civil disobedience are but different branches of the same tree called satyagraha."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence is a universal law acting under all circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence is impossible without humility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Your character must be above suspicion and you must be truthful and self-controlled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Naked violence repels like the naked skeleton shorn of flesh, blood and the velvety skin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We do want to drive out the beast in man, but we do not want on that account to emasculate him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The state represents violence in a concentrated and organize form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To prevent the workers from going to their work by standing in front of them is pure violence and must be given up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: By using violence to subjugate one another we are using violence against our own souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The socialistic conception of the West was born in an environment reeking with violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is difficult to judge, when both sides are employing weapons of violence, which side 'deserves' to succeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The consumption of vegetables involves himsa, but I cannot give them up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Any act of injury done from self-interest, whether amounting to killing or not, is doubtless himsa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The bomb-throwers have discredited the cause of freedom, in whose name they threw the bombs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The present war is the saturation point in violence. It spells, to my mind, also its doom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Our nonviolence in respect of the Government is a result of our incapacity for effective violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Is it not possible for us all to realize that the masses will never mount to freedom through murder?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The difficulty one experiences in meeting himsa arises from weakness of mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When the panchayat raj is established, public opinion will do what violence can never do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When there is no desire for fruit, there is also no temptation for untruth or himsa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: War knows no law except that of might."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A vow imparts stability, ballast and firmness to one's character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Once Jesus had blazed the trail, his twelve disciples could carry on his mission without his presence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The message of Jesus has proved ineffective because the environment was unready to receive it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Civil disobedience can never be in general terms, such as for independence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: \"All men are born equal and free\" is not Nature's law in the literal sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Let no one try to justify the glaring difference between the classes and the masses, the prince and the pauper, by saying that the former need more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The fear of the judge within is more terrible than that of the one without."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It needs more than a heart of oak to shed all fear except the fear of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Freedom of worship, even of public speech, would become a farce if interference became the order of the day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we were strong, self-respecting and not susceptible to frightfulness, the foreign rulers would have been powerless for mischief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nanda broke down every barrier and won his way to freedom not by brag, not by bluster, but by the purest form of self-suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Only the toad under the harrow knows where it pinches him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: True swadeshi is that alone in which all the processes through which cotton has to pass are carried out in the same village or town."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Swadeshism is not a cult of hatred. It is a doctrine of selfless service that has its roots in the purest ahimsa, i.e. love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I swear by swadeshi as it affords occasion for ample exercise of all our faculties and it tests every one of the millions of men and women, young and old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I must not serve a distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is nature's kindness that we do not remember past births. Life would be a burden if we carried such a tremendous load of memories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do not believe that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The test of friendship is assistance in adversity, and that, too, unconditional assistance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have in my life never been guilty of saying things I did not mean - my nature is to go straight to the heart and if often I fail in doing so for the time being, I know that Truth ultimately makes itself heard and felt, as it has often done in my experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A nation that is capable of limitless sacrifice is capable of rising to limitless heights. The purer the sacrifice the quicker the progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: You will eat not to satisfy your palate but your hunger. A self-indulgent man lives to eat; a self-restrained man eats to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we remain nonviolent, hatred will die as everything does from disuse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In order to get meat, we have to kill. And we are certainly not entitled to any other milk except the mother's milk in our infancy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For me the present is merged in eternity. I may not sacrifice the latter for the present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Better than cowardice is killing and being killed in battle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Let no one charge me with ever having abused or encouraged weakness or surrendered on matters of principle. But I have said, as I say again, that every trifle must not be dignified into a principle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Real suffering bravely borne, melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering. And there lies the key to Satyagraha."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man who broods on evil is as bad a man who does evil, if he is no worse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is through truth & non-violence that I can have some glimpse of God. Truth & non-violence are my God. They are the obverse and reverse of the same coin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have but shadowed forth my intense longing to lose myself in the Eternal and become merely a lump of clay in the Potter's divine hands so that my service may become more certain because uninterrupted by the baser self in me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe in absolute oneness of God and therefore also of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God tries his votaries through and through but never beyond endurance. He gives them strength enough to go through the ordeal he prescribes for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A clean confession combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Perfection is the exclusive attribute of God, and it is indescribable, untranslatable. I do believe that it is possible for human beings to become perfect, even as God is perfect. It is necessary for all of us to aspire after that perfection but when that blessed state is attained, it become indescribable, indefinable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When anything assumes the strength of a creed, it becomes self-sustained and derives the needed support from within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Humankind has to get out of violence only through non-violence. Hatred can be overcome only by love. Counter - hatred only increases the surface as well as the depth of hatred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I must dissent emphatically from any proposal to spend any money on preparing a statue of me, more especially at a time when people do not have enough food and clothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I understood . . . that those who desired salvation should act like the trustee who, though having control over great possessions, regards not an iota of them as his own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The fullest life is impossible without an immovable belief in a Living Law in obedience to which the whole universe moves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A true Brahmachari will not even dream of satisfying the fleshly appetite"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Why worry one's head over a thing that is inevitable? Why die before one's death?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We do not know whether it is good to live or to die. Therefore, we should not take delight in living, nor should we tremble at the thought of death. We should be equiminded towards death. This is the ideal. It may be long before we reach it, and only a few of us can attain it. Even then, we must keep it constantly in view, and the more difficult it seems of attainment, the greater should be the effort we put forth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God turns His back on those who quarrel among themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Does not the history of the world show that there would have been no romance in life if there had been no risks?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Indeed, one perfect resister is enough to win the battle of Right against Wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: One may detest the wickedness of a brother without hating him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Woman, I hold, is the personification of self-sacrifice, but unfortunately today she does not realize what a tremendous advantage she has over man. As Tolstoy used to say, they are laboring under the hypnotic influence of man. If they would realize the strength of non-violence they would not consent to be called the weaker sex."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe all war to be wholly wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: You cannot stop big wars if you carry on little wars yourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My non-violence bids me dedicate myself to the service of the minorities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The right to err, which means the freedom to try experiments, is the universal condition of all progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I recognise no God except the God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I trust men only because I trust God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I worship the God that is Truth or Truth which is God through the service of these millions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: By Ram Raj I do not mean Hindu Raj. I mean by Ram Raj, Divine Raj, the Kingdom of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For me, Rama and Rahim are one and the same deity. I acknowledge no other God but the one God of truth and righteousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For me the Voice of God, of Conscience, of Truth or the Inner Voice or the still small Voice mean one and the same thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If I arrogate to myself the exclusive title of being in the right, I usurp the function of the Deity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My religion says that only he who is prepared to suffer can pray to God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My varnashram refuses to bow the head before the greatest potentate on earth, but my varnashram compels me to bow down my head in all humility before knowledge, purity, before every person where I see God face to face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My fast is a matter between God and myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My firm belief is that he reveals Himself daily to every human being but we shut our ears to the still small Voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The life of millions is my politics, from which I dare not free myself without denying my life-work and God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: You may pluck out my eyes, but that cannot kill me. You may chop off my nose, but that will not kill me. But blast my belief in God, and I am dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A fear-stricken person can never know God, and one who knows God will never fear a mortal man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All the dry ethics of the world turn to dust because apart from God they are lifeless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Seeing God face to face is to feel that He is enthroned in our hearts even as a child feels a mother's affection without needing any demonstration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To a people famishing and idle, the only acceptable form in which God can dare appear is work and promise of food as wages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To bear all kinds of tortures without a murmur of resentment is not possible for a human being without the strength that comes from God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To reject the necessity of temples is to reject the necessity of God, religion and earthly existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth is God, and Truth overrides all our plans. The whole Truth is only embodied within the heart of Great Power-Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth is the right designation of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What is impossible with man is child's play with God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My life is dedicated to the service of Indians through the religion of nonviolence which I believe to be the root of Hinduism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Idolatry is permissible in Hinduism when it sub serves an ideal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we would be pure, if we would save Hinduism, we must rid ourselves of this poison of enforced widowhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If Hinduism teaches hatred of Islam or of non-Hindus, it is doomed to destruction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Untouchability is a blot on Hinduism. It is a canker eating into its vitals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To remove untouchability is a penance that caste Hindus owe to Hinduism and to themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: So long as untouchability disfigures Hinduism, so long do I hold the attainment of Swaraj to be an utter impossibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is impossible to wait and weigh, in golden scales, the sentiments of prejudice and superstition that have gathered round the priests who are considered to be the custodians of Hinduism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Being dissatisfied and properly dissatisfied with the husk of Hinduism, you are in danger of losing even the kernel, life itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence is an active force of the highest order. It is soul force or the power of the godhead within us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence of the strong is infinitely braver than their violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have been practicing, with scientific precision, nonviolence and its possibilities for an unbroken period of over fifty years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If intellect plays a large part in the field of violence, I hold that it plays a larger part in the field of nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The power of nonviolent resistance can only come from honest working of the constructive programme."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Centralization as a system is inconsistent with a non-violent structure of society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Boycott of foreign cloth through picketing may easily be violent; through the use of khadi it is most natural and absolutely nonviolent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Those who have their hands dyed deep in blood cannot build a nonviolent order for the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A nonviolent warrior knows no leaving the battle. He rushes into the mouth of himsa, never even once harbouring an evil thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A complete fast is a complete and literal denial of self. It is the truest prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Let us, by praying, purify ourselves and we shall not only remove untouchability but shall also hasten the advent of Swaraj."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Never own defeat in a sacred cause and make up your minds henceforth that you will be pure and that you will find a response from God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Purification is never for the selfishly idle, it accrues only to the selflessly industrious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Civil disobedience can only lead to strength and purity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Like the watch, the heart needs the winding of purity, or the Dweller ceases to speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ramanama is for the pure at heart and for those who want to attain purity and remain pure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Tulsidas's Ramayana is a notable book because it is informed with the spirit of purity, pity and piety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Religions are different roads converging to the same point."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Religion to be true must satisfy what may be termed humanitarian economics, that is, where the income and the expenditure balance each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A religious act cannot be performed with the aid of the bayonet or the bomb."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Religion is not like a house or a cloak which can be changed at will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All religions teach that two opposite forces act upon us and the human endeavour consists in a series of eternal rejections and acceptances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Religion is no test of nationality, but a personal matter between man and his God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All religions are branches of the same mighty tree, but I must not change over from one branch to another for the sake of expediency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A religion cannot be sustained by the number of its lip-followers denying in their lives its tenets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The highest fulfillment of religion requires a giving up of all possessions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is not part of religion to breed buffaloes or, for that matter, cows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe that religious education must be the sole concern of religious associations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I desire no honour if I have to conceal my religious beliefs in order to have it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It was through the Hindu religion that I learnt to respect Christianity and Islam."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My religion is a matter solely between my Maker and myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we import compulsion in matters of religion, there is no doubt that we shall be committing suicide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Belief in one God is the cornerstone of all religions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Dharma is that which is enjoined by the holy books, followed by the sages, interpreted by the learned and which appeals to the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: True religion being the greatest thing in life and in the world, has been exploited the most."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To benefit by others' killing and to delude oneself into the belief that one is being very religions and nonviolent is sheer self-deception."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No Indian who aspires to follow the way of true religion can afford to remain aloof from politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Any imposition from without means compulsion. Such compulsion is repugnant to religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha is a process of educating public opinion, such that it covers all the elements of the society and in the end makes itself irresistible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha is a relentless search for truth and a determination to search truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha is an attribute of the spirit within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The fight of satyagraha is for the strong in spirit, not the doubter or the timid. Satyagraha teaches us the art of living as well as dying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The satyagrahi general has to obey his inner voice, for over and above the situation outside he examines himself constantly and listens to the dictates of the inner self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha is a law for universal application. Beginning with the family, its use can be extended to every other circle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha can rid society of all evils, political, economic and moral."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha and civil disobedience and fasts have nothing in common with the use of force, veiled or open."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Satyagraha is a purely spiritual weapon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The pilgrimage to Swaraj is a painful climb."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For winning Swaraj one requires iron discipline."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Swaraj will favour Hinduism no more than Islam, nor Islam more than Hinduism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is Swaraj when we learn to rule ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Conservation of national sanitation is Swaraj work and it may not be postponed for a single day on any consideration whatsoever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Swaraj can only be achieved through an all-round consciousness of the masses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Swaraj is not meant for cowards, but for those who would mount smilingly to the gallows and refuse even to allow their eyes to be bandaged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Swaraj would be real Swaraj only when there would be no occasion for safeguarding any rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Swaraj means even under dominion status a capacity to declare independence at will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Swaraj is not a product of excitement or intoxication. Swaraj will be the natural and inevitable result of business like habits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Let the content of Swaraj grow with the growth of national consciousness and aspirations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Swaraj does not depend on jail going. If it did, there are thousands of prisoners in jail today. It depends on everyone doing his or her own task."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Swaraj, without any qualifying clause, includes that which is better than the best one can conceive or have today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: So long as we fear the outside world, we must cease to think of Swaraj."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No Swaraj government with any pretension to being a popular government can possibly be organised and maintained on a war-footing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We are aware that the business of Swaraj will thrive only if the boycott of foreign cloth is successful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To ignore the Mussalman grievance as if it was not felt is to postpone Swaraj."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If we want Swaraj to be built on non-violence, we will have to give the villages their proper place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There can be no Swaraj where there is no harmony, no music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Swaraj for me means freedom for the meanest of countrymen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My Swaraj will be not be a result of murder of others but a voluntary act of continuous self-sacrifice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My Swaraj is to keep intact the genius of our civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Swaraj as conceived by me does not mean the end of kingship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Swaraj of my dream recognizes no race or religious distinctions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Swaraj is our birthright. No one can deprive us of it unless we forfeit it ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Where there is truth, there also is knowledge which is true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A successful search for truth means complete deliverance from the dual throng, such as of love and hate, happiness and misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The highest truth needs no communicating, for it is by its very nature self-propelling. It radiates its influence silently as the rose its fragrance without the intervention of a medium."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I will say that if there is anything like God Or Truth on earth, Hindu-Muslim unity is also possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Silence is a great help to a seeker after truth like myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The moral to be legitimately drawn from the supreme tragedy of the bomb is that it will not be destroyed by counter bombs even as violence cannot be by counter-violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: True ahimsa lay in running into the mouth of himsa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A certain degree of physical harmony and comfort is necessary, but above a certain level it becomes a hindrance instead of a help. Therefore the ideal of creating an unlimited number of wants and satisfying them seems to be a delusion and a snare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I shall never know God if I do not wrestle with and against evil, even at the cost of life itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence is the greatest virtue, cowardice the greatest vice - nonviolence springs from love, cowardice from hate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No human being is so bad as to be beyond redemption."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Unwearied ceaseless effort is the price that must be paid for turning faith into a rich infallible experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is no principle worth the name if it is not wholly good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To deprive a man of his natural liberty and to deny to him the ordinary amenities of life is worse then starving the body; it is starvation of the soul, the dweller in the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My imperfections and failures are as much a blessing from God as my successes and my talents and I lay them both at his feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If your heart acquires strength, you will be able to remove blemishes from others without thinking evil of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him. I am prepared to sacrifice the things dearest to me in pursuit of this quest. Even if the sacrifice demanded my very life, I hope I may be prepared to give it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is nothing that wastes the body like worry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A non-violent revolution is not a program of seizure of power. It is a program of transformation of relationships, ending in a peaceful transfer of power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The mice which helplessly find themselves between the cats teeth acquire no merit from their enforced sacrifice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: By education, I mean an all-round drawing of the best in child and man in body, mind and spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Basic education links the children, whether of the cities or the villages, to all that is best and lasting in India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Everyone has faith in God though everyone does not know it. For everyone has faith in himself and that multiplied to the nth degree is God. The sum total of all that lives is God. We may not be God, but we are of God, even as a little drop of water is of the ocean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: One who uses coercion is guilty of deliberate violence. Coercion is inhuman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Breach of promise is a base surrender of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I know nothing of the science of astrology and I consider it to be a science, if it is a science, of doubtful value, to be severely left alone by those who have any faith in Providence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The hardest metal yields to sufficient heat. Even so must the hardest heart melt before sufficiency of the heat of non- violence. And there is no limit to the capacity of non-violence to generate heat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Just think out for yourselves, if a man who was good yesterday has become bad after having come in contact with me, is he responsible that he has deteriorated or am I? ... It is well to take the blame sometimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The purpose of life is undoubtedly to know oneself.  We cannot do it unless we learn to identify ourselves with all that lives.  The sum-total of that life is God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe that it is impossible to end hatred with hatred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Love in the sense of ahimsa has only a limited number of votaries in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I see a clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The socialism that India can assimilate is the socialism of the spinning wheel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The restoration of spinning to its central place in India's peaceful campaign for deliverance from the imperial yoke gives her women a special status."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God has enabled me to affect the life of the country since 1920 without the necessity of office."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I can neither serve God nor humanity if as an Indian I do not serve India, and as a Hindu I do not serve Indian Mussalmans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I claim to know my millions. All the hours of the day I am with them. They are my first care and God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No stone should be left unturned to bring home to the family members that untouchability is a sin and a blot on Hinduism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The only way Hinduism can convert the whole world to cow-protection is by giving an object-lesson in cow-protection and all it means."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hindu religious literature, indeed all religious literature, is full of illustrations to prove the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Hindus, if they want unity among different races, must have the courage to trust the minorities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Dining and marriage restrictions stunt Hindu society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Widowhood imposed by religion or custom is an unbearable yoke and defiles the home by secret vice and degrades religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: India must learn to live before she can aspire to die for humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: India is essentially a karmabhumi (land of duty) in contradistinction to bhogabhumi (land of enjoyment)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: India has the right, if she only knew, of becoming the predominant partner by reason of her numbers, geographical position and culture inherited for ages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: India has an unbroken tradition of nonviolence from times immemorial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: India must protect her primary industries even as a mother protects her children against the whole world without being hostile to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If there ever is to be a republic of every village in India, then I claim verity for my picture in which the last is equal to the first or, in other words, no one is to be the first and none the last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: An India prostrate at the feet of Europe can give no hope to humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: An India free from exploitation from within and without must prosper with astonishing rapidity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: India's freedom will not be won by violence but only by the purest suffering without retaliation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Before we can aspire to guide the destinies of India, we shall have to adopt the habit of fearlessness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The cottage industry of India had to perish in order that Lancashire might flourish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Drink is not a fashion in India, as it is in the West."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The British Government in India constitutes a struggle between modern civilization, which is the Kingdom of Satan, and the ancient civilization, which is the Kingdom of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The unparalleled extravagance of English rule has demented the rajas and the maharajas who, unmindful of consequences, ape it and grind their subjects to dust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It would be a blunder of the first magnitude for the British to be a party, in any way whatsoever, to the division of India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Half-a-dozen or twenty cities of India alone working together cannot bring Swaraj."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolent non-co-operators can only succeed when they have succeeded in attaining control over the hooligans of India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nowhere in the world would you find such skeletons of cows and bullocks as you do in our cow-worshipping India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Khaddar has the greatest organizing power in it because it has itself to be organized and because it affects all India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The art that is in the machine-made article, appeals only to the eye; the art in Khadi appeals first to the heart and then to the eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Capital exploits the labour of a few to multiply itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: No labour is too mean for one who wants to earn an honest penny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My religion and my patriotism derived from my religion, embrace all life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The first condition of nonviolence is justice all round, in every department of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every calamity should lead to a thorough cleansing of individual as well as social life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every reform means awakening. Once truly awakened, the nation will not be satisfied with reform only in one department of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Love based upon indulgence of animal passion, is at best a selfish affair, and likely to snap under the slightest strain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Love is the basis of our friendship as it is of religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A seeker after truth, a follower of the law of Love, cannot hold anything against tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The call of the spinning wheel is the noblest of all. Because it is the call of love. And love is Swaraj."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: At the centre of nonviolence is a force which is self-acting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue, confined only to the rishi and the cave-dweller."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: You can return blow for blow if you are not brave enough to follow the path of nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence to be a creed has to be all-pervasive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is much more difficult to live for nonviolence than to die for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence, in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence of the strong cannot be a mere policy. It must be a creed, or a passion, if 'creed' is objected to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence to be worth anything has to work in the face of hostile forces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence, when it becomes active, travels with extraordinary velocity, and then it becomes a miracle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If my nonviolence is to be contagious and infectious, I must acquire greater control over my thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Every moment of my existence is dedicated to the winning of Swaraj by means of truth and nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The only virtue I want to claim is truth and nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I will not have the power of nonviolence to be underestimated in order to cover my limitations or weaknesses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Himsa does not need to be taught, Man as animal is violent, but as spirit is nonviolent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: ... there are chords in every human heart. If we only knew how to strike the right chord, we would bring out the music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A jailer is as much a prisoner as his prisoner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The music of life is in danger of being lost in the music of the voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I must try to live in society and yet remain untouched by its pitfalls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Truth is superior to man s wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being \"not successful.\" He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have an implicit faith ... that mankind can only be saved through non-violence, which is the central teaching of the Bible, as I have understood the Bible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Few men are wantonly wicked."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: More caution and perhaps more restraint are necessary in breaking a fast than in keeping it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A perfect mind comes from a perfect heart, not the heart known by a doctor's stethoscope but the heart which is the seat of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Prayer needs no speech. It is in itself independent of any sensuous effort. But it must be combined with the utmost humility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence is the law of the human race and is infinitely greater than, and superior to, brute force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Faith is not imparted like secular subjects. It is given through the language of the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Surely conversion is a matter between man and his Maker who alone knows his creatures' hearts. A conversion without a clean heart is, in my opinion, a denial of God and Religion. Conversion without cleanliness of heart can only be a matter of sorrow, not joy, to a godly person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A dissolute character is more dissolute in thought than in deed. And the same is true of violence. Our violence in word and deed is but a feeble echo of the surging violence of thought in us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To say that God permits evil in the world may not be pleasing to the ear. But if He is held responsible for the good, it follows that He has to be responsible for the evil too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa is one of the world's great principles, which no power on earth can wipe out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Without real nonviolence, there would be perfect anarchy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Nonviolence in the sense of mere non-killing does not appear to me, therefore, to be of any improvement on the technique of violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The movement of nonviolent non-co-operation has nothing in common with the historical struggles for freedom in the West."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: For a nonviolent struggle, there is no age limit. The blind, the maimed and the bed-ridden may serve, and not only men but women also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Unless nonviolence of the strong is really developed among us, there should be no thought of civil disobedience for Swaraj, whether within the states or in British India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is difficult for me to regard anyone who obeys no moral principle in his conduct to be a religious man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A popular government wields a moral force, which is infinitely superior to the physical force that the foreign government could summon to its assistance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Prayer can come in only when fasting has done its work. It can make fasting easy and bearable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Prayer is a sign of repentance, a desire to become better, purer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Prayer is either petitional or, in its wider sense, inward communion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Prayer is no mere exercise of words or of the ears, it is no mere repetition of empty formula."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily acts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A prayerful study and experience are essential for a correct interpretation of the scriptures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: True prayer is not a prelude to inaction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The meaning of prayer is that I want to evoke that Divinity within me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Prayer has not been a part of my life in the sense that truth has been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A man of prayer regards what are known as physical calamities as divine chastisement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Religion should be dearer than life itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Religion taught us to return good for evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Faith is a function of the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the weak. I believe in the doctrine of non-violence as a weapon of the strongest. I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: All my actions have their rise in my inalienable love of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When nonviolence is accepted as the law of life, it must pervade the whole being and not be applied to isolated acts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth and the soul requires inward restfulness to attain its full height."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The real test of nonviolence lies in its being brought in contact with those who have contempt for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Fear has its use, but cowardice has none. I may not put my finger into the jaws of a snake, but the very sight of the snake need not strike terror into me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There are subjects where reason cannot take us far and we have to accept things on faith. Faith then does not contradict reason but transcends it. Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I implicitly believe in the truth of the saying that not a blade of grass moves but by His will. He will save it (my life) if He needs it for further service in this body. None can save it against His will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honor, his religion, his soul and lay the foundation for the empire's fall or its regeneration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is beneath human dignity to lose one's individuality and become a mere cog in the machine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: It is knowledge that ultimately gives salvation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Life becomes livable only to the extent that death is treated as a friend, never as an enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: ... we have to learn to use that force (love) among all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love there is life; hatred leads to destruction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions. In fact I do not know where I am, and what is and what should be my belief. I intend to make a careful study of my own religion and, as far as I can, of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have no other wish in this world but to find light and joy and peace through Hinduism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don't go together any more that water and fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Is the God of the Mahometan different from the God of the Hindu? Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads so long as we reach the same goal? Wherein is the cause for quarreling?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My own veneration for other faiths is the same as that for my own faith; therefore no thought of conversion is possible"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The one religion is beyond all speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Faith is put to the test when the situation is most difficult."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I have no disciples, being myself an aspirant after discipleship and in search of a guru."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The hardest heart and the grossest ignorance must disappear before the rising sun of suffering without anger and without malice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: When you want to find Truth as God, the only inevitable means is love, that is nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: God lives, but not as we. His creatures live but to die. But God is life. Therefore, goodness is not an attribute. Goodness is God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Retreat itself is often a plan of resistance and may be a precursor of great bravery and sacrifice. Every retreat is not cowardice which implies fear to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Man does not live by bread alone. Many prefer self-respect to food."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: India will not be a helpless partner in her own exploitation and foreign domination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: India unarmed would not require to be destroyed through poison gas or bombardment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: A seeker of truth will never begin by discounting his opponent's statement as unworthy of trust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The finite human being shall never know in its fullness Truth and Love which is itself infinite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Openness of mind strengthens the truth in us and removes the dross from it, if there is any."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: To find truth completely is to realize oneself and one's destiny, i.e. to become perfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Untouchability is an error of long standing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Untouchability of foreign cloth is as much a virtue with all of us as untouchability of the suppressed classes must be a sin with every devout Hindu."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: Untouchability is a terrible reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: In battling against untouchability, and in dedicating myself to that battle, I have no less an ambition than to see a full regeneration of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My fight against untouchability is a fight against the impure in humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: We shall dig our own grave if we do not purge ourselves of this curse of untouchability."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is no 'as far as possible' on the question of untouchability. If it is to go, it must go in its entirety from the temples as from everywhere else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: If Britain wins wholly, Nazi Germany, Fascist Italy and perhaps even Bolshevik Russia will disappear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I cannot give active support in the war effort without denying a life-time of practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: The Muslim is as much an Indian as I am and of the same blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: There is no fundamental cleavage between Hindus and Mussalmans. We have lived in the same land as brothers for generations and what has been possible all these years will certainly be possible in the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mahatma Gandhi: I believe that a party wishing equality for India does exist in Britain. But it is an insignificant minority, and while I honour and like their opinion I cannot be enthused over it, for I know that those who shape policy and dominate are otherwise inclined. For me, therefore, it is only the Secretary of State who counts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: When the people who are in power want to use again, create an image, to justify something that's bad, they use the press. And they'll use the press to create a humanitarian image, for a devil, or a devil image for a humanitarian. They'll take a person who's a victim of the crime, and make it appear he's the criminal, and they'll take the criminal and make it appear that he's the victim of the crime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I have more respect for a man who lets me know where he stands, even if he's wrong, than the one who comes up like an angel and is nothing but a devil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold us out. Both of them have sold us out; both parties have sold us out. Both parties are racist, and the Democratic Party is more racist than the Republican Party."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against. I'm a human being, first and foremost, and as such I'm for whoever and whatever benefits humanity as a whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: If you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you'll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: They cripple the bird's wing, and then condemn it for not flying as fast as they."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Education is an important element in the struggle for human rights. It is the means to help our children and thereby increase self-respect. Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. The most neglected person in America is the black woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: As long as a white man does it, it's alright, a black man is supposed to have no feelings. But when a black man strikes back he's an extremist, he's supposed to sit passively and have no feelings, be nonviolent, and love his enemy no matter what kind of attack, verbal or otherwise, he's supposed to take it. But if he stands up in any way and tries to defend himself, then he's an extremist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity... We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves. We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: We declare our right on this earth...to be a human being, to be respected as a human being, to be given the rights of a human being in this society, on this earth, in this day, which we intend to bring into existence by any means necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocrisy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: For the white man to ask the black man if he hates him is just like the rapist asking the raped, or the wolf asking the sheep, 'Do you hate me?' The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate! Why, when all of my ancestors are snake-bitten, and I'm snake-bitten, and I warn my children to avoid snakes, what does that snake sound like accusing me of hate-teaching?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Just as a tree without roots is dead, a people without history or cultural roots also becomes a dead people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: You don't have a revolution in which you love your enemy, and you don't have a revolution in which you are begging the system of exploitation to integrate you into it. Revolutions overturn systems. Revolutions destroy systems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The greatest mistake of the movement has been trying to organize a sleeping people around specific goals. You have to wake the people up first, then you'll get action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I'm for truth, no matter who tells it. I'm for justice, no matter who it's for or against."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The press is so powerful in its image-making role, it can make the criminal look like he's a the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. This is the press, an irresponsible press. It will make the criminal look like he's the victim and make the victim look like he's the criminal. If you aren't careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed and loving the people who are doing the oppressing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Concerning non-violence: it is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The only thing power respects, is power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It\"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what you\"ve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; you\"ll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you\"ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: People don't realize how a man's whole life can be changed by one book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: My sincerity is my credentials."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Human rights are something you were born with. Human rights are your God-given rights. Human rights are the rights that are recognized by all nations of this earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Nobody can give you freedom. Nobody can give you equality or justice or anything. If you're a man, you take it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Anytime anyone is enslaved or in any way deprived of his liberty, that person, as a human being, as far as I'm concerned he is justified to resort to whatever methods necessary to bring about his liberty again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: If you're not ready to die for it, put the word 'freedom' out of your vocabulary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: If a dog is biting a black man, the black man should kill the dog, whether the dog is a police dog or a hound dog or any kind of dog. If a dog is fixed on a black man when that black man is doing nothing but trying to take advantage of what the government says is supposed to be his, then that black man should kill that dog or any two-legged dog who sets the dog on him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I learned early that crying out in protest could accomplish things. My older brothers and sister had started to school when, sometimes, they would come in and ask for a buttered biscuit or something and my mother, impatiently, would tell them no. But I would cry out and make a fuss until I got what I wanted. I remember well how my mother asked me why I couldn't be a nice boy like Wilfred; but I would think to myself that Wilfred, for being so nice and quiet, often stayed hungry. So early in life, I had learned that if you want something, you had better make some noise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: You can't have capitalism without racism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The only time the white man is brotherly toward you is when he can use you, when he can exploit you, when he will oppress you, when you will submit to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It\u2019s just like when you\u2019ve got some coffee that\u2019s too black, which means it\u2019s too strong. What you do? You integrate it with cream; you make it weak. If you pour too much cream in, you won\u2019t even know you ever had coffee. It used to be hot, it becomes cool. It used to be strong, it becomes weak. It used to wake you up, now it\u2019ll put you to sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: So over you is the greatest enemy a man can have \u2014 and that is fear. I know some of you are afraid to listen to the truth \u2014 you have been raised on fear and lies. But I am going to preach to you the truth until you are free of that fear..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Armed with the knowledge of our past, we can with confidence charter a course for our future. Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle. We must take hold of it and forge the future with the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I, for one, will join in with anyone -- I don't care what color you are -- as long as you want to change this miserable condition that exists on this earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, \u2018What\u2019s your alma mater?\u2019 I told him, \u2018Books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Why am I as I am? To understand that of any person, his whole life, from Birth must be reviewed. All of our experiences fuse into our personality. Everything that ever happened to us is an ingredient."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Whenever you're going after something that belongs to you, anyone who's depriving you of the right to have it is a criminal. Understand that. Whenever you are going after something that is yours, you are within your legal rights to lay claim to it. And anyone who puts forth any effort to deprive you of that which is yours, is breaking the law, is a criminal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The Constitution of the United States of America clearly affirms the right of every American citizen to bear arms. And as Americans, we will not give up a single right guaranteed under the Constitution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I'm not going to sit at your table and watch you eat, with nothing on my plate, and call myself a diner. Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: We cannot think of being acceptable to others until we have first proven acceptable to ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: In the past, yes, I have made sweeping indictments of all white people. I never will be guilty of that again - as I know now that some white people are truly sincere, that some truly are capable of being brotherly toward a black man. The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites made blanket indictments against blacks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Children have a lesson adults should learn, to not be ashamed of failing, but to get up and try again. Most of us adults are so afraid, so cautious, so 'safe,' and therefore so shrinking and rigid and afraid that it is why so many humans fail. Most middle-aged adults have resigned themselves to failure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I believe in the brotherhood of man, all men, but I don't believe in brotherhood with anybody who doesn't want brotherhood with me. I believe in treating people right, but I'm not going to waste my time trying to treat somebody right who doesn't know how to return the treatment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I believe it's a crime for anyone who is being brutalized to continue to accept that brutality without doing something to defend himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being--neither white, black, brown, or red; and when you are dealing with humanity as a family there's no question of integration or intermarriage. It's just one human being marrying another human being or one human being living around and with another human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: What is a Dixiecrat? A Democrat. A Dixiecrat is nothing but a Democrat in disguise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Once you change your philosophy, you change your thought pattern. Once you change your thought pattern, you change your attitude. Once you change your attitude, it changes your behavior pattern and then you go on into some action. As long as you gotta sit-down philosophy, you\u2019ll have a sit-down thought pattern, and as long as you think that old sit-down thought you\u2019ll be in some kind of sit-down action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: This religion (Islam) recognizes all men as brothers. It accepts all human beings as equals before God, and as equal members in the Human Family of Mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Despite my firm convictions, I have always been a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds. I have always kept an open mind, a flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of the intelligent search for truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: We're not Americans, we're Africans who happen to be in America. We were kidnapped and brought here against our will from Africa. We didn't land on Plymouth Rock - that rock landed on us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Any time you see someone more successful than you are, they are doing something you aren't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: To me, political action involves making the politician who represents us know that he either produces or he is out, and he's out one way or another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: And just because you have colleges and universities doesn't mean you have education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I don't care how nice one is to you, the thing you must always remember is that almost never does he really see you as he sees himself, as he sees his own kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Mankind's history has proved from one era to another that the true criterion of leadership is spiritual. Men are attracted by spirit. By power, men are forced. Love is engendered by spirit. By power anxieties are created."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Anybody who rapes, and plunders, and enslaves, and steals, and drops hell bombs on people... anybody who does these things is nothing but a devil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I don't favor violence. If we could bring about recognition and respect of our people by peaceful means, well and good. Everybody would like to reach his objectives peacefully. But I'm also a realist. The only people in this country who are asked to be nonviolent are black people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The religion of Islam actually restores one's human feelings, human rights, human incentives, human, his talent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Ignorance of each other is what has made unity impossible in the past. Therefore we need enlightenment. We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity. Once we have more knowledge (light) about each other, we will stop condemning each other and a United front will be brought about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: We're all in the same boat and we all are going to catch the same hell from the same man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Anytime you tell a man to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent in the face of a violent enemy, you're making that man defenseless. You're robbing him of his God-given right to defend himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: You spend so much time barking up the civil-rights tree, you don't even know there's a human-rights tree on the same floor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Allah always gives you signs, when you are with Him, that He is with you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land--every color, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike--all snored in the same language."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: How can anyone be against love?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: If you are in a country that is progressive, the woman is progressive. If you're in a country that reflects the consciousness toward the importance of education, it's because the woman is aware of the importance of education. But in every backward country you'll find the women are backward, and in every country where education is not stressed its because the women don't have education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I don't advocate violence; but if a man steps on my toes, I'll step on his."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Some things are better done than said."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way. And you, sitting around here like a knot on the wall, saying, \u201cI\u2019m going to love these folks no matter how much they hate me.\u201d No, you need a revolution. Whoever heard of a revolution where they lock arms, as Reverend Cleage was pointing out beautifully, singing \u201cWe Shall Overcome\u201d? Just tell me. You don\u2019t do that in a revolution. You don\u2019t do any singing; you\u2019re too busy swinging."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Any time you find the government involved in a conspiracy to violate the citizenship or the civil rights of a people, then you are wasting your time going to that government expecting redress. Instead, you have to take that government to the World Court and accuse it of genocide and all of the other crimes that it is guilty of today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Yes, I'm an extremist. The Black race here in North America is in extremely bad condition. You show me a Black man who isn't an extremist and I'll show you one who needs psychiatric attention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The white man is not inherently evil, but America's racist society influences him to act evilly. The society has produced and nourishes a psychology which brings out the lowest, most base part of human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: When a person places the proper value on freedom, there is nothing under the sun that he will not do to acquire that freedom. Whenever you hear a man saying he wants freedom, but in the next breath he is going to tell you what he won't do to get it, or what he doesn't believe in doing in order to get it, he doesn't believe in freedom. A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire... or preserve his freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The black man in North America was economically sick and that was evident in one simple fact: as a consumer, he got less than his share, and as a producer gave least. The black American today shows us the perfect parasite image - the black tick under the delusion that he is progressing because he rides on the udder of the fat, three-stomached cow that is white America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: When I was in Mecca I noticed that their, they had no color problem. That they had people there whose eyes were blue and people there whose eyes were black, people whose skin was white, people whose skin was black, people whose hair was blond, people whose hair was black, from the whitest white person to the blackest black person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I'm for truth, no matter who tells it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: [Negro] should realize that he is living in a war zone, and he is at war with an enemy that is as vicious and criminal and inhuman as any war-making country has ever been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Negroes just can't judge each other according to color, because we are all colors, all complexions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: To tell a woman not to talk too much was like telling Jesse James not to carry a gun, or a hen not to cackle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Never have I witnessed such sincere hospitality and \n the overwhelming spirit of true brotherhood as is practiced \n by people of all colours and races here in this ancient Holy Land, \n the home of Abraham, Muhammad, and all the other prophets \n of the Holy Scriptures. For the past week, I have been utterly \n speechless and spellbound by the graciousness I see displayed \n all around me by people of all colours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It's liberty or it's death. It's freedom for everybody or freedom for nobody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The white man supports Reverend Martin Luther King, subsidizes Reverend Martin Luther King, so that Reverend Martin Luther King can continue to teach the Negroes to be defenseless - that's what you mean by nonviolent - be defenseless in the face of one of the most cruel beasts that has ever taken people into captivity - that's this American white man, and they have proved it throughout the country by the police dogs and the police clubs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: If the Emancipation Proclamation was authentic, you wouldn't have a race problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It\u2019ll be the ballot or it\u2019ll be the bullet. It\u2019ll be liberty or it\u2019ll be death. And if you\u2019re not ready to pay that price don\u2019t use the word freedom in your vocabulary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Nowhere in history has the white man been brotherly toward anyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Culture is an indispensable weapon in the freedom struggle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: New York white youth were killing victims; that was a 'sociological' problem. But when black youth killed somebody, the power structure was looking to hang somebody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don\u2019t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It's impossible for a white person to believe in capitalism and not believe in racism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: In order for a man to really understand himself he must be part of a nation; he must have some land of his own, a God of his own, a language of his own. Most of all he must have love and devotion for his own kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: A race of people is like and individual man; until it uses its own talent, takes pride in its own history, expresses its own culture, affirms its own selfhood, it can never fulfill itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The most unprotected person in America is the black woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Anytime you have to rely upon your enemy for a job you're in bad shape."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It's hard for anyone intelligent to be nonviolent. Everything in the universe does something when you start playing with his life, except the American Negro. He lays down and says, 'Beat me, daddy.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I don't encourage any act of murder nor do I glorify in anybody's death, but I do think that when the white public uses its press to magnify the fact that there are the lives of white hostages at stake, they don't say \"hostages,\" every paper says \"white hostages.\" They give me the impression that they attach more importance to a white hostage and a white death, than they do the death of a human being, despite the color of his skin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I do not pretend to be a divine man, but I do believe in divine guidance, divine power, and in the fulfillment of divine prophecy. I am not educated, nor am I an expert in any particular field but I am sincere, and my sincerity is my credentials."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Who taught you to hate the color of your skin? Who taught you to hate the texture of your hair? Who taught you to hate the shape of your nose and the shape of your lips? Who taught you to hate yourself from the top of your head to the soles of your feet?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Here you have 22 million Afro-Americans, black people today, catching more hell than Patrick Henry ever saw. And I'm here to tell you, in case you don't know it, that you got a new - you got a new generation of black people in this country, who don't care anything whatsoever about odds. They don't want to hear you old Uncle Tom handkerchief heads talking about the odds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: If violence is wrong in America, violence is wrong abroad. If it is wrong to be violent defending black women and black children and black babies and black men, then it is wrong for America to draft us and make us violent abroad in defense of her. And if it is right for America to draft us, and teach us how to be violent in defense of her, then it is right for you and me to do whatever is necessary to defend our own people right here in this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I don't mean go out and get violent; but at the same time you should never be nonviolent unless you run into some nonviolence. I'm nonviolent with those who are nonviolent with me. But when you drop that violence on me, then you've made me go insane, and I'm not responsible for what I do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: When you mentioned something about self improvement, the implication is that the negro is something distinct or different, and, therefore, needs to learn how to improve himself. Negro leaders resent this being said, not because they don't know that it's true, but they're thinking, they're looking at it personally. They think that the implication is directed even at them, and that they, and they duck this responsibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Power never takes a back step only in the face of more power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Anything I do today, I regard as urgent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I can't turn around without hearing about some 'civil rights advance's White people seem to think the black man ought to be shouting 'hallelujah's Four hundred years the white man has had his foot-long knife in the black man's back \u2014 and now the white man starts to wiggle the knife out, maybe six inches! The black man's supposed to be grateful? Why, if the white man jerked the knife out, it's still going to leave a scar!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Respect me, or put me to death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The whites of the younger generation, in the colleges and universities, will see the handwriting on the wall and many of them will turn to the spiritual path of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: If Martin Luther King, Roy Wilkins or any of these compromising Negros who say exactly what the white man wants to hear is interviewed anywhere in the country you don't get anybody to offset what they say. But whenever a black man stands up and says something that white people don't like then the first thing that man does is run around to try and find somebody to say something to offset what has just been said. This is natural but it is done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Whether we are Christians or Muslims or nationalists or agnostics or atheists, we must first learn to forget our differences. If we have differences, let us differ in the closet; when we come out in front, let us not have anything to argue about until we get finished arguing with the man. If the late President Kennedy could get together with Khrushchev and exchange some wheat, we certainly have more in common with each other than Kennedy and Khrushchev had with each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: America preaches integration and practices segregation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Any time you know you're within the law, within your legal rights, within your moral rights, in accord with justice, then die for what you believe in. But don't die alone. Let your dying be reciprocal. This is what is meant by equality. What's good for the goose is good for the gander."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I asked inmate in New York, Warden Fay at that time if, if it didn't make a better inmate out of the Negroes who accepted it and he said, \"Yes.\" So I asked him then what was it about it that he considered to be so danger, and he, dangerous, and he pointed out that it was the cohesiveness that it produced among the inmates. They stuck together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The death of over 120 white people is a very beautiful thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Revolutions are never waged singing \"We Shall Overcome.\" Revolutions are based upon bloodshed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I must say this concerning the great controversy over rifles and shotguns. The only thing I've ever said is that in areas where the government has proven itself either unwilling or unable to defend the lives and the property of Negroes, it's time for Negroes to defend themselves. Article number two of the constitutional amendments provides you and me the right to own a rifle or a shotgun. It is constitutionally legal to own a shotgun or a rifle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It is only the Negro leadership, the bourgeois, hand-picked, handful of Negroes who think that they're going to get some kind of respect, recognition, or protection from the Government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Every morning when I wake up, now, I regard it as having another borrowed day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Just as plagues were visited on Pharaoh so will pestilences and disasters be visited on the white man. Why, it has already started: God has begun to send them heat when they expect cold; he sends them cold when they expect heat. Their crops are dying, their children are being born with all kinds of deformities, the rivers and lakes are coming out of the belly of the earth to wash them away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: An integrated cup of coffee isn't sufficient pay for four hundred years of slave labor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The only possible way out for the white man is to give us Negroes some land of our own; let us get out, get away from his wicked reign and go for ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: These Negroes who go for integration and intermarriage are linking up with the very people who lynched their fathers, raped their mothers, and put their kid sisters in the kitchen to scrub floors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The day that the black man takes an uncompromising step and realizes that he's within his rights, when his own freedom is being jeopardized, to use any means necessary to bring about his freedom or put a halt to that injustice, I don't think he'll be by himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The American Negro never can be blamed for his racial animosities - he is only reacting to four hundred years of the conscious racism of the American whites."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I think the only way one can really determine whether extremism in the defense of liberty is justified, is not to approach it as an american or a european or an African or an Asian, but as a human being. If we look upon it as different types, immediately we begin to think in terms of extremism being good for one and bad for another, or bad for one and good for another. But if we look upon it, if we look upon ourselves as human beings, I doubt that anyone will deny that extremism in defense of liberty, the liberty of any human being, is no vice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: They call me \"a teacher, a fomenter of violence.\" I would say point blank, \"That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, the United States struck back. She didn't go and bomb - she bombed any part of Japan. She dropped the bomb on Hiroshima. Those people in Hiroshima probably hadn't even, some of them; most of them hadn't even killed anybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: A hundred years ago the American white men used to put on a white sheet and use a bloodhound against Negroes. Today they have taken off the white sheet and put on police uniforms and traded in the bloodhounds for police dogs, and they're still doing the same thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Brothers and sisters, friends and enemies: I just can't believe everyone in here is a friend, and I don't want to leave anybody out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: When I am dead--I say it that way because from the things I know, I do not expect to live long enough to read this book in its finished form--I want you to just watch and see if I'm not right in what I say: that the white man, in his press, is going to identify me with \"hate\". He will make use of me dead, as he has made use of me alive, as a convenient symbol, of \"hatred\"--and that will help him escape facing the truth that all I have been doing is holding up a mirror to reflect, to show, the history of unspeakable crimes that his race has committed against my race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: In all our deeds, the proper value and respect for time determines success or failure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The white man has created a devil, to bring chaos upon this earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: One of the main things that I read about it that appealed to me was in Islam a man is honored as a human being and not measured by the color of his skin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I believe in a religion that believes in freedom. Any time I have to accept a religion that won't let me fight a battle for my people, I say to hell with that religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I was an atheist, I was open-minded, and I began to read in that direction, in the direction of Islam, and everything that I read about it appealed to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: God is going to punish the white man for his misdeeds toward black people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: We are about to have a racial explosion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Not long ago, an English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was \"What's your alma mater?\" I told him, \"Books.\" You will never catch me with a free fifteen minutes in which I'm not studying something I feel might be able to help the black man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I'm trying to get at this. That is, a man may know that he belongs to, say, a group - this group or that group - but he feels himself lost within that group, trapped within his own deficiencies and without personal purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I went to a white school over here in Mason, Michigan. The white man made the mistake of letting me read his history books. He made the mistake of teaching me that Patrick Henry was a patriot and George Washington - wasn't nothing non-violent about old Pat or George Washington."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: How can you thank a man for giving you what's already yours? How then can you thank him for giving you only part of what's already yours?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Hence I have no mercy or compassion in me for a society that will crush people, and then penalize them for not being able to stand up under the weight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: History is a people's memory, and without a memory, man is demoted to the lower animals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Any group, any group that can't work with all other groups, if they are genuinely interested in solving the problems of the Negro collectively why, I don't think that that group is really sincerely motivated toward reaching a solution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: In fact, once he is motivated no one can change more completely than the man who has been at the bottom. I call myself the best example of that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I am not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it. I am one of the 22 million black victims of the Democrats, and one of the 22 million black victims of the Republicans, and one of the 22 million black victims of Americanism... You and I have never seen democracy; all we've seen is hypocracy... If you go to jail, so what? If you're black, you were born in jail. If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Since the white people collectively have practiced the worst form of hatred against Negroes in America and they know that they are guilty of it, now when The Honorable Elijah Muhammad comes along and begins to list the historic deed - the historic attitude, the historic behavior of the white man in this country toward the black people in this country, again, the white people are so guilty and they can't stop doing these things to make Mr. Muhammad appear to be wrong, so they hide their wrong by saying \"he is teaching hatred.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The junkie can never start to cure himself until he recognizes his true condition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Forget the methods or the differences in methods. As long as we agree that the thing that the Afro-American wants and needs is recognition and respect as a human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Education is our passport to the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Where the really sincere white people have got to do their 'proving' of themselves is not among the black victims, but out on the battle lines of where America's racism really is - and that's in their own home communities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Anytime you find someone more successful than you are, especially when you're both engaged in the same business - you know they're doing something that you aren't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already ... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Since the main problem that American, the Afro- Americans have is a lack of cultural identity. It is necessary to teach [people] that they had some type of identity, culture, civilization before they were brought here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I believe in the brotherhood of all men, but I don't believe in wasting brotherhood on anyone who doesn't want to practice it with me. Brotherhood is a two-way street."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians. We must realize the need for adult education and for job retraining programs that will emphasize a changing society in which automation plays the key role. We intend to use the tools of education to help raise our people to an unprecedented level of excellence and self respect through their own efforts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: White people whom I have met, who have accepted Islam, they don't regard themselves as white but as human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: These were African-Arab-Asian values. The only section of Europe that had a high value system during the Dark Ages was the, were those on the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I am a Muslim, because it's a religion that teaches you an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth. It teaches you to respect everybody, and treat everybody right. But it also teaches you if someone steps on your toe, chop off their foot. And I carry my religious axe with me all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Renaissance or the reawakening of Europe. And, and this reawakening actually involved an era during which the people of Europe, who were coming out of the Dark Ages, were then adopting the value system of the people in the East, in the, of the oriental society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against blacks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: And when I speak, I don't speak as a Democrat or a Republican, nor an American. I speak as a victim of America's so-called democracy. You and I have never seen democracy - all we've seen is hypocrisy. When we open our eyes today and look around America, we see America not through the eyes of someone who has enjoyed the fruits of Americanism. We see America through the eyes of someone who has been the victim of Americanism. We don't see any American dream. We've experienced only the American nightmare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: X is not my real name. But if you study history, you'll find why no Black man in the Western Hemisphere knows his real name. Some of his ancestors kidnapped our ancestors from Africa and took us into the Western Hemisphere and sold us there, and our names were stripped from us and so today we don't know who we really are. I am one of those who admit it, and so I just put X up there to keep from wearing his name."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: A man who believes in freedom will do anything under the sun to acquire, or preserve his freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Those who would hunt a man need to remember that a jungle also contains those who hunt the hunters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: When you aren't affiliated with anything, and then you look at something, you look at it with your eye to the best of your ability."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: If you have a dog, I must have a dog. If you have a rifle, I must have a rifle. If you have a club, I must have a club. This is equality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: No, I\u2019m not an American. I\u2019m one of the 22 million black people who are the victims of Americanism. One of the \u2026 victims of democracy, nothing but disguised hypocrisy. So, I\u2019m not standing here speaking to you as an American, or a patriot, or a flag-saluter, or a flag-waver - no, not I. I\u2019m speaking as a victim of this American system. And I see America through the eyes of the victim. I don\u2019t see any American dream; I see an American nightmare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: [JF] Kennedy was a deceitful man. He was a cold-blooded politician whose purpose was to get elected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: His master\u2019s pain was his pain. And it hurt him more for his master to be sick than for him to be sick himself. When the house started burning down, that type of Negro would fight harder to put the master\u2019s house out than the master himself would. But then you had another Negro out in the field. The house Negro was in the minority. The masses\u2014the field Negroes were the masses. They were in the majority. When the master got sick, they prayed that he\u2019d die. If his house caught on fire, they'd pray for a wind to come along and fan the breeze."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: To the same degree that your understanding of and attitude toward Afrika become positive, you'll find that your understanding of and your attitude toward yourself will also become positive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Many of them who belong to these countries that were former colonial powers have racist attitudes, but their racist attitude is never displayed to the degree that the America's attitude of racism is displayed. Never."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It has taken us that long to get the deaf, dumb, and blind black men in the wilderness of North America to wake up and understand who they are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Revolutions are never peaceful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: There is nothing in our book, the Koran, that teaches us to suffer peacefully. Our religion teaches us to be intelligent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: [White men] has the audacity to call himself even the \"Leader of the Free World\" while he has a country that can't even give the basic human rights to over twenty-two million of its citizens. This is aud-, this is, this takes audacity; this takes nerve. So it is this attitude today that's causing the Americans to be condemned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I am for violence if non-violence means we continue postponing a solution to the American black man's problem just to avoid violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I believe in human rights for everyone, and none of us is qualified to judge each other and that none of us should therefore have that authority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: When the Muslims deliver the indictment of the American system, it is not the white man per se that is being doomed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: You can't hate your origin and not end up hating yourself. You can't hate Africa and not hate yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Not a physical migration, but a cultural, psychological, philosophical migration back to Africa, which means the restoring our common bond will give us the spiritual strength and the incentive to strengthen our political and social and economic position right here in America, and to fight for the things that are ours by right here on this continent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The white devil's time is up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I have been blessed to visit the Holy City of Mecca."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It is the attitude of the American white man that is making him stand condemned today before the eyes of the entire dark world and even before the eyes of the Europeans. It is his attitude, his haughty, holier-than-thou attitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Any number of my former brothers felt they would make heroes of themselves in the Nation of Islam if they killed me. ...I knew that no one would kill you quicker than  Muslim if he felt that's what Allah wanted him to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Only time [JF] Kennedy made any, took any action to even look like he identified with negroes was when he was forced to. Kennedy didn't even make his speech based on this problem being a moral issue until Negroes exploded in Birmingham."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I think that Abraham Lincoln probably did more to trick negroes than any other man in history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: History rewards all research. And history fails to record one single instance in which the white man - as a people - did good. They have always been devils; they always will be devils, and they are about to be destroyed. The final proof that they are devils lies in the fact that they are about to destroy themselves. Only a devil - and a stupid devil at that - would destroy himself!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I imagine that one of the biggest troubles with colleges is there are too many distractions, too much panty-raiding, fraternities, and boola-boola and all of that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: You catch any white man off guard in here right now, you catch him off guard and ask him what he is, he doesn't say he's an American. He either tells you he's Irish, or he's Italian, or he's German, if you catch him off guard and he doesn't know what you're up to. And even though he was born here, he'll tell you he's Italian. Well, if he's Italian, you and I are African even though we were born here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: One of the things that made the Black Muslim movement grow was its emphasis upon things African. This was the secret to the growth of the Black Muslim movement. African blood, African origin, African culture, African ties. And you'd be surprised - we discovered that deep within the subconscious of the black man in this country, he is still more African than he is American."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The common goal of 22 million Afro-Americans is respect as human beings, the God-given right to be a human being. Our common goal is to obtain the human rights America has been denying us. We can never get civil rights in America until our human rights are first restored. We will never be recognized as citizens there until we are first recognized as humans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Be nonviolent only with those who are nonviolent to you. And when you can bring me a nonviolent racist, bring me a nonviolent segregationist, then I'll get nonviolent. But don't teach me to be nonviolent until you teach some of those crackers to be nonviolent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: God now is about to establish a kingdom on this earth based upon brotherhood and peace, and the white man is against brotherhood and the white man is against peace. His history on this earth has proved that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I had begun to read books and things and, in fact, one of the persons who started me thinking seriously was an atheist that I, another negro inmate whom I'd heard in a discussion with white inmates and who was able to hold his own at all levels. And he impressed me with his knowledge, and I began to listen very carefully to some of the things he said."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: You don't integrate with a sinking ship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: If the black man is allowed to separate and go into some land of his own where he can solve his own problems, there won't be any explosion, and the Negroes who want to stay with the white man, let them stay with the white man - but those who want to leave, let them go to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: You have, you can only answer it this way: by turning it around. Can the negro - who is the victim of the system - escape the collective stigma that is placed upon all Negroes in this country?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Sitting at the table doesn\u2019t make you a diner, unless you eat some of what\u2019s on that plate. Being here in America doesn\u2019t make you an American. Being born here in America doesn\u2019t make you an American."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism -- a human being is exercising extremism -- in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and when one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I know that societies often have killed people who have helped to change those societies. And if I can die having brought any light, having exposed any meaningful truth that will help destroy the racist cancer that is malignant in the body of America, then, all credit is due to Allah. Only the mistakes have been mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Its the hinge that squeaks that gets the grease"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Revolution is always based on land. Revolution is never based on begging somebody for an integrated cup of coffee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I could see from this, that perhaps if white Americans could accept the Oneness of God, then perhaps, too, they could accept in reality the Oneness of Man - and cease to measure, and hinder, and harm others in terms of their \"differences\" in color."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: By looking upon themselves as human beings, their whiteness to them isn't the yardstick of perfection or honor or anything else. And, therefore, this creates within them an attitude that is different from the attitude of the white that you meet here in America, and it was in Mecca that I realized that white is actually an attitude more so than it's a color."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I could turn around as Wyatt Walker said to me about, not you personally, but about the whole Black Muslim movement. That if you go outside of New York City, Dr. [Martin Luther] King is known to 90 percent of the Negroes in the United States and is respected and, and is identified more or less with him, at least as a hero of one kind or another. That the Black Muslim, outside of one or two communities like New York, are unknown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The religion of Islam brings out of the individual all of his dormant potential."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The separating of a section of America for Afro- Americans is similar to expecting a heaven in the sky somewhere after you die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: When you expand the civil-rights struggle to the level of human rights, you can then take the case of the black man in this country before the nations in the UN. You can take it before the General Assembly. You can take Uncle Sam before a world court. But the only level you can do it on is the level of human rights. Civil rights keeps you under his restrictions, under his jurisdiction. Civil rights keeps you in his pocket."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The Negro fought and bled and died in every war the white man waged, and he still won't give you justice. You nursed his baby and cleaned behind his wife, and he still won't give you freedom; you turned the other cheek while he lynched you and raped your women, but he still won't give you equality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Just take the negro child. Take the white child. The white child, although it has not committed any of the per - as a person has not committed any of the deeds that has produced the plight that the negro finds himself in, is he guiltless? The only way you can determine that is, take the negro child who's only four-years-old. Can he escape, though he's only four years old, can he escape the stigma of discrimination and segregation? He's only four-years-old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: We don't go for segregation. We go for separation. Separation is when you have your own. You control your own economy; you control your own politics; you control your own society; you control your own everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: And in the racial climate of this country today, it is anybody's guess which of the 'extremes' in approach to the black man's problems might personally meet a fatal catastrophe first - 'non-violent' Dr. King, or so-called 'violent' me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: There were tens of thousands of pilgrims, from all over the world. They were of all colors, from blue-eyed blonds to black-skinned Africans. But we were all participating in the same ritual, displaying a spirit of unity and brotherhood that my experiences in America had led me to believe never could exist between the white and non-white."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The religious philosophy that they had adopted, in my opinion, was the only thing and is the only thing that can remove the white from the mind of the white man and the negro from the mind of the negro. I have seen what Islam has done with our people, our people who had this feeling of negro - and it had a psychological effect of putting them in a mental prison."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Now, you integration-minded Negroes are trying to force yourselves on your former slave master, trying to make him accept you in his drawing room; you want to hang out with his women rather than the women of your own kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I remember one thing that marred this time for me; the movie \"Gone with the Wind.\" When it played in Mason [MI], I was the only Negro in the theater, and when Butterfly McQueen went into her act, I felt like crawling under the rug."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: We reject segregation even more militantly than you say you do! We want separation, which is not the same! The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us that segregation is when your life and liberty are controlled, regulated, by someone else. To segregate means to control. Segregation is that which is forced upon inferiors by superiors. But separation is that which is done voluntarily, by two equals - for the good of both!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: This was my first lesson about gambling: if you see somebody winning all the time, he isn't gambling, he's cheating. Later on in life, if I were continuously losing in any gambling situation, I would watch very closely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: On the Iberian Peninsula in the Spanish-Portuguese area, southern France that high state of a culture existed there because of Africans known as Moors had come there and brought it there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: [Civil right leaders]themselves in their pronouncements will tell you they need white allies, they need white help, they need white this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Whenever any group can vote in a bloc, and decide the outcome of elections, and it fails to do this, then that group is politically sick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Any time you put too many sparks around a powder keg, the thing is going to explode, and if the things that explodes is still inside the house, then the house will be destroyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: 22 million African-Americans - that's what we are - Africans who are in America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: They asked if I knew what 'conscientious objector' meant. I told them that when the white man asked me to go off somewhere and fight and maybe die to preserve the way the white man treated the black man in America, then my conscience made me object."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I don't trust any white man who teaches Negroes to turn the other cheek or to be nonviolent, which means to be defenseless in the face of a very brutal, criminal enemy. No. That's my yardstick for measuring whites."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: A Negro just can't be whipped by somebody white and return with his head up in the neighborhood, especially in those days, when sports and, to a lesser extent show business, were the only fields open to Negroes, and when the ring was the only place a Negro could whip a white man and not be lynched."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: If I can't run my neighborhood you won't want me in your neighborhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I grew up in the country on a farm it was whenever someone said even that a snake was eating the chickens or bothering the chickens, we'd kill snakes. We never knew whether that was the snake that did it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: During the past eleven days here in the Muslim world, I have eaten from the same plate, drunk from the same glass, and slept on the same rug - while praying to the same God - with fellow Muslims, whose eyes were the bluest of blue, whose hair was the blondest of blond, and whose skin was the whitest of white. And in the words and in the deeds of the white Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan and Ghana."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: [At a young age] I had learned enough about women to know not to pressure them when they're thinking something out; they'll tell you when they're ready."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I have rarely talked to anyone about my mother, for I believe that I am capable of killing a person, without hesitation, who happened to make the wrong kind of remark about my mother. So I purposely don't make any opening for some fool to step into."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Eleanor Roosevelt could easily have told negroes the deceitful maneuvering of the United States government that was going on behind the scenes. She never did it. In my opinion she was just another white woman whose profession was to make it appear that she was on the negro's side. You have a lot of whites who are in this category. Therefore, they have made negro loving a profession."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The thing that has made the so-called Negro in America fail, more than any other thing, is your, my, lack of knowledge concerning history. We know less about history than anything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: He [liberal white person] may stand with you through thin, but not thick; when the chips are down, you'll find that as fixed in him as his bone structure is his sometimes subconscious conviction that he's better than anybody black."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The white race is doomed not because it's white but because of its misdeeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: A revolution is bloody, but America is in a unique position. She's the only country in history in a position actually to become involved in a bloodless revolution. The Russian revolution was bloody, Chinese revolution was bloody, French revolution was bloody, Cuban revolution was bloody, and there was nothing more bloody then the American Revolution. But today this country can become involved in a revolution that won't take bloodshed. All she's got to do is give the black man in this country everything that's due him, everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Any way, any form necessary to defend himself; Negro should reserve the right to do that just the same as others have the right to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: There are many white people in this country who realize that the system itself - as it is constructed - is not so constructed that it can produce freedom and equality for the negro, and the system has to be changed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: When a man understands who he is, who God is, who the devil is... then he can pick himself up out of the gutter; he can clean himself up and stand up like a man should before his God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: In order, in order to enforce you can't force people to act right toward each other. You can't force, you cannot legislate heart, conditions and attitudes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Today we have a modern Belshazzar and a modern Pharaoh sitting in Washington D.C."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The black people in this country are taught that their religion and the best religion is the religion of Islam, and when one accepts the religion of Islam, he's known as a Muslim."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: People involved in a revolution don't become part of the system; they destroy the system... The Negro revolution is no revolution because it condemns the system and then asks the system it has condemned to accept them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It takes two to tango; when I go, you go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I saw all races, all colors, blue eyed blonds to black skinned Africans in true brotherhood! In unity! Living as one! Worshiping as one! No segregationists, no liberals; they would not have known how to interpret the meaning of those words"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: If the ballot doesn't work, we'll try something else. But let us try the ballot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Any time Uncle Sam, with all his machinery for warfare, is held to a draw by some rice eaters, he's lost the battle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The people listening very closely to what the Muslims have always declared. They'll find that in every declaration there's the fact that, the same as, as Moses told Pharaoh, \"You're doomed if you don't do so and so,\" or as Daniel told, I think it was Balthazar or Nebuchadnezzar, \"You are doomed if you don't do so and so.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Abraham Lincoln was interested in, in saving the Union. Well, most negroes have been tricked into thinking that Lincoln was a negro lover whose primary aim was to free them, and he died because he freed them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Because once the black man becomes the political master of his own community, it means that the politicians of that community will also be black, which also means that he then will be sending black representation or representatives not only to represent him at the local level and at the state level, but, but even at the federal level."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Only a man who is ashamed of what he is will marry out of his race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: You're going to have a racial explosion, and a racial explosion is more dangerous than an atomic explosion. It's going to explode because black people are dissatisfied; they're dissatisfied not only with the white man, but they're dissatisfied with these Negroes who have been sitting around here posing as leaders and spokesmen for black people and actually making the problem worse instead of making the problem better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Why must I run against a Negro? We have had enough of Negroes running against and fighting with each other. The better bet is that we would put a Muslim candidate in the field against a devil, somebody who is against all we stand for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Men who are proud of being black marry black women; women who are proud of being black marry black men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It has always been my belief that I, too, will die by violence. I have done all that I can to be prepared."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The black man will inherit the earth; he will resume control, taking back the position he held centuries ago when the white devil was crawling around the caves of Europe on his all fours. Before the white devil came into our lives we had a civilization, we had a culture, we were living in silks and satins. Then he put us in chains and put us aboard the \"Good Ship Jesus,\" and we have lived in hell ever since."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The short-range involves the long-range. Immediate steps have to be taken to reeducate our people into the, a more real view of political, economic, and social conditions in this country, and our ability in, in a self- improvement program to gain control politically over every community in which we predominate, and also over the economy of that same community as here in Harlem. Instead of all the stores in Harlem being owned by white people, they should be owned and operated by black people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The problem of the negro is so criminal that many individuals and organizations are going to have to sacrifice what they call their organizational principles if someone comes up with a solution that will really solve the problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: That is a lie. I'm not for wanton violence, I'm for justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I will be happy to give my life to see some of these white devils die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: [People] earn extra money [in prison] selling contraband, dope, and things of that sort to the inmates, and so that really it's an exploiter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I am not a racist in any form whatsoever. I don't believe in any form of discrimination or segregation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I might say this, that the problem of the, the solution for the Afro-American is two-fold - long-range and short-range."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: There was no racism; there was no problem [in Mecca]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Any negro who occupies a position that was given to him by the white man, if you analyze his function, his function never enables him to really take a firm, uncompromising, militant stand on problems that confront our people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The Negro was taught to speak the white man's tongue, worship the white God, and accept the white man as his superior."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The white man is by nature a devil and must be destroyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: This is why integration will not work. It assumes that the two races, black and white, are equal and can be made to live as one. This is not true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Everybody has a God and believes that his God will deliver him and protect him from his enemies!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The black man in North America was sickest of all politically. He let the white man divide him into such foolishness as considering himself a black 'Democrat,' a black 'Republican,' a black 'Conservative,' or a black 'Liberal' ...when a ten-million black vote bloc could be the deciding balance of power in American politics, because the white man's vote is almost always evenly divided."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I know that I will not die until my time comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: You'd have civil war. You'd have a race war in this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Well, my contention is that the political system of this country is so designed criminally to prevent this, that if the black man even started in that direction, which is a mature step and it's the only way to really solve this problem and to prove that he is the intellectual equal of others, why, the racists and the segregationists would fight that harder than they're fighting the present efforts to integrate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It'll be the ballot or the bullet. It'll be liberty or it'll be death"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Actually we are Muslims because we believe in the religion of Islam."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: A revolution is bloody. Revolution is hostile. Revolution knows no compromise. Revolution overturns and destroys everything that gets in its way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It gives [a man] the incentive to develop his dormant potential so that when he becomes a part of the brotherhood of Islam, and is identified collectively in the brotherhood of Islam with the brothers in Islam, at the same time this also gives him the, it has the psychological effect of giving him the incentive as an individual to develop all of his dormant potential to its fullest extent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I have gone through the process of re-evaluating, giving a personal re-evaluation to everything that I ever believed and that I did believe while I was a, a member and a minister."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The American Negro has been entirely brainwashed from ever seeing or thinking of himself, as he should, as a part of the non-white peoples of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: White is an attitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I don't think that the objective of the American negro is white middle-class values because what are white middle-class values?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The white man is a devil. If he is not a devil, let him prove it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The political philosophy of black nationalism means that the black man should control the politics and the politicians in his own community; no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It takes heart to be a guerrilla warrior because you\u2019re on your own. In conventional warfare you have tanks and a whole lot of other people with you to back you up - planes over your head and all that kind of stuff. But a guerrilla is on his own. All you have is a rifle, some sneakers and a bowl of rice, and that\u2019s all you need - and a lot of heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: After Hitler was destroyed, there was the threat of Stalin, but it was always the world pressure that was upon America that enabled black people to go forward. It was not the initiative internally that the Negro put forth in America, nor was it a change of moral heart on the part of Uncle Sam it was world pressure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: [The man] thinks he's being condemned because of his color but actually he's being condemned because of his deeds, his conscious behavior."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Most of the negro leaders who get the support of the power structure end up being against [Reverend] Galamison."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Among Negroes we have Negroes who are as white as some white people. Still there's a difference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Wyatt Walker can walk through Harlem. No one would know him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: ...the collective white man had acted like a devil in virtually every contact he had with the world's collective non-white man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Right now, in every big city ghetto, tens of thousands of yesterday's and today's school dropouts are keeping body and soul together by some form of hustling in the same way I did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I was going through the hardest thing, also the greatest thing, for any human being to do; to accept that which is already within you, and around you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It is the system itself that, that is incapable of producing freedom for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans. Just like a chicken can't lay a duck egg, a chicken can't lay a duck egg, because the system of the chicken isn't constructed in the way to produce a duck egg. And just as that chicken system can't produce, is not capable to, of producing a duck egg, the political and economic system of this country is absolutely incapable of producing freedom and justice and equality and human dignity for the twenty-two million Afro-Americans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: If you're black, you were born in jail, in the North as well as the South. Stop talking about the South. Long as you south of the Canadian border, you're south."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: While I was in prison, I was indulging in all types of vice, right within the prison. And I never was ostracized as much by the penal authorities while I was participating in all of the evils of the prison, as they tried to ostracize me after I became a Muslim."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The problem facing our people here in America is bigger than all other personal or organizational differences. Therefore, as leaders, we must stop worrying about the threat that we seem to think we pose to each other's personal prestige, and concentrate our united efforts toward solving the unending hurt that is being done daily to our people here in America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The prison systems in this country actually are exploitative and they are not in any way rehabilitative."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: White individuals that have been going to jail. Segregation still exists; discrimination still exists. A few isolated white people whose individual acts are designed to eliminate this, that or, or the next thing but, yet, it is never eliminated is in no way impressive to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: At this point I hadn't yet gotten deep into the historic condition that negroes in this country are confronted with, but at that point in my prison studies I, I read, I studied Islam as a religion more so than as I later come to know it in its connection with the plight or problem of Negroes in this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: When you go to a church and you see the pastor of that church with a philosophy and a program that's designed to bring black people together and elevate black people, join that church. Join that church. If you see where the NAACP is preaching and practicing that which is designed to make black nationalism materialize, join the NAACP. Join any kind of organization, civic, religious, fraternal, political, or otherwise that's based on lifting the black man up and making him master of his own community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: What you did to one, you did to all. So they couldn't have that type of religion being taught in the prison."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: In stating that the idea of a separate state is not practical, I'm also stating that the idea of integration, forced integration, as they've been making an effort to do in this country for the past years, is also just as impractical."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Like Samson, I am ready to pull down the white man's temple, knowing full well that I will be destroyed by the falling rubble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: [Islam] is not measured by the color of his skin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: How could there be any difference between The Messenger and me? I am his slave, his servant, his son. He is the leader, the only spokesman for the Black Muslims."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The Honorable Elijah Muhammad teaches us to get away from the devil as soon and as fast as we can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I don't think that anyone has been really created more by the white press than the civil right leaders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It isn't the American white man who is a racist, but it's the American political, economic and social atmosphere that automatically nourishes a racist psychology in the white man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Just like Pharaoh couldn't get a solution to his problem until he talked to Moses, or Nebuchadnezzar or Belshazzar couldn't get a solution to his problem until he talked to Daniel, the white man in America today will never understand the race problem or come anywhere near getting a solution to the race problem until he talks to The Honorable Elijah Muhammad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The Messenger has seen God. He was with Allah and was given divine patience with the devil. He is willing to wait for Allah to deal with this devil. Well, sir, the rest of us Black Muslims have not seen God, we don't have this gift of divine patience with the devil. The younger Black Muslims want to see some action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I was with Essien Udom in Nigeria."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: We were truly all the same (brothers) - because their belief in one God had removed the white from their minds, the white from their behavior, and the white from their attitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It is only after slavery and prison that the sweetest appreciation of freedom can come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I think that the problem of the American negro goes beyond the principle of any organization whether it's a religious, political, or otherwise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: History is not hatred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I think you'll find also that if the negro ever realizes that he should begin to fight for real for his freedom, there are many whites who will fight on his side with him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The white people who are guilty of white supremacy are trying to hide their own guilt by accusing The Honorable Elijah Muhammad of teaching black supremacy when he tries to uplift the mentality, the social, mental and economic condition of the black people in America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: No president ever had more power than [Franklin Delano] Roosevelt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I had one warden tell me since I've been out, and I visited an inmate in prison right here in New York, Warden Fay up at Green Haven. I visited an inmate in prison and he told me that he didn't want anybody in there trying to spread this religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I think it's possible for me to approach the whole problem with a broader scope.When you look at something through an, an organizational eye, whether it's a, a religious organization, political organization, or a civic organization, if you look at it only through the eye of that organization, you see what the organization wants you to see. But you lose your ability to be objective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Now the white man's time is over. Tokenism will not help him, and it will doom us. Complete separation will save us - and who knows, it might make God decide to give the white devil a few more years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Anytime there's a fire in a negro community and it's burning out of control, you send any one of them, send Whitney Young in to put it out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: [People] have a fear of the, the Muslim movement and the Muslim religion because it has a tendency to make the people who accept it stick together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: First I might say that when a person, when a man separates from his wife, at the out start it's a physical separation but it's not a psychological separation. He still thinks of her in, in probably warm terms. And, but after the physical separation has taken, existed for a period of time, it becomes a psychological separation as well as physical. And he can then look at her more objectively. My split or separation from the Black Muslim movement at first was only a physical separation, but my heart was still there and it was impossible for me to, for me to look at it objectively."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I go for Mao Tse-tung much more than, than Nehru because I think that Nehru brought his country up in a beggar's role."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I think that Nehru probably was a good man, although I didn't go for it. I don't go for anybody who is passive. I don't go for anybody who advocates passivism or peaceful suffering in any form whatsoever. I don't go for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: After I made my tour in the Middle, into the Middle-East and Africa and visited Mecca and other places, I think that the separation [ from the Black Muslim movement] became psychological as well as physical, so that I could look at it more objectively and - and separate that which was good from that which was bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Better jobs and housing are only temporary solutions. They are aspects of tokenism and don't go to the heart of the problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: ... the young people are the ones who most quickly identify with the struggle and the necessity to eliminate the evil conditions that exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: In my opinion, mature political action is the type of action that that involves a program of re-education and information that will enable the black people in the black community to see the fruits that they should be receiving from the politicians who are over them and, thereby, they are then able to determine whether or not the politician is really fulfilling his function."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Adam Clayton Powell's entire political career has to be looked at in the entire context of the American history and the history of, and the position of the Afro- American or negro in American history. [He] has done a remarkable job in fighting for rights of black people in this country. On the other hand, he probably hasn't done as much as he could or as much as he should because he is the most independent negro politician in this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Any time the negro becomes involved in mature political action, then the resistance of the politicians who benefit from the exploited political system as it now stands will be forced to put, exercise more violent action to deprive the negro of his mature political action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The American system itself is incapable. It is as incapable of producing freedom for the Afro-American as the system of a chicken is of producing a duck egg."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I say that the negro, when he is, when, when they cease to look at him as a negro and realize that he's a human being, then they will realize that he is just as capable and has the right to do anything that any other human being on this earth has a right to do to defend himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: All of the civil rights problems during the past years have created a situation where America right now is moving toward a police state. You can't have anything otherwise. So that's your supposition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: When you have to pass a law to make a man let me have a house, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me go to school, or you have to pass a law to make a man let me walk down the street, you have to enforce that law and you'd have to be living actually in a police state. It would take a police state in this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: If I did see a white man who was willing to go to jail or throw himself in front of a car in behalf of the so-called \"negro cause,\" the test that I'd put to him, I'd ask him, \"Do you think negro, when Negroes are being attacked they should defend themselves even at the risk of having to kill the one who's attacking them?\" If that white man told me, \"Yes,\" I'd shake his hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: If [politician] is not fulfilling his function, they then can set up the machinery to remove him from that position by whatever means necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Because the average negro organization, especially, can't see the problem in its entirety. They can't even see that the problem is so big that their own organization as such, by itself, can never come to a, can never come up with a solution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Most people who work in prison earn money through contraband."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: They [prisons] are not designed to rehabilitate the - the inmate, though the, the public propaganda is that this is their function."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The problem [ of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans] is so broad that it's going to take the inner working of all organizations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I look at the problem of the twenty-two million Afro-Americans as being a problem that's so broad in scope that it's almost impossible for any organization to see it in its entirety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Even as a Muslim minister in the Muslim movement, I have always said that I would work with any organization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I think that the black people in this country have the reached the point where they should reserve the right to do whatever is necessary to see that they exercise complete control over the politicians in the politician, in the politics of their own community by whatever means necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Betty's a good Muslim woman and wife. I don't imagine many other women might put up with the way I am. Awakening this brainwashed black man and telling this arrogant, devilish white man the truth about himself, Betty understands, is a full-time job"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: We who follow the Honorable Elijah Muhammad feel that when you try and pass integration laws here in America, forcing white people to pretend that they are accepting black people, what you are doing is making white people act in a hypocritical way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I'm not a Republican, nor a Democrat, nor an American, and got sense enough to know it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: We cannot think of uniting with others, until after we have first united among ourselves... One can't unite bananas with scattered leaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The Negro is nothing but an ex-slave who is now trying to get himself integrated into the slave master's house."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: We want freedom by any means necessary. We want justice by any means necessary. We want equality by any means necessary. We don't feel that in 1964, living in a country that is supposedly based upon freedom, and supposedly the leader of the free world, we don't think that we should have to sit around and wait for some segregationist congressmen and senators and a President from Texas in Washington, D.C., to make up their minds that our people are due now some degree of civil rights. No, we want it now or we don't think anybody should have it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: America is a white man's country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: How can a Negro say America is his nation? He was brought here in chains; he was put in slavery an worked like a mule for three hundred years; he was separated from his land, his culture, his God, his language!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: That morning was when I first began to reappraise the 'white man.' It was when I first began to perceive that 'white man,' as commonly used, means complexion only secondarily; primarily it described attitudes and actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Since Western society is deteriorating, it has become overrun with immorality, and God is going to judge it, and destroy it. And the only way the black people caught up in this society can be saved is not to integrate into this corrupt society, but to separate from it, to a land of our own, where we can reform ourselves, lift up our moral standards and try to be godly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: There seems in most countries to be either one extreme or the other. Truly a paradise could exist wherever material progress and spiritual values could be properly balanced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I believe in recognizing every human being as a human being - neither white, black, brown, or red."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: As bad as I was, as much trouble and worry as I caused my mother, I loved her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The British Empire was so vast and so powerful, the sun would never set on it. This is how big it was, yet these 13 little scrawny states, tired of taxation without representation, tired of being exploited and oppressed and degraded, told that big British Empire, liberty or death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I had blind faith in him. My faith in Elijah Muhammad was more blind and more uncompromising than any faith that any man has ever had for another man. And so I didn't try and see him as he actually was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I shall never rest until I have undone the harm I did to so many well-meaning, innocent Negroes who through my own evangelistic zeal now believe in him even more fanatically and more blindly than I did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: My alma mater was books, a good library."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: No black person married to a white person can speak for me!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: My faith in God is such that I am not afraid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Now the goal of Dr. Martin Luther King is to give Negroes a chance to sit in a segregated restaurant beside the same white man who has brutalized them for four hundred years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Just as Uncle Tom, back during slavery used to keep the Negroes from resisting the bloodhound or resisting the Ku Klux Klan by teaching them to love their enemies or pray for those who use them despitefully, today Martin Luther King is just a twentieth-century or modern Uncle Tom or religious Uncle Tom, who is doing the same thing today to keep Negroes defenseless in the face of attack that Uncle Tom did on the plantation to keep those Negroes defenseless in the face of the attack of the Klan in that day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Because The Honorable Elijah Muhammad makes black people brave enough, men enough to defend ourselves no matter what the odds are, the white man runs around here with a doctrine that Mr. Muhammad is advocating the violence when he is actually telling Negroes to defend themselves against violent people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I believe in Islam. I am a Muslim and there is nothing wrong with being a Muslim, nothing wrong with the religion of Islam. It just teaches us to believe in Allah as the God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Just as the white man and every other person on this earth has God-given rights, natural rights, civil rights, any kind of rights that you can think of, when it comes to defending himself, black people - we should have the right to defend ourselves also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The Government is responsible for what is happening to black people in America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: We believe in one God. We believe Muhammad is the Apostle of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The black people of America have been victims of violence at the hands of the white men for four hundred years, and following the ignorant Negro preachers, we have thought that it was godlike to turn the other cheek to the brute that was brutalizing us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The goal of Martin Luther King is to get the Negroes to forgive the people the people who have brutalized them for four hundred years, by lulling them to sleep and making them forget what those whites have done to them, but the masses of black people today don't go for what Martin Luther King is putting down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The Negro's so-called 'revolt' is merely an asking to be accepted into the existing system!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: America just reaped what it had been sowing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: America has allowed white people to kill and brutalize those they don't like."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: No sane black man really wants integration! No sane white man really wants integration!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Until the white man in America sits down and talks with The Honorable Elijah Muhammad, he won't even know what the race problem - what makes the race problem what it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Moses tried to separate his people from Pharaoh, and when he tried, the magicians tried to fool the people into staying with the Pharaoh, and we look upon these other organizations that are trying to get Negroes to integrate with this doomed white man as nothing but modern-day magicians, and The Honorable Elijah Muhammad is a modern-day Moses trying to separate us from the modern-day Pharaoh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: You don't do anything to further your stay aboard a ship that you see is going to go down to the bottom of the ocean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: God is more lasting than the white man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: God is about to eliminate the white man from this earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The white man is going to keep you integration-minded Negroes cooped up here in America, and when you discover that the white man is a trickster, a devil, that he has no intentions of integrating, then you Negroes will run wild."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It would be the easiest thing in the world for the white man to destroy all Black Muslims."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Here was one of the white man's most characteristic behavior patterns - where black men are concerned. He loves himself so much that he is startled if he discovers that his victims don't share his vainglorious self-opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: After you get your freedom, your enemy will respect you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: There can be no black-white unity until there is first some black unity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It has been nine years since the Supreme Court decision outlawing segregated schools, yet less than ten per cent of the Negro students in the South are in integrated schools. That isn't integration, that's tokenism!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It took the United States Army to get one Negro into the University of Mississippi; it took troops to get a few Negroes in the white schools at Little Rock and another dozen places in the South."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: There has to be something wrong when a man or a woman leaves his own people and marries somebody of another kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Once the white man let the Negro get an education, the Negro began to want what the white man has. But he let Negroes get an education and now they are demanding integration; they want to have exactly what he has. And the white man is not going to give it to them!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: You Negroes are not willing to admit it yet, but integration will not work. Why, it is against the white man's nature to integrate you into his house."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The white man will keep on granting tokenism; a few big Negroes will get big jobs, but the black masses will catch hell as long as they stay in the white man's house."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: During the whole month that negroes were being beaten by police and washed down the sewer with water hoses, Kennedy and - and King was in jail begging for the federal government to intervene, Kennedy's reply was, \"No federal statutes have been violated.\" And it was only when the negroes erupted that Kennedy come on the television with all his old pretty words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Integration will not bring a man back from the grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: When we say Afro American, we include everyone in the Western Hemisphere of African descent. South America is America. Central America is America. South America has many people in it of African descent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: When the snakes out in that field begin to realize that if one of their members get out of line, it's going to be detrimental to all of them, they'll keep that, perhaps they'll then take the necessary steps to keep their fellow snakes away from my chickens or away from my children if the responsibility is placed upon them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I mean a real police state just to get a token recognition of a law. It take, it took, I think, 15,000 troops and 6 million dollars to put one negro in the University of Mississippi. That's a police action, police state action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I believe when a negro church is bombed, that a white church should be bombed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I think that if Essien Udom had something he didn't take it back far enough in history to get at the proper understanding of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I have read where Abraham Lincoln said he wasn't interested in freeing the slaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The man was a deceiver. He was deceitful and I will never bite my tongue in saying that. I don't think he was anything but a politician, and he used Negroes to get elected and to get votes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Any time a negro community lives under fear that its churches are going to be bombed, then they have to realize they're living in a war zone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Once negro community recognize it as such, they can adopt the same measures against the community that harbors the criminals who are responsible for this activity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The young whites, and blacks, too, are the only hope that America has, the rest of us have always been living in a lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: That value system has been handed right down in European society. And today when you find Negroes, if they even look like they're adopting these so-called middle-class values, standards, it's not that they are taking something from the white man, but they are probably identifying again with the level or standard that these same whites have gotten from them back during that period."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I admire a man who fights a battle against opposition, and if there wasn't something about [Reverend] Galamison that the people, I notice that the power structure is against Galamison."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: My contention is that if you trace it back, it was the people of the East who brought them out of the Dark Ages, who brought about the period, or ushered in or initiated the atmosphere that brought into Europe the period known as the Renaissance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: And what makes the whites who have these middle-class values have those values? Where did they get it? They didn't have these same values four hundred years, five hundred years ago."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I admire the, the stand of China and the stand of Mao Tse- tung, but I can't admire with respect the stand of, of Nehru in India. I just can't do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Essien Udom is a Nigerian. At present he's a professor at Ibadan University."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I myself have never been concerned with whether we are considered known or unknown. It's no problem of ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: My suspicious nature is that there's something that [ Reverend ] Galamison, about Galamison that must have some good in it or some right in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: At the same time Reverend Galamison policy is intelligent enough where he can't be used to attack me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Most of these other negro leaders who are supposedly integrationists aren't that intelligent [like Reverend Galamison]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Reverend Galamison is fighting a hard battle against great opposition, and I admire a man who fights a hard battle against great opposition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Wyatt [ Walker] doesn't say that as much as Whitney Young does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: America is subsidizing what is left of the prestige and strength of the once mighty Britain. The sun has set forever on that monocled, pith-helmeted resident colonialist, sipping tea with his delicate lady in the non-white colonies being systematically robbed of every valuable resource. Britain's superfluous royalty and nobility now exist by charging tourists to inspect the once baronial castles, and by selling memoirs, perfumes, autographs, titles, and even themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Even after the child, the life of the black child was saved, but that same white man will have to toss him right back into the discriminate, into discrimination, segregation, and these other things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I have never seen white people who would sit, who would, who would approach a solution to their own problems nonviolently or passively. It's only when they are so-called \"fighting for the rights of Negroes\" that they nonviolently, passively, and lovingly, you know, approach the situation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: When the whites themselves are attacked, they believe in defending themselves and things of that sort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Those type of whites who are always going to jail with Negroes are the ones who tell Negroes to be loving and be kind and be patient and be nonviolent and turn the other cheek."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Well, the white race in America is the same way. As individuals it is impossible for them to escape the collective crime committed against the Negroes in this country, collectively."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Ralph Bunche, who is an internationally recognized and respected diplomat, can't stay in a hotel in Georgia, which means that no matter what the accomplishment, the intellectual, the academic, or professional level of a negro is, collectively he stands condemned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: It's almost impossible to separate the actions, or it's also, it's almost impossible to separate the oppression and exploitation, criminal oppression and criminal exploitation of the American negro from the color of the skin of the person who is the oppressor or the exploiter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Most of the, or I should say many of the negro leaders actually suffer themselves from an inferiority complex even though they say they don't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Whereas the only real solution to the race problem in this country is a solution that involves individual self improvement and collective self improvement in, whereas our own, wherein our own people are concerned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I was in prison and I was an atheist. I didn't believe in anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Let's cool it, brothers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: By any means necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: You don't stick a knife in a man's back nine inches and then pull it out six inches and say you're making progress ... No matter how much respect, no matter how much recognition, whites show towards me, as far as I am concerned, as long as it is not shown to everyone of our people in this country, it doesn't exist for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Always that \"if\" was there, which meant that the one who was doomed could avoid the doom if he would change his way of behaving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: If I go home and someone, and my child has blood running down her leg and someone tells me that a snake bit her, I'm going out and kill the snake. And when I find the snake, I'm not going to look and see if he has blood on his jaws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I believe that a psychological, cultural, and philosophical migration back to Africa will solve our problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The same as in a German neighborhood, the stores are run by Germans, and in a Chinese neighborhood they're run by Chinese. In the negro neighborhood the businesses should be owned and operated by Negroes and, thereby, they would be creating employment for Negroes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I Used the Word 'Negro' and I was Firmly Corrected"
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: To say it is not practical, one has to also admit that integration is not practical."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I refer to a negro politician as a negro who is selected by Negroes and who is backed by Negroes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Most of those Negroes have been given those jobs by the white political machine, and they serve no other function other than to, as window dressing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I never will let anyone make, maneuver me into making a distinction between the Mississippi form of discrimination and the New York City form of discrimination. It's, it's both discrimination; it's all discrimination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: We may disagree on methods [with Martin Luther King], but we don't have to argue all day on methods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Nonviolence is his, is his method. Well, my objective is the same as [Martin Luther] King's."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Everything that came out of Europe, every blue-eyed thing, is already an American.  And as long as you and I have been over here, we aren't Americans yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: You know, if ever there was a people who should know how to practice brotherhood, it is the American Negro and it is the people of Egypt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: More so than any other city on the African continent, the people of Cairo look like the American Negroes in the sense that we have all complexions, we range in America from the darkest black to the lightest light, and here in Cairo it is the same thing; throughout Egypt, it is the same thing. All of the complexions are blended together here in a truly harmonious society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The 22 million or 30 million, whatever the case may be, Afro-Americans in the United States were still Africans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: When I said [ I would work with any organization] I would make the, the reservation that I would work with any organization as long as it didn't make us compromise our religious principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: Nonviolence with Dr. [Martin Luther ]King is only a method. That's not his objective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: If the various groups in America had been less selfish and had permitted different representatives from the groups to travel into foreign countries, and broaden their own scope, and come back and educate the movements they represented, not only would this have made the groups to which they belonged more enlightened and more worldly in the international sense, but it also would have given the independent African states abroad a better understanding of the groups in the United States, and what they stand for, what they represent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: The white press itself created civil right leaders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Malcolm X: I think that the negro should reserve the right to execute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Courage faces fear and thereby masters it. \n Cowardice represses fear and is thereby mastered by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: You don't have to see the whole staircase, just take the first step."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Freedom only comes through persistent revolt, through persistent agitation, through persistently rising up against the system of evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right. A man dies when he refuses to stand up for justice. A man dies when he refuses to take a stand for that which is true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I agree with Dante, that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. There comes a time when silence becomes betrayal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Faith is taking the first step even when you don't see the whole staircase."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies but the silence of our friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. Nothing worthwhile is easy. Your ability to overcome unfavorable situations will provide you with time to demonstrate your true strength and determination for success. Always set your standards high, your greatest achievements lie within the infinite feats you achieve in your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Love is the most durable power in the world. This creative force is the most potent instrument available in mankind's quest for peace and security."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The time is always right to do what is right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Quietly endure, silently suffer and patiently wait."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Capitalism does not permit an even flow of economic resources. With this system, a small privileged few are rich beyond conscience, and almost all others are doomed to be poor at some level. That's the way the system works. And since we know that the system will not change the rules, we are going to have to change the system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In a real sense all life is inter-related. All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be, and you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be... This is the inter-related structure of reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: No work is insignificant. All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The belief that God will do everything for man is as untenable as the belief that man can do everything for himself. It, too, is based on a lack of faith. We must learn that to expect God to do everything while we do nothing is not faith but superstition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: This is the great new problem of mankind. We have inherited a large house, a great \u2018world house\u2019 in which we have to live together\u2013 black and white, Easterner and Westerner, Gentile and Jew, Catholic and Protestant, Muslim and Hindu\u2013 a family unduly separated in ideas, culture and interest, who, because we can never again live apart, must learn somehow to live with each other in peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: History is the long and tragic story of the fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A riot is the language of the unheard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Men often hate each other because they fear each other; they fear each other because they don't know each other; they don't know each other because they can not communicate; they can not communicate because they are separated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: To ignore evil is to become an accomplice to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The bombs in Vietnam explode at home; they destroy the hopes and possibilities for a decent America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We are now faced with the fact that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there \"is\" such a thing as being too late. This is no time for apathy or complacency. This is a time for vigorous and postive action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I never intend to adjust myself to the madness of militarism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We are called to speak for the weak, for the voiceless, for the victims of our nation and for those it calls enemy, for no document from human hands can make these humans any less our brothers and sisters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Courage is the power of the mind to overcome fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If I lived in China or even Russia, or any totalitarian country, Maybe I could understand some of these illegal injunctions. ... But somewhere I read of the freedom of assembly. Somewhere I read of the freedom of speech. Somewhere I read of the freedom of the press. Somewhere I read that the greatness of America is the right to protest for right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it. Through violence you may murder the liar, but you cannot murder the lie, nor establish the truth. Through violence you may murder the hater, but you do not murder hate. In fact, violence merely increases hate... Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Whenever you are engaged in work that serves humanity and is for the building of humanity, it has dignity and it has worth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality... I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We have deluded ourselves into believing the myth that capitalism grew and prospered out of the Protestant ethic of hard work and sacrifices. Capitalism was built on the exploitation of black slaves and continues to thrive on the exploitation of the poor, both black and white, both here and abroad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It is hardly a moral act to encourage others patiently to accept injustice which he himself does not endure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The problem of racism, the problem of economic exploitation, and the problem of war are all tied together. These are the triple evils that are interrelated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The time has come for an all-out war against poverty. The rich nations must use their vast resources of wealth to develop the underdeveloped, school the unschooled, and feed the unfed. Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation. No individual or nation can be great if it does not have a concern for \"the least of these\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands in times of challenge and controversy. The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others. In dangerous valleys and hazardous pathways, he will lift some bruised and beaten brother to a higher and more noble life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must rapidly begin the shift from a \"thing-oriented\" society to a \"person-oriented\" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There is nothing new about poverty. What is new, however, is that we have the resources to get rid of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Many white Americans of good will have never connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice but tolerated or ignored economic injustice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must learn that passively to accept an unjust system is to cooperate with that system, and thereby to become a participant in its evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false and the false with the true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must face the appalling fact that we have been betrayed by both the Democratic and Republican Parties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If I can help somebody as I pass along, if I can cheer somebody with a word or song, if I can show somebody he's traveling wrong, then my living will not be in vain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We aren't going to have peace on Earth until we recognize the basic fact of the interrelated structure of all reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club without moral or spiritual authority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A man dies when he refuses to stand up for that which is right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: One of the great tragedies of life is that men seldom bridge the gulf between practice and profession, between doing and saying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism... We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizens Councilor or the Ku Klux Klanner but the white moderate who is more devoted to order than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: When our days become dreary with low hovering clouds of despair, and when our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, let us remember that there is a creative force in this universe, working to pull down the gigantic mountains of evil, a power that is able to make a way out of no way and transform dark yesterdays into bright tomorrows. Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Power without love is reckless and abusive, and love without power is sentimental and anemic. Power at its best is love implementing the demands of justice, and justice at its best is power correcting everything that stands against love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I am now convinced that the simplest approach will prove to be the most effective -- the solution to poverty is to abolish it directly by a now widely discussed measure: the guaranteed income."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual. When you rise to the level of love, of its great beauty and power, you seek only to defeat evil systems. Individuals who happen to be caught up in that system, you love, but you seek to defeat the system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people, but the appalling silence of the good people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Why should there be hunger and deprivation in any land, in any city, at any table, when man has the resources and the scientific know-how to provide all mankind with the basic necessities of life? There is no deficit in human resources. The deficit is in human will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetrate it. He who accepts evil without protesting against it is really cooperating with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Morality cannot be legislated, but behavior can be regulated. Judicial decrees may not change the heart, but they can restrain the heartless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Forgiveness does not mean ignoring what has been done or putting a false label on an evil act. It means, rather, that the evil act no longer remains as a barrier to the relationship. Forgiveness is a catalyst creating the atmosphere necessary for a fresh start and a new beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The poor in our countries have been shut out of our minds and driven from the mainstream of our societies, because we have allowed them to become invisible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Without justice, there can be no peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The supreme task is to organize and unite people so that their anger becomes a transforming force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I have decided to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. And the beautiful thing is that we are moving against wrong when we do it, because John was right, God is love. He who hates does not know God, but he who has love has the key that unlocks the door to the meaning of ultimate reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Don't let anybody make you think that God chose America as his divine, messianic force to be a sort of policeman of the whole world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Call it democracy, or call it democratic socialism, but there must be a better distribution of wealth within this country for all God's children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: All too many of those who live in affluent America ignore those who exist in poor America; in doing so, the affluent Americans will eventually have to face themselves with the question that Eichman chose to ignore: How responsible am I for the well-being of my fellows?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? Conscience asks the question, is it right? There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies... True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar. A true revolution of values will soon look on uneasily upon the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth with righteous indignation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed; We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: All men are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The most dangerous type of atheism is not theoretical atheism, but practical atheism -that's the most dangerous type. And the world, even the church, is filled up with people who pay lip service to God and not life service. And there is always a danger that we will make it appear externally that we believe in God when internally we don't. We say with our mouths that we believe in him, but we live with our lives like he never existed. That is the ever-present danger confronting religion. That's a dangerous type of atheism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If we are to have peace on earth, our loyalties must become ecumenical rather than sectional. Our loyalties must transcend our race, our tribe, our class, and our nation; and this means we must develop a world perspective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Violence brings only temporary victories; violence, by creating many more social problems than it solves, never brings permanent peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If you can\u2019t run, walk; if you can\u2019t walk, crawl, but keep moving forward!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: History is a great teacher. Now everyone knows that the labor movement did not diminish the strength of the nation but enlarged it. By raising the living standards of millions, labor miraculously created a market for industry and lifted the whole nation to undreamed of levels of production. Those who attack labor forget these simple truths, but history remembers them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The true neighbor will risk his position, his prestige, and even his life for the welfare of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Love is the most durable power in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Justice too long delayed is justice denied."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Was not Jesus an extremist in love? - \"Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, pray for them that despitefully use you.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Voting is the foundation stone for political action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Freedom has always been an expensive thing. History is fit testimony to the fact that freedom is rarely gained without sacrifice and self-denial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There is some good in the worst of us, and some evil in the best of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: By opening our lives to God in Christ, we become new creatures. This experience, which Jesus spoke of as the new birth, is essential if we are to be transformed nonconformists . . . Only through an inner spiritual transformation do we gain the strength to fight vigorously the evils of the world in a humble and loving spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The evils of capitalism are as real as the evils of militarism and evils of racism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: This will be the day when we shall bring into full realization the dream of American democracy - a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A second thing that an individual must do in seeking to love his enemy is to discover the element of good in his enemy, and everytime you begin to hate that person and think of hating that person, realize that there is some good there and look at those good points which will over-balance the bad points."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In our society it is murder, psychologically, to deprive a man of a job or an income. You are in substance saying to that man that he has no right to exist. You are in a real way depriving him of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, denying in his case the very creed of his society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: One of the great liabilities of history is that all too many people fail to remain awake through great periods of social change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: When people get caught up with that which is right and they are willing to sacrifice for it, there is no stopping point short of victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard. And what is it America has failed to hear? It has failed to hear that the plight of the negro poor has worsened over the last twelve or fifteen years. It has failed to hear that the promises of freedom and justice have not been met. And it has failed to hear that large segments of white society are more concerned about tranquility and the status quo than about justice and humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I question and soul-search constantly into myself to be as certain as I can that I am fulfilling the true meaning of my work, that I am maintaining my sense of purpose, that I am holding fast to my ideals, that I am guiding my people in the right direction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: As long as there is poverty in the world I can never be rich, even if I have a billion dollars. As long as diseases are rampant and millions of people in this world cannot expect to live more than twenty-eight or thirty years, I can never be totally healthy even if I just got a good checkup at Mayo Clinic. I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. This is the way our world is made. No individual or nation can stand out boasting of being independent. We are interdependent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We cannot walk alone. And as we walk, we must make the pledge that we shall always march ahead. We cannot turn back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must be concerned not merely about who murdered them, but about the system, the way of life, the philosophy which produced the murderers ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Let no man pull you so low as to hate him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Every crisis has both its dangers and its opportunities. Each can spell either salvation or doom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Hate is too heavy a burden to bear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There is within human nature an amazing potential for goodness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: And one day we must ask the question, \"Why are there forty million poor people in America?\" And when you begin to ask that question, you are raising questions about the economic system, about a broader distribution of wealth. When you ask that question, you begin to question the capitalistic economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It is not possible to be in favor of justice for some people and not be in favor of justice for all people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Faith can give us courage to face the uncertainties of the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: These are the times for real choices and not false ones. We are at the moment when our lives must be placed on the line if our nation is to survive its own folly. Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: No one is free until we are all free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. In this unfolding conundrum of life and history, there is such a thing as being too late. Procrastination is still the thief of time. Life often leaves us standing bare, naked, and dejected with a lost opportunity. . . . Over the bleached bones and jumbled residues of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words, 'Too late.' ... Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The words 'I will forgive you, but I'll never forget what you've done' never explain the real nature of forgiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets as Raphael painted pictures, sweep streets as Michelangelo carved marble, sweep streets as Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Somewhere somebody must have some sense. Men must see that force begets force, hate begets hate, toughness begets toughness. And it is all a descending spiral, ultimately ending in destruction for all and everybody. Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with an its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living. If we are not careful, our colleges will produce a group of close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts. Be careful, brethren! Be careful, teachers!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress. Out of its bold struggles, economic and social reform gave birth to unemployment insurance, old age pensions, government relief for the destitute, and, above all, new wage levels that meant not mere survival but a tolerable life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The labor movement was the principal force that transforme\u00add misery and despair into hope and progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If a man hasn't discovered something that he will die for, he isn't fit to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If I wish to compose or write or pray or preach well, I must be angry. Then all the blood in my veins is stirred, and my understanding is sharpened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We have genuflected before the god of science only to find that it has given us the atomic bomb, producing fears and anxieties that science can never mitigate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable... Every step toward the goal of justice requires sacrifice, suffering, and struggle; the tireless exertions and passionate concern of dedicated individuals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day we must come to see that the whole Jericho road must be transformed so that men and women will not be constantly beaten and robbed as they make their journey on life's highway. True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. \"A Time to Break Silence,\" at Riverside Church"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We have no alternative but to protest. For many years we have shown an amazing patience... But we come here tonight to be saved from that patience that makes us patient with anything less than freedom and justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A host of positive psychological changes inevitably will result from widespread economic security. The dignity of the individual will flourish when the decisions concerning his life are in his own hands, when he has the means to seek self-improvement. Personal conflicts among husbands, wives and children will diminish when the unjust measurement of human worth on the scale of dollars is eliminated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Christianity affirms that at the heart of reality is a Heart, a loving Father who works through history for the salvation of His children. Man cannot save himself, for man is not the measure of all things and humanity is not God. Bound by the chains of his own sin and finiteness, man needs a Savior."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Truth is not to be found either in traditional capitalism or in Marxism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically, capitalism failed to discern the truth in collective enterprise and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Today, our very survival depends on our ability to stay awake, to adjust to new ideas, to remain vigilant and to face the challenge of change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It is not enough for me to stand before you tonight and condemn riots. It would be morally irresponsible for me to do that without, at the same time, condemning the contingent, intolerable conditions that exist in our society. These conditions are the things that cause individuals to feel that they have no other alternative than to engage in violent rebellions to get attention. And I must say tonight that a riot is the language of the unheard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Have we not come to such an impasse in the modern world that we must love our enemies - or else? The chain reaction of evil - hate begetting hate, wars producing more wars - must be broken, or else we shall be plunged into the dark abyss of annihilation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no time to engage in the luxury of cooling off or to take the tranquilizing drug of gradualism. Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists, who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists. In any cause that concerns the progress of mankind, put your faith in the nonconformist!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The great military leaders of the past have gone, their empires have crumbled and burned to ashes. But the empire of Jesus, built solidly and majestically on the foundation of love, is still growing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If America does not use her vast resources of wealth to end poverty and make it possible for all of God's children to have the basic necessities of life, she too will go to hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Science keeps religion from sinking into the valley of crippling irrationalism and paralyzing obscurantism. Religion prevents science from falling into the marsh of obsolete materialism and moral nihilism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It is a strangely irrational notion that there is something in the very flow of time that will inevitably cure all ills. Actually time is neutral. It can be used either destructively or constructively. I am coming to feel that the people of ill will have used time much more effectively than the people of good will. We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: At the heart of all that civilization has meant and developed is 'community' - the mutually cooperative and voluntary venture of man to assume a semblance of responsibility for his brother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Even when the polls are open to all, Negroes have shown themselves too slow to exercise their voting privileges. There must be a concerted effort on the part of Negro leaders to arouse their people from their apathetic indifference.... In the past, apathy was a moral failure. Today, it is a form of moral and political suicide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I am what I am because of who we all are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Violence multiplies violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: When our days become dreary with low-hovering clouds and our nights become darker than a thousand midnights, we will know that we are living in the creative turmoil of a genuine civilization struggling to be born."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The profit motive, when it is the sole basis of an economic system, encourages a cutthroat competition and selfish ambition that inspires men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I would rather be a man of conviction than a man of conformity"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: This hour in history needs a dedicated circle of transformed nonconformists. Our planet teeters on the brink of annihilation; dangerous passions of pride, hatred, and selfishness are enthroned in our lives; and men do reverence before false gods of nationalism and materialism. The saving of our world from pending doom will come, not through the complacent adjustment of the conforming majority, but through the creative maladjustment of a nonconforming minority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Let us develop a kind of dangerous unselfishness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: But we are gravely mistaken to think that Christianity protects us from the pain and agony of mortal existence. Christianity has always insisted that the cross we bear precedes the crown we wear. To be a Christian, one must take up his cross, with all of its difficulties and agonizing and tragedy-packed content, and carry it until that very cross leaves its marks upon us and redeems us to that more excellent way which comes only through suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It is not enough to say we must not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: But alas! Science cannot now rescue us, for even the scientist is lost in the terrible midnight of our age. Indeed, science gave us the very instruments that threaten to bring universal suicide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Unconditional love will have the final word in reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The major problem of life is learning how to handle the costly interruptions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We will have to repent in this generation not merely for the vitriolic words and actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence of the good people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a \"thing-oriented\" society to a \"person-oriented\" society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Agape is disinterested love. . . . Agape does not begin by discriminating between worthy and unworthy people, or any qualities people possess. It begins by loving others for their sakes. . . . Therefore, agape makes no distinction between friend and enemy; it is directed toward both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Capitalism is always in danger of inspiring men to be more concerned about making a living than making a life. We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles, rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to humanity-thus capitalism can lead to a practical materialism that is as pernicious as the materialism taught by communism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. We must not allow our creative protest to degenerate into physical violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: So I'm happy tonight. I'm not worried about anything. I'm not fearing any man. Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The thing that we need in the world today, is a group of men and women who will stand up for right and be opposed to wrong, wherever it is. A group of people who have come to see that some things are wrong, whether they\u2019re never caught up with. Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We who in engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the noble struggle for equal rights. You will make a greater person of yourself, a greater nation of your country, and a finer world to live in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We should never forget that everything Adolf Hitler did in Germany was \u201clegal\u201d and everything the Hungarian freedom fighters did in Hungary was \u201cillegal.\u201d It was \u201cillegal\u201d to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler\u2019s Germany. Even so, I am sure that, had I lived in Germany at the time, I would have aided and comforted my Jewish brothers. If todayI lived in a Communist country where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I would openly advocate disobeying that country's antireligious laws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: When we ask Negroes to abide by the law, let us also declare that the white man does not abide by law in the ghettos. Day in and day out he violates welfare laws to deprive the poor of their meager allotments; he flagrantly violates building codes and regulations; his police make a mockery of law; he violates laws on equal employment and education and the provisions of civil services. The slums are the handiwork of a vicious system of the white society; Negroes live in them, but they do not make them, any more than a prisoner makes a prison."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It is better to be the recipient of violence than the inflicter of it, since the latter only multiplies the existence of violence and bitterness in the universe, while the former may develop a sense of shame in the opponent, and thereby bring about a transformation and change of heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: And so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I am convinced that...in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic companionship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In the final analysis, means and ends must cohere because the end is preexistent in the means, and, ultimately, destructive means cannot bring about constructive ends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If the church of today does not recapture the sacrificial spirit of the early church, it will lose its authentic ring, forfeit the loyalty of millions, and be dismissed as an irrelevant social club with no meaning for the twentieth century."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Will we be extremists for hate, or will we be extremists for love? Will we be extremists for the preservation of injustice, or will we be extremists for the cause of justice?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I also came to see that liberalism's superficial optimism concerning human nature caused it to overlook the fact that reason is darkened by sin. The more I thought about human nature the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin causes us to use our minds to rationalize our actions. Liberalism failed to see that reason by itself is little more than an instrument to justify man's defensive ways of thinking. Reason, devoid of the purifying power of faith, can never free itself from distortions and rationalizations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Hatred darkens life; love illumines it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must combine the toughness of the serpent with the softness of the dove, a tough mind and a tender heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man is man because he is free to operate within the framework of his destiny. He is free to deliberate, to make decisions, and to choose between alternatives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In order to be true to one's conscience and true to God, a righteous man has no alternative but to refuse to cooperate with an evil system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Often the oppressor goes along unaware of the evil involved in his oppression so long as the oppressed accepts it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The decision we must make now is whether we will give our allegiance to outmoded and unjust customs or to the ethical demands of the universe. As Christians we owe our allegiance to God and His will, rather than to man and his folkways"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There is no easy way to create a world where men and women can live together... But if such a world is created in our lifetime, it will be done by rejecting the racism, materialism, and violence that has characterized Western civilization and especially by working toward a world of brotherhood, cooperation, and peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity. If democracy is to have breadth of meaning, it is necessary to adjust this inequity. It is not only moral, but it is also intelligent. We are wasting and degrading human life by clinging to archaic thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The recent statement of your executive committee are the sentiments of my own heart and I found myself in full accord when I read its opening lines: \"A time comes when silence is betrayal.\" That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. Some of us who have already begun to break the silence of the night have found that the calling to speak is often a vocation of agony, but we must speak. We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever-recurring song of retaliation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: And before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world. This is the way our universe is structured, this is its interrelated quality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I just want to do God\u2019s will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nothing pains some people more than having to think"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There is such a thing as the freedom of exhaustion. Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up. [...] The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. [...] To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There is something in the soul that cries out for freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: So I have tried to make it clear that it is wrong to use immoral means to attain moral ends. But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals. Just keep being friendly to that person. Just keep loving them, and they can't stand it too long. Oh, they react in many ways in the beginning. They react with guilt feelings, and sometimes they'll hate you a little more at that transition period, but just keep loving them. And by the power of your love they will break down under the load. That's love, you see. It is redemptive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Let us rise up tonight with a greater readiness. Let us stand with a greater determination. And let us move on in these powerful days, these days of challenge to make America what it ought to be. We have an opportunity to make America a better nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: And you know, it's possible that the priest and the Levite looked over that man on the ground and wondered if the robbers were still around. Or it's possible that they felt that the man on the ground was merely faking. And he was acting like he had been robbed and hurt, in order to seize them over there, lure them there for quick and easy seizure. And so the first question that the Levite asked was, \"If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?\" But then the Good Samaritan came by. And he reversed the question: \"If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A third reason why we should love our enemies is that love is the only force capable of transforming an enemy into a friend. We never get rid of an enemy by meeting hate with hate; we get rid of an enemy by getting rid of enmity. By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up. Love transforms with redemptive power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: By its very nature, hate destroys and tears down; by its very nature, love creates and builds up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at it's best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Now there is a final reason I think that Jesus says, 'Love your enemies.' It is this: that love has within it a redemptive power. And there is a power there that eventually transforms individuals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Normal fear protects us; abnormal fear paralyses us. Normal fear motivates us to improve our individual and collective welfare; abnormal fear constantly poisons and distorts our inner lives. Our problem is not to be rid of fear but, rather to harness and master it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Sooner or later, all the peoples of the world will have to discover a way to live together in peace, and thereby transform this pending cosmic elegy into a creative psalm of brotherhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The nonviolent approach does not immediately change the heart of the oppressor. It first does something to the hearts and souls of those committed to it. It gives them new self-respect; it calls up resources of strength and courage they did not know they had."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We've got some difficult days ahead. But it doesn't matter with me now. Because I've been to the mountaintop. And I don't mind. Like anybody, I would like to live a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go up to the mountaintop. And I've looked over. And I've seen the promised land."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A strong man must be militant as well as moderate. He must be a realist as well as an idealist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must rapidly begin the shift from a \"thing-oriented\" society to a \"person-oriented\" society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it's what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free. Psychological freedom, a firm sense of self-esteem, is the most powerful weapon against the long night of physical slavery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Truth is found neither in Marxism nor in traditional capitalism. Each represents a partial truth. Historically capitalism failed to see the truth in collective enterprise, and Marxism failed to see the truth in individual enterprise. Nineteenth century capitalism failed to see that life is social and Marxism failed and still fails to see that life is individual and personal. The Kingdom of God is neither the thesis of individual enterprise nor the antithesis of collective enterprise, but a synthesis which reconciles the truths of both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Philanthropy is commendable, but it must not cause the philanthropist to overlook the circumstances of economic injustice which make philanthropy necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: An eye for an eye leaves everybody blind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must shift the arms race into a 'peace race'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The strong man is the man who can stand up for his rights and not hit back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I would urge you to give priority to the search for God. Allow his spirit to permeate your being. ... If you do not have a deep and patient faith in God, you will be powerless to face the delays, disappointments, and vicissitudes that inevitably come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We have before us the glorious opportunity to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of our civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The way of acquiescence leads to moral and spiritual suicide. The way of violence leads to bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. But, the way of nonviolence leads to redemption and the creation of the beloved community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most is to adopt a view that is so ambiguous that it will include everything and so popular that it will include everybody. Not a few men who cherish lofty and noble ideals hide them under a bushel for fear of being called different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In any nonviolent campaign there are four basic steps: collection of the facts to determine whether injustices exist; negotiation; self-purification; and direct action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I just want to do God's will. And he's allowed me to go to the mountain. And I've looked over, and I've seen the promised land! I may not get there with you, but I want you to know tonight that we as a people will get to the promised land."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Everybody can be great, because everybody can serve. [...] You only need a heart full of grace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Love is basic for the very survival of mankind. I'm convinced that love is the only absolute ultimately; love is the highest good. He who loves has somehow discovered the meaning of ultimate reality. He who hates does not know God; he who hates has no knowledge of God. Love is the supreme unifying principle of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I've seen too much hate to want to hate, myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: By...our readiness to allow arms to be purchased at will and fired at whim; by allowing our movie and television screens to teach our children that the hero is one who masters the art of shooting and the technique of killing...we have created an atmosphere in which violence and hatred have become popular pastimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: My friends, all I'm trying to say is that if we are to go forward today, we've got to go back and rediscover some mighty precious values that we've left behind. That's the only way that we would be able to make of our world a better world, and to make of this world what God wants it to be and the real purpose and meaning of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Segregation, as even the segregationists know in their hearts, is morally wrong and sinful. If it weren't, the white South would not be haunted as it is by a deep sense of guilt for what it has done to the Negro - guilt for patronizing him, degrading him, brutalizing him, depersonalizing him, thingifying him; guilt for lying to itself. This is the source of the schizophrenia that the South will suffer until it goes through its crisis of conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: For years now I have heard the word \"wait.\" It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This \"wait\" has almost always meant \"never.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Again and again we must rise to the majestic heights of meeting physical force with soul force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: All life is interrelated. The agony of the poor impoverishes the rich; the betterment of the poor enriches the rich. We are inevitably our brother's keeper because we are our brother's brother. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Christian faith makes it possible for us nobly to accept that which cannot be changed, and to meet disappointments and sorrow with an inner poise, and to absorb the most intense pain without abandoning our sense of hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: [I] know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time: the need for man to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to oppression and violence. Man must evolve for all human conflict a method which rejects revenge, aggression and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The curse of poverty has no justification in our age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: He who is greatest among you shall be a servant. That's the new definition of greatness. ... By giving that definition of greatness, it means that everybody can be great, because everybody can serve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: An individual has not begun to live until he can rise above the narrow horizons of his particular individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity. And this is one of the big problems of life, that so many people never quite get to the point of rising above self. And so they end up the tragic victims of self-centeredness. They end up the victims of distorted and disrupted personality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: You only need a heart full of grace"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power, religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts, religion deals with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Every nation must now develop an overriding loyalty to mankind as a whole in order to preserve the best in their individual societies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Any nation or government that deprives an individual of freedom is in that moment committing an act of moral and spiritual murder. Any individual who is not concerned about his freedom commits an act of moral and spiritual suicide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I have a dream that one day every valley shall be exalted, every hill and mountain shall be made low, the rough places will be made straight and the glory of the Lord shall be revealed and all flesh shall see it together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There comes a time when one must take the position that is neither safe nor politic nor popular, but he must do it because conscience tells him it is right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I would be the last to condemn the thousands of sincere and dedicated people outside the churches who have labored unselfishly through various humanitarian movements to cure the world of social evils, for I would rather a man be a committed humanist than an uncommitted Christian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Like a boil that must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed to the light of human conscience before it can be cured."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I will always remember my delight when Mrs. Georgia Gilmore - an unlettered woman of unusual intelligence - told how an operator demanded that she get off the bus after paying her fare and board it again by the back door, and then drove away before she could get there. She turned to Judge Carter and said: \"When they count the money, they do not know Negro money from white money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It\u2019s wrong to hate. It always has been wrong and it always will be wrong! It\u2019s wrong in America, it\u2019s wrong in Germany, it\u2019s wrong in Russia, it\u2019s wrong in China! It was wrong in two thousand B.C., and it\u2019s wrong in nineteen fifty-four A.D.! It always has been wrong,  and it always will be wrong!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If we are to go forward, we must go back and rediscover these precious values - that all reality hinges on moral foundations and that all reality has spiritual control."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A society is always eager to cover misdeeds with a cloak of forgetfulness, but no society can fully repress an ugly past when the ravages persist into the present. America owes a debt of justice which it has only begun to pay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: As the weeks and months unfolded, we realized that we were the victims of a broken promise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I think one can live in American society with a certain cultural heritage, whether it's an African heritage or other, European,what have you, and still absorb a great deal of this culture. There is always cultural assimilation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Somehow we must transform the dynamics of the world power struggle from the negative nuclear arms race which no one can win to a positive contest to harness man's creative genius for the purpose of making peace and prosperity a reality for all of the nations of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Every genuine expression of love grows out of a consistent and total surrender to God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Keep feeling the need for being first. But I want you to be the first in love. I want you to be the first in moral excellence. I want you to be the first in generosity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We are now faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The limitation of riots, moral questions aside, is that they cannot win and their participants know it. Hence, rioting is not revolutionary but reactionary because it invites defeat. It involves an emotional catharsis, but it must be followed by a sense of futility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A true revolution of values will soon cause us to question the fairness and justice of many of our present policies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Love even for enemies is the key to the solution of the problems of our world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There may come a time when it will be possible for you to humiliate your worst enemy or even to defeat him, but in order to love the enemy you must not do it... The Greek language has another word [for love]. It calls it agape. Agape is more than romantic love. Agape is more than friendship. Agape is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men. Agape is an overflowing love, a spontaneous love, which seeks nothing in return. And theologians would say that it is the love of God operating in the human heart. When you rise to love on this level you love all men, not because you like them, not because their ways appeal to you, not because they are worthful to you, but you love all men because God loves them. And you rise to the noble heights of loving the person who does the evil deed while hating the deed that the person does. And I think this is what Jesus means when he says, \u201cLove your enemies.\u201d"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: When the Negro finds the courage to be free, he faces dogs and guns and clubs and fire hoses totally unafraid, and the white men with those dogs, guns, clubs and fire hoses see that the Negro they have traditionally called \"boy\" has become a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Jesus is not an impractical idealist; he is the practical realist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nonviolence is not sterile passivity, but a powerful moral force which makes for social transformation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I\u2019ve been to the Mountaintop"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I choose to identify with the underprivileged, I choose to give my life for the hungry, I choose to give my life for those who have been left out of the sunlight of opportunity . . . this is the way I'm going. If it means suffering, I'm going that way. If it means dying for them, I'm going that way, because I heard a voice saying DO SOMETHING FOR OTHERS."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right when the head is totally wrong"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Wherever schools can be integrated through the busing method, and where it won't be just a, a terrible inconvenience, I think it ought to be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: What are you doing for others?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I think the inconveniences of a segregated education are much greater than the inconveniences of busing students so that they can get an integrated quality education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In a world facing the revolt of ragged and hungry masses of God's children; in a world torn between the tensions of East and West, white and colored, individuals and collectivists; in a world whose cultural and spiritual power lags so far behind her technological capabilities that we live each day on the verge of nuclear co-annihilation; in this world, nonviolence is no longer an option for intellectual analysis, it is an imperative for action"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God\u2019s children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In a sense we've come to our nation's capital to cash a check. When the architects of our republic wrote the magnificent words of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every American was to fall heir. This note was a promise that all men - yes, black men as well as white men - would be guaranteed the unalienable rights of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness... America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Ultimately a great nation is a compassionate nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We will not be satisfied until justice rolls down like waters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Negroes of America had taken the President, the press and the pulpit at their word when they spoke in broad terms of freedom and justice. But the absence of brutality and unregenerate evil is not the presence of justice. To stay murder is not the same thing as to ordain brotherhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nonviolence is a powerful as well as a just weapon. If you confront a man who has long been cruelly misusing you, and say, \"Punish me, if you will; I do not deserve it, but I will accept it, so that the world will know I am right and you are wrong,\" then you wield a powerful and a just weapon. This man, your oppressor, is automatically morally defeated, and if he has any conscience, he is ashamed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If an American is concerned only about his nation, he will not be concerned about the peoples of Asia, Africa, or South America. Is this not why nations engage in the madness of war without the slightest sense of penitence? Is this not why the murder of a citizen of your own nation is a crime, but the murder of citizens of another nation in war is an act of heroic virtue?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I am disappointed with America. And there can be no great disappointment where there is not great love. I am disappointed with our failure to deal positively and forthrightly with the triple evils of racism, economic exploitation, and militarism. We are presently moving down a dead-end road that can lead to national disaster. America has strayed to the far country of racism and militarism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We can no longer afford to worship the God of hate or bow before the altar of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever-rising tides of hate. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path of hate. Love is the key to the solution of the problems of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The first principle of value that we need to rediscover is this: that all reality hinges on moral foundations. In other words, that this is a moral universe, and that there are moral laws of the universe just as abiding as the physical laws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Negro leaders sought to negotiate with the city fathers. But the political leaders consistently refused to engage in good-faith negotiation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Another reason why we must love our enemies is that hate scars the soul and distorts the personality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Love is the only creative, redemptive, transforming power, in the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There is no deficit in human resources; the deficit is in human will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Even in the inevitable moments when all seems hopeless, men know that without hope they cannot really live, and in agonizing desperation they cry for the bread of hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice. Say that I was a drum major for peace. I was a drum major for righteousness. And all of the other shallow things will not matter. I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind. And that's all I want to say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A time comes when silence is betrayal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Truth crushed to earth will rise again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I think the first reason that we should love our enemies, and I think this was at the very center of Jesus' thinking, is this: that hate for hate only intensifies the existence of hate and\nevil in the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In spite of its glowing talk about the welfare of the masses, Communism's methods and philosophy strip man of his dignity and worth, leaving him as little more than a depersonalized cog in the ever-turning wheel of the state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Christ furnished the spirit and motivation while Gandhi furnished the method."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The church must be reminded that it is not the master, or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The purpose of direct action is to create a situation so crisis-packed that it will inevitably open the door to negotiation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In no sense do I advocate evading or defying the law . . That would lead to anarchy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nonviolent action, the Negro saw, was the way to supplement, not replace, the progress of change. It was the way to divest himself of passivity without arraying himself in vindictive force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: They asked if our own nation wasn't using massive doses of violence to solve its problems, to bring about the changes it wanted. Their questions hit home, and I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today-my own government. For the sake of those boys, for the sake of this government, for the sake of hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Almost always, the creative dedicated minority has made the world better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: You cannot solve the problem by turning to communism, for communism is based on an ethical relativism and a metaphysical materialism that no Christian can accept."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There comes a time when a moral man can't obey a law which his conscience tells him is unjust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Good and just society is neither the thesis of capitalism nor the antithesis of communism, but a socially conscious democracy which reconciles the truths of individualism and collectivism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It is obvious today that America has defaulted on this promissory note insofar as her citizens of color are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, America has given the Negro people a bad check, a check which has come back marked 'insufficient funds.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In the process of gaining our rightful place, we must not be guilty of wrongful deeds. Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must forever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The movement for equality and justice can only be a success if it has both a mass and militant character; the barriers to be overcome require both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Somebody told a lie one day. They couched it in language. They made everything Black ugly and evil. Look in your dictionaries and see the synonyms of the word Black. It's always something degrading and low and sinister. Look at the word White, it's always something pure, high and clean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability; it comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God and without this hard work time itself becomes an ally of the primitive forces of social stagnation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed. Frankly I have never yet engaged in a direct action movement that was 'well timed,' according to the timetable of those who have not suffered unduly from the disease of segregation. For years now I have heard the word 'Wait!' It rings in the ear of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This 'wait' has almost always meant 'never.' We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that 'justice too long delayed is justice denied.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The early Christians rejoiced when they were deemed worthy to suffer for what they believed. In those days the Church was not merely a thermometer that recorded the ideas and principles o popular opinion; it was a thermostat that transformed the mores of society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must in strength and humility meet hate with love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We in the West must bear in mind that the poor countries are poor primarily because we have exploited them through political or economic colonialism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law, or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy... In fact, violence merely increases hate. So it goes. Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I refuse to accept the idea that the \u201cisness\u201d of man's present nature makes him morally incapable of reaching up for the eternal \u201coughtness\u201d that forever confronts him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the word . . . Their powerful gospel put an end to such barbaric evils as infanticide and bloody gladiatorial contests. Finally, they captured the Roman Empire for Jesus Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Every man of humane convictions must decide on the protest that best suits his convictions, but we must all protest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Here is the true meaning and value of compassion and nonviolence, when it helps us to see the enemy's point of view, to hear his questions, to know his assessment of ourselves. For from his view we may indeed see the basic weaknesses of our own condition, and if we are mature, we may learn and grow and profit from the wisdom of the brothers who are called the opposition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: One day the South will know that when these disinherited children of God sat down at lunch counters, they were in reality standing up for what is best in the American dream and for the most sacred values in our Judaeo-Christian heritage, thereby bringing our nation back to those great wells of democracy which were dug deep by the founding fathers in their formulation of the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Moral principles have lost their distinctiveness. For modern man, absolute right and absolute wrong are a matter of what the majority is doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We have guided missiles and misguided men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: From the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire, let freedom ring. From the mighty mountains of New York, let freedom ring. From the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania, let freedom ring. But not only that: Let freedom ring from every hill and molehill of Mississippi."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There is nothing in all the world greater than freedom. It is worth paying for; it is worth going to jail for. I would rather be a free pauper than a rich slave. I would rather die in abject poverty with my convictions than live in inordinate riches with the lack of self respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It may be true that the law cannot change the heart but it can restrain the heartless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Communism forgets that life is individual. Capitalism forgets that life is social, and the kingdom of brotherhood is found neither in the thesis of communism nor the antithesis of capitalism but in a higher synthesis. It is found in a higher synthesis that combines the truths of both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Every now and then I think about my own death, and I think about my own funeral. [...] Every now and then I ask myself, 'What is it that I would want said?' I'd like somebody to mention that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to give his life serving others. I'd like for somebody to say that day, that Martin Luther King, Jr., tried to love somebody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: With all of its false assumptions and evil methods, communism grew as a protest against the hardships of the underprivileged. Communism in theory emphasized a classless society, and a concern for social justice, though the world knows from sad experience that in practice it created new classes and a new lexicon of injustice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Just as Socrates felt that it was necessary to create a tension in the mind so that individuals could rise from the bondage of myths and half-truths to the unfettered realm of creative analysis and objective appraisal, so must we see the need for nonviolent gadflies to create the kind of tension in society that will help men rise from the dark depths of prejudice and racism to majestic heights of understanding and brotherhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The time has come for America to hear the truth about this tragic war. In international conflicts, the truth is hard to come by because most nations are deceived about themselves. Rationalizations and the incessant search for scapegoats are the psychological cataracts that blind us to our sins. But the day has passed for superficial patriotism. He who lives with untruth lives in spiritual slavery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I have a dream that one day, down in Alabama, with its vicious racists, with its governor having his lips dripping with the words of \"interposition\" and \"nullification\" - one day right there in Alabama little black boys and black girls will be able to join hands with little white boys and white girls as sisters and brothers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There is nothing more majestic than the determined courage of individuals willing to suffer and sacrifice for their freedom and dignity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There is no sound more powerful than the marching feet of a determined people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. I would agree with St. Augustine that ' an unjust law is no law at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Time has been used destructively by people of ill will much more than it has been used constructively by those of good will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I am not unmindful that some of you have come here out of great trials and tribulations. Some of you have come fresh from narrow cells. Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. You have been the veterans of creative suffering. Continue to work with the faith that unearned suffering is redemptive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If you want to be important-wonderful. If you want to be recognized-wonderful. If you want to be great-wonderful. But recognize that he who is greatest among you shall be your servant. That's a new definition of greatness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The use of violence in our struggle would be both impractical and immoral. To meet hate with retaliatory hate would do nothing but intensify the existence of evil in the universe. Hate begets hate; violence begets violence; toughness begets a greater toughness. We must meet the forces of hate with the power of love; we must meet physical force with soul force. Our aim must never be to defeat or humiliate the white man, but to win his friendship and understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Violence never brings permanent peace. It solves no social problem: it merely creates new and more complicated ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We know nothing about Africa, although our roots are there in terms of our forbearers. But I mean as far as the average Negro today, he knows nothing about Africa. And I think he's got to face the fact that he is an American, his culture is basically American, and one becomes adjusted to this when he realizes what, what he is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A time comes when silence is betrayal. Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government's policy, especially in time of war. Nor does the human spirit move without great difficulty against all the apathy of conformist thought, within one's own bosom and in the surrounding world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The trailblazers in human, academic, scientific and religious freedom have always been nonconformists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I was convinced that worship at its best is a social experience with people of all levels of life coming together to realize their oneness and unity under God. Whenever the church, consciously or unconsciously, caters to one class it loses the spiritual force of the \"whosoever will, let him come, doctrine and is in danger of becoming a little more than a social club with a thin veneer of religiosity.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The art of acceptance is the art of making someone who has just done you a small favor wish that he might have done you a greater one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In his essay 'Self-Reliance' Emerson wrote, 'Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.' The Apostle Paul reminds us that whoso would be a Christian must also be a a nonconformist. Any Christian who blindly accepts the opinions of the majority and in fear and timidity follows a path of expediency and social approval is a mental and spiritual slave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Power is the ability to achieve purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Property is intended to serve life, and no matter how much we surround it with rights and respect, it has no personal being. It is part of the earth man walks on. It is not man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Let the Negro march. Let him make pilgrimages to city hall. Let him go on freedom rides. And above all, make an effort to understand why he must do this. For if his frustration and despair are allowed to continue piling up, millions of Negroes will seek solace and security in black-nationalist ideologies. And this, inevitably, would lead to a frightening racial nightmare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: When people criticize Zionists, they mean Jews. You are talking anti-Semitism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We were all involved in the death of John Kennedy. We tolerated hate; we tolerated the sick stimulation of violence in all walks of life; and we tolerated the differential application of law, which said that a man's life was sacred only if we agreed with his views."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must all learn to live together as brothers. Or we will all perish together as foolsFor some strange reason I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. And you can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, sons of former slaves and sons of former slave-owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. I have a dream that one day, even the state of Mississippi, a state sweltering with the heat of injustice, sweltering with the heat of oppression, will be transformed into a oasis of freedom and justice. I have a dream my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by content of their character. I have a dream today!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The nation is sick; trouble is in the land, confusion all around...But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough can you see the stars. And I see God working in this period of the twentieth century. Something is happening in our world. The masses of people are rising up. And wherever they are assembled today, whether they are in Johannesburg, South Africa; Nairobi, Kenya; Accra, Ghana; New York City; Atlanta, Georgia; Jackson, Mississippi; or Memphis, Tennessee, the cry is always the same: 'We want to be free.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I refuse to accept the view . . . that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It will be one of the tragedies of Christian history if future historians record that at the height of the twentieth century the church was one of the greatest bulwarks of white supremacy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: To accept injustice or segregation passively is to say to the oppressor that his actions are morally right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Success, recognition, and conformity are the bywords of the modern world where everyone seems to crave the anesthetizing security of being identified with the majority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: As a young man with most of my life ahead of me, I decided early to give my life to something eternal and absolute. Not to these little gods that are here today and gone tomorrow. But to God who is the same yesterday, today, and forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Unity has never meant uniformity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Courage faces fear and thereby masters it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: And when this happens, when we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of God's children, black men and white men, Jews and Gentiles, Protestants and Catholics, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual: Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits. I believe that what self-centered men have torn down men other-centered can build up. I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive good will proclaim the rule of the land."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I was in the kitchen drinking coffee when I heard Coretta cry, \"Martin, Martin, come quickly!\" I put down my cup and ran toward the living room. As I approached the front window Coretta pointed joyfully to a slowly moving bus: \"Darling, it's empty!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I have condemned any organizer of war, regardless of his rank or nationality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Power at its best is love implementing the demand of justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must see that peace represents a sweeter music, a cosmic melody, that is far superior to the discords of war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Even if our motives are presently misunderstood. We will reach the goal of freedom in Birmingham and all over the nation, because the goal of America is freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man must never be treated as a means to the end of the state, but always as an end within himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must use time creatively."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: As long as the mind is enslaved, the body can never be free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: One who breaks an unjust law must do so openly, lovingly, and with a willingness to accept the penalty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: My parents would always tell me that I should not hate the white man, but that it was my duty as a Christian to love him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It seems to me that education has a two-fold function to perform in the life of man and in society: the one is utility and the other is culture. Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the ligitimate goals of his life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There is little hope for us until we become tough-minded enough to break loose from the shackles of prejudice, half-truths, and down-right ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I feel that segregation is totally unchristian, and that it is against everything the Christian religion stands for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Non-violent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has constantly refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue. It seeks so to dramatize the issue that it can no longer be ignored... I am not afraid of the word tension. I have earnestly worked and preached against violent tension, and there is a type of constructive tension that is necessary for growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If you will protest courageously, and yet with dignity and Christian love, when the history books are written in future generations, the historians will have to pause and say, \"There lived a great people-a black people-who injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A man who won't die for something is not fit to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Of course, there is nothing new about this kind of civil disobedience. It was seen sublimely in the refusal of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego to obey the laws of Nebuchadnezzar because a higher moral law was involved. It was practiced superbly by the early Christians who were willing to face hungry lions and the excruciating pain of chopping blocks, before submitting to certain unjust laws of the Roman empire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Whatever your life's work is, do it well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed, without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today \u2013 my own government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: And I've seen the promised land. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we, as a people will get to the promised land"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy. Instead of diminishing evil, it multiplies it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Some people are so worn down by the yoke of oppression that they give up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Procrastinatio n is still the thief of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We shall match your capacity to inflict suffering by our capacity to endure suffering.  We will meet your physical force with soul force.  Do to us what you will and we will still love you....Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and, as difficult as it is, we will still love you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We are out to defeat injustice and not white persons who may be unjust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It is our experience that the nation doesn't move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: One day we will learn that the heart can never be totally right if the head is totally wrong. Only through the bringing together of head and heart-intelligence and goodness-shall man rise to a fulfillment of his true nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of life, unable to influence the unfolding events which surround him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I plan to stand by nonviolence, because I have found it to be a philosophy of life that regulates not only my dealings in the struggle for racial justice, but also my dealings with people, and with my own self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We will not build a peaceful world by following a negative path. It is not enough to say we will not wage war. It is necessary to love peace and sacrifice for it. We must concentrate not merely on the negative expulsion of war, but on the positive affirmation of peace"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We are prone to judge success by the index of our salaries or the size of our automobiles rather than by the quality of our service and relationship to mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I'm grateful to God that, through the Negro church, the dimension of nonviolence entered our struggle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Now is the time to lift our national policy from the quicksand of racial injustice to the solid rock of human dignity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Man was born into barbarism when killing his fellow man was a normal condition of existence. He became endowed with a conscience. \n And he has now reached the day when violence toward another human being must become as abhorrent as eating another's flesh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete. There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force If we assume that life is worth living, if we assume that mankind has the right to survive, then we must find an alternative to war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Without love, benevolence becomes egotism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Carve a tunnel of hope through the dark mountain of disappointment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Ordinarily, a person leaving a courtroom with a conviction behind him would wear a somber face. But I left with a smile. I knew that I was a convicted criminal, but I was proud of my crime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The soft-minded man always fears change. He feels security in the status quo, and he has an almost morbid fear of the new. For him, the greatest pain is the pain of a new idea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence in this world; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. That is where we are today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial \"outside agitator\" idea. Anyone who lives inside the United States can never be considered an outsider."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I am not interested in power for power's sake, but I'm interested in power that is moral, that is right and that is good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Occasionally in life there are those moments of unutterable fulfillment which cannot be completely explained by those symbols called words. Their meanings can only be articulated by the inaudible language of the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Each of us is something of a schizophrenic personality, tragically divided against ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Somebody must have sense enough and morality enough to cut off the chain of hate and the chain of evil in the universe. And you do that by love"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A second basic fact that characterizes nonviolence is that it does not seek to defeat or humiliate the opponent, but to win his friendship and understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Was not Jesus an extremist for love: \"Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.\" Was not Amos an extremist for justice: \"Let justice roll down like waters and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.\" Was not Paul an extremist for the Christian gospel: \"I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Never succumb to the temptation of bitterness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes; but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In some not too distant tomorrow the radiant stars of love and brotherhood will shine over our great nation with all their scintillating beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The means by which we live have outdistanced the ends for which we live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: But life at its best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The darkness of racial injustice will be dispelled only by the light of forgiving love. For more that three centuries American Negroes have been frustrated by day and bewilderment by night by unbearable injustice, and burdened with the ugly weight of discrimination. Forced to live with these shameful conditions, we are tempted to become bitter and retaliate with a corresponding hate. But if this happens, the new order we seek will be little more than a duplicate of the old order. We must in strength and humility meet hate with love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Whatever we do, we must keep God in the forefront. Let us be Christian in all of our actions. But I want to tell you this evening that it is not enough for us to talk about love, love is one of the pivotal points of the Christian face, faith. There is another side called justice. And justice is really love in calculation. Justice is love correcting that which revolts against love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must speak with all the humility that is appropriate to our limited vision, but we must speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We should never forget that everything Adolph Hitler did in Germany was \"legal\" and everything the Hungarian freedom fighers did in Hungary was \"illegal.\" It was \"illegal\" to aid and comfort a Jew in Hitler's Germany."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We aren't going to let any mace stop us. We are masters in our nonviolent movement in disarming police forces; they don't know what to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nonviolence is a powerful and just weapon. which cuts without wounding and ennobles the man who wields it. It is a sword that heals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence. The Negro all over the South must come to the point that he can say to his white brother: \"We will match your capacity to inflict suffering with our capacity to endure suffering. We will meet your physical force with soul force. We will not hate you, but we will not obey your evil laws. We will soon wear you down by pure capacity to suffer\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I just want to leave a committed life behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A world war - God forbid! - will leave only smoldering ashes as a mute testimony of a human race whose folly led inexorably to untimely death. Yet there are those who sincerely feel that disarmament is an evil and international negotiation is an abominable waste of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I think if we, say, if all of the major leaders in this struggle [for human's rights] were at, at war with each other, then I think it would be very difficult to make this social revolution the kind of powerful revolution that it's proved to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I think there can be a collective leadership. Maybe some symbolize the struggle [for human's rights] a little more than others, but I think it's absolutely necessary for the leadership to be united in order to make the revolution effective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Certainly I'm not saying that you sit down and patiently accept injustice. I'm talking about a very strong force, where you stand up with all your might against an evil system, and you are not a coward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The only weapon that we have in our hands this evening is the weapon of protest. That's all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I won't have any money to leave behind. I won't have the fine and luxurious things of life to leave behind. But I just want to leave a committed life behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We are not makers of history. We are made by history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There's another reason why you should love your enemies, and that is because hate distorts the personality of the hater. We usually think of what hate does for the individual hated or the individuals hated or the groups hated. But it is even more tragic, it is even more ruinous and injurious to the individual who hates. [...] For the person who hates, the true becomes false and the false becomes true. That's what hate does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It is Love that will save our world and our civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Three hundred years of humiliation, abuse and deprivation cannot be expected to find voice in a whisper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I think in this phase, after the Negro emerges in and from the desegregated society, then a great deal of time must be spent in improving standards which lag behind to a large extent because of segregation,discrimination, and the legacy of slavery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Be true to what you said on paper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: All men are interdependent. Every nation is an heir of a vast treasury of ideas and labor to which both the living and the dead of all nations have contributed. Whether we realize it or not, each of us lives eternally 'in the red.' We are everlasting debtors to known and unknown men and women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Money, like any other force such as electricity, is amoral and can be used for either good or evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must stand up and say, \"I'm black and I'm beautiful,\" and this self-affirmation is the black man's need, made compelling by the white man's crimes against him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The curse of poverty has no justification in our age. It is socially as cruel and blind as the practice of cannibalism at the dawn of civilization, when men ate each other because they had not yet learned to take food from the soil or to consume the abundant animal life around them. The time has come for us to civilize ourselves by the total, direct and immediate abolition of poverty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Do to us what you will, and we will still love you. Bomb our homes and threaten our children, and as difficult as it is, we will still love you. But we assured that we'll wear you down by our capacity to suffer, and one day we will win our freedom. We will not only win freedom for ourselves, we will so appeal to your heart and conscience that we will win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must work passionately and unrelentingly for the goal of freedom, but we must be sure that our hands are clean in the struggle. We must never struggle with falsehood, hate, or malice. We must never become bitter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: God has given each normal person a capacity to achieve some end. True, some are endowed with more talent than others, but God has left none of us talentless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We talk eloquently about our commitment to the principles of Christianity, and yet our lives are saturated with the practices of paganism. We proclaim our devotion to democracy, but we sadly practice the very opposite of the democratic creed.... This strange dichotomy, this agonizing gulf between the ought and the is, represents the tragic theme of man's earthly pilgrimage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If I hit you and you hit me and I hit you back and you hit me back and go on, you see, that goes on ad infinitum. It just never ends. Somewhere somebody must have a little sense, and that's the strong person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Alienation is a form of living death. It is the acid of despair that dissolves society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The road to freedom is a difficult, hard road. It always makes for temporary setbacks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Our problem is not to be rid of fear but rather to harness and master it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Discrimination is a hellhound that gnaws at Negroes in every waking moment of their lives to remind them that the lie of their inferiority is accepted as truth in the society dominating them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Now a lot of us are preachers, and all of us have our moral convictions and concerns, and so often have problems with power. There is nothing wrong with power if power is used correctly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups are more immoral than individuals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: To have serpentlike qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Was not Abraham Lincoln an extremist? - \"This nation cannot survive half slave and half free.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Universe is on the side of Justice"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We can never travel beyond the arms of the Divine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The greatest pain is the pain of a new idea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The conservatives who say, \"Let us not move so fast,\" and the extremists who say, \"Let us go out and whip the world ,\" would tell you that they are as far apart as the poles. But there is a striking parallel: They accomplish nothing; for they do not reach the people who have a crying need to be free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The self cannot be self without other selves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Whatever effects one directly, effects all indirectly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Oppressed people cannot remain oppressed forever. The yearning for freedom eventually manifests itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There is a type of constructive nonviolent tension that is necessary for growth"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The real problem is that through our scientific genius we\u2019ve made of the world a neighborhood, but through our moral and spiritual genius we\u2019ve failed to make of it a brotherhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: So long as I do not firmly and irrevocably possess the right to vote I do not possess myself. I cannot make up my mind - it is made up for me. I cannot live as a democratic citizen, observing the laws I have helped to enact - I can only submit to the edict of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: When any society says that I cannot marry a certain person, that society has cut off a segment of my freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Before the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, we were here. Before the pen of Jefferson etched across the pages of history the majestic words of the Declaration of Independence, we were here. If the inexpressible cruelties of slavery could not stop us, the opposition we now face will surely fail. We will win our freedom because the sacred heritage of our nation and the eternal will of God are embodied in our echoing demands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The words 'bad timing' came to be ghosts haunting our every move in Birmingham. Yet people who used this argument were ignorant of the background of our planning...they did not realize that it was ridiculous to speak of timing when the clock of history showed that the Negro had already suffered one hundred years of delay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds of energies in rehabilitation of its poor as long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Though we live in the colony of time, we are ultimately responsible to the empire of eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I have a dream today!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I'm concerned about justice. I'm concerned about brotherhood. I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about these, he can never advocate violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We all have the drum major instinct. We all want to be important, to surpass others, to achieve distinction, to lead the parade."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Be sure to play \"Blessed Lord\" tonight - play it real pretty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Whenever men and women straighten their backs up, they are going somewhere, because a man can't ride your back unless it is bent"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: But now I must affirm that it is just as wrong, or perhaps even more so, to use moral means to preserve immoral ends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: unearned suffering is redemptive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over, and men are no longer willing to be plunged into the abyss of despair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I'm concerned about a better world. I'm concerned about justice; I'm concerned about brotherhood; I'm concerned about truth. And when one is concerned about that, he can never advocate violence. For through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can't murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can't establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can't murder hate through violence. Darkness cannot put out darkness; only light can do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Love is the supreme unifying principle of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: But there is another way. And that is to organize mass non-violent resistance based on the principle of love. It seems to me that this is the only way as our eyes look to the future. As we look out across the years and across the generations, let us develop and move right here. We must discover the power of love, the power, the redemptive power of love. And when we discover that we will be able to make of this old world a new world. We will be able to make men better. Love is the only way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Be the best of whatever you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The softminded person always wants to freeze the moment and hold life in the gripping yoke of sameness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: But we refuse to believe that the bank of justice is bankrupt. We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx and Lenin, the social contract theory of Hobbes, the \"back to nature\" optimism of Rousseau, and the superman philosophy of Nietzsche, I found in the nonviolent resistance philosophy of Gandhi. I came to feel that this was the only morally and practically sound method open to oppressed people in their struggle for freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Before you finish eating breakfast in the morning, you've depended on more than half of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter, but beautiful, struggle for a new world. This is the calling of the sons of God, and our brothers wait eagerly for our response. Shall we say the odds are too great? Shall we tell them the struggle is too hard?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: While the question of who killed President Kennedy is important, the question 'what killed him' is more important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: But by all means, keep moving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There's something about love that builds up and is creative. There is something about hate that tears down and is destructive. So love your enemies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Israel... is one of the great outpost of democracy in the world"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: My country, 'tis of thee, sweet land of liberty, of thee I sing. Land where my fathers died, land of the pilgrim's pride, from every mountainside, let freedom ring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I oppose the war in Vietnam because I love America. I speak out against it not in anger but with anxiety and sorrow in my heart, and above all with a passionate desire to see our beloved country stand as a moral example of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The 'tide in the affairs of men' does not remain at the flood; it ebbs. We may cry out desperately for time to pause in her passage, but time is deaf to every plea and rushes on. Over the bleached bones and jumbled residue of numerous civilizations are written the pathetic words: 'Too late...'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: \"When I speak of love I am not speaking of some sentimental and weak response. I am not speaking of that force which is just emotional bosh. I am speaking of that force which all of the great religions have seen as the supreme unifying principle of life. Love is somehow the key that unlocks the door which leads to ultimate reality.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Even though I have never had an abrupt conversion experience, religion has been real to me and closely knitted to life. In fact the two cannot be separated; religion for me is life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: My study of Gandhi convinced me that true pacifism is not nonresistance to evil, but nonviolent resistance to evil. Between the two positions, there is a world of difference. Gandhi resisted evil with as much vigor and power as the violent resister, but True pacifism is not unrealistic submission to evil power. It is rather a courageous confrontation of evil by the power of love. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love mainly because I grew up in a family where love was central and where lovely relationships were ever present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I too am compelled to carry the gospel of freedom beyond my particular hometown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Like Paul, I must constantly respond to the Macedonian call for aid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We had no alternative except that of preparing for direct action, whereby we would present our very bodies as a means of laying our case before the conscience of the local and national community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There is a more excellent way, of love and nonviolent protest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I am thankful, however, that some of our white brothers have grasped the meaning of this social revolution and committed themselves to it. They are still all too small in quantity, but they are big in quality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I have DECIDED to love. If you are seeking the highest good, I think you can find it through love. GOD is love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There is something in this universe that justifies the biblical writer in saying, \"You shall reap what you sow.\" This is a law-abiding universe. This is a moral universe. It hinges on moral foundations. If we are to make of this a better world, we've got to go back and rediscover that precious value that we've left behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Darwinian concept of the survival of the fittest has been substituted by a philosophy of the survival of the slickest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: One day we shall win freedom, but not only for ourselves. We shall so appeal to your heart and conscience that we shall win you in the process, and our victory will be a double victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Power properly understood is nothing but the ability to achieve purpose. It is the strength required to bring about social, political and economic change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lives a great street-sweeper who did his job well'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Make a career of humanity. Commit yourself to the struggle for equal rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Unarmed love is the most powerful force in all the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I have a dream that one day even the state of Mississippi, a desert state, sweltering with the heat of injustice and oppression, will be transformed into an oasis of freedom and justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Most of these people will never make the headlines and their names will not appear in Who's Who. Yet when years have rolled past and when the blazing light of truth is focused on this marvelous age in which we live - men and women will know and children will be taught that we have a finer land, a better people, a more noble civilization - because these humble children of God were willing to suffer for righteousness' sake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A second way that oppressed people sometimes deal with oppression is to resort to physical violence and corroding hatred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If we get setbacks and if something happens where the Civil Rights Bill is watered down, for instance, if the Negro feels that he can do nothing but move from one ghetto to another and one slum to another, the despair and the disappointment will be so great that it will be very difficult to keep the struggle disciplined and nonviolent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: For all of us today, the battle is in our hands. The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways to lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions. We must keep going."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The unemployed, poverty-stricken white man must be made to realize that he is in the very same boat with the Negro. Together, they could exert massive pressure on the government to get jobs for all. Together, they could form a grand alliance. Together, they could merge all people for the good of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and for justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Set yourself earnestly to discover what you are made to do, and then give yourself passionately to the doing of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I am not afraid of the word tension."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Religion operates not only on the vertical plane but also on the horizontal. It seeks not only to integrate men with God but to integrate men with men and each man with himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers. To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me, to that extent I am harming myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We know of no more crucial civil rights issue facing Congress today than the need to increase the federal minimum wage and extend its coverage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It is not only poverty that torments the Negro; it is the fact of poverty amid plenty. It is a misery generated by the gulf between the affluence he sees in the mass media and the deprivation he experiences in his everyday life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of thermonuclear destruction... I believe that even amid today's mortar bursts and whining bullets, there is still hope for a brighter tomorrow... I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If I sought to answer all of the criticisms that cross my desk, my secretaries would be engaged in little else in the course of the day, and I would have no time for constructive work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There may have been a time when war served as a negative good by preventing the spread and growth of an evil force, but the destructive power of modern weapons eliminates even the possibility that war may serve as a negative good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I am cognizant of the interrelatedness of all communities and states. I cannot sit idly by in Atlanta and not be concerned about what happens in Birmingham. Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly. Never again can we afford to live with the narrow, provincial \"outside agitator\" idea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind's problems. And I'm going to talk about it everywhere I go. I know it isn't popular to talk about it in some circles today. I'm not talking about emotional bosh when I talk about love, I'm talking about a strong, demanding love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater. [...] when you start hating anybody, it destroys the very center of your creative response to life and the universe; so love everybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: What the Negro wants - and will not stop until he gets - is absolute and unqualified freedom and equality here in this land of his birth, and not in Africa or in some imaginary state. The Negro no longer will be tolerant of anything less than his due right and heritage. He is pursuing only that which he knows is honorably his. He knows that he is right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I had a very depressing response because I realized that these were my own people, these were Negroes throwing eggs at me. I'm concerned about the fact that maybe all of us have contributed to this by not working harder to get rid of the conditions, the poverty, the social isolation, and all of the conditions that cause individuals to respond like this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Our destiny is tied up with the destiny of America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: [People] don't see that there's a great deal of a difference between nonresistance to evil and nonviolent resistance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: As television beamed the image of this extraordinary gathering across the border oceans, everyone who believed in man's capacity to better himself had a moment of inspiration and confidence in the future of the human race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It is a sad fact that because of comfort, complacency, a morbid fear of communism, and our proneness to adjust to injustice, the Western nations that initiated so much of the revolutionary spirit of the modern world have now become the arch-antirevolutionaries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: You are resisting, but you've come to see that tactically as well as morally, it is better to be nonviolent.If one would, didn't want to deal with the moral questions, it would just be impractical for the Negro to talk about making his struggle a violent one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It's very easy for one talking about violence and hatred for the white man to appeal to [Negro from ghetto]. I have never thought of this, but I think this is quite true, that if, even if you talk to them about nonviolence from a tactical point of view, they can't quite see it because they don't even know they're outnumbered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I think a revolution can survive without single centralized leadership."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I feel that when a white child goes to school only with white children, unconsciously that child grows up in many instances devoid of a world perspective. There is an unconscious provincialism, and it can develop into an unconscious superiority complex just as a Negro develops an unconscious inferiority complex."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: To put it in the terms of St. Thomas Aquinas: An unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal law and natural law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A final victory is an accumulation of many short-term encounters. To lightly dismiss a success because it does not usher in a complete order of justice is to fail to comprehend the process of achieving full victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Courageous men never lose the zest for living even though their life situation is zestless; cowardly men, overwhelmed by the uncertainties of life, lose the will to live. We must constantly build dykes of courage to hold back the flood of fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Far from being disturbed by the presence of the church, the power structure of the average community is consoled by the church's often vocal sanction of things as they are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We've been in the mountain of war. We've been in the mountain of violence. We've been in the mountain of hatred long enough. It is necessary to move on now, but only by moving out of this mountain can we move to the promised land of justice and brotherhood and the Kingdom of God. It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A law is unjust if it is inflicted on a minority that, as a result of being denied the right to vote, had no part in enacting or devising the law. Who can say that the legislature of Alabama which set up the state's segregation laws was democratically elected?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We come humbly to say to the men in the forefront of our government that the civil rights issue is not an Ephemeral, evanescent domestic issue that can be kicked about by reactionary guardians of the status quo; it is rather an eternal moral issue which may well determine the destiny of our nation in the ideological struggle with communism. The hour is late. The clock of destiny is ticking out. We must act now, before it is too late."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The end of life is not to be happy, nor to achieve pleasure and avoid pain, but to do the will of God, come what may."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The idea of a superior or inferior race is a myth that has been completely refuted by anthropological evidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A time comes when silence is betrayal. That time has come for us in relation to Vietnam. A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift, is approaching spiritual death.I knew that America would never invest the necessary funds or energies in rehabilitation of its poor so long as adventures like Vietnam continued to draw men and skills and money like some demonic destructive suction tube. So I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Education without morals is like a ship without a compass, merely wandering nowhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Another way that you love your enemy is this: When the opportunity presents itself for you to defeat your enemy, that is the time which you must not do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: World hinges on moral foundations. God has made it so! God has made the universe to be based on a moral law. So long as man disobeys it he is revolting against God. That\u2019s what we need in the world today - people who will stand for right and goodness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Let us therefore continue our triumphal march to the realization of the American dream... for all of us today, the battle is in our hands... The road ahead is not altogether a smooth one. There are no broad highways that lead us easily and inevitably to quick solutions... We are still in for the season of suffering... How long? Not long. Because no lie can live forever... our God is marching on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A true revolution of values will see that the western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: [Nonviolence] is directed against forces of evil rather than against persons who happen to be doing the evil. It is evil that the nonviolent resister seeks to defeat, not the persons victimized by evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: This Revolution is genuine because it was born from the same womb that always gives birth to massive social upheavals - the womb of intolerable conditions and unendurable situations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I have consistently preached that nonviolence demands that the means we use must be as pure as the ends we seek."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Right defeated is stronger than evil triumphant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It all boils down to this: that all life is interrelated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Racial segregation must be seen for what it is, and that is an evil system, a new form of slavery covered up with certain niceties of complexity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The marvelous new militancy which has engulfed the Negro community must not lead us to a distrust of all white people, for many of our white brothers, as evidenced by their presence here today, have come to realize that their destiny is tied up with our destiny and their freedom is inextricably bound to our freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Cowardice is submissive surrender to circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Let us not wallow in the valley of despair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must dispel the negative and harmful atmosphere that has been created by avaricious and unprincipled realtors who engage in \"blockbusting.\" If we had in America really serious efforts to break down discrimination in housing, and at the same time a concerted program of government aid to improve housing for Negroes, I think that many white people would be surprised at how many Negroes would choose to live among themselves, exactly as Poles and Jews and other ethnic groups do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: White Americans must be made to understand the basic motives underlying Negro demonstrations. Many pent-up resentments and latent frustrations are boiling inside the Negro, and he must release them. It is not a threat but a fact of history that if an oppressed people's pent-up emotions are not nonviolently released, they will be violently released."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If I were constantly worried about death, I couldn't function. After a while, if your life is more or less constantly in peril, you come to a point where you accept the possibility philosophically."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Whatever my doubts, however heavy the burden, I feel that I must accept the task of helping to make this nation and this world a better place to live in - for all men, black and white alike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I don't think you can be in public life without being called bad names."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Cowardice asks the question, is it safe?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must substitute courage for caution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I do think there must be centralized leadership in the sense that, say, in our struggle all of the leaders coordinate their efforts, cooperate and, and at least evince a degree of unity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: They were too God-intoxicated to be \"astronomically intimidated.\" They brought an end to such ancient evils as infanticide and gladiatorial contest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Lightning makes no sound until it strikes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We did not hesitate to call our movement an army. But it was a special army, with no supplies but its sincerity, no uniform but its determination, no arsenal except its faith, no currency but its conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must pursue peaceful end through peaceful means."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The principle of nonviolent resistance seeks to reconcile the truths of two opposites-Acquiescence and violence -while avoiding the extremes and immoralities of both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: You know, my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled over by the iron feet of oppression. There comes a time, my friends, when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, where they experience the bleakness of nagging despair. There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life\u2019s July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Hate destroys the hater."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: This faith transforms the whirlwind of despair into a warm and reviving breeze of hope. The words of a motto which a generation ago were commonly found on the wall in the homes of devout persons need to be etched on our hearts: Fear knocked at the door. Faith answered. There was no one there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence, and toughness multiplies toughness in a descending spiral of destruction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In order to love your enemies, you must begin by analyzing self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The whirlwinds of revolt will continue to shake the foundations of our nation until the bright day of justice emerges."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I must face the fact, as all others in positions of leadership must do, that America today is an extremely sick nation, and that something could well happen to me at any time. I feel, though, that my cause is so right, so moral, that if I should lose my life, in some way it would aid the cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: America, you must be born again!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We ain't goin' study war no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I cannot forget that the Nobel Prize for Peace was also a commission - a commission to work harder than I had ever worked before for \"the brotherhood of man\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I say to you that our goal is freedom, and I believe we are going to get there because however much she strays away from it, the goal of America is freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In every age and every generation, men have envisioned a promised land. Some may have envisioned it with the wrong ideology, with the wrong philosophical presupposition. But men in every generation thought in terms of some promised land."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Never before have I written so long a letter. I'm afraid it is much too long to take your precious time. I can assure you that it would have been much shorter if I had been writing from a comfortable desk, but what else can one do when he is alone in a narrow jail cell, other than write long letters, think long thoughts, and pray long prayers?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There may be a conflict between softminded religionists and toughminded scientists, but not between science and religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Love is creative, understanding goodwill for all men. It is the refusal to defeat any individual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Make your way to death row and speak with the tragic victims of criminality. As they prepare to make their pathetic walk to the electric chair, their hopeless cry is that society will not forgive. Capital punishment is society's final assertion that it will not forgive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We are called upon to help the discouraged beggars in life's marketplace. But one day we must come to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: A man can't ride your back unless it's bent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Our nettlesome task is to discover how to organize our strength into compelling power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We aren't engaged in any negative protest and in any negative arguments with anybody. We are saying that we are determined to be men. We are determined to be people. We are saying that we are God's children. And that we don't have to live like we are forced to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Evil must be attacked by. . . the day to day assault of the battering rams of justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In the current struggle, there is one positive course of action. There is no alternative, for the alternative would connote a rear march."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In this Revolution, no plans have been written for retreat. Those who will not get into step will find that the parade has passed them by."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In this world is a God whose matchless strength is a fit contrast to the sordid weakness of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nonviolent resistance makes it possible for the Negro to remain in the South and struggle for his rights. The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I just want to be there in love and in justice and in truth and in commitment to others, so that we can make of this old world a new world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Personalism's insistence that only personality-finite and infinite-is ultimately real strengthened me in two convictions: it gave me metaphysical and philosophical grounding for the idea of a personal God, and it gave me a metaphysical basis for the dignity and worth of all human personality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I knew that I could never again raise my voice against the violence of the oppressed in the ghettos without having first spoken clearly to the greatest purveyor of violence in the world today - my own government.... There is something strangely inconsistent about a nation and a press that would praise you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward Jim Clark,' but will curse and damn you when you say, 'Be nonviolent toward little brown Vietnamese children!' There is something wrong with that press."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Perhaps...the nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In a real sense faith is total surrender to God ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Personality is like a charioteer with two headstrong horses, each wanting to go in different directions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Hate destroys the very structure of the personality of the hater."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In the struggle for human rights and justice, Negros will make a mistake if they become bitter and indulge in hate campaigns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Let us be practical and ask the question: How do we love our enemies?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There is something wrong with our world, something fundamentally and basically wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must follow nonviolence and love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Rioting is not revolutionary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check, but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We cannot walk alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: My friends, I must say to you that we have not made a single gain in civil rights without determined legal and nonviolent pressure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We must come to see with the distinguished jurist of yesterday that \"justice too long delayed is justice denied.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The nations of Asia and Africa are moving with jetlike speed toward the goal of political independence, and we still creep at horse-and-buggy pace toward the gaining of a cup of coffee at a lunch counter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If I lived in a Communist country today where certain principles dear to the Christian faith are suppressed, I believe I would openly advocate disobeying these anti-religious laws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The contemporary church is so often a weak, ineffectual voice with an uncertain sound. It is so often the arch supporter of the status quo."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: For more than two centuries our foreparents labored here without wages; they made cotton king; and they built the homes of their masters in the midst of brutal injustice and shameful humiliation - and yet out of a bottomless vitality our people continue to thrive and develop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The oppressed must never allow the conscience of the oppressor to slumber. Religion reminds every man that he is his brother's keeper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nonviolence is an imperative in order to bring about ultimate community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The negro cannot win the respect of the white people of the south or the peoples of the world if he is willing to sell the future of his children for his personal and immediate comfort and safety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Violence often brings about momentary results."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Negro cannot win the respect of his oppressor by acquiescing; he merely increases the oppressor's arrogance and contempt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Through nonviolent resistance the Negro will be able to rise to the noble height of opposing the unjust system while loving the perpetrators of the system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Violence is not the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If the Negro is to achieve the goal of integration, he must organize himself into a militant and nonviolent mass movement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The Negro's problem will not be solved by running away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: By nonviolent resistance, the Negro can also enlist all men of good will in his struggle for equality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: So when Jesus says \"Love your enemies,\" he is setting forth a profound and ultimately inescapable admonition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The ultimate solution to the race problem lies in the willingness of men to obey the unenforceable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Those of us who love peace must organize as effectively as the war hawks. As they spread the propaganda of war, we must spread the propaganda of peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Every word and deed must contribute to an understanding with the enemy and release those vast reservoirs of goodwill which have been blocked by impenetrable walls of hate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: True sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It is my hope that as the Negro plunges deeper into the quest for freedom and justice he will plunge even deeper into the philosophy of non-violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We have waited for more than three hundred and forty years for our constitutional and God-given rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: So let freedom ring from the prodigious hilltops of New Hampshire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The sweltering summer of the Negro's legitimate discontent will not pass until there is an invigorating autumn of freedom and equality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam. It can never be saved so long as it destroys the hopes of men the world over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The sooner our society admits that the Negro Revolution is no momentary outburst soon to subside into placid passivity, the easier the future will be for us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We as Christians have a mandate to be nonconformists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: And see ominous clouds of inferiority beginning to form in her little mental sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: What is more tragic than to see a person who has risen to the disciplined heights of tough-mindedness but has at the same time sunk to the passionless depths of hard-heartedness?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Lord help me to see M. L. King as M. L. King in his true perspective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Returning hate for hate multiplies hate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In Christ there is no East nor West."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I could never adjust to the separate waiting rooms, separate eating places, separate rest rooms, partly because the separate was always unequal, and partly because the very idea of separation did something to my sense of dignity and self-respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The great issue of life is to harness the drum major instinct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The end of violence or the aftermath of violence is bitterness. The aftermath of nonviolence is reconciliation and the creation of a beloved community. A boycott is never an end within itself. It is merely a means to awaken a sense of shame within the oppressor but the end is reconciliation, the end is redemption."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We cannot be truly Christian people so long as we flaunt the central teachings of Jesus: brotherly love and the Golden Rule."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Our eternal message of hope is that dawn will come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: It all boils down to the fact that we must never allow ourselves to become satisfied with unattained goals. We must always maintain a kind of divine discontent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Somehow this madness must cease. We must stop now. I speak as a child of God and brother to the suffering poor of Vietnam. I speak for those whose land is being laid waste, whose homes are being destroyed, whose culture is being subverted. I speak for the poor in America who are paying the double price of smashed hopes at home and death and corruption in Vietnam. I speak as a citizen of the world, for the world as it stands aghast at the path we have taken. I speak as an American to the leaders of my own nation. The great initiative in this war is ours. The initiative to stop it must be ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: When I am commanded to love, I am commanded to restore community, to resist injustice, and to meet the needs of my brothers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: The majority of the Negroes who took part in the year-long boycott of Montgomery's buses were poor and untutored; but they understood the essence of the Montgomery movement; one elderly woman summed it up for the rest. When asked after several weeks of walking whether she was tired, she answered: \"My feet is tired, but my soul is at rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: As I like to say to the people in Montgomery: \"The tension in this city is not between white people and Negro people. The tension is, at bottom, between justice and injustice, between the forces of light and the forces of darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Will we march only to the music of time, or will we, risking criticism and abuse, march to the soul-saving music of eternity?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: In the final analysis the weakness of Black Power is its failure to see that the black man needs the white man and the white man needs the black man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We were taking the black young men who had been crippled by our society and sending them eight thousand miles away to guarantee liberties in Southeast Asia which they had not found in southwest Georgia and East Harlem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: As a teenager I had never been able to accept the fact of having to go to the back of a bus or sit in the segregated section of a train. The first time I had been seated behind a curtain in a dining car, I felt as if the curtain had been dropped on my selfhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Unfortunately, most of the major denominations still practice segregation in local churches, hospitals, schools, and other church institutions. It is appalling that the most segregated hour of Christian America is eleven o'clock on Sunday morning, the same hour when many are standing to sing: \"In Christ There Is No East Nor West."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Millions of citizens are deeply disturbed that the military-industrial complex too often shapes national policy, but they do not want to be considered unpatriotic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Let us say boldly, that if the total slum violations of law by the white man over the years were calculated and compared with the lawbreaking of a few days of riots, the hardened criminal would be the white man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I still believe that one day mankind will bow before the altars of God and be crowned triumphant over war and bloodshed, and nonviolent redemptive goodwill will proclaim the rule of the land."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We were not unmindful of the difficulties involved. So we decided to go through a process of self-purification."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic withdrawal program would be the by-product of direct action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nonviolent direct action seeks to create such a crisis and establish such creative tension that a community that has consistently refused to negotiate is forced to confront the issue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political moral questions of our time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Jesus recognized that love is greater than like."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has given me words of consolation when I needed them and a well-ordered home where #Christian love is a reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There is a magnificent new militancy within the Negro community all across this nation. And I welcome this as a marvelous development. The Negro of America is saying he's determined to be free and he is militant enough to stand up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: \u201cLove your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.\u201d"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Violence ends up defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Jesus reminds us that the good life combines the toughness of the serpent and the tenderness of the dove. To have serpent-like qualities devoid of dovelike qualities is to be passionless, mean, and selfish. To have dovelike without serpent-like qualities is to be sentimental, anemic and aimless. We must combine strongly marked antitheses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Some things are right, whether nobody sees you doing them or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: [Malcolm X] had said a great deal about nonviolence, criticizing nonviolence, and saying that I approved of Negro men and women being bitten by dogs and the fire hoses, and I say, say go on and not defend yourself. I think this kind of response grew out of the build up, all of the talk about my being a sort of polished Uncle Tom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Many people in Harlem never go out of Harlem. I mean they'd never even been downtown. And you can see how this bitterness can accumulate. Here you see people crowded and hovered up in ghettos and slums with no hope.They see no way out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I think that we've got to come to see this. The Negro is an American."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I'm thinking of love in action and not something where you say, \"Love your enemies,\" and just leave it at that, but you love your enemies to the point that you're willing to sit-in at a lunch counter in order to help them find themselves. You're willing to go to jail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I imagine you already know that I am much more socialistic in my economic theory than capitalistic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: Capitalism started out with a noble and high motive, but like most human systems it fell victim to the very thing it was revolting against."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: There is no truth to the myth that Negroes depreciate property. The fact is that most Negroes are kept out of residential neighborhoods so long that when one of us is finally sold a home, it's already depreciated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I feel that the time is always right to do what is right. Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned, there is a tragic misconception of time among whites. They seem to cherish a strange, irrational notion that something in the very flow of time will cure all ills."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I never cease to wonder at the amazing presumption of much of white society, assuming that they have the right to bargain with the Negro for his freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther King, Jr.: I've always tried to be what I call militantly nonviolent. I don't believe that anyone could seriously accuse me of not being totally committed to the breakdown of segregation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Six hours' sleep for a man, seven for a woman, and eight for a fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Victory belongs to the most persevering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: History is a set of lies agreed upon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Impatience is a great obstacle to success; he who treats everything with brusqueness gathers nothing, or only immature fruit which will never ripen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The fool has one great advantage over a man of sense; he is always satisfied with himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Adversity is the midwife of genius"
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The best way to keep one's word is not to give it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: I fear three newspapers more than a hundred thousand bayonets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A true man hates no one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The greatest general is he who makes the fewest mistakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The Mohammedan religion is the finest of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A leader is a dealer in hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Imagination rules the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The most dangerous moment comes with victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Leave the Artillerymen alone, they are an obstinate lot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: One must learn to forgive and not to hold a hostile, bitter attitude of mind, which offends those about us and prevents us from enjoying ourselves. One must recognize human shortcomings and adjust himself to them rather than to be constantly finding fault with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: There is no place in a fanatic's head where reason can enter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A Government protected by foreigners will never be accepted by a free people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Ability is noting without opportunity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Lead the ideas of your time and they will accompany and support you; fall behind them and they drag you along with them; oppose them and they will overwhelm you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: To be believed make the truth unbelievable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: It is only by prudence, wisdom, and dexterity that great ends are attained and obstacles overcome. Without these qualities nothing succeeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Medicine is a collection of uncertain prescriptions, the results of which, taken collectively, are more fatal than useful to mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: One is more certain to influence men, to produce more effect on them, by absurdities than by sensible ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The superior man is never in anyone's way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Success is the most convincing talker in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The secret of great battles consists in knowing how to deploy and concentrate at the right time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: In order to govern, the question is not to follow out a more or less valid theory but to build with whatever materials are at hand. The inevitable must be accepted and turned to advantage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The truest wisdom is a resolute determination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: It is a mistake, too, to say that the face is the mirror of the soul. The truth is, men are very hard to know, and yet, not to be deceived, we must judge them by their present actions, but for the present only."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The Turks can be killed, but they can never be conquered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Women are nothing but machines for producing children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The greater the man, the less is he opinionative, he depends upon events and circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Men are moved by two levers only: fear and self interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: In my youth I, too, entertained some illusions; but I soon recovered from them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A good sketch is better than a long speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: There is a joy in danger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The most desirable quality in a soldier is constancy in the support of fatigue; valor is only secondary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A general must be a charlatan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A man becomes the creature of his uniform."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A man who has no consideration for the needs of his men ought never to be given command."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Who saves his country violates no law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: There is only one favorable moment in war; talent consists in knowing how to seize it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The torment of precautions often exceeds the dangers to be avoided. It is sometimes better to abandon one's self to destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A revolution is an idea which has found its bayonets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: One can lead a nation only by helping it see a bright outlook. A leader is a dealer in hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Public opinion is the thermometer a monarch should constantly consult."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Knowledge and history are the enemies of religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: To do all that one is able to do, is to be a man; to do all that one would like to do, is to be a god."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: When you have an enemy in your power, deprive him of the means of ever injuring you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: It is an approved maxim in war, never to do what the enemy wishes you to do, for this reason alone, that he desires it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: In revolution there are only two sorts of men, those who cause them and those who profit by them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: All systems of morality are fine. The gospel alone has exhibited a complete assemblage of the principles of morality, divested of all absurdity. It is not composed, like your creed, of a few common-place sentences put into bad verse. Do you wish to see that which is really sublime? Repeat the Lord's Prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The Bible is no mere book, but a Living Creature, with a power that conquers all that oppose it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: More glorious to merit a sceptre than to possess one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Among so many conflicting ideas and so many different perspectives, the honest man is confused and distressed and the skeptic becomes wicked ... Since one must take sides, one might as well choose the side that is victorious, the side which devastates, loots, and burns. Considering the alternative, it is better to eat than to be eaten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Unhappy the general who comes on the field of battle with a system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: In order not to be astonished at obtaining victories, one ought not to think only of defeats."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Put a rogue in the limelight and he will act like an honest man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Destiny urges me to a goal of which I am ignorant. Until that goal is attained I am invulnerable, unassailable. When Destiny has accomplished her purpose in me, a fly may suffice to destroy me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Ordinarily men exercise their memory much more than their judgment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Man loves the marvelous. It has an irresistible charm for him. He is always ready to leave that with which he is familiar to pursue vain inventions. He lends himself to his own deception."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Nothing is so contrary to military rules as to make the strength of your army known, either in the orders of the day, in proclamations, or in the newspapers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Ability is nothing without opportunity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Those who are free from common prejudices acquire others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The tools belong to the man who can use them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A commander in chief ought to say to himself several times a day: If the enemy should appear on my front, on my right, on my left, what would I do? And if the question finds him uncertain, he is not well placed, he is not as he should be, and he should remedy it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A people which is able to say everything becomes able to do everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: If the Earth were a single state, Istanbul would be its capital."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: True character stands the test of emergencies. Do not be mistaken, it is weakness from which the awakening is rude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The human race is governed by its imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: An army marches on its stomach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Providence is always on the side of the last reserve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Courage cannot be counterfeited. It is one virtue that escapes hypocrisy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Whatever shall we do in that remote spot? Well, we will write our memoirs. Work is the scythe of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The bullet that will kill me is not yet cast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Malice delights to blacken the characters of prominent men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: True heroism consists in rising superior to misfortune."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: In a battle, as in a siege, the art consists in concentrating very heavy fire on a particular point. The line of battle once established, the one who has the ability to concentrate an unlooked for mass of artillery suddenly and unexpectedly on one of these points is sure to carry the day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: It is only with prudence, sagacity, and much dexterity that great aims are accomplished, and all obstacles surmounted. Otherwise nothing is accomplished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The transition from the defensive to the offensive is one of the most delicate operations in war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: If the art of war were nothing but the art of avoiding risks, glory would become the prey of mediocre minds.... I have made all the calculations; fate will do the rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: What are the conditions that make for the superiority of an army? Its internal organization, military habits in officers and men, the confidence of each in themselves; that is to say, bravery, patience, and all that is contained in the idea of moral means."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Orders and decorations are necessary in order to dazzle the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Never depend on the multitude, full of instability and whims; always take precautions against it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A prince should suspect everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: In the eyes of empire builders men are not men but instruments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: I want the whole of Europe to have one currency; it will make trading much easier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Collective crimes incriminate no one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: If they want peace, nations should avoid the pin-pricks that precede cannon shots."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Let France have good mothers, and she will have good sons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Ordinary men died, men of iron were taken prisoner: I only brought back with me men of bronze."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: In war one must lean on an obstacle in order to overcome it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: All generals, officers, and soldiers who capitulate in battle to save their own lives should be decimated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: England is a nation of shopkeepers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Occupation is the scythe of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Life is strewn with so many dangers, and can be the source of so many misfortunes, that death is not the greatest of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Never lose sight of this maxim, that you should establish your cantonments at the most distant and best protected point from the enemy, especially where a surprise is possible. By this means you will have time to unite all your forces before he can attack you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Large legislative bodies resolve themselves into coteries, and coteries into jealousies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A Constitution should be short and obscure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: How many seemingly impossible things have been accomplished by resolute men because they had to do, or die?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The most difficult art is not in the choice of men, but in giving to the men chosen the highest service of which they are capable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Men have their virtues and their vices, their heroisms and their perversities; men are neither wholly good nor wholly bad, but possess and practice all that there is of good and bad here below. Such is the general rule. Temperament, education, the accidents of life, are modifying factors. Outside of this, everything is ordered arrangement, everything is chance. Such has been my rule of expectation and it has usually brought me success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them. It did me little good to be holding the helm; no matter how strong my hands, the sudden and numerous waves were stronger still, and I was wise enough to yield to them rather than resist them obstinately and make the ship founder. Thus I never was truly my own master but was always ruled by circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Our credulity is a part of the imperfection of our natures. It is inherent in us to desire to generalize, when we ought, on the contrary, to guard ourselves very carefully from this tendency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: War is a serious game in which a man risks his reputation, his troops, and his country. A sensible man will search himself to know whether or not he is fitted for the trade."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: It is the business of cavalry to follow up the victory, and to prevent the beaten army from rallying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: If I were an Englishman, I should esteem the man who advised a war with China to be the greatest living enemy of my country. You would be beaten in the end, and perhaps a revolution in India would follow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: What is the government? Nothing, unless supported by opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: I can no longer obey; I have tasted command, and I cannot give it up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: What is a throne? - a bit of wood gilded and covered in velvet. I am the state- I alone am here the representative of the people. Even if I had done wrong you should not have reproached me in public - people wash their dirty linen at home. France has more need of me than I of France."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The life of a citizen is the property of his country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The bed has become a place of luxury to me! I would not exchange it for all the thrones in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Laws which are consistent in theory often prove chaotic in practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: In war, three-quarters turns on personal character and relations; the balance of manpower and materials counts only for the remaining quarter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Necessity dominates inclination, will, and right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: People take England on trust, and repeat that Shakespeare is the greatest of all authors. I have read him: there is nothing that compares Racine or Corneille: his plays are unreadable, pitiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Conquest has made me what I am, only conquest can maintain me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Our hour is marked, and no one can claim a moment of life beyond what fate has predestined."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The merit of Mahomet is that he founded a religion without an inferno."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Christ alone has succeeded in so raising the mind of man toward the unseen, that it becomes insensible to the barriers of time and space."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Unite for the public safety, if you would remain an independent nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: As a rule it is circumstances that make men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: In order that a people may be free, it is necessary that the governed be sages, and those who govern, gods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: If I had not been defeated in Acre against Jezzar Pasha of Turk. I would conquer all of the East."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: To listen to the interests of all marks an ordinary government; to foresee them marks a great government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The sentiment of national honor is never more than half extinguished in the French. It takes only a spark to re-kindle it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The great art of governing consists in not letting men grow old in their jobs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: You cannot treat with all the world at once."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Treaties are observed as long as they are in harmony with interests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: I do not believe it is in our nature to love impartially. We deceive ourselves when we think we can love two beings, even our own children, equally. There is always a dominant affection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: There are so many laws that no one is safe from hanging."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: It is the success which makes great men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Religions are all founded on miracles - on things we cannot understand, such as the Trinity. Jesus calls himself the Son of God, and yet is descended from David. I prefer the religion of Mahomet - it is less ridiculous than ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Go Sir, gallop and don't forget that the world was made in six days. You can ask me for anything but not time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: If obedience is the result of the instinct of the masses, revolt is the result of their thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Morality has nothing to do with such a man as I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The barbarous custom of having men beaten who are suspected of having important secrets to reveal must be abolished. It has always been recognized that this way of interrogating men, by putting them to torture, produces nothing worthwhile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: He who cannot look over a battlefield with a dry eye, causes the death of many men uselessly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Every man who is worth thirty millions and is not wedded to them, is dangerous to the government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: It is not necessary to prohibit or encourage oddities of conduct which are not harmful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Democracy may become frenzied, but it has feelings and can be moved. As for aristocracy, it is always cold and never forgives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A King should sacrifice the best affections of his heart for the good of his country; no sacrifice should be above his determination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: It must be recognized that the real truths of history are hard to discover. Happily, for the most part, they are rather matters of curiosity than of real importance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The nature of Christ is, I grant it, from one end to another, a web of mysteries; but this mysteriousness does not correspond to the difficulties which all existence contains. Let it be rejected, and the whole world is an enigma; let it be accepted, and we possess a wonderful explanation of the history of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: From triumph to downfall is but a step. I have seen a trifle decide the most important issues in the gravest affairs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The populace judges of the power of God by the power of the priests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A throne is only a bench covered with velvet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: We frustrate many designs against us by pretending not to see them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Wherever wood can swim, there I am sure to find this flag of England."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Obedience to public authority ought not to be based either on ignorance or stupidity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The division of labor, which has brought such perfection in mechanical industries, is altogether fatal when applied to productions of the mind. All work of the mind is superior in\nproportion as the mind that produces it is universal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: My waking thoughts are all of thee. Your portrait and the remembrance of last night's delirium have robbed my senses of repose. Sweet and incomparable Josephine, what an extraordinary influence you have over my heart. Are you vexed? Do I see you sad? Are you ill at ease? My soul is broken with grief, and there is no rest for your lover."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Give me a man with a good allowance of nose,... when I want any good head-work done I choose a man - provided his education has been suitable - with a long nose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The heart of a statesman should be in his head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: It is rare that a legislature reasons. It is too quickly impassioned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: If you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Surely in a matter of this kind we should endeavor to do something, that we may say that we have not lived in vain, that we may leave some impress of ourselves on the sands of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The Allied Powers having proclaimed that the Emperor Napoleon is the sole obstacle to the re-establishment of peace in Europe, he, faithful to his oath, declares that he is ready to descend from the throne, to quit France, and even to relinquish life, for the good of his country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Across a chasm of eighteen hundred years, Jesus Christ makes a demand which is beyond all others difficult to satisfy; He asks for that which a philosopher may often seek in vain at the hands of his friends, or a father of his children, or a bride of her spouse, or a man of his brother. He asks for the human heart; He will have it entirely to Himself. He demands it unconditionally; and forthwith His demand is granted. Wonderful!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Where flowers degenerate man cannot live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Kiss the feet of Popes provided their hands are tied."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Rigorous authority and justice are the kindness of kings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Posterity alone rightly judges kings. Posterity alone has the right to accord or withhold honors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The great difficulty with politics is, that there are no established principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Send me 300 francs; that sum will enable me to go to Paris. There, at least, one can cut a figure and surmount obstacles. Everything tells me I shall succeed. Will you prevent me from doing so for the want of 100 crowns?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: When you have resolved to fight a battle, collect your whole force. Dispense with nothing. A single battalion sometimes decides the day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A king is sometimes obliged to commit crimes; but they are the crimes of his position."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Every means should be taken to attach the soldier to his colours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: France is invaded; I am leaving to take command of my troops, and, with God's help and their valor, I hope soon to drive the enemy beyond the frontier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: I generally had to give in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Soldiers! Forty centuries behold you!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Ability is of little account without opportunity. I have very rarely met with two o'clock in the morning courage: I mean instantaneous courage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: In war, character and opinion make more than half of the reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Parties weaken themselves by their fear of capable men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: In war, groping tactics, half-way measures, lose everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The laws of circumstance are abolished by new circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: This year has begun hopefully for right thinkers. After all these centuries of feudal barbarism and political slavery, it is surprising to see how the word of 'liberty' sets minds on fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Power is founded upon opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Music, of all the liberal arts, has the greatest influence over the passions, and it is that to which the legislator ought to give the greatest encouragement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: In politics nothing is immutable. Events carry within them an invincible power. The unwise destroy themselves in resistance. The skillful accept events, take strong hold of them and direct them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Imagination governs the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: When you determine to risk a battle, reserve to yourself every possible chance of success, more particularly if you have to deal with an adversary of superior talent, for if you are beaten, even in the midst of your magazines and your communications, woe to the vanquished!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: When a man is a favorite of Fortune she never takes him unawares, and, however astonishing her favors may be, she finds him ready."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: In statesmanship there are predicaments from which it is impossible to escape without some wrongdoing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The word impossible is not French."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: It is not set speeches at the moment of battle that render soldiers brave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The true policy of government is to make use of aristocracy, but under the forms and in the spirit of democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Fanaticism must be put to sleep before it can be eradicated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: France will always be a great nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A cowardly act! What do I care about that? You may be sure that I should never fear to commit one if it were to my advantage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: The French complain of everything, and always."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: What I have done up to this is nothing. I am only at the beginning of the course I must run. Do you imagine that I triumph in Italy in order to aggrandise the pack of lawyers who form the Directory, and men like Carnot and Barras? What an idea!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Immortality is the best recollection one leaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: We are made weak both by idleness and distrust of ourselves. Unfortunate, indeed, is he who suffers from both. If he is a mere individual he becomes nothing; if he is a king he is lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: War is a lottery in which nations ought to risk nothing but small amounts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: I am a monarch of God's creation, and you reptiles of the earth dare not oppose me. I render an account of my government to none save God and Jesus Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Many a one commits a reprehensible action, who is at bottom an honourable man, because man seldom acts upon natural impulse, but from some secret passion of the moment which lies hidden and concealed within the narrowest folds of his heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A book in which there were no lies would be a curiosity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Policemen and prisons ought never to be the means used to bring men back to the practice of religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Diplomacy is the police in grand costume."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: From the heights of these pyramids, forty centuries look down on us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Sometimes a great example is necessary to all the public functionaries of the state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Audacity succeeds as often as it fails; in life it has an even chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: One must indeed be ignorant of the methods of genius to suppose that it allows itself to be cramped by forms. Forms are for mediocrity, and it is fortunate that mediocrity can act only according to routine. Ability takes its flight unhindered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Keep a good table and attend to the ladies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Hereditary succession to the magistracy is absurd, as it tends to make a property of it; it is incompatible with the sovereignty of the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A constitution should be framed so as not to impede the action of government, nor force the government to its violation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A form of government that is not the result of a long sequence of shared experiences, efforts, and endeavors can never take root."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest. All great revolutions originate in fear, for the play of interests does not lead to accomplishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Sire, I am my own Rudolph of Hapsburg."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: I may have had many projects, but I never was free to carry out any of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A great reserve and severity of manners are necessary for the command of those who are older than ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: A victorious general must know how to employ severity, justness, and mildness by turns, if he would allay sedition or prevent it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: You cannot drag a man's conscience before any tribunal, and no one is answerable for his religious opinions to any power on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Muhammad was a great man, an intrepid soldier; with a handful of men he triumphed at the battle of Bender (sic); a great captain, eloquent, a great man of state, he revived his fatherland and created a new people and a new power in the middle of Arabia."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Posterity will talk of Washington as the founder of a great empire, when my name shall be lost in the vortex of revolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: It is often in the audacity, in the steadfastness, of the general that the safety and the conservation of his men is found."
  },
  {
    "text": "Napoleon Bonaparte: Each state claims the right to control interests foreign to itself when those interests are such that it can control them without putting its own interests in danger. ... other powers only recognize this right of intervening in proportion as the country doing it has the power to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There can be no greater gift than that of giving one\u2019s time and energy to help others without expecting anything in return."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: No one is born hating another person because of the color of his skin, or his background, or his religion. People must learn to hate, and if they can learn to hate, they can be taught to love, for love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It is in your hands to create a better world for all who live in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: What counts in life is not the mere fact that we have lived. It is what difference we have made to the lives of others that will determine the significance of the life we lead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine, that a child of farm workers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Great anger and violence can never build a nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It is not where you start but how high you aim that matters for success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: If you want the cooperation of humans around you, you must make them feel they are important - and you do that by being genuine and humble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Learn to know yourself... to search realistically and regularly the processes of your own mind and feelings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Courageous people do not fear forgiving, for the sake of peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Thinking is one of the most important weapons in dealing with problems"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Let freedom reign. The sun never set on so glorious a human achievement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Educating all of our children must be one of our most urgent priorities. We all know that education, more than anything else, improves our chances of \n building better lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: For me, survival is the ability to cope with difficulties, with circumstances, and to overcome them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Blaming things on the past does not make them better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I like friends who have independent minds because they tend to make you see problems from all angles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Everyone can rise above their circumstances and achieve success if they are dedicated to and passionate about what they do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Freedom can never be taken for granted. Each generation must safeguard it and extend it. Your parents and elders sacrificed much so that you should have freedom without suffering what they did. Use this precious right to ensure that the darkness of the past never returns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Love comes more naturally to the human heart than its opposite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: If I am your leader, you have to listen to me & if you don\u2019t want to listen to me, then drop me as your leader"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The past is a rich resource on which we can draw in order to make decisions for the future, but it does not dictate our choices. We should look back at the past and select what is good, and leave behind what is bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The true character of a society is revealed in how it treats its children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: When we dehumanise and demonise our opponents, we abandon the possibility of peacefully resolving our differences, and seek to justify violence against them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Poverty is not natural; it is man-made"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: One cannot be prepared for something while secretly believing it will not happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should emerge stronger and more united than ever before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Education is the great engine  to personal development."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Those who conduct themselves with morality, integrity and consistency need not fear the forces of inhumanity and cruelty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Man's goodness is a flame that can be hidden but never extinguished"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It is so easy to break down and destroy. \n The heroes are those who make peace and \n build."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Death is something inevitable. When a man has done what he considers to be his duty to his people and his country, he can rest in peace. I believe I have made that effort and that is, therefore, why I will sleep for the eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Racism is a blight on the human conscience. The idea that any people can be inferior to another, to the point where those who consider themselves superior define and treat the rest as subhuman, denies the humanity even of those who elevate themselves to the status of gods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: A good leader can engage in a debate frankly and thoroughly, knowing that at the end he and the other side must be closer, and thus emerge stronger. You don't have that idea when you are arrogant, superficial, and uninformed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: A critical, independent and investigative press is the lifeblood of any democracy. The press must be free from state interference. It must have the economic strength to stand up to the blandishments of government officials. It must have sufficient independence from vested interests to be bold and inquiring without fear or favour. It must enjoy the protection of the constitution, so that it can protect our rights as citizens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: One of the most difficult things is not to change society - but to change yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: In judging our progress as individuals we tend to concentrate on external factors such as one's social position, influence and popularity, wealth and standard of education... But internal factors may be even more crucial in assessing one's development as a human being. Honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, pure generosity, absence of vanity, readiness to serve others - qualities which are within easy reach of every soul - are the foundation of one's spiritual life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: If the ANC does to you what the apartheid government did to you, then you must do to the ANC what you did to the apartheid government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I have walked that long road to freedom. I have tried not to falter; I have made missteps along the way. But I have discovered the secret that after climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. But I can only rest for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not ended."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lays defeat and death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Honour belongs to those who never forsake the truth even when things seem dark and grim, who try over and over again, who are never discouraged by insults, humiliation and even defeat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Part of being optimistic is keeping one's head pointed toward the sun, one's feet moving forward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The best weapon is to sit down and talk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: If you don't allow people to contribute, to offer their point of view, or to criticize what has been put before them, then they can never like you. And you can never build that instrument of collective leadership."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: During my lifetime I have dedicated myself to this struggle of the African people. I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Our children are our greatest treasure. They are our future. Those who abuse them tear at the fabric of our society and weaken our nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It is not our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our freedom, there can only be one division amongst us: between those who cherish democracy and those who do not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It is not beyond our power to create a world in which all children have access to a good education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Young people are capable, when aroused, of bringing down the towers of oppression and raising the banners of freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It is in the character of growth that we should learn from both pleasant and unpleasant experiences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Few things make the life of a parent more rewarding and sweet as successful children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Our human compassion binds us the one to the other - not in pity or patronizingly, but as human beings who have learnt how to turn our common suffering into hope for the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: An educated, enlightened & informed population is one of the surest ways of promoting the health of a democracy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I say to all those leaders, do not look the other way. Do not hesitate... It is within your power to avoid a genocide of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Out of the experience of extraordinary human disaster that lasted too long, must be born a society of which all humanity will be proud."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: No one is born hating another person because of the colour of his skin, or his background, or his religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The call now is for each of us to ask ourselves: are we doing all we can to help build the country of our dreams?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Rhetoric is not important. Actions are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of a fundamental human right, the right to dignity and a decent life . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: No power on this earth can destroy the thirst for human dignity"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: If the United States of America or Britain is having elections, they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections, they want observers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Political division, based on color, is entirely artificial; and when it disappears, so will the domination of one color group by another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: This must be a world of democracy and respect for human rights, a world freed from the horrors of poverty, hunger, deprivation and ignorance, relieved of the threat and the scourge of civil wars and external aggression and unburdened of the great tragedy of millions forced to become refugees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Nonviolence is a good policy when the conditions permit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: When the water starts boiling it is foolish to turn off the heat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It is not the kings and generals that make history, but the masses of the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: People respond in accordance to how you relate to them. If you approach them on the basis of violence, that's how they'll react. But if you say, 'We want peace, we want stability,' we can then do a lot of things that will contribute towards the progress of our society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Freedom is meaningless if people cannot put food in their stomachs, if they can have no shelter, if illiteracy and disease continue to dog them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Once a person is determined to help themselves, there is nothing that can stop them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The time has come to accept in our hearts and minds that with freedom comes responsibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: A new society cannot be created by reproducing the repugnant past, however refined or enticingly repackaged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The New World Order that is in the making must focus on the creation of a world of democracy, peace and prosperity for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Sports have the power to change the world. It has the power to inspire, the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand. Sports can create hope, where there was once only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers. It laughs in the face of all types of discrimination. Sports is the game of lovers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Take it upon yourself where you live to make people around you joyful and full of hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I was not born with a hunger to be free, I was born free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: For every woman and girl violently attacked, we reduce our humanity. For every woman forced into unprotected sex because men demand this, we destroy dignity and pride. Every woman who has to sell her life for sex we condemn to a lifetime in prison. For every moment we remain silent, we conspire against our women. For every woman infected by HIV, we destroy a generation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The very right to be human is denied every day to hundreds of millions of people as a result of poverty, the unavailability of basic necessities such as food, jobs, water and shelter, education, health care and a healthy environment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Hope is a powerful weapon, and (one) no one power on earth can deprive you of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It can be said that there are four basic and primary things that the mass of people in a society wish for: to live in a safe environment, to be able to work and provide for themselves, to have access to good public health and to have sound educational opportunities for their children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Democracy is based on the majority principle. This is especially true in a country such as ours where the vast majority have been systematically denied their rights. At the same time, democracy also requires that the rights of political and other minorities be safeguarded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: My respect for human beings is based not on the colour of a man\u2019s skin nor authority he may wield, but purely on merit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been freed to fulfill themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It enables me to go to bed with an enriching feeling in my soul and the belief that I am changing myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: For me, nonviolence was not a moral principle but a strategy; there is no moral goodness in using an ineffective weapon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Disabled children are equally entitled to an exciting and brilliant future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: If you look at those matters, you will come to the conclusion that the attitude of the United States of America is a threat to world peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The wounds that cannot be seen are more painful than those that can be treated by a doctor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I was called a terrorist yesterday, but when I came out of jail, many people embraced me, including my enemies, and that is what I normally tell other people who say those who are struggling for liberation in their country are terrorists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Our single most important challenge is therefore to help establish a social order in which the freedom of the individual will truly mean the freedom of the individual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: A society that does not value its older people denies its roots and endangers its future. Let us strive to enhance their capacity to support themselves for as long as possible and, when they cannot do so anymore, to care for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: People tend to measure themselves by external accomplishments, but jail allows a person to focus on internal ones; such as honesty, sincerity, simplicity, humility, generosity and an absence of variety.  You learn to look into yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: A political movement must keep in touch with reality and the prevailing conditions. Long speeches, the shaking of fists, the banging of tables, and strongly worded resolutions out of touch with the objective conditions do not bring about mass action and can do a great deal of harm to the organization and the struggle we serve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Freedom alone is not enough without light to read at night, without time or access to water to irrigate your farm, without the ability to catch fish to feed your family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: No country can really develop unless its citizens are educated. Any nation that is progressive is led by people who have had the privilege of studying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The world remains beset by so much human suffering, poverty and deprivation. It is in your hands to make of our world a better one for all, especially the poor, vulnerable and marginalised."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation. They will be the leaders of our country, the creators of our national wealth, those who care for and protect our people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways of addressing this reality, future generations are in danger of losing their history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Gandhi rejects the Adam Smith notion of human nature as motivated by self-interest and brute needs and returns us to our spiritual dimension with its impulses for nonviolence, justice and equality. He exposes the fallacy of the claim that everyone can be rich and successful provided they work hard. He points to the millions who work themselves to the bone and still remain hungry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I could not imagine that the future I was walking toward could compare in any way to the past that I was leaving behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I hate race discrimination most intensely and in all its manifestations. I have fought it all during my life; I fight it now, and will do so until the end of my days."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip to France, England, and America combined. I felt I would be visiting my own genesis, unearthing the roots of what made me an African."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I started to make a study of the art of war and revolution and, whilst abroad, underwent a course in military training. If there was to be guerrilla warfare, I wanted to be able to stand and fight with my people and to share the hazards of war with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they had because they didn't have the talent or the strength or the endurance or the commitment?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: A garden was one of the few thing in prison that one could control. To plant a seed, watch it grow, to tend it then harvest it, offered a simple but enduring satisfaction. The sense of being the custodian of this small patch of earth offered a taste of freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We can neither heal nor build if, on the one hand the rich in our society see the poor as hordes of irritants or if on the other hand the poor sit back, expecting charity. All of us must take responsibility for the upliftment of our conditions, prepared to give our best to the benefit of all"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There are leaders who know that however furious the debate, there are good men and women in all population groups - amongst blacks, amongst whites, and amongst Afrikaans and English speaking people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: When I went to jail, I was a trained lawyer. And when the wardens received letters of demands or summonses, they didn't have the resources to go to an attorney to help them. I would help them settle their cases, so they became attached to me and the other prisoners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: But the human body has an enormous capacity for adjusting to trying circumstances. I have found that one can bear the unbearable if one can keep one's spirits strong even when one's body is being tested. Strong convictions are the secret of surviving deprivation; your spirit can be full even when your stomach is empty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There is a universal respect and even admiration for those who are humble and simple by nature, and who have absolute confidence in all human beings irrespective of their social status."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: No problem is so deep that it cannot be overcome, given the will of all parties, through discussion and negotiation rather than force and violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I shall stick to our vow: never, never under any circumstances, to say anything unbecoming of the other...The trouble, of course, is that most successful men are prone to some form of vanity. There comes a stage in their lives when they consider it permissible to be egotistic and to brag to the public at large about their unique achievements."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: To the youth of today, I also have a wish to make: be the scriptwriters of your destiny and feature yourselves as stars that showed the way towards a brighter future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The Good News borne by our risen Messiah who chose not one race, who chose not one country, who chose not one language, who chose not one tribe, who chose all of humankind!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice... Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Let us give publicity to HIV/AIDS and not hide it, because [that is] the only way to make it appear like a normal illness"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think. As I worked, physical and mental fatigue set in and I was unable to operate to the maximum of my intellectual ability. But in a single cell in prison, I had time to think. I had a clear view of my past and present, and I found that my past left much to be desired, both in regard to my relations with other humans and in developing personal worth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: If our expectations, if our fondest prayers and dreams, are not realized then we should all bear in mind that the greatest glory of living lies not in never falling but in rising every time you fall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: A movement without vision would be a movement without moral foundation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: If you are negotiating you must do so in a spirit of reconciliation, not from the point of view of issuing ultimatums."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We slaughter one another in our words and attitudes. We slaughter one another in the stereotypes and mistrust that linger in our heads, and the words of hate we spew from our lips."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: No child in Africa, and in fact anywhere in the world, should be denied education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I am influenced more than ever before by the conviction that social equality is the only basis of human happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The UN took a strong stand against apartheid; and over the years, an international consensus was built, which helped to bring an end to this iniquitous system. But we know too well that our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: By ancestry, I was born to rule."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed. A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow-mindedness. I am not truly free if I am taking away someone else's freedom, just as surely as I am not free when my freedom is taken from me. The oppressed and the oppressor alike are robbed of their humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: No one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens but its lowest ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: As long as women are bound by poverty and as long as they are looked down upon, human rights will lack substance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Where globalization means, as it so often does, that the rich and powerful now have new means to further enrich and empower themselves at the cost of the poorer and weaker, we have a responsibility to protest in the name of universal freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: In the end, reconciliation is a spiritual process, which requires more than just a legal framework. It has to happen in the hearts and minds of people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We must work together to ensure the equitable distribution of wealth, opportunity and power in our society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I hate racial discrimination most intensely and all its manifestations. I have fought all my life; I fight now, and will do so until the end of my days. Even although I now happen to be tried by one, whose opinion I hold in high esteem, I detest most violently the set-up that surrounds me here. It makes me feel that I am a Black man in a White man's court. This should not be I should feel perfectly at ease and at home with the assurance that I am being tried by a fellow South African, who does not regard me as an inferior, entitled to a special type of justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: In my country we go to prison first and then become President."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: A freedom fighter learns the hard way that it is the oppressor who defines the nature of the struggle,and the oppressed is often left no recourse but to use methods that mirror those of the oppressor.At a point, one can only fight fire with fire"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: To a freedom fighter hope is what a lifebelt is to a swimmer - a guarantee that one will keep afloat and free from danger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: To be the father of a nation is a great honor, but to be the father of a family is a greater joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: When the history of our times is written, will we be remembered as the generation that turned our backs in a moment of global crisis or will it be recorded that we did the right thing?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Know your enemy - and learn about his favorite sport."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Let it never be said by future generations that indifference, cynicism or selfishness made us fail to live up to the ideals of humanism which the Nobel Peace Prize encapsulates. Let the strivings of us all, prove Martin Luther King Jr. to have been correct, when he said that humanity can no longer be tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Let us remind ourselves that our work is far from complete. Where there is poverty and sickness, including AIDS, where human beings are being oppressed, there is more work to be done. Our work is for freedom for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I discovered even before I went to jail that apartheid was not run by people who were monolithic in their approach. Some of them didn't even believe in apartheid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The collapse of good conscience and the absence of accountability and public scrutiny have led to crimes against humanity and violations of international law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: A new world will be won not by those who stand at a distance with their arms folded, but by those who are in the arena, whose garments are torn by storms and whose bodies are maimed in the course of the contest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We understand it still that there is no easy road to freedom. We know it well that none of us acting alone can achieve success. We must therefore act together as a united people, for national reconciliation, for nation building, for the birth of a new world. Let there be justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Never, never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another and suffer the indignity of being the skunk of the world. Let freedom reign."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I dream of an Africa which is in peace with itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: While poverty persists, there is no true freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Abject poverty is demeaning, is an assault on the dignity of those that suffer it. In the end it demeans us all. It makes the freedom of all of us less meaningful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: For a revolution is not just a question of pulling a trigger; its purpose is to create a fair just society"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The path of those who preach love, and not hatred, is not easy. They often have to wear a crown of thorns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: In prison, illusions can offer comfort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Prison itself is a tremendous education in the need for patience and perseverance. It is above all a test of one's commitment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Success in politics demands that you must take your people into confidence about your views and state them very clearly, very politely, very calmly, but nevertheless, state them openly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Although I am a gregarious person, I love solitude even more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Sometimes strident, often tender, never afraid and seldom without humour, Desmond Tutu's voice will always be the voice of the voiceless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I have any love of violence. I planned it as a result of a calm and sober assessment of the political situation that had arisen after many years of tyranny, exploitation and oppression of my people by the whites."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We recall our terrible past so that we can deal with it, to forgive where forgiveness is necessary, without forgetting; to ensure that never again will such inhumanity tear us apart; and to move ourselves to eradicate a legacy that lurks dangerously as a threat to our democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I was not a messiah, but an ordinary man who had become a leader because of extraordinary circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We raise our voices in holy gladness to celebrate the victory of the risen Christ over the terrible forces of death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you when you are wealthy, but precious few will do the same when you are poor. If wealth is a magnet, poverty is a kind of repellent. Yet, poverty often brings out the true generosity in others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I like a leader who can, while pointing out a mistake, bring up the good things the other person has done. If you do that, then the person sees that you have a complete picture of him. There is nobody more dangerous than one who has been humiliated, even when you humiliate him rightly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Freedom cannot be achieved unless women have been emancipated from all forms of oppression... Our endeavors must be about the liberation of the woman, the emancipation of the man and the liberty of the child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We have laid the foundation for a better life. Things that were unimaginable a few years ago have become everyday reality. I belong to the generation of leaders for whom the achievement of democracy was the defining challenge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I was able to change my life by knowing that if somebody does something good for you, you have to respond."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The challenge for each one of you is to take up these ideals of tolerance and respect for others and put them to practical use in your schools, your communities and throughout your lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Israel should withdraw from all the areas which it won from the Arabs in 1967, and in particular Israel should withdraw completely from the Golan Heights, from south Lebanon and from the West Bank."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I knew we could improve our lives even in jail. We could come out as different men, and we could even come out with two degrees. Educating ourselves was a way to give ourselves the most powerful weapon for freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We have introduced a rule of law. That never existed for centuries in this country [South Africa], especially under the apartheid regime, when the law was reduced into disrepute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Together as a nation, we have the obligation to put sunshine into the hearts of our little ones. They are our precious possessions. They deserve what happiness life can offer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Let us give publicity to H.I.V./AIDS and not hide it, because the only way to make it appear like a normal illness like TB, like cancer, is always to come out and say somebody has died because of H.I.V./AIDS, and people will stop regarding it as something extraordinary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Negotiation and discussion are the greatest weapons we have for promoting peace and development."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the long-term objects of freedom movements."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Where people of goodwill get together and transcend their differences for the common good, peaceful and just solutions can be found even for those problems which seem most intractable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The question of education has nothing to do with the question of the vote. On numerous occasions it has been proved in history that people can enjoy the vote even if they have no education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It is the dictate of history to bring to the fore the kind of leaders who seize the moment, who cohere the wishes and aspirations of the oppressed. Such was Steve Biko, a fitting product of his time; a proud representative of the re-awakening of a people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: As long as many of our people still live in utter poverty, as long as children still live under plastic covers, as long as many of our people are still without jobs, no South African should rest and wallow in the joy of freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There is nothing to popularize a person. Only humility, which is the ability to remain in the background and to put others in the front light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I found solitary confinement the most forbidding aspect of prison life. There is no end and no beginning; there is only one's mind, which can begin to play tricks. Was that a dream or did it really happen? One begins to question everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Who could doubt that sport is a crucial window for the propagation of fair play and justice? After all, fair play is a value that is essential to sport."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Leaders will have to give clear and decisive leadership towards a world of tolerance and respect for difference, and an uncompromising commitment to peaceful solutions of conflicts and disputes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The time will come when our nation will honour the memory of all the sons, the daughters, the mothers, the fathers, the youth and the children who, by their thoughts and deeds, gave us the right to assert with pride that we are South Africans, that we are Africans, and that we are citizens of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices - submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We shall not submit and we have no choice but to hit back by all means in our power in defence of our people, our future, and our freedom"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people. We enter into a covenant that we shall build the society in which all South Africans, both black and white, will be able to walk tall, without any fear in their hearts, assured of their inalienable right to human dignity \u2014 a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Freedom would be meaningless without security in the home and in the streets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The titanic effort that has brought liberation to South Africa, and ensured the total liberation of Africa, constitutes an act of redemption for the black people of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I dust [your photo] carefully every morning, for to do so gives me the pleasant feeling that I'm caressing you as in the old days. I even touch your nose with mine to recapture the electric current that used to flush through my blood whenever I did so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Politics can be strengthened by music, but music has a potency that defies politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We understand and promote the notion that while children need to be guided they also have an entrenched right to be whatever they want to be and that they can achieve this only if they are given the space to dream and live out their dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Leaders in all spheres who are living with HIV should be encouraged, not coerced, to lead by example and disclose their HIV status."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: History will surely judge us harshly if we do not respond with all the energy and resources that we can bring to bear in the fight against HIV/AIDS"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There can be no keener revelation of a society's soul than the way in which it treats its children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Our experience has taught us that with goodwill a negotiated solution can be found for even the most profound problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I cannot conceive of Israel withdrawing if Arab states do not recognize Israel, within secure borders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: No form of violence can ever be excused in a society that wishes to call itself decent"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: A bright future beckons. The onus is on us, through hard work, honesty and integrity, to reach for the stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The time comes in the life of any nation when there remains only two choices - submit or fight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: A government which uses force to maintain its rule teaches the oppressed to use force to oppose it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I have often wondered whether a person is justified in neglecting his own family to fight for opportunities for others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Good men and women can be mobilized to ensure that South Africa is united and that the spirit of reconciliation is strengthened and that progress in this country takes place as fast as it can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The time for the healing of the wounds has come. The moment to bridge the chasms that divide us has come. The time to build is upon us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I have always admired men and women who used their talents to serve the community, and who were highly respected and admired for their efforts and sacrifices, even though they held no office whatsoever in government or society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: As long as outmoded ways of thinking prevent women from making a meaningful contribution to society, progress will be slow. As long as the nation refuses to acknowledge the equal role of more than half of itself, it is doomed to failure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We must look within ourselves, become responsible and provide fresh solutions if we ever want to do more than complain,or make excuses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better place we so passionately dreamt of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Keep your friends close - and your rivals even closer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There is no such thing as part freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We should take heart from our own experience and performance. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The United States has made serious mistakes in the conduct of its foreign affairs, which have had unfortunate repercussions long after the decisions were taken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Racism is a blight on the human conscience"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife. But the problems are such that for anybody with a conscience who can use whatever influence he may have to try to bring about peace, it's difficult to say no."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Friends, Comrades and fellow South Africans. I greet you all in the name of peace, democracy and freedom for all. I stand here before you not as a prophet but as a humble servant of you, the people. Your tireless and heroic sacrifices have made it possible for me to be here today. I therefore place the remaining years of my life in your hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Disasters will always come and go, leaving their victims either completely broken or steeled and seasoned and better able to face the next crop of challenges that may occur."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great, you can be that generation"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The habit of attending to small things and of appreciating small courtesies is one of the important marks of a good person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I approach every problem with optimism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Our society needs to re-establish a culture of caring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: If you don\u2019t intend having a compromise, you don\u2019t negotiate at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We should never forget those on whose shoulders we stand and those who paid the supreme price for freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I would like it to be said: here lies a man who has done his duty on earth"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: A man who takes away another man's freedom is a prisoner of hatred, he is locked behind the bars of prejudice and narrow mindedness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Even behind prison walls I can see the heavy clouds and the blue sky over the horizon"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Other people have qualities that may be better than your own. Let them express them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Quitting is leading too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There will be life after Mandela. On my last day I want to know that those who remain behind will say: 'The man who lies here has done his duty for his country and his people.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Lead from the front - but don t leave your base behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: You sharpen your ideas by reducing yourself to the level of the people you are with and a sense of humour and a complete relaxation, even when you're discussing serious things, does help to mobilise friends around you. And I love that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It is wise to persuade people to do things and make them think it was their own idea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: When we decided to take up arms, it was because the only other choice was to surrender and to submit to slavery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: To truly lead one's people, one must also truly know them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: If you are poor, you are not likely to live long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We need a fundamental change of mindset with regards to the way we speak and behave about sex and sexuality. Boys and men have a particularly critical role in this regard, changing the chauvinist and demeaning ways sexuality and women were traditionally dealt with in both our actions and speaking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I have never regarded any man as my superior, either in my life outside or inside prison."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: AIDS is no longer just a disease, it is a human rights issue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We tried in our simple way to lead our life in a manner that may make a difference to those of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The history of struggle is rich with stories of heroes and heroines - some of them leaders, some of them followers, all of them deserve to be remembered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We need to exert ourselves that much more, and break out of the vicious cycle of dependence imposed on us by the financially powerful: those in command of immense market power and those who dare to fashion the world in their own image."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Money won't create success, the freedom to make it will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Only free men can negotiate; prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Sometimes it falls upon a generation to be great. You can be that great generation. Let your greatness blossom. Of course the task will not be easy. But not to do this would be a crime against humanity, against which I ask all humanity now to rise up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The anchor of all my dreams is the collective wisdom of mankind as a whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The Church was as concerned with this world as the next: I saw that virtually all of the achievements of Africans seemed to have come about through the missionary work of the Church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Whether you change the linen or stitch up wounds, cook the food or dispense the medicines, it is in your hands to help build a public service worthy of all those who gave their lives for the dream of democracy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There are many people in South Africa who are rich and who can share those riches with those not so fortunate who have not been able to conquer poverty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: If there are dreams about a beautiful South Africa, there are also roads that lead to their goal. Two of these roads could be named Goodness and Forgiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Sport has the power to overcome old divisions and create the bond of common aspirations"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I should tie myself to no particular system of society other than of socialism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. I can rest only for a moment, for with freedom come responsibilities, and I dare not linger, for my long walk is not yet ended."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Freedom is indivisible; the chains on any one of my people were the chains on all of them, the chains on all of my people were the chains on me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I can't pretend that I'm brave and that I can beat the whole world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Each of us, as citizens, has a role to play in creating a better world for our children"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We cannot blame other people for our troubles. We are not victims of the influx of foreign people into South Africa. We must remember that it was mainly due to the aggressive and hostile policies of the apartheid regime that the economic development of our neighbours was undermined."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: During the years I lived here, the people of Alexandra ignored tribal and ethnic distinctions. Instead of being Xhosas, or Sothos, or Zulus, or Shangaans, we were Alexandrans. We were one people, and we undermined the distinctions that the apartheid government tried so hard to impose. It saddens and angers me to see the rising hatred of foreigners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I came to accept that I have no right whatsoever to judge others in terms of my own customs, however much I may be proud of such customs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I have always regarded myself, in the first place, as an African patriot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I would like to be remembered not as anyone unique or special, but as part of a great team in this country that has struggled for many years, for decades and even centuries.  The greatest glory of living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time you fall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Home is home even for those who aspire to serve wider interests and who have established their home of choice in distant regions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I stand here before you not as a prophet, but as a humble servant of you, the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Since the dawn of history, mankind has honoured and respected brave and honest people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I pay tribute to the endless heroism of youth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous. Some of them are not known even in their own countries, but when you come across them you are very impressed. Those are heroes or heroines we must never forget. Because of their service to society, you can't really help but admire them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I know that, throughout the world, there are good men and women concerned with the greatest challenges facing society today - poverty, illiteracy, and disease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Individuals get caught up in the policy of their country. In prison, for instance, a warden or officer is not promoted if he doesn't follow the policy of the government - though he himself does not believe in that policy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I cherish my own freedom dearly, but I care even more for your freedom. Too many have died since I went to prison. Too many have suffered for the love of freedom. I owe it to their widows, to their orphans, to their mothers and their fathers, who have grieved and wept for them ..... Not only have I suffered during these long lonely wasted years. I am no less life-loving than you are. But I cannot sell the birthright of the people to be free ....... Only free men can negotiate. Prisoners cannot enter into contracts. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It was during those long and lonely years that my hunger for the freedom of my own people became a hunger for the freedom of all people, white and black. I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The truth is that we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free, the right not to be oppressed. We have not taken the final step of our journey, but the first step on a longer and even more difficult road. For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. The true test of our devotion to freedom is just beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There was much in such a society that was primitive and insecure and it certainly could never measure up to the demands of the present epoch. But in such a society are contained the seeds of revolutionary democracy in which none will be held in slavery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I cannot and will not give any undertaking at a time when I, and you, the people, are not free. Your freedom and mine cannot be separated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I was made, by the law, a criminal, not because of what I had done, but because of what I stood for, because of what I thought, because of my conscience... If I had my time over I would do the same again. So would any man who dares call himself a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I am convinced that floods of personal disaster can never drown a determined revolutionary nor can the cumulus of misery that accompanies tragedy suffocate him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Only through hardship, sacrifice and militant action can freedom be won. The struggle is my life. I will continue fighting for freedom until the end of my days."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I knew as well as I knew anything that the oppressor must be liberated just as surely as the oppressed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I realized that they could take everything from me except my mind and my heart. They could not take those things. Those things I still had control over. And I decided not to give them away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We are extricating ourselves from a system that insulted our common humanity by dividing us from one another on the basis of race and setting us against each other as oppressed and oppressor. That system committed a crime against humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The freedom we enjoy is a richly textured gift handcrafted by ordinary folk"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: As we judge others so are we judged by others. The suspicious will always be tormented by suspicion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Only armchair politicians are immune from committing mistakes. Errors are inherent in political action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Where choice is set between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence ... I prefer to use arms in defense of honor rather than remain the vile witness of dishonor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Teach the children that Africans are not one iota inferior to Europeans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The private sector granted bursaries [scholarships] for the children of their workers. Some of them built homes for their workers. They had in-service training, which improved the skills of their workers. So that spirit was there. All we did was merely exploit it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Let us remind ourselves that it is ordinary people - men and women, boys and girls - that make the world a special place"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We have introduced a democratic constitution, which put suvery South African on an equal basis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: You know, you can only lead them from behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I cannot overemphasise the value we place on a free, independent and outspoken press"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Forget the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: In human affairs, no single person, organisation or social formation ever has a final or an absolutely correct position. It is through conversation, debate and critical discussion that we approach positions that may provide workable solutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Education has become a very powerful weapon in the struggle to produce a well-developed person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The United States of America is a threat to world peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We succeeded to take our last steps to freedom in conditions of relative peace. We commit ourselves to the construction of a complete, just and lasting peace. We have triumphed in the effort to implant hope in the breasts of the millions of our people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There must be an end to white monopoly on political power, and a fundamental restructuring of our political and economic systems to ensure that the inequalities of apartheid are addressed and our society thoroughly democratized."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: When I walked out of prison, that was my mission, to liberate the oppressed and the oppressor both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The victory of democracy in South Africa is the common achievement of all humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Our children are the rock on which our future will be built, our greatest asset as a nation"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The truth is we are not yet free; we have merely achieved the freedom to be free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There is no doubt that the United States now feels that they are the only superpower in the world and they can do what they like."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It always gives me great pleasure to be surrounded by the beautiful children of our land. Whenever I am with the energetic young people ... I feel like a recharged battery, confident that our country can look forward to great things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I appeal to the Youth and those on the ground: start talking to each other across divisions of race and political organizations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Your victory has demonstrated that no person anywhere in the world should not dare to dream of wanting to change the world for a better place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: In its proper meaning equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one is governed, a constitution which guarantees democratic rights to all sections of the population, the right to approach the court for protection or relief in the case of the violation of rights guaranteed in the constitution, and the right to take part in the administration of justice as judges, magistrates, attorneys-general, law advisers and similar positions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There are many people who have worked just because they love the community in which they are in, without expecting any financial consideration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Now we are in the second term of the government of a united nation and the government has done very well. One thing they have done, one thing people could not be blind to, was the achievement this government has made in giving human beings dignity, which they did not enjoy before. They now have dignity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We have introduced a rule of law into many sections of our public life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We must appreciate that all over the world, right down the centuries, there have been great religions that have encouraged the idea of giving - of fighting poverty and of promoting the equality of human beings - whatever their background, whatever their political beliefs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Let us not be tempted by those who try to find the unique qualities in a particular group. In this case, among South Africa indigenous people, it reflected what has been evidenced throughout the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: An initiative was essentially led by civil society because the policy of the government was that Africans must not be taught to graze in pastures which were reserved for the main white group."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It's in your hands to make the world a better place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We speak here of the challenge of the dichotomies of war and peace, violence and non-violence, racism and human dignity, oppression and repression and liberty and human rights, poverty and freedom from want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: To go to prison because of your convictions and be prepared to suffer for what you believe in, is something worthwhile. It is an achievement for a man to do his duty on earth irrespective of the consequences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I will use the rest of my life to help the poor overcome the problems confronting them - poverty is the greatest challenge facing humanity. That is why I build schools; I want to free people from poverty and illiteracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Children are the most important asset in a country. For them to become that asset, they must receive education and love from their parents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: If we want any significant development, we must co-opt civil society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: If you sit down and talk to a person, it's easy to convince him that apartheid can never save a country and will lead to the slaughtering of innocent people - including his own people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Before I went to jail, I was active in politics as a member of South Africa's leading organization - and I was generally busy from 7 A.M. until midnight. I never had time to sit and think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I understand that the legal position is under review in South Africa and that there will soon be a broader set of organizations to which donors can give and claim tax deductions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: What we did was to try and exploit that spirit [the idea of giving], which was there even before I approached individual South Africans [to give to the Nelson Mandela Children's Fund]. I think we must start from that angle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There are people here [in South Africa] who, whatever the debate is on a particular issue, their dominating idea is that at the end of the debate we must emerge stronger than we were before and closer to one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The process of illusion & disillusionment is part of life and goes on endlessly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Like all Xhosa children, I acquired knowledge mainly through observation. We were meant to learn through imitation and emulation, not through questions. When I first visited the homes of whites, I was often dumbfounded by the number and nature of questions that children asked of their parents-and their parents' unfailing willingness to answer them. In my household, questions were considered a nuisance; adults imparted information as they considered necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: [Giving] is the essence of the great religions of the world - whether you are discussing the Muslim, Hindu, Jewish or Christian religion. It is an essential fundamental principle of all religions, whatever stage of development a society has reached, to sympathize with others and to promote that spirit of equality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The calm and tolerant atmosphere that prevailed during the elections depicts the type of South Africa we can build. It set the tone for the future. We might have our differences, but we are one people with a common destiny in our rich variety of culture, race and tradition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I and some colleagues came to the conclusion that as violence in this country was inevitable, it would be wrong and unrealistic for African leaders to continue preaching peace and non-violence at a time when the government met our peaceful demands with force. It was only when all else had failed, when all channels of peaceful protest had been barred to us, that the decision was made to embark on violent forms of political struggle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: A free press is one of the pillars of democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: There's no such thing as part freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: You encourage people by seeing the good in them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: True reconciliation does not consist in merely forgetting the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It's a tragedy what is happening, what Bush is doing. All Bush wants is Iraqi oil. There is no doubt that the U.S. is behaving badly. Why are they not seeking to confiscate weapons of mass destruction from their ally Israel? This is just an excuse to get Iraq's oil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The names of Dingane and Bambata, Hintsa and Makana, Squngthi and Dalasile, Moshoeshoe and Sekhukhuni, were praised as the glory of the entire African nation. I hoped then that life might offer me the opportunity to serve my people and make my own humble contribution to their freedom struggle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The authorities liked to say that we received a balanced diet; it was indeed balanced - between the unpalatable and the inedible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I have retired, but if there's anything that would kill me it is to wake up in the morning not knowing what to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Our daily deeds as ordinary South Africans must produce an actual South African reality that will reinforce humanity's belief in justice, strenthen its confidence in the nobility of the human soul, and sustain all our hopes for a glorious life for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Continuously, we have to fight to defeat the primitive tendency towards the glorification of arms, the adulation of force, born of the illusion that injustice can be perpetuated by the capacity to kill, or that disputes are necessarily best resolved by resort to violent means."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Each of us is as intimately attached to the soil of this beautiful country as are the famous jacaranda trees of Pretoria and the mimosa trees of the bushveld - a rainbow nation at peace with itself and the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We can't fight AIDS unless we do much more to fight TB as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Whose life testifies to the truth that there is no shame in being oppressed: Those who should be ashamed are they who oppress others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved one's body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I really wanted to retire and rest and spend more time with my children, my grandchildren and of course with my wife."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Both Bush as well, as Tony Blair, are undermining an idea which was sponsored by their predecessors. They do not care. Is it because the secretary-general of the United Nations [Ghanaian Kofi Annan] is now a black man? They never did that when secretary-generals were white."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: What has sustained me even in the most grim moments is the knowledge that I am a member of a tried and tested family which has triumphed over many difficulties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Apart from life, a strong constitusion and an abiding connection to the Thembu royal house, the only thing my father bestowed upon me at birth was a name, Rolihlahla"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: If we are to accomplish anything in this world, it will in equal measure be due to the work and achievements of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We can build a society grounded on friendship and our common humanity - a society founded on tolerance. That is the only road open to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Even if you have a terminal disease, you don't have to sit down and mope. Enjoy life and challenge the illness that you have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: History and the generations to come will judge our leaders by the decisions they make in the coming weeks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: What freedom am I being offered while the organization of the people remains banned? Only free men can negotiate. A prisoner cannot enter into contracts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The United States of America is a threat to world peace. Because what [America] is saying is that if you are afraid of a veto in the Security Council, you can go outside and take action and violate the sovereignty of other countries. That is the message they are sending to the world. That must be condemned in the strongest terms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Let the efforts of us all, prove that he [Martin Luther King] was not a mere dreamer when he spoke of the beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace being more precious than diamonds or silver or gold"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. It is a grave error for any leader to be oversensitive in the face of criticism, to conduct discussions as if he or she is a schoolmaster talking to less informed and inexperienced learners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I watched, along with all of you, as the tens of thousands of our people stood patiently in long queues for many hours. Some sleeping on the open ground overnight waiting to cast this momentous vote."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Why is the United States behaving so arrogantly? All that (Mr. Bush) wants is Iraqi oil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I have found Jews to be more broad-minded than most whites on issues of race and politics, perhaps because they themselves have historically been victims of prejudice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We, the people of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know:\n That South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that no government can justly claim authority unless it is based on the will of the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I admire young people who are concerned with the affairs of their community and nation perhaps because I also became involved in struggle whist I was still at school."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: But the hard facts were that fifty years of non-violence had brought the African people nothing but more and more repressive legislation, and fewer and fewer rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: AIDS today in Africa is claiming more lives than the sum total of all wars, famines and floods and the ravages of such deadly diseases as malaria ... We must act now for the sake of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The real meaning of the spoken word has to be demonstrated by practical deeds"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: [Gandhi] said, \"I want to find God, and because I want to find God, I have to find God along with other people. I don't believe I can find God alone. If I did, I would be running to the Himalayas to find God in some cave there. But since I believe that nobody can find God alone, I have to work with people. I have to take them with me. Alone I can't come to Him.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Let us join hands and build a truly South African nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The more informed you are, the less arrogant and aggressive you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I am fundamentally an optimist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: My son has died of AIDS."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: It is also the fate of leadership to be misunderstood. For historians, academics, writers and journalists to reflect great lives according to their own subjective canon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Without education, your children can never really meet the challenges they will face. So it's very important to give children education and explain that they should play a role for their country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Why is it that in this courtroom I face a white magistrate, am confronted by a white prosecutor and escorted into the dock by a white orderly? Can anyone honestly and seriously suggest that in this type of atmosphere the scales of justice are evenly balanced?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world, it is the United States of America. They don't care for human beings.... What I am condemning is that one power, with a president [George W. Bush] who has no foresight, who cannot think properly, is now wanting to plunge the world into a holocaust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Let us give practical recognition to the injustices of the past,by building a future based on equality&social justice"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We now undertake that we cannot rest while millions of our people suffer the pain and indignity of poverty in all its forms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The majority of South Africans, black and white, recognize that apartheid has no future. It has to be ended by our own decisive mass action in order to build peace and security. The mass campaign of defiance and other actions of our organization and people can only culminate in the establishment of democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I have always endeavoured to listen to what each and every person in a discussion had to say before venturing my own opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I feel like a young man of 15."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: In all disputes, a point is arrived at where no party, no matter how right or wrong it might have been at the start of that dispute, will any longer be totally in the right or totally in the wrong. Such a point I believe, has been reached in this debate... Let us not equivocate. A tragedy of unprecedented proportions is unfolding in Africa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The greatest single challenge facing our globalised world is to combat and eradicate its disparities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Force is the only language the imperialists can hear, and no country became free without some sort of violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Intervention only works when the people concerned seem to be keen for peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: One of the things that made me long to be back in prison was that I had so little opportunity for reading, thinking and quiet reflection after my release. I intend, amongst other things, to give myself much more opportunity for such reading and reflection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We can't afford to be killing one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I do not think that I was brought up in a unique society with unique features about giving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I've found that South Africa has produced good leaders. These are people who realize that when there is danger, they should be in the forefront and when there is victory to be celebrated, they should be in the background, allowing their colleagues and the ordinary civilians - the man in the street - to rejoice and to celebrate that victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I am aware of what the position is in the United States of America. If somebody gives to charity, then he gets a tax incentive, provided the charity is registered in terms of the law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I am sure that if somebody is giving a sum to charity, he or she should be encouraged to do so by the authorities because the spirit in which we encourage people to give has permeated our society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We must also know that even before liberation in 1994 there [in South Africa] were people with resources who tried to share with those who were deprived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Therefore, we must not look at the African people, even before they met whites, as if they had something unique, which was not to be found in other societies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Of course we desire education and we think it is a good thing, but you don't have to have education in order to know that you want certain fundamental rights, you have got aspirations, you have got acclaims. It has nothing to do with education whatsoever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: I was neglected by my family because I had disappointed them - I'd run away from being forced into an arranged marriage, which was a big blow to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Our people outside of prison used my name to mobilize the community locally and internationally. But for me to be treated separately from my colleagues, who had contributed as much as and even more than I had, would have been a betrayal of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: We have introduced equity into our life, including a uniform educational system. We have also introduced a Bill of Rights, which is not just a piece of paper, but a living document because we have created structures that are totally independent of the government and that can overrule the government, even the president."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Regarding African education in this country, there was a time when the government took no interest whatsoever in African education. It was the churches, that part of civil society, which bought land, built schools, and employed and paid teachers. People like myself, right from grade eight up to university, I was in missionary schools."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: Some of the mission groups that have been responsible for our education have not been part of the government. In fact, they acted contrary to what the government had planned to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nelson Mandela: The first election in which all South Africans took part was in April, 1994. There were long queues [lines] of employers and employees, black and white. In the sense of Africans, Coloreds and Indians - when I talk about blacks, I mean those three. Blacks and whites mingled to vote without any hitches. Many people would have expected a great deal of tension, clashes and violence, but it did not occur."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If we ever forget that we are One Nation Under God, then we will be a nation gone under."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: It's hard, when you're up to your armpits in alligators, to remember you came here to drain the swamp."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Either you will control your government, or government will control you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The nine most terrifying words in the English language are \"I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: When a business or an individual spends more than it makes, it goes bankrupt. When government does it, it sends you the bill. And when government does it for 40 years, the bill comes in two ways: higher taxes and inflation. Make no mistake about it, inflation is a tax and not by accident."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Now back in 1927 an American socialist, Norman Thomas, six times candidate for president on the Socialist Party ticket, said the American people would never vote for socialism. But he said under the name of liberalism the American people will adopt every fragment of the socialist program."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom, and then lost it, have never known it again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: To those who cite the first amendment as reason for excluding God from more and more of our institutions and everyday life, may I just say: The first amendment of the Constitution was not written to protect the people of this country from religious values; it was written to protect religious values from government tyranny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Evil is powerless if the good are unafraid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Extreme taxation, excessive controls, oppressive government competition with business, frustrated minorities and forgotten Americans are not the products of free enterprise. They are the residue of centralized bureaucracy, of government by a self-anointed elite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Almost all the worlds' constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which We the People tell the government what it is allowed to do. We the People are free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience... without God, there is a coarsening of the society; without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Because you won't get gun control by disarming law abiding citizens. There's only one way to get real gun control: Disarm the thugs and the criminals, lock them up, and if you don't actually throw away the key, at least lose it for a long time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: But the simple truth is that we've lost control of our own borders, and no nation can do that and survive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Too often character assassination has replaced debate in principle here in Washington. Destroy someone's reputation, and you don't have to talk about what he stands for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We must be cautious in claiming God is on our side. I think the real question we must answer is, are we on His side?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If you serve a child a rotten hamburger in America, federal, state, and local agencies will investigate you, summon you, close you down, whatever. But if you provide a child with a rotten education, nothing happens, except that you're liable to be given more money to do it with. Well, we've discovered that money alone isn't the answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: One of the traditional methods of imposing statism or socialism on a people has been by way of medicine. It\u2019s very easy to disguise a medical program as a humanitarian project, most people are a little reluctant to oppose anything that suggests medical care for people who possibly can\u2019t afford it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The American dream is not that every man must be level with every other man. The American dream is that every man must be free to become whatever God intends he should become."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We maintain the peace through our strength; weakness only invites aggression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I believe now, as I alway have, that America's strength is in 'We the People.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Sometimes when I'm faced with an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we have finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The trouble with our Liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We must realize that no arsenal or no weapon in arsenals of the world is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have. It is a weapon that we as Americans do have. Let that be understood by those who practice terrorism and prey upon their neighbors. As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it; We will not surrender for it, now or ever. We are Americans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I hope we once again have reminded people that man is not free unless government is limited. There's a clear cause and effect here that is as neat and predictable as a law of physics: As government expands, liberty contracts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: God, the source of all knowledge, should never have been expelled from our children's classrooms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our natural, inalienable rights are now considered to be a dispensation from government, and freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp as it is at this moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that is to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We the people tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If not us, who? And if not now, when?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We're Americans, and we have a rendezvous with destiny . . . No people who have ever lived on this earth have fought harder, paid a higher price for freedom, or done more to advance the dignity of man than Americans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Two Soviets . . . were talking to each other. And one of them asked, \"What's the difference between the Soviet Constitution and the United States Constitution?\" And the other one said, \"That's easy. The Soviet Constitution guarantees freedom of speech and freedom of gathering. The American Constitution guarantees freedom after speech and freedom after gathering.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Government is never more dangerous than when our desire to have it help us blinds us to its great power to harm us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Status quo, you know, is Latin for 'the mess we're in'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: There are no constraints on the human mind, no walls around the human spirit, no barriers to our progress except those we ourselves erect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs. And so we must remain. Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. All are free to believe or not believe, all are free to practice a faith or not, and those who believe are free, and should be free, to speak of and act on their belief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things. It is the continuing revolution of the marketplace. It is the understanding that allows us to recognize shortcomings and seek solutions. It is the right to put forth an idea, scoffed at by the experts, and watch it catch fire among the people. It is the right to follow your dream, or stick to your conscience even if you're the only one in a sea of doubters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our National Motto - 'In God We Trust' - was not chosen lightly. It reflects a basic recognition that there is a divine authority in the universe to which this nation owes homage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I know in my heart that man is good. That what is right will always eventually triumph. And there's purpose and worth to each and every life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our liberty springs from and depends upon an abiding faith in God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Anyone who seeks success or greatness should first forget about both and seek only the truth. The rest will follow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Illegal immigrants in considerable numbers have become productive members of our society and are a basic part of our work force. Those who have established equities in the United States should be recognized and accorded legal status. At the same time, in so doing, we must not encourage illegal immigration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Are you better off today than you were four years ago?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: There is no greater happiness for a man than approaching a door at the end of a day knowing someone on the other side of that door is waiting for the sound of his footsteps."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: When our Founding Fathers passed the First Amendment, they sought to protect churches from government interference. They never intended to construct a wall of hostility between government and the concept of religious belief itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Of the many influences that have shaped the United States into a distinctive nation and people, none may be said to be more fundamental and enduring than the Bible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The United States and the freedom for which it stands, the freedom for which they died, must endure and prosper. Their lives remind us that freedom is not bought cheaply. It has a cost; it imposes a burden. And just as they whom we commemorate were willing to sacrifice, so too must we - in a less final, less heroic way - be willing to give of ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Abraham Lincoln freed the black man. In many ways, Dr. King freed the white man. How did he accomplish this tremendous feat? Where others - white and black - preached hatred, he taught the principles of love and nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Conservatives were brought up to hate deficits and justifiably so. We've long thought there are two things in Washington that are unbalanced - the budget and the liberals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: It doesn't require expropriation or confiscation of private property or business to impose socialism on a people. What does it mean whether you hold the deed or the title to your business or property if the government holds the power of life and death over that business or property?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Welfare's purpose should be to eliminate, as far as possible, the need for its own existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: A small nation, faced with the denial of its sovereignty \u2014 indeed, of its very existence \u2014 reminded us that the price of freedom is high but never so costly as the loss of freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Do what's right and you'll please some of the people and astound the rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We don't have a trillion-dollar debt because we haven't taxed enough; we have a trillion-dollar debt because we spend too much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The NRA believes America's laws were made to be obeyed and that our Constitutional liberties are just as important today as 200 years ago. And by the way, the Constitution does not say Government shall decree the right to keep and bear arms. The Constitution says 'The right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We've gone astray from first principles. We've lost sight of the rule that individual freedom and ingenuity are at the very core of everything that we've accomplished. Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We owe this freedom of choice and action to those men and women in uniform who have served this nation and its interests in time of need. In particular, we are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The future is best decided by ballots, not bullets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: As government expands, liberty contracts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: In 1939 Winston Churchill, describing the 5000-mile peaceful border dividing Canada and the United States, said, 'That long frontier from the Atlantic to the Pacific Oceans, guarded only by neighborly respect and honorable obligations, is an example to every country and a pattern for the future of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: There is no love like a mother\u2019s - she who carries the child that God knits in the womb, she who nourishes and guides, she who teaches and inspires, she who gives of her heart and soul and self for the good and the happiness of her children and her family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Middle age is when you're faced with two temptations and you choose the one that will get you home by nine o'clock."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We are forever indebted to those who have given their lives that we might be free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: My fellow Americans, I am pleased to tell you I just signed legislation which outlaws Russia forever. The bombing begins in five minutes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: More than a decade ago, a Supreme Court decision literally wiped off the books of fifty states statutes protecting the rights of unborn children. Abortion on demand now takes the lives of up to 1.5 million unborn children a year. Human life legislation ending this tragedy will some day pass the Congress, and you and I must never rest until it does. Unless and until it can be proven that the unborn child is not a living entity, then its right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness must be protected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: All great change in America begins at the dinner table."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: America was founded by people who believe that God is their Rock of safety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: You can't be for big government, big taxes and big bureaucracy and still be for the little guy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: A truly successful army is one that, because of its strength and ability and dedication, will not be called upon to fight, for no one will dare to provoke it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Certain forms of ammunition have no legitimate sporting, recreational, or self-defense use and thus should be prohibited."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If history teaches anything, it teaches that self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Let us be sure that those who come after will say of us in our time, that in our time we did everything that could be done. We finished the race; we kept them free; we kept the faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Preservation of our environment is not a liberal or conservative challenge, it's common sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: When I took the oath of office, I pledged loyalty to only one special interest group - \u2018We the people\u2019."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: There is purpose and worth to each and every life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: There are no limits to growth and human progress \n when men and women are free to follow their dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: All of us can see what happens once you establish the precedent that the government can determine a man's working place and his working methods, determine his employment. From here it's a short step to all the rest of socialism, to determining his pay....He will wait for the government to tell him where he will go to work and what he will do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: A recession is when your neighbor loses his job. A depression is when you lose yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I can't claim to know the words of all the national anthems in the world, but I don't know of any other that ends with a question and a challenge as ours does: Does that flag still wave o'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? That is what we must all ask."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I've spoken of the shining city all my political life, but I don't know if I ever quite communicated what I saw when I said it. But in my mind it was a tall, proud city built on rocks stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, and teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace; a city with free ports that hummed with commerce and creativity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and heart to get there. That's how I saw it, and see it still."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: It was leadership here at home that gave us strong American influence abroad, and the collapse of imperial Communism. Great nations have responsibilities to lead, and we should always be cautious of those who would lower our profile, because they might just wind up lowering our flag."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I have seen the rise of fascism and communism. Both philosophies glorify the arbitrary power of the state... But both theories fail. Both deny those God-given liberties that are the inalienable right of each person on this planet, indeed, they deny the existence of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The Constitution was never meant to prevent people from praying, it's declared purpose was to protect their freedom to pray"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our whole system of government is based on \"We the people,\" but if we the people don't pay attention to what's going on, we have no right to bellyache or squawk when things go wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Approximately 80% of our air pollution stems from hydrocarbons released by vegetation, so let's not go overboard in setting and enforcing tough emission standards from man-made sources."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Isn't it strange that ... people build walls to keep an enemy out, and there's only one part of the world and one philosophy where they have to build walls to keep their people in"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Thomas Jefferson once said. He said , \"We should never judge a President by his age, only by his works.\" And ever since he told me that, I've stopped worrying. There are those who say I've stopped working."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Let the Fourth of July always be a reminder that here in this land, for the first time, it was decided that man is born with certain God-given rights; that government is only a convenience created and managed by the people, with no powers of its own except those voluntarily granted to it by the people. We sometimes forget that great truth, and we never should. Happy Fourth of July."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Politics is not a bad profession. If you succeed there are many rewards, if you disgrace yourself you can always write a book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We establish no religion in this country. We command no worship. We mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are and must remain separate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: An actor knows two important things - to be honest in what he is doing and to be in touch with the audience. That's not bad advice for a politician either."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Families cannot prosper and keep America strong if government becomes a Goliath that preys upon their wealth, usurps their rights, and crushes their spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: You get to know people as individuals. The dreams of people may differ, but everybody wants their dreams to come true. And America, above all places, gives us the freedom to do that"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We don't lump people by groups or special interests. And let me add, in the party of Lincoln there is no room for intolerance and not even a small corner for anti-Semitism or bigotry of any kind. Many people are welcome in our house, but not the bigots."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: There are only two things that the liberals don't understand: the things that change and the things that don't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The Democrats say that the United States has had its days in the sun, that our nation has passed its zenith. They expect you to tell your children that the American people no longer have the will to cope with their problems, that the future will be one of sacrifice and few opportunities. My fellow citizens, I utterly reject that view."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: For us to ignore by inaction the slaughter of American civilians and American soldiers, whether in nightclubs or airline terminals, is simply not in the American tradition. Self-defense is not only our right, it is our duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The difference between them and us is that we want to check government spending and they want to spend government checks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: You can tell alot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Freedom is the recognition that no single person, no single authority or government has a monopoly on the truth, but that every individual life is infinitely precious, that every one of us put in this world has been put there for a reason and has something to offer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I'm convinced that today the majority of Americans want what those first Americans wanted: A better life for themselves and their children; a minimum of government authority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: For one, we very much need in any immigration bill - we need protection for people who are in this country and who have not become citizens, for example, that they are protected and legitimized and given permanent residency here. And we want to see some things of that kind added to the immigration bill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Concentrated power has always been the enemy of liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The federal government has taken too much tax money from the people, too much authority from the states, and too much liberty with the Constitution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I believe that the most essential element of our defense of freedom is our insistence on speaking out for the cause of religious liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Peace is more than just an absence of war. True peace is justice, true peace is freedom, and true peace dictates the recognition of human rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: As long as there are guns, the individual that wants a gun for a crime is going to have one and going to get it. The only person who's going to be penalized and have difficulty is the law-abiding citizen, who then cannot have [it] if he wants protection -- the protection of a weapon in his home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Great nations which fail to meet their responsibilities are consigned to the dustbin of history. We grew from that small, weak republic which had as its assets spirit, optimism, faith in God and an unshakeable belief that free men and women could govern themselves wisely. We became the leader of the free world, an example for all those who cherish freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: They don't subscribe to our sense of morality; they don't believe in an afterlife; they don't believe in a God or religion. And the only morality they recognize, therefore, is what will advance the cause or socialism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Every new day begins with possibilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization: Come here to this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate! Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Public servants say, always with the best of intentions, 'What greater service we could render if only we had a little more money and a little more power.' But the truth is that outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or as economically as the private sector."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The federal government did not create the states; the states created the federal government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Ours was the first revolution in the history of mankind that truly reversed the course of government, and with three little words: 'We the people.' 'We the people' tell the government what to do, it doesn't tell us. 'We the people' are the driver, the government is the car. And we decide where it should go, and by what route, and how fast. Almost all the world's constitutions are documents in which governments tell the people what their privileges are. Our Constitution is a document in which 'We the people' tell the government what it is allowed to do. 'We the people' are free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: No nation in history has ever survived a tax burden that reached a third of its national income."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: In America, our origins matter less than our destination, and that is what democracy is all about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Unemployment insurance is a pre-paid vacation for freeloaders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: You and I have the courage to say to our enemies, 'There is a price we will not pay.' There is a point beyond which they must not advance. This is the meaning of the phrase 'Peace through strength.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Some years ago, the federal government declared war on poverty, and poverty won."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Freedom is the right to question and change the established way of doing things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Without God, democracy will not and cannot long endure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Politics and morality are inseparable. And as morality's foundation is religion, religion and politics are necessarily related. We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect, and our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The frustrating thing is that those who are attacking religion claim they are doing it in the name of tolerance, freedom and openmindedness. Question: Isn't the real truth that they are intolerant of religion? They refuse to tolerate its importance in our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Outside of its legitimate function, government does nothing as well or economically as the private sector."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is a weapon our adversaries in today's world do not have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Don't be afraid to see what you see."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Entrepreneurs and their small enterprises are responsible for almost all the economic growth in the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: America is the moral force that defeated communism and all those who would put the human soul itself into bondage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I believe in a sound, strong environmental policy that protects the health of our people and a wise stewardship of our nation's natural resources."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: [The Soviets] preach the supremacy of the state, declare its omnipotence over individual man, and predict its eventual domination of all peoples on the earth; they are the focus of evil in the modern world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our enemies may be irrational, even outright insane, driven by nationalism, religion, ethnicity or ideology. They do not fear the United States for its diplomatic skills or the number of automobiles and software programs it produces. They respect only the firepower of our tanks, planes and helicopter gunships."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: What's happening in Cuba is not a failure of the Cuban people. It's a failure of Fidel Castro and the Communists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The economic welfare of all our people must ultimately stem not from government programs, but from the wealth created by a vigorous private sector."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: But in the West today, we see a free world that has achieved a level of prosperity and well-being unprecedented in all human history. In the Communist world, we see failure, technological backwardness, declining standards of health, even want of the most basic kind - too little food. Even today, the Soviet Union still cannot feed itself. After these four decades, then, there stands before the entire world one great and inescapable conclusion: Freedom leads to prosperity. Freedom replaces the ancient hatreds among the nations with comity and peace. Freedom is the victor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If the family goes, so goes our civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Let us thank God for life and the blessings He's put before us. High among them are our families, our freedom, and the opportunities of a new year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: America was founded by people who believe that God was their rock of safety. I recognize we must be cautious in claiming that God is on our side, but I think it's all right to keep asking if we're on His side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Unless bureaucracy is constantly resisted, it breaks down representative government and overwhelms democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Self-defense is not only our right; it is our duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If you don't know whether a body is alive or dead, you would never bury it. I think this consideration itself should be enough for all of us to insist on protecting the unborn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We are a nation that has a government-not the other way around. And that makes us special among the nations of the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Professional politicians like to talk about the value of experience in government. Nuts! The only experience you gain in politics is how to be political."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The best social program is a productive job for anyone who's willing to work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: When liberals say 'family', they mean 'Big Brother in Washington.' When we say 'family,' we mean 'honor thy father and mother.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Let us remember with devotion that the flag we love and honor is the flag of freedom that flew in victory at Yorktown, the flag the United States Marines raised on Mount Suribachi, the flag Francis Scott Key saw by the dawn's early light. Long may it wave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The most fundamental paradox is that if we're never to use force, we must be prepared to use it and to use it successfully. We Americans don't want war and we don't start fights. We don't maintain a strong military force to conquer or coerce others. The purpose of our military is simple and straightforward: we want to prevent war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We've been a free people living under the law, with faith in our Maker and in our future. I've said before that the most sublime picture in American history is of George Washington on his knees in the snow at Valley Forge. That image personifies a people who know that it's not enough to depend on our own courage and goodness; we must also seek help from God, our Father and Preserver."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I was going to have an opening statement, but I decided that what I was going to say I wanted to get a lot of attention, so I'm going to wait and leak it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I do not believe in a fate that will fall on us no matter what we do.  I do believe in a fate that will fall on us if we do nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We hear much of special interest groups. Well, our concern must be for a special interest group that has been too long neglected. It knows no sectional boundaries or ethnic and racial divisions, and it crosses political party lines. It is made up of men and women who raise our food, patrol our streets, man our mines and factories, teach our children, keep our homes, and heal us when we're sick - professionals, industrialists, shopkeepers, clerks, cabbies, and truck drivers. They are, in short, \"We the people,\" this breed called Americans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I was 21 and looking for work in 1932, one of the worst years of the Great Depression. And I can remember one bleak night in the thirties when my father learned on Christmas Eve that he'd lost his job. To be young in my generation was to feel that your future had been mortgaged out from under you, and that's a tragic mistake we must never allow our leaders to make again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Freedom-loving people around the world must say . . . I am a refugee in a crowded boat foundering off the coast of Vietnam. I am Laotian, a Cambodian, a Cuban, and a Miskito Indian in Nicaragua. I, too, am a potential victim of totalitarianism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Simple morality dictates that unless and until someone can prove the unborn human is not alive, we must give it the benefit of the doubt and assume it is (alive). And, thus, it should be entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Those who advocate more and more government regulation have been experimenting for 40 years, trying to create an economic system in which everyone can somehow be made more prosperous by the toil of someone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our leaders must remember that education doesn't begin with some isolated bureaucrat in Washington. It doesn't even begin with state or local officials. Education begins in the home, where it is a parental right and responsibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I am told that tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day; for that I am deeply grateful. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each inaugural day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We're here to mark that day in history when the Allied peoples joined in battle to reclaim this continent to liberty. For four long years, much of Europe had been under a terrible shadow. Free nations had fallen, Jews cried out in the camps, millions cried out for liberation. Europe was enslaved, and the world prayed for its rescue. Here in Normandy the rescue began. Here the Allies stood and fought against tyranny in a giant undertaking unparalleled in human history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Make no mistake, abortion-on-demand is not a right granted by the Constitution. No serious scholar, including one disposed to agree with the Court's result, has argued that the framers of the Constitution intended to create such a right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our policy is simple: We are not going to betray our friends, reward the enemies of freedom, or permit fear and retreat to become American policies \u2014 especially in this hemisphere. None of the four wars in my lifetime came about because we were too strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Well, I think there has to be some (gun) control."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Law and freedom must be indivisible partners. For without law, there can be no freedom, only choas and disorder; and without freedom, law is but a cynical veneer for injustice and oppression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: In an ironic sense, Karl Marx was right. We are witnessing today a great revolutionary crisis, a crisis where the demands of the economic order are conflicting directly with those of the political order. But the crisis is happening not in the . . . West, but in the home of Marxism-Leninism, the Soviet Union. It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: This country was founded and built by people with great dreams and the courage to take great risks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The Founding Fathers believed that faith in God was the key to our being a good people and America's becoming a great nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity; not stifle it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Intelligence reports say Castro is very worried about me. I'm very worried that we can't come up with something to justify his worrying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We in America have learned bitter lessons from two world wars:  It is better to be here [in Europe] ready to protect the peace, than to take blind shelter across the sea, rushing to respond only after freedom is lost.  We've learned that isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with an expansionist intent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We don't need more politicians insisting we have deficits because you're not taxed enough. Those deficits ballooned from an economy that didn't grow enough and from 50 years of government spending too much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I've never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a 'fat cat' and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a 'public-spirited philanthropist'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: You and I know and do not believe that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery. If nothing in life is worth dying for, when did this begin-just in the face of this enemy? Or should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots at Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot heard 'round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools, and our honored dead who gave their lives to stop the advance of the Nazis didn't die in vain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I hope you're all Republicans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Unless and until it can be proven that an unborn child is not a living human being, can we justify assuming without proof that it isn't? No one has yet offered such proof; indeed, all the evidence is to the contrary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: A tree's a tree. How many more do you need to look at?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I just wanted to speak to you about something from the Internal Revenue Code. It is the last sentence of section 509A of the code and it reads: 'For purposes of paragraph 3, an organization described in paragraph 2 shall be deemed to include an organization described in section 501C-4, 5, or 6, which would be described in paragraph 2 if it were an organization described in section 501C-3.' And that's just one sentence out of those fifty-seven feet of books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I believe that George Washington knew the City of Man cannot survive without the City of God; that the Visible City will perish without the Invisible City."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I believe no challenge is more important to the character of America than restoring the right to life to all human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Anytime you and I question the schemes of the do-gooders, we're denounced as being against their humanitarian goals. They say we're always \"against\" things-we're never \"for\" anything. Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If no one among us is capable of governing himself, then who among us has the capcity to govern someone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Has anyone stopped to consider that we might come closer to balancing the budget if all of us simply tried to live up to the Ten Commandments and the Golden Rule?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: God, the source of our knowledge, has been expelled from the classroom. He gives us His greatest blessing, life, and yet many would condone the taking of innocent life. We expect Him to protect us in a crisis, but turn away from Him too often in our day-to-day living. I wonder if He isn't waiting for us to wake up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: They [The Soviet Union] are the focus of evil in the modern world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our tax policy is engineered by people who view tax as a means of achieving changes in our social structure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few, but the universal right of all God's children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: One hundred nations in the UN have not agreed with us on just about everything that's come before them, where we're involved, and it didn't upset my breakfast at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I'm proud of having been one of the first to recognize that states and the federal government have a duty to protect our natural resources from the damaging effects of pollution that can accompany industrial development."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: America needs jobs and opportunity, not make-work and handouts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: When those who are governed do too little, those who govern can - and often will - do too much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal. It was Mussolini's success in Italy, with his government-directed economy, that led the early New Dealers to say \"But Mussolini keeps the trains running on time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We must remove government's smothering hand from where it does harm; we must seek to revitalize the proper functions of government. We do these things to set loose again the energy and the ingenuity of the American people. We do these things to reinvigorate those social and economic institutions which serve as a buffer and a bridge between the individual and the state - and which remain the real source of our progress as a people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: There can be no security anywhere in the free world if there is no fiscal and economic stability within the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: f you analyze it I believe the very heart and soul of conservatism is libertarianism. I think conservatism is really a misnomer just as liberalism is a misnomer for the liberals - if we were back in the days of the Revolution, so-called conservatives today would be the Liberals and the liberals would be the Tories. The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom and this is a pretty general description also of what libertarianism is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: There is no foundation like the rock of honesty and fairness, and when you begin to build your life on that rock, with the cement of the faith in God that you have, then you have a real start."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We have so many people who can't see a fat man standing beside a thin one without coming to the conclusion that the fat man got that way by taking advantage of the thin one!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: During my first press conference as president, in answer to a direct question, I pointed out that, as good Marxist-Leninists, the Soviet leaders have openly and publicly declared that the only morality they recognize is that which will further their cause, which is world revolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I'm no linguist, but I have been told that in the Russian language, there isn't even a word for freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We're approaching the end of a bloody century plagued by a terrible political invention, totalitarianism. Optimism comes less easily today, not because democracy is less vigorous, but because democracy's enemies have refined their instruments of repression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: A nuclear war cannot be won and must never be fought. The only value in our two nations possessing nuclear weapons is to make sure they will never be used. But then would it not be better to do away with them entirely?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Americans are not going to tolerate intimidation, terror and outright acts of war against this nation and its people. And we are especially not going to tolerate these attacks from outlaw states run by the strangest collection of misfits, Looney Tunes and squalid criminals since the advent of the Third Reich ... There can be no place on earth where it is safe for these monsters to rest,or train or practice their cruel and deadly. We must act together - or unilateraly, if necessary - to ensue that these terrorists have no sanctuary, anywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Man is not free unless government is limited."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Millions of individuals making their own decisions in the marketplace will always allocate resources better than any centralized government planning process."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: History shows that when the taxes of a nation approach about 20 percent of the people's income, there begins to be a lack of respect for government.... When it reaches 25 percent, there comes an increase in lawlessness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Respect for human rights is not social work; it is not merely an act of compassion. It is the first obligation of government and the source of its legitimacy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Words are even more feeble on this Memorial Day, for the sight before us is that of a strong and good nation that stands in silence and remembers those who were loved and who, in return, loved their countrymen enough to die for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We have the means to change the laws we find unjust or onerous. We cannot, as citizens, pick and choose the laws we will or will not obey."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We can not play innocents abroad in a world that is not innocent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Small business is the gateway to opportunity for those who want a piece of the American dream... Well, wouldn't it be nice to hear a little more about the forgotten heroes of America - those who create most of our new jobs, like the owners of stores down the street; the faithfuls who support our churches, synagogues, schools, and communities; the brave men and women everywhere who produce our goods, feed a hungry world, and keep our families warm while they invest in the future to build a better America? That's where miracles are made, not in Washington, D.C."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We will always remember. We will always be proud. We will always be prepared, so we will always be free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children\u2019s children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The family has always been the cornerstone of American society. Our families nurture, preserve, and pass on to each succeeding generation the values we share and cherish, values that are the foundation of our freedoms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Are you entitled to the fruits of your own labor or does government have some presumptive right to spend and spend and spend?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: These are the boys of Pointe du Hoc. These are the men who took the cliffs. These are the champions who helped free a continent. These are the heroes who helped end a war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: My mother told me that everything in life happened for a purpose. She said all things were part of God's plan, even the most disheartening setbacks, and in the end, everything worked out for the best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The arts and humanities teach us who we are and what we can be. They lie at the very core of the culture of which we're a part."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Government is the people's business and every man, woman and child becomes a shareholder with the first penny of tax paid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Are you willing to spend time studying the issues, making yourself aware, and then conveying that information to family and friends? Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: On Father's Day, we pay tribute to all in our society who have taken on the responsibilities and joys of fatherhood. Whether our fathers are near at hand or a continent away, with their families or watching from the light of eternity, we take this day to remember them, to say our thanks for the years they have given us, and to ask that they receive God's blessings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If we've learned any lessons during the past few decades, perhaps the most important is that preservation of our environment is not a partisan challenge; it's common sense. Our physical health, our social happiness, and our economic well-being will be sustained only by all of us working in partnership as thoughtful, effective stewards of our natural resources."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Today, the United States stands as a beacon of liberty and democratic strength before the community of nations. We are resolved to stand firm against those who would destroy the freedoms we cherish. We are determined to achieve an enduring peace - a peace with liberty and with honor. This determination, this resolve, is the highest tribute we can pay to the many who have fallen in the service of our Nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Governments don't reduce deficits by raising taxes on the people; governments reduce deficits by controlling spending and stimulating new wealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: One day, a pretty, fresh-faced young lady - intelligent and sincerely concerned - asked me if abortion wasn't preferable to making a young, unmarried girl have a baby she didn't want and which would, therefore, grow up unloved and probably turn out to be a criminal. I gave an answer which apparently she hadn't considered. I told her there were literally millions of people in this country who wanted but could not have children and who waited eagerly, sometimes for years, to adopt the baby she had described."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: With freedom goes responsibility, a responsibility that can only be met by the individual himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If we look to the answer as to why for so many years we achieved so much, prospered as no other people on earth, it was because here in this land we unleashed the energy and individual genius of man to a greater extent than has ever been done before. Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay that price."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: When people tell me that I became President on January 20th, 1981, I feel I have to correct them. You don't become President of the United States. You are given temporary custody of an institution called the Presidency, which belongs to our people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We believe faith and freedom must be our guiding stars, for they show us truth, they make us brave, give us hope, and leave us wiser than we were."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The doors of this Library are open now and are all welcome. The judgment of history is left to you, the people. I have no fears of that, for we have done our best. And so I say, come and learn from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit. People, worldwide, hunger for the right of self-determination, for those inalienable rights that make for human dignity and progress. America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace. Every blow we inflict against poverty will be a blow against its dark allies of oppression and war. Every victory for human freedom will be a victory for world peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I can't help but believe that in the future we will see in the United States and throughout the Western world an increasing trend toward the next logical step, employee ownership. It is a path that befits a free people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I think it's time we ask ourselves if we still know the freedoms that were intended for us by the Founding Fathers... Whether we believe in our capacity for self-government or whether we abandon the American Revolution and confess that a little intellectual elite in a far-distant capital can plan our lives for us better than we can plan them for ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I have always thought of government as a kind of organism with an insatiable appetite for money, whose natural state is to grow forever unless you do something to starve it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the size of the deficit, it's the size of government's claim on our economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: People do not make wars; governments do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our liberties, our values, all for which America stands is safe today because brave men and women have been ready to face the fire at freedom's front. And we thank God for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: For a time, we forgot the American dream isn't one of making government bigger, it's keeping faith with the mighty spirit of free people under God"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The WPA was one of the most productive elements of FDR's alphabet soup of agencies because it put people to work building roads, bridges, and other projects... It gave men and women a chance to make some money along with the satisfaction of knowing they earned it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We are at war with the most dangerous enemy that has ever faced mankind in his long climb from the swamp to the stars, and it has been said if we lose that war, and in so doing lose this way of freedom of ours, history will record with the greatest astonishment that those who had the most to lose did the least to prevent its happening."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: And how stands the city on this winter night? More prosperous, more secure, and happier than it was 8 years ago. But more than that: After 200 years, two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge, and her glow has held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness, toward home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We who live in free market societies believe that growth and prosperity, and ultimately human fulfillment are created from the bottom up, not the government down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We're the party that wants to see an America in which people can still get rich."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If history teaches us anything, it teaches that simple-minded appeasement or wishful thinking about our adversaries is folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I've always believed that this blessed land was set apart in a special way, that some divine plan placed this great continent here between the oceans to be found by people from every corner of the Earth who had a special love for freedom and the courage to uproot themselves, leave homeland and friends, to come to a strange land. And coming here they created something new in all the history of mankind-a land where man is not beholden to government, government is beholden to man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: America is a melting pot, and education has been a mainspring for our democracy and freedom, a means of providing gifts of knowledge and opportunity to all citizens, no matter how humble their background, so they could climb higher, help build the American dream, and leave a better life for those who follow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: It's said that prayer can move mountains. Well, it's certainly moved the hearts and minds of Americans in their times of trial and helped them to achieve a society that, for all its imperfections, is still the envy of the world and the last, best hope of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The . . . inescapable truth is: government does not have all the answers. In too many instances, government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: More than any gift or toy, ornament of tree, let us resolve that this Christmas shall be, like that first Christmas, a celebration of interior treasures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Christmas can be celebrated in the school room with pine trees, tinsel and reindeers, but there must be no mention of the man whose birthday is being celebrated. One wonders how a teacher would answer if a student asked why it was called Christmas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Freedom is indivisible - there is no \"s\" on the end of it. You can erode freedom, diminish it, but you cannot divide it and choose to keep \"some freedoms\" while giving up others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I supported this bill. I believe in the idea of amnesty for those who have put down roots and who have lived here even though sometime back they may have entered illegally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Whatever else history may say about me when I'm gone, I hope it will record that I appealed to your best hopes, not your worst fears; to your confidence rather than your doubts. My dream is that you will travel the road ahead with liberty's lamp guiding your steps and opportunity's arm steadying your way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Together, let us make this a new beginning. Let us make a commitment to care for the needy, to teach our children the values and the virtues handed down to us by our families, to have the courage to defend those values and the willingess to sacrifice for them. Let us pledge to restore, in our time, the American spirit of voluntary service, of cooperation, of private and community initiative, a spirit that flows like a deep and mighty river through the history of our nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I believe we must resolve the problem at our southern border with full regard to the problems and needs of Mexico. I have suggested legalizing the entry of Mexican labor into this country on much the same basis you proposed, although I have not put it into the sense of restoring the bracero program."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If it takes a bloodbath now let's get it over with."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We've been blessed with the opportunity to stand for something - for liberty and freedom and fairness. And these are things worth fighting for, worth devoting our lives to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: 'Trust-me' government asks that we concentrate our hopes and dreams on one man, that we trust him to do what's best for us. My view of government places trust not in one person or one party, but in those values that transcend persons and parties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The American people cannot close their eyes to abuses of human rights and injustice, whether they occur among friend or adversary or even on our own shores."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I believe that communism is another sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages even now are being written. I believe this because the source of our strength in the quest for human freedom is not material, but spiritual. And because it knows no limitation, it must terrify and ultimately triumph over those who would enslave their fellow men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We will remain steady. We will pursue every avenue in the search for peace and stability."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The work of volunteer groups throughout our country represents the very heart and soul of America. They have helped make this the most compassionate, generous, and humane society that ever existed on the face of this earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: America has not been a story or a byword. That small community of Pilgrims prospered and, driven by the dreams and, yes, by the ideas of the Founding Fathers, went on to become a beacon to all the oppressed and poor of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: An informed patriotism is what we want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The full consequences of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplate. Denigration of the full faith and credit of the United States would have substantial effects on the domestic financial markets and on the value of the dollar in exchange markets. The Nation can ill afford to allow such a result. The risks, the cost, the disruptions, and the incalculable damage lead me to but one conclusion: the Senate must pass this legislation before the Congress adjourns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We welcome change and openness; for we believe that freedom and security go together, that the advance of human liberty can only strengthen the cause of world peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The man who puts into the marriage only half\r\nof what he owns will get that out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I don't have to tell you how fragile this precious gift of freedom is. Every time we hear, watch, or read the news, we are reminded that liberty is a rare commodity in this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: . . . And always remember that you are Americans, and it is your birthright to dream great dreams in this sweet and blessed land, truly the greatest, freest, strongest nation on Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Let it never be said of this generation of Americans that we became so obsessed with failure that we refused to take risks that could further the cause of peace and freedom in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We're resolved tonight that young Americans will always see those Potomac lights, that they will always find here a city of hope in a country that's free so that when other generations look back at this conservative era in American politics and our time in power, they'll say of us that we did hold true to that dream of Joseph Winthrop and Joseph Warren, that we did keep faith with our God, that we did act worthy of ourselves, that we did protect and pass on lovingly that shining city on a hill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Yes, the deficit doctors have their scalpels out all right, but they're not poised over the budget. That's as fat as ever and getting fatter. What they're ready to operate on is your wallet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Once people who have been deprived of basic freedom taste a little of it, they want all of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Governments don't control things.  A government can't control the economy without controlling people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: America must remain freedom's staunchest friend, for freedom is our best ally and it is the world's only hope to conquer poverty and preserve peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Together, we'll build a far better future for America -- a future of growth, opportunity, and security, anchored by the values of a people who are confident, compassionate, and whose heart is good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx - first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a Government being Big Brother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Someone must stand up to those who say, \"Here's the key, there's the Treasury, just take as many of those hard-earned tax dollars as you want.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We can't have it both ways. We can't expect God to protect us in a crisis and just leave Him over there on the shelf in our day-to-day living. I wonder if sometimes He isn't waiting for us to wake up, He isn't maybe running out of patience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I just have to believe that with love for our natural heritage and a firm resolve to preserve it with wisdom and care, we can and will give the American land to our children, not impaired, but enhanced. And in doing this, we'll honor the great and loving God who gave us this land in the first place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Thomas Jefferson made a comment about the Presidency and age. He said that one should not worry about one's exact chronological age in reference to his ability to perform one's task. And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: And children, if your parents haven't been teaching you what it means to be an American, let 'em know and nail 'em on it. That would be a very American thing to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Only when the human spirit is allowed to invent and create, only when individuals are given a personal stake in deciding economic policies and benefiting from their success - only then can societies remain economically alive, dynamic, prosperous, progressive and free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Fellow Americans, our duty is before us tonight. Let us go forward, determined to serve selflessly a vision of man with God, government for people, and humanity at peace. For it is now our task to tend and preserve, through the darkest and coldest nights, that \"sacred fire of liberty\" that President Washington spoke of two centuries ago, a fire that tonight remains a beacon to all oppressed of the world, shining forth from this kindly, pleasant, greening land we call America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: America's foreign policy supports freedom, democracy, and human dignity for all mankind, and we make no apologies for it. The opportunity society that we want for ourselves we also want for others, not because we're imposing our system on others but because those opportunities belong to all people as God-given birthrights and because by promoting democracy and economic opportunity we make peace more secure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The more the plans fail, the more the planners plan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We've got to teach history based not on what's in fashion, but what's important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We remember those who were called upon to give all a person can give, and we remember those who were prepared to make that sacrifice if it were demanded of them in the line of duty, though it never was. Most of all, we remember the devotion and gallantry with which all of them ennobled their nation as they became champions of a noble cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved good-bye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our spirit is back, but we haven't reinstitutionalized it. We've got to do a better job of getting across that America is freedom - freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of enterprise. And freedom is special and rare. It's fragile; it needs production [protection]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Love your country, not for her power or wealth, but for her selflessness and her idealism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The dustbin of history is littered with remains of those countries that relied on diplomacy to secure their freedom. We must never forget . . . in the final analysis . . . that it is our military, industrial and economic strength that offers the best guarantee of peace for America in times of danger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We have God's promise that what we give will be given back many times over, so let us go forth from here and rekindle the fire of our faith. Let our wisdom be vindicated by our deeds. We are told in II Timothy that when our work is done, we can say, ``We have fought the good fight. We have finished the race. We have kept the faith.'' This is an evidence of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I intend to go right on appointing highly qualified individuals of the highest personal integrity to the bench, individuals who understand the danger of short-circuiting the electoral process and disenfranchising the people through judicial activism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The Founding Fathers knew a government can't control the economy without controlling people. And they knew when a government sets out to do that it must use force and coercion to achieve its purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Economists are people who wonder if what works in reality can also work in theory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: When the Commander-in-Chief of a nation finds it necessary to order employees of the government or agencies of the government to do things that would technically break the law, he has to be able to declare it legal for them to do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Work and family are at the center of our lives, the foundation of our dignity as a free people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: It's all part of taking a chance and expanding man's horizons. The future doesn't belong to the fainthearted; it belongs to the brave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Now, so there will be no misunderstanding, it's not my intention to do away with government. It is rather to make it work - work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The challenge of statesmanship is to have the vision to dream of a better, safer world and the courage, persistence, and patience to turn that dream into reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Life involves effort and growth. You won't grow by watching a situation comedy, though you can grow by reading a book. I hope we aren't becoming a nation of watchers, because what made us great is that we've always been a nation of doers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: A broader reading of history shows that appeasement, no matter how it is labeled, never fulfills the hopes of the appeasers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: By working together, pooling our resources and building on our strengths, we can accomplish great things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Mankind's journey into space, like every great voyage of discovery, will become part of our unending journey of liberation. In the limitless reaches of space, we will find liberation from tyranny, from scarcity, from ignorance and from war. We will find the means to protect this Earth and to nurture every human life, and to explore the universe. . . .This is our mission, this is our destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Greatest gift is human life and that we have a duty to protect the life of an unborn child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The glory of this land has been its capacity for transcending the moral evils of our past.  For example, the long struggle of minority citizens for equal rights, once a source of disunity and civil war, is now a point of pride for all Americans.  We must never go back.  There is no room for racism, anti-Semitism, or other forms of ethnic and racial hatred in this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: May every day be a new beginning, and every dawn bring us closer to that shining city upon a hill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: There are no words to express the extraordinary strength and character of this breed of people we call American. They are the kind of men and women Tom Paine had in mind when he wrote, during the darkest days of the American Revolution, we have it in our power to begin the world over again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We meant to change a nation, and instead, we changed a world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I've always thought New Year's Day was an especially American tradition, full of the optimism and hope we're famous for in our daily lives -- an energy and confidence we call the American spirit. Perhaps because we know we control our own destiny, we believe deep down inside that working together we can make each new year better than the old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of these United States are covenants we have made not only with ourselves, but with all mankind. Our founding documents proclaim to the world that freedom is not the sole prerogative of a chosen few. It is the universal right of all God's children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Perhaps there is a simple answer -- not an easy answer -- but simple: If you and I have the courage to tell our elected officials that we want our national policy based on what we know in our hearts is morally right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If the Soviet Union let another political party come into existence, they would still be a one-party state, because everybody would join the other party."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our status as a free society and world power is not based on brute strength. When we've taken up arms, it has been for the defense of freedom for ourselves and for other peaceful nations who needed our help. But now, faced with the development of weapons with immense destructive power, we've no choice but to maintain ready defense forces that are second to none. Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: From my mother I learned the value of prayer, how to have dreams and believe I could make them come true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Every new day begins with possibilities. It's up to us to fill it with the things that move us toward progress and peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: A troubled and afflicted mankind looks to us, pleading for us to keep our rendezvous with destiny; that we will uphold the principles of self-reliance, self-discipline, morality, and - above all - responsible liberty for every individual that we will become that shining city on a hill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I'm not smart enough to lie"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The men of Normandy had faith that what they were doing was right, faith that they fought for all humanity, faith that a just God would grant them mercy on this beachhead or the next. It was the deep knowledge - and pray God we have not lost it - that there is a profound moral difference between the use of force for liberation and the use of force for conquest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual, rights which they found implicit in the Bible's teachings of the inherent worth and dignity of each individual. This same sense of man patterned the convictions of those who framed the English system of law inherited by our own Nation, as well as the ideals set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The Bible and its teachings helped form the basis for the Founding Fathers' abiding belief in the inalienable rights of the individual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: There is no institution more vital to our Nation's survival than the American family. Here the seeds of personal character are planted, the roots of public virtue first nourished. Through love and instruction, discipline, guidance and example, we learn from our mothers and fathers the values that will shape our private lives and our public citizenship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I was raised to believe that God has a plan for everyone and that seemingly random twists of fate are all a part of His plan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The Bible can touch our hearts, order our minds, refresh our souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: You and I are told increasingly we have to choose between left or right. Well, I'd like to suggest there is no such thing as a left or right. There's only an up or down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We will never recognize the true value of our own lives until we affirm the value in the life of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The First Continental Congress made its first act a prayer, the beginning of a great tradition. We have then a lesson from the founders of our land.  That lesson is clear: That in the winning of freedom and in the living of life, the first step is prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war. It's to be prepared for peace. There's a sign over the entrance to the Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington state, and that sign says it all: 'Peace is our profession'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We are a nation that has a government - not the other way around. And this makes us special among the nations of the earth. Our government has no power except that granted to it by the people It is time to check and reverse the growth of government which shows signs of having grown beyond the consent of the governed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We need true tax reform that will at least make a start toward restoring for our children the American dream that wealth is denied to no one, that each individual has the right to fly as high as his strength and ability will take him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: A friend of mine was asked to a costume ball a short time ago. He slapped some egg on his face and went as a liberal economist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We stand together as we did two centuries ago, One people under God determined that our future shall be worthy of our past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: When the lives of the unborn are snuffed out, they often feel pain, pain that is long and agonizing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Revolution means democracy in today's world, not the enslavement of peoples to the corrupt and degrading horrors of totalitarianism"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: When you start talking about government as 'we' instead of 'they,' you have been in office too long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The best view of big government is in the rearview mirror as we leave it behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Heroes may not be braver than anyone else. They're just braver five minutes longer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We do not deny any nation's legitimate interest in security. But protecting the security of one nation by robbing another of its national independence and national traditions is not legitimate. In the long run, it is not even secure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We have every right to dream heroic dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If we listen to our hearts, believe in ourselves, and pull together, nothing can stand in our way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Perhaps no custom reveals our character as a Nation so clearly as our celebration of Thanksgiving Day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I have only one thing to say to the tax increasers: Go ahead, make my day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I have recently been told that I am one of the millions of Americans who will be afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease. . .. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Yes, the cost is high, but the price of neglect would be infinitely higher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Today, we're taking a break from the concerns and the bustle of the work-a-day world. But we're also making a new beginning... Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives, and let us resolve to face the challenges of the new year holding that conviction firmly in our hearts. That, after all, is our greatest strength and our greatest gift as Americans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Detente - isn't that what a farmer has with his turkey - until Thanksgiving?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The fact is, we'll never build a lasting economic recovery by going deeper into debt at a faster rate than we ever have before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: For three decades, we have sought to solve the problems of unemployment through government planning, and the more the plans fail, the more the planners plan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: History teaches that war begins when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of human history by denying human freedom and human dignity to its citizens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Fascism was really the basis for the New Deal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: There are no easy answers' but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: It is the tendency of Government to grow, for practices and programs to become the nearest thing to eternal life we'll see on this earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: It doesn't do good to open doors for someone who doesn't have the price to get in. If he has the price, he may not need the laws. There is no law saying the Negro has to live in Harlem or Watts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people.  And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The struggle now going on for the world will never be decided by bombs or rockets, by armies or military might. The real crisis we face today is a spiritual one; at root, it is a test of moral will and faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Let me make our goal in this program very clear: jobs, jobs, jobs, and more jobs. Our policy has been and will continue to be: What is good for the American worker is good for America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Young Americans must never again be sent to fight and die unless we are prepared to let them win."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We must always meet our obligation to those who fall behind without our assistance. But let's remember, without a race there can be no champion, no records broken, no excellence - in education or any other walk of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: . . . I hope that when you're my age, you'll be able to say as I have been able to say: We lived in freedom, we lived lives that were a statement, not an apology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: America is still an eagle, and she's ready to soar again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Going to college offered me the chance to play football for four more years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I've often said there's nothing better for the inside of a man than the outside of a horse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Of the many messages found in the Hanukah story, the one that has always inspired me most is this: with a strong faith in the Almighty, nothing is impossible; and without the help of our Creator, we labor in vain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: A people free to choose will always choose peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Let us renew our faith that as free men and women we still have the power to better our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The ongoing migration of persons to the United States in violation of our laws is a serious national problem detrimental to the interests of the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I believe Moses was 80 when God first commissioned him for public service."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Every honor is appropriate for the courageous Americans who made the supreme sacrifice for our Nation at Pearl Harbor and in the many battles that followed in World War II. Their sacrifice was for a cause, not for conquest; for a world that would be safe for future generations. Their devotion must never be forgotten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: In a world wracked by hatred, economic crisis, and political tension, America remains mankind's best hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: For decades, we have piled deficit upon deficit, mortgaging our future and our children's future for the temporary convenience of the present. To continue this long trend is to guarantee tremendous social, cultural, political, and economic upheavals. You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we are not bound by that same limitation?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: For an America of wisdom that honors the family, knowing that if the family goes, so goes our civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: An America that is militarily and economically strong is not enough. The world must see an America that is morally strong with a creed and a vision. This is what has led us to dare and achieve. For us, values count."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Honey, I forgot to duck"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The Montreal Protocol is a model of cooperation. It is a product of the recognition and international consensus that ozone depletion is a global problem, both in terms of its causes and its effects. The protocol is the result of an extraordinary process of scientific study, negotiations among representatives of the business and environmental communities, and international diplomacy. It is a monumental achievement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The torch of liberty is hot; warms those who hold it high; burns those who try to extinguish it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We have found, in our country, that when people have the right to make decisions as close to home as possible, they usually make the right decisions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: My doctors told me this morning my blood pressure is down so low that I can start reading the newspapers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: A state is nothing more than a reflection of its citizens; the more decent the citizens, the more decent the state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The bill's a textbook example of special interest pork barrel politics at work, and I have no choice but to veto it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: When cruelty is inflicted on innocent people, it discredits whatever cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We're entering our third century now, but it's wrong to judge our nation by its years. The calendar can't measure America because we were meant to be an endless experiment in freedom, with no limits to our reaches, no boundaries to what we can do, no end point to our hopes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: T]he state Republican chairman, Gaylord Parkinson, postulated what he called the Eleventh Commandment: Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our American tradition of neighbor helping neighbor has always been one of our greatest strengths and most noble traditions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: A stronger defense is an investment in peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. To keep the peace, we and our allies must be strong enough to convince any potential aggressor that war could bring no benefit, only disaster."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: [Andrew Jackson] was actually 70 years old when he left the White House"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: My fellow citizens, our nation is poised for greatness. We must do what we know is right, and do it with all our might. Let history say of us: \"These were golden years - when the American Revolution was reborn, when freedom gained new life, and America reached for her best.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Throughout our history Americans have put their faith in God and no one can doubt that we have been blessed for it. The earliest settlers of this land came came in search of religious freedom. Landing on a desolate shoreline, they established a spiritual foundation that has served us ever since."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The future belongs to the free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: There are worse things to be called than a dreamer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Throughout America today, we honor the dead of our wars. We recall their valor and their sacrifices. We remember they gave their lives so that others might live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: People don't start wars, governments do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Entrepreneurs are the forgotten heroes of America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: There seems to be an increasing awareness of something we Americans have known for some time - that the ten most dangerous words in the English language are \"Hi, I'm from the government, and I'm here to help.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Since when do we in America believe that our society is made up of two diametrically opposed classes - one rich, one poor - both in a permanent state of conflict and neither able to get ahead except at the expense of the other? Since when do we in America accept this alien and discredited theory of social and class warfare? Since when do we in America endorse the politics of envy and division?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Government must not supersede the will of the people or the responsibilities of the people. The function of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Since the foundation of the State of Israel, the United States has stood by her and helped her to pursue security, peace, and economic growth. Our friendship is based on historic moral and strategic ties, as well as our shared dedication to democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: And we're also remembering the guiding light of our Judeo-Christian tradition. All of us here today are descendants of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, sons and daughters of the same God. I believe we are bound by faith in our God, by our love for family and neighborhood, by our deep desire for a more peaceful world, and by our commitment to protect the freedom which is our legacy as Americans. These values have given a renewed sense of worth to our lives. They are infusing America with confidence and optimism that many thought we had lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: When we speak of peace, we should not mean just the absence of war. True peace rests on the pillars of individual freedom, human rights, national self-determination, and respect for the rule of law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Let us ask ourselves; \"What kind of people do we think we are?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I've long believed that one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or a corporation. Thomas Jefferson dreamed of a land of small farmers, of shopowners, and merchants. Abraham Lincoln signed into law the Homestead Act that ensured that the great western prairies of America would be the realm of independent, propertyowning citizens-a mightier guarantee of freedom is difficult to imagine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: A strong nation is one that is loved by its people and, as Edmund Burke put it, for a country to be loved it ought to be lovely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: When the Lord calls me home, whenever that may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this county of ours and eternal optimism for its future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We're in greater danger today than we were the day after Pearl Harbor. Our military is absolutely incapable of defending this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The time has come to match outgo to income, instead of always doing it the other way around."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there is one individual who is not being considered at all, and that is the one who is being aborted. And I have noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I don't know what I expected, but my first morning in the Oval Office had a surprising ring of familiarity to it. It reminded me a lot of my job as governor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I have a feeling that we are doing better in the war than the people have been told."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: How can we not believe in the greatness of America? How can we not do what is right and needed to preserve this last best hope of man on Earth? After all our struggles to restore America, to revive confidence in our country, hope for our future - after all our hard-won victories earned through the patience and courage of every citizen - we cannot, must not, and will not turn. We will finish our job. How could we do less? We're Americans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We in government should learn to look at our country with the eyes of the entrepreneur, seeing possibilities where others see only problems"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: In an atmosphere of liberty, artists and patrons are free to think the unthinkable and create the audacious; they are free to make both horrendous mistakes and glorious celebrations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We who live in free market societies believe that growth, prosperity and ultimately human fulfillment, are created from the bottom up, not the government down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I deplore the tendency, in some institutions, to go directly toward training for a trade or profession or something and ignoring the liberal arts. It is the foundation of education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Freedom prospers only where the blessings of God are avidly sought, and humbly accepted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We seek a constitutional amendment to permit voluntary school prayer. God should never have been expelled from America's classrooms in the first place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The doctor begins to lose freedoms; it's like telling a lie, and one leads to another. First you decide that the doctor can have so many patients. They are equally divided among the various doctors by the government. But then the doctors aren't equally divided geographically, so a doctor decides he wants to practice in one town and the government has to say to him you can't live in that town, they already have enough doctors. You have to go someplace else. And from here it is only a short step to dictating where he will go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Two visions of the world remain locked in dispute. The first believes all men are created equal by a loving God who has blessed us with freedom. The second vision believes that religion is opium for the masses. It believes that eternal principles like truth, liberty, and democracy have no meaning beyond the whim of the state. And [Vladimir] Lenin spoke for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The other day, someone told me the difference between a democracy and a people's democracy. It's the same difference between a jacket and a straitjacket."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: My basic rule is that I want people who don't want a job in government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Free enterprise has done more to reduce poverty than all the government programs dreamed up by Democrats."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We can't build a safer world with honorable intentions and good will alone. Achieving the fundamental goals our nation seeks in world affairs - peace, human rights, economics progress national independence and international stability - means supporting our friends and defending our interests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: You know, by the time you reach my age, you've made plenty of mistakes if you've lived your life properly. So you learn. You put things in perspective. You pull your energies together. You change. You go forward. My fellow Americans, I have a great deal that I want to accomplish with you and for you over the next two years. And, the Lord willing, that's exactly what I intend to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: But I also happen to be someone who believes in tithing--the giving of a tenth ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I'm convinced, more than ever, that man finds liberation only when he binds himself to God and commits himself to his fellow man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The family has always been the cornerstone of American society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Hope remains the highest reality, the age-old power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: In closing, let me thank you, the American people, for giving me the great honor of allowing me to serve as your president. When the Lord calls me home, whenever that day may be, I will leave with the greatest love for this country of ours and eternal optimism for its future. I now begin the journey that will lead me into the sunset of my life. I know that for America there will always be a bright dawn ahead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: They are our brothers, these freedom fighters.... They are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers and the brave men and women of the French Resistance. We cannot turn away from them, for the struggle here is not right versus left; it is right versus wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our moral imperative is to work with all our powers for that day when the children of the world grow up without the fear of nuclear war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We intend to keep the peace - we will also keep our freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I would have voted against the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I also believe this blessed land was set apart in a very special way, a country created by men and women who came here not in search of gold, but in search of God. They would be free people, living under the law with faith in their Maker and their future. Sometimes, it seems we've strayed from that noble beginning, from our conviction that standards of right and wrong do exist and must be lived up to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: So in your discussions of the nuclear freeze proposals, I urge you to beware the temptation of pride - the temptation blithely to declare yourselves above it all and label both sides equally at fault, to ignore the facts of history and the aggressive impulses of an evil empire, to simply call the arms race a giant misunderstanding and thereby remove yourself from the struggle between right and wrong, good and evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: For the people of Israel and America are historic partners in the global quest for human dignity and freedom. We will always remain at each other's side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: These are the values inspiring those brave workers in Poland. The values that have inspired other dissidents under communist domination. They remind us that where free unions and collective bargaining are forbidden, freedom is lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: A strong American economy is essential to the well-being and security of our friends and allies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: By outlawing Solidarity, a free trade organization to which an overwhelming majority of Polish workers and farmers belong, they have made it clear that they never had any intention of restoring one of the most elemental human rights the right to belong to a free trade union."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: This administration is totally colorblind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I'll be like Scarlett O'Hara-I'll think about it tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The basis of conservatism is a desire for less government interference or less centralized authority or more individual freedom..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The fourth landing of the Columbia is the historical equivalent of the driving of the golden spike which completed the first transcontinental railroad. It marks our entrance into a new era."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: While other [military] alliances have been formed to win wars, our fundamental purpose is to prevent war while preserving and extending the frontiers of freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I heard one presidential candidate say that what this country needed was a president for the nineties. I was set to run again. I thought he said a president IN his nineties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I've been told that some members of Congress disagree with my tax cut proposal. Well, you know it's been said that taxation is the art of plucking feathers without killing the bird. It's time they realized the bird just doesn't have any feathers left."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the welfare state to statism, to more and more government largesse accompanied always by more government authority, less individual liberty, and ultimately, totalitarianism, always advanced as for our own good. The alternative is the dream conceived by our Founding Fathers, up to the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I, for one, resent it when a representative of the people refers to you and me, the free men and women of this country, as 'the masses.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: You know economists; they're the sort of people who see something works in practice and wonder if it would work in theory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous. There are threats now to our freedom, indeed to our very existence, that other generations could never even have imagined. There is first the threat of global war. No president, no Congress, no prime minister, no parliament can spend a day entirely free of this threat. If history teaches anything, it teaches self-delusion in the face of unpleasant facts is folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things, and they didn't spring full-bloom from my brow - they came from the heart of a great nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: This is not the time for political fun and games. This is the time for a new beginning. I ask you now to put aside any feelings of frustration or helplessness about our political institutions and join me in this dramatic but responsible plan to reduce the enormous burden of Federal taxation on you and your family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The despicable North Korean attack in Rangoon deprived us of trusted advisers and friends. So many of those who died had won admirers in America as they studied with us or guided us with their counsel. I personally recall the wisdom and composure of Foreign Minister Lee, with whom I met in Washington just a few short months ago. To the families and countrymen of all those who were lost, America expresses its deep sorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: You know, if I listened to Michael Dukakis long enough, I would be convinced we're in an economic downturn and people are homeless and going without food and medical attention and that we've got to do something about the unemployed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: ALEC has forged a unique partnership between state legislators and leaders from the corporate and business community. This partnership offers businessmen the extraordinary opportunity to apply their talents to solve America's problems and build on our opportunities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Today, we're taking a break from the concerns and the bustle of the work-a-day world. But we're also making a new beginning. As we gather around our dining room tables for the midday meal, let us thank God for life and the blessings He's put before us. High among them are our families, our freedom, and the opportunities of a new year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Constructive trade, the two-way exchange of goods and services, is the most efficient and logical way for each nation . . . to build a stable prosperity, a prosperity based not on aid, but on mutually beneficial economic contacts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: America stands unique in the world: the only country not founded on race but on a way, an ideal. Not in spite of but because of our polyglot background, we have had all the strength in the world. That is the American way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Someday, the realm of liberty and justice will encompass the planet. Freedom is not just the birthright of the few, it is the God-given right of all His children, in every country. It won't come by conquest. It will come, because freedom is right and freedom works. It will come, because cooperation and good will among free people will carry the day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We are for aiding our allies by sharing of our material blessings with those nations which share in our fundamental beliefs, but we're against doling out money government to government, creating bureaucracy, if not socialism, all over the world. We set out to help 19 countries. We're helping 107. We've spent 146 billion dollars. With that money, we bought a 2 million dollar yacht for Haile Selassie. We bought dress suits for Greek undertakers, extra wives for Kenya[n] government officials. We bought a thousand TV sets for a place where they have no electricity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Wouldn't it be better for the human spirit and for the soul of this nation to encourage people to accept more responsibility to care for each other rather than leaving those tasks to paid bureaucrats."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I believe with all my heart that our first priority must be world peace, and that use of force is always and only a last resort, when everything else has failed, and then only with regard to our national security."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Where others fear trade and economic growth, we see opportunities for creating new wealth and undreamed-of opportunities for millions in our own land and beyond. Where others seek to throw up barriers, we seek to bring them down; where others take counsel of their fears, we follow our hopes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The years ahead will be great ones for our country, for the cause of freedom and the spread of civilization. The West will not contain Communism, it will transcend Communism. We will not bother to denounce it, we'll dismiss it as a sad, bizarre chapter in human history whose last pages are even now being written."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Directly down the lawn and accross the Ellipse from the White House are those ordered, classic lines of the Jefferson Memorial and the eyes of the 19-foot statue that gaze directly into the White House, a reminder to any of us who might occupy that mansion of the quality of mind and generosity of heart that once abided there and has been so rarely seen there again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: No mother would ever willingly sacrifice her sons for territorial gain, for economic advantage, for ideology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We have consistently supported a legalization program which is both generous to the alien and fair to the countless thousands of people throughout the world who seek legally to come to America. The legalization provisions in this act will go far to improve the lives of a class of individuals who now must hide in the shadows, without access to many of the benefits of a free and open society. Very soon many of these men and women will be able to step into the sunlight and, ultimately, if they choose, they may become Americans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We desire peace. But peace is a goal, not a policy. Lasting peace is what we hope for at the end of our journey. It doesn't describe the steps we must take nor the paths we should follow to reach that goal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Have we the courage and the will to face up to the immorality and discrimination of the progressive tax, and demand a return to traditional proportionate taxation? ... Today in our country the tax collector's share is 37 cents of every dollar earned. Freedom has never been so fragile, so close to slipping from our grasp."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: By 1980, we knew it was time to renew our faith, to strive with all our strength toward the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly society. We believed then and now there are no limits to growth and human progress when men and women are free to follow their dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The defense policy of the United States is based on a simple premise: The United States does not start fights. We will never be an aggressor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Someone asked me whether I was aware of all the people out there who were praying for the President. And I had to say, \"Yes, I am. I've felt it. I believe in intercessory prayer.\" But I couldn't help but say to that questioner after he'd asked the question that - or at least say to them that if sometimes when he was praying he got a busy signal, it was just me in there ahead of him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Diplomacy, of course, is a subtle and nuanced craft, so much so that it's said that when the most wily diplomat of the nineteenth-century passed away, other diplomats asked, on reports of his death, \"What do you suppose the old fox meant by that?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I warned that there should be no place on Earth where terrorists can rest and train and practice their deadly skills. I meant it. I said that we would act with others, if possible, and alone if necessary to ensure that terrorists have no sanctuary anywhere. Tonight, we have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: My friends, we did it. We weren't just marking time, we made a difference. We made (America) stronger - we made (America) freer - and we left her in good hands. All in all, not bad. Not bad at all. And so, goodbye. God bless you. And God bless the United States of America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: My fellow Americans, I must speak to you tonight about a mounting danger in Central America that threatens the security of the United States. This danger will not go away it will grow worse, much worse, if we fail to take action now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Those concerns of a national character-such as air and water pollution that do not respect state boundaries, or the national transportation system, or efforts to safeguard your civil liberties-must, of course, be handled on the national level."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: You on the cutting edge of technology have already made yesterday's impossibilities the commonplace realities of today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Dreams became issues of East versus West. Hopes became political rhetoric. Progress became a search for power and domination. Somewhere the truth was lost that people don't make war, governments do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: You and I, as individuals, can, by borrowing, live beyond our means, but for only a limited period of time. Why, then, should we think that collectively, as a nation, we're not bound by that same limitation? We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: For too long, the victims of crime have been the forgotten persons of our criminal justice system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The American taxing structure, the purpose of which was to serve the people, began instead to serve the insatiable appetite of government. If you will forgive me, you know someone has once likened government to a baby. It is an alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Those who say that we're in a time when there are no heroes, they just don't know where to look."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If you put it on the table as a bargaining chip, it becomes a bargaining chip"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Deep religious beliefs stemming from the Old and New Testaments of the Bible inspired many of the early settlers of our country, providing them with the strength, character, convictions, and faith necessary to withstand great hardship and danger in this new and rugged land. These shared beliefs helped forge a sense of common purpose among the widely dispersed colonies - a sense of community which laid the foundation for the spirit of nationhood that was to develop in later decades."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The Congress of the United States, in recognition of the unique contribution of the Bible in shaping the history and character of this Nation, and so many of its citizens, has by Senate Joint Resolution 165 authorized and requested the President to designate the year 1983 as the 'Year of the Bible.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our country is great because it is built on principles of self-reliance, opportunity, innovation, and compassion for others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our goal is peace. We can gain that peace by strengthening our alliances, by speaking candidly about the dangers before us, by assuring potential adversaries of our seriousness, by actively pursuing every chance of honest and fruitful negotiation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Environmental extremists ... wouldn't let you build a house unless it looked like a bird's nest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Only our deep moral values and our strong social institutions can hold back that jungle and restrain the darker impulses of human nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: In opening our hearts, we hope this might promote greater awareness of this condition. Perhaps it will encourage a clearer understanding of the individuals and families who are affected by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: For too long, too many people dependent on Social Security have been cruelly frightened by individuals seeking political gain through demagoguery and outright falsehood, and this must stop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I think there are some things ... that may even be distorted in the practice, such as some affirmative action programs becoming quota systems. And I'm old enough to remember when quotas existed in the United States for the purpose of discrimination, and I don't want to see that happen again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Don't let anyone tell you that America's best days are behind her - that the American spirit has been vanquished. We've seen it triumph too often in our lives to stop believing in it now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: As for the enemies of freedom, those who are potential adversaries, they will be reminded that peace is the highest aspiration of the American people. We will negotiate for it, sacrifice for it, we will not surrender for it - now or ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Some may try to tell us that this is the end of an era. But what they overlook is that in America, every day is a new beginning. For this is the land that has never become, but is always in the act of becoming."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I've always believed that we were, each of us, put here for a reason, that there is a plan, somehow a divine plan for all of us. I know now that whatever days are left to me belong to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: In some dim beginning, man created the institution of government as a convenience for himself. And, ever since that time, government has been doing its best to become an inconvenience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Nations crumble from within when the citizenry asks of government those things which the citizenry might better provide for itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: All of us should remember that the federal government is not some mysterious institution comprised of buildings, files and paper. The people are the government. What we create we ought to be able to control."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Nations do not distrust each other because they are armed. They are armed because they distrust each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: You'd be surprised how much being a good actor pays off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I've often wondered, what if all of us in the world discovered that we were threatened by an outer -- a power from outer space, from another planet. Wouldn't we all of a sudden find that we didn't have any differences between us at all, we were all human beings, citizens of the world, and wouldn't we come together to fight that particular threat?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Ending inflation means freeing all Americans from the terror of runaway living costs.  ...  We have every right to dream heroic dreams.  Those who say that we are in a time when there are no heroes just don't know where to look. ...  Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We're more than friends and neighbors and allies; we are kin, who together have built the most productive relationship between any two countries in the world today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: As two proud and independent peoples, there is much that distinguishes us one from the other, but there is also much that we share: a vast continent, with its common hardships and uncommon duties; generations of mutual respect and support, and an abiding friendship that grows ever stronger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We can look forward to the day when the free flow of trade, from the southern reaches of Tierra del Fuego to the northern outposts of the Arctic Circle, unites the people of the Western Hemisphere in a bond of mutually beneficial exchange, when all borders become what the U.S.-Canadian border so long has been: a meeting place, rather than a dividing line."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: In this new world economy, national boundaries are increasingly becoming obsolete."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Will you resist the temptation to get a government handout for your community? Realize that the doctor's fight against socialized medicine is your fight. We can't socialize the doctors without socializing the patients. Recognize that government invasion of public power is eventually an assault upon your own business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We seek the elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We must act today in order to preserve tomorrow"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If I'd gotten the job I wanted at Montgomery Ward, I suppose I would never have left Illinois."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I'm just a citizen temporarily in public service."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I'm not a politician by profession. I am a citizen who decided I had to be personally involved in order to stand up for my own values and beliefs. My candidacy is based on my record, and for that matter, my entire life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Well, the task I've set forth will long outlive our own generation. But together, we too have come through the worst. Let us now begin a major effort to secure the best- a crusade for freedom that will engage the faith and fortitude of the next generation. For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: What if free people could live secure in the knowledge that their security did not rest upon the threat of instant U.S. retaliation to deter a Soviet attack, that we could intercept and destroy strategic ballistic missiles before they reached our own soil or that of our allies?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Generations hence, parents will take their children to these woods to show them how the land must have looked to the first Pilgrims and pioneers. And as Americans wander through these forests, climb these mountains, they will sense the love and majesty of the Creator of all of that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We still have too much air and water pollution and we still need to work to reduce it. But we also need to put the problem of pollution into a historical as well as scientific perspective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: This crime against humanity must never be forgotten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: He struck a mighty blow for equality, freedom and the American way of life. Jackie Robinson was a good citizen, a great man, and a true American champion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: America's best days are yet to come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Meaningful work, not welfare, is every American's hope, and we have a continuing responsibility to make those hopes a lasting reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: That's the nice thing about this job. You get to quote yourself shamelessly. If you don't, Larry Speakes will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Education is like a diamond with many facets: It includes the basic mastery of numbers and letters that give us access to the treasury of human knowledge, accumulated and refined through the ages; it includes technical and vocational training as well as instruction in science, higher mathematics, and humane letters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Common sense told us that to preserve the peace, we'd have to become strong again after years of weakness and confusion. So, we rebuilt our defenses, and this New Year we toasted the new peacefulness around the globe. Not only have the superpowers actually begun to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons...but the regional conflicts that rack the globe are also beginning to cease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: My dream is to see the day when nuclear weapons will be banished from the face of the Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: For the eight years I was president I never let my dream of a nuclear-free world fade from my mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Her many achievements will be appreciated more as time goes on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our forbearance should never be misunderstood. Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will. When action is required to preserve our national security, we will act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The great dynamic success of capitalism had given us a powerful weapon in our battle against Communism-money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I will stand on, and continue to use, the figures I have used, because I believe they are correct. Now, I'm not going to deny that you don't now and then slip up on something; no one bats a thousand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: ... the moral equal of our Founding Fathers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Today a newcomer to the state is automatically eligible for our many aid programs the moment he crosses the border."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: ... a faceless mass, waiting for handouts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They were all on a diet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Until now has there ever been a time in which so many of the prophecies are coming together? There have been times in the past when people thought the end of the world was coming, and so forth, but never anything like this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Where there's liberty, art succeeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We speak with pride and admiration of that little band of Americans who overcame insuperable odds to set this nation on course 200 years ago. But our glory didn't end with them. Americans ever since have emulated their deeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Facts are stupid things \u0097 stubborn things, I should say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Simple fairness dictates that government must not raise taxes on families struggling to pay their bills."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The same technology transforming our lives can solve the greatest problem of the 20th century. A security shield can one day render nuclear weapons obsolete and free mankind from the prison of nuclear terror. America met one historic challenge and went to the Moon. Now America must meet another: to make our strategic defense real for all the citizens of planet Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Cannot swords be turned to plowshares? Can we and all nations not live in peace? In our obsession with antagonisms of the moment, we often forget how much unites all the members of humanity. Perhaps we need some outside, universal threat to make us recognize this common bond. I occasionally think how quickly our differences worldwide would vanish if we were facing an alien threat from outside this world. And yet, I ask you, is not an alien force already among us? What could be more alien to the universal aspirations of our peoples than war and the threat of war?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Well I've said it before and I'll say it again \u0097 America's best days are yet to come. Our proudest moments are yet to be. Our most glorious achievements are just ahead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If a tax hike makes it to my desk, I'll veto it in less time than it takes Vanna White to turn the letters V-E-T-O!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If it's to be a bloodbath, let it be now. Appeasement is not the answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: If we don't want to see the map of Central America covered in a sea of red, eventually lapping at our own borders, we must act now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We have to realize that this country in its private sector has been fighting the most successful war on poverty the world has seen for the last 200 years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Every dollar the federal government does not take from us, every decision it does not make for us, will make our economy stronger, our lives more abundant, our future more free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: America is to great to dream small dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I want you to know that this administration is motivated by a political philosophy that sees the greatness of America in you, her people, and in your families, churches, neighborhoods, communities - the institutions that foster and nourish values like concern for others and respect for the rule of law under God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We're not just discussing limits on a further increase of nuclear weapons; we seek, instead, to reduce their number. We seek the total elimination one day of nuclear weapons from the face of the Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I know that some believe that voluntary prayer in schools should be restricted to a moment of silence. We already have the right to remain silent - we can take our Fifth Amendment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We didn't discover our values in a poll taken a week before the convention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We don't celebrate dependence day on the Fourth of July. We celebrate Independence Day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We will never disarm any American who seeks to protect his or her family from fear and harm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I never thought it was my style or the words I used that made a difference. It was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our goals are the same as those of the U.N.'s founders, who sought to replace a world at war with one where the rule of law would prevail, where human rights were honored, where development would blossom, where conflict would give way to freedom from violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I've long believed one of the mainsprings of our own liberty has been the widespread ownership of property among our people and the expectation that anyone's child, even from the humblest of families, could grow up to own a business or corporation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our economic assistance must be carefully targeted, and must make maximum use of the energy and efforts of the private sector... Economic freedom is the world's mightiest engine for abundance and social justice... Developing countries need to be encouraged to experiment with a growing variety of arrangements for profit sharing and expanded capital ownership."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The people of Central America - and, in a broader sense, the entire developing world - need to know first-hand that freedom and opportunity are not just for the elite, but the birthright of every citizen; that property is not just something enjoyed by a few, but can be owned by any individual who works hard and makes correct decisions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: This is the real task before us: to reassert our commitment as a nation to a law higher than our own, to renew our spiritual strength. Only by building a wall of such spiritual resolve can we, as a free people, hope to protect our own heritage and make it someday the birthright of all men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: It is no coincidence that when the thugs tried to wrest control over Grenada, there were 30 Soviet advisors and hundreds of Cuban military and paramilitary forces on the island."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: It ought to be remembered by all [that] the Games more than 2,000 years ago started as a means of bringing peace between the Greek city-states. And in those days, even if a war was going on, they called off the war in order to hold the Games. I wish we were still as civilized."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: America has always been greatest when we dared to be great. We can reach for greatness again. We can follow our dreams to distant stars, living and working in space for peaceful, economic, and scientific gain. Tonight, I am directing NASA to develop a permanently manned space station, and to do it within a decade."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Like the genocide of the Armenians before it, and the genocide of the Cambodians which followed it ... the lessons of the Holocaust must never be forgotten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Democracy is not a fragile flower; still it needs cultivating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: America's view of apartheid is simple and straightforward: We believe it is wrong. We condemn it. And we are united in hoping for the day when apartheid will be no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: There you go again. When I opposed Medicare, there was another piece of legislation meeting the same problem before the Congress. I happened to favor the other piece of legislation and thought that it would be better for the senior citizens to provide better care than the one that was finally passed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The Bible tells us there will be a time for peace. But, so far in this century, mankind has failed to find it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I hope Americans will read and study the Bible in the coming year. It's my firm belief that the enduring values, as I say, presented in its pages have a great meaning for each of us and for our nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I sometimes think if someone appealed the Ten Commandments to some of our courts, they would rule - 'Thou shalt not, unless you feel strongly to the contrary'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The founders of the United Nations expected that member nations would behave and vote as individuals after they had weighed the merits of an issue - rather like a great, global town meeting. The emergence of blocks and the polarization of the United Nations undermine all that this organization initially valued."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: What has happened to the dreams of the United Nations' founders? What has happened to the spirit which created the United Nations? The answer is clear: Governments got in the way of the dreams of the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The greatest security for Israel is to create new Egypts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Let us not forget who we are. Drug abuse is a repudiation of everything America is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Violence has been Nicaragua's most important export to the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: To paraphrase Winston Churchill, I did not take the oath I have just taken with the intention of presiding over the dissolution of the world's strongest economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: These young Americans sent a message to terrorists everywhere. . . . You can run but you can't hide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root... Our military strength is a prerequisite to peace, but let it be clear we maintain this strength in the hope it will never be used, for the ultimate determinant in the struggle that's now going on in the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas, a trial of spiritual resolve, the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish, the ideals to which we are dedicated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Please tell me you're Republicans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I spoke to ears that refused to hear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The criminal element now calculates that crime really does pay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Were not cutting the budget simply for the sake of sounder financial management.  This is only a first step toward returning power to the states and communities, only a first step toward reordering the relationship between citizen and government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: To do whatever needs to be done to preserve this last and greatest bastion of freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: After watching the State of the Union address the other night [1994], I'm reminded of the old adage that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Only in this case, it's not flattery, but grand larceny: the intellectual theft of ideas that you and I recognize as our own. Speech delivery counts for little on the world stage unless you have convictions, and, yes, the vision to see beyond the front row seats."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Church and state are, and must remain, separate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: There can be no greater good than the quest for peace, and no finer purpose than the preservation of freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Freedom and the dignity of the individual have been more available and assured here than in any other place on earth. The price for this freedom at times has been high, but we have never been unwilling to pay the price."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The pursuit of science, the study of the great works, the value of free inquiry, in short, the very idea of living the life of the mind - yes, these formative and abiding principles of higher education in America had their first and firmest advocate, and their greatest embodiment, in a tall, fair-headed, friendly man who watched this university take form from the mountainside where he lived, the university whose founding he called a crowning achievement to along and well-spent life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Throughout our history, We Americans have been willing to meet great challenges and do what is right when our destiny demanded it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We are going to put an end to the notion that the American taxpayer exists to fund the Federal Government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: As a nation, we must choose between the sanctity of life ethic and the quality of life ethic. I have no trouble identifying the answer our nation has always given to this basic question, and the answer that I hope and pray it will give in the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The things that unite us-America's past of which we are so proud, our hopes and aspirations for the future of the world and this much loved country-these things far outweigh what little divides us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Even now I wonder what I might have accomplished if I'd studied harder"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I hope the people on Wall Street will pay attention to the people on Main Street. If they do, they will see there is a rising tide of confidence in the future of America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Trains are not any more energy efficient than the average automobile, with both getting about 48 passenger miles to the gallon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: The task that has fallen to us as Americans is to move the conscience of the world, to keep alive the hope and dream of freedom. For if we fail or falter, there'll be no place for the world's oppressed to flee to. This is not a role we sought. We preach no manifest destiny. But like the Americans who brought a new nation into the world 200 years ago, history has asked much of us in our time. Much we've already given; much more we must be prepared to give."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: A bird on a tether, no matter how long the rope, can always be pulled back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Yet optimism is in order, because day by day democracy is proving itself to be a not-at-all-fragile flower. From Stettin on the Baltic to Varna on the Black Sea, the regimes planted by totalitarianism have had more than 30 years to establish their legitimacy. But none - not one regime - has yet been able to risk free elections. Regimes planted by bayonets do not take root."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: Poland is at the center of European civilization. It has contributed mightily to that civilization. It is doing so today by being magnificently unreconciled to oppression. Poland's struggle to be Poland and to secure the basic rights we often take for granted, demonstrates why we dare not take those rights for granted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: I've often wondered about the shyness of some of us in the West about standing for these ideals that have done so much to ease the plight of man and the hardships of our imperfect world. Let us be shy no longer. Let us go to our strength. Let us offer hope. Let us tell the world that a new age is not only possible, but probable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ronald Reagan: We have not inherited an easy world. If developments like the Industrial revolution, which began here in England, and the gifts of science and technology have made life much easier for us, they have also made it more dangerous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; . . . who at best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Knowing what's right doesn't mean much unless you do what's right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Do what you can, with what you have, where you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Nothing worth having was ever achieved without effort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public. Nothing but the truth should be spoken about him or any one else. But it is even more important to tell the truth, pleasant or unpleasant, about him than about any one else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Believe you can and you're halfway there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Nobody cares how much you know, until they know how much you care."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: When they call the roll in the Senate, the Senators do not know whether to answer 'Present' or 'Not guilty.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The bosses of the Democratic party and the bosses of the Republican party alike have a closer grip than ever before on the party machines in the States and in the Nation. This crooked control of both the old parties by the beneficiaries of political and business privilege renders it hopeless to expect any far-reaching and fundamental service from either."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Of one man in especial, beyond anyone else, the citizens of a republic should beware, and that is of the man who appeals to them to support him on the ground that he is hostile to other citizens of the republic, that he will secure for those who elect him, in one shape or another, profit at the expense of other citizens of the republic. It makes no difference whether he appeals to class hatred or class interest, to religious or anti-religious prejudice. The man who makes such an appeal should always be presumed to make it for the sake of furthering his own interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Courage, hard work, self-mastery, and intelligent effort are all essential to successful life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: All contributions by corporations to any political committee or for any political purpose should be forbidden by law"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Here is your country. Cherish these natural wonders, cherish the natural resources, cherish the history and romance as a sacred heritage, for your children and your children's children. Do not let selfish men or greedy interests skin your country of its beauty, its riches or its romance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: A thorough knowledge of the Bible is worth more than a college education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to whine over his sufferings"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Every man, who parrots the cry of \u2018stand by the President\u2019 without adding the proviso \u2018so far as he serves the Republic\u2019 takes an attitude as essentially unmanly as that of any Stuart royalist who championed the doctrine that the King could do no wrong. No self-respecting and intelligent free man could take such an attitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There should be at least ten times the number of rifles in the country as there are now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Our government, National and State, must be freed from the sinister influence or control of special interests. Exactly as the special interests of cotton and slavery threatened our political integrity before the Civil War, so now the great special business interests too often control and corrupt the men and methods of government for their own profit. We must drive the special interests out of politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Any man who tries to excite class hatred, sectional hate, hate of creeds, any kind of hatred in our community, though he may affect to do it in the interest of the class he is addressing, is in the long run with absolute certainly that class's own worst enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We can have no '50-50' allegiance in this country. Either a man is an American and nothing else, or he is not an American at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave the country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No man who is not willing to bear arms and to fight for his rights can give a good reason why he should be entitled to the privilege of living in a free community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Your attitude about who you are and what you have is a very little thing that makes a very big difference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Get action. Do things; be sane; don't fritter away your time; create, act, take a place wherever you are and be somebody; get action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Comparison is the thief of joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Americans learn only from catastrophe and not from experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: With a great moral issue involved, neutrality does not serve righteousness; for to be neutral between right and wrong is to serve wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Free speech exercised both individually and through a free press, is a necessity in any country where people are themselves free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Be practical as well as generous in your ideals. Keep your eyes on the stars, but remember to keep your feet on the ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The old parties are husks, with no real soul within either, divided on artificial lines, boss-ridden and privilege-controlled, each a jumble of incongruous elements, and neither daring to speak out wisely and fearlessly on what should be said on the vital issues of the day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: A soft, easy life is not worth living, if it impairs the fibre of brain and heart and muscle. We must dare to be great; and we must realize that greatness is the fruit of toil and sacrifice and high courage... For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The man who really counts in the world is the doer, not the mere critic -- the man who actually does the work, even if roughly and imperfectly, not the man who only talks or writes about how it ought to be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No educated man can afford to be ignorant of the Bible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Nothing in the world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, difficulty\u2026 I have never in my life envied a human being who led an easy life. I have envied a great many people who led difficult lives and led them well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: In the first place we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American, and nothing but an American."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The good citizen will demand liberty for himself, and as a matter of pride he will see to it that others receive the liberty which he thus claims as his own. Probably the best test of true love of liberty in any country is the way in which minorities are treated in that country. Not only should there be complete liberty in matters of religion and opinion, but complete liberty for each man to lead his life as he desires, provided only that in so doing he does not wrong his neighbor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No greater wrong can ever be done than to put a good man at the mercy of a bad, while telling him not to defend himself or his fellows; in no way can the success of evil be made surer or quicker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is always better to be an original than an imitation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: If we lose the virile, manly qualities, and sink into a nation of mere hucksters, putting gain over national honor, and subordinating everything to mere ease of life, then we shall indeed reach a condition worse than that of the ancient civilizations in the years of their decay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The man who loves other countries as much as his own stands on a level with the man who loves other women as much as he loves his own wife."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: In the long run, the most unpleasant truth is a safer companion than a pleasant falsehood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is not a man of us who does not at times need a helping hand to be stretched out to him, and then shame upon him who will not stretch out the helping hand to his brother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No man can be a good citizen unless he has a wage more than sufficient to cover the bare cost of living, and hours of labor short enough so after his day's work is done he will have time and energy to bear his share in the management of the community, to help in carrying the general load."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The mother is the one supreme asset of national life; she is more important by far than the successful statesman, or business man, or artist, or scientist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We must all either wear out or rust out, every one of us. My choice is to wear out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: When the time of danger comes, all Americans, whatever their social standing, whatever their creed, whatever the training they have received, no matter from what section of the country they have come, stand together as men, as Americans, and are content to face the same fate and do the same duties because fundamentally they all alike have the common purpose to serve the glorious flag of their common country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office\u2014any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We cannot afford to differ on the question of honesty if we expect our republic permanently to endure. Honesty is not so much a credit as an absolute prerequisite to efficient service to the public. Unless a man is honest, we have no right to keep him in public life; it matters not how brilliant his capacity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No ordinary work done by a man is either as hard or as responsible as the work of a woman who is bringing up a family of small children; for upon her time and strength demands are made not only every hour of the day but often every hour of the night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We have room but for one Language here and that is the English Language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans of American nationality and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: But this is predicated upon the man's becoming in very fact an American and nothing but an American. If he tries to keep segregated with men of his own origin and separated from the rest of America, then he isn't doing his part as an American. There can be no divided allegiance here. . . We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language, for we intend to see that the crucible turns our people out as Americans, of American nationality, and not as dwellers in a polyglot boarding-house; and we have room for but one soul loyalty, and that is loyalty to the American people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The dull, purblind folly of the very rich men, their greed and arrogance, and the corruption in business and politics, have tended to produce a very unhealthy condition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Never trust a man who says he is only a little crooked, and that the crookedness is exercised in your interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I believe that the officers, and, especially, the directors, of corporations should be held personally responsible when any corporation breaks the law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done ... Corporate expenditures for political purposes, and especially such expenditures by public-service corporations, have supplied one of the principal sources of corruption in our political affairs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: One of the fundamental necessities in a representative government such as ours is to make certain that the men to whom the people delegate their power shall serve the people by whom they are elected, and not the special interests. I believe that every national officer, elected or appointed, should be forbidden to perform any service or receive any compensation, directly or indirectly, from interstate corporations; and a similar provision could not fail to be useful within the States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only 100% Americanism, only for those who are Americans and nothing else"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is both foolish and wicked to teach the average man who is not well off that some wrong or injustice has been done him, and that he should hope for redress elsewhere than in his own industry, honesty, and intelligence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: In the history of mankind many republics have risen, have flourished for a less or greater time, and then have fallen because their citizens lost the power of governing themselves and thereby of governing their state; and in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into a government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of a government for the benefit of the people as a whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The only tyrannies from which men, women and children are suffering in real life are the tyrannies of minorities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I put myself in the way of things happening, and they happened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There can be nothing in the world more beautiful than the Yosemite, the groves of the giant sequoias and redwoods, the Canyon of the Colorado, the Canyon of the Yellowstone, the Three Tetons; and our people should see to it that they are preserved for their children and their children's children forever, with their majestic beauty all unmarred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Any political movement directed against any body of our fellow-citizens because of their religious creed is a grave offense against American principles and American institutions. It is a wicked thing either to support or oppose a man because of the creed he possesses. . . . Such a movement directly contravenes the spirit of the Constitution itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Unrestrained greed means the ruin of the great woods and the drying up of the sources of the rivers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: People ask the difference between a leader and a boss. The leader leads, and the boss drives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The truth is that any good modern rifle is good enough. The determining factor is the man behind the gun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No man should receive a dollar unless that dollar has been fairly earned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk; we must act big."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Don't hit at all if it is honorably possible to avoid hitting; but never hit soft."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The best lesson that any people can learn is that there is no patent cure-all which will make the body politic perfect, and that any man who is able glibly to answer every question as to how to deal with the evils of the body politic is at best a foolish visionary and at worst an evil-minded quack."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the degree in which he efficiently serves the United States. It is our duty to support him when he serves the United States well. It is our duty to oppose him when he serves it badly. This is true about Mr. Wilson now and it has been true about all our Presidents in the past. It is our duty at all times to tell the truth about the President and about every one else, save in the cases where to tell the truth at the moment would benefit the public enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: To announce that there must be no criticism of the president... is morally treasonable to the American public."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Let us remember that, as much has been given us, much will be expected from us, and that true homage comes from the heart as well as from the lips, and shows itself in deeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a poor substitute for it. The function of the mere critic is of very subordinate usefulness. It is the doer of deeds who actually counts in the battle for life, and not the man who looks on and says how the fight ought to be fought, without himself sharing the stress and the danger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: All the resources we need are in the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Americanism means the virtues of courage, honor, justice, truth, sincerity, and hardihood - the virtues that made America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called \"weasel words.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Believe you can do it and you are halfway there"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: When you are asked if you can do a job, tell 'em, 'Certainly I can!' Then get busy and find out how to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Character is far more important than intellect in making a man a good citizen or successful at his calling- meaning by character not only such qualities as honesty and truthfulness, but courage, perseverance and self-reliance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The Constitution guarantees protection to property, and we must make that promise good. But it does not give the right of suffrage to any corporation. It is necessary that laws should be passed to prohibit the use of corporate funds directly or indirectly for political purposes; it is still more necessary that such laws should be thoroughly enforced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The Americans of other blood must remember that the man who in good faith and without reservations gives up another country for this must in return receive exactly the same rights, not merely legal, but social and spiritual, that other Americans proudly possess. We of the United States belong to a new and separate nationality. We are all Americans and nothing else, and each, without regard to his birthplace, creed, or national origin, is entitled to exactly the same rights as all other Americans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Our chief usefulness to humanity rests on our combining power with high purpose. Power undirected by high purpose spells calamity, and high purpose by itself is utterly useless if the power to put it into effect is lacking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: To permit every lawless capitalist, every law-defying corporation, to take any action, no matter how iniquitous, in the effort to secure an improper profit and to build up privilege, would be ruinous to the Republic and would mark the abandonment of the effort to secure in the industrial world the spirit of democratic fair dealing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It may be that 'the voice of the people is the voice of God' in fifty one cases out of a hundred, but in the remaining forty nine it is quite as likely to be the voice of the devil, of, what is still worse, the voice of a fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is no use to preach to [children] if you do not act decently yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Of all forms of tyranny the least attractive and the most vulgar is the tyranny of mere wealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.  the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The lack of power to take joy in outdoor nature is as real a misfortune as the lack of power to take joy in books"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: If an American is to amount to anything he must rely upon himself, and not upon the State; he must take pride in his own work, instead of sitting idle to envy the luck of others. He must face life with resolute courage, win victory if he can, and accept defeat if he must, without seeking to place on his fellow man a responsibility which is not theirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is nothing more distressing ... than the hard, scoffing spirit which treats the allegation of dishonesty in a public man as a cause for laughter. Such laughter is worse than the crackling of thorns under a pot, for it denotes not merely the vacant mind, but the heart in which high emotions have been choked before they could grow to fruition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is only through labor and painful effort, by grim energy and resolute courage, that we move on to better things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Conservation means development as much as it does protection. I recognize the right and duty of this generation to develop and use the natural resources of our land; but I do not recognize the right to waste them, or to rob, by wasteful use, the generations that come after us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We wish to control big business so as to secure among other things good wages for the wage-workers and reasonable prices for the consumers. Wherever in any business the prosperity of the business man is obtained by lowering the wages of his workmen and charging an excessive price to the consumers we wish to interfere and stop such practices. We will not submit to that kind of prosperity any more than we will submit to prosperity obtained by swindling investors or getting unfair advantages over business rivals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We demand that big business give the people a square deal; in return we must insist that when any one engaged in big business honestly endeavors to do right he shall himself be given a square deal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We have room in this country for but one flag, the Stars and Stripes!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is not one among us in whom a devil does not dwell; at some time, on some point, that devil masters each of us... It is not having been in the Dark House, but having left it, that counts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I believe in a graduated income tax on big fortunes, and in . . . a graduated inheritance tax on big fortunes, . . . increasing rapidly in amount with the size of the estate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: From the greatest to the smallest, happiness and usefulness are largely found in the same soul, and the joy of life is won in its deepest and truest sense only by those who have not shirked life's burdens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I hold that in this country there must be complete severance of Church and State; that public moneys shall not be used for the purpose of advancing any particular creed; and therefore that the public schools shall be nonsectarian and no public moneys appropriated for sectarian schools."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The first requisite of a good citizen in this Republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his weight; that he shall not be a mere passenger, but shall do his share in the work that each generation of us finds ready to hand; and, furthermore, that in doing his work he shall show, not only the capacity for sturdy self-help, but also self-respecting regard for the rights of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The leader works in the open and the boss in covert. The leader leads, and the boss drives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Bodily vigor is good, and vigor of intellect is even better, but far above is character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The man who holds that every human right is secondary to his profit must now give way to the advocate of human welfare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: If there is any one duty which more than another we owe it to our children and our children's children to perform at once, it is to save the forests of this country, for they constitute the first and most important element in the conservation of the natural resources of this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: To sit home, read one's favorite paper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the good men's doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: To announce there must be no criticism of the president or that we are to stand with the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: For those who fight for it life has a flavor the sheltered will never know"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The establishment of the National Park Service is justified by considerations of good administration, of the value of natural beauty as a National asset, and of the effectiveness of outdoor life and recreation in the production of good citizenship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Let individuals contribute as they desire; but let us prohibit in effective fashion all corporations from making contributions for any political purpose, directly or indirectly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I wish to say seriously to all the daily newspapers, to the Republicans, the Democrat, and Socialist parties, that they cannot, month in month out and year in and year out, make the kind of untruthful, of bitter assault that they have made and not expect that brutal, violent natures, or brutal and violent characters, especially when the brutality is accompanied by a not very strong mind; they cannot expect that such natures will be unaffected by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Avoid the base hypocrisy of condemning in one man what you pass over in silence when committed by another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: When you play, play hard; when you work, don't play at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The party belongs to the millions of the rank and file. It does not belong to the handful of politicians who have assumed fraudulently to upset the will of the rank and file. The action of these men is in no sense \"regular,\" as they claim it to be.... theft and dishonesty cannot give and never shall give a title to regularity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Anything that encourages pauperism, anything that relaxes the manly fiber and lowers self-respect, is an unmixed evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who knew neither victory nor defeat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The unforgivable crime is soft hitting. Do not hit at all if it can be avoided; but never hit softly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There should be relentless exposure of and attack upon every evil practice, whether in politics, in business, or in social life. I hail as a benefactor every writer or speaker, every man who, on the platform, or in book, magazine or newspaper, with merciless severity makes such attack, provided always that he in his turn remembers that the attack is of use only if it is absolutely truthful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: If we seek merely swollen, slothful ease and ignoble peace, if we shrink from the hard contests where men must win at the hazard of their lives and at the risk of all they hold dear, then bolder and stronger peoples will pass us by, and will win for themselves the domination of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: At the risk of repetition let me say again that my plea is not for immunity to, but for the most unsparing exposure of, the politician who betrays his trust, of the big business man who makes or spends his fortune in illegitimate or corrupt ways. There should be a resolute effort to hunt every such man out of the position he has disgraced. Expose the crime, and hunt down the criminal; but remember that even in the case of crime, if it is attacked in sensational, lurid, and untruthful fashion, the attack may do more damage to the public mind than the crime itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: In other words, character is far more important than intellect to the race as to the individual. We need intellect, and there is no reason why we should not have it together with character; but if we must choose between the two we choose character without a moment's hesitation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Probably the greatest harm done by vast wealth is the harm that we of moderate means do ourselves when we let the vices of envy and hatred enter deep into our own natures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There must be no division by class hatred, whether this hatred be that of creed against creed, nationality against nationality, section against section, or men of one social or industrial condition against men of another social and industrial condition. We must ever judge each individual on his own conduct and merits, and not on his membership in any class, whether that class be based on theological, social, or industrial considerations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Envy is as evil a thing as arrogance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The great corporations which we have grown to speak of rather loosely as trusts are the creatures of the State, and the State not only has the right to control them, but it is duty bound to control them wherever the need of such control is shown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The labor unions shall have a square deal, and the corporations shall have a square deal, and in addition, all private citizens shall have a square deal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Happiness lies not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of creative effort. The joy and moral stimulation of work must no longer be forgotten in the mad chase of evanescent profits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is need of a sound body, and even more need of a sound mind. But above mind and above body stands character-the sum of those qualities which we mean when we speak of a man's force and courage, of his good faith and sense of honor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There can be no life without change, and to be afraid of what is different or unfamiliar is to be afraid of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Leave it as it is. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We stand at Armageddon and we battle for the Lord."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: What such a man needs is not courage but nerve control, cool headedness. This he can get only by practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Death by violence, death by cold, death by starvation - they are the normal endings of the stately creatures of the wilderness. The sentimentalists who prattle about the peaceful life of nature do not realize its utter mercilessness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Work hard at work worth doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is not only highly desirable but necessary that there should be legislation which shall carefully shield the interests of wage-workers, and which shall discriminate in favor of the honest and humane employer by removing the disadvantage under which he stands when compared with unscrupulous competitors who have no conscience and will do right only under fear of punishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We should not forget that it will be just as important to our descendants to be prosperous in their time as it is to us to be prosperous in our time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is nothing brilliant or outstanding in my record, except  perhaps this one thing. I do the things I believe ought to be  done. And when I make up my mind to do a thing, I act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The men and women who have the right ideals . . . are those who have the courage to strive for the happiness which comes only with labor and effort and self-sacrifice, and those whose joy in life springs in part from power of work and sense of duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: A man's usefulness depends on his living up to his ideals insofar as he can. It is hard to fail but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune, make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die; and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: If a man does not have an ideal and try to live up to it, then he becomes a mean, base and sordid creature, no matter how successful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Great corporations exist only because they are created and safeguarded by our institutions; and it is therefore our right and duty to see that they work in harmony with these institutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The \n highest form of success comes to the man who does not shrink from \n danger, from hardship or from bitter toil, and who, out of these, wins \n the splendid ultimate triumph."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: If a strong man has not in him the lift toward lofty things, his strength makes him only a curse to himself and his neighbor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Thank God for the iron in the blood of our fathers"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We shall make mistakes; and if we let these mistakes frighten us from our work we shall show ourselves weaklings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: A great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be a great democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The fortunes amassed through corporate organization are now so large, and vest such power in those that wield them, as to make it a matter of necessity to give to the sovereign - that is, to the Government, which represents the people as a whole - some effective power of supervision over their corporate use. In order to insure a healthy social and industrial life, every big corporation should be held responsible by, and be accountable to, some sovereign strong enough to control its conduct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: If a man continually blusters, if he lacks civility, a big stick will not save him from trouble, and neither will speaking softly avail, if back of the softness there does not lie strength, power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We wish peace, but we wish the peace of justice, the peace of righteousness. We wish it because we think it is right and not because we are afraid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: In every community there are little knots of fantastic extremists who loudly proclaim that they are striving for righteousness, and who, in reality, do their feeble best for unrighteousness. Just as the upright politician should hold in peculiar scorn the man who makes the name of politician a reproach and a shame, so the genuine reformer should realize that the cause he champions is especially jeopardized by the mock reformer who does what he can to make reform a laughingstock among decent men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Alone of human beings the good and wise mother stands on a plane of equal honor with the bravest soldier; for she has gladly gone down to the brink of the chasm of darkness to bring back the children in whose hands rests the future of the years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I don't go so far as to think that the only good Indians are dead Indians, but I believe nine out of ten are, and I shouldn't like to inquire too closely into the case of the tenth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: If there is one tendency of the day which more than any other is unhealthy and undesirable, it is the tendency to deify mere \"smartness,\" unaccompanied by a sense of moral accountability. We shall never make our republic what it should be until as a people we thoroughly understand and put in practice the doctrine that success is abhorrent if attained by the sacrifice of the fundamental principles of morality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No ability, no strength and force, no power of intellect or power of wealth, shall avail us, if we have not the root of right living in us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The chief factor in any man's success or failure must be his own character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: ... the Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war, and the failure to act against Turkey is to condone it ... the failure to deal radically with the Turkish horror means that all talk of guaranteeing the future peace of the world is mischievous nonsense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No nation can be really great unless it is great in peace, in industry, integrity, honesty. Skilled intelligence in civic affairs and industrial enterprises alike; the special ability of the artist, the man of letters, the man of science, and the man of business; the rigid determination to wrong no man, and to stand for righteousness-all these are necessary in a great nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The Welfare of Each of Us Is Dependent Fundamentally Upon the Welfare of All of Us"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We [must] hold the just balance and set ourselves as resolutely against improper corporate influence on the one hand as against demagogy and mob rule on the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There are good men and bad men of all nationalities, creeds and colors; and if this world of ours is ever to become what we hope some day it may become, it must be by the general recognition that the man's heart and soul, the man's worth and actions, determine his standing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: When we undertake the impossible, we often fail to do anything at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Only those are fit to live who do not fear to die and none are fit to die who have shrunk from the joy of life and the duty of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Keep your eyes on the stars, and your feet on the ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is apt to be a lunatic fringe among the votaries of any forward movement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The great man is always the man of mighty effort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: At sometime in our lives a devil dwells within us, causes heartbreaks, confusion and troubles, then dies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The beauty and charm of the wilderness are his for the asking, for the edges of the wilderness lie close beside the beaten roads of the present travel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is not the critic who counts...The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The farther one gets into the wilderness, the greater is the attraction of its lonely freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: By acting as if I was not afraid, I gradually ceased to be afraid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The man of great wealth owes a peculiar obligation to the state because he derives special advantages from the mere existence of government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Wild beasts and birds are by right not the property merely of the people today, but the property of the unborn generations, whose belongings we have no right to squander."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The liar is no whit better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The forces that tend for evil are great and terrible, but the forces of truth and love and courage and honesty and generosity and sympathy are also stronger than ever before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Wide differences of opinion in matters of religious, political, and social belief must exist if conscience and intellect alike are not to be stunted, if there is to be room for healthy growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No man can lead a public career really worth leading, no man can act with rugged independence in serious crises, nor strike at great abuses, nor afford to make powerful and unscrupulous foes, if he is himself vulnerable in his private character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is a great mistake to think that the extremist is a better man than the moderate. Usually the difference is not that he is morally stronger, but that he is intellectually weaker. He is not more virtuous. He is simply more foolish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: A good Navy is not a provocation to war. It is the surest guaranty of peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: McKinley has no more backbone than a chocolate eclair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Personally I have never been able to understand why the head of a big business, whether it be the Nation, the State or the Army, or Navy should not desire to have very strong and positive people under him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck, and to look upward to the celestial crown above them.... If they gradually grow to feel that the whole world is nothing but muck their power of usefulness is gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The weakling and the coward cannot be saved by honesty alone; but without honesty the brave and able man is merely a civic wild beast who should be hunted down by every lover of righteousness. No man who is corrupt, no man who condones corruption in others, can possibly do his duty by the community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: To waste, to destroy our natural resources, to skin and exhaust the land instead of using it so as to increase its usefulness, will result in undermining in the days of our children the very prosperity which we ought by right to hand down to them amplified and developed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No man is above the law, and no man is below it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: For us is the life of action, of strenuous performance of duty; let us live in the harness, striving mightily; let us rather run the risk of wearing out than rusting out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Even in ordinary times there are very few of us who do not see the problems of life as through a glass, darkly; and when the glass is clouded by the murk of furious popular passion, the vision of the best and the bravest is dimmed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Character, in the long run, is the decisive factor in the life of an individual and of nations alike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: If a man has a very decided character, has a strongly accentuated career, it is normally the case of course that he makes ardent friends and bitter enemies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: [Among the books he chooses, a statesman] ought to read interesting books on history and government, and books of science and philosophy; and really good books on these subjects are as enthralling as any fiction ever written in prose or verse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Those who oppose all reform will do well to remember that ruin in its worst form is inevitable if our national life brings us nothing better than swollen fortunes for the few and the triumph in both politics and business of a sordid and selfish materialism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Compromise\" is so often used in a bad sense that it is difficult to remember that properly it merely describes the process of reaching an agreement. Naturally there are certain subjects on which no man can compromise. For instance, there must be no compromise under any circumstances with official corruption, and of course no man should hesitate to say as much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The farmer is a poor creature who skins the land and leaves it worthless to his children. The farmer is a good farmer who, having enabled the land to support himself and to provide for the education of his children, leaves it to them a little better than he found it himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: If I were a factory employee, a workman on the railroads or a wage-earner of any sort, I would undoubtedly join the union of my trade. If I disapproved of its policy, I would join in order to fight that policy; if the union leaders were dishonest, I would join in order to put them out. I believe in the union and I believe that all men who are benefited by the union are morally bound to help to the extent of their power in the common interests advanced by the union."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I can no more explain why I like \"natural history\" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not care for that enormous brand of natural history which deals with invertebrates any more than why I do not care for brandied peaches. All I can say is that almost as soon as I began to read at all I began to like to read about the natural history of beasts and birds and the more formidable or interesting reptiles and fishes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Let the watchwords of all our people be the old familiar watchwords of honesty, decency, fair-dealing, and commonsense.\"... \"We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less.\"\"The welfare of each of us is dependent fundamentally upon the welfare of all of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which is bought at the price of national honor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is not what we have that will make us a great nation; it is the way in which we use it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The Armenian massacre was the greatest crime of the war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I shall ask you to be as quiet as possible. I don\u2019t know whether you fully understand that I have just been shot \u2014 but it takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is true of the Nation, as of the individual, that the greatest doer must also be a great dreamer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is a delight in the hardy life of the open. There are no words that can tell the hidden spirit of the wilderness, that can reveal its mystery, its melancholy and its charm. The nation behaves well if it treats the natural resources as assets which it must turn over to the next generation increased; and not impaired in value. Conservation means development as much as it does protection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Of all the questions which can come before this nation, short of the actual preservation of its existence in a great war, there is none which compares in importance with the great central task of leaving this land even a better land for our descendants than it is for us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We have become great because of the lavish use of our resources ... But the time has come to inquire seriously what will happen when our forests are gone, when the coal, the iron, the oil and the gas are exhausted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We here in America, hold in our hands the hope of the world, the fate of the coming years; and shame and disgrace will be ours if in our eyes the light of high resolve is dimmed, if we trail in the dust the golden hopes of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Nothing is gained by debate on non-debatable subjects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is no good reason why we should fear the future, but there is every reason why we should face it seriously, neither hiding from ourselves the gravity of the problems before us nor fearing to approach these problems with the unbending, unflinching purpose to solve them aright."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The one characteristic more essential than any other is foresight... It should be the growing nation with a future which takes the long look ahead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: My hat's in the ring. The fight is on and I'm stripped to the buff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I wish very much that the wrong people could be prevented entirely from breeding"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expedience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Whatever it is, handle it so that your children's children will get the benefit of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is not often that a man can make opportunities for himself. But he can put himself in such shape that when or if the opportunities come he is ready."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I do not intend that our natural resources shall be exploited by the few against the interests of the many."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The need for collecting large campaign funds would vanish if Congress provided an appropriation for the proper and legitimate expenses of each of the great national parties, an appropriation ample enough to meet the necessity for thorough organization and machinery, which requires a large expenditure of money. Then the stipulation should be made that no party receiving campaign funds from the Treasury should accept more than a fixed amount from any individual subscriber or donor; and the necessary publicity for receipts and expenditures could without difficulty be provided."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The conservation of natural resources is the fundamental problem. Unless we solve that problem it will avail us little to solve all others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Short-sighted men who in their greed and selfishness will, if permitted, rob our country of half its charm by their reckless extermination of all useful and beautiful wild things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Obedience of the law is demanded; not asked as a favor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Americanism is a question of principle, of idealism, of character. It is not a matter of birthplace, or creed, or line of descent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: One of our defects as a nation is a tendency to use what have been called ''weasel words.'' When a weasel sucks eggs the meat is sucked out of the egg. If you use a ''weasel word'' after another there is nothing left of the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Wars are, of course, as a rule to be avoided; but they are far better than certain kinds of peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Leave it as it is. You can not improve on it. You can only mar it. The ages have been at work on it and man can only mar it. What you can do is keep it for your children, your children's children and for all who come after you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I am a strong individualist by personal habit, inheritance, and conviction; but it is a mere matter of common sense to recognize that the State, the community, the citizens acting together, can do a number of things better than if they were left to individual action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Where a trust becomes a monopoly the state has an immediate right to interfere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The pacifist is as surely a traitor to his country and to humanity as is the most brutal wrongdoer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There are many occasions when the highest praise one can receive is the attack of some given scoundrel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is an incalculable added pleasure to any one's sum of happiness if he or she grows to know, even slightly and imperfectly, how to read and enjoy the wonder-book of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: In a crisis, the man worth his salt is the man who meets the needs of the situation in whatever way is necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I never won anything without hard labor and the exercise of my best judgment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I have no business to feel downcast or querulous merely because when so much as been given me I have not had even more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Perhaps the most incapable Executive that ever filled the presidential chair...it would be difficult to imagine a man less fit to guide the state with honor and safety through the stormy times that marked the opening of the present century."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a Democrat like myself must admit this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Ours is a government of liberty by, through, and under the law.\r\nA great democracy must be progressive or it will soon cease to be great or a democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The eighth commandment reads, \"Thou shalt not steal.\" It does not read, \"Thou shalt not steal from the rich man.\" It does not read, \"Thou shalt not steal from the poor man.\" It reads simply and plainly, \"Thou shalt not steal.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Our duty to the whole, including the unborn generations, bids us to restrain an unprincipled present-day minority from wasting the heritage of these unborn generations. The movement for the conservation of wildlife and the larger movement for the conservation of all our natural resources are essentially democratic in spirit, purpose, and method."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I do not believe that any man can adequately appreciate the world of to-day unless he has some knowledge of -- a little more than a slight knowledge, some feeling for and of -- the history of the world of the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Peace is normally a great good, and normally it coincides with righteousness, but it is righteousness and not peace which should bind the conscience of a nation as it should bind the conscience of an individual; and neither a nation nor an individual can surrender conscience to another's keeping."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is superstition in science quite as much as there is superstition in theology, and it is all the more dangerous because those suffering from it are profoundly convinced that they are freeing themselves from all superstition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We do not admire the man of timid peace. We admire the man who embodies victorious effort; the man who never wrongs his neighbor, who is prompt to help a friend, but who has those virile qualities necessary to win in the stern strife of actual life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I am a man who believes with all fervor and intensity in moderate progress. Too often men who believe in moderation believe in it only moderately and tepidly and leave fervor to the extremists of the two sides - the extremists of reaction and the extremists of progress. Washington, Lincoln . . . are men who, to my mind, stand as the types of what wide, progressive leadership should be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We can just as little afford to follow the doctrinaires of an extreme individualism as the doctrinaires of an extreme socialism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is not in all America a more dangerous trait than the deification of mere smartness unaccompanied by any sense of moral responsibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I wish to see the Bible study as much a matter of course in the secular colleges as in the seminary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We of an older generation can get along with what we have, though with growing hardship; but in your full manhood and womanhood you will want what nature once so bountifully supplied and man so thoughtlessly destroyed; and because of that want you will reproach us, not for what we have used, but for what we have wasted...So any nation which in its youth lives only for the day, reaps without sowing, and consumes without husbanding, must expect the penalty of the prodigal whose labor could with difficulty find him the bare means of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There were all kinds of things I was afraid of at first, ranging from grizzly bears to 'mean' horses and gun-fighters; but by acting as if I was not afraid I gradually ceased to be afraid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is better to be faithful than famous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I believe that this Republic will endure for many centuries. If so there will doubtless be among its Presidents Protestants and Catholics, and very probably at some time, Jews. I have consistently tried while President to act in relation to my fellow Americans of Catholic faith as I hope that any future President who happens to be Catholic will act towards his fellow Americans of Protestant faith. Had I followed any other course I should have felt that I was unfit to represent the American people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Each one must do his part if we wish to show that the nation is worthy of its good fortune."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No people on earth have more cause to be thankful than ours, and this is said reverently, in no spirit of boastfulness in our own strength, but with the gratitude to the Giver of good who has blessed us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Practical efficiency is common, and lofty idealism not uncommon; it is the combination which is necessary, and the combination is rare"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I stand for the square deal. I mean not merely that I stand for fair play under the present rules of the game, but that I stand for having those rules changed so as to work for a more substantial equality of opportunity and of reward for equally good service."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: While the nation that has dared to be great, that has had the will and the power to change the destiny of the ages, in the end must die, yet no less surely the nation that has played the part of the weakling must also die; and whereas the nation that has done nothing leaves nothing behind it, the nation that has done a great work really continues, though in changed form, to live forevermore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: With self-discipline most anything is possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I do not believe there ever was any life more attractive to a vigorous young fellow than life on a cattle ranch in those days. It was a fine, healthy life, too; it taught a man self-reliance, hardihood, and the value of instant decision...I enjoyed the life to the full."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: And to lose the chance to see frigatebirds soaring in circles above the storm, or a file of pelicans winging their way homeward across the crimson afterglow of the sunset, or a myriad terns flashing in the bright light of midday as they hover in a shifting maze above the beach -- why, the loss is like the loss of a gallery of the masterpieces of the artists of old time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Unless the man is master of his soul all other kinds of mastery amount to little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is not the critic who counts"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Is America a weakling, to shrink from the work of the great world powers? No! The young giant of the West stands on a continent and clasps the crest of an ocean in either hand. Our nation, glorious in youth and strength, looks into the future with eager eyes and rejoices as a strong man to run a race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The effort to make financial or political profit out of the destruction of character can only result in public calamity. Gross and reckless assaults on character, whether on the stump or in newspaper, magazine, or book, create a morbid and vicious public sentiment, and at the same time act as a profound deterrent to able men of normal sensitiveness and tend to prevent them from entering the public service at any price."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Our country, we have faith to believe, is only at the beginning of its growth. Unless the forests of the United States can be made ready to meet the vast demands which this growth will inevitably bring, commercial disaster, that means disaster to the whole country, is inevitable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We are the heirs of the ages"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: A grove of giant redwood or sequoias should be kept just as we keep a great and beautiful cathedral."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is by no means necessary that a great nation should always stand at the heroic level. But no nation has the root of greatness in it unless in time of need it can rise to the heroic mood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is a delight in the hardy life of the open."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We are face to face with our destiny and we must meet it with a high and resolute courage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Then get busy and find out how to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is character that counts in a nation as in a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The immigrant must not be allowed to drift or to be put at the mercy of the exploiter. Our object is not to imitate one of the older racial types, but to maintain a new American type and then to secure loyalty to this type. We cannot secure such loyalty unless we make this a country where men shall feel that they have justice and also where they shall feel that they are required to perform the duties imposed upon them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is a wicked thing to be neutral between right and wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: War is not merely justifiable, but imperative upon honorable men, upon an honorable nation, where peace can only be obtained by the sacrifice of conscientious conviction or of national welfare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No nation deserves to exist if it permits itself to lose the stern and virile virtues; and this without regard to whether the loss is due to the growth of a heartless and all-absorbing commercialism, to prolonged indulgence in luxury and soft, effortless ease, or to the deification of a warped and twisted sentimentality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We draw the line against misconduct, not against wealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The worst of all fears is the fear of living"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: In life, as in football, the principle to follow is to hit the line hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No triumph of peace is quite so great as the supreme triumphs of war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: What I have advocated is not wild radicalism. It is the highest and wisest kind of conservatism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The biggest corporation, like the humblest private citizen, must be held to strict compliance with the will of the people as expressed in the fundamental law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The first duty of an American citizen, then, is that he shall work in politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Ruin looks us in the face if we judge a man by his position instead of judging him by his conduct in that position."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There can be no greater issue than that of conservation in this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The man who does not think it was America's duty to fight for her own sake in view of the infamous conduct of Germany toward us stands on a level with a man who wouldn't think it necessary to fight in a private quarrel because his wife's face was slapped."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The light has gone out of my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The great virtue of my radicalism lies in the fact that I am perfectly ready, if necessary, to be radical on the conservative side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Lincoln-sad, patient, kindly Lincoln, who after bearing upon his weary shoulders for four years a greater burden than that borne by any other man of the nineteenth century laid down his life for the people whom living he had served as well-built upon his early study of the Bible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: A party should not contain utterly incongruous elements, radically divided on the real issues, and acting together only on false and dead issues insincerely painted as real and vital. It should not in the several States as well as in the Nation be prostituted to the service of the baser type of political boss. It should be so composed that there should be a reasonable agreement in the actions taken by it both in the Nation and in the several States. Judged by these standards, both of the old parties break down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Nothing should be permitted to stand in the way of the preservation of the forests, and it is criminal to permit individuals to purchase a little gain for themselves through the destruction of forests when this destruction is fatal to the well-being of the whole country in the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is something to be said for government by a great aristocracy which has furnished leaders to the nation in peace and war for generations; even a democrat like myself must admit this. But there is absolutely nothing to be said for government by a plutocracy, for government by men very powerful in certain lines and gifted with the money touch, but with ideals which in their essence are merely those of so many glorified pawnbrokers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Almost every man who has by his life-work added to the sum of human achievement of which the race is proud, of which our people are proud, almost every such man has based his life-work largely upon the teachings of the Bible"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: For unflagging interest and enjoyment, a household of children, if things go reasonably well, certainly all other forms of success and achievement lose their importance by comparison."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Willful sterility is, from the standpoint of the nation, from the standpoint of the human race, the one sin for which the penalty is national death, race death; a sin for which there is no atonement. No man, no woman, can shirk the primary duties of life, whether for love of ease and pleasure, or for any other cause, and retain his or her self-respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We fight in honourable fashion for the good of mankind; fearless of the future, unheeding of our individual fates, with unflinching hearts and undimmed eyes; we stand at Armageddon, and we battle for the Lord"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The foes from whom we pray to be delivered are our own passions, appetites, and follies; and against these there is always need that we should war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is only the warlike power of a civilized people that can give peace to the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I am delighted to have you play football. I believe in rough, manly sports. But I do not believe in them if they degenerate into the sole end of any one's existence. I don't want you to sacrifice standing well in your studies to any over-athleticism; and I need not tell you that character counts for a great deal more than either intellect or body in winning success in life. Athletic proficiency is a mighty good servant, and like so many other good servants, a mighty bad master."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: While President, I have been President - emphatically."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Abraham Lincoln - the spirit incarnate of those who won victory in the Civil War - was the true representative of this people, not only for his own generation, but for all time, because he was a man among men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The dreams of golden glory in the future will not come true unless, high of heart and strong of hand, by our own mighty deeds we make them come true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The mass of the American people are most emphatically not in the deplorable condition of which you speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There are dreadful moments when death comes very near those we love, even if for the time being it passes by. But life is a great adventure, and the worst of all fears is the fear of living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I have now run up against an ugly snag, the Sunday Excise Law. It is altogether too strict, but I have no honorable alternative save to enforce it and I am enforcing it, to the furious rage of the saloon keepers, and of many good people too; for which I am sorry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Toward all other nations, large and small, our attitude must be one of cordial and sincere friendship. We must show not only in our words, but in our deeds, that we are earnestly desirous of securing their good will by acting toward them in a spirit of just and generous recognition of all their rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope - the door of opportunity - is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I'm as strong as a bull moose and you can use me to the limit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck rake, speedily becomes, not a help but one of the most potent forces for evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It behooves every man to remember that the work of the critic is of altogether secondary importance, and that, in the end, progress is accomplished by the man who does things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is a homely old adage which runs: \"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.\" If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I entirely appreciate loyalty to one\"s friends, but loyalty to the cause of justice and honor stands above it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No people ever yet benefited by riches if their prosperity corrupted their virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Conservation and rural-life policies are really two sides of the same policy; and down at the bottom this policy rests upon the fundamental law that neither man nor nation can prosper unless, in dealing with the present, thought is steadily given for the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Now and then we hear the wilder voices of the wilderness, from animals that in the hours of darkness do not fear the neighborhood of man: the coyotes wail like dismal ventriloquists, or the silence may be broken by the snorting and stamping of a deer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Conservation of our resources is the fundamental question before this nation, and that our first and greatest task is to set our house in order and begin to live within our means."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one. Once he has left office he cannot do very much; and he is a fool if he fails to realize it all and to be profoundly thankful for having had the great chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I keep my good health by having a very bad temper, kept under good control."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There are always in life countless tendencies for good and for evil, and each succeeding generation sees some of these tendencies strengthened and some weakened; nor is it by any means always, alas! that the tendencies for evil are weakened and those for good strengthened. But during the last few decades there certainly have been some notable changes for good in boy life. The great growth in the love of athletic sports, for instance, while fraught with danger if it becomes one-sided and unhealthy, has beyond all question had an excellent effect in increased manliness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We have room for but one loyalty, loyalty to the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Alike for the nation and the individual, the one indispensable requisite is character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Every special interest is entitled to justice - full, fair, and complete... but not one is entitled to a vote in Congress, to a voice on the bench, or to representation in any public office."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I took the Canal Zone and let Congress debate; and while the debate goes on, the canal does also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: 'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: When liberty becomes license, some form of one-man power is not far distant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The duties are even more important than the rights; and in the long run I think that the reward is ampler and greater for duty well done, than for the insistence upon individual rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: If elected, I shall see to it that every man has a square deal, no less and no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: When great nations fear to expand, shrink from expansion, it is because their greatness is coming to an end. Are we, still in the prime of our lusty youth, still at the beginning of our glorious manhood, to sit down among the outworn people, to take our place with the weak and the craven? A thousand times no!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No other President ever enjoyed the Presidency as I did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: A healthy state can exist only when the men and women who make it up lead clean, vigorous, healthy lives; when the children are so trained that they shall endeavor, not to shirk difficulties, but to overcome them; not to seek ease, but to know how to wrest triumph from toil and risk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is of little use for us to pay lip-loyalty to the mighty men of the past unless we sincerely endeavor to apply to the problems of the present precisely the qualities which in other crises enabled the men of that day to meet those crises."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The lunatic fringe in all reform movements."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The Cubists are entitled to the serious attention of all who find enjoyment in the colored puzzle pictures of the Sunday newspapers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: A small politician, of low capacity and mean surroundings, proud to act as the servile tool of men worse than himself but also stronger and abler."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: You, the sons of the pioneers, if you are true to your ancestry, must make your lives as worthy as they made theirs. They sought for true success, and therefore they did not seek ease. They knew that success comes only to those who lead the life of endeavor"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Poverty is a bitter thing; but it is not as bitter as the existence of restless vacuity and physical, moral, and intellectual flabbiness, to which those doom themselves who elect to spend all their years in that vainest of all vain pursuits-the pursuit of mere pleasure as a sufficient end in itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: In popular government results worth while can only be achieved by men who combine worthy ideals with practical good sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Conservation means development as much as it does protection.\r\nA man's usefulness depends upon his living up to his ideals insofar as he can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We can no more and no less afford to condone evil in the man of capital than evil in the man of no capital."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The public must retain control of the great waterways. It is essential that any permit to obstruct them for reasons and on conditions that seem good at the moment should be subject to revision when changed conditions demand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Success, the real success, does not depend upon the position you hold but upon how you carry yourself in that position."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Don't spread patriotism too thin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It pays no matter what comes after it, to try and do things, to accomplish things in this life and not merely to have a soft and pleasant time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Much of the usefulness of any career must lie in the impress that it makes upon, and the lessons that it teaches to, the generations that come after."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We sincerely and earnestly believe in peace; but if peace and justice conflict, we scorn the man who would not stand for justice though the whole world came in arms against him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Unjust war is to be abhorred; but woe to the nation that does not make ready to hold its own in time of need against all who would harm it! And woe thrice over to the nation in which the average man loses the fighting edge, loses the power to serve as a soldier if the day of need should arise!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I want to see you shoot the way you shout."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Rough board shelves hold a number of books, without which some of the evenings would be long indeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I never keep boys waiting. It's a hard trial for a boy to wait."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The little owls call to each other with tremulous, quavering voices throughout the livelong night, as they sit in the creaking trees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There never has been devised, and there never will be devised, any law which will enable a man to succeed save by the exercise of those qualities which have always been the prerequisites of success - the qualities of hard work, of keen intelligence, of unflinching will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: In the Western Hemisphere the adherence of the United States to the Monroe Doctrine may force the United States, however reluctantly, in flagrant cases of such wrong doing or impotence, to the exercise of an international police power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Nothing could be more lonely and nothing more beautiful than the view at nightfall across the prairies to these huge hill masses, when the lengthening shadows had at last merged into one and the faint after-glow of the red sunset filled the west."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No triumph of peace can equal the armed triumph of war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: All constitutions, those of the States no less than that of the nation, are designed, and must be interpreted and administered so as to fit human rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The one being abhorrent to the powers above the earth and under them is the hyphenated American"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Fertile plains, every foot of them tilled, are of the first necessity; but great natural playgrounds of mountain, forest, cliff-walled lake, and brawling brook are also necessary to the full and many-sided development of a fine race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The greatest historian should also be a great moralist. It is no proof of impartiality to treat wickedness and goodness on the same level."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I feel most emphatically that we should not turn into shingles a tree which was old when the first Egyptian conqueror penetrated to the valley of the Euphrates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The conservation of our natural resources and their proper use constitute the fundamental problem which underlies almost every other problem of our national life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: In the great battle of life, no brilliancy of intellect, no perfection of bodily development, will count when weighed in the balance against the assemblage of virtues, active and passive, of moral qualities which we group together under the name of character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Some reformers may urge that in the ages distant future, patriotism, like the habit of monogamous marriage, will become a needless and obsolete virtue; but just at present the man who loves other countries as much as he does his own is quite as noxious a member of society as the man who loves other women as much as he loves his wife. Love of country is an elemental virtue, like love of home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Power always brings with it responsibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: My hat is in the ring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Nowadays the field naturalist-who is usually at all points superior to the mere closet naturalist-follows a profession as full of hazard and interest as that of the explorer or of the big-game hunter in the remote wilderness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We want the active and zealous help of every man far-sighted enough to realize the importance from the standpoint of the nation's welfare in the future of preserving the forests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There are two things that I want you to make up your minds to: first, that you are going to have a good time as long as you live - I have no use for the sour-faced man - and next, that you are going to do something worthwhile, that you are going to work hard and do the things you set out to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: A healthy-minded boy should feel hearty contempt for the coward and even more hearty indignation for the boy who bullies girls or small boys, or tortures animals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The fool who has not sense to discriminate between what is good and what is bad is well nigh as dangerous as the man who does discriminate and yet chooses the bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: To divide along the lines of section or caste or creed is un-American."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Men with the muckrake are often indispensable to the well-being of society, but only if they know when to stop raking the muck."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Men can never escape being governed. Either they must govern themselves or they must submit to being governed by others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I am simply unable to understand the value placed by so many people upon great wealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Just as little can we afford to follow the doctrinaires of an impossible - and incidentally of a highly undesirable - social revolution which, in destroying individual rights - including property rights - and the family, would destroy the two chief agents in the advance of mankind, and the two chief reasons why either the advance or the preservation of mankind is worthwhile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: If we are to be really great people, we must strive in good faith to play a great part in the world. We cannot avoid meeting great issues. All that we can determine for ourselves is whether we shall meet them well or ill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We must remember not to judge any public servant by any one act, and especially should we beware of attacking the men who are merely the occasions and not the cause of disaster."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: If there is one thing for which we stand in this country, it is for complete religious freedom, and it is an emphatic negation of this right to cross-examine a man on his religion before being willing to support him for office."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Because we are unqualifiedly and without reservation against any system of denominational schools, maintained by the adherents of any creed with the help of state aid, therefore, we as strenuously insist that the public schools shall be free from sectarian influences, and above all, free from any attitude of hostility to the adherents of any particular creed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Conservation is a great moral issue, for it involves the patriotic duty of insuring the safety and continuance of the nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: A finer body of men has never been gathered by any nation than the men who have done the work of building the Panama Canal; the conditions under which they have lived and have done their work have been better than in any similar work ever undertaken in the tropics; they have all felt an eager pride in their work; and they have made not only America but the whole world their debtors by what they have accomplished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: To discriminate against a thoroughly upright citizen because he belongs to some particular church, or because, like Abraham Lincoln, he has not avowed his allegiance to any church, is an outrage against the liberty of conscience, which is one of the foundations of American life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Conservation means development as much as it does protection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: While my interest in natural history has added very little to my sum of achievement, it has added immeasurably to my sum of enjoyment in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shrink neither."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The bulk of government is not legislation but administration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: To borrow a simile from the football field, we believe that men must play fair, but that there must be no shirking, and that the success can only come to the player who hits the line hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The decisions of the courts on economic and social questions depend on their economic and social philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The object of government is the welfare of the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Freedom means the supremacy of human rights everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Yes, my friend, and if you will steal for me then you will steal from me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The reader, the booklover, must meet his own needs without paying too much attention to what his neighbors say those needs should be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Massive potential you have and, in recognition of all this, would you mind having your salary halved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I have had a great time as president."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The settler and pioneer have at bottom had justice on their side; this great continent could not have been kept as nothing but a game preserve for squalid savages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Each man must work for himself, and unless he so works, no outside help can avail him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: On the whole, we think that the greatest victories are yet to be won, the greatest deeds yet to be done, and that there are yet in store for our peoples, and for the causes that we uphold, grander triumphs than have ever yet been scored. But be this as it may, we gladly agree that the one plain duty of every man is to face the future as he faces the present, regardless of what it may have in store for him, turning toward the light as he sees the light, to play his part manfully, as a man among men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: All that the law can do is to shape things so that no injustice shall be done by one to the other, and that each man shall be given the first chance to show the stuff that is in him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The modern naturalist must realize that in some of its branches his profession, while more than ever a science, has also become an art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I do not in the least object to a sport because it is rough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Love of peace is common among weak, short-sighted, timid, and lazy persons; and on the other hand courage is found among many men of evil temper and bad character. Neither quality shall by itself avail. Justice among the nations of mankind, and the uplifting of humanity, can be brought about only by those strong and daring men who with wisdom love peace, but who love righteousness more than peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: After the war, and until the day of his death, his position on almost every public question was either mischievous or ridiculous, and usually both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Don't hit at all if you can help it; don't hit a man if you can possibly avoid it; but if you do hit him, put him to sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I would a great deal rather be anything, say professor of history, than vice president."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The absence of effective State, and, especially, national, restraint upon unfair money-getting has tended to create a small class of enormously wealthy and economically powerful men, whose chief object is to hold and increase their power. The prime need is to change the conditions which enable these men to accumulate power which is not for the general welfare that they should hold or exercise. We grudge no man a fortune which represents his own power and sagacity, when exercised with entire regard to the welfare of his fellows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is nothing more practical than the preservation of beauty, than the preservation of anything that appeals to the higher emotions of mankind"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The only trouble with the movement for the preservation of our forests is that it has not gone nearly far enough, and was not begun soon enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: In the Grand Canyon, Arizona has a natural wonder which is in kind absolutely unparalleled throughout the rest of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It's not the critic who counts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The true friend of property, the true conservative, is he who insists that property shall be the servant and not the master of the commonwealth; who insists that the creature of man\u2019s making shall be the servant and not the master of the man who made it. The citizens of the United States must effectively control the mighty commercial forces which they have called into being. There can be no effective control of corporations while their political activity remains. To put an end to it will be neither a short nor an easy task, but it can be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The Bad Lands grade all the way from those that are almost rolling in character to those that are so fantastically broken in form and so bizarre in color as to seem hardly properly to belong to this earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: No man can do both effective and decent work in public life unless he is a practical politician on the one hand, and a sturdy believer in Sunday-school politics on the other. He must always strive manfully for the best, and yet, like Abraham Lincoln, must often resign himself to accept the best possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The American people abhor a vacuum."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Cowardice in a race, as in an individual, is the unpardonable sin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: In name we had the Declaration of Independence in 1776; but we gave the lie by our acts to the words of the Declaration of Independence until 1865; and words count for nothing except in so far as they represent acts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It may be that at some time in the dim future of the race the need for war will vanish: but that time is yet ages distant. As yet no nation can hold its place in the world, or can do any work really worth doing, unless it stands ready to guard its right with an armed hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The extermination of the buffalo has been a veritable tragedy of the animal world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: ... looked at from the standpoint of the ultimate result, there was little real difference to the Indian whether the land was taken by treaty or by war. ... No treaty could be satisfactory to the whites, no treaty served the needs of humanity and civilization, unless it gave the land to the Americans as unreservedly as any successful war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Mother went off for three days to New York and Mame and Quentin took instant advantage of her absence to fall sick. Quentin's sickness was surely due to a riot in candy and ice-cream with chocolate sauce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: War with evil; but show no spirit of malignity toward the man who may be responsible for the evil. Put it out of his power to do wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We face the future with our past and our present as guarantors of our promises; and we are content to stand or to fall by the record which we have made and are making."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is no reason why people should not call themselves Cubists, or Octagonists, or Parallelopipedonists, orKnights oftheIsoscelesTriangle, or Brothers of the Cosine, if they so desire; as expressing anything serious and permanent, one term is as fatuous as another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: A revolution is sometimes necessary, but if revolutions become habitual the country in which they take place is going down-hill"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I was a reasonably good student in college ... My chief interests were scientific. When I entered college, I was devoted to out-of-doors natural history, and my ambition was to be a scientific man of the Audubon, or Wilson, or Baird, or Coues type-a man like Hart Merriam, or Frank Chapman, or Hornaday, to-day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Over-sentimentality, over-softness, in fact washiness and mushiness are the great dangers of this age and of this people. Unless we keep the barbarian virtues, gaining the civilized ones will be of little avail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is a bad thing for a nation to raise and to admire a false standard of success; and there can be no falser standard than that set by the deification of material well-being in and for itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: A true forest is not merely a storehouse full of wood, but, as it were, a factory of wood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It's not having been in the Dark House, but having left it that counts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: In order to succeed we need leaders of inspired idealism, leaders to whom are granted great visions, who dream greatly and strive to make their dreams come true; who can kindle the people with the fire from their own burning souls. The leader for the time being, whoever he may be, is but an instrument, to be used until broken and then to be cast aside; and if he is worth his salt he will care no more when he is broken than a soldier cares when he is sent where his life is forfeit in order that the victory may be won."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Life is as if you were traveling a ridge crest. You have the gulf of inefficiency on one side and the gulf of wickedness on the other, and it helps not to have avoided one gulf if you fall into the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The stream will not permanently rise higher than the main source; and the main source of national power and national greatness is found in the average citizenship of the nation. Therefore it behooves us to do our best to see that the standard of the average citizen is kept high; and the average cannot be kept high unless the standard of the leaders is very much higher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I would rather go out of politics having the feeling that I had done what was right than stay in with the approval of all men, knowing in my heart that I have acted as I ought not to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: My power vanishes into thin air the instant that my fellow citizens, who are straight and honest, cease to believe that I represent them and fight for what is straight and honest. That is all the strength that I have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The country is the place for children, and if not the country, a city small enough so that one can get out into the country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: A typical vice of American politics the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues, and the announcement of radical policies with much sound and fury, and at the same time with a cautious accompaniment of weasel phrases each of which sucks the meat out of the preceding statement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Every man holds his property subject to the general right of the community to regulate its use to whatever degree the public welfare may require it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: In speaking to you men of the greatest city of the West, men of the state which gave to the country Lincoln and Grant, men who preeminently and distinctly embody all that is most American in the American character, I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Much of the discussion about socialism and individualism is entirely pointless, because of failure to agree on terminology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: wild flowers should be enjoyed unplucked where they grow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: What counts in a man or in a nation is not what the man or the nation can do, but what he or it actually does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The poorest way to face life is to face it with a sneer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Let us live in the harness, striving mightily."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The sons of all of us will pay in the future if we of the present do not do justice in the present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The object of government is the welfare of the people. The material progress and prosperity of a nation are desirable chiefly so far as they lead to the moral and material welfare of all good citizens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Under government ownership corruption can flourish just as rankly as under private ownership."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: All for each, and each for all, is a good motto; but only on condition that each works with might and main to so maintain himself as not to be a burden to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I don't think any President ever enjoyed himself more than I did. Moreover, I don't think any ex-President ever enjoyed himself more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I want to see you game, boys, I want to see you brave and manly, and I also want to see you gentle and tender."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The performance of duty, and not an indulgence in vapid ease and vapid pleasure, is all that makes life worth while."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Among the wise and high-minded people who in self-respecting and genuine fashion strive earnestly for peace, there are the foolish fanatics always to be found in such a movement and always discrediting it the men who form the lunatic fringe in all reform movements."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I abhor unjust war. I abhor injustice and bullying by the strong at the expense of the weak, whether among nations or individuals. I abhor violence and bloodshed. I believe that war should never be resorted to when, or so long as, it is honorably possible to avoid it. I respect all men and women who from high motives and with sanity and self-respect do all they can to avert war. I advocate preparation for war in order to avert war; and I should never advocate war unless it were the only alternative to dishonor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Women should have free access to every field of labor which they care to enter, and when their work is as valuable as that of a man it should be paid as highly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We are consuming our forests three times faster than they are being reproduced. Some of the richest timber lands of this continent have already been destroyed, and not replaced, and other vast areas are on the verge of destruction. Yet forests, unlike mines, can be so handled as to yield the best results of use, without exhaustion, just like grain fields."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Yes, Haven, most of us enjoy preaching, and Ive got such a bully pulpit!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Much has been given us, and much will rightfully be expected from us. We have duties to others and duties to ourselves; and we can shirk neither. We have become a great nation, forced by the fact of its greatness into relations with other nations of the earth, and we must behave as beseems a people with such responsibilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The weakling and the coward are out of place in a strong and free community. In a republic like ours the governing class is composed of the strong men who take the trouble to do the work of government; and if you are too timid or too fastidious or too careless to do your part in this work, then you forfeit your right to be considered one of the governing and you become one of the governed insteadone of the driven cattle of the political arena."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We cannot afford merely to sit down and deplore the evils of city life as inevitable, when cities are constantly growing, both absolutely and relatively. We must set ourselves vigorously about the task of improving them; and this task is now well begun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Perhaps there is no more important component of character than steadfast resolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Property belongs to man and not man to property."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Every man among us is more fit to meet the duties and responsibilities of citizenship because of the perils over which, in the past, the nation has triumphed; because of the blood and sweat and tears, the labor and the anguish, through which, in the days that have gone, our forefathers moved on to triumph."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: There is no moral difference between gambling at cards or in lotteries or on the race track and gambling in the stock market. One method is just pernicious to the body politic as the other kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Councils of War never fight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: We must treat each man on his worth and merits as a man. We must see that each is given a square deal, because he is entitled to no more and should receive no less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: My position as regards the monied interests can be put in a few words. In every civilized society property rights must be carefully safeguarded; ordinarily and in the great majority of cases, human rights and property rights are fundamentally and in the long run, identical; but when it clearly appears that there is a real conflict between them, human rights must have the upper hand; for property belongs to man and not man to property."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I am far from underestimating the importance of dividends, but I rank dividends below human character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Hardness of heart is a dreadful quality, but it is doubtful whether in the long run it works more damage than softness of head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: If we would have our citizens contented and law-abiding, we must not sow the seeds of discontent in childhood by denying children their birthright of play."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I have a perfect horror of words that are not backed up by deeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The men of wealth who today are trying to prevent the regulation and control of their business in the interest of the public by the proper government authorities will not succeed, in my judgment, in checking the progress of the movement. But if they did succeed they would find that they had sown the wind and would surely reap the whirlwind, for they would ultimately provoke the violent excesses which accompany a reform coming by convulsion instead of by steady and natural growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Our flag is a proud flag, and it stands for liberty and civilization. Where it has once floated, there must be no return to tyranny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Materially we must strive to secure a broader economic opportunity for all men, so that each shall have a better chance to show the stuff of which he is made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It was a pleasure to deal with a man of high ideals, who scorned everything mean and base, and who possessed those robust and hardy qualities of body and mind, for the lack of which no merely negative virtue can ever atone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: In foreign affairs we must make up our minds that whether we wish it or not, we are a great people and must play a great part in the world. It is not open to us to choose whether we will play that great part or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: And it is through strife and the readiness for strife that a man or a nation must win greatness. So, let the world know that we are here and willing to pour out our blood, our treasure, our tears. And that America is ready and if need be desirous of battle"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: It is imperative to exercise over big business a control and supervision which is unnecessary as regards small business.  All business must be conducted under the law, and all business men, big or little, must act justly.  But a wicked big interest is necessarily more dangerous to the community than a wicked little interest.  'Big business' in the past has been responsible for much of the special privilege which must be unsparingly cut out of our national life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action on partisan or factional grounds, so that there shall be gradually a growth, even though a slow growth, in the knowledge that the Federal courts and the representatives of the Federal Department of Justice insist on meting out even-handed justice to all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: A President has a great chance; his position is almost that of a king and a prime minister rolled into one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease but the doctrine of the strenuous life; the life of toil and effort; of labour and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes not to the man who desires mere easy peace but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph. A life of ignoble ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: The greatest privilege and greatest duty for any man is to be happily married, and no other form of success or service, for either man or woman, can be wisely accepted as a substitute or alternative"
  },
  {
    "text": "Theodore Roosevelt: I always believe in going hard at everything, whether it is Latin or mathematics, boxing or football, but at the same time I want to keep the sense of proportion. It is never worth while to absolutely exhaust one's self or to take big chances unless for an adequate object. I want you to keep in training the faculties which would make you, if the need arose, able to put your last ounce of pluck and strength into a contest. But I do not want you to squander these qualities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: A nation that forgets its past has no future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Some men change their party for the sake of their principles; others their principles for the sake of their party"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: One man with conviction will overwhelm a hundred who have only opinions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Individual Moslems may show splendid qualities. Thousands become the brave and loyal soldiers of the Queen: all know how to die: but the influence of the religion paralyses the social development of those who follow it. No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith. It has already spread throughout Central Africa, raising fearless warriors at every step; and were it not that Christianity is sheltered in the strong arms of science, the science against which it had vainly struggled, the civilisation of modern Europe might fall, as fell the civilisation of ancient Rome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate, you may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The Russian Bolsheviks have discovered that truth does not matter so long as there is reiteration. They have no difficulty whatever in countering a fact by a lie which, if repeated often enough and loudly enough, becomes accepted by the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: 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."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, trial by jury, and the English common law find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We shall go forward together. The road upwards is stony. There are upon our journey dark and dangerous valleys through which we have to make and fight our way. But it is sure and certain that if we persevere - and we shall persevere - we shall come through these dark and dangerous valleys into a sunlight broader and more genial and more lasting than mankind has ever known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child, a wife, or a concubine - must delay the final extinction of slavery until the faith of Islam has ceased to be a great power among men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: If you destroy a free market you create a black market."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than live as slaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hopes soon to be swept away. The British people can face peril or misfortune with fortitude and buoyancy, but they bitterly resent being deceived or finding that those responsible for their affairs are themselves dwelling in a fool's paradise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Give me the facts, and I will twist them the way I want, to suit my argument."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The arts are essen\u00adtial to any com\u00adplete national life. The State owes it to itself to sus\u00adtain and encour\u00adage them. [...] Ill fares the race which fails to salute the arts with the rev\u00ader\u00adence and delight which are their due."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: You were given the choice between war and dishonor. You chose dishonor and you will have war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: If we are together nothing is impossible. If we are divided all will fail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this island or lose the war. If we can stand up to him, all Europe may be free, and life of the world may move forward into broad, sunlit uplands.  But if we fall, then the whole world, including the United States, including all that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age... Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is no use saying, 'We are doing our best.' You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: When a nation has allowed itself to fall under a tyrannical regime, it cannot be absolved from the faults due to the guilt of that regime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The American Constitution declares 'All men are born equal.' The British Socialist Party add: 'All men must be kept equal'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I thought of a remark . . . that the United States is like a 'gigantic boiler. Once the fire is lighted under it there is no limit to the power it can generate.' Being saturated and satiated with emotion and sensation, I went to bed and slept the sleep of the saved and thankful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is no use doing what you like; you have got to like what you do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Don't interrupt me while I'm interrupting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law and particularly to deny him the judgement of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Success always demands a greater effort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Laws just or unjust may govern men's actions. Tyrannies may restrain or regulate their words. The machinery of propaganda may pack their minds with falsehood and deny them truth for many generations of time. But the soul of man thus held in trance or frozen in a long night can be awakened by a spark coming from God knows where and in a moment the whole structure of lies and oppression is on trial for its life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Study history, study history. In history lie all the secrets of statecraft."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Writing a book is an adventure. To begin with it is a toy and an amusement. Then it becomes a mistress, then it becomes a master, then it becomes a tyrant. The last phase is that just as you are about to be reconciled to your servitude, you kill the monster and fling him to the public."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The whole history of the world is summed up in the fact that, when nations are strong, they are not always just, and when they wish to be just, they are no longer strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The price of greatness is responsibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never, never -- in nothing, great or small, large or petty -- never give in, except to convictions of honor and good sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The malice of the wicked was reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The true guide of life is to do what is right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I like things to happen, and if they don't happen I like to make them happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle, nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I do not agree that the dog in a manger has the final right to the manger even though he may have lain there for a very long time. I do not admit that right. I do not admit for instance, that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that a wrong has been done to these people by the fact that a stronger race, a higher-grade race, a more worldly wise race to put it that way, has come in and taken their place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I propose that 100,000 degenerate Britons should be forcibly sterilized and others put in labour camps to halt the decline of the British race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: All the great things are simple."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I am your servant. You have the right to dismiss me when you please. What you have no right to do is ask me to bear responsibility without the power of action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I should have liked to be asked to say what I knew. They always tried to ask what I did not know. When I would have willingly displayed my knowledge, they sought to expose my ignorance. This sort of treatment had only one result: I did not do well in examinations"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we have lost the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: How fortunate it was for the world that when these great trials came upon it there was a generation that terror could not conquer and brutal violence could not enslave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Eating words has never given me indigestion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed. And should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old \u2014 \u201cShall I speak for thee to the King or the Captain of the host?\u201d \u2014 we should reply with the Shunamite woman: \u201cNay, Sir, for we dwell among our own people.\u201d"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The Aryan stock is bound to triumph."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: 'Keep England White' is a good slogan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Nothing in life is so exhilarating as to be shot at without result."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Difficulties mastered are opportunities won."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: A baboon in a forest is a matter of legitimate speculation; a baboon in a zoo is an object of public curiosity; but a baboon in your wife\u2019s bed is a cause of the gravest concern."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: If we win, nobody will care. If we lose, there will be nobody to care."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Never stand so high upon a principle that you cannot lower it to suit the circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: History is written by the victors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is no worse mistake in public leadership than to hold out false hope soon to be swept away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The water was not fit to drink. To make it palatable, we had to add whisky. By diligent effort, I learned to like it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Don't take 'no' for an answer, never submit to failure. Do not be fobbed off with mere personal success or acceptance. You will make all kinds of mistakes, but as long as you are generous and true, and also fierce, you cannot hurt the world or events."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is my belief, you cannot deal with the most serious things in the world unless you understand the most amusing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I cannot but think we have much to be thankful for, and more still to hope for in the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: No stronger retrograde force exists in the world. Far from being moribund, Mohammedanism is a militant and proselytizing faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: No socialist government conducting the entire life and industry of the country could afford to allow free, sharp or violently worded expressions of public discontent. They would have to fall back on some form of Gestapo, no doubt very humanly directed in the first instance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Everyone has his day and some days last longer than others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: At the bottom of all the tributes paid to democracy is the little man, walking into the little booth, with a little pencil, making a little cross on a little bit of paper-no amount of rhetoric or voluminous discussion can possibly diminish the overwhelming importance of the point."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Don't talk to me about naval tradition. It's nothing but rum, sodomy, and the lash."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: To jaw-jaw is always better than to war-war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Wars are not won by evacuations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Perfect solutions of our difficulties are not to be looked for in an imperfect world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Expert knowledge is limited knowledge"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I have left the obvious, essential fact to this point, namely, that it is the Russian Armies who have done the main work in tearing the guts out of the German army. In the air and on the oceans we could maintain our place, but there was no force in the world which could have been called into being, except after several more years, that would have been able to maul and break the German army unless it had been subjected to the terrible slaughter and manhandling that has fallen to it through the strength of the Russian Soviet Armies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We are still masters of our fate. We are still captains of our souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: This is the type of arrant pedantry up with which I will not put."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is at least one thing worse than fighting with allies - And that is to fight without them"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: You ask, What is our policy? I will say; 'It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us: to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark lamentable catalogue of human crime. That is our policy.' You ask, What is our aim? I can answer with one word: Victory-victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: An optimist sees the oportunity in every difficulty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: A sheep in sheep's clothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Where does the family start? It starts with a young man falling in love with a girl - no superior alternative has yet been found."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: If you mean to profit, learn to please."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is a forgotten, nay almost forbidden word, which means more to me than any other. That word is England."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: He has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Nothing is more costly, nothing is more sterile, than vengeance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: If this is a blessing, it is certainly very well disguised."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Indomitable in retreat, invincible in advance; insufferable in victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: In War: Resolution; In Defeat: Defiance; In Victory: Magnanimity; In Peace: Good Will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Nothing can save England if she will not save herself. If we lose faith in ourselves, in our capacity to guide and govern, if we lose our will to live, then indeed our story is told."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce, and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live. A degraded sensualism deprives this life of its grace and refinement; the next of its dignity and sanctity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police ... yet in their hearts there is unspoken fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts: words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home -- all the more powerful because forbidden -- terrify them. A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Nature has not intended mankind to work from eight in the morning until midnight without that refreshment of blessed oblivion which, even if it only lasts twenty minutes, is sufficient to renew all the vital forces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We are waiting for the long-promised invasion. So are the fishes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: it is the people who control the Government, not the Government the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We see nothing but good and hope in a richer, freer, more contented European commonalty. But we have our own dreams and our own task. We are with Europe, but not of it. We are linked, but not comprised. We are interested and associated, but not absorbed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is no greater mistake than to suppose that platitudes, smooth words, timid policies, offer today a path to safety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Life is a test and this world a place of trial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We must build a kind of United States of Europe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Hatred plays the same part in government as acid in chemistry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: You never can tell whether bad luck may not after all turn out to be good luck."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The story of the human race is war. Except for brief and precarious interludes there has never been peace in the world; and long before history began murderous strife was universal and unending."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We (The British) have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: A little mouse of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. They make frantic efforts to bar our thoughts and words; they are afraid of the workings of the human mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: He has all of the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of individual labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars and also the drinking of alcohol before, after and if need be during all meals and in the intervals between them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I remember when I was a child, being taken to the celebrated Barnum's Circus, which contained an exhibition of freaks and monstrosities, but the exhibit on the program which I most desired to see was the one described as \u2018The Boneless Wonder\u2019. My parents judged that the spectacle would be too demoralizing and revolting for my youthful eye and I have waited fifty years, to see The Boneless Wonder sitting on the Treasury Bench."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The world looks with some awe upon a man who appears unconcernedly indifferent to home, money, comfort, rank, or even power and fame. The world feels not without a certain apprehension, that here is someone outside its jurisdiction; someone before whom its allurements may be spread in vain; some one strangely enfranchised, untamed, untrammelled by convention, moving independent of the ordinary currents of human action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Never trust a man who has not a single redeeming vice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: If Hitler invaded hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas... I am strongly in favour of using poisoned gas against uncivilised tribes... It is not necessary to use only the most deadly gases: gases can be used which cause great inconvenience and would spread a lively terror and yet would leave no serious permanent effects on most of those affected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Judged by every standard which history has applied to Governments, the Soviet Government of Russia is one of the worst tyrannies that has ever existed in the world. It accords no political rights. It rules by terror. It punishes political opinions. It suppresses free speech. It tolerates no newspapers but its own. It persecutes Christianity with a zeal and a cunning never equalled since the times of the Roman Emperors. It is engaged at this moment in trampling down the peoples of Georgia and executing their leaders by hundreds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Improvident habits, slovenly systems of agriculture, sluggish methods of commerce and insecurity of property exist wherever the followers of the Prophet rule or live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The Turkish Government began and ruthlessly carried out the infamous massacre and deportation of Armenians in Asia Minor. The clearance of the race from Asia Minor was about as complete as such an act, on a scale so great, could well be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is alarming ... to see Mr Gandhi, a seditious Middle Temple lawyer, now posing as a fakir of a type well-known in the East, striding half-naked up the steps of the Vice-regal Palace while he is still organising and conducting a campaign of civil disobedience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is wonderful what great strides can be made when there is a resolute purpose behind them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: In finance everything that is agreeable is unsound\nand everything that is sound is disagreeable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Mr. Chamberlain loves the working man, he loves to see him work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: You create your own universe as you go along. The stronger your imagination, the more variegated your universe. When you leave off dreaming, the universe ceases to exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The belief that security can be obtained by throwing a small state to the wolves is a fatal delusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: When I was younger I made it a rule never to take strong drink before lunch. It is now my rule never to do so before breakfast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more nimble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I like a man who grins when he fights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I am certainly not one of those who need to be prodded. In fact, if anything, I am the prod."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: 'No comment' is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The tired parts of the mind can be rested and strengthened not merely by rest, but by using other parts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Broadly speaking, human beings may be divided into three classes: those who are billed to death, those who are worried to death, and those who are bored to death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I think a curse should rest on me - because I love this war. I know it's smashing and shattering the lives of thousands every moment - and yet - I can't help it - I enjoy every second of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: They [the Labour Party] are not fit to manage a whelk stall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The world, nature, human beings, do not move like machines. The edges are never clear-cut, but always frayed. Nature never draws a line without smudging it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I hate nobody except Hitler--and that is professional."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The only guide to man is his conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Peace will not be preserved by pious sentiments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Politics is not a game. It is an earnest business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: If one has to submit, it is wasteful not to do so with the best grace possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: To be really happy and really safe, one ought to have at least two or three hobbies, and they must all be real."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: You create your own universe as you go along."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is no doubt that it is around the family and the home that all the greatest virtues, the most dominating virtues of human, are created, strengthened and maintained."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: A medal glitters, but it also casts a shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Each one hopes that if he feeds the crocodile enough, the crocodile will eat him last. All of them hope that the storm will pass before their turn comes to be devoured. But I fear - I fear greatly - the storm will not pass. It will rage and it will roar, even more loudly, even more widely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is not given to princes, statesmen and captains to pierce the mysteries of the future, and even the most penetrating gaze reaches only conclusions which, however seemingly vindicated at a given moment, are inexorably effaced by time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The United States invariably does the right thing, after having exhausted every other alternative."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Good night, then - sleep to gather strength for the morning. For the morning will come. Brightly will it shine on the brave and true, kindly on all who suffer for the cause, glorious upon the tombs of heroes. Thus will shine the dawn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Every man should ask himself each day whether he is not too readily accepting negative solutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is one thing to see the forward path and another to be able to take it. But it is better to have an ambitious plan than none at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Nature will not be admired by proxy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: These two great organisations of the English-speaking democracies, the British Empire and the United States, will have to be somewhat mixed up together in some affairs for mutual and general advantage. I do not view the process with any misgivings. I could not stop it if I wished. Let it roll on full flood, inexorable, irresistible, benignant, to broader lands, and better days."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is not alone that property, in all its forms, is struck at, but that liberty, in all its forms, is challenged by the fundamental conceptions of socialism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The short words are best, and the old words, when short, are the best of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The Battle of France is over. The Battle of Britain is about to begin. Upon this battle depends the future of Christian civilisation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The destiny of man is not measured by material computations. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we\u2019re spirits\u2014not animals\u2026. There\u2019s something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: So long as I am acting from duty and conviction, I am indifferent to taunts and jeers. I think they will probably do me more good than harm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The worst mistake that a statesman can make is to promise victory and to see it dashed, the hopes dashed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We must not lose our faculty to dare, particularly in dark days."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I felt as if I were walking with destiny, and that all my past life had been but a preparation for this hour and for this trial... I thought I knew a good deal about it all, I was sure I should not fail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Young people at universities study to achieve knowledge and not to learn a trade. We must all learn how to support ourselves, but we must also learn how to live. We need a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of modern engineers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Too often the strong, silent man is silent only because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We do not war with races primarily as such. Tyranny is our foe. Whatever trapping or disguise it wears, whatever language it speaks, be it external or internal, we must for ever be on our guard, ever mobilized, ever vigilant, always ready to spring at its throat. In all this we march together. Not only do we march and strive shoulder to shoulder at this moment, under the fire of the enemy on the fields of war or in the air, but also in those realms of thought which are consecrated to the rights and the dignity of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Never give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. Never yield to force; never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: What is adequacy? Adequacy is no standard at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Tidiness is a virtue, symmetry is often a constituent of beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: You must put your head into the lion's mouth if the performance is to be a success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Everyone has a right to pronounce foreign names as he chooses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Land monopoly is not only monopoly, but it is by far the greatest of monopolies; it is a perpetual monopoly, and it is the mother of all other forms of monopoly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We have not journeyed all this way because we are made of sugar candy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: No one can guarantee success in war, but only deserve it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The nation will find it very hard to look up to the leaders who are keeping their ears to the ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Nobody ever launched an attack without having misgivings beforehand, You ought to have misgivings before; but when the moment of action is come, the hour of misgivings is passed. It is often not possible to go backward from a course which has been adopted in war. A man must answer \"Aye\" or \"No\" to the great questions which are put, and by that decision he must be bound."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The dictator, in all his pride, is held in the grip of his party machine. He can go forward; he cannot go back. He must blood his hounds and show them sport, or else, like Actaeon of old, be devoured by them. All-strong without, he is all-weak within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The English never draw a line without blurring it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I shall endeavor to marshal British opinion against a course of action which would bring in my opinion the greatest evils upon the people of India, upon the people of Great Britain and upon the British Empire itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Which brings me to my conclusion upon Free Will and Predestination, namely - let the reader mark it - that they are identical."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle them, and, as it were, fondle them. Let them fall open where they will. Make a voyage of discovery, taking soundings of uncharted seas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Without tradition, art is a flock of sheep without a shepherd. Without innovation, it is a corpse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Here was a place where real things were going on. Here was a scene of vital action. Here was a place where anything might happen. Here was a place where something would certainly happen. Here I might leave my bones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Atlantic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent. Behind the line lie all the capitals of the ancient states of Central and Eastern Europe... All these famous cities and the populations around them lie in what I must call the Soviet sphere, and all are subject in one form or another, not only to Soviet influence but to a very high and, in many cases, increasing measure of control from Moscow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely. Light and colour, peace and hope, will keep them company to the end of the day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The stations of uncensored expression are closing down; the lights are going out; but there is still time for those to whom freedom and parliamentary government mean something, to consult together. Let me, then, speak in truth and earnestness while time remains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I want no criticism of America at my table. The Americans criticize themselves more than enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Doubts could be swept away only by deeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Hope has returned to the hearts of scores of millions of men and women, and with that hope there burns the flame of anger against the brutal, corrupt invader ... In a dozen famous ancient States now prostrate under the Nazi yoke, the masses of the people ... await the hour of liberation ... That hour will strike, and its solemn peal will proclaim that the night is past and that the dawn has come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Make sure that the beer - four pints a week - goes to the troops under fire before any of the parties in the rear get a drop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Always remember, however sure you are that you could easily win, that there would not be a war if the other man did not think he also had a chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I was on the whole considerably discouraged by my school days... It is not pleasant to feel oneself so completely outclassed and left behind at the very beginning of the race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep a strong reserve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Cannot possibly attend first night, will attend second... if there is one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: What kind of people do they think we are? Is it possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the world will never forget?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: In Russia a man is called reactionary if he objects to having his property stolen and his wife and children murdered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is wonderful how well men can keep secrets they have not been told."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Make for the children an evening of happiness in a world of storm. Let the children have their night of fun and laughter... resolved that by our daring, these same children shall not be denied their right to live in a free and decent world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The painter wanders and loiters contentedly from place to place, always on the lookout for some brilliant butterfly of a picture which can be caught and carried safely home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Curse ruthless time! Curse our mortality. How cruelly short is the allotted span for all we must cram into it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Free speech carries with it the evil of all foolish, unpleasant venomous things that are said but, on the whole, we would rather lump them than do away with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is better to be making the news than taking it, to be an actor rather than a critic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Just as the sentence contains one idea in all its fullness, so the paragraph should embrace a distinct episode; and as sentences should follow one another in harmonious sequence, so paragraphs must fit into another like the automatic couplings of railway carriages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is a hush over all Europe, nay, over all the world. Alas! it is the hush of suspense, and in many lands it is the hush of fear. Listen! No, listen carefully, I think I hear somethingyes, there it was quite clear. Dont you hear it? It is the tramp of armies crunching the gravel of the paradegrounds, splashing through rain-soaked fields, the tramp of two million German soldiers and more than a million Italiansgoing on maneuversyes, only on maneuvers!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: To achieve the extirpation of Nazi tyranny there are no lengths of violence to which we will not go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: This wicked man Hitler, the repository and embodiment of many forms of soul-destroying hatred. this monstrous product of former wrongs and shame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Nothing makes a man more reverent than a library."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Beware of driving men to desperation. Even a cornered rat is dangerous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I do not understand the squeamishness about the use of gas. I am strongly in favour of using poisonous gas against uncivilized tribes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought... Europe and large parts of Asia and Africa became one vast battlefield on which after years of struggle not armies but nations broke and ran. When all was over, Torture and Cannibalism were the only two expedients that the civilized, scientific, Christian States had been able to deny themselves: and they were of doubtful utility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: A study of Disease-of Pestilences methodically prepared and deliberately launched upon man and beast-is certainly being pursue in the laboratories of more than one great country. Blight to destroy crops, Anthrax to slay horses and cattle, Plague to poison not armies but whole districts - such are the lines along which military science is remorselessly advancing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Golf is a game whose aim is to hit a very small ball into an ever smaller hole, with weapons singularly ill-designed for the purpose"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The essence and foundation of House of Commons debating is formal conversation. The set speech, the harangue addressed to constituents, or to the wider public out of doors, has never succeeded much in our small wisely-built chamber. To do any good you have got to get down to grips with the subject and in human touch with the audience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The day may dawn when fair play, love for one's fellow men, respect for justice and freedom, will enable tormented generations to march forth serene and triumphant from the hideous epoch in which we have to dwell. Meanwhile, never flinch, never weary, never despair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The loyalties which center upon number one are enormous. If he trips, he must be sustained. If he make mistakes, they must be covered. If he sleeps, he must not be wantonly disturbed. If he is no good, he must be pole-axed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: No compromise with the main purpose; no peace till victory; no pact with unrepentant wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Canada is the linchpin of the English-speaking world. Canada, with those relations of friendly, affectionate intimacy with the United States on the one hand and with her unswerving fidelity to the British Commonwealth and the Motherland on the other, is the link which joins together these great branches of the human family, a link which, spanning the oceans, brings the continents into their true relation and will prevent in future generations any growth of division between the proud and the happy nations of Europe and the great countries which have come into existence in the New World."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The question which we must ask ourselves is not whether we like or do not like what is going on, but what we are going to do about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: No one ever came to grief-except honorable grief-through riding horses. No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle. Young men have often been ruined through owning horses, or through backing horses, but never through riding them; unless of course they break their necks, which, taken at a gallop, is a very good death to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Churchill says the Government had to choose between war and shame. They chose shame. They will get war, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The English are loth to express their feelings, but in my stall in the choir I could feel the pent-up, passionate emotion, and also the fear of the congregation, not of death or wounds or material loss, but of defeat and the final ruin of Britain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Never flinch, never weary, never despair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The oldest habit in the world for resisting change is to complain that unless the remedy to the disease should be universally applied it should not be applied at all. But you must start somewhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Nowadays we are assailed by a chorus of horrid threats. The Nazi Government exudes through every neutral State inside information of the frightful vengeance they are going to wreak upon us, and they also bawl it around the world by their leather-lunged propaganda machine. If words could kill, we should be dead already."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Playing golf is like chasing a quinine pill around a cow pasture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: When I get to heaven I mean to spend a considerable portion of my \n first million years in painting, and so get to the bottom of the \n subject."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Unteachable from infancy to tomb \u2014 There is the first & main characteristic of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Give us the tools, and we will finish the job"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I had a feeling once about mathematics - that I saw it all... but it was after dinner and I let it go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Socialism would gather all power to\nthe supreme party and party leaders,\nrising like stately pinnacles\nabove their vast bureaucracies of\ncivil servants no longer servants, no longer civil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: No part of the education of a politician is more indispensable than the fighting of elections."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Victory was to be bought so dear as to be almost indistinguishable from defeat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The Dark Ages may return-the Stone Age may return on the gleaming wings of Science; and what might now shower immeasureable material blessings upon mankind may even bring about its total destruction. Beware! I say. Time may be short.\r\nReferring to the discovery of atomic energy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is a fateful fatalistic apathy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Politics is almost as exciting as war, and quite as dangerous. In war you can only be killed once, but in politics many times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I do not admit... that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America, or the black people of Australia... by the fact that a stronger race, a higher grade race... has come in and taken its place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It cannot in the opinion of His Majesty's Government be classified as slavery in the extreme acceptance of the word without some risk of terminological inexactitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The rest and the spell of sleep in the middle of the day refresh the human frame far more than a long night. We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We throw a strain upon our system which is unfair and improvident. For every purpose of business or pleasure, mental or physical, we ought to break our days and our marches into two."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: One day President Roosevelt told me that he was asking publicly for suggestions about what the war should be called. I said at once 'The Unnecessary War'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: History with its flickering lamp stumbles along the trail of the past, trying to reconstruct its scenes, to revive its echoes, and kindle with pale gleams the passion of former days. What is the worth of all this? The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Millions who could not follow closely or accurately the main events of the War looked day after day in the papers for the fortunes of Mafeking, and when finally the news of its relief was flashed throughout the world, the streets of London became impassable, and the floods of sterling, cockney patriotism were released in such a deluge of unbridled, delirious joy as was never witnessed again till Armistace Night, 1918."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We shall defend every village, every town and every city. The vast mass of London itself, fought street by street, could easily devour an entire hostile army; and we would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, 'This was their finest hour.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There are men in the world who derive an exaltation from the proximity of disaster and ruin, as other from success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Let the children have their night of fun and laughter, let the gifts of Father Christmas delight their play. Let us grown-ups share to the full in their unstinted pleasures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It may well be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a state in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The cultivation of a hobby and new forms of interest is a policy of first importance to a public man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: My mother made a brilliant impression upon my childhood life. She shone for me like the evening star."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: [Magna Carta provided] \"a system of checks and balances which would accord the monarchy its necessary strength, but would prevent its perversion by a tyrant or a fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The Chinese said of themselves several thousand years ago: China is a sea that salts all the waters that flow into it. Theres another Chinese saying about their country which is much more modernit dates only from the fourth century. This is the saying: The tail of China is large and will not be wagged. I like that one. The British democracy approves the principles of movable party heads and unwaggable national tails. It is due to the working of these important forces that I have the honour to be addressing you at this moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is impossible to obtain a conviction for sodomy from an English jury. Half of them don't believe that it can physically be done, and the other half are doing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Although always prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it should be postponed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: May there not be methods of using explosive energy incomparably more intense than anything heretofore discovered? Might not a bomb no bigger than an orange be found to possess a secret power to destroy a whole block of buildings-nay, to concentrate the force of a thousand tons of cordite and blast a township at a stroke? Could not explosives even of the existing type be guided automatically in flying machines by wireless or other rays, without a human pilot, in ceaseless procession upon a hostile city, arsenal, camp or dockyard?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Vast and fearsome as the human scene has become, personal contact of the right people, in the right places, at the right time, may yet have a potent and valuable part to play in the cause of peace which is in our hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I have never promised anything but blood, tears, toil and sweat. Now, however we have a new experience. We have a victory - a remarkable and definite victory. The bright gleam has caught the helmets of our soldiers and warmed and cheered all our hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Decided only to be undecided, resolved to be irresolute, adamant for drift, solid for fluidity, all-powerful to be impotent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Not to have an adequate air force in the present state of the world is to compromise the foundations of national freedom and independence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Battles are won by slaughter and maneuver. The greater the general, the more he contributes in maneuver, the less he demands in slaughter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Science burrows its insulted head in the filth of slaughterous inventions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: My hand seemed arrested by a silent veto."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: At the beginning of this War megalomania was the only form of sanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Science has given to this generation the means of unlimited disaster or of unlimited progress. There will remain the greater task of directing knowledge lastingly towards the purpose of peace and human good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is, therefore, wisdom in reserving one's decisions as long as possible and until all the facts and forces that will be potent at the moment are revealed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is not always possible to have everything go as one likes. In working with allies, it sometimes happens that they develop opinions of their own"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: This revelation of the secrets of nature, long mercifully withheld from man, should arouse the most solemn reflections in the mind and conscience of every human being capable of comprehension. We must indeed pray that these awful agencies will be made to conduce to peace among the nations, and that instead of wreaking measureless havoc upon the entire globe, may become a perennial fountain of world prosperity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is no limit to the ingenuity of man if it is properly and vigorously applied under conditions of peace and justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The gift of a common tongue is a priceless inheritance and it may well some day become the foundation of a common citizenship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is remarkable that Lord Esher should be so much astray...We must conclude that an uncontrollable fondness for fiction forbade him to forsake it for fact. Such constancy is a defect in an historian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: No one should waste a day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Science bestowed immense new powers on man, and at the same time, created conditions which were largely beyond his comprehension."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: At the depths of that dusty soul there is nothing but abject surrender."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is in the interest of the wage-earner to have many other alternatives open to him than service under one all-powerful employer called the State"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: You must be prepared for further efforts of mind and body and further sacrifices to great causes, if you are not to fall back into the rut if inertia, the confusion of aim and the craven fear of being great."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Just to paint is great fun. The colours are lovely to look at and delicious to squeeze out. Matching them, however crudely, with what you see is fascinating and absolutely absorbing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Every garden presents innumerable fascinating problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: First, Poland has been again overrun by two of the great powers which held her in bondage for 150 years but were unable to quench the spirit of the Polish nation. The heroic defense of Warsaw shows that the soul of Poland is indestructible, and that she will rise again like a rock which may for a spell be submerged by a tidal wave but which remains a rock."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Side by side ... the British and French peoples have advanced to rescue ... mankind from the foulest and most soul-destroying tyranny which has ever darkened and stained the pages of history. Behind them ... gather a group of shattered States and bludgeoned races: the Czechs, the Poles, the Norwegians, the Danes, the Dutch, the Belgians -- upon all of whom the long night of barbarism will descend, unbroken even by a star of hope, unless we conquer, as conquer we must; as conquer we shall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The lights of Saxon England were going out, and in the gathering darkness a gentle, grey-beard prophet foretold the end. When on his death-bed Edward spoke of a time of evil that was coming upon the land his inspired mutterings struck terror into the hearers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We must have a better word than \"prefabricated\", why not \"ready-made\"?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Air power is the most difficult of military force to measure or even express in precise terms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: If Europe were once united in the sharing of its common inheritance there would be no limit to the happiness, the prosperity, and the glory which its three or four million people would enjoy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Can a nation remain healthy, can all nations draw together in a world whose brightest stars are film stars?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Woe betide the leaders now perched on their dizzy pinnacles of triumph if they cast away at the conference table what the soldiers had won on a hundred bloodsoaked battlefields."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I'm going to make a long speech because I've not had the time to prepare a short one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is no use dealing with illusions and make-believes. We must look at the facts. The world ... is too dangerous for anyone to be able to afford to nurse illusions. We must look at realities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: History unfolds itself by strange and unpredictable paths. We have little control over the future; and none at all over the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We must beware of trying to build a society in which nobody counts for anything except a politician or an official, a society where enterprise gains no reward and thrift no privileges"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The world today is ruled by harassed politicians absorbed in getting into office or turning out the other man so that not much room is left for debating the great issues on their merits"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: 872, Ivar, King of the Northmen of all Ireland and Britain , ended his life.\" He had conquered Mercia and East Anglia. He had captured the major stronghold of the kingdom of Strathclyde, Dumbarton. Laden with loot and seemingly invincible, he settled in Dublin and died there peacefully two years later. The pious chroniclers report that he \"slept in Christ.\" Thus it may be that he had the best of both worlds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The substitution of the internal combustion engine for the horse marked a very gloomy milestone in the progress of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We shall escape the absurdity of growing a whole chicken in order to eat the breast or wing, by growing these parts separately under a suitable medium."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It was the nation and the race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion's heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is a curious fact about British Islanders, who hate drill and have not been invaded for nearly a thousand years, that as danger comes nearer and grows they become progressively less nervous; when it is imminent the are fierce, when it is mortal they are fearless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: One may imagine that a man who blew the trumpet for his living would be glad to play the violin for his amusement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Like other systems in decay, the Roman Empire continued to function for several generations after its vitality was sapped. For nearly a hundred years our Island was one of the scenes of conflict between a dying civilisation and lusty, famishing barbarism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed throughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of the World War by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: All was there-the programme of German resurrection, the technique of party propaganda; the plan for combating Marxism; the concept of a National-Socialist State; the rightful position of Germany at the summit ofthe world. Here was the new Koran of faith and war: turgid, verbose, shapeless, but pregnant with its message."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I was happy as a child with my toys in my nursery. I been happier every year since I became a man. But this interlude of school makes a somber grey patch upon the chart of my journey. It was a unending spell of worries that did not then seem petty, and of toil uncheered by fruition; a time of discomfort, restriction and purposeless monotony."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We hoped to land a wild cat that would tear out the bowels of the Boche. Instead we have stranded a vast whale with its tail flopping about in the water."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: If I stay on for the time being, bearing the burden at my age, it is not because of love for power or office. I have had an ample share of both. If I stay it is because I have a feeling that I may, through things that have happened, have an influence about what I care about above all else, the building of a sure and lasting peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Everybody has always underrated the Russians. They keep their own secrets alike from foe and friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory !!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Working hours are never long enough. Each day is a holiday, and ordinary holidays are grudged as enforced interruptions in an absorbing vocation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means of inspiration and survival."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: This beginning with Audacity, or being thrown into the middle of it, is already a very great part of the art of painting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The unnatural and increasingly rapid growth of the feeble-minded and insane classes, coupled as it is with steady restriction among all the thrifty, energetic and superior stocks constitutes a national and race danger which is impossible to exaggerate. I feel that the source from which the stream of madness is fed should be cut off and sealed before another year has passed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The first quality that is needed is audacity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: War is mainly a catalogue of blunders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We shape our dwellings, and afterwards our dwellings shape us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Writing a long and substantial book is like having a friend and companion at your side, to whom you can always turn for comfort and amusement, and whose society becomes more attractive as a new and widening field of interest is lighted in the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The only guide to a man's conscience, the only shield to his memory is the rectitude and sincerity of his actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: [The politician] is asked to stand, he wants to sit, and he is expected to lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone? How else can we put ourselves in harmonious relation with the great verities and consolations of the infinite and the eternal? And I avow my faith that we are marching towards better days. Humanity will not be cast down. We are going on swinging bravely forward along the grand high road and already behind the distant mountains is the promise of the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is arguable whether the human race have been gainers by the march of science beyond the steam engine. Electricity opens a field of infinite conveniences to ever greater numbers, but they may well have to pay dearly for them. But anyhow in my thought I stop short of the internal combustion engine which has made the world so much smaller. Still more must we fear the consequences of entrusting a human race so little different from their predecessors of the so-called barbarous ages such awful agencies as the atomic bomb. Give me the horse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed...I feel the need for more precise concentration upon military objectives, such as oil and communications behind the immediate battle-zone, rather than on mere acts of terror and wanton destruction, however impressive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I wonder whether any other generation has seen such astounding revolutions of data and values as those through which we have lived. Scarcely anything material or established which I was brought up to believe was permanent and vital, has lasted. Everything I was sure or taught to be sure was impossible, has happened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: You may take the most gallant sailor, the most intrepid airman, or the most audacious soldier, put them at a table together- what do you get? The sum of their fears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: These are great days."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: By being so long in the lowest form [at Harrow] I gained an immense advantage over the cleverer boys. . . . I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence - which is a noble thing. Naturally I am biased in favor of boys learning English; I would make them all learn English: and then I would let the clever ones learn Latin as an honor, and Greek as a treat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is a fine thing to be honest, but it is also very important to be right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: One might as well legalise sodomy as recognise the Bolsheviks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Is the only lesson of history to be that mankind is unteachable?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: My wife and I tried two or three times in the last 40 years to have breakfast together, but it was so disagreeable we had to stop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The privilege of a university education is a great one; the more widely it is extended the better for any country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We make our buildings, and then our buildings make and shape us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It excites world wonder in the Parliamentary countries that we should build a Chamber, starting afresh, which can only seat two-thirds of its Members. It is difficult to explain this to those who do not know our ways. They cannot easily be made to understand why we consider that the intensity, passion, intimacy, informality and spontaneity of our Debates constitute the personality of the House of Commons and endow it at once with its focus and its strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I do think unpunctuality is a vile habit, and all my life I have tried to break myself of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is conceivable that I might well be reborn as a Chinese coolie. In such case I should lodge a protest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Writing a book is an adventure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The reason for having diplomatic relations is not to confer a compliment, but to secure a convenience. [On diplomatic recognition of the People's Republic of China]"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I trust and believe that this College, this seed that we have sown, will grow to shelter and nurture generations who may add most notably to the strength and happiness of our people, and to the knowledge and peaceful progress of the world. 'The mighty oak from an acorn towers; A tiny seed can fill a field with flowers.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is with deep grief I watch the clattering down of the British Empire with all its glories and all the services it has rendered to mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is a great mistake to suppose that thrift is caused only by fear; it springs from hope as well as from fear; where there is no hope, be sure there will be no thrift."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Never yield to the apparently overwhelming might of the enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The old wars were decided by their episodes rather than by their tendencies. In this war, the tendencies are far more important than the episodes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We sit in calm, airy, silent rooms opening upon sunlit and embowered lawns, not a sound except of summer and of husbandry disturbs the peace; but seven million men, any ten thousand of whom could have annihilated the ancient armies, are in ceaseless battle from the Alps to the Ocean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is better to be frightened now than killed hereafter"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I have not become the Kings First Minister in order to preside over the liquidation of the British Empire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: When one is in office one has no idea how damnable things can feel to the ordinary rank and file of the public."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Leave to the masters of art trained by a lifetime of devotion the wonderful process of picture-building and picture creation. Go out into the sunlight and be happy with what you see."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is no better exercise than to study and devour a picture, and then, without looking at it again, to attempt the next day to reproduce it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: But who in war will not have his laugh amid the skulls?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Building slow destroyers ! One might as well breed slow race horses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor.... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I neither want it [brandy] nor need it, but I should think it pretty hazardous to interfere with the ineradicable habit of a lifetime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: My rule of life prescribed as an absolutely sacred rite smoking cigars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I have been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who get drunk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We must be very careful not to assign this deliverance the attributes of a victory. Wars are not won by evacuations"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The maxim of the British people is 'business as usual.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Headmasters have powers at their disposal with which Prime ministers have never yet been invested."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I had a feeling once about Mathematics - that I saw it all. Depth beyond depth was revealed to me - the Byss and Abyss. I saw - as one might see the transit of Venus or even the Lord Mayor's Show - a quantity passing through infinity and changing its sign from plus to minus. I saw exactly why it happened and why the tergiversation was inevitable but it was after dinner and I let it go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Happy are the painters, for they shall not be lonely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Some people did not like this ceremonious style. But after all when you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I was born under the Blue Ridge, and under that side which is blue in the evening light, in a wild land of game and forest and rushing waters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: You do your worst, and we'll do our best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I do not resent criticism, even when for the sake of emphasis; it parts for the time with reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We proceeded systematically, village by village and we destroyed the houses, filled up the wells, blew down the towers, cut down the shady trees, burned the crops and broke the reservoirs in punitive devastation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Things do not get better by being left alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: These cruel, wanton, indiscriminate bombings of London are, of course, a part of Hitler's invasion plans. He hopes, by killing large numbers of civilians, and women and children, that he will terrorise and cow the people of this mighty imperial city ... Little does he know the spirit of the British nation, or the tough fibre of the Londoners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It was my ambition all of my life to be master of the spoken word."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Men and kings must be judged in the testing moments of their lives. Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities, because, as has been said, it is the quality which guarantees all others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is only one answer to defeat and that is victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The future is unknowable, but the past should give us hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: When a new book appears one should read an old one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We were not made by Nature to work, or even to play, from eight o'clock in the morning till midnight. We ought to break our days and our marches into two."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The latest refinements of science are linked with the cruelties of the Stone Age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It may be that those whose work is their pleasure are those who most need the means of banishing it at intervals from their minds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Indeed I do not think we should be justified in using any but the more sombre tones and colours while our people, our Empire, and indeed the whole English-speaking world are passing through a dark and deadly valley."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: If I had been an Italian I am sure that I should have been whole-heartedly with you from the start to finish in your triumphant struggle against the bestial appetites and passions of Leninism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: ...the high roads of the future will be clear, not only for us but for all, not only for our time but for a century to come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I wanted us to go to the Tories when we were strong...not in misfortune to be made an honest woman of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is very easy to say that your opponents have been guilty of a breach of faith, but it is a great mistake to splash the paint about so freely that your words cease to have any real meaning and cease to carry any sense of affront even to those to whom they are applied and cease to bear any connection with any genuine feeling of indignation on the part of those on whose behalf they are spoken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Bearing ourselves humbly before God... we await undismayed the impending assault.... be the ordeal sharp or long, or both, we shall seek no terms, we shall tolerate no parlay; we may show mercy - we shall ask for none."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: My ability to persuade my wife to marry me was quite my most brilliant achievement ... Of course, it would have been impossible for any ordinary man to have got through what I had to go through in peace and war without the devoted aid of what we call, in England, one's better half."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I think it is the most important subject facing this country, but I cannot get any of my ministers to take any notice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer. You have only to persevere to save yourselves, and to save all those who rely upon you. You have only to go right on, and at the end of the road, be it short or long, victory and honor will be found."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It seems to me that the moment has come when the question of bombing of German cities simply for the sake of increasing the terror, though under other pretexts, should be reviewed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: [There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I am very glad there are quite a number of people born with a gift and a liking for all of this; like great chessplayers who play sixteen games at once blindfold and die quite soon of epilepsy. Serve them right! I hope the Mathematicians, however, are well rewarded. I promise never to blackleg their profession nor take the bread out of their mouths."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There are no people in the world who are so slow to develop hostile feelings against a foreign country as the Americans, and no people who, once estranged, are more difficult to win back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: To try to be safe everywhere is to be strong nowhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The Times is speechless, and takes three columns to express its speechlessness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: With the end of the Victorian era, we passed into what I feel I must call the terrible 20th century"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Don't give your son money. As far as you can afford it, give him horses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: For with primacy in power is also joined an awe inspiring accountability to the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: If this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies, choking in his own blood upon the ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The monarchy is so extraordinarily useful. When Britain wins a battle she shouts, God save the Queen; when she loses, she votes down the prime minister."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is all true, or it ought to be; and more and better besides."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Manifest destiny was on the march, and it was unfortunate that Mexico stood in the path."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is no working middle course in wartime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: it so often happens that, when men are convinced that they have to die, a desire to bear themselves well and to leave life's stage with dignity conquers all other sensations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Luckily ... there were Zulus and Afghans, also the Dervishes in the Soudan. Some of these might, if they were well-disposed, 'put up a show' some day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed, to forget the feuds of a thousand years and work for the larger harmonies on which the future depends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is easier to give directions than advice, and more agreeable to have the right to act, even in a limited sphere, than the privilege to talk at large."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is not given to human beings, happily for them, for otherwise life would be intolerable, to foresee or to predict to any large extent the unfolding course of events."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: To improve is to change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Success is never final."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: In Hitler's launching of the Nazi campaign upon Russia we can already see, after less than six months of fighting, that he made one of the outstanding blunders of history, and the results so far realized constitute an event of cardinal importance in the final decision of the war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I had no idea of the enormous and unquestionably helpful part that humbug plays in the social life of great peoples dwelling in a state of democratic freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The is always much to be said for not attempting more than you can do and for making a certainty of what you try. But this principle, like others in life and war, has it exceptions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Already by 1900 I could boast I had written as many books as Moses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Let us set up a standard around which the brave and the loyal can rally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: His name is Rufus II-but the II is silent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Air power may either end war or end civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Why should there not be a European group which could give a sense of enlarged patriotism and common citizenship to the distracted peoples of this turbulent and mighty continent? And why should it not take its rightful place with other great groupings and help to shape the onward destinies of men?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The V sign is the symbol of the unconquerable will of the occupied territories, and a portent of the fate awaiting the Nazi tyranny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Hasty work and premature decisions may lead to penalties out of all proportion to the issues immediately involved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: A love of tradition has never weakened a nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The United States is a land of free speech. Nowhere is speech freer - not even here where we sedulously cultivate it even in its most repulsive form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Just to paint is great fun ... Try it if you have not done so - before you die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Arm yourselves, and be ye men of valor, and be in readiness for the conflict; for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Little did we guess that what has been called the century of the common man would witness as its outstanding feature more common men killing each other with greater facilities than any other five centuries together in the history of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I am sure that the mistakes of that time will not be repeated; we should probably make another set of mistakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: On 17th July there came to us at Potsdam the eagerly-awaited news of the trial of the atomic bomb in the [New] Mexican desert. Success beyond all dreams crowded this sombre, magnificent venture of our American allies. The detailed reports ... could leave no doubt in the minds of the very few who were informed, that we were in the presence of a new factor in human affairs, and possessed of powers which were irresistible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The cat does more for the war effort than you do. He acts as a hot-water bottle and saves fuel and power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt. Give us the tools, and we will finish the job."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I have watched this famous island descending incontinently, fecklessly, the stairway which lead to a dark gulf."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I'm so bored with it all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The tank was originally invented to clear a way for the infantry in the teeth of machine-gun fire. Now it is the infantry who will have to clear a way for the tanks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Here is a law which is above the King and which even he must not break. This reaffirmation of a supreme law and its expression in a general charter is the great work of Magna Carta; and this alone justifies the respect in which men have held it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There are few virtues that the Poles do not possess and there are few errors they have ever avoided."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: One ought to be just before one is generous"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind unite together to defend them and show themselves possessed of a constabulary power before which barbaric and atavistic forces will stand in awe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: What does all this stuff about flying saucers amount to? What can it mean? What is the truth?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The eagle has ceased to scream, but the parrots will now begin to chatter. The war of the giants is over and the pigmies will now start to squabble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The late M. Venizelos observed that in all her wars Englandhe should have said Britain, of coursealways wins one battlethe last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Thus, then, on the night of the tenth of May, at the outset of this mighty battle, I acquired the chief power in the State, which henceforth I wielded in ever-growing measure for five years and three months of world war, at the end of which time, all our enemies having surrendered unconditionally or being about to do so, I was immediately dismissed by the British electorate from all further conduct of their affairs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I was very glad that Mr. Attlee described my speeches in the war as expressing the will not only of Parliament but of the whole nation. Their will was resolute and remorseless and, as it proved, unconquerable. It fell to me to express it, and if I found the right words you must remember that I have always earned my living by my pen and by my tongue. It was a nation and race dwelling all round the globe that had the lion heart. I had the luck to be called upon to give the roar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling ones pulse and taking ones temperature. I see that a speaker at the week-end said that this was a time when leaders should keep their ears to the ground. All I can say is that the British nation will find it very hard to look up to leaders who are detected in that somewhat ungainly posture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We have a very daring and skillful opponent against us, and, may I say across the havoc of war, a great general."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The British people are good all through. You can test them as you would put a bucket into the sea and always find it salt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Elderly people and those in authority cannot always be relied upon to take enlightened and comprehending views of what they call the indiscretions of youth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There must be what Mr. Gladstone many years ago called a blessed act of oblivion. We must all turn our backs upon the horrors of the past. We must look to the future. We cannot afford to drag forward across the years that are to come the hatreds and revenges which have sprung from the injuries of the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: An efficient and a successful administration manifests itself equally in small as in great matters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: A day away from Chartwell is a day wasted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: ... painting a picture is like fighting a battle; and trying to paint a picture is, I suppose, like trying to fight a battle. It is, if anything, more exciting than fighting it successfully. But the principle is the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I was shown a picture by C\u00e9zanne of a blank wall of a house, which he had made instinct with the most delicate lights and colours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Like a sea-beast fished up from the depths, or a diver too suddenly hoisted, my veins threatened to burst from the fall in pressure. I had great anxiety and no means of relieving it ... And then it was that the Muse of Painting came to my rescue - out of charity and out of chivalry ... - and said, \"Are these toys any good to you? They amuse some people.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I feel devoutly thankful to have been born fond of writing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I have consistently urged my friends to abstain from reading it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I built with my own hands ... a large swimming-pool which was filtered to limpidity and could be heated to supplement our fickle sunshine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The Navy can lose us the war, but only the Air Force can win it. The fighters are our salvation, but the bombers alone provide the means of victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There are bitter weeds in England."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I will not pretend that if I had to choose between communism and Nazism I would choose communism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I know of no case where a man added to his dignity by standing on it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The pictorial battlefield becomes a sea of mud mercifully veiled by the fog of war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The whole of northern Norway was covered with snow to depths which none of our soldiers had ever seen, felt, or imagined. There were neither snow-shoes nor skis - still less skiers. We must do our best. Thus began this ramshackle campaign."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We have taken a grave and hazardous decision to sustain the Greeks and try to make a Balkan Front."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There but for the grace of God, goes God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is not one single social or economic principle or concept in the philosophy of the Russian Bolshevik which has not been realized, carried into action, and enshrined in immutable laws a million years ago by the white ant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We have a lot of anxieties, and one cancels out another very often."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God's good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Mr. Gladstone read Homer for fun, which I thought served him right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Do not let us speak of darker days, let us speak rather of sterner days. These are not dark days: these are great days-the greatest days our country has ever lived; and we must all thank God that we have been allowed, each of us according to our stations, to play a part in making these days memorable in the history of our race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: May it not also be that the cause of civilization itself will be defended by the skill and devotion of a few thousand airmen? There never has been, I suppose, in all the world, in all the history of war, such an opportunity for youth. The Knights of the Round Table, the Crusaders, all fall back into the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: When I look round to see how we can win the war, I see that there is only one sure path . . . and that is absolutely devastating, exterminating attack by very heavy bombers from this country upon the Nazi homeland."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The air is an extremely dangerous, jealous and exacting mistress. Once under the spell most lovers are faithful to the end, which is not always old age. Even those masters and princes of aerial fighting, the survivors of fifty mortal duels in the high air who have come scatheless through the War and all its perils, have returned again and again to their love and perished too often in some ordinary commonplace flight undertaken for pure amusement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light which flames, and in the future there will be a light which shines over all the land and sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: How little can we foresee the consequences either of wise or unwise action, of virtue or of malice. Without this measureless and perpetual uncertainty, the drama of human life would be destroyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is not open to the cool bystander . . . to set himself up as an impartial judge of events which would never have occurred had he outstretched a helping hand in time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Before the war it had seemed incredible that such terrors and slaughters, even if they began, could last more than a few months. After the first two years it was difficult to believe that they would ever end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: If tonight our people were asked to cast their vote whether a convention should be entered into to stop the bombing of cities, the overwhelming majority would cry, \"We will mete out to them [the Germans] the measure, and more than the measure, that they have meted out to us... We will have no truce or parley with you, or the grisly gang who work your wicked will. You do your worst - and we will do our best.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We should lay aside every hindrance and endeavour by uniting the whole force and spirit of our people to raise again a great British nation standing up before all the world; for such a nation, rising in its ancient vigour, can even at this hour save civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: What is the true and original root of Dutch aversion to British rule? It is the abiding fear and hatred of the movement that seeks to place the native on a level with the white man ... the Kaffir is to be declared the brother of the European, to be constituted his legal equal, to be armed with political rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is no merit in putting off a war for a year if, when it comes, it is far worse or much harder to win."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Thus, be every device from the stick to the carrot, the emaciated Austrian donkey is made to pull the Nazi barrow up an ever-steepening hill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Politics is like waking up in the morning. You never know whose head you'll find on the pillow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I am a sporting man. I always like to give trains and aeroplanes a fair chance of getting away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I now began for the first time to envy those young cubs at the university who had fine scholars to tell them what was what; professors who had devoted their lives to mastering and focusing ideas in every branch of learning; who were eager to distribute the treasures they had gathered before they were overtaken by the night. But now I pity undergraduates, when I see what frivolous lives many of them lead in the midst of precious fleeting opportunity. After all, a man's Life must be nailed to a cross either of Thought or Action. Without work there is no play."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: You leave out God, and you substitute the devil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: In my experience of large enterprises, I have found it is often a mistake to try to settle everything at once."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We are plunged in a long and grievous struggle. But all will come right if we all work together to the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Without victory there is no survival!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: This is a war of the unknown warriors; but let all strive without failing in faith or in duty, and the dark curse of Hitler will be lifted from our age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We would rather see London laid in ruins and ashes than that it should be tamely and abjectly enslaved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: In Franklin Roosevelt there died the greatest American friend we have ever known - and the greatest champion of freedom who has ever brought help and comfort from the New World to the Old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: My mother always seemed to me like a fairy princess: a radiant being possessed of limitless riches and power. She shone for me like the evening star. I loved her dearly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We Shall come through! We cannot tell when, we cannot tell how, but we shall come through."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Fancy living in one of these streets, never seeing anything beautiful, never eating anything savoury, never saying anything clever!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The only way a man can remain consistent amid changing circumstances is to change with them while preserving the same dominating purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I do not see any other way of realizing our hopes about World Organization in five or six days. Even the Almighty took seven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Personally I think that private property has a right to be defended. Our civilisation is built up on property, and can only be defended by private property."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Now that we are, as you say, 'in the same boat,' would it not be wise for us to have another conference ... and the sooner the better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The great defence against aerial menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The British nation is unique in this respect. They are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There are two things that are more difficult than making an after-dinner speech: climbing a wall which is leaning toward you and kissing a girl who is leaning away from you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Be a peg, hammered into the frozen ground, immovable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Thus ended the great American Civil War, which must upon the whole be considered the noblest and least avoidable of all the great mass conflicts of which till then there was record."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: No lover ever studied every whim of his mistress as I did those of President Roosevelt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: This is no war of chieftains or of princes, of dynasties or national ambition; it is a war of peoples and of causes. There are vast numbers, not only in this Island but in every land, who will render faithful service in this war, but whose names will never be known, whose deeds will never be recorded. This is a War of the Unknown Warriors"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: All wisdom is not new wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: What is our policy? ... to wage war against a monstrous tyranny, never surpassed in the dark, lamentable catalogue of human crime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: For the first time I heard shots fired in anger, heard bullets strike flesh or whistle through the air."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Here life itself, life at its best and healthiest, awaits the caprice of the bullet. Let us see the development of the day. All else may stand over, perhaps for ever. Existence is never so sweet as when it is at hazard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It always looks so easy to solve problems by taking the line of least resistance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: You have to run risks. There are no certainties in war. There is a precipice on either side of you - a precipice of caution and a precipice of over-daring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: God alone knows how great it is. All I hope is that it is not too late. I am very much afraid that it is. We can only do our best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Danger gathers upon our path. We cannot afford - we have no right - to look back. We must look forward"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I could not help reflecting that the bullet which had struck the chestnut [horse] had certainly passed within a foot of my head. So at any rate I had been 'under fire.' That was something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: When danger is far off we may think of our weakness; when it is near we must not forget our strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I have in my life concentrated more on self-expression than self-denial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I expect you will find that change is the best kind of rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Never give in, never give in, never give in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Out of the depths of sorrow and sacrifice will be born again the glory of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Logic is a poor guide compared with custom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is scarcely anything more important in the government of men than the exact - I will ever say pedantic - observance of the regular forms by which the guilt or innocence of accused persons is determined."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: He sees with amazement that our defeats are but the stepping stones to victory and that all his victories are stepping stones to ruin. It was apparent to me that this bad man saw quite clearly the shadow of slowly and remorselessly approaching doom, and he railed at fortune for mocking him with the glitter of fleeting success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: No more let us alter or falter or palter. From Malta to Yalta, and Yalta to Malta."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: If I were the first of May, I should be ashamed of myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: \"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my \"blood, toil, tears and sweat,\" to which I have added muddle and mismanagement, and that, to some extend I must admit, is what you have got out of it.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: My hope is that the generous instincts of unity will not depart from us...[so that we] become the prey of the little folk who exist in every country and who frolic alongside the Juggernaut car of war to see what fun or notoriety they can extract from the proceedings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The facilities for advanced education must be evened out and multiplied. No one who can take advantage of a higher education should be denied this chance. You cannot conduct a modern community except with an adequate supply of persons upon whose education, whether humane, technical, or scientific, much time and money have been spent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It was at \"Little Lodge\" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: In all the twelve years I was at school no one ever succeeded in making me write a Latin verse or learn any Greek except the alphabet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: How I hated this school, and what a life of anxiety I lived there for more than two years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I devoured Gibbon. I rode triumphantly through it from end to end and enjoyed it all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: If the British Empire is fated to pass from life into history, we must hope it will not be by the slow process of dispersion and decay, but in some supreme exertion for freedom, for right and for truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Certainly the prolonged education indispensable to the progress of society is not natural to mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Unpunctuality is a vile habit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is a good saying to the effect that when a new book appears one should read an old one. As as author I would not recommend too strict an adherence to this saying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma: but perhaps there is a key. That key is Russian national interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The Great War differed from all ancient wars in the immense power of the combatants and their fearful agencies of destruction, and from all modern wars in the utter ruthlessness with which it was fought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: You must sleep sometime between lunch and dinner, and no halfway measures. Take off your clothes and get into bed. That's what I always do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I am all for your using machines, but do not let them use you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Our inheritance of well-founded, slowly conceived codes of honor, morals and manners, the passionate convictions which so many hundreds of millions share together of the principles of freedom and justice, are far more precious to us than anything which scientific discoveries could bestow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Elections exist for the sake of the House of Commons and not the House of Commons for the sake of elections."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: He has to conceal what he would most wish to make public, and make public what he would most wish to conceal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I cannot help reflecting that if my father had been American and my mother British instead of the other way around, I might have gotten here on my own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: In Great Britain, governments often change their policies without changing their men. In France, they usually change their men without changing their policy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is the solution which I respectfully offer to you in this Address to which I have given the title \"The Sinews of Peace.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: It was evident however that the lawyers would have to have their say....This also opened up a vista both lengthy and obscure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: ...every offensive lost its force as it proceeded. It was like throwing a bucket of water over the floor. It first rushed forward, then soaked forward, and finally stopped altogether until another bucket could be brought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: More than 80 per cent of the British casualties of the Great War were English. More than 80 per cent of the taxation is paid by the English taxpayers. We are entitled to mention these facts, and to draw authority and courage from them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Let us reconcile ourselves to the mysterious rhythm of our destinies, such as they must be in this world of space and time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right. That is the only way to deserve and to win the confidence of our great people in these days of trouble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I let the argument rip healthily between the departments. This is a very good way to finding out the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: We shall not flag nor fail. We shall go on to the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There never will be enough for everything while the world goes on. The more that is given the more there will be needed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Nothing is perfect on the human stage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: How often in life must one be content with what one can get!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Nothing should be done for spite's sake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: One can usually put one's thoughts better in one's own words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I have always noticed that whenever a radical takes to Imperialism, he catches it in a very acute form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Now at last the slowly gathered, long-pent-up fury of the storm broke upon us. Four or five millions of men met each other in the first shock of the most merciless of all the wars of which record has been kept."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Twice in my lifetime the long arm of destiny has reached across the oceans and involved the entire life and manhood of the United States in a deadly struggle.There was no use in saying We don't want it; we won"
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I am reminded of the professor who, in his declining hours, was asked by his devoted pupils for his final counsel. He replied, 'Verify your quotations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Nancy, if I were your husband I'd drink it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: The most dangerous moment of the War, and the one which caused me the greatest alarm, was when the Japanese Fleet was heading for Ceylon and the naval base there. The capture of Ceylon, the consequent control of the Indian Ocean, and the possibility at the same time of a German conquest of Egypt would have closed the ring and the future would have been black."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: There are two processes which we adopt consciously or unconsciously when we try to prophesy. We can seek a period in the past whose conditions resemble as closely as possible those of our day, and presume that the sequel to that period will, save for some minor alterations, be similar. Secondly, we can survey the general course of development in our immediate past, and endeavor to prolong it into the near future. The first is the method the historian; the second that of the scientist. Only the second is open to us now, and this only in a partial sphere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I liked wine, both red and white, and especially Champagne; and on very special occasions I could even drink a small glass of brandy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Of all the talents bestowed upon men, none is so precious as the gift of oratory. He who enjoys it wields a power more durable than that of a great king. He is an independent force in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Armed with a paint-box, one cannot be bored, one cannot be left at a loose end, one cannot 'have several days on one's hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Painting is a companion with whom one may walk a great part of life's journey."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I do not presume to explain how to paint, but only how to get enjoyment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: A heightened sense of the observation of nature is one of the chief delights that have come to me through trying to paint."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Atlee is a very modest man.  And with reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I accumulated in those years so fine a surplus in the Book of Observance that I have been drawing confidently upon it ever since."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: I had been brought up and trained to have the utmost contempt for people who got drunk - and I would have liked to have the boozing scholars of the Universities wheeled into line and properly chastised for their squalid misuse of what I must ever regard as a gift of the gods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Historians are apt to judge war ministers less by the victories achieved under their direction than by the political results which flowed from them. Judged by that standard, I am not sure that I shall be held to have done very well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Winston Churchill: Thus I got into my bones the essential structure of the ordinary British sentence, which is a noble thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Judge not, before you judge yourself. \nJudge not, if you're not ready for judgment.\nThe Road of life is rocky and you may stumble too, \nso while you talk about me, someone else is judging you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Life is one big road with lots of signs, \nSo when you riding through the ruts, \nDon't you complicate your mind \nFlee from hate, mischief and jealousy \nDon't bury your thoughts; put your vision to reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Truth is everybody is going to hurt you: you just gotta find the ones worth suffering for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Everything in life got its purpose. Find its reason in every season."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our minds!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Don't worry about a thing, every little thing is gonna be alright"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Make way for the positive day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Don't bury your thoughts, put your vision to reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: I no have education. I have inspiration. If I was educated I would be a damn fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Don't you complicate your mind \nFlee from hate, mischief and jealousy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: The more people smoke herb, the more Babylon fall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: A foolish dog barks at a flying bird"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: God, guide and protect us. When we're wrong, please correct us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: None but ourselves can free our minds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: In high tide or in low tide, \n I'll be by your side"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: One love, one heart . . . Let\u2019s get together and feel all right"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Overcome the devils with a thing called love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Today, people struggle to find what's real. Everything has become so synthetic that a lot of people, all they want is to grasp onto hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Most people think great god will come from the skies, take away everything, and make everybody feel high. But if you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Good friends we have had, oh good friends we've lost along the way\nIn this bright future you can't forget your past\nSo dry your tears I say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Forget your troubles and dance! Forget your sorrows and dance! Forget your sickness and dance! Forget your weakness and dance!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: You just can't live that negative way. You know what I mean. Make way for the positive day. Cause it's a new day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: If you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: In the abundance of water - the fool is thirsty"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Don't Let them fool you or even try to school you"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: You can just imagine if everyone on earth did have one day where we just put all our minds together regardless where the force is, as long as it's positive, and just meditate for even a hour that day. And just live nice with them nice meditation. I mean, now, the climate would be nice, the smog would a leave"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Some Will Hate You Pretend They Love You Now Then Behind They Try To Eliminate You"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Every need got an ego to feed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: You can't run away from yourself"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: If you know your history, then you would know where you coming from, then you wouldn't have to ask me, who the heck do I think I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: So you think you've found the solution but it's just another illusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: No chains around my feet, But I'm not free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Get up, stand up, Stand up for your rights. Get up, stand up, Don't give up the fight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Everything is political. I will never be a politician or even think political. Me just deal with life and nature. That is the greatest thing to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Love would never leave us alone"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: It is better to live on the house top than to live in a house full of confusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: I want to give you some love, I want to give you some good good lovin"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Me personally as a man is nothing without the inspiration of JAH"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: I'm gonna be Iron, like a Lion in Zion"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: We don't need no trouble! What we need is love!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Let righteousness cover the earth like the water cover the sea!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Be not selfish in your doings: pass it on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: The lips of the righteous teach many, but fools die for want of wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Why these people who want to do so much good for everyone, who call themselves government and this and that, why them say you must not use the herb? You see, them say you must not use the herb because it makes you a rebel. Against what?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: The sun shall not smite I by day, nor the moon by night, and everything that I do shall be upfull and right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Your life is worth much more than gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Today they say that we are free, only to be chained in poverty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: One of my good friends said, in a reggae riddim, don't jump in the water if you can't swim."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Bless my eyes this morning, Jah sun is on the rise once again"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: udge not, before you judge yourself. \nJudge not, if you're not ready for judgment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Many more will have to suffer, many more will have to die , don't ask me why !"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Let's get together and feel all right. Give thanks and praise to the Lord and I will feel all right; Let's get together and feel all right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: The road to life is rocky, and you may stumble too. So while you point your fingers, someone else is judging you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: I don't have a religion, you know. This is what I am. I am a Rastaman; so this is not religion. This is life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: The Truth An Offense But Not A Sin"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: There will never be no love at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Emancipate yourself from mental slavery, \nNone but ourselves can free our minds. \nHave no fear for atomic energy, \n'Cause none of them can stop the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: It's your own conscience That is gonna remind you That it's your heart and nobody else's That is gonna judge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Alcohol make you drunk, man. It don't make you meditate, it just make you drunk. Herb is more a consciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: My music fights against the system that teaches to live and die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: My music will go on forever. Maybe it's a fool say that, but when me know facts me can say facts. My music will go on forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: If you get down and quarell everyday, you're saying prayers to the devil, I say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Don't shed no tears, no woman, no cry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Every day the bucket a-go a well, one day the bottom a-go drop out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: In high seas or in low seas, I'm gonna be your friend... I'm gonna be your friend. In high tide or in low tide, I'll be by your side... I'll be by your side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: There's a natural mystic blowing through the air. If you listen carefully now, you will hear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Them belly full, but we hungry; \n A hungry mob is a angry mob."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Life, it's life we deal with...He that sees the light And knows the light Shall live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: A hungry mob is an angry mob."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: When the cats away, the mice will play."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: I'n'I nah come to fight flesh and blood, But spiritual wickedness in 'igh and low places. So while they fight you down, Stand firm and give Jah thanks and praises. 'Cos I'n'I no expect to be justified by the laws of men - by the laws of men. Oh, true they have found me guilty, But through - through Jah proved my innocency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: So if you are the big tree, we are the small axe. Ready to cut you down, to cut you down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Stop and think a little: Are you the victim of the system?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Someone will have to pay for the innocent blood that they shed every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Bob Marley isn't my name. I don't even know my name yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: One and all have to face reality now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: What important is man should live in righteousness, in natural love for mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Jah come to break downpression, rule equality, wipe away transgression, set the captives free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Emancipate yourself from mental slavery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: When the morning gathers the rainbow, want you to know I'm a rainbow too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Could you be loved and be loved?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Your Worst Enemy Could Be Your Best Friend &amp;&amp; Your Best Friend Your Worst Enemy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: The fittest of the fittest shall survive !"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Don't let them fool ya, or even try to school ya! Oh, no! We've got a mind of our own, so go to hell if what you're thinking is not right!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see the unification of all Africans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Why not help one another on the way..makes it much easier"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Prejudice is a chain, it can hold you. If you prejudice, you can't move, you keep prejudice for years. Never get nowhere with that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Tell the children the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: All dese governments and dis this and that, these people that say they're here to help, why them say you cannot smoke the herb? Herb... herb is a plant, you know? And when me check it, me can't find no reason. All them say is, 'it make you rebel'. Against what?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Have pity on those whose chances grow thinner, there ain't no hiding place from the Father of Creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: In this bright future you can't forget your past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Money can't buy life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Your recipe, darling, is so tasty, and you sure can stir your pot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: My feet is my only carriage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: The more you accept herb, the more you accept Rastafari."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: We are the children of the Rastaman we are the children of the higher man"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Oh let Jah love come shining in into our lives again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Won't you help to sing these songs of freedom? 'Cause all I ever have\u2026 redemption songs; redemption songs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: We JAH people can make it work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Jah would never give the power to a baldhead; run come crucify the Dread."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Rise up this mornin', \n Smile with the risin' sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Take that veil from off of your eyes, look into the future of realize."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: Jah sitteth in Mount Zion, and rules all creation!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bob Marley: I shot the sheriff, but I didn't shoot no deputy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Talk about a dream, try to make it real."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: You can't start a fire without a spark"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: All people have is hope. That's what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring... A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Show a little faith, there's magic in the night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Nobody wins unless everybody wins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I'm ready to grow young again"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: It's a sad man my friend who's livin' in his own skin and can't stand the company."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: You've got to learn to live with what you can't rise above."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: When they built you brother they broke the mold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: It ain't no sin to be glad you're alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: When it comes to luck, you make your own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: For one kiss, darling, I swear everything I would give. Cause you're a walking, talking reason to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: More than rich, more than famous, more than happy...I wanted to be great."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Two hearts are better than one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: You're born into this life paying for the sins of somebody else's past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: What if what you do to survive kills the things you love?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Adult life is dealing with an enormous amount of questions that don't have answers. So I let the mystery settle into my music. I don't deny anything, I don't advocate anything, I just live with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Blind faith in your leaders, or in anything, will get you killed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: God have mercy on the man who doubts what he's sure of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: You get used to anything, sooner or later it just becomes your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I have spent my life judging the distance between American reality and the American dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I looked at myself, and I just said, well, you know, I can sing but I'm not the greatest singer in the world. I can play guitar very well, but I'm not the greatest guitar player in the world... And so I said, well, if I'm going to project an individuality, it's going to have to be in my writing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Gonna be a twister to blow everything down That ain't got the faith to stand its ground Blow away the dreams that tear you apart Blow away the dreams that break your heart Blow away the lies that leave you nothing but lost and brokenhearted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Don't take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Time slips away and leaves you with nothing, mister, but boring stories of glory days."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Together, we'll live with the sadness. I'll love you with all the madness in my soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Is a dream a lie if it don't come true? Or is it something worse?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: It's a town full of losers\nAnd I'm pulling out of here to win."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Everybody's got a hungry heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain't a beauty, but hey you're alright, and that's alright with me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Well I got this guitar and I learned how to make it talk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: When I look at myself, I don't see the man I wanted to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The one thing I wished for my children is that they'd be readers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: In the day we sweat it out on the streets on a runaway American dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The man on the radio says Elvis Presley's died. We drove to Memphis, the sky was hard and black."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don\u2019t come. Well don\u2019t waste your time waiting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: She kissed me just right, like only a lonely angel can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Did God make man in a breath of holy fire, or did he crawl on up out of the muck and mire?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Last night me and Kate we laid in bed talking about getting out, Packing up our bags, maybe heading south. I'm thirty-five, we got a boy of our own now. Last night I sat him up behind the wheel and said, \"Son, take a good look around, This is your hometown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Some guys they just give up living, and start dying little by little, piece by piece."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Somehow all you ever need's never really quite enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Mister, I ain't a boy, no I'm a man, and i believe in a promised land."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Ought to be easy, ought to be simple enough: Man meets woman, and they fall in love, But the house is haunted and the ride gets rough. You got to learn to live with what you can't rise above."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Here everybody has a neighbor Everybody has a friend Everybody has a reason to begin again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: It's a fairytale so tragic there's no prince to break the spell. I don't believe in magic, but for you I will"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Settle back is to settle without knowing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Mental illness and creativity are - it's a thin line in between the two. I tend to believe that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Those wounds stay with you, and you turn them into a language and a purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: We've got no fairytale ending, in God's hands our fate is complete. Your heaven's here in my heart, our love's this dust beneath my feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: You can't have a United States if you are telling some folks that they can't get on the train. There is a cracking point where a society collapses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I've had an experience through music that has touched almost every part of me. It educated me in ways that I didn't get educated in school. So we try to lay on a bit of that, through being funny, being serious, playing hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I guess there's just a meanness in this world"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Outside the street's on fire in a real death waltz between what's flesh and what's fantasy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I like narrative storytelling as being part of a tradition, a folk tradition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Sometimes it's like someone took a knife, baby, edgy and dull and cut a six inch valley through the middle of my soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Music doesn't tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That's what it told me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: What excites me about a lot of the artists I love - and I realize, well, they created their own personal world that I could enter into through their music and through their songwriting. There's people that can do it instrumentally, like Jimi Hendrix or Edge of U2 or Pete Townshend. I didn't have as unique - a purely musical signature. I was a creature of a lot of different influences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Mama always told me not to look into the sights of the sun. Oh, but mama, that's where the fun is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: You ride in a limousine the first time, it's a big thrill but after that it's just a stupid car."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: If you have written really well, people will swear that it happened to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: In the third grade, a nun stuffed me in a garbage can under her desk because she said that's where I belonged. I also had the distinction of being the only altar boy knocked down by a priest during mass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Until I realized that rock music was my connection to the rest of the human race, I felt like I was dying, for some reason, and I didn't know why."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: You can't be afraid of getting old. Old is good, if you're gathering in life. Our band is good at understanding that equation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: We all have stories we're living and telling ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to find the rhythm in your words, and you have to find the rhythm in the voice that you have found and the way you're speaking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Judge said, what you got in your defense son? Fifty-seven channels and nothing on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I think I created my particular stage persona out of my dad's life. And perhaps I even built it to suit him to some degree. I was looking for - when I was looking for a voice to mix with my voice, I put on my father's work clothes, as I say in the book, and I went to work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Most artists I know had one person in their life who told them they were the second coming of the baby Jesus, and another person that told them they weren't worth anything, and they believed them both, you know?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: You can go from doing something quite silly to something dead serious in the blink of an eye, and if you're making those connections with your audience then they're going to go right along with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: People see you onstage and, yeah, I'd want to be that guy.I want to be that guy myself very often."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: [People] are trying to - they're trying to create something that solves a series of very complex problems inside of them or in their history. And I think when I unknowingly - when I went to do that, that's what I was - I was trying to integrate all of these very difficult things that I'd been unable to integrate in my life and in my life with my parents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Put your makeup on, fix your hair up pretty. And meet me tonight in Atlantic City"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Your spoken voice is a part of it - not a big part of it, but it's something. It puts people at ease, and once again kind of reaches out and makes a bridge for what's otherwise difficult music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I didn't have a blueprint from my childhood that I could call on, which is an enormous deficit when you're trying to put together a family life. I didn't see a family life where men were thriving inside of it. You know, my dad tended to blame the family for his inability to achieve what he wanted to achieve, you know? So, unfortunately, I was coming from that particular frame of mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Most of the artists I know are crazy in one way or another. I think that's why you get into it. You're in pursuit of a certain sort of peace that's very, very, very difficult to come by."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I tend to be a subscriber to the idea that you have everything you need by the time you're 12 years old to do interesting writing for most of the rest of your life - certainly by the time you're 18."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I was lucky I survived the motorcycle accident because I - bike went under the car. I flew out about 20 or 25 feet. I didn't have a helmet on. I hit my head on the pavement and knocked myself out, gave myself a brain concussion, screwed up my left leg. And I was - I was lucky then that I didn't get killed because I didn't have any protective clothing on whatsoever. And I took a pretty good beating. But, yeah, such was the nature of the day when the barber was called and Samson's locks were trimmed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: [The Catholic religion] was something I carried with me, never forgot, brought into my music. And it's been in my music ever since."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I realized the only time I felt complete and peaceful was while I was playing or shortly afterwards, even though it was in front of thousands of other people, which most people wouldn't consider to be a safe place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Somebody who can reckon with the past, who can live with the past in the present, and move towards the future - that's fabulous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: It took quite a bit of work and time and mistakes to begin to feel - to understand the strength that comes along with building a home life.That was very mysterious to me. I was very skeptical of it for a long time, and didn't understand it fully until Patti [ Scialfa] and I got together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I know I ain't nobody's bargain, but hell a little touchup and a little paint."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I think that it's a natural thing for parents to look for reflections of themselves in their children and feel a certain pride there. So if your child is very, very different, or perhaps if he's very, very similar, it makes you uncomfortable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: My dad had a very difficult life, a hard struggle all the time at work. I've always felt like I'm seeking his revenge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I never start with a political point of view. I believe that your politics are emotionally and psychologically determined by your early experiences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: If you're up there [on stage] thinking about what you're doing, you're just not there and it's not going to happen.So trying to learn how to overcome those - which is a normal thing to do. You're in front of a lot of people. People are going to get very self-conscious. So you have to learn to sort of overcome that tendency towards self-consciousness and just blow it wide open. And you jump in and join all those people that are out there enjoying what you're doing together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: They put a rifle in my hand, sent me off to a foreign land to go and kill the Yellow man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Now young faces grow sad and old and hearts of fire grow cold We swore blood brothers against the wind I'm ready to grow young again"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: You're young and you're always in pursuit your young manhood. You're trying to figure out - what does that mean? What does - you know, there's a lot of pressure on young men to sort that out. And, you know, we tend to gravitate towards one-dimensional iconography as far as what it means to be a fully grown man. And you can get lost in so much of it out there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The Catholic religion at the time was much darker and more mysterious. The entire mass was in Latin. The church was - if you go to my church now, it's incredibly bright inside. But at - when I was young, it was very dark inside. And it was just the difference in the way that they've painted it since I've gone there. And it strives for a very different and welcoming spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: When I was young I was very shy and that was my personality. I was a pretty sensitive kid and quite neurotic, filled with a lot of anxiety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The country we carry in our hearts is waiting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: With a chance to make it good somehow, hey, what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: If you see me performing, you're going, that guy is simply the most extroverted guy I've ever seen. But if you've seen me very often on a daily basis and all the while growing up, I was very, very introverted. Very introverted. So I have sort of the extremes of both of those characteristics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: We live in a post-authentic world, and today authenticity is a house of mirrors. It's all just what you're bringing when the lights go down. It's your teachers, your influences, and your personal history. At the end of the day, it's the power and purpose of your music that still matters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: In the end what you don't surrender, well, the world just strips away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: This music is forever for me. It's the stage thing, that rush moment that you live for. It never lasts, but that's what you live for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: \"Born To Run,\" that expands every time we go out. It just seems to you - more of your life fills it in, fills in the story. And when we hit it every night, it's always a huge catharsis. It's fascinating to see the audience singing it back to me. It's quite wonderful, you know, to see people that intensely singing your song."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Pessimism and optimism are slammed up against each other in my records, the tension between them is where it's all at, it's what lights the fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: cause down the shore everything's all right"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Roy Orbison is singing for the lonely, hey, that's me and I want you only."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: For the ones who had a notion, A notion deep inside, That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive I wanna find one face that ain't looking through me I wanna find one place, I wanna spit in the face of these badlands"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I've found that giving 100% to your job isn't the same as giving 100% of your life to your job. Very often when I thought I was giving 100% of my life to my job, I was simply obsessing over something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: When I was growing up, there were two things that were unpopular in my house. One was me, and the other was my guitar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Madman drummers, bummers, Indians in the summer with a teenage diplomat. In the dumps with the mumps as the adolescent pumps his way into his hat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The book was just something that came along after we played the Super Bowl and I wrote a little essay that went online. Then I had two or three weeks and I said, wow, that essay was pretty good. Maybe I'll try and write some other stuff. Writing about the depression, I just felt - you know, when you write a book like this, you have to open up your life. You have to be willing to do so to a certain degree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: It's hard to be a saint in the city."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The first day I can remember looking into a mirror and being able to stand what I saw was the day I had a guitar in my hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I wouldn't be windmilling a Fender Telecaster if it weren't for Pete Townshend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I tend to be not my own best company. I can get a little lost when - if I don't have my work to occasionally focus me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I'm used to writing something, it becomes a record, it comes out. Then I go perform and I play it and I get this immediate feedback from the audience. So that's been the pattern of my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I wanted to be the reasonable voice of revenge for what I'd seen [my father] life come to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I think you can't demonize somebody that's on the other side of the political spectrum, or you can't generalize about them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The songs themselves do broaden out as time passes and take on subtly different meanings, take on more meaning, I find."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Well now everything dies baby that's a fact\nBut maybe everything that dies someday comes back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Use it, Rosie, that's what it's there for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Most artists I know consider themselves to be phonies, along with the feeling that there's something that you're doing is essential, essential to communicate, and deeply, deeply real."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: It doesn't matter what happened last night or the night - or tomorrow night. It's all about what you're doing with this audience right now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: But the star thing I can live with. The music I can't live without. And that's how it lays out for me, you know. I got as big an ego and enjoy the attention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Because we lived in the presence of the church and the convent and the rectory and the school 24-7. And this was an enormous cornerstone in the lives of my entire family. They were all pretty serious Catholic churchgoers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Your skin upon my skin, in the beating of our hearts, may the living let us in, before the dead tear us apart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I've always loved the fact that Bob's [Dylan] been able to sustain his mystery over 50 or 60 years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: My soul is lost, my friend, tell me how do I begin again? My city's in ruins, my city's in ruins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I told a story with the E Street Band that was bigger and better than I could have done on my own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: You may not be able to hit all the notes. That's OK. You may not have the clearest tone. You may not have the greatest range. But if you can inhabit your song, you can communicate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: All the music I loved as a child, people thought it was junk. People were unaware of the subtext in so many of those records but if you were a kid you were just completely tuned in, even though you didn't always say - you wouldn't dare say it was beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I heard a political message in rock music. A liberation message. A message of freedom. I heard it in Elvis' voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Have you ever seen a one trick pony in the field so happy and free? If you've ever seen a one trick pony then you've seen me Have you ever seen a one-legged dog making his way down the street? If you've ever seen a one-legged dog then you've seen me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: You can revisit - the wonderful thing about my job is you can revisit your 22-year-old self or your 24-year-old self any particular night you want. The songs pick up some extra resonance, I hope, but they're still - they're there, and I can revisit that period of my life when I choose. So it's quite a nice experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Go-kart Mozart was checking out the weather chart to see if it was safe outside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: My dad was young. He went to work. But he'd been to war. He'd seen some of the world. It wasn't like he was going to be an extensive traveler or something. That didn't seem to be in the nature of - in his nature or in the nature of his parents or many of the folks in my family, really. They were - we had a cousin that went to - off to Brown University. It was like a nuclear explosion took place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Born down in a dead man's town, The first kick I took was when I hit the ground, You end up like a dog that's been beat too much, Till you spend half your life just covering up..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I had spent about three months where I couldn't sing at all, so that was anxiety-provoking. But after that, I went back out. I sang for two hours in my garage one day to see if I had a voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: So tell me what I see when I look in your eyes, is that you baby or just a brilliant disguise?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Once you get into the book, you've got to constantly find your - the rhythm of your prose. And it ends up being quite a musical experience either way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I have been on stage on a few occasions where I felt I couldn't escape the interior of my - my interior thoughts. But Peter Wolf once said, what's the strangest thing you can do on stage? Think about what you're doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Blame it on the lies that killed us. Blame it on the truth that ran us down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I'm interested in what it means to be an American. I'm interested in what it means to live in America. I'm interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I'm interested in trying to define what that country is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Politics and life go hand in hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: My only general rule was to steer away from things I played with the band over the past couple of tours. I was interested in re-shaping the Rising material for live shows, so people could hear the bare bones of that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the truth of those particular emotions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: It's always felt natural, because I'm generally very comfortable with people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: They wanted to know why I did what I did. Well, sir I guess there's just meanness in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: A great singer has to learn how to inhabit a song."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I think 1960s small-town America was very Lynchian. Everything was there, but underneath, everything was rumbling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: You weren't supposed to hear Elvis Presley. You weren't supposed to hear Jerry Lee Lewis. You weren't supposed to hear Robert Johnson. You weren't supposed to hear Hank Williams. And they told the story of the secret America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: If you're good, you're always looking over your shoulder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: And at the time, for one of the few times in my life I didn't have a band, I just had myself and the guitar, so I was going to have to do something with just my voice, just the guitar and just my songs that was going to move someone enough to give me a shot. So I wrote songs that were very lyrically alive and lyrically dense. And they were unique, but it really came out of the motivation to - or I understood it was - I was going to have to make my mark that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Patti [ Scialfa] was an artist and a musician and she was a songwriter. And she was a lot like me in that she was transient also. She worked busking on the streets in New York. She waitressed. She had - she just lived a life - she lived a musician's life. She lived an artist's life. So we were both people who were very uncomfortable in a domestic setting, getting together and trying to build one and seeing if our particularly strange jigsaw puzzle pieces were going to fit together in a way that was going to create something different for the two of us. And it did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I think initially, our audiences were filled with young men. You know, our initial audience was a lot of young guys who I think were trying to - who you played a bit of a big brother role for and were trying to sort out a lot of the same things right - soon as \"Born To Run\" hit, you know? So it was something that I worked pretty hard on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: You know hearts these days are cheap."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I tend to be pessimistic. I want to believe in hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hard-core bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style and a story to tell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I don't know if I know anyone, with the exception of the early inventors of rock music [who wasn't influenced by something]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: For me, once I count the band in, and I delve deep into my song, I feel a certain sort of integrity and integration that I rarely find in my daily life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I had no credit cards. I had no checks. I was cash only until I was probably 30 years old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: That's what being a front man is all about - the idea of having something supple underneath you, that machine that roars and can turn on a dime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: What you were singing about was believable and convincing, that's the key to a great singer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: When I got into \"Anna Karenina\" and \"Brothers Karamazov\" and \"Crime and Punishment,\" that was the stuff that - that had a big effect on me, because it was so psychological."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I studied other singers, so I would learn how to phrase, and learn how to breathe. And the main thing was, I learned how to inhabit my song."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Plus, you know, when I was young, there was a lot of respect for clowning in rock music - look at Little Richard. It was a part of the whole thing, and I always also believed that it released the audience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I come from a boardwalk town where almost everything is tinged with a bit of fraud. So am I."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I don't know many artists who are not crazy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: After 'Born to Run,' I had a reaction to my good fortune. With success, it felt like a lot of people who'd come before me lost some essential part of themselves. My greatest fear was that success was going to change or diminish that part of myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: For me, President Obama is our best choice because he has a vision of the United States as a place where we are all in this together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I'm just tired and bored with myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Is there anybody alive out there?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Walk tall, or baby don't walk at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: For the ones who had a notion, a notion deep inside That it ain't no sin to be glad you're alive"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I was a guitar player on the streets of Asbury Park and already a member in good standing amongst those who lie in service of the truth - artists with a small A. But I held four clean aces. I had youth, almost a decade of hardcore bar band experience, a good group of homegrown musicians who were attuned to my performance style, and a story to tell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: In a restless heart the seed of betrayal lay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: You can beat on your chest, hell, any monkey can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: T-Bone Burnett once said that much of rock music is simply someone going wahhh daddy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I grew up with a very big extended family, with a lot of aunts. We had about five or six houses on one street."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I think if somebody comes up and simply says, your jobs? I'm going to bring them back. You're not comfortable with the browning of America? I'm going to build a wall. ISIS, I'm going to defeat them. Those are very - it's a simple, but it was a compelling message for a lot of people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I want a thousand guitars . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I go to put my arm around you and you give me a look like I'm way out of bounds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I'm laughing at you, you're laughing at me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Wendy, let me in, I wanna be your friend. I wanna guard your dreams and visions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Deindustrialization that I have written about for 40 years left a good part of the American public behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The audiences are there as a result of my history with the band but also as a result of my being able to reach people with a tune."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: When I die throw my body in the back and drive me to the junk yard in my Cadillac."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I got a house full of Rembrandts and priceless art, and all the little girls they wanna tear me apart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I met a girl and we ran away, I swore I'd make her happy every day. And how I made her cry, two faces have I."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Physical pain is my friend. I pursue it every night for four hours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I think when you're a child, you just cling to the basics, which is the basic story of Jesus and the crucifixion and hell and eternal punishment and the flames. This was all stuff that was - forget when you're young."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I walked a thousand miles just to slip this skin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Hey man, did you see that? His body hit the street with such a beautiful thud."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: By the time I was 19, my parents weren't very authoritative over my life.I didn't have any doubt about that - at that time about what I was going to do or where I was going. I was a musician. I was going to play. I had a band. We were going to make enough money to survive on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The things that I loved about Bob's [Dylan] music - and I describe him in the book as the father of my country, which he really is - were things that just didn't fit when I went to do my job. You know, I'd come out of a somewhat different circumstance and shoes - the clothes just didn't fit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Out of our way mister, you best keep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The highway's jammed with broken heroes on a last chance power drive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I hadn't performed by myself in a while. It feels very natural to me, and I assume people come for the very same reasons as they do when I'm with the band: to be moved, for something to happen to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The street's alive as secret debts are paid, Contacts made, they vanished unseen. Kids flash guitars just like switch-blades Hustling for the record machine. The hungry and the hunted explode into rock'n'roll bands That face off against each other out in the street, down in Jungleland."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: We're here to re-dedicate you to The Power, The Passion, The Mystery, and The Ministry of Rock and Roll."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Now those memories come back to haunt me they haunt me like a curse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The wise men were all fools, what to do?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The highway is alive tonight But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light With the ghost of old Tom Joad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Your success story is a bigger story than whatever you're trying to say on stage. Success makes life easier. It doesn't make living easier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I imagined the hard things that pulled us apart \r\nWill never again, sir, tear us from each other's hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The marriage-equality issue should be recognized for what it truly is - a civil rights issue that must be approved to assure that every citizen is treated equally under the law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Tonight this fool's halfway to heaven and just a mile outta hell\nAnd I feel like I'm comin' home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I was the only person I'd ever met who had a record contract. None of the E Street Band, as far as I know, had been on an airplane until Columbia sent us to Los Angeles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Your flag flyin' over the courthouse\nMeans certain things are set in stone.\nWho we are, what we'll do and what we won't"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The criminal ineptitude makes you furious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: We're a long, long way from home, Bobbie; Home's a long, long way from us. I feel a dirty wind blowing; Devils and dust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I want to spit in the face of these badlands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I know your mama she don't like me, cause I play in a rock and roll band."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out... The other two aren't quite into that yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Small unit democracy, I found early on, didn't work for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Got a wife and kid in Baltimore Jack, I went out for a ride and I never went back. Like a river that don't know where it's flowing, I took a wrong turn and I just kept going."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: To her Cheshire smile, I'll stand on file, she's all I ever wanted. But you let your blue walls get in the way of these facts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: From the town of Lincoln Nebraska with a sawed off .410 on my lap, through the Badlands of Wyoming I killed everything in my path."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Blood moon risin' in a sky of black dust, tell me baby, who do you trust?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: I found the key to the universe in the engine of an old parked car."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Baby, in a world without pity Do you think what I'm askin's too much I just want to feel you in my arms Share a little of that Human Touch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Well now I'm no hero, that's understood. All the redemption I can offer girl, is beneath this dirty hood. With a chance to make it good somehow, hey what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair. Well the night's busting open, these two lanes will take us anywhere. We got one last chance to make it real."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: Well let there be sunlight, let there be rain Let the brokenhearted love again Sherry, we can run with our arms open before the tide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: You ain't a beauty but, hey, you're all right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: When I was young, it was sort of built to intimidate. Even on this very local level in this very small church in this small town, it still held that sort of - held you in the palm of its darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bruce Springsteen: The music is pretty relentless. You've got to find some way of letting the audience breathe for a minute, give them a little bit of air - but not too much. Otherwise it would get real intense. The room would get very tense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Learn from the past and share your experiences with others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I\u2019m not perfect and I don\u2019t have to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Be who you are and don't allow anyone to affect the confidence you have in your individuality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Stay strong, be brave, love hard and true, and you will have nothing to lose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Sometimes it just feels so amazing to finally stand up for yourself. I highly recommend it. Life is too short to be taken for granted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Share your story with someone. You never know how one sentence of your life story could inspire someone to rewrite their own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Life is precious and it's what you do with it that keeps you alive on the inside.It's not enough just to live and take that gift for granted.Each one of us has fears,but the more we work to overome them,the more we are able to enjoy our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: If you're hurting, don't be afraid to seek the help you need! Speak to someone - it may just change your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: If I could turn back time, I would tell myself that I'm beautiful every day, because we all are! And we need to start believing it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: It doesn't matter where you come from or who you think you are, we're all human beings with beating hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel and it may seem hard to get to it but you can do it and just keep working towards it and you'll find the positive side of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: You have the capability to change your life all with a simple shift in perspective"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I think scars are like battle wounds - beautiful, in a way. They show what you've been through and how strong you are for coming out of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: When I look back, it saddens me to think that I was so hard on myself - when I was younger, I thought I had to look like everyone else, but I learned that beauty comes from how you feel about yourself. Once I started taking care of my mind, body, and soul, I realized that I didn't need to conform to what's \"normal\" and started to love myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Eating disorders are serious mental illnesses, not lifestyle choices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Every life has a purpose. Share your story and you may help someone find their own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Go on and try to tear me down\r\nI will be rising from the ground"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: If you're living your life in fear, then you're just not living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: We do the best we can in life, we take things one day at a time and sometimes we all just need a simple reminder of that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: It's harder to stay strong than it is to give up. Giving up doesn't get you anywhere.. Only makes you weak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Expectations are just disappointments waiting to happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Make a wish with all your heart and chase every dream you have. Only you can reach your goals. No one else can achieve them for you"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: People say sticks and stones may break your bones, but names can never hurt you, but that's not true. Words can hurt. They hurt me. Things were said to me that I still haven't forgotten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: He's not your prince charming if he doesn't make sure you know that you're his princess."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I'm not going to sacrifice my mental health to have the perfect body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Tired of being unhappy? Fix it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Healthy living involves taking care of myself - both mentally and physically. It means surrounding myself with positive and supportive people, as well as exercising and maintaining a well-balanced diet. At this point, healthy living is just a way of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Sometimes we're gonna have our bad days, but we must continue to work to be great. Keep smiling. It looks beautiful on you!!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Hearts can break and never make a sound."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: It's amazing what you can hide just by putting on a smile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Go ahead and believe that no one shines brighter than you. Become amazing, and be happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: You don't have to have a thigh gap to be beautiful. It is possible to love your body the way it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: When you do your best and live out your dreams, you inspire others to do the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Sometimes I smile so big, I get scared that my face is gonna explode."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: When you start to beat yourself up, remind yourself of how worthy you are of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: If we could throw away the hate and make love last another day, don't give up just for today, life would be so simple"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Always remember, actions speak louder than words. No one's perfect, but we can all strive to be better people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: No matter who you are, where you've come from, what you've been through... You can make a difference in this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Be certain that you're not modeling yourself after someone, but just being who you are meant to be. Go ahead, be weird because \"normal\" is boring!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Never be ashamed of your problems, your body, yourself. You are worth life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I can't set my hopes too high, 'Cause every hello ends with a goodbye."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: You don't have to wait till the beginning of a new year to make resolutions for yourself. It's all about loving and taking care of the only body you will ever have...cherish it, love it, embrace it...Because when you do...It begins to show."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Sometimes being afraid can show more strength than being fearless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I allowed social media to define what I thought of my body. And now I realize that no matter how thin you are, someone will call you fat. No matter how beautiful you are, someone will call you ugly. But you can't spend your time worrying about that. You're just not going to please the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I don't look at the criticism anymore. If somebody calls me fat, even in a vulnerable moment, I laugh to myself and think, I'm doing everything I can, so there's nothing I can do about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: The smartest thing a woman can ever learn, is to never need a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I don't think I'm fixed. People think that you're like a car in a body shop. You go in, they fix you, and you're out. It takes constant fixing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Sometimes it's dramatic, but mental health, as a whole, has to become mainstream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Be grateful for your journey because it is yours alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I'm an American for marriage equality. I believe that love comes in all different shapes, sizes, and colors. So whether you're LGBT or straight, your love is valid, beautiful, and an incredible gift."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: So I\u2019m putting my defenses up, cause I don\u2019t wanna fall in love. If I ever did that. I think I\u2019d have a heart attack."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Go where you are wanted and stray from where you aren't. Surround yourself with positive people and environments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Do what makes you happy, and don't care what others think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I feel beautiful. I feel strong, and I feel confident in who I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: You don't owe anybody the present other than yourself. Take time for you. Respect yourself and your privacy. Set boundaries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I won't change anything in my life I'm staying myself tonight"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Embracing yourself is important and I wish that all women would realize how beautiful they are, inside and out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Focusing on food and exercise changed my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: No matter what you're going through, there's a light at the end of the tunnel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I'm not a model - I have curves. I find things that accentuate my body, a woman's body, and I always wear things that I feel comfortable in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Now on Friday nights, if I want to go hang out with friends, I go hang out with friends. If I want to stay in and be in the hot tub and have people over to watch movies, I do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I'm a lightweight better be careful what you say With every word I'm blown away You're in control of my heart"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Being a celebrity can be dangerous. Nobody says 'no.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: One of the reasons I was so unhappy for years was because I never embraced my emotions and I was trying to stay in control."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I'm losing myself trying to compete with everyone else, instead of just being me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: You don't have to be a drug addict to care for your mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I tried to conform to what everyone thinks is beautiful. But my genetics gave me a curvy figure, and I've come to understand that in the Latina culture, that is beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: You've been hurt before, I can \n see it in your eyes. You try to \n smile it away, some things you \n can't disguise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: You don't have to be at rock bottom to take care of yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: It's important to remember how our friends have such a powerful influence on us and vice versa. This can be a great thing as long as your friends surround you with love, loyalty, respect and positivity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: After so long being thin, it was terrifying being heavier. But I am a naturally curvy Hispanic girl. I don't deprive myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I pray every night before I go to sleep and every morning when I wake up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I'm also very passionate about charity because it helps people who don't have as loud of a voice as I do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Tall, thin, curvy, short \u2013 whatever you are, you are beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I wish I could tell every young girl with an eating disorder, or who has harmed herself in any way, that she's worthy of life and that her life has meaning. You can overcome and get through anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Recovery is something that you have to work on every single day and it's something that it doesn't get a day off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: It's a simple law of attraction that you get back what you put out into the universe. The more love you give, the more love you attract. The more love you attract, the more love you receive. WHen we put good energy into the world, we feel good. We make those around us feel good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I'm gonna love you like I've never been broken I'm gonna say it like it's never been spoken"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I think it's important that artists use their voices for so much more than just their talent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: You can be the most beautiful woman in the world and see yourself as hideous. You must love yourself. To look in the mirror and tell yourself that you're a rock star."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I like to focus on what I'm doing now, which is giving back. I've done interventions with people I've been close to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I'm getting older and the performance onstage was definitely, it was a bit sexier, but it wasn't too much. I don't want to scare off my fans. At the same time my fans are growing up with me, and I don't want to go way over the top."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: The sky is the limit... for some people aim higher nothing is impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Sometimes staying strong means not putting yourself in uncomfortable or triggering situations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Life can be so difficult at times but fighting through the pain is so worth it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: You know you've made it when you can dye your hair blue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: The mirror can lie. It doesn\u2019t show you what\u2019s inside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Maybe you'll call me someday Hear the operator say the numbers no good And that She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances for you She had a world of chances Chances you were burning through"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: If the world runs out of chocolate today... It was not my fault. :l"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: One of the greatest joys in life is watching a child laugh"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Our love is like a song but you won't sing along."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: When you treat your body like a Bentley, you value yourself and you start to look at your body differently."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: There\u2019s no point to living life unless you make history and the best way to make history is to help others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I have felt uncomfortable having people say, \"You're my idol,\" because I want them to idolize God. I want them to idolize somebody that's done a lot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I feel it's selfish when you don't use your voice, because then you're just relishing the attention - you're not using it for good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: The mirror can lie. Doesn't show you what's inside. And it, it can tell you you're full of life. It's amazing what you can hide just by putting on a smile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Whenever you're going through stuff, it definitely reflects in the way you wear your makeup and hair. Wearing less makeup is more comfortable for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: There's an element of trust that you don't find with people nowadays."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Having an eating disorder doesn't show \u2018strength.\u2019 Strength is when are able to overcome your demons after being sick and tired for so long. Starving is not a \u2018diet\u2019 and throwing up isn't something that only extremely thin men or women do. Eating disorders do not discriminate..Neither does any other mental illness. These are deadly diseases that are taking lives daily. So please, let's be cautious of the words we use when discussing ED's and other mental illnesses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: We live in an imbalanced society when it comes to encouraging male sexuality and discouraging female sexuality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: There were times I felt so anxious, almost like I was crawling out of my skin, that if I didn't do something physical to match the way I felt inside, I would explode. I cut myself to take my mind off that. I just didn't care what happened. I had no fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I think that's what goes wrong in a lot of people's careers, so many people are afraid to say, \"This person has a problem\" or \"This person maybe shouldn't do this\" because they're afraid of losing their jobs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: If you're spending your entire early 20s chasing the next party, what are you running away from?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: There's something really liberating about feeling great in what you work out in because when you feel great in the gym, then you are just going to do a better job. You'll feel more comfortable, which will allow you to push your limits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I believe in gender equality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: We're all human so of course there are days when I'm feeling insecure. When that happens, I take time to reflect on how far I've come and how far I will continue to go - it helps me feel empowered and self-assured."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I'm sharing my experience with my body with my fans, and that's why they relate to me so much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Instead of looking in the mirror and focusing on your flaws, look in the mirror and appreciate your best features... everyone has them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: You can turn your life around. You can through hell and back. It is possible. Never underestimate yourself. I believe in you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I was compulsively overeating when I was eight years old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I feel healthy, I feel happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: If everybody in the world saw a therapist, we would have a better world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: All fear has ever done is hold me back. I have so many things I want to accomplish in my life. For myself and for the world. Fear is useless; it just gets in the way of accomplishing everything Overcome fear today and and confront one of your phobias."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: That person I was when I was a lot younger is not who I am today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Aside from eating healthy and taking care of my body, I've always been passionate about skincare. It's an essential part of my daily regimen, which is why I decided to create my own skincare line, DEVONNE by Demi. When my skin is clean, I feel my best!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Change your thoughts, change your life. \u2014LAO TZU When I was fighting depression, I remember hearing this expression and not understanding it at first. When I decided to implement it in my life, a whole new world opened up for me. Change the negative, self-loathing thoughts to positive, self-affirming ones. When you\u2019re positive about yourself and everything around you, you begin to see the world in a different light. Your life today is what you make of it. Goal: Be mindful of the tone of your thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Life is so beautiful and special, I can't believe I ever let myself forget that"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I think every time you get your heart broken, there's a little piece of it that chips away, and I don't think you ever get that piece back. But I think you're able to bandage it with time and with new people and other things that make you happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: The only thing I could see myself doing is music - songwriting or producing or something. I've never seen myself being in any other business, I've been working in this one since I was 5 years old! I could do other things, but I wouldn't want to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I don't like to go out to clubs, because I find myself seeing remnants of drugs in the bathroom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Find your purpose, find your voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I feel like I'm held more accountable to stay healthy now because now I'm a role model to young girls to not have eating issues and to not say, 'Hey, it's OK to starve yourself' or 'It's OK to throw up after your meals' - that's not OK."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Bipolar depression really got my life off track, but today I'm proud to say I am living proof that someone can live, love, and be well with bipolar disorder when they get the education, support and treatment they need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Exploring - that's what you have to do to find yourself sexually. You always think you have it figured out, and then you get older and you realize you didn't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I don't wanna be afraid, I wanna wake up feeling beautiful today, and know that I'm okay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I do MMA so I will train for whatever it is. Recently I did jujitsu and strength training, but other days I will do kickboxing, muay thai. It's just a matter of what I have on the schedule. Some days I just do cardio for an hour. I am not a yoga person. Whatever I do, it has to be extreme. I like higher-intensity workouts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I want to show the world there is life, surprising, wonderful, and unexpected life, after diagnosis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I don't think there's going to be a day when I don't think about food or my body, but I'm living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I don't have many deal breakers. I've done so much in my life, it doesn't feel right to judge other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: When your feet start to hurt, place yourself in someone else's shoes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Violence is the easy way out and it only leads to more violence. We need people in this world who are willing to find solutions through peace, through communication, honesty and diplomacy. World peace may seem impossible, but it's worth aiming for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: As the smoke clears, I awaken, And untangle you from me. Would it make you feel better To watch me, while I bleed? All my windows still are broken, But I'm standing on my feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Skies are crying, I am watching, Catching teardrops in my hands. Only silence, as it's ending, Like we never had a chance. Do you have to make me feel Like there's nothing left of me?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Do you have to make me feel like there's nothing left of me? You can take everything I have, you can break everything I am, like I am made of glass, like I am made of paper.Go on and try to tear me down I will be rising from the ground like a Skyscraper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: You\u2019re the missing piece I need The song inside of me I need to find you I gotta find you"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: The fact that you have the ability to stand on stage and sing while you\u2019re crying is so brave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: NO one deserves anything less than being loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: It's OK to love your body the way it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Watch a movie that makes you laugh or listen to a song that makes you cry. Embrace your emotions and be proud of what you feel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: It's not about eating healthy to lose weight. It's about eating healthy to feel good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: But you're so hypnotizing You've got me laughing while I sing You've got me smiling in my sleep And I can see this unravelling Your love is where I'm falling But please don't catch me"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Who said I can't wear my Converse With my dress, well baby That's just me!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Don't say you're sorry, 'cause I'm not even breaking. You're not worth the time that this is taking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: The world is ours if we want it, we can take it, if you just take my hand"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Tell me, Do you feel the way I feel? 'Cause nothing else is real In the La La Land machine"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: If I'm able to use my voice to do good in the world then I definitely want to do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I never found out until I went into treatment that I was bipolar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Use the voice that you were given. Shout what you believe in from the top of your lungs. Never let anyone quiet you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I think that women who know who they are are beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I love having a boyfriend but need to be secure on my own first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I'm a lightweight easy to fall easy to break With every move my whole world shakes Keep me from falling apart"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I was looking the other day at the calendar and I was like oh my gosh we only have two weeks left and I've been on tour since June I don't know how I'm going to switch back into normal life. It's been so much fun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: The best advice I can give to anyone going through a rough patch is to never be afraid to ask for help."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Light on my heart, Light on my feet, Light in your eyes, I can't even speak Do you even know, How you make me weak"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I want to be fearless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I'm honest about the journey I've been on, so I definitely don't take dating lightly anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Everyone has the bully or the mean girl or the ex-boyfriend who tried to bring them down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Rocker dudes don't have a lot of swagger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: It's a big responsibility dating me. Because I come with a little bit of baggage, you know?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I grew up in the South where there's discrimination, and when I witnessed the judgment around me, I always thought someone needs to stick up for not just the LGBT community but any outsider, anybody that wasn't the mold in Texas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: When you're an artist, you have a platform that can reach millions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I don't have a six-pack. Maybe I don't even want a six-pack. It doesn't sound very appealing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Binge eating is another eating disorder that people really don't realize is a problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I was judgmental of artists who were exploring their sexuality, and I thought, Why are they doing that? They don't have to. They've got a good voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Being surrounded by supermodels' bodies was triggering to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I have to ask myself, Am I content with calling myself a feminist? Yes, because I speak out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: We don't have music that talks about sexuality from a female standpoint."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: There's nothing wrong with a woman being proud of an element of her life that's talked about in rap music all the time!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I don't see anybody in any sort of squad that has a normal body. It's kind of this false image of what people should look like. And what they should be like, and it's not real."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I'm not afraid to talk about the fact that women get paid less than men in the United States and how unfair that is. Talking about it at all is doing the work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: The more active I am, the better I feel and the longer I can stay onstage without losing my breath."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I feel most confident when I'm taking care of my body and my skin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: My tattoos say \"Stay strong.\" \"Stay\" on one wrist and \"strong\" on the other. I'm able to look at them and be thankful for being alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I can feel glamorous without makeup, especially on my lips. They're naturally reddish, so I often let them go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I met so many young girls and even older women who had literally been through so much that I couldn't even imagine. I was maybe a little more closed-minded, and I learned from them never to judge anyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: Growing up in America, I never really appreciated my culture. I knew what being Hispanic was, but I thought that since I didn't look Hispanic, I was white."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: I'm very passionate about charity... Performing is my passion. But it's not gonna change the world. That's why I give back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Demi Lovato: As a kid I'd play with homemade recipes, like putting pineapple on my face to exfoliate my skin and doing facial steams with lavender or peppermint oils. I just loved doing stuff like that. It's what motivated me to launch my skin care line."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Tables turn, bridges burn, you live and learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Crazy how you gotta wait until it's dark out to see who really with you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: We walk the same path, but got on different shoes, live in the same building, but we got different views"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Everybody dies but not everybody lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I've been hated by many, wanted by plenty, disliked by some, but confronted by none."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm the type to say a prayer and then go get what I just prayed for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm in the world where things are taken, never given. How long they choose to love you will never be your decision."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Sometimes it's the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Don't get impatient when it takes too long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: You can't have my heart, the doctor told me I'd be dead without it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I like when money makes a difference but don't make you different"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I don't get bitter, I just get better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I got my eyes on you\r\nYou're everything that I see, I want your hot love and emotion\r\nEndlessly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I am more than what you bargained for and nothin less than real."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: May your neighbors respect you, trouble neglect you, angels protect you and heaven accept you"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: You gotta own it if you want it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: The same niggas I ball with, I fall with"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Even Photoshop couldn't change me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Being humble doesn't work as well as being aware."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Never forgetting from where I came and no matter where I'm headed I promise to stay the same"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Seen too much, it's so hard for me to let new people in"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I live for the nights that I can't remember with the people that I won't forget."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Yeah, it's whatever. You know, feeling good, living better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm more than just an option."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Until you find yourself, it's impossible to lose you"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Still findin' myself, let alone a soulmate, I'm just sayin'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Some things look better inside of the store."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: And really, I think I like who I'm becoming."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Cause you know, life is what we make it and a chance is like a picture, it'd be nice if you just take it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I am what everybody in my past don't want me to be"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I be getting high just to balance out the lows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Fresher than a pillow with a mint on it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: They say real girls aint never perfect, perfect girls aint real."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm actually a very honest person, and sometimes I end up like, 'Man, I said too much.' It's hard for me not to tell the truth when you ask me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: You don't even have to ask twice, you could have my heart or we could share it like the last slice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I\u2019m trying to do better than good enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Better late than never but never late is better. They tell me time is money well we'll spend it together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Don't ever forget the moment you began to doubt, transitioning from fitting in to standing out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Yeah I want it all, that's why I strive for it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I think better when I'm not sober"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: She knows there's more to life, and she's scared of ending up alone"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: They always say the hottest love has the coldest end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Everybody talks and everybody listens, and somehow the truth just always comes up missin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Never pay attention to the rumors and what they assume"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Jealousy is just love and hate at the same time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I don't ever be trippin off of what ain't mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: You're still the one that I adore. Aint much out there to have feelings for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: She live in a mindset that I could never move to"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: You know it's real when you are who you think you are"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Get your team in order, assembly is key"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I wish that we lived in a time and a generation where people would stop viewing my honesty as overly emotional. People always act like I spend my life crying in a dark room. I don't, I'm good. I'm a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm obsessed with perfection. I want to work. I don't want to stop. I want to take advantage and make myself the best possible me that I can be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Diss me and you'll never hear a reply for it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm scared that every girl I care for will find a better man and end up happier in the longrun"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I never cheat unless you count the girls I cheat on"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: All in all I learned a lesson from it though. You never see it coming you just get to see it go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Last name 'Ever', first name 'Greatest'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: No strings attached, your love is so WiFi."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: It take a certain type of man to teach, to be far from hood but to understand the streets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm never scared, they never real, I never run. When all is said and done, more is always said than done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Don't ask permission, just ask forgiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I can't hear the critics talking over the applause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm in the mood to get faded, so please bring your finest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: We all got dreams and we all star reaching"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Throw em a bone and they want a steak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Send the haters all my love. X and O."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Live for today, plan for tomorrow, party tonight, party tonight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Living life from a whole different angle. Only see the road through the wings of an angel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I can't relate to these haters, my enemies never made it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: In this game you only lose when you fight back"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I've never been reckless - it's always calculated. I'm mischievous, but I'm calculated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Too many times I\u2019ve been wrong, I guess being right takes too long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Lights get low and that's when I have my brightest ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Word on road is the clique about to blow. You ain't gotta run and tell nobody they already know"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: The good ones go, if you wait too long. So you should go, before you stay too long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I was planning on this being something worth mentioning, energy invested in someone I saw potential in"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: This lost boy got fly without Peter Pan"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I gotta feel alive, even if it kills me. Promise to always give you me, the real me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Problem with these other niggas they aint never real"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: The game ain't always fair and that's the thing though. You can play your heart out, everyone don't get a ring though."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I just want some head in a comfortable bed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm allergic to coming in second but I never sneeze."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: All so convinced that you're following your heart cause your mind don't control what it does sometimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I come alive in the night time"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I know that it's comin I just hope that I'm alive for it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Life change for us every single week so.. It's good but I know this aint the peak though."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I learned working with the negatives could make for better pictures"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: If you were a star you'd be the one I'm searching for"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: She doesn't ever worry, if she wants it she'll get it on her own"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I just hope that you miss me a little when I'm gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Yes I make mistakes that I don't ever make excuses for"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: You need to act your age and not your girl's age"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: There's different girls in my life that play different roles and I see at different times, but collectively they kind of make up the roster of happiness for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm still fly, I'm sky high and I dare anybody to try and cut my wings"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I know they say the first love is the sweetest but that first cut is the deepest"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Trying to convince myself I've found one. Making the mistake I never learned from."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I never cheated, for the record, back when I was with you. But you believed in everything but me girl, I don't get you"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Always gone but never hard to find.. And since you can't escape me, do I ever cross your mind?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Somewhere between psychotic and iconic/ Somewhere between I want it and I got it/ Somewhere between I\u2019m sober and I\u2019m lifted/ Somewhere between a mistress and commitment"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Face to face, just you and me, with no rules. Just like you, I get lonely too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: This aint the life that I'm used to, reintroduced to people I've been introduced to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Cause she hold me down every time I hit her up. When I get right I promise that we gon live it up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: We've been living on a high, they've been talking on the low. But it's cool, know you heard it all before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: So what I tend to do is to think of today as the past. It's funny when you comin in first but you hope that you last.. You just hope that it lasts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I know I exaggerated things, now I got it like that. Tuck my napkin in my shirt cause I'm just mobbin like that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: When a good thing goes bad its not the end of the world. Its just the end of a world, that you had with one girl."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Me and my dad are friends. We're cool. I'll never be disappointed again, because I don't expect anything anymore from him. I just let him exist, and that's how we get along."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: How you mean? How you mean? What you know about the team? You just know what you get told girl I see behind the scene"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I don't see perfection as far as a visual image of perfection. \"Perfection\" to me is, I walk away from a situation and say, \"I did everything I could do right there. There was nothing more that I could do.\" Like, I worked as hard as I possibly could have. That's perfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: So can you do me a favor? If I pull it together, make it sooner than later."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm the one twice over I'm the new eleven"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I took a chance with my heart and I feel it taking over"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Dying to meet your girlfriends that you said you might bring. If they're the ones that tell you that you do the right thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: When I'm writing, I'm thinking about how the songs are going to play live. Fifty bars of rap don't translate onstage. No matter how potent the music, you lose the crowd. They want a hook; they want to sing your stuff back to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I've been down this road before and yeah I skidded but forget it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I bet if I give all my love then nothing's gonna tear us apart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I wanna take it deeper than money, pussy, vacation and influence a generation that's lacking in patience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I aint drive here I got chauffeured"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: It's important for me to let my fans know I really don't care. I'm confident."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: In person I am everything and more. I'm everywhere these other niggas never been before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Just because I had a winner, it doesn't mean I'm gonna be like, \"OK, I need a new 'Successful.'\" That's silly. I just don't want anything to sound like anything else, which I hope is everybody's vision."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Kisses all on her body, she tells me live in the moment"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Lately I feel the haters eatin' away at my confidence. They scream out my failures and whisper my accomplishments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I get it I live it to me there's nothin realer"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: There will be days when I walk in an arena and people will cheer and then there might be days when I walk in an arena and people might boo, but it all sounds the same to me because it's all just noise that lets me know that I'm relevant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Don't listen to the lies, I swear they all lies. You know I could be your knight in shining Armor All tires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Wayne's done way more for my career than Jay-Z. Wayne is the reason I'm here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Real talent doesn't always win championships, like real music doesn't always win Grammys."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I know you left me once, but I came right back to find you. Even though I like being in your past, you got a bright future behind you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Mad cause he aint like me... Oh you mad cause nobody ever did it like me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I heard you good with them soft lips.. Yeah you know word of mouth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I've always treated my city like some shoulder pads."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I realize I waited too long but please don't move on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: People around you should really have nothin' to say. Me, I'm just proud of the fact that you've done it your way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: When you have a valid opinion around, it takes a lot of the pressure off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Every time you see me I look like I hit the lotto twice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I tried to keep us together, you were busy keeping secrets"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I had someone tell me I fell off, ooh I needed that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Girl I know it's real cause I've been around it. You only want what's real you just never found it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I don't waste time putting money down, I just go straight to who got it and buy it in cash. Pussy so good that you gotta come see me on tour and you gotta fly in first class."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I used to always crack jokes in class. I was a good liar and a good talker. I was just good. I was my father's son. I was slick. When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I might be too strung out on compliments, overdosed on confidence/ Started not to give a f- and stop fearing the consequence/ Drinking every night because we drink to my accomplishments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I remember when my schedule was as flexible as she is.. She call and tell me 'be here before the sun up', I be dressed before we hung up"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm like a waiter and you something like a hater with trays in both hands, place an order I can cater."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I took some sense and made a nickel of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Me and success are two things you don't wanna find yo ass between. Back against the wall like plasma screens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I never plan to stop acting, I take it very seriously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: You do get certain publications in the States where, if things don't go according to plan, they flip the story and it becomes very negative."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I like getting my own thoughts out right now, I have fans to solidify, so that's why I don't do tracks with too many younger rappers or newer artists. People may consider me to be a music snob or whatever, but I like to preserve what's mine and I also don't just do tracks to do tracks, I make every song with a purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm on a shoppin spree to get whatever is in store"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: She call me the referee cause I be so official. My shirt aint got no stripes but I can make that pussy whistle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Time heals all and heels hurt to walk in, but they go with the clutch that you carry your lip gloss in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm a staple in my city, you can never ruin me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I think maybe I was numb to it last year.. but you know I feel it now more than ever"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: You best believe that I often tend to surpass what the rest achieve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I've asked about you and they told me things but my mind didn't change and I still feel the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I really put a lot of and emotion into my project in order to evoke emotion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I quit school and it's not because I'm lazy. I'm just not the social type and campus life is crazy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Baby you should bring your best friend, then you should persuade her to let me get some sex in. Don't get offended, baby, that's just a suggestion"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I have not been immersed in music and life. I'm inspired by the simple things in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: You got your resolutions... We just got reservations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Kush rolled, glass full, I prefer the better things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: They always tell me nobody's working as hard as you and even though I laugh it off man, it's probably true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Know you got a roommate, call me when it's no one there. Put the key under the mat and you know I'll be over there"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Everyone just wants to see what you can do for yourself. People think that just because I have some big ridiculous number on my myspace page that it's all easy for me. People are interested but I don't come home to labels waiting outside my house."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Drake just stands for Do Right And Kill Everything"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Saying she should be the one I see every time that I'm here, but when am I really even here?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Soap opera rappers, all these niggas sound like 'All My Children'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Real music doesn't always win Grammys"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Everybody got a deal, I did it without one"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: She used to say 'You can be whoever you want, even yourself'.... Yeah, I show up knowin exactly who I was and never leave as myself"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I still deliver like a midwife"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Like a sprained ankle boy I aint nothin to play wit"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I feel like I'm truly and genuinely proud and unafraid. I'm not scared of who I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Rappers aren't the really rich ones. We all have nice houses with studios and cars, but you need a piece of someone's business to be super wealthy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: When it comes to knowing what to say, to charm, I always had it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Took over my city and I never asked permission to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Oh that was your girl? I thought I recognized her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Pray the real live forever man. Pray the fakes get exposed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: You be up on everything, other hoes aint ever on it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Took awhile, got the jokers out of the deck now, I'm holdin all the cards and niggas wanna play chess now"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I heard a lil homie talking reckless in Vibe. Quite a platform you chose, you shoulda kept it inside. Oh you tried, it's so childish calling my name on the world stage. You need to act your age and not your girl's age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Stay keeping my cup full so I'm extra charged like a state tax."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: World series attitude, champagne bottle life, nothing ever changes so tonight is like tomorrow night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I don't talk to the groupies. I talk to nice, upstanding women. The groupies don't get my attention. It's the women that I like."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: The ideal girl is driven, working on something other than modeling or being a singer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Women need attention therefore women will complain, develop hatred for men and say that you're the one to blame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm not confrontational, but if someone challenges, I'm not going to back down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I wish that we lived in a time and a generation where people would stop viewing my honesty as overly emotional. People always act like I spend my life crying in a dark room. I don't, I'm good. I'm a man. I want to be remembered as an artist that gave you a piece of me, as opposed to some surface bullshit. I don't think people realize that we die, we leave here, and either they forget about you or remember you. And how they remember you is up to you. I just want to be remembered as a poet that was open and honest because I wake up every morning and I'm me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I never threw away that paper with my Grammy speech because I haven't hit the pinnacles I plan to reach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: It's a shame, she had me convinced that she could've been a dime. I guess I lost another one to the wintertime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Damn, tell me where did all the magic go? I followed the rules and told you everything you had to know"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: What's a star when his most important fan is missing?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Damn where my roof just go? Top slipped off like Janet at the Super Bowl."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I do it for the love. Bunk bed flow, always one level above."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: What good is all the cash if it doesn't buy time and what good is bein famous if I'm never on your mind?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I hope somebody makes a movie about Obama's life soon because I could play him. That's the goal. I watch all the addresses. Any time I see him on TV, I don't change the channel. I definitely pay attention and listen to the inflections of his voice. If you ask anyone who knows me, I'm pretty good at impressions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Girls countin on me to be there like missin rubbers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: We live in a generation of not being in love and not being together\nBut we sure make it feel like we're together.\nCause we're scared to see each other with somebody else"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: It's such a small place, not much to do but talk and listen. The men are jealous and the women all in competition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: You don't make stupid internet videos or show people you have too much free time, you just say the right things and they'll be like, \"Damn this dude's a real person and I can relate to that.\" That can make somebody's life, that can make somebody's day, that can be a line that they never forget."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Your momma used to live at the church on Sunday\r\nYou just go to LIV after church on Sunday"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: What you'll always get from me is a variety of emotions. Whenever you listen to my CD, whether you're the hardest dude or the bitterest cat, I'll give you a real story to think about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: You can't say you're happy either. You don't even smile for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I had to Derrick Rose the knee up before I got the re-up"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm not going to lie; listen, I'm nice at basketball."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Might have been a time when I loved her too but you take that away and you'll always be the one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I want to be remembered as an artist that gave you a piece of me, as opposed to some surface bullshit. I just want to be remembered as a poet that was open and honest because I wake up every morning and I'm me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I am in the Matrix and I just took the blue pill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: They wanna see me pick back up, well where'd I leave it at?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Girl they love me like I'm Prince, like the new kid with the crown. Bunch of underground kings, thought you knew how we get down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm just as famous as my mentor... but that's still the boss don't get sent for"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'll be there for you, I will care for you, I keep thinking you just don't know. Tryna run from that, say you're done wit that, on your face girl it just don't show."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: They be starin at the money like it's unfamiliar"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I drove nice cars, I got a nice house. But now I'm steady missing you like a strikeout"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Baby being part of this life I feel like I'm bound to end up with somebody that's been with everybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Bank account statement just look like I'm ready for early retirement"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I know clothing very well and I'm sure I will get into fashion eventually."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Started off local but thanks to all the haters, I know G4 pilots on a first name basis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Secrets you were telling everybody but me.. Don't be fooled by the money I'm still just young and unlucky, I'm surprised you couldn't tell"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Rap is stress, but it pays great."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: When I leave I always come right back here. The young spitter that everybody in rap fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: It's not like I'm not writing great music anymore, it's just that I want to take it another level."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Life becomes difficult when you're in this public eye, and I think that we all relate to each other and I try and really talk about it in my music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm not a gangster, I don't have no desire to be hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Drug dealers live vicariously through me"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Even when the Phantom's leased, them hoes wanna get in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Seeing my family have it all took the place of that desire for diplomas on the wall"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I don't really put a lot of swearing in my music. I want everybody to be able to enjoy it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I want everybody to feel comfortable with vibing with Drake. I don't want to limit my music to people based on their race and/or age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm down for whatever. You just lead the way. We go to dinner you don't even look at me to pay"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I really wish she had a different way of viewing things I think the city that we're from just kinda ruined things"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Came up that's all me, stayed true that's all me, no help that's all me, all me for real"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Whatever you wanna drink girl, pick right now. If you can't hold your liquor, better quit right now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: In your city faded off the brown, NINO. She insists she got more class, WE KNOW."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Without me, rap is just a bunch of orphans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I still just like everybody else need to meet quotas with my spins, with my buzz and make my way into the office. It has to be undeniable; the world has to know about you before Jay-Z makes a call."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: What I set seems to never extinguish"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: If I was at the club you know I balled(bald), CHEMO."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I am right at the bottom compared to everybody else with press kits and demos and trying to get meetings. That's what I love about music and hate about it. That's why I respect people that are successful in the music business because you really have to build it from the ground up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Once you make something that people enjoy then you are forced to promote it. Instead of just going right into the next project, you have to be where they need you to be and do what they need you to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I like all different kinds of music. I never heavily molded myself after rappers. Sometimes they say when you think something and you go to say it, you lose a lot of color about what you're trying to say, so to me the best rappers are the people that don't lose that color."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: This is one I know you hated when you heard it and it's worse because you know that I deserve it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: That was your bad, how could you pass up on em? He just take them records and he gas up on em."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: You a star in my eyes. You and all them white girls, Party of Five"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I got the Hammer money, sweetie you can't touch this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Every single show she out there reppin like a mascot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm actually 100% independent. I'm not a Universal artist. I'm signed to myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Since I started, I've always been giving my music away for free. I've always kind of done it for the people. I don't want to lose my fans completely because they support me in a way that's more than just listening to my music. They support me like we're friends. They support me like they have emotions invested in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Me being biracial, me being from Canada but having success in the States, I have all these moments in my life where I'm jumping roof to roof. Black to white. Singing and rapping."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: And you're wasted with your ladies. Yeah I'm the reason why you always getting faded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: They just give me head while the haters give me promo."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I have a fan base that some people say is equal to that of signed artists' maybe even more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I would love to collect art at some point, but I think the whole rap/art world thing is getting kind of corny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I keep thinking how young can you die from old age"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I CAN MAKE YOUR PUSSY WHISTLE LIKE THE ANDY GRIFFITH THEME SONG."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Me, my niggas and some Madonna hoes that look just like virgins but trust they down to go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I like the fact that I have two names because I find that in this industry you have to have dual personalities especially being a transitional entertainer, being an actor going into music. It's not that I'm pretending to be somebody else but it's just that the people that I act with, the Directors, Producers and Agents, can't really relate to what I talk about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I kind of forget what it's like to be a dude who grew up in the south sometimes. I want to refresh my memory and remember why I love it [there] so much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: When you have passionate fans, they feel like they're a part of your career."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm somebody that you should know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Finally here, Imma star with the timing. My swagger is chill and my flow is reclining."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: The most intense thing I\u2019ve ever done was bring a girl to Passover dinner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Trying to tell you I'm the one, come and holla at me before I'm on the next thing, YMCMB."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: They take the greats from the past and compare us. I wonder if they'd ever survive in this era. In a time where it's recreation, to pull all your skeletons out the closet like Halloween decorations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Heard once that in dire times when you need a sign, that's when they appear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Brand new Beretta, can't wait to let it go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I haven't slept in days. And me and my latest girl agreed to go our separate ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: You put the tea in the kettle and light it. Put your hand on the metal and feel it.. but do you even feel it anymore?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Young girls envy the life yall leading, never satisfied with a nice calm evening"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: That's a good thing for me. I own everything, I have 100% creative control, I own all my masters, everything. I'm blessed to be in that situation. If we sell some records, I think we'll just add to the historic pace that this has been going at."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Take my verses too serious ya hate me, cause I'm the one to paint a vivid picture, no HD."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Swimmin in the money come and find me, NEMO."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I talk slicker than a pimp from Augusta who just had his linen suit dry-cleaned"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Any awards show or party I get fly for it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Couple of artists got words for me, that's never fun. They say it's on when they see me, that day don't ever come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'm a star, no spangled banner"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: All my first dates are interrupted by my fame because every picture taken is a fan that you can gain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: This is nothin for the radio... but they'll still play it though"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I don't know why everyone is making dance movies. I auditioned for three dance movies in the past two months and for one of them I just couldn't do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: See I'm humble but I live fame, for more deals on the table than a Bridge game."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: 15, 16, I mean, 17, 18, is when I was really getting into the hip hop phase and really studying the things that I needed to study as far as learning about flows and learning about lyrics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I love Nicki Minaj, I told her I\u2019d admit it, I hope one day we get married just to say we f-cking did it and girl I\u2019m f-cking serious, I\u2019m with it if you with it, cause your verses turn me on and your pants are mighty fitted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I personally don't enjoy films that bring black people down. I find that a majority of the films that black people are starred in nowadays, are ones focused on gang violence or dancing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I want to make good films; I don't want to make films for the moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I wish I wasn't famous. I wish I was still in school\r\nSo that I could have you in my dorm room, how I'd put it on you"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I can't believe we really made it, I'm partly surprised."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: When I write I like to just say everything that people think about but never express vocally. I just get deep into it; I'm a bit obsessive about music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I can make a record like the [previous] one I put out, but I don't want to do that because I want to set the bar so high for myself. I don't want to do it like everyone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I would say that I'm more moved by melody, even though I love to rap."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Films portraying successful black people getting married are great, but films that only show one aspect of our culture, bother me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: But you could miss me with all that, diss me then crawl back. I really wish yall would fall back, but gettin rich suppose to solve that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Couple stares, couple texts, couple dates. Couple 'I think that we're ready's couple 'I think we should wait's"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Being bi-racial and being young along with being American and Canadian [allows me to] try and cover all the bases and expand my fan base to a level that has yet to be seen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I think with the right person and the right music, people from all walks of life can come together. I know that's what my life was about. I've seen it all, so that's what I want to bring to the table."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: And I met your baby moms last night. We took a picture together, I hope she frames it. And I was drinking at the Palms last night. And ended up losing everything that I came with."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: When I was young I was working with a lot of people being out in the south. My uncle wrote for Al Green and I was around Al a lot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Man all of your flows bore me, paint drying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I saw Nicki for the first time and, like, literally fell in love. She had this snap-back hat on that said 'Minaj.' She used to wear that every single day. She was like a theater student and she was so cold at rapping."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: My team good, we don\u2019t really need a mascot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: All I care about is money and the city that I'm from."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Loving you no more,\r\nI just I can't I just can't be loving you no more,\r\nI love you more than I love myself"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Baby she look like a star, but only on camera, only on camera, only on camera."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I could teach you how to speak my language, Rosetta Stone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I swear these niggas gassed up, even though the price is high. I could own half as much clothing and be twice as fly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I guess it really is just me, myself and all my millions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Private flights back home, no stop-over"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: There's two elements to rap: having the thoughts, and then being a great rapper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Count my own money, see the paper cut fingers?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: With a canvas I'm a group of seven. A migraine, take two Excedrin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Ready for us to get it on, aint got a love to call steady.. Hope it aint like that for long, I'll be your friend if you let me"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Wrong way down a one-way, women don't get saved 'round me even on a Sunday."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: My delivery just got me buzzin like the pizza man"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Labels want my name beside a X like Malcolm"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I'll slow roast ya, got no holster"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: My real friends never hearin from me, fake friends write the wrong answers on the mirror for me"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Rest in peace to Heath Ledger but I'm no joker"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: These other rappers getting bodied and carried away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I write best about two things, which is evident from the cover of So Far Gone: the constant quest to understand love and money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Jealousy in the air tonight, I could tell. I will never understand that but oh well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: People only talk about me and sweaters because I don't give them anything else to talk about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Pastor Kerney Thomas to these hoes.. miwacles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: And this is the only sound you should fear, man these kids wear crowns over here and everything is alright"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I want to get better. That's the only way to progress. So I'm just young having fun making music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: My city love me like Mac Dre in the Bay"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Most women are motivated so I act accordingly\r\nBut this is so refreshing that it means a little more to me"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: The backpackers are back on the bandwagon like this was my comeback season back, back in the day"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I just set the bar, niggas fall under it like a limbo"
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Six months is the most you can ask of any fan in this day and age, with the Internet and all these new artists. I understand that my music is in a lot of mediums. Some people want me to make an R&B album. Some people want me to never sing again. I just don't want people to be able to draw comparisons between my old songs and my new ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: I always view my music like a city at night, like Atlanta. I view my music in lights. So Far Gone would be my experiences in Toronto at night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: The weekend's here, started it right. Even if I only get part of it right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Nickel for my thoughts, dimes in my bed. Quarters of the kush shape the lines in my head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: Other niggas' situations, they are all depressing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Drake: You be at the games looking right all season, but you always with me on the night yall leaving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I'm always happy. I've just got a mean face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Truth is the ultimate power. When the truth comes around, all the lies have to run and hide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I believe our society has fell into a pyramid system where there's people relegated to the bottom of that pyramid and there's people that feel like they're entitled to the top of that pyramid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Sometimes you got to start somewhere. And it's cool, as long as where you start is not where you plan on finishing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Keep doin' what you're doin', fall in love with what you're creating, and everything else will fall into place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I think, to me, reality is better than being fake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: If you born in the mud, you gonna be dirty, and people don't understand that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Money comes and goes, but your inner feelings, your gut feelings, your manhood, your womanhood, whatever, that stays with you. That don't go anywhere. So you either proud of who you are and how you handle situations or you not. If you handle a situation wrong, you, it will haunt you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Sometimes, when you want to laugh, reality steps in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Don't worry about being a star, worry about doing good work, and all that will come to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: You can't pussyfoot around. When you're talking to lions, you can't meow like a pussycat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: If you think about stuff that happened when you were young, it stays with you forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I was given the name by my brother when I was about eleven or twelve years old. He was older than me, and around that age I was starting to get into girls, and when they would call the house for him, and when he was not there, I would try to talk to them. I was trying to be the man and trying to get them to come and see me, not worrying about him. When he found out... he started calling me Ice Cube as a joke because he said I was trying to be too cool. I just liked it and started telling everybody in the hood \"my name is Ice Cube.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I wish the world would become what God wanted it to be in the first place, before we tampered with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: There's nothing wrong with starting off in a box, but you got to have a plan to come out that box."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I think people, if you really want to be happy, you have to find God yourself, and you're going to have to have a personal, one-on-one relationship and not look to get through these traditions or these rituals and all this crazy stuff when you could talk to him right here, right now, anytime, anywhere, any place, from any position. And that's the kind of relationship you want, not a standard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I think reading is important in any form. I think a person who's trying to learn to like reading should start off reading about a topic they are interested in, or a person they are interested in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: You can do anything in the world if you say \"Hey man, don't blame me, the devil made me do it. It's an easy way to escape responsibility.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Money is the root of all evil. Yeah, money is the root. It's not racism and \"this-ism\" and \"that-ism\"; it's our thirst and hunger for money. And that's where all the bodies are buried."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: If you give anybody the chance, they can always make a decent human being out of themselves. It's the people that don't have a chance, that we look down at like they're monsters or they're animals or that they want something different than the rest of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I think everybody likes a person that stands up for themselves. Nobody likes a punk or a coward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: There's things people say in the barbershop they won't even say in their own living room, because it's just one of those zones where nobody's going to judge you too much about your dumb opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Get a grip, Oreo, and be true to the game."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: My advice for anyone who wants to follow in my footsteps: create your own path, hone your talent, be ready to show your talent, and don't doubt yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I always was like, \"Yo, I'm here, I might as well get what I could take.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: A bird in the hand is worth more than a Bush."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I identify with the bottom of the pyramid, because, outside of having money, I am at the bottom of the pyramid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I know that there are obstacles; I know that there are hills to climb, I know there were people before me that made my journey easier and there are people behind me that I have made the journey easier for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: When I was six, God was a white man with a big beard riding on a white cloud. That's the image television pumps."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things. I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Everybody who comes from the gangster life - they want what that man in the suburbs wants. Nice family. Nice house. Nice cars. Bills paid. Kids in school. Food on the table. Nothing more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: If you love what you do, and you believe in your talent, there's nothing better than breaking through. There's no better feeling than breaking through."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Embrace what makes up you. Some stereotypes are true - I love chicken, but that's a stereotype, I love f**king basketball, but that's a stereotype, too. But who cares? Embrace it. Be who you are, and don't be ashamed of what that is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: When I was in N.W.A. and didn't get paid all the money I was owed, that's when the business side of showbiz hit me. I thought, \"Half of this is workin'. I'm famous, but now I need to be famous with some money.\" That got my brain started at trying to figure out the business end. And once I figured out the business side, I next came to understand that success really comes down to the product, not to me, my personality, or what club I'm seen going into or coming out of. None of that matters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I think my fans respect me for bein' as truthful and honest as you can be and still be Rap music and not be opinion music. It's still Rap, its still style, flavor, flair, and people just kind of like how I present myself and the things that I do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I love any time you can enlighten people to mistakes, that's how I started my career."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I never was in the Nation of Islam... I mean, what I call myself is a natural Muslim, 'cause it's just me and God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Seeing my son getting roughed up by the police is not fun. It brings back memories of when I got roughed up by them. He grew up totally different than how I grew up, and to me, he shouldn't have to go through that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I feel like I got a whole lot of living to do before I think about summing it up in a book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I'm always open, and will criticize myself, too. And I just think being that honest with everybody puts you in a different space than somebody who's just shooting venom at a certain group or a certain amount of individuals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: The best thing to do is to write about what you know, and if you write about what you know you can always pull those nice little tidbits that hook people, that shows that you know about this world and can bring people into a world that they may not know nothing about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: A lot of people have a misconception of what the ghetto is all about. You know, it's only a small percentage of the people that are bad. Everybody else is good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Most of the problems that we have are brought on by the government and not by music. Music is a mirror of what we're going through, not the cause of what we're going through."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: South Central is just who I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I don't get nothing but love. In every ghetto all over the world. Nothing but love. They respect that I came outta there and I'm doing it the right way. You can't do nothing but respect that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I've been fighting my whole career to show a different side and prove naysayers - not prove them wrong, because I don't think you should get your energy from negative people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I think you have to find how the machine can work for you. That's what I mean by \"attaching yourself to the machine,\" 'cause the machine is going to be there, and you can rage against the machine, which is cool, but there's ways that you can benefit off the machine if you're savvy enough and you're sharp enough, smart enough. We all got to live and eat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: The biggest change in the government's behavior has been because of TV and its ability to show to the world what has happened in this community... that's the biggest change. But without TV... the separation between the government and the people would be much worse than it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: The hardest period for a writer is the period in-between writing. That's when you can go crazy if you don't allow the creative juices to flow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I always want to read the script before I totally commit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I want to do more drama. Comedy is the path of least resistance for my company. People know we can do them. People know they get a good response. People want to make them. Who am I to push up against that?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: We should love the fact that we're not just getting one point of view. That we have this diversity in entertainment, and people are not scared to be themselves, and people are not scared to make people uncomfortable, and that's all part of it. That's all part of being free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Everybody in the world has to compromise. I don't know one person that gets everything they want, so the politicians are going to have to figure that out and stop pointing out, \"He shook hands with a Democrat in 1989. He ate with a Republican last week.\" It's petty high school, even junior high stuff going on. It's junior high politics going on, so it's a shame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I been all around the world and I haven't found a city that I'd rather be from or rather come back to than Los Angeles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Any time there's racism somewhere in sports, we should get it out of there because sports is a place where everything's supposed to be fair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: The real is always presented. That hardcore record or movie is not needed in the hood, because it's already there. You can see it with your own eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I grew up in the seventies and disco was big. That influenced me the most."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: You pay to have a good time, you don't always want to pay to be schooled or sad or reminded how bad you got it. To me a movie theater ain't always the place for that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I'm not actually from Compton - I'm from South Central Los Angeles, and my father still lives in the same house I grew up in, so I'm there all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Our household is built on love and respect. And we don't really let negative vibes stay too long. It's worked out. I got a great family, great kids."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: You want the industry to finally admit that you're good. But I'm still good without their admission."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: To me, in a perfect world, you have the flavor and the magic of movies like 48 Hours, Lethal Weapon and Bad Boys."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Creating is really what I like to do. The best thing in the world is to have an idea in the back of your head and then to make that idea into a movie and have people all over the world enjoy it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: It's easier for me to get comedies made because of my track record. Everybody needs to find their niche. I love dramas, but I understand that I am still just a young man in moviemaking. I know there will be some time to get back to that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I'm always the \"less is more\" guy when it comes to a scene. So I'ma be the one who will keep it grounded. Even if I let it go off and go crazy, I'm still the voice of keeping things grounded in reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I've always gotten good grades, you know, with my teachers and my English teachers, 'cause I was able to - they'd say, \"What did you do for the summer?\" I'm able to explain it to them in a written form. And my teachers always patted me on the back for that, being able to take what's in my mind and put it on paper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I don't cook gumbo, but I just know it's a lot of good ingredients in it. And, with a movie, you got to have all those ingredients."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: You got to get used to somebody, when you're acting or going through a scene, somebody yelling, \"Do it a little louder!\" OK, you do it a little louder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I think when hip hop first started, people were open to it, and groups like Public Enemy and there was groups like Poor Righteous Teachers and all these people who were spitting a lot of knowledge, a lot of history, questioning a lot of societal barriers was starting to be super popular."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: If you really look at my lyrics, nobody's exempt. Nobody's exempt from observation, criticism or what I think is correction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I did Are We There Yet? because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I believe every pencil has to be sharpened every now and then to stay sharp, or you dull out. So my records, I chose to speak on what black people do, what white people do, what women do, what men do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Even though I have a nice house, nice family, the rest of my generation is still in South Central L.A. My cousins, my brothers, my sisters, they don't wanna move out. They don't want to and they don't have the means to sustain it. That's where my heart is and that's what I think about all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: You have to resist falling in love with the money they [producers] want to give you. You have to really resist that, and you have to just think about the work and whether it's a movie that you would want to see."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: My son Darrel could recite 'Straight Outta Compton' at two years old. He loved it! You can expose your kids to anything as long as you sit there and explain it to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Nowadays, you can be yourself. You don't have to put on fa\u00e7ade. You can be who you are and still be just as successful as the ones who put on the fake fa\u00e7ade. You know, it's like reality is just as important as fiction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: You wanna be remembered for making an impact and changing things.And I guess for the good or for the bad, it don't matter. But I guess you just wanna be remembered when it's all said and done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Never question the size of Ice Cube's balls!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I was ready to get out of the box and play something a little different than what everybody has seen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I'm not really into the political game as far as paying politicians and stuff like that, I'm not into that. You do your job, and I'll do mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Everybody that wants to be successful should always be careful of what you wish for. A lot of artists and entertainers want to put the genie back in the bottle and wish they could go back to being what they were."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: To me, it's my job not to laugh, no matter what's said. By the time we shoot, I'm ready for all that's coming. I probably do most of my breaking in rehearsals, when I know that I can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I don't think people should try to force their will on their family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Nobody I know got killed in South Central LA. Today was a good day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: That's always been my approach, to expose what's going on and what's not being said. I could go the selfish route, and probably make a whole lot more money, but that's not what it's about, it's about speaking for people who can't speak for themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I know my flavor's going to work because I just know there's not a lot of guys like me around. So you got to figure out what's that about you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I could do an interview or just as well not do one. It's not like I'm looking for extra publicity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Do not turn into just cookie-cutter producer, cookie-cutter this, but a producer that people say wow, when they do something it's great or just unique or whatever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: You never get tired of seeing yourself on TV. It's always extra cool... always a treat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I think rap music is the sole reason for a lot of black acceptance in pop culture; because the music is very popular, it gets our image out in other ways than in movies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: As far as producing, once we started shooting, I soon realized where the critical decisions about the movies were really being made, and it wasn't on the set. They were being made in the production meetings. That's where producing a movie happens. And that's where I wanted to be. I didn't just want to be a piece, a pawn being played. I wanted to take part in the creative process, and that's how I sort of got introduced to the idea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I'm always kind of off to the next movie, and focused on making sure that the one I'm currently working on is as good as the one that's already on TV."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I still want to put together bigger and better programs to work with the community. I still think I could do better on that end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I won't do anything for money. I won't compromise my manhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I'm not sure if music got a future. We have all these electronic ways to download and steal music and get music, but there's no money in makin' music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I always tell people that if you gave me a pen and a piece of paper when I was a teenager and said, \"Write out how you'd like your career to go,\" I would have probably short changed myself compared to what it's been for real. I'm just extremely excited about what I've accomplished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I never go to the Grammys. I just never go. I don't know if I care enough, and I went because my son wanted to go, and they asked us to present Best Hip Hop Group of the Year. You know, we had two records from Compton in there, and it was just like a cool thing to do, and to do with your son, and it was just cool. But we was the first award up, so after I did my thing I just jumped in the car and came on back home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I used to game a lot, you know, back in the day. My gaming time done got so short that my skills ain't where they need to be to be online, you know what I'm saying? I just got that Xbox One. I gotta get my skills back, up the par to call myself a gamer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: When you have a good movie, it's hard to categorize it. It's everything. It makes you laugh, makes you cry and makes you think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: If you really think back to the culture or just black America before rap music took off, New York could have been Paris."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I love makin' music, so whether I'ma make money at it or not, I'ma still do it. The thing is, I've gotten to a point where I don't have to use music to make a livin', so I can do it for fun like I used to when I was young."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: The creative process of making a movie really turned me on. I'd started getting behind the scenes with a camcorder and VHS tape when making music videos."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Usually people who attack the rap are people who aren't even fans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I'm not trying to turn into Eddie Murphy, and just do kids movies the rest of my career. I'm going to still do a wide variety of movies, as well as do hardcore rap."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Everybody thinks the grass is greener on the other side. If you talk to most artists, they think they can play something, you know, \"If I had stayed playing football in high school, if I had been doing basketball...\" Everybody's got their fantasies and thinks the grass is greener. It's not. It's not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: The police don't look at you as long when they drive past. Sometimes they don't look at you at all. In South Central, you've got them looking and lurking. I think it's basic harassment. It's part of their tactics to have everybody nervous of them. In the valley, at least I don't feel it the same way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Go down to the corner store and beat the Jap up, clean all the crap up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Sometimes when you're relegated to your neighborhood, you forget that there's more important things than your neighborhood going on out in the world. And that just gave me a chance to see how life could be. And it gave me a chance to interact with everybody, not just black people or Mexicans. It made me just a little more worldly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: It's funny how people who ain't never been down there can think that America is so fair and that we should be alright. It's funny that the people who have their foot on our neck are telling us, 'Get up. What's wrong with you?'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Well, for the transition from rapper to actor, I was fortunate that director John Singleton pursued me for about two years to be in Boyz 'N the Hood. I really wasn't even thinking about acting at the time, since I was singularly focused on being the best rapper in the world. So, that was really a blessing, because I wasn't really taking him seriously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: There's not enough Ice Cubes out there. There's not enough Ice Cubes getting a chance to do their thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Once you figure out what your own thing is it's all about trying to develop shows, programs that can, I guess, enhance what you already have and what you can add to Hollywood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: When I did 'Boyz N The Hood', I never thought how we grew up in South Central was interesting enough for a movie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I get freedom out of hip-hop. I get to be a true artist without any shackles or harnesses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: They thought we were just basically keeping ourselves underground on purpose. And it was just strange for people to approach music that way. And for rap, trying to get recognition, and be seen as a regular form of music like anything else. I mean, the Soul, R&B, Rock 'N Roll, they would dis the hell out of rap when it first came out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Run DMC brought us out of that underground-only feel. They brought rap above ground and made it respectable as an art form to mainstream music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: People associate clothes with actual behavior, and it's kind of crazy. If you get shot in some Levi's you don't go after Levi's. It's not the clothes. It's always the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: The '80s was brand new. It was AIDS. It was gangbanging. It was starting to become big dope-dealing, and crack was starting to flood the neighborhoods. And then you had hip hop, which was something new, other than what we were doing, which was sports, playing football, basketball, baseball. And I was excited."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: You the devil in drag. You can burn your cross, Well, I'll burn your flag."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I\u2019m a B-boy at heart. I still like rhyming. It\u2019s just the radio game is like Chinese arithmetic. It\u2019s hard to know what nuts to crack. But I still love music, been dropping music. Never stopped really."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Obama reminds me of the black kid at a white school that don't nobody want to play with."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: My thing is, I know kids cuss, they do their thing, but I tell my kids, 'Don't do it in earshot of any adults, or you're in trouble.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: \"Are We There Yet?\" was the perfect title, because it's such a common saying. And having made the movie with the same name kinda locks it all in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I've done movies for certain reasons; I did 'Anaconda' because the black man lives. Simple. The black man isn't dead in the first three pages, like Jurassic Park. It's like, 'The black man kills the snake with a Latino girl? Damn! I got to do this.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: You ask me, \"Did I like Arsenio?\"\r\nAbout as much as the Bicentennial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I usually don't mind movies that people think go overboard because that's what art is all about. Art is about pushing us and making us examine ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: As a husband, I'm a true partner. I don't believe one person should have dominance over another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Rapping is talking and communicating, and that's always good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I figured, when I make a movie, especially earlier in my career, one thing I was going to make sure was that the movie doesn't cost a lot and that it has potential to make a lot of money. That's how you get respect in Hollywood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I always say the movie came out good if they want another one. That always tells me that people really liked the movie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I always said that what I do is street knowledge, you let the street know what the politicians of today are doing, and if the politicians are listening, let them know what the streets think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I would love a shot at a lead role, but it's not up to me right now. I just try to make the most out of every opportunity I'm given, and hope somebody will get on my side. Until that happens, I'm just a working actor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I hear about people getting shot all the time. But most of the guys you hear about getting shot pulled through."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: The way I grew up and the neighborhood I come from, when you know somebody's beating you and you still let it happen, then you're a victim. You're no longer a man when you know something is happening and you don't stand up. So that's just how we raised."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: People are still tied to their hoods, and it's usually not the artist, it's usually the friends and instigators who get it popping."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I was trying to be the best rapper in the world. I wasn't thinking about acting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I think [director] Malcolm Lee is a real master at being able to make you laugh while bringing serious subject-matter, so the movie doesn't hinge on silliness, but on real life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I knew a dude whose entire check was going to his car. He didn't care. This is back when the Mustang 5.0 came out in, like, '82. Between paying the note and insurance, I think he had like $40 left. A lot of people knew people because of their car, and not them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I think that my \"Let's get it done! Let's have fun! Let's make a great movie!\" attitude helped. I rarely have problems on my movies with egos and attitudes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: It's always great when you're able to give fans what they expect and even a little more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: My movies work because not many people in Hollywood are like me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: You have to be able to give the people what you want in your way. And that's how you, to me, become a person that they love and not just a fly-by night actor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: My thing is: stay creative. And just because somebody starts to pay you, that don't mean all your creativity goes to that, and you don't save none for yourself to be able to do other, bigger and better things and still follow your dreams even if you start off inside of a box."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: You become a writer on a television show, and you see yourself doing bigger and better things, you don't wait till they tell you, \"Here's the way to do bigger and better things,\" you start writing. You start writing that material that you might be doing off to the side. Nobody's going to be paying you for that, but it could turn into something big."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: You really have to challenge yourself to come out of those parameters that they put you in, even if that's your job."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: We used to have MTV and all these ways we can show our videos, and it was these rap shows, and it was everything. And then it became not cool to be conscious; it became cool to just hang out. Escapism rap became the norm. And, when I say \"escapism rap\", I mean getting high, get your cars, get your money, get your jewelry, go to the club, have your women, and it just became all about escaping your reality and not making your reality better on a real tip; not just on the have fun tip."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Comedies in Hollywood is usually the path of least resistance when it comes to being black in Hollywood and putting movies together. They would rather make us laugh than cry, in some respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I don't consider myself ever joining. But I have affiliations, for sure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I care about what I look like on the red carpet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I definitely know the minister Honorable Louis Farrakhan. But I don't really believe in organized religion like that. I don't know what it does for people in the long run."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: You don't have to spend $200 million or $100 million to make a great movie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: You learn that Hollywood has its own rules, sometimes. And it's tricky, and sometimes you can't see what's coming around the corner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I'm the most successful person in my generation of family members, and that sucks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: You always want your kids to step up at the moment of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: To be the cream of the crop is no easy feat. It's a big deal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: While I had done the movies through Revolution Studios, we own the sitcom. It was a situation where, once the team was assembled, I knew we could create something really, really good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I don't know what's my first real memory. When you're little, you're always looking forward to days that are special, like Christmas, birthdays, the Fourth of July, and family gatherings. But I can't pinpoint my earliest memory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I love Godzilla, but my favorite was on this TV Show, Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot. I used to love the idea of having a giant robot under my control. That was like a dream come true for a kid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I won't lay down my principles for any kind of recognition or any kind of position or trying to be more famous. It's just not in me. I'd rather be a man. And then to have all this crazy stuff on my conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: We have to step up as adults and try to guide our youth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Whatever happened in the neighborhood. That's what I was rapping about. And that sparked people's interest. And that's what kind of put me on that path."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I hope everything works in our favor. The show is cool. It\u2019s family fare. We ain\u2019t aiming at the cheap seats. Instead, we\u2019re making something with a broad appeal that people of any color or creed and from all walks of life can enjoy and maybe learn something from."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: The '80s was wild compared to my real small childhood, which was late '70s."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: People wanted to have fun more than they wanted to learn from their music, and that's where the shift started to happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: No matter what part of the country you come from, you can always come together to make groundbreaking hip-hop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: The movie industry is one big collaboration. Music gives me that freedom to create things straight from my heart and my mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I love performing. I'll never get that out of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: You can go raise the money outside of the industry, and then what you're doing is fighting with your money to get back into the industry, or for them to use your money instead of their own. So, you got to figure out how to do it within the flow of the industry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Cool people still have a hard time showing what they got in Hollywood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: My problem is that I never get through the whole book. I skim through this one, that one, and then the other one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I don't listen to nothing while I'm in the studio, because I don't want to be influenced by anybody else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Anybody that really knew Tupac will tell you the same thing. That he was just a dude that was full of life, full of energy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I've been around a lot longer than most rappers stay around. So I don't feel like, I haven't made too many career mistakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I'm interested in how things are put together, and that's more interesting to me than just regular shows, even though I like The Walking Dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: We don't do movies for the industry. We do movies for the fans, for the people. If the industry give you a trophy or not, or pat you on the back or not, it's nice, but it's not something you should dwell on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: [Make a sitcom] was really the idea of Executive Producer Joe Roth who owned the property over at Revolution Studios and said he was thinking about taking it to TV. And after he said that he already had [writer/director] Ali Leroi on board, and that he was going after Terry Crews, to me it was a no-brainer. I said, \"Let's put this together!\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I like to tell the streets what the political climate is, and I like to tell any politicians that's listening what the streets think. And sometimes people get nicked up and bruised up, but I usually have a lot of good medicine for that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: When you're spending your money for a nice outing, you want to go have a good time. And I always thought comedies, laughing, was something that was made for entertainment on that level. And records and maybe TV and stuff like that is really made to be heavy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I think when somebody goes to the movies and they spend their money and they take the girl out, the family, they want to have a good time. You don't always want to be hit over the head with history or how bad society is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: My wife keeps me sharp. You know, she ain't going to let me get comfortable with this \"Ice Cube\" stuff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I'm ready to run a studio. I'm ready to green light movies, and be in it to win it, you know? It's close. It'll happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I can't really attribute my success onscreen to any formula and suggest you \"do this or that\" to make it as an actor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: A good movie is a movie that you could see over and over again, not a movie that wins a Oscar, or a movie that makes a lot of money. It's a movie that you personally can watch over and over again. That, to me, is a measure of a good movie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I like Obama, but I understand that his hands are tied, the way Congress is reacting. It's just partisan politics everywhere, and don't know how we going to get things done in the future without compromising a little bit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I would love to meet Bob Marley. I mean, he's passed, but that's somebody that I would've loved to meet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Success really comes down to the product, not to me, my personality, or what club I'm seen going into or coming out of. None of that matters. What's important is whether or not people feel like they wasted their time or money when they pay for a movie or a CD."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: When you go to a movie, you don't care for one Oscar, really. Do you care if a guy got a Oscar on the shelf or is it a good movie? And, you don't care how much the movie made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Some comedians you work with, they only turn on when the camera turn on, and they're like sad-faced clowns when the camera's off. And then, they come alive when the camera come on. And you be like, \"Oh, damn. You're not a depressed ball of depression, but you are actually funny.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: It's always been jewelry, clothes, appearance. Those are things that compete with the car. But the car is the ultimate. Get that car right and it doesn't matter what you got on or what you wear once you step out of that car."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I think hip-hop has changed. When I first came out, hip-hop was more of a kind of way to learn about new places, new things. What are kids doing on the East coast, what are kids doing here. Then it left that and is like a party mode. I think it's going back to people wanting to get messages and wanting to learn things from the music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: We'll burn your store right down to a crisp."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Do I gotta go sell me a whole lotta crack for decent shelter and clothes on my back?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: When my nine goes buck, it will bust your head like a watermelon dropping 12 stories up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I think I'm unique to the game 'cause of my versatility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: My son, O'Shea. He looks like me, and he can rhyme."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Young people are dying for no reason all over the world that don't know why. It's ugly, everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Can't step from one movie set to the next. Only Samuel L. Jackson can do that. All us mere mortals can't do that!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I'm not the type of actor who is trying to do a whole bunch of different shit, you know what I mean?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I was a very interested arts student, I was always into that part of school and when I got into high school I went into architectural drafting. It gave me an understanding of how to build things and it\u2019s really helped me put things in perspective. With my music and my movies, to me it\u2019s all art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: If it was all about me, I'd do a whole lot of pop records, make a whole lot of money, just rake in the dough. But it's never been all about me. It's all about being a voice for the voiceless. People who can't speak for themselves, who don't have a mic, don't have a say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: It never gets old. Working with somebody like Kevin Hart is rejuvenating in a lot of ways. He's such a pro. He's so good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: When people see the Cubevision logo, they should know it's something good, something worth checking out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Brothers keep asking Ice Cube, 'Yo, when will you bust?' \r\nThey surround me and make a big fuss"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: There's a lot of talent in South Central L.A., in Compton and Long Beach and Watts, and the city north of Pico pretty much sits back and waits for that talent to emerge and then steps in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: With film, I have to be a team player; it's a whole different thing. I can't just be a one-man show. I have to learn how to use people to the best of their ability and motivate them to be as passionate about the project as I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: For my birthday, buy me a politician!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Music has done a lot to enhance the emotions of sports. It's played in arenas. Whenever there is footage cut together they're always using music. And it goes together, you know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I know I ain't too old. I always think of my fans about 10 years older and 10 years younger than me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: A lot of movies will deliver on the promotion but when you go see them, everything you laughed at was in the trailer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I've never really taken myself too serious. That's everybody else, listening to the music or whatever. I've always said what I've felt, said what I thought was right, but I've always had a comedic bone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Hollywood is obsessed with police stories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: You can measure films on box office success, or people lovin' the movie whenever they see it. That's what I measure my movies on. How much people love these movies after they get a chance to see them, no matter how they get a chance to see them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: With comedies, I like to be a producer, because comedies can get corny and go off track real fast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I don't do much cooking, but one of my favorite dishes to eat is my wife's macaroni and cheese."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: Most actors have to sit by the phone and wait for somebody to call them up to audition and stuff. I don't think I can exist in Hollywood just on that. I think I need to be proactive and making sure that things I really want to do are being developed to the point where somebody wants to make them?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ice Cube: I'm a good counter comedian. I can just work it off with looks, or have something crazy to say back. That works for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance. We need to learn to love ourselves first, in all our glory and our imperfections. If we cannot love ourselves, we cannot fully open to our ability to love others or our potential to create. Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: It's amazing how low you go to get high."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: You don't need anybody to tell you who you are or what you are. You are what you are!"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Happiness is just how you feel when you don't feel miserable."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: The more I see the less I know for sure."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: If everyone demanded peace instead of another television set, then there'd be peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: When you're drowning, you don't say 'I would be incredibly pleased if someone would have the foresight to notice me drowning and come and help me,' you just scream."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives. I think we're being run by maniacs for maniacal ends and I think I'm liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That's what's insane about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Reality leaves a lot to the imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: There's nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Laurel and Hardy. That's John and Yoko, and we stand a better chance under that guise, because all the serious people, like Martin Luther King, and Kennedy, and Gandhi, got shot."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: There are no problems, only solutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: My role in society, or any artist's or poet's role, is to try and express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel. Not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Everyone deserves to believe they are beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Life is very short, and there's no time for fussing and fighting my friends"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Love is the answer, and you know that for sure; \nLove is a flower, you've got to let it grow."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I don't believe in yesterday, by the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Everything is as important as everything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: A Conspiracy of silence speaks louder than words."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church..."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Everything they told me as a kid has already been disproved by the same type of \u201cexperts\u201d who made them up in the first place."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Before Elvis there was nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Yeah we all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: As I play the game of life, I try to make it better each and every day. And when I struggle in the night, The magic of the music seems to light the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: How can I go forward when I don't know which way I'm facing?"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Love means having to say you're sorry every fifteen minutes."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: What I'm trying to do is to influence all the people I can influence. All those who are still under the dream and just put a big question mark in their mind. The acid dream is over, that is what I'm trying to tell them."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Imagine there's no countries It isn't hard to do Nothing to kill or die for And no religion too Imagine all the people Living life in peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: If you want peace, you won't get it with violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Love is needing to be loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I wouldn't say I was a born writer; I'm a born thinker."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: The women are very important too, we can't have a revolution that doesn't involve and liberate women. It's so subtle the way you're taught male superiority."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Love is real, real is love, Love is feeling, feeling love, Love is wanting to be loved. Love is touch, touch is love, Love is reaching, reaching love, Love is asking to be loved. Love is you, You and me, Love is knowing, We can be. Love is free, free is love, Love is living, living love, Love is needing to be loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: There's nothing you can know that isn't known."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you, if you'll just rattle your jewelry."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: When I was about twelve I used to think I must be a genius, but nobody's noticed. If there is such a thing as a genius, I am one, and if there isn't I don't care."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I still believe in peace, love and understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Produce your own dream. If you want to save Peru, go save Peru. It\u2019s quite possible to do anything, but not if you put it on the leaders and the parking meters. Don\u2019t expect Carter or Reagan or John Lennon or Yoko Ono or Bob Dylan or Jesus Christ to come and do it for you. You have to do it yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Art is only a way of expressing pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Where do people get off saying the Beatles should give $200,000,000 to South America? You know, America has poured billions into places like that. It doesn't mean a damn thing. After they've eaten that meal, then what? It lasts for only a day. After the $200,000,000 is gone, then what? It goes round and round in circles. You can pour money in forever. After Peru, then Harlem, then Britain. There is no one concert. We would have to dedicate the rest of our lives to one world concert tour, and I'm not ready for it. Not in this lifetime, anyway."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I go to restaurants and the groups always play \"Yesterday.\" I even signed a guy's violin in Spain after he played us \"Yesterday.\" He couldn't understand that I didn't write the song. But I guess he couldn't have gone from table to table playing \"I Am The Walrus."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Remember to let her into your heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: One thing you can't hide - is when you're crippled inside."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Get back to where you once belonged."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I really thought that love would save us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: There's nothing you can do that can't be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I am he as you are he as you are me and we are all together."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I used to be cruel to my woman, and physically - any woman. I was a hitter. I couldn't express myself and I hit. I fought men and I hit women. That is why I am always on about peace, you see. It is the most violent people who go for love and peace. Everything's the opposite. But I sincerely believe in love and peace. I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence. I will have to be a lot older before I can face in public how I treated women as a youngster."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: God is a concept by which we measure our pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I believe in everything until it's disproved."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Keep you doped with religion and sex and TV"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I recently got into Haiku in Japan and I just think it's fantastic. Obviously, when you get rid of a whole section of illusion in your mind you're left with great precision."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I would like to say thank you on behalf of the group and ourselves and I hope we\u2019ve passed the audition."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Part of me suspects that I'm a loser, and the other part of me thinks I'm God Almighty."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: All of us growing up have come to terms with too much pain. Although we repress it, it's still there. The worst pain is that of not being wanted, of realising your parents do not need you in the way you need them."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: We're trying to sell peace, like a product, you know, and sell it like people sell soap or soft drinks. And it's the only way to get people aware that peace is possible, and it isn't just inevitable to have violence. Not just war - all forms of violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I was feeling insecure you might not love me anymore"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: There are a lot of people walking around with long hair now and some trendy middle class kids in pretty clothes. But nothing changed except that we all dressed up a bit, leaving the same bastards running everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Imagine no possessions; I wonder if you can."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: If you tried to give rock and roll another name, you might call it 'Chuck Berry'."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King are great examples of fantastic nonviolents who died violently. I can never work that out. We're pacifists, but I'm not sure what it means when you're such a pacifist that you get shot. I can never understand that."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: All you need is love."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: The thing the sixties did was to show us the possibilities and the responsibility that we all had. It wasn't the answer. It just gave us a glimpse of the possibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: All I want is the truth, just give me some truth"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I was different, I was always different. Why didn't anybody notice me?"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: When I started, rock and roll itself was the basic revolution to people of my age and situation. We needed something loud and clear to break through all the unfeeling and repression that had been coming down on us kids."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: It's just natural, it's not a great disaster. People keep talking about it like it's The End of The Earth. It's only a rock group that split up, it's nothing important. You know, you have all the old records there if you want to reminisce."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: My life with the Beatles had become a trap... I always remember to thank Jesus for the end of my touring days; if I hadn't said that the Beatles were 'bigger than Jesus' and upset the very Christian Ku Klux Klan, well, Lord, I might still be up there with all the other performing fleas! God bless America. Thank you, Jesus."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: The magic of the music seems to light the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I'm not claiming divinity. I've never claimed purity of soul. I've never claimed to have the answers to life. I only put out songs and answer questions as honestly as I can. But I still believe in peace, love and understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Half of what I say is meaningless, but I say it just to reach you."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: A working class hero is something to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I get by with a little help from my friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I am like a chameleon, influenced by whatever's going on. If Elvis can do it, I can do it. If the Everly Brothers can do it, me and Paul can. Same with Dylan."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Please don\u2019t spoil my day; I\u2019m miles away and, after all, I\u2019m only sleeping."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: When you wake up and your heart is going like the clappers or your back feels strained, or you develop some other hang-up, you should let your mind go to the pain and the pain itself will regurgitate the memory which originally caused you to suppress it in your body. In this way the pain goes to the right channel instead of being repressed again, as it is if you take a pill or a bath, saying 'Well, I'll get over it'. Most people channel their pain into God or masturbation or some dream of making it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: All kids draw and write poetry and everything, and some of us last until we're about eighteen, but most drop off at about twelve when some guy comes up and says, \"You're no good.\" That's all we get told all our lives. \"You haven't got the ability. You're a cobbler.\" It happened to all of us, but if somebody had told me all my life, \"Yeah, you're a great artist,\" I would have been a more secure person."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: There's nothing new under the sun. All the roads lead to Rome. And people cannot provide it for you. I can't wake you up. You can wake you up. I can't cure you. You can cure you."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: If people take any notice of what we say, we say we've been through the drug scene, man, and there's nothing like being straight."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Jesus was all right, but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Imagine all the people Sharing all the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: There's nothing you can do that can't be done, Nothing you can sing that can't be sung, Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game, It's easy...\nAll you need is love."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Somehow the revolutionaries must approach the workers because the workers won't approach them. But it's difficult to know where to start; we've all got a finger in the dam. The problem for me is that as I have become more real, I've grown away from most working-class people."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I think it's the best thing I've ever done. I think it's realistic, and it's true to the me that has been developing over the years. I like first-person music."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Christianity will go. It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue with that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - rock and roll or Christianity."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I suppose if I had said television was more popular than Jesus, I would have gotten away with it. I'm sorry I opened my mouth. I'm not anti-God, anti-Christ, or anti-religion. I wasn't knocking it or putting it down. I was just saying it as a fact and it's true more for England than here. I'm not saying that we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person or God as a thing or whatever it is. I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I don't mind people putting us down, because if everybody really liked us, it would be a bore. You've got to have people putting you down. It doesn't give any edge to it if everybody just falls flat on their face saying, \"You're great.\" We enjoy some of the criticisms as well, they're quite funny; some of the clever criticisms, not the ones that don't know anything, but some of the clever ones are quite fun."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: All the revolutions have happened when a Fidel or Marx or Lenin or whatever, who were intellectuals, were able to get through to the workers. They got a good pocket of people together and the workers seemed to understand that they were in a repressed state."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: We're all God. I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: A very Merry Christmas \r\nAnd a happy New Year \r\nLet's hope it's a good one \r\nWithout any fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to go through the whole bureaucracy to get into the recording studio. You were in such a humble position, you didn't have more than 12 hours to make a whole album, which is what we did in the early days."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: [LSD] went on for years. I must have had a thousand trips. I used to just eat it all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: We went to America a few times and [Brian] Epstein always tried to waffle on at us about saying nothing about Vietnam. So there came a time when George [Harrison] and I said 'Listen, when they ask next time, we're going to say we don't like that war and we think they should get right out.' That's what we did."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: One has to completely humiliate oneself to be what the Beatles were . . . . It happened bit by bit, until . . . you're doing exactly what you don't want to do with people you can't stand -- the people you hated when you were ten."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Whatever gets you through the night"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: These critics with the illusions they've created about artists - it's like idol worship. They only like people when they're on their way up... I cannot be on the way up again."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I was the walrus, but now I am John. And so my friends, you'll just have to carry on. The dream is over."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Why in the world are we here? Surely not to live in pain and fear. Why on earth are you there, when you're everywhere - come and get your share."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I hope someday you will join us and the world will live as one."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Control yourself. You'll spurt."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: One day at a time is all we do. One day at a time is good for you"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Elvis died the day he went into the army."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: When I get older losing my hair many years from now. Will you still be sending me a Valentine. Birthday greetings, bottle of wine? If I'd been out till quarter to three would you lock the door? Will you still need me, will you still feed me, When I'm sixty-four?"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: When I find myself in times of trouble \nMother Mary comes to me, \nspeaking words of wisdom \"Let it be\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I mean we [The Beatles] had to go through humiliation upon humiliation with the middle classes and showbiz and Lord Mayors and all that. They were so condescending and stupid. Everybody trying to use us. It was a special humiliation for me because I could never keep my mouth shut and I'd always have to be drunk or pilled to counteract this pressure. It was really hell ."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: He didn't come out of my belly, but my God, I've made his bones, because I've attended to every meal, and how he sleeps, and the fact that he swims like a fish because I took him to the ocean. I'm so proud of all those things. But he is my biggest pride."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: What Can I Tell You about Myself which You Have Not Already Found Out from Those Who Do Not Lie?"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Man, you should have seen them kicking Edgar Allan Poe."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Instant Karma's gonna get you, gonna knock you right on the head"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: How can I give love when I don't know what it is I'm giving?"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I had to really kill off all the religious myths. In the therapy you really feel every painful moment of your life - it's excruciating, you are forced to realise that your pain, the kind that makes you wake up afraid with your heart pounding, is really yours and not the result of somebody up in the sky. It's the result of your parents and your environment."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I could still be forgotten when I'm dead. I don't really care what happens when I'm dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Leave a space and something will fill it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Peace and love are eternal."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Nobody loves you when you're down and out."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I don't stand back and judge - I do."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: They hit you at school, they hate you if your clever, and they despise a fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Imagine all the people living life in peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: And So This Is Christmas; And What Have We Done? Another Year Over; A New One Just Begun; And So Happy Christmas; I Hope You Have Fun; The Near And The Dear Ones; The Old And The Young."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Nothing you can know that isn't known Nothing you can see that isn't shown Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be It's easy"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Women ...  I mean, they are the other half of the sky, and without them there is nothing. And without us there's nothing. There's only the two together creating children, creating society."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: God is a concept by which we measure our pain.\r\nI'll say it again.\r\nGod is a concept by which we measure our pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Imagine there's no heaven, it's easy if you try. No hell below us, above us only sky. Imagine all the people living for today..."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Love is real, real is love."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Imagine no possesions, I wonder if you can, No need for greed or hunger, A brotherhood of man. Imagine all the people Sharing all the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I want you to make love, not war, I know you've heard it before."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: All we are saying is give peace a chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Yoko [Ono] was well into liberation before I met her. She'd had to fight her way through a man's world - the art world is completely dominated by men - so she was full of revolutionary zeal when we met."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Going to America increased the build up on me, especially as the war was going on there. In a way we'd turned out to be a Trojan horse. The 'Fab Four' moved right to the top and then sang about drugs and sex and then I got into more and more heavy stuff and that's when they started dropping us."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: As someone from the working class I was always interested in Russia and China and everything that related to the working class, even though I was playing the capitalist game."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: In the two books I wrote, even though they were written in a sort of Joycean gobbledegook, there's many knocks at religion and there is a play about a worker and a capitalist. I've been satirising the system since my childhood. I used to write magazines in school and hand them around."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: We all been playing those mind games forever, Some kinda druid dudes lifting the veil, Doing the mind guerrilla, Some call it magic the search for the grail. Love is the answer and you know that for sure, Love is a flower you got to let it grow..."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I began to realise that we are all oppressed which is why I would like to do something about it, though I'm not sure where my place is."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I enjoyed it when football crowds in the early days would sing 'All together now' - that was another one. I was also pleased when the movement in America took up 'Give peace a chance' because I had written it with that in mind really."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: There was never any question about it: we [with Yoko Ono] had to have a 50-50 relationship or there was no relationship, I was quick to learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: When we got married, we knew our honeymoon was going to be public, anyway, so we decided to use it to make a statement. We sat in bed and talked to reporters for seven days. It was hilarious. In effect, we were doing a commercial for peace on the front page of the papers instead of a commercial for war."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I want to be with my best friend. My best friend, my wife. Who could ask for anything more?"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: When I was a child I experienced moments of not wanting to see the ugliness, not wanting to see not being wanted. This lack of love went into my eyes and into my mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: If you're an unknown artist you're lucky to get an hour in a studio - it's a hierarchy and if you don't have hits, you don't get recorded again."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: There are only a few notes. Just variations on a theme."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I'd always felt repressed. We were all so pressurised that there was hardly any chance of expressing ourselves, especially working at that rate, touring continually and always kept in a cocoon of myths and dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Everybody loves you when you're six foot in the ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Happiness is a warm gun."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: The Kingdom of Heaven is within you."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I don't believe in magic ... I don't believe in Jesus ... I don't believe in Buddha ... I don't believe in Elvis ... I don't believe in Beatles."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I'm not saying we're better or greater, or comparing us with Jesus Christ as a person, or God as a thing, or whatever it is. I just said what I said, and it was wrong, or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Imagine there's no heaven... it's easy if you try."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: As in a love affair, two creative people can destroy themselves trying to recapture that youthful spirit, at twenty-one or twenty-four, of creating without even being aware of how it's happening"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I've always been politically minded, you know, and against the status quo."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: If there hadn't been an Elvis, there wouldn't have been the Beatles."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Living is Easy with Eyes Closed."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I don't want to be king, I want to be real."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Nobody Told Me There'd Be Days Like These."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me, leave me where I am, I'm only sleeping."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil. We all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, and if you look hard enough you'll see it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I don't believe in Elvis \n I don't believe in Zimmerman \n I don't believe in Beatles \n I just believe in me."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I've always considered my work one piece and I consider that my work won't be finished until I am dead and buried and I hope that's a long, long time."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: My defenses were so great. The cocky rock and roll hero who knows all the answers was actually a terrified guy who didn't know how to cry. Simple."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: It's no good having, being with people you can dominate all the time. Or being with someone who can dominate you all the time. Because either one is boring."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Father, you left me, but I never left you."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: We thought being offered the M.B.E. [Member of the Order of the British Empire] was as funny as everybody else thought it was. Why? What for? We didn't believe it. It was a part we didn't want. We all met and agreed it was daft."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: People like me are aware of their so-called genius at ten, eight, nine."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Before many black singers were still labouring under that problem of God; it was often 'God will save us'. But right through the blacks were singing directly and immediately about their pain and also about sex, which is why I like it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Why should The Beatles give more? Didn't they give everything on God's earth for ten years? Didn't they give themselves?"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.\nIt's getting hard to be someone but it all works out.\nIt doesn't matter much to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I once had a girl, or should I say she once had me."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: You feel alone if you're the only one thinking 'wouldn't it be nice if there was peace and nobody was getting killed.' So advertise yourself that you're for peace if you believe in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I don't have any romanticism about any part of my past. I think of it only inasmuch as it gave me pleasure or helped me grow psychologically. That is the only thing that interests me about yesterday. I don't believe in yesterday, by the way. You know I don't believe in yesterday. I am only interested in what I am doing now."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: You say you want a revolution? Well, you know. We all want to change the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Everybody seems to think I'm lazy I don't mind, I think they're crazy. Running everywhere at such a speed Till they find there's no need."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I wasn't saying whatever they're saying I was saying. I'm sorry I said it really. I never meant it to be a lousy anti-religious thing. I apologize if that will make you happy. I still don't know quite what I've done. I've tried to tell you what I did do but if you want me to apologize, if that will make you happy, then OK, I'm sorry."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: If you want to get peace, you can get it as soon as you like if we all pull together. ... Think peace, live peace, and breathe peace and you'll get it as soon as you like."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I didn't come after Elvis and Dylan, I've been around always. But if I see or meet a great artist, I love 'em."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I'm really very embarrassed about my guitar playing, in one way, because it's very poor. I can never move but I can make a guitar speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I'm always proud and pleased when people do my songs. It gives me pleasure that they even attempt them, because a lot of my songs aren't that doable."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Music is everybody's possession. It's only publishers who think that people own it. If you were going to give Rock 'n' Roll another name you might as well call it Chuck Berry. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first - Rock and Roll or Christianity."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: If somebody gives me a joint, I might smoke it, but I don't go after it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Come together, right now."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: You can't give a child too much love and if you love somebody, you can't be with them enough. There's no such thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the wayThat's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We couldn't've come from anything-fish, maybe, but not monkeys. I don't believe in the evolution of fish to monkeys to men. Why aren't monkeys changing into men now? It's absolute garbage. It's absolutely irrational garbage, as mad as the ones who believe the world was made only four thousand years ago, the fundamentalists."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: It was very romantic. It's all in the song, The Ballad of John and Yoko. If you want to know how it happened, it's in there. Gibraltar was like a little sunny dream. I couldn't find a white suit -\u200b I had sort of off-white corduroy trousers and a white jacket. Yoko had all white on."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Music is everybody's possession."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he's no longer God... They'll turn on him, and I hope he survives it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Rituals are important."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I believe time wounds all heels."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Guilt for being rich, and guilt thinking that perhaps love and peace isn't enough and you have to go and get shot or something."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: When I was singing about 'All You Need Is Love' I was talking about something I hadn't experienced."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I don't believe in Beatles, I just believe in me."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: When Yoko [Ono] and I got married, we got terrible racialist letters - you know, warning me that she would slit my throat. Those mainly came from Army people living in Aldershot. Officers."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? \"No,\" I said, \"I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius.\" Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: How can you talk about power to the people unless you realise the people is both sexes."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Yoko [Ono] was showing me some of these Haiku in the original. The difference between them and Long fellow is immense. Instead of a long flowery poem the Haiku would say 'Yellow flower in white bowl on wooden table' which gives you the whole picture."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: It seems that all revolutions end up with a personality cult - even the Chinese seem to need a father-figure."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: We're playing those mind games together\nPushing the barriers, planting seeds\nPlaying the mind guerrilla."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Don't believe that jazz about there's nothing you can do, \"turn on and drop out, man\" - because you've got to turn on and drop in, or they're going to drop all over you."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: The world is still spinning and so are we and so are you. When the spinning stops - that'll be the time to worry. Not before."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first, rock 'n' roll or Christianity."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I've never met anybody who's had a flashback in my life and I took millions of trips in the Sixties, and I've never met anybody who had any problem. I've had bad trips, but I've had bad trips in real life. I've had a bad trip on a joint. I can get paranoid just sitting in a restaurant; I don't have to take anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget.... They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I just said what I said and it was wrong. Or it was taken wrong. And now it's all this."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Nothing is real."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort of five-year stretch or the seven-year itch or whatever these tension points are that seem to be organic, built in, like the tide coming in and going out. It's like every time the tide goes out you quit--you move your house or something."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: We're more popular than Jesus Christ now."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: And Paul hits this chord, and I turn to him and say, 'That's it! Do that again!' In those days we really used to absolutely write like that - both playing into each other's noses."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: No short-haired, yellow-bellied, son of tricky dicky Is gonna mother hubbard soft soap me With just a pocketful of soap."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: There's room at the top they are telling you still, but first you must learn how to smile as you kill."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I don't believe in Elvis."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: That's what the great masters and mistresses have been saying ever since time began. They can point the way, leave signposts and little instructions in various books that are now called holy and worshipped for the cover of the book and not for what it says, but the instructions are all there for all to see, have always been and always will be."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: No longer riding on the merry-go-round, I just had to let it go."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: When I cannot sing my heart, I can only speak my mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Mother, you had me, but I never had you."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I'm a moldy moldy man I'm moldy thru and thru I'm a moldy moldy man You would not think it true I'm moldy til my eyeballs I'm moldy til my toe I will not dance I shyballs I'm such a humble Joe."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Strawberry fields forever"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I had a lot of it in my day, but I don't like it. It's a dumb drug. Your whole concentration goes on getting the next fix. I find caffeine easier to deal with."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: There are two basic motivating forces: fear and love. When we are afraid, we pull back from life. When we are in love, we open to all that life has to offer with passion, excitement, and acceptance."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I am the eggman They are the eggmen! I am the walrus!"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: In England, there are only two things to be, basically: You are either for the labor movement or for the capitalist movement. Either you become a right-wing Archie Bunker if you are in the class I am in, or you become an instinctive socialist, which I was."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Sitting on a cornflake, Waiting for the van to come..."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: That's part of our policy, is not to be taken seriously because I think our opposition, whoever they may be in all their manifest forms, don't know how to handle humour."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I don't believe in Beatles."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: From this moment on I know exactly where my life will go: seems that all I really was doing was waiting for love."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Love is you, you and me. Love is knowing we can be."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: There is no problem only solutions"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: And, because my role in society - or any artist or poet's role - is to try to express what we all feel. Not to tell people how to feel, not as a preacher, not as a leader, but as a reflection of us all. And it's like that's the job of the artist in society, not to...they're not some alienated being living on the outskirts of town. It's fine to live on the outskirts of town, but artists must reflect what we all are. \u2026 If that's taken it too much on meself, I feel that artists are that - they're reflections of society... Mirrors."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Pools of sorrow. Waves of joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I don't believe in yesterday."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: It's better to fade away like an old soldier than to burn out. I don't appreciate worship of dead Sid Vicious or of dead James Dean or of dead John Wayne. It's the same thing. Making Sid Vicious a hero, Jim Morrison - it's garbage to me. I worship the people who survive. Gloria Swanson, Greta Garbo."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Money can't buy me love."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Lots of people who complained about us receiving the MBE received theirs for heroism in the war -for killing people. We received ours for entertaining other people. I'd say we deserve ours more."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: So long ago, was it in a dream, was it just a dream?"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Don't need a gun to blow your mind"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I just like TV. I think to me, it replaced the fireplace when I was a child. They took the fire away and they put a TV in instead and I got hooked on it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: You'd have to give people free rein to attack the local councils or to destroy the school authorities, like the students who break up the repression in the universities. It's already happening, though people have got to get together more."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Once the new power has taken over they have to establish a new status quo just to keep the factories and trains running."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: If we took over Britain, then we'd have the job of cleaning up the bourgeoisie and keeping people in a revolutionary state of mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: After The Beatles came on the scene everyone started putting on a Liverpudlian accent."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I thought I was painting in sound a picture of revolution - but I made a mistake, you know. The mistake was that it was anti-revolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: We'd also have to infiltrate the army too, because they are well trained to kill us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I didn't really know that much about the Maoists, but I just knew that they seemed to be so few and yet they painted themselves green and stood in front of the police waiting to get picked off."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I felt an obligation even then to write a song that people would sing in the pub or on a demonstration. That is why I would like to compose songs for the revolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: My father and mother split and I never saw my father until I was 20, nor did I see much more of my mother."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Like Paul Kraston said, all I ask in life is a water bed, a TV and a typewriter. Well, I'll just have an ordinary bed, a TV and a guitar."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I've always been politically minded and against the status quo. It's pretty basic when you're brought up, like I was, to hate and fear the police as a natural enemy and to despise the army as something that takes everybody away and leaves them dead somewhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: It's pretty hard when you are Caesar and everyone is saying how wonderful you are and they are giving you all the goodies and the girls, it's pretty hard to break out of that, to say 'Well, I don't want to be king, I want to be real.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: In Western-style Communism we would have to create an almost imaginary workers' image of themselves as the father-figure."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: We should be trying to reach the young workers because that's when you're most idealistic and have least fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I'd like to incite people to break the framework, to be disobedient in school, to stick their tongues out, to keep insulting authority."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: The second political thing I did was to say 'The Beatles are bigger than Jesus.' That really broke the scene, I nearly got shot in America for that. It was a big trauma for all the kids that were following us."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I thought the original Communist revolutionaries coordinated themselves a bit better and didn't go around shouting about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: 'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I think it's false, shallow, to be giving to others when your own need is great. The idea is not to comfort people, not to make them feel better but to make them feel worse, to constantly put before them the degradations and humiliations they go through to get what they call a living wage."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Now The Beatles are four separate people, we don't have the impact we had when we were together."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: That's the choice they allow you - now the outlet is being a pop star, which is really what I'm saying on the album in 'Working class hero'. As I told Rolling Stone, it's the same people who have the power, the class system didn't change one little bit."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I've been reading [Nikita] Khrushchev Remembers. I know he's a bit of a lad himself - but he seemed to think that making a religion out of an individual was bad; that doesn't seem to be part of the basic Communist idea. Still people are people, that's the difficulty."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I always read the papers, the political bits."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I keep on reading the Morning Star newspaper to see if there's any hope, but it seems to be in the 19th century; it seems to be written for dropped-out, middle-aged liberals."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: It took me quite a long time to realise that my maleness was cutting off certain areas for Yoko [Ono]. She's a red hot liberationistand was quick to show me where I was going wrong, even though it seemed to me that I was just acting naturally. That's why I'm always interested to know how people who claim to be radical treat women."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Of course it's difficult to know what the workers are really thinking because the capitalist press always only quotes mouthpieces like Vic Feather anyway."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: After the revolution you have the problem of keeping things going, of sorting out all the different views. It's quite natural that revolutionaries should have different solutions, that they should split into different groups and then reform, that's the dialectic, isn't it - but at the same time they need to be united against the enemy, to solidify a new order."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: The more reality we face, the more we realise that unreality is the main programme of the day. The more real we become, the more abuse we take, so it does radicalise us in a way, like being put in a corner. But it would be better if there were more of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Some people say it's a when you get older fans the kids don't like you. It's true."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I found I was having continually to please the sort of people I'd always hated when I was a child. This began to bring me back to reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Most of the songs came from Europe and Africa and now they were coming back to us. Many of [Bob] Dylan's best songs came from Scotland, Ireland or England. It was a sort of cultural exchange."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: There were very few real folk singers you know, though I liked Dominic Behan a bit and there was some good stuff to be heard in Liverpool. Just occasionally you hear very old records on the radio or TV of real workers in Ireland or somewhere singing these songs and the power of them is fantastic."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: Today's folk song is rock and roll. Although it happened to emanate from America, that's not really important in the end because we wrote our own music and that changed everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'"
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: The first thing we did was to proclaim our Liverpoolness to the world, and say 'It's all right to come from Liverpool and talk like this'. Before, anybody from Liverpool who made it, like Ted Ray, Tommy Handley, Arthur Askey, had to lose their accent to get on the BBC."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: To begin with, working class people reacted against our openness about sex. They are frightened of nudity, they're repressed in that way as well as others. Perhaps they thought 'Paul [McCartney] is a good lad, he doesn't make trouble'."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: It seems to me that the students are now half-awake enough to try and wake up their brother workers. If you don't pass on your own awareness then it closes down again."
  },
  {
    "text": "John Lennon: I think middle-class people have the biggest trauma if they have nice imagey parents, all smiling and dolled up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: You have to be what you are. Whatever you are, you gotta be it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I love the freedoms we got in this country, I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Life is the question and life is the answer, and God is the reason and love is the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I learn from my mistakes.  It\u2019s a very painful way to learn, but without pain, the old saying is, there\u2019s no gain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Success is having to worry about every damn thing in the world, except money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: The more I learn, the more excited I get."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: As sure as God made black and white, what's done in the dark will be brought to the light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: No matter how much you've sinned, no matter how much you've stumbled, no matter how much you fall, no matter how far you've got from God, don't give up. You can still be redeemed. As someone says, keep the faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Until things are brighter.. I'm the man in black."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I found out that there\r\nweren't too many limitations,\r\nif I did it my way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: We'll all be equal under the grass, and God's got a heaven for country trash."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: The ones that you're calling wild are going to be the leaders in a little while."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: You can ask the people around me. I don't give up. I don't give up. I don't give - and it's not out of frustration and desperation that I say I don't give up. I don't give up because I don't give up. I don't believe in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: A person knows when it just seems to feel right to them. Listen to your heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin' in the hopeless, hungry side of town, I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime, But is there because he's a victim of the times. I wear the black for those who never read"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: How well I have learned that there is no fence to sit on between heaven and hell. There is a deep, wide gulf, a chasm, and in that chasm is no place for any man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: The beast in me Is caged by frail and fragile bars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: You miss a lot of opportunities by making mistakes, but that's part of it: knowing that you're not shut out forever, and that there's a goal you still can reach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I keep a close watch on this heart of mine I keep my eyes wide open all the time I keep the ends out for the tie that binds Because you're mine, I walk the line."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Loneliness is emptiness, but happiness is you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: You're so heavenly minded, you're no earthly good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I don't like it, but I guess things happen that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Get rhythm when you get the blues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: For you I know I'd even try to turn the tide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Jesus will not fail me, I shall not be moved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: If you're going to be a Christian, you're going to change. You're going to lose some old friends, not because you want to, but because you need to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: People call me wild. Not really though, I'm not.I guess I've never been normal, not what you call Establishment. I'm country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Take one fresh and tender kiss \n Add one stolen night of bliss \n One girl, one boy, some grief, \n some joy Memories are made of this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: The gospel of Christ must always be an open door with a welcome sign for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Inside the walls of a prison my body may be, but my Lord has set my soul free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Six foot six he stood on the ground He weighed two hundred and thirty-five pounds But I saw that giant of a man brought down To his knees by love"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Oh, I'd love to wear a rainbow everyday, \nAnd tell the world that everything's okay, \nBut I'll try to carry off a little darkness on my back, \nTill things are brighter, I'm the Man in Black."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: When I'm gone I'll be remembered as the workin' man who put his point across with a right hand full of knuckles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Life is - the way God has given it to me was just a platter - a golden platter of life laid out there for me. It's been beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: People ask me who is my favorite country artist. I say, you mean besides George Jones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I keep my eyes wide open all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I just hope and pray I can die with my boots on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Gospel music was the thing that inspired me as a child growing up on a cotton farm, where work was drudgery and it was so hard that when I was in the field I sang all the time. Usually gospel songs because they lifted me up above that black dirt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I'm not bitter. Why should I be bitter? I'm thrilled to death with life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Rick Rubin said, well, I don't know that we will sell records. He said, I would like you to go with me and sit in my living room with a guitar and two microphones and just sing to your heart's content everything you ever wanted to record. I said, that sounds good to me. So I did that. And day after day, three weeks, I sang for him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: If you have political convictions... keep 'em to yourself"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: When I was arrested I was dressed in black"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: When I was 17 - 16, my father and I cut wood all day long and I was swinging that crosscut saw and hauling wood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Don't take voice lessons. Do it your way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I'm thrilled to death with life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I had a song called \"Folsom Prison Blues\" that was a hit just before \"I Walk The Line.\" And the people in Texas heard about it at the state prison and got to writing me letters asking me to come down there. So I responded and then the warden called me and asked if I would come down and do a show for the prisoners in Texas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God's holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I read novels but I also read the Bible. And study it, you know? And the more I learn, the more excited I get."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I came to believe in a power much higher than I"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Because you're mine, I walk the line."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down, Livin\u2019 in the hopeless, hungry side of town."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I knew that when I left there at the age of 18, I wouldn't be back. And it was common knowledge among all the people there that when you graduate from high school here, you go to college or go get a job or something and do it on your own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I am not a Christian artist, I am an artist who is a Christian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Help me, Jesus. I know what I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I've always explored various areas of society. And I love the young people. And I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I start a lot more songs than I finish, because I realize when I get into them, they're no good. I don't throw them away, I just put them away, store them, get them out of sight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Some gal would giggle and I'd get red, and some guy'd laugh and I'd bust his head. I tell ya, life ain't easy for a boy named Sue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Why me, Lord? What have I ever done to deserve even one of the blessings I've known? Why me, Lord? What did I ever do that was worth love from you and the kindness you've shown? Lord, help me, Jesus, I've wasted it so. Help me, Jesus. I know what I am. Now that I know that I've needed you so, help me, Jesus. My soul's in your hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: If I'm anything, I'm not a singer but I'm a song stylist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: You've got a song you're singing from your gut, you want that audience to feel it in their gut. And you've got to make them think that you're one of them sitting out there with them too. They've got to be able to relate to what you're doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: That was American Recordings. I said, I like the name, maybe it'd be OK. So I said, I'd like to meet the guy [Rick Rubin ].I'd like for him to tell me what he can do with me that they're not doing now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Every week, Dennis Day sang an old Irish folk song. And next day in the fields, I'd be singing that song if I was working in the fields."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: It's like a novelist writing far out things. If it makes a point and makes sense, then people like to read that. But if it's off in left field and goes over the edge, you lose it. The same with musical talent, I think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Gospel music is so ingrained into my bones. I can't do a concert without singing a gospel song. It's what I was raised on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Convicts are the best audience I ever played for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: My daddy left home when I was three and he didn't leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: We went down [Folsom Prison] and there's a rodeo at all these shows that the prisoners have there. And in between the rodeo things, they asked me to set up and do two or three songs. So that was what I did. I did \"Folsom Prison Blues,\" which they thought was their song - you know? - and \"I Walk The Line,\" \"Hey Porter,\" \"Cry, Cry, Cry.\" And then the word got around on the grapevine that Johnny Cash is all right and that you ought to see him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I kept talking to my producers at Columbia about recording one of those [prison] shows. So we went into Folsom on February 11, 1968, and recorded a show live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I got really excited about it. But then we went into the studio and tried to record some with different musicians, and it didn't sound good. It didn't work. So we put together the album [Unchained] with just a guitar and myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: [Sam Phillips] laughed at me. I just didn't like the way I Walk The Line sounded to me. I didn't know I sounded that way. And I didn't like it. I don't know. But he said let's give it a chance, and it was just a few days until - that's all it took to take off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: So we raise her up every morning, we take her down every night, we don't let her touch the ground and we fold her up right. On second thought, I do like to brag 'cause I'm mighty proud of the Ragged Old Flag."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: San Quentin, may you rot and burn in hell. May your walls fall and may I live to tell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don't ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I always loved those songs. And with my high tenor, I thought I was pretty good - you know? - almost as good as Dennis Day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Of emotions, of love, of breakup, of love and hate and death and dying, mama, apple pie, and the whole thing. It covers a lot of territory, country music does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: The first time I knew what I wanted to do with my life was when I was about four years old. I was listening to an old Victrola, playing a railroad song...I thought that was the most wonderful, amazing thing...That you could take this piece of wax and music would come out of that box. From that day on, I wanted to sing on the radio."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: [My father] did every kind of work imaginable from painting to shoveling to herding cattle. And he's always been such an inspiration to me because of the very kinds of things that he did and the kind of life he lived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: When I get an idea for a song it would gel in my mind for weeks or months, and then one day just like that, Ill write it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Now that I know that I've needed you so, help me, Jesus. My soul's in your hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: One day, I just decided I'm ready to go. So I went down with my guitar and sat on the front steps of Sam Phillips recording studio."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Of travel I've had my share, man, I've been everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: He went up to heaven, located his dog. Not only that, but he rejoined his arm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I wear the black for those who never read."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good idea for a song. And I sang him the first verse that I had written, and I said it's called \"Because You're Mine.\" And he said, \"I Walk The Line\" is a better title, so I changed it to \"I Walk The Line.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: There's a man going 'round taking names / And he decides who to free and who to blame / Everybody won't be treated all the same / There'll be a golden ladder reaching down / When the Man comes around."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I wear black for those who never read or listen to the words that Jesus said, about the road to happiness, through love and charity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I love the young people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I sang those old gospel songs for my mother, and she said, is that you? And I said, yes, ma'am. And she came over and put her arms around me and said, God's got his hands on you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I worked there [on Pontiac] three weeks, got really sick of it, went back home and joined the Air Force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I had an empathy for prisoners and did concerts for them back when I thought that it would make a difference - you know? - that they really were there to be rehabilitated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I developed a pretty unusual style, I think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: My contract with mercury PolyGram Nashville was about to expire. And I never had really been happy. The company, the record company, just didn't put any promotion behind me. I think one album, maybe the last one I did, they pressed 500 copies. And I was just disgusted with it. And about that time that I got to feeling that way, Lou Robin, my manager, came to me and talked to me about a man called Rick Rubin that he had been talking to that wanted me to sign with his record company."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: It was kind of a prodding myself to play I Walk The Line straight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Sam Phillips asked me to go write a love song, or maybe a bitter weeper. So I wrote a song called, \"Cry Cry Cry,\" went back in and recorded that for the other side of the record."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: My mother always told me that any talent is a gift of God and I always believed it. If I quit, I would just live in front of the television and get fat and die pretty soon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: When I finally stopped [singing], he had been saying, like, the last day or so, he'd been saying, now, I think we should put this one in the album. So without him saying I want to record you and release an album, he kept - he started saying, let's put this one in the album. So the album, this big question, you know, began to take form, take shape. And Rick [Rubin] and I would weed out the songs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I did [picking cotton] from - until I was 18 years old, that is. Then I picked the guitar, and I've been picking it since."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I Walk The Line was my third record."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Understand your man, meditate on it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I'm so uncomfortable wearing colors in public. I really am. Even denim. If I've got a day off in a town, I want to go out for a walk I'll put on denim. But almost everything I've got the black on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I haven't been familiar with hard work. It was no problem for me. But first I hitchhiked to Pontiac, Mich. and got a job working in Fisher Body making those 1951 Pontiacs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: When I hear that whistle blowing, I hang my head and cry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: My father was a cotton farmer first and - but he didn't have any land or what land he had, he lost it in the Depression. So he worked as a woodman and cut pulpwood for the paper mills, rode the rails in boxcars going from one harvest to another to try to make a little money picking fruit or vegetables."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: He drank his first strong liquor then to calm his shaking hand, and tried to tell himself at last he had become a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: What I said, what are you [Rick Rubin] going to do with me that nobody else has been able to do to sell records with me?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I met Sam Phillips when he came in [studio] and I said, I'm John Cash. I'm the one who's been calling. And if you'd listen to me, I believe you'll be glad you did. And he said, come on in. That was a good lesson for me, you know, to believe in myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Rick Rubin came to my concert in Orange County, Calif. I believe this was, like, '83 when he first came and listened to the show. And then afterwards, I went in the dressing room and sat and talked to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: My mother was determined that I was going to leave the farm and do well in life. And she thought with the gift, I might be able to do that. So she took in washing. She got a washing machine in 1942 as soon as we got electricity and she took in washing. She washed the schoolteacher's clothes and anybody she could and sent me for singing lessons for $3 per lesson."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: In the Air Force, I had an old Wilcox Gay recorder, and I used to hear guitar runs on that recorder going (vocalizing) like the chords on \"I Walk The Line.\" And I always wanted to write a love song using that theme, that tune."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: The requests started coming in from other prisoners all over the United States. And then the word got around. So I always wanted to record that, you know, to record a show because of the reaction I got. It was far and above anything I had ever had in my life, the complete explosion of noise and reaction that they gave me with every song. So then I came back the next year and played the prison again, the New Year's Day show, came back again a third year and did the show."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: We [with Rick Rubin] would focus on the ones that we did like, that felt right and sounded right. And if I didn't like the performance on that song, I would keep trying it and do take after take until it felt comfortable with me and felt that it was coming out of me and my guitar and my voice as one, that it was right for my soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I've always explored various areas of society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Rick Rubin had his hair - I don't think it's ever been cut and very - dresses like a hobo, usually - clean but . Was the kind of guy I really felt comfortable with, actually. I think I was more comfortable with him than I would have been with a producer with a suit on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I've got no deep voice today. I've got a cold. But when I was young, I had a high tenor voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Sam Phillips responded most to a song of mine called, \"Hey Porter,\" which was on the first record."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I say I'm not a singer, so that means I can't sing. But - doesn't it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: Sam [Phillips] wanted I Walk The Line up - you know, up-tempo. And I put paper in the strings of my guitar to get that (vocalizing) sound, and with the bass and the lead guitar, there it was. Bare and stark, that song was when it was released. And I heard it on the radio and I really didn't like it, and I called Sam Phillips and asked him please not to send out any more records of that song."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: It just took the right time. I was fully confident that I was going to see Sam Phillips and to record for him that when I called him, I thought, I'm going to get on Sun Records. So I called him and he turned me down flat. Then two weeks later, I got turned down again. He told me over the phone that he couldn't sell gospel music so - as it was independent, not a lot of money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I used to sing Bill Monroe songs. And I'd sing Dennis Day songs like songs that he sang on the Jack Benny show."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: A song stylist is, like, to take an old folk song like \"Delia's Gone\" and do a modern white man's version of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I would take songs that I'd loved as a child and redo them in my mind for the new voice I had, the low voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: [My mother] made the money to send me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I think in my world of religion, you're called to preach or you don't preach. Called by God to preach. I never been ordained by God to preach the gospel. I have a calling, it's called to perform and sing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I've been flushed from the bathroom of your heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johnny Cash: I admit I'm a fool for you, because your mine, I walk the line."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: If you have a dream you gotta go on a journey to fulfill that dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Acceptance is the key to be truly free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I think you can have it all, you just have to work really hard because great things don't come easily."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: After a hurricane, comes a rainbow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I have a confidence because my research shows that I should just really trust my instincts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Find out what your gift is and nurture it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I don't need the Prince Charming to have my own happy ending."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn't the case. Even though they don't necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That's always been their perspective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I am not a feminist, but I do believe in the strength of women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Maybe a reason why all the doors are closed\nSo you can open one that leads you to the perfect road."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I went from zero to my own hero"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I'm like a fatter version of Amy Winehouse and a skinnier version of Lily Allen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: It can be the most difficult thing to do, but love conquers fear and love conquers hate and this love that you choose will give you strength and it's our greatest power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: You know you're living right when you wake up, brush your hair - and confetti falls out!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Baby you're a firework, come on, let your colors burst!!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: A lot of the time people don't even know what they want until they see something new."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Sometimes if you want to achieve something great, there will be curveballs. You just have to dodge them every once in a while."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: So take a chance and don't ever look back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I think when you put sex and spirituality in the same bottle and shake it up, bad things happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I love what I do, and when I don't love what I do, I'll make a change...I can't be the candy queen forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: People talk about bullying, but you can be your own bully in some ways. You can be the person who is standing in the way of your success, and that was the case for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: You can get through it and you can land on your feet triumphantly and strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I believe that I will be loved again, in the right way. I know I'm worth it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Comparisons are easily done, once you've had a taste of perfection"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Now I\u2019m floating like a butterfly \n Stinging like a bee I earned my stripes \n I went from zero, to my own hero"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Cause I am a champion, and you're gonna hear me roar"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I've just always been very aware and careful of everything, so that I can be ready for the perfect opportunities as they come. I don't take anything for granted or wait for anything to come to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I remember really vividly kneeling by my bed as a nine-year-old, saying my prayers and asking God to give me boobs that were so big that if I laid on my back I wouldn't be able to see my feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I like to go out there looking like a strong woman, because I am strong. But I am also a woman who goes through all kinds of problems and highs and lows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I feel like my secret magic trick that separates me from a lot of my peers is the bravery to be vulnerable and truthful and honest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I don't have a Kate Moss body, but I'm very proud and happy with mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: The past is like a handful of dust. It filters through your fingers, disappearing little by little. I wish, for one day, I could go back. In another life I would do things differently."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I don't care what people say about my relationship; I don't care what they say about my boobs. People are buying my songs; I have a sold-out tour. I'm getting incredible feedback from my music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I'm okay with having bad dance moves. I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth. That's what makes me me, and for some reason it's worked out all right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I was like, I don't know if I can hold that promise [to wait until marriage to have sex] because this guy at camp is really cute. Sex wasn't talked about in my home, but I was a very curious young girl."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: People don't want just vanilla. They want 31 flavors. I couldn't do what Rihanna does. I couldn't do what Gaga does. They can't do what I do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: There are a lot of things that are personally uncomfortable to show, especially me without makeup and completely bloated or crying. But I\u2019ve realized that it\u2019s time for me to show my audience that you don\u2019t have to be perfect to achieve your dreams. Because nobody relates to being perfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I feel really blessed because of where I come from."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I will love you unconditionally ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I'm really happy to be on the cover as a strong female who has created her own career."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Now it's clear to me/ that everything you see/ ain't always what it seems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: A lot of people do things out of fear. A lot of people make choices, based on thinking, they won\u2019t have a career in five years. I know where I am, I know what I do is worth something and does not have an expiration date on it. I\u2019m not making choices \u2014 in any capacity of my life, with any kind of endorsement, with any kind of product \u2014 out of fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: NEW YORK! I [love] U! You're OFFICIALLY the coolest place on the planet!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: You don't have to feel like a waste of space, your original can not be replaced"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Beautiful mind, tortured soul. I do have to figure out why I am attracted to these broken birds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I did a lot of thrift and vintage. I would mix those pieces into some of the more inexpensive items from Express, Gap, Old Navy, and Clothestime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I was, like, just eating Flamin' Hot Cheetos and drinking, and that's it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Using blasphemy as entertainment is as cheap as a comedian telling a fart joke."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I came from a different mind-set growing up, and my mind has changed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: You dig deep beyond those scars and find that soft tissue again, and you massage and nurture it and bring it to life, little by little, through serving yourself well. I did it through hikes and vitamins and therapy and prayer and good friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Unfortunately, I think a lot of people are affected more by the idea of fame than the actual work ethic involved. A lot of them just want to be reality TV-type people who don't do anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I never live in the present. I'd do interviews and people will say, \"Isn't this great?\" or \"Can you believe?\" And I would react, like, \"No, I can't believe it because I'm not living in this moment.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Everyone related to me in my circle was from church: church friends, church school, church activities. All my friends weren't allowed to watch MTV or go to PG-13 movies or listen to the radio, so I didn't really know anything different. That's how I was raised."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: You have to spend a lot to make a lot. It's not like I'm sitting on top of a pile of money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: How do I get better once I've had the best?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I\u2019m not Buddhist, I\u2019m not Hindu, I\u2019m not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I see everything through a spiritual lens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Maybe I'm competitive. I just feel like I have this gift that I've been given. It's like, \"Someone unwrap it! Here it is!\" That drive can't be held down. I have a lot of ambition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Cause in you're eyes, I'd like to stay"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I had this lump in my throat, but I couldn't even cry. I thought, I shouldn't have gotten my hopes up. I was just sitting there in my car that I was two months behind on payments for, knowing I didn't have money for rent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I grew up not really having anything, so the idea that I can take care of my family and my friends now is a really cool bonus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: For a modern woman it is important to be supported and that there is equality in every aspect, and that it's not two halves that make a whole - it's two wholes that make a whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I think that you should definitely listen to what people say, because everyone says it: High school is not the real world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I had two cars repossessed, tons of debt. I had a horrible job that was damaging to my soul. After being on three different labels and knowing everyone and hearing yeses and nos and \"You're it!\" or \"You're s - t!\" I was depressed. But I never took no for an answer and really believed in myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I don't want to completely self-sabotage everything that I've got and alienate everyone. But I definitely want to take some chances as I always have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I was not even allowed to mention the name Madonna in my household - just because I think the '80s and '90s were so Madonna-filled. She was going through so many evolutions at that time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I'm not defined by where I came from. I never took part in the rules and hatred that sometimes go along with religion. But if my parents are happy with what they believe, then I'm happy to stay out of their way. We agree to disagree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: My career is like an artichoke. People might think that the leaves are tasty and buttered up and delicious, and they don't even know that there's something magical hidden at the base of it. There's a whole other side of me that people didn't know existed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: My style icons were Gwen Stefani, when she was in No Doubt, and then Shirley Manson in Garbage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I think you become more relatable when you're vulnerable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I called record Prism because I actually finally let the light in and then I was able to create all these songs that were inspired by letting the Light in and doing some self-reflection and just kind of working on myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: All this money can't buy me a time machine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I have a soft spot for women, I'm not afraid of it, some women walk into the room, and they're so beautiful and you're like, 'I wanna  smell you' you know?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I had no clue they would fall into my armpits eventually."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: All women are created equal, then some become \u041carines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I'm up to my hairline in planning. It's a lot, especially when you're a woman of detail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I was raised in a super-sheltered atmosphere where we didn't watch anything besides Trinity Broadcasting Network - which was called TBN - or the Fox News channel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Like my freedom. If I feel like I'm being controlled, I get crazy. Because I know I made it this far by following my intuition. I think people like who I am, and I like who I am, and I want to be a better version of myself every single day. So stop controlling me!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: What I wanted to be and who I am is a singer and a songwriter. I wanted to be onstage, and I wanted the world to hear my music. The product of that is fame and the disgusting celebrity that goes along with it. But celebrity does not equal creativity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I just feel like I'm going to be criticized regardless of what I do next, so I might as well do something that I feel really passionate about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: My job is for the people. It's for the public. It's for their consumption. So I've done a lot in that way, and I see that the hard work has finally paid off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: If you like my music, great, and if you don't, whatever. I'm going to keep making it either way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I can't just be the girl who sang 'I Kissed a Girl.' I have to leave a legacy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: When I was meeting people in L.A., guys always thought if they paid for dinner, they deserved a blow job. But generally, I'll say this - and I'll say it proudly - I can't sleep with someone if I don't have a connection with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I believe in a lot of astrology. I believe in aliens. I look up into the stars and I imagine: How self-important are we to think that we are the only life-form?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I'm not defined by where I came from."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: You said move on, where do I go?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I just want to make it very clear that I come from very humble beginnings, and I worked for everything!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I have multipersonality disorder - in a very good way, of course - when it comes to my fashion choices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I think Rihanna always looks so fresh and I'm like, \"How do you do that? We all know how much pot you smoke!\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Last Friday night; Yeah we danced on tabletops. And we took too many shots. Think we kissed, but I forgot?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I was never really attached to a clique, and I wanted to be in all the different groups; I was never a one-group kind of person. I think that's still part of my personality today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I don't feel like I'm very pop-star lame, but I'm definitely not hipster-cool."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I can't rate myself, but if you ask Russell I'm sure he'd give me a ten out of ten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Kids are so smart these days. They sense when there's a phony bologna out there. Especially in music, when they see something that's being marketed to them, they'll call it out. They'll be like, \"This chick is bullshit.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: No regrets, just love. We can dance until we die. You and I, we'll be young forever!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I have a soft spot for musicians. If a man could ride this roller coaster with me and come out alive, then I guess we'd deserve each other's company."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I'm not Buddhist, I'm not Hindu, I'm not Christian, but I still feel like I have a deep connection with God. I pray all the time \u2014 for self-control, for humility. There's a lot of gratitude in it. Just saying 'thank you' sometimes is better than asking for things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: The records are black boxes for me. Like, if you want to know who I am, my views, my perspective, things I love, things I hate, my convictions, my anthems. I've never let people's opinions affect the way I write."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I'm a woman who likes to be courted - strongly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I'm still driving along on the pop freeway of life. Thinking even further into the future, I definitely want to make an acoustic record. I want to try lots of different things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I can't be the candy queen forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Cause when I'm with him I am thinking of you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: If people want a role model, they can have Miley Cyrus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I am so grateful for all the love and support I've had from people around the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: When I first started out, I was really attracted to having my own sense of style because I started swing dancing, lindy hop, and jitterbug."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I'm a woman who likes to be courted, strongly. Never say never, I guess you'd say. I'll let love take the lead on that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: My parents are very quirky, eccentric. They have their own world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: My singing is really important to me, but when children come along they'll be my main focus. I'd never put my career in front of my babies - it'd be a case of fitting jobs around them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Even if you actually have the good intent to do something creative or special with your life, it's hard. I mean, look at the number of people who actually get the opportunity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Honesty has always worked for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I come from a very non-accepting family, but I'm very accepting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I never want to be just one thing - I want to be multidimensional."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: You look at someone like Beyonc\u00e9 singing Single Ladies, when we all know she's married. Some of it is just for entertainment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I'd never devote a whole record to heartbreak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I really love going to shows where I'm sandwiched between people, and you don't know if the sweat on you is yours or the person's next to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I'll continue to try and balance like a circus act. And I will just fight to always tell the truth. Even if it's difficult."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I still have a spiritual base and a spiritual foundation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I still want to make a pop record. I want to make a more sonically current pop record. I maybe want to make people move a little bit more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I'm every woman. It takes a village to make me who I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I'm okay with having horrible lower teeth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I think some people will die on the stage, and I'm not so sure I want to do that. Like, I want to have kids! I'm totally fine with saying that. I think some people are scared because they're worried it's going to ruin their career, but I want to live a full life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I still want to be as approachable and relatable as possible - when I meet fans and they're crying, I'll say, 'Calm down, there's nothing to cry about.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Do you ever feel like a plastic bag, drifting throught the wind, wanting to start again. Do you ever feel, feel so paper thin, like a house of cards, one blow from caving in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I'd go to the farmers' market in Santa Barbara, and I'd put out my guitar case, and I'd test out these little ditty songs that I would write, and I would get a couple of avocados, a bag of pistachios, and, like, fifteen bucks. That was a lot of money for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: You think I'm pretty\nWithout any make-up on\nYou think I'm funny\nWhen I tell the punch line wrong\nI know you get me\nSo I'll let my walls come down, down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: One thing I can't do, and I hope that there are other people out there that feel the same way, is climb a rope. Oh my gosh, it's so hard to climb rope! It's all about grip and arms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: The media tried to destroy my parents and has taken things completely out of context, but there's not a whole lot you can do in terms of fighting back. You have to hope that it passes, which it always does. But they have to be careful. They didn't necessarily sign up for this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I saw a spider, I didn't scream 'Cause I can belch the alphabet Just double dog dare me And I chose guitar over ballet\nAnd I tape these suckers down 'Cause they just get in my way The way you look at me Is kind of like a little sister\nYou high five your goodbyes And it leaves me nothing but blisters So I don't want to be one of the boys."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: You could travel the world, but nothing comes close to the golden coast. Once you party with us, you'll be falling in love, Oooooh Oh Oooooh!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I've actually always wanted to make something like an acoustic record."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: There are times I go out and meet people and flirt, but it's not really appropriate to have anything serious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: Speaking in tongues is as normal to me as 'Pass the salt' It's a secret, direct prayer language to God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I have a lot of ambition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I still believe in love, most definitely. I'm just going to let that take the lead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I wish that I was looking into your eyes"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: You change your mind Like a girl changes clothes"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I'm not coming out trying to prove anything to anyone, like, 'Oh, I'm in assless chaps!' or 'I can't be tamed!' I've already been through that phase. I started at 23, you know?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I got a fantastic person to work me out and get me into really good shape."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I grew up listening to gospel. That was the only thing that I had reference to because that was what my family was involved with."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I just have so much love for my record label."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I wasn't allowed to listen to a lot of music growing up. It wasn't until I started to make my gospel record when I was around 14 or 15 that I started to be exposed to more outside influences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: People tried to do a lot of stuff with me early in my career where they tried to shape me into one thing or another. They couldn't just take the chance and go with my vision - which was just my intuition, really."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I'd like to say I'd like to be as big as a Gwen or a Madonna, but I think those days of achieving that level are over. The media is bringing everybody down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I was being musically mentored by a lot of people who were obviously more talented and skilled than I was, and I thought that I would just kind of learn the ropes of songwriting there - like how to do acoustic, country-esque songs, which I like because there's so much story in them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: When I love somebody, I love somebody. Like, I want to marry them. I don't date around. I haven't been on a date."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I'm an emotional person. I love music that moves me and makes the hair on my arms stand up. And I want the same thing in relationships. Either you can keep up or you can't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Katy Perry: I need a man who tells me the party's over, that it's time to go home, because [we] have to work in the morning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Don't you ever let a soul in the world tell you that you can't be exactly who you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Fight and push harder for what you believe in, you'd be surprised, you are much stronger than you think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I am my own sanctuary and I can be reborn as many times as I choose throughout my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: If you were to ask me what I want to do - I don't want to be a celebrity, I want to make a difference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: They can't scare me, if I scare them first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: You will never find what you are looking for in love, if you don't love yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: It's always wrong to hate, but it's never wrong to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: It doesn't matter who you are, or where you come from, or how much money you've got in your pocket. You have your own destiny and your own life ahead of you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Never be afraid to dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I am a feminist. I reject wholeheartedly the way we are taught to perceive women. The beauty of women, how a woman should act or behave. Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft-spoken and loud, all at once. There is something mind-controlling about the way we're taught to view women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: My new year's resolution: Never be afraid to be kicked in the teeth. Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Money can run out but talent is forever"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Music changed my life. I don't know who I would be without it. Don't ignore even the smallest glimmer of passion in your soul, run towards it with everything you have. It could change your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you're wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn't love you anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: To everyone who says this is wrong to feel like this say, 'I was born this way baby."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Acceptance, tolerance, bravery, compassion. These are the things my mom taught me!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: And now, I'm just trying to change the world, one sequin at a time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Don't be a drag. Just be a queen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Let the blood and the bruises define your legacy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: If you're a strong female, you don't need permission."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I adored Freddie Mercury and Queen had a hit called Radio Gaga. That's why I love the name. Freddie was unique - one of the biggest personalities in the whole of pop music. He was not only a singer but also a fantastic performer, a man of the theatre and someone who constantly transformed himself. In short: a genius."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Rejoice and love yourself today\r\n'Cause baby, you were born this way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I don't know that my schooling was conducive to wild ideas and creativity, but it gave me discipline, drive. They taught me how to think. I really know how to think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'm obsessively opposed to the typical."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Be brave and celebrate with us your 'perceived flaws,' as society tells us. May we make our flaws famous, and thus redefine the heinous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: People ask me why I wear veils. I reply, I am mourning. Mourning what? Well I figure something shitty must be going on somewhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I learned that my sadness never destroyed what was great about me. You just have to go back to that greatness, find that one little light that's left. I'm lucky I found one little glimmer stored away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'm perpetually lonely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I just wanna be myself, and I want you to love me for who I am"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I very much want to inject gay culture into the mainstream. It's not an underground tool for me. It's my whole life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I am an artist, and I have the ability and the free will to choose the way the world will envision me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: A girl's just as hot as the shoes she choose"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: My mama told me when I was young we're all born SUPERSTARS!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Glam culture is ultimately rooted in obsession, and those of us who are truly devoted and loyal to the lifestyle of glamour are masters of its history. Or, to put it more elegantly, we are librarians."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I want the deepest, darkest, sickest parts of you that you are afraid to share with anyone because I love you that much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Don't be insecure, if your heart is pure"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Depression doesn't take away your talents - it just makes them harder to find."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: How can I protect something so perfect without evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I had a boyfriend who told me I'd never succeed, never be nominated for a Grammy, never have a hit song, and that he hoped I'd fail. I said to him, 'Someday, when we're not together, you won't be able to order a cup of coffee at the f***** deli without hearing or seeing me.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I see love in black and white. Passion in shades of \u201cgris\u201d. But when it comes to you and I, color is all I see."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Fame is ultimately about the cycles of desire and how to do away with them or manage them well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Memories are not recycled like atoms and particles in quantum physics; they can be lost forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: There is nothing Holy about hatred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me - from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood. The clothes are on mannequins, also on hangers and in boxes with a photo of each piece, and there's a Web site where I can go to look through everything. It's too big - I could never sort through it myself! But these garments tell the stories of my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I want kids. I want a soccer team, and I want a husband."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'm always on the market for a new friend, period. As your success continues to grow, you start to see who your real friends are. But I'm always looking for wonderful people to have in my life that have no agenda and aren't fake friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I don't want to be remembered as anything but brave. The only good intention to make money is to help others. I want to be Oprah. I want to be Melinda Gates. If I ever sell products other than my talents, then it will be to give more to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: A middle finger is more New York than a corporate ambush. I bleed for my hometown, and I'd die for my fans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: If you are not honorable enough to fight without prejudice, go home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Friendship is only friendship when it is real. Passionate and relentless. Forgiving and joyful. Don't forget today to have real moments with your friends. Not a text, or a tweet, an Instagram-- that's all deceit. Hold real hands, kiss genuine lips, be a truly strong human force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I had this dream, and I really wanted to be a star. And I was almost a monster in the way that I was really fearless with my ambitions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I feel that if I can show my demise artistically to the public, I can somehow cure my own legend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Gay marriage is going to happen. It must."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: No matter gay, straight or bi, lesbian, transgendered life, I'm on the right track baby I was born to survive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: When I wake up in the morning, I feel just like any other insecure 24-year-old girl."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: In my show I announce, 'People say Lady Gaga is a lie, and they are right. I am a lie. And every day I kill to make it true.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Pop stars should not eat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Pop culture was in art \n Now, art's in pop culture in me"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: My concerts are about me being very private in public, but I'm very protective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I was performing in New York and my friends started to call me Gaga. They said I was very theatrical... So they said, you're Gaga."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I\u00b4m not a wandering slave, I am a woman of choice"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: When you make music or write or create, it's really your job to have mind-blowing, irresponsible, condomless sex with whatever idea it is you're writing about at the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I believe that if you have revolutionary potential, you must make the world a better place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I do not accept any less than someone just as real, as fabulous!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: The dieting wars have got to stop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: The statement is that I\u2019m not one icon. I\u2019m every icon. I\u2019m an icon that is made out of all the colors on the palette at every time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope. It is not a reflection of all religious people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Sometimes in life you don't always feel like a winner, but that doesn't mean you're not a winner, you want to be like yourself. I want my fans to know it's okay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'm half living my life between reality and fantasy at all times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: You may never reach that glorious moment until you die, so live life on the edge halfway between heaven and hell...and let's all dance in the middle in purgatory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I feel that flip-flops are the downfall of many relationships. It's, like, first it's the flip-flops, and then it's the sweatpants...it's the gateway drug to no sex."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I don't wanna be alone forever but I can be tonight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: It\u2019s not that I\u2019ve been dishonest, it\u2019s just that I loathe reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Amy [Winehouse] changed pop music forever, I remember knowing there was hope, and feeling not alone because of her. She lived jazz, she lived the blues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Pop music will never be low brow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Lady Gaga is my name. If you know me, and you call me Stefani, you don't really know me at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'm beautiful in my way 'cause God makes no mistakes. I'm on the right track baby, I was born this way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I don't consider my own clothing to be outrageous. The truth is that people just don't have the same references that I do. To me it's very beautiful and it's art, and to them it's outrageous and crazy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I\u2019d rather be poor and happy than rich and alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: It's sort of like my past is an unfinished painting, and as the artist of that painting, I must fill in all the ugly holes and make it beautiful again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: You can\u2019t stop my voice cause \n You don't own my life but \n Do what you want (with my body)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: All that ever holds somebody back, I think, is fear. For a minute I had fear. [Then] I went into the [dressing] room and shot my fear in the face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I find it so important now to be a role model and a figure. And I know that may sound strange to some people, but most important is my connection with my fans and the connection that they breed with one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I know people said I wasn't selling out in America, but that was entirely untrue. We sold out all over the world, and every night I looked out into the fans and those front rows that you're talking about, the tears, the honesty, the inability to not be completely overjoyed because they felt accepted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: My records are borderline dance records. They've got a real electro-rock heart and soul, and the vibe of the sentiment is pop, but there's a lot of people that were like, 'This is a dance record.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: There's this idea that it's all natural, but everything's been staged to look natural. It is also an invention. It's just that my inventions are different. I often get asked about my artifice, but isn't fashion based on the idea that we can create a fantasy?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I\u2019ve had enough, this is my prayer, that I\u2019ll die living just as free as my hair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: It is fair to write about the change in your magazines. But what I want to see is the change on your covers ... When the covers change, that's when culture changes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you; they make you perfect. It's not real life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Love is the new denim or black"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Love is an interesting thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I can't even drive a car. I don't have a driver's license. I have a rented apartment in New York. That's it. When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: As artists, we are eternally heartbroken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I will always have a very deep love for Amy Winehouse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Every video I'm in, every magazine cover, they stretch you - they make you perfect. It's not real life. I'm gonna say this about girls: The dieting wars have got to stop. Everyone just knock it off. Because at the end of the day, it's affecting kids your age. And it's making girls sick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Music and visual performance have to influence each other. Designers and musicians have to be the nexus of all things pop culture, so I think about designers when I'm making music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I don't care what people think about me, I care what they think about themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Be inspired to ignore their ignorant message, and feel gratitude in your heart that you are not burdened or addicted to hate, as they are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I think that promoting insecurity in the form of plastic surgery is infinitely more harmful than an artistic expression related to body modification."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Basically I can't sleep without every single song I'm writing repeating endlessly, but I'm loving it again. Embracing the torture, as I'm assaulted by my own thoughts. Like a locust giving birth to earworms. Eeeeew!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: We wanted to make something that sounded perfect because of the quality of the emotion...the honesty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: The whole point of what I do - the monster ball, the music, the performance art aspect of it, I wanna create a space for my fans where they can feel free and they can celebrate because I didn't fit in in high school and I felt like a freak, so I like to create this atmosphere for my fans where they feel like they have a freak in me to hang out with and they don't feel alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: We are not actually equal - humanity - if we are not allowed to freely love one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Because the sweeter the cake, the more bitter the jelly can be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Prejudice is a disease. So is fashion. But I will not wear prejudice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Together we hope to establish a standard of Bravery and Kindness, as well as a community worldwide that protects and nurtures others in the face of bullying and abandonment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I would stare into the bright lights and imagine I could do anything. Be anything. And I would tell myself it would be me up there one day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: In the book of Gaga, fame is in your heart, fame is there to comfort you, to bring you self-confidence and worth whenever you need it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Gaga and Stefani are my nicknames. I guess when people meet me for the first time and call me Stefani, it bothers me. Because it's something that's reserved for only the people who are closest to me. It's not because I don't like my given name; it's that I became somebody else. I became somebody else for a reason, you know. This is part of what my message is - you can become whoever you want to be, to escape your past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I just want to be clear before we decide to do this together: I'm gay. My music is gay. My show is gay. And I love that it's gay. And I love my gay fans, and they're all going to be coming to our show. And it's going to remain gay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Then, when I'm in these relationships with people who are also creative, or creative in their own way, what happens is the attraction is initially there and it's all unicorns and rainbows. And then they hate me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I was a strange, loud little kid who could sit at the piano and kill a Beethoven piece."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I want my fans to know I'm there for them. I want them to see every part of me. I am never going to leave them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I think that fashion and music go hand-in-hand, and they always should. It's the artist's job to create imagery that matches the music. I think they're very intertwined."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: My fashion is my most prized possession for two reasons: 1) because it is a visualization of all the hard work I've put in to get where I am today; 2) because it is a legend to the encyclopedia of my life. It is exactly what I've aimed to seep into the artistic consciousness of people all over the world - that life is an art form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful. But it's the intention of the work that's changed. I have fans now. I have a new purpose: to remind them that I am one of them, that we are one another. My consciousness has changed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: An artist is the only thing I want to be. I only want my freedom and my creativity. It's all that I live for. I reject the idea that I have to take all the costumes and makeup off to be f - king authentic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I went out into the woods for a few days. I just disconnected from everything and allowed myself to be free and be human. Because, that's what makes you really good, if you can be vulnerable, if you can be vulnerable on stage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: It's hard to be strong and be weak at the same time. So I spent a lot of time sitting still. Sitting still for hours, not moving a muscle. Really concentrated work, so I'm ready. I'm ready for my performance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: She [my mother] said, \"You are fiercely protective of your inventions because you are your fans.\" She helped me understand my own feelings. When someone has pulled the wool over my eyes, I feel that they have pulled the wool over the eyes of millions of fans around the world. She helped me to forgive. You can't force people to have the same world consciousness and awareness as you do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: And don't worry, if I get thrown in jail in Manila, Beyonce will just bail me out. Sold out night 2 in the Philippines. I love it here!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer, and to - as my father puts it - finally have a real job."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I went to see 'Phantom of the Opera' with my grandma and my mom when I was very little. The stage, the voice, the music?... Composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has been a massive inspiration to me for some time - the storytelling, that deliciously somber undertone in his music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don\u2019t know if I would be the algorithm. I\u2019m not a supermodel. That\u2019s not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what\u2019s happening on the outside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: More education for women. More jobs for women. More equal opportunities for women. More women to be taken seriously. And I think more than anything we wish to be heard and not to be shut down. I think this is a good thing to think about for any community; what is important is that our voices be heard and not swallowed in an abyss of history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I started out playing in clubs. I always like existing under ground and over ground at the same time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I try to not focus on what people expect from me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Vanity can create a very cruel space for you if you don't know how to manage it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I write about what I know: sex, pornography, art, fame obsession, drugs, and alcohol. I mean, why would anyone care to listen to me if I wasn't an expert in what I write about?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'm able to laugh now, because I've gone through a lot of mental and physical therapy to heal over the years, my music's been wonderful for me. But I was a shell of my former self at one point. I was not myself. To be fair, I was about 19, so ... I went to Catholic school and all this crazy stuff happened, and I was going, 'Oh, is this just the way adults are?' I was very naive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I never care personally what people say about me. The music, and the message - this will always be more important to me than people thinking I'm the best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I think that once you've had a few No. 1s in your career that you've kind of proven yourself and I don't feel the need to prove anything anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Love is an interesting thing. Perhaps I've never been in love before - I don't really know? I think I have. I guess it's subjective in that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: If I can be a leader, I will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I never wanted to look pretty on stage and sing about something we've all heard about before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'm doing everything that I can, working with experts, really studying the statistics to figure out a way we can make it cool or normal to be kind and loving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: God bless pop music and God bless MTV."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'm not a feminist. I hail men, I love men. I celebrate American male culture, and beer, and bars and muscle cars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'm not real. I'm theatre."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Tonight love and hate met in St. Louis. And love outnumbered the hate, in poetic thousands. Hate left. But love stayed. + Together, we sang."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Everyone can access the parts of themselves that are great. I'm just a girl from New York City who decided to do this, after all. Rule the world! What's life worth living if you don't rule it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I've gone bankrupt about four times now. Every dollar I earn goes on the show."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Writing a record is like dating a few men at once. You take them to the same restaurants to see if they measure up, and at some point you decide who you like best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'm encouraging you to know what you're worth. And know that no matter who has more money in class, who has more stuff, who has a country house - nobody is worth more than anybody else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: The last thing a young woman needs is another picture of a sexy pop star writhing in sand, covered in grease, touching herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I already am a product."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I think a lot of people love to convolute what everyone else does in order to disempower women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I love being able to be political without any political affiliation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Men weren't always happy for me. It was very challenging to watch a woman be so successful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: In case you're wondering whether I lip synch, the answer is no... people think so because I sound so good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Watch very closely as the magical angel and I are swallowed by the rainbow twister, and left stranded on the glitter way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I want a baby from an Italian - possibly Sicilian - donor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I have never had plastic surgery, and there are many pop singers who have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'm terrified of babies I think, creatively as a woman, you change once you give birth. I'm totally not ready for that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: My grandmother is basically blind, but she can make out the lighter parts, like my skin and hair. She says, 'I can see you, because you have no pants on.' So I'll continue to wear no pants so that my grandma can see me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I live between two things-I live between art and pop all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I don't need to be on top to know I'm worth it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Dirty pony, I can't wait to hose you down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: It's not really cool any more to have sex all the time. It's cooler to be strong and independent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I remember watching the mascara tears flood the ivories and I thought, \"It's OK to be sad.\" I've been trained to love my darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: So basically I did this whole show carrying 100lbs, looking out of one eye, dancing \u2013 and then my tits explode at the end. It's not as easy as it looks!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Once you kill a cow, you gotta make a burger"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: My father [Joe Germanotta] opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'm drawn to bad romances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I was so ashamed of who I was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: My next baby will be my new record."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I don't like talking to celebrities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I think what it really is, is that I date creative people. And I think that what intimidates them is not my purse; it's my mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: The real cake isn't HAVING what you want, it's DOING what you want"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I love her. My piano. play the sh*t outta her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Women are strong and fragile. Women are beautiful and ugly. We are soft spoken and loud, all at once."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Don't hide yourself in regret, \n Just love yourself and you're set \n I'm on the right track, baby \n I was born this way"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Sweat it out then back home to my man to make dinner. #hausWife"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Off to the STUDIO in my new whip."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: My apartment is my stage, and my bedroom is my stage - they're just not stages you're allowed to see."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: When I travel, I have almost all of my possessions with me. That's how little I own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'm inspired by fashion. I'm inspired by the moonlight. I'm inspired by sex and pornography and slasher films."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I don't think I could live without hair, makeup and styling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: 'Cause you can't buy a house in heaven!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Being different is a talent. You illuminate what makes you special in the sea of sameness around you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: My mom and I are very close."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'm on the edge with you"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: We are not just Art for Michelangelo to carve, he can't rewrite the agro of my furied heart- Lady Gaga 10/22/10"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Being beautiful is not so fun when you're in a business with all men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I wouldn't say that I am one of the greatest dancers, but I am really quite good at what I do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: No press, no television. If my mom calls and says, 'Did you hear about?' I don't want to know nothing about anything that is going on in relation to music. I shut it all off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: cause it's a hard life, with love in the world. and i'm a hard girl, loving me is like chewing on pearls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I want you to forget all your insecurities. I want you to reject anyone of anything that's ever made you feel like you don't belong or don't fit in or made you fell like you're not good enough or pretty enough or thin enough or can't sing well enough or dance well enough or write a song well enough or like you'll never win a Grammy or you'll never sell out Madison Square Garden, you just remember that you're a goddamn superstar and you were born this way!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Hair is about when you're younger. I am my hair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: So many will try to destroy me. So many, over and over, coming in periods of greatness. But in this period, I cannot be broken: GAGAKLEIN."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: My new album that I'm creating, which is finished pretty much, was written with this new instinctual energy that I've developed getting to know my fans. They protect me, so now it's my destiny to protect them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I spend my money on my props and my creations. I'm an inventor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: My friends joke that I\u2019m dead until I get onstage. I\u2019m dead right now as you\u2019re speaking to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I thought equality was non-negotiable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Russian Roulette is not the same without a gun"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Perez Hilton is brilliant to me. Because he\u2019s taken something that people don\u2019t think is valid, don\u2019t think is important, and he\u2019s made them obsessed with it. People are obsessed with him. They\u2019re obsessed with his site, they\u2019re obsessed with what he does. They love him. They all love him. They love you, they hate you, what you don\u2019t want is indifference. The day that I put a record out that nobody says a damn thing about, that\u2019s bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: It takes time to become myself every morning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'm a wandering gypsy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'm very free-spirited."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'm single right now and I've chosen to be single because I don't have the time to get to know anybody. So it's okay not to have sex, it's okay to get to know people. I'm celibate, celibacy's fine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray the fame won't take my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I don't think that women need to smell interesting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I have been addicted to it, and it's ultimately related to anxiety coping, and it's a form of self-medication, and I was smoking up to 15 to 20 marijuana cigarettes a day with no tobacco."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I think that artifice is the new reality. It's more about just being honest and sincere to the core of what you do. Whether I'm wearing lots of makeup or no makeup, I'm always the same person inside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'm from New York. I will kill to get what I need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: love is just a history that they may prove and when your gone ill tell them my religion is you"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Making ziti for the Chicago Fire Department! I hope they're not too busy today, but this should fill their bellies I hope they like it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I have to be on such a strict diet constantly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I hope to see women thriving and happy, loving what they're doing, and being in control and powerful of what they create. I guess what I would say is, as much as we all love the fashion and the makeup and the glamour, this isn't a beauty pageant. It's about the heart and the drive and the work. Of course, it's lovely to dress up and compliment one another and feel good - but that shouldn't be the very first thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I don't want to face the reality of what people want from a female pop star. Everybody always laughs because I feel so much more comfortable with, like, a giant paper bag on my whole body and paint on my face. Sometimes I try really hard to take it all off. But inevitably what's underneath is still not a straight edge. And I don't think it ever will be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: If there was some sort of mathematical equation for beauty, I don't know if I would be the algorithm. I've always been OK with that. I'm not a supermodel. That's not what I do. What I do is music. I want my fans to feel the way I do, to know what they have to offer is just as important, more important, than what's happening on the outside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: Sometimes I get this gut feeling about people - maybe I sense a hidden agenda or that they care for the money more than the message. I wish that I'd listen to that feeling instead of waiting for the truth to rear its ugly head. I'm a smart girl. I'm loyal. But sometimes I'm too loyal. I'm not loyal enough to myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I'm always trying to create something that the fans won't expect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I am completely 100 percent honest in what I do and who I am, and I've got nothing to hide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: My \"home\" is a controversial topic. I don't exactly have one. I live all over the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: No matter how many people are screaming your name or how many Number One hits you have, you can still wake up and feel like a loser."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lady Gaga: I often think people don't know what to think of me, and in fact this is precisely the objective of many of my creations. Even back in the days with Lady Starlight, my original partner, we aimed to bemuse. This feeling of bemusement - it's neither good nor bad. It just is. Whether critics realize it or not, they've been in a very long argument since my public birth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: The road is long, we carry on, try to have fun in the meantime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Live fast. Die young. Be wild. Have fun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: They judge me like a picture book, by the colors, like they forgot to read."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Life is beautiful, but you don't have a clue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I believe in the person I want to become."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: A man`s ego is just as fragile as a woman`s heart"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I mainly let my imagination be my reality. Fantasy is my reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I believe nothing happens by mistake. You know, the universe has a divine plan. That sounds dramatic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Be Young, Be Dope,\r\nBe Proud."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: It's just a relief, really. I'm scared to die, but I want to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: It takes getting everything you ever wanted and then losing it, to know what true freedom is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I've got a war in my mind"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: The angels decided to shine on me for a little while."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: My idea of a true feminist is a woman who feels free enough to do whatever she wants."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I was always an unusual girl. My mother told me I had a chameleon soul, no moral compass pointing due north, no fixed personality; just an inner indecisiveness that was as wide and as wavering as the ocean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: When I was younger I felt lonely... In terms of my thought processes. I had the constant feeling that I thought differently to everyone around me. So, I suppose I felt lonely for a home. I didn't know where I wanted to be, but I knew I wasn't there yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we're even alive at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Everything I do, I do it for somebody I've never met before, something in the great beyond. That's my primary relationship, really, is with something divine. I feel a connection as real with that as I've ever had with anybody on this earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: You fit me better than my favorite sweater."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Love is strange, sometimes it makes you crazy, it can burn or break you down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: People have offered me opportunities in exchange for sleeping with them. But it's not 1952 anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I like a little hardcore love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Being human is difficult. Some people make it more difficult than others. I was one of those people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: When you're an introvert like me and you've been lonely for a while, and then you find someone who understands you, you become really attached to them. It's a real release."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: When I was very young I was sort of floored by the fact that my mother and my father and everyone I knew was going to die one day, and myself too. I had a sort of a philosophical crisis. I couldn't believe that we were mortal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I'm interested in the gorgeous side of life, but also familiar with the dark side too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Nothing I ever wrote had a message. It was just my own personal experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Sometimes, love feels like a life or death situation. Losing true love is pretty much as bad as it gets, other than actually dying or losing good health. Most people know that. Most people can relate. It's like the end of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: When you have absolutely no idea what's going to happen to you or what your career's going to end up like and you're just really open to anything, then you don't really have anything to loose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Growing up I was always prone to obsession, partly because of the way I am, but partly because after feeling so lonely for such a long time, when I found someone or something that I liked, I felt helplessly drawn to it. I suppose that accounts for some of the creepiness in my music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I\u2019ve been really blessed to have a lot of romance in my life. It\u2019s like my last luxury."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I'm personally more struck by visual things more than musical."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn't believe in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: My understanding of God has come from my own personal experiences. Because I was in trouble so many times in New York that if you were me, you would believe in God too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I'm more interested in, you know, SpaceX and Tesla, what's going to happen with our intergalactic possibilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Dark and lonely. I need somebody to hold me"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I wanted to be part of a high-class scene of musicians. It was half-inspired because I didn't have many friends, and I was hoping that I would meet people and fall in love and start a community around me, the way they used to do in the '60s."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Do you know how expensive it is to look this cheap?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I believe in free love and that's just how I feel. It's just my experience of being with different kinds of men and being born without a preference for a certain type of person. For me, that is my story in finding love in lots of different people, and that's been the second biggest influence in my music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: With some of the bad things that come with love, there's also a lot of good. For example that connection... which I struggle to have with most people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Will you still love me when I'm no longer young and beautiful? Will you still love me when I've got nothing but my aching soul?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: My parents were lovely. They've always been supportive. When you love your child, you don't know what to do with someone who wants to do what no one else does successfully. If I had someone younger I loved, I'd be worried for them too if I didn't have guidance to give them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I sort of do what I say and say what I do which I'm happy with because it makes my life real easy. When I was younger, people would say that I was inspired by David Lynch, so I went and watched his stuff and I was surprised. I thought it was smart, with what I was trying to do lyrically. So I started watching some of his stuff. I've never seen his movies in [their] entirety, I'm more interested in him as a person and how he came to be successful taking an alternative route, sort of a subculture icon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I write my own songs. I made my own videos. I pick my producers. Nothing goes out without my permission. It's all authentic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I've been reading tabloids since I was nine. I love a good story."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Every time I close my eyes, it's like a dark paradise. No one compares to you, but there's no you, except in my dreams tonight"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I think America is amazing for its landscape and its history. California is beautiful, New York is beautiful, but when you're a gypsy at heart, it probably suits you to be traveling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I'd been sick on tour for about two years with this medical anomaly that doctors couldn't figure out. That's a big part of my life: I just feel really sick a lot of the time and can't figure out why. I'd gotten these shots in Russia, where we'd just been. It was just heavy. It's just heavy performing for people who really care about you, and you don't really care that much about yourself sometimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I lost my reputation, I forgot my truth. But I have my beauty and I have my youth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: In New York I pretty much live in diners - I order French Fries, Diet Coke floats and lots of coffee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I regret trusting The Guardian. I didn't want to do an interview, but the journalist was persistent. [The writer] was masked as a fan, but was hiding sinister ambitions and angles. Maybe he's actually the boring one looking for something interesting to write about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I have taken taking my music to labels for years, and everyone just thought it was creepy. They thought the images with the music were weird and verging on psychotic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: My songs are cinematic so they seem to reference a glamorous era or fetishize certain lifestyles, but that's not my aim."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I think the thing I really got from Ginsberg was that you can tell a story through kind of painting pictures with words. And when I found out that you could have a profession doing that, it was thrilling to me. It just became my passion immediately, playing with words and poetry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I was a different sort of child, as half the children are. I was in that category of being free-spirited."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I love to sing and I really love to write, but in terms of being onstage, I'm not that comfortable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: High heels off; I'm feeling alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I'm like a child who belongs to nobody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I think that plain old intellectualism [can be] a more powerful force than the idea of the femme fatale."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I don't even do anything in real life. I just sit in my studio and write, I call my friends, I watch television. I don't do anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I was never successful in a noteworthy way, no one wrote about me, and I didn't have recognition. I've met a lot of musicians along the way who thought I was good, and they knew that was important to me. Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I'm not really interested in a ton of female musicians but there is something about Britney that compelled me - the way she sings and just the way she looks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I have a great appreciation for our world's history. I learn from my own mistakes, I learn from the mistakes we've made as a human race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: The thing about me is, coming from an alternative music background and singing for nine years, being basically invisible, I'm so used to writing for myself - and at the end of the day, I do it because I feel like I have to. So when I'm recording or writing, I don't have other people in mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Don't make me sad, don't make me cry. Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough, I don't know why."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I entered a songwriting competition, I didn't win, and one of the judges on the panel was an A&R man at a record label that had no other acts and I signed to them. We sent my demo out to five people and David Kahne got back to me that day, and said I think you're amazing I want to start with you tomorrow. He was like my Harvard reach school, I couldn't believe it. I was really excited. It was the first time anyone of any importance said I was good and I ran with that validation for a long time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Having a simple career as a musician who liked music was good enough for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: A lot of what's been written about me is not true: of my family history or my choices or my interests. Actually, I've never read anything written about me that was true. It's been completely crazy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I feel a strong relationship with God and I feel my ties are with him. That's how I honestly feel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: That love doesn\u2019t come easily and that relationships are supposed to be a struggle. Everything else is so hard; hopefully love is the one thing that is actually fun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: When I walk outside, people have something to say about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: It's not like I think my art is inspirations from icons strung together. They're just sort of people who others talk about. I am definitely interested in the masters of different genres, they're talented and popular for a reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I was always a singer, it was nothing anyone planned on me doing for real, because it's an unusual thing. I was just sort of saying, even having modest ambitions to have a small career at singing, it's still really difficult to do that. Everyone wants to sing or act or whatever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: As soon as the first person wrote about me, the articles became just blatant, all-out lies. I consider it slander. If I cared more, I'd kill them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I'm feelin' electric tonight\n Cruising down the coast goin' 'bout 99\n Got my bad baby by my heavenly side\n I know if I go, I'll die happy tonight"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I believe in the kindness of strangers. And when I'm at war with myself I ride, I just ride."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: My baby lives in shades of blue, blue eyes and jazz and attitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I believe in Amy Winehouse. I know she\u2019s not with us anymore but I believe she was who she was and in that way she got it right. I would say an actress like Lauren Bacall also got it right. She never let anyone persuade her to be something she wasn't. She was strong. She always looked like she knew what she was doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I'd liked my first record, it was autobiographical and beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: For me, the issue of feminism is just not an interesting concept... Whenever people bring up feminism, I\u2019m like, god. I\u2019m just not really that interested."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: The act of surrendering sort of puts me in a different mindset that allows me to be more of a channel - because I'm not holding on so tightly to things, I'm letting go, and I find that in letting go I become more of a channel for life to really happen on life's terms. I mean, maybe that sounds sort of metaphysical, but that's honestly how I feel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I've had and also the people I've had around me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I'm not trying to create an image or a persona. I'm just singing because that's what I know how to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I sing the National Anthem, while I'm standing, over your body, hold you like a python."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I got my red dress on tonight\n Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight\n Done my hair up real big beauty queen style\n High heels off, I'm feeling alive"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Life is a velvet crowbar hitting you over the head, youre bleeding syrup amour, bleeding to death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I'm not like a persona. I'm not a caricature of myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: There's backlash about everything I do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Me and God we don't get along."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I believe in the country America used to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: This is what makes us girls/ We don't stick together 'cause we put our love first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Like a groupie incognito posing as a real singer, life imitates art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I learned that there's no reason why people decide they like music when they do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: New York's architecture alone is enough to inspire a whole album. In fact, that's what happened at first - my early stuff was mostly just interpretations of landscapes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Down on the West Coast I get this feeling like it all could happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I suppose my approach to religion is like my approach to music - I take what I want and leave the rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Being an entrepreneur doesn't make you a rich tycoon and being an innovator doesn't mean that you're successful. It just means that you're interesting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Mary prays the rosary for my broken mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I already have success. I had it a long time ago. It's nothing to do with my music. Music is secondary, at this point. The good stuff is really good, but I have success because I'm at peace and I'm a good person in my everyday life and that's important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Even if you're the best singer in the world, there's a good chance no one will ever hear you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Walking through the city streets... Is it by mistake or design?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I've got feathers in my hair,\nI get down to beat poetry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: Every now and then the stars align, \r\nBoy and girl meet by the great design, \r\nCould it be that you and me are the lucky ones? \r\nEverybody told me love was blind,\r\nThen I saw your face\r\nand you blew my mind,\r\nFinally you and me are the lucky ones, this time"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I'm always just surprised when someone writes something about me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: If you're not drinkin', then you're not playin'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lana Del Rey: I wish I could escape into some alter-ego, just so I could feel more comfortable onstage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: When i started flirting with the hustle, failure became my ex, now I'm engaged to the game and married to success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Prepared for the worst,but still praying for the best"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Love or hate me, I stay hate free\r\nThey say we learn from mistakes, well, that's why they mistake me"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Keep your mouth closed, and let your eyes listen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I am probably in the sky, flying with the fish, or maybe in the ocean, swimming with the pigeons. See, my world is different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Sometimes I wanna drop a tear but no emotion from a king."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Real gs move in silence like lasagna."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Confidence is the stain they can't wipe off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Before you judge me... I plead guilty"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Surround yourself with love, not friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Blind eyes could look at me and see the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I speak the truth but I guess that's a foreign language to ya'll!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: They paint me as a villain, I just autograph the artwork."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: You have to self-reflect. If you forget who you actually are, then what's the use of even looking in the mirror."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Woman of my dreams, I don\u2019t sleep so I can\u2019t find her"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I search but never find, hurt but never cry I work and forever try but I'm cursed, so never mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I stick to the script, I memorize the lines, cause life is movie that I've seen too many times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I'm not the same as other people. I don't think the same. I don't do the same things. I just feel out of this world sometimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I like people that enjoy life, 'cause I do the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I want you to know, that you deserve the best. You're beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Don't make an opinion on me if you don't know nothin' about me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I\u2019m the only fire that can live in the rain"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I tried to pay attention, but attention paid me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I know it's an experience that I need to have if God's putting me through it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: My future will be better than my past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I don't care what you say, so don't even speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I got ice in my veins\r\nBlood in my eyes/Hate in my heart\r\nLove in my mind"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I look at things as 'Everything is meant to be.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I gotta die with money cuz i wasn't born with it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Throw dirt on me, and grow a wild flower"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Swallow my words. Taste my thoughts. And if it's too nasty, spit it back at me!."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: \"I ain't lookin down but I see no one above me.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I think positively, you can't harm me mentally, not physically, not spiritually, you'll never get rid of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: \"I call them april babies cause they fools\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Here\u2019s my most funniest joke, I\u2019m broke."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I'm so official, all I need is a whistle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: A blessing in disguise, is right before our eyes. But since it is in disguise, we don't know that it's there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Abracadabra, I'm up like Viagra."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Rain on my head, call that brainstorming."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: My first priority is my family. I am human. But my whole family knows what my priority is. Family is always first. But my work is under nothing else, except God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I know my role and I play it well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Too much money ain't enough money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: My life is like a movie and I do my own stunts"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: You could love me or hate me \n I swear it won't make me or break me.\n I'm goin where ever the money takes me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I love a challenge. It's fun as hell to fall and to not get something and then to finally land it. That's like pursuing a girl that said no a hundred times and she finally say yeah. That's what it feels like every single time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Don't judge me. You wanna judge me, put on a black gown and get a gavel. Get in line with the rest of them that's about to judge me. I got court dates every other month. It's me against the world - that's how I feel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I'm all about 'I'/ Give the rest of the vowels back"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I am very humble, and I am very gracious and very grateful for everything that happens to me and about me and around me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I hate failure and I am in love with achievement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: [I] don't like to think like everybody else, don't like to try to think like everybody else, don't like to do nothing everybody else think I'm gone do, don't like to say nothing everybody else think I'm gone say. I'm a Martian. I like to be different. And what's more different than a Martian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I search but never find, hurt but never cry"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I've read horoscopes before and what they say. But I would actually love to not be what somebody writes down - I don't want to be described. I don't want you to be able to read something and say, \"This is how Wayne is.\" I'd rather you meet me and decide. I'd rather be different, basically."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: \"There aint nothin gonna stop me so just envy it\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Where I come from, the block become your daddy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Four tears in my face and you ain't never heard me cry/ I'm richer than all y'all, I got a bank full of pride"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: What goes around comes around like a hool-a-hoop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Life is a movie, let love play its role."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I believe that business shouldn't be done in the public's eye anyway. And I believe that business shouldn't be handled in the magazines anyway. Business should be handled in the room amongst the people you're doing business with."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Victory Consistently, train all year to be the enemy's misery!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I\u2019m the bomb like tick tick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Trying to tear down the past prohibits you from building up your future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I just feel out of this world sometimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: My style has evolved because I was one of the guys that would \"geek chic\" it every now and then. Now I'm just more into whatever works for me. I think that's just age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: With everything happening today, You dont know whether you're coming or going, But you think that you're on your way, Life lined up on the mirror dont blow it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I believe in God and his son, Jesus Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Outwork the bullshit. That means nothing can rattle you when your conditions are set. And the way you set those conditions is by working damn hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I\u2019m on top of my green like a lawn chair"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: You know he can\u2019t save you, right? In the real world? That guy, right there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: But anyway I think you're bionic \r\nAnd I don't think you're beautiful, I think you're beyond it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I don't think life is about a pace, living slow or fast. I think you just live, y'know what I mean?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I don't take breaks, I just break records"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Think I'm gettin' sick, I'm feelin' illegal/ And not having money is the root of all evil"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: As long as people remember me forever, that will be enough for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I pay these niggas with a reality check."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: It's all good when we making love, all I ask is don't take our love for granted, it's granted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I don't dream a lot. But whenever I dream, I just dream about the day I just had or something like that. Mostly that's what I dream about. I dream about that current day. Other than that, I don't dream a lot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: We are not the same, I am a martian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: If time is money/ I'm an hour past paid"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: That's one thing about me, and I think that's what most of my fans enjoy about me, that I don't hold nothing back. I do exactly what I want to do, and say exactly what I want to say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I believe that music is another form of news. Music is another form of journalism to me. So I have to cover all the areas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: You're either living or you're dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Ok you want me up in a cage, then I'll come out in beast mode."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Repetition is the father of learning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I 'aint a killer but don't push me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: \"Ok you're a goon but what's a goon to a goblin\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: They say you're nobody til somebody kills you\r\nBut where I'm from you're nobody til you kill somebody"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I've been criticized for the things I chose and things I've chosen to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I'm a very creative person, and the best part about creation is creating. So I always love to come up with new things, new ideas, new thoughts. I cherish things like that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Guns turn you boys into pussies, sex change"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I don't think I've ever googled myself. But I do read some things... I mean, if I know that I was with an interviewer and I kind of figure that he or she got something bad or something good from the interview, then I'll read the piece when it comes out. But other than that, I'd have to have a reason to read it - and, usually, I don't have a reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Skating has so many styles. Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: & these haters try to knock me but they can't knock me off the hinges."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I always knew I couldn't sing, but I also knew I had a voice that isn't heard by many, and that I could learn how to stretch it and make songs sound good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Thank God, I'm actually infatuated and in love with what I do, therefore I am what I do. So I never have to forget [any of my ideas] because I never have to remember, I just am. I don't need to write stuff down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Jail didn't make me find God, He's always been there. They can lock me up, but my spirit and my love can never be confined to prison walls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: R.I.P. (Rest in pussy)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I'm not hot. I'm great."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: That's the thing about mistakes, you don't dwell on them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Stop hating on a n*gga that is a weak emotion, the lady of a n*gga."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: That's stupid. If anyone sees themselves in ten years they're lying to themselves first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: There's this thing that publishes pictures of people out and about. So when I go out, I do see pictures of myself. I don't know where those pictures come from - I mean, I don't see the cameras. But I guess I'm just not looking for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I'm kinda mad that I had to wait 28 years to jump on a skateboard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I can mingle with the stars and throw a party on Mars\r\nI am a prisoner, locked up behind Xanax bars"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I only listen to my music. I'm just analyzing it. Critical. Seeing what I like what I don't like. Say what I should have said. What I could say next time, what I should have said, things like that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: You can sit right on my middle finger for the night"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Ma sex game is stupid, my head is the dumbest, I promise, I should be hooked on phonics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: The most bizarre thing I've ever read about myself is that I was dead. That was kind of weird to read that I'm dead - mostly because I was reading it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I do not consider myself the most stylish rapper out there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: It's fun as hell to fall and to not get something and then to finally land it. That's like pursuing a girl that said no a hundred times and she finally say yeah."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I feel like everything I do is successful and productive. It's gonna be hard to tell me I'm slipping."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I don't think I've ever googled myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: My family and my friends-they keep me grounded. Especially my mom, because she would kick my ass if I was to change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Met shawty up in Urban Outfitters, she killin' these hoes now I'm murking out with her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Once you pick up a skateboard, you'll find out that it's not a hobby, it's not a sport, it's a lifestyle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Yes I do it big, call me little astronomical. Weezy F. Baby and the F is for phenomenal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: All about a dollar like four quarters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: God can judge me, I don't need a jury. Nothing standing in my way, like nothing's my security."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Nobody in the world could have told me I wasn't gonna be a rapper. So, yeah, I always knew I was gonna be one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: All about my riches/ My name should be Richard"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: When it waynes, it pours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I have accomplished all that I have set out to accomplish and more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I get money to kill time/ Dead clocks"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Music is a reflection of who you are, and if those things that you mentioned are what your music is all about, then I guess that's who you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Earning your Masters in Library and Information Science is beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I want to make sure my family's straight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Music is a reflection of who you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I am the beast, Feed me rappers or feed me beats"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I ain't kinda hot, I'm sauna/ I sweat money and the bank is my shower"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I was still in school after I dropped my first solo album."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: My main thing is to chill with my kids. My daughter loves to work, as well-she loves to record and stuff-so I like to work with her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: If I have a rap album I'm dropping, then I want it to be the best rap album."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Weezy F. Baby/ And the 'F' ain't for fear"
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: I can honestly say my music is always going to be greater than my business side. Because I'm naturally a musician. And I don't have to get paid, I don't even have to have businesses. Business is business. And music is life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Lil Wayne: Yeah I got game like Stuart Scott...fresh out the ESPN shop"
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope. In a world filled with anger, we must still dare to comfort. In a world filled with despair, we must still dare to dream. And in a world filled with distrust, we must still dare to believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Everyday create your history, every path you take you're leaving your legacy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Sometimes when you're treated unfairly it makes you stronger and more determined. I admire that kind of strength. People who have it take a stand and put their blood and soul into what they believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I totally enjoy what I'm doing and bringing joy into people's lives. To me, and if I can bring one second of joy into a child or a grown-up's life, then I have achieved my lifetime ambition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: It's been my dream since I was a child to somehow unite people of the world through love and music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Start with the man in the mirror. Start with yourself. Don't be looking at all the other things. Start with you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I love experienced people. I love people who are phenomenally talented. I love people who've worked so hard and been so courageous and are the leaders in their fields. For me to meet somebody like that and learn from them and share words with them -to me that's magic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I'll never let you part, for you're always in my heart"
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Being on stage is magic. There's nothing like it. You feel the energy of everybody who's out there. You feel it all over your body. When the lights hit you, it's all over, I swear it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I believe we are powerful but we don't use our minds to full capacity. Your mind is powerful enough to help you attain whatever you want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Study the greats and become greater"
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Before you Judge me, Try hard to Love me"
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: In our darkest hour, in my deepest despair,\nWill you still care? Will you be there?\nIn my trials and my tribulations,\nThrough our doubts and frustrations,\nIn my violence and my turbulence,\nThrough my fear and my confessions,\nAnd my anguish and my pain,\nThrough my joy and my sorrow,\nIn the promise of another tomorrow,\nI'll never let you part,\nFor you're always in my heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Lies run sprints, but the truth runs marathons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I love to create magic - to put something together that's so unusual, so unexpected that it blows people's heads off. Something ahead of the times. Five steps ahead of what people are thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Magic is easy if you put your heart into it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: You can't hurt me, I found peace within myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I love performing. It's a phenomenal getaway. If you want to really let out everything you feel, that's the time to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Real charity is giving from the heart without taking credit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Just watching a girl can give me the best reason to smile. Girls are something very special and you got to treat them that way. That's why I always say don't stare right at a chick. She'll begin to fidget, wondering if her hair's messed up or if her make-up is smeared. It's kind of like going to an art gallery to see beautiful paintings. If you look at a painting just the right way, you get the most out of it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I love to draw-pencil, ink pen-I love art. When I go on tour and visit museums in Holland, Germany or England-you know those huge paintings?-I'm just amazed. You don't think a painter could do something like that. I can look at a piece of sculpture or a painting and totally lose myself in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I become the stars and the moon. I become the lover and the beloved. I become the victor and the vanquished. I become the master and the slave. I become the singer and the song. I become the knower and the known. I keep on dancing then, it is the eternal dance or creation. The creator and creation merge into one wholeness of joy. I keep on dancing and dancing...and dancing. Until there is only...the dance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: The color of a person's skin had nothing to do with the content of their character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Deep in the darkness of passions insanity, I felt taken by lust's strange inhumanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I put real pressure on myself and I demand the best out of myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I'm interested in making a path instead of following a trail, and that's what I want to do in life - in everything I do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: When I see children, I see the face of God. That's why I love them so much. That's what I see."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: But they told me a man should be faithful, and walk when not able, and fight till the end but I'm only Human."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: No! Once the music plays, it creates me. The instruments move me, through me, they control me. Sometimes I'm uncontrollable and it just happens - boom, boom, boom! - once it gets inside you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: It all went by so fast, didn't it? I wish I could do it all over again, I really do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: It puts a smile on my face to see all the children, and all the teenagers, and the adults - the demographics - it makes my heart very, very happy. I love them. I love all the fans, very much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Masquerading the heart is the height of haunting souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I will be acquitted and vindicated when the truth is told."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I think my image gets distorted in the public's mind. They don't get a clear or full picture of what I'm like, despite the press coverage I mentioned early. Mistruths are printed as fact, in some cases, and frequently only half of a story will be told. The part that doesn't get printed is often the part that would make the printed part less sensational by shedding light on the facts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: People think they know me, but they don`t. Not really. Actually, I am one of the loneliest people on this earth. I cry sometimes, because it hurts. It does. To be honest, I guess you could say that it hurts to be me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: The greatest education in the world is watching the masters at work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: You try to be as original as you can be without thinking about statistics. You just go from the soul and from the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: My attitude is if fashion says it's forbidden, I'm going to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I think about our planet. I mean how to make it a better planet. The global warming issue is a concern to me very much. Just make the world a better, happier place. It's our home. I'd like to see us do a better job of taking care of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I do believe deeply in perfection. I'm never satisfied."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: That's what's great about show business. It's escapism. You pay your five bucks to get in and sit there and you're in another world. Forget about the problems in the world. It's wonderful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: People are always saying,'They'll take care of it. The government'll--Don't worry, they'll--' 'They' who? It starts with us. It's us. Or else it'll never be done..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I want to always be youthful and have the energy to run around and play hide and seek, which is one of my favorite games."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I truly believe I have the most wonderful fans in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: People always say the abused abuse and it is not true. I am totally the opposite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: If I'm not creating, I'm not as happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I'm really very self-confident when it comes to my work. When I take on a project, I believe in it 100%. I really put my soul into it. I'd die for it. That's how I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: We have to heal our wounded world. The chaos, despair, and senseless destruction we see today are a result of the alienation that people feel from each other and their environment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I love composing and writing music and dancing and performing and conceptualizing creatively for visual mediums. I love to create."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye, but the dance lives on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I always wanted to do music that influences and inspires each generation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: That\u2019s why I hate to take credit for the songs I\u2019ve written. I feel that somewhere, someplace, it\u2019s been done and I\u2019m just a courier bringing it into the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Let us dream of tomorrow where we can truly love from the soul, and know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of all creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I'm a strong person. I'm a warrior and I know what is inside of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I'm never satisfied with what I do. I always think I can do it a lot better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There's a whole other world in books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I have always felt compassion for the planet. Sometime I just start to get emotional. I cry because I can almost feel the pain in the air. I put it in words and in song and in dance I think that is what artistry is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: There was more to life than the things you could hold in your hands or see with your eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Escapism and wonder is influence. It makes you feel good, and that allows you to do things. You just keep on moving ahead, and you say, 'God, is this wonderful - do I appreciate it.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: The dream we were conceived in will reveal a joyful face, and the world we once believed in will shine again in grace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: The thing that I love most about being on stage is making people happy...It's my job to do that, and I enjoy it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: The major ingredient of any recipe for fear is the unknown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Through the years, I have helped thousands of children who were ill or in distress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I deserve a fair trial, like every other American citizen. A large amount of ugly, malicious misinformation has been released to the media about me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I've never seen a performer create electricity with an audience like James Brown. He's got everybody in his hands and whatever he wants to do with them, he does it. It's amazing. I've always thought he was underrated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: You ain't seen nothing yet, and the best is yet to come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I love realism. I don't like plastics. Deep down inside we're all the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I'm a lover not a fighter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I love to accent movement. The eye goes to where the white is - you know, the glove. And the feet, if you're dancing, you can put an exclamation point on your movement if it has a bit of light on it. So I wore the white socks. And for the design of the jacket, I would sit with the people who made the clothes and tell them where I wanted a button or a buckle or a design."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: But I will never stop helping and loving people the way Jesus said to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: A lot of people misunderstand me. That's because they don't know me at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Damned indecision and cursed pride."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I look at things and try to imagine what is possible and then hope to surpass those boundaries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: You can bring out your inner self and moods through dancing. Music does the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Human knowledge consists not only of libraries of parchment and ink - it is also comprised of the volumes of knowledge that are written on the human heart, chiselled on the human soul, and engraved on the human psyche."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I'm Starting With The Man In The Mirror I'm Asking Him To Change His Ways And No Message Could Have Been Any Clearer If You Wanna Make The World A Better Place Take A Look At Yourself, And Then Make A Change"
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: It's always difficult for anyone trying to compete against their past achievements."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: The idea is to take it a step forward and innovate. Or else why am I doing it? I don't want to be just another can in the assembly line. I want to create - do something that is totally different and unusual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: With acting, it's like becoming another person. I think that's neat, especially when you totally forget. If you totally forget, which I love to do, that's when it's magic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I want people to hear or watch something I've done and feel that I've given it everything I've got."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Don't you believe what you read."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Its all for love... L.O.V.E."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I will say again that I have never, and would never, harm a child. It sickens me that people have written untrue things about me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I think the actor or performer should be - to touch that truth inside of a person. Touch that reality so much that they become a part of what you're going and you can take them anywhere you want to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Why can't you share your bed? The most loving thing to do is to share your bed with someone. It's very charming. It's very sweet. It's what the whole world should do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I wouldn't say I was sexy! But I guess that's fine if that's what they say. I like that in concert. That's neat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Yeah, \"Wacko Jacko\". Where'd that come from? Some English tabloid. I have a heart and I have feelings, I feel that, when you do that to me. It's not nice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Before you judge me , try hard to love me , look within your heart Then ask , - have you seen my childhood ?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: There was Michael Jackson, the King of Pop, an aloof superstar who had everything and needed no one. And Michael Jackson, the shy kid under the mask, who lacked even a single real friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I used to always cry from loneliness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Martin Bashir persuaded me to trust him, that his would be an honest and fair portrayal of my life and told me that he was the man that turned Dianas life around."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I always like to plan ahead of time and follow up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I've never asked a girl out in my life, they have to ask me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Everyone who knows me will know the truth, which is that my children come first in my life and that I would never harm any child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I have spent my entire life helping millions of children across the world. I would never harm a child. It is unfortunate that some individuals have seen fit to come forward and make a complaint that is completely false. Years ago, I settled with certain individuals because I was concerned about my family and the media scrutiny that would have ensued if I fought the matter in court. These people wanted to exploit my concern for children by threatening to destroy what I believe in and what I do. I have been a vulnerable target for those who want money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: The meaning of life is contained in every single expression of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: The distortion of the truth bothers me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Deep inside I feel that this world we live in is really a big, huge, monumental symphonic orchestra. I believe that in its primordial form, all of creation is sound and that it's not just random sound, that it's music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I would just go in my room and just scream out of anger because I didn't understand how a person could be so vicious and mean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I've been an ambassador of goodwill all over the world, spreading this message, did we do heal the world, treaty of all nations, circling this huge globe? What I don't understand is just singing about sex and \"I want to get in a hot tub with you baby and rub you all over\" and, but I get battered in the press as the weirdo."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Today I feel more betrayed than perhaps ever before, that someone who had got to know my children, my staff and me, whom I let into my heart and told the truth, could then sacrifice the trust I placed in him and produce this terrible and unfair program."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I never think about themes. I let the music create itself. I like it to be a potpourri of all kinds of sounds, all kinds of colors, something for everybody, from the farmer in Ireland to the lady who scrubs toilets in Harlem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: A perfectionist has to take his time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Those who criticize, they desire our blood not our pain. But still I must achieve I must seek truth in all things. I must endure for the power I was sent forth, for the world for the children. But have mercy, for I've been bleeding a long time now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: We can help the world live without fear. It's our only hope, without hope we are lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Before I would hurt a child, I would slit my wrists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: There are people that I am in love with, totally in love with them. I would die for them. I love Michelangelo. I love Charlie Chaplin with all my heart. I love Walt Disney. These are the people I am nuts over. These are my people. I love the great ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I could compose and write music and get to share it with the masses and the people around the world and to have them to receive it so beautifully - I love that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: The teacher always used me as an example to the class of good English and good storytelling because we all had to write the same stories. But she used to make me go out front - which I hated - and read my story to the class and I would get huge applause. Not because of who I was but because they truly enjoyed the stories I wrote."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Please, I don't want anybody to think I'm starving, I'm not. My health is perfect, actually."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Look at how many great actors or entertainers have been lost to the world because they did a performance one night and that was it. With film, you capture that, it's shown all over the world and it's there forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I am scared of my father to this day. My father walked in the room - and God knows I am telling the truth - I have fainted in his presence many times. I have fainted once to be honest. I have thrown up in his presence because when he comes in the room and this aura comes and my stomach starts hurting and I know I am in trouble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Look who's standing if you please, 'though you tried to bring me to my knees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Pierre Bordieu was right: \"The all powerful is he who does not wait but makes others wait. Absolute power is the power to make oneself unpredictable and deny other people any reasonable anticipation, to place them in total uncertainty by offering no scope for their capacity to predict.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I think Broadway is good for sharpening your skills. It's the best for really reaching the zenith of your talent. You go so far and reach the peak of it and you say, \"Maybe this is the best performance I can do.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: The actor's tense, he's being taped and things are not falling naturally. That's what I hate about Boadway. I feel like I'm giving a whole lot for nothing. I like to capture things and hold them there and share them with the whole world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper.' The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face. ... I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses. ... And I remember going to the record studio and there was a park across the street and I'd see all the children playing and I would cry because it would make me sad that I would have to work instead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: A star can never die. It just turns into a smile and melts back into the cosmic music, the dance of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I love surprising people with a present or a gift or a stage performance or anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I think a great artist should be able to create any style, any form, anything from rock to pop to gospel to spiritual, just wonderful music where everybody can sing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I love great music - it has no color, it has no boundaries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: People ask me how I make music. I tell them I just step into it. It's like stepping into a river and joining the flow. Every moment in the river has its song."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: In a world filled with hate, we must still dare to hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Beat me, hate me, you can never break me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: If you're satisfied with everything you're just going to stay at one level and the world will move ahead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: What one wishes is to be touched by truth and to be able to interpret that truth so that one may use what one is feeling and experiencing, be it despair or joy, in a way that will add meaning to one's life and will hopefully touch others as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I love movies and I love art - and an architect is an entertainer, the guy who builds a rollercoaster is an entertainer. He knows where to build the slopes, and the big anticipation when you go up... He makes you go, 'Oh my God!' when you get to the top before you come down. It's just the same as structuring a show or a dance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I can tell you there are rewards that go far beyond money and public acclaim and awards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: My father was a management genius. But what I really wanted was a dad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I love to read. I wish I could advise more people to read. There\u2019s a whole new world in books. If you can\u2019t afford to travel, you travel mentally through reading. You can see anything and go any place you want to in reading."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Consciousness expresses itself through creation. This world we live in is the dance of the creator. Dancers come and go in the twinkling of an eye but the dance lives on. On many an occasion when I am dancing, I have felt touched by something sacred.In those moments, I felt my spirit soar and become one with everything that exists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Life songs of ages, throbbing in my blood, have danced the rhythm of the tide and flood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Deep down inside we're all the same. We all have the same emotions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I just want to say to fans in every corner of the earth, every nationality, every race, every language: I love you from the bottom of my heart. I would love your prayers and your goodwill, and please be patient and be with me and believe in me because I am completely, completely innocent. But please know a lot of conspiracy is going on as we speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Most people don't know me, that is why they write such things in which most is not true. I cry very very often because it hurts and I worry about the children, all my children all over the world, I live for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: If you came to see the truth, the purity, it's here inside a lonely heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Today we stand together all around the world, joined in a common purpose - to remake the planet into a haven of joy and understanding and goodness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: This extravagant dwelling, as domineering as it was distant, brought home to me the intimateconnection between tyranny and abstraction, and put me in mind of John Berger's observation that \"abstraction's capacity to ignore what is real is undoubtedly where most evil begins.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: James Brown, Ray Charles, Jackie Wilson, Chuck Berry and Little Richard - I think they had strong influences on a lot of people, because these were the guys who really got rock'n'roll going. I like to start with the origin of things, because once it gets along it changes. It's so interesting to see how it really was in the beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Success definitely brings on loneliness. People think you're lucky, that you have everything. They think you can go anywhere and do anything, but that's not the point. One hungers for the basic stuff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: A musician knows hit material. It has to feel right. Everything has to feel in place. It fulfills you and it makes you feel good. You know it when you hear it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: My goal in life is to give to the world what I was lucky to receive: the ecstasy of divine union through my music and my dance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: When you're strong and good, then you're Bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I love Elizabeth Taylor. I'm inspired by her bravery. She has been through so much and she is a survivor. That lady has been through a lot and she's walked out of it on two feet. I identify with her very strongly because of our experiences as child stars. When we first started talking on the phone, she told me she felt as if she had known me for years. I felt the same way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Say Say Say What you want But don't play games With my affection Take take take What you need But don't leave me With no direction"
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: If - and it can be in a movie or in a department store - I hear someone arguing with their child, I break down and cry. Because it reflects how I was treated when I was little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I've been in the entertainment industry since I was six-years-old ... As Charles Dickens says, 'It's been the best of times, the worst of times.' But I would not change my career ... While some have made deliberate attempts to hurt me, I take it in stride because I have a loving family, a strong faith and wonderful friends and fans who have, and continue, to support me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I hate it. I hate taxidermy shops and all that crap."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Heal the World, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race, there are people dying, if you care enough for the living, make a better place for you and for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I was too shy to be around real people. It wasn't like old ladies talking to plants."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: If politicians can't do it, I want to do it. We have to do it. Artists, put it in paintings. Poets, put it in poems, novels. That's what we have to do. And I think it's so important to save the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I wake up from dreams and go, 'Wow, put this down on paper'. The whole thing is strange. You hear the words, everything is right there in front of your face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Going to my shows, it's like a religious experience, because you come out, you go in one person, you come out a different person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Music has been my outlet, my gift to all of the lovers in this world. Through it - my music, I know I will live forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Together we can make a change of the world. Together we can help to stop racism. Together we can help to stop prejudice. We can help the world live without fear. It's our only hope, without hope we are lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Because parents have power over children. They feel they have to do what their parents say. But the love of money is the root of all evil. And this is a sweet child. And to see him turn like this, this isn't him. This is not him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: There's nothing that can't be done if we raise our voice as one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Me and Janet really are two different people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Who will dance on the floor in the round?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I said if you're thinkin' of being my brother, it don't matter if you're black or white."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I always \n enjoyed the feeling of being \n onstage - the magic that comes. \n When I hit the stage it\u2019s like all \n of a sudden a magic from \n somewhere just comes and the spirit just hits you and you just \n lose control of yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: [about tabloid magazines] Just because you read it in a magazine or see it on a TV screen doesn't make it factual. To buy it is to feed it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I have a loving family, a strong faith and wonderful friends and fans who have, and continue, to support me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I must endure...for the world for the children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Nothing's real ,but all is possible if God is on my side"
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I have a skin disorder that destroys the pigmentation of the skin, it's something that I cannot help, OK?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: It's been my fate to compensate for the childhood I've never known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Heal the world, make it a better place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: When you have seen the things I have seen and traveled all over the world, you would not be honest to yourself and the world to [look away]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: You know, let's put it this way, if all the people in Hollywood who have had plastic surgery, if they went on vacation, there wouldn't be a person left in town."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: If you enter this world knowing you are loved and you leave this world knowing the same, then everything that happens in between can be dealt with."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I just wish I could understand my father."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: If you can't feed your baby, then don't have a baby."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I am always writing a potpourri of music. I want to give the world escapism through the wonder of great music and to reach the masses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I know a tree feels it when the wind blows through it. It probably goes, 'Chhhhhh, this is wonderful.' And that's how I feel when I'm singing some songs. It's wonderful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Because I wanted to have a place that I could create everything that I that I never had as a child. So, you see rides. You see animals. There's a movie theater."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: The most conspicuous thing about suffering is, as W.H. Auden once observed, its banality. The day is green, the sun is shinging, someone is eating, or opening a window, the torturer's horse is scatching its innocent behind on a tree, and in a mere second someone we love is dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I love John Travolta, who came off that Kotter show. Nobody knew he could dance or do all of those things. He is like - boom. Before he knew it, he was the next big Brando or something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: When the body breaks down and you start to wrinkle, I think it's so bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I care about being paid fairly for what I do. When I approach a project, I put my whole heart and soul into it. Because I really care about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I don't like pop music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I've heard that Black people and Black faces don't sell magazines, but one day you're going to beg me to be on there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I love putting on an outfit or a costume and just looking at myself in the mirror. Baggy pants or some real funky shoes and a hat and just feeling the character of it. That's fun to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I used to say I and Me\r\nNow it's Us, now it's We"
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I wanted so badly to play in the park across the street because the kids were playing baseball and football but I had to record."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: All the forms of popular music from jazz to hip-hop, to bebop, to soul [come from black innovation]. You talk about different dances from the catwalk, to the jitterbug, to the Charleston, to break dancing -\\-\\ all these are forms of black dancing...What would [life] be without a song, without a dance, and joy and laughter, and music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Somebody once said it's the SOUL that matters"
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I believe in the Bible and I try to follow the Bible. I know I'm an imperfect person \u2026 I'm not making myself an angel because I'm not an angel and I'm not a devil either. I try to be the best I can and I try to do what I think is right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I say, \u2018You should blanket me\u2019 or \u2018you should blanket her\u2019, meaning like a blanket is a blessing. It\u2019s a way of showing love and caring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: The lyrics, the strings, the chords, everything comes at the moment like a gift that is put right into your head and that's how I hear it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: What have we done to the world?....... Look what we've done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I have been a vulnerable target for those who want money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Everything that I love is behind those gates. We have elephants, and giraffes, and crocodiles, and every kind of tigers and lions. And - and we have bus loads of kids, who don't get to see those things. They come up sick children, and enjoy it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I'm starting with the man in the mirror"
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: \"In Africa,\" S. B. once remarked, \"if you do well, people close to you will hate you.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I've helped many, many, many children, thousands of children, cancer kids, leukemia kids."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: We are the world, we are the children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Ain't no mountain that I can't climb, baby"
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Jew me, sue me, everybody do me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I used to dream. I used to glance beyond the stars. Now I don't know where we are\n Although I know we've drifted far!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I made a terrible mistake. I got caught up in the excitement of the moment. I would never intentionally endanger the lives of my children. I love my children. I was holding my son tight. Why would I throw a baby off the balcony? That's the dumbest, stupidest story I ever heard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: The more passive one's life in the field, the greater the need to reverse the situation when one returns home, which is why the arcane and authoritative character of academic writing may be seen, to some extent, as a vengeful reaction to the inertia, uneventfulness, and waiting one had to endure as a guest at someone else's banquet. A way of redressing an existental imbalance, as it were reclaiming authorial will by superimposing one's own meaning on theirs..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I'm crazy about Steven Spielberg. Another inspiration for me, and I don't know where it came from, is children. If I'm down, I'll take a book with children's pictures and look at it and it will just lift me up. Being around children is magic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: How does it feel when you're alone and you're cold inside"
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: You know I'm bad, I'm bad. You know it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: Everyone's Taking Control Of Me Seems That The World's Got A Role For Me I'm So Confused Will You Show To Me You'll Be There For Me And Care Enough To Bear Me"
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: I always hated the world \"acting\" - to say, \"I'm an actor.\" It should be more like a believer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Michael Jackson: When I was five I was touring, singing and dancing. Always gone, always out of school."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: God, When I was alone, and had nothing, I asked for a friend to help me bear the pain, No one came, except God, When I needed a breath to rise, from my sleep, No one could help me.. except God,  When all I saw was sadness, and I needed answers, No one heard me, except God, So when I'm asked.. who I give my unconditional love to? I look for no other name, except God"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: The seed must grow regardless Of the fact that it\u2019s planted in stone"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Why am I dying to live if I'm just living to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: My aim is to spread more smiles than tears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: If you can make it through the night, there's a brighter day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: If you could walk a mile in my shoes you'd be crazy too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Maybe in time you'll understand only God can save us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: No one knows my Struggle, they only see the Trouble. Not knowing it's hard to carry on when, No one loves you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Long live the rose that grew from the concrete when no one else ever cared!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Everybody\u2019s at war with different things\u2026I\u2019m at war with my own heart sometimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I'm down for you, so ride with me.\r\nMy enemies your enemies,\r\nCause you ain't ever had a friend like me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: The trick is to never lose hope!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Can\u2019t sleep \u2018cause all the dirt make my heart hurt"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Study your lessons, don't settle for less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: When I say ' thug' I mean not a criminal, someone who beats you over the head, I mean the underdog. You could have two people- one person has everything he needs to succeed and one person has nothing. If the person who has nothing succeeds, he's a thug. Cuz he overcame all the obstacles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: There's gon' be some stuff you gon' see that's gon' make it hard to smile in the future. But through whatever you see, through all the rain and the pain, you gotta keep your sense of humor. You gotta be able to smile through all this bullshit. Remember that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Tomorrow comes after the dark"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Reality is wrong. Dreams are for real."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: How many caskets can we witness before we see it's hard to live this life without God, so we must ask forgiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Feel me now, picture my pain, embrace my words, make the world change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Heaven ain't hard to find; all you gotta do is look."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I set goals, take control, drink out my own bottle, I make mistakes but learn from every one, And when it's said and done, I bet this brother be a better one, If I upset you don't stress, Never forget, that God isn't finished with me yet"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Though things change, the future's still inside of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Perspective. You start looking at things differently, like everything's not so important. You don't take things so personally. Everyone changes, becomes better people. We all should get that chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: The hard times make a true friend afraid to ask."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: strength is overcome by weakness/Joy is overcome by Pain/The night is overcome by Brightness/and Love-it remains the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Be grateful for blessings,\r\nDon't ever change, keep your essence.\r\nThe power is in the people and politics we address."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: All I'm trying to do is survive and make good out of the dirty, nasty, unbelievable lifestyle that they gave me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Instead of war on poverty, they got a war on drugs so the police can bother me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Don't change on me. Don't extort me unless you intend to do it forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: There's nobody in the business strong enough to scare me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Death or success is what I quest, cause I'm fearless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Cry later, but for now, let's enjoy the laughter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I turn to a life of crime cause I came from a broken family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: God come save the youth, Ain't nothin else to do but have faith in you, Dear Lord I live the life of a Thug, hope you understand Forgive me for my mistakes, I gotta play my hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: My only fear of death is reincarnation"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Fear is stronger than love"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Keep your head up, Legs closed, Eyes open."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: And now i'm like a major threat, 'Cause I remind you of the things you were made to forget."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Why am I fighting to live, If I am just living to fight Why am I trying to see. When there aint nothing in sight Why am I trying to give, When no one gives me a try Why am I dying to live, If I am just living to die?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: It's a struggle for every young Black man. You know how it is, only God can judge us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I'd love to go back to when we played as kids, but things change. And that's the way it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Forgive, but don't forget"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I'm 23 years old. I might just be my mother's child, but in all reality, I'm everybody's child. Nobody raised me; I was raised in this society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Even the genius ask questions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Can't close my eyes cause all I see is terror \n I hate the man in the mirror \n Cause his reflection makes the pain turn realer"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: The only time I have problems is when I sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Only God can judge me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I wonder if heaven got a ghetto?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I wake up in the morning and ask myself; is life worth living? Should I blast myself?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: It seems like every time you come up something happens to bring you back down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: You get time to appreciate things. Perspective, you start looking at things differently."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Let me say for the record, I am not a gangster and never have been. I'm not the thief who grabs your purse. I'm not the guy who jacks your car. I'm not down with people who steal and hurt others. I'm just a brother who fights back. I'm not some violent closet psycho. I've got a job. I'm an artist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: It takes skill to be real. Time to heal each other"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Evil's lurking, I can see him smirking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I believe in God. Whatever supposed to happen supposed to happen. But I can not live in a jail cell. That's why I don't rob people and stick up people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: We are being wiped off the face of this earth \n At an extremely alarming rate \n And even more alarming is the fact \n That we are not fighting back"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I love William Shakespeare. He wrote some of the rawest stories. I mean look at Romeo and Juliet. That's some serious ghetto expletive. You got this guy Romeo from the Bloods who falls for Juliet, a female from the Crips, and everybody in both gangs are against them. So they have to sneak out and they end up dead for nothing. Real tragic stuff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I was looking for a father, he was gone. I hung around with the thugs, and even though they sold drugs, they showed a young brother love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I exist in the depths of solitude pondering my true goal Trying 2 find peace of mind and still preserve my soul"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I'd rather die like a man, than live like a coward"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Ain't a woman alive that could take my mama's place"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I finally understand / for a woman it ain't easy tryin to raise a man / You always was committed / A poor single mother on welfare, tell me how ya did it / There's no way I can pay you back / But the plan is to show you that I understand / You are appreciated"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: In USA, a black man only have like five years we can exhibit maximum strength, and that's right now while you a teenager, while you still strong, while you still wanna lift weights, while you still wanna shoot back. 'Cause once you turn 30, it's like they take the heart and soul out of a man, out of a black man, in this country. And you don't wanna fight no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I'm used on every level. I have no friends. I have no resting place. I never sleep. I can never close my eyes. It's horrible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Unless we share with each other we gotta start makin' changes"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I'm tired of being a nice guy, I've been poor all my life, but don't know quite why."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: The only thing that comes to a sleeping man is dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I think I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: They say it's the white man I should fear, But it's my own kind doin' all the killin' here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I would rather have been shot straight-up in cold blood-but to be set up? By people who you trusted? That's bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: But please don't cry, dry your eyes, never let up\r\nForgive but don't forget, girl keep your head up"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Dont blame me, I was given this world, I didn't make it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Love IS the People's Power"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: This fast life soon shatters, cause after all the lights and screams, nothing but my dreams matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I just don't know how to deal with so many people giving me that much affection. I never had that in my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Is it a crime, to fight, for what is mine?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I'm not really a religious person. But I believe that God wants me to do something and it has to do with Thug Life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: It's been stress and drama for a long time now, man. So much has happened. I got shot five times by some dudes who were trying to rub me out. But God is great. He let me come back. But, when I look at the last few years, it's not like everybody just did me wrong. I made some mistakes. But I'm ready to move on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I don't see myself being special; I just see myself having more responsibilities than the next man. People look to me to do things for them, to have answers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: We probably in hell already, our dumb asses not knowing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I got love for my brother but we can never go nowhere unless we share with each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: That which does not kill me can only make me stronger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Perhaps I was blind to the facts, stabbed in the back \n I couldn't trust my own homies just a bunch of dirty rats"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I know death follows me, but I murder him first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I WILL NEVER UNDERSTAND THIS SOCIETY! First they try to murder me then they lie to me!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: EVEN THOUGH I'M MARKED FOR DEATH, I'MA SPARK TILL I LOSE MY BREATH"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Can you picture my prophecy?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I ain't racist but lets trade places."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I'm tryin to make a dollar out of fifteen cents \n It's hard to be legit and still pay tha rent"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I'm not saying I'm gonna change the world, but I guarantee that I will spark the brain that will change the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: So much pressure in this life of mine, I cry at times, I once contemplated suicide and woulda tried, but when I held that nine, all I could see was my mama's eyes, no one knows my struggle, they only see the trouble, not knowing it's hard to carry on when no one loves you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: When your hero falls from grace, all fairy tales are uncovered Myth exposed and pain magnified, the grace pays uncovered He told me to be strong, but I confused to see it so weak You say never to give up, and it hurts to see what comes to be When your hero falls soley the stars, and so does the reception of tomorrow Without my hero, theres only me alone, to deal with my sorrow Your heart ceases to work, and your soul is not happy at all What are you expected to do, when your only hero falls"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live, and let's change the way we treat each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: It was hell, hugging my Mama from a jail cell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: You know it's funny, when it rains it pours they got money for wars, but can't feed the poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: There should be a class on apartheid. There should be a class on why people are hungry, but there are not. There are classes on...gym. Physical Education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I remember Marvin Gaye used to sing to me, \n He had me feelin' like black was the thing to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: If you fall stand tall and come back for more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Let the Lord judge the criminals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Heart of a solider with a brain to teach your whole nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: It's not like I idolize this one guy Machiavelli. I idolize that type of thinking where you do whatever's gonna make you achieve your goal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: To me, a perfect album talks about the hard stuff and the fun and caring stuff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I finally understand for a woman it ain't easy trying to raise a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Went to church but don't understand it, they underhanded. God gave me these commandments, the world is scandalous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Burnin' churches, fearin' God, Who can be so cruel, We all ignorant to AIDS, Till it happens to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Revenge is like the sweetest joy next to gettin' pussy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I see myself as real. Like I mean if I was the President I would have a responsibility, because people put me there. Nobody put me here. They just buy my records. They wouldn't buy my records if my records wasn't good. I'm being who i am in the record."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Recollect your thoughts don't get caught up in the mix ,cause the media is full of dirty tricks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: With all this extra stressin \r\nThe question I wonder is after death, after my last breath \r\nWhen will I finaly get to rest? Through this supression \r\nthey punish the people that's askin questions \r\nAnd those that possess, steal from the ones without possesions \r\nThe message I stress: to make it stop study your lessons \r\nDon't settle for less - even the genius asks-es questions \r\nBe grateful for blessings \r\nDon't ever change, keep your essence \r\nThe power is in the people and politics we address."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I don't have no fear of death. My only fear is coming back reincarnated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: It's the game of life. Do I win or do I lose? One day they're gonna shut the game down. I gotta have as much fun and go around the board as many times as I can before it's my turn to leave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I want there to be a life for the street element. Instead of we always getting shut out. Instead of defenseless, having power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Measure a man by his actions fully from the beginning to the end. Don\u2019t take a piece out of my life or a song out of my music and say this is what I\u2019m about because you know better than that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I bring truth to tha youth tear tha roof off tha ol' school."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I put the pistol by my head, and say a prayer. I see visions of me dead, Lord are you there?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: People look to me to do things for them, to have answers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I will die Before My Time. Because I feel the shadow's Depth. So much I wanted to accomplish. before I reached my Death"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: For quiet times disappear listen to the ocean"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: It don't stop 'til the casket drop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: How many pistols smoking coming from a broken family?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Today is built on tragedies, which no one wants to face, nightmares to humanities and morally disgraced. Tonight is filled with rage, violence in the air, children bred with ruthlessness because no one at home cares."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: And everyday I read the paper, there's another lie. They show my picture for the crimes of another guy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: The same crime element that white people are scared of black people are scared of. While they waiting for legislation to pass, we next door to the killer. All them killers they let out, they're in that building. Just because we black, we get along with the killers? What is that?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Bill Clinton, Mr. Bob Dole, You too old to understand tha way tha game is told."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Even as a little seed, I could see his plan for me. Stranded on welfare, another broken family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Throw it up y'all, throw it up, Throw it up, Let's show these fools how we do this on that west side. Cause you and I know it's tha best side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: If I win and get the money, then the Oakland Police department is going to buy a boys' home, me a house, my family a house, and a Stop Police Brutality Center."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: The reason why I could get into acting was because it takes nothing to get out of who I am and go into somebody else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Mama raised a hellraiser why cry, That's just life in the ghetto, do or die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Some say the blacker the berry, the sweeter the juice I say the darker the flesh then the deeper the roots"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: My mother was a woman. A black woman. A single mother. Raising two kids on her own. So she was dark skinned. Had short hair. Got no love from nobody except for a group called the Black Panthers. So that's why she was a Black Panther."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Gotta get a tight grip, don't slip, loose lips, sank ships, it's a trip, I love the way she licks her lips."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Hoping they bury me with ammunition, weed, and shells. Just in case."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Everything in life is not all beautiful, not all fun. There is lots of killing and drugs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: In my mind I'm a blind man doin' time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Take a look at my family, a different father every weekend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I try to find my way in the world you know, I try to be somebody instead of just, make money off of everybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: And I hope I'm forgiven for Thug Livin when I die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I'll probably be punished for hard living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: To all the seeds that follow me protect your essence, Born with less, but you still precious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: No longer living in fear, my pistol close in hand, Convinced this is my year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: My family tree consists of drug dealers, thugs, and killers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Money made me evil, court cases got me stressed Niggaz aimin at my head but I still wear my vest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: That's what I am, America's nightmare. I am what you made me, the hate and evil that you gave me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Can you imagine what it's like for you to be who I am, who I was, and for them to say that I raped a woman? And for the whole world to actually be entertaining the thought that you raped a woman. That's hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: We ain't meant to survive, cause it's a setup, And even though you're fed up, Huh, ya got to keep your head up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Somebody help me, tell me where to go from here cause even Thugs cry, but do the Lord care?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Thug Life to me is dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: It\u2019s just me against the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Set me up, wet me up, niggas stuck me up...\r\nHeard the guns bust, but you tricks never shut me up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Killing ain't fair, but somebody gotta do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Will I, succeed, paranoid from the weed and hocus pocus, try to focus but I can't see."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: When you do rap albums, you got to train yourself. You got to constantly be in character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I just spent 11 and a half months in a maximum-security jail, got shot five times, and was wrongly convicted of a crime I didn't commit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: If you believe in God, believe in Death Row East."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: It aint about black or white cause we`re human"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I'm not thuggin' for me, I'm thuggin' for my family, I pay all the bills, I feed my whole family, wrong or right, I do and I can't stop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: With all my fans I got a family again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I'm a reflection of the community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete proving nature's laws wrong it learned 2 walk without having feet"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: What I want to know, though, is why all of a sudden is everybody acting like gangs are some new phenomenon in this country? Almost everyone in America is affiliated with some kind of gang. We got the FBI, the ATF, the police departments, the religious groups, the Democrats and the Republicans. Everybody's got their own little clique and they're all out there gangbanging in their own little way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Just because I write some songs about bad women, though, that doesn't mean I hate women. I've written songs that show great love and respect for women too. Songs that talk about strong, upstanding women and their pain. I have women working on my music. They understand where I'm coming from. So does my mama. I always play my music for her before it comes out. Why do you think I wrote \"Dear Mama\"? I wrote it for my mama because I love her and I felt I owed her something deep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: And still, the best of us build, and reach monetary gains. Some of us kill, but still, most of us can change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: How could you do me like that I took ya family in put some cash in ya pocket made you a man again"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: And every breath I breathe untill the moment I'm deceased. Will be another moment ballin' as a 'G'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Now don't you ever tell a lie just confide in me \n Would you die 4 me? Tell me baby would you ride 4 me?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: The ground is the symbol for the poor people; the poor people is gonna open up this whole world and swallow up the rich people. It's gonna be like - there might be some cannibalism out this mother. They might eat the rich."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Dre was one of my heros in the music industry. If he's not down for his homeboys, I don't wanna be a part of him or around him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Only in Cali where we riot not rally to live and die\r\nIn L.A. we wearin Chucks not Ballies (that's right)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I wanna piss on his head, I want his family dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Can the Lord forgive me? Got the spirit of a thug in me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I'm a thug. And my thug comes from... my definition of thug comes from half of the street element. Straight street hustling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I am being ripped off, because I've never lied to the press. Just as much truth I bring to my work, a journalist should bring that much truth to their work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: There's a machine that I have nothing to do with. It's called the \"Tupac Machine.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Institutionalized, I live my life a product made to crumble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: How can I be a man if there is no role model?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Yo get a real job. Rappin doesn't pay the rent, I hate the studio cause that's where all my money went."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Goin insane, never die, live eternal, who shall I fear?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: It's gonna take the man in me to conquer this insanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: You need to hit the door, search for a new guy. Cause I only got one night in town."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Losing my homies in a hurry, they're relocating to the cemetery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Picture perfect, I paint a perfect picture bomb the hoochies wit' precision, my intentions to get richer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: America wants its respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: And in turn I'm hostile guess you could call me anti-social. Niggaz shakin like they caught the holy ghost when I approach em."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I never killed anybody, I never raped anybody, I never committed no crimes that weren't honorable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I don't have to talk about whether or not I got raped in jail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Some say they expect Illuminati take my body to sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I guess cause i'm black boy, I'm supposed to say 'peace', sing songs, and get capped on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: They wanna censor me, they ratha see me in a cell, livin' in hell, with only a few of us to live to tell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I can't give up. It's a rap thang. And I ain't goin back to the crack game."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Nothing but pain, stuck in this game, searching for fortune and fame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I only wrote one song in jail. But I'm writing new album - you're going to feel the entire 11 months of what I went through on this album. I'm venting my anger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: It was tough sitting in jail listening to Jay Leno and Rush Limbaugh and everybody making jokes about me getting shot. And watching the media report all kinds of lies about me, like that I got raped in jail. That never happened. But at least while I was locked down, all the inmates gave me props encouragement, and so did lots of mothers and kids, who wrote me letters of support."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: The thing that bothers me is that it seems like all the sensitive stuff I write just goes unnoticed . . . the media doesn't get who I am at all. Or maybe they just can't accept it. It doesn't fit into those negative stories they like to write. I'm the kind of guy who is moved by a song like Don McLean's \"Vincent,\" that one about Van Gogh. The lyric on that song is so touching. That's how I want to make my songs feel. Take \"Dear Mama\" - I aimed that one straight for my homies' heartstrings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Niggaz need guns, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: My life is in denial. And when I die, baptized in eternal fire, I'll shed many tears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I looked up and all I saw was blue lights. If I die tonight, I'm dying in a gun fight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I worked hard all my life as far as this music business. I dreamed of the day when I could go to New York and feel comfortable and they could come out here and be comfortable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Even thugs cry, but do the Lord care?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: What I learned in jail is that I can't change. I can't live a different lifestyle - this is it. This is the life that they gave and this is the life that I made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: You got to constantly be in character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Born through hard times, Ghetto child of mine. I wonder if you have to suffer for your father's crimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: It's a constant man-ego-check going on in the streets, in this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: Thanks for comin out, God bless you, good night... What of fame? Everyone knows your face, the world screams your name And never again, are you alone..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Tupac Shakur: I was raised in the city, shitty\r\nEver since I was an itty bitty kitty\r\nDrinkin' liquor out my momma's titty\r\nAnd smokin' weed was an everyday thang in my household,\r\nAnd drinking liquor til' you out cold"
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: You change the world by being yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Art is a way of survival."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: When you burn the chair, you suddenly realize that the chair in your mind did not burn or disappear"
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Some people are old at 18 and some are young at 90. Time is a concept that humans created."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Look at yourself in the mirror and don't be afraid to notice how beautiful you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I really feel that artists or musicians are controversial people. Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity. If people are not doing that, they're not artists - they're artisans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I have a woman inside my soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Smile to the future and it will smile back to you"
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: It's difficult to explain love. You want to explain water? You need a book for it. There are many different ways to explain what water is. Love is big, it's very big. I know that I have tons of it. But maybe we don't want to open up so much, and we think, maybe we don't have so much, but yes, you know that you have tons of love. We all do. Through that love we can connect, we can heal each other, we can make people, all of us, happy, joyful, and make a better world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: What is beauty? It's what you love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: You may think I\u2019m small, but I have a universe inside my mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: It's better to dance than to march through life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Society was built on male power, and women's power was... ignored is the best word to describe it I suppose, we have been running society on one power, half a power really. And that's so terrible. The world needs women's power too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: When you are feeling bad, do one thing a day to make your heart dance. It could be a simple thing like looking up at the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Each time we don't say what we wanna say, we're dying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Try to say nothing negative about anybody for three days, for forty-five days, for three months. See what happens to your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Mirror becomes a razor when it's broken. A stick becomes a flute when it's loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Dance in your dream. Go out into the street and hug everyone you meet. Tell them how beautiful they are. Dance together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: All my life, I have been in love with the sky. Even when everything was falling apart around me, the sky was always there for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I feel sad that he's just a voice now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Be silent in a group of people \n See what they reveal to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: World peace is one project that we have to do together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Tape the sound of friends laughing together. Save it for a rainy day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: When you say 'I love you', you are not just saying it to that person. You are saying 'I love you' to yourself, the planet & The Universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: The opposite of love is fear, not hate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. Don't be scared of witches, because we are good witches, and you should appreciate our magical power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: In your head, a sunset can go on for days"
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Remember, each one of us has the power to change the world. Just start thinking peace, and the message will spread quicker than you think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: If someone is unpleasant to you, draw a halo around his or her head in your mind. He/she is an angel who came to teach you something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Transform jealousy to admiration, and what you admire will become part of your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: It's always good to do something that is not a repeat. I just don't believe in repeating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Kill all the men you have slept with. Put the bones in a box and send it into the sea with flowers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Don't ever give up on life. Life can be so beautiful, especially after you've spent a lot of time with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Give peace a chance and let's hope that one day we will all live in peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Distance doesn't exist, in fact, and neither does time. Vibrations from love or music can be felt everywhere, at all times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: We get shy about saying things like I love you. Life is so short. It's crazy, that we hesitate to express our true thoughts to each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear, and we all just do our best. I would never claim to have the worst situation. There are many widows, and many people dying of AIDS, many people killed in Lebanon, people starving all over the planet. So we have to count our lucky stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I trust myself. You need that to survive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: See what you can do. See what you want to do. See what you will do about it. Find your way out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Unclog your mind. Unclog your room. Arrange your room in a way you wish your mind would be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Imagine painting all the statues in the world in the color of the sky"
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Controversy is part of the nature of art and creativity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: You can be very wild and still be very wise"
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Your thoughts create reality. The most pragmatic way to create world peace is to use your power of visualization. Think Peace, Act Peace, Spread Peace, Imagine Peace. Your thoughts will soon cover the planet. The most important thing is to believe in your power. It works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: The male society is letting the men think of the women as something pretty and soft and that kind of thing. So I just wanted to show what we were. Women are the ones who actually created the human race. I mean without us bringing up the new generation, there wouldn't be a human race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: To have a relationship that is pure and passionate and beautiful - I think people are scared of having that now. Especially guys."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Some people say, \"Sometimes I have violent thoughts, what can I do?\" So I say, \"Well, have them!\" Cos we should not try to control ourselves. It's very bad to control ourselves in this sense. If you have any emotion at all, if its a bad emotion or good emotion, think about it, you should just understand that you have those emotions. And it's good because we are people and we have all these emotions. And the result of that is you would become more and more peaceful. If you don't let those emotions be inside of you then you become extremely violent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: My beauty secret is... nothing! I don't drink too much water. I don't eat very well. Sometimes I cheat and grab some chocolate. The best thing is to eat what you want, but not very much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I'm just trying to do my best every day, hoping that I have done my best every day, and its very easy in a way, but also it's not that easy. Every day counts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Bless you for your jealousy; it is a sign of empathy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in the end, it is important to be honest about your love because life is not that long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: People say that this new generation is so used to the Internet that their heads are already different. They can't read a book from beginning to end. That is not a tragedy. The book changes form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Basically there are two types of people in the world: people who are confident because they know they have the ability to create, and then people who have been demoralised, who have no confidence in themselves because they have been told they have no creative ability, but must just take orders. The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Next time you meet a 'foreigner', remember it's only like a window with a different shape to it and the person who's sitting inside is you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Everyone is an artist and a genius, I think. If we don't choose to limit ourselves then we are totally accomplished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: And the more you are active about something you love, the world is going to be a better place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Rather than deal with problems in relationships, I've always moved on. That's why I'm one of the very few survivors as a woman, you know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Sometimes I have compared myself with a scientist or something: when you discover something and you don't expect the whole world to understand it. I always thought I was doing that kind of activity, in art and in music too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Over 1,057,000 people have been killed by guns in the USA since John Lennon was shot and killed on 8 Dec 1980."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Confusion has become a state of mind, more of less; we're trained to be confused. Quite simply, the people in power are keeping us down, keeping us docile and keeping us consuming with this confusion. It's a cultural confusion and it is deliberate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: You are beautiful. Don't ever think you are not. It may be such a compliment that does not come from a man too often. They are shy, proud, and rude. Give yourself some love. And walk as what you are - a beautiful woman. All your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Be  kind once a day - even if it's just in your mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: But only art and music have the power to bring peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: My life has always been unplanned. So when something comes along, I feel like, Why not give it a try? It's fun to experiment like that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: The Establishment likes people who take no responsibility and cannot respect themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I just want to be healthy and stay alive and keep my family going and everything and keep my friends going and try to do something so that this world will be peaceful. That is the most ambitious and the most difficult thing, but I'm there trying to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Power is not something we should be afraid of. Power is great, power is energy. And in terms of energy, the most important energy is human spiritual energy and when I say spiritual, I feel like have to be very careful, I don't mean religious, I mean the energy of the mind, the energy that exists within us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I'm into indie music. I think indie is going to bring back the spirit in music. There was a time when it was all about accommodating the music business, the music was getting tasteless, but the spirit is back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: What surprises me is-even though discrimination against women and racial discrimination still exist, they have improved a lot, especially among artists. And just when I felt I could finally take a break, I encounter the age discrimination. I turned 72 and started noticing a drastic difference in people's attitudes. I started with racism and sexism in the beginning and fought them so hard and was finally ready to relax. Then, here comes ageism, and I feel like, \"Give me a break!\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I think there is a big difference between the music business and music. And my relationship is to music, not music business. I think the business will keep changing, but music won't. Music will be there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: If you have too many quotes from other people in your head, you can't create. You have to keep your head empty. That's why I am constantly enjoying the sky, the park, the walk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: You have to release your emotion in order to keep your sanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I think that there is a sort of spiritual power that is translating into our bodies as we perform. Performers give, and giving is so important. It can heal. That is my experience, anyway."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Art is an effort to make you walk a half an inch above ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Power is power. It's energy. And if you get big, big energy, you can use that in a good way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: When I hear music, my body just starts to move. It has nothing to do with training or anything. That's just me. That's just my body. And I was like that as a child, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Women are put in a position of feeling embarrassed about their bodies. It's so ridiculous, but also astounding - we have to always be apologetic about having created the human race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Music is something that even when you close your eyes it gets into your body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I wonder why men get serious at all.  They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will.  If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Loneliness is equal to the radius of one's awareness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Look at a star in the sky not as something unreachable but as a planet you would visit one day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Touch, touch, touch, touch me love, I'm shaking inside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Imagine a dolphin dancing in the sky. Let it dance with joy. Think of yourself at the bottom of the ocean watching."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: But think of the violence, it could happen to your kids."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I get very sad when I think about Vietnam where there seems to be no choice but violence. This violence goes on for centuries perpetuating itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Art for me is like breathing. When I stop breathing, what happens?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Every time I create something, just before that there's a kind of - you're feeling very low, you're feeling very down and insecure. Then you create and then it's fine. This is the way I observe me doing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: IMAGINE PEACE: Think PEACE, Act PEACE, Spread  #\u200e PEACE  ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: It's a waste of time to think that if you colored a painting red what might have happened if you painted it black."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Tape the sound of the moon fading at dawn. Give it to your mother to listen to when she's in sorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Stand in the evening light until you become transparent or until you fall asleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Listen to the sound of the earth turning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Use your blood to paint. Keep painting until you faint. Keep painting until you die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I think that all women are witches, in the sense that a witch is a magical being. And a wizard, which is a male version of a witch, is kind of revered, and people respect wizards. But a witch, my god, we have to burn them. It's the male chauvinistic society that we're living in for the longest time, 3,000 years or whatever. And so I just wanted to point out the fact that men and women are magical beings. We are very blessed that way, so I'm just bringing that out. Don't be scared of witches, because we are good witches, and you should appreciate our magical power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I should think that people would be more interested in politics and all that is happening, rather than two lovebirds who are looking to wed. I think it's very nice that in an age when love is so scarce that people are willing to gamble on getting married."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Art is my life and my life is art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I have to be pretty inclusive. I have to be pretty much inside of me rather than going out and finding out what people are doing. I don't have the time to. I just listen to my mind, in a way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: We need to really do something about the world. Otherwise, we're all going to blow up together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Nobody's life is a bed of roses. We all have crosses to bear and we all just do our best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I always believed that my work should be unfinished in the sense that I encourage people to add their creativity to it, either conceptually or physically. Back in the 1960s, I was calling for 'Unfinished Music,' number one, and number two, with my artwork - I was taking unfinished work into the gallery. And that's how I was looking at it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: No one person could have broken up a band, especially one the size of the Beatles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: In the '60s we fought for peace, when the Vietnam war was on. We were against the cops and against the politicians, and there was a lot of waving banners and all that. And I think in a way, just as they were enjoying that machoism of war, we were enjoying the machismo of being anti-war, you know?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: You can't always be in awe of someone's talent, living with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Music is like my security blanket."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I wonder why men can get serious at all. They have this delicate long thing hanging outside their bodies, which goes up and down by its own will. First of all, having it outside your body is terribly dangerous. If I were a man I would have a fantastic castration complex to the point that I wouldn't be able to do a thing. Second, the inconsistency of it, like carrying a chance time alarm or something. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I thank Pussy Riot for standing firmly in their belief for Freedom of Expression, and making all women of the world proud to be women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Marriage is a difficult project. When seven years have passed and all your body's cells have been replaced, you're meant to experience that seven-year itch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Think of the Earth as a turning point in eternity. Think of the Earth as a meeting point in infinity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Life with another person is always difficult."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Be kind to yourself this evening. Buy something for yourself. Treat yourself to a meal. Look in the mirror and give yourself a smile"
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Life keeps getting better. If anything, you start to carry a certain pride in having survived all those years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I don't particularly consider myself just an artist. I'm a woman - I'm a human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Many incredible artists die before they were famous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I'm a politician. Politics is just a convenience for our life and we just have to create a beautiful world together that would be very convenient for us and just enjoyable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: We don't read people's wishes. The wishes are suppose to be direct communication to the Universe. Your interception will weaken the power of the wish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I don't work for a long time on anything. I don't have too much time in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: To have world peace, we all have to have a healthy understanding of what is necessary to bring World Peace. It's not something that will be dropped on our laps. We have to work for it. Until we get World Peace, I think my strongest passion stays in the effort to get it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I think people place limitations on each other and on ourselves. There is a great fear of expressing ourselves, of making creativity happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I think something that's very important for us to communicate is usually very simple. Like breathing: Breathing is very simple. You don't do a dissonant 9th harmony or something in breathing. You just breathe, you know. I think that's how it is with very important messages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: If you're criticized then you can use it as an experience. Compliments, you can't use."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: All women are feminists. Being a feminist is allowing woman to be natural, for what she is, whatever it is. All of us can be natural and we're all feminists in that sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I never wanted to be a professional artist; I think that's limiting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: When I was 4 years old my mother put me into an early music education school. That's where they taught you perfect pitch and harmony and how to write music and all that. At that time, one of the homeworks was to listen to all the sounds and the noise of a day and transfer that into musical notes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: If I hear dance music, my body starts to move. Whatever the dance music is, I can't help it. With all that, I still felt, well, rock is a little higher art, but it wasn't. Right now, because I have so much experience with dance charts, I started to realize that it's incredible art. This is going to be known one day as high art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: The people have got to trust in themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Some people get medals and awards and all that, and maybe not intentionally - maybe the world is making them do it - but they sort of just follow what they were doing. Repeat or follow what they were doing all their lives, in their style of music or whatever. In my case, I always try to start from scratch. It's very nerve-wracking actually, but it's interesting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I'm not the kind of woman who would love to make soup or knit sweaters. I never cherished that so much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: The amazing thing is that we could live in the world together peacefully, feed the world, shelter the world. We have that capability both spiritually and technologically."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: If you have a slave around the house how can you expect to make a revolution outside it? The problem for women is that if we try to be free, then we naturally become lonely, because so many women are willing to become slaves, and men usually prefer that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I often wish my mother had died so that at least I could get some people's sympathy. But there she was, a perfectly beautiful mother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: In a way the new music showed things could be transformed by new channels of communication."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in"
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Hide until everybody goes home. Hide until everybody forgets about you. Hide until everybody dies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Love is what I give to the one I love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Art for me is like breathing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I have been known as the minimal and conceptual artist for over five decades. I think I haven't changed much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: All I can say is, it's not very easy for a woman to be associated with The Beatles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Bad stories are written about me because the press knows they can make me into a weeping dog and few people will object."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Energy is so important. If you don't have it, don't bother with rock and roll."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Give death announcements each time you move instead of giving announcements of the change of address. Send the same when you die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I get very nervous before I get on the stage, but once I'm on the stage, I'm just, you know, me. Nothing hurts me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: The 1960s were about releasing ourselves from conventional society and freeing ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Walking on thin ice, I'm paying the price.\nI'm throwing the dice in the air.\nWhy must we learn it the hard way\nAnd play the game of life with your heart?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: If your judgement is clouded, you must be carrying too many things which are being a burden to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: There is an incredible love in creating art unless somebody is saying, 'Hey, let's just make money,' because it doesn't work when you do it that way. If you are aiming for that, forget it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: There's many women now who think, 'Surely we don't need feminism anymore, we're all liberated and society's accepting us as we are'. Which is just hogwash. It's not true at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Tell the Earth how much you care, how beautiful she is, and how much you love her. Ask for her forgiveness for having been so careless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: We're all water from different rivers, That's why it's so easy to meet, We're all water in this vast, vast ocean, Someday we'll evaporate together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: When I speak out against the guns or against the big corporations, some of my friends say, 'Oh Yoko, be careful. These people have all the power.' But, you know, most people don't speak out because they are frightened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Great Art is Great because it inspired you greatly. If it didn't, no matter what the critics, the museums and the galleries say, it's not great art for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Women artists are still treated differently from men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: When Orientals are attacked, they don't hit back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: When I was four years old, my mother put me into a school for early music education where you get perfect pitch and harmony and composition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Countries have lost their culture because what they wanted was money. Money became the running theme in every country and culture was sacrificed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Our public officials have forgotten that they are ultimately accountable to the people who put them in office, that the information they keep in secrecy belongs to all of us. Julian Assange took a courageous step by rightfully returning what belongs to the public domain. For that reason, I believe we need to stand behind him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I'm not giving any guidance, OK. I mean, you know, mothers are not supposed to give guidance, right? Anyway, so he's [Sean] doing his own thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: My husband John Lennon was a very special man. A man of humble origin, he brought light and hope to the whole world with his words and music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: What a beautiful future it will be! Don't worry about life being boring. It will never be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: The only instrument I can play is piano. Whenever I make songs at home, I play the piano and make them on the piano."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Sometimes the father feels pushed out because of the connection between the mother and the child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Watch the sun until it comes into your body and stays as a tiny sun. It will keep your face shining even in the coldest of winter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I think energy is the most important thing that we can give to people as performers. Anything else is a little bit pretentious. But energy is not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: What the Beatles did was something incredible, it was more than what a band could do. We have to give them respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I respect Lady Gaga very much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Keep going until your efforts start to make things better in your hometown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Japanese are very proud and workaholics. Proud workaholics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I want to incite people to loosen their oppression by giving them something to work with, to build on. They shouldn't be frightened of creating themselves - that's why I make things very open, with things for people to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Beatles was 20th-century folksong in the framework of capitalism; they couldn't do anything different if they wanted to communicate within that framework."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Perhaps one feels more pain when parents are there. It's like when you're hungry, you know, it's worse to get a symbol of a cheeseburger than no cheeseburger at all. It doesn't do you any good, you know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I trust in my inspiration, really, and that's difficult because sometimes you would rather be technical. And once you empty your mind, empty your brain, it's really incredible. I'm very caring about things that dash into my brain, and I make sure I don't just clog it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: There's a big difference between sending your art in a statement or something like that, and sending yourself there. When you send yourself somewhere, then you are sharing your information uncontrollably - like all yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Love is an incredibly strong thing, it goes everywhere, it's like water, you can't stop it. Love, once you have it, once you create a kind of pathway for it to come out, it just keeps on coming out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I don't really believe in going with somebody to have tea and chat. I don't do that. It's just a waste of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: It's better that you're criticized than complimented as a person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Not being appreciated for 40 years or something ... It feels like I was accused of something that I didn't do, which was breaking up the Beatles. That was like being somebody who is in prison without having done anything wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Music is like my security blanket. The first medium that I learned was music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: When I'm inspired, I jot things down and put them in a pile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Creativity is innate and it manifests itself in so many forms. It needs to come out somehow or it destroys you in some way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I never went to art school and I never thought of going to an art school. It was just a way of manifesting these ideas I had. Ideas came to me that I needed to express."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I never thought, \"I'm going to be an artist\". When I actually began to become successful in the art world I made it a point to say, 'I am a dilettante, I am not a professional artist\", which is true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: The first idea, the first art piece I ever did, was when I was four. I cut the seed of a pear in half and the seed of an apple in half in put those two halves together and planted the seed, hoping a very strange tree might grow. And I never stopped."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: All wishes create an upswing line when it is manifested. Therefore, together, it becomes an incredible upswing of power, whatever you wished. Of course, the more high level wishes, which covers the whole human race is stronger than wishing for getting ice cream for your dessert!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I don't think you make a choice to be an artist. There was no decision for me. I've been expressing myself this way since I can remember."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Our thoughts determine our age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: My work was not embraced for many decades. I would have killed myself if getting embraced affected me so much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Getting into creating in a new genre is like arriving to a new country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: We are very lucky really, because we can create our own reality, John [Lennon] and me, but we know the important thing is to communicate with other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: Peace is here now. It's just that we don't recognize it. Let's say that 98 percent of people in the world are wanting peace. Now people say, even people from Siberia? Yes. We want world peace. The two percent is really tying to mess it up. It's so sad in a way, because by messing it up what are they going to get? Their children are going to suffer, their grandchildren are going to suffer, and they might even die before something gets good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: You can't love someone unless you are in an equal position with them. A lot of women have to cling to men out of fear or insecurity, and that's not love - basically that's why women hate men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: In the present age when communication is so rapid, we should create a different tradition, traditions are created everyday. Five years now is like 100 years before. We are living in a society that has no history. There\u2019s no precedent for this kind of society so we can break the old patterns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: All I\u2019m saying is that perhaps we can make a revolution without violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I am the type of person who would do something thoroughly if someone said, \"I don't think you can do it.\" I am extremely rebellious. I have this strong, defiant spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I started to notice that simpleness is divine. I think we all start trying to use very complex harmonies and rhythms and all that because of a certain kind of ambition. But I was always trying to create something simple."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: We created a thing called culture and civilization, and now we're about to lose it because we're trying to destroy everything. And I kind of miss it. I miss culture and civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: I think I'm an observer in a way. And my life was not so - well, my life was bad too - but it's just that I had the sense to cope with it. But it's probably not that easy to cope if you're in a society where you get killed when your husband dies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: There's nothing bad about feminism. We have to help each other, because there's a lot of women in the world who are suffering because the fact is we're not equal. It's as plain as that. It's still a men's world. I don't know. We'll go on with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: We mustn't be traditional in the way we communicate with people - especially with the Establishment. We should surprise people by saying new things in an entirely new way. Communication of that sort can have a fantastic power so long as you don't do only what they expect you to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: When you go on a stage, before you go on a stage you're really scared and you're really frightened. You don't know what to do. \"Why did I say yes to this?\" But once you're on the stage you think, \"Okay.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Yoko Ono: The thing is, even after the revolution, if people don't have any trust in themselves, they'll get new problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Whoever gives nothing, has nothing. The greatest misfortune is not to be unloved, but not to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The welfare of the people in particular has always been the alibi of tyrants."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies. And the fact that men accept this, that the people\u2019s anger has not destroyed these hollow clowns, strikes me as proof that men attribute no importance to the way they are governed; that they gamble \u2013 yes, gamble \u2013 with a whole part of their life and their so called 'vital interests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The realization that life is absurd cannot be an end, but only a beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: One recognizes one's course by discovering the paths that stray from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: To grow old is to pass from passion to compassion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The need to be right is the sign of a vulgar mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There always comes a time when one must choose between contemplation and action. This is called becoming a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Find your happiness in yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Man is the only creature that refuses to be what he is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Poor and free rather than rich and enslaved. Of course, men want to be both rich and free, and this is what leads them at times to be poor and enslaved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Like great works, deep feelings always mean more than they are conscious of saying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Seeking what is true is not seeking what is desirable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: One always has exaggerated ideas about what one doesn't know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The slave begins by demanding justice and ends by wanting to wear a crown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: What is a rebel? A man who says no."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Stupidity has a knack of getting its way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: People hasten to judge in order not to be judged themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: When silence or tricks of language contribute to maintaining an abuse that must be reformed or a suffering that can be relieved, then there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: We are all special cases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Basically, at the very bottom of life, which seduces us all, there is only absurdity, and more absurdity. And maybe that's what gives us our joy for living, because the only thing that can defeat absurdity is lucidity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A man is more a man through the things he keeps to himself than through those he says."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The tragedy is not that we are alone, but that we cannot be. At times I would give anything in the world to no longer be connected by anything to this universe of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: But above all, in order to be, never try to seem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: If something is going to happen to me, I want to be there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There is scarcely any passion without struggle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: After awhile you could get used to anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: She was waiting, but she didn't know for what. She was aware only of her solitude, and of the penetrating cold, and of a greater weight in the region of her heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: No matter what cause one defends, it will suffer permanent disgrace if one resorts to blind attacks on crowds of innocent people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The modern mind is in complete disarray. Knowledge has stretched itself to the point where neither the world nor our intelligence can find any foot-hold. It is a fact that we are suffering from nihilism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: You have so much inside you, and the noblest happiness of all. Don\u2019t just wait for a man to come along. That\u2019s the mistake so many women make. Find your happiness in yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Believe me there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory....everything is forgotten, even a great love. That's what's sad about life, and also what's wonderful about it. There is only a way of looking at things, a way that comes to you every once in a while. That's why it's good to have had love in your life after all, to have had an unhappy passion- it gives you an alibi for the vague despairs we all suffer from."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Integrity has no need of rules."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Always there comes an hour when one is weary of one's work and devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: If we believe in nothing, if nothing has any meaning and if we can affirm no values whatsoever, then everything is possible and nothing has any importance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: If it adapts itself to what the majority of our society wants, art will be a meaningless recreation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: It takes time to live. Like any work of art, life needs to be thought about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: To lose one's life is no great matter; when the time comes I'll have the courage to lose mine. But what's intolerable is to see one's life being drained of meaning, to be told there's no reason for existing. A man can't live without some reason for living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The innocent is the person who explains nothing"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A loveless world is a dead world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The truth is that everyone is bored, and devotes himself to cultivating habits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible, not to join forces with the pestilences. That may sound simple to the point of childishness; I can't judge if it's simple, but I know it's true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Charm is a way of getting the answer 'Yes' without asking a clear question."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. \"Can they be brought together?\" This is a practical question. We must get down to it. \"I despise intelligence\" really means: \"I cannot bear my doubts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Every time I hear a political speech or I read those of our leaders, I am horrified at having, for years, heard nothing which sounded human. It is always the same words telling the same lies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: We all have a weakness for beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: It's better to bet on this life than on the next."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In order to exist, man must rebel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I see many people die because they judge that life is not worth living. I see others paradoxically getting killed for the ideas or illusions that give them a reason for living (what is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying). I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The urge to revolt is one of the essential dimensions of human nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Note, besides, that it is no more immoral to directly rob citizens than to slip indirect taxes into the price of goods that they cannot do without."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: More and more, when faced with the world of men, the only reaction is one of individualism. Man alone is an end unto himself. Everything one tries to do for the common good ends in failure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: It is a well-known fact that we always recognize our homeland at the moment we are about to lose it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: And never have I felt so deeply at one and the same time so detached from myself and so present in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Nothing in the world is worth turning one's back on what one loves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Every act of rebellion expresses a nostalgia for innocence and an appeal to the essence of being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Greatness consists in trying to be great. There is no other way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Believe me, religions are on the wrong track the moment they moralize and fulminate commandments. God is not needed to create guilt or to punish. Our fellow men suffice, aided by ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: \u2026there's no question of heroism in all this. It's a matter of common decency. That's an idea which may make some people smile, but the only means of fighting a plague is - common decency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: ...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: For rich people, the sky is just an extra, a gift of nature. The poor, on the other hand, can see it as it is, a gift of infinite grace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Thinking of the future, establishing aims for oneself, having preferences-all this presupposes a belief in freedom, even if one occasionally ascertains that one doesn't feel it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Perhaps we cannot prevent this world from being a world in which children are tortured. But we can reduce the number of tortured children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I had only a little time left and I didn't want to waste it on God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: But it's not easy. I've been thinking it over for years. While we loved each other we didn't need words to make ourselves understood. But people don't love forever. A time came when I should have found the words to keep her with me, only I couldn't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: If the world were clear, art would not exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Thinking is learning all over again how to see, directing one's consciousness, making of every image a privileged place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The aim of art, the aim of a life can only be to increase the sum of freedom and responsibility to be found in every man and in the world. It cannot, under any circumstances, be to reduce or suppress that freedom, even temporarily."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I make myself strict rules in order to correct my nature. But it is my nature that I finally obey."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: It is not humiliating to be unhappy. Physical suffering is sometimes humiliating, but the suffering of being cannot be, it is life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: We have art in order not to die of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I have never been able, really, to regret anything in all my life. I have always been far much too absorbed in the present moment or the immediate future to think back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: If man is reduced to being nothing but a character in history, he has no other choice but to subside into the sound and fury of acompletely irrational history or to endow history with the form of human reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Lying is not only saying what isn't true. It is also, in fact especially, saying more than is true and, in the case of the human heart, saying more than one feels. We all do it, every day, to make life simpler."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There was a time when I didn\u2019t at any minute have the slightest idea how I could reach the next one. Yes, one can wage war in this world, ape love, torture one\u2019s fellow man, or merely say evil of one\u2019s neighbour while knitting. But, in certain cases, carrying on, merely continuing, is superhuman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: When I look at my life and its secret colors, I feel like bursting into tears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Those who prefer their principles over their happiness, they refuse to be happy outside the conditions they seem to have attached to their happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There is not one talent for living and another for creating. The same suffices for both. And one can be sure that the talent that could not produce but an artificial work could not sustain but a frivolous life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Creating is living doubly. The groping, anxious quest of a Proust, his meticulous collecting of flowers, of wallpapers, and of anxieties, signifies nothing else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: People don't love each other at our age, Marthe\u2014they please each other, that's all. Later on, when you're old and impotent, you can love someone. At our age, you just think you do. That's all it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Instead of killing and dying in order to produce the being that we are not, we have to live and let live in order to create what we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Man cannot do without beauty, and this is what our era pretends to want to disregard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: We used to wonder where war lived, what it was that made it so vile. And now we realize that we know where it lives... inside ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A person I knew used to divide human beings into three categories: those who prefer to have nothing to hide rather than being obliged to lie, those who prefer lying to having nothing to hide, and finally those who like both lying and the hidden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In the world there is, parallel to the force of death and constraint, an enormous force of persuasion that is called culture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I know that man is capable of great deeds. But if he isn't capable of great emotion, well, he leaves me cold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: As a remedy to life in society I would suggest the big city. Nowadays, it is the only desert within our means."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Only it takes time to be happy. A lot of time. Happiness, too, is a long patience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Freedom is not a reward or a decoration that you toast in champagne. On the contrary, it's hard graft and a long-distance run, all alone, very exhausting. Alone in a dreary room, alone in the dock before the judges, and alone to make up your mind, before yourself and before the judgement of others. At the end of every freedom there is a sentence, which is why freedom is too heavy to bear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: On the ridge where the great artist moves forward, every step is an adventure, an extreme risk. In that risk, however, and only there, lays the freedom of Art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from. That is why true artists scorn nothing: they are obliged to understand rather than to judge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The nobility of our calling will always be rooted in two commitments difficult to observe: refusal to lie about what we know, and resistance to oppression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Happiness implied a choice, and within that choice a concerted will, a lucid desire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: For the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the best of a life are devoted to the earning of that money. Happiness is forgotten; the means are taken for the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: We have to live and let live in order to create what we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: But sometimes it takes more courage to live than to shoot yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There is a solitude in poverty, but a solitude which restores to each thing its value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: What\u2019s true of all the evils in the world is true of plague as well. It helps men to rise above themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Myths are made for the imagination to breath life into them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: To lose the touch of flowers and women's hands is the supreme separation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: To feel absolutely right is the beginning of the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I may not have been sure about what really did interest me, but I was absolutely sure about what didn't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: To me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of men by providing them with a privileged image of our common joys and woes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there is no other solution but to speak out and show the obscenity hidden under the verbal cloak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman, and these hills, the softness of the sky, the outline of these trees at this very minute lose the illusory meaning with which we had clothed them, henceforth more remote than a lost paradise . . . that denseness and that strangeness of the world is absurd."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I said that the world is absurd, but I was too hasty. This world in itself is not reasonable, that is all that can be said. But what is absurd is the confrontation of this irrational and the wild longing for clarity whose call echoes in the human heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: For if there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: One leader, one people, signifies one master and millions of slaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: It is better to burn than to disappear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Thus, in a middle course between these heights and depths, they drifted through life rather than lived, the prey of aimless days and sterile memories, like wandering shadows that could have acquired substance only by consenting to root themselves in the solid earth of their distress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The desire for possession is insatiable, to such a point that it can survive even love itself. To love, therefore, is to sterilize the person one loves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Men and women consume one another rapidly in what is called \"the act of love,\" or else settle down to a mild habit of conjugality. We seldom find a mean between these two extremes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A guilty conscience needs to confess. A work of art is a confession."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: We always deceive ourselves twice about the people we love - first to their advantage, then to their disadvantage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The work of art is born of the intelligence's refusal to reason the concrete.  It marks the triumph of the carnal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Youth is above all a collection of possibilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A man devoid of hope and conscious of being so has ceased to belong to the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: To know oneself, one should assert oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In a world that has ceased to believe in sin, the artist is responsible for the preaching."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: No matter how the sun shone, the sea held forth no more promises."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: You make the mistake of thinking you have to choose, that you have to do what you want, that there are conditions for happiness. What matters \u2014 all that matters, really is the will to happiness, a kind of enormous, ever present consciousness. The rest - women , art, success \u2014 is nothing but excuses. A canvas waiting for our embroideries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There are people who prefer to look their fate in the eye"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain. One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night-filled mountain, in itself, forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: History only exists, in the final analysis, for God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Accepting the absurdity of everything around us is one step, a necessary experience: it should not become a dead end. It arouses a revolt that can become fruitful"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Do not wait for the Last Judgment. It takes place every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Men are never convinced of your reasons, of your sincerity, of the seriousness of your sufferings, except by your death. So long as you are alive, your case is doubtful; you have a right only to their skepticism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Purely historical thought is therefore nihilistic: it wholeheartedly accepts the evil of history and in this way is opposed to rebellion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: To live is in itself a value judgment. To breathe is to judge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: He had been bored, that's all, bored like most people. Hence he had made himself out of whole cloth a life full of complications and drama. Something must happen - and that explains most human commitments. Something must happen, even loveless slavery, even war or death. Hurray then for funerals!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I was assailed by memories of a life that wasn't mine anymore, but one in which I'd found the simplest and most lasting joys."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Methods of thought which claim to give the lead to our world in the name of revolution have become, in reality, ideologies of consent and not of rebellion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The most exhausting effort in my life has been to suppress my own nature in order to make it serve my biggest plans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: To be born to create, to love, to win at games is to be born to live in time of peace. But war teaches us to lose everything and become what we were not. It all becomes a question of style."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: It is in the thick of calamity that one gets hardened to the truth - in other words, to silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The opposite of an idealist is too often a man without love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I'd have given ten conversations with Einstein for a first meeting with a pretty chorus girl."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A work of art is a confession."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There is no love of life without despair of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I do not believe in God and I am not an atheist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In our well-policed society we recognize that an illness is serious from the fact that we don't dare speak of it directly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I cling like a miser to the freedom that disappears as soon as there is an excess of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There is no frontier between being and appearing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There exists an obvious fact that seems utterly moral: namely, that a man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them. One has to pay something. A man who has become conscious of the absurd is forever bound to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: If, after all, men cannot always make history have a meaning, they can always act so that their own lives have one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A novel is never anything but a philosophy expressed in images. And in a good novel the philosophy has disappeared into the images."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: You always get exaggerated notions of things you don't know anything about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving. All of us, today, are dying of this misfortune. For violence and hatred dry up the heart itself; the long fight for justice exhausts the love that nevertheless gave birth to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I don\u2019t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I cannot know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Truth is mysterious, elusive, always to be conquered. Liberty is dangerous, as hard to live with as it is elating. We must march toward these two goals, painfully but resolutely, certain in advance of our failings on so long a road."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There is so much stubborn hope in the human heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: With rebellion, awareness is born"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The realization that life is absurd and cannot be an end, but only a beginning. This is a truth nearly all great minds have taken as their starting point. It is not this discovery that is interesting, but theconsequences and rules of action drawn from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: What is a rebel? A man who says no: but whose refusal does not imply a renunciation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In art, rebellion is consummated and perpetuated in the act of real creation, not in criticism or commentary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: But what are a hundred million deaths? When one has served in a war, one hardly knows what a dead man is, after a while. And since a dead man has no substance unless one has actually seen him dead, a hundred million corpses broadcast through history are no more than a puff of smoke in the imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: To remain a man in today's world, one must have not only unfailing energy and unwavering intensity, one must also have a little luck."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I can negate everything of that part of me that lives on vague nostalgias, except this desire for unity, this longing to solve, this need for clarity and cohesion. I can refute everything in this world surrounding me that offends or enraptures me, except this chaos, this sovereign chance and this divine equivalence which springs from anarchy. I don't know whether this world has meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it. What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Without memories, without hope, they lived for the moment only. indeed, the here and now had come to mean everything to them. For there is no denying that the plague had gradually killed off in all of us the faculty not of love only but even of friendship. Naturally enough, since love asks something of the future, and nothing was left us but a series of present moments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Obstinacy alone is not a virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Once crime was as solitary as a cry of protest; now it is as universal as science. Yesterday it was put on trial; today it determines the law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: He was conscious of the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Life can be magnificent and overwhelming -- that is the whole tragedy. Without beauty, love, or danger it would almost be easy to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: For what gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we have. Travel robs us of such refuge. Far from our own people, our own language, stripped of all our props, deprived of our masks (one doesn't know the fare on the streetcars, or anything else), we are completely on the surface of ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The slave and those whose present life is miserable and who can find no consolation in the heavens are assured that at least the future belongs to them. The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: We are living in the era of premeditation and the perfect crime. Our criminals are no longer helpless children who could plead love as their excuse. On the contrary, they are adults and the have the perfect alibi: philosophy, which can be used for any purpose - even for transforming murderers into judges."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The most elementary form of rebellion, paradoxically , expresses an aspiration for order ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I grew up with the sea, and poverty for me was sumptuous; then I lost the sea and found all luxuries gray and poverty unbearable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I know myself too well to believe in pure virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The best are led to make greater demands upon themselves. As for those who succumb, they did not deserve to survive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Every great work makes the human face more admirable and richer, and this is its whole secret."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: But - I cannot make a choice. I have my own sorrow, but I suffer with him, too; I share his pain. I understand all - that is my trouble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: But, you know, I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints. Heroism and sanctity don't really appeal to me, I imagine. What interests me is being a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The most loathsome materialism is not the kind people usually think of, but the sort that attempts to let dead ideas pass for living realities, diverting into sterile myths the stubborn and lucid attention we give to what we have within us that must forever die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: To abandon oneself to principles is really to die - and to die for an impossible love which is the contrary of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: For instance, I never complained that my birthday was overlooked; people were even surprised, with a touch of admiration, by my discretion on this subject. But the reason for my disinterestedness was even more discreet: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself... Once my solitude was thoroughly proved, I could surrender to the charms of a virile self-pity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A symbol always transcends the one who makes use of it and makes him say in reality more than he is aware of expressing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: As soon as one does not kill oneself, one must keep silent about life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I felt as I hadn't felt for ages. I had a foolish desire to burst into tears. for the first time I'd realized how all these people loathed me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: As for those whose role it is to love us - I mean, relatives and in-laws (what a word)- It's a different tune. They find the right word, but it's usually the one that wounds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Rebellion cannot exist without the feeling that somewhere, in some way, you are justified."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I sometimes need to write things which I cannot completely control but which therefore prove that what is in me is stronger than I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: For years I've wanted to live according to everyone else's morals. I've forced myself to live like everyone else, to look like everyone else. I said what was necessary to join together, even when I felt separate. And after all of this, catastrophe came. Now I wander amid the debris, I am lawless, torn to pieces, alone and accepting to be so, resigned to my singularity and to my infirmities. And I must rebuild a truth-after having lived all my life in a sort of lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Camus himself described this work as 'an attempt to understand the time I live in'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There is always a certain hour of the day and of the night when a man\u2019s courage is at its lowest ebb, and it was that hour only that he feared."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Proof is never definitive, after all; one has to begin again with each new person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: It's a kind of spiritual snobbery that makes people think they can be happy without money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There can be no true goodness, nor true love, without the utmost clear-sightedness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Rule: Start by looking for what is valid in every man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The love of God is a hard love. It demands total self-surrender, disdain of our human personality. And yet it alone can reconcile us to suffering and the deaths of children, it alone can justify them, since we cannot understand them, and we can only make God's will ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In the vast reaches of the dry, cold night, thousands of stars were constantly appearing, and their sparkling icicles, loosened at once, began to slip gradually toward the horizon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Culture: the cry of men in face of their destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I feel like getting married, or committing suicide, or subscribing to L'Illustration. Something desperate, you know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: True debauchery is liberating because it creates no obligations. In it you possess only yourself, hence it remains the favorite pastime of the great lovers of their own person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Today we are always as ready to judge as we are to fornicate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In that daily effort in which intelligence and passion mingle and delight each other, the absurd man discovers a discipline that will make up the greatest of his strengths. The required diligence and doggedness and lucidity thus resemble the conqueror's attitude. To create is likewise to give a shape to one's fate. For all these characters, their work defines them at least as much as it is defined by them. The actor taught us this: There is no frontier between being and appearing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Intelligence in chains loses in lucidity what it gains in intensity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There is but one truly serious philosophical problem and that is suicide. Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest \u2014 whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories \u2014 comes afterwards. These are games; one must first answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: My chief occupation, despite appearances, has always been love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I felt as though I was partly unlearning what i had never learned and yet knew so well: I mean, how to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The loss of love is the loss of all rights, even though one had them all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There is only one class of men, the privileged class"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again. For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Having money is a way of being free of money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: He was expressing his certainty that my appeal would be granted, but I was carrying the burden of a sin from which I had to free myself. According to him, human justice was nothing and divine justice was everything. I pointed out it was the former that had condemned me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Liberty is dangerous, as hard to get along with as it is exciting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Every writer, big or small, needs to say or write that the genius is always hissed at by his contemporaries. Naturally, this is not true, it happens only occasionally and often by chance. But this need within the writer is enlightening."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I was tormented by my desire for a woman ... I thought so much about a woman, about women, about all the ones I had known, about all the circumstances in which I had enjoyed them, that my cell would be filled with their faces and crowded with my desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: He knew now that it was his own will to happiness which must make the next move. But if he was to do so, he realized that he must come to terms with time, that to have time was at once the most magnificent and the most dangerous of experiments. Idleness is fatal only to the mediocre."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I am just coming out of five years of night, and this orgy of violent lights gives me for the first time the impression of a new continent. An enormous, 50-foot high Camel billboard : a GI with his mouth wide open blows enormous puffs of real smoke. So much bad taste hardly seems imaginable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: When I see a new face, something sets off an alarm bell inside me. 'slow down! Danger!' Even when the attraction is strongest, I am on my guard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Yes, there was an element of abstraction and unreality in misfortune. But when an abstraction starts to kill you, you have to get to work on it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The act of love . . . is a confession. Selfishness screams aloud, vanity shows off, or else true generosity reveals itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I do not have much liking for the too famous existential philosophy, and, to tell the truth, I think its conclusions false."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Truth is not a virtue, but a passion. It is never charitable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: We must learn how to lend ourselves to dreaming when dreams lend themselves to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: But too many people now climb onto the cross merely to be seen from a greater distance, even if they have to trample somewhat on the one who has been there so long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Life continues, and some mornings, weary of the noise, discouraged by the prospect of the interminable work to keep after, sickened also by the madness of the world that leaps at you from the newspaper, finally convinced that I will not be equal to it and that I will disappoint everyone - all I want to do is sit down and wait for evening. This is what I feel like, and sometimes I yield to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: To two men living the same number of years, the world always provides the same sum of experiences. It is up to us to be conscious of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Rebellion, in man, is the refusal to be treated as an object and to be reduced to simple historical terms. It is the affirmation of a nature common to all men, which eludes the world of power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I have never been able to renounce the light, the pleasure of being, and the freedom in which I grew up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: For those of us who have been thrown into hell, mysterious melodies and the torturing images of a vanished beauty will always bring us, in the midst of crime and folly, the echo of that harmonious insurrection which bears witness, throughout the centuries, to the greatness of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I love life - that\u2019s my real weakness. I love it so much that I am incapable of imagining what is not life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: For there is merely bad luck in not being loved; there is misfortune in not loving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There can be no question of masking the evidence, of suppressing the absurd by denying one of the terms of its equation. It is essential to know whether one can live with it or whether, on the other hand, logic commands one to die of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I am not made for politics because I am incapable of wanting or accepting the death of the adversary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: To think is first of all to create a world (or to limit one's own world, which comes to the same thing)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Europe has lived on its contradictions, flourished on its differences, and, constantly transcending itself thereby, has created a civilization on which the whole world depends even when rejecting it. This is why I do not believe in a Europe unified under the weight of an ideology or of a technocracy that overlooked these differences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: One might think, that a period which, within fifty years, uproots, enslaves or kills seventy million human beings, should only, and forthwith, be condemned. But also its guilt must be understood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: From Pandora's Box, where all the ills of humanity swarmed, the Greeks drew out hope after all the others, as the most dreadful of all. I know no more stirring symbol; for, contrary to the general belief, hope equals resignation. And to live is not to resign oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: If the descent is thus sometimes performed in sorrow, it can also take place in joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I have a good, hearty laugh and an energetic handshake, and those are trump cards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I knew that I had shattered the harmony of the day, the exceptional silence of a beach where I'd been happy. Then I fired four more times at the motionless body where the bullets lodged without leaving a trace. And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Those who weep for the happy periods which they encounter in history acknowledge what they want; not the alleviation but the silencing of misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In order to understand the world, one has to turn away from it on occasion; in order to serve others better, one has to hold them at a distance for a time. But where can one find the solitude necessary to vigor, the deep breath in which the mind collects itself and courage gauges its strength? There remain big cities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A profound thought is in a constant state of becoming; it adopts the experience of a life and assumes its shape."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world; yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Absolute freedom mocks at justice. Absolute justice denies freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A nihilist is not one who believes in nothing , but one who does not believe in what exists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: For the absurd man, it is not a matter of explaining and solving, but of experiencing and describing. Everything begins with lucid indifference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Children will still die unjustly even in a perfect society. Even by his greatest effort, man can only propose to diminish, arithmetically, the sufferings of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: We know the surrealist solution: concrete irrationality, objective risk. Poetry is the conquest, the only possible conquest, of the 'supreme position', 'a certain position of the mind from where life and death, the real and the imaginary, the past and the future... cease to be perceived in a contradictory sense.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: ...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: What can a meaning outside my condition mean to me? I can understand only in human terms. What I touch, what resists me - that I understand. And these two certainties - my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle - I also know that I cannot reconcile them. What other truth can I admit without lying, without bringing in a hope I lack and which means nothing within the limits of my conditions?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: How hard it is, how bitter it is to become a man!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Nothing is given to mankind and what little men can conquer must be paid for with unjust death. But man's grandeur lies elsewhere, in his decision to rise above his condition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Absurdism, like methodical doubt, has wiped the slate clean. It leaves us in a blind alley. But, like methodical doubt, it can, by returning upon itself, open up a new field of investigation, and in the process of reasoning then pursues the same course. I proclaim that I believe in nothing and that everything is absurd, but I cannot doubt the validity of my proclamation and I must at least believe in my protest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A character is never the author who created him. It is quite likely, however, that an author may be all his characters simultaneously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Freedom of the press is perhaps the freedom that has suffered the most from the gradual degradation of the idea of liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: ...he said firmly, \"God can help you. All the men I\u2019ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble.\" \"Obviously,\" I replied, \"they were at liberty to do so, if they felt like it.\" I, however, didn\u2019t want to be helped, and I hadn\u2019t time to work up interest for something that didn\u2019t interest me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Absolute virtue is impossible and the republic of forgiveness leads, with implacable logic, to the republic of the guillotine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Human relationships always help us to carry on because they always presuppose further developments, a future - and also because we live as if our only task was precisely to have relationships with other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe. To feel it so like myself, indeed, so brotherly, made me realize that I'd been happy, and that I was happy still. For all to be accomplished, for me to feel less lonely, all that remained to hope was that on the day of my execution there should be a huge crowd of spectators and that they should greet me with howls of execration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Wandering seemed no more than the happiness of an anxious man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Modern conquerors can kill, but do not seem to be able to create. Artists know how to create but cannot really kill. Murderers are only very exceptionally found among artists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Working conditions for me have always been those of the monastic life: solitude and frugality. Except for frugality, they are contrary to my nature, so much so that work is a violence I do to myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: If only nature is real and if, in nature, only desire and destruction are legitimate, then, in that all humanity does not suffice to assuage the thirst for blood, the path of destruction must lead to universal annihilation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I have always thought it would be easier to redeem a man steeped in vice and crime than a greedy, narrow-minded, pitiless merchant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The absurd has meaning only in so far as it is not agreed to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Sometimes, from beyond the skycrapers, the cry of a tugboat finds you in your insomnia, and you remember that this desert of iron and cement is an island."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Who taught you all this, doctor?\" The reply came promptly: \"Suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Give up the tyranny of female charm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: If Christianity is pessimistic as to man, it is optimistic as to human destiny. Well, I can say that, pessimistic as to human destiny, I am optimistic as to man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: This very heart which is mine will forever remain indefinable to me. Between the certainty I have of my existence and the content I try to give to that assurance, the gap will never be filled. Forever I shall be a stranger to myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Have you no hope at all? And do you really live with the thought that when you die, you die, and nothing remains?\" \"Yes,\" I said."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Every minute of life carries with it its miraculous value, and its face of eternal youth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: If nothing had any meaning, you would be right. But there is something that still has a meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Why should it be essential to love rarely in order to love much?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Don't wait for the last judgment - it takes place every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: For if I try to seize this self of which I feel sure, if I try to define and to summarize it, it is nothing but water slipping through my fingers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Analysis of rebellion leads at least to the suspicion that, contrary to the postulates of contemporary thought, a human nature does exist, as the Greeks believed. Why rebel if there is nothing permanent in oneself worth preserving? ... Rebellion, though apparently negative, since it creates nothing, is profoundly positive in that it reveals the part of man which must always be defended."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I have no idea what's awaiting me, or what will happen when this all ends. For the moment I know this: there are sick people and they need curing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: No cause justifies the deaths of innocent people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Likewise and during every day of an unillustrious life, time carries us. But a moment always comes when we have to carry it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In order to be created, a work of art must first make use of the dark forces of the soul"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Je puis nier une chose sans me croire oblig\u00e9 de la salir ou de retirer aux autres le droit d'y croire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: To those who despair of everything reason cannot provide a faith, but only passion, and in this case it must be the same passion that lay at the root of the despair, namely humiliation and hatred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The certainty of a God giving meaning to life far surpasses in attractiveness the ability to behave badly with impunity. The choice would not be hard to make. But there is no choice and that is where the bitterness comes in. The absurd does not liberate; it binds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: We're all special cases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: If you keep on excusing, you eventually give your blessing to the slave camp, to cowardly force, to organized executioners, to the cynicism of great political monsters; you finally hand over your brothers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. In that race which daily hastens us towards death, the body maintains its irreparable lead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I enjoyed my own nature to the fullest, and we all know there lies happiness, although, to soothe one another mutually, we occasionally pretend to condemn such joys as selfishness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Does the end justify the means? That is possible. But what will justify the end? To that question, which historical thought leaves pending, rebellion replies: the means."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: If I convince myself that this life has no other aspect than that of the absurd, if I feel that its whole equilibrium depends on that perpetual opposition between my conscious revolt and the darkness in which it struggles, if I admit that my freedom has no meaning except in relation to its limited fate, then I must say that what counts is not the best living but the most living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A living man can be enslaved and reduced to the historic condition of an object. But if he dies in refusing to be enslaved, he reaffirms the existence of another kind of human nature which refuses to be classified as an object."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: No longer were there individual destinies; only a collective destiny, made of plague and emotions shared by all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Only he who is uncompromising as to his rights maintains the sense of duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know that acting and loving and suffering is living, of course, but it\u2019s only living insofar as you can be transparent and accept your fate, like the unique reflection of a rainbow of joys and passions which is the same for everyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Thus I draw from the absurd three consequences, which are my revolt, my freedom, and my passion. By the mere activity of consciousness I transform into a rule of life what was an invitation to death\u2014and I refuse suicide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: They hurt each other without wanting to, just because each represented to the others the cruel and demanding necessity of their lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy checkerboard of houses, told of the unrest, the precariousness, of all things in this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: From the evening breeze to this hand on my shoulder, everything has its truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A trial cannot be conducted by announcing the general culpability of a civilization. Only the actual deeds which, at least, stank in the nostrils of the entire world were brought to judgment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In order to exist, man must rebel, but rebellion must respect the limits that it discovers in itself - limits where minds meet, and in meeting, begin to exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There is no longer a single idea explaining everything, but an infinite number of essences giving a meaning to an infinite number of objects. The world comes to a stop, but also lights up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: History, as an entirety, could only exist in the eyes of an observer outside it and outside the world. History only exists, in the final analysis, for God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: At a certain level of suffering or injustice no one can do anything for anyone. Pain is solitary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I've never really had much of an imagination. But still I would try to picture the exact moment when the beating of my heart would no longer be going on inside my head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In order to exist just once in the world, it is necessary never again to exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Man is always prey to his truths. Once he has admitted them, he cannot free himself from them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: It should be pointed out for our own guidance in the West that the continual signing of manifestoes and protests is one of the surest ways of undermining the efficacy and dignity of the intellectual. There exists a permanent blackmail that we all know and that we must have the often solitary courage to resist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: When a war breaks out, people say: \"It's too stupid; it can't last long.\" But though a war may well be \"too stupid,\" that doesn't prevent its lasting. Stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The myth of unlimited production brings war in its train as inevitably as clouds announce a storm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: From the moment absurdity is recognized, it becomes a passion, the most harrowing of all. But whether or not one can live with one's passions, whether or not one can accept their law, which is to burn the heart they simultaneously exalt - that is the whole question."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Beauty, no doubt, does not make revolutions. But a day will come when revolutions will have need of beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: So all a man could win in the conflict between plague and life was knowledge and memories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: \u2026. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time? Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while. Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I've seen of enough of people who die for an idea. I don't believe in heroism; I know it's easy and I've learned it can be murderous. What interests me is living and dying for what one loves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Every rebellion implies some kind of unity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The human heart has a tiresome tendency to label as fate only what crushes it. But happiness likewise, in its way, is without reason, since it is inevitable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There is always a philosophy for lack of courage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There are some individuals who have too strong a craving, a will, and a nostalgia for happiness ever to reach it. They always retain a bitter and passionate aftertaste, and that's the best they can hope for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There are more things to admire in men than to despise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: If there is a soul, it is a mistake to believe that it is given to us fully created. It is created here, throughout a whole life. And living is nothing else but that long and painful bringing forth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In our wildest aberrations we dream of an equilibrium we have left behind and which we naively expect to find at the end of our errors. Childish presumption which justifies the fact that child-nations, inheriting our follies, are now directing our history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The true work of art is always on the human scale. It is essentially the one that says, 'less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: When one has no character, one HAS to apply a method. Here it did wonders incontrovertibly, and I am living on the site of one of the greatest crimes in human history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In short, they were gambling on their luck, and luck is not to be coerced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A sub-clerk in the post office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them. All experiences are indifferent in this regard. There are some that do either a service or a disservice to man. They do him a service if he is conscious. Otherwise, that has no importance: a man's failures imply judgment, not of circumstances, but of himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Absolute justice is achieved by the suppression of all contradiction, therefore it destroys freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Between history and the eternal I have chosen history because I like certainties. Of it, at least, I am certain, and how can I deny this force crushing me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: But all the long speeches, all the interminable days and hours that people had spent talking about my soul, had left me with the impression of a colorless swirling river that was making me dizzy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: If one could only say just once: 'this is clear', all would be saved"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: When the body is sad, the heart languishes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The important thing isn't the soundness or otherwise of the argument, but for it to make you think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. (\"The Plague\")"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: False judges are held up in the world's admiration and I alone know the true ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I used to advertise my loyalty and I don't believe there is a single person I loved that I didn't eventually betray."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I do not want to found anything on the incomprehensible. I want to know whether I can live with what I know and with that alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The laws of nature may be operative up to a certain limit, beyond which they turn against themselves to give birth to the absurd."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: One must place one's principles in big things. For the small, graciousness will suffice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The future is the only kind of property that the masters willingly concede to the slaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Then we understand that rebellion cannot exist without a strange form of love. Those who find no rest in God or in history are condemned to live for those who, like themselves, cannot live; in fact, for the humiliated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: It is not true that the heart wears out - but the body creates this illusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There will be no lasting peace either in the heart of individuals or in social customs until death is outlawed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: But when a man has had only four hours' sleep he isn't sentimental. He sees things as they are: that is to say, he sees them in the garish light of justice; hideous, witless justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The ancients, even though they believed in destiny , believed primarily in nature , in which they participated wholeheartedly. To rebel against nature amounted to rebelling against oneself. It was butting one's head against a wall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: At times I feel myself overtaken by an immense tenderness for these people around me who live in the same century."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Don't let them tell us stories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I feel more fellowship with the defeated than with saints."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Thus each of us had to be content to live only for the day, alone under the vast indifference of the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Many fledgling moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down... There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: O light! This the cry of all the characters of ancient drama brought face to face with their fate. This last resort was ours, too, and I knew it now. In the middle of winter I at last discovered that there was in me an invincible summer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A man who has become conscious of the absurd is for ever bound to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Yes, I'm happy, in human terms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: For ever, I shall be a stranger to myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A craving for freedom and independence is generated only in a man still living on hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: We are condemned to live together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: And I too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: When love ceases to be tragic it is something else and the individual again throws himself in search of tragedy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: It is normal to give away a little of one's life in order not to lose it all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Thus I progressed on the surface of life, in the realm of words as it were, never in reality. All those books barely read, those friends barely loved, those cities barely visited, those women barely possessed! I went through the gestures out of boredom or absent-mindedness. Then came human beings; they wanted to cling, but there was nothing to cling to, and that was unfortunate--for them. As for me, I forgot. I never remembered anything but myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Liberty is dangerous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In normal times all of us know, whether consciously or not, that there is no love which can't be bettered; nevertheless, we reconcile ourselves more or less easily to the fact that ours has never risen above the average."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Empires and churches are born under the sun of death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There are means that cannot be excused. And I should like to be able to love my country and still love justice. I don't want just any greatness for it, particularly a greatness born of blood and falsehood. I want to keep it alive by keeping justice alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: It is terrifying to see how easily, in certain people, all dignity collapses. Yet when you think about it, this is quite normal since they only maintain this dignity by constantly striving against their own nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I realized people would soon forget me once I was dead. I couldn't even say that this was hard to stomach; really, there's no idea to which one doesn't get acclimatized in time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I had the whole sky in my eyes and it was blue and gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There may be responsible persons, but there are no guilty ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: But,' I reminded myself, 'it's common knowledge that life isn't worth living, anyhow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Because there is nothing here than invites us to cherish unhappy lovers. Nothing is more vain than to die for love. What we ought to do is live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Nothing can discourage the appetite for divinity in the heart of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: What really counted was the possibility of escape, a leap to freedom, out of the implacable ritual, a wild run for it that would give whatever chance for hope there was. Of course, hope meant being cut down on some street corner, as you ran like mad, by a random bullet. But when I really thought it through, nothing was going to allow me such a luxury. Everything was against it; I would just be caught up in the machinery again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Do you believe in God, doctor?\" No - but what does that really mean? I'm fumbling in the dark, struggling to make something out. But I've long ceased finding that original."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: True artists scorn nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In Italian museums are sometimes found little painted screens that the priest used to hold in front of the face of condemned men to hide the scaffold from them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The entire history of mankind is, in any case, nothing but a prolonged fight to the death for the conquest of universal prestige and absolute power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: One of the only coherent philosophical positions is thus revolt. It is a constant confrontation between man and his own obscurity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I have always felt I lived on the high seas, threatened, at the heart of a royal happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The day of my arrest I was first put in a room where there were already several other prisoners, most of them Arabs. They laughed when they saw me. Then they asked what I was in for. I said I'd killed an Arab and they were all silent"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: But do you know why we are always more just and generous toward the dead? The reason is simple. With them there is no obligation. They leave us free and we can take our time, fit the testimonial between a cocktail party and a nice little mistress, in our spare time, in short."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: 'Mother deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours.' That doesn't mean anything. Maybe it was yesterday."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: How do you put everyone in the pool, so you have the right to dry yourself in the sun?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: We come into the world laden with the weight of an infinite necessity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: All systems of morality are based on the idea that an action has consequences that legitimize or cancel it. A mind imbued with the absurd merely judges that those consequences must be considered calmly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Paneloux is a man of learning, a scholar. He hasn't come in contact with death; that's why he can speak with such assurance of the truth-with a capital T. But every country priest who visits his parishioners and has heard a man gasping for breath on his deathbed thinks as I do. He'd try to relieve human suffering before trying to point out its goodness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: You cannot acquire experience by making experiments. You cannot create experience. You must undergo it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.  Finding it so much like myself--like a brother, really--I felt that I had been happy and that I was happy again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Mistakes are joyful, truth infernal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: These are facts the heart can feel; yet they call for careful study before they become clear to the intellect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: \u201cTo think the way you do,\u201d he said smiling, \u201cyou have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.\u201d \u201cOn both, perhaps.\u201d"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I realized then that a man who had lived only one day could easily live for a hundred years in prison. He would have enough memories to keep him from being bored"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Each generation doubtless feels called upon to reform the world. Mine knows that it will not reform it, but its task is perhaps even greater. It consists in preventing the world from destroying itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Art, at least, teaches us that man cannot be explained by history alone and that he also finds a reason for his existence in the order of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I have the loftiest idea, and the most passionate one, of art. Much too lofty to agree to subject it to anything. Much too passionate to want to divorce it from anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: On the whole, men are more good than bad; that, however, isn't the real point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the most incorrigible vice being that of an ignorance that fancies it knows everything and therefore claims for itself the right to kill. The soul of the murderer is blind; and there can be no true goodness nor true love without the utmost clear-sightedness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Every ideology is contrary to human psychology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Men who have greatness within them don't go in for politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: What I believe to be true I must therefore preserve. What seems to me so obvious, even against me, I must support."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Ironic philosophies produce passionate works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Your success and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them. But to be happy it is essential not to be too concerned with others. Consequently, there is no escape. Happy and judged, or absolved and wretched."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: It is natural to give a clear view of the world after accepting the idea that it must be clear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke-smokier by day, more gilded by night. And night and day that dream is peopled with Lohengrins like these, dreamily riding their black bicycles with high handle-bars, funereal swans constantly drifting throughout the whole country, around the seas, along the canals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: One grows out of pity when it's useless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The world I live in is loathsome to me, but I feel one with the men who suffer in it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: What made me run away was doubtless not so much the fear of settling down, but of settling down permanently in something ugly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prison as to innocent untroubled sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The only conception of freedom I can have is that of the prisoner or the individual in the midst of the State. The only one I know is freedom of thought and action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The temptation shared by all forms of intelligence: cynicism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I hope the dogs don't bark tonight. I always think it's mine"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The current motto for all of us can only be this: without giving up anything on the plane of justice, yield nothing on the plane of freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In the light, the earth remains our first and our last love. Our brothers are breathing under the same sky as we; justice is a living thing. Now is born that strange joy which helps one live and die, and which we shall never again postpone to a later time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: When the throne of God is overturned, the rebel realizes that it is now his own responsibility to create the justice, order, and unity that he sought in vain within his own condition, and in this way to justify the fall of God. Then begins the desperate effort to create, at the price of crime and murder if necessary, the dominion of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: but perhaps we should love what we cannot understand"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There can be no question of holding forth on ethics. I have seen people behave badly with great morality and I note every day that integrity has no need of rules"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The mind's deepest desire, even in its most elaborate operations, parallels man's unconscious feeling in the face of his universe: it is an insistence upon familiarity, an appetite for clarity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In a universe suddenly divested of illusion and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: He seemed so certain about everything, didn't he?  And yet none of his certainties was worth one hair of a woman's head.  He wasn't even sure he was alive, because he was living like a dead man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Utopia is that which is in contradiction with reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A writer cannot put himself today in service of those who make history; he is at the service of those who suffer it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Beginning to think is beginning to be undermined. Society has but little connection with such beginnings. The worm is in man's heart. That is where it must be sought. One must follow and understand this fatal game that leads from lucidity in the face of existence to flight from light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The rebel can never find peace. He knows what is good and, despite himself, does evil. The value which supports him is never given to him once and for all - he must fight to uphold it, unceasingly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The first progressive step for a mind overwhelmed by the strangeness of things is to realize that this feeling of strangeness is shared with all men and that human reality, in its entirety, suffers from the distance which separates it from the rest of the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable. It would be a mistake to say that happiness necessarily springs from the absurd discovery. It happens as well that the felling of the absurd springs from happiness. \"I conclude that all is well,\" says Oedipus, and that remark is sacred. It echoes in the wild and limited universe of man. It teaches that all is not, has not been, exhausted. It drives out of this world a god who had come into it with dissatisfaction and a preference for futile suffering. It makes of fate a human matter, which must be settled among men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: We must stitch up what has been torn apart, render justice imaginable in the world which is so obviously unjust, make happiness meaningful for nations poisoned by the misery of this century. Naturally, it is a superhuman task. But tasks are called superhuman when men take a long time to complete them, that is all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A liking for truth at any cost is a passion that spares nothing and that nothing resists. It's a vice, at times a comfort, or a selfishness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Still, obviously, one can't be sensible all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: It happens that the stage sets collapse. Rising, streetcar, four hours in the office or the factory, meal, streetcar, four hours of work, meal, sleep, and Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday and Saturday according to the same rhythm \u2013 this path is easily followed most of the time. But one day the \u201cwhy\u201d arises and everything begins in that weariness tinged with amazement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I conceived at least one great love in my life, of which I was always the object."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: No, Father, I've a very different idea of love. And until my dying day I shall refuse to love a scheme of things in which children are put to torture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Fate is not in man but around him"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Every man, and for stronger reasons, every artist, wants to be recognized. So do I."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: And real nobility (that of the heart) is based on scorn, courage, and profound indifference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: What will be left of the power of example if it is proved that capital punishment has another power, and a very real one, which degrades men to the point of shame, madness, and murder?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The absurd is essentially a divorce. It lies in neither of the elements compared; it is born of their confrontation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Germany collapsed as a result of having engaged in a struggle for empire with the concepts of provincial politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the power of the State."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Men die and they are not happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The truth is that nothing is less sensational than pestilence, and by reason of their very duration great misfortunes are monotonous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: But again and again there comes a time in history when the man who dares to say that two and two make four is punished with death. The schoolteacher is well aware of this. And the question is not one of knowing what punishment or reward attends the making of this calculation. The question is one of knowing whether two and two do make four"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Real fulfillment, for the man who allows absolutely free rein to his desires, and who much dominate everything, lies in hatred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The Byronic hero, incapable of love, or capable only of an impossible love, suffers endlessly. He is solitary, languid, his condition exhausts him. If he wants to feel alive, it must be in the terrible exaltation of a brief and destructive action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: After a short silence the doctor raised himself a little in his chair and asked if Tarrou had an idea of the path to follow for attaining peace. \"Yes, he replied. \"The path of sympathy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I continue to believe that this world has no ultimate meaning. But I know that something in it has a meaning and that is man, because he is the only creature to insist on having one"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The absurd is sin without God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I had been right I was still right I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well lived it another. I had done this and I hadn t done that. I hadn t done this thing and I had done another. And so?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: And it was like knocking four quick times on the door of unhappiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Likewise, every time somebody interjects to speak of my honesty there is someone who quivers inside me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: His own faith, however, was not lacking in virtues since it consisted in acknowledging obscurely that he would be granted much without ever deserving anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: To stay or to go, it amounted to the same thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Everything is true, and nothing is true!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: This absurd, godless world is, then, peopled with men who think clearly and have ceased to hope. And I have not yet spoken of the most absurd character, who is the creator."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: how hard it must be to live only with what one knows and what one remembers, cut off from what one hopes for!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Existence is illusory and it is eternal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Death means nothing to men like me. It's the event that proves them right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Some other memories of the funeral have stuck in my mind. The old boy\u2019s face, for instance, when he caught up with us for the last time, just outside the village. His eyes were streaming with tears, of exhaustion or distress, or both together. But because of the wrinkles they couldn\u2019t flow down. They spread out, crisscrossed, and formed a smooth gloss on the old, worn face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: It was previously a question of finding out whether or not life had to have a meaning to be lived. It now becomes clear on the contrary that it will be lived all the better if it has no meaning"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Maman used to say that you can always find something to be happy about. In my prison, when the sky turned red and a new day slipped into my cell, I found out that she was right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Human rebellion ends in metaphysical revolution. It progresses from appearances to acts, from the dandy to the revolutionary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: ... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified... Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonabledesire and claims to give life a form it does not have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: That's the way man is, cher monsieur. He has two faces: he can't love without self-love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living, had replace normal religious practice by more or less extravagant superstitions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The first concern of any dictatorship is, consequently, to subjugate both labor and culture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The future is the only transcendental value for men without God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: It's not your pictures I like; it's your painting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Independence is earned by a few words of cheap confidence"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: To cut short this question of the law of retaliation, we must note that even in its primitive form it can operate only between two individuals of whom one is absolutely innocent and the other absolutely guilty. The victim, to be sure, is innocent. But can the society that is supposed to represent the victim lay claim to innocence?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: One plays at being immortal and after a few weeks one doesn't even know whether or not one can hang on till the next day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: There are places where the mind dies so that a truth which is its very denial may be born."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: What the world expects of Christians is that Christians should speak out, loud and clear... in such a way that never a doubt, never the slightest doubt, could rise in the heart of the simplest man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The contradiction is this: man rejects the world as it is, without accepting the necessity of escaping it. In fact, men cling to the world and by far the majority do not want to abandon it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I have not stopped loving that which is sacred in this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: What must be remembered in any case is that secret complicity that joins the logical and the everyday to the tragic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: What gives value to travel is fear.  It is a fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country, we are seized by a vague fear and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits.  I look upon it more as an occasion for testing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Metaphysical rebellion is a claim, motivated by the concept of a complete unity, against the suffering of life and death and a protest against the human condition both for its incompleteness, thanks to death, and its wastefulness, thanks to evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The end of their passion consists of loving uselessly at the moment when it is pointless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: From Paul to Stalin, the popes who have chosen Caesar have prepared the way for Caesars who quickly learn to despise popes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: For me, physical love has always been bound to an irresistible feeling of innocence and joy. Thus, I cannot love in tears but in exaltation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this fate is no less absurd. But it is tragic only at the rare moments when it becomes conscious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: All that remains is a fate whose outcome alone is fatal. Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty. A world remains of which man is the sole master. What bound him was the illusion of another world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Slave camps under the flag of freedom, massacres justified by philanthropy or the taste of the superhuman, cripple judgment. On the day when crime puts on the apparel of innocence, through a curious reversal peculiar to our age, it is innocence that is called on to justify itself. The purpose of this essay is to accept and study that strange challenge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: May heaven protect us, cher monsieur, from being set on a pedestal by our friends!!!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: People have played on words and pretended to believe that refusing to grant a meaning to life necessarily leads to declaring that it is not worth living. In truth, there is no necessary common measure between these two judgments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: No human being, even the most passionately loved and passionately loving, is ever in our possession."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In default of inexhaustible happiness, eternal suffering would at least give us a destiny. But we do not even have that consolation, and our worst agonies come to an end one day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Whereas the Greeks gave to will the boundaries of reason, we have come to put the will's impulse in the very center of reason, which has, as a result, become deadly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness.  Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: God put self-pity by the side of despair like the cure by the side of the disease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Realism should only be the means of expression of religious genius... or, at the other extreme, the artistic expressions of monkeys which are quite satisfied with mere imitation. In fact, art is never realistic though sometimes it is tempted to be. To be really realistic a description would have to be endless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: To live is to hurt others, and through others, to hurt oneself. Cruel earth! How can we manage not to touch anything? To find what ultimate exile?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Marxism is not scientific: at the best, it has scientific prejudices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: What on earth prompted you to take a hand in this?\" \"I don't know. My\u2026 my code of morals, perhaps.\" \"Your code of morals. What code, if I may ask?\" \"Comprehension."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Lucifer also has died with God, and from his ashes has arisen a spiteful demon who does not even understand the object of his venture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The kingdom of heaven will, in fact, appear on earth , but it will be ruled over by men a mere handful to begin with, who will be the Cassars, because they were the first to understand and later, with time, by all men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself. We continue to shape our personality all our life. To know oneself, one should assert oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: It occurred to me that anyway one more Sunday was over that Maman was buried now, that I was going back to work, and that, really, nothing had changed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Believe me, for certain men at least, not taking what one doesn't desire is the hardest thing in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The truth is that every intelligent man, as you know, dreams of being a gangster and of ruling over society by force alone. As it is not so easy as the detective novels might lead one to believe, one generally relies on politics and joins the cruelest party.What does it matter, after all, if by humiliating one's mind one succeeds in dominating every one? I discovered in myself sweet dreams of oppression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In the world today, only a philosophy of eternity could justify non-violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Once one's up against it, the precise manner of one's death has obviously small importance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him, and struggle with all our might against death without raising our eyes towards the heaven where He sits in silence?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Where would his torture be, indeed, if at every step the hope of succeeding upheld him?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In our society, any man who doesn't cry at his mother's funeral is liable to be condemned to death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The only deep emotion I occasionally felt in these affairs was gratitude, when all was going well and I was left, not only peace, but freedom to come and go--never kinder and gayer with one woman than when I had just left another's bed, as if I extended to all others the debt I had just contracted toward one of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I hadn't understood how days could be both long and short at the same time: long to live through, maybe, but so drawn out that they ended up flowing into one another. They lost their names. Only 'yesterday' and 'tomorrow' still had any meaning for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: So the thing that bothered me most was that the condemned man had to hope the machine would work the first time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I longed to be forgotten in order to be able to complain to myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: My dear friend, we mustn't give them even the slightest excuse to judge us! Otherwise, we end up in pieces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: At that moment he knew what his mother was thinking, and that she loved him. But he knew, too, that to love someone means relatively little; or, rather, that love is never strong enough to find the words befitting it. Thus he and his mother would always love each other silently. And one day she--or he--would die, without ever, all their lives long, having gone farther than this by way of making their affection known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A stranger to myself and to the world, armed solely with a thought that negates itself as soon as it asserts, what is this condition in which I can have peace only by refusing to know and to live, in which the appetite for conquest bumps into walls that defy its assaults?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In the past, the poverty they shared had a certain sweetness about it. When the end of the day came and they would eat their dinner in silence with the oil lamp between them, there was a secret joy in such simplicity, such retrenchment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In fact, it comes to this: nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, even in the worst calamity. For really to think about someone means thinking about that person every minute of the day, without letting one\u2019s thoughts be diverted by anything- by meals, by a fly that settles on one\u2019s cheek, by household duties, or by a sudden itch somewhere. But there are always flies and itches. That\u2019s why life is difficult to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: No code of ethics and no effort are justifiable a priori in the face of the cruel mathematics that command our condition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: In Oran, as elsewhere, for want of time and thought, people have to love one another without knowing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: How had I not seen that there was nothing more important than an execution, and that when you come right down to it, it was the only thing a man could truly be interested in?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: They came to know the incorrigible sorrow of all prisoners and exiles, which is to live in company with a memory that serves no purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: History has shown that the less people read, the more books they buy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: For the first time in a long time I thought about Maman. I felt as if I understood why at the end of her life she had taken a 'fianc\u00e9,' why she had played at beginning again. Even there, in that home where lives were fading out, evening was a kind of wistful respite. So close to death, Maman must have felt free then and ready to live it all again. Nobody, nobody had the right to cry over her. And I felt ready to live it all again too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The principle can be established that for a man who does not cheat what he believes to be true must determine his actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: I explained to him, however, that my nature was such that my physical needs often got in the way of my feelings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Big tears of frustration and exhaustion were streaming down his cheeks. But because of all the wrinkles, they weren't dripping off. They spread out and ran together again, leaving a watery film over his ruined face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers' union. But it would be equally disastrous forthe shoemakers' union to ignore Shakespeare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: Psychology is action, not thinking about oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: We rarely confide in those who are better than we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: At one time or another all normal people have wished their loved ones were dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: More and more, revolution has found itself delivered into the hands of its bureaucrats and doctrinaires on the one hand, and to the enfeebled and bewildered masses on the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: The absurd depends as much on man as on the world. For the moment, it is all that links them together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: ...there was only one thing that interested her and that was getting into bed with men whenever she'd the chance. And I warned her straight. 'You'll be sorry one day, my girl, and wish you'd got me back'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Camus: A fate is not a punishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Greatness of spirit is accompanied by simplicity and sincerity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is our choice of good or evil that determines our character, not our opinion about good or evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: He who has overcome his fears will truly be free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Excellence is an art won by training and habituation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The best things are placed between extremes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The hardest victory is the victory over self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor; it is the one thing that cannot be learned from others; and it is also a sign of genius, since a good metaphor implies an intuitive perception of the similarity of the dissimilar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: He who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The quality of life is determined by its activities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Man is a goal-seeking animal. His life only has meaning if he is reaching out and striving for his goals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Wise people have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Happiness is a state of activity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Those who are not angry at the things they should be angry at are thought to be fools, and so are those who are not angry in the right way, at the right time, or with the right persons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Every man should be responsible to others, nor should any one be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed, there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: To Unlearn is as hard as to Learn"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Friends enhance our ability to think and act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Hope is a waking dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It would be wrong to put friendship before the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If men are given food, but no chastisement nor any work, they become insolent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Nature creates nothing without a purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The whole is more than the sum of its parts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: We become just by the practice of just actions, self-controlled by exercising self-control, and courageous by performing acts of courage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: He who cannot see the truth for himself, nor, hearing it from others, store it away in his mind, that man is utterly worthless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Saying the words that come from knowledge is no sign of having it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is not sufficient to know what one ought to say, but one must also know how to say it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is better for a city to be governed by a good man than by good laws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: No state will be well administered unless the middle class holds sway."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Reason is a light that God has kindled in the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: God and nature create nothing that does not fulfill a purpose"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Friends are much better tried in bad fortune than in good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Misfortune shows those who are not really friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Nature does nothing in vain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The honors and rewards fall to those who show their good qualities in action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: We are better able to study our neighbours than ourselves, and their actions than our own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Man is by nature a political animal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is of the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The self-indulgent man craves for all pleasant things... and is led by his appetite to choose these at the cost of everything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Our characters are the result of our conduct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The greatest thing by far is to have a command of metaphor. This alone cannot be imparted by another; it is the mark of genius, for to make good metaphors implies an eye for resemblances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: We should behave to our friends as we would wish our friends behave to us"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: He who hath many friends hath none."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that he has the gods on his side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Money was intended to be used in exchange, but not to increase at interest. And this term interest, which means the birth of money from money, is applied to the breeding of money because the offspring resembles the parent. Wherefore of all modes of getting wealth this is the most unnatural."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: To say of what is that it is not, or of what is not that it is, is false, while to say of what is that it is, and of what is not that it is not, is true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: No one loves the man whom he fears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For what one has to learn to do, we learn by doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For man, when perfected, is the best of animals, but, when separated from law and justice, he is the worst of all; since armed injustice is the more dangerous, and he is equipped at birth with the arms of intelligence and with moral qualities which he may use for the worst ends. Wherefore, if he have not virtue, he is the most unholy and the most savage of animals, and the most full of lust and gluttony. But justice is the bond of men in states, and the administration of justice, which is the determination of what is just, is the principle of order in political society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A common danger unites even the bitterest enemies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Well begun is half done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Beauty is the gift of God"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is no easy task to be good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A king ruleth as he ought, a tyrant as he lists, a king to the profit of all, a tyrant only to please a few."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Gentleness is the ability to bear reproaches and slights with moderation, and not to embark on revenge quickly, and not to be easily provoked to anger, but be free from bitterness and contentiousness, having tranquility and stability in the spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The actuality of thought is life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Goodness is to do good to the deserving and love the good and hate the wicked, and not to be eager to inflict punishment or take vengeance, but to be gracious and kindly and forgiving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Why do men seek honour? Surely in order to confirm the favorable opinion they have formed of themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Life in the true sense is perceiving or thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Why is it that all men who are outstanding in philosophy, poetry or the arts are melancholic?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Consider pleasures as they depart, not as they come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: To give away money is an easy matter and in any man's power. But to decide to whom to give it and how large and when, and for what purpose and how, is neither in every man's power nor an easy matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A flatterer is a friend who is your inferior, or pretends to be so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Salt water when it turns into vapour becomes sweet, and the vapour does not form salt water when it condenses again. This I know by experiment. The same thing is true in every case of the kind: wine and all fluids that evaporate and condense back into a liquid state become water. They all are water modified by a certain admixture, the nature of which determines their flavour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For though we love both the truth and our friends, piety requires us to honor the truth first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Revolutions are effected in two ways, by force and by fraud."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Every man should be responsible to others, nor should anyone be allowed to do just as he pleases; for where absolute freedom is allowed there is nothing to restrain the evil which is inherent in every man. But the principle of responsibility secures that which is the greatest good in states; the right persons rule and are prevented from doing wrong, and the people have their due. It is evident that this is the best kind of democracy, and why? because the people are drawn from a certain class."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A man becomes a friend whenever being loved he loves in return."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The young are heated by Nature as drunken men by wine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: What soon grows old? Gratitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: To run away from trouble is a form of cowardice and, while it is true that the suicide braves death, he does it not for some noble object but to escape some ill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Wonder implies the desire to learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Rhetoric may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: There are two distinctive peculiarities by reference to which we characterize the soul (1) local movement and (2) thinking, discriminating, and perceiving. Thinking both speculative and practical is regarded as akin to a form of perceiving; for in the one as well as the other the soul discriminates and is cognizant of something which is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in the hearing of persons who cannot take in at a glance a complicated argument or follow a long chain of reasoning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Bad men are full of repentance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Between husband and wife friendship seems to exist by nature, for man is naturally disposed to pairing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Comedy aims at representing men as worse, Tragedy as better than in actual life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Youth loves honor and victory more than money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Education is the best provision for old age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The saying of Protagoras is like the views we have mentioned; he said that man is the measure of all things, meaning simply that that which seems to each man assuredly is. If this is so, it follows that the same thing both is and is not, and is bad and good, and that the contents of all other opposite statements are true, because often a particular thing appears beautiful to some and ugly to others, and that which appears to each man is the measure"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Every wicked man is in ignorance as to what he ought to do, and from what to abstain, and it is because of error such as this that men become unjust and, in a word, wicked."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: All men by nature desire knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For we do not think that we know a thing until we are acquainted with its primary conditions or first principles, and have carried our analysis as far as its simplest elements."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Women should marry when they are about eighteen years of age, and men at seven and thirty; then they are in the prime of life, and the decline in the powers of both will coincide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Virtue makes us aim at the right end, and practical wisdom makes us take the right means."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The brave man, if he be compared with the coward, seems foolhardy; and, if with the foolhardy man, seems a coward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Democracy appears to be safer and less liable to revolution than oligarchy. For in oligarchies there is the double danger of the oligarchs falling out among themselves and also with the people; but in democracies there is only the danger of a quarrel with the oligarchs. No dissension worth mentioning arises among the people themselves. And we may further remark that a government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The life of money-making is one undertaken under compulsion, and wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Sophocles said he drew men as they ought to be, and Euripides as they were."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The least initial deviation from the truth is multiplied later a thousandfold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: But is it just then that the few and the wealthy should be the rulers? And what if they, in like manner, rob and plunder the people, - is this just?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The coward calls the brave man rash, the rash man calls him a coward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The law is reason unaffected by desire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Accordingly, the poet should prefer probable impossibilities to improbable possibilities. The tragic plot must not be composed of irrational parts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Good laws, if they are not obeyed, do not constitute good government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Happiness depends upon ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Where it is in our power to act, it is also in our power to not act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Remember that time slurs over everything, let all deeds fade, blurs all writings and kills all memories. Exempt are only those which dig into the hearts of men by love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: There are branches of learning and education which we must study merely with a view to leisure spent in intellectual activity, and these are to be valued for their own sake; whereas those kinds of knowledge which are useful in business are to be deemed necessary, and exist for the sake of other things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Any change of government which has to be introduced should be one which men, starting from their existing constitutions, will be both willing and able to adopt, since there is quite as much trouble in the reformation of an old constitution as in the establishment of a new one, just as to unlearn is as hard as to learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: We have divided the Virtues of the Soul into two groups, the Virtues of the Character and the Virtues of the Intellect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Women who are with child should be careful of themselves; they should take exercise and have a nourishing diet. The first of these prescriptions the legislator will easily carry into effect by requiring that they should take a walk daily to some temple, where they can worship the gods who preside over birth. Their minds, however, unlike their bodies, they ought to keep quiet, for the offspring derive their natures from their mothers as plants do from earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: All art, all education, can be merely a supplement to nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The man with a host of friends who slaps on the back everybody he meets is regarded as the friend of nobody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Change in all things is sweet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Everyone honors the wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In the many forms of government which have sprung up there has always been an acknowledgement of justice and proportionate equality, although mankind fail in attaining them, as indeed I have already explained. Democracy, for example, arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: All things are full of gods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The physician heals, Nature makes well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: There are, then, these three means of effecting persuasion. The man who is to be in command of them must, it is clear, be able (1) to reason logically, (2) to understand human character and goodness in their various forms, and (3) to understand the emotions--that is, to name them and describe them, to know their causes and the way in which they are excited."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Knowing what is right does not make a sagacious man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: One would have thought that it was even more necessary to limit population than property; and that the limit should be fixed by calculating the chances of mortality in the children, and of sterility in married persons. The neglect of this subject, which in existing states is so common, is a never-failing cause of poverty among the citizens; and poverty is the parent of revolution and crime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The greatest thing by far is to be a master of metaphor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A friend is a second self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is no part of a physician's business to use either persuasion or compulsion upon the patients."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The student of politics therefore as well as the psychologist must study the nature of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The first principle of all action is leisure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Greatness of spirit is to bear finely both good fourtune and bad, honor and disgrace, and not to think highly of luxury or attention or power or victories in contests, and to possess a certain depth and magnitude of spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Evils draw men together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: There is a cropping-time in the races of men, as in the fruits of the field; and sometimes, if the stock be good, there springs up for a time a succession of splendid men; and then comes a period of barrenness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: As our acts vary, our habits will follow in their course."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The greater the length, the more beautiful will the piece be by reason of its size, provided that the whole be perspicuous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A human being is a naturally political [animal]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: We must become just be doing just acts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: All learning is derived from things previously known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Neglect of an effective birth control policy is a never-failing source of poverty which, in turn, is the parent of revolution and crime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: We assume therefore that moral virtue is the quality of acting in the best way in relation to pleasures and pains, and that vice is the opposite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For that which has become habitual, becomes as it were natural."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The body is most fully developed from thirty to thirty-five years of age, the mind at about forty-nine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is also in the interests of a tyrant to make his subjects poo...the people are so occupied with their daily tasks that they have no time for plotting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: All that one gains by falsehood is, not to be believed when he   speaks the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Philosophy is the science which considers truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is not easy for a person to do any great harm when his tenure of office is short, whereas long possession begets tyranny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The business of every art is to bring something into existence, and the practice of an art involves the study of how to bring into existence something which is capable of having such an existence and has its efficient cause in the maker and not in itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: I will not allow the Athenians to sin twice against philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: There is nothing grand or noble in having the use of a slave, in so far as he is a slave; or in issuing commands about necessary things. But it is an error to suppose that every sort of rule is despotic like that of a master over slaves, for there is as great a difference between the rule over freemen and the rule over slaves as there is between slavery by nature and freedom by nature . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The purpose of the present study is not as it is in other inquiries, the attainment of knowledge, we are not conducting this inquiry in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, else there would be no advantage in studying it. For that reason, it becomes necessary to examine the problem of our actions and to ask how they are to be performed. For as we have said, the actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Of ill-temper there are three kinds: irascibility, bitterness, sullenness. It belongs to the ill-tempered man to be unable to bear either small slights or defeats but to be given to retaliation and revenge, and easily moved to anger by any chance deed or word. Ill-temper is accompanied by excitability of character, instability, bitter speech, and liability to take offence at trifles and to feel these feelings quickly and on slight occasions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Justice is the loveliest and health is the best. but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Courage is a mean with regard to fear and confidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when he lives without law, and without justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The truly good and wise man will bear all kinds of fortune in a seemly way, and will always act in the noblest manner that the circumstances allow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: We praise a man who feels angry on the right grounds and against the right persons and also in the right manner at the right moment and for the right length of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Every realm of nature is marvelous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The mass of mankind are evidently slavish in their tastes, preferring a life suitable to beasts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: All men are alike when asleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Friendship is communion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In a race, the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest, since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started, so that the slower must always hold a lead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: When couples have children in excess, let abortion be procured before sense and life have begun; what may or may not be lawfully done in these cases depends on the question of life and sensation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Pleasure causes us to do base actions and pain causes us to abstain from doing noble actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the old they are a comfort and aid in their weakness, and those in the prime of life they incite to noble deeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: We must no more ask whether the soul and body are one than ask whether the wax and the figure impressed on it are one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men have an inward sense of what is beautiful, and the highest wisdom is to trust this intuition and be guided by it. The answer to the last appeal of what is right lies within a man's own breast. Trust thyself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The same thing may have all the kinds of causes, e.g. the moving cause of a house is the art or the builder, the final cause is the function it fulfils, the matter is earth and stones, and the form is the definitory formula."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Actions determine what kind of characteristics are developed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Aristotle said: \"Evil brings men together.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Also, that which is desirable in itself is more desirable than what is desirable per accidens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: We are masters of our actions from the beginning up to the very end. But, in the case of our habits, we are only masters of their commencement - each particular little increase being as imperceptible as in the case of bodily infirmities. But yet our habits are voluntary, in that it was once in our power to adopt or not to adopt such or such a course of conduct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: . . . the man is free, we say, who exists for his own sake and not for another's."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It has been well said that 'he who has never learned to obey cannot be a good commander.' The two are not the same, but the good citizen ought to be capable of both; he should know how to govern like a freeman, and how to obey like a freeman - these are the virtues of a citizen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The democrats think that as they are equal they ought to be equal in all things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: We make war that we may live in peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Because the rich are generally few in number, while the poor are many, they appear to be antagonistic, and as the one or the other prevails they form the government. Hence arises the common opinion that there are two kinds of government - democracy and oligarchy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Virtue is more clearly shown in the performance of fine ACTIONS than in the non-performance of base ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Of means of persuading by speaking there are three species: some consist in the character of the speaker; others in the disposing the hearer a certain way; others in the thing itself which is said, by reason of its proving, or appearing to prove the point."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Love is the cause of unity in all things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The same ideas, one must believe, recur in men's minds not once or twice but again and again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In the perfect state the good man is absolutely the same as the good citizen; whereas in other states the good citizen is only good relatively to his own form of government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A man is his own best friend; therefore he ought to love himself best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is absurd to hold that a man ought to be ashamed of being unable to defend himself with his limbs, but not of being unable to defend himself with speech and reason, when the use of rational speech is more distinctive of a human being than the use of his limbs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The soul has two parts, one rational and the other irrational. Let us now similarly divide the rational part, and let it be assumed that there are two rational faculties, one whereby we contemplate those things whose first principles are invariable, and one whereby we contemplate those things which admit of variation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Revolutions are not about trifles, but spring from trifles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In everything, it is no easy task to find the middle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: There is only one condition in which we can imagine managers not needing subordinates, and masters not needing slaves. This condition would be that each (inanimate) instrument could do its own work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A poet's object is not to tell what actually happened but what could or would happen either probably or inevitably.... For this reason poetry is something more scientific and serious than history, because poetry tends to give general truths while history gives particular facts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: There is more evidence to prove that saltness [of the sea] is due to the admixture of some substance, besides that which we have adduced. Make a vessel of wax and put it in the sea, fastening its mouth in such a way as to prevent any water getting in. Then the water that percolates through the wax sides of the vessel is sweet, the earthy stuff, the admixture of which makes the water salt, being separated off as it were by a filter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Man, as an originator of action, is a union of desire and intellect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is easy to perform a good action, but not easy to acquire a settled habit of performing such actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Excellence or virtue in a man will be the disposition which renders him a good man and also which will cause him to perform his function well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: He who is by nature not his own but another's man is by nature a slave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For imitation is natural to man from his infancy. Man differs from other animals particularly in this, that he is imitative, and acquires his rudiments of knowledge in this way; besides, the delight in it is universal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Men must be able to engage in business and go to war, but leisure and peace are better; they must do what is necessary and indeed what is useful, but what is honorable is better. On such principles children and persons of every age which requires education should be trained."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The soul is the form of the body"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A tragedy is the imitation of an action that is serious and also, as having magnitude, complete in itself . . . with incidents arousing pity and fear, wherewith to accomplish its catharsis of such emotions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Distance does not break off the friendship absolutely, but only the activity of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A true friend is one soul in two bodies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Law is order, and good law is good order."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is the repeated performance of just and temperate actions that produces virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If the poor, for example, because they are more in number, divide among themselves the property of the rich,- is not this unjust? . . this law of confiscation clearly cannot be just."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If then, as we say, good craftsmen look to the mean as they work, and if virtue, like nature, is more accurate and better than any form of art, it will follow that virtue has the quality of hitting the mean. I refer to moral virtue [not intellectual], for this is concerned with emotions and actions, in which one can have excess or deficiency or a due mean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Character gives us qualities, but it is in our actions \u2014 what we do \u2014 that we are happy or the reverse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The perversions are as follows: of royalty, tyranny; of aristocracy, oligarchy; of constitutional government, democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Some vices miss what is right because they are deficient, others because they are excessive, in feelings or in actions, while virtue finds and chooses the mean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Memory is therefore, neither Perception nor Conception, but a state or affection of one of these, conditioned by lapse of time.  As already observed, there is no such thing as memory of the present while present, for the present is object only of perception, and the future, of expectation, but the object of memory is the past.  All memory, therefore, implies a time elapsed; consequently only those animals which perceive time remember, and the organ whereby they perceive time is also that whereby they remember."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A bad man can do a million times more harm than a beast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It may be argued that peoples for whom philosophers legislate are always prosperous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Anger is always concerned with individuals, ... whereas hatred is directed also against classes: we all hate any thief and any informer. Moreover, anger can be cured by time; but hatred cannot. The one aims at giving pain to its object, the other at doing him harm; the angry man wants his victim to feel; the hater does not mind whether they feel or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: When quarrels and complaints arise, it is when people who are equal have not got equal shares, or vice-versa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The life of children, as much as that of intemperate men, is wholly governed by their desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A whole is that which has a beginning, a middle and an end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: We deliberate not about ends, but about means."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The rattle is a toy suited to the infant mind, and education is a rattle or toy for children of larger growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: [this element], the seat of the appetites and of desire in general, does in a sense participate in principle, as being amenable and obedient to it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The sun, moving as it does, sets up processes of change and becoming and decay, and by its agency the finest and sweetest water is every day carried up and is dissolved into vapour and rises to the upper region, where it is condensed again by the cold and so returns to the earth. This, as we have said before, is the regular course of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: To perceive is to suffer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: As for the story, whether the poet takes it ready made or constructs it for himself, he should first sketch its general outline, and then fill in the episodes and amplify in detail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: There is simple ignorance, which is the source of lighter offenses, and double ignorance, which is accompanied by a conceit of wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect they are equal absolutely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Equality consists in the same treatment of similar persons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: There is no great genius without a mixture of madness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For good is simple, evil manifold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Purpose is a desire for something in our own power, coupled with an investigation into its means."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In the case of some people, not even if we had the most accurate scientific knowledge, would it be easy to persuade them were we to address them through the medium of that knowledge; for a scientific discourse, it is the privilege of education to appreciate, and it is impossible that this should extend to the multitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: One swallow does not make a spring, nor does one fine day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Men are good in but one way, but bad in many."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Persuasion is effected through the medium of the hearers, when they shall have been brought to a state of excitement under the influence of speech; for we do not, when influenced by pain or joy, or partiality or dislike, award our decisions in the same way; about which means of persuasion alone, I declare that the system-mongers of the present day busy themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Those who assert that the mathematical sciences say nothing of the beautiful or the good are in error. For these sciences say and prove a great deal about them; if they do not expressly mention them, but prove attributes which are their results or definitions, it is not true that they tell us nothing about them. The chief forms of beauty are order and symmetry and definiteness, which the mathematical sciences demonstrate in a special degree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Between friends there is no need of justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Moral qualities are so constituted as to be destroyed by excess and by deficiency . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is well said, then, that it is by doing just acts that the just man is produced, and by doing temperate acts the temperate man; without doing these no one would have even a prospect of becoming good. But most people do not do these, but take refuge in theory and think they are being philosophers and will become good in this way, behaving somewhat like patients who listen attentively to their doctors, but do none of the things they are ordered to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The citizens begin by giving up some part of the constitution, and so with greater ease the government change something else which is a little more important, until they have undermined the whole fabric of the state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and the same rule must necessarily hold good with respect to all mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Human good turns out to be activity of soul exhibiting excellence, and if there is more than one sort of excellence, in accordance with the best and most complete.Foroneswallowdoesnot makea summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The only stable principle of government is equality according to proportion, and for every man to enjoy his own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those who have expressed more superficial views; for these also contributed something, by developing before us the powers of thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: There are three qualifications required in those who have to fill the highest offices, - (1) first of all, loyalty to the established constitution; (2) the greatest administrative capacity; (3) virtue and justice of the kind proper to each form of government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The bad man is continually at war with, and in opposition to, himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: When people are friends, they have no need of justice, but when they are just, they need friendship in addition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The best friend is he that, when he wishes a person's good, wishes it for that person's own sake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For knowing is spoken of in three ways: it may be either universal knowledge or knowledge proper to the matter in hand or actualising such knowledge; consequently three kinds of error also are possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Therefore, the good of man must be the end of the science of politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In bad or corrupted natures the body will often appear to rule over the soul, because they are in an evil and unnatural condition. At all events we may firstly observe in living creatures both a despotical and a constitutional rule; for the soul rules the body with a despotical rule, whereas the intellect rules the appetites with a constitutional and royal rule. And it is clear that the rule of the soul over the body, and of the mind and the rational element over the passionate, is natural and expedient; whereas the equality of the two or the rule of the inferior is always hurtful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In painting, the most brilliant colors, spread at random and without design, will give far less pleasure than the simplest outline of a figure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: All art is concerned with coming into being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Everything is done with a goal, and that goal is \"good.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: No one will dare maintain that it is better to do injustice than to bear it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Great men are always of a nature originally melancholy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is clear, then, that the earth must be at the centre and immovable, not only for the reasons already given, but also because heavy bodies forcibly thrown quite straight upward return to the point from which they started, even if they are thrown to an infinite distance. From these considerations then it is clear that the earth does not move and does not lie elsewhere than at the centre."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Everybody loves a thing more if it has cost him trouble: for instance those who have made money love money more than those who have inherited it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: They should rule who are able to rule best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake, clearly this must be the good. Will not knowledge of it, then, have a great influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Whereas happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or none of it, the various qualities of men are clearly the reason why there are various kinds of states and many forms of government; for different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It seems that ambition makes most people wish to be loved rather than to love others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Rhetoric is useful because the true and the just are naturally superior to their opposites, so that, if decisions are improperly made, they must owe their defeat to their own advocates; which is reprehensible. Further, in dealing with certain persons, even if we possessed the most accurate scientific knowledge, we should not find it easy to persuade them by the employment of such knowledge. For scientific discourse is concerned with instruction, but in the case of such persons instruction is impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: And it is characteristic of man that he alone has any sense of good and evil, of just and unjust, and the like, and the association of living beings who have this sense makes family and a state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A government which is composed of the middle class more nearly approximates to democracy than to oligarchy, and is the safest of the imperfect forms of government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: These, then, are the four kinds of royalty. First the monarchy of the heroic ages; this was exercised over voluntary subjects, but limited to certain functions; the king was a general and a judge, and had the control of religion The second is that of the barbarians, which is a hereditary despotic government in accordance with law. A third is the power of the so-called Aesynmete or Dictator; this is an elective tyranny. The fourth is the Lacedaemonian, which is in fact a generalship, hereditary and perpetual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A young man is not a proper hearer of lectures on political science; for he is inexperienced in the actions that occur in life, but its discussions start from these and are about these; and, further, since he tends to follow his passions, his study will be vain and unprofitable, because the end that is aimed at is not knowledge but action. And it makes no difference whether he is young in years or youthful in character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In making a speech one must study three points: first, the means of producing persuasion; second, the language; third the proper arrangement of the various parts of the speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The argument of Alcidamas: Everyone honours the wise. Thus the Parians have honoured Archilochus, in spite of his bitter tongue; the Chians Homer, though he was not their countryman; the Mytilenaeans Sappho, though she was a woman; the Lacedaemonians actually made Chilon a member of their senate, though they are the least literary of men; the inhabitants of Lampsacus gave public burial to Anaxagoras, though he was an alien, and honour him even to this day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself, must be either a beast or a god."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If purpose, then, is inherent in art, so is it in Nature also. The best illustration is the case of a man being his own physician, for Nature is like that - agent and patient at once."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: They who are to be judges must also be performers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Of old, the demagogue was also a general, and then democracies changed into tyrannies. Most of the ancient tyrants were originally demagogues. They are not so now, but they were then; and the reason is that they were generals and not orators, for oratory had not yet come into fashion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Since the whole city has one end, it is manifest that education should be one and the same for all, and that it should be public, and not private - not as at present, when every one looks after his own children separately, and gives them separate instruction of the sort which he thinks best; the training in things which are of common interest should be the same for all. Neither must we suppose that any one of the citizens belongs to himself, for they all belong to the state, and are each of them a part of the state, and the care of each part is inseparable from the care of the whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Some men turn every quality or art into a means of making money; this they conceive to be the end, and to the promotion of the end all things must contribute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number; for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: All men by nature desire to know. An indication of this is the delight we take in our senses; for even apart from their usefulness they are loved for themselves..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Such an event is probable in Agathon's sense of the word: 'it is probable,' he says, 'that many things should happen contrary to probability.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Plato is dear to me, but dearer still is truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Xenophanes states that the fire in Lipara once failed for sixteen years, but returned in the seventeenth year. They say that the lava-stream in Etna is neither flaming nor continuous, but returns only after an interval of many years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is this simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when addressing popular audiences-makes them, as the poets tell us, 'charm the crowd's ears more finely.' Educated men lay down broad general principles; uneducated men argue from common knowledge and draw obvious conclusions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on excellence of character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Rising before daylight is also to be commended; it is a healthy habit, and gives more time for the management of the household as well as for liberal studies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Since we think we understand when we know the explanation, and there are four types of explanation (one, what it is to be a thing; one, that if certain things hold it is necessary that this does; another, what initiated the change; and fourth, the aim), all these are proved through the middle term."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Praise invariably implies a reference to a higher standard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it. Every one thinks chiefly of his own, hardly at all of the common interest; and only when he is himself concerned as an individual. For besides other considerations, everybody is more inclined to neglect the duty which he expects another to fulfill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: . . . Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Greatness of Soul seems therefore to be as it were a crowning ornament of the virtues; it enhances their greatness, and it cannot exist without them. Hence it is hard to be truly great-souled, for greatness of soul is impossible without moral nobility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Temperance and bravery, then, are ruined by excess and deficiency, but preserved by the mean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Purpose ... is held to be most closely connected with virtue, and to be a better token of our character than are even our acts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: To die, and thus avoid poverty or love, or anything painful, is not the part of a brave man, but rather of a coward; for it is cowardice to avoid trouble, and the suicide does not undergo death because it is honorable, but in order to avoid evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Take the case of just actions; just punishments and chastisements do indeed spring from a good principle, but they are good only because we cannot do without them - it would be better that neither individuals nor states should need anything of the sort - but actions which aim at honor and advantage are absolutely the best. The conditional action is only the choice of a lesser evil; whereas these are the foundation and creation of good. A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Some men are just as sure of the truth of their opinions as are others of what they know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Nature, as we say, does nothing without some purpose; and for thepurpose of making mana political animal she has endowed him alone among the animals with the power of reasoned speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: We ought not to listen to those who exhort us, because we are human, to think of human things....We ought rather to take on immortality as much as possible, and do all that we can to live in accordance with the highest element within us; for even if its bulk is small, in its power and value it far exceeds everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from that of the subject; the one being the virtue of the rational, and the other of the irrational part. Now, it is obvious that the same principle applies generally, and therefore almost all things rule and are ruled according to nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is possible to fail in many ways . . . while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult - to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: As to adultery, let it be held disgraceful, in general, for any man or woman to be found in any way unfaithful when they are married, and called husband and wife. If during the time of bearing children anything of the sort occur, let the guilty person be punished with a loss of privileges in proportion to the offense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: There are, then, three states of mind ... two vices--that of excess, and that of defect; and one virtue--the mean; and all these are in a certain sense opposed to one another; for the extremes are not only opposed to the mean, but also to one another; and the mean is opposed to the extremes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Men pay most attention to what is their own: they care less for what is common; or, at any rate, they care for it only to the extent to which each is individually concerned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: These two rational faculties may be designated the Scientific Faculty and the Calculative Faculty respectively; since calculation is the same as deliberation, and deliberation is never exercised about things that are invariable, so that the Calculative Faculty is a separate part of the rational half of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Man's best friend is one who wishes well to the object of his wish for his sake, even if no one is to know of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It will contribute towards one's object, who wishes to acquire a facility in the gaining of knowledge, to doubt judiciously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: ...happiness is an activity and a complete utilization of virtue, not conditionally but absolutely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: There must be in prudence also some master virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange. Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not mere companionship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Most persons think that a state in order to be happy ought to be large; but even if they are right, they have no idea of what is a large and what a small state.... To the size of states there is a limit, as there is to other things, plants, animals, implements; for none of these retain their natural power when they are too large or too small, but they either wholly lose their nature, or are spoiled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for the soul is in some sense the principle of animal life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to seek was human good and human happiness. But human goodness means in our view excellence of soul, not excellence of body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: One citizen differs from another, but the salvation of the community is the common business of them all. This community is the constitution; the virtue of the citizen must therefore be relative to the constitution of which he is a member."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Moral virtue is ... a mean between two vices, that of excess and that of defect, and ... it is no small task to hit the mean in each case, as it is not, for example, any chance comer, but only the geometer, who can find the center of a given circle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: As often as we do good, we offer sacrifices to God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: There is also a doubt as to what is to be the supreme power in the state: - Is it the multitude? Or the wealthy? Or the good? Or the one best man? Or a tyrant?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be, and similarly everything that depends on art or any rational cause, and especially if it depends on the best of all causes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The male has more teeth than the female in mankind, and sheep and goats, and swine. This has not been observed in other animals. Those persons which have the greatest number of teeth are the longest lived; those which have them widely separated, smaller, and more scattered, are generally more short lived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Cruel is the strife of brothers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: That judges of important causes should hold office for life is a questionable thing, for the mind grows old as well as the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Equity is that idea of justice which contravenes the written law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In the first place, then, men should guard against the beginning of change, and in the second place they should not rely upon the political devices of which I have already spoken invented only to deceive the people, for they are proved by experience to be useless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Anyone, without any great penetration, may distinguish the dispositions consequent on wealth; for its possessors are insolent and overbearing, from being tainted in a certain way by the getting of their wealth. For they are affected as though they possessed every good; since wealth is a sort of standard of the worth of other things; whence every thing seems to be purchasable by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: [Hope is] the dream of a waking man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: What is the highest of all goods achievable by action? ...both the general run of man and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness ...but with regard to what happiness is they differ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: And of course, the brain is not responsible for any of the sensations at all. The correct view is that the seat and source of sensation is the region of the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Where the laws are not supreme, there demagogues spring up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If you prove the cause, you at once prove the effect; and conversely nothing can exist without its cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: He is courageous who endures and fears the right thing, for the right motive, in the right way and at the right times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Whereas the law is passionless, passion must ever sway the heart of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: But then in what way are things called good? They do not seem to be like the things that only chance to have the same name. Are goods one then by being derived from one good or by all contributing to one good, or are they rather one by analogy? Certainly as sight is in the body, so is reason in the soul, and so on in other cases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Dissimilarity of habit tends more than anything to destroy affection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is not the possessions but the desires of mankind which require to be equalized."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For as the interposition of a rivulet, however small, will occasion the line of the phalanx to fluctuate, so any trifling disagreement will be the cause of seditions; but they will not so soon flow from anything else as from the disagreement between virtue and vice, and next to that between poverty and riches."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The virtue of a faculty is related to the special function which that faculty performs. Now there are three elements in the soul which control action and the attainment of truth: namely, Sensation, Intellect, and Desire. Of these, Sensation never originates action, as is shown by the fact that animals have sensation but are not capable of action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Some things the legislator must find ready to his hand in a state, others he must provide. And therefore we can only say: May our state be constituted in such a manner as to be blessed with the goods of which fortune disposes (for we acknowledge her power): whereas virtue and goodness in the state are not a matter of chance but the result of knowledge and purpose. A city can be virtuous only when the citizens who have a share in the government are virtuous, and in our state all the citizens share in the government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If thinking is like perceiving, it must be either a process in which the soul is acted upon by what is capable of being thought, or a process different from but analogous to that. The thinking part of the soul must therefore be, while impassable, capable of receiving the form of an object; that is, must be potentially identical in character with its object without being the object. Mind must be related to what is thinkable, as sense is to what is sensible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The law is reason, free from passion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: One kind of justice is that which is manifested in distributions of honour or money or the other things that fall to be divided among those who have a share in the constitution ... and another kind is that which plays a rectifying part in transactions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For it is owing to their wonder that men both now begin and at first began to philosophize... They were pursuing science in order to know, and not for any utilitarian end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: With the truth, all given facts harmonize; but with what is false, the truth soon hits a wrong note."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Property should be in a certain sense common, but, as a general rule, private; for, when every one has a distinct interest, men will not complain of one another, and they will make more progress, because every one will be attending to his own business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which a piece of wax takes on the impress of a signet-ring without the iron or gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: We should venture on the study of every kind of animal without distaste; for each and all will reveal to us something natural and something beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For just as for a flute-player, a sculptor, or an artist, and, in general, for all things that have a function or activity, the good and the well is thought to reside in the function, so would it seem to be for man, if he has a function."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: All teaching and all intellectual learning come about from already existing knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The real difference between democracy and oligarchy is poverty and wealth. Wherever men rule by reason of their wealth, whether they be few or many, that is an oligarchy, and where the poor rule, that is a democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: And this activity alone would seem to be loved for its own sake; for nothing arises from it apart from the contemplating, while from practical activities we gain more or less apart from the action.  And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue and the performance of virtuous actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Moral virtue is a mean . . . between two vices, one of excess and the other of defect; . . . it is such a mean because it aims at hitting the middle point in feelings and in actions. This is why it is a hard task to be good, for it is hard to find the middle point in anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: He who confers a benefit on anyone loves him better than he is beloved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Nature does nothing without a purpose. In children may be observed the traces and seeds of what will one day be settled psychological habits, though psychologically a child hardly differs for the time being from an animal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The line between lawful and unlawful abortion will be marked by the fact of having sensation and being alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Nature makes nothing incomplete, and nothing in vain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: What we know is not capable of being otherwise; of things capable of being otherwise we do not know, when they have passed outsideour observation, whether they exist or not. Therefore the object of knowledge is of necessity. Therefore it is eternal; for things that are of necessity in the unqualified sense are all eternal; and things that are eternal are ungenerated and imperishable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: When several villages are united in a single complete community, large enough to be nearly or quite self-sufficing, the state comes into existence, originating in the bare needs of life, and continuing in existence for the sake of a good life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is through wonder that men now begin and originally began to philosophize; wondering in the first place at obvious perplexities, and then by gradual progression raising questions about the greater matters too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Since the branch of philosophy on which we are at present engaged differs from the others in not being a subject of merely intellectual interest \u2014 I mean we are not concerned to know what goodness essentially is, but how we are to become good men, for this alone gives the study its practical value \u2014 we must apply our minds to the solution of the problems of conduct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: There is nothing strange in the circle being the origin of any and every marvel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The guest will judge better of a feast than the cook"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: That rule is the better which is exercised over better subjects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is likely that unlikely things should happen"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The soul consists of two parts, one irrational and the other capable of reason. (Whether these two parts are really distinct in the sense that the parts of the body or of any other divisible whole are distinct, or whether though distinguishable in thought as two they are inseparable in reality, like the convex and concave of a curve, is a question of no importance for the matter in hand.)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Poetry demands a man with a special gift for it, or else one with a touch of madness in him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Neither should men study war with a view to the enslavement of those who do not deserve to be enslaved; but first of all they should provide against their own enslavement, and in the second place obtain empire for the good of the governed, and not for the sake of exercising a general despotism, and in the third place they should seek to be masters only over those who deserve to be slaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In all well-attempered governments there is nothing which should be more jealously maintained than the spirit of obedience to law, more especially in small matters; for transgression creeps in unperceived and at last ruins the state, just as the constant recurrence of small expenses in time eats up a fortune."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Tragedy is an imitation not of men but of a life, an action"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Our account does not rob the mathematicians of their science... In point of fact they do not need the infinite and do not use it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Justice is that virtue of the soul which is distributive according to desert."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Life is full of chances and changes, and the most prosperous of men may in the evening of his days meet with great misfortunes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: for we are inquiring not in order to know what virtue is, but in order to become good, since otherwise our inquiry would have been of no use"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: When you have thrown a stone, you cannot afterwards bring it back again, but nevertheless you are responsible for having taken up the stone and flung it, for the origin of the act was within you. Similarly the unjust and profligate might at the outset have avoided becoming so, and therefore they are so voluntarily, although when they have become unjust and profligate it is no longer open to them not to be so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: ...perhaps there is some element of good even in the simple act of living, so long as the evils of existence do not preponderate too heavily."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The specific excellence of verbal expression in poetry is to be clear without being low."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is the mark of an educated mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness where only an approximation is possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If the state cannot be entirely composed of good men, and yet each citizen is expected to do his own business well, and must therefore have virtue, still inasmuch as all the citizens cannot be alike, the virtue of the citizen and of the good man cannot coincide. All must have the virtue of the good citizen - thus, and thus only, can the state be perfect; but they will not have the virtue of a good man, unless we assume that in the good state all the citizens must be good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The arousing of prejudice, pity, anger, and similar emotions has nothing to do with the essential facts, but is merely a personal appeal to the man who is judging the case."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The structural unity of the parts is such that, if any one of them is displaced or removed, the whole will be disjointed and dis\u00adturbed. For a thing whose presence or absence makes no visible difference is not an organic part of the whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The most perfect political community must be amongst those who are in the middle rank, and those states are best instituted wherein these are a larger and more respectable part, if possible, than both the other; or, if that cannot be, at least than either of them separate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: All food must be capable of being digested, and that what produces digestion is warmth; that is why everything that has soul in it possesses warmth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: We, on the other hand, must take for granted that the things that exist by nature are, either all or some of them, in motion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The soul of animals is characterized by two faculties, (a) the faculty of discrimination which is the work of thought and sense, and (b) the faculty of originating local movement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Happiness is an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The unfortunate need people who will be kind to them; the prosperous need people to be kind to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In the Laws it is maintained that the best constitution is made up of democracy and tyranny, which are either not constitutions at all, or are the worst of all. But they are nearer the truth who combine many forms; for the constitution is better which is made up of more numerous elements. The constitution proposed in the Laws has no element of monarchy at all; it is nothing but oligarchy and democracy, leaning rather to oligarchy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Our virtues are voluntary (and in fact we are in a sense ourselves partly the cause of our moral dispositions, and it is our having a certain character that makes us set up an end of a certain kind), it follows that our vices are voluntary also; they are voluntary in the same manner as our virtues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: To be always seeking after the useful does not become free and exalted souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Concerning the generation of animals akin to them, as hornets and wasps, the facts in all cases are similar to a certain extent, but are devoid of the extraordinary features which characterize bees; this we should expect, for they have nothing divine about them as the bees have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The beginning of reform is not so much to equalize property as to train the noble sort of natures not to desire more, and to prevent the lower from getting more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In cases of this sort, let us say adultery, rightness and wrongness do not depend on committing it with the right woman at the right time and in the right manner, but the mere fact of committing such action at all is to do wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: I say that habit's but a long practice, friend, and this becomes men's nature in the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Two characteristic marks have above all others been recognized as distinguishing that which has soul in it from that which has not - movement and sensation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: He then alone will strictly be called brave who is fearless of a noble death, and of all such chances as come upon us with sudden death in their train."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is of itself that the divine thought thinks (since it is the most excellent of things), and its thinking is a thinking on thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Either a beast or a god."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The attainment of truth is then the function of both the intellectual parts of the soul. Therefore their respective virtues are those dispositions which will best qualify them to attain truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is the mark of an educated man to look for precision in each class of things just so far as the nature of the subject admits"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily; for there is little that is pleasant in them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most swayed and in which they show absence of control...They are changeable and fickle in their desires which are violent while they last, but quickly over: their impulses are keen but not deep rooted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For pleasure is a state of soul, and to each man that which he is said to be a lover of is pleasant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The majority of mankind would seem to be beguiled into error by pleasure, which, not being really a good, yet seems to be so. So that they indiscriminately choose as good whatsoever gives them pleasure, while they avoid all pain alike as evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: But nature flies from the infinite; for the infinite is imperfect, and nature always seeks an end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: When we look at the matter from another point of view, great caution would seem to be required. For the habit of lightly changing the laws is an evil, and, when the advantage is small, some errors both of lawgivers and rulers had better be left; the citizen will not gain so much by making the change as he will lose by the habit of disobedience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Inasmuch as every family is a part of a state, and these relationships are the parts of a family, and the virtue of the part must have regard to the virtue of the whole, women and children must be trained by education with an eye to the constitution, if the virtues of either of them are supposed to make any difference in the virtues of the state. And they must make a difference: for the children grow up to be citizens, and half the free persons in a state are women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: We must as second best, as people say, take the least of the evils."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: We have next to consider the formal definition of virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Rhetoric is useful because truth and justice are in their nature stronger than their opposites; so that if decisions be made, not in conformity to the rule of propriety, it must have been that they have been got the better of through fault of the advocates themselves: and this is deserving reprehension."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A state of the soul is either (1) an emotion, (2) a capacity, or (3) a disposition; virtue therefore must be one of these three things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The avarice of mankind is insatiable; at one time two obols was pay enough; but now, when this sum has become customary, men always want more and more without end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Equality is of two kinds, numerical and proportional; by the first I mean sameness of equality in number or size; by the second, equality of ratios."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Happiness is the highest good"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Everything that depends on the action of nature is by nature as good as it can be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The legislator should direct his attention above all to the education of youth; for the neglect of education does harm to the constitution. The citizen should be molded to suit the form of government under which he lives. For each government has a peculiar character which originally formed and which continues to preserve it. The character of democracy creates democracy, and the character of oligarchy creates oligarchy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Nature herself, as has been often said, requires that we should be able, not only to work well, but to use leisure well; for, as I must repeat once again, the first principle of all action is leisure. Both are required, but leisure is better than occupation and is its end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: As the pleasures of the body are the ones which we most often meet with, and as all men are capable of these, these have usurped the family title; and some men think these are the only pleasures that exist, because they are the only ones which they know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: All are agreed that the various moral qualities are in a sense bestowed by nature: we are just, and capable of temperance, and brave, and possessed of the other virtues from the moment of our birth. But nevertheless we expect to find that true goodness is something different, and that the virtues in the true sense come to belong to us in another way. For even children and wild animals possess the natural dispositions, yet without Intelligence these may manifestly be harmful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For the lesser evil is reckoned a good in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen than the greater. ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For the more limited, if adequate, is always preferable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Between friends there is no need for justice, but people who are just still need the quality of friendship; and indeed friendliness is considered to be justice in the fullest sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme poverty lowers the character of the democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things which are by nature most evident of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The two qualities which chiefly inspire regard and affection are that a thing is your own and that it is your only one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Actual knowledge is identical with its object: in the individual, potential knowledge is in time prior to actual knowledge, but in the universe as a whole it is not prior even in time. Mind is not at one time knowing and at another not. When mind is set free from its present conditions it appears as just what it is and nothing more: this alone is immortal and eternal (we do not, however, remember its former activity because, while mind in this sense is impassible, mind as passive is destructible), and without it nothing thinks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Democracy is the form of government in which the free are rulers, and oligarchy in which the rich; it is only an accident that the free are the many and the rich are the few."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For often, when one is asleep, there is something in consciousness which declares that what then presents itself is but a dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The form of government is a democracy when the free, who are also poor and the majority, govern, and an oligarchy when the rich and the noble govern, they being at the same time few in number."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Quite often good things have hurtful consequences. There are instances of men who have been ruined by their money or killed by their courage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. As in other sciences, so in politics, it is impossible that all things should be precisely set down in writing; for enactments must be universal, but actions are concerned with particulars. Hence we infer that sometimes and in certain cases laws may be changed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Of governments there are said to be only two forms - democracy and oligarchy. For aristocracy is considered to be a kind of oligarchy, as being the rule of a few, and the so-called constitutional government to be really a democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: And so long as they were at war, their power was preserved, but when they had attained empire they fell, for of the arts of peace they knew nothing, and had never engaged in any employment higher than war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Error is multiform (for evil is a form of the unlimited, as in the old Pythagorean imagery, and good of the limited), whereas success is possible in one way only (which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed - easy to miss the target and difficult to hit it); so this is another reason why excess and deficiency are a mark of vice, and observance of the mean a mark of virtue: Goodness is simple, badness is manifold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Those who believe that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: What is the highest good in all matters of action? To the name, there is almost complete agreement; for uneducated and educated alike call it happiness, and make happiness identical with the good life and successful living. They disagree, however, about the meaning of happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Yet the true friend of the people should see that they be not too poor, for extreme povery lowers the character of the democracy; measures therefore should be taken which will give them lasting prosperity; and as this is equally the interest of all classes, the proceeds of the public revenues should be accumulated and distributed among its poor, if possible, in such quantities as may enable them to purchase a little farm, or, at any rate, make a beginning in trade or husbandry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Men in general desire the good and not merely what their fathers had."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Tragedy is an imitation not only of a complete action, but of events inspiring fear and pity. Such an effect is best produced when the events come on us by surprise; and the effect is heightened when, at the same time, they follow as cause and effect. The tragic wonder will then be great than if they happened of themselves or by accident; for even coincidences are most striking when they have an air of design."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If everything when it occupies an equal space is at rest, and if that which is in locomotion is always occupying such a space at any moment, the flying arrow is therefore motionless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does not make a man blessed and happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A tragedy is a representation of an action that is whole and complete and of a certain magnitude. A whole is what has a beginning and middle and end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The basis of a democratic state is liberty"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: That which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Again, it is possible to fail in many ways (for evil belongs to the class of the unlimited and good to that of the limited), while to succeed is possible only in one way (for which reason also one is easy and the other difficult\u2014to miss the mark easy, to hit it difficult); for these reasons also, then, excess and defect are characteristic of vice, and the mean of virtue; For men are good in but one way, but bad in many."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If you string together a set of speeches expressive of character, and well finished in point and diction and thought, you will not produce the essential tragic effect nearly so well as with a play which, however deficient in these respects, yet has a plot and artistically constructed incidents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: All art is concerned with coming into being; for it is concerned neither with things that are, or come into being by necessity, nor with things that do so in accordance with nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The same things are best both for individuals and for states, and these are the things which the legislator ought to implant in the minds of his citizens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Wit is educated insolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The goodness or badness, justice or injustice, of laws varies of necessity with the constitution of states. This, however, is clear, that the laws must be adapted to the constitutions. But if so, true forms of government will of necessity have just laws, and perverted forms of government will have unjust laws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Now what is just and right is to be interpreted in the sense of 'what is equal'; and that which is right in the sense of being equal is to be considered with reference to the advantage of the state, and the common good of the citizens. And a citizen is one who shares in governing and being governed. He differs under different forms of government, but in the best state he is one who is able and willing to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In justice is all virtues found in sum."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The vices respectively fall short of or exceed what is right in both passions and actions, while virtue both finds and chooses that which is intermediate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: I call that law universal, which is conformable merely to dictates of nature; for there does exist naturally an universal sense of right and wrong, which, in a certain degree, all intuitively divine, even should no intercourse with each other, nor any compact have existed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Bravery is a mean state concerned with things that inspire confidence and with things fearful ... and leading us to choose danger and to face it, either because to do so is noble, or because not to do so is base. But to court death as an escape from poverty, or from love, or from some grievous pain, is no proof of bravery, but rather of cowardice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The art of wealth-getting which consists in household management, on the one hand, has a limit; the unlimited acquisition of wealth is not its business. And therefore, in one point of view, all riches must have a limit; nevertheless, as a matter of fact, we find the opposite to be the case; for all getters of wealth increase their hard coin without limit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Laws, when good, should be supreme; and that the magistrate or magistrates should regulate those matters only on which the laws are unable to speak with precision owing to the difficulty of any general principle embracing all particulars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The law does not expressly permit suicide, and what it does not permit it forbids."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: But since there is but one aim for the entire state, it follows that education must be one and the same for all, and that the responsibility for it must be a public one, not the private affair which it now is, each man looking after his own children and teaching them privately whatever private curriculum he thinks they ought to study."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Youth should be kept strangers to all that is bad, and especially to things which suggest vice or hate. When the five years have passed away, during the two following years they must look on at the pursuits which they are hereafter to learn. There are two periods of life with reference to which education has to be divided, from seven to the age of puberty, and onwards to the age of one and twenty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If then it be possible that one contrary should exist, or be called into existence, the other contrary will also appear to be possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: But the whole vital process of the earth takes place so gradually and in periods of time which are so immense compared with the length of our life, that these changes are not observed, and before their course can be recorded from beginning to end whole nations perish and are destroyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In practical matters the end is not mere speculative knowledge of what is to be done, but rather the doing of it. It is not enough to know about Virtue, then, but we must endeavor to possess it, and to use it, or to take any other steps that may make."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy others, and things painful and disgusting to some are pleasant and attractive to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: But the virtues we get by first exercising them, as also happens in the case of the arts as well. For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, e.g. men become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are of the nature rather of universals, whereas those of history are singulars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Legislative enactments proceed from men carrying their views a long time back; while judicial decisions are made off hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Anything whose presence or absence makes no discernible difference is no essential part of the whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: When Pleasure is at the bar the jury is not impartial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In all things which have a plurality of parts, and which are not a total aggregate but a whole of some sort distinct from the parts, there is some cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The line has magnitude in one way, the plane in two ways, and the solid in three ways, and beyond these there is no other magnitude because the three are all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: We may assume the superiority ceteris paribus of the demonstration which derives from fewer postulates or hypotheses - in short, from fewer premises."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is evident, then, that there is a sort of education in which parents should train their sons, not as being useful or necessary, but because it is liberal or noble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: What has soul in it differs from what has not, in that the former displays life. Now this word has more than one sense, and provided any one alone of these is found in a thing we say that thing is living. Living, that is, may mean thinking or perception or local movement and rest, or movement in the sense of nutrition, decay and growth. Hence we think of plants also as living, for they are observed to possess in themselves an originative power through which they increase or decrease in all spatial directions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: When their adventures do not succeed, however, they run away; but it was the mark of a brave man to face things that are, and seem, terrible for a man, because it is noble to do so and disgraceful not to do so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Comedy has had no history, because it was not at first treated seriously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: No one finds fault with defects which are the result of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For it is not true, as some treatise-mongers lay down in their systems, of the probity of the speaker, that it contributes nothing to persuasion; but moral character nearly, I may say, carries with it the most sovereign efficacy in making credible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life, for nothing that belongs to happiness can be incomplete."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The avarice of mankind is insatiable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: [I]t is rather the case that we desire something because we believe it to be good than that we believe a thing to be good because we desire it. It is the thought that starts things off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Now all orators effect their demonstrative proofs by allegation either of enthymems or examples, and, besides these, in no other way whatever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The good citizen need not of necessity possess the virtue which makes a good man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A period may be defined as a portion of speech that has in itself a beginning and an end, being at the same time not too big to be taken in at a glance"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Temperance is a mean with regard to pleasures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Men cling to life even at the cost of enduring great misfortune."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Once more: there are three offices according to whose directions the highest magistrates are chosen in certain states - guardians of the law, probuli, councilors - of these, the guardians of the law are an aristocratical, the probuli an oligarchical, the council a democratical institution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Therefore the good man ought to be a lover of self, since he will then both benefit himself by acting nobly and aid his fellows; but the bad man ought not to be a lover of self, since he will follow his base passions, and so injure both himself and his neighbors. With the bad man therefore, what he does is not in accord with what he ought to do, but the good man does what he ought, since intelligence always chooses for itself that which is best, and the good man obeys his intelligence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state, especially of the highest of all. The government is everywhere sovereign in the state, and the constitution is in fact the government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Now if there is any gift of the gods to men, it is reasonable that happiness should be god-given, and most surely god-given of all human things inasmuch as it is the best. But this question would perhaps be more appropriate to another inquiry; happiness seems, however, even if it is not god-sent but comes as a result of virtue and some process of learning and training, to be among the most god-like things; for that which is the prize and end of virtue seems to be the best thing in the world, and something god-like and blessed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: ...we are all inclined to ... direct our inquiry not by the matter itself, but by the views of our opponents; and, even when interrogating oneself, one pushes the inquiry only to the point at which one can no longer offer any opposition. Hence a good inquirer will be one who is ready in bringing forward the objections proper to the genus, and that he will be when he has gained an understanding of the differences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed up to the present at any rate, but one case in the class of fishes makes us hesitate. No male of the so-called erythrinus has ever yet been seen, but females, and specimens full of roe, have been seen. Of this, however, we have as yet no proof worthy of credit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Both Self-restraint and Unrestraint are a matter of extremes as compared with the character of the mass of mankind; the restrained man shows more and the unrestrained man less steadfastness than most men are capable of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The soul is the cause or source of the living body. The terms cause and source have many senses. But the soul is the cause of its body alike in all three senses which we explicitly recognize. It is (a) the source or origin of movement, it is (b) the end, it is (c) the essence of the whole living body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Governments which have a regard to the common interest are constituted in accordance with strict principles of justice, and are therefore true forms; but those which regard only the interest of the rulers are all defective and perverted forms, for they are despotic, whereas a state is a community of freemen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: All virtue is summed up in dealing justly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Everything necessarily is or is not, and will be or will not be; but one cannot divide and say that one or the other is necessary.I mean, for example: it is necessary for there to be or not to be a sea-battle tomorrow; but it is not necessary for a sea-battle to take place tomorrow, or for one not to take place--though it is necessary for one to take place or not to take place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: One cannot say of something that it is and that it is not in the same respect at the same time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For any two portions of fire, small or great, will exhibit the same ratio of solid to void; but the upward movement of the greater is quicker than that of the less, just as the downward movement of a mass of gold or lead, or of any other body endowed with weight, is quicker in proportion to its size."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Of actions some aim at what is necessary and useful, and some at what is honorable. And the preference given to one or the other class of actions must necessarily be like the preference given to one or other part of the soul and its actions over the other; there must be war for the sake of peace, business for the sake of leisure, things useful and necessary for the sake of things honorable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If, therefore, there is any one superior in virtue and in the power of performing the best actions, him we ought to follow and obey, but he must have the capacity for action as well as virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If what was said in the Ethics is true, that the happy life is the life according to virtue lived without impediment, and that virtue is a mean, then the life which is in a mean, and in a mean attainable by every one, must be the best. And the same principles of virtue and vice are characteristic of cities and of constitutions; for the constitution is in a figure the life of the city."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: That in the soul which is called mind (by mind I mean that whereby the soul thinks and judges) is, before it thinks, not actually any real thing. For this reason it cannot reasonably be regarded as blended with the body"
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: All three states - the Lacedaemonian, the Cretan, and the Carthaginian - nearly resemble one another, and are very different from any others. Many of the Carthaginian institutions are excellent. The superiority of their constitution is proved by the fact that the common people remains loyal to the constitution; the Carthaginians have never had any rebellion worth speaking of, and have never been under the rule of a tyrant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: We maintain, and have said in the Ethics, if the arguments there adduced are of any value, that happiness is the realization and perfect exercise of virtue, and this not conditional, but absolute. And I used the term 'conditional' to express that which is indispensable, and 'absolute' to express that which is good in itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In most constitutional states the citizens rule and are ruled by turns, for the idea of a constitutional state implies that the natures of the citizens are equal, and do not differ at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: People of superior refinement and of active disposition identify happiness with honour; for this is roughly speaking, the end of political life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If the consequences are the same it is always better to assume the more limited antecedent, since in things of nature the limited, as being better, is sure to be found, wherever possible, rather than the unlimited."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: That the equalization of property exercises an influence on political society was clearly understood even by some of the old legislators. Laws were made by Solon and others prohibiting an individual from possessing as much land as he pleased."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: We have no evidence as yet about mind or the power to think; it seems to be a widely different kind of soul, differing as what is eternal from what is perishable; it alone is capable of existence in isolation from all other psychic powers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Wit is cultured insolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is not easy to determine the nature of music, or why any one should have a knowledge of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: When we deliberate it is about means and not ends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Even if you must have regard to wealth, in order to secure leisure, yet it is surely a bad thing that the greatest offices, such as those of kings and generals, should be bought. The law which allows this abuse makes wealth of more account than virtue, and the whole state becomes avaricious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Great is the good fortune of a state in which the citizens have a moderate and sufficient property."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: There is an error common to both oligarchies and to democracies: in the latter the demagogues, when the multitude are above the law, are always cutting the city in two by quarrels with the rich, whereas they should always profess to be maintaining their cause; just as in oligarchies the oligarchs should profess to maintain the cause of the people, . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If, then, there is some end of the things we do, which we desire for its own sake (everything else being desired for the sake of this), and if we do not choose everything for the sake of something else (for at that rate the process would go on to infinity, so that our desire would be empty and vain), clearly this must be the good and the chief good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: ...for all men do their acts with a view to achieving something which is, in their view, a good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: At first he who invented any art that went beyond the common perceptions of man was naturally admired by men, not only because there was something useful in the inventions, but because he was thought wise and superior to the rest. But as more arts were invented, and some were directed to the necessities of life, others to its recreation, the inventors of the latter were always regarded as wiser than the inventors of the former, because their branches of knowledge did not aim at utility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Irrational passions would seem to be as much a part of human nature as is reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For this reason poetry is something more philosophical and more worthy of serious attention than history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can, if they like, encroach, is far greater, for the weaker are always asking for equality and justice, but the stronger care for none of these things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: In seeking for justice men seek for the mean or neutral, for the law is the mean. Again, customary laws have more weight, and relate to more important matters, than written laws, and a man may be a safer ruler than the written law, but not safer than the customary law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: So the good has been well explained as that at which all things aim."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator than a party to the dispute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It would then be most admirably adapted to the purposes of justice, if laws properly enacted were, as far as circumstances admitted, of themselves to mark out all cases, and to abandon as few as possible to the discretion of the judge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Just as a royal rule, if not a mere name, must exist by virtue of some great personal superiority in the king, so tyranny, which is the worst of governments, is necessarily the farthest removed from a well-constituted form; oligarchy is little better, for it is a long way from aristocracy, and democracy is the most tolerable of the three."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Now the soul of man is divided into two parts, one of which has a rational principle in itself, and the other, not having a rational principle in itself, is able to obey such a principle. And we call a man in any way good because he has the virtues of these two parts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For nature by the same cause, provided it remain in the same condition, always produces the same effect, so that either coming-to-be or passing-away will always result."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Every formed disposition of the soul realizes its full nature in relation to and dealing with that class of objects by which it is its nature to be corrupted or improved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: There are still two forms besides democracy and oligarchy; one of them is universally recognized and included among the four principal forms of government, which are said to be (1) monarchy, (2) oligarchy, (3) democracy, and (4) the so-called aristocracy or government of the best. But there is also a fifth, which retains the generic name of polity or constitutional government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: That education should be regulated by law and should be an affair of state is not to be denied, but what should be the character of this public education, and how young persons should be educated, are questions which remain to be considered. As things are, there is disagreement about the subjects. For mankind are by no means agreed about the things to be taught, whether we look to virtue or the best life. Neither is it clear whether education is more concerned with intellectual or with moral virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Now, the causes being four, it is the business of the student of nature to know about them all, and if he refers his problems back to all of them, he will assign the \"why\" in the way proper to his science-the matter, the form, the mover, that for the sake of which."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Not to know of what things one should demand demonstration, and of what one should not, argues want of education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: That which most contributes to the permanence of constitutions is the adaptation of education to the form of government, and yet in our own day this principle is universally neglected. The best laws, though sanctioned by every citizen of the state, will be of no avail unless the young are trained by habit and education in the spirit of the constitution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: That body is heavier than another which, in an equal bulk, moves downward quicker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The good man is he for whom, because he is virtuous, the things that are absolutely good are good; it is also plain that his use of these goods must be virtuous and in the absolute sense good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is a slave by nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Not to get what you have set your heart on is almost as bad as getting nothing at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Men regard it as their right to return evil for evil and, if they cannot, feel they have lost their liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The shape of the heaven is of necessity spherical; for that is the shape most appropriate to its substance and also by nature primary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The man who confers a favour would rather not be repaid in the same coin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: How strange it is that Socrates, after having made the children common, should hinder lovers from carnal intercourse only, but should permit love and familiarities between father and son or between brother and brother, than which nothing can be more unseemly, since even without them love of this sort is improper. How strange, too, to forbid intercourse for no other reason than the violence of the pleasure, as though the relationship of father and son or of brothers with one another made no difference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: If they do not share equally enjoyments and toils, those who labor much and get little will necessarily complain of those who labor little and receive or consume much. But indeed there is always a difficulty in men living together and having all human relations in common, but especially in their having common property."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The state or political community, which is the highest of all, and which embraces all the rest, aims at good in a greater degree than any other, and at the highest good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for their reception, but their complete formation is the product of habit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: When the citizens at large administer the state for the common interest, the government is called by the generic name - a constitution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The laws are, and ought to be, relative to the constitution, and not the constitution to the laws. A constitution is the organization of offices in a state, and determines what is to be the governing body, and what is the end of each community. But laws are not to be confounded with the principles of the constitution; they are the rules according to which the magistrates should administer the state, and proceed against offenders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The good lawgiver should inquire how states and races of men and communities may participate in a good life, and in the happiness which is attainable by them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: No one chooses what does not rest with himself, but only what he thinks can be attained by his own act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The virtue of the good man is necessarily the same as the virtue of the citizen of the perfect state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: The government of freemen is nobler and implies more virtue than despotic government. Neither is a city to be deemed happy or a legislator to be praised because he trains his citizens to conquer and obtain dominion over their neighbors, for there is great evil in this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: Even if we could suppose the citizen body to be virtuous, without each of them being so, yet the latter would be better, for in the virtue of each the virtue of all is involved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: For well-being and health, again, the homestead should be airy in summer, and sunny in winter. A homestead possessing these qualities would be longer than it is deep; and its main front would face the south."
  },
  {
    "text": "Aristotle: It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Thinking is difficult, that\u2019s why most people judge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Do not compare, do not measure. No other way is like yours. All other ways deceive and tempt you. You must fulfill the way that is in you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: To ask the right question is already half the solution of a problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The most dangerous things in the world are immense accumulations of human beings who are manipulated by only a few heads."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: If a man knows more than others, he becomes lonely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: We meet ourselves time and again in a thousand disguises on the path of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: No tree, it is said, can grow to heaven unless its roots reach down to hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The reason for evil in the world is that people are not able to tell their stories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. They will practice Indian yoga and all its exercises, observe a strict regimen of diet, learn the literature of the whole world - all because they cannot get on with themselves and have not the slightest faith that anything useful could ever come out of their own souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.\r\nYour vision will become clear only when you look into your heart ... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.\r\nThe dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul, which opens to that primeval cosmic night that was soul long before there was conscious ego and will be soul far beyond what a conscious ego could ever reach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: In each of us is another whom we do not know. He speaks to us in dreams and tells us how differently he sees us from the way we see ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Where love stops, power begins, and violence, and terror"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Real liberation comes not from glossing over or repressing painful states of feeling, but only from experiencing them to the full."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The healthy man does not torture others - generally it is the tortured who turn into torturers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Our world has become dehumanized. Man feels himself isolated in the cosmos, because he is no longer involved in nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The sad truth is that man's real life consists of a complex of inexorable opposites - day and night, birth and death, happiness and misery, good and evil. We are not even sure that one will prevail against the other, that good will overcome evil, or joy defeat pain. Life is a battleground. It always has been and always will be; and if it were not so, existence would come to an end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Only one who has risked the fight with the dragon and is not overcome by it wins the \"treasure hard to attain.\" He alone has a genuine claim to self-confidence, for he has faced the dark ground of his self and thereby has gained himself. This experience gives him faith and trust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: If people can be educated to see the lowly side of their own natures, it may be hoped that they will also learn to understand and to love their fellow men better. A little less hypocrisy and a little more tolerance towards oneself can only have good results in respect for our neighbor; for we are all too prone to transfer to our fellows the injustice and violence we inflict upon our own natures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence. It is incapable of learning from the past, incapable of understanding contemporary events, and incapable of drawing right conclusions about the future. It is hypnotized by itself and therefore cannot be argued with. It inevitably dooms itself to calamities that must strike it dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Every form of addiction is bad, no matter whether the narcotic be alcohol or morphine or idealism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Explore daily the will of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: For better to come, good must stand aside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: People will do anything, no matter how absurd, to avoid facing their own souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I am still, because I know things and must hint at things which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The descent into the depths always seems to precede the ascent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: To become acquainted with oneself is a terrible shock."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Masses are always breeding grounds of psychic epidemics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: We cannot change anything unless we accept it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Dreams are the guiding words of the Soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The experience of the self is always a defeat for the ego."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: It is only our deeds that reveal who we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Never do human beings speculate more, or have more opinions, than about things which they do not understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions has never overcome them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The dream is the small hidden door in the deepest and most intimate sanctum of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Knowledge does not enrich us; it removes us more and more from the mythic world in which we were once at home by right of birth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Every psychic advance of man arises from the suffering of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Be simple and always take the next step. You needn't see it in advance, but you can look back at it afterwards.There is no 'how' of life, one just does it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Nobody, as long as he moves about among the chaotic currents of life, is without trouble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Man cannot stand a meaningless life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: We have forgotten the age-old fact that God speaks chiefly through dreams and visions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: When one is not understood one should as a rule lower one's voice, because when one really speaks loudly enough and is not heard, it is because people do not want to hear. One had better begin to mutter to oneself, then they get curious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course\u2014for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The woman is increasingly aware that love alone can give her full stature, just as the man begins to discern that spirit alone can endow his life with its highest meaning. Fundamentally, therefore, both seek a psychic relation to the other, because love needs the spirit, and the spirit love, for their fulfillment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I shall not commit the fashionable stupidity of regarding everything I cannot explain as a fraud."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Only a fool is interested in other people's guilt, since he cannot alter it. The wise man learns only from his own guilt. He will ask himself: Who am I that all this should happen to me? To find the answer to this fateful question he will look into his own heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Synchronicity: A meaningful coincidence of two or more events where something other than the probability of chance is involved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: You must live life in such a spirit that you make in every moment the best of possibilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: One must be able to let things happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: But what if I should discover that the least amongst them all, the poorest of all beggars, the most impudent of all offenders, yea the very fiend himself\u2014 that these are within me, and that I myself stand in need of the alms of my own kindness, that I myself am the enemy who must be loved\u2014 what then?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Only a life lived in a certain spirit is worth living. It is a remarkable fact that a life lived entirely from the ego is dull not only for the person himself but for all concerned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: ...anyone who attempts to do both, to adjust to his group and at the same time pursue his individual goal, becomes neurotic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: To find out what is truly individual in ourselves, profound reflection is needed; and suddenly we realize how uncommonly difficult the discovery of individuality is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The psychic depths are nature, and nature is creative life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The healthy man does not torture others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: At present we educate people only up to the point where they can earn a living and marry; then education ceases altogether, as though a complete mental outfit had been acquired. ... Vast numbers of men and women thus spend their entire lives in complete ignorance of the most important things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Resistance to the organized mass can be effected only by the man who is as well organized in his individuality as the mass itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: It is a fact that cannot be denied: the wickedness of others becomes our own wickedness because it kindles something evil in our own hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: We know that the wildest and most moving dramas are played not in the theatre but in the hearts of ordinary men and women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Most of our difficulties come from losing contact with our instincts, with the age-old forgotten wisdom stored up in us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Nature seemed to me full of wonders, and I wanted to steep myself in them. Every stone, every plant, every single thing seemed alive and indescribably marvelous. I immersed myself in nature, crawled, as it were, into the very essence of nature and away from the whole human world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Sometimes a tree tells you more than can be read in books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The growth of the mind is the widening of the range of consciousness, and each step forward has been a most painful and laborious achievement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: If one does not understand a person, one tends to regard him as a fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Dreams are impartial, spontaneous products of the unconscious psyche, outside the control of the will. They are pure nature; they show us the unvarnished, natural truth, and are therefore fitted, as nothing else is, to give us back an attitude that accords with our basic human nature when our consciousness has strayed too far from its foundations and run into an impasse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Myth is more individual and expresses life more precisely than does science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: A creative person has little power over his own life. He is not free. He is captive and driven by his daimon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The afternoon of a human life must have a significance of its own, and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The creative mind plays with the object it loves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The greater the tension, the greater is the potential."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: When we must deal with problems, we instinctively resist trying the way that leads through obscurity and darkness. We wish to hear only of unequivocal results, and completely forget that these results can only be brought about when we have ventured into and emerged again from the darkness. But to penetrate the darkness we must summon all the powers of enlightenment that consciousness can offer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The divine process of change manifests itself to our human understanding . . . as punishment, torment, death, and transfiguration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: ...The unconscious has no time. There is no trouble about time in the unconscious. Part of our psyche is not in time and not in space. They are only an illusion, time and space, and so in a certain part of our psyche time does not exist at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that has given a new splendor to the world and to mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: It is the individual's task to differentiate himself from all the others and stand on his own feet. All collective identities . . . interfere with the fulfillment of this task. Such collective identities are crutches for the lame, shields for the timid, beds for the lazy, nurseries for the irresponsible. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Much of the evil in the world is due to the fact that man in general is hopelessly unconscious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: But we cannot live the afternoon of life according to the programme of life's morning \u2014 for what was great in the morning will be little at evening, and what in the morning was true will at evening have become a lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The individual disposition is already a factor in childhood; it is innate, and not acquired in the course of a life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Identification with one's office or title is very attractive indeed, which is precisely why so many men are nothing more than the decorum accorded to them by society. In vain would one look for a personality behind the husk. Underneath one would find a very pitiable little creature. That is why the office is so attractive: it offers easy compensation for personal deficiencies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The unconscious is not just evil by nature, it is also the source of the highest good: not only dark but also light, not only bestial, semihuman, and demonic but superhuman, spiritual, and, in the classical sense of the word, \"divine.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Everyone is in love with his own ideas"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: There is no light without shadow, and no psychic wholeness without  imperfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: When you come to think about it, nothing has any meaning, for when there was nobody to think, there was nobody to interpret what happened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Life has always seemed to me like a plant that lives on its rhizome. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away\u2014an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes. The rhizome remains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The attainment of wholeness requires one to stake one's whole being. Nothing less will do; there can be no easier conditions, no substitutes, no compromises."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: As a plant produces its flower, so the psyche creates its symbols."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life. Only if we know that the thing which truly matters is the infinite can we avoid fixing our interest upon futilities, and upon all kinds of goals which are not of real importance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The unconscious wants to flow into consciousness in order to reach the light, but at the same time it continually thwarts itself, because it would rather remain unconscious. That is to say, God wants to become man, but not quite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The main interest of my work is not concerned with the treatment of neuroses but rather with the approach to the numinous. But the fact that the approach to the numinous is the real therapy, and inasmuch as you attain to the numinous experience you are released from the curse of pathology. Even the very disease takes on a numinous character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Individualization does not shut one out from the world, but gathers the world to oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Neurosis is always a substitute for legitimate suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Every father is given the opportunity to corrupt his daughter's nature, and the educator, husband, or psychiatrist then has to face the music. For what has been spoiled by the father can only be made good by a father, just as what has been spoiled by the mother can only be repaired by a mother. The disastrous repetition of the family pattern could be described as the psychological original sin, or as the curse of the Atrides running through the generations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: How can anyone see straight when he does not see himself and the darkness he unconsciously carries with him into all his dealings?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The least of things with a meaning is worth more in life than the greatest of things without it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Just as we tend to assume that the world is as we see it, we naively suppose that people are as we imagine them to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Good does not become better by being exaggerated, but worse; And a small evil becomes a big one through being disregarded and repressed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: No man can change himself into anything from sheer reason; he can only change into what he potentially is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Our souls as well as our bodies are composed of individual elements which were all already present in the ranks of our ancestors. The \"newness\" in the individual psyche is an endlessly varied recombination of age-old components."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Our intellect has achieved the most tremendous things, but in the meantime our spiritual dwelling has fallen into disrepair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world color and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I can \"experience\" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind, translated, filtered, allegorized, twisted, even falsified by it. We are . . . enveloped in a cloud of changing and endlessly shifting images."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Our western mind lacking all culture in this respect, has never yet devised a concept, not even a name for \"the union of opposites through the middle path\", that most fundamental item of inward experience which could respectably be set against the Chinese concept of Tao."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: But we must not forget that only a very few people are artists in life; that the art of life is the most distinguished and rarest of all the arts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The more one sees of human fate and the more one examines its secret springs of action, the more one is impressed by the strength of unconscious motives and by the limitations of free choice"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The bigger the crowd, the more negligible the individual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The separation of psychology from the premises of biology is purely artificial, because the human psyche lives in indissoluble union with the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: But, if you have nothing at all to create, then perhaps you create yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Without consciousness there would, practically speaking, be no world, for the world exists as such only in so far as it is consciously reflected and considered by a psyche. Consciousness is a precondition of being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Perhaps this sounds very simple, but simple things are always the most difficult. In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Consciousness succumbs all too easily to unconscious influences, and these are often truer and wiser than our conscious thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: It is also possible for the unconscious or an archetype to take complete possession of a man and to determine his fate down to the smallest detail"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane of consciousness, in order to be equal to the superhuman powers which the fallen angels have played into his hands. But he can make no progress until he becomes very much better acquainted with his own nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The world of gods and spirits is truly 'nothing but' the collective unconscious inside me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: There is no birth of consciousness without pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Simple things are always the most difficult."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The problem of synchronicity has puzzled me for a long time, ever since the middle twenties, when I was investigating the phenomena of the collective unconscious and kept on coming across connections which I simply could not explain as chance groupings or \"runs.\"  What I found were \"coincidences\" which were connected so meaningfully that their \"chance\" concurrence would represent a degree of improbability that would have to be expressed by an astronomical figure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Understanding does not cure evil, but it is a definite help, inasmuch as one can cope with a comprehensible darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: There is no such thing as a pure extrovert or a pure introvert. Such a man would be in the lunatic asylum."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Neurosis is an inner cleavage-the state of being at war with oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I am an orphan, alone: nevertheless I am found everywhere. I am one, but opposed to myself. I am youth and old man at one and the same time. I have known neither father nor mother, because I have had to be fetched out of the deep like a fish, or fell like a white stone from heaven. In woods and mountains I roam, but I am hidden in the innermost soul of man. I am mortal for everyone, yet I am not touched by the cycle of aeons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: We are living in what the Greeks called the kairos - the right moment - for a 'metamorphosis of the gods', of the fundamental principles and symbols. This peculiarity of our time, which is certainly not of our conscious choosing, is the expression of the unconscious man within us who is changing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The spirit is the life of the body seen from within, and the body the outward manifestation of the life of the spirit-the two being really one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Like the sea itself, the unconscious yields an endless and self-replenishing abundance of creatures, a wealth beyond our fathoming."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Securities, certitudes and peace do not lead to discoveries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Nobody can fall so low unless he has a great depth. If such a thing can happen to a man, it challenges his best and highest on the other side; that is to say, this depth corresponds to a potential height, and the blackest darkness to a hidden light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Too much of the animal disfigures the civilized human being, too much culture makes a sick animal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Dreams are the facts from which we must proceed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: To this day God is the name by which I designate all things which cross my willful path violently and recklessly, all things which upset my subjective views, plans and intentions and change the course of my life for better or worse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Sometimes, indeed, there is such a discrepancy between the genius and his human qualities that one has to ask oneself whether a little less talent might not have been better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Everything psychic is pregnant with the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The dream arises from a part of the mind unknown to us, but none the less important, and is concerned with the desires for the approaching day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The difference between the \"natural\" individuation process, which runs its course unconsciously, and the one that is consciously realized is tremendous. In the first case, consciousness nowhere intervenes; the end remains as dark as the beginning. In the second case, so much darkness comes to light that the personality is permeated with light and consciousness necessarily gains in scope and insight. The encounter between conscious and unconscious has to ensure that the light that shines in the darkness is not only comprehended by the darkness, but comprehends it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Every individual needs revolution, inner division, overthrow of the existing order, and renewal, but not by forcing them upon his neighbors under the hypocritical cloak of Christian love or the sense of social responsibility or any of the other beautiful euphemisms for unconscious urges to personal power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Naturally, every age thinks that all ages before it were prejudiced, and today we think this more than ever and are just as wrong as all previous ages that thought so. How often have we not seen the truth condemned! It is sad but unfortunately true that man learns nothing from history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Even the enlightened person remains what he is, and is never more than his own limited ego before the One who dwells within him, whose form has no knowable boundaries, who encompasses him on all sides, fathomless as the abysms of the earth and vast as the sky"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: You can exert no influence if you are not susceptible to influence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Error is just as important a condition of life's progress as truth"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Synchronistic phenomena prove the simultaneous occurrence of meaningful equivalences in heterogenous, causally unrelated processes; in other words, they prove that a content perceived by an observer can, at the same time, be represented by an outside event, without any causal connection. From this it follows either that the psyche cannot be localized in time, or that space is relative to the psyche."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The educated man tries to repress the inferior one in himself, without realizing that by this he forces the latter to become revolutionary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: All the most powerful ideas in history go back to archetypes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: But what will he do when he sees only too clearly why his patient is ill; when he sees that it arises from his having no love, but only sexuality; no faith, because he is afraid to grope in the dark; no hope, because he is disillusioned by the world and by life; and no understanding, because he has failed to read the meaning of his own existence?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Nature is not matter only. She is also a spirit"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: What we lack is intensity of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: In actual life it requires the greatest discipline to be simple, and the acceptance of oneself is the essence of the moral problem and the epitome of a whole outlook upon life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The more intelligent and cultured a man is, the more subtly he can humbug himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The unconscious is not a demoniacal monster, but a natural entity which, as far as moral sense, aesthetic taste, and intellectual judgment go, is completely neutral.It only becomes dangerous when our conscious attitude to it is hopelessly wrong. To the degree that we repress it, its danger increases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The unconscious mind of man sees correctly even when conscious reason is blind and impotent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: It is in the nature of political bodies always to see the evil in the opposite group, just as the individual has an ineradicable tendency to get rid of everything he does not know and does not want to know about himself by foisting it off on somebody else. Nothing has a more diverse and alienating effect upon society than this moral complacency and lack of responsibility, and nothing promotes understanding and rapprochement more than the mutual withdrawal of projections."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I do not believe...I know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Water is the commonest symbol for the unconscious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form- an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: There is a thinking in primordial images, in symbols which are older than the historical man, which are inborn in him from the earliest times, eternally living, outlasting all generations, still make up the groundwork of the human psyche. It is only possible to live the fullest life when we are in harmony with these symbols; wisdom is a return to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Only the wounded physician heals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: My evenings are taken up very largely with astrology. I make horoscopic calculations in order to find a clue to the core of psychological truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The most intense conflicts, if overcome, leave behind a sense of security and calm which is not easily disturbed, or else a brokenness that can hardly be healed. Conversely, it is just these intense conflicts and their conflagration which are needed in order to produce valuable and lasting results."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Man's unconscious... contains all the patterns of life and behaviour inherited from his ancestors, so that every human child, prior to consciousness, is possessed of a potential system of adapted psychic functioning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The great problems of life \u2014 sexuality, of course, among others \u2014 are always related to the primordial images of the collective unconscious. These images are really balancing or compensating factors which correspond with the problems life presents in actuality. This is not to be marveled at, since these images are deposits representing the accumulated experience of thousands of years of struggle for adaptation and existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The distinction between mind and body is an artificial dichotomy, a discrimination which is unquestionably based far more on the peculiarity of intellectual understanding than on the nature of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Our blight is ide\u00adolo\u00adgies \u2014 they are the long-expected Antichrist!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The underlying, primary psychic reality is so inconceivably complex that it can be grasped only at the farthest reach of intuition, and then but very dimly. That is why it needs symbols."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: One might expect, perhaps, that a man full of genius could pasture in the greatness of his own thoughts, and renounce the cheap approbation of the crowd which he despises; yet he succumbs to the more powerful impulse of the herd instinct. His searching and his finding, his call, belong to the herd."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Here and there it happened in my practice that a patient grew beyond himself because of unknown potentialities, and this became an experience of prime importance to me. I had learned in the meanwhile that the greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They must be so because they express the necessary polarity inherent in every self-regulating system. They can never be solved, but only outgrown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: If a union is to take place between opposites like spirit and matter, conscious and unconscious, bright and dark, and so on, it will happen in a third thing, which represents not a compromise but something new."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: While personal problems are not overlooked, the analyst keeps an eye on their symbolic aspects, for healing comes only from what leads the patient beyond himself and beyond his entanglement in the ego."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: In studying the history of the human mind one is impressed again and again by the fact that its growth keeps pace with a widening range of consciousness, and that each step forward is an extremely painful and laborious achievement. One could almost say that nothing is more hateful to man than to give up the smallest particle of unconsciousness. He has a profound fear of the unknown. Ask anybody who has ever tried to introduce new ideas!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: We are a psychic process which we do not control, or only partly direct. Consequently, we cannot have any final judgment about ourselves or our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The right way to wholeness is made up of fateful detours and wrong turnings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The more uncertain I have felt about myself, the more there has grown up in me a feeling of kinship with all things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I know that in many things I am not like others, but I do not know what I really am like. Man cannot compare himself with any other creature; he is not a monkey, not a cow, not a tree. I am a man. But what is it to be that? Like every other being, I am a splinter of the infinite deity, but I cannot contrast myself with any animal, any plant or any stone. Only a mythical being has a range greater than man's. How then can man form any definite opinions about himself?."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth. The Age of Enlightenment, which stripped nature and human institutions of gods, overlooked the God of Terror who dwells in the human soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The doctor is effective only when he himself is affected. Only the wounded physician heals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The symbol in the dream has more the value of a parable: it does not conceal, it teaches."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I know only that I was born and exist, and it seems to me that I have been carried along. I exist on the foundation of something I do not know. In spite of all uncertainties, I feel a solidity underlying all existence and a continuity in my mode of being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The psychopathology of the masses is rooted in the psychology of the individual"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: What usually has the strongest psychic effect on the child is the life which the parents have not lived"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would never be shattered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Whenever justice is uncertain and police spying and terror are at work, human beings fall into isolation, which, of course, is the aim and purpose of the dictator state, since it is based on the greatest possible accumulation of depotentiated social units."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The unexpected and the incredible belong in this world. Only then is life whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The wise man who is not heeded is counted a fool, and the fool who proclaims the general folly first and loudest passes for a prophet and F\u00fchrer, and sometimes it is luckily the other way round as well, or else mankind would long since have perished of stupidity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: In fact, the whole of mythology could be taken as a sort of projection of the collective unconscious"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: It is my mind, with its store of images, that gives the world colour and sound; and that supremely real and rational certainty which I call \"experience\" is, in its most simple form, an exceedingly complicated structure of mental images. Thus there is, in a certain sense, nothing that is directly experienced except the mind itself. Everything is mediated through the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The sight of a child\u2026will arouse certain longings in adult, civilized persons \u2014 longings which relate to the unfulfilled desires and needs of those parts of the personality which have been blotted out of the total picture in favor of the adapted persona."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The creative process, so far as we are able to follow it at all, consists in the unconscious activation of an archetypal image and elaborating and shaping the image into the finished work. By giving it shape, the artist translates it into the language of the present and so makes it possible for us to find our way back to the deepest springs of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: In each of us there is another whom we do not know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: It is only through the psyche that we can establish that God acts upon us, but we are unable to distinguish whether these actions emanate from God or from the unconscious. We cannot tell whether God and the unconscious are two different entities. Both are border-line concepts for transcendental contents. But empirically it can be established, with a sufficient degree of probability, that there is in the unconscious an archetype of wholeness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The capacity for inner dialogue is a touchstone for outer objectivity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Magic is the science of the jungle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: To the critical intelligence, nothing is left of absolute reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. The more intensively the family has stamped its character upon the child, the more it will tend to feel and see its earlier miniature world again in the bigger world of adult life. Naturally this is not a conscious, intellectual process."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The self is not only the centre but also the whole circumference which embraces both conscious and unconscious; it is the centre of this totality, just as the ego is the centre of consciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The totality of the psyche can never be grasped by the intellect alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Eternal truth needs a human language that alters with the spirit of the times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his greatest gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element and to such an extent that it even brings out the bad qualities, as for instance, ruthless, naive egoism (so-called \"auto-eroticism\"), vanity, all kinds of vices-and all this in order to bring to the human I at least some life-strength, since otherwise it would perish of sheer inanition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Only a few individuals succeed in throwing off mythology in a time of a certain intellectual supremacy--the mass never frees itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The meaning and design of a problem seem not to lie in its solution, but in our working at it incessantly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Complexes are psychic contents which are outside the control of the conscious mind. They have been split off from consciousness and lead a separate existence in the unconscious, being at all times ready to hinder or to reinforce the conscious intentions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: As soon as the dialogue between two people touches on something fundamental, essential, numinous, and a certain rapport is felt, it gives rise to a phenomenon which L\u00e9vy-Bruhl fittingly called participation mystique. It is an unconscious identity in which two individual psychic spheres interpenetrate to such a degree that it is impossible to say what belongs to whom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I want to be freed neither from human beings, nor from myself, nor from nature; for all these appear to me the greatest of miracles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I readily admit that I have such a great respect for what happens in the human soul that I would be afraid of disturbing and distorting the silent operation of nature by clumsy interference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: A mandala is the psychological expression of the totality of the self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The less we understand of what our fathers and forefathers sought, the less we understand ourselves, and thus we help with all our might to rob the individual of his roots and his guiding instincts, so that he becomes a particle in the mass, ruled only by what Nietzsche called the spirit of gravity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The 'squaring of the circle' is one of the many archetypal motifs which form the basic patterns of our dreams and fantasies. But it is distinguished by the fact that it is one of the most important of them from the functional point of view. Indeed, it could even be called the archetype of wholeness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Our mind has its history, just as our body has its history. You might be just as astonished that man has an appendix, for instance. Does he know he ought to have an appendix? He is just born with it....Our unconscious mind, like our body, is a storehouse of relics and memories of the past. A study of the structure of the unconscious collective mind would reveal the same discoveries as you make in comparative anatomy. We do not need to think that there is anything mystical about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Ultimate truth, if there be such a thing, demands the concert of many voices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: All art intuitively apprehends coming changes in the collective unconsciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The unconscious is the unwritten history of mankind from time unrecorded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: An archetypal content expresses itself, first and foremost, in metaphors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The mass State has no intention of promoting mutual understanding and the relationship of man to man; it strives, rather, for atomization, for the psychic isolation of the individual. The more unrelated individuals are, the more consolidated the State becomes, and vice versa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The Self then functions as a union of opposites and thus constitutes the most immediate experience of the Divine which it is psychologically possible to imagine"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The dream is a series of images, which are apparently contradictory and nonsensical, but arise in reality from psychologic material which yields a clear meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Our psyche is set up in accord with the structure of the universe, and what happens in the macrocosm likewise happens in the infinitesimal and most subjective reaches of the psyche"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: We need more understanding of human nature, because the only real danger that exists is man himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Creative power is mightier than its possessor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: It is just man's turning away from instinct--his opposing himself to instinct--that creates consciousness. Instinct is nature andseeks to perpetuate nature; while consciousness can only seek culture or its denial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Envy does not allow humanity to sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order... we are caught and entangled in aimless experience... Only when all props and crutches are broken, and no cover from the rear offers even the slightest hope of security, does it become possible for us to experience an archetype that up till then had lain hidden behind the meaningful nonsense played out by the anima. This is the archetype of meaning, just as the anima is the archetype of life itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Mohammad. The emotion in Germany is Islamic; warlike and Islamic. They are all drunk with wild god. That can be the historic future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The conscious mind allows itself to be trained like a parrot, but the unconscious does not \u2014 which is why St. Augustine thanked God for not making him responsible for his dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: If you should see people in a room, you would not think that you had made those people, or that you were responsible for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The self as the essence of individuality is unitemporal and unique; as an archetypal symbol it is a God-image and therefore universal and eternal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Our intellect has created a new world that dominates nature, and has populated it with monstrous machines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Only in our creative acts do we step forth into the light and see ourselves whole and complete."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Nature has no use for the plea that one 'did not know'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: For a woman, the typical danger emanating from the unconscious comes from above, from the \"spiritual\" sphere personified by the animus, whereas for a man it comes from the chthonic realm of the \"world and woman,\" i.e., the anima projected on to the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: So often among so-called \"primitives\" one comes across spiritual personalities who immediately inspire respect, as though they were the fully matured products of an undisturbed fate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The God-image in man was not destroyed by the Fall but was only damaged and corrupted (\u201cdeformed\u201d), and can be restored through God's grace. The scope of the integration is suggested by the descensus ad inferos, the descent of Christ's soul to hell, its work of redemption embracing even the dead. The psychological equivalent of this is the integration of the collective unconscious which forms an essential part of the individuation process."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Language, in its origin and essence, is simply a system of signs or symbols that denote real occurrences or their echo in the human soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: It is indeed time for the clergyman and the psychotherapist to join forces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once and cannot add up the sum."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I am looking forward enormously to getting back to the sea again, where the overstimulated psyche can recover in the presence of that infinite peace and spaciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I use [Heraclitus' discovery of] enantiodromia for the emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time. This characteristic phenomenon practically always occurs when an extreme, onesided tendency dominates conscious life; in time an equally powerful counterposition is built up, which first inhibits the conscious performance and subsequently breaks through the conscious control."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The decisive question for man is: Is he related to something infinite or not? That is the telling question of his life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude. This is the shadow side of the fortune of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: What happens in the life of Christ happens always and everywhere. In the Christian archetype all lives of this kind are prefigured."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: In some way or other we are part of a single, all-embracing psyche, a single 'greatest man. . . .'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: We cannot imagine events that are connected non-causally and are capable of a non-causal explanation. But that does not mean that such events do not exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Life calls us forth to independence, and anyone who does not heed this call because of childish laziness or timidity is threatened with neurosis. And once this has broken out, it becomes an increasingly valid reason for running away from life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Once upon a time men were possessed by devils. Now they are not less obsessed by ideas"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: In all earnestness I asked myself what kind of world I had stumbled into."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Science has destroyed even the refuge of the inner life. What was once a sheltering haven has become a place of terror"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: In such doubtful matters, where you have to work as a pioneer, you must be able to put some trust in your intuition and follow your feeling even at the risk of going wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavoury as gross sensuality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: In the products of the unconscious we discover mandala symbols, that is, circular and quaternity figures which express wholeness, and whenever we wish to express wholeness, we employ just such figures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Self-reflection, or - what comes to the same thing - the urge to individuation, gathers together what is scattered and multifarious and exalts it to the original of the One, the Primordial Man. In this way our existence as separate beings, our former ego nature, is abolished, the circle of consciousness is widened, and because the paradoxes have been made conscious, the sources of conflict are dried up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: So they speak soothingly about progress and the greatest possible happiness, forgetting that happiness is itself poisoned if the measure of suffering has not been fulfilled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I know every numbskull will babble on about \"black man,\" \"maneater,\" \"chance,\" and \"retrospective interpretation,\" in order to banish something terribly inconvenient that might sully the familiar picture of childhood innocence. Ah, these good, efficient, healthy-minded people, they always remind me of those optimistic tadpoles who bask in a puddle in the sun, in the shallowest of waters, crowding together and amiably wriggling their tails, totally unaware that the next morning the puddle will have dried up and left them stranded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Man positively needs general ideas and convictions that will give a meaning to his life and enable him to find a place for himself in the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: If we feel our way into the human secrets of the sick person, the madness also reveals its system, and we recognize in the mental illness merely an exceptional reaction to emotional problems which are not strange to us. --\"The Content of the Psychoses"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Caution has its place, no doubt, but we cannot refuse our support to a serious venture which challenges the whole of the personality. If we oppose it, we are trying to suppress what is best in man - his daring and his aspirations. And should we succeed, we should only have stood in the way of that invaluable experience which might have given a meaning to life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: What is essential in a work of art is that it should rise far above the realm of personal life and speak to the spirit and heart of the poet as man to the spirit and heart of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The angels are a strange genus: they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are in themselves soulless beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Wherever an inferiority complex exists, there is a good reason for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The self is our life's goal, for it is the completest expression of that fateful combination we call individuality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I had always been impressed by the fact that there are surprisingly many individuals who never use their minds if they can avoid it, and yet are not stupid, and an equal number who obviously do use their minds but in an amazingly stupid way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Every victory contains the germ of future defeat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The cinema, like the detective story, makes it possible to experience without danger all the excitement, passion and desirousness which must be repressed in a humanitarian ordering of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Where do we live symbolically? Nowhere except where we participate in the ritual of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Since psyche and matter are contained in one and the same world, and moreover are in continuous contact with one another and ultimately rest on irrepresentable, transcendental factors, it is not only possible but fairly probable, even, that psyche and matter are two different aspects of the same thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The darkness which clings to every personality is the door into the unconscious and the gateway of dreams, from which those two twilight figures, the shadow and the anima, step into our nightly visions or, remaining invisible, take possession of our ego-consciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: We can hardly escape the feeling that the unconscious process moves spiral-wise round a centre, gradually getting closer, while the characteristics of the centre grow more and more distinct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Wo die Liebe herrscht, da gibt es keinen machtwillen, und wo die macht den vorrang hat, da fehlt die Liebe. Das eine ist der Schatten des andern.\r\nTranslation: Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: A collection of a hundred great brains makes one big fathead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Had I left those images hidden in the emotions, I might have been torn to pieces by them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: At times I feel as if I am spread out over the landscape and inside things, and am myself living in every tree, in the plashing of the waves, in the clouds and the animals that come and go, in the procession of the seasons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance on Our SOULS."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Aging people should know that their lives are not mounting and unfolding but that an inexorable inner process forces the contraction of life. For a young person it is almost a sin and certainly a danger to be too much occupied with himself; but for the aging person it is a duty and a necessity to give serious attention to himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Just as man as a social being, cannot in the long run exist without a tie to the community, so the individual will never find the real justification for his existence, and his own spiritual and moral autonomy, anywhere except in an extramundane principle capable of relativizing the overpowering influence of external factors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Primitive superstition lies just below the surface of even the most tough-minded individuals, and it is precisely those who most fight against it who are the first to succumb to its suggestive effects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Special knowledge is a terrible disadvantage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: By a symbol I do not mean an allegory or a sign, but an image that describes in the best possible way the dimly discerned nature of the spirit. A symbol does not define or explain; it points beyond itself to a meaning that is darkly divined yet still beyond our grasp, and cannot be adequately expressed in the familiar words of our language."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: There was need of a phantastic, indestructible optimism, and one far removed from all sense of reality, in order, for example, to discover in the shameful death of Christ really the highest salvation and the redemption of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Astrology is of particular interest to the psychologist, since it contains a sort of psychological experience which we call projected - this means that we find the psychological facts as it were in the constellations. This originally gave rise to the idea that these factors derive from the stars, whereas they are merely in a relation of synchronicity with them. I admit that this is a very curious fact which throws a peculiar light on the structure of the human mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Creative powers can just as easily turn out to be destructive. It rests solely with the moral personality whether they apply themselves to good things or to bad. And if this is lacking, no teacher can supply it or take its place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: We are convinced that certain people have all the bad qualities we do not know in ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: That which compels us to create a substitute for ourselves is not the external lack of objects, but our incapacity to lovingly include a thing outside of ourselves"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. To perform this difficult office it is sometimes necessary for him to sacrifice happiness and everything that makes life worth living for the ordinary human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I think that one should view with philosophic admiration the strange paths of the libido and should investigate the purposes of its circuitous ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: From the viewpoint of analytic psychology, the theatre, aside from any aesthetic value, may be considered as an institution for the treatment of the mass complex."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The starry vault of heaven is in truth the open book of cosmic projection, in which are reflected the mythologems, i.e., the archetypes. In this vision astrology and alchemy, the two classical functionaries of the psychology of the collective unconscious, join hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: About a third of my cases are suffering from no clinically definable neurosis, but from the senselessness and emptiness of their lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Whereas I formerly believed it to be my bounden duty to call other persons to order, I now admit that I need calling to order myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Recognition of the reality of evil necessarily relativizes the good, and the evil likewise, converting both into halves of a paradoxical whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The discussion of the sexual problem is only a somewhat crude prelude to a far deeper question, and that is the question of the psychological relationship between the sexes. In comparison with this the other pales into insignificance, and with it we enter the real domain of woman. Woman's psychology is founded on the principle of Eros, the great binder and loosener, whereas from ancient times the ruling principle ascribed to man is Logos."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: One could say, with a little exaggeration, that the persona is that which in reality one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: You can take away a man's gods, but only to give him others in return."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Not nature, but the \"genius of mankind,\" has knotted the hangman's noose with which it can execute itself at any moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The upheaval of our world and the upheaval of our consciousness are one and the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The whole nature of man presupposes woman, both physically and spiritually. His system is tuned into woman from the start, just as it is prepared for a quite definite world where there is water, light, air, salt, carbohydrates etc."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The woman who fights against her father still has the possibility of leading an instinctive, feminine existence, because she rejects only what is alien to her. But when she fights against the mother she may, at the risk of injury to her instincts, attain to greater consciousness, because in repudiating the mother she repudiates all that is obscure, instinctive, ambiguous, and unconscious in her own nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: However far-fetched it may sound, experience shows that many neuroses are caused by the fact that people blind themselves to their own religious promptings because of a childish passion for rational enlightenment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: For, in order to turn the individual into a function of the State, his dependence on anything beside the State must be taken from him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The psychiatrist knows only too well how each of us becomes the helpless but not pitiable victim of his own sentiments. Sentimentality is the superstructure erected upon brutality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The answer to human life is not to be found within the limits of human life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Seldom, or perhaps never, does a marriage develop into an individual relationship smoothly and without crises; there is no coming to consciousness without pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: My whole being was seeking for something still unknown which might confer meaning upon the banality of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The symbols of the self arise in the depths of the body, and they express its materiality every bit as much as the perceiving consciousness. The symbol is thus a living body"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: A sign is always less than the thing it points to, and a symbol is always more than we can understand at first sight. Therefore we stop at the sign but go on to the goal it indicates; but we remain with the symbol because it promises more than it reveals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: It seems to be very hard for people to live with riddles or to let them live, although one would think that life is so full of riddles as it is that a few more things we cannot answer would make no difference. But perhaps it is just this that is so unendurable, that there are irrational things in our own psyche which upset the conscious mind in its illusory certainties by confronting it with the riddle of its existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Nobody doubts the importance of conscious experience; why then should we doubt the significance of unconscious happenings? They also are part of our life, and sometimes more truly a part of it for weal or woe than any happenings of the day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The upheaval of our world and the upheaval in consciousness is one and the same. Everything becomes relative and therefore doubtful. And while man, hesitant and questioning, contemplates... his spirit yearns for an answer that will allay the turmoil of doubt and uncertainty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Life is crazy and meaningful at once."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The unsatisfied yearning of the artist reaches back to the primordial image in the unconscious which is best fitted to compensate the inadequacy and one-sidedness of the present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The majority of my patients consisted not of believers but of those who had lost their faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: We carry our past with us, to wit, the primitive and inferior man with his desires and emotions, and it is only with an enormous effort that we can detach ourselves from this burden. If it comes to a neurosis, we invariably have to deal with a considerably intensified shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him. As a human being he may have moods and a will and personal aims, but as an artist he is \"man\" in a higher sense\u2014 he is \"collective man\"\u2014 one who carries and shapes the unconscious, psychic forms of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: His retreat into himself is not a final renunciation of the world, but a search for quietude, where alone it is possible for him to make his contribution to the life of the community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human body connects us with the mammals and displays numerous relics of earlier evolutionary stages going back to even the reptilian age, so the human psyche is likewise a product of evolution which, when followed up to its origins, show countless archaic traits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: How else could it have occurred to man to divide the cosmos, on the analogy of day and night, summer and winter, into a bright day-world and a dark night-world peopled with fabulous monsters, unless he had the prototype of such a division in himself, in the polarity between the conscious and the invisible and unknowable unconscious?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: What you call knowledge is an attempt to impose something comprehensible on life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The brain is viewed as an appendage of the genital glands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Observance of customs and laws can very easily be a cloak for a lie so subtle that our fellow human beings are unable to detect it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: We do not feel as if we were producing the dreams, it is rather as if the dreams came to us. They are not subject to our control but obey their own laws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: From the living fountain of instinct flows everything that is creative; hence the unconscious is not merely conditioned by history, but is the very source of the creative impulse. It is like nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The Christian missionary may preach the gospel to the poor naked heathen, but the spiritual heathen who populate Europe have as yet heard nothing of Christianity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: St. Thomas is really a great man quite apart from his saintliness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The facts of nature cannot in the long run be violated. Penetrating and seeping through everything like water, they will undermine any system that fails to take account of them, and sooner or later they will bring about its downfall. But an authority wise enough in its statesmanship to give sufficient free play to nature - of which spirit is a part - need fear no premature decline."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Unconscious assumptions or opinions are the worst enemy of woman; they can even grow into a positively demonic passion that exasperates and disgusts men, and does the woman herself the greatest injury by gradually smothering the charm and meaning of her femininity and driving it into the background. Such a development naturally ends in profound psychological disunion, in short, in a neurosis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Because the European does not know his own unconscious, he does not understand the East and projects it into everything he fears and despises in himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Every Mother contains her daughter in herself and every daughter her mother and every mother extends backwards into her mother and forwards into her daughter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Our mania for rational explanations obviously has its roots in our fear of metaphysics, for the two were always hostile brothers. Hence, anything unexpected that approaches us from the dark realm is regarded either as coming from outside and, therefore, as real, or else as a hallucination and, therefore, not true. The idea that anything could be real or true which does not come from outside has hardly begun to dawn on contemporary man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Insight that dawns slowly seems to me to have more lasting effects than a fitful idealism, which is unlikely to hold out for long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Science is the tool of the Western mind and with it more doors can be opened than with bare hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: It is a moral achievement on the part of the doctor who ought not to let himself be repelled by sickness and corruption."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only the half of truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Moreover, my ancestors' souls are sustained by the atmosphere of the house, since I answer for them the questions that their lives once left behind.  I carve out rough answers as best I can.  I have even drawn them on the walls.  It is as if a silent, greater family, stretching down the centuries, were peopling the house."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: When we assume God to be a guiding principle well, sure enough, a god is usually characteristic of a certain system of thought or morality. For instance, take the Christian God, the summum bonum: God is love, love being the highest moral principle; and God is spirit, the spirit being the supreme idea of meaning. All our Christian moral concepts derive from such assumptions, and the supreme essence of all of them is what we call God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: It is astounding that man, the instigator, inventor and vehicle of all these developments, the originator of all judgements and decisions and the planner of the future, must make himself such a quantit\u00e9 negligeable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: It is in applied psychology, if anywhere, that today we should be modest and grant validity to a number of apparently contradictory opinions; for we are still far from having anything like a thorough knowledge of the human psyche, that most challenging field of scientific enquiry. For the present we have merely more or less plausible opinions that defy reconciliation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: ...consciousness can keep only a few images in full clarity at one time, and even this clarity fluctuates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I can still recall vividly how Freud said to me, \"My dear Jung, promise me never to abandon the sexual theory. That is the most essential thing of all. You see, we must make a dogma of it, an unshakable bulwark\" ... In some astonishment I asked him, \"A bulwark-against what?\" To which he replied, \"Against the black tide of mud\"-and here he hesitated for a moment, then added of occultism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I had to make a confession of faith in stone. That was the beginning of the tower, the house I built for myself at Bollingen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Paul hardly ever allows the real Jesus of Nazareth to get a word in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: But India did not pass me by without a trace: it left tracks which lead me from one infinity to another infinity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: One of the most difficult tasks men can perform, however much others may despise it, is the invention of good games."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Madness is a special form of the spirit and clings to all teachings and philosophies, but even more to daily life, since life itself is full of craziness and at bottom utterly illogical. Man strives toward reason only so that he can make rules for himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The secret of artistic creation and the effectiveness of art is to be found in a return to the state of 'participation mystique' - to that level of experience at which it is man who lives, and not the individual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: It seems as if it is only through an experience of symbolic reality that man, vainly seeking his own \u201cexistence\u201d and making a philosophy out of it, can find his way back to a world in which he is no longer a stranger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: A book of mine is always a matter of fate. There is something unpredictable about the process of writing, and I cannot prescribe for myself any predetermined course."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The fact that astrology nevertheless yields valid results proves that it is not the apparent positions of the stars which work, but rather the times which are measured or determined by arbitrarily named stellar positions. Time thus proves to be a stream of energy filled with qualities and not, as our philosophy would have it, an abstract concept or precondition of knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The psychotherapist learns little or nothing from his successes. They mainly confirm him in his mistakes, while his failures, on the other hand, are priceless experiences in that they not only open up the way to a deeper truth, but force him to change his views and methods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: It is the function of the Church to oppose all original experience, because this can only be unorthodox."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Thanks to the acuteness of his mind, he saw through the poverty of philosophical and Gnostic knowledge, and contemptuously rejected it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Dream analysis stands or falls with [the hypothesis of the unconscious]. Without it the dream appears to be merely a freak of nature, a meaningless conglomerate of memory-fragments left over from the happenings of the day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Modern man may assert that he can dispense with them, and he may bolster his opinion by insisting that there is no scientific evidence of their truth. But since we are dealing with invisible and unknowable things (for God is beyond human understanding, and there is no mean of proving immortality), why should we bother with evidence?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I have never since entirely freed myself of the impression that this life is a segment of existence which is enacted in a three-dimensional boxlike universe especially set up for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The man of today, who resembles more or less the collective ideal, has made his heart into a den of murderers, as can easily be proved by the analysis of his unconscious, even though he himself is not in the least disturbed by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely ... Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Hitler is a shy and friendly man with artistic tastes and gifts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I hold the view that the alchemist\u2019s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful stone, was only in part an illusion, an effect of projection; for the rest it corresponded to certain psychic facts that are of great importance in the psychology of the unconscious. As is shown by the texts and their symbolism, the alchemist projected what I have called the process of individuation into the phenomena of chemical change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Yahweh [God] must become man precisely because he has done man a wrong. He, the guardian of justice, knows that every wrong must be expiated, and Wisdom knows that moral law is above even him. Because his creature has surpassed him he must regenerate himself"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Gnosticism was stamped out completely and its remnants are so badly mangled that special study is needed to get any insight at all into its inner meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: In the last analysis, the essential thing is the life of individual. This alone makes history, here alone do the great transformations take place, and the whole future, the whole history of the world, ultimately springs as a gigantic summation from these hidden source in individuals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: All ages before ours believed in gods in some form or other. Only an unparalleled impoverishment in symbolism could enable us to rediscover the gods as psychic factors, which is to say, as archetypes of the unconscious. No doubt this discovery is hardly credible as yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The squaring of the circle is a stage on the way to the unconscious, a point of transition leading to a goal lying as yet unformulated beyond it. It is one of those paths to the centre."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Yoga in Mayfair or Fifth Avenue, or in any other place which is on the telephone, is a spiritual fake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I deliberately and consciously give preference to a dramatic, mythological way of thinking and speaking, because this is not only more expressive but also more exact than an abstract scientific terminology, which is wont to toy with the notion that its theoretic formulations may one fine day be resolved into algebraic equations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I am the triple owner of the world, the finest Turkey, the Lorelei, Germania and Helvetia of exclusively sweet butter and Naples, and I must supply the whole world with macaroni."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle of serious work. But without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable. It is therefore short-sighted to treat fantasy, on account of its risky or unacceptable nature, as a thing of little worth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: We do not know whether Hitler is going to found a new Islam. He is already on the way; he is like Muhammad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: No language exists that cannot be misused... Every Interpretation is hypothetical, for it is a mere attempt to read an unfamiliar text."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: The heaping together of paintings by Old Masters in museums is a catastrophe; likewise, a collection of a hundred Great Brains makes one big fathead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: My interests drew me in different directions. On the one hand I was powerfully attracted by science, with its truths based on facts; on the other hand I was fascinated by everything to do with comparative religion. [...] In science I missed the factor of meaning; and in religion, that of empiricism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Jung: Metaphysical assertions, however, are statements of the psyche, and are therefore psychological. Whenever the Westerner hears the word \u201cpsychological,\u201d it always sounds to him like \u201conly psychological."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When you see a good man, try to emulate his example, and when you see a bad man, search yourself for his faults."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When anger rises, think of the consequences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Do not worry about not holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. Worry not that no one knows of you; seek to be worth knowing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The man of wisdom is never of two minds; the man of benevolence never worries; the man of courage is never afraid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: He who learns but does not think, is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: By gaining the people, the kingdom is gained; by losing the people, the kingdom is lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The noble-minded are calm and steady. Little people are forever fussing and fretting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Shall I tell you what knowledge is? It is to know both what one knows and what one does not know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The gentleman calls attention to the good points in others; he does not call attention to their defects. The small man does just the reverse of this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If one is guided by profit in one's actions, one will incur much ill will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A man who has committed a mistake and does not correct it is committing another mistake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: To lead uninstructed people to war is to throw them away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The sun and moon shine on all without partiality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: He who requires much from himself and little from others, will keep himself from being the object of resentment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Be loyal and trustworthy. Do not befriend anyone who is lower than yourself in this regard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Therefore the superior man is watchful over himself, when he is alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: You do not understand even life. How can you understand death?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: To take what you know for what you know, and what you do not know for what you do not know, that is knowledge indeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Those who know the TRUTH are not equal to those who love it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Don't worry if people don't recognize your merits; worry that you may not recognize theirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: There is one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life -reciprocity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: To practice five things under all circumstances constitutes perfect virtue; these five are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Reviewing what you have learned and learning anew, you are fit to be a teacher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When strict with oneself, one rarely fails."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A man who does not think and plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: It is not the failure of others to appreciate your abilities that should trouble you, but rather your failure to appreciate theirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The superior man is quiet and calm, waiting for the appointments of heaven, while the mean man walks in dangerous paths, looking for lucky occurrences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A gentleman can see a question from all sides without bias.\nThe small man is biased and can see a question only from one side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: To know is to know that you know nothing.  That is the meaning of true knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Not to alter one's faults is to be faulty indeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The chase of gain is rich in hate"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: See a person's means ... Observe his motives. Examine that in which he rests. How can a person conceal his character?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If you would one day renovate yourself, do so from day to day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The Superior Man is aware of Righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Women and people of low birth are very hard to deal with. If you are friendly to them, they get out of hand, and if you keep your distance, they resent it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Without knowing the force of words, it is impossible to know more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When you see a worthy person, endeavor to emulate him. When you see an unworthy person, then examine your inner self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If you lead the people with correctness, who will dare not be correct?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When nature exceeds culture, we have the rustic. When culture exceeds nature, we have the pedant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: There are three friendships which are advantageous, and three which are injurious. Friendship with the upright; friendship with the sincere; and friendship with the man of much observation: these are advantageous. Friendship with the man of specious airs; friendship with the insinuatingly soft; and friendship with the glib-tongued: these are injurious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The superior man understands what is right; the inferior man understands what will sell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills. The wise are active; the virtuous are tranquil. The wise are joyful; the virtuous are long-lived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The gentleman desires to be halting in speech but quick in action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A man may not transgress the bounds of major morals, but may make errors in minor morals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: It is man that makes truth great, and not truth that makes man great."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When you meet someone better than yourself, turn your thoughts to becoming his equal. When you meet someone not as good as you are, look within and examine your own self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: He with whom neither slander that gradually soaks into the mind, nor statements that startle like a wound in the flesh, are successful may be called intelligent indeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Therefore only through education does one come to be dissatisfied with his own knowledge, and only through teaching others does one come to realize the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledge. Being dissatisfied with his own knowledge, one then realizes that the trouble lies with himself, and realizing the uncomfortable inadequacy of his knowledger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Never do to others what you would not like them to do to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: To govern is to correct. If you set an example by being correct, who would dare to remain incorrect?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: You cannot open a book without learning something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A heart set on love will do no wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Between friends, frequent reproofs make the friendship distant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Be faithful and true of word; let thy walk be plain and lowly: thou wilt get on, though in savage land. If thy words be not faithful and true, thy walk plain and lowly, wilt thou get on, though in thine own home? Standing, see these words ranged before thee; driving, see them written upon the yoke. Then thou wilt get on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Seek Not Every Quality In One Individual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Among the appliances to transform the people, sound and appearances are but trivial  influences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Sincerity is the way of heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Those who make virtue their profession are the ruin of virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved; when true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere; when the will is sincere, then the heart is set right ; when the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated; when the personal life is cultivated, then the family life is regulated; when the family life is regulated, then the national life is orderly; and when the national life is orderly, then there is peace in this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: To be fond of learning is near to wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: It is the way of the superior man to prefer the concealment of his virtue, while it daily becomes more illustrious, and it is the way of the mean man to seek notoriety, while he daily goes more and more to ruin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: I used to take on trust a man's deeds after having listened to his words. Now having listened to a man's words I go on to observe his deeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Who expects to be able to go out of a house except by the door? How is it then that no one follows this Way of ours?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Is any one able for one day to apply his strength to virtue? I have not seen the case in which his strength would be sufficient."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If a man is respectful he will not be treated with insolence. If he is tolerant he will win the multitude. If he is trustworthy in word his fellow men will entrust him with responsibility. If he is quick he will achieve results."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The man of perfect virtue, wishing to be established himself, seeks also to establish others; wishing to be enlarged himself, he seeks also to enlarge others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Let a ruler base his government upon virtuous principles, and he will be like the pole-star, which remains steadfast in its place, while all the host of stars turn towards it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The people may be put into the way they should go, though they may not be put into the way of understanding it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The failure to cultivate virtue, the failure to examine and analyze what I have learned, the inability to move toward righteousness after being shown the way, the inability to correct my faults-these are the causes of my grief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Things being investigated, knowledge became complete. Their knowledge being complete, their thoughts were sincere. Their thoughts being sincere, their hearts were then rectified. Their hearts being rectified, their persons were cultivated. Their persons being cultivated, their families were regulated. Their families being regulated, their States were rightly governed. Their States being rightly governed, the whole kingdom was made tranquil and happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The Master said, At fifteen I set my heart upon learning. At thirty, I had planted my feet firm upon the ground. At forty, I no longer suffered from perplexities. At fifty, I knew what were the biddings of Heaven. At sixty, I heard them with docile ear. At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of righ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this. In a position of wealth and honor, he does what is proper to a position of wealth and honor. In a poor and low position, he does what is proper to a poor and low position."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Have no friends not equal to yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Man is born with uprightness. If one loses it, he will be lucky if he escapes with his life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Gentlemen cherish worth; the vulgar cherish dirt. Gentlemen trust in justice; the vulgar trust in favor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Sincerity becomes apparent. From being apparent, it becomes manifest. From being manifest, it becomes brilliant. Brilliant, it affects others. Affecting others, they are changed by it. Changed by it, they are transformed. It is only he who is possessed of the most complete sincerity that can exist under heaven, who can transform."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Be versed in ancient lore, and familiarize yourself with the modern; then may you become teachers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Rotten wood cannot be carved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Guide the people by law, subdue them by punishment; they may shun crime, but will be void of shame. Guide them by example, subdue them by courtesy; they will learn shame, and come to be good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The proper man understands equity, the small man profits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Those whose courses are different cannot lay plans for one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: It cannot be when the root is neglected that what springs from it will be well ordered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If one learns from others, but does not think, one will be bewildered. If, on the other hand, one thinks but does not learn from others, one will be in peril."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When a man comes to me, I accept him at his best, not at his worst. Why make so much ado? When a man washes his hands before paying a visit, and you receive him in that clean state, you do not thereby stand surety for his always having been clean in the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: In vain I have looked for a single man capable of seeing his own faults and bringing the charge home against himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: To think twice is quite enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: At seventy, I could follow the dictates of my own heart; for what I desired no longer overstepped the boundaries of right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Sir, in carrying on your government, why should you use killing at all? Let your evinced desires be for what is good, and the people will be good. The relation between superiors and inferiors is like that between the wind and the grass. The grass must bend, when the wind blows across it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Words are the voice of the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Do not impose on others what you yourself do not desire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Clever talk and domineering manner have little to with being a Man at His Best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A superior man in dealing with the world is not for anything or against anything. He follows righteousness as the standard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The young should be dutiful at home, modest abroad, careful and true, overflowing in kindness for all, but in brotherhood with love. And if they have strength to spare they should spend it on the arts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: I daily examine myself on three points: In planning for others, have I failed in conscientiousness? In intercourse with friends, have I been insincere? And have I failed to practice what I have been taught?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When we have intelligence resulting from sincerity, this condition is to be ascribed to nature; when we have sincerity resulting from intelligence, this condition is to be ascribed to instruction. But given the sincerity, and there shall be the intelligence; given the intelligence, and there shall be the sincerity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: It is only the very wisest and the very stupidest who never change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Who contains himself goes seldom wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The superior person tries to promote music as a means to the perfection of human culture. When such music prevails, and people's minds are led towards the right ideals and aspirations, we may see the appearance of a great nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When I walk along with two others, from at least one I will be able to learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: All men are born good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: There are cases in which the blade springs, but the plant does not go on to flower. There are cases where it flowers, but no fruit is subsequently produced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A man of wisdom delights in water."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character to be established"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When the Superior Man eats he does not try to stuff himself; at rest he does not seek perfect comfort; he is diligent in his work and careful in speech. He avails himself to people of the Tao and thereby corrects himself. This is the kind of person of whom you can say, \"he loves learning.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A gentleman wishes to be slow to speak and quick to act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The Master said, If out of the three hundred songs I had to take one phrase to cover all my teachings, I would say 'Let there be no evil in your thoughts.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Make faithfulness and truth thy masters: have no friends unlike thyself: be not ashamed to mend thy faults."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Charity, like the sun, brightens every object on which it shines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The superior man governs men, according to their nature, with what is proper to them, and as soon as they change what is wrong, he stops."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Man is born for uprightness. If a man lose his uprightness and yet live, his escape from death is mere good fortune."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If my mind be not engaged in worship, it is as though I worshipped not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: What Heaven has conferred is called The Nature; an accordance with this nature is called The Path of duty; the regulation of this path is called Instruction. The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If there were an honorable way to get rich, I\u2019d do it, even if it meant being a stooge standing around with a whip. But there isn\u2019t an honorable way, so I just do what I like."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: First and foremost, be faithful to your superiors, keep all promises, refuse the friendship of all who are not like you; and if you have made a mistake, do not be afraid of admitting the fact and amending your ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous.  He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A youth is to be regarded with respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The superior man is slow in his words and earnest in his conduct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Charity is that rational and constant affection which makes us sacrifice ourselves to the human race, as if we were united with it, so as to form one individual, partaking equally in its adversity and prosperity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The Master said, A gentleman, in his plans, thinks of the Way; he does not think how he is going to make a living. Even farming sometimes entails 5 times of shortage; and even learning may incidentally lead to high pay. But a gentleman's anxieties concern the progress of the Way; he has no anxiety concerning poverty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger... Men of superior mind busy themselves first getting at the root of things; when they succeed, the right course is open to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: From the Son of Heaven down to the mass of the people, all must consider the cultivation of the person the root of everything besides."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Just as lavishness leads easily to presumption, so does frugality to meanness. But meanness is a far less serious fault than presumption."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Everyone calls his son his son, whether he has talents or has not talents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A man who reviews the old so as to find out the new is qualified to teach others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A gentleman is ashamed to let his words outrun his deeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The determined scholar and the man of virtue will not seek to live at the expense of injuring their virtue. They will even sacrifice their lives to preserve their virtue complete."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When superiors are fond of showing their humanity, inferiors try to outstrip one another in their practice of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Of all that Heaven produces and nourishes, there is none so great as man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: To prefer it is better than to only know it. To delight in it is better than merely to prefer it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Let every man consider virtue as what devolves on himself. He may not yield the performance of it even to his teacher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A gentleman can withstand hardships; it is only the small man who, when submitted to them, is swept off his feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When one cultivates to the utmost the principles of his nature, and exercises them on the principle of reciprocity, he is not far from the path."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Know what you know and know that you don't know what you don't know \u2014 that is the characteristic of one who knows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Music is the one thing in which there is no use trying to deceive others or make false pretenses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Benevolence is the characteristic element of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Instead of being concerned that you have no office, be concerned to think how you may fit yourself for office. Instead of being concerned that you are not known, seek to be worthy of being known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Only after Winter comes do we know that the pine and the cypress are the last to fade."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: In archery we have something like the way of the superior man. When the archer misses the center of the target, he turns round and seeks for the cause of his failure in himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The superior man does what is proper to the station in which he is; he does not desire to go beyond this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Look closely into his aims, observe the means by which he pursues them, discover what brings him content - and can the man's real worth remain hidden from you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: In teaching there should be no distinction of classes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: To study and not think is a waste. To think and not study is dangerous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: From the loving example of one family a whole State may become loving, and from its courtesies, courteous; while from the ambition and perverseness of the one man the whole State may be thrown into rebellious disorder. Such is the nature of influence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If you would govern a state of a thousand chariots (a small-to-middle-size state), you must pay strict attention to business, be true to your word, be economical in expenditure and love the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: In a State, pecuniary gain is not to be considered to be prosperity, but its prosperity will be found in righteousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned? Isn't it also great when friends visit from distant places? If one remains not annoyed when he is not understood by people around him, isn't he a sage?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Great as heaven and earth are, men still find some things in them with which to be dissatisfied. Thus it is that, were the superior man to speak of his way in all its greatness, nothing in the world would be found able to embrace it, and were he to speak of it in its minuteness, nothing in the world would be found able to split it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The requisites of government are that there be sufficiency of food, sufficiency of military equipment, and the confidence of the people in their ruler."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: To be excellent when engaged in administration is to be like the North Star. As it remains in its one position, all the other stars surround it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: I have yet to meet a man as fond of high moral conduct as he is of outward appearances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A superior man may be made to go to the well, but he cannot be made to go down into it. He may be imposed upon, but he cannot be fooled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If I cannot get men who steer a middle course to associate with, I would far rather have the impetuous and hasty. For the impetuous at any rate assert themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Sincerity is the end and beginning of things; without sincerity there would be nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The administration of government lies in getting proper men. Such men are to be got by means of the ruler's own character. That character is to be cultivated by his treading in the ways of duty. And the treading those ways of duty is to be cultivated by the cherishing of benevolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Rate the task above the prize; will not the mind be raised? Fight thine own faults, not the faults of others; will not evil be mended?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: By nature, men are nearly alike; by practice, they get to be wide apart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The superior man undergoes three changes. Looked at from a distance, he appears stern; when approached, he is mild; when he is heard to speak, his language is firm and decided."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Go before the people with your example, and be laborious in their affairs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: He who keeps danger in mind, is he who will rest safe in his seat; he who keeps ruin in mind, is he who will preserve his interests secure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: How abundantly do spiritual beings display the powers that belong to them! We look for them, but do not see them; we listen to, but do not hear them; yet they enter into all things, and there is nothing without them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Learn, as if never overtaking your object, and yet as if apprehensive of losing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The real fault is to have faults and not amend them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: In a hamlet of ten households, there are bound to be those who are my equal in doing their best for others and in being trustworthy in what they say, but they are unlikely to be as eager to learn as I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Heaven gives long life to the just and the intelligent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The superior man, extensively studying all learning, and keeping himself under the restraint of the rules of propriety, may thus likewise not overstep what is right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Look not at what is contrary to propriety; listen not to what is contrary to propriety; speak not what is contrary to propriety; make no movement which is contrary to propriety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few. See much and get rid of what is dangerous and be careful in acting on the rest and your causes for regret will be few. Speaking without fault, acting without causing regret: 'upgrading' consists in this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: I am not bothered by the fact that I am not understood. I am bothered when I do not know others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: To be poor without murmuring is difficult. To be rich without being proud is easy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: While the gentleman cherishes benign rule, the small man cherishes his native land. While the gentleman cherishes a respect for the law, the small man cherishes generous treatment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Who heeds not the future will find sorrow at hand"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: I followed my heart without breaking any rules."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The way of Heaven and Earth may be completely declared in one sentence: They are without any doubleness, and so they produce things in a manner that is unfathomable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The man of humanity delights in mountains"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Wealth and rank are what men desire, but unless they be obtained in the right way they may not be possessed. Poverty and obscurity are what men detest; but unless prosperity be brought about in the right way, they are not to be abandoned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The way of the superior man may be compared to what takes place in traveling, when to go to a distance we must first traverse the space that is near, and in ascending a height, when we must begin from the lower ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Death and life have their determined appointments; riches and honors depend upon heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: I will not be concerned at other men's not knowing me;I will be concerned at my own want of ability."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The cautious seldom err."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: That a man lives is because he is straight. That a man who dupes others survives is because he has been fortunate enough to be spared."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Let the states of equilibrium and harmony exist in perfection, and a happy order will prevail throughout heaven and earth, and all things will be nourished and flourish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: In old days men studied for the sake of self-improvement; nowadays men study in order to impress other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: He who works for his own interests will arouse much animosity"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The superior man is anxious lest he should not get the truth; he is not anxious lest poverty should come upon him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Who keeps the old akindle and adds new knowledge is fitted to be a teacher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If you did not do so for the sake of riches,You must have done so for the sake of novelty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The people may be made to follow a path of action but they may not be made to understand it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If a man in the morning hear the right way, he may die in the evening without regret."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If a man sets his heart on benevolence he will be free from evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Earnest in practicing the ordinary virtues, and careful in speaking about them, if, in his practice, he has anything defective, the superior man dares not but exert himself; and if, in his words, he has any excess, he dares not allow himself such license."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Listen much, keep silent when in doubt, and always take heed of the tongue; thou wilt make few mistakes. See much, beware of pitfalls, and always give heed to thy walk; thou wilt have little to rue. If thy words are seldom wrong, thy deeds leave little to rue, pay will follow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The Three Armies can be deprived of their commanding officer, but even a common man cannot be deprived of his purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: There is nothing more visible than what is secret, and nothing more manifest than what is minute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: One who is by nature daring and is suffering from poverty will not long be law-abiding. Indeed, any men, save those that are truly good, if their sufferings are very great, will be likely to rebel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless to blame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: To learn without thinking is labour in vain, to think without learning is desolation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A gentleman would be ashamed should his deeds not match his words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If a man keeps cherishing his old knowledge so as continually to be acquiring new, he may be a teacher of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Guide them by edicts, keep them in line with punishments, and the common people will stay out of trouble but will have no sense of shame. Guide them by virtue, keep them in line with the rites, and they will, besides having a sense of shame, reform themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Learn as though you would never be able to master it; hold it as though you would be in fear of losing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: What you do not wish upon yourself, extend not to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If names be not correct, language is not in accordance with the truth of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A good man will certainly also possess courage; but a brave man is not necessarily good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When you see a good man, think of emulating him; when you see a bad man, examine your own heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: They who know the truth are not equal to those who love it, and they who love it are not equal to those who delight in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Be strict with yourself but least reproachful of others and complaint is kept afar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A good man is not mine to see. Could I see a man possessed of constancy, that would satisfy me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Not to converse with a man worthy of conversation is to waste the man. To converse with a man not worthy of conversation is to waste words. The wise waste neither men nor words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The superior man honors his virtuous nature, and maintains constant inquiry and study, seeking to carry it out to its breadth and greatness, so as to omit none of the more exquisite and minute points which it embraces, and to raise it to its greatest height and brilliancy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The Master said, \"Wealth and honor are things that all people desire, and yet unless they are acquired in the proper way I will not abide them. Poverty and disgrace are things that all people hate, and yet unless they are avoided in the proper way I will not despise them. If the gentleman abandons ren, how can he be worthy of that name? The gentleman does not violate ren even for the amount of time required to eat a meal. Even in times of urgency or distress, he does not depart from it.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: As in the case of making a mound, if, before the very last basketful, I stop, then I shall have stopped. As in the case of leveling the ground, if, though tipping only one basketful, I am going forward, then I shall be making progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The superior man, even when he is not moving, has a feeling of reverence, and while he speaks not, he has the feeling of truthfulness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The really faithful lover of learning holds fast to the Good Way till death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A knight whose heart is set upon the Way, but who is ashamed of wearing shabby clothes and eating coarse food, is not worth calling into counsel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When the multitude detests a man, inquiry is necessary; when the multitude likes a man, inquiry is equally necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The Superior Man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match, wherein he ascends to his position, bowing in deference. Descending, he drinks the ritual cup."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Men of principle are sure to be bold,\nbut those who are bold may not always be men of principle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: To love a thing means wanting it to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The mean man has pride without a dignified ease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: What can a man do with music who is not benevolent?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When a nation or family is about to flourish, there are sure to be happy omens; and when it is about to perish, there are sure to be unlucky omens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Without Goodness one cannot enjoy enduring happiness"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: He who rules by moral force is like the pole star, which remains in place while all the lesser stars do homage to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When the wind blows,the grass bends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The path may not be left for an instant. If it could be left, it would not be the path."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: To throw oneself into strange teachings is quite dangerous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The Master said, \"A true teacher is one who, keeping the past alive, is also able to understand the present.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The silent treasuring up of knowledge; learning without satiety; and instructing others without being wearied: which one of these things belongs to me?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The object of the superior man is truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Waste begets self-will; thrift begets meanness: but better be mean than self-willed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Grieve not that men do not know you;\ngrieve that you do not know men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The Superior Man is all-embracing and not partial. The inferior man is partial and not all-embracing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Sincerity is that whereby self-completion is effected, and its way is that by which man must direct himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: In your promises cleave to what is right, And you will be able to fulfill your word."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Worry not that no one knows you; seek to be worth knowing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Heaven is author of the virtue that is in me"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A gentleman is calm and spacious: the vulgar are always fretting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Ceremonies are the first thing to be attended to in the practice of government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Love makes a spot beautiful: who chooses not to dwell in love, has he got wisdom?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The Master said, \"To study, and then in a timely fashion to practice what you have learned - is this not satisfying? To have companions arrive from afar - is this not a joy? To remain unrecognized by others and yet remain free of resentment - is this not the mark of the gentleman?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that he has."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The Path is not far from man. When men try to pursue a course, which is far from the common indications of consciousness, this course cannot be considered The Path."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If the search for riches were sure to be successful, though I should become a groom with a whip in my hand to get them, I will do so. As the search may not be successful, I will follow after that which I love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Among us, in our part of the country, those who are upright are different from this. The father conceals the misconduct of the son, and the son conceals the misconduct of the father. Uprightness is to be found in this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A gentleman considers what is right; the vulgar consider what will pay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: What is necessary is to rectify names."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The Master said, I set my heart on the Way, base myself on virtue, lean upon benevolence for support and take my recreation in the arts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If I am virtuous and worthy, for whom should I not maintain a proper concern?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Care not for want of place; care for thy readiness to fill one. Care not for being unknown, but seek to be worthy of note."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: In dealing with the dead, if we treat them as if they were entirely dead, that would show a want of affection and should not be done; or, if we treat them as if they were entirely alive, that would show a want of wisdom and should not be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If you know, say you know. If you don't know, say you don't know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The good man does not grieve\nthat other people do not recognize his merits.\nHis only anxiety is lest he should fail to recognize theirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: I have not seen one who loves virtue as he loves beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The wise man delights in water, the Good man delights in mountains.  For the wise move; but the Good stay still.  The wise are happy; but the good secure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If an urn lacks the characteristics of an urn, how can we call it an urn?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Let mourning stop when one's grief is fully expressed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: I am not concerned that I am not known, I seek to be worthy to be known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The commander of the forces of a large State may be carried off, but the will of even a common man cannot be taken from him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Straight-forwardness, without the rules of propriety, becomes rudeness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: All things are nourished together without their injuring one another. The courses  of the seasons, and of the sun and moon, are pursued without any collision among  them. The smaller energies are like river currents; the greater energies are seen  in mighty transformations. It is this which makes heaven and earth so great."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: When a man feels the difficulty of doing, can he be other than cautious and slow in speaking?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If the people be led by laws, and uniformity sought to be given them by punishments, they will try to avoid the punishment, but have no sense of shame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If a superior man abandon virtue, how can he fulfil the requirements of that name?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Being in humaneness is good. If we select other goodness and thus are far apart from humaneness, how can we be the wise?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: In his dealings with the world, the gentleman is not invariably for or against anything. He is on the side of what is moral."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Heaven begat Virtue in me; what can man do unto me?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The whole end of speech is to be understood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: If a man be under the influence of anger his conduct will not be correct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: There are some with whom we may study in common, but we shall find them unable to go along with us to principles. Perhaps we may go on with them to principles, but we shall find them unable to get established in those along with us. Or if we may get so established along with them, we shall find them unable to weigh occurring events along with us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The parents age must be remembered, both for joy and anxiety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth  and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its  greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is  said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Listen widely to remove your doubts and be careful when speaking about the rest and your mistakes will be few."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: What you know, you know, what you don't know, you don't know. This is true wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: There is no body but eats and drinks. But they are few who can distinguish flavors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Learning without thought is labour lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The superior man accords with the course of the Mean. Though he may be all unknown, unregarded by the world, he feels no regret - It is only the sage who is able for this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? If he reach the age of forty or fifty, and has not made himself heard of, then indeed he will not be worth being regarded with respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: There may be men who act without understanding why. I do not. To listen much, pick out the good and follow it; to see much and ponder it: this comes next to understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The man of noble mind seeks to achieve the good in others and not their evil. The little-minded man is the reverse of this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Confucius: The master said, 'Quietly to store up knowledge in my mind, to learn without flagging, to teach without growing weary, these present me with no difficulties.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not. It is only after you have faced up to this fundamental rule and learned to distinguish between what you can and can't control that inner tranquility and outer effectiveness become possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Keep your attention focused entirely on what is truly your own concern, and be clear that what belongs to others is their business and none of yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Let silence be your general rule; or say only what is necessary and in few words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It is our attitude toward events, not events themselves, which we can control. Nothing is by its own nature calamitous -- even death is terrible only if we fear it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Be careful to leave your sons well instructed rather than rich, for the hopes of the instructed are better than the wealth of the ignorant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: You have been given your own work to do. Get to it right now, do your best at it, and don't be concerned with who is watching you. Create your own merit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: No man is free who is not master of himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Know, first, who you are, and then adorn yourself accordingly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: And be silent for the most part, or else make only the most necessary remarks, and express these in few words. But rarely, and when occasion requires you to talk, talk, indeed, but about no ordinary topics. Do not talk about gladiators, or horseraces, or athletes, or things to eat or drink - topics that arise on all occasions; but above all, do not talk about people, either blaming, or praising, or comparing them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It is difficulties that show what men are. For the future, in case of any difficulty, remember that God, like a gymnastic trainer, has pitted you against a rough antagonist. For what end? That you may be an Olympic conqueror; and this cannot be without toil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: When something happens, the only thing in your power is your attitude toward it; you can either accept it or resent it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Some things are in our control and others not. Things in our control are opinion, pursuit, desire, aversion, and, in a word, whatever are our own actions. Things not in our control are body, property, reputation, command, and, in one word, whatever are not our own actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Don't regard what anyone says of you, for this, after all, is no concern of yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Fortify yourself with contentment, for this is an impregnable fortress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: You are a little soul carrying around a corpse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Don't demand or expect that events happen as you would wish them do.  Accept events as they actually happen.  That way, peace is possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: The good or ill of a man lies within his own will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It was the first and most striking characteristic of Socrates never to become heated in discourse, never to utter an injurious or insulting word -- on the contrary, he persistently bore insult from others and thus put an end to the fray."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: You are but an appearance, and not absolutely the thing you appear to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid with regard to external things. Don't wish to be thought to know anything; and even if you appear to be somebody important to others, distrust yourself. For, it is difficult to both keep your faculty of choice in a state conformable to nature, and at the same time acquire external things. But while you are careful about the one, you must of necessity neglect the other"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Know you not that a good man does nothing for appearance sake, but for the sake of having done right?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Nothing great is produced suddenly, since not even the grape or the fig is. If you say to me now that you want a fig, I will answer to you that it requires time: let it flower first, then put forth fruit, and then ripen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Fight against yourself, recover yourself to decency, to modesty, to freedom. And, in the first place, condemn your actions; but when you have condemned them, do not despair of yourself. For both ruin and recovery are from within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Happiness is an equivalent for all troublesome things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: God has made all men to be happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Appearances to the mind are of four kinds. Things either are what they appear to be; or they neither are, nor appear to be; or they are, and do not appear to be; or they are not, and yet appear to be. Rightly to aim in all these cases is the wise man's task."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit. For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: These reasonings are unconnected: \"I am richer than you, therefore I am better\"; \"I am more eloquent than you, therefore I am better.\" The connection is rather this: \"I am richer than you, therefore my property is greater than yours;\" \"I am more eloquent than you, therefore my style is better than yours.\" But you, after all, are neither property nor style."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: On the occasion of every accident that befalls you, remember to turn to yourself and inquire what power you have for turning it to use."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Never say about anything, \"I have lost it,\" but only \"I have given it back.\" Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Wish that everything should come about just as it does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, 'I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,' Epictetus replied, 'I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!\u2019."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: At this time is freedom anything but the right to live as we wish? Nothing else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: We all dread a bodily paralysis, and would make use of every contrivance to avoid it; but none of us is troubled about a paralysis of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: We should do everything both cautiously and confidently at the same time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Do nothing in a depressed mood, nor as one afflicted, nor as thinking that you are in misery, for no one compels you to that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Be free from grief not through insensibility like the irrational animals, nor through want of thought like the foolish, but like a man of virtue by having reason as the consolation of grief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If you wish to live a life free from sorrow, think of what is going to happen as if it had already happened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If I can acquire money and also keep myself modest and faithful and magnanimous, point out the way, and I will acquire it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Practice yourself, for heaven's sake, in little things, and thence proceed to greater."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It is a mark of a mean capacity to spend much time on the things which concern the body, such as much exercise, much eating, much drinking, much easing of the body, much copulation. But these things should be done as subordinate things: and let all your care be directed to the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If you seek Truth, you will not seek to gain a victory by every possible means; and when you have found Truth, you need not fear being defeated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If you would be good, first believe that you are bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: What really frightens and dismays us is not external events themselves, but the way in which we think about them.  It is not things that disturb us, but our interpretation of their significance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It is not death or pain that is to be dreaded, but the fear of pain or death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Each man's life is a kind of campaign, and a long and complicated one at that. You have to maintain the character of a soldier, and do each separate act at the bidding of the General."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It is better to die of hunger having lived without grief and fear, than to live with a troubled spirit, amid abundance"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Sickness is a hindrance to the body, but not to your ability to choose, unless that is your choice. Lameness is a hindrance to the leg, but not to your ability to choose. Say this to yourself with regard to everything that happens, then you will see such obstacles as hindrances to something else, but not to yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It is my business, to manage carefully and dexterously whatever happens"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: You know yourself what you are worth in your own eyes; and at what price you will sell yourself. For men sell themselves at various prices. This is why, when Florus was deliberating whether he should appear at Nero's shows, taking part in the performance himself, Agrippinus replied, 'Appear by all means.' And when Florus inquired, 'But why do not you appear?' he answered, 'Because I do not even consider the question.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: No man is able to make progress when he is wavering between opposite things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: The cause of all human evils is the not being able to apply general principles to special cases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Dare to look up to God and say, Deal with me in the future as Thou wilt; I am of the same mind as Thou art; I am Thine; I refuse nothing that pleases Thee; lead me where Thou wilt; clothe me in any dress Thou choosest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: What is it that every man seeks? To be secure, to be happy, to do what he pleases without restraint and without compulsion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Whenever you are angry, be assured that it is not only a present evil, but that you have increased a habit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Envy is the antagonist of the fortunate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It is hard to combine and unite these two qualities, the carefulness of one who is affected by circumstances, and the intrepidity of one who heeds them not. But it is not impossible: else\nwere happiness also impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Contentment, as it is a short road and pleasant, has great delight and little trouble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Difficulty shows what men are. Therefore when a difficulty falls upon you, remember that God, like a trainer of wrestlers, has matched you with a rough young man. Why? So that you may become an Olympic conqueror; but it is not accomplished without sweat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: And have you not received faculties which will enable you to bear all that happens to you? Have you not received greatness of spirit? Have you not received courage? Have you not received endurance?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: When any person treats you ill or speaks ill of you, remember that he does this or says this because he thinks it is his duty. It is not possible, then, for him to follow that which seems right to you, but that which seems right to himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Freedom and slavery, the one is the name of virtue, and the other of vice, and both are acts of the will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Seek not good from without; seek it within yourselves, or you will never find it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: What is yours is to play the assigned part well. But to choose it belongs to someone else"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It is impossible to begin to learn that which one thinks one already knows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time, nor does it take away the freedom of speech which proceeds from justice; but it gives to us the knowledge of what is just and lawful, separating from them the unjust and refuting them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Of pleasures, those which occur most rarely give the most delight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: In prosperity it is very easy to find a friend; but in adversity it is the most difficult of all things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Remember that you ought to behave in life as you would at a banquet. As something is being passed around it comes to you; stretch out your hand, take a portion of it politely. It passes on; do not detain it. Or it has not come to you yet; do not project your desire to meet it, but wait until it comes in front of you. So act toward children, so toward a wife, so toward office, so toward wealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: When we act pugnaciously, and injuriously, and angrily, and rudely, to what level have we degenerated? To the level of the wild beasts. Well, the fact is that some of us are wild beasts of a larger size, while others are little animals, malignant and petty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: When one maintains his proper attitude in life, he does not long after externals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Who are those people by whom you wish to be admired? Are they not these whom you are in the habit of saying that they are mad? What then? Do you wish to be admired by the mad?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Exceed due measure, and the most delightful things become the least delightful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: We should not have either a blunt knife or a freedom of speech which is ill-managed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: No great thing is created suddenly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Only the educated are free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: He is free who lives as he wishes to live; who is neither subject to compulsion nor to hindrance, nor to force; whose movements to action are not impeded, whose desires attain their purpose, and who does not fall into that which he would avoid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If anyone tells you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make excuses about what is said of you but answer, \"He was ignorant of my other faults, else he would not have mentioned these alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: The origin of sorrow is this: to wish for something that does not come to pass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Never call yourself a philosopher, nor talk a great deal among the unlearned about theorems, but act conformably to them. Thus, at an entertainment, don't talk how persons ought to eat, but\neat as you ought. For remember that in this manner Socrates also universally avoided all ostentation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Pleasure, like a kind of bait, is thrown before everything which is really bad, and easily allures greedy souls to the hook of perdition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: He is a drunkard who takes more than three glasses though he be not drunk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It is no easy thing for a principle to become a man's own unless each day he maintains it and works it out in his life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: The soul is unwillingly deprived of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If a person had delivered up your body to some passer-by, you would certainly be angry. And do you feel no shame in delivering up your own mind to any reviler, to be disconcerted and confounded?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: No living being is held by anything so strongly as by its own needs. Whatever therefore appears a hindrance to these, be it brother, or father, or child, or mistress, or friend, is hated, abhorred, execrated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Never look for your work in one place and your progress in another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: When you have decided that a thing ought to be done and are doing it, never avoid bein seen doing it, though many shall form an unfavorable opinion about it. For if it is not right to do it, avoid doing the thing; but if it is right, why are you afraid of those who shall find fault wrongly?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase. At first, keep quiet and count the days when you were not angry: \"I used to be angry every day, then every other day: next, every two, then every three days!\" and if you succeed in passing thirty days, sacrifice to the gods in thanksgiving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Choose the life that is noblest, for custom can make it sweet to thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Let death and exile, and all other things which appear terrible be daily before your eyes, but chiefly death, and you win never entertain any abject thought, nor too eagerly covet anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which may tend to its increase."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: You will do the greatest service to the state if you shall raise, not the roofs of the houses, but the souls of the citizens: for it is better that great souls should dwell in small houses rather than for mean slaves to lurk in great houses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Every habit and faculty is preserved and increased by correspondent actions, as the habit of walking, by walking; of running, by running."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: When our friends are present we ought to treat them well; and when they are absent, to speak of them well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If you have assumed a character above your strength, you have both acted in this matter in an unbecoming way, and you have neglected that which you might have fulfilled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It is unlikely that the good of a snail should reside in its shell: so is it likely that the good of a man should?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If what charms you is nothing but abstract principles, sit down and turn them over quietly in your mind: but never dub yourself a Philosopher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Silence is safer than speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Everything has two handles,-one by which it may be borne; another by which it cannot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If we are not stupid or insincere when we say that the good or ill of man lies within his own will, and that all beside is nothing to us, why are we still troubled?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If thou rememberest that God standeth by to behold and visit all that thou doest; whether in the body or in the soul, thou surely wilt not err in any prayer or deed; and thou shalt have God to dwell with thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It is difficulties that show what men are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: \"But to be hanged - is that not unendurable?\" Even so, when a man feels that it is reasonable, he goes off and hangs himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: To a longer and worse life, a shorter and better is by all means to be preferred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Cowardice, the dread of what will happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: What is it to be a philosopher? Is it not to be prepared against events?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: In a word, neither death, nor exile, nor pain, nor anything of this kind is the real cause of our doing or not doing any action, but our inward opinions and principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Unless we place our religion and our treasure in the same thing, religion will always be sacrificed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Whoever does not regard what he has as most ample wealth, is unhappy, though he be master of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If your heart is quite set upon a crown, make and put on one of roses, for it will make the prettier appearance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Try to enjoy the great festival of life with other men!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Law intends indeed to do service to human life, but it is not able when men do not choose to accept her services; for it is only in those who are obedient to her that she displays her special virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Be not swept off your feet by the vividness of the impression, but say, \"Impression, wait for me a little. Let me see what you are and what you represent. Let me try you.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Confident because of our caution"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Appear to know only this--never to fail nor fall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Whatever you would make habitual, practice it; and if you would not make a thing habitual, do not practice it, but accustom yourself to something else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: I must die. Must I then die lamenting? I must be put in chains. Must I then also lament? I must go into exile. Does any man then hinder me from going with smiles and cheerfulness and contentment?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: With ills unending strives the putter off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Why, do you not know, then, that the origin of all human evils, and of baseness, and cowardice, is not death, but rather the fear of death?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Not every difficult and dangerous thing is suitable for training, but only that which is conducive to success in achieving the object of our effort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It were no slight attainment could we merely fulfil what the nature of man implies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: To be getting an education means this: to be learning what is your own, and what is not your own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: The soul's impurity consists in bad judgements, and purification consists in producing in it right judgements, and the pure soul is one which has right judgements, for this alone is proof against confusion and pollution in its functions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If what the philosophers say be true, that all men's actions proceed from one source; that as they assent from a persuasion that a thing is so, and dissent from a persuasion that it is not, and suspend their judgment from a persuasion that it is uncertain, so likewise they seek a thing from a persuasion that it is for their advantage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: We are not to give credit to the many, who say that none ought to be educated but the free; but rather to the philosophers, who say that the well-educated alone are free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Whoever then wishes to be free, let him neither wish for anything nor avoid anything which depends on others: if he does not observe this rule, he must be a slave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Even as the Sun doth not wait for prayers and incantations to rise, but shines forth and is welcomed by all: so thou also wait not for clapping of hands and shouts and praise to do thy duty; nay, do good of thine own accord, and thou wilt be loved like the Sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Fortune is an evil chain to the body, and vice to the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Against specious appearances we must set clear convictions, bright and ready for use. When death appears as an evil, we ought immediately to remember that evils are things to be avoided, but death is inevitable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Wherever any one is against his will, that is to him a prison."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Asked, Who is the rich man? Epictetus replied, \ufffdHe who is content."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: As it is pleasant to see the sea from the land, so it is pleasant for him who has escaped from troubles to think of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It is impossible that happiness, and yearning for what is not present, should ever be united."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Pain or pleasure? I say pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: When you want to hear a philosopher, do not say, 'You say nothing to me'; only show yourself worthy or fit to hear, and then you will see how you will move the speaker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Let no man think that he is loved by any who loveth none."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Remember that you are an actor in a drama of such sort as the Author chooses: if short, then in a short one; if long, then in a long one. If it be His pleasure that you should enact a poor man, or a cripple, or a ruler, or a private citizen, see that you act it well. For this is your business, to act well the given part. But to choose it belongs to Another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It is the part of an uneducated person to blame others where he himself fares ill; to blame himself is the part of one whose education has begun; to blame neither another nor his own self is the part of one whose education is already complete."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Think of God more often than thou breathest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Two principles we should always have ready \u2014 that there is nothing good or evil save in the will; and that we are not to lead events, but to follow them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: You can be invincible, if you enter into no contest in which it is not in your power to conquer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Let thy speech of God be renewed day by day, aye, rather than thy meat and drink."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: In every affair consider what precedes and what follows, and then undertake it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It is wicked to withdraw from being useful to the needy, and cowardly to give way to the worthless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: What will the world be quite overturned when you die?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: You ought to choose both physician and friend, not the most agreeable, but the most useful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: There is nothing good or evil save in the will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Neither should a ship rely on one small anchor, nor should life rest on a single hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: No greater thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: No living being is held by anything so strongly as its own needs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It is your own convictions which compels you; that is, choice compels choice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: I am not eternity, but a man; a part of the whole, as an hour is of the day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Do not so much be ashamed of that disgrace which proceeds from men's opinion as fly from that which comes from the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Crows pick out the eyes of the dead, when the dead have no longer need of them; but flatterers mar the soul of the living, and her eyes they blind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It is better by assenting to truth to conquer opinion, than by assenting to opinion to be conquered by truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: We ought to flee the friendship of the wicked, and the enmity of the good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: The soul that companies with virtue is like an ever-flowing source. It is a pure, clear, and wholesome draught, sweet, rich and generous of its store, that injures not, neither destroys."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Nothing great comes into being all at once."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: In theory there is nothing to hinder our following what we are taught;but in life there are many things to draw us aside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: To adorn our characters by the charm of an amiable nature shows at once a lover of beauty and a lover of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: It is the act of an ill-instructed man to blame others for his own bad condition; it is the act of one who has begun to be instructed, to lay the blame on himself; and of one whose instruction is completed, neither to blame another, nor himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Some of their faults men readily admit, but others not so readily."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Every art and every faculty contemplates certain things as its principal objects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If you would be a reader, read; if a writer, write."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Nothing outside the will can hinder or harm the will; it can only harm itself. If then we accept this, and, when things go amiss, are inclined to blame ourselves, remembering that judgment alone can disturb our peace and constancy, I swear to you by all the gods that we have made progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: The Beginning of Philosophy is a Consciousness of your own Weakness and inability in necessary things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Since it is Reason which shapes and regulates all other things, it ought not itself to be left in disorder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Do you know that disease and death must needs overtake us, no matter what we are doing?... what do you wish to be doing when it overtakes you?... If you have anything better to be doing when you are so overtaken, get to work on that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: In theory it is easy to convince an ignorant person; in actual life, men not only object to offer themselves to be convinced, but hate the man who has convinced them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Do not give sentence in another tribunal till you have been yourself judged in the tribunal of Justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Remember that you are an actor in a play, and that the Playwright chooses the manner of it: If he wants you to act a poor man you must act the part with all your powers; and so if your part be a cripple or a magistrate or a plain man. For your business is to act the character that is given you and act it well. The choice of the cast is Another's."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: The essence of good and evil is a certain disposition of the will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Reason is not measured by size or height, but by principle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Shall I show you the sinews of a philosopher? What sinews are those? - A will undisappointed; evils avoided; powers daily exercised; careful resolutions; unerring decisions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: There are some things which men confess with ease, and others with difficulty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Concerning the Gods, there are those who deny the very existence of the Godhead; others say that it exists, but neither bestirs nor concerns itself not has forethought far anything. A third party attribute to it existence and forethought, but only for great and heavenly matters, not for anything that is on earth. A fourth party admit things on earth as well as in heaven, but only in general, and not with respect to each individual. A fifth, of whom were Ulysses and Socrates, are those that cry: -- I move not without Thy knowledge!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If you wish to be good, first believe that you are bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: The appearance of things to the mind is the standard of every action to man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: What is a child? Ignorance. What is a child? Want of instruction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path\u2014he does not mock and jeer at him and then take himself off. You also must show the unlearned man the truth, and you will see that he will follow. But so long as you do not show it him, you should not mock, but rather feel your own incapacity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Every place is safe to him who lives with justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: O slavish man! will you not bear with your own brother, who has God for his Father, as being a son from the same stock, and of the same high descent? But if you chance to be placed in some superior station, will you presently set yourself up for a tyrant?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: Things true and evident must of necessity be recognized by those who would contradict them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If a man is unhappy, remember that his unhappiness is his own fault, for God made all men to be happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: We are not to lead events, but to follow them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Epictetus: If you would improve, submit to be considered wihout sense and foolish with respect to externals. Wish to be considered to know nothing; and if you shall seem to someone to be a person of importance, distrust yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The higher we soar the smaller we appear to those who cannot fly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There are no facts, only interpretations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One can promise actions, but not feelings, for the latter are involuntary. He who promises to love forever or hate forever or be forever faithful to someone is promising something that is not in his power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Silence is worse; all truths that are kept silent become poisonous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The discipline of suffering, of great suffering- do you not know that only this discipline has created all enhancements of man so far? That tension of the soul in unhappiness which cultivates its strength, its shudders face to face with great ruin, its inventiveness and courage in enduring, preserving, interpreting, and exploiting suffering, and whatever has been granted to it of profundity, secret, mask, spirit, cunning, greatness- was it not granted to it through suffering, through the discipline of great suffering?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Nothing on earth consumes a man more quickly than the passion of resentment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The Great Man... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without fear of 'opinion'; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and 'respectability,' and altogether everything that is the 'virtue of the herd.' If he cannot lead, he goes alone... He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar... When not speaking to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise or blame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every deep thinker is more afraid of being understood than of being misunderstood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who has a why to live can bear almost any how."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Only he who is man enough will release the woman in woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We are so fond of being out among nature, because it has no opinions about us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I cannot believe in a God who wants to be praised all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; one must acquire a command of the obstructing and isolating instincts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The most spiritual men, as the strongest, find their happiness where others would find their destruction: in the labyrinth, in hardness against themselves and others, in experiments. Their joy is self-conquest: asceticism becomes in them nature, need, and instinct. Difficult tasks are a privilege to them; to play with burdens that crush others, a recreation. Knowledge-a form of asceticism. They are the most venerable kind of man: that does not preclude their being the most cheerful and the kindliest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The 'kingdom of God' is not something one waits for; it has no yesterday or tomorrow, it does not come 'in a thousand years' it is an experience within a heart; it is everywhere, it is nowhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The secret of reaping the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment from life is to live dangerously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Become who you are!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: When a woman has scholarly inclinations there is usually something wrong with her sexuality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One must learn to love oneself with a wholesome and healthy love, so that one can bear to be with oneself and need not roam."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: And once you are awake, you shall remain awake eternally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: People who live in an age of corruption are witty and slanderous; they know that there are other kinds of murder than by dagger or assault; they also know that whatever is well said is believed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One must be a sea, to receive a polluted stream without becoming impure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: When you look into an abyss, the abyss also looks into you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Your soul will be dead even before your body: fear nothing further."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Today as always, men fall into two groups: slaves and free men. Whoever does not have two-thirds of his day for himself, is a slave, whatever he may be: a statesman, a businessman, an official, or a scholar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I have found strength where one does not look for it: in simple, mild, and pleasant people, without the least desire to rule -- and, conversely, the desire to rule has often appeared to me a sign of inward weakness: they fear their own slave soul and shroud it in a royal cloak (in the end, they still become the slaves of their followers, their fame, etc.)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In the mountains of truth, you never climb in vain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What we do is never understood, but always merely praised or blamed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In heaven, all the interesting people are missing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What destroys a man more quickly than to work, think and feel without inner necessity, without any deep personal desire, without pleasure - as a mere automaton of duty?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He has drawn back, only in order to have enough room for his leap"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I am alone again and I want to be so; alone with the pure sky and open sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Not he is great who can alter matter, but he who can alter my state of mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Convictions are prisons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: For this remains as I have already pointed out the essential difference between the two religions of decadence : Buddhism promises nothing, but actually fulfils; Christianity promises everything, but fulfils nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The deeper minds of all ages have had pity for animals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In revenge and in love, woman is more barbarous than man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Living in a constant chase after gain compels people to expend their spirit to the point of exhaustion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: People are always angry at anyone who chooses very individual standards for his life; because of the extraordinary treatment which that man grants to himself, they feel degraded, like ordinary beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What is evil?-Whatever springs from weakness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: But it is the same with man as with the tree. The more he seeketh to rise into the height and light, the more vigorously do his roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark and deep \u2014 into the evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We labour at our daily work more ardently and thoughtlessly than is necessary to sustain our life because it is even more necessary not to have leisure to stop and think. Haste is universal because everyone is in flight from himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Sit as little as possible. Give no credence to any thought that \n was not born outdoors while moving about freely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: When we have to change our mind about a person, we hold the inconvenience he causes us very much against him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every profound spirit needs a mask."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In truth,there was only one christian and he died on the cross."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Art is the highest task and the proper metaphysical activity of this life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To live alone one must be a beast or a god, says Aristotle. Leaving out the third case: one must be both - a philosopher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Faith: not wanting to know what is true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The 'kingdom of Heaven' is a condition of the heart - not something that comes 'upon the earth' or 'after death.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Without music, life would be a mistake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love the great despisers because they are the great adorers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is not enough love and goodness in the world to permit giving any of it away to imaginary beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What is wrong with Christianity is that it refrains from doing all those things that Christ commanded should be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be other than it is, not in the future, not in the past, not in all eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Morality is the herd-instinct in the individual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Fear is the mother of morality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: No artist tolerates reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Madness is not a consequence of uncertainty but of certainty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves. It is to preserve the distance which separates us from other men. To grow more indifferent to hardship, to severity, to privation, and even to life itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: But thus I counsel you, my friends: Mistrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. They are people of a low sort and stock; the hangmen and the bloodhound look out of their faces. Mistrust all who talk much of their justice! Verily, their souls lack more than honey. And when they call themselves the good and the just, do not forget that they would be pharisees, if only they had-power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I go in solitude, so as not to drink out of everybody's cistern. When I am among the many I live as the many do, and I do not think I really think; after a time it always seems as if they want to banish myself from myself and rob me of my soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Beware of spitting against the wind!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Deception, flattering, lying, deluding, talking behind the back, putting up a false front, living in borrowed splendor, wearing a mask, hiding behind convention, playing a role for others and for oneself -- in short, a continuous fluttering around the solitary flame of vanity -- is so much the rule and the law among men that there is almost nothing which is less comprehensible than how an honest and pure drive for truth could have arisen among them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What the philosopher is seeking is not truth, but rather the metamorphosis of the world into man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: This woman is beautiful and clever: but how much cleverer she would have become if she were not beautiful!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Is life not a thousand times too short for us to bore ourselves?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The more you let yourself go, the less others let you go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The higher man is distinguished from the lower by his fearlessness and his readiness to challenge misfortune."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In a certain state it is indecent to live longer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: My formula for greatness in a human being is amor fati: that one wants nothing to be different, not forward, not backward, not in all eternity. Not merely bear what is necessary, still less conceal it\u2014all idealism is mendaciousness in the face of what is necessary\u2014but love it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What convinces is not necessarily true-it is merely convincing: a note for asses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: But he who is hated by the people, as the wolf by the dogs - is the free spirit, the enemy of fetters, the non-adorer, the dweller in the woods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The best friend will probably acquire the best wife, because a good marriage is founded on the talent for friendship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, that the lover of knowledge is reluctant to step into its waters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What was silent in the father speaks in the son, and often I found in the son the unveiled secret of the father."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I know my fate. One day my name will be associated with the memory of something tremendous \u2014 a crisis without equal on earth, the most profound collision of conscience, a decision that was conjured up against everything that had been believed, demanded, hallowed so far. I am no man, I am dynamite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One must renounce the bad taste of wishing to agree with many people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A very popular error: having the courage of one's convictions; rather it is a matter of having the courage for an attack on one's convictions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Everything goes, everything comes back; eternally rolls the wheel of being. Everything dies, everything blossoms again; eternally runs the year of being. Everything breaks, everything is joined anew; eternally the same House of Being is built. Everything parts, everything greets every other thing again; eternally the ring of being remains faithful to itself. In every Now, being begins; round every Here rolls the sphere There. The center is everywhere. Bent is the path of eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I climb upon the highest mountains, laughing at all tragedies - whether real or imaginary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The most intelligent men, like the strongest, find their happiness where others would find only disaster: in the labyrinth, in being hard with themselves and with others, in effort; their delight is self-mastery; in them asceticism becomes second nature, a necessity, as instinct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is an old illusion. It is called good and evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Cynicism is the only form in which base souls approach honesty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One should steal only where one cannot rob."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every true faith is infallible. It performs what the believing person hopes to find in it. But it does not offer the least support for the establishing of an objective truth. Here the ways of men divide. If you want to achieve peace of mind and happiness, have faith. If you want to be a disciple of truth, then search."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I hate you most because you attract, but are not strong enough to pull me to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Danger alone acquaints us with our own resources, our virtues, our armor and weapons, our spirit, and forces us to be strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Untroubled, scornful, outrageous - that is how wisdom wants us to be: she is a woman and never loves anyone but a warrior."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I am opposed to socialism because it dreams ingenuously of good, truth, beauty, and equal rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The love of power is the demon of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The free man is a warrior."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Marriage: that I call the will of two to create the one who is more than those who created it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Liberal institutions straightway cease being liberal the moment they are soundly established: Once this is attained, no more grievous and more thorough enemies of freedom exist than liberal institutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Let us not underestimate the privileges of the mediocre. As one climbs higher, life becomes ever harder, the coldness increases, responsibility increases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We do not belong to those who only get their thought from books, or at the prompting of books, -- it is our custom to think in the open air, walking, leaping, climbing, or dancing on lonesome mountains by preference, or close to the sea, where even the paths become thoughtful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who cannot give anything away cannot feel anything either."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: ... art approaches as a saving sorceress, expert at healing. She alone knows how to turn these nauseous thoughts about the horror or absurdity of existence into notions with which one can live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Woman was God's second mistake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is the business of the very few to be independent; it is a privilege of the strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: But this people has deliberately made itself stupid, for nearly a millennium: nowhere have the two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity, been abused more dissolutely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Against boredom even gods struggle in vain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The sick are the greatest danger for the healthy; it is not from the strongest that harm comes to the strong, but from the weakest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Error has made man so deep, sensitive, and inventive that he has put forth such blossoms as religions and arts. Pure knowledge could not have been capable of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One repays a teacher badly if one always remains nothing but a pupil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I assess the power of a will by how much resistance, pain, torture it endures and knows how to turn to its advantage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but every pain and every joy and every thought and sigh and everything unutterably small or great in your life will have to return to you, all in the same succession and sequence - even this spider and this moonlight between the trees, and even this moment and I myself. The eternal hourglass of existence is turned upside down again and again, and you with it, speck of dust!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Love is a state in which a man sees things most decidedly as they are not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The good four. Honest with ourselves and with whatever is friend to us; courageous toward the enemy; generous toward the vanquished; polite-always that is how the four cardinal virtues want us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We are all afraid of the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is within your power to see that all you have experienced, trials, errors, faults, deceptions, passions, your love and your hope, shall be merged wholly in your aim."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things; then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love henceforth! I do not want to wage war against what is ugly. I do not want to accuse; I do not even want to accuse those who accuse. Looking away shall be my only negation. And all in all and on the whole: some day I wish to be only a Yes-sayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Only strong personalities can endure history, the weak are extinguished by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Why does man not see things? He is himself standing in the way: he conceals things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: People to whom their daily life appears too empty and monotonous easily grow religious; this is comprehensible and excusable, only they have no right to demand religious sentiments from those whose daily life is not empty and monotonous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We seldom break our leg so long as life continues a toilsome upward climb. The danger comes when we begin to take things easily and choose the convenient paths."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To the mediocre, mediocrity is a form of happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Those you cannot teach to fly, teach to fall faster."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We love life, not because we are used to living but because we are used to loving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The wreckage of stars - I built a world from this wreckage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Without forgetting it is quite impossible to live at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: That which needs to be proved cannot be worth much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One does not know - cannot know - the best that is in one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One thing a man must have: either a naturally light disposition or a disposition lightened by art and knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One must shed the bad taste of wanting to agree with many. \"Good\" is no longer good when one's neighbor mouths it. And how should there be a \"common good\"! The term contradicts itself: whatever can be common always has little value. In the end it must be as it is and always has been: great things remain for the great, abysses for the profound, nuances and shudders for the refined, and, in brief, all that is rare for the rare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Should not the giver be thankful that the receiver received? Is not giving a need? Is not receiving, mercy?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There exists above the \"productive\" man a yet higher species."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is the privilege of greatness to confer intense happiness with insignificant gifts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is a self-deception of philosophers and moralists to imagine that they escape decadence by opposing it. That is beyond their will; and, however little they acknowledge it, one later discovers that they were among the most powerful promoters of decadence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: No one can construct for you the bridge upon which precisely you must cross the stream of life, no one but you yourself alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Sometimes it is harder to accede to a thing than it is to see its truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: On every parable you ride to every truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who does not desire much more from things than knowledge of them easily makes peace with his soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One lives for the day, one lives very fast, one lives very irresponsibly: precisely this is called \"freedom.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The mother of excess is not joy but joylessness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Dancing in all its forms cannot be excluded from the curriculum of all noble education; dancing with the feet, with ideas, with words, and, need I add that one must also be able to dance with the pen?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Without passions you have no experience whatever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: But what if pleasure and pain should be so closely connected that he who wants the greatest possible amount of the one must also have the greatest possible amount of the other, that he who wants to experience the \"heavenly high jubilation,\" must also be ready to be \"sorrowful unto death\"?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The real world is much smaller than the imaginary"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I live in my own place - have never copied anyone even half, and at any master who lacks the grace - to laugh at himself - I laugh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Sleeping is no mean art: for its sake one must stay awake all day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What really raises one's indignation against suffering is not suffering intrinsically, but the senselessness of suffering"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The great works are produced in such an ecstasy of love that they must always be unworthy of it, however great their worth otherwise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: You may have enemies whom you hate, but not enemies whom you despise. You must be proud of your enemy: then the success of your enemy shall be your success too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is not the strengths, but the durations of great sentiments that make great men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The poison by which the weaker nature is destroyed is strengthening to the strong individual and he does not call it poison."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love those who do not know how to live, except by going under, for they are those who cross over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There will be but few people who, when at a loss for topics of conversation, will not reveal the more secret affairs of their friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: My genius is in my nostrils."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: My conception of freedom. \u2014 The value of a thing sometimes does not lie in that which one attains by it, but in what one pays for it \u2014 what it costs us. Liberal institutions cease to be liberal as soon as they are attained: later on, there are no worse and no more thorough injurers of freedom than liberal institutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Man is the cruelest animal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Man's task is simple. He should cease letting his existence be a thoughtless accident."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Morality is the best of all devices for leading mankind by the nose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The broad effects which can be obtained by punishment in man and beast, are the increase of fear, the sharpening of the sense of cunning, the mastery of the desires; so it is that punishment tames man, but does not make him \"better.\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A man who has depths in his shame meets his destiny and his delicate decisions upon paths which few ever reach . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If virtue goes to sleep, it will be more vigorous when it awakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What is bad? All that proceeds from weakness"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Strong hope is a much greater stimulant of life than any single realised joy could be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is far pleasanter to injure and afterwards beg forgiveness than to be injured and grant forgiveness. He who does the former gives evidence of power and afterwards of kindness of character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Buddhism is a hundred times as realistic as Christianity it is part of its living heritage that it is able to face problems objectively and coolly; it is the product of long centuries of philosophical speculation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The end of a melody is not its goal; but nonetheless, if the melody had not reached its end it would not have reached its goal either. A parable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: At bottom every man knows well enough that he is a unique being, only once on this earth; and by no extraordinary chance will such a marvelously picturesque piece of diversity in unity as he is, ever be put together a second time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The Christian faith from the beginning, is sacrifice the sacrifice of all freedom, all pride, all self-confidence of spirit, it is at the same time subjection, self-derision, and self-mutilation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Everything becomes and recurs eternally - escape is impossible!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Some men are born posthumously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Men were considered \"free\" only so that they might be considered guilty - could be judged and punished: consequently, every act had to be considered as willed, and the origin of every act had to be considered as lying within the consciousness (and thus the most fundamental psychological deception was made the principle of psychology itself)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is a great ladder of religious cruelty, and, of its many rungs, three are the most important. People used to make human sacrifices to their god, perhaps even sacrificing those they loved the best ... Then, during the moral epoch of humanity, people sacrificed the strongest instincts they had, their 'nature,' to their god... Finally: what was left to be sacrificed? ... Didn't people have to sacrifice God himself and worship rocks, stupidity, gravity, fate, or nothingness out of sheer cruelty to themselves?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Giving style\u201d to one\u2019s character - a great and rare art! It is exercised by those who see all the strengths and weaknesses of their own natures and then comprehend them in an artistic plan until everything appears as art and reason and even weakness delights the eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: When one has finished building one's house, one suddenly realizes that in the process one has learned something that one really needed to know in the worst way - before one began."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I call a lie: wanting not to see something one does see, wanting not to see something as one sees it... The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Even today many educated people think that the victory of Christianity over Greek philosophy is a proof of the superior truth of the former - although in this case it was only the coarser and more violent that conquered the more spiritual and delicate. So far as superior truth is concerned, it is enough to observe that the awakening sciences have allied themselves point by point with the philosophy of Epicurus, but point by point rejected Christianity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Above all, there is no exception to this rule: that the idea of political superiority always resolves itself into the idea of psychological superiority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who denies himself much in great matters will readily indulge himself in small things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: They devour each other and cannot even digest themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What makes one heroic? - Going out to meet at the same time one's highest suffering and one's highest hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: All isolation is wrong so say the herd. And long didst thou belong to the herd."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I know the hatred and envy of your hearts. Ye are not great enough not to know of hatred and envy. Then be great enough not to be ashamed of them!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: No one is such a liar as the indignant man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Pity makes suffering contagious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: An attack on the roots of passion means an attack on the roots of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I see many soldiers; could I but see many warriors! \"Uniform\" one calleth what they wear; may it not be uniform what they therewith hide!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The strongest have their moments of fatigue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Pity is the most agreeable feeling among those who have little pride and no prospects of great conquests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A nation that still believes in itself holds fast to its own god."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Interest in Education will acquire great strength only from the moment when belief in a God and His care is renounced, just as the art of healing could only flourish when the belief in miracle cures ceased."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One must need to be strong, otherwise one will never become strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What is the vanity of the vainest man compared with the vanity which the most modest possesses when, in the midst of nature and the world, he feels himself to be man!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Or shall I go out as a light does, not first blown out by the wind, but grown tired and weary of itself - a burnt out light? Or finally, shall I blow myself out, so as not to burn out?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If a man wishes to rid himself of a feeling of unbearable oppression, he may have to take hashish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Unconsciously we seek the principles and opinions which are suited to our temperament, so that at last it seems as if these principles and opinions had formed our character and given it support and stability."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I call Christianity the one great curse, the one great intrinsic depravity, and the one great instinct of revenge, for which no means are venomous enough, or secret, subterranean and small enough - I call it the one immortal blemish on the human race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In everything one thing is impossible: rationality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The belief in authority is the source of conscience; which is therefore not the voice of God in the heart of man, but the voice of some men in man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The surest aid in combating the male's disease of self-contempt is to be loved by a clever woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: That a person cannot and consequently will not defend himself, does not yet cast disgrace upon him in our eyes ; but we despise the person who has neither the ability nor the good will for revenge whether it be a man or a woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Life is an instinct for growth, for survival, for the accumulation of forces, for power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Warfare is the father of all good things, it is also the father of good prose!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What, then is truth?... Truths are illusions about which one has forgotten that this is what they are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: How much truth can a spirit bear, how much truth can a spirit dare? ... that became for me more and more the real measure of value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who cannot command himself should obey. And many can command themselves, but much is still lacking before they can obey themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One never perishes through anybody but oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Out of damp and gloomy days, out of solitude, out of loveless words directed at us, conclusions grow up in us like fungus: one morning they are there, we know not how, and they gaze upon us, morose and gray. Woe to the thinker who is not the gardener but only the soil of the plants that grow in him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Better know nothing than half-know many things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The higher you ascend, the smaller you appear to the eye of envy. But most of all they hate those who fly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: This is the hardest of all: to close the open hand out of love, and keep modest as a giver."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: \"natural\" qualities and those called truly \"human\" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Something unappeased, unappeasable, is within me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: God is a thought who makes crooked all that is straight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A man far oftener appears to have a decided character from persistently following his temperament than from persistently following his principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I am driven out of fatherlands and motherlands. Thus I now love only my children's land, yet undiscovered, in the farthest sea; for this I bid my sails search and search."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Even the most beautiful scenery is no longer assured of our love after we have lived in it for three months, and some distant coast attracts our avarice: possessions are generally diminished by possession."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A few hours of mountain climbing make a blackguard and a saint two rather similar creatures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A change of values - that means, a change of the creators of values. He who has to be a creator always has to destroy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Is man one of God's blunders? Or is God one of man's blunders?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Christianity was from the beginning, essentially and fundamentally, life's nausea and disgust with life, merely concealed behind, masked by, dressed up as, faith in \"another\" or \"better\" life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: When a nation is on the downward path, when it feels its belief in its own future, its hope of freedom slipping from it, when it begins to see submission as a first necessity and the virtues of submission as measures of self-preservation, then it must overhaul its God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I condemn Christianity; I bring against the Christian Church the most terrible of all accusations that an accuser has ever had in his mouth. It is, to me, the greatest of all imaginable corruptions; it seeks to work the ultimate corruption, the worse possible corruption. The Christian Church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie, and every integrity into baseness of soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: On the tree, Future, we build our nest; and in our solitude eagles shall bring us nourishment in their beaks!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love him who wants to create over and beyond himself and thus perishes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There still shines the most important nuance by virtue of which the noble felt themselves to be men of a higher rank. They designate themselves simply by their superiority in power (as \"the powerful,\" \"the masters,\" \"the commanders\") or by the most clearly visible signs of this superiority, for example, as \"the rich,\" \"the possessors\" (this is the meaning of 'Arya,' and of corresponding words in Iranian and Slavic)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One should never know too precisely whom one has married"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who speaks a bit of a foreign language has more delight in it than he who speaks it well; pleasure goes along with superficial knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If there were gods, how could I endure not to be a god? Therefore there are no gods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: School has no task more important than to teach strict thought, cautious judgment, and logical conclusions, hence it must pay no attention to what hinders these operations, such as religion, for instance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Stupidity in a woman is unfeminine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: They call you heartless; but you have a heart and I love you for being ashamed to show it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: At times, our strengths propel us so far forward we can no longer endure our weaknesses and perish from them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Enduring habits I hate.... Yes, at the very bottom of my soul I feel grateful to all my misery and bouts of sickness and everything about me that is imperfect, because this sort of thing leaves me with a hundred backdoors through which I can escape from enduring habits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We are, all of us, growing volcanoes that approach the hour of their eruption, but how near or distant that is, nobody knows- not even God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The man of the future who will redeem us not only from the hitherto reigning ideal but also from that which was bound to grow out of it, the great nausea, the will to nothingness, nihilism; this bell stroke of noon and of the great decision that liberates the will again and restores its goal to the earth and his hope to man; this Antichrist and anti-nihilist; this victor over God and nothingness - he must come one day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We operate with nothing but things which do not exist, with lines, planes, bodies, atoms, divisible time, divisible space - how should explanation even be possible when we first make everything into an image, into our own image!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Art is essentially the affirmation, the blessing, and the deification of existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: However unchristian it may seem, I do not even bear any ill feeling towards myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: You gave him an opportunity of showing greatness of character and he did not seize it. He will never forgive you for that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: All truth is simple... is that not doubly a lie?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Not to him who is offensive to us are we most unfair, but to him who doth not concern us at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Even cohabitation has been corrupted - by marriage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If that glad message of your Bible were written in your faces, you would not need to demand belief in the authority of that book in such stiff-necked fashion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Read from a distant star, the majuscule script of our earthly existence would perhaps lead to the conclusion that the earth was the distinctively ascetic planet, a nook of disgruntled, arrogant creatures filled with a profound disgust with themselves, at the earth, at all life, who inflict as much pain on themselves as they possibly can out of pleasure in inflicting pain which is probably their only pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The complete irresponsibility of man for his actions and his nature is the bitterest drop which he who understands must swallow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One is necessary, one is a piece of fate, one belongs to the whole, one is the whole - there exists nothing which could judge, measure, compare, condemn our being, for that would be to judge, measure, compare, condemn the whole...But nothing exists apart from the whole!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering among innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The greatest giver of alms is cowardice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The most unequivocal sign of contempt for man is to regard everybody merely as a means to one's own ends, or of no account whatever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: But are there many honest people who will admit that it is pleasing to give pain?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers- at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In the end things must be as they are and have always been--the great things remain for the great, the abysses for the profound, the delicacies and thrills for the refined, and, to sum up shortly, everything rare for the rare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every one being allowed to learn to read, ruineth in the long run not only writing but also thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Ye are ugly? Well then, my brethren, take the sublime about you, the mantle of the ugly!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To call a thing good not a day longer than it appears to us good, and above all not a day earlier - that is the only way to keep joy pure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Nothing ever succeeds which exuberant spirits have not helped to produce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: But thought is one thing, the deed is another, and the image of the deed still another: the wheel of causality does not roll between them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We possess art lest we perish of the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: For out of fear and need each religion is born, creeping into existence on the byways or reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Everywhere resoundeth the voices of those who preach death; and the earth is full of those to whom death hath to be preached."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Faith, indeed, has up to the present not been able to move real mountains, although I do not know who assumed that it could. But it can put mountains where there are none."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The noble man honours in himself the powerful one, him also who has power over himself, who knows how to speak and how to keep silence, who takes pleasure in subjecting himself to severity and hardness, and has reverence for all that is severe and hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love the valiant; but it is not enough to wield a broadsword, one must also know against whom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The most unendurable thing, to be sure, the really terrible thing, would be a life without habits, a life which continually required improvisation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain? The ability to suffer is a small matter: in that line, weak women and even slaves often attain masterliness. But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of it that is great, that belongs to greatness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What if God were not exactly truth, and if this could be proved? And if he were instead the vanity, the desire for power, the ambitions, the fear, and the enraptured and terrified folly of mankind?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Even great spirits have only their five-fingers' breadth of experience - just beyond it their thinking ceases and their endless empty space and stupidity begins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Our shortcomings are the eyes with which we see the ideal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Truth will have no gods before it.- The belief in truth begins with the doubt of all truths in which one has previously believed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: No power can be maintained when it is only represented by hypocrites."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Life is at an end where the kingdom of God begins"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus I spoke, more and more softly; for I was afraid of my own thoughts and the thoughts behind my thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Kindliness, friendliness, the courtesy of the heart, are ever-flowing streams of non egoistic impulses, and have given far more powerful assistance to culture than even those much more famous demonstrations which are called pity, mercy, and self-sacrifice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is not sufficient religion in the world merely to put an end to the number of religions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We believe that we know something about the things themselves when we speak of trees, colors, snow, and flowers; and yet we possess nothing but metaphors for things - metaphors which correspond in no way to the original entities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A strong and well-constituted man digests his experiences (deeds and misdeeds all included) just as he digests his meats, even when he has some tough morsels to swallow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every profound spirit needs a mask: even more, around every profound spirit a mask is continually growing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Who can attain to anything great if he does not feel in himself the force and will to inflict great pain?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love him whose soul is lavish, who wanteth no thanks and doth not give back: for he always bestoweth, and desireth not to keep for himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The inability to lie is far from the love of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Not the intensity but the duration of high feelings makes high men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is perhaps just dawning on five or six minds that physics, too, is only an interpretation and exegesis of the world (to suit us, if I may say so!) and not a world-explanation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Art is the great stimulus to life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I am a law only for my kind, I am no law for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: For men are not equal: thus speaks justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: And if a friend does you wrong, then say: \"I forgive you what you have done to me; that you have done it to YOURSELF, however--how could I forgive that!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The parasites live where the great have little secret sores."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: How much truth does a spirit endure, how much truth does it dare?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To be ashamed of one's immorality: that is a step on the staircase at whose end one is also ashamed of one's morality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: My abyss speaks, I have turned my ultimate depth inside out into the light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Men have hitherto treated women like birds which have strayed down to them from the heights; as something more delicate, more fragile, more savage, stranger, sweeter, soulful--but as something which has to be caged up so that it shall not fly away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We grow hostile to many an artist or writer, not because we finally come to see he has deceived us, but because he thought no subtler means were required to ensnare us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Crude men who feel themselves insulted tend to assess the degree of insult as high as possible, and talk about the offense in greatly exaggerated language, only so they can revel to their heart's content in the aroused feelings of hatred and revenge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: At every step one has to wrestle for truth; one has to surrender for it almost everything to which the heart, to which our love, our trust in life, cling otherwise. That requires greatness of soul: the service of truth is the hardest service. What does it mean, after all, to have integrity in matters of the spirit? That one is severe against one's heart...that one makes of every Yes and No a matter of conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: How poisonous, how crafty, how bad, does every long war make one, which cannot be waged openly by means of force!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The good-they cannot create; they are always the beginning of the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: This sign I give you: every people speaks its tongue of good and evil, which the neighbor does not understand. It has invented its own language of customs and rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We become aware, however, that all customs, even the hardest, grow pleasanter and milder with time, and that the severest way of life may become a habit and therefore a pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Anyone who has declared someone else to be an idiot, a bad apple, is annoyed when it turns out in the end that he isn't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Close beside my knowledge lies my black ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To find everything profound - that is an inconvenient trait. It makes one strain one's eyes all the time, and in the end one finds more than one might have wished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The unselective knowledge drive resembles the indiscriminate sexual drive--signs of vulgarity!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: They would have to sing better songs for me to learn to have faith in their Redeemer; and his disciples would have to look more redeemed!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: All that the world most needs today, is combined in the most seductive manner in his art, \u2014 the three great stimulants of exhausted people: brutality, artificiality and innocence (idiocy)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is a universal need to exercise some kind of power, or to create for one's self the appearance of some power, if only temporarily, in the form of intoxication."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If a man has character, he has also his typical experience, which always recurs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: No victor believes in chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One does not hate so long as one continues to rate low, but only when one has come to rate equal or higher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Rather perish than hate and fear, and twice rather perish than make oneself hated and feared \u2014 this must some day become the highest maxim for every single commonwealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One has renounced the great life when one renounces war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In praise there is more obtrusiveness than in blame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Art is not merely an imitation of the reality of nature, but in truth a metaphysical supplement to the reality of nature, placed alongside thereof for its conquest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still: you must not want to see everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is absolutely impossible for a subject to see or have insight into something while leaving itself out of the picture, so impossible that knowing and being are the most opposite of all spheres."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To recognize untruth as a condition of life--that certainly means resisting accustomed value feelings in a dangerous way; and a philosophy that risks this would by that token alone place itself beyond good and evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Love of one is a piece of barbarism: for it is practised at the expense of all others. Love of God likewise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One can only be silent and sit peacefully when one hath arrow and bow; otherwise one prateth and quarrelleth. Let your peace be a victory!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Humility has the toughest hide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In almost all sciences the fundamental knowledge is either found in earliest times or is still being sought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Do whatever you will, but first be such as are able to will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: And when your soul becometh great, then doth it become haughty, and in your sublimity there is wickedness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: My brother, are war and battle evil? Necessary, however, is the evil; necessary are the envy and the distrust and the back-biting among the virtues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The wisest man would be the one richest in contradictions, who has, as it were, antennae for all types of men---as well as his great moments of grand harmony---a rare accident even in us! A sort of planetary motion---"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Bad cooks - and the utter lack of reason in the kitchen - have delayed human development longest and impaired it most."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is possible that the production of genius is reserved to a limited period of mankind's history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If you believed more in life you would fling yourself less to the moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Without meaning, without substance, without aim: a mere 'public opinion'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What is not intelligible to me is not necessarily unintelligent"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What is done out of love always occurs beyond good and evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One is healthy when one can laugh at the earnestness and zeal with which one has been hypnotized by any single detail of one's life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Oh, how much is today hidden by science! Oh, how much it is expected to hide!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A degree of culture, and assuredly a very high one, is attained when man rises above superstitions and religious notions and fears, and, for instance, no longer believes in guardian angels or in original sin, and has also ceased to talk of the salvation of his soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Watch them clamber, these swift monkeys! They clamber over one another and thus drag one another into the mud and the depth. They all want to get to the throne: that is their madness \u2014 as if happiness sat on the throne. Often, mud sits on the throne \u2014 and often the throne also on mud. Mad they all appear to me, clambering monkeys and overardent. Foul smells their idol, the cold monster: foul, they smell to me altogether, these idolators."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth... Through words and concepts we shall never reach beyond the wall off relations, to some sort of fabulous primal ground of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is very noble hypocrisy not to talk of one's self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Dreadful experiences raise the question whether he who experiences them, is not something dreadful also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One must learn to be a sponge if one wants to be loved by hearts that overflow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: All truth is crooked, time itself is a circle"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Philosophical systems are wholly true for their founders only."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Something might be true while being harmful and dangerous in the highest degree. Indeed, it might be a basic characteristic of existence that those who know it completely would perish, in which case the strength of a spirit should be measured according to how much of the 'truth' one could still barely endure- or to put it more clearly, to what degree one would require it to be thinned down, shrouded, sweetened, blunted, falsified."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The doer is merely a fiction added to the deed ? the deed is everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who lives as children live - who does not struggle for his bread and does not believe that his actions possess any ultimate significance - remains childlike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A man of genius is unbearable, unless he possesses at least two things besides: gratitude and purity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Whereas the man of action binds his life to reason and its concepts so that he will not be swept away and lost, the scientific investigator builds his hut right next to the tower of science so that he will be able to work on it and to find shelter for himself beneath those bulwarks which presently exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To become the founder of a new religion one must be psychologically infallible in one's knowledge of a certain average type of souls who have not yet recognized that they belong together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: As is well known, the priests are the most evil enemies\u2014but why? Because they are the most impotent. It is because of their impotence that in them hatred grows to monstrous and uncanny proportions, to the most spiritual and poisonous kind of hatred. The truly great haters in world history have always been priests; likewise the most ingenious haters: other kinds of spirit hardly come into consideration when compared with the spirit of priestly vengefulness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We do not place especial value on the possession of a virtue until we notice its total absence in our opponent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Whoever does not have a good father should procure one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus strength is afforded by good and thorough customs, thus is learnt the subjection of the individual, and strenuousness of character becomes a birth gift and afterwards is fostered as a habit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The great man fights the elements in his time that hinder his own greatness, in other words his own freedom and sincerity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What we do in dreams we also do when we are awake: we invent and fabricate the person with whom we associate - and immediately forget we have done so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: [Heraclitus] concluded that coming-to-be itself could not be anything evil or unjust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The man who meets with a failure attributes this failure rather to the ill will of another than to fate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who possesseth little is so much the less possessed. Blessed be moderate poverty!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If you have hitherto believed that life was one of the highest value and now see yourselves disappointed, do you at once have to reduce it to the lowest possible price?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Take a chance and try my fare! It will grow on you, I swear; Soon it will taste good to you!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: My humanity is a constant self-overcoming."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Man is a rope stretched between the animal and the Superman-a rope over an abyss. A dangerous crossing, a dangerous wayfaring, a dangerous looking-back, a dangerous trembling and halting"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Why couldn't the world that concerns us- be a fiction? And if somebody asked, 'but to be a fiction there surely belongs an author?'- couldn't one answer simply: 'Why? Doesn't this \"belongs\" perhaps belong to the fiction, too?'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The reasons and purposes for habits are always lies that are added only after some people begin to attack these habits and to ask for reasons and purposes. At this point the conservatives of all ages are thoroughly dishonest: they add lies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself in man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The question of place and climate is most closely related to the question of nutrition. Nobody is free to live everywhere; and whoever has to solve great problems that challenge all his strength actually has a very restricted choice in this matter. The influence of climate on our metabolism, its retardation, its acceleration, goes so far that a mistaken choice of place and climate can not only estrange a man from his task but can actually keep it from him: he never gets to see it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A good writer possesses not only his own spirit but also the spirit of his friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Man is no longer an artist, he has become a work of art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Either one does not dream, or one does so interestingly. One should learn to spend one's waking life in the same way: not at all, or interestingly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: How can a man know himself? He is a thing dark and veiled; and if the hare has seven skins, man can slough off seventy times seven and still not be able to say: \"this is really you, this is no longer outer shell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: one does not only wish to be understood when one writes; one wishes just as surely not to be understood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: So far no one had had enough courage and intelligence to reveal me to my dear Germans. My problems are new, my psychological horizon frighteningly comprehensive, my language bold and clear; there may well be no books written in German which are richer in ideas and more independent than mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Let thy virtue be too high for the familiarity of names, and if thou must speak of it, be not ashamed to stammer about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Fathers and sons are much more considerate of one another than mothers and daughters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Everything that is profound loves the mask: the profoundest things have a hatred even of figure and likeness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is always some madness in love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Companions the creator seeks, not corpses, not herds and believers. Fellow creators the creator seeks -- those who write new values on new tablets. Companions the creator seeks, and fellow harvesters; for everything about him is ripe for the harvest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Man, full of emptiness and torn apart with homesickness for the desert has had to create from within himself an adventure, a torture-chamber, an unsafe and hazardous wilderness- this fool, this prisoner consumed with longing and despair, became the inventor of 'bad conscience'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There are two types of genius; one which above all begets and wants to beget, and another which prefers being fertilized and giving birth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Rendering oneself unarmed when one had been the best-armed, out of a height of feeling-that is the means to real peace, which must always rest on a peace of mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One is fruitful only at the cost of being rich in contradictions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: whatever is profound loves masks; what is most profound even hates image and parable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The highest type of free men should be sought where the highest resistance is constantly overcome: five steps from tyranny, close to the threshold of the danger of servitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: With the unknown, one is confronted with danger, discomfort, and care; the first instinct is to abolish these painful states. First principle: any explanation is better than none. . . . The causal instinct is thus conditional upon, and excited by, the feeling of fear. The \"why?\" shall, if at all possible, not give the cause for its own sake so much as for a particular kind of cause -- a cause that is comforting, liberating, and relieving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The followers of a great man often put their eyes out, so that they may be the better able to sing his praise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every high degree of power always involves a corresponding degree of freedom from good and evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Illusions are certainly expensive amusements; but the destruction of illusions is still more expensive, if looked upon as an amusement, as it undoubtedly is by some people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Dead are all gods: now we want the overman to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The Germans are like women, you can scarcely ever fathom their depths - they haven't any."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We are unknown to ourselves, we men of knowledge - and with good reason. We have never sought ourselves - how could it happen that we should ever find ourselves? It has rightly been said: \"Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also\"; our treasure is where the beehives of our knowledge are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: That every will must consider every other will its equal would be a principle hostile to life, an agent of the dissolution and destruction of man, an attempt to assassinate the future of man, a sign of weariness, a secret path to nothingness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial \u2014 as the real artists of life do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Willing emancipateth: that is the true doctrine of will and emancipation - so teacheth you Zarathustra. No longer willing, and no longer valuing, and no longer creating! Ah, that that great debility may ever be far from me! And also in discerning do I feel only my will's procreating and evolving delight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Love is more afraid of change than destruction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Woman understands children better than man does, but man is more childlike than woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The great wars of the present age are the effects of the study of history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If we train our conscience, it kisses us while it hurts"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Man is something that shall be overcome.... Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman -- a rope over an abyss... What is great in man is that he is a bridge and not an end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Suspicious.- To admit a belief merely because it is a custom - but that means to be dishonest, cowardly, lazy! - And so could dishonesty, cowardice and laziness be the preconditions for morality?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love him whose soul is so overfull that he forgetteth himself, and all things are in him: thus all things become his down-going."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One must know how to conserve oneself- the best test of independence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The sick woman especially: no one surpasses her in refinements for ruling, oppressing, tyrannising."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: From the Sun I learned this: when he goes down, overrich; he pours gold into the sea out of inexhaustible riches, so that even the poorest fisherman still rows with golden oars. For this I once saw and I did not tire of my tears as I watched it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: \"Body am I, and soul\" - so saith the child. And why should one not speak like children?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The Superman is the meaning of the earth. Let your will say: The Superman shall be the meaning of the earth!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to make anything --and one nonetheless does very much. There exists above the ''productive'' man a yet higher species."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: My time has not yet come either; some are born posthumously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If Islam despises Christianity, it has a thousandfold right to do so: Islam at least assumes that it is dealing with men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The disappointed one speaks. I searched for great human beings; I always found only the apes of their ideals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Intoxicating joy is it for the sufferer to look away from his suffering and forget himself. Intoxicating joy and self-forgetting, did the world once seem to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every power draws its ultimate consequences at every moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is sense in hoping for recognition in a distant future only when we take it for granted that mankind will remain essentially unchanged, and that whatever is great is not for one age only but will be looked upon as great for all time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The text has disappeared under the interpretation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Actual philosophers... are commanders and law-givers: they say \"thus it shall be!\", it is they who determine the Wherefore and Whither of mankind, and they possess for this task the preliminary work of all the philosophical laborers, of all those who have subdued the past - they reach for the future with creative hand, and everything that is or has been becomes for them a means, an instrument, a hammer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Whatever may be your desire to accomplish great deeds, the deep silence of pregnancy never comes to you! The event of the day sweeps you along like straws before the wind whilst ye lie under the illusion that ye are chasing the event,-poor fellows! If a man wishes to act the hero on the stage he must not think of forming part of the chorus; he should not even know how the chorus is made up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: How far is truth susceptible of embodiment? That is the question, that is the experiment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: But not to perish from internal distress and doubt when one inflicts great suffering and hears the cry of suffering : that is great, that belongs to greatness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Truth as Circe. - Error has transformed animals into men; is truth perhaps capable of changing man back into an animal?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Admiration for a quality or an art can be so strong that it deters us from striving to possess it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The life of the enemy . Whoever lives for the sake of combating an enemy has an interest in the enemy's staying alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The newspaper reader says: this party will ruin itself if it makes errors like this. My higher politics says: a party which makes errors like this is already finished -- it is no longer secure in its instincts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Science ... has no consideration for ultimate purposes, any more than Nature has, but just as the latter occasionally achieves things of the greatest suitableness without intending to do so, so also true science, as the imitator of nature in ideas, will occasionally and in many ways further the usefulness and welfare of man,-but also without intending to do so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Not doubt, certainty is what drives one insane."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: This is the manner of noble souls: they do not want to have anything for nothing; least of all, life. Whoever is of the mob wants to live for nothing; we others, however, to whom life gave itself, we always think about what we might best give in return... One should not wish to enjoy where one does not give joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What is originality? To see something that has no name as yet and hence cannot be mentioned although it stares us all in the face. The way men usually are, it takes a name to make something visible for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: All beings so far have created something beyond themselves; and do you want to be the ebb of this great flood and even go back to the beasts rather than overcome man? What is the ape to man? A laughingstock or a painful embarrassment. And man shall be just that for the overman: a laughingstock or a painful embarrassment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every virtue inclines to stupidity, every stupidity to virtue; \"stupid to the point of sanctity,\" they say in Russia, - let us be careful lest out of pure honesty we eventually become saints and bores!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A refined nature is vexed by knowing that some one owes it thanks, a coarse nature by knowing that it owes thanks to some one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The will to truth is merely the longing for a stable world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The living is merely a type of what is dead, and a very rare type."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The worst readers are those who behave like plundering troops: they take away a few things they can use, dirty and confound the remainder, and revile the whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Faith actually moves no mountains, but instead raises them up where there were none before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: How much reverence has a noble man for his enemies!--and such reverence is a bridge to love.--For he desires his enemy for himself, as his mark of distinction; he can endure no other enemy than one in whom there is nothing to despise and very much to honor! In contrast to this, picture \"the enemy\" as the man of ressentiment conceives him--and here precisely is his deed, his creation: he has conceived \"the evil enemy,\" \"the Evil One,\" and this in fact is his basic concept, from which he then evolves, as an afterthought and pendant, a \"good one\"--himself!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The will to overcome an emotion, is ultimately only the will of another, or of several other, emotions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The doer alone learneth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In laughter all that is evil comes together, but is pronounced holy and absolved by its own bliss."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I obviously do everything to be \"hard to understand\" myself"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If there is to be art, if there is to be any aesthetic doing and seeing, one physiological condition is indispensable: frenzy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is a certain right by which we many deprive a man of life, but none by which we may deprive him of death; this is mere cruelty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange apothecary souls have turned it into an ill-tasting drop of poison that makes the whole of life repulsive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: From the State the exceptional individual cannot expect much. He is seldom benefited by being taken into its service; the only certain advantage it can give him is complete independence. Only real culture will prevent him being too early tired out or used up, and will spare him the exhausting struggle against culture-philistinism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Everyone wants to be foremost in this future-and yet death and the stillness of death are the only things certain and common to all in this future! How strange that this sole thing that is certain and common to all, exercises almost no influence on men, and that they are the furthest from regarding themselves as the brotherhood of death! It makes me happy to see that men do not want to think at all of the idea of death!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Christianity has done its utmost to close the circle and declared even doubt to be sin. One is supposed to be cast into belief without reason, by a miracle, and from then on to swim in it as in the brightest and least ambiguous of elements: even a glance towards land, even the thought that one perhaps exists for something else as well as swimming, even the slightest impulse of our amphibious nature"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A Dionysian life task needs the hardness of the hammer and one of its first essentials is without doubt the joy to be found even in destruction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Blessed are the forgetful: for they get the better even of their blunders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Fanatics are picturesque, mankind would rather see gestures than listen to reasons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: As long as you still experience the stars as something \"above you\", you lack the eye of knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Courageous, unconcerned, scornful, coercive - so wisdom wisheth us; she is a woman, and ever loveth only a warrior."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A declaration of war on the masses by higher men is needed! ... Everything that makes soft and effeminate, that serves the end of the people or the feminine, works in favor of universal suffrage, i.e. the domination of the inferior men. But we should take reprisal and bring this whole affair to light and the bar of judgment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: That lies should be necessary to life is part and parcel of the terrible and questionable character of existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The beautiful exists just as little as the true. In every case it is a question of the conditions of preservation of a certain type of man: thus the herd-man will experience the value feeling of the true in different things than will the overman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: At a certain place in Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, for example, he might feel that he is floating above the earth in a starry dome, with the dream of immortality in his heart; all the stars seem to glimmer around him, and the earth seems to sink ever deeper downwards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If ye would go up high, then use your own legs! Do not get yourselves carried aloft; do not seat yourselves on other people's backs and heads!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: New ways I go, a new speech comes to me; weary I grow, like all creators, of the old tongues. My spirit no longer wants to walk on worn soles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Narrow souls I cannot abide; There's almost no good or evil inside"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What is the greatest thing ye can experience? It is the hour of great contempt. The hour in which even your happiness becometh loathsome unto you, and so also your reason and virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A martyr's disciples suffer more than the martyr."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In this state one enriches everything out of one's own fullness: whatever one sees, whatever wills is seen swelled, taut, strong, overloaded with strength. A man in this state transforms things until they mirror his power\u2014until they are reflections of his perfection. This having to transform into perfection is\u2014art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is the stillest words that bring the storm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The more abstract the truth you wish to teach, the more must you allure the senses to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: All good things were formerly bad things; every original sin has turned into an original virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The best of all things is something entirely outside your grasp: not to be born, not to be, to be nothing. But the second-best thing for you - is to die soon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: ...one can speak with the utmost clearness, and yet not be heard by anyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Not their love of humanity, but the impotence of their love, prevents the Christians of today - burning us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Hope, in its stronger forms, is a great deal more powerful stimulans to life than any sort of realized joy can ever be. Man must be sustained in suffering by a hope so high that no conflict with actuality can dash it - so high, indeed, that no fulfilment can satisfy it: a hope reaching out beyond this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We have no dreams at all or interesting ones. We should learn to be awake the same way- not at all or in an interesting manner"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: All contempt for the sexual life, all denigration under the concept 'impure\" is the essential crime against Life- against the Holy Spirit of Life\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The usual false conclusions of mankind are these: a thing exists, therefore it has a right to exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: And we should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once. And we should call every truth false which was not accompanied by at least one laugh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I understand by 'freedom of spirit' something quite definite - the unconditional will to say No, where it is dangerous to say No."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love him who is ashamed when the dice fall in his favour, and who then asketh: \"Am I a dishonest player?\" - for he is willing to succumb."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached -- and against which he taught his disciples to fight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who attains his ideal, precisely thereby surpasses it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Instinct. When the house burns one forgets even lunch. Yes, but one eats it later in the ashes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is possible to imagine a society flushed with such a sense of power that it could afford to let its offenders go unpunished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Artists may here have a more subtle scent: they know only too well that it is precisely when they cease to act 'voluntarily' and do everything of necessity that their feeling of freedom, subtlety, fullness of power, creative placing, disposing, shaping reaches its height - in short, that necessity and 'freedom of will' are then one in them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Man Is Something That Must Be Overcome"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Lightning and thunder need time, the light of the stars needs time, deeds need time, even after they are done, to be seen and heard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What separates two people most profoundly is a different sense and degree of cleanliness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The creation of freedom for oneself and a sacred \"No\" even to duty -- for that, my brothers, the lion is needed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Man, however, is the most courageous animal: thereby has he overcome every animal. With sound of triumph has he overcome every pain; human pain, however, is the sorest pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every virtue has its privilege: for example, that of contributing its own little bundle of wood to the funeral pyre of one condemned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Astrology presupposes that the heavenly bodies are regulated in their movements in harmony with the destiny of mortals: the moral man presupposes that that which concerns himself most nearly must also be the heart and soul of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Wit is the epitaph of an emotion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly. Death freely chosen, death at the right time, brightly and cheerfully accomplished amid children and witnesses: then a real farewell is still possible, as the one who is taking leave is still there; also a real estimate of what one has wished, drawing the sum of one's life--all in opposition to the wretched and revolting comedy that Christianity has made of the hour of death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: All preachers of morality, as also all theologians have a bad habit in common: all of them try to persuade man that he is very ill, and that a severe, final, radical cure is necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We want to be poets of our life first of all in the smallest most everyday matters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Whom do I hate most among the rabble of today? The socialist rabble, the chandala apostles, who undermine the instinct, the pleasure, the worker's sense of satisfaction with his small existence-who make him envious, who teach him revenge. The source of wrong is never unequal rights but the claim of \"equal\" rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I shall repeat a hundred times; we really ought to free ourselves from the seduction of words!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Even the pluckiest among us has but seldom the courage of what he really knows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Pathetic attitudes are not in keeping with greatness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: As an artist one has no home in Europe except in Paris."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Modern science has as its object as little pain as possible, as long a life as possible - hence a sort of eternal blessedness, but of a very limited kind in comparison with the promises of religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The wheel and the brake have different duties, but also one in common: to hurt one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One has to know the size of one's stomach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If all alms were given only from pity, all beggars would have starved long ago."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I still live, I still think: I still have to live, for I still have to think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Those who are failures from the start, downtrodden, crushed -- it is they, the weakest, who must undermine life among men, who call into question and poison most dangerously our trust in life, in man, and in ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It was Christianity which first painted the devil on the worlds walls; It was Christianity which first brought sin into the world. Belief in the cure which it offered has now been shaken to it's deepest roots; but belief in the sickness which it taught and propagated continues to exists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Speaking generally, punishment hardens and numbs, it produces concentration, it sharpens the consciousness of alienation, it strengthens the power of resistance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The states in which we infuse a transfiguration and a fullness into things and poetize about them until they reflect back our fullness and joy in life... three elements principally: sexuality, intoxication and cruelty all belonging to the oldest festal joys."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: When good friends praise a gifted person he often appears to be delighted with them out of politeness and goodwill, but in reality he feels indifferent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In the stream.- Mighty waters draw much stone and rubble along with them; mighty spirits many stupid and bewildered heads."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Success has always been the greatest liar - and the \"work\" itself is a success; the great statesman, the conqueror, the discoverer is disguised by his creations, often beyond recognition; the \"work,\" whether of the artist or the philosopher, invents the man who has created it, who is supposed to have create it; \"great men,\" as they are venerated, are subsequent pieces of wretched minor fiction"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Under conditions of peace the warlike man attacks himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Tragedy is dead! Poetry itself died with it! Away, away with you, puny, stunted imitators! Away with you to Hades, and eat your fill of the old masters' crumbs!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In the knowledge of truth, what really matters is the possession of it, not the impulse under which it was sought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Where there is the tree of knowledge, there is always Paradise: so say the most ancient and most modern serpents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Wherever on earth the religious neurosis has appeared we find it tied to three dangerous dietary demands: solitude, fasting, and sexual abstinence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The doctrine of equality! ... But there is no more venomous poison in existence: for it appears to be preached by justice itself, when it is actually the end of justice ... \"Equality to the equal; inequality to the unequal\" that would be true justice speaking: and its corollary, \"never make the unequal equal\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One is punished best for one's virtues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The misunderstanding of passion and reason, as if the latter were an independent entity and not rather a system of relations between various passions and desires; and as if every passion did not possess its quantum of reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love him who is of a free spirit and a free heart: thus is his head only the bowels of his heart; his heart, however, causeth his down-going."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There are men who desire power simply for the sake of the happiness it will bring; these belong chiefly to political parties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who thinks a great deal is not suited to be a party man: he thinks his way through the party and out the other side too soon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Science rushes headlong, without selectivity, without \"taste,\" at whatever is knowable, in the blind desire to know all at any cost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Where one despises, one cannot wage war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The code of Manu differs from the bible. By means of it the nobles, the philosophers, and the warriors keep the whip hand over the majority. It is full of noble valuations; it shows a feeling of perfection, an acceptance of life, and triumphant feeling toward self and life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: All credibility, all good conscience, all evidence of truth come only from the senses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Christianity has taken the part of all the weak, the low, the botched; it has made an ideal out of antagonism to all the self preservative instincts of sound life; it has corrupted even the faculties of those natures that are intellectually most vigorous, by representing the highest intellectual values as sinful, as misleading, as full of temptation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One does not want to be deceived, under the supposition that it is injurious, dangerous, or fatal to be deceived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The hypocrite who always plays one and the same part ceases at last to be a hypocrite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Immature is the love of the youth, and immature his hatred of man and earth. His mind and the wings of his spirit are still tied down and heavy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Different types of dangerous lives-You have no idea what you are living through; you rush through life as if you were drunk and now and then fall down some staircase. But thanks to your drunkenness you never break a limb; your muscles are too relaxed and your brain too benighted for you to find the stones of these stairs as hard as we do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Live dangerously. Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Only where there are graves are there resurrections."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In a man devoted to knowledge, pity seems almost ridiculous, like delicate hands on a cyclops."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One must not let oneself be misled: they say 'Judge not!' but they send to Hell everything that stands in their way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The Devil has the broadest perspectives for God; therefore, he keeps so far away from God -- the Devil being the most ancient friend of wisdom"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: You implanted your highest goal into the heart of those passions: then they became your virtues and joys."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One is honest about oneself either with a sense of shame or with vanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: How much rationality and higher protection there is in such self-deception, and how much falseness I still require in order to allow myself again and again the luxury of my sincerity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The magnitude of a progress is gauged by the greatness of the sacrifice that it requires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We are responsible to ourselves for our own existence; consequently we want to be the true helmsman of this existence and refuse to allow our existence to resemble a mindless act of chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Where the good begins.- Where the poor power of the eye can no longer see the evil impulse as such because it has become too subtle, man posits the realm of goodness; and the feeling that we have now entered the realm of goodness excites all those impulses which had been threatened and limited by the evil impulses, like the feeling of security, of comfort, of benevolence. Hence, the duller the eye, the more extensive the good. Hence the eternal cheerfulness of the common people and of children. Hence the gloominess and grief - akin to a bad conscience - of the great thinkers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The higher culture an individual attains, the less field there is left for mockery and scorn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: \"What is good?\" ye ask. To be brave is good. Let the little girls say: \"To be good is what is pretty, and at the same time touching.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If it is true to say of the lazy that they kill time, then it is greatly to be feared that an era which sees its salvation in public opinion, this is to say private laziness, is a time that really will be killed: I mean that it will be struck out of the history of the true liberation of life. How reluctant later generations will be to have anything to do with the relics of an era ruled, not by living men, but by pseudo-men dominated by public opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even in the midst of a collapsing world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end \"No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Egoism is the law of perspective applied to feelings: what is closest appears large and weighty, and as one moves farther away size and weight decrease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Principle of \"Christian love\": it insists upon being well paid in the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: How little is required for pleasure! The sound of a bagpipe - without music, life would be an error."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A light has dawned for me: I need companions, living ones, not dead companions and corpses which I carry with me wherever I wish. But I need living companions who follow me because they want to follow themselves- and who want to go where I want to go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Insects sting, not from malice, but because they want to live. It is the same with critics; they desire our blood not our pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The Hour-Hand of Life --- Life consists of rare, isolated moments of the greatest significance, and of innumerably many intervals, during which at best the silhouettes of those moments hover about us. Love, springtime, every beautiful melody, mountains, the moon, the sea - all these speak completely to the heart but once, if in fact they ever do get a chance to speak completely. For many men do not have those moments at all, and are themselves intervals and intermissions in the symphony of real life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We do not by any means think it desirable that the kingdom of righteousness and peace should be established on earth (because under any circumstances it would be the kingdom of the profoundest mediocrity and Chinaism); we rejoice in all men, who like ourselves love danger, war and adventure, who do not make compromises, nor let themselves be captured, conciliated and stunted; we count ourselves among the conquerors; we ponder over the need of a new order of things, even of a new slavery for every strengthening and elevation of the type \"man\" also involves a new form of slavery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Of all that is written, I love only what a person hath written with his blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition, the other with scorn for abstraction. The latter is just as irrational as the former is inartistic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: At times one remains faithful to a cause only because its opponents do not cease to be insipid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What was formerly merely sickly now becomes indecent : it is indecent to be a Christian today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Full is the earth of the superfluous; marred is life by the many-too-many. May they be decoyed out of this life by the \"life eternal\"!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Pity is the most pleasant feeling in those who have not much pride and have no prospect of great conquests; for them the easy prey - and that is what all who suffer are - is enchanting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A lack of the historical sense is the hereditary fault of all philosophers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In intercourse with scholars and artists one readily makes mistakes of opposite kinds: in a remarkable scholar one not infrequently finds a mediocre man; and often, even in a mediocre artist, one finds a very remarkable man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love him who chasteneth his God, because he loveth his God: for he must succumb through the wrath of his God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: People live for the morrow, because the day-after-to-morrow is doubtful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We belong to an age whose culture is in danger of perishing through the means to culture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The English are the people of consummate cant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Indeed, what forces us at all to suppose that there is an essential opposition of 'true' and 'false'? Is it not sufficient to assume degrees of apparentness and, as it were, lighter and darker shadows and shades of appearance- different 'values', to use the language of painters?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Here one must think profoundly to the very basis and resist all sentimental weakness: life itself is essentially appropriation, injury, conquest of the strange and weak, suppression, severity, obtrusion of peculiar forms, incorporation, and at the least, putting it mildest, exploitation - but why should one for ever use precisely these words on which for ages a disparaging purpose has been stamped?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Now we will no longer concede so easily that anyone has the truth; the rigorous methods of inquiry have spread sufficient distrust and caution, so that we experience every man who represents opinions violently in word and deed as any enemy of our present culture, or at least as a backward person. And in fact, the fervor about having the truth counts very little today in relation to that other fervor, more gentle and silent, to be sure, for seeking the truth, a search that does not tire of learning afresh and testing anew."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There exists no more repulsive and desolate creature in the world than the man who has evaded his genius and who now looks furtively to left and right, behind him and all about him. ... He is wholly exterior, without kernel, a tattered, painted bag of clothes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who is punished is never he who performed the deed. He is always the scapegoat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I wish to be at any time hereafter only a yea-sayer!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What is good? All that enhances the feeling of power, the Will to Power, and power itself in man. What is bad? \u2014 All that proceeds from weakness. What is happiness? \u2014 The feeling that power is increasing \u2014 that resistance has been overcome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In music the passions enjoy themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A matter that becomes clear ceases to concern us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Behold, I am weary of my wisdom,\n like a bee that has gathered too much honey;\n I need hands outstretched to receive it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Your highest thought, however, ye shall have it commanded unto you by me - and it is this: man is something that is to be surpassed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Whatever does not kill me makes me stronger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who humbles himself wants to be exalted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Only sick music makes money today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: God is dead, God remains dead, and we have killed him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Help thyself: then everyone will help thee too. Principle of Christian charity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: For one thing is needful: that a human being should attain satisfaction with himself, whether it be by means of this or that poetry or art; only then is a human being at all tolerable to behold. Whoever is dissatisfied with himself is constantly ready for revenge, and we others will be his victims, if only by having to endure his ugly sight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is only a perspective seeing, only a perspective 'knowing'; and the more affects we allow to speak about one thing, the more eyes, different eyes, we can use to observe one thing, the more complete will our 'concept' of this thing, our 'objectivity,' be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We are doubly willing to jump into the water after some one who has fallen in, if there are people present who have not the courage to do so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Once upon a time, in some out of the way corner of that universe which is dispersed into numberless twinkling solar systems, there was a star upon which clever beasts invented knowing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: And this do I call immaculate perception of all things: to want nothing else from them, but to be allowed to lie before them as a mirror with a hundred facets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The rights which a man arrogates to himself are relative to the duties which he sets himself, and to the tasks which he feels capable of performing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Aphorisms should be peaks - and those who are addressed, tall and lofty. The air thin and pure, danger near, and the spirit full of gay sarcasm: these go well together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Women are quite able to make friends with a man; but to preserve such a friendship - that no doubt requires the assistance of a slight physical antipathy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: But thus do I counsel you, my friends: distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful! Distrust all those who talk much of their justice!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: When one gives up the Christian faith, one pulls the right to Christian morality out from under one's feet. This morality is by no means self-evident. Christianity is a system, a whole view of things thought out together. By breaking one main concept out of it, the faith in God, one breaks the whole. It stands or falls with faith in God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One loves ultimately one's desires, not the thing desired."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Physiologists should think before putting down the instinct of self-preservation as the cardinal instinct of an organic being. A living thing seeks above all to discharge its strength--life itself is will to power; self-preservation is only one of the indirect and most frequent results."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Vanity is the fear of appearing original: it is thus a lack of pride, but not necessarily a lack of originality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The essential thing \u2018in heaven and earth\u2019 is that there should be a long obedience in the same direction; there thereby results, and has always resulted in the long run, something which has made life worth living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Creating-that is the great salvation from suffering, and life's alleviation. But for the creator to appear, suffering itself is needed, and much transformation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One begins to mistrust very clever people when they become embarrassed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Moderation sees itself as beautiful; it is unaware that in the eye of the immoderate it appears black and sober and consequently ugly-looking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: no one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Man is not equally moral at all hours, this is well known. If his morality is judged to be the capability for great self-sacrificing resolutions and self-denial (which, when continuous and grown habitual, are called holiness)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: So long as the spectator has to figure out the meaning of this or that person, or the presuppositions of this or that conflict of inclinations and purposes, he cannot become completely absorbed in the activities and sufferings of the chief characters or feel breathless pity and fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: You I advise not to work, but to fight. You I advise not to peace, but to victory. Let your work be a fight, let your peace be a victory!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: How much disgruntled heaviness, lameness, dampness, how much beer is there in the German intelligence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Just look at the faces of the great Christians! They are the faces of great haters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The trodden worm curls up. This testifies to its caution. It thus reduces its chances of being trodden upon again. In the language of morality: Humility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Liberalism is the transformation of mankind into cattle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Man is something that is to be surpassed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One must never have spared oneself, one must have acquired hardness as a habit to be cheerful and in good spirits in the midst of nothing but hard truths."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: While every noble morality develops from a triumphant affirmation of itself, slave morality from the outset says No to what is \"outside,\" what is \"different,\" what is \"not itself\"; and this No is its creative deed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It has therewith come to be recognized that the history of moral valuations is at the same time the history of an error, the error of responsibility, which is based upon the error of the freedom of will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The Greeks, with their truly healthy culture, have once and for all justified philosophy simply by having engaged in it, and having engaged in it more fully than any other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Freedom is the will to be responsible for ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If you have an enemy, do not requite him evil with good, for that would put him to shame. Rather prove that he did you some good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We laugh at a man who, stepping out of his room at the very minute when the sun is rising, says, \u201cIt is my will that the sun shall rise\u201d; or at him who, unable to stop a wheel, says, \u201cI wish it to roll\u201d; or, again, at him who, thrown in a wrestling match, says, \u201cHere I lie, but here I wish to lie.\u201d But, joking apart, do we not act like one of these three persons whenever we use the expression \u201cI wish\u201d?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for groups of sensations. To understand one another, it is not enough that one use the same words; one also has to use the same words for the same species of inner experiences; in the end one has to have one's experiences in common."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Reason\" in language - oh, what an old deceptive female she is! I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I have learned to walk: since then I have run. I have learned to fly: since then I do not have to be pushed in order to move. Now I am nimble, now I fly, now I see myself under myself, now a god dances within me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Faith makes blessed.  Consequently it lies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One is not converted to christianity; one must be morbid enough for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New Testament, a kind of inexpressible discomfiture: for the unchecked impudence with which the least qualified want to raise their voice on the greatest problems, and even claim to be judges of such things, surpasses all measure. The shameless levity with which the most intractable problems (life, world, God, purpose of life) are spoken of, as if they were not problems at all but simply things that these little bigots knew!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A book is made better by good readers and clearer by good opponents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Once the decision has been made, close your ear even to the best counter argument: sign of a strong character. Thus an occasional will to stupidity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Although the most acute judges of the witches and even the witches themselves, were convinced of the guilt of witchery, the guilt nevertheless was non-existent. It is thus with all guilt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The god on the cross is a curse on life, a signpost to seek redemption from life; Dionysus cut to pieces is a promise of life: it will be eternally reborn and return again from destruction"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young\u2014so have patience with it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Sharp and mild, dull and keen, well known and strange, dirty and clean, where both the fool and wise are seen: All this am I, have ever been, - in me dove, snake and swine convene!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Once spirit was God, then it became man, and now it is even becoming mob."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The bite of conscience, like the bite of a dog into a stone, is a stupidity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The believer in magic and miracles reflects on how to impose a law on nature--: and, in brief, the religious cult is the outcome of this reflection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Away from God and gods did this will lure me: what would there be to create if gods existed?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: \"God\", \"the immortality of the soul\", \"salvation\", \"the beyond\"-even as a child I had no time for such notions, I do not waste any time upon them-maybe I was never childish enough for that?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The more a person indulges himself the less others are willing to indulge him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If God had wanted to become an object of love, he would first of all have had to forgo judging and justice : a judge, and even a gracious judge, is no object of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Anti-theses.- The most senile thing ever thought about man is contained in the celebrated saying 'the ego is always hateful'; the most childish is the even more celebrated 'love thy neighbor as thyself'. - In the former, knowledge of human nature has ceased, in the latter it has not yet even begun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every attainment, every step forward in knowledge, follows from courage, from hardness against oneself, from cleanliness in relation to oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: as though \"the Truth\" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Faith means the will to avoid knowing what is true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is not enough religion in the world even to destroy religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I want to learn more and more to see as beautiful what is necessary in things:\u2014then I shall be one of those who make things beautiful. Amor fati: let that be my love from henceforth!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. the will to a system is a lack of integrity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What do we have in common with the rosebud, which trembles because a drop of dew lies on its body?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every habit makes our hand more witty and our wit less handy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In the end we are always rewarded for our good will, our patience, fair-mindedness, and gentleness with what is strange."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Man... cannot learn to forget, but hangs on the past: however far or fast he runs, that chain runs with him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One has to take a somewhat bold and dangerous line with this existence: especially as, whatever happens, we are bound to lose it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Not contentment, but more power; not peace at any price, but war; not virtue, but efficiency (virtue in the Renaissance sense, virtu , virtue free of moral acid)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The errors of great men are venerable because they are more fruitful than the truths of little men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: \"God\", \"immortality of the soul\", \"redemption\", \"beyond\" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not even as a child. Perhaps I have never been childlike enough for them?\r\nI do not by any means know atheism as a result; even less as an event: It is a matter of course with me, from instinct. I am too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers - at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The great epochs of our life come when we gain the courage to rechristen our evil as what is best in us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Christianity is religion for the executioner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: But this word will I say to my enemies: What is all manslaughter in comparison with what you have done to me!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Free will without fate is no more conceivable than spirit without matter, good without evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Unexplained, obscure matters are regarded as more important than explained, clear ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What good is all this free-thinking, modernity, and turncoat flexibility if at some gut level you are still a Christian, a Catholic, and even a priest!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The advent of the Christian God, as the maximum god attained so far, was therefore accompanied by the maximum feeling of guilty indebtedness on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Morality is: the mediocre are worth more than the exceptions ... I abhore Christianity with a deadly hatred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Where there is happiness, there is found pleasure in nonsense. The transformation of experience into its opposite, of the suitable into the unsuitable, the obligatory into the optional (but in such a manner that this process produces no injury and is only imagined in jest), is a pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: For those who need consolation no means of consolation is so effective as the assertion that in their case no consolation is possible: it implies so great a degree of distinction that they at once hold up their heads again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Art furnishes us with eyes and hands and above all the good conscience to be able to turn ourselves into such a phenomenon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What does a philosopher demand of himself, first and last? To overcome his time in himself, to become \"timeless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: When death brings at last the desired forgetfulness, it abolishes life and being together, and sets the seal on the knowledge that \"being\" is merely a continual \"has been,\" a thing that lives by denying and destroying and contradicting itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Christians call it faith ... I call it the herd."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Of all evil I deem you capable: therefore I want the good from you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every word is a preconceived judgment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is our needs that interpret the world; our drives and their For and Against. Every drive is a kind of lust to rule; each one has its perspective that it would like to compel all other drives to accept as a norm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Christianity is called the religion of pity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: All that philosophers have handled for millennia has been conceptual mummies; nothing actual has ever escaped from their hands alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The devotion of the greatest is to encounter risk and danger, and play dice for death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There was at all events one advantage in the choice of this day to my birth; my birthday throughout the whole of my childhood was a day of public rejoicing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The man who does not wish to belong to the mass needs only to cease taking himself easily; let him follow his conscience, which calls to him: \"Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Compassion for the friend should conceal itself under a hard shell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Here we also see: what this divinity lacks is not only a sense of shame-and there are also other reasons for conjecturing that in several respects all of the gods could learn from us humans. We humans are-more humane."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Man is a rope, tied between beast and overman \u2014 a rope over an abyss."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the kernel is to exist or not; in which, accordingly, the stunted, diseased and dull witted jailer is lord, and indicates the moment at which his distinguished prisoner shall die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is not in our hands to prevent our birth; but we can correct this mistake - for in some cases it is a mistake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The Christian church has left nothing untouched by its depravity; it has turned every value into worthlessness, and every truth into a lie"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Let man fear woman when she loves: then she makes any sacrifice, and everything else seems without value to her"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Against boredom the gods themselves fight in vain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is thus only this personal feeling of misery that we get rid of by acts of pity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To regard states of distress in general as an objection, as something which must be abolished is the greatest nonsense on earth; having the most disastrous consequences, fatally stupid- almost as stupid as a wish to abolish bad weather - out of pity for the poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Love ever your neighbour as yourselves - but first be such as love themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What are man's truths ultimately? \n Merely his irrefutable errors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is not things, but opinions about things that have absolutely no existence, which have so deranged mankind!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One must repay good and ill; but why just to the person who did us good or ill?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The advocates of a criminal are seldom artists enough to turn the beautiful terribleness of the deed to the advantage of the doer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every philosophy is the philosophy of some stage of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We must be physicists in order to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Books for all the world are always foul-smelling books: the smell of small people clings to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The heart and hand of those who always mete out become callous from always meting out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: As far as Germany extends it ruins culture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Where neither love nor hatred is in the game, a woman's game is mediocre."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Spirit is the life that itself cuts into life: with its own torment it increases its own knowledge. Did you already know that?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Even the most honest writer lets slip a word too many when he wants to round off a period."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The sensible author writes for no other posterity than his own--that is, for his age--so as to be able even then to take pleasurein himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Many a one cannot loosen his own fetters, but is nevertheless his friend's emancipator."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: But in the end one also has to understand that the needs that religion has satisfied and philosophy is now supposed to satisfy are not immutable; they can be weakened and exterminated. Consider, for example, that Christian distress of mind that comes from sighing over ones inner depravity and care for ones salvation - all concepts originating in nothing but errors of reason and deserving, not satisfaction, but obliteration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: No one talks more passionately about his rights than he who in the depths of his soul doubts whether he has any. By enlisting passion on his side he wants to stifle his reason and its doubts: thus he will acquire a good conscience and with it success among his fellow men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every word instantly becomes a concept precisely insofar as it is not supposed to serve as a reminder of the unique and entirely individual original experience to which it owes its origin; but rather, a word becomes a concept insofar as it simultaneously has to fit countless more or less similar cases -- which means, purely and simply, cases which are never equal and thus altogether unequal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Ultimately, no one can extract from things, books included, more than he already knows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Whenever the truth is uncovered, the artist will always cling with rapt gaze to what still remains covering even after such uncovering; but the theoretical man enjoys and finds satisfaction in the discarded covering and finds the highest object of his pleasure in the process of an ever happy uncovering that succeeds through his own efforts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Is not wounded vanity the mother of all tragedies?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Art depends upon the inexactitude of sight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The apprentice and the master love the master in different ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: All idealism is falsehood in the face of necessity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Those who are slow to know suppose that slowness is the essence of knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Zarathustra was the first to consider the fight of good and evil the very wheel in the machinery of things: the transposition of morality into the metaphysical realm, as a force, cause, and end in itself, is his work. [...] Zarathustra created this most calamitous error, morality; consequently, he must also be the first to recognize it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The refinement of morality increases together with the refinement of fear. Today the fear of disagreeable feelings in other people is almost the strongest of our own disagreeable feelings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Without myth, however, every culture loses its healthy creative natural power: it is only a horizon encompassed with myth that rounds off to unity a social movement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Moral sensibilities are nowadays at such cross-purposes that to one man a morality is proved by its utility, while to another its utility refutes it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The melancholia of everything completed!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Pity aims just as little at the pleasure of others as malice at the pain of others Per-Se."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The greatest events-they are not our loudest but our stillest hours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I am almost equal to a shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is the powerful who know how to honour, it is their art, their domain for invention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: You may lie with your mouth, but with the mouth you make as you do so you none the less tell the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Blessed are the sleepy ones: for they shall soon drop off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I have forgotten my umbrella."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Only the most acute and active animals are capable of boredom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: An educator never says what he himself thinks, but only that which he thinks it is good for those whom he is educating to hear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: \u201cEvil men have no songs.\u201d How is it, then, that the Russians have songs?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: This tremendous event is still on its way, still wandering; it has not yet reached the ears of men. Lightning and thunder require time; the light on the stars requires time; deeds though done, still require time to be seen and heard. This deed is still more distant from them than the most distant stars - and yet they have done it themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Pardon me, my friends, I have ventured to paint my happiness on the wall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Sensuality often hastens the \"Growth of Love\" so much that the roots remain weak and are easily torn up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It was the sick and decaying who despised the body and earth and invented the heavenly realm and the redemptive drops of blood: but they took even these sweet and gloomy poisons from body and earth. They wanted to escape their own misery, and the stars were too far for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Happiness: being able to forget or, to express in a more learned fashion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The bite of conscience is indecent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A little wisdom is indeed possible; but this blessed security have I found in all things, that they prefer--to DANCE on the feet of chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Ye shall only have foes to be hated; but not foes to be despised: ye must be proud of your foes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Your educators can only be your liberators."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Our crime against criminals lies in the fact that we treat them like rascals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Most people are far too much occupied with themselves to be malicious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is no better soporific and sedative than skepticism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A man unconsciously imagines that where he is strong, where he feels most thoroughly alive, the element of his freedom must lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Compulsion precedes morality, indeed morality itself is compulsion for a time, to which one submits for the avoidance of pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The destiny of mankind is arranged for happy moments every life has such but not for happy times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To think historically is almost the same thing now as if in all ages history had been made according to theory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: For the purpose of knowledge we must know how to make use of the inward current which draws us towards a thing, and also of the current which after a time draws us away from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Spiritual strength and passion, when accompanied by bad manners, only provoke loathing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Our vanity desires that what we do best should be considered what is hardest for us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In solitude the lonely man is eaten up by himself, among crowds by the many."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The surest sign of the estrangement of the opinions of two persons is when they both say something ironical to each other and neither of them feels the irony."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Men use a new lesson or experience later on as a ploughshare or perhaps also as a weapon; women at once make it into an ornament."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One must cease letting oneself be eaten when one tastes best: that is known to those who want to be loved long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Anyone who has looked deeply into the world may guess how much wisdom lies in the superficiality of men. The instinct that preserves them teaches them to be flighty light, and false."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Curiosity creeps into the houses of the unfortunate and the needy under the name of duty or of pity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Christianity, alcohol the two great means of corruption."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is a prejudice to think that morality is more favourable to the development of reason than immorality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: ... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts for our having found so little of it and having had to seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them have not yet been discovered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To escape boredom, man works either beyond what his usual needs require, or else he invents play, that is, work that is designed to quiet no need other than that for working in general."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Everything about woman is a riddle, and everything about woman has a single solution: that is, pregnancy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is the music in our conscience, the dance in our spirit, to which Puritan litanies, moral sermons, and goody goodness won\u2019t chime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Gradually it has become clear to me what every great philosophy so far has been: namely, the personal confession of its author and a kind of involuntary and unconscious memoir."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Everything that has been is eternal: the sea will wash it up again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The earth is like the breasts of a woman: useful as well as pleasing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In a seriously intended intellectual emancipation a person's mute passions and cravings also hope to find their advantage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I know no other way to associate with great tasks than as play: as a sign of greatness, this is an essential presupposition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One can also be undignified and flattering toward a virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The genius-in work and in deed-is necessarily a squanderer: the fact that he spends himself constitutes his greatness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Christianity is Platonism for the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The rising and falling of the scales of pride and humility sustain the brooding mind as well as the alternations of desire and peace of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One must first be firmly set in oneself, one must stand securely on one's own two legs otherwise one cannot love at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In order for once to get a glimpse of our European morality from a distance, in order to compare it with other earlier or future moralities, one must do as the traveller who wants to know the height of the towers of a city: he leaves the city."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If we have our own why of life, we shall get along with almost any how. Man does not strive for pleasure; only the Englishman does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Whatever a theologian regards as true must be false: there you have almost a criterion of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The domestication (the culture) of man does not go deep--where it does go deep it at once becomes degeneration (type: the Christian). The 'savage' (or, in moral terms, the evil man) is a return to nature--and in a certain sense his recovery, his cure from 'culture'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A joke is an epigram on the death of a feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What the sense feeleth, what the spirit discerneth, hath never its end in itself. But sense and spirit would fain persuade thee that they are the end of all things: so vain are they."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I fear animals regard man as a creature of their own kind which has in a highly dangerous fashion lost its healthy animal reason - as the mad animal, as the laughing animal, as the weeping animal, as the unhappy animal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is nothing for which men ask to be paid dearer than for humiliation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There did he sit shrivelled in his chimney corner, fretting on account of his weak legs, world weary, will weary, and one day he suffocated through his excessive pity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It seems to me that to take a book of mine into his hands is one of the rarest distinctions that anyone can confer upon himself. I even assume that he removes his shoes when he does so-not to speak of boots."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The weak and the botched shall perish: first principle of our charity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If we make sacrifices in doing good or in doing ill, it does not alter the ultimate value of our actions; even if we stake our life in the cause, as martyrs do for the sake of our church : it is a sacrifice to our longing for power, or for the purpose of conserving our sense of power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: When the gratitude of many to one throws away all shame, we behold fame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I am not a man, I am dynamite!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who knows not how to plant his will in things at least endows them with some meaning: that is to say, he believes that a will is already present in them (A principle of faith.)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We are praised or blamed, as the one or the other may be expedient, for displaying to advantage our power of discernment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love him who justifieth the future ones, and redeemeth the past ones: for he is willing to succumb through the present ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: \"Ego,\" sayest thou, and art proud of that word. But the greater thing - in which thou art unwilling to believe - is thy body with its big sagacity; it saith not \"ego,\" but doeth it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Life is hard to bear: but do not affect to be so delicate! We are all of us fine sumpter asses and assesses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills. 'Behold , just now the world ... entire love. And woman must obey and find a depth for her surface. Surface is the disposition of woman: a mobile, stormy film over shallow water. Man's disposition, however, is deep; his river roars in subterranean caves: woman feels his strength but does not comprehend it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Mathematics would certainly have not come into existence if one had known from the beginning that there was in nature no exactly straight line, no actual circle, no absolute magnitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The concepts \"beyond\" and \"real world\" were invented in order to depreciate the only world that exists-in order that no goal, no aim or task might be left for our earthly reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The love of truth has its reward in heaven and even on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Whoever aims publicly at great things and at length perceives secretly that he is too weak to achieve them, has usually also insufficient strength to renounce his aims publicly, and then inevitably becomes a hypocrite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Iron necessity is a thing which in the course of history men come to see as neither iron nor necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who climbeth on the highest mountains, laugheth at all tragic plays and tragic realities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love him who laboureth and inventeth, that he may build the house for the Superman, and prepare for him earth, animal, and plant: for thus seeketh he his own down-going."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Stupid as a man, say the women: cowardly as a woman, say the men. Stupidity in a woman is unwomanly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Art raises its head where creeds relax."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: After all, what would be \"beautiful\" if the contradiction had not first become conscious of itself, if the ugly had not first said to itself: \"I am ugly\"?."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love those who do not first seek a reason beyond the stars for going down and being sacrifices, but sacrifice themselves to the earth, that the earth of the Superman may hereafter arrive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Good manners disappear in proportion as the influence of a Court and an exclusive aristocracy lessens; this decrease can be plainly observed from decade to decade by those who have an eye for public behavior, which grows visibly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Christianity in particular should be dubbed a great treasure-chamber of ingenious consolations, such a store of refreshing, soothing, deadening drugs has it accumulated within itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To the good warrior soundeth \"thou shalt\" pleasanter than \"I will.\" And all that is dear unto you, ye shall first have it commanded unto you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Be your self! All you are now doing, thinking, desiring, is not you yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is some fundamental certainty which a noble soul has about itself, something which is not to be sought, is not to be found, and perhaps, also, is not to be lost. The noble soul has reverence for itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every fact and every work exercises a fresh persuasion over every age and every new species of man. History always enunciates new truths."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Women's modesty generally increases with their beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What we experience in dreams - assuming that we experience it often - belongs in the end just as much to the over-all economy of our soul as anything experienced \"actually\": we are richer or poorer on account of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Christianity gave Eros poison to drink; he did not die of it, certainly, but degenerated to Vice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every talent must unfold itself in fighting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: How good music and bad reasons sound when one marches against an enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The significance of language for the evolution of culture lies in this, that mankind set up in language a separate world beside the other world, a place it took to be so firmly set that, standing upon it, it could lift the rest of the world off its hinges and make itself master of it. To the extent that man has for long ages believed in the concepts and names of things as in aeternae veritates he has appropriated to himself that pride by which he raised himself above the animal: he really thought that in language he possessed knowledge of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I would only believe in a god who could dance. And when I saw my devil I found him serious, thorough, profound, and solemn: it was the spirit of gravity\u2014through him all things fall. Not by wrath does one kill but by laughter. Come, let us kill the spirit of gravity!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Few serve truth in truth because only few have the pure will to be just, and of those again very few have the strength to be just."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Whoever writes in blood and aphorisms wants not to be learned but to be learned by heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Love forgives the lover even his lust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: [Heraclitus had] the highest form of pride [stemming] from a certainty of belief in the truth as grasped by himself alone. He brings this form, by its excessive development, into a sublime pathos by involuntary identification of himself with his truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I enquire now as to the genesis of a philologist and assert the following: 1. A young man cannot possibly know what Greeks and Romans are. 2. He does not know whether he is suited for finding out about them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Mozart, the last chord of a centuries-old great European taste."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To explore the whole sphere of the modern soul, to have sat in every nook- my ambition, my torture, and my happiness"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One hears - one does not seek; one takes - one does not ask who gives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A man should not play the coward to his deeds. He should not repudiate them once he has performed them. Pangs of conscience are indecent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To experience a thing as beautiful means: to experience it necessarily wrongly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The spirit of the poet craves spectators... even if only buffaloes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What was a lie in the father becomes a conviction in the son."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: His (the theologian) basic instinct of self preservation forbids him to respect reality at any point or even to let it get a word in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Only as an aesthetic product can the world be justified to all eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In the world of high finance the shilling of the idle rich man can buy more than that of the poor, industrious man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If a woman possesses manly virtues, she is to be run away from; and if she does not possess them, she runs away herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: When art dresses itself in the most worn-out material it is most easily recognized as art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I say unto you: it is the good war that hallows any cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It says nothing against the ripeness of a spirit that it has a few worms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A man who wills commands something within himself that renders obedience, or that he believes renders obedience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Weariness that wants to reach the ultimate with one leap, with one fatal leap, a poor ignorant weariness that does not want to want any more: this created all gods and afterworlds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: When virtue has slept it will arise more vigorous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Supposing truth is a woman -- what then?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Worldly Wisdom Do not stay in the field! Nor climb out of sight. The best view of the world Is from a medium height."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is the evening that questions thus from within me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Of what is great one must either be silent or speak with greatness. With greatness--that means cynically and with innocence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Energy wasted on negative ends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Youth is an unpleasant period; for then it is not possible or not prudent to be productive in any sense whatsoever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Mastery.- We have reached mastery when we neither mistake nor hesitate in the achievement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who has always spared himself much will in the end become sickly of so much consideration. Praised be what hardens!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: \"Faith\" as an imperative is a veto against science-in praxi, it means lies at any price."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Our destiny rules over us, even when we are not yet aware of it; it is the future that makes laws for our today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I want to teach men the sense of their existence, which is the Superman, the lightning out of the dark cloud man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Whoever reaches his ideal transcends it eo ipso."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The reasons for which 'this' world has been characterized as 'apparent' are the very reasons which indicate its reality; any other kind of reality is absolutely indemonstrable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What I understand by \"philosopher\": a terrible explosive in the presence of which everything is in danger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The rights a man arrogates to himself are related to the duties he imposes on himself, to the tasks to which he feels equal. The great majority of men have no right to existence, but are a misfortune to higher men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is the good war that hallows every cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who wills believes with a fair amount of certainty that will and action are somehow one; he ascribes the success, the carrying out of the willing, to the will itself, and thereby enjoys an increase of the sensation of power which accompanies all success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Woman learns to hate to the extent to which her charms decrease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Many brief follies--that is what you call love. And your marriage puts an end to many brief follies, with a single long stupidity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Everything which distinguishes man from the animals depends upon this ability to volatilize perceptual metaphors in a schema, and thus to dissolve an image into a concept."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To live as I incline, or not to live at all: so do I wish; so wisheth also the holiest. But alas! how have I still - inclination? Have I-still a goal? A haven towards which MY sail is set?A good wind? Ah, he only who knoweth WHITHER he saileth, knoweth what wind is good, and a fair wind for him.What still remaineth to me? A heart weary and flippant; and unstable will; fluttering wings; a broken backbone.This seeking for MY home: O Zarathustra, dost thou know that this seeking hath been MY home-sickening; it eateth me up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I am the leading strings of the ego and the prompter of its concepts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is not your sin - it is your moderation that cries to heaven; your very sparingness in sin cries to heaven!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We criticize a man or a book most sharply when we sketch out their ideal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: As refined fare serves a hungry man as well as and no better than coarser food, the more pretentious artist will not dream of inviting the hungry man to his meal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: And if a man goes through fire for his doctrine - what does that prove? Verily, it is more if your own doctrine comes out of your own fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The disgust with dirt can be so great that it keeps us from cleaning ourselves--from \"justifying\" ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One does well to put on gloves when reading the New Testament. The proximity of so much uncleanliness almost forces one to do this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Some people throw a bit of their personality after their bad arguments, as if that might straighten their paths and turn them into right and good arguments-just as a man in a bowling alley, after he has let go of the ball, still tries to direct it with gestures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Philosophers are in the habit of setting themselves before life and experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The form of a work of art, which gives speech to their thoughts and is, therefore, their mode of talking, is always somewhat uncertain, like all kinds of speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who denies his own vanity usually possesses it in so brutal a form that he instinctively shuts his eyes to avoid the necessity of despising himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is perhaps nothing so admirable in Christianity and Buddhism as their art of teaching even the lowest to elevate themselves by piety to a seemingly higher order of things, and thereby to retain their satisfaction with the actual world in which they find it difficult enough to live - this very difficulty being necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One cannot read the New Testament without acquired admiration for whatever it abuses not to speak of the \"wisdom of this world,\" which an impudent wind bag tries to dispose of \"by the foolishness of preaching.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Live so that thou mayest desire to live again - that is thy duty - for in any case thou wilt live again!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even-quench thirst any more?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Has there ever been anything filthier on earth than the saints in the wilderness? Around them was not only the devil loose around them- but also the swine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: That, however, is - mediocrity, though it be called moderation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: That roguish and cheerful vice, politeness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: i have never pondered over questions that are not questions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The same relation exists between merchant and pirate, who for a long period are one and the same person: where the one function appears to them inadvisable, they exercise the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: if we possess a why of life we can put up with almost any how."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In his heart every man knows quite well that, being unique, he will be in the world only once and that no imaginable chance will for a second time gather together into a unity so strangely variegated an assortment as he is: he knows it but hides it like a bad conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We set no special value on the possession of a virtue until we percieve that it is entirely lacking in our adversary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Disobedience- that is the nobility of slaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Are you one who looks on? or lends a hand? - or who looks away, sidles off?...Third question for the conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: How lovely it is that there are words and sounds. Are not words and sounds rainbows and illusive bridges between things which are eternally apart?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every past is worth condemning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Whoever does not know how to find the way to his ideal lives more frivolously and impudently than the man without an ideal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: But every soil becomes finally exhausted, and the ploughshare of evil must always come once more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A soul which knows that it is loved, but does not itself love, betrays its sediment: its dregs come up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: All of life is a dispute over taste and tasting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who recites dramatic works makes discoveries about his own character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every master has but one disciple, and that one becomes unfaithful to him, for he too is destined for master-ship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is an innocence in lying which is the sign of good faith in a cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There are no moral phenomena at all, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The familiarity of superiors embitters one, because it may not be returned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We can destroy only as creators"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: there they laugh: they do not understand me; I am not the mouth for these ears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A high civilization is a pyramid: it can stand only on a broad base; its primary prerequisite is a strong and soundly consolidated mediocrity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I do not give alms; I am not poor enough for that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A man as he ought to be: that sounds to us as insipid as \"a tree as it ought to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Is Wagner a human being at all? Is he not rather a disease? He contaminates everything he touches - he has made music sick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We often contradict an opinion for no other reason than that we do not like the tone in which it is expressed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Pain makes hens and poets cackle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: 'God himself cannot exist without wise men' - Luther said, and was right. But 'God can exist even less without unwise men' - that good old Luther did not say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Yet for all that, there is nothing in me of a founder of a religion--religions are affairs of the rabble; I find it necessary to wash my hands after I have come into contact with religious people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: O Voltaire! O humanity! O idiocy! There is something ticklish in \"the truth,\" and in the SEARCH for the truth; and if man goes about it too humanely-\"il ne cherche le vrai que pour faire le bien\"-I wager he finds nothing!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: For both parties in a controversy, the most disagreeable way of retaliating is to be vexed and silent; for the aggressor usually regards the silence as a sign of contempt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Moral contempt is a far greater indignity and insult than any kind of crime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Speaking is a beautiful folly; with that man dances over all things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What is new, however, is always evil, being that which wants to conquer and overthrow the old boundary markers and the old pieties; and only what is old is good. The good men are in all ages those who dig the old thoughts, digging deep and getting them to bear fruit - the farmers of the spirit. But eventually all land is depleted, and the ploughshare of evil must come again and again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In the mountains, the shortest way is from peak to peak: but for that you must have long legs"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The anarchist and the Christian have a common origin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The concepts \"soul\", \"spirit\" and last of all the concept \"immortal soul\" were invented in order to despise the body, in order to make it sick - \"holy\" - in order to cultivate an attitude of appalling disrespect for all things in life which deserve to be treated seriously i."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In short, then, the religious cult is based upon the representations of sorcery between man and man, and the sorcerer is older than the priest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Prejudice of the learned. - The learned judge correctly that people of all ages have believed they know what is good and evil, praise- and blameworthy. But it is a prejudice of the learned that we now know better than any other age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Over immense periods of time the intellect produced nothing but errors. A few of these proved to be useful and helped to preserve the species: those who hit upon or inherited these had better luck in their struggle for themselves and their progeny. Such erroneous articles of faith... include the following: that there are things, substances, bodies; that a thing is what it appears to be; that our will is free; that what is good for me is also good in itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Assuming that he believes at all, the everyday Christian is a pitiful figure, a man who really cannot count up to three, and who besides, precisely because of his mental incompetence, would not deserve such a punishment as Christianity promises him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every man who has declared that some other man is an ass or a scoundrel, gets angry when the other man conclusively shows that the assertion was erroneous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There are more idols than realities in the world: that is my \"evil eye\" for this world, which is also my \"evil ear\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One does not kill by anger but by laughter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We have arranged for ourselves a world in which we can live - by positing bodies, lines, planes, causes and effects, motion and rest, form and content; without these articles of faith nobody could now endure life. But that does not prove them. Life is no argument. The conditions of life might include error."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There are the terrible ones who carry about in themselves the beast of prey, and have no choice except lusts or self-laceration. And even their lusts are self-laceration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What then is truth? A movable host of metaphors, metonymies, and anthropomorphisms: in short, a sum of human relations which have been poetically and rhetorically intensified, transferred, and embellished, and which, after long usage, seem to a people to be fixed, canonical, and binding. Truths are illusions which we have forgotten are illusions \u2014 they are metaphors that have become worn out and have been drained of sensuous force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One must have all the virtues to sleep well. Shall I bear false witness? Shall I commit adultery? Shall I covet my neighbor's maid? All that would go ill with good sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Time flies apace-we would fain believe that everything flies forward with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Life is a well of joy; but for those out of whom an upset stomach speaks, which is the father of melancholy, all wells are poisoned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Faced with a world of \"modern ideas\" which would like to banish everyone into a corner and a \"specialty,\" a philosopher, if there could be a philosopher these days, would be compelled to establish the greatness of mankind, the idea of \"greatness,\" on the basis of his own particular extensive range and multiplicity, his own totality in the midst of diversity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: When one gives up Christian belief one thereby deprives oneself of the right to Christian morality. For the latter is absolutely not self-evident: one must make this point clear again and again, in spite of English shallowpates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Our vanity would have just that which we do best count as that which is hardest for us. The origin of many a morality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I am one thing, my writings are another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: After Buddha was dead, his shadow was still shown for centuries in a cave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: You shall become the person you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The world is a work of art that gives birth to itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I do not know what meaning classical studies could have for our time if they were not untimely that is to say, acting counter to our time and thereby acting on our time and, let us hope, for the benefit of a time to come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: But by my love and hope I beseech you: do not throw away the hero in your soul! Hold holy your highest hope!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: When a man is ill his very goodness is sickly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I am affected, not because you have deceived me, but because I can no longer believe in you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: By means of music the very passions, enjoy themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good - the atavism of an old ideal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One should part from life as Odysseus parted from Nausicaa-blessing it rather than in love with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Weariness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity-and finally liberty is bestowed by sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To demand of strength that it should not express itself as strength, that it should not be a desire to overcome, a desire to throw down, a desire to become master, a thirst for enemies and resistances and triumphs, is just as absurd as to demand of weakness that it should express itself as strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The drive toward the formation of metaphors is the fundamental human drive, which one cannot for a single instant dispense with in thought , for one would thereby dispense with man himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Philosophers are not honest enough in their work, although they make a lot of virtuous noise when the problem of truthfulness is touched even remotely. They all pose as if they had discovered and reached their real opinions through the self-development of a cold, pure, divinely unconcerned dialectic...; while at bottom it is an assumption, a hunch, indeed a kind of \"inspiration\" most often a desire of the heart that has been filtered and made abstract that they defend with reasons they have sought after the fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The various languages placed side by side show that with words it is never a question of truth, never a question of adequate expression; otherwise, there would not be so many languages. The 'thing in itself' (which is precisely what the pure truth, apart from any of its consequences, would be) is likewise something quite incomprehensible to the creator of language and something not in the least worth striving for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One should adpot only those situations in which one is in no need of sham virtues, but rather, like the tight-rope dancer on his tight rope, in which one must either fall or stand--or escape."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Such men alone are my readers, my proper readers, my preordained readers. Of what account are the rest? The rest are simply... humanity. One must be superior to humanity in power, in loftiness of soul- in contempt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Their usual mistaken premise is that they affirm some consensus among people, at least among tame peoples, concerning certain moral principles, and then conclude that these principles must be unconditionally binding also for you and me-or conversely, they see that among different peoples moral valuations are necessarily different and infer from this that no morality is binding-both of which are equally childish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: This world is the will to power and nothing besides!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: From the sun did I learn this, when it goeth down, the exuberant one: gold doth it then pour into the sea, out of inexhaustible riches, -So that the poorest fisherman roweth even with golden oars! For this did I once see, and did not tire of weeping in beholding it. - Like the sun will also Zarathustra go down: now sitteth he here and waiteth, old broken tables around him, and also new tables half-written."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Conversation with a friend will only bear good fruit of knowledge when both think only of the matter under consideration and forget that they are friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The perfect woman is a higher type of humanity than the perfect man, and also something much rarer. The natural history of animals furnishes grounds in support of this theory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The most vulnerable and yet most unconquerable of things is human vanity; nay, through being wounded its strength increases and can grow to giant proportions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: With the strength of his spiritual sight and insight the distance, and as it were the space, around man continually expands: his world grows deeper, ever new stars, ever new images and enigmas come into view."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Robinson had a servant even better than Friday: His name was Crusoe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Oh great star! What would your happiness be if you did not have us to shine for?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is not conflict of opinions that has made history so violent but conflict of belief in opinions, that is to say conflict of convictions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Let your love to life be love to your highest hope; and let your highest hope be the highest thought of life!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The danger of our culture.- We belong to a period of which the culture is in danger of being destroyed by the appliances of culture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable; it is precisely thereby that it attracts the more subtle minds. It seems that the hundred-times-refuted theory of the \"free will\" owes its persistence to this charm alone; some one is always appearing who feels himself strong enough to refute it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Socrates ... is the first philosopher of life [Lebensphilosoph], ... Thinking serves life, while among all previous philosophers life had served thought and knowledge. ... Thus Socratic philosophy is absolutely practical: it is hostile to all knowledge unconnected to ethical implications."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: How difficult it is to live when one feels that the judgment of many millenniums is around one and against one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch. Hence it is the greatest paradox in literature, the imperishable in the midst of change, the nourishment which always remains highly valued, as salt does, and never becomes stupid like salt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: People buy their necessities in shops and have to pay dearly for them because they have to assist in paying for what is also on sale there but only rarely finds purchasers: the luxury and amusement goods. So it is that luxury continually imposes a tax on the simple people who have to do without it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Three metamorphoses of the spirit I relate to you: how the spirit becomes a camel; and the camel, a lion; and the lion, finally, a child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Resistance - that is the distinction of the slave. Let your distinction be obedience. Let your commanding itself be obeying!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Too long, the earth has been a madhouse!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Has a woman who knew she was well-dressed ever caught a cold?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There are preachers of death: and the earth is full of those to whom desistance from life must be preached."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The state lies in all languages of good and evil; and whatever it says, it lies-and whatever it has, it has stolen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every society has a tendency to reduce it's opponents to caricatures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Without cruelty there is no festival: thus the longest and most ancient part of human history teaches and in punishment there is so much that is festive!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One should not be deceived: great spirits are skeptics ... Strength, FREEDOM which is born of the strength and overstrength of the spirit, proves itself by skepticism. Men of conviction are not worthy of the least consideration in fundamental questions of value and disvalue. Convictions are prisons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I need solitude, which is to say, recovery, return to my self, the breath of a free, light, playful air."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love him who scattereth golden words in advance of his deeds, and always doeth more than he promiseth: for he seeketh his own down-going."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love him whose soul is deep even in the wounding, and may succumb through a small matter: thus goeth he willingly over the bridge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love all who are like heavy drops falling one by one out of the dark cloud that lowereth over man: they herald the coming of the lightning, and succumb as heralds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Alas! There cometh the time when man will no longer give birth to any star. Alas! There cometh the time of the most despicable man, who can no longer despise himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Instruments and playthings are sense and spirit: behind them there is still the Self. The Self seeketh with the eyes of the senses, it hearkeneth also with the ears of the spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: And if ye cannot be saints of knowledge, then, I pray you, be at least its warriors. They are the companions and forerunners of such saintship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Your enemy shall ye seek; your war shall ye wage, and for the sake of your thoughts! And if your thoughts succumb, your uprightness shall still shout triumph thereby!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Man must become better and more evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: All names of good and evil are images; they do not speak out, they only hint. He is a fool who seeks knowledge from them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Without the errors involved in the assumptions of ethics, man would have remained an animal. Thus has he taken himself as something higher and imposed rigid laws upon himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love him who liveth in order to know, and seeketh to know in order that the Superman may hereafter live. Thus seeketh he his own down-going."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Objectivity and justice have nothing to do with one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love him who reserveth no share of spirit for himself, but wanteth to be wholly the spirit of his virtue: thus walketh he as spirit over the bridge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love him who maketh his virtue his inclination and destiny: thus, for the sake of his virtue, he is willing to live on, or live no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means to his own advantage, as his personal key to happiness, are the exceptions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I love him who loveth his virtue: for virtue is the will to down-going, and an arrow of longing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for receiving letters and afterwards take a bath."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Jealous is every virtue of the others, and a dreadful thing is jealousy. Even virtues may succumb by jealousy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: History teaches that a race of people is best preserved where the greater number hold one common spirit in consequence of the similarity of their accustomed and indisputable principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Ye shall be those whose eyes ever seek for an enemy - for YOUR enemy. And with some of you there is hatred at first sight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One should not wrongly reify 'cause' and 'effect,' as the natural scientists do (and whoever, like them, now 'naturalizes' in his thinking), according to the prevailing mechanical doltishness which makes the cause press and push until it 'effects' its end; one should use 'cause' and 'effect' only as pure concepts, that is to say, as conventional fictions for the purpose of designation and communication-not for explanation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: \"This - is now my way - where is yours\"? Thus did I answer those who asked me \"the way\". For the way - it does not exist!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Without art we would be nothing but foreground and live entirely in the spell of that perspective which makes what is closest at hand and most vulgar appear as if it were vast, and reality itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I have somehow something like \"influence\" ... In the Anti-Semitic Correspondence ... my name is mentioned in almost every issue. Zarathustra ... has charmed the anti-Semites; there is a special anti-Semitic interpretation of it that made me laugh very much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Linguistic danger to spiritual freedom.- Every word is a prejudice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Wherever progress is to ensue, deviating natures are of greatest importance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The pure soul is a pure lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Ah, there are so many things betwixt heaven and earth of which only the poets have dreamed!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Do ask yourself why you, the individual, exist, and if you can get no other answer try for once to justify the meaning of your existence as it were a posteriori by setting before yourself an aim, a goal, a 'to this end', an exalted and noble 'to this end'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Everyone becomes brave when he observes one who despairs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Moralities and religions are the principal means by which one can make whatever one wishes out of man, provided one possesses a superfluity of creative forces and can assert one's will over long periods of time in the form of legislation and customs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I no longer want to walk on worn soles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: God is Dead; but given the way of men, there may still be caves for thousands of years in which his shadow will be shown. And we - we still have to vanquish his shadow, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is a distinction to have many virtues, but a hard lot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Physician, help yourself: thus help your patient too. Let this be his best help: that he may behold with his eyes the man who heals himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The thought of suicide is a great source of comfort: with it a calm passage is to be made across many a bad night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The snake that cannot shed its skin perishes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To produce music is also in a sense to produce children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did happen, the law could not afterwards be reinstated and this fact was accepted, the predicate gradually changed; - history treats almost exclusively of these bad men who subsequently became good men!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Whatever we have words for, that we have already got beyond."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Men submit from habit to everything that seeks power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Is it not better to fall into the hands of a murderer, than into the dreams of a lustful woman?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The radical hostility, the deadly hostility against sensuality, is always a symptom to reflect on: it entitles us to suppositions concerning the total state of one who is excessive in this manner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The degree and kind of a man's sexuality reach up into the ultimate pinnacle of his spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Morality makes stupid.- Custom represents the experiences of men of earlier times as to what they supposed useful and harmful - but the sense for custom (morality) applies, not to these experiences as such, but to the age, the sanctity, the indiscussability of the custom. And so this feeling is a hindrance to the acquisition of new experiences and the correction of customs: that is to say, morality is a hindrance to the development of new and better customs: it makes stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The patient. The pine tree seems to listen, the fir tree to wait: and both without impatience: - they give no thought to the little people beneath them devoured by their impatience and their curiosity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: When Zarathustra was alone . . . he said to his heart: \"Could it be possible! This old saint in the forest hath not yet heard of it, that God is dead!\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The strength required for the vision of the most powerful reality is not only compatible with the most powerful strength for action, for monstrous action, for crime - it even presupposes it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and mean actions to fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Woman learns how to hate in proportion as she forgets how to charm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What I really want from Music: That it be cheerful and profound like an afternoon in October."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I have learned to walk: ever since, I let myself run. I have learned to fly: ever since, I do not want to be pushed before moving along."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Wherever Germany extends her sway, she ruins culture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: How much beer is in German intelligence?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: As soon as a religion comes to dominate it has as its opponents all those who would have been its first disciples."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: love as a passion\u2014it is our European specialty\u2014must absolutely be of noble origin; as is well known, its invention is due to the Provencal poet-cavaliers, those brilliant, ingenious men of the \"gai saber,\" to whom Europe owes so much, and almost owes itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It may be that until now there has been no more potent means for beautifying man himself than piety: it can turn man into so much art, surface, play of colors, graciousness that his sight no longer makes one suffer.---"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Indeed, at hearing the news that 'the old god is dead', we philosophers and 'free spirits' feel illuminated by a new dawn; our heart overflows with gratitude, amazement, forebodings, expectation - finally the horizon seems clear again, even if not bright; finally our ships may set out again, set out to face any danger; every daring of the lover of knowledge is allowed again; the sea, our sea, lies open again; maybe there has never been such an 'open sea'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Every word is a prejudice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I am no man, I am dynamite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is only possible through the fact that sympathy for the general life and suffering of mankind is very weakly developed in the individual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Freedom of opinion is like health; both are individual, and no good general conception can be set up of either of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every one is an optimist, that the greatest usefulness must be ascribed to knowledge. They are all tyrannized over by logic, and this is optimism in its essence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I admire the courage and wisdom of Socrates in everything he did, said--and did not say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: That little hypocrites and half-crazed people dare to imagine that on their account the laws of nature are constantly broken; such an enhancement of every kind of selfishness to infinity, to impudence, cannot be branded with sufficient contempt. And yet Christianity owes its triumph to this pitiable flattery of personal vanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Master-morality and Slave-morality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I can tell by my own reaction to it that this book is harmful.\" But let him only wait and perhaps one day he will admit to himself that this same book has done him a great service by bringing out the hidden sickness of his heart and making it visible.\u2014 Altered opinions do not alter a man\u2019s character (or do so very little); but they do illuminate individual aspects of the constellation of his personality which with a different constellation of opinions had hitherto remained dark and unrecognizable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Whoever gives advice to a sick person acquires a feeling of superiority over him, whether the advice be accepted or rejected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Praise is more obtrusive than a reproach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To be moral, correct, and virtuous is to be obedient to an old established law and custom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Without the errors which lie in the assumption of morality, man would have remained an animal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Whoever thinks much and to good purpose easily forgets his own experiences, but not the thoughts which these experiences have called forth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Inexperienced girls flatter themselves with the notion that it is in their power to make a man happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We are more pained when one of our friends is guilty of something shameful than when we do it ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The Refinement of Shame. People are not ashamed to think something foul, but they are ashamed when they think these foul thoughts are attributed to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One unconsciously takes it for granted that doer and sufferer think and feel alike, and according to this supposition we measure the guilt of the one by the pain of the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: No honey is sweeter than that of knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Man is more sensitive to the contempt of others than to self-contempt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One will seldom go wrong if one attributes extreme actions to vanity, average ones to habit, and pretty ones to fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The most fatal seductive lie that has yet existed"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One is most dishonest to one's god: he is not allowed to sin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: All religions bear traces of the fact that they arose during the intellectual immaturity of the human race - before it had learned the obligations to speak the truth.  Not one of them makes it the duty of its god to be truthful and understandable in his communications."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Among human beings there is no greater banality than death. Second in order, because it is possible to die without being born, comes birth, and next comes marriage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Not by wrath does one kill, but by laughter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In true love it is the soul that envelops the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The value of a man can only be measured with regard to other men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Man is something to be surpassed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Remain true to the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Does not the discipline of the scientific spirit just commence when one no longer harbours any conviction?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Doing ill to those on whom we have to make our power felt; for pain is a far more sensitive means for that purpose than pleasure: pain always asks concerning the cause, while pleasure is inclined to keep within itself and not look backward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I have given a name to my pain, and call it \"dog\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The governments of the great States have two instruments for keeping the people dependent, in fear and obedience: a coarser, the army; and a more refined, the school."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: THE SLOW ARROW OF BEAUTY. The noblest kind of beauty is that which does not transport us suddenly, which does not make stormy and intoxicating impressions such a kind easily arouses disgust but that which slowly filters into our minds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: THE SUFFERING OF GENIUS AND ITS VALUE. The artistic genius desires to give pleasure, but if his mind is on a very high plane he does not easily find anyone to share his pleasure; he offers entertainment but nobody accepts it. That gives him, in certain circumstances, a comically touching pathos; for he has no right to force pleasure on men. He pipes, but none will dance: can that be tragic?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If married couples did not live together, happy marriages would be more frequent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The happiness of man is: I will. The happiness of woman is: he wills."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Human, all too human."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To have to fight the instincts - that is the definition of decadence: as long as life is ascending, happiness equals instinct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: When one rows it is not the rowing which moves the ship: rowing is only a magical ceremony by means of which one compels a demon to move the ship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: God created woman. And boredom did indeed cease from that moment-but many other things ceased as well!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: If a man have a strong faith he can indulge in the luxury of skepticism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Good prose is written only face to face with poetry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Christianity is a metaphysics of the hangman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: At the bottom of all these noble races the beast of prey, the splendid blond beast, prowling about avidly in search of spoil and victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I am not bigoted enough for a system-and not even for my system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: History is nothing more than the belief in the senses, the belief in falsehood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is certainly not the least charm of a theory that it is refutable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The so called unconscious inferences can be traced back to the all-preserving memory, which presents us with parallel experiences and hence already knows the consequences of an action. It is not anticipation of the effects; rather, it is the feeling: identical causes, identical effects . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It was modesty that invented the word \"philosopher\" in Greece and left the magnificent overweening presumption in calling oneselfwise to the actors of the spirit--the modesty of such monsters of pride and sovereignty as Pythagoras, as Plato."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Yes, life is a woman!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Metaphysical world.- It is true, there could be a metaphysical world; the absolute possibility of it is hardly to be disputed. We behold all things through the human head and cannot cut off this head; while the question nonetheless remains what of the world would still be there if one had cut it off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Ten truths must you find during the day; otherwise will you seek truth during the night, and your soul will have been hungry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Books and drafts mean something quite different for different thinkers. One collects in a book the lights he was able to steal and carry home swiftly out of the rays of some insight that suddenly dawned on him, while another thinker offers us nothing but shadows - images in black and grey of what had built up in his soul the day before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: We must beware of one who is in a passion against us as of one who has once sought our life; for the fact that we still live is due to the absence of power to kill, - if looks could kill, we should have been dead long ago."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To go on vegetating in cowardly dependence on physicians and machinations, after the meaning of life, the right to life, has been lost, that ought to prompt a profound contempt in society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Many a peacock hides his peacock tail from all eyes--and calls it his pride."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In morality, man treats himself not as individuum but as dividuum."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There are no limits to God's compassion with Paradises over their one universally felt want: he immediately created other animals besides. God's first blunder: Man didn't find the animals amusing, - he dominated them and didn't even want to be an 'animal.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The criminal type is the type of the strong human being under unfavorable circumstances: a strong human being made sick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is an innocence in admiration; it is found in those to whom it has never yet occurred that they, too, might be admired some day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Existence really is an imperfect tense that never becomes a present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who laughs best today, will also laughs last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: No one dies of fatal truths nowadays: there are too many antidotes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Was that life? Well then, once more!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I teach you the Overman. Man is something which shall be surpassed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A few hours' mountain climbing make of a rogue and a saint two fairly equal creatures. Tiredness is the shortest path to equality and fraternity - and sleep finally adds to them liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is difficult to preach, this morality of mediocrity! It may never admit what it is and what it wants! It must speak about restraint and worth and duty and love of one's neighbor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is something laughable about the sight of authors who enjoy the rustling folds of long and involved sentences: they are trying to cover up their feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: O, what nowadays does science not conceal! How much, at least, it is meant to conceal!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The stronger becomes master of the weaker, in so far as the latter cannot assert its degree of independence here there is no mercy, no forbearance, even less a respect for \"laws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? From the beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest concern is mere appearance and beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: For it is only as an aesthetic phenomenon that existence and the world are eternally justified."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Time, space, and causality are only metaphors of knowledge, with which we explain things to ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Necessity is not an established fact, but an interpretation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The aphorism, the apothegm, in which I am the first among the Germans to be a master, are the forms of \u201ceternity\u201d; it is my ambition to say in ten sentences what everyone else says in a book \u2014 what everyone else does not say in a book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The consequences of our actions take hold of us, quite indifferent to our claim that meanwhile we have 'improved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus the man who is responsive to artistic stimuli reacts to the reality of dreams as does the philosopher to the reality of existence; he observes closely, and he enjoys his observation: for it is out of these images that he interprets life, out of these processes that he trains himself for life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is so little true that martyrs offer any support to the truth of a cause that I am inclined to deny that any martyr has ever had anything to do with the truth at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: At heart I am a warrior."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The Antichrist, Section 7"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The ascetic makes a necessity of virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: It is not enough to prove something, one also has to seduce or elevate people to it. That is why the man of knowledge should learns how to speak his wisdom: and often in such a way that it sounds like folly!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: All human life is sunk deep in untruth; the individual cannot pull it out of this well without growing profoundly annoyed with his entire past, without finding his present motives (like honor) senseless, and without opposing scorn and disdain to the passions that urge one on to the future and to the happiness in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The priest knows, as every one knows, that there is no longer any \"God,\" or any \"sinner,\" or any \"Saviour\" that \"free will\" and the \"moral order of the world\" are lies : serious reflection, the profound self conquest of the spirit, allow no man to pretend that he does not know it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly handshaking"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I desire that your conjectures should not reach beyond your creative will. Could you create a god? Then do not speak to me of any gods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: And many such good inventions are there, that they are like woman's breasts: useful at the same time, and pleasant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A thing can only live through a pious illusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: One can lie with the mouth, but with the accompanying grimace one nevertheless tells the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Under peaceful conditions a warlike man sets upon himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There is such a thing as a hatred of lies and dissimulation, which is the outcome of a delicate sense of humor; there is also the selfsame hatred but as the result of cowardice, in so far as falsehood is forbidden by Divine law. Too cowardly to lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To blaspheme the earth is now the most dreadful sin, and to rate the heart of the unknowable higher than the meaning of the earth!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The body is a big sagacity, a plurality with one sense, a war and a peace, a flock and a shepherd."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: When asses are needed.- You will never get the crowd to cry Hosanna until you ride into town on an ass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: On the heights it is warmer than people in the valley suppose, especially in winter. The thinker recognizes the full import of this simile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A nation usually renews its youth on a political sick-bed, and there finds again the spirit which it had gradually lost in seeking and maintaining power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: As soon as we are shown the existence of something old in a new thing, we are pacified."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Enjoyment and innocence are the most bashful things: both do not want to be sought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The great poet draws his creations only from out of his own reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The poet presents his thoughts festively, on the carriage of rhythm: usually because they could not walk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The man who sees little always sees less than there is to see; the man who hears badly always hears something more than there is to hear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He who is not a bird should not build his nest over abysses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: To the mean all becomes mean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A married philosopher belongs to comedy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Verily, I do not like them, the merciful who feel blessed in their pity: they are lacking too much in shame. If I must pity, at least I do not want it known; and if I do pity, it is preferably from a distance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: A good aphorism is too hard for the tooth of time, and is not worn away by all the centuries, although it serves as food for every epoch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Systems of morals are only a sign-language of the emotions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The Germans are incapable of any conception of greatness: proof Schumann."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I believe only in French culture and consider everything in Europe that calls itself 'culture' a misunderstanding, not to speak of German culture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Verily, I do not want to be like the ropemakers: They drag out their threads and always walk backwards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise \u2014"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: Perhaps man will rise ever higher as soon as he ceases to flow out into a god."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The hour-hand of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: And you tell me, friends, that there is no disputing taste and tasting? But all life is a dispute over taste and tasting!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: The higher its type, the more rarely a thing succeeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: He that writeth in blood and proverbs doth not want to be read, but learnt by heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: So live your life of obedience and of war! What matter about long life! What warrior wisheth to be spared!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Friedrich Nietzsche: There are the spiritually consumptive ones: hardly are they born when they begin to die, and long for doctrines of lassitude and renunciation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Do the right thing because it is right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Enlightenment is man's leaving his self-caused immaturity. Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. Such immaturity is self-caused if it is not caused by lack of intelligence, but by lack of determination and courage to use one's intelligence without being guided by another. Sapere Aude! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: It is never too late to become reasonable and wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Honesty is better than any policy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may differ, the will of all is therefore not that of all: which is contradictory and opposite to liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: It is through good education that all the good in the world arises."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Man's duty is to improve himself; to cultivate his mind; and, when he finds himself going astray, to bring the moral law to bear upon himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me... Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking; instead, new prejudices, just like the old ones they replace, will serve as a leash for the great unthinking mass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The death of dogma is the birth of morality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Beneficence is a duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation. But it is one of the worthiest inquiries to see how far our reason can go in the knowledge of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss, since they are given to it as problems by the nature of reason itself, but which it also cannot answer, since they transcend every capacity of human reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err \u2014 not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend \u2014 and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Human reason is by nature architectonic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The only thing that is good without qualification is a good will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as\nhaving reached morality - for that, much is lacking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: There is nothing higher than reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience"
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for taste, than a song of a human being which is produced in accordance with all the rules of music; for we very much sooner weary of the latter, if it is repeated often and at length. Here, however, we probably confuse our participation in the mirth of a little creature that we love, with the beauty of its song; for if this were exactly imitated by man (as sometimes the notes of the nightingale are) it would seem to our ear quite devoid of taste."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue"
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not borrow from the former without being observed, but were to proceed consistently, could only found a Demonology , which is incapable of any definite concept."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The desire which a man has for a woman is not directed towards her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman ; that she is a human being is of no concern to the man; only her sex is the object of his desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a statutory but as a moral religion, and as thus entering into the closest relation with reason so that, through reason, it was able of itself, without historical learning, to be spread at all times and among all peoples with the greatest trustworthiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place is felt throughout the world, the idea of a cosmopolitan right is not fantastical, high-flown or exaggerated notion. It is a complement to the unwritten code of the civil and international law, necessary for the public rights of mankind in general and thus for the realization of perpetual peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: There is needed, no doubt, a body of servants (ministerium) of the invisible church, but not officials (officiales), in other words, teachers but not dignitaries, because in the rational religion of every individual there does not yet exist a church as a universal union (omnitudo collectiva)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it acknowledges no limits to its projects. Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: . . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man reason and the freedom of the will which depends upon it is clear indication of her purpose. Man accordingly was not to be guided by instinct, not nurtured and instructed with ready-made knowledge; rather, he should bring forth everything out of his own resources."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with the radius of the Milky Way, than if we were to limit it to a ball an inch in diameter. All that is finite, whatever has limits and a definite relation to unity, is equally far removed from the infinite... Eternity is not sufficient to embrace the manifestations of the Supreme Being, if it is not combined with the infinitude of space."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics the various moral feelings of men, according to the differences in sex, age, education, and government, of races and climates, are to be employed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: What can I know? What ought I to do?  What may I hope?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: All our knowledge begins with the senses..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: I am myself by inclination an investigator."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: For how is it possible, says that acute man, that when a concept is given me, I can go beyond it and connect with it another which is not contained in it, in such a manner as if that latter necessarily belonged to the former?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space. Likewise, Plato abandoned the world of the senses because it posed so many hindrances for the understanding, and dared to go beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of pure understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to no law according to which any calculation could be made beforehand of their amount; and yet the yearly registers of these events in great countries prove that they go on with as much conformity to the laws of nature as the oscillations of the weather."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed that this alone could constitute the honor of mankind, and I had contempt for the ignorant rabble who know nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: All appearances have a determinate magnitude (the relation of which to another assignable). The infinite does not appear as such, likewise not the simple. For the appearances are included between two boundaries (points) and are thus themselves determinate magnitudes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Immanuel Kant: That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step, and thus to all appearance has reached its completion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: My object in life is to dethrone God and destroy capitalism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Accumulation of wealth at one pole is at the same time accumulation of misery, agony of toil, slavery, ignorance, brutality, mental degradation, at the opposite pole"
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Communism begins where atheism begins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: We have no compassion and we ask no compassion from you. When our turn comes, we shall not make excuses for the terror."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: There are, besides, eternal truths, such as Freedom, , etc., that are common to all states of society. But Communism abolishes eternal truths, it abolishes all religion, and all morality, instead of constituting them on a new basis; it therefore acts in contradiction to all past historical experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: All history is nothing but a continuous transformation of human nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: There must be something rotten in the very core of a social system which increases its wealth without diminishing its misery"
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: We know that violent measures against religion are nonsense; but this is an opinion: as socialism grows, religion will disappear. Its disappearance must be done by social development, in which education must play a part."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Social reforms are never carried out by the weakness of the strong; but always by the strength of the weak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: ...the Communists everywhere support every revolutionary movement against the existing social and political order of things... They openly declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The unity is brought about by force ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Taxes are the source of life for the bureaucracy, the army and the court, in short, for the whole apparatus of the executive power. Strong government and heavy taxes are identical."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: For the bureaucrat, the world is a mere object to be manipulated by him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Do not be deluded by the abstract word Freedom. Whose freedom? Not the freedom of one individual in relation to another, but freedom of Capital to crush the worker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Landlords, like all other men, love to reap where they never sowed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The existence of the state is inseparable from the existence of slavery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: History repeats itself, the first as tragedy, then as farce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Money plays the largest part in determining the course of history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Money is the alienated essence of man's work and existence; this essence dominates him and he worships it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The social principles of Christianity preach cowardice, self-contempt, abasement, submission, humility, in a word all the qualities of the canaille"
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The state is the executive committee of the ruling class."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Men make their own history, but they do not make it just as they please; they do not make it under circumstances chosen by themselves, but under circumstances directly encountered, given and transmitted from the past. The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Every provisional political set-up following a revolution requires a dictatorship, and an energetic dictatorship at that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Private property has made us so stupid and partial that an object is only ours when we have it, when it exists for us as capital ... Thus all the physical and intellectual senses have been replaced by ... the sense of having."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: To be radical is to grasp things by the root."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In the eyes of dialectical philosophy, nothing is established for all times, nothing is absolute or sacred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Nothing can have value without being an object of utility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Revolutions are the locomotives of history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Man makes religion, religion does not make man"
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: I am nothing but I must be everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In this sense, the theory of the Communists may be summed up in the single sentence: Abolition of private property. - Manifesto of the Communist Party"
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social being that determines their consciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Luxury is the opposite of the naturally necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In communist society, where nobody has one exclusive sphere of activity but each can become accomplished in any branch he wishes, society regulates the general production and thus makes it possible for me to do one thing today and another tomorrow, to hunt in the morning, fish in the afternoon, rear cattle in the evening, criticize after dinner, just as I have a mind, without ever becoming hunter, fisherman, shepherd or critic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The more of himself man attributes to God, the less he has left in himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Machines were, it may be said, the weapon employed by the capitalists to quell the revolt of specialized labor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Money degrades all the gods of man and converts them into commodities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: ...the French Revolution gave rise to ideas which led beyond the ideas of the entire old world order. The revolutionary movement which began in 1789... gave rise to the communist idea which Babeuf's friend Buonarroti re-introduced in France after the Revolution of 1830. This idea, consistently developed, is the idea of the new world order."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The philosophers have only interpreted the world, in various ways: the point, however, is to change it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: All I know is that I am not a Marxist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: If money is the bond binding me to human life, binding society to me, binding me and nature and man, is not money the bond of all bonds? Can it not dissolve and bind all ties? Is it not, therefore, the universal agent of separation?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Even an entire society, a nation, or all simultaneously existing societies taken together, are not owners of the earth. They are simply its possessors, its beneficiaries, and have to bequeath it in an improved state to succeeding generations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Only in community with others has each individual the means of cultivating his gifts in all directions; only in the community, therefore, is personal freedom possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Philosophy stands in the same relation to the study of the actual world as masturbation to sexual love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Communism... is the genuine resolution of the antagonism between man and nature and between man and man; it is the true resolution of the conflict between existence and essence, objectification and self-affirmation, freedom and necessity, individual and species. It is the riddle of history solved and knows itself as the solution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: ...the very cannibalism of the counterrevolution will convince the nations that there is only one way in which the murderous death agonies of the old society and the bloody birth throes of the new society can be shortened, simplified and concentrated, and that way is revolutionary terror."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The Communists have no need to introduce free love; it has existed almost from time immemorial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: We should not say that one man's hour is worth another man's hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most time's carcass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: A specter is haunting Europe - the specter of communism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In my free time I do differential and integral calculus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Between capitalist and communist society there lies the period of the revolutionary transformation of the one into the other. Corresponding to this is also a political transition period in which the state can be nothing but the revolutionary dictatorship of the proletariat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: A nation that enslaves another forges its own chains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The policy of Russia is changeless. Its methods, its tactics, its maneuvers may change, but the polar star of its policy, world domination, is a fixed star. About Russia"
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Christ represents originally: 1) men before God; 2) God for men; 3) men to man. Similarly, money represents originally, in accordance with the idea of money: 1) private property for private property; 2) society for private property; 3) private property for society. But Christ is alienated God and alienated man. God has value only insofar as he represents Christ, and man has value only insofar as he represents Christ. It is the same with money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: If this labourer were in possession of his own means of production, and was satisfied to live as a labourer, he need not work beyond beyond the time necessary for the reproduction of his means of subsistence, say 8 hours a day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Nothing is easier than to give Christian asceticism a Socialist tinge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Men make their own history"
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: You are horrified at our intending to do away with private property. But in your existing society, private property is already done away with for nine tenths of the population; its existence for the few is solely due to its non-existence in the hands of those nine tenths. You reproach us, therefore, with intending to do away with a form of property, the necessary condition for whose existence is the non-existence of any property for the immense majority of society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Hitherto, every form of society has been based ... on the antagonism of oppressing and oppressed classes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Force is the midwife of every old society pregnant with a new one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: One of the most difficult tasks confronting philosophers is to descend from the world of thought to the actual world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Labour is ... not the only source of material wealth, i.e, of the use-values it produces. As William Petty says, Labour is the father of material wealth, the earth is its mother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The worker puts his life into the object; but now it no longer belongs to him, it belongs to the object."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: One capitalist always kills many."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Money is therefore not only the object but also the fountainhead of greed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Capitalist agricultural production prevents the return to the soil of its elements consumed by man in the form of food and clothing; it therefore violates the conditions necessary to lasting fertility of the soil. By this action it destroys at the same time the health of the town labourer and the intellectual life of the rural labourer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Hegel remarks somewhere that all great, world-historical facts and personages occur, as it were, twice. He has forgotten to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: If the labourer consumes his disposable time for himself, he robs the capitalist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The more a ruling class is able to assimilate the most prominent men of a ruled class, the more solid and dangerous its rule."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The Communists disdain to conceal their views and aims. They open declare that their ends can be attained only by the forcible overthrow of all existing social conditions. Let the ruling classes tremble at a Communistic revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. WORKING MEN OF ALL COUNTRIES, UNITE!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: It's possible that I shall make an ass of myself. But in that case one can always get out of it with a little dialectic. I have, of course, so worded my proposition as to be right either way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The working men have no country. We cannot take away from them what they have not got"
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Music is the mirror of reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Religious distress is at the same time the expression of the real distress and also the protest against real distress. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, just as it is the spirit of the spiritless condition. It is the opium of the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e., the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Exchange value forms the substance of money, and exchange value is wealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: By means of the banking system the distribution of capital as a special business, a social function, is taken out of the hands of the private capitalists and usurers. But at the same time, banking and credit become the most effective means of driving captialist production beyond its own limits and one of the most effective vehicles of crises and swindle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Scientific truth is always paradox, if judged by everyday experience, which catches only the delusive appearance of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The more powerful the work, the more powerless the worker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Society is undergoing a silent revolution, which must be submitted to, and which takes no more notice of the human existences it breaks down than an earthquake regards the houses it subverts. The classes and the races, too weak to master the new conditions of life, must give way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: It is in this sense that Franklin says, \"war is robbery, commerce is generally cheating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Wages are determined by the bitter struggle between capitalist and worker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Wherever the want of clothing forced them to it, the human race made clothes for thousands of years, without a single man becoming a tailor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Is a fixed income not a good thing? Does not everyone love to count on a sure thing? Especially every petty-bourgeois, narrow-minded Frenchman? the 'ever needy' man?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In capitalist society spare time is acquired for one class by converting the whole life-time of the masses into labour-time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Language is as old as consciousness, language is practical, real consciousness that exists for other men as well, and only therefore does it also exist for me; language, like consciousness, only arises from the need, the necessity, of intercourse with other men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The entire so-called history of the world is nothing but the creation of man through human labor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The monopoly of capital becomes a fetter upon the mode of production, which has sprung up and flourished along with, and under it. Centralisation of the means of production and socialisation of labour at last reach a point where they become incompatible with there capitalist integument. This integument is burst asunder. The knell of capitalist private property sounds. The expropriators are expropriated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: What I did that was new was to prove that the existence of classes is only bound up with particular, historical phases in the development of production; that the class struggle necessarily leads to the dictatorship of the proletariat; and that dictatorship itself only constitutes the transition to the abolition of all classes and to a classless society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Darwin's book is very important and serves me as a basis in natural science for the class struggle in history. One has to put up with the crude English method of development, of course. Despite all deficiencies not only is the death-blow dealt here for the first time to 'teleology' in the natural sciences, but their rational meaning is empirically explained."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Russia is a name usurped by the Muscovites. They are not Slavs; they do not belong to the Indo-Germanic race at all, they are des intrus [intruders], who must be chased back across the Dnieper, etc."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: It has drowned the most heavenly ecstasies of religious fervour, of chivalrous enthusiasm, of Philistine sentimentalism, in the icy water of egotistical calculation. It has resolved personal worth into exchange value, and in place of numberless indefeasible chartered freedoms, it has set up that single, unconscionable freedom -- free trade. In one word, for exploitation, veiled by religious and political illusions, it has substituted naked, shameless, direct, brutal exploitation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Since the working-class lives from hand to mouth,it buys as long as it has the means to buy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Under private property, each tries to establish over the other an alien power, so as thereby to find satisfaction of his own selfish need. The increase in the quantity of objects is therefore accompanied by an extension of the realm of the alien powers to which man is subjected, and every new product represents a new potentiality of mutual swindling and mutual plundering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: There is only one effective antidote for mental suffering and that is physical pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In proportion as the bourgeoisie, i.e., capital, is developed, in the same proportion is the proletariat, the modern working class, developed - a class of labourers, who live only so long as they find work, and who find work only so long as their labour increases capital. These labourers, who must sell themselves piecemeal, are a commodity, like every other article of commerce, and are consequently exposed to all the vicissitudes of competition, to all the fluctuations of the market."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Since only what is material is perceptible, knowable, nothing is known of the existence of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Experience praises the most happy the one who made the most people happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: What the working man sells is not directly his Labor, but his Laboring Power, the temporary disposal of which he makes over to the capitalist. This is so much the case that I do not know whether by the English Law, but certainly by some Continental Laws, the maximum time is fixed for which a man is allowed to sell his laboring power. If allowed to do so for any indefinite period whatever, slavery would be immediately restored. Such a sale, if it comprised his lifetime, for example, would make him at once the lifelong slave of his employer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Ideas do not exist separately from language."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The national debt has given rise to joint stock companies, to dealings in negotiable effects of all kinds, and to agiotage , in a word to stock-exchange gambling and the modern bankocracy ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The capitalist mode of production and accumulation, and therefore capitalist private property, have for their fundamental condition the annihilation of self-earned private property: in other words, the expropriation of the labourer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: ...it is all the more clear what we have to accomplish at present: I am referring to ruthless criticism of all that exists, ruthless both in the sense of not being afraid of the results it arrives at and in the sense of being just as little afraid of conflict with the powers that be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The fact that labour is external to the worker, i.e., it does not belong to his intrinsic nature; that in his work, therefore he does not affirm himself but denies himself, does not feel content but unhappy, does not develop freely his physical and mental energy but mortifies his body and his mind. The worker therefore only feels himself outside his work, and in his work feels outside himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Each piece of money is a mere coin, or means of circulation, only so long as it actually circulates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: As the variable capital always stays in the hands of the capitalist in some form or other, it cannot be claimed in any way that it converts itself into revenue for anyone ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: It appears then, that capitalist production comprises conditions independent of good or bad will, conditions which permit the working-class to enjoy that relative prosperity only momentarily, and at that always only as the harbinger of a coming crisis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The product of mental labor - science - always stands far below its value, because the labor-time necessary to reproduce it has no relation at all to the labor-time required for its original production."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The more the division of labor and the application of machinery extend, the more does competition extend among the workers, the more do their wages shrink together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Beauty is the main positive form of the aesthetic assimilation of reality, in which aesthetic ideal finds it direct expression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Money does not arise by convention, any more than the state does. It arises out of exchange, and arises naturally out of exchange; it is a product of the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: I am a machine, condemned to devour them and then, throw them, in a changed form, on the dunghill of history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Just as the savage must wrestle with nature to satisfy his wants, to maintain and reproduce life, so must civilised man, and he must do so in all social formations and under all possible modes of production."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The bourgeoisie, wherever it has got the upper hand, has put an end to all feudal, patriarchal, idyllic relations. It has pitilessly torn asunder the motley of ties that bound man to his \"natural superiors,\" and left remaining no other nexus between man and man than naked self-interest, than callous \"cash payment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Although usury is itself a form of credit in its bourgeoisified form, the form adapted to capital , in its pre-bourgeois form it is rather the expression of the lack of credit ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: An increase in the productivity of labour means nothing more than that the same capital creates the same value with less labour, or that less labour creates the same product with more capital."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Work is external to the worker. . . . It is not part of his nature; consequently he does not fulfill himself in his work but denies himself. . . . The worker therefore feels himself at home only during his leisure time, whereas at work he feels homeless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Constant labor of one uniform kind destroys the intensity and flow of a man's animal spirits, which find recreation and delight in mere change of activity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The will of the capitalist is certainly to take as much as possible. What we have to do is not to talk about his will, but to enquire about his power, the limits of that power, and the character of those limits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In every revolution there intrude, at the side of its true agents, men of a different stamp; some of them survivors of and devotees to past revolutions, without insight into the present movement, but preserving popular influence by their known honesty and courage, or by the sheer force of tradition; others mere brawlers, who, by dint of repeating year after year the same set of stereotyped declamations against the government of the day, have sneaked into the reputation of revolutionists of the first water They are an unavoidable evil: with time they are shaken off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Bourgeois society ought long ago to have gone to the dogs through sheer idleness; for those of its members who work, acquire nothing, and those who acquire anything, do not work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: All that we want to do away with is the miserable character of this appropriation, under which the labourer lives merely to increase capital , and allowed to live only so far as the interest to the ruling class requires it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Parliamentary cretinism: that peculiar malady which since 1848 has raged all over the Continent, which holds those infected by it fast in an imaginary world and robs them of all sense, all memory, all understanding of the rude external world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The ideas of the ruling class are in every epoch the ruling ideas, i.e. the class which is the ruling material force of society, is at the same time its ruling intellectual force. The class which has the means of material production at its disposal, has control at the same time over the means of mental production, so that thereby, generally speaking, the ideas of those who lack the means of mental production are subject to it. The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships, the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: ...the first step in the revolution by the working class, is to raise the proletariat to the position of ruling class, to win the battle for democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Those dogs of democrats and liberal riff-raff will see that we're the only chaps who haven't been stultified by the ghastly period of peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In proportion therefore, as the repulsiveness of the work increases, the wage decreases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: No production without a need. But consumption reproduces the need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Labor produces marvels for the rich but it produces deprivation for the worker. It produces palaces, but hovels for the worker. It produces beauty, but deformity for the worker. It replaces labor by machines, but it throws one section of the workers back to barbaric labor, and it turns the remainder into machines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Without doubt, machinery has greatly increased the number of well-to-do idlers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In place of the old bourgeois society, with its classes and class antagonisms, we shall have an association in which the free development of each is the condition for the free development of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: All freed, fast-frozen relations, with their train of ancient and venerable prejudices and opinions, are swept away, all new-formed ones become antiquated before they can ossify. All that is solid melts into air, all that is holy is profaned, and man is at last compelled to face with sober senses, his real conditions of life, and his relations with his kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The true law of economics is chance, and we learned people arbitrarily seize on a few moments and establish them as laws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Capitalist production, therefore, develops technology, and the combining together of various processes into a social whole, only by sapping the original sources of all wealth - the soil and the labourer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Let the ruling classes tremble at a communist revolution. The proletarians have nothing to lose but their chains. They have a world to win. Workingmen of all countries, unite!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In proportion as the exploitation of one individual by another is put an end to, the exploitation of one nation by another will also be put an end to. In proportion as the antagonism between classes within the nation vanishes, the hostility of one nation to another will come to an end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In proportion as capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer, be his payment high or low, must grow worse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In order to arouse sympathy, the aristocracy was obliged to lose sight, apparently, of its own interests, and to formulate its indictment against the bourgeoisie in the interest of the exploited working class alone. Thus, the aristocracy took their revenge by singing lampoons on their new masters and whispering in his ears sinister prophesies of coming catastrophe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The bourgeoisie cannot exist without constantly revolutionizing the instruments of production, and thereby the relations of production, and with them the whole relations of society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Nothing has changed in Russias policy. Her methods, her tactics, her maneuvers may change, but the pole starworld dominationis immutable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In a word, the free trade system hastens the social revolution. It is in this revolutionary sense alone, gentlemen, that I vote in favor of free trade."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Merely quantitative differences,\r\nbeyond a certain point,\r\npass into qualitative changes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: No sooner is the exploitation of the labourer by the manufacturer, so far, at an end, that he receives his wages in cash, than he is set upon by the other portions of the bourgeoisie, the landlord, the shopkeeper, the pawnbroker, etc."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Value, therefore, does not stalk about with a label describing what it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In the United States of North America, every independent movement of the workers was paralysed so long as slavery disfigured a part of the Republic. Labour cannot emancipate itself in the white skin where in the black it is branded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The directing motive, the end and aim of capitalist production, is to extract the greatest possible amount of surplus value, and consequently to exploit labor-power to the greatest possible extent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The development of civilization and industry in general has always shown itself so active in the destruction of forests that everything that has been done for their conservation and production is completely insignificant in comparison."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In a higher phase of communist society... only then can the narrow horizon of bourgeois right be fully left behind and society inscribe on its banners: from each according to his ability, to each according to his needs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: All science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In the various stages of development which the struggle of working class against the bourgeoisie has to pass through, they always and everywhere represent the interests of the movement as a whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Titles of property, for instance railway shares, may change hands every day, and their owner may make a profit by their sale even in foreign countries, so that titles to property are exportable, although the railway itself is not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The circulation of capital realizes value , while living labour creates value ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Capitalist production does not exist at all without foreign commerce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The religious world is but a reflex of the real world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The better shaped his product, the more misshapen the worker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The object of art like every other product creates a public which is sensitive to art and enjoys beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The Communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: As a beast of toil an ox is fixed capital. If he is eaten, he no longer functions as an instrument of labour, nor as fixed capital either."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The English Established Church... will more readily pardon an attack on 38 of its 39 articles than on 1/39 of its income."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Under the ideal measure of values there lurks the hard cash."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The French need a thrashing. If the Prussians win, the centralization of state power will be useful for the centralization of the German working class. German predominance would also transfer the center of gravity of the workers' movement in Western Europe from France to Germany, and one has only to compare the movement in the two countries from 1866 until now to see that the German working class is superior to the French both theoretically and organizationally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: There is no royal road to science, and only those who do not dread the fatiguing climb of its steep paths have a chance of gaining its luminous summits. (Preface to the French edition)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In the domain of Political Economy, free scientific inquiry meets not merely the same enemies as in all other domains. The peculiar nature of the material it deals with, summons as foes into the field of battle the most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The first premise of all human history is, of course, the existence of living human individuals. Thus the first fact to be established is the physical organisation of these individuals and their consequent relation to the rest of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Be aware that the reward for labour, and quantity of labour, are quite disparate things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: As for slavery, there is no need for me to speak of its bad aspects. The only thing requiring explanation is the good side of slavery. I do not mean indirect slavery, the slavery of proletariat; I mean direct slavery, the slavery of the Blacks in Surinam, in Brazil, in the southern regions of North America. Direct slavery is as much the pivot upon which our present-day industrialism turns as are machinery, credit, etc. \u2026 Slavery is therefore an economic category of paramount importance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Price, taken by itself, is nothing but the monetary expression of value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: If emancipation of the working classes requires their fraternal conncurrence, how are they to fulfill that great mission with a foreign policy in pursuit of criminal designs, playing upon national prejudices, and squandering in piratical wars the people's blood and treasure? It was not the wisdom of the ruling classes, but the heroic resistance to their criminal folly by the working classes of England, that saved the west of Europe from plunging headlong into an infamous crusade for the propagation of slavery on the other side of the Atlantic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Nature is man's inorganic body -- that is to say, nature insofar as it is not the human body. Man lives from nature -- i.e., nature is his body -- and he must maintain a continuing dialogue with it is he is not to die. To say that man's physical and mental life is linked to nature simply means that nature is linked to itself, for man is a part of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: These numerous points at which money is withdrawn from circulation and accumulated in numerous individual hoards or potential money-capitals appears as so many obstacles to circulation, because they immobilise the money and deprive it of its capacity to circulate for a certain time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: ...it happens that society is saved as often as the circle of its ruling class is narrowed, as often as a more exclusive interest asserts itself over the general. Every demand for the most simple bourgeois financial reform, for the most ordinary liberalism, for the most commonplace republicanism, for the flattest democracy is forthwith punished as an assault upon society and is branded as Socialism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Surplus-value and the rate of surplus-value are... the invisible essence to be investigated, whereas the rate of profit and hence the form of surplus-value as profit are visible surface phenomena"
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Anyone wanting a new house picks one from among those built on speculation or still in process of construction. The builder no longer works for his customers but for the market."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Capital brings forth living offspring, or at the least, lays the golden eggs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Hence money may be dirt, although dirt is not money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: I am nothing and should be everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Every emancipation is a restoration of the human world and of human relationships to a man himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: As the chosen people bore in their features the sign manual of Jehovah , so the division of labour brands the manufacturing workman as the property of capital ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: There is something in human history like retribution; and it is a rule of historical retribution that its instrument be forged not by the offended, but by the offender himself. The first blow dealt to the French monarchy proceeded from the nobility, not from the peasants. The Indian revolt does not commence with the ryots, tortured, dishonoured and stripped naked by the British, but with the sepoys, clad, fed and petted, fatted and pampered by them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: By the aristocracy of finance must here be understood not merely the great loan promoters and speculators in public funds, in regard to whom it is immediately obvious that their interests coincide with the interests of the state power. All modern finance, the whole of the banking business, is interwoven in the closest fashion with public credit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Language comes into being, like consciousness, from the basic need, from the scantiest intercourse with other human."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Religion is the opiate of the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: It might otherwise appear paradoxical that money can be replaced by worthless paper; but that the slightest alloying of its metallic content depreciates it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Labor, being itself a commodity, is measured as such by the labor time needed to produce the labor-commodity. And what is needed to produce this labor-commodity? Just enough labor time to produce the objects indispensable to the constant maintenance of labor, that is, to keep the worker alive and in a condition to propagate his race. The natural price of labor is no other than the wage minimum."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The bureaucracy takes itself to be the ultimate purpose of the state"
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Both for the production on a mass scale of this communist consciousness, and for the success of the cause itself, the alteration of men on a mass scale is necessary, an alteration which can only take place in a practical movement, a revolution; this revolution is necessary, therefore, not only because the ruling class cannot be overthrown in any other way, but also because the class overthrowing it can only in a revolution succeed in ridding itself of all the muck of ages and become fitted to found society anew."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Since labour is motion, time is its natural measure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Gold is now money with reference to all other commodities only because it was previously, with reference to them, a simple commodity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In the bureaucracy, the identity of state interest and particular private aim is established in such a way that the state interest becomes a particular private aim over against other private aims."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: A man cannot become a child again, or he becomes childish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Usury lives in the pores of production, as it were, just as the gods of Epicurus lived in the space between the worlds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The individual produces an object and, by consuming it, returns to himself, but returns as a productive and self reproducing individual. Consumption thus appears as a moment of production."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Darwin has interested us in the history of nature's technology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Mankind always sets itself only such tasks as it can solve; since, looking at the matter more closely, we will always find that the task itself arises only when the material conditions necessary for its solution already exist or are at least in the process of formation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: So far no chemist has ever discovered exchange-value either in a pearl or a diamond."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Civil servants and priests, soldiers and ballet-dancers, schoolmasters and police constables, Greek museums and Gothic steeples, civil list and services list -- the common seed within which all these fabulous beings slumber in embryo is taxation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: A heavy progressive or graduated income tax."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Capital is money, capital is commodities. By virtue of it being value, it has acquired the occult ability to add value to itself. It brings forth living offspring, or, at the least, lays golden eggs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: England has to fulfill a double mission in India: one destructive, the other regenerating - the annihilation of old Asiatic society, and the laying the material foundations of Western society in Asia... When a great social revolution shall have mastered the results of the bourgeois epoch... and subjected them to the common control of the most advanced peoples, then only will human progress cease to resemble that hideous, pagan idol, who would not drink the nectar but from the skulls of the slain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The state is based on this contradiction. It is based on the contradiction between public and private life, between universal and particular interests. For this reason, the state must confine itself to formal, negative activities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Constant revolutionizing of production, uninterrupted disturbance of all social conditions, everlasting uncertainty and agitation distinguish the bourgeosis epoch from all earlier ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him.  We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: If production be capitalistic in form, so, too, will be reproduction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: An organised system of machines, to which motion is communicated by the transmitting mechanism from a central automation, is the most developed form of production by machinery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Religion is only the illusory sun which revolves round man as long as he does not revolve round himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: But there is a devil of a difference between barbarians who are fit by nature to be used for anything, and civilized people who apply them selves to everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Money appears as measure (in Homer, e.g. oxen) earlier than as medium of exchange, because in barter each commodity is still its own medium of exchange. But it cannot be its own or its own standard of comparison."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Moments are the elements of profit"
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: As, in religion, man is governed by the products of his own brain, so in capitalistic production, he is governed by the products of his own hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The English have all the material requisites for the revolution. What they lack is the spirit of generalization and revolutionary ardour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: To discover the various use of things is the work of history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Very well then; emancipation from usury and money, that is, from practical, real Judaism, would constitute the emancipation of our time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The bureaucracy is a circle from which no one can escape. Its hierarchy is a hierarchy of knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Political economy regards the proletarian like a horse, he must receive enough to enable him to work. It does not consider him, during the time when he is not working, as a human being. It leaves this to criminal law, doctors, religion, statistical tables, politics, and the beadle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In every stockjobbing swindle every one knows that some time or other the crash must come, but every one hopes that it may fall on the head of his neighbor, after he himself has caught the shower of gold and placed it in safety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The circulation of commodities is the original precondition of the circulation of money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Modern society, which, soon after its birth, pulled Plutus by the hair of his head from the bowels of the earth, greets gold as its Holy Grail, as the glittering incarnation of the very principle of its own life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Free education for all children in public schools... Combination of education with industrial production"
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The discovery of gold and silver in America, the extirpation, enslavement and entombment in mines of the aboriginal population, the turning of Africa into a warren for the commercial hunting of black-skins, signalised the rosy dawn of the era of capitalist production."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: It is a bad thing to perform menial duties even for the sake of freedom; to fight with pinpricks, instead of with clubs. I have become tired of hypocrisy, stupidity, gross arbitrariness, and of our bowing and scraping, dodging, and hair-splitting over words. Consequently, the government has given me back my freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: A spectre is haunting Europe-the spectre of Communism. All the Powers of old Europe have entered into holy alliance to exorcise this spectre: Pope and Czar, Metternich and Guizot, French Radicals and German police-spies. Where is the Party in opposition that has not been decried as Communistic by its opponents in power? Where the Opposition that has not hurled back the branding reproach of Communism, against the more advanced opposition parties, as well as against its reactionary adversaries?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In the national struggles of the proletarians of the different countries, they point out and bring to the front the common interest of the entire proletariat, independently of all nationality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The economic concept of value does not occur in antiquity ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Our epoch, the epoch of the bourgeoisie, posses however, this distinctive feature; it has simplified the class antagonisms. Society as a whole is more and more splitting up into two great hostile camps, into two great classes directly facing each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: History calls those men the greatest who have ennobled themselves by working for the common good; experience acclaims as happiest the man who has made the greatest number of people happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: But capitalist production begets,with the inexorability of a law of Nature,its own negation. It is the negation of negation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: ...the realm of freedom does not commence until the point is passed where labor under the compulsion of necessity and of external utility is required."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: [The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [ Dichter ], but never a perfected, a truly great man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Modern bourgeois society with its relations of production, of exchange, and of property, a society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer, who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: A great deal of capital, which appears to-day in the United States without any certificate of birth, was yesterday, in England, the capitalised blood of children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The values of commodities are directly as the times of labor employed in their production, and are inversely as the productive powers of the labor employed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: A commodity has a value because it is a crystallization of social labor. The greatness of its value, or its relative value, depends upon the greater or less amount of that social substance contained in it; that is to say, on the relative mass of labor necessary for its production."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: If I negate powdered wigs, I am still left with unpowdered wigs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The aggregate capital appears as the capital stock of all individual capitalists combined. This joint stock company has in common with many other stock companies that everyone knows what he puts in, but not what he will get out of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: A circuit performed by a capital and meant to be a periodical process, not an individual act, is called its turnover. The duration of this turnover is determined by the sum of its time of production and its time of circulation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The burgeoisie, by the rapid improvement of all instruments of production, by the immensely facilitated means of communication, draws all nations into civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: I pre-suppose, of course, a reader who is willing to learn something new and therefore to think for himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The proletarians have nothing to loose but their chains. They have a world to win."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The labour-power is a commodity , not capital, in the hands of the labourer, and it constitutes for him a revenue so long as he can continuously repeat its sale; it functions as capital after its sale, in the hands of the capitalist, during the process of production itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: As individuals express their life, so they are. What they are, therefore, coincides with their production, both with what they produce and with how they produce. The nature of individuals thus depends on the material conditions determining their production."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The need of a constantly expanding market for its products chases the bourgeoisie over the entire surface of the globe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: But, you will say, we destroy the most hallowed of relations, when we replace home education by social.... The Communists have not invented the intervention of society in education; they do but seek to alter the character of that intervention, and to rescue education from the influence of the ruling class."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The animal is one with its life activity. It does not distinguish the activity from itself. It is its activity. But man makes hislife activity itself an object of his will and consciousness. He has a conscious life activity. It is not a determination with which he is completely identified."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: I am greatly pleased with the public, authentic isolation in which we two, you and I, now find ourselves. It is wholly in accord with our attitude and our principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Every one knows that there are no real forests in England.The deer in the parks of the great are demurely domestic cattle, fat as London alderman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: When people speak of ideas that revolutionize society, they do but express the fact that within the old society, the elements of a new one have been created, and that the dissolution of the old ideas keeps even pace with the dissolution of the old conditions of existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: In reality, the labourer belongs to capital before he has sold himself to capital."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: Every beginning is difficult, holds in all sciences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: So long as the product is sold, everything is taking its regular course from the standpoint of the capitalist producer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The capitalist cannot store labour-power in warehouses after he has bought it, as he may do with the raw material."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: The Tories in England had long imagined that they were enthusiastic about the monarchy, the church and beauties of the old English Constitution, until the day of danger wrung from them the confession that they are enthusiastic only about rent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Karl Marx: A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction of her cells. But what distinguishes the worst architect from the best of bees is this, that the architect raises his structure in imagination before he erects it in reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The worst of all deceptions is self-deception."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Self conquest is the greatest of victories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: There is nothing so delightful as the hearing, or the speaking of truth. For this reason, there is no conversation so agreeable as that of the man of integrity, who hears without any intention to betray, and speaks without any intention to deceive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: How can you prove whether at this moment we are sleeping, and all our thoughts are a dream; or whether we are awake, and talking to one another in the waking state?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: If the head and the body are to be well, you must begin by curing the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Pleasure is the greatest incentive to evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: When man is not properly trained, he is the most savage animal on the face of the globe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: A good decision is based on knowledge, and not on numbers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The philosopher is in love with truth, that is, not with the changing world of sensation, which is the object of opinion, but with the unchanging reality which is the object of knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: God is truth and light his shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on Simplicity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: We see many instances of cities going down like sinking ships to their destruction. There have been such wrecks in the past and there surely will be others in the future, caused by the wickedness of captains and crews alike. For these are guilty men, whose sin is supreme ignorance of what matters most."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Tyranny naturally arises out of democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The wrong use of a thing is far worse than the non-use."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. ... This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Any man may easily do harm, but not every man can do good to another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: A tyrant... is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: A man's duty is to find out where the truth is, or if he cannot, at least to take the best possible human doctrine and the hardest to disprove, and to ride on this like a raft over the waters of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The first step in learning is the destruction of human conceit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: If a man neglects education, he walks lame to the end of his life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: There should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor again excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: He who is not a good servant will not be a good master."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: When a beautiful soul harmonizes with a beautiful form, and the two are cast in one mould, that will be the fairest of sights to him who has the eye to contemplate the vision."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Music and rhythm find their way into the secret places of the soul"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Atheism is a disease of the soul before it becomes an error of understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: You cannot go into the same water twice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: I prefer nothing, unless it is true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Courage is a kind of salvation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Everything changes and nothing remains still."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Virtue is voluntary, vice involuntary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Let brother help brother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: When I hear a man discoursing of virtue, or of any sort of wisdom, who is a true man and worthy of his theme, I am delighted beyond measure: and I compare the man and his words, and note the harmony and correspondence of them. And such an one I deem to be the true musician, having in himself a fairer harmony than that of the lyre."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Better to be unborn than untaught, for ignorance is the root of all misfortune."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: For neither does wealth bring honour to the owner, if he be a coward; of such a one the wealth belongs to another, and not to himself. Nor does beauty and strength of body, when dwelling in a base and cowardly man, appear comely, but the reverse of comely, making the possessor more conspicuous, and manifesting forth his cowardice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: No one can escape his destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: One trait in the philosopher's character we can assume is his love of the knowledge that reveals eternal reality, the realm unaffected by change and decay. He is in love with the whole of that reality, and will not willingly be deprived even of the most insignificant fragment of it - just like the lovers and men of ambition we described earlier on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Fly from the company of the wicked--fly and turn not back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: No evil can happen to a good man either in life or after death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: To be at once exceedingly wealthy and good is impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: We do not learn; and what we call learning is only a process of recollection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Not to help justice in her need would be an impiety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: To a good man nothing that happens is evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Geometry will draw the soul toward truth and create the spirit of philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: I shall assume that your silence gives consent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Friends should have all things in common."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: He whom Love touches not walks in darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: There is also a third kind of madness, which is possession by the Muses, enters into a delicate and virgin soul, and there inspiring frenzy, awakens lyric... But he, who, not being inspired and having no touch of madness in his soul, comes to the door and thinks he will get into the temple by the help of art - he, I say, and his poetry are not admitted; the sane man is nowhere at all when he enters into rivalry with the madman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: I would fain grow old learning many things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The more the pleasures of the body fade away, the greater to me is the pleasure and charm of conversation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The soul of man is immortal and imperishable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: There is truth in wine and children"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Many men are loved by their enemies, and hated by their friends, and are the friends of their enemies, and the enemies of their friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Education and admonition commence in the first years of childhood, and last to the very end of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Let him know how to choose the mean and avoid the extremes on either side, as far as possible. . . . For this is the way of happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: A man who really fights for justice must lead a private, not a public, life if he is to survive for even a short time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: One man cannot practice many arts with success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: We will be better men, braver and less idle, if we believe that one must search for the things one does not know, rather than if we believe that it is not possible to find out what we do not know and that we must not look for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Physical excellence does not of itself produce a good mind and character: on the other hand, excellence of mind and character will make the best of the physique it is given."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Let every man remind their descendants that they also are soldiers who must not desert the ranks of their ancestors, or from cowardice fall behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The unexamined life is not worth living for a human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Excellent things are rare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The highest reach of injustice is to be deemed just when you are not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Let men of all ranks whether they are successful, or unsuccessful, whether they triumph or not; let them do their duty, and rest satisfied."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: And what, Socrates, is the food of the soul? Surely, I said, knowledge is the food of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The cause of all sins in every case lies in the person's excessive love of self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying, either at home or abroad; they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: All the gold which is under or upon the earth is not enough to give in exchange for virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: To escape from evil we must be made as far as possible like God; and the resemblance consists in becoming just and holy and wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Come then, and let us pass a leisure hour in storytelling, and our story shall be the education of our heroes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Any one who has common sense will remember that the bewilderments of the eyes are of two kinds, and arise from two causes, either from coming out of the light or from going into the light, which is true of the mind's eye, quite as much as of the bodily eye; and he who remembers this when he sees any one whose vision is perplexed and weak, will not be too ready to laugh; he will first ask whether that soul of man has come out of the brighter light, and is unable to see because unaccustomed to the dark, or having turned from darkness to the day is dazzled by excess of light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: True opinions are a fine thing and do all sorts of good so long as they stay in their place; but they will not stay long. They run away from a man's mind, so they are not worth much until you tether them by working out the reason. Once they are tied down, they become knowledge, and are stable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: There is no harm in repeating a good thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Wealth and poverty; one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: ...for the object of education is to teach us to love beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Abstinence is the surety of temperance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The power to learn is present in everyone's soul, and the instrument with which each learns is like an eye that cannot be turned around from darkness to light without turning the whole body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: God is not the author of all things, but of good only."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: No one is so cowardly that Love could not inspire him to heroism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: That a guardian should require another guardian to take care of him is ridiculous indeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise without really being wise, for it is to think that we know what we do not know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: ... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Justice in the individual is now defined analogously to justice in the state. The individual is wise and brave in virtue of his reason and  spirit  respectively: he is disciplined when  spirit  and appetite are in proper subordination to reason. He is just in virtue of the harmony which exists when all three elements of the mind perform their proper function and so achieve their proper fulfillment; he is unjust when no such harmony exists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: No human thing is of serious importance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: States will never be happy until \n rulers become philosophers or \n philosophers become rulers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: And so, when a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The beginning is the most important part of any work, especially in the case of a young and tender thing; for that is the time at which the character is being formed and the desired impression is more readily taken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Let praise be given equally to women as well as men who have been distinguished in virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The beginning is half of the whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: A fit of laughter, which has been indulged to excess, almost always produces a violent reaction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: We are bound to our bodies like an oyster to its shell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: To do wrong is the greatest of evils."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: He who steals a little steals with the same wish as he who steals much, but with less power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Truth is the beginning of every good thing, both in heaven and\r\non earth; and he who would be blessed and happy should be from\r\nthe first a partaker of truth, for then he can be trusted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The community which has neither poverty nor riches will always have the noblest principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: No intelligent man will ever be so bold as to put into language those things which his reason has contemplated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Necessity, who is the mother of our invention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: You can remember, a single deluge only, but there were many previous ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Beauty is a natural superiority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: As the government is, such will be the man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Either death is a state of nothingness and utter consciousness, or, as men say, there is a change and migration of the soul from this world to another. Now if death be of such a nature, I say that to die is to gain; for eternity is then only a single night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Knowledge is true opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: . . . you did not seem to me over-fond of money. And this is the way in general with those who have not made it themselves, while those who have are twice as fond of it as anyone else. For just as poets are fond of their own poems, and fathers of their own children, so money-makers become devoted to money, not only because, like other people, they find it useful, but because it's their own creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: No one knows whether death is really the greatest blessing a man can have, but they fear it is the greatest curse, as if they knew well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The soul of him who has education is whole and perfect and escapes the worst disease, but, if a man's education be neglected, he walks lamely through life and returns good for nothing to the world below."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The form of law which I propose would be as follows: In a state which is desirous of being saved from the greatest of all plagues-not faction, but rather distraction-there should exist among the citizens neither extreme poverty nor, again, excessive wealth, for both are productive of great evil . . . Now the legislator should determine what is to be the limit of poverty or of wealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Until philosophers rule as kings or those who are now called kings and leading men genuinely and adequately philosophise, that is, until political power and philosophy entirely coincide, while the many natures who at present pursue either one exclusively are forcibly prevented from doing so, cities will have no rest from evils,... nor, I think, will the human race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: And among the other honours and rewards our young men can win for distinguished service in war and in other activities, will be more frequent opportunities to sleep with a woman; this will give us a pretext for ensuring that most of our children are born of that parent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Even the gods love jokes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Herein is the evil of ignorance, that he who is neither good nor wise is nevertheless satisfied with himself: he had no desire for that of which he feels no want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Art has no end but its own perfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Love: a grave mental disease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The only real ill-doing is the deprivation of knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: ... the good are not willing to rule either for the sake of money or of honor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Again, truth should be highly valued; if, as we were saying, a lie is useless to the gods, and useful only as a medicine to men, then the use of such medicines should be restricted to physicians; private individuals have no business with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Through obedience learn to command."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The judge should not be young, he should have learned to know evil, not from his own soul, but from late and long observation of the nature of evil in others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: There's a victory and defeat-the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats-which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: That which is apprehended by intelligence and reason is always in the same state; but that which is conceived by opinion with the help of sensation and without reason, is always in a process of becoming and perishing and never really is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Love is a madness produced by an unsatisfiable rational desire to understand the ultimate truth about the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Then the lover, who is true and no counterfeit, must of necessity be loved by his love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: For all good and evil, whether in the body or in human nature, originates ... in the soul, and overflows from thence, as from the head into the eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Nothing is more unworthy of a wise man, or ought to trouble him more, than to have allowed more time for trifling, and useless things, than they deserve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: I am not given to finding fault, for there are innumerable fools."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The bees can abide no drones amongst them; but as soon as they begin to be idle, they kill them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The State which we have founded must possess the four cardinal virtues of wisdom, courage, discipline and justice ... Justice is the principle which has in fact been followed throughout, the principle of one man one job, of  minding one s own business , in the sense of doing the job for which one is naturally fitted and not interfering with other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Wonder [said Socrates] is very much the affection of a philosopher; for there is no other beginning of philosophy than this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Men of sound sense have Law for their god, but men without sense Pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the Gods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Do you, like a skilful weigher, put into the balance the pleasures and the pains, near and distant, and weigh them, and then say which outweighs the other? If you weigh pleasures against pleasures, you of course take the more and greater; or if you weigh pains against pains, then you choose that course of action in which the painful is exceeded by the pleasant, whether the distant by the near or the near by the distant; and you avoid that course of action in which the pleasant is exceeded by the painful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Those who reproach injustice do so because they are afraid not of doing it but of suffering it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: I am about to die, and that is the hour in which men are gifted with prophetic power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The most important stage of any enterprise is the beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: When anything is in the presence of evil, but is not as yet evil, the presence of good arouses the desire of good in that thing; but the presence of evil, which makes a thing evil, takes away the desire and friendship of the good; for that which was once both good and evil has now become evil only, and the good has no friendship with evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Many are the thyrsus-bearers, but few are the mystics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: All who do evil and dishonorable things do them against their will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: O youth or young man, who fancy that you are neglected by the gods, know that if you become worse, you shall go to worse souls, or if better to the better...  In every succession of life and death, you will do and suffer what like may fitly suffer at the hands of like.  This is the justice of heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Laws are partly formed for the sake of good men, in order to instruct them how they may live on friendly terms with one another, and partly for the sake of those who refuse to be instructed, whose spirit cannot be subdued, or softened, or hindered from plunging into evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: For every man who has learned to fight in arms will desire to learn the proper arrangement of an army, which is the sequel of the lesson."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: I shall never alter my ways, not even if I have to die many times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Geometry draws the soul towards truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Then not only an old man, but also a drunkard, becomes a second time a child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: ...in every man there is an eye of the soul, which...is more precious far than ten thousand bodily eyes, for by it alone is truth seen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The honour of parents is a fair and noble treasure to their posterity, but to have the use of a treasure of wealth and honour, and to leave none to your successors, because you have neither money nor reputation of your own, is alike base and dishonourable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Love is the joy of the good, the wonder of the wise, the amazement of the gods; desired by those who have no part in him, and precious to those who have the better part in him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: There is far greater peril in buying knowledge than in buying meat and drink."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Desires are only the lack of something: and those who have the greatest desires are in a worse condition than those who have none, or very slight ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Love is of something, and that which love desires is not that which love is or has; for no man desires that which he is or has. And love is of the beautiful, and therefore has not the beautiful. And the beautiful is the good, and therefore, in wanting and desiring the beautiful, love also wants and desires the good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Let us describe the education of our men. What then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Let parents bequeath to their children not riches, but the spirit of reverence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: But he who has been earnest in the love of knowledge and of true wisdom, and has exercised his intellect more than any other part of him, must have thoughts immortal and divine. If he attain truth, and in so far as human nature is capable of sharing in immortality, he must altogether be immortal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: We must now examine whether just people also live better and are happier than unjust ones. I think it's clear already that this is so, but we must look into it further, since the argument concerns no ordinary topic, but the way we ought to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: But at three, four, five, and even six years the childish nature will require sports; now is the time to get rid of self-will in him, punishing him, but not so as to disgrace him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: If you are wise, all men will be your friends and kindred, for you will be useful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: If a man can be properly said to love something, it must be clear that he feels affection for it as a whole, and does not love part of it to the exclusion of the rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Whereas the truth is that the State in which the rulers are most reluctant to govern is always the best and most quietly governed, and the State in which they are most eager, the worst."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: No law or ordinance is mightier than understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away. . . . A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons hiom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Any city, however small, is in fact divided into two, one the city of the poor, the other of the rich; these are at war with one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: And we must beg Homer and the other poets not to be angry if we strike out these and similar passages, not because they are unpoetical, or unattractive to the popular ear, but because the greater the poetical charm in them, the less are they meet for the ears of boys and men who are meant to be free, and who should fear slavery more than death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Love is born into every human being; it calls back the halves of our original nature together; it tries to make one out of two and heal the wound of human nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Of all the things of a man's soul which he has within him, justice is the greatest good and injustice the greatest evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: They deem him their worst enemy who tells them the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: To the rulers of the state then, if to any, it belongs of right to use falsehood, to deceive either enemies or their own citizens, for the good of the state: and no one else may meddle with this privilege."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: All men are by nature equal, made all of the same earth by one Workman; and however we deceive ourselves, as dear unto God is the poor peasant as the mighty prince."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: As the proverb says, \"a good beginning is half the business\" and \"to have begun well\" is praised by all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: He, O men, is the wisest, who, like Socrates, knows that his wisdom is in truth worth nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: If you are willing to reflect on the courage and moderation of other people, you will find them strange."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: For this feeling of wonder shows that you are a philosopher, since wonder is the only beginning of philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: .. we shall not be properly educated ourselves, nor will the guardians whom we are training, until we can recognise the qualities of discipline, courage, generosity, greatness of mind, and others akin to them, as well as their opposites in all their manifestations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Virtue is relative to the actions and ages of each of us in all that we do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Everything that deceives may be said to enchant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Are these things good for any other reason except that they end in pleasure, and get rid of and avert pain? Are you looking to any other standard but pleasure and pain when you call them good?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: God ever geometrizes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: If there were only some way of contriving that a state or an army should be made up of lovers and their beloved, they would be the very best governors of their own city, abstaining from all dishonour, and emulating one another in honour; and when fighting at each other's side, although a mere handful, they would overcome the world. For what lover would not choose rather to be seen by all mankind than by his beloved, either when abandoning his post or throwing away his arms? He would be ready to die a thousand deaths rather than endure this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Those having torches will pass them on to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: No man's nature is able to know what is best for the social state of man; or, knowing, always able to do what is best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: As to the artists, do we not know that he only of them whom love inspires has the light of fame?-he whom love touches not walks in darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: He whom loves touches not walks in darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: I do believe that there are gods, and in a far higher sense than that in which any of my accusers believe in them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: A drunkard is unprofitable for any kind of good service."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: At the Egyptian city of Naucratis there was a famous old god whose name was Theuth; the bird which is called the Ibis was sacred to him, and he was the inventor of many arts, such as arithmetic and calculation and geometry and astronomy and draughts and dice, but his great discovery was the use of letters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: I must yield to you, for you are irresistible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: You cannot conceive the many without the one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: I don't know anything that gives me greater pleasure, or profit either, than talking or listening to philosophy. But when it comes to ordinary conversation, such as the stuff you talk about financiers and the money market, well, I find it pretty tiresome personally, and I feel sorry that my friends should think they're being very busy when they're really doing absolutely nothing. Of course, I know your idea of me: you think I'm just a poor unfortunate, and I shouldn't wonder if your right. But then I dont THINK that you're unfortunate - I know you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait, and not take his own life until God summons him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: ...there are some who are naturally fitted for philosophy and political leadership, while the rest should follow their lead and let philosophy alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Wealth is well known to be a great comforter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Worthy of honor is he who does no injustice, and more than twofold honor, if he not only does no injustice himself, but hinders others from doing any."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less on the same amount of income."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: We ought to esteem it of the greatest importance that the fictions which children first hear should be adapted in the most perfect manner to the promotion of virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: And may we not say, Adeimantus, that the most gifted minds, when they are ill- educated, become the worst?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The most important part of education is right training in the nursery. The soul of the child in his play should be trained to that sort of excellence in which, when he grows to manhood, he will have to be perfected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The science [geometry] is pursued for the sake of the knowledge of what eternally exists, and not of what comes for a moment into existence, and then perishes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: It is impossible to conceive of many without one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The power of the Good has taken refuge in the nature of the Beautiful"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Is it not the excess and greed of this and the neglect of all other things that revolutionizes this constitution too and prepares the way for the necessity of a dictatorship?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: And what shall he suffer who slays him who of all men, as they say, is his own best friend? I mean the suicide, who deprives himself by violence of his appointed share of life. Not because the law of the state requires him. Nor yet under the compulsion of some painful and inevitable misfortune which has come upon him. Nor because he has had to suffer from irremediable and intolerable shame, but who from sloth or want of manliness imposes upon himself an unjust penalty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Those who have knowledge are more confident than those who have no knowledge, and they are more confident after they have learned than before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: There are some whom the applause of the multitude has deluded into the belief that they are really statesmen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: No trace of slavery ought to mix with the studies of the freeborn man. No study, pursued under compulsion, remains rooted in the memory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: We must infer that all things are produced more plentifully and easily and of a better quality when one man does one thing which is natural to him and does it at the right time, and leaves other things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: They would be subject to no one, neither to lawful ruler nor to the reign of law, but would be altogether and absolutely free. That is the way they got their tyrants, for either servitude or freedom, when it goes to extremes, is an utter bane, while either in due measure is altogether a boon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: He who gives himself to a lover because he is a good man, and in the hope that he will be improved by his company, shows himself to be virtuous, even though the object of his affection turn out to be a villain, and to have no virtue; and if he is deceived he has committed a noble error. For he has proved that for his part he will do anything for anybody with a view to virtue and improvement, than which there can be nothing nobler."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Few men are so obstinate in their atheism, that a pressing danger will not compel them to acknowledgment of a divine power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all; but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia.This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits, and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Freedom in a democracy is the glory of the state, and, therefore, in a democracy only will the freeman of nature deign to dwell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Only a philosopher's mind grows wings, since its memory always keeps it as close as possible to those realities by being close to which the gods are divine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: And all knowledge, when separated from justice and virtue, is seen to be cunning and not wisdom; wherefore make this your first and last and constant and all-absorbing aim, to exceed, if possible, not only us but all your ancestors in virtue; and know that to excel you in virtue only brings us shame, but that to be excelled by you is a source of happiness to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Remember how in that communion only, beholding beauty with the eye of the mind, he will be enabled to bring forth, not images of beauty, but realities (for he has hold not of an image but of a reality), and bringing forth and nourishing true virtue to become the friend of God and be immortal, if mortal man may."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: ...that not life, but a good life, is to be chiefly valued."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Philosophy is the highest music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: A good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and his affairs are not neglected by the gods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: ...the Gods too love a joke."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: I should not like to say ... that any kind of knowledge is not to be learned; for all knowledge appears to be a good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Man never legislates,but destinies and accidents,happening in all sorts of ways,legislate in all sorts of ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: 'That is the story. Do you think there is any way of making them believe it?'\r\n' Not in the first generation', he said, 'but you might succeed with the second and later generations.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: For the man who makes everything that leads to happiness, or near to it, to depend upon himself, and not upon other men, on whose good or evil actions his own doings are compelled to hinge,--such a one, I say, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation; this is the man of manly character and of wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: All things will be produced in superior quantity and quality, and with greater ease, when each man works at a single occupation, in accordance with his natural gifts, and at the right moment, without meddling with anything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: And a democracy, I suppose, comes into being when the poor, winning the victory, put to death some of the other party, drive out others, and grant the rest of the citizens an equal share in both citizenship and offices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The fear of death is indeed the pretence of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: It's like this, I think: the excellence of a good body doesn't make the soul good, but the other way around: the excellence of a good soul makes the body as good as it can be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Entire ignorance is not so terrible or extreme an evil, and is far from being the greatest of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: I do not think it is permitted that a better man be harmed by a worse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: I was stupid enough to think that we ought to speak the truth about each person eulogised, and to make this the foundation, and from these truths to choose the most beautiful things and arrange them in the most elegant way; and I was quite proud to think how well I should speak, because I believed that I knew the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Everywhere there is one principle of justice, which is the interest of the stronger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Until philosophers are kings, or the kings and princes of this world have the spirit and power of philosophy, and political greatness and wisdom meet in one, and those commoner natures who pursue either to the exclusion of the other are compelled to stand aside, cities will never have rest from their evils - no, nor the human race, as I believe - and then only will this our State have a possibility of life and behold the light of day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: In particular I may mention Sophocles the poet, who was once asked in my presence, How do you feel about love, Sophocles? are you still capable of it? to which he replied, Hush! if you please: to my great delight I have escaped from it, and feel as if I had escaped from a frantic and savage master. I thought then, as I do now, that he spoke wisely. For unquestionably old age brings us profound repose and freedom from this and other passions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: A delightful form of government, anarchic and motley, assigning a kind of equality indiscriminately to equals and unequals alike!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: For as there are misanthropists, or haters of men, there are also misologists, or haters of ideas, and both spring from the same cause, which is ignorance of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: For the poets tell us, don't they, that the melodies they bring us are gathered from rills that run with honey, out of glens and gardens of the Muses, and they bring them as bees do honey, flying like the bees? And what they say is true, for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him. So long as he has this in his possession, no man is able to make poetry or to chant in prophecy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: [M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: ... for this discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners' souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The orators and the despots have the least power in their cities ... since they do nothing that they wish to do, practically speaking, though they do whatever they think to be best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: I would have you imagine, then, that there exists in the mind of man a block of wax... and that we remember and know what is imprinted as long as the image lasts; but when the image is effaced, or cannot be taken, then we forget or do not know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: What is better adapted than the festive use of wine in the first place to test and in the second place to train the character of a man, if care be taken in the use of it? What is there cheaper or more innocent?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Putting the shoe on the wrong foot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: For the poet is a light winged and holy thing, and there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and is out of his senses and the mind is no longer with him. When he has not attained this state he is powerless and unable to utter his oracles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Love is simply the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: God is a geometrician."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: It is as expedient that a wicked man be punished as that a sick man be cured by a physician; for all chastisement is a kind of medicine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Thus rhetoric, it seems, is a producer of persuasion for belief, not for instruction in the matter of right and wrong ... And so the rhetorician's business is not to instruct a law court or a public meeting in matters of right and wrong, but only to make them believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Those who practice philosophy in the right way are in training for dying and they fear death least of all men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: That man is wisest who, like Socrates, realizes that his wisdom is worthless"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Can any man be courageous who has the fear of death in him?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: When a Benefit is wrongly conferred, the author of the Benefit may often be said to injure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Everything desires not like but unlike: for example, the dry desires the moist, the cold the hot, the bitter the sweet, the sharp the blunt, the void the full, the full the void, and so of all other things; for the opposite is the food of the opposite, whereas like receives like receives nothing from like."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: For the rhapsode ought to interpret the mind of the poet to his hearers, but how can he interpret him well unless he knows what he means?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: When a person supposes that he knows, and does not know; this appears to be the great source of all the errors of the intellect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: When a person meets the half that is his very own, whatever his orientation, whether it's to young men or not, then something wonderful happens: the two are struck from their senses by love, by a sense of belonging to one another, and by desire, and they don't want to be separated from one another, not even for a moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: To begin with the wine jar in learning the potter's art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: My good friend, you are a citizen of Athens, a city which is very great and very famous for its wisdom and power - are you not ashamed of caring so much for the making of money and for fame and prestige, when you neither think nor care about wisdom and truth and the improvement of your soul?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Arguments, like men, are often pretenders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: SOCRATES: Perhaps we may be wrong; if so, you in your wisdom should convince us that we are mistaken in preferring justice to injustice. THRASYMACHUS: And how am I to convince you, he said, if you are not already convinced by what I have just said; what more can I do for you? Would you have me put the proof bodily into your souls?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: There are three arts which are concerned with all things: one which uses, another which makes, and a third which imitates them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Rhythm and harmony enter most powerfully into the inner most part of the soul and lay forcible hands upon it, bearing grace with them, so making graceful him who is rightly trained."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Science is nothing but perception."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Seven years of silent inquiry are needful for a man to learn the truth, but fourteen in order to learn how to make it known to his fellow-men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: For good nurture and education implant good constitutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The affairs of music ought, somehow, to terminate in the love of the beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Let early education be a sort of amusement. You will then be better able to find out the natural bent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The prison of lust is just that very one of which the soul shuts the doors upon herself; for each act of indulgence is the shooting of a fresh bolt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Even God is said to be unable to use force against necessity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: To think truly is noble and to be deceived is base."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Philosophy begins in wonder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: As it is, the lover of inquiry must follow his beloved wherever it may lead him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: No one knows whether death may not be the greatest of all blessings for a man, yet men fear it as if they knew it was the greatest of evils."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: For a poet is an airy thing, winged and holy, and he is not able to make poetry until he becomes inspired and goes out of his mind and his intellect is no longer in him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Harmony is a symphony, and symphony is an agreement; but an agreement of disagreements while they disagree there cannot be; you cannot harmonize that which disagrees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The wisdom of men is worth little or nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The learning and knowledge that we have,is,at the most,but little compared with that of which we are ignorant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: We do not learn, and that what we call learning is only a process of recollection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Poets do not compose their poems with knowledge, but by some inborn talent and by inspiration, like seers and prophets who also say many fine things without any understanding of what they say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Not every love, but only that which has a noble purpose, is noble and worthy of praise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Many are the noble words in which poets speak concerning the actions of men; but like yourself when speaking about Homer, they do not speak of them by any rules of art: they are simply inspired to utter that to which the Muse impels them, and that only; and when inspired, one of them will make dithyrambs, another hymns of praise, another choral strains, another epic or iambic verses- and he who is good at one is not good any other kind of verse: for not by art does the poet sing, but by power divine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Human beings have Love for one another inborn in them - Love, reassembler of our ancient nature, who tries to make one out of two and to heal human nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: And what do you say of lovers of wine... they are glad of any pretext of drinking any wine"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: And we shall most likely be defeated, and you will most likely be victors in the contest, if you learn so to order your lives as not to abuse or waste the reputation of your ancestors, knowing that to a man who has any self-respect, nothing is more dishonourable than to be honoured, not for his own sake, but on account of the reputation of his ancestors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Such, Echecrates, was the end of our comrade, who was, we may fairly say, of all those whom we knew in our time, the bravest and also the wisest and most upright man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The mere athlete becomes too much of a savage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The point which I should first wish to understand is whether the pious or holy is beloved by the gods because it is holy, or holy because it is beloved of the gods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: For our discussion is on no trifling matter, but on the right way to conduct our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The productions of all arts are kinds of poetry and their craftsmen are all poets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: There is no such thing as a lovers' oath."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Observe that open loves are held to be more honourable than secret ones, and that the love of the noblest and highest, even if their persons are less beautiful than others, is especially honourable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Our need will be the real creator."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: He who advises a sick man, whose manner of life is prejudicial to health, is clearly bound first of all to change his patient's manner of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Sin is disease, deformity, and weakness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: A man who is good for anything ought not to calculate the chance of living or dying; he ought only to consider whether in doing anything he is doing right or wrong - acting the part of a good man or of a bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The wisest of you men is he who has realized, like Socrates, that in respect of wisdom he is really worthless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: All things are in fate, yet all things are not decreed by fate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: May not the wolf, as the proverb says, claim a hearing?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: In the world of knowledge, the idea of good appears last of all, and is seen only with effort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: We must, if we are to be consistent, and if we re to have a real pedigree herd, mate the best of our men with the best of our women as often as possible, and the inferior men with the inferior women as seldom as possible, and keep only the offspring of the best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: for a poet is a light and winged thing, and holy, and never able to compose until he has become inspired, and is beside himself, and reason is no longer in him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: A state arises,as I conceive,out of the needs of mankind;no one is self-sufficing,but all of us have many wants"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: I fear this is not the right exchange to attain virtue, to exchange pleasures for pleasures, pains for pains and fears for fears, the greater for the less like coins, but that the only valid currency for which all these things should be exchanged is wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity - I mean the true simplicity of a rightly and nobly ordered mind and character, not that other simplicity which is only a euphemism for folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: As wolves love lambs so lovers love their loves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: It is fear and terror that make all men brave, except the philosophers. Yet it is illogical to be brave through fear and cowardice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Let no one ignorant of Mathematics enter here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: A written discourse on any subject is bound to contain much that is fanciful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: What a poor appearance the tales of poets make when stripped of the colours which music puts upon them, and recited in simple prose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The qualities of number appear to lead to the apprehension of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Great parts produce great vices as well as virtues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: But this is not difficult, O Athenians! to escape death; but it is much more difficult to avoid depravity, for it runs swifter than death. And now I, being slow and aged, am overtaken by the slower of the two; but my accusers, being strong and active, have been overtaken by the swifter, wickedness. And now I depart, condemned by you to death; but they condemned by truth, as guilty of iniquity and injustice: and I abide my sentence, and so do they. These things, perhaps, ought so to be, and I think that they are for the best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: A certain portion of mankind do not believe at all in the existence of the gods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Every unjust man is unjust against his will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Interference by the three classes with each other s jobs, and interchange of jobs between them, therefore, does the greatest harm to our state, and we are entirely justified in calling it the worst of evils."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Even the good artisans fell into the same error as the poets; because they were good workmen they thought that they also knew all sorts of high matters, and this defect in them overshadowed their wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: They ought to be gentle to their friends and dangerous to their enemies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Virtue is the desire of things honourable and the power of attaining them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Just as things in a picture, when viewed from a distance, appear to be all in one and the same condition and alike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The beginning is the chiefest part of any work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Arithmetic is a kind of knowledge in which the best natures should be trained, and which must not be given up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Remember our words, then, and whatever is your aim let virtue be the condition of the attainment of your aim, and know that without this all possessions and pursuits are dishonourable and evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The true runner comes to the finish and receives the prize and is crowned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Serious things cannot be understood without laughable things, nor opposites at all without opposites."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: It is proper for every one to consider, in the case of all men, that he who has not been a servant cannot become a praiseworthy master; and it is meet that we should plume ourselves rather on acting the part of a servant properly than that of the master, first, towards the laws, (for in this way we are servants of the gods), and next, towards our elders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: For just as poets love their own works, and fathers their own children, in the same way those who have created a fortune value their money, not merely for its uses, like other persons, but because it is their own production. This makes them moreover disagreeable companions, because they will praise nothing but riches."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Whenever a person strives, by the help of dialectic, to start in pursuit of every reality by a simple process of reason, independent of all sensuous information - never flinching, until by an act of the pure intelligence he has grasped the real nature of good - he arrives at the very end of the intellectual world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: All the gold upon the earth and all the gold beneath it, does not compensate for lack of virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The doctors will treat those of your citizens whose physical and psychological constitution is good: as for the others, they will leave the unhealthy to die and those whose psychological constitution is incurably warped they will be put to death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The ludicrous state of solid geometry made me pass over this branch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: No one knows whether death may not be the greatest good that can happen to man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The love of the gods belongs to anyone who has given to true virtue and nourished it, and if any human being could become immortal, it would be he."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: But that we shall be better and braver and less helpless if we think that we ought to enquire, than we should have been if we indulged in the idle fancy that there was no knowing and no use in seeking to know what we do not know; - that is a theme upon which I am ready to fight, in word and deed, to the utmost of my power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Evil is the vulgar lover who loves the body rather than the soul, inasmuch as he is not even stable, because he loves a thing which is in itself unstable, and therefore when the bloom of youth which he was desiring is over, he takes wing and flies away, in spite of all his words and promises; whereas the love of the noble disposition is life-long, for it becomes one with the everlasting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Consider how great is the encouragement which all the world gives to the lover; neither is he supposed to be doing anything dishonourable; but if he succeeds he is praised, and if he fail he is blamed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: But of the heaven which is above the heavens, what earthly poet ever did or ever will sing worthily?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The true champion of justice, if he intends to survive even for a short time, must necessarily confine himself to private life and leave politics alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: To fear death, gentlemen, is no other then to think oneself wise when one is not, to think one knows what one does not know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: All I would ask you to be thinking of is the truth and not Socrates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: He who is gracious to his lover under the impression that he is rich, and is disappointed of his gains because he turns out to be poor, is disgraced all the same: for he has done his best to show that he would give himself up to any one's \"uses base\" for the sake of money; but this is not honourable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: People regard the same things, some as just and others as unjust, - about these they dispute; and so there arise wars and fightings among them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The tools which would teach men their own use would be beyond price."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: It is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Everything that deceives does so by casting a spell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The love, more especially, which is concerned with the good, and which is perfected in company with temperance and justice, whether among gods or men, has the greatest power, and is the source of all our happiness and harmony, and makes us friends with the gods who are above us, and with one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Where reverence is, there is fear; for he who has a feeling of reverence and shame about the commission of any action, fears and is afraid of an ill reputation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Other people are likely not to be aware that those who pursue philosophy aright study nothing but dying and being dead. Now if this is true, it would be absurd to be eager for nothing but this all their lives, and then to be troubled when that came for which they had all along been eagerly practicing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: There is yet something remaining for the dead, and some far better thing for the good than for the evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Is virtue something that can be taught?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The like is not the friend of the like in as far as he is like; still the good may be the friend of the good in as far as he is good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The good are like one another, and friends to one another; and ... the bad, as is often said of them, are never at unity with one another or with themselves, but are passionate and restless: and that which is at variance and enmity with itself is not likely to be in union or harmony with any other thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: That makes me think, my friend, as I have often done before, how natural it is that those who have spent a long time in the study of philosophy appear ridiculous when they enter the courts of law as speakers. Those who have knocked about in courts and the like from their youth up seem to me, when compared with those who have been brought up in philosophy and similar pursuits, to be as slaves in breeding compared with freemen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: We ought to live sacrificing, and singing, and dancing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: For though a man should be a complete unbeliever in the being of gods; if he also has a native uprightness of temper, such persons will detest evil in men; their repugnance to wrong disinclines them to commit wrongful acts; they shun the unrighteous and are drawn to the upright."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Much sleep is not required by nature, either for our souls or bodies, or for the action in which they are concerned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Violent pleasures which reach the soul through the body are generally of this sort-they are reliefs of pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: . . . the triumph of my art is in thoroughly examining whether the thought which the mind of the young man brings forth is a false idol or a noble and true birth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: If the study of all these sciences which we have enumerated, should ever bring us to their mutual association and relationship, and teach us the nature of the ties which bind them together, I believe that the diligent treatment of them will forward the objects which we have in view, and that the labor, which otherwise would be fruitless, will be well bestowed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The poets are nothing but interpreters of the gods, each one possessed by the divinity to whom he is in bondage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: For he who would proceed aright... should begin in youth to visit beautiful forms... out of that he should create fair thoughts; and soon he will of himself perceive that the beauty of one form is akin to the beauty of another, and that beauty in every form is one and the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: You are mistaken, my friend, if you think that a man who is worth anything ought to spend his time weighing up the prospects of life and death. He has only one thing to consider in performing any action - that is, whether he is acting rightly or wrongly, like a good man or a bad one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The Graces sought some holy ground,\nWhose sight should ever please;\nAnd in their search the soul they found\nOf Aristophanes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Of all the things which a man has, next to the gods his soul is the most divine and most truly his own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Haughtiness lives under the same roof with solitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plato: The natural function of the wing is to soar upwards and carry that which is heavy up to the place where dwells the race of gods. More than any other thing that pertains to the body it partakes of the nature of the divine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: The real destroyer of the liberties of the people is he who spreads among them bounties, donations and benefits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: A Roman divorced from his wife, being highly blamed by his friends, who demanded, \"Was she not chaste? Was she not fair? Was she not fruitful?\" holding out his shoe, asked them whether it was not new and well made. \"Yet,\" added he, \"none of you can tell where it pinches me.''"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: The richest soil, if uncultivated, produces the rankest weeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: God is the brave man's hope, and not the coward's excuse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: It is a true proverb, that if you live with a lame man, you will learn to limp."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his rage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: The measure of a man's life is the well spending of it, and not the length."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Proper listening is the foundation of proper living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: For the mind does not require filling like a bottle, but rather, like wood, it only requires kindling to create in it an impulse to think independently and an ardent desire for the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: A fool cannot hold his tongue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Knavery is the best defense against a knave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Knowledge of divine things for the most part, as Heraclitus says, is lost to us by incredulity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: To please the many is to displease the wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Philosophy finds talkativeness a disease very difficult and hard to cure. For its remedy, conversation, requires hearers: but talkative people hear nobody, for they are ever prating. And the first evil this inability to keep silence produces is an inability to listen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: When Demaratus was asked whether he held his tongue because he was a fool or for want of words, he replied, \"A fool cannot hold his tongue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Pythagoras, when he was asked what time was, answered that it was the soul of this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Either is both, and Both is neither."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Silence is an answer to a wise man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: We are more sensible of what is done against custom than against nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Friendship requires a steady, constant, and unchangeable character, a person that is uniform in his intimacy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: He who cheats with an oath acknowledges that he is afraid of his enemy, but that he thinks little of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: The flatterer's object is to please in everything he does; whereas the true friend always does what is right, and so often gives pleasure, often pain, not wishing the latter, but not shunning it either, if he deems it best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Words will build no walls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Water continually dropping will wear hard rocks hollow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood all our days."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Being summoned by the Athenians out of Sicily to plead for his life, Alcibiades absconded, saying that that criminal was a fool who studied a defence when he might fly for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Abstruse questions must have abstruse answers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: We ought not to treat living creatures like shoes or household belongings, which when worn with use we throw away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: It is a thing of no great difficulty to raise objections against another man's oration, it is a very easy matter; but to produce a better in it's place is a work extremely troublesome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Poverty is dishonorable, not in itself, but when it is a proof of laziness, intemperance, luxury, and carelessness; whereas in a person that is temperate, industrious, just and valiant, and who uses all his virtues for the public good, it shows a great and lofty mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Socrates said he was not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: I see the cure is not worth the pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Wise men are able to make a fitting use even of their enmities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: They fought indeed and were slain, but it was to maintain the luxury and the wealth of other men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Let us not wonder if something happens which never was before, or if something doth not appear among us with which the ancients were acquainted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, but that fools would not imitate the good examples of wise men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: The soul of man... is a portion or a copy of the soul of the Universe and is joined together on principles and in proportions corresponding to those which govern the Universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: All men whilst they are awake are in one common world: but each of them, when he is asleep, is in a world of his own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Wickedness frames the engines of her own torment. She is a wonderful artisan of a miserable life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Prosperity has this property, it puffs up narrow Souls, makes them imagine themselves high and mighty, and look down upon the World with Contempt; but a truly noble and resolved Spirit appears greatest in Distress, and then becomes more bright and conspicuous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: A prating barber asked Archelaus how he would be trimmed. He answered, \"In silence.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Beauty is the flower of virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Among real friends there is no rivalry or jealousy of one another, but they are satisfied and contented alike whether they are equal or one of them is superior."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: It is not reasonable that he who does not shoot should hit the mark, nor that he who does not stand fast at his post should win the day, or that the helpless man should succeed or the coward prosper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: A good man will take care of his horses and dogs, not only while they are young, but when old and past service."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: In words are seen the state of mind and character and disposition of the speaker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: He who reflects on another man's want of breeding, shows he wants it as much himself"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: What most of all enables a man to serve the public is not wealth, but content and independence; which, requiring no superfluity at home, distracts not the mind from the common good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Xenophon says that there is no sound more pleasing than one's own praises."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: God alone is entirely exempt from all want of human virtues, that which needs least is the most absolute and divine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: To do an evil action is base; to do a good action without incurring danger is common enough; but it is the part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risks every thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: He is a fool who lets slip a bird in the hand for a bird in the bush."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Were it only to learn benevolence to humankind, we should be merciful to other creatures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Agesilaus being invited once to hear a man who admirably imitated the nightingale, he declined, saying he had heard the nightingale itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: When Philip had news brought him of divers and eminent successes in one day, \"O Fortune!\" said he, \"for all these so great kindnesses do me some small mischief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Plato used to say to Xenocrates the philosopher, who was rough and morose, \"Good Xenocrates, sacrifice to the Graces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Agesilaus was very fond of his children; and it is reported that once toying with them he got astride upon a reed as upon a horse, and rode about the room; and being seen by one of his friends, he desired him not to speak of it till he had children of his own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: I had rather men should ask why my statue is not set up, than why it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: As Meander says, \"For our mind is God;\" and as Heraclitus, \"Man's genius is a deity.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Cicero called Aristotle a river of flowing gold, and said of Plato's Dialogues, that if Jupiter were to speak, it would be in language like theirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Demosthenes told Phocion, \"The Athenians will kill you some day when they once are in a rage.\" \"And you,\" said he, \"if they are once in their senses.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Zeno first started that doctrine, that knavery is the best defence against a knave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: It is no disgrace not to be able to do everything; but to undertake, or pretend to do, what you are not made for, is not only shameful, but extremely troublesome and vexatious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Lysander said that the law spoke too softly to be heard in such a noise of war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Pittacus said, \"Every one of you hath his particular plague, and my wife is mine; and he is very happy who hath this only\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: But for the sake of some little mouthful of flesh we deprive a soul of the sun and light, and of that proportion of life and time it had been born into the world to enjoy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Alcibiades had a very handsome dog, that cost him seven thousand drachmas; and he cut off his tail, \"that,\" said he, \"the Athenians may have this story to tell of me, and may concern themselves no further with me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: And Archimedes, as he was washing, thought of a manner of computing the proportion of gold in King Hiero's crown by seeing the water flowing over the bathing-stool. He leaped up as one possessed or inspired, crying, \"I have found it! Eureka!\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by reason of satiety and surfeit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Distressed valor challenges great respect, even from an enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Fate, however, is to all appearance more unavoidable than unexpected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: It is wise to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: The man who is completely wise and virtuous has no need of glory, except so far as it disposes and eases his way to action by the greater trust that it procures him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Of the land which the Romans gained by conquest from their neighbours, part they sold publicly, and turned the remainder into common; this common land they assigned to such of the citizens as were poor and indigent, for which they were to pay only a small acknowledgment into the public treasury. But when the wealthy men began to offer larger rents, and drive the poorer people out, it was enacted by law that no person whatever should enjoy more than five hundred acres of ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Themistocles being asked whether he would rather be Achilles or Homer, said, \"Which would you rather be, a conqueror in the Olympic games, or the crier that proclaims who are conquerors?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Phocion compared the speeches of Leosthenes to cypress-trees. \"They are tall,\" said he, \"and comely, but bear no fruit.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Epaminondas is reported wittily to have said of a good man that died about the time of the battle of Leuctra, \"How came he to have so much leisure as to die, when there was so much stirring?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: He (Cato) used to say that in all his life he never repented but of three things. The first was that he had trusted a woman with a secret; the second that he had gone by sea when he might have gone by land; and the third, that had passed one day without having a will by him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: For to err in opinion, though it be not the part of wise men, is at least human."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: As small letters hurt the sight, so do small matters him that is too much intent upon them; they vex and stir up anger, which begets an evil habit in him in reference to greater affairs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: The generous mind adds dignity to every act, and nothing misbecomes it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Memory: what wonders it performs in preserving and storing up things gone by - or rather, things that are"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Rather I fear on the contrary that while we banish painful thoughts we may banish memory as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Democritus said, words are but the shadows of actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: The wildest colts make the best horses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Courage and wisdom are, indeed, rarities amongst men, but of all that is good, a just man it would seem is the most scarce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: If Nature be not improved by instruction, it is blind; if instruction be not assisted by Nature, it is maimed; and if exercise fail of the assistance of both, it is imperfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Painting is silent poetry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Though others before him had triumphed three times, Pompeius, by having gained his first triumph over Libya, his second over Europe, and this the last over Asia, seemed in a manner to have brought the whole world into his three triumphs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: If you light upon an impertinent talker, that sticks to you like a bur, to the disappointment of your important occasions, deal freely with him, break off the discourse, and pursue your business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: King Agis said, \"The Laced\u00e6monians are not wont to ask how many, but where the enemy are.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Solon being asked, namely, what city was best to live in. That city, he replied, in which those who are not wronged, no less than those who are wronged, exert themselves to punish the wrongdoers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: But the Lacedaemonians, who make it their first principle of action to serve their country's interest, know not any thing to be just or unjust by any measure but that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Anaximander says that men were first produced in fishes, and when they were grown up and able to help themselves were thrown up, and so lived upon the land."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: It is circumstance and proper measure that give an action its character, and make it either good or bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: A lover's soul lives in the body of his mistress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: When the candles are out all women are fair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Custom is almost a second nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: I confess myself the greatest coward in the world, for I dare not do an ill thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Music, to create harmony, must investigate discord."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: He is a fool who leaves things close at hand to follow what is out of reach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: A human body in no way resembles those that were born for ravenousness; it hath no hawk's bill, no sharp talon, no roughness of teeth, no such strength of stomach or heat of digestion, as can be sufficient to convert or alter such heavy and fleshy fare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Ought a man to be confident that he deserves his good fortune, and think much of himself when he has overcome a nation, or city, or empire; or does fortune give this as an example to the victor also of the uncertainty of human affairs, which never continue in one stay? For what time can there be for us mortals to feel confident, when our victories over others especially compel us to dread fortune, and while we are exulting, the reflection that the fatal day comes now to one, now to another, in regular succession, dashes our joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: From Themistocles began the saying, \"He is a second Hercules.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: ...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds; and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him, he returns this answer: \"Do you not think it a matter worthy of lamentation that when there is such a vast multitude of them, we have not yet conquered one?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, \"surely,\" quoth he, \"thou art all voice and nothing else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: So long as he was personally present, [Alcibiades] had the perfect mastery of his political adversaries; calumny only succeeded in his absence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments \"smelled of the lamp,\" replied, \"Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Aristodemus, a friend of Antigonus, supposed to be a cook's son, advised him to moderate his gifts and expenses. \"Thy words,\" said he, \"Aristodemus, smell of the apron."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts, and unapproachable bogs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: To one that promised to give him hardy cocks that would die fighting, \"Prithee,\" said Cleomenes, \"give me cocks that will kill fighting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: There were two brothers called Both and Either; perceiving Either was a good, understanding, busy fellow, and Both a silly fellow and good for little, Philip said, \"Either is both, and Both is neither."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: As to Caesar, when he was called upon, he gave no testimony against Clodius, nor did he affirm that he was certain of any injury done to his bed. He only said, He had divorced Pompeia because the wife of Caesar ought not only to be clear of such a crime, but of the very suspicion of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Speech is like cloth of Arras opened and put abroad, whereby the imagery doth appear in figure; whereas in thoughts they lie but as packs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: A traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedaemonian, \"I do not believe you can do as much.\" \"True,\" said he, \"but every goose can.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: For the rich men without scruple drew the estate into their own hands, excluding the rightful heirs from their succession; and all the wealth being centred upon the few, the generality were poor and miserable. Honourable pursuits, for which there was no longer leisure, were neglected; the state was filled with sordid business, and with hatred and envy of the rich."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Nor is drunkenness censured for anything so much as its intemperate and endless talk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: As those that pull down private houses adjoining to the temples of the gods, prop up such parts as are contiguous to them; so, in undermining bashfulness, due regard is to be had to adjacent modesty, good-nature and humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: To conduct great matters and never commit a fault is above the force of human nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Rome was in the most dangerous inclination to change on account of the unequal distribution of wealth and property, those of highest rank and greatest spirit having impoverished themselves by shows, entertainments, ambition of offices, and sumptuous buildings, and the riches of the city having thus fallen into the hands of mean and low-born persons. So that there wanted but a slight impetus to set all in motion, it being in the power of every daring man to overturn a sickly commonwealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Authority and place demonstrate and try the tempers of men, by moving every passion and discovering every frailty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Statesmen are not only liable to give an account of what they say or do in public, but there is a busy inquiry made into their very meals, beds, marriages, and every other sportive or serious action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: There is no perfecter endowment in man than political virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: When men are arrived at the goal, they should not turn back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Hesiod might as well have kept his breath to cool his pottage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: He who busies himself in mean occupations, produces in the very pains he takes about things of little or no use, an evidence against himself of his negligence and indisposition to what is really good"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: A friend should be like money, tried before being required, not found faulty in our need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Talkativeness has another plague attached to it, even curiosity; for praters wish to hear much that they may have much to say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: After he routed Pharnaces Ponticus at the first assault, he wrote thus to his friends: \"I came, I saw, I conquered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: One made the observation of the people of Asia that they were all slaves to one man, merely because they could not pronounce that syllable No."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: To Harmodius, descended from the ancient Harmodius, when he reviled Iphicrates [a shoemaker's son] for his mean birth, \"My nobility,\" said he, \"begins in me, but yours ends in you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: What is bigger than an elephant? But this also is become man's plaything, and a spectacle at public solemnities; and it learns to skip, dance, and kneel"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: The conduct of a wise politician is ever suited to the present posture of affairs. Often by foregoing a part he saves the whole, and by yielding in a small matter secures a greater."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: As soft wax is apt to take the stamp of the seal, so are the minds of young children to receive the instruction imprinted on them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Lamentation is the only musician that always, like a screech-owl, alights and sits on the roof of any angry man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: The old proverb was now made good, \"the mountain had brought forth a mouse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Friendship is the most pleasant of all things, and nothing more glads the heart of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Good fortune will elevate even petty minds, and give them the appearance of a certain greatness and stateliness, as from their high place they look down upon the world; but the truly noble and resolved spirit raises itself, and becomes more conspicuous in times of disaster and ill fortune."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Lampis, the sea commander, being asked how he got his wealth, answered, \"My greatest estate I gained easily enough, but the smaller slowly and with much labour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: So very difficult a matter is it to trace and find out the truth of anything by history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: When one told Plistarchus that a notorious railer spoke well of him, \"I'll lay my life,\" said he, \"somebody hath told him I am dead, for he can speak well of no man living.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: I, for my own part, had much rather people should say of me that there neither is nor ever was such a man as Plutarch, than that they should say, \"Plutarch is an unsteady, fickle, froward, vindictive, and touchy fellow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Seeing the lightest and gayest purple was then most in fashion, he would always wear that which was the nearest black; and he would often go out of doors, after his morning meal, without either shoes or tunic; not that he sought vain-glory from such novelties, but he would accustom himself to be ashamed only of what deserves shame, and to despise all other sorts of disgrace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Moral good is a practical stimulus; it is no sooner seen than it inspires an impulse to practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: It is indeed a desirable thing to be well-descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: By the study of their biographies, we receive each man as a guest into our minds, and we seem to understand their character as the result of a personal acquaintance, because we have obtained from their acts the best and most important means of forming an opinion about them. \"What greater pleasure could'st thou gain than this?\" What more valuable for the elevation of our own character?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Education and study, and the favors of the muses, confer no greater benefit on those that seek them than these humanizing and civilizing lessons, which teach our natural qualities to submit to the limitations prescribed by reason, and to avoid the wildness of extremes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: We ought to give our friend pain if it will benefit him, but not to the extent of breaking off our friendship; but just as we make use of some biting medicine that will save and preserve the life of the patient. And so the friend, like a musician, in bringing about an improvement to what is good and expedient, sometimes slackens the chords, sometimes tightens them, and is often pleasant, but always useful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Once when Phocion had delivered an opinion which pleased the people, he turned to his friend and said, \"Have I not unawares spoken some mischievous thing or other?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: A physician, after he had felt the pulse of Pausanias, and considered his constitution, saying, \"He ails nothing,\" \"It is because, sir,\" he replied, \"I use none of your physic.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Cicero said loud-bawling orators were driven by their weakness to noise, as lame men to take horse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Extraordinary rains pretty generally fall after great battles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: There is no debt with so much prejudice put off as that of justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Moral habits, induced by public practices, are far quicker in making their way into men's private lives, than the failings and faults of individuals are in infecting the city at large."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Justice makes the life of such as are in prosperity, power and authority the life of a god, and injustice turns it to that of a beast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Thrasyllus the Cynic begged a drachm of Antigonus. \"That,\" said he, \"is too little for a king to give.\" \"Why, then,\" said the other, \"give me a talent.\" \"And that,\" said he, \"is too much for a Cynic (or, for a dog) to receive.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: The most glorious exploits do not always furnish us with the clearest discoveries of virtue or vice in men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: When Darius offered him ten thousand talents, and to divide Asia equally with him, \"I would accept it,\" said Parmenio, \"were I Alexander.\" \"And so truly would I,\" said Alexander, \"if I were Parmenio.\" But he answered Darius that the earth could not bear two suns, nor Asia two kings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: A soldier told Pelopidas, \"We are fallen among the enemies.\" Said he, \"How are we fallen among them more than they among us?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Scilurus on his death-bed, being about to leave four-score sons surviving, offered a bundle of darts to each of them, and bade them break them. When all refused, drawing out one by one, he easily broke them, thus teaching them that if they held together, they would continue strong; but if they fell out and were divided, they would become weak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: The saying of old Antigonus, who when he was to fight at Andros, and one told him, \"The enemy's ships are more than ours,\" replied, \"For how many then wilt thou reckon me?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: It is no great wonder if in long process of time, while fortune takes her course hither and thither, numerous coincidences should spontaneously occur. If the number and variety of subjects to be wrought upon be infinite, it is all the more easy for fortune, with such an abundance of material, to effect this similarity of results."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Archimedes had stated, that given the force, any given weight might be moved; and even boasted that if there were another earth, by going into it he could remove this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: The great god Pan is dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: The pilot cannot mitigate the billows or calm the winds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Themistocles replied that a man's discourse was like to a rich Persian carpet, the beautiful figures and patterns of which can only be shown by spreading and extending it out; when it is contracted and folded up, they are obscured and lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: When I myself had twice or thrice made a resolute resistance unto anger, the like befell me that did the Thebans; who, having once foiled the Lacedaemonians (who before that time had held themselves invincible), never after lost so much as one battle which they fought against them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: The usual disease of princes, grasping covetousness, had made them suspicious and quarrelsome neighbors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Cato requested old men not to add the disgrace of wickedness to old age, which was accompanied with many other evils."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Empire may be gained by gold, not gold by empire. It used, indeed, to be a proverb that \"It is not Philip, but Philip's gold that takes the cities of Greece."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: So also it is good not always to make a friend of the person who is expert in twining himself around us; but, after testing them, to attach ourselves to those who are worthy of our affection and likely to be serviceable to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Why does pouring Oil on the Sea make it Clear and Calm? Is it that the winds, slipping the smooth oil, have no force, nor cause any waves?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Whenever Alexander heard Philip had taken any town of importance, or won any signal victory, instead of rejoicing at it altogether, he would tell his companions that his father would anticipate everything, and leave him and them no opportunities of performing great and illustrious actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: They are wrong who think that politics is like an ocean voyage or a military campaign, something to be done with some particular end in view, something which leaves off as soon as that end is reached. It is not a public chore, to be got over with. It is a way of life. It is the life of a domesticated political and social creature who is born with a love for public life, with a desire for honor, with a feeling for his fellows; and it lasts as long as need be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Such power I gave the people as might do, \nAbridged not what they had, now lavished new, \nThose that were great in wealth and high in place \nMy counsel likewise kept from all disgrace. \nBefore them both I held my shield of might, \nAnd let not either touch the other's right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Real excellence, indeed, is most recognized when most openly looked into."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: After the battle in Pharsalia, when Pompey was fled, one Nonius said they had seven eagles left still, and advised to try what they would do. \"Your advice,\" said Cicero, \"were good if we were to fight jackdaws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Valour, however unfortunate, commands great respect even from enemies: but the Romans despise cowardice, even though it be prosperous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: That proverbial saying, \"Ill news goes quick and far."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, \"It is better to make friends at home,\" Anacharsis replied, \"Then you that are at home make friendship with me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: I do not think that shoemaker a good workman that makes a great shoe for a little foot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Both Empedocles and Heraclitus held it for a truth that man could not be altogether cleared from injustice in dealing with beasts as he now does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: When Demosthenes was asked what was the first part of Oratory, he answered, \"Action,\" and which was the second, he replied, \"action,\" and which was the third, he still answered \"Action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: We rich men count our felicity and happiness to lie in these superfluities, and not in those necessary things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Spintharus, speaking in commendation of Epaminondas, says he scarce ever met with any man who knew more and spoke less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Dionysius the Elder, being asked whether he was at leisure, he replied, \"God forbid that it should ever befall me!\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Pompey bade Sylla recollect that more worshipped the rising than the setting sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Nothing made the horse so fat as the king's eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Lysander, when Dionysius sent him two gowns, and bade him choose which he would carry to his daughter, said, \"She can choose best,\" and so took both away with him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Athenodorus says hydrophobia, or water-dread, was first discovered in the time of Asclepiades."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Antagoras the poet was boiling a conger, and Antigonus, coming behind him as he was stirring his skillet, said, \"Do you think, Antagoras, that Homer boiled congers when he wrote the deeds of Agamemnon?\" Antagoras replied, \"Do you think, O king, that Agamemnon, when he did such exploits, was a peeping in his army to see who boiled congers?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Demosthenes overcame and rendered more distinct his inarticulate and stammering pronunciation by speaking with pebbles in his mouth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: Lycurgus the Laced\u00e6monian brought long hair into fashion among his countrymen, saying that it rendered those that were handsome more beautiful, and those that were deformed more terrible. To one that advised him to set up a democracy in Sparta, \"Pray,\" said Lycurgus, \"do you first set up a democracy in your own house.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: It is a difficult task, O citizens, to make speeches to the belly, which has no ears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: But being overborne with numbers, and nobody daring to face about, stretching out his hands to heaven, [Romulus] prayed to Jupiter to stop the army, and not to neglect but maintain the Roman cause, now in extreme danger. The prayer was no sooner made, than shame and respect for their king checked many; the fears of the fugitives changed suddenly into confidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Plutarch: He who least likes courting favour, ought also least to think of resenting neglect; to feel wounded at being refused a distinction can only arise from an overweening appetite to have it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Unexpressed emotions will never die. They are buried alive and will come forth later in uglier ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The sexual life of adult women is a \"dark continent\" for psychology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Knowledge is the intellectual manipulation of carefully verified observations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: We are what we are because we have been what we have been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: A man who has been the indisputable favorite of his mother keeps for life the feeling of a conqueror."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Love in the form of longing and deprivation lowers the self regard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Where they love they do not desire and where they desire they do not love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The unconscious of one human being can react upon that of another without passing through the conscious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Religion is a system of wishful illusions together with a disavowal of reality, such as we find nowhere else but in a state of blissful hallucinatory confusion. Religion's eleventh commandment is \"Thou shalt not question.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: There is little that gives children greater pleasure than when a grown-up lets himself down to their level, renounces his oppressive superiority and plays with them as an equal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Where does a thought go when it's forgotten?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Look into the depths of your own soul and learn first to know yourself, then you will understand why this illness was bound to come upon you and perhaps you will thenceforth avoid falling ill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Not all men are worthy of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Life, as we find it, is too hard for us; it brings us too many pains, disappointments and impossible tasks. In order to bear it we cannot dispense with palliative measures... There are perhaps three such measures: powerful deflections, which cause us to make light of our misery; substitutive satisfactions, which diminish it; and intoxicating substances, which make us insensible to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies, quite unlike people, who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Whoever loves becomes humble. Those who love have, so to speak, pawned a part of their narcissism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: How bold one gets when one is sure of being loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The psychoanalysis of individual human beings, however, teaches us with quite special insistence that the god of each of them is formed in the likeness of his father, that his personal relation to God depends on his relation to his father in the flesh and oscillates and changes along with that relation, and that at bottom God is nothing other than an exalted father."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The moment a man questions the meaning and value of life, he is sick, since objectively neither has any existence; by asking this question one is merely admitting to a store of unsatisfied libido to which something else must have happened, a kind of fermentation leading to sadness and depression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments.  Against prejudice one can do nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Conservatism, however, is too often a welcome excuse for lazy minds, loath to adapt themselves to fast changing conditions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: When a love-relationship is at its height there is no room left for any interest in the environment; a pair of lovers are sufficient to themselves"
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Our possibilities of happiness are already restricted by our constitution. Unhappiness is much less difficult to experience. We are threatened with suffering from three directions: from our own body, which is doomed to decay and dissolution and which cannot even do without pain and anxiety as warning signals; from the external world, which may rage against us with overwhelming and merciless forces of destruction; and finally from our relations to other men. The suffering which comes from this last source is perhaps more painful to us than any other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: In the depths of my heart I can\u2019t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The goal of all life is death"
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The news that reaches your consciousness is incomplete and often not to be relied on.... Turn your eyes inward, look into your own depths, learn first to know yourself!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement -- that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Psychoanalysis is in essence a cure through love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: America is the most grandiose experiment the world has seen, but, I am afraid, it is not going to be a success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: If you want to endure life, prepare yourself for death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: We are never so defensless against suffering as when we love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Cruelty and intolerance to those who do not belong to it are natural to every religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The intention that man should be happy is not in the plan of Creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: My love is something valuable to me which I ought not to throw away without reflection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The ego represents what we call reason and sanity, in contrast to the id which contains the passions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The behavior of a human being in sexual matters is often a prototype for the whole of his other modes of reaction in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: All that matters is love and work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: A strong egoism is a protection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Religious ideas have sprung from the same need as all the other achievements of culture: from the necessity for defending itself against the crushing supremacy of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Words and magic were in the beginning one and the same thing, and even today words retain much of their magical power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: We are never so defenseless against suffering as when we love, never so forlornly unhappy as when we have lost our love object or its love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Sexuality is the key to the problem of the psychoneuroses and of the neuroses in general. No one who disdains the key will ever be able to unlock the door."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Men are strong so long as they represent a strong idea they become powerless when they oppose it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Anxiety in children is originally nothing other than an expression of the fact they are feeling the loss of the person they love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Indeed, the great Leonardo (da Vinci) remained like a child for the whole of his life in more than one way. It is said that all great men are bound to retain some infantile part. Even as an adult he continued to play, and this was another reason why he often appeared uncanny and incomprehensible to his contemporaries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Beauty has no obvious use; nor is there any clear cultural necessity for it. Yet civilization could not do without it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: If there are quarrels between the parents or if their marriage is unhappy, the ground will be prepared in their children for the severest predisposition to a disturbance of sexual development or to neurotic illness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: I cannot think of any need in childhood as strong as the need for a father's protection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Men are not gentle, friendly creatures wishing for love, who simply defend themselves if they are attacked, but ... a powerful measure of desire for aggression had to be reckoned as part of their instinctual endowment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves the prospect of a lasting existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: We must not allow ourselves to be deflected by the feminists who are anxious to force us to regard the two sexes as completely equal in position and worth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: A poor girl may have an illusion that a prince will come and fetch her home. It is possible, some such cases have occurred. That the Messiah will come and found a golden age is much less probable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: I am actually not at all a man of science, not an observer, not an experimenter, not a thinker. I am by temperament nothing but a conquistador"
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: There is a psychological technique which makes it possible to interpret dreams, and ... if that procedure is employed, every dream reveals itself as a psychical structure which has a meaning and which can be inserted at an assignable point in the mental activities of waking life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: So in every individual the two trends, one towards personal happiness and the other unity with the rest of humanity, must contend with each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: A hero is a man who stands up manfully against his father and in the end victoriously overcomes him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: I cannot face with comfort the idea of life without work; work and the free play of the imagination are for me the same thing, I take no pleasure in anything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: What good to us is a long life if it is difficult and barren of joys, and if it is so full of misery that we can only welcome death as a deliverer?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Philosophers stretch the meaning of words until they retain scarcely anything of their original sense. They give the name of \"God\" to some vague abstraction which they have created for themselves; having done so they can pose before all the world as deists, as believers of God, and they can even boast that they have recognized a higher, purer concept of God, notwithstanding that their God is not nothing more than an insubstantial shadow and no longer the mighty personality of religious doctrines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The virtuous man contents himself with dreaming that which the wicked man does in actual life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: A layman will no doubt find it hard to understand how pathological disorders of the body and mind can be eliminated by 'mere' words. He will feel that he is being asked to believe in magic. And he will not be so very wrong, for the words which we use in our everyday speech are nothing other than watered-down magic. But we shall have to follow a roundabout path in order to explain how science sets about restoring to words a part at least of their former magical power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: I had thought about cocaine in a kind of day-dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Everywhere I go I find that a poet has been there before me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: You wanted to kill your father in order to be your father yourself. Now you are your father, but a dead father."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The most complicated achievements of thought are possible without the assistance of consciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Writing was in its origin, the voice of an absent person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The ego is not master in its own house."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The first human who hurled an insult instead of a stone was the founder of civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Whatever fosters the growth of civilization works at the same time against war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The poets and philosophers before me discovered the unconscious; what I discovered was the scientific method by which the unconscious can be studied."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The doctor should be opaque to his patients and, like a mirror, should show them nothing but what is shown to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Immorality, no less than morality, has at all times found support in religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: In mourning it is the world which has become poor and empty; in melancholia it is the ego itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Just as no one can be forced into belief, so no one can be forced into unbelief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Conscience is the internal perception of the rejection of a particular wish operating within us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: In human beings pure masculinity or femininity is not to be found either in a psychological or biological sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: If a man has been his mother's undisputed darling he retains throughout life the triumphant feeling, the confidence in success, which not seldom brings actual success along with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Religion restricts the play of choice and adaptation, since it imposes equally on everyone its own path to the acquisition of happiness and protection from suffering. Its technique consists in depressing the value of life and distorting the picture of the real world in a delusional manner - which presupposes an intimidation of the intelligence. At this price, by forcibly fixing them in a state of psychical infantilism and by drawing them into a mass-delusion, religion succeeds in sparing many people an individual neurosis. But hardly anything more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The true believer is in a high degree protected against the danger of certain neurotic afflictions; by accepting the universal neurosis he is spared the task of forming a personal neurosis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: This transmissibility of taboo is a reflection of the tendency, on which we have already remarked, for the unconscious instinct in the neurosis to shift constantly along associative paths on to new objects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: We know that the great majority of people have a strong need for authority which it can admire, to which it can submit, and which dominates and sometimes even ill-treats it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Properly speaking, the unconscious is the real psychic; its inner nature is just as unknown to us as the reality of the external world, and it is just as imperfectly reported to us through the data of consciousness as is the external world through the indications of our sensory organs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The price we pay for our advance in civilization is a loss of happiness through the heightening of the sense of guilt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The wish to be able to fly is to be understood as nothing else than a longing to be capable of sexual performance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: A strong experience in the present awakens in the creative writer a memory of an earlier experience (usually belonging to his childhood) from which there now proceeds a wish which finds its fulfilment in the creative work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: In matters of sexuality we are at present, every one of us, ill or well, nothing but hypocrites."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: In the long run, nothing can withstand reason and experience, and the contradiction religion offers to both is palpable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: It is impossible to overlook the extent to which civilization is built upon a renunciation of instinct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Against the suffering which may come upon one from human relationships the readiest safeguard is voluntary isolation, keeping oneself aloof from other people. The happiness which can be achieved along this path is, as we see, the happiness of quietness. Against the dreaded external world one can only defend oneself by some kind of turning away from it, if one intends to solve the task by oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The adoption of the required attitude of mind towards ideas that seem to emerge \"of their own free will\" and the abandonment of the critical function that is normally in operation against them seem to be hard of achievement for some people. The \"involuntary thoughts\" are liable to release a most violent resistance, which seeks to prevent their emergence. If we may trust that great poet and philosopher Friedrich Schiller, however, poetic creation must demand an exactly similar attitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Once again, only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life. One can hardly be wrong in concluding that the idea of life having a purpose stands and falls with the religious system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: What is characteristic of illusions is that they are derived from human wishes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Life as we find it is too hard for us; it entails too much pain, too many disappointments, impossible tasks. We cannot do without palliative remedies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The fateful question for the human species seems to me to be whether and to what extent their cultural development will succeed in mastering the disturbance of their communal life by the human instinct of aggression and self-destruction ... One thing only do I know for certain and that is that man's judgements of value follow directly from his wihes for happiness-that, accordingly, they are an attempt to support his illusions with arguments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Let us consider the polarity of love and hate.... Now, clinical observation shows not only that love is with unexpected regularityaccompanied by hate (ambivalence), and not only that in human relationships hate is frequently a forerunner of love, but also that in many circumstances hate changes into love and love into hate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The very emphasis of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill, makes it certain that we are descended from an endlessly long chain of generations of murderers, whose love of murder was in their blood as it is perhaps also in ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Where id was, there ego shall be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The psychoanalysis of neurotics has taught us to recognize the intimate connection between wetting the bed and the character trait of ambition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The primitive stages can always be re-established; the primitive mind is, in the fullest meaning of the word, imperishable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: A man like me cannot live without a hobby-horse, a consuming passion - in Schiller's words a tyrant. I have found my tyrant, and in his service I know no limits. My tyrant is psychology. It has always been my distant, beckoning goal and now since I have hit upon the neuroses, it has come so much the nearer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The gods retain their threefold task: they must exorcize the terrors of nature, they must reconcile men to the cruelty of Fate, particularly as it is shown in death, and they must compensate them for the sufferings and privations which a civilized life in common has imposed on them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: It might be said of psychoanalysis that if you give it your little finger it will soon have your whole hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: It is a mistake to believe that science consists in nothing but conclusively proved propositions, and it is unjust to demand that it should. It is a demand made by those who feel a craving for authority in some form to replace the religious catechism by something else, even a scientific one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Experience teaches that for most people there is a limit beyond which their constitution cannot comply with the demands of civilization. All who wish to reach a higher standard than their constitution will allow, fall victims to neurosis. It would have been better for them if they could have remained less \"perfect\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: But the repressed merges into the id as well, and is merely a part of it. The repressed is only cut off sharply from the ego by the resistances of repression; it can communicate with the ego through the id."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The whole thing [religion] is so patently infantile, so foreign to reality, that to anyone with a friendly attitude to humanity it is painful to think that the great majority of mortals will never be able to rise above this view of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: When it happens that a person has to give up a sexual object, there quite often ensues an alteration of his ego which can only be described as a setting up of the object inside the ego, as it occurs in melancholia; the exact nature of this substitution is as yet unknown to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The transformation of object-libido into narcissistic libido which thus takes place obviously implies an abandonment of sexual aims, a desexualization - a kind of sublimation, therefore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community. The possibility it offers of displacing a large amount of libidinal components, whether narcissistic, aggressive or even erotic, on to professional work and on to the human relations connected with it lends it a value by no means second to what it enjoys as something indispensable to the preservation and justification of existence in society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: As regards intellectual work it remains a fact, indeed, that great decisions in the realm of thought and momentous discoveries and solutions of problems are only possible to an individual, working in solitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The time comes when each of us has to give up as illusions the expectations which, in his youth, he pinned upon his fellow-men, and when he may learn how much difficulty and pain has been added to his life by their ill-will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The facts which have caused us to believe in the dominance of the pleasure principle in mental life also find expression in the hypothesis that the mental apparatus endeavours to keep the quantity of excitation present in it as low as possible or at least to keep it constant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: One must not be mean with affections; what is spent of the funds is renewed in the spending itself. Left untouched for too long, they diminish imperceptibly or the lock gets rusty; they are there all right but one cannot make use of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Opposition is not necessarily enmity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Civilization is a process in the service of Eros, whose purpose is to combine single human individuals, and after that families, then races, peoples and nations, into one great unity, the unity of mankind. Why this has to happen, we do not know; the work of Eros is precisely this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: A piece of creative writing, like a day-dream, is a continuation of, and a substitute for, what was once the play of childhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: A religion, even if it calls itself a religion of love, must be hard and unloving to those who do not belong to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Just as a satisfaction of instinct spells happiness for us, so severe suffering is caused us if the external world lets us starve, if it refuses to sate our needs. One may therefore hope to be freed from a part of one's sufferings by influencing the instinctual impulses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression, and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: I take up the standpoint that the tendency to aggression is an innate, independent, instinctual disposition in man, and I come back now to the statement that it constitutes the most powerful obstacle to culture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The poor ego has a still harder time of it; it has to serve three harsh masters, and it has to do its best to reconcile the claims and demands of all three...The three tyrants are the external world, the superego, and the id."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: We may insist as often as we like that man's intellect is powerless in comparison to his instinctual life, and we may be right in this. Nevertheless, there is something peculiar about this weakness. The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it will not rest until it has gained a hearing. Finally, after a countless succession of rebuffs, it succeeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Men have gained control over the forces of nature to such an extent that with their help they would have no difficulty exterminating one another to the last man. They know this, and hence comes a large part of their current unrest, their unhappiness and their mood of anxiety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The world is no nursery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: In the development of mankind as a whole, just as in individuals, love alone acts as the civilizing factor in the sense that it brings a change from egoism to altruism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The dream acts as a safety-valve for the over-burdened brain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: At bottom God is nothing more than an exalted father."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: When the wayfarer whistles in the dark, he may be disavowing his timidity, but he does not see any the more clearly for doing so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Long ago man formed an ideal conception of omnipotence and omniscience which he embodied in his gods. Whatever seemed unattainable to his desires - or forbidden to him - he attributed to these gods... Now he has himself approached very near to realizing this ideal, he has nearly become a god himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Analogies, it is true, decide nothing, but they can make one feel more at home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: A love that does not discriminate seems to me to forfeit a part of its own value, by doing an injustice to its object; and secondly, not all men are worthy of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: It must be pointed out, however, that strictly speaking it is incorrect to talk of the dominance of the pleasure principle over the course of mental processes. If such a dominance existed, the immense majority of our mental processes would have to be accompanied by pleasure or to lead to pleasure, whereas universal experience completely contradicts any such conclusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: It is always possible to bind together a considerable number of people in love, so long as there are other people left over to receive the manifestations of their aggressiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: A strong egoism is a protection against disease, but in the last resort we must begin to love in order that we may not fall ill, and must fall ill if, in consequence of frustration, we cannot love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Thinking in pictures is, therefore, only a very incomplete form of becoming conscious. In some way, too, it stands nearer to unconscious processes than does thinking in words, and it is unquestionably older than the latter both ontogenetically and phylogenetically."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Our knowledge of the historical worth of certain religious doctrines increases our respect for them, but does not invalidate our proposal that they should cease to be put forward as the reasons for the precepts of civilization. On the contrary! Those historical residues have helped us to view religious teachings, as it were, as neurotic relics, and we may now argue that the time has probably come, as it does in an analytic treatment, for replacing the effects of repression by the results of the rational operation of the intellect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Neurosis is the result of a conflict between the ego and its id, whereas psychosis is the analogous outcome of a similar disturbance in the relation between the ego and the external world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God. When he puts on all his auxiliary organs, he is truly magnificent; but those organs have not grown on him and they still give him much trouble at times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: By abolishing private property one deprives the human love of aggression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: It is a great injustice to persecute homosexuality as a crime, and cruelty too"
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Love can not be much younger than the lust for murder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: I have found little that is 'good' about human beings on the whole. In my experience most of them are trash, no matter whether they publicly subscribe to this or that ethical doctrine or to none at all. That is something that you cannot say aloud, or perhaps even think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Only the real, rare, true scientific minds can endure doubt, which is attached to all our knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Homosexuality is assuredly no advantage, but it is nothing to be ashamed of, no vice, no degradation, it cannot be classified as an illness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Human life in common is only made possible when a majority comes together which is stronger than any separate individual and which remains united against all separate individuals. The power of this community is then set up as right in opposition to the power of the individual, which is condemned as brute force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: He that has eyes to see and ears to hear may convince himself that no mortal can keep a secret. If his lips are silent, he chatters with his fingertips; betrayal oozes out of him at every pore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: It would be one of the greatest triumphs of humanity, one of the most tangible liberations from the constraints of nature to which mankind is subject, if we could succeed in raising the responsible act of procreating children to the level of a deliberate and intentional activity and in freeing it from its entanglement with the necessary satisfaction of a natural need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Dreams are the guardians of sleep and not its disturbers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The effect of the consolations of religion may be compared to that of a narcotic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: What decides the purpose of life is simply the programme of the pleasure principle. This principle dominates the operation of the mental apparatus from the start. There can be no doubt about its efficacy, and yet its programme is at loggerheads with the whole world, with the macrocosm as much as with the microcosm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The more the fruits of knowledge become accessible to men, the more widespread is the decline of religious belief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: But the less a man knows about the past and the present the more insecure must prove to be his judgment of the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Woe to you, my Princess, when I come. I will kiss you quite red and feed you till you are plump. And if you are froward, you shall see who is the stronger, a gentle little girl who doesn't eat enough, or a big wild man who has cocaine in his body. -- A love letter from Freud to his fianc\u00e9e."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external world become uncertain or in which they are actually drawn incorrectly. There are cases in which parts of a person's own body, even portions of his own mental life - his perceptions, thoughts and feelings -, appear alien to him and as not belonging to his ego; there are other cases in which he ascribes to the external world things that clearly originate in his own ego and that ought to be acknowledged by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The unconscious - that is to say, the 'repressed' - offers no resistance whatever to the efforts of the treatment. Indeed, it itself has no other endeavour than to break through the pressure weighing down on it and force its way either to consciousness or to a discharge through some real action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all, the sexual life of adult women is a 'dark continent' for psychology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: It is easy to see that the ego is that part of the id which has been modified by the direct influence of the external world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: If the truth of religious doctrines is dependent on an inner experience that bears witness to the truth, what is one to make of the many people who do not have that experience?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: No one who, like me, conjures up the most evil of those half-tamed demons that inhabit the human breast, and seeks to wrestle with them, can expect to come through the struggle unscathed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: One... gets an impression that civilization is something which was imposed on a resisting majority by a minority which understood how to obtain possession of the means to power and coercion. It is, of course, natural to assume that these difficulties are not inherent in the nature of civilization itself but are determined by the imperfections of the cultural forms which have so far been developed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Like the physical, the psychical is not necessarily in reality what it appears to us to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: In general people experience their present naively, as it were, without being able to form an estimate of its contents; they have first to put themselves at a distance from it - the present, that is to say, must have become the past - before it can yield points of vantage from which to judge the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: We have long observed that every neurosis has the result, and therefore probably the purpose, of forcing the patient out of real life, of alienating him from actuality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The psychical, whatever its nature may be, is itself unconscious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Much of our highly valued cultural heritage has been acquired at the cost of sexuality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: I do not think our successes can compete with those of Lourdes. There are so many more people who believe in the miracles of the Blessed Virgin than in the existence of the unconscious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: There are no mistakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The pleasure principle long persists, however, as the method of working employed by the sexual instincts, which are so hard to 'educate', and, starting from those instincts, or in the ego itself, it often succeeds in overcoming the reality principle, to the detriment of the organism as a whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: America is a mistake, admittedly a gigantic mistake, but a mistake nevertheless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Concerning the factors of silence, solitude and darkness, we can only say that they are actually elements in the production of the infantile anxiety from which the majority of human beings have never become quite free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Where such men love they have no desire and where they desire they cannot love"
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: No one who has seen a baby sinking back satiated from the breast and falling asleep with flushed cheeks and a blissful smile can escape the reflection that this picture persists as a prototype of the expression of sexual satisfaction in later life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: I cannot face the idea of life without work. What would one do when ideas failed or words refused to come? It is impossible not to shudder at the thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: I was making frequent use of cocaine at that time ... I had been the first to recommend the use of cocaine, in 1885, and this recommendation had brought serious reproaches down on me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: An overwhelming majority of symbols in dreams are sexual symbols."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: There is no doubt that the resistance of the conscious and unconscious ego operates under the sway of the pleasure principle: it seeks to avoid the unpleasure which would be produced by the liberation of the repressed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The motive forces of phantasies are unsatisfied wishes, and every single phantasy is the fulfillment of a wish, a correction of unsatisfying reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: I do not in the least underestimate bisexuality... I expect it to provide all further enlightenment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Every man has a right over his own life and war destroys lives that were full of promise; it forces the individual into situations that shame his manhood, obliging him to murder fellow men, against his will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Now it is nothing but torture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Religion is an illusion and it derives its strength from the fact that it falls in with our instinctual desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The first requisite of civilization, therefore, is that of justice \u2014 that is, the assurance that a law once made will not be broken in favour of an individual. This implies nothing as to the ethical value of such a law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The goal towards which the pleasure principle impels us - of becoming happy - is not attainable: yet we may not - nay, cannot - give up the efforts to come nearer to realization of it by some means or other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: To endure life remains, when all is said, the first duty of all living being Illusion can have no value if it makes this more difficult for us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: dream is the dreamer's own psychical act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The sexual wishes in regard to the mother become more intense and the father is perceived as an obstacle to the; this gives rise to the Oedipus complex."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: What is common in all these dreams is obvious. They completely satisfy wishes excited during the day which remain unrealized. They are simply and undisguisedly realizations of wishes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The different religions have never overlooked the part played by the sense of guilt in civilization. What is more, they come forward with a claim...to save mankind from this sense of guilt, which they call sin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: In almost every place where we find totems we also find a law against persons of the same totem having sexual relations with one another and consequently against their marrying. This, then, is 'exogamy', an institution related to totemism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The study of dreams may be considered the most trustworthy method of investigating deep mental processes. Now dreams occurring in traumatic neuroses have the characteristic of repeatedly bringing the patient back into the situation of his accident, a situation from which he wakes up in another fright."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: One feels inclined to say that the intention that man should be 'happy' is not included in the plan of Creation.' . . . We are so made that we can derive intense enjoyment only from a contrast and very little from a state of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The division of the psychical into what is conscious and what is unconscious is the fundamental premise of psycho-analysis; and it alone makes it possible for psycho-analysis to understand the pathological processes in mental life, which are as common as they are important, and to find a place for them in the framework of science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: I do not doubt that it would be easier for fate to take away your suffering than it would for me. But you will see for yourself that much has been gained if we succeed in turning your hysterical misery into common unhappiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Yes, America is gigantic, but a gigantic mistake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The communal life of human beings had . . . a two-fold foundation: the compulsion to work, which was created by external necessity, and the power of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: There is an intellectual function in us which demands unity, connection and intelligibility from any material, whether of perception or thought, that comes within its grasp; and if, as a result of special circumstances, it is unable to establish a true connection, it does not hesitate to fabricate a false one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: A string of reproaches against other people leads one to suspect the existence of a string of self-reproaches with the same content."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The psychic development of the individual is a short repetition of the course of development of the race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The Mosaic religion had been a Father religion; Christianity became a Son religion. The old God, the Father, took second place; Christ, the Son, stood in His stead, just as in those dark times every son had longed to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: In so doing, the idea forces itself upon him that religion is comparable to a childhood neurosis, and he is optimistic enough to suppose that mankind will surmount this neurotic phase, just as so many children grow out of their similar neurosis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: I am not aware, however, that patients suffering from traumatic neurosis are much occupied in their waking lives with memories of their accident. Perhaps they are more concerned with not thinking of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: A state of consciousness is characteristically very transitory; an idea that is conscious now is no longer so a moment later, although it can become so again under certain conditions that are easily brought about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Neither in my private life nor in my writings, have I ever made a secret of being an out-and-out unbeliever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly suprised at the weakness of his intellect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: It almost looks like analysis were the third of those 'impossible' professions in which one can be quite sure of unsatisfying results. The other two, much older-established, are the bringing up of children and the government of nations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The expectation that every neurotic phenomenon can be cured may, I suspect, be derived from the layman's belief that the neuroses are something quite unnecessary which have no right whatever to exist. Whereas in fact they are severe, constitutionally fixed illnesses, which rarely restrict themselves to only a few attacks but persist as a rule over long periods throughout life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Civilization has little to fear from educated people and brain-workers. In them the replacement of religious motives for civilized behaviors by other, secular motives, would proceed unobtrusively. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The ego is first and foremost a bodily ego; it is not merely a surface entity, but is itself the projection of a surface. If we wish to find an anatomical analogy for it we can best identify it with the 'cortical homunculus' of the anatomists, which stands on its head in the cortex, sticks up its heels, faces"
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: A lady once expressed herself in society - the very words show that they were uttered with fervour and under the pressure of a great many secret emotions: \"Yes, a woman must be pretty if she is to please the men. A man is much better off. As long as he has five straight limbs, he needs no more!\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Loneliness and darkness have just robbed me of my valuables."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The religions of mankind must be classed among the mass-delusions of this kind. No one, needless to say, who shares a delusion ever recognizes it as such."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: What is a totem? It is as a rule an animal (whether edible and harmless or dangerous and feared) and more rarely a plant or a natural phenomenon (such as rain or water), which stands in a peculiar relation to the whole clan. In the first place, the totem is the common ancestor of the clan; at the same time it is their guardian spirit and helper, which sends them oracles and, if dangerous to others, recognizes and spares its own children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: [The child] takes his play very seriously and he expends large amounts of emotion on it. The opposite of play is not what is serious but what is real."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The liberty of the individual is no gift of civilization. It was greatest before there was any civilization, though then, it is true, it had for the most part no value, since the individual was scarcely in a position to defend it. The development of civilization imposes restrictions on it, and justice demands that no one shall escape those restrictions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Towards the outside, at any rate, the ego seems to maintain clear and sharp lines of demarcation. There is only one state -- admittedly an unusual state, but not one that can be stigmatized as pathological -- in which it does not do this. At the height of being in love the boundary between ego and object threatens to melt away. Against all the evidence of his senses, a man who is in love declares that \"I\" and \"you\" are one, and is prepared to behave as if it were a fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Nature delights in making use of the same forms in the most various biological connections: as it does, for instance, in the appearance of branch-like structures both in coral and in plants, and indeed in some forms of crystal and in certain chemical precipitates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: I have often felt as though I had inherited all the defiance and all the passions with which our ancestors defended their Temple and could gladly sacrifice my life for one great moment in history. And at the same time I always felt so helpless and incapable of expressing these ardent passions even by a word or a poem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The defense against childish helplessness is what lends its characteristic features to the adult's reaction to the helplessness which he has to acknowledge - a reaction which is precisely the formation of religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The assumption that everything past is preserved holds good even in mental life only on condition that the organ of the mind has remained intact and that its tissues have not been damaged by trauma or inflammation. But destructive influences which can be compared to causes of illness like these are never lacking in the history of a city, even if it has had a less chequered past than Rome, and even if, like London, it has hardly ever suffered from the visitations of an enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: An intimate friend and a hated enemy have always been indispensable requirements for my emotional life; I have always been able to create them anew, and not infrequently my childish ideal has been so closely approached that friend and enemy coincided in the same person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: I think that in general it is a good plan occasionally to bear in mind the fact that people were in the habit of dreaming before there was such a thing as psychoanalysis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The whole life of instinct serves the one end of bringing about death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The act of birth is the first experience of anxiety, and thus the source and prototype of the affect of anxiety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The functional importance of the ego is manifested in the fact that normally control over the approaches to motility devolves upon it. Thus in its relation to the id it is like a man on horse back, who has to hold in check the superior strength of the horse; with this difference, that the rider tries to do so with his own strength while the ego uses borrowed forces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to taking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The most ancient and important taboo prohibitions are the two basic laws of totemism: not to kill the totem animal and to avoid sexual intercourse with members of the totem clan of the opposite sex."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: I have never doubted that religious phenomena are only to be understood on the pattern of the individual neurotic symptoms familiar to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Thinking is an experimental dealing with small quantities of energy, just as a general moves miniature figures over a map before setting his troops in action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: It often seems that the poet's derisive comment is not unjustified when he says of the philosopher: \u201cWith his nightcaps and the tatters of his dressing-gown he patches the gaps in the structure of the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Taboo restrictions are distinct from religious or moral prohibitions. They are not based upon any divine ordinance, but may be said to impose themselves on their own account. They differ from moral prohibitions in that they fall into no system that declares quite generally that certain abstinences must be observed and gives reasons for that necessity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: In every age immorality has found no less support in religion than morality has. If the achievements of religion in respect to man's happiness, susceptibility to culture and moral control are no better than this, the question cannot but arise whether we are not overrating its necessity for mankind, and whether we do wisely in basing our cultural demands upon it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The analytic psychotherapist thus has a threefold battle to wage -- in his own mind against the forces which seek to drag him down from the analytic level; outside the analysis, against opponents who dispute the importance he attaches to the sexual instinctual forces and hinder him from making use of them in his scientific technique; and inside the analysis, against his patients, who at first behave like opponents but later on reveal the overvaluation of sexual life which dominates them, and who try to make him captive to their socially untamed passion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: In this way the ego detaches itself from the external world. It is more correct to say: Originally the ego includes everything, later it detaches from itself the external world. The ego-feeling we are aware of now is thus only a shrunken vestige of a far more extensive feeling - a feeling which embraced the universe and expressed an inseparable connection of the ego with the external world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The dream is the liberation of the spirit from the pressure of external nature, a detachment of the soul from the fetters of matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: A transference neurosis corresponds to a conflict between ego and id, a narcissistic neurosis corresponds to that between between ego and super-ego, and a psychosis to that between ego and outer world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that in physics atoms which were yesterday assumed to be square are now assumed to be round is exploited with unjustified tendentiousness by all who are hungry for faith; so long as physics extends our dominion over nature, these changes ought to be a matter of complete indifference to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The idea of men's receiving an intimation of their connection with the world around them through an immediate feeling which is from the outset directed to that purpose sounds so strange and fits in so badly with the fabric of our psychology that one is justified in attempting to discover a psycho-analytic - that is, a genetic - explanation of such a feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Hatred of Judaism is at bottom hatred of Christianity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Do you not know how uncontrolled and unreliable the average human being is in all that concerns sexual life?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: There is scarcely room for doubt that something in the psychological relation of a mother-in-law to a son-in-law breeds hostility between them and makes it hard for them to live together. But the fact that in civilized societies mothers-in-law are such a favourite subject for jokes seems to me to suggest that the emotional relation involved includes sharply contrasted components. I believe, that is, that this relation is in fact an 'ambivalent' one, composed of conflicting affectionate and hostile impulses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Man has, as it were, become a kind of prosthetic God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Analysis does not set out to make pathological reactions impossible, but to give the patient's ego freedom to decide one way or another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: If all the evidence put forward for the authenticity of religious teachings originates in the past, it is natural to look round and see whether the present, about which it is easier to form judgements, may not also be able to furnish evidence of the sort. If by this means we could succeed in clearing even a single portion of the religious system from doubt, the whole of it would gain enormously in credibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: The reproaches against science for not having yet solved the problems of the universe are exaggerated in an unjust and malicious manner; it has truly not had time enough yet for these great achievements. Science is very young--a human activity which developed late."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: I like to avoid concessions to faint-heartedness. One can never tell where that road may lead one; one gives way first in words, and then little by little in substance too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: I no longer believe that William Shakespeare the actor from Stratford was the author of the works that have been ascribed to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Religious doctrines \u2026 are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world, which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessities... If one attempts to assign to religion its place in man's evolution, it seems not so much to be a lasting acquisition, as a parallel to the neurosis which the civilized individual must pass through on his way from childhood to maturity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: ...perhaps the hopes I have confessed to are of an illusory nature, too. But I hold fast to one distinction. Apart from the fact that no penalty is imposed for not sharing them, my illusions are not, like religious ones, incapable of correction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Psycho-analysis has taught us that a boy's earliest choice of objects for his love is incestuous and that those objects are forbidden ones - his mother and his sister. We have learnt, too, the manner in which, as he grows up, he liberates himself from this incestuous attraction. A neurotic, on the other hand, invariably exhibits some degree of psychical infantilism. He has either failed to get free from the psychosexual conditions that prevailed in his childhood or he has returned to them - two possibilities which may be summed up as developmental inhibition and regression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: If one wishes to form a true estimate of the full grandeur of religion, one must keep in mind what it undertakes to do for men. It gives them information about the source and origin of the universe, it assures them of protection and final happiness, and it guides - by - precepts - backed by the full force of its authority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: To be sure, the ancient belief that the dream reveals the future is not entirely devoid of truth. By representing to us a wish as fulfilled the dream certainly leads us into the future; but this future, taken by the dreamer as present, has been formed into the likeness of that past by the indestructible wish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: What psycho-analysis reveals in the transference phenomena of neurotics can also be observed in the lives of some normal people. The impression they give is of being pursued by a malignant fate or possessed by some 'daemonic' power; but psycho-analysis has always taken the view that their fate is for the most part arranged by themselves and determined by early infantile influences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Another technique for fending off suffering is the employment of the displacements of libido which our mental apparatus permits of and through which its function gains so much in flexibility. The task here is that of shifting the instinctual aims in such a way that they cannot come up against frustration from the external world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: A child in its greed for love does not enjoy having to share the affection of its parents with its brothers and sisters; and it notices that the whole of their affection is lavished upon it once more whenever it arouses their anxiety by falling ill. It has now discovered a means of enticing out its parents' love and will make use of that means as soon as it has the necessary psychical material at its disposal for producing an illness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Sigmund Freud: Obsessional prohibitions are extremely liable to displacement. They extend from one object to another along whatever paths the context may provide, and this new object then becomes, to use the apt expression of one of my women patients, 'impossible' - till at last the whole world lies under an embargo of 'impossibility'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: The secret of happiness, you see, is not found in seeking more, but in developing the capacity to enjoy less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Most people, including ourselves, live in a world of relative ignorance. We are even comfortable with that ignorance, because it is all we know. When we first start facing truth, the process may be frightening, and many people run back to their old lives. But if you continue to seek truth, you will eventually be able to handle it better. In fact, you want more! It's true that many people around you now may think you are weird or even a danger to society, but you don't care. Once you've tasted the truth, you won't ever want to go back to being ignorant"
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: The unexamined life is not worth living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: He is the richest who is content with the least."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Four things belong to a judge: to hear courteously, to answer wisely, to consider soberly, and to decide impartially."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: An envious man waxeth lean with the fatness of his neighbors. Envy is the daughter of pride, the author of murder and revenge, the beginner of secret sedition and the perpetual tormentor of virtue. Envy is the filthy slime of the soul; a venom, a poison, or quicksilver which consumeth the flesh and drieth up the marrow of the bones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Worthless people live only to eat and drink; people of worth eat and drink only to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: The rest of the world lives to eat, while I eat to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Contentment is natural wealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Happiness is unrepented pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Man must rise above the Earth - to the top of the atmosphere and beyond - for only thus will he fully understand the world in which he lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: In all of us, even in good men, there is a lawless wild-beast nature, which peers out in sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Fame is the perfume of heroic deeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: My belief is that to have no wants is divine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Whenever any one informs us that he has found a man who knows all the arts, and all things else that anybody knows, and every single thing with a higher degree of accuracy than any other man - whoever tells us this, I think that we can only imagine him to be a simple creature who is likely to have been deceived by some wizard or actor whom he met, and whom he thought all-knowing, because he himself was unable to analyse the nature of knowledge and ignorance and imitation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm & constant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: No man undertakes a trade he has not learned, even the meanest; yet everyone thinks himself sufficiently qualified for the hardest of all trades, that of government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: You will know that the divine is so great and of such a nature that it sees and hears everything at once, is present everywhere, and is concerned with everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: I am wiser than this man, for neither of us appears to know anything great and good; but he fancies he knows something, although he knows nothing; whereas I, as I do not know anything, so I do not fancy I do. In this trifling particular, then, I appear to be wiser than he, because I do not fancy I know what I do not know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and inward may be one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Beauty is a short-lived tyranny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Knowledge is our ultimate good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Malice drinketh up the greater part of its own poison."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: For this fear of death is indeed the pretense of wisdom, and not real wisdom, being the appearance of knowing the unknown; since no one knows whether death, which they in their fear apprehend to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Life without enquiry is not worth living for a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions, but those who kindly reprove thy faults."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Those then who know not wisdom and virtue, and are always busy with gluttony and sensuality, go down and up again as far as the mean; and in this region they move at random throughout life, but they never pass into the true upper world; thither they neither look, nor do they ever find their way, neither are they truly filled with true being, nor do they ever taste of pure and abiding pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: It is a disgrace to grow old through sheer carelessness before seeing what manner of man you may become by developing your bodily strength and beauty to their highest limit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Though flattery blossoms like friendship, yet there is a vast difference in the fruit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Let us reflect in this way, too, that there is good hope that death is a blessing, for it is one of two things: either the dead are nothing and have no perception of anything, or it is, as we are told, a change and a relocation for the soul from here to another place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: See one promontory, one mountain, one sea, one river and see all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: By means of beauty all beautiful things become beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: I believe that we cannot live better than in seeking to become better, nor more agreeably than having a clear conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: The real artist, who knew what he was imitating, would be interested in realities and not in imitations; and would desire to leave as memorials of himself works many and fair; and, instead of being the author of encomiums, he would prefer to be the theme of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: The hour of departure has arrived and we go our ways; I to die, and you to live. Which is better? Only God knows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: How many things I can do without!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: A painter will paint a cobbler, carpenter, or any other artist, though he knows nothing of their arts; and, if he is a good artist, he may deceive children or simple persons, when he shows them his picture of a carpenter from a distance, and they will fancy that they are looking at a real carpenter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: He who has lived as a true philosopher has reason to be of good cheer when he is about to die, and that after death he may hope to receive the greatest good in the other world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: This sense of wonder is the mark of the philosopher. Philosophy indeed has no other origin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Wonder is the beginning of wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Often when looking at a mass of things for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I have no need of!'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Beloved Pan and all ye other gods who haunt this place, give me beauty in the inward soul; and may the outward and the inward man be one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: The duller eye may often see a thing sooner than the keener."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: You too must be of good hope as regards death, gentlemen of the jury, and keep this one truth in mind, that a good man cannot be harmed either in life or in death, and that his affairs are not neglected by the gods. What has happened to me now has not happened of itself, but it is clear to me that it was better for me to die now and to escape from trouble. That is why my divine sign did not oppose me at any point. So I am certainly not angry with those who convicted me, or with my accusers. Of course that was not their purpose when they accused and convicted me, but they thought they were hurting me, and for this they deserve blame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: God desired to be the real maker of a real bed, not a particular maker of a particular bed, and therefore He created a bed which is essentially and by nature one only."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: I am confident that there truly is such a thing as living again, that the living spring from the dead, and that the souls of the dead are in existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: But already it is time to depart, for me to die, for you to go on living; which of us takes the better course, is concealed from anyone except God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Whenever a number of individuals have a common name, we assume them to have also a corresponding idea or form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: I know what I do not know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: There are beds and tables in the world - plenty of them, are there not? But there are only two ideas or forms of them - one the idea of a bed, the other of a table."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: To give either to any public matter of interest or to any concern of my own, but I am in utter poverty by reason of my devotion to the god ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: For who is there but you? - who not only claim to be a good man and a gentleman, for many are this, and yet have not the power of making others good. Whereas you are not only good yourself, but also the cause of goodness in others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Socrates: Has a philosopher like you failed to discover that our country is more to be valued and higher and holier far than mother or father or any ancestor, and more to be regarded in the eyes of the gods and of men of understanding?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Ours may become the first civilization destroyed, not by the power of our enemies, but by the ignorance of our teachers and the dangerous nonsense they are teaching our children. In an age of artificial intelligence, they are creating artificial stupidity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: No one will really understand politics until they understand that politicians are not trying to solve our problems. They are trying to solve their own problems - of which getting elected and re-elected are number one and number two. Whatever is number three is far behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: We seem to be getting closer and closer to a situation where nobody is responsible for what they did but we are all responsible for what somebody else did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: You cannot subsidize irresponsibility and expect people to become more responsible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: In the long run, the greatest weapon of mass destruction is stupidity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated.  Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Of all ignorance, the ignorance of the educated is the most dangerous. Not only are educated people likely to have more influence, they are the last people to suspect that they don't know what they are talking about when they go outside their narrow fields."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: One of the painful signs of years of dumbed-down education is how many people are unable to make a coherent argument. They can vent their emotions, question other people's motives, make bold assertions, repeat slogans-- anything except reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: I have never understood why it is \"greed\" to want to keep the money you have earned but not greed to want to take somebody else's money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Any politician who can be elected only by turning Americans against other Americans is too dangerous to be elected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: It\u2019s amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The kinds of people we need in government are precisely the kinds of people who are most reluctant to go into government -- people who understand the inherent dangers of power and feel a distaste for using it, but who may do so for a few years as a civic duty. The worst kind of people to have in government are those who see it as a golden opportunity to impose their own superior wisdom and virtue on others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who produce, subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The reason so many people misunderstand so many issues is not that these issues are so complex, but that people do not want a factual or analytical explanation that leaves them emotionally unsatisfied. They want villains to hate and heroes to cheer - and they don't want explanations that do not give them that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: You cannot take any people, of any color, and exempt them from the requirements of civilization - including work, behavioral standards, personal responsibility, and all the other basic things that the clever intelligentsia disdain - without ruinous consequences to them and to society at large."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: No society ever thrived because it had a large and growing class of parasites living off those who produce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: There is usually only a limited amount of damage that can be done by dull or stupid people. For creating a truly monumental disaster, you need people with high IQs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: If you are not prepared to use force to defend civilization, then be prepared to accept barbarism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: A recently reprinted memoir by Frederick Douglass has footnotes explaining what words like 'arraigned,' 'curried' and 'exculpate' meant, and explaining who Job was.   In other words, this man who was born a slave and never went to school educated himself to the point where his words now have to be explained to today's expensively under-educated generation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Liberals love to say things like, \"We're just asking everyone to pay their fair share.\" But government is not about asking. It is about telling. The difference is fundamental. It is the difference between making love and being raped, between working for a living and being a slave. The Internal Revenue service is not asking anybody to do anything. It confiscates your assets and puts you behind bars if you don't pay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Some of the most vocal critics of the way things are being done are people who have done nothing themselves, and whose only contributions to society are their complaints and moral exhibitionism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The Constitution cannot protect us unless we protect the Constitution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn't work. But those who live by words will always have a soft spot in their hearts for socialism because it sounds so good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: What the welfare system and other kinds of governmental programs are doing is paying people to fail. In so far as they fail, they receive the money; in so far as they succeed, even to a\n moderate extent, the money is taken away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: As long as human beings are imperfect, there will always be arguments for extending the power of government to deal with these imperfections. The only logical stopping place is totalitarianism -- unless we realize that tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Liberals seem to assume that, if you don't believe in their particular political solutions, then you don't really care about the people that they claim to want to help."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: What is especially disturbing about the political left is that they seem to have no sense of the tragedy of the human condition.  Instead, they tend to see the problems of the world as due to other people not being as wise or as noble as themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Can you cite one speck of hard evidence of the benefits of \"diversity\" that we have heard gushed about for years? Evidence of its harm can be seen \u2014 written in blood \u2014 from Iraq to India, from Serbia to Sudan, from Fiji to the Philippines. It is scary how easily so many people can be brainwashed by sheer repetition of a word."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The key fallacy of so called gun control laws is that such laws do not in fact control guns. They simply disarm law abiding citizens, while people bent on violence find firearms readily available."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Nobody is equal to anybody. Even the same man is not equal to himself on different days."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: People who talk incessantly about \"change\" are often dogmatically set in their ways. They want to change other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: It is a way to take people's wealth from them without having to openly raise taxes. Inflation is the most universal tax of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: One of the problems with trying to help underdogs, especially with government programs, is that they and everyone else start to think of them as underdogs, focusing on their problems rather than their opportunities. Thinking of themselves as underdogs can also dissipate their energies in resentments of others, rather than spending that energy making the most of their own possibilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.  Think about the things that have improved our lives the most over the past century - medical advances, the transportation revolution, huge increases in consumer goods, dramatic improvements in housing, the computer.  The people who created these things - the doers - are not popular heroes.  Our heroes are the talkers who complain about the doers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than from individual choices and behavior. To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by 'society'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: It is so easy to be wrong-and to persist in being wrong-when the costs of being wrong are paid by others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Envy plus rhetoric equals \"social justice.\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: If you don't control the borders, it doesn't matter what immigration laws you have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Much of the self-righteous nonsense that abounds on so many subjects cannot stand up to three questions: (1) Compared to what? (2) At what cost? and (3) What are the hard facts?."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Talkers are usually more articulate than doers, since talk is their specialty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Envy is always referred to by its political alias, 'social justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The great escape of our times is escape from personal responsibility for the consequences of one's own behavior."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The biggest myth about labor unions is that unions are for the workers. Unions are for unions, just as corporations are for corporations and politicians are for politicians."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Deep thinkers who look everywhere for the mysterious causes of poverty, ignorance, crime and war need look no further than their own mirrors. We are all born into this world poor and ignorant, and with thoroughly selfish and barbaric impulses. Those of us who turn out any other way do so largely through the efforts of others, who civilized us before we got big enough to do too much damage to the world or ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The New York times' long-standing motto, 'All the News That's Fit to Print,' should be changed to reflect today's reality: 'Manufacturing News to Fit an Ideology.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Liberalism is totalitarianism with a human face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Has Obama ever grown even a potted plant, much less a business, a bank, a hospital or any of the numerous other institutions whose decisions he wants to control and override? But he can talk glibly about growing the economy. Arrogance is no substitute for experience. That is why the country is in the mess it is in now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Not since the days of slavery have there been so many people who feel entitled to what other people have produced as there are in the modern welfare state, whether in Western Europe or on this side of the Atlantic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: It is amazing how many people seem to think that the government exists to turn their prejudices into law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Nothing could be more jolting and discordant with the vision of today's intellectuals than the fact that it was businessmen, devout religious leaders and Western imperialists who together destroyed slavery around the world. And if it doesn't fit their vision, it is the same to them as if it never happened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Stupid people can cause problems, but it usually takes brilliant people to create a real catastrophe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Progress in general seems to hold little interest for people who call themselves 'progressives.' What arouses them are denunciations of social failures and accusations of wrong-doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Before the Iraq war I was quite disturbed by some of the neoconservatives, who were saying things like, \"What is the point of being a superpower if you can't do such-and-such, take on these responsibilities?\" The point of being a superpower is that people will leave you alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The fatal attraction of government is that it allows busybodies to impose decisions on others without paying any price themselves. That enables them to act as if there were no price, even when there are ruinous prices - paid by others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: 'Global warming' is just the latest in a long line of hysterical crusades to which we seem to be increasingly susceptible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Freedom is unlikely to be lost all at once and openly. It is far more likely to be eroded away, bit by bit, amid glittering promises and expressions of noble ideals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: If politicians were serious about day care for children, instead of just sloganizing about it, nothing they could do would improve the quality of child care more than by lifting the heavy burden of taxation that forces so many families to have both parents working."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: For every expert there is an equal and opposite expert, but for every fact there is not necessarily an equal and opposite fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Since this is an era when many people are concerned about 'fairness' and 'social justice,' what is your 'fair share' of what someone else has worked for?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: When we hear about rent control or gun control, we may think about rent or guns but the word that really matters is 'control.' That is what the political left is all about, as you can see by the incessant creation of new restrictions in places where they are strongly entrenched in power, such as San Francisco or New York."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Our national problems usually do not cause nearly as much harm as the solutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Many people believe in eliminating gaps and eliminating poverty. They don't realize that in some sense those two things are antithetical. If you were to double everyone's income, or if everyone's income were doubled naturally over the course of time, then you would reduce poverty significantly but you would have also increased the gap."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The minimum wage law very cleverly is misnamed. The real minimum wage is zero. That is what many inexperienced and low skilled people receive as a result of legislation that makes it illegal to pay them what they are currently worth to an employer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: If you have a right to respect, that means other people don't have a right to their own opinions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: I'm always embarrassed when people say that I'm courageous. Soldiers are courageous. Policemen are courageous. Firemen are courageous. I just have a thick hide and disregard what silly people say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The welfare state is not really about the welfare of the masses. It is about the egos of the elites."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: During the 1930s, some of the leading intellectuals in America condemned our economic system and pointed to the centrally planned Soviet economy as a model -- all this at a time when literally millions of people were starving to death in the Soviet Union, from a famine in a country with some of the richest farmland in Europe and historically a large exporter of food."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can't help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Competition does a much more effective job than government at protecting consumers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: No matter how disastrously some policy has turned out, anyone who criticizes it can expect to hear: 'But what would you replace it with?' When you put out a fire, what do you replace it with?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Even squirrels know enough to store nuts, so that they will have something to eat when food gets scarce. But the welfare state has spawned a whole class of people who spend everything they get when times are good, and look to others to provide for their food and other basic needs when times turn bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Apparently the only people who are supposed to be responsible are the taxpayers - and they are increasingly made responsible for other people's irresponsibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Too many people - some of them judges - seem to think that freedom of speech means freedom from consequences for what you have said. If you believe that, try insulting your boss when you go to work tomorrow. Better yet, try insulting your spouse before going to bed tonight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The promotion of \"self-esteem\" in our schools has been so successful that people feel free to spout off about all sorts of things - and see no reason why their opinions should not be taken as seriously as the views of people who actually know what they are talking about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Deception is one of the quickest ways to gain little things and lose big things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: For society as a whole, nothing comes as a \"right\" to which we are \"entitled.\" Even bare subsistence has to be produced-and produced at a cost of heavy toil for much of human history. The only way anyone can have a right to something that has to be produced is to force someone else to produce it for him. The more things are provided as rights, the less the recipients have to work and the more others have to carry their load."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: One of many problems with survey research in general is that you can only survey the survivors. In other words, if you were to do a survey of people who were known to have played Russian Roulette and you sent out the questions before the time they were going to play and then you come back six months after they played Russian Roulette, you would probably discover that among the people who did come back there was no harm done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: What the political left, even in democratic countries, share is the notion that knowledgeable and virtuous people like themselves have both a right and a duty to use the power of government to impose their superior knowledge and virtue on others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: It may be expecting too much to expect most intellectuals to have common sense, when their whole life is based on their being uncommon -- that is, saying things that are different from what everyone else is saying. There is only so much genuine originality in anyone. After that, being uncommon means indulging in pointless eccentricities or clever attempts to mock or shock."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Virtually no idea is too ridiculous to be accepted, even by very intelligent and highly educated people, if it provides a way for them to feel special and important. Some confuse that feeling with idealism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Policies are judged by their consequences but crusades are judged by how good they make the crusaders feel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Reality is not optional."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: All statements are true, if you are free to redefine their terms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Too often the past has been twisted to fit the visions and agendas of the present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: What is history but the story of how politicians have squandered the blood and treasure of the human race?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Even when black youth gangs target white strangers on the streets and spew out racial hatred as they batter them and rob them, mayors, police chiefs and the media tiptoe around their racism and many in the media either don't cover these stories or leave out the race and racism involved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Wal-Mart has done more for poor people then any ten liberals, at least nine of whom are almost guaranteed to hate Wal-Mart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: What makes it possible for politicians to do so many things that are economically counterproductive is that neither the public nor the media know enough of the basics to understand what's wrong with what they're saying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: We need laws written by people who have confronted life in the real world, not in the sheltered world of trust fund recipients of the insulated cocoon of academia."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: It is amazing how many of the horrors of the 20th century were a result of charismatic quacks misleading millions of people to their own doom. What is even more amazing is that, after a century that saw the likes of Hitler, Lenin and Mao, we still see no need to distrust charisma as a basis for choosing leaders, either in politics or in numerous organizations and movements."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: There are no solutions; there are only trade-offs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The desire to order other people around and make them  conform to one own's vision takes many forms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Too often what are called \"educated\" people are simply people who have been sheltered from reality for years in ivy-covered buildings. Those whose whole careers have been spent in ivy-covered buildings, insulated by tenure, can remain adolescents on into their golden retirement years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Love is a four-letter word, but you don't hear in nearly as often as you hear some other four-letter words. It may be a sign of our times that everyone talks openly about sex, but we seem to be embarrassed to talk about love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Politics is largely the process of taking credit and putting the blame on others - regardless of what the facts may be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: People who decry the fact that businesses are in business \"just to make money\" seldom understand the implications of what they are saying. You make money by doing what other people want, not what you want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The whole idea of equal justice under law is completely incompatible with the idea of judges deciding cases according to \"empathy\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Few of the great tragedies of history were created by the village idiot, and many by the village genius."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good. In area after area - crime, education, housing, race relations - the situation has gotten worse after the bright new theories were put into operation. The amazing thing is that this history of failure and disaster has neither discouraged the social engineers nor discredited them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The most politically painless way to hand out goodies, without taking responsibility for their costs, is to pass a law saying that somebody else must provide those goodies at their expense, while the politicians take credit for generosity and compassion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Nothing as mundane as mere evidence can be allowed to threaten a vision so deeply satisfying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Those who wrote the Constitution clearly understood that power is dangerous and needs to be limited by being separated - separated not only into the three branches of the national government but also separated as between the whole national government, on the one hand, and the states and the people on the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Implicit in the activist conception of government is the assumption that you can take the good things in a complex system for granted, and just improve the things that are not so good. What is lacking in this conception is any sense that a society, an institution, or even a single human being, is an intricate system of fragile inter-relationships, whose complexities are little understood and easily destabilized."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Many of the words and phrases used in the media and among academics suggest that things simply: happen: to people, rather than be being caused by their own choices and behavior. Thus there is said to be an 'epidemic' of teenage pregnancy, or of drug usage, as if these things were like the flu that people catch just by being in the wrong place at the wrong time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence. The implications of having so many people so incapable of confronting opposing arguments with anything besides ad hominem responses reach far."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Ronald Reagan had a vision of America. Barac k Obama has a vision of Barack Obama."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Everyone may be called \"comrade,\" but some comrades have the power of life and death over other comrades."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Most Americans living below the official poverty line own a car or truck - and government entitlement programs seldom provide cars and trucks. Most people living below the official poverty line also have air conditioning, color television, and a microwave oven - and these too are not usually handed out by government entitlement programs.\n\nCell phones and other electronic devices are by no means unheard of in low-income neighborhoods, where children would supposedly go hungry if there were no school-lunch programs. In reality, low-income people are overweight more often than other Americans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: As a rule of thumb. Congressional legislation that is bipartisan is usually twice as bad as legislation that is partisan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The question is not what anybody deserves. The question is who is to take on the God-like role of deciding what everybody else deserves. You can talk about 'social justice' all you want. But what death taxes boil down to is letting politicians take money from widows and orphans to pay for goodies that they will hand out to others, in order to buy votes to get re-elected. That is not social justice or any other kind of justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: For the anointed, traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age, and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Bailing out people who made ill-advised mortgages makes no more sense that bailing out people who lost their life savings in Las Vegas casinos."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Some of the people on death row today might not be there if the courts had not been so lenient on them when they were first offenders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: One undeniable accomplishment of Bill Clinton's presidency was that it kept Jimmy Carter from being the worst U.S. president in history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Don't you get tired of seeing so many \"non-conformists\" with the same non-conformist look?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Much of what sophisticates loftily refer to as the \"complexityof the real world is in fact the inconsistency in their own minds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: People who think that they are being 'exploited' should ask themselves whether they would be missed if they left, or whether people would say: 'Good riddance?'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Lunches don't get free just because you don't see the prices on the menu. And economists don't get popular by reminding people of that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: There are no dead-end jobs.  There are no dead-end jobs.  There are only dead-end people.  Our current social philosophy, and the welfare state apparatus based on it, are creating more dead-end people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The only thing better than \"hands-on\" experience is hands-off experience - enough experience to understand that some things will turn out better if left alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most wars, however, are started by well-fed people with the time on their hands to dream up half-baked ideologies or grandiose ambitions, and to nurse real or imagined grievances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Economics is concerned with what emerges, not what anyone intended."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Study after study, not only here but in other countries, show that the most affordable housing is where there has been the least government interference with the market - contrary to rhetoric."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: No one pushed harder than Congressman Barney Frank to force banks and other financial institutions to reduce their mortgage lending standards, in order to meet government-set goals for more home ownership. Those lower mortgage lending standards are at the heart of the increased riskiness of the mortgage market and of the collapse of Wall Street securities based on those risky mortgages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The cavemen had the same natural resources at their disposal as we have today, and the difference between their standard of living and ours is a difference between the knowledge they could bring to bear on those resources and the knowledge used today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Tolerating imperfections is the price of freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: One of the reasons for conspiracy theories is an assumption that people in high places always know what they are doing. When they do something that makes no sense, devious reasons are imagined by conspiracy theorists, when in fact it may be due to plain old ignorance and incompetence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: All too often, we do smart things only after exhausting every conceivable dumb thing we could have done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: I hate to make predictions, but I think the economy is going to be permanently changed for the worse. I think our foreign policy is going to lead to changes that will be definitely for the worse, particularly if we drift into a nuclear Iran, which I gather that's what the administration is doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Whenever someone refers to me as someone \"who happens to be black,\" I wonder if they realize that both my parents are black. If I had turned out to be Scandinavian or Chinese, people would have wondered what was going on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: When Congress votes for all sorts of benefits, without voting for enough taxes to pay for them, they get the support of those who have been promised the benefits, without getting grief from the taxpayers.  It's strictly win-win as far as the welfare-state politicians are concerned.  But it is strictly lose-lose, big-time, for the country, as deficits skyrocket."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Nobody would put as little thought and effort into buying an automobile as they put into deciding who to elect as President of the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Government bailouts are like potato chips: You can't stop with just one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who \"speak truth to power\" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Stopping illegal immigration would mean that wages would have to rise to a level where Americans would want the jobs currently taken by illegal aliens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Fairness' is one of the great mantras of the left. Since everyone has his own definition of fairness, that word is a blank check for the expansion of government power. What fairness means in practice is that third parties -- busybodies -- can prevent mutual accommodations by others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are-- and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Contrary to the vision of the left, it was the free market which produced affordable housing - before government intervention made housing unaffordable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Someone recently pointed out how much Barack Obama's style and strategies resemble those of Latin American charismatic despots - the takeover of industries by demagogues who never ran a business, the rousing rhetoric of resentment addressed to the masses and the personal cult of the leader promoted by the media. But do we want to become the world's largest banana republic?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: If you start from a belief that the most knowledgeable person on earth does not have even one percent of the total knowledge on earth, that shoots down social engineering, economic central planning, judicial activism, and innumerable other ambitious notions favored by the political left."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking again in a month, and competing in track meets before the year is out? Yet Americans are generally given 'class' labels on the basis of their transient location in the income stream. If most Americans do not stay in the same broad income bracket for even a decade, their repeatedly changing 'class' makes class itself a nebulous concept. Yet the intelligentsia are habituated, if not addicted, to seeing the world in class terms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Although I am ready to defend what I have said, many people expect me to defend what others have attributed to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Like other magicians, Obama has chosen his distractions well. The insurance industry is currently his favorite distraction as scapegoats, after he has tried to demonize doctors without much success . . . . Obama even gets away with saying things like having a system to 'keep insurance companies honest' - and many people may not see the painful irony in politicians trying to keep other people honest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: In medicine, it has long been recognized that even a quack remedy that is harmless in itself can be fatal when it substitutes for an effective medication or treatment. The time is overdue for that same recognition to apply to politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options"
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The real culprits are those who created a system that makes it dangerous to work and safe to loaf."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The real minimum wage is zero."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: We're not a socialist country, because the socialists believe in government ownership in the means of production, but the fascists believe that the government should have private ownership and the politicians should tell people how to run the businesses. So that's the route we seem to be going."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The least productive people are usually the ones who are most in favor of holding meetings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: If politicians stopped meddling with things they don't understand, there would be a more drastic reduction in the size of government than anyone in either party advocates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The inefficiency of political control of an economy has been demonstrated more often, in more places, and under more varied conditions, than almost anything outside the realm of pure science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: You may scoff at the Tooth Fairy if you like. But the Tooth Fairy's approach has gotten more politicians elected than any economist's analysis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: What then is the intellectual advantage of civilization over primitive savagery? It is not necessarily that each civilized man has more knowledge but that he requires far less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: As far as party primaries are concerned, both Republican - and Democratic - Party primaries are dominated by the most zealous voters, whose views may not reflect the views of most members of\ntheir own respective parties, much less the views of those who are going to vote in the November general election."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: In politics, throwing the taxpayers' money at disasters is supposed to show your compassion. But robbing Peter to pay Paul is not compassion. It is politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Right after liberal Democrats, the most dangerous politicians are country club Republicans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: All justice is inherently social. Can someone on a desert island be either just or unjust?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: In the wake of the housing debacle in California, more people are buying less expensive homes, making bigger down payments, and staying away from 'creative' and risky financing. It is amazing how fast people learn when they are not insulated from the consequences of their decisions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Out of every hundred new ideas ninety-nine or more will probably be inferior to the traditional responses which they propose to replace. No one man, however brilliant or well-informed, can come in one lifetime to such fullness of understanding as to safely judge and dismiss the customs or institutions of his society, for those are the wisdom of generations after centuries of experiment in the laboratory of history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Tariffs that save jobs in the steel industry mean higher steel prices, which in turn means fewer sales of American steel products around the world and losses of far more jobs than are saved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: What all these lofty and vague phrases boil down to is that the court can impose things that the voters don't want and the Constitution does not require, but which are in vogue in circles to which the court responds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: People in the political world have every incentive to say things that lead voters away from a clear economic understanding of issues. What has happened more and more is that organized groups have more and more reasons to say things that don't make any economic sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: No individual and no generation has had enough personal experience to ignore the vast experience of the human race that is called history. Yet most of our schools and colleges today pay little attention to history. And many of our current policies repeat mistakes that were made, time and again, in the past with disastrous results."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: What is called 'capitalism' might more accurately be called consumerism. It is the consumers who call the tune, and those capitalists who want to remain capitalists have to learn to dance to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Clearly, only very unequal intellectual and moral standing could justify having equality imposed, whether the people want it or not, as Dworkin suggests, and only very unequal power would make it possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Egalitarians create the most dangerous inequality of all - inequality of power. Allowing politicians to determine what all other human beings will be allowed to earn is one of the most reckless gambles imaginable. Like the income tax, it may start off being applied only to the rich but it will inevitably reach us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: All that makes earlier times seem simpler is our ignorance of their complexities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The Congressional Budget Office has been embarrassed repeatedly by making projections based on the assumption that tax revenues and tax rates move in the same direction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The old adage about giving a man a fish versus teaching him how to fish has been updated by a reader: Give a man a fish and he will ask for tartar sauce and French fries! Moreover, some politician who wants his vote will declare all these things to be among his 'basic rights.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: One of the most ridiculous defenses of foreign aid is that it is a very small part of our national income. If the average American set fire to a five-dollar bill, it would be an even smaller percentage of his annual income. But everyone would consider him foolish for doing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: American prosperity and American free enterprise are both highly unusual in the world, and we should not overlook the possibility that the two are connected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Perhaps the most widespread misunderstanding of economics is that it applies solely to financial transactions. Frequently this leads to statements that \"there are noneconomic values\" to consider. There are, of course, noneconomic values. Indeed, there are only noneconomic values. Economics is not a value itself but merely a method of trading off one value against another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Think about it: What the busybodies are saying is that third parties like themselves -- who are paying nothing to anybody -- should be determining how much somebody else should be paying those who work for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: You need to be empathetic in your own personal life and we help our neighbors and our friends out who are struggling in our neighborhoods. But we don't make bad decisions based on empathy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Students are often in no position to judge 'relevance' until long after the fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The government is indeed an institution, but \"the market\" is nothing more than an option for each individual to chose among numerous existing institutions, or to fashion new arrangements suited to his own situation and taste."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Balanced budget requirements seem more likely to produce accounting ingenuity than genuinely balanced budgets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The law of diminishing returns means that even the most beneficial prinicple will become harmful if carried far enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The fact that the market is not doing what we wish it would do is no reason to automatically assume that the government would do better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated curiosities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy. It's purpose is to discern the consequences of various ways of allocating resources which have alternative uses. It has nothing to say about philosophy or values, anymore than it has to say about music or literature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Actually lowering the cost of insurance would be accomplished by such things as making it harder for lawyers to win frivolous lawsuits against insurance companies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: If one writing contributed more than any other to the framework in which this work  Sowell's Knowledge and Decisions  developed, it would be an essay entitled 'The Use of Knowledge in Society,' published in the American Economic Review of September 1945, and written by F. A. Hayek . . In this plain and apparently simple essay was a deeply penetrating insight into the way societies function and malfunction, and clues as to why they are so often and so profoundly misunderstood."
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  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The dominant orthodoxy in development economics was that Third World countries were trapped in a vicious cycle of poverty that could be broken only by massive foreign aid from the more prosperous industrial nations of the world.  This was in keeping with a more general vision on the Left that people were essentially divided into three categories - the heartless, the helpless, and wonderful people like themselves, who would rescue the helpless by playing Lady Bountiful with the taxpayers' money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Our economic problems worry me much less than our political solutions, which have a far worse track record."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Both free speech rights and property rights belong legally to individuals, but their real function is social, to benefit vast numbers of people who do not themselves exercise these rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Economic policies need to be analyzed in terms of the incentives they create, rather than the hopes that inspired them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy \"solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: What is politically defined as economic planning is the forcible superseding of other people's plans by Government officials."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Someone once defined a social problem as a situation in which the real world differs from the theories of intellectuals. To the intelligentsia, it follows, as the night follows the day, that it is the real world that is wrong and which needs to change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: I hate to think that someday Americans will be looking at the ruins of their cities and saying that this happened because their leaders were afraid of the word unilateral."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: What does calling this medical care legislation \"historic\" mean? It means that previous administrations gave up the idea when it became clear that the voting public did not want government control of medical care. What is \"historic\" is that this will be the first administration to show that it doesn't care one bit what the public wants or doesn't want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The America that has flourished for more than two centuries is being quietly but steadily dismantled by the Obama administration."
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  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Both HUD and the Department of Justice began bringing lawsuits against mortgage bankers when a higher percentage of minority applicants than white applicants were turned down for mortgage loans. A substantial majority of both black and white mortgage loan applicants had their loans approved but a statistical difference was enough to get a bank sued."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: People who thing that they are getting something for nothing, by having government provide what they would otherwise have to buy in the private market, are not only kidding themselves by ignoring the taxes that government has to take from them in order to give them the appearance of something for nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Most variables can show either an upward or downward trend, depending on the base year chosen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Force is the antithesis of freedom, but force must be used, if only to defend against other force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Any policy is a success by sufficiently low standards and a failure by sufficiently high standards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier. Many ideas- probably most- will have to be discarded somewhere in the process of producing authenticated knowledge. Authentication is as important as the raw information itself, and the manner and speed of the authentication process can be crucial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: In the string of amazing decisions made during the first year of the Obama administration, nothing seems more like sheer insanity than the decision to try foreign terrorists, who have committed acts of war against the United States, in federal court, as if they were American citizens accused of crimes."
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  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: In its pursuit of justice for a segment of society, in disregard of the consequences for society as a whole, what is called 'social justice' might more accurately be called anti-social justice, since what consistently gets ignored or dismissed are precisely the costs to society. Such a conception of justice seeks to correct, not only biased or discriminatory acts by individuals or by social institutions, but unmerited disadvantages in general, from whatever source they may arise."
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  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Securities based on risky mortgages are what toppled financial institutions but it was the government that made the mortgages risky in the first place, by making home-ownership statistics the holy grail, for which everything else was to be sacrificed, including commonsense standards for making home loans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: If you don't believe in the innate unreasonableness of human beings, just try raising children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Just as a poetic discussion of the weather is not meteorology, so an issuance of moral pronouncements or political creeds about the economy is not economics. Economics is a study of cause-and-effect relationships in an economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Relevance is not something you can predict. It is something you discover after the fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Any statistics can be extrapolated to the point where they show disaster."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Charles Murray, however, clearly believes that being able to cure fatal diseases is more important than some other things and that Rembrandt was a greater artist than your local sidewalk cartoon sketcher. Most people might regard this as obvious common sense but some of the intelligentsia may be seething with resentment at seeing their pet fetishes ignored."
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  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Republicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost big. There is a lesson in that somewhere but\n whether Republicans will learn it is another story entirely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: A shortage is a sign that somebody is keeping the price artificially lower than it would be if supply and demand were allowed to operate freely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Both history and contemporary data show that countries prosper more when there are stable and dependable rules, under which people can make investments without having to fear unpredictable new government interventions before these investments can pay off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Anyone who has actually had to take responsibility for consequences by running any kind of enterprise whether economic or academic, or even just managing a sports team is likely at some point to be chastened by either the setbacks brought on by his own mistakes or by seeing his successes followed by negative consequences that he never anticipated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Many people, including some conservatives, have been very impressed with how brainy the president and his advisers are. But that is not quite as reassuring as it might seem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Civilization is an enormous device for economizing knowledge,."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The more adaptability exists for a given kind of decision, the less risky it is to make plans for the future, and therefore the more likely it is that more people will make more plans in such areas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: People who know nothing about advertising, nothing about pharmaceuticals, and nothing about economics have been loudly proclaiming that the drug companies spend too much on advertising - and demanding that the government pass laws based on their ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: What freedom does a starving man have?\" The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Social values in general are incrementally variable: neither safety, diversity, rational articulation, nor morality is categorically a good thing to have more of, without limits. All are subject to diminishing returns, and ultimately negative returns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: France has never gotten over the fact that it was once a great power and is now just a great nuisance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: All things are the same except for the differences, and different except for the similarities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Informal relationships are not mere minor interstitial supplements to the major institutions of society. These informal relationships not only include important decision-making processes, such as the family, but also produce much of the background social capital without which the other major institutions of society could not function nearly as effectively as they do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: At least half of the popular fallacies about economics come from assuming that economic activity is a zero-sum game, in which what is gained by someone is lost by someone else. But transactions would not continue unless both sides gained, whether in international trade, employment, or renting an apartment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political overlords as by contributing to the vast and powerful currents of conceptions and misconceptions that sweep human action along."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: While President Barack Obama has, in one sense, tipped his hand by saying that he wants judges with \"empathy\" for certain groups, he has in a more fundamental sense concealed the real goal - getting judges who will ratify an ever-expanding scope of the power of the federal government and an ever-declining restraint by the Constitution of the United States. This is consistent with everything else that Obama has done in office and is consistent with his decades-long track record of alliances with people who reject the fundamentals of American society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Financial institutions are not being bailed out as a favor to them or their stockholders. In fact, stockholders have come out worse off after some bailouts. The real point is to avoid a major contraction of credit that could cause major downturns in output and employment, ruining millions of people, far beyond the financial institutions involved. If it was just a question of the financial institutions themselves, they could be left to sink or swim. But it is not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: More than half of all people filing income tax forms use someone else to prepare the forms for them.  Then they have to sign under penalty of perjury that these forms are correct.  But if they were competent to determine that, why would they have to pay someone else to do their taxes for them in the first place?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The same set of statistics can produce opposite conclusions at different levels of aggregation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Much of the world today, including the United States, is still living in the social, cultural, and political aftermath of Britain's cultural achievements, its industrial revolution, its government of checks and balances, and its conquests around the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Time was when people used to brag about how old they were - and I am old enough to remember it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Congressman Frank and Senator Dodd wanted the government to push financial institutions to lend to people they would not lend to otherwise, because of the risk of default. ... The idea that politicians can assess risks better than people who have spent their whole careers assessing risks should have been so obviously absurd that no one would take it seriously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Barack Obama has not only said that he is out to 'change the United States of America,' the people he has been associated with for years have expressed in words and deeds their hostility to the values, the principles and the people of this country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Too many people in Washington are full of themselves, among other things that they are full of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: A lot of what is called 'public service' consists of making hoops for other people to jump through. It is a great career for those who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Trade-offs have been with us ever since the late unpleasantness in the Garden of Eden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: It is precisely those members of Congress who have had the most to do with creating the risks that led to the current economic crisis who are making the most noise against others, and summoning people before their committee to be browbeaten and humiliated on nationwide television."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The stricter standards and independent, often conclusive, evidence in the physical sciences cannot be generalized to intellectual activity as a whole, even though the aura of scientific processes and results is often appropriated by other intellectuals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Money goes out first to pay expenses and then comes back as profits later - if at all. The high rate of failure of new businesses makes painfully clear that there is nothing inevitable about the money coming back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Like a baseball game, wars are not over till they are over. Wars don't run on a clock like football. No previous generation was so hopelessly unrealistic that this had to be explained to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Those government officials who want more power are not going to stop unless they get stopped."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Imagine a political system so radical as to promise to move more of the poorest 20% of the population into the richest 20% than remain in the poorest bracket within the decade? You don't need to imagine it. It's called the United States of America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: We never really know and the very fact that there are such words in the language as disappointment, regret, etc., is testimony to the pervasiveness and persistence of this feature of the human condition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The desire of businessmen for profits is what drives prices down unless forcibly prevented from engaging in price competition, usually by governmental activity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Knowledge can be enormously costly, and is often scattered in widely uneven fragments, too small to be individually usable in decision making. The communication and coordination of these scattered fragments of knowledge is one of the basic problems- perhaps the basic problem- of any society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Neither the depth of despondency nor the height of euphoria tells you how long either will last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the: process: by which decisions are made. Often what they propose amounts to third-party decision making by people who pay no cost for being wrong-surely one of the least promising ways of reaching decisions satisfactory to those who must live with the consequences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Fundamentalist religion is the most pervasive vision of central planning, though many fundamentalists may oppose human central planning as a usurpation or \"playing God.This is consistent with the fundamentalist vision of an unconstrained God and a highly constrained man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: After the risky mortgage-lending practices fostered by government intervention led to massive defaults and foreclosures that caused financial institutions to collapse or be bailed out, Congressman Frank changed his tune completely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Unbounded morality ultimately becomes counterproductive even in terms of the same moral principles being sought. The law of diminishing returns applies to morality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas Sowell: Child poverty in the United States declined after the work requirement was put in there. People realized that they had to work and people went out and worked and they got off welfare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Common sense is not so common."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: \u200eLife is a shipwreck, but we must not forget to sing in the lifeboats."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Dare to think for yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: I cannot imagine how the clockwork of the universe can exist without a clockmaker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: I have never made but one prayer to God, a very short one: 'O Lord make my enemies ridiculous.' And God granted it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Writing is the painting of the voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Which is more dangerous: fanaticism or atheism? Fanaticism is certainly a thousand times more deadly; for atheism inspires no bloody passion whereas fanaticism does; atheism is opposed to crime and fanaticism causes crimes to be committed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Faith consists in believing what reason cannot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The perfect is the enemy of the good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: To the wicked, everything serves as pretext."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: What can you say to a man who tells you he prefers obeying God rather than men, and that as a result he's certain he'll go to heaven if he cuts your throat?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies - it is the first law of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Clever tyrants are never punished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Once your faith persuades you to believe what your intelligence declares absurd, beware, lest you likewise sacrifice your reason in the conduct of your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Man is free at the instant he wants to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Life is thickly sown with thorns. I know no other remedy than to pass rapidly over them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes the greater is their power to harm us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: If you have two religions in your land, the two will cut each other\u2019s throats; but if you have thirty religions, they will dwell in peace"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: God is a circle whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Men will always be mad, and those who think they can cure them are the maddest of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Tears are the silent language of grief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It is said that the present is pregnant with the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The safest course is to do nothing against one's conscience. With this secret, we can enjoy life and have no fear from death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: If God did not exist, He would have to be invented. But all nature cries aloud that he does exist: that there is a supreme intelligence, an immense power, an admirable order, and everything teaches us our own dependence on it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The necessity of saying something, the embarrassment produced by the consciousness of having nothing to say, and the desire to exhibit ability, are three things sufficient to render even a great man ridiculous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Those who think are excessively few; and those few do not set themselves to disturb the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Men appear to prefer ruining one another's fortunes, and cutting each other's throats about a few paltry villages, to extending the grand means of human happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: There are two things for which animals are to be envied: they know nothing of future evils, or of what people say about them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Our character is composed of our ideas and our feelings: and, since it has been proved that we give ourselves neither feelings nor ideas, our character does not depend on us. If it did depend on us, there is nobody who would not be perfect. If one does not reflect, one thinks oneself master of everything; but when one does reflect, one realizes that one is master of nothing"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: To make a vow for life is to make oneself a slave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Men argue. Nature acts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It is the triumph of superior reason to live with folks who don't have any."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words one can alter nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Self love is the instrument of our preservation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The institution of religion exists only to keep mankind in order, and to make men merit the goodness of God by their virtue. Everything in a religion which does not tend towards this goal must be considered foreign or dangerous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Discord is the great ill of mankind; and tolerance is the only remedy for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Theological religion is the source of all imaginable follies and disturbances. It is the parent of fanaticism and civil discord; it is the enemy of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Poetry is the music of the soul, and, above all, of great and feeling souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Such then is the human condition, that to wish greatness for one's country is to wish harm to one's neighbors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Men hate the individual whom they call avaricious only because there is nothing to be gained by him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: All sects are different, because they come from men; morality is everywhere the same, because it comes from God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The secret of being a bore... is to tell everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It requires ages to destroy a popular opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Chance is a word void of sense; nothing can exist without a cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The prudent man does himself good; the virtuous one does it to other men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: To hold a pen is to be at war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: We should be considerate to the living; to the dead we owe only the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: A false science makes atheists, a true science prostrates men before the Deity"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Everything's fine today, that is our illusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: I read these words which are the sum of all moral philosophy, and which cut short all the disputes of the casuists: When in doubt if an action is good or bad, refrain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Love truth, but pardon error."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It is better to risk saving a guilty man than to condemn an innocent one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Prejudice is an opinion without judgment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: What is not in nature can never be true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Adultery is an evil only inasmuch as it is a theft; but we do not steal that which is given to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: I read only to please myself, and enjoy only what suits my taste."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Optimism,\" said Cacambo, \"What is that?\" \"Alas!\" replied Candide, \"It is the obstinacy of maintaining that everything is best when it is worst."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Slavery is also as ancient as war, and war as human nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: I believe that there never was a creator of a philosophical system who did not confess at the end of his life that he had wasted his time. It must be admitted that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men that the inventors of syllogisms. He who imagined a ship towers considerably above him who imagined innate ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It is lamentable, that to be a good patriot one must become the enemy of the rest of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: In every province, the chief occupations, in order of importance, are lovemaking, malicious gossip, and talking nonsense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Dogs, monkeys, and parrots are a thousand times less miserable than we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: True power and true politeness are above vanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: \"I have no more than twenty acres of ground,\" he replied, \"the whole of which I cultivate myself with the help of my children; and our labor keeps off from us the three great evils - boredom, vice, and want.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: A minister of state is excusable for the harm he does when the helm of government has forced his hand in a storm; but in the calm he is guilty of all the good he does not do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Faith consists in believing not what seems true, but what seems false to our understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: There are no sects in geometry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The monster, fanaticism, still exists, and whoever seeks after truth will run the risk of being persecuted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Let each of us boldly and honestly say: How little it is that I really know!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: A good action is preferable to an argument."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: If you are attacked as regards your style, never reply; it is for your work alone to make answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: All men are by nature free; you have therefore an undoubted liberty to depart whenever you please, but will have many and great difficulties to encounter in passing the frontiers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: He wanted to know how they prayed to God in El Dorado. \"We do not pray to him at all,\" said the reverend sage. \"We have nothing to ask of him. He has given us all we want, and we give him thanks continually."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Great men have all been formed either before academies or independent of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Opinion is called the queen of the world; it is so, for when reason opposes it, it is condemned to death. It must rise twenty times from its ashes to gradually drive away the usurper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: \"You're a bitter man,\" said Candide. \n\"That's because I've lived,\" said Martin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly - that is the first law of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Secret griefs are more cruel than public calamities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: What is faith? Is it to believe that which is evident? No. It is perfectly evident to my mind that there exists a necessary, eternal, supreme, and intelligent being. This is no matter of faith, but of reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: We cannot wish for that we know not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: I die adoring God, loving my friends, not hating my enemies, and detesting superstition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: For seventeen hundred years the Christian sect has done nothing but harm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Verses which do not teach men new and moving truths do not deserve to be read."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: I have wanted to kill myself a hundred times, but somehow I am still in love with life. This ridiculous weakness is perhaps one of our more stupid melancholy propensities, for is there anything more stupid than to be eager to go on carrying a burden which one would gladly throw away, to loathe one\u2019s very being and yet to hold it fast, to fondle the snake that devours us until it has eaten our hearts away?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: If you want good laws, burn those you have and make new ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: God prefers bad verses recited with a pure heart to the finest verses chanted by the wicked."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The punishment of criminals should be of use; when a man is hanged he is good for nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Christians have been the most intolerant of all men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: There is a pleasure in not being pleased."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics. ... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: A good cook is a certain slow poisoner, if you are not temperate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Reading nurtures the soul, and an enlightened friend brings it solace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: We are obliged to place ourselves on the level of our age before we can rise above it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: What! Have you no monks to teach, to dispute, to govern, to intrigue and to burn people who do not agree with them?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The history of human opinion is scarcely anything more than the history of human errors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The worthy administrators of justice are like a cat set to take care of a cheese, lest it should be gnawed by the mice. One bite of the cat does more damage to the cheese than twenty mice can do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Exaggeration, the inseparable companion of greatness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: History is the recital of facts represented as true. Fable, on the other hand, is the recital of facts represented as fiction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The best is the enemy of the good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It would be very singular that all nature, all the planets, should obey eternal laws, and that there should be a little animal five feet high, who, in contempt of these laws, could act as he pleased, solely according to his caprice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: my soul is the mirror of the universe, and my body is its frame"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Come! you presence will either give me life or kill me with pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Let us read, and let us dance \u2014 these two amusements will never do any harm to the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Every abuse ought to be reformed, unless the reform is more dangerous than the abuse itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: To succeed in chaining the multitude, you must seem to wear the same fetters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: We adore, we invoke, we seek to appease, only that which we fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: I also know that we must cultivate our garden. For when man was put in the Garden of Eden, he was put there ut operaretur eum, to work; which proves that man was not born for rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: We offer up prayers to god only because we have made him after our own image. We treat him like a pasha, or a sultan, who is capable of being exasperated and appeased."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The question of good and evil remains in irremediable chaos for those who seek to fathom it in reality. It is mere mental sport to the disputants, who are captives that play with their chains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: A small number of choice books are sufficient."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: What then do you call your soul? What idea have you of it? You cannot of yourselves, without revelation, admit the existence within you of anything but a power unknown to you of feeling and thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It was decided by the university of Coimbre that the sight of several persons being slowly burned in great ceremony is an infallible secret for preventing earthquakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The sovereign is called a tyrant who knows no laws but his caprice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Men, generally going with the stream, seldom judge for themselves, and purity of taste is almost as rare as talent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The flowery style is not unsuitable to public speeches or addresses, which amount only to compliment. The lighter beauties are in their place when there is nothing more solid to say; but the flowery style ought to be banished from a pleading, a sermon, or a didactic work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Our labour preserves us from three great evils -- weariness, vice, and want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: We all look for happiness, but without knowing where to find it: like drunkards who look for their house, knowing dimly that they have one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Let us cultivate our garden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: If God has made us in his image, we have returned him the favor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: All pleasantry should be short; and it might even be as well were the serious short also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The composition of a tragedy requires testicles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Fools admire everything in an author of reputation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: the women are never at a loss, God provides for them, let us run."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: What will the preachers say? .. to teach men not to persecute men: for, while a few sanctimonious humbugs are burning a few fanatics, the earth opens and swallows up all alike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Minds differ still more than faces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Governments need to have both shepherds and butchers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: All is for the best in the best of all possible worlds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: We admit, in geometry, not only infinite magnitudes, that is to say, magnitudes greater than any assignable magnitude, but infinite magnitudes infinitely greater, the one than the other. This astonishes our dimension of brains, which is only about six inches long, five broad, and six in depth, in the largest heads."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: All the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Errors flies from mouth to mouth, from pen to pen, and to destroy it takes ages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Even in those cities which seem to enjoy the blessings of peace, and where the arts florish, the inhabitants are devoured by envy, cares and anxieties, which are greater plagues than any expirienced in a town when it is under siege."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The policy of man consists, at first, in endeavoring to arrive at a state equal to that of animals, whom nature has furnished with food, clothing, and shelter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: All the citizens of a state cannot be equally powerful, but they may be equally free"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of Newton and the dung of a mule. Newton's intelligence, therefore, came from another intelligence"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: We must distinguish between speaking to deceive and being silent to be reserved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Fear could never make virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The man who, in a fit of melancholy, kills himself today, would have wished to live had he waited a week."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Monsieur l'abb\u00e9, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for you to continue to write."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Hope should no more be a virtue than fear; we fear and we hope, according to what is promised or threatened us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: An infallible method of making fanatics is to persuade before you instruct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The way to be a bore is to say everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The progress of rivers to the ocean is not so rapid as that of man to error."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Anything too stupid to be said is sung."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The malevolence of men revealed itself to his mind in all of its ugliness"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The spirit of property doubles a man's strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The Pope is an idol whose hands are tied and whose feet are kissed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Every beauty, when out of it's place, is a beauty no longer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: I am very fond of truth, but not at all of martyrdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: I loved him as we always love the first time: with idolatry and wild passion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Friendship is the marriage of the soul, and this marriage is liable to divorce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: I am convinced that everything has come down to us from the banks of the Ganges, astronomy, astrology, metempsychosis, etc. It does not behoove us, who were only savages and barbarians when these Indians and Chinese peoples were civilized and learned, to dispute their antiquity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: One always speaks badly when one has nothing to say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The opinion of all lawyers, the unanimous cry of the nation, and the good of the state, are in themselves a law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: I hold firmly to my original views. After all I am a philosopher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Where there is friendship, there is our natural soil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The superfluous, a very necessary thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Paradise is where I am"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Virtuous men alone possess friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Love has various lodgings; the same word does not always signify the same thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: We have our arts, the ancients had theirs... We cannot raise obelisks a hundred feet high in a single piece, but our meridians are more exact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: I acknowledge that four thousand volumes of metaphysics will not teach us what our soul is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: In every author let us distinguish the man from his works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Love is a canvas furnished by Nature and embroidered by imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Liberty, then, about which so many volumes have been written is, when accurately defined, only the power of acting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Who are you, Nature?\r\nI live in you;\r\nfor fifty years I have been seeking you,\r\nand I have not found you yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It is far better to be silent than merely to increase the quantity of bad books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: We are astonished at thought, but sensation is equally wonderful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: But nothing is more estimable than a physician who, having studied nature from his youth, knows the properties of the human body, the diseases which assail it, the remedies which will benefit it, exercises his art with caution, and pays equal attention to the rich and the poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: If this is the best of possible worlds, what then are the others?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It is with books as with the fires of our grates, everybody borrows a light from his neighbor to kindle his own, which in turn is communicated to others, and each partakes of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: What would constitute useful history?  That which should teach us our duties and our rights, without appearing to teach them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Life is bristling with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to cultivate one's garden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: What a pessimist you are!\" exclaimed Candide. \"That is because I know what life is,\" said Martin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The first clergyman was the first rascal who met the first fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Love has features which pierce all hearts, he wears a bandage which conceals the faults of those beloved. He has wings, he comes quickly and flies away the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Virtue between men is a commerce of good actions: he who has no part in this commerce must not be reckoned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is Metaphysics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The husband who decides to surprise his wife is often very much surprised himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It is not known precisely where angels dwell whether in the air, the void, or the planets. It has not been God's pleasure that we should be informed of their abode."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: We have a natural right to make use of our pens as of our tongue, at our peril, risk and hazard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: God has punished the knave, and the devil has drowned the rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: If God did not exist, he would have to be invented."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: In this country we find it pays to shoot an admiral from time to time to encourage the others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Theology is to religion what poisons are to food."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: God created women only to tame men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Happiness is not the portion of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Whoever serves his country well has no need of ancestors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Man is not born wicked; he becomes so, as he becomes sick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: We look to Scotland for all our ideas of civilisation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Whatever you do, crush the infamous thing, and love those who love you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: I have seen men incapable of the sciences, but never any incapable of virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: To caress the serpent that devours us, until it has eaten away our heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The superstitious man is to the rogue what the slave is to the tyrant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: How inexpressible is the meanness of being a hypocrite! how horrible is it to be a mischievous and malignant hypocrite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Men must have somewhat altered the course of nature; for they were not born wolves, yet they have become wolves. God did not give them twenty-four-pounders or bayonets, yet they have made themselves bayonets and guns to destroy each other. In the same category I place not only bankruptcies, but the law which carries off the bankrupts\u2019 effects, so as to defraud their creditors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It is not sufficient to see and to know the beauty of a work. We must feel and be affected by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The system of Descartes... seemed to give a plausible reason for all those phenomena; and this reason seemed more just, as it is simple and intelligible to all capacities. But in philosophy, a student ought to doubt of the things he fancies he understands too easily, as much as of those he does not understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: History in general is a collection of crimes, follies, and misfortunes among which we have now and then met with a few virtues, and some happy times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: He who is not just is severe, he who is not wise is sad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: He was my equal in beauty, a paragon of grace and charm, sparkling with wit, and burning with love. I adored him to distraction, to the point of idolatry: I loved him as one can never love twice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Descartes constructed as noble a road of science, from the point at which he found geometry to that to which he carried it, as Newton himself did after him. ... He carried this spirit of geometry and invention into optics, which under him became a completely new art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Pleasantry is never good on serious points, because it always regards subjects in that point of view in which it is not the purpose to consider them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It is amusing that a virtue is made of the vice of chastity; and it's a pretty odd sort of chastity at that, which leads men straight into the sin of Onan, and girls to the waning of their color."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: We must cultivate our own garden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It is fancy rather than taste which produces so many new fashions"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Meslier was the most singular phenomenon ever seen among all the meteors fatal to the Christian religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The harmony of a concert, to which you listen with delight, must have on certain classes of minute animals the effect of terrible thunder; perhaps it kills them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: When his highness sends a ship to Egypt, does he trouble his head whether the mice on board are at their ease or not?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: had no need of a guide to learn ignorance"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: When a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Man can have only a certain number of teeth, hair and ideas; there comes a time when he necessarily loses his teeth, hair and ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: But for what purpose was the earth formed?\" asked Candide. \"To drive us mad,\" replied Martin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: I am the best-natured creature in the world, and yet I have already killed three, and of these three two were priests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Nothing is so common as to imitate one's enemies, and to use their weapons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: To a toad what is beauty? A female with two lovely pop-eyes, a wide mouth, yellow belly, and green spotted back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The superfluous is very necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Why, since we are always complaining of our ills, are we constantly employed in redoubling them?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: What is called happiness is an abstract idea, composed of various ideas of pleasure; for he who has but a moment of pleasure is not a happy man, in like manner that a moment of grief constitutes not a miserable one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Antiquity is full of the praises of another antiquity still more remote."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Society therefore is an ancient as the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Let us leave every man at liberty to seek into him and to lose himself in his ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Let us work without theorizing, tis the only way to make life endurable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: It must be confessed that the inventors of the mechanical arts have been much more useful to men than the inventors of syllogisms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: A circumstance which has always appeared wonderful to me, is that such sublime discoveries should have been made by the sole assistance of a quadrant and a little arithmetic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: All the persecutors declare against each other mortal war, while the philosopher, oppressed by them all, contents himself with pitying them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: What can I hope when all is right?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The supposed right of intolerance is absurd and barbaric. It is the right of the tiger; nay, it is far worse, for tigers do but tear in order to have food, while we rend each other for paragraphs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: If we do not exert the right of eating our neighbor, it is because we have other means of making good cheer"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: No one is ignorant that our character and turn of mind are intimately connected with the water-closet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: For can anything be sillier than to insist on carrying a burden one would continually much rather throw to the ground?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: I advise you to go on living solely to enrage those who are paying your annuities. It is the only pleasure I have left."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: I know of nothing more laughable than a doctor who does not die of old age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: We are going to a new world... and no doubt it is there that everything is for the best; for it must be admitted that one might lament a little over the physical and moral happenings of our own world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Los Padres have everything and the people have nothing; 'tis the masterpiece of reason and justice. For my part, I know nothing so divine as Los Padres who make war on Kings of Spain and Portugal and in Europe act as their confessors; who here kill Spaniards and at Madrid send them to Heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Often the prudent, far from making their destinies, succumb to them. -Francois"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Do you think... that men have always massacred each other, as they do today? Have they always been liars, cheats, traitors, brigands, weak, flighty, cowardly, envious, gluttonous, drunken, grasping, and vicious, bloody, backbiting, debauched, fanatical, hypocritical, and silly?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: My life's dream has been a perpetual nightmare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Voltaire: Excellently observed\", answered Candide; \"but let us cultivate our garden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: what matters most is how well you walk through the fire"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Find what you love and let it kill you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: the free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: nobody can save you but yourself and you\u2019re worth saving. it\u2019s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning then this is it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: An artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I see men assassinated around me every day. I walk through rooms of the dead, streets of the dead, cities of the dead; men without eyes, men without voices; men with manufactured feelings and standard reactions; men with newspaper brains, television souls and high school ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: If you're going to try, go all the way. Otherwise, don't even start."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I am not like <br />\n other people. <br />\n I am <br />\n burning in hell. The hell of <br />\n myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Almost everybody is born a genius and buried an idiot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The crowd is the gathering place of the weakest; true creation is a solitary act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: In my next life I want to be a cat. To sleep 20 hours a day and wait to be fed. To sit around licking my ass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Unless it comes out of your soul like a rocket, unless being still would drive you to madness or suicide or murder, don't do it. unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it. when it is truly time, and if you have been chosen, it will do it by itself and it will keep on doing it until you die or it dies in you. there is no other way. and there never was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: There are only two things wrong with money: too much or too little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Beware of those who seek constant crowds; they are nothing alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I am not a snob; it is simply that I am not interested with what most people have to say, or what they want to do \u2014 mostly with my time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Beauty is nothing, beauty won\u2019t stay. You don\u2019t know how lucky you are to be ugly, because if people like you, you know it\u2019s for something else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Sometimes you climb out of bed in the morning and you think, I'm not going to make it, but you laugh inside \u2014 remembering all the times you've felt that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little more off you, until there was nothing left. At the age of 25 most people were finished. A whole goddamned nation of assholes driving automobiles, eating, having babies, doing everything in the worst way possible, like voting for the presidential candidate who reminded them most of themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Are you becoming what you've always hated?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: \u200e\"she\u2019 mad but she\u2019 magic. there\u2019 no lie in her fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I don\u2019t want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta. No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too dumb to know that I am not there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I will remember the kisses our lips raw with love and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me, and I will remember your small room the feel of you the light in the window your records your books our morning coffee our noons our nights our bodies spilled together sleeping the tiny flowing currents immediate and forever your leg my leg your arm my arm your smile and the warmth of you who made me laugh again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The less I needed, the better I felt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: You know the typical crowd, Wow, it\u2019s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there? Well, yeah. Because there\u2019s nothing out there. It\u2019s stupidity. Stupid people mingling with stupid people. Let them stupidify themselves. I\u2019ve never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. That\u2019s all. Sorry for all the millions, but I\u2019ve never been lonely. I like myself. I\u2019m the best form of entertainment I have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: If you're going to try, go all the way. There is no other feeling like that. You will be alone with the gods, and the nights will flame with fire. You will ride life straight to perfect laughter. It's the only good fight there is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Death meant little to me. It was the last joke in a series of bad jokes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Knowledge without follow-through is worse than no knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The nine-to-five is one of the greatest atrocities sprung upon mankind. You give your life to a function that doesn't interest you. This situation so repelled me that I was driven to drink, starvation, and mad females, simply as an alternative."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The more cats you have, the longer you live. If you have a hundred cats, you'll live ten times longer than if you have ten. Someday this will be discovered, and people will have a thousand cats and live forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: In a capitalistic society the losers slaved for the winners and you have to have more losers than winners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Invent yourself and then reinvent yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: People empty me. I have to get away to refill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Human relationships didn't work anyhow. Only the first two weeks had any zing, then the participants lost their interest. Masks dropped away and real people began to appear: cranks, imbeciles, the demented, the vengeful, sadists, killers. Modern society had created its own kind and they feasted on each other. It was a duel to the death--in a cesspool."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: You can steal my women but don't play with my whiskey."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: We\u2019ve died so many times now that we can only wonder why we still care."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: People with no morals often considered themselves more free, but mostly they lacked the ability to feel or love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: With me, my main vision for life was to avoid as many people as possible. The less people I saw the better I felt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I walked around the block twice, passed 200 people and failed to see a human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I've never met another man I'd rather be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: too often, the only escape is sleep"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: as the spirit wanes the form appears"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others. Their fear is only their inability to face what is real, and I can't vent any anger against them. I only feel this appalling sadness. Somewhere, in their upbringing, they were shielded against the total facts of our existence. They were only taught to look one way when many ways exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I went to the worst of bars hoping to get killed but all I could do was to get drunk again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I have gotten so used to melancholia that I greet it like an old friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: True revolution comes from true revulsion; when things get bad enough the kitten will kill the lion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: you boys can keep your virgins give me hot old women in high heels with asses that forgot to get old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Pain is strange. A cat killing a bird, a car accident, a fire.... Pain arrives, BANG, and there it is, it sits on you. It's real. And to anybody watching, you look foolish. Like you've suddenly become an idiot. There's no cure for it unless you know somebody who understands how you feel, and knows how to help."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals. I was settled into nothingness; a kind of non-being, and I accepted it. I didn't make for an interesting person. I didn't want to be interesting, it was too hard. What I really wanted was only a soft, hazy space to live in, and to be left alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Lighting new cigarettes, pouring more drinks. It has been a beautiful fight. Still is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to any man should be confiscated and made unlawful by other men in more seemingly powerful and advantageous positions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: if it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don't do it. unless it comes unasked out of your heart and your mind and your mouth and your gut, don't do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I felt like crying but nothing came out. it was just a sort of sad sickness, sick sad, when you can't feel any worse. I think you know it. I think everybody knows it now and then. but I think I have known it pretty often, too often."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I couldn't get myself to read the want ads. The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed. So I stayed in bed and drank. When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn't have you by the throat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Sometimes you just have to pee in the sink."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: If I bet on humanity, I'd never cash a ticket."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The difference between a brave man and a coward is a coward thinks twice before jumping in the cage with a lion. The brave man doesn't know what a lion is. He just thinks he does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I had no interests. I had no interest in anything. I had no idea how I was going to escape. At least the others had some taste for life. They seemed to understand something that I didn\u2019t understand. Maybe I was lacking. It was possible. I often felt inferior. I just wanted to get away from them. But there was no place to go. Suicide? Jesus Christ, just more work. I felt like sleeping for five years but they wouldn\u2019t let me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: But my whole life has been a matter of fighting for one simple hour to do what I want to do. There was always something getting in the way of my getting to myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist. There are women who can make you feel more with their bodies and their souls but these are the exact women who will turn the knife into you right in front of the crowd."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: People were interesting at first. Then later, slowly but surely, all the flaws and madness would manifest themselves. I would become less and less to them; they would mean less and less to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I don\u2019t understand people, never will. It looks like I got to travel pretty much alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: nobody can save you but yourself. you will be put again and again into nearly impossible situations. they will attempt again and again through subterfuge, guise and force to make you submit, quit and/or die quietly inside. nobody can save you but yourself"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Some nights I knew that if I slept I would die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I wasn\u2019t lonely. I experienced no self-pity. I was just caught up in a life in which I could \ufb01nd no meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: there is a place in the heart that will never be filled a space and even during the best moments and the greatest times times we will know it we will know it more than ever there is a place in the heart that will never be filled and we will wait and wait in that space."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Beware Those Who Are ALWAYS READING BOOKS"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Those who preach god, need god Those who preach peace do not have peace Those who preach love do not have love"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I enjoy the bad things that are said about me. It enhances sales and makes me feel evil. I don't like to feel good 'cause I am good. But evil? Yes. It gives me another dimension."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Never envy a man his lady. Behind it all lays a living hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me everything you had and how I offered you what was left of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I had noticed that both in the very poor and very rich extremes of society the mad were often allowed to mingle freely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The Difference Between Art and Life is that Art is More Bearable"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: \"Baby,\" I said. \"I'm a genius but nobody knows it but me.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: there is a loneliness in this world so great that you can see it in the slow movement of the hands of a clock"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Before my death I hope to obtain my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I am a poem. There is no way out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too tough for him, I say, stay in there, I'm not going to let anybody see you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I was beaten down long ago in some alley in another world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: when I was a boy I used to dream of becoming the village idiot. I used to lie in bed and imagine myself the happy idiot able to get food easily ...and easy sympathy, a planned confusion of not too much love or effort. some would claim that I have succeeded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: the tigers have found me and I do not care."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Love is a fog that burns with the first daylight of reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: the way to create art is to burn and destroy ordinary concepts and to substitute them with new truths that run down from the top of the head and out of the heart"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I loved you like a man loves a woman he never touches, only writes to, keeps little photographs of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: More often than not Democratic Law works to the advantage of the few even though the many have voted; this, of course, is because the few have told them how to vote."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: No matter how little a man has he will find that he will always settle for less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: as a child i suppose i was not quite normal. my happiest times were when i was left alone in the house on a saturday."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: It\u2019s when you hide things that you choke on them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: unless the sun inside you is burning your gut, don't do it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I would say that Mickey Mouse has a greater influence on the American public than Shakespeare, Milton, Dante, Rabelais, Shostakovitch, Lenin, and/or Van Gogh. Which says 'What?' about the American Public. Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Some men hope for revolution but when you revolt and set up your new government you find your new government is still the same old Papa, he has only put on a cardboard mask."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: There's a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Why do you insist upon destroying yourself?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Style means no shield at all.<br />\n Style means no front at all.<br />\n Style means ultimate naturalness.<br />\n Style means one man alone with billions of men about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: mercy, I think, doesn't the human race know anything about mercy?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The worst men have the best jobs <br />\n the best men have the worst jobs or are <br />\n unemployed or locked in <br />\n madhouses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: There's music in everything, even defeat"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Now something so sad has hold of us that the breath leaves and we can't even cry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: little sun little moon little dog and a little to eat and a little to love and a little to live for in a little room filled with little mice who gnaw and dance and run while I sleep waiting for a little death in the middle of a little morning in a little city in a little state my little mother dead my little father dead in a little cemetery somewhere. I have only a little time to tell you this: watch out for little death when he comes running but like all the billions of little deaths it will finally mean nothing and everything: all your little tears burning like the dove, wasted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: they simply never understand, do they, that sometimes solitude is one of the most beautiful things on earth?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I pretend to understand because I don't want anybody to be hurt"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: There are no good wars or bad wars. The only thing bad about a war is<br />\n to lose it. All wars have been fought for a so-called good Cause on both<br />\n sides. But only the victor's Cause becomes history's Noble Cause. It's not a<br />\n matter of who is right or who is wrong, it's a matter of who has the best<br />\n generals and the better army!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: You can\u2019t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I knew I was strong, and maybe like they said, \"crazy.\" But I had this feeling inside of me that something real was there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Cautiously, I allowed myself to feel good at times. I found moments of peace in cheap rooms just staring at the knobs of some dresser or listening to the rain in the dark. The less I needed the better I felt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Knowledge is knowing as little as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: They were beautiful nothings"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I think I need a drink.' 'Almost everybody does only they don't know it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: there is enough treachery , hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Play the Piano Drunk Like a Percussion Instrument Until the Fingers Begin to Bleed a Bit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The blankets had fallen off and I stared down at her white back, the shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow into wings, poke through that skin. Little blades. She was helpless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men's crapper of the local bar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I guess we often get the deep blues, both of us, and wonder what it all means- the people, the buildings, the day by day things, the waste of time, of ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I was so thin I could slice bread with my shoulderblades, only I seldom had bread."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: to fight for each minute is to fight for what is possible within yourself, so that your life and your death will not be like theirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Everything was a trap: women, drugs, whiskey, wine, scotch, beer - even beer - cigars, and cigarettes. Traps: Work or no work. Traps: Artistry or no artistry; everything sucked you into some spiderweb. I disdained the use of the needle for the same reason that I disdained some so-called beautiful women - the price was far beyond the measure of the worth. I didn't want to hustle that hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I have two rules. One is, never trust a man who smokes a pipe. The other is, never trust a man with shiny shoes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The years have gone by quickly. Death sits in the seat next to me. We make a lovely couple."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Sexual intercourse is kicking death in the ass while singing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: For each Joan of Arc there is a Hitler perched at the other end of the teeter-totter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I was a man who thrived on solitude; without it I was like another man without food or water. Each day without solitude weakened me. I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I was in love again. I was in trouble"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: when I am feeling low all i have to do is watch my cats and my courage returns"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I don't think I'll travel anymore. Travel is nothing but an inconvenience. There is always enough trouble where you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz \u2026 anything that contains the original energy of joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: It\u2019s the order of things: each one gets a taste of honey then the knife."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: There is something about writing poetry that brings a man close to the cliff's edge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I felt I had to win. It seemed very important. I didn't know why it was important and I kept thinking, why do I think this is so important? And another part of me answered, just because it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The night kept coming on in and there was nothing I could do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Love came hard and very seldom. When it did it was usually for the wrong reasons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Sometimes I get too exhausted to even feel bad"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: There's a bluebird in my heart that <br />\n wants to get out <br />\n but I pour whiskey on him and inhale <br />\n cigarette smoke <br />\n and the whores and the bartenders <br />\n and the grocery clerks <br />\n never know that <br />\n he's <br />\n in there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: So, that\u2019s what they wanted: lies. Beautiful lies. That\u2019s what they needed. People were fools. It was going to be easy for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I grow tired of 18th century moralities in a 20th century space-atomic age"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I met a genius on the train today about 6 years old, he sat beside me and as the train ran down along the coast we came to the ocean and then he looked at me and said, it\u2019s not pretty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Drinking is an emotional thing. It joggles you out of the standardism of everyday life, out of everything being the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: all that I know is that I believe in the sound of music and the running of a horse. all else is squabble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: there's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out but I'm too clever, I only let him out at night sometimes when everybody's asleep. I say, I know that you're there, so don't be sad. then I put him back, but he's singing a little in there, I haven't quite let him die and we sleep together like that with our secret pact and it's nice enough to make a man weep, but I don't weep, do you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I don't think I have written a poem when I was completely sober. But I have written a few good ones or a few bad ones under the hammer of a black hangover when I didn't know whether another drink or a blade would be the best thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: the last cigarettes are smoked, the loaves are sliced, and lest this be taken for wry sorrow, drown the spider in wine. you are much more than simply dead: I am a dish for your ashes, I am a fist for your vanished air. the most terrible thing about life is finding it gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: we only asked for leopards to guard our thinning dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I didn't have any friends at school, didn't want any. I felt better being alone. I sat on a bench and watched the others play and they looked foolish to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Why did I come here? I thought. Why is it always only a matter of choosing between something bad and something worse?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: It's 4:30 in the morning, it's always 4:30 in the morning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: If you want to know who your friends are, get yourself a jail sentence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: If I have any advice to anybody it's this: take up watercolor painting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: We do not abandon ship. I say, as corny as it may sound, through the strength and spirit and fire and dare and gamble of a few men in a few ways we can save the carcass of humanity from drowning. No light goes out until it goes out. Let's fight as men, not rats. Period. No further addition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I made practice runs down to skid row to get ready for my future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Pull a string, a puppet moves ... each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire, the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha ... can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl will enter and you'll be standing, drunk, in the center of it and she'll ask: my god, what's the matter? and you'll answer: I don't know, I don't know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: and I laugh, I can still laugh, who can't laugh when the whole thing is so ridiculous that only the insane, the clowns, the half-wits, the cheaters, the whores, the horseplayers, the bankrobbers, the poets ... are interesting?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: pain is absurd because it exists, nothing more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I was glad I wasn't in love, that I wasn't happy with the world. I like being at odds with everything. People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective. They lose their sense of humor. They become nervous, psychotic bores. They even become killers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Don't wait for the good woman. She doesn't exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The centuries are sprinkled with rare magic with divine creatures who help us get past the common and extraordinary ills that beset us"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: the beautiful are found in the edge of a room crumpled into spiders and needles and silence and we can never understand why they left,they were so beautiful. they dont make it, the beautiful die young and leave the ugly to their ugly lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: you are on the freeway threading through traffic now, moving both towards something and towards nothing at all as you punch the radio on and get Mozart, which is something, and you will somehow get through the slow days and the busy days and the dull days and the hateful days and the rare days, all both so delightful and so disappointing because we are all so alike and so different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Bullfighting can be an art Boxing can be an art Loving can be an art Opening a can of sardines can be an art"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Parties sickened me. I hated the game-playing, the dirty play, the flirting, the amateurs drunks, the bores."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: people are not good to each other. perhaps if they were our deaths would not be so sad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: You are thirty minutes late.\" \"Yes.\" \"Would you be thirty minutes late to a wedding or a funeral?\" \"No.\" \"Why not, pray tell?\" \"Well, if the funeral was mine I'd have to be on time. If the wedding was mine it would be my funeral."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The Laughing Heart your life is your life don\u2019t let it be clubbed into dank submission. be on the watch. there are ways out. there is a light somewhere. it may not be much light but it beats the darkness. be on the watch. the gods will offer you chances. know them. take them. you can\u2019t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes. and the more often you learn to do it, the more light there will be. your life is your life. know it while you have it. you are marvelous the gods wait to delight in you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: i was born to hustle roses down the avenue of the dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I wasn't a misanthrope and I wasn't a misogynist but I liked being alone. It felt good to sit alone in a small space and smoke and drink. I had always been good company for myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I read my books at night, like that, under the quilt with the overheated reading lamp. Reading all those good lines while suffocating. It was magic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: When you drank the world was still out there, but for the moment it didn\u2019t have you by the throat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death. They don't honor their own lives ... their minds are full of cotton. They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them.... Most people's deaths are a sham. There's nothing left to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: there is enough treachery, hatred violence absurdity in the average human being to supply any given army on any given day and the best at murder are those who preach against it and the best at hate are those who preach love and the best at war finally are those who preach peace"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: And it seems people should not build houses anymore it seems people should stop working and sit in small rooms on second floors under electric lights without shades; it seems there is a lot to forget and a lot not to do and in drugstores, markets, bars, the people are tired, they do not want to move, and I stand there at night and look through this house and the house does not want to be built"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I only want sweet peace and kindliness when I awaken -- but there's always some finger pointing, telling me some terrible deed I committed during the night. It seems I make a lot of mistakes and it seems that I am not allowed any."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: People just weren't interesting. Maybe they weren't supposed to be. But animals, birds, even insects were. I couldn't understand it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: escape from the black widow spider is a miracle as great as art. what a web she can weave slowly drawing you to her she'll embrace you then when she's satisfied she'll kill you still in her embrace and suck the blood from you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I'm going, she said. I love you but you're crazy, you're doomed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Do some living and get yourself a typewriter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: beware the average man the average woman beware their love, their love is average seeks average but there is genius in their hatred there is enough genius in their hatred to kill you to kill anybody not wanting solitude not understanding solitude they will attempt to destroy anything that differs from their own not being able to create art they will not understand art they will consider their failure as creators only as a failure of the world"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: All a guy needed was a chance. Somebody was alway controlling who got a chance and who didn't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I remembered my New Orleans days, living on two five-cent candy bars a day for weeks at a time in order to have leisure to write. But starvation, unfortunately, didn't improve art. It only hindered it. A man's soul was rooted in his stomach. A man could write much better after eating a porterhouse steak and drinking a pint of whiskey than he could ever write after eating a nickel candy bar. The myth of the starving artist was a hoax."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: In New York you've got to have all the luck."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: There were always men looking for jobs in America. There were always all these usable bodies. And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody was a writer. Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer. Of those fifty guys in the room, probably fifteen of them thought they were writers. Almost everybody used words and could write them down, i.e., almost everybody could be a writer. But most men, fortunately, aren't writers, or even cab drivers, and some men - many men - unfortunately aren't anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Before you kill something make sure you have something better to replace it with."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I took no pride in my solitude; but I was dependent on it. The darkness of the room was like sunlight to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: A man who can beat the horses can do anything he makes up his mind to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I wanted the whole world or nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Food is good for the nerves and the spirit. Courage comes from the belly \u2013 all else is desperation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: one more creature dizzy with love"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: News travels fast in places where nothing much ever happens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I would give anything for a female's hand on me tonight. they soften a man and then leave him listening to the rain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Basically, that's why I wrote: to save my ass, to save my ass from the madhouse, from the streets, from myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: It was sad, it was sad, it was sad. When Betty came back we didn't sing or laugh, or even argue. We sat drinking in the dark, smoking cigarettes, and when we went to sleep, I didn't put my feet on her body or she on mine like we used to. We slept without touching. We had both been robbed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: \"Hello, baby, how you doing? When you coming for me? I'll be ready."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: LSD, yeah, the big parade \u2013 everybody's doin' it now. Take LSD, then you are a poet, an intellectual. What a sick mob. I am building a machine gun in my closet now to take out as many of them as I can before they get me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: There's no way I can stop writing, it's a form of insanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: That\u2019s when I first learned that it wasn\u2019t enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: God knows I am not too hippy. Perhaps because I am too much around the hip and I fear fads for, like anybody else, I like something that tends to last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: she\u2019s mad, but she\u2019s magic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I've never been lonely. I like myself. I'm the best form of entertainment I have. Let's drink more wine!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The ladies usually go for the biggest damn fool they can find; that is why the human race stands where it does today: we have bred the clever and lasting Casanovas, all hollow inside, like the chocolate Easter bunnies we foster upon our poor children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: We are Born like this Into this Into these carefully mad wars Into the sight of broken factory windows of emptiness Into bars where people no longer speak to each other Into fist fights that end as shootings and knifings Born into this Into hospitals which are so expensive that it\u2019s cheaper to die Into lawyers who charge so much it\u2019s cheaper to plead guilty Into a country where the jails are full and the madhouses closed Into a place where the masses elevate fools into rich heroes"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: How are his poems?\" \"He's not as good as he thinks he is, but then most of us feel that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: my mother, poor fish, wanting to be happy, beaten two or three times a week, telling me to be happy: \"Henry, smile! why don't you ever smile?\" and then she would smile, to show me how, and it was the saddest smile I ever saw"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I didn't like anybody in that school. I think they knew that. I think that's why they disliked me. I didn't like the way they walked or looked or talked, but I didn't like my mother or father either. I still had the feeling of being surrounded by white empty space. There was always a slight nausea in my stomach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: ... to die on a kitchen floor at 7 o'clock in the morning while other people are frying eggs is not so rough unless it happens to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Never get out of bed before noon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: i dunno,\" i said, \"but i have an idea that people who don't think too much tend to look younger longer"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: They, all of them, seemed to put literary form in front of the actuality and living of life itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Long ago, among other lies they were taught that silence was bravery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: In the morning it was morning and I was still alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Sometimes a man doesn\u2019t know what to do about things and sometimes it\u2019s best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I feel strangely normal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: To be young is the only religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: My heart is a thousand years old. I am not like other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: It will rain all this night and we will sleep transfixed by the dark water as our blood runs through our fragile life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: And I said to myself that he was the first thing that I had ever missed in my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: There's a bluebird in my heart that wants to get out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Many a good man has been put under the bridge by a woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Censorship is the tool of those who have the need to hide actualities from themselves and from others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I'm not the cruel type, but they are, and that's the secret."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: If it doesn't come bursting out of you in spite of everything, don\u2019t do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Her violence frightened me. She always claimed that I was the jealous one, and I was often jealous, but when I saw things working against me I simply became disgusted and withdrew. Lydia was different. She reacted. She was the Head Cheerleader at the Game of Violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: When I was young I was depressed all the time. But suicide no longer seemed a possibility in my life. At my age there was very little left to kill. It was good to be old, no matter what they said. It was reasonable that a man had to be at least 50 years old before he could write with anything like clarity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: great books are the ones we need"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: It began as a mistake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: There is nothing as boring as the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: it's better to be happy...if you can..!!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Dear child, I only did to you what the sparrow did to you; I am old when it is fashionable to be young; I cry when it is fashionable to laugh. I hated you when it would have taken less courage to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The trouble with a mask is it never changes"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I never pump up my vulgarity. I wait for it to arrive in its own terms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: it seemed to me that I had never met another person on earth as discouraging to my happiness as my father. and it appeared that I had the same effect upon him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: places to hunt places to hide are getting harder to find, and pet canaries and goldfish too, did you notice that?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: You just rebel against everything. How are you going to survive? I don't know. I'm already tired."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I can never drive my car over a bridge without thinking of suicide. I can never look at a lake or an ocean without thinking of suicide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: When I get down to my last dime I'll just walk over to skid row.\" \"There are some real weirdos down there.\" \"They're everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I will put on my shoes and shirt and get out of here - it'll be better for all of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: They swallow God without thinking, they swallow country without thinking. Soon they forget how to think, they let others think for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I often stood in front of the mirror alone, wondering how ugly a person could get."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The human race had always disgusted me. essentially, what made them disgusting was the family-relationship illness, which included marriage, exchange of power and aid, which neighborhood, your district, your city, your county, your state, your nation-everybody grabbing each other's assholes in the Honeycomb of survival out of a fear-animalistic stupidity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The writing's easy, it's the living that is sometimes difficult."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: And yet women-good women--frightened me because they eventually wanted your soul, and what was left of mine, I wanted to keep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Alcohol is probably one of the greatest things to arrive upon the earth - alongside of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Anybody can be a non-drunk. It takes a special talent to be a drunk. It takes endurance. Endurance is more important than truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: If I stop writing I am dead. And that's the only way I'll stop: dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I am aware that a computer can\u2019t create a poem, but neither can a typewriter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I was drawn to all the wrong things: I liked to drink, I was lazy, I didn't have a god, politics, ideas, ideals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Not everybody thought they could be a dentist or an automobile mechanic but everybody knew they could be a writer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The whole LSD, STP, marijuana, heroin, hashish, prescription cough medicine crowd suffers from the \"Watchtower\" itch: you gotta be with us, man, or you're out, you're dead. This pitch is a continual and seeming MUST with those who use the stuff. It's no wonder they keep getting busted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The public takes from a writer, or a writing, what it needs and lets the remainder go. but what they take is usually what they need least and what they let go is what they need most."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Turgenev was a very serious fellow but he could make me laugh because a truth first encountered can be very funny. When someone else's truth is the same as your truth, and he seems to be saying it just for you, that's great."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Most people are not ready for death, theirs or anybody elses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: People don't do me much good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: We waste days like mad blackbirds and pray for alcoholic nightsour silk-sick human smiles wrap around us like somebody else's confetti"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I write as a function. Without it I would fall ill and die. It's as much a part of one as the liver or intestine, and just about as glamorous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Finally there is nothing here for death to take away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: There would never be a way for me to live comfortably with people. Maybe I'd become a monk. I'd pretend to believe in God and live in a cubicle, play an organ and stay drunk on wine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I always started a job with the feeling that I'd soon quit or be fired, and this gave ma a relaxex manner that was mistaken for intelligence or some secret power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Some of my poems indicate that I am writing while living alone after a split with a woman, and I've had many splits with women. I need solitude more often when I'm not writing than when I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I'll get back to the whores and the horses and the booze, while there's time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: It was only the matter of a new voice. Nobody listened to an old voice anymore. Old voices became a part of one's self, like a fingernail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The problem was you had to keep choosing between one evil or another, and no matter what you chose, they sliced a little bit more off you, until there was nothing left."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: like the fox I run with the hunted and if I\u2019m not the happiest man on earth I\u2019m surely the luckiest man alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I could never accept life as it was, I could never gobble down all its poisons bu there were parts, tenuous magic parts open for the asking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Sweet Christ, you must know that a man will go further for any poem than for any woman ever born."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: People don't need love. What they need is success in one form or another. It can be love but it needn't be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Fiction is an improvement on life"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: be it peace or happiness let it enfold you"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: magic persists without us no matter what we may do to try to spoil it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: In a more universal sense, we only get one thing. You know...a head stone if we're lucky; if not, green grass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Hemingway and Saroyan had the line, the magic of it. The problem was that Hemingway didn't know how to laugh and Saroyan was filled with sugar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: You have to lay down in the center of the action lay down and wait until it charges then you must get up face it get it before it gets you the whole process is more shy than vulnerable so lay down and wait sometimes it's ten minutes sometimes it's years sometimes it never arrives but you can't rush it push it there's no way to cheat or get a jump on it you have to lay down lay down and wait like an animal ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I knew it would be you"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Fay had a spot of blood on the left side of her mouth and I took a wet cloth and wiped it off. Women were meant to suffer; no wonder they asked for constant declarations of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: If you can only remain pure in your stupidity, someday you may get a phone call from hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: and the color in my eyes has gone back into the sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: nothing's news. it's the same old thing in disguise. only one thing comes without a disguise and you only see it once, or maybe never. like getting hit by a freight train. makes us realize that all our moaning about long lost girls in gingham dresses is not so important after all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Love is a Dog from Hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: What good are you? What can you do? It has cost me a thousands of dollars to raise you, feed you, clothe you! Suppose I left you here on the street? Then what would you do?\" \"Catch butterflies"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: alone with everybody the flesh covers the bone and they put a mind in there and sometimes a soul, and the women break vases against the walls and them men drink too much and nobody finds the one but they keep looking crawling in and out of beds. flesh covers the bone and the flesh searches for more than flesh. there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate. nobody ever finds the one. the city dumps fill the junkyards fill the madhouses fill the hospitals fill the graveyards fill nothing else fills."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: and our few good times will be rare because we have the critical sense and are not easy to fool with laughter"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The role of the poet is almost nothing...drearily nothing. And when he steps outside of his boots and tries to get tough as our dear Ezra [Pound] did, he will get his pink little ass slapped."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Where some god pissed a rain of reason to make things grow only to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: the history of melancholia includes all of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: 2 p.m. beer nothing matters but flopping on a mattress with cheap dreams and a beer as the leaves die and the horses die and the landladies stare in the halls; brisk the music of pulled shades, a last man's cave in an eternity of swarm and explosion; nothing but the dripping sink, the empty bottle, euphoria, youth fenced in, stabbed and shaven, taught words propped up to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Most people are much better at saying things in letters than in conversation, and some people can write artistic, inventive letters, but when they try a poem or story or novel they become pretentious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: A day of minor profit or prophet led to a night of drunkenness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I am too sick to lay down the sidewalks frighten me the whole damned city frightens me, what I will become what I have become frightens me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Even the stove and the refrigerator looked human, I mean good human - they seemed to have arms and voices and they said, hang around, kid, it's good here, it can be very good here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I was young I was so young it hurt like a knife inside because there was no alternative except to hide as long as possible--- not in self-pity but with dismay at my limited chance: trying to connect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: We are here to laugh at the odds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: as the shadows assume shapes I fight the slow retreat now my once-promise dwindling dwindling now lighting new cigarettes pouring more drinks it has been a beautiful fight still is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The park grass looked greener, the park benches looked better and the flowers were trying harder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: some men never die and some men never live but we're all alive tonight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Potential,\" I said, \"doesn't mean a thing. You've got to do it. Almost every baby in a crib has more potential than I have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: my greatest problem was stamps, envelopes, paper and wine, with the world on the edge of World War II."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: It\u2019s nice enough to make a man weep, but I don\u2019t weep, do you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: A woman has to have something on or there's nothing to take off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: and love was lightning and remembrance"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: it is all ash and dry leaves and grief gone like an ocean liner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I can't think of any poet-recluses outside of one dead Jeffers. [Robinson Jeffers] The rest of them want to slobber over each other and hug each other. It appears to me that I am the last of the poet-recluses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Once in a dream I saw a snake swallowing its own tail, it swallowed and swallowed until it got halfway round, and there it stopped and there it stayed, it was stuffed with its own self. Some fix, that. We only have ourselves to go on, and it's enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: in this room the hours of love still make shadows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I suppose like others I have come through fire and sword, love gone wrong, head-on crashes, drunk at sea, and I have listened to the simple sound of water running in tubs and wished to drown"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: they say that nothing is wasted: either that or it al is"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: and now sometimes I'm interviewed, they want to hear about life and literature and I get drunk and hold up my cross-eyed, shot, runover de-tailed cat and I say,\"look, look at this!\" but they don't understand, they say something like,\"you say you've been influenced by Celine?\" no,\" I hold the cat up,\"by what happens, by things like this, by this, by this!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: there is moss on the walls and the stain of thought and failure and waiting"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: It's just that the grape has me down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: and then there are some who believe that old relationships can be revived and made new again. but please if you feel that way don't phone don't write don't arrive"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: One more drink and you're dead. This is no way to talk to a suicide head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Disneyland remains the central attraction of Southern California, but the graveyard remains our reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I didn't feel that way about it. I had been playing with death for some time. I can't say we were the best of friends but we were well acquainted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I had decided against religion a couple of years back. If it were true, it made fools out of people, or it drew fools. And if it weren't true, the fools were all the more foolish. What I need is a good doctor, I thought. You either lived or died."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: People in love often become edgy, dangerous. They lose their sense of perspective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened? because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high. (Night Streets of Madness)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The pest, in a sense, is a very superior being to us: he knows where to find us and how--usually in the bath or in sexual intercourse or asleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: WHEN YOU LEAVE YOUR TYPEWRITER YOU LEAVE YOUR MACHINE GUN AND THE RATS COME POURING THROUGH."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: There's a small balcony here, the door is open and I can see the lights of the cars on the Harbor Freeway south, they never stop, that roll of lights, on and on. All those people. What are they doing? What are they thinking? We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: you are yesterday's bouquet so sadly raided"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: When I'm drinking around people, I tend to get silly or pugnacious or wild, which can cause problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel at 8 and at 5; there are cats in the alleys and bottles and bums, and I look up at the window and think, I no longer know where you are, and I walk on and wonder where the living goes when it stops."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: They laughed. Things were funny. They weren't afraid to care. There was no sense to life, to the structure of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: As a recluse I couldn't bear traffic. It had nothing to do with jealousy, I simply disliked people, crowds, anywhere, except at my readings. People diminished me, they sucked me dry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I should think that many of our poets, the honest ones, will confess to having no manifesto. It is a painful confession but the art of poetry carries its own powers without having to break them down into critical listings. I do not mean that poetry should be raffish and irresponsible clown tossing off words into the void. But the very feeling of a good poem carries its own reason for being... Art is its own excuse, and it\u2019s either Art or it\u2019s something else. It\u2019s either a poem or a piece of cheese."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: we sat there smoking cigarettes at 5 in the morning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: the psyche has been burned and left us senseless, the world has been darker than lights-out in a closet full of hungry bats, and the whiskey and wine entered our veins when blood was too weak to carry on"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: my 6 foot goddess makes me laugh the laughter of the mutilated who still need love... she has saved me from everything that is not here"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: God is a lonely place without steak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I can't blame her. but wonder why she's here with me? where are the other guys? how can you be lucky? having someone the others have abandoned?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Courts are places where the ending is written first and all that precedes is simply vaudeville."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Her one drink had Cecelia giggling and talking and she was explaining that animals had souls too. Nobody challenged her opinion. It was possible, we knew. What we weren't sure of was if we had any."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Art is its own excuse, and it's either Art or it's something else. It's either a poem or a piece of cheese."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: What a weary time those years were -- to have the desire and the need to live but not the ability."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: A man needed somebody. There wasn't anybody around, so you had to make up somebody, make him up to be like a man should be. It wasn't make-believe or cheating. The other way was make-believe and cheating: living your life without a man like him around."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: eleven months. now she's gone gone as they go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: since some people had told me that I was ugly, I always preferred shade to the sun, darkness to light"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: and getting dressed we talk about what else there might be to do, but being together solves most of it, in fact, solves all of it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Erections, Ejaculations,Exhibitions and General Tales of Ordinary Madness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: human relationships simply aren't durable. I think back to the women in my life. they seem non-existent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The best thing about the bedroom was the bed. I liked to stay in bed for hours, even during the day with covers pulled up to my chin. It was good in there, nothing ever occurred in there, no people, nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: There's nothing to mourn about death any more than there is to mourn about the growing of a flower. What is terrible is not death but the lives people live or don't live up until their death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: It was like a church in there as only the truly lost sit in bars on Tuesday mornings at 8:00 a.m."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: but isn't there always one good thing to look back on? think of how many cups of coffee we drank together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I'm going to open another vottle. not a vottle, but a bottle. you open it and I'll drink it. and you try to write as much as I did without falling off of your chair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: When I begin to doubt my ability to work the word, I simply read another writer and know I have nothing to worry about. My contest is only with myself, to do it right, with power, and force, and delight, and gamble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Your parents don't give you much love, do they?' 'I don't need that stuff,' I told her. 'Henry, everybody needs love.' 'I don't need anything.' 'You poor boy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I hid in bars, because I didn't want to hide in factories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: But then if you lied to a man about his talent just because he was sitting across from you, that was the most unforgivable lie of them all, because that was telling him to go on, to continue which was the worst way for a man without real talent to waste his life, finally. But many people did just that, friends and relatives mostly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: and even the trees we walked under seemed less than trees and more like everything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Oh, I don\u2019t mean you\u2019re handsome, not the way people think of handsome. Your face seems kind. But your eyes - they\u2019re beautiful. They\u2019re wild, crazy, like some animal peering out of a forest on fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: there must be a way. surely there must be a way that we have not yet thought of. who put this brain inside of me? it cries it demands it says that there is a chance. it will not say \"no."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I was only kidding about the hundred,\" she says. oh,\" I say, \"what will it cost me?\" she lights her cigarette with my lighter and looks at me through the flame: her eyes tell me. look,\" I say, \"I don't think I can ever pay that price again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: there was something about that city, though it didn't let me feel guilty that I had no feeling for the things so many others needed. it let me alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I sit on the couch watching her arrange her long red hair before my bedroom mirror. she pulls her hair up and piles it on top of her head- she lets her eyes look at my eyes- then she drops her hair and lets it fall down in front of her face. we go to bed and I hold her speechlessly from the back my arm around her neck I touch her wrists and hands feel up to her elbows no further."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: from the beginning, through the middle years and up to the end: too bad, too bad, too bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Why do we embroider everything we say with special emphasis when all we really need to do is simply say what needs to he said? Of course the fact is that there is very little that needs to be said."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: the impossibility of being human all too human this breathing in and out out and in these punks these cowards these champions these mad dogs of glory moving this little bit of light toward us impossibly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: What's wrong with assholes, baby?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The dog approached again, cautiously. I found the bologna sandwich, ripped off a chunk, wiped the cheap watery mustard off, then placed it on the sidewalk. The dog walked up to the bit of sandwich, put his nose to it, sniffed, then turned and walked off. This time he didn't look back. He accelerated down the street. No wonder I had been depressed all my life. I wasn't getting proper nourishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: After dinner or lunch or whatever it was -- with my crazy 12-hour night I was no longer sure what was what -- I said, \"Look, baby, I'm sorry, but don't you realize that this job is driving me crazy? Look, let's give it up. Let's just lay around and make love and take walks and talk a little. Let's go to the zoo. Let's look at animals. Let's drive down and look at the ocean. It's only 45 minutes. Let's play games in the arcades. Let's go to the races, the Art Museum, the boxing matches. Let's have friends. Let's laugh. This kind of life like everybody else's kind of life: it's killing us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Morals were restrictive, but they were grounded on human experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: this time has finished me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I drive around the streets an inch away from weeping, ashamed of my sentimentality and possible love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Your writing\", she said to me, \"it's so raw. It's like a sledgehammer, and yet it has humor and tenderness. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: It was hard for me to believe. When recess was over I sat in class and thought about it. My mother had a hole and my father had a dong that shot juice. How could they have things like that and walk around as if everything was normal, and talk about things, and then do it and not tell anybody?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The world had somehow gone too far, and spontaneous kindness could never be so easy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: When Ginsburg is at the top of his game you might as well put down your toys and listen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Humanity, you never had it from the beginning.\" That was my motto."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Experience can dull. With most men experience is a series of mistakes; the more experience you have the less you know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: nobody ever finds the one"
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: It\u2019s hard to drink when you dance. And it\u2019s hard to dance when you drink."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: The poet, as a rule, is a half-man - a sissy, not a real person, and he is in no shape to lead real men in matters of blood, or courage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I used to lay drunk in alleys and I probably will again.Bukowski, who is he? I read about Bukowski and it doesn't seem like anything to do with me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Homosexuals are delicate and bad poetry is delicate and [Allen] Ginsberg turned the tables by making homosexual poetry strong poetry, almost manly poetry; but in the long run, the homo will remain the homo and not the poet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: Figuring the average poet starts at 16, I am 23."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I don't carry notebooks and I don't consciously store ideas. I try not to think that I am a writer and I am pretty good at doing that. I don't like writers, but then I don't like insurance salesmen either."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: I guess for me Hemingway is a lot like it is for others: he goes down well when we are young."
  },
  {
    "text": "Charles Bukowski: A dry period for me means perhaps going two or three nights without writing. I probably have dry periods but I'm not aware of them and I go on writing, only the writing probably isn't much good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Never to suffer would have been never to have been blessed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Invisible things are the only realities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: To observe attentively is to remember distinctly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: It is a happiness to wonder; -- it is a happiness to dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: And all I loved, I loved alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Always keep a big bottle of booze at your side. If a bird starts talking nonsense to you in the middle of the night pour yourself a stiff drink."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence\u2013 whether much that is glorious\u2013 whether all that is profound\u2013 does not spring from disease of thought\u2013 from moods of mind exalted at the expense of the general intellect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the contemplation of the beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I have great faith in fools,\u2014 self-confidence my friends will call it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain, but, once conceived, it haunted me day and night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Once upon a midnight dreary"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: To die laughing must be the most glorious of all glorious deaths!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Let my heart be still a moment and this mystery explore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The eye, like a shattered mirror, multiplies the images of sorrow"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Even in the grave, all is not lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: We loved with a love that was more than love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Leave my loneliness unbroken"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The plots of God are perfect. The Universe is a plot of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: It was night, and the rain fell; and falling, it was rain, but, having fallen, it was blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Truth is not always in a well. In fact, as regards the more important knowledge, I do believe that she is invariably superficial. The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect - in terror."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: And the Raven, never flitting, Still is sitting, still is sitting On the pallid bust of Pallas Just above my chamber door; And his eyes have all the seeming Of a demon's that is dreaming, And the lamplight o'er him streaming Throws his shadow on the floor, And my soul from out that shadow, That lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted - nevermore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Man is an animal that diddles, and there is no animal that diddles but man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Who cares how time advances? I am drinking ale today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Indeed, there is an eloquence in true enthusiasm that is not to be doubted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you\"\u2014 here I opened wide the door; \u2014 Darkness there, and nothing more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I have not only labored solely for the benefit of others (receiving for myself a miserable pittance), but have been forced to model my thoughts at the will of men whose imbecility was evident to all but themselves"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: And now have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Convinced myself, I seek not to convince."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: When a madman appears thoroughly sane, indeed, it is high time to put him in a straight jacket."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: ...the agony of my soul found vent in one loud, long and final scream of despair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Democracy is a very admirable form of government - for dogs"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: In other words, I believed, and still do believe, that truth, is frequently of its own essence, superficial, and that, in many cases, the depth lies more in the abysses where we seek her, than in the actual situations wherein she may be found."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Sensations are the great things, after all. Should you ever be drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations; they will be worth to you ten guineas a sheet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Every moment of the night Forever changing places And they put out the star-light With the breath from their pale faces"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I fell in love with melancholy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: You will observe that the stories told are all about money-seekers, not about money-finders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: And then there stole into my fancy, like a rich musical note, the thought of what sweet rest there must be in the grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: And my soul from out that shadow that lies floating on the floor, Shall be lifted -- Nevermore!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: In death - no! even in the grave all is not lost. Else there is no immortality for man. Arousing from the most profound slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream. Yet in a second afterward, (so frail may that web have been) we remember not that we have dreamed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: You are not wrong who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The most natural, and, consequently, the truest and most intense of the human affections are those which arise in the heart as if by electric sympathy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The reproduction of<br />\n what the senses perceive in nature through the veil of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: To be thoroughly conversant with Man\u2019s heart, is to take our final lesson in the iron-clasped volume of Despair"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I am excessively slothful, and wonderfully industrious-by fits. There are epochs when any kind of mental exercise is torture, and when nothing yields me pleasure but the solitary communion with the 'mountains & the woods'-the 'altars' of Byron. I have thus rambled and dreamed away whole months, and awake, at last, to a sort of mania for composition. Then I scribble all day, and read all night, so long as the disease endures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Deep in earth my love is lying And I must weep alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: All works of art should begin... at the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: There are moments when, even to the sober eye of Reason, the world of our sad humanity must assume the aspect of Hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung oppressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country; and at length found myself, as the shades of the evening drew on, within view of the melancholy House of Usher. I know not how it was - but, with the first glimpse of the building, a sense of insufferable gloom pervaded my spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: A gentleman with a pug nose is a contradiction in terms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, and the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken was the whispered word, \"Lenore?\" This I whispered, and an echo murmured back the word, \"Lenore!\" \u2014 Merely this, and nothing more"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: A poem in my opinion, is opposed to a work of science by having for its immediate object, pleasure, not truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: [E]very plot, worth the name, must be elaborated to its d\u00e9nouement before anything be attempted with the pen. It is only with the d\u00e9nouement constantly in view that we can plot its indispensable air of consequence, or causation, by making the incidents, and especially the tone at all points tend to the development of the intention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: And have I not told you that what you mistake for madness is but over-acuteness of the sense? --now, I say, there came to my ears a low, dull, quick sound, such as a watch makes when enveloped in cotton. I knew that sound well, too. It was the beating of the old man's heart. It increased my fury, as the beating of a drum stimulates the soldier into courage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: In the Heaven's above, the angels, whispering to one another, can find, among their burning terms of love, none so devotional as that of 'Mother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Children are never too tender to be whipped. Like tough beefsteaks, the more you beat them, the more tender they become."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Thou wouldst be loved? - then let thy heart<br />\r\nFrom its present pathway part not!<br />\r\nBeing everything which now thou art,<br />\r\nBe nothing which thou art not.<br />\r\nSo with the world thy gentle ways,<br />\r\nThy grace, thy more than beauty,<br />\r\nShall be an endless theme of praise,<br />\r\nAnd love - a simple duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Decorum -- that bug-bear which deters so many from bliss until the opportunity for bliss has forever gone by."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: This maiden she lived with no other thought<br />\r\nThan to love and be loved by me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the alter,and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however shunned society, and, attaching herself to me alone rendered me happy. It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The death then of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world, and equally is it beyond doubt that the lips best suited for such topic are those of a bereaved lover."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: You need not attempt to shake off or to banter off Romance. It is an evil you will never get rid of to the end of your days. It is a part of yourself ... of your soul. Age will only mellow it a little, and give it a holier tone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: If you are ever drowned or hung, be sure and make a note of your sensations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The people have nothing to do with the laws but to obey them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: But our love was stronger by far than the love Of those who were older than we Of many far wiser than we And neither the angels in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: You call it hope-that fire of fire! It is but agony of desire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Ghastly grim and ancient raven wandering from the nightly shore - Tell me what thy lordly name is on the Night's Plutonian shore! Quoth the raven, `Nevermore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect - they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul - not of intellect, or of heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented shore, And I hold within my hand Grains of golden sand- How few! yet how they creep Through my fingers to the deep, While I weep- while I weep!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The true genius shudders at incompleteness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore--While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As if some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. \"'Tis some visitor,\" I muttered, \"tapping at my chamber door--Only this and nothing more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I was cautious in what I said before the young lady; for I could not be sure that she was sane; and, in fact, there was a certain restless brilliancy about her eyes that half led me to imagine she was not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Literature is the most noble of professions. In fact, it is about the only one fit for a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The writer who neglects punctuation, or mispunctuates, is liable to be misunderstood for the want of merely a comma, it often occurs that an axiom appears a paradox, or that a sarcasm is converted into a sermonoid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Now this is the point. You fancy me a mad. Madmen know nothing. But you should have seen me. You should have seen how wisely I proceeded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Odors have an altogether peculiar force, in affecting us through association; a force differing essentially from that of objects addressing the touch, the taste, the sight or the hearing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: For years your name never passed my lips, while my soul drank in, with a delirious thirst, all that was uttered in my presence respecting you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: It would be mockery to call such dreariness heaven at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: No thinking being lives who, at some luminous point of his life of thought, has not felt himself lost amid the surges of futile efforts at understanding, or believing, that anything exists greater than his own soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: And much of Madness, and more of Sin,<br />\r\nAnd Horror the soul of the plot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The rain came down upon my head - Unshelter'd. And the wind rendered me mad and deaf and blind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I have no words alas! to tell the loveliness of loving well"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: A dirge for her the doubly dead in that she died so young."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him who, shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a Plunge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Melancholy is ... the most legitimate of all the poetical tones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: In our endeavors to recall to memory something long forgotten, we often find ourselves upon the very verge of remembrance, without being able, in the end, to remember."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: How many good books suffer neglect through the inefficiency of their beginnings!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: ...If you do not take it up with you in some way, I shall be under the necessity of breaking your head with this shovel"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: That is another of your odd notions,\" said the Prefect, who had a fashion of calling every thing \"odd\" that was beyond his comprehension, and thus lived amid an absolute legion of \"oddities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The customs of the world are so many conventional follies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: ...for the question is of will, and not, as the insanity of logic has assumed of power.  It is not that the Deity cannot modify his laws, but that we insult him in imagining a possible necessity for modification.  In their origin these laws were fashioned to embrace all contingencies which could lie in the future.  With God all is Now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Beauty is the sole legitimate province of the poem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment, the opportunity is his own -- the road to immortal renown lies straight, open, and unencumbered before him. All that he has to do is to write and publish a very little book. Its title should be simple -- a few plain words -- My Heart Laid Bare. But -- this little book must be true to its title."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: By the grey woods, by the swamp, where the toad and newt encamp, by the dismal tarns and pools, where dwell the Gouls.   By each spot the most unholy, by each nook most melancholy, there the traveller meets, aghast, sheeted memories of the Past.   Shrouded forms that  start and sigh, as they pass the wanderer by. White-robed forms of friends long given; In agony, to the Earth - and Heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: There is not a more disgusting spectacle under the sun than our subserviency to British criticism. It is disgusting, first, because it is truckling, servile, pusillanimous--secondly, because of its gross irrationality. We know the British to bear us little but ill will--we know that, in no case do they utter unbiased opinions of American books . . . we know all this, and yet, day after day, submit our necks to the degrading yoke of the crudest opinion that emanates from the fatherland."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The depth lies in the valleys where we seek her, and not upon the mountain-tops where she is found."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: No pictorial or sculptural combinations of points of human loveliness, do more than approach the living and breathing human beauty as it gladdens our daily path."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: In visions of the dark night      I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking dream of life and light      Hath left me broken-hearted. Ah! what is not a dream by day      To him whose eyes are cast On things around him with a ray      Turned back upon the past? That holy dream- that holy dream,      While all the world were chiding, Hath cheered me as a lovely beam      A lonely spirit guiding. What though that light, thro' storm and night,      So trembled from afar- What could there be more purely bright      In Truth's day-star?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I hold that a long poem does not exist. I maintain that the phrase, \"a long poem,\" is simply a flat contradiction in terms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Were I called on to define, very briefly, the term Art, I should call it 'the reproduction of what the Senses perceive in Nature through the veil of the soul.' The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of 'Artist.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: And now was acknowledged the presence of the Red Death. He had come like a thief in the night. And one by one dropped the revelers in the blood-bedewed halls of their revel, and died each in the despairing posture of his fall. And the life of the ebony clock went out with that of the last of the gay. And the flames of the tripods expired. And Darkness and Decay and the Red Death held illimitable dominion over all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Hear the sledges with the bells, Silver bells! What a world of merriment their melody foretells! How they tinkle, tinkle, tinkle, In the icy air of night, While the stars that oversprinkle All the Heavens seem to twinkle With a crystalline delight: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells From the bells, bells, bells, bells, Bells, bells, bells-- From the jingling and the tingling of the bells."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told. Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors, and looking them piteously in the eyes - die with despair of heart and convulsion of throat, on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed. Now and then, alas, the conscience of man takes up a burden so heavy in horror that it can be thrown down only into the grave. And thus the essence of all crime is undivulged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: It may well be doubted whether human ingenuity can construct an enigma... which human ingenuity may not, by proper application, resolve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Whether people grow fat by joking, or whether there is something in fat itself which predisposes to a joke, I have never been quite able to determine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The enormous multiplication of books in every branch of knowledge is one of the greatest evils of this age, since it presents one of the most serious obstacles to the acquisition of correct information by throwing in the reader's way piles of lumber in which he must painfully grope for the scraps of useful matter, peradventure interspersed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I have been happy, though in a dream. I have been happy-and I love the theme: Dreams! in their vivid colouring of life As in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: After reading all that has been written, and after thinking all that can be thought, on the topics of God and the soul, the man who has a right to say that he thinks at all, will find himself face to face with the conclusion that, on these topics, the most profound thought is that which can be the least easily distinguished from the most superficial sentiment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed-- But a waking dream of life and light Hath left me broken-hearted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I heed not that my earthly lot Hath - little of Earth in it - That years of love have been forgot In the hatred of a minute: - I mourn not that the desolate Are happier, sweet, than I, But that you sorrow for my fate Who am a passer by."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Yes, Heaven is thine; but this Is a world of sweets and sours; Our flowers are merely\u0097flowers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The goodness of your true pun is in the direct ratio of its intolerability."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: From childhood's hour I have not been. As others were, I have not seen. As others saw, I could not awaken. My heart to joy at the same tone. And all I loved, I loved alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Yet, mad am I not \u2014 and very surely do I not dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Grammar is the analysis of language."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: If we cannot comprehend God in his visible works, how then in his inconceivable thoughts, that call the works into being?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: There are two bodies - the rudimental and the complete; corresponding with the two conditions of the worm and the butterfly. What we call \"death,\" is but the painful metamorphosis. Our present incarnation is progressive, preparatory, temporary. Our future is perfected, ultimate, immortal. The ultimate life is the full design."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door!\u201d Quoth the raven, \u201cNevermore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: To him, who still would gaze upon the glory of the summer sun, there comes, when that sun will from him part, a sullen hopelessness of heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: One half of the pleasure experienced at a theatre arises from the spectator's sympathy with the rest of the audience, and, especially from his belief in their sympathy with him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: We had always dwelled together, beneath a tropical sun, in the Valley of the Many Colored Grass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I never can hear a crowd of people singing and gesticulating, all together, at an Italian opera, without fancying myself at Athens, listening to that particular tragedy, by Sophocles, in which he introduces a full chorus of turkeys, who set about bewailing the death of Meleager."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Thy soul shall find itself alone \u2019Mid dark thoughts of the gray tombstone\u2014 Not one, of all the crowd, to pry Into thine hour of secrecy. Be silent in that solitude, Which is not loneliness\u2014for then The spirits of the dead who stood In life before thee are again In death around thee\u2014and their will Shall overshadow thee: be still. [...]"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The higher powers of the reflective intellect are more decidedly and more usefully tasked by the unostentatious game of draughts than by all the elaborate frivolity of chess."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Fill with mingled cream and amber, I will drain that glass again. Such hilarious visions clamber Through the chamber of my brain \u2014 Quaintest thoughts \u2014 queerest fancies Come to life and fade away; What care I how time advances? I am drinking ale today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Men of genius are far more abundant than is supposed. In fact, to appreciate thoroughly the work of what we call genius, is to possess all the genius by which the work was produced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I call to mind flatness and dampness; and then all is madness - the madness of a memory which busies itself among forbidden things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams <br />\n of the beautiful Annabel Lee"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: But in the expression of the countenance, which was beaming all over with smiles, there still lurked (incomprehensible anomalyl) that fitful strain of melancholy which will ever be found inseparable from the perfection of the beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: In one case out of a hundred a point is excessively discussed because it is obscure; in the ninety-nine remaining it is obscure because it is excessively discussed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The result of law inviolate is perfection\u2013right\u2013negative happiness. The result of law violate is imperfection, wrong, positive pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: True, nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am, but why will say that I am mad?! The disease had haunted my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them. Of all the sense of hearing acute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Either the memory of past bliss is the anguish of to-day; or the agonies which are have their origins in ecstasies which might have been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: There are few persons who have not, at some period of their lives, amused themselves in retracing the steps by which particular conclusions of their own minds have been attained. The occupation is often full of interest and he who attempts it for the first time is astonished by the apparently illimitable distance and incoherence between the starting-point and the goal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: But evil things, in robes of sorrow, Assailed the monarch's high estate; (Ah, let us mourn, for never morrow Shall dawn upon him desolate!) And round about his home the glory That blushed and bloomed, Is but a dim-remembered story Of the old time entombed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me \u2014 filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door \u2014 Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; \u2014 This it is, and nothing more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Men die nightly in their beds, wringing the hands of ghostly confessors ... on account of the hideousness of mysteries which will not suffer themselves to be revealed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The mere imitation, however accurate, of what is in Nature, entitles no man to the sacred name of Artist"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The realities of the world affected me as visions, and as visions only, while the wild ideas of the land of dreams became, in turn,\u2014not the material of my every-day existence--but in very deed that existence utterly and solely in itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: It is clear that a poem may be improperly brief. Undue brevity degenerates into mere epigrammatism. A very short poem, while now and then producing a brilliant or vivid, never produces a profound or enduring, effect. There must be the steady pressing down of the stamp upon the wax."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: From a proud tower in the town, Death looks gigantically down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life &amp; of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Imperceptibly the love of these discords grew upon me as my love of music grew stronger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: In beauty of face no maiden ever equaled her. It was the radiance of an opium-dream - an airy and spirit-lifting vision more wildly divine than the fantasies which hovered about the slumbering souls of the daughters of Delos."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: And because our reason violently deters us from the brink, therefore, do we the more impetuously approach it. There is no passion in nature so demoniacally impatient, as that of him, who shuddering upon the edge of a precipice, thus meditates a plunge. To indulge for a moment, in any attempt at thought, is to be inevitably lost; for reflection but urges us to forbear, and therefore it is, I say, that we cannot. If there be no friendly arm to check us, or if we fail in a sudden effort to prostrate ourselves backward from the abyss, we plunge, and are destroyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Coincidences, in general, are great stumbling blocks in the way of that class of thinkers who have been educated to know nothing of the theory of probabilities- that theory to which the most glorious objects of human research are indebted for the most glorious of illustration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: There are few persons, even among the calmest thinkers, who have not occasionally been startled into a vague yet thrilling half credence in the supernatural, by coincidences of so seemingly marvellous a character that, as mere coincidences, the intellect has been unable to receive them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Gaily bedight, A gallant knight, In sunshine and in shadow, Had journeyed long, Singing a song, In search of Eldorado. But he grew old\u2014 This knight so bold\u2014 And o\u2019er his heart a shadow\u2014 Fell as he found No spot of ground That looked like Eldorado. And, as his strength Failed him at length, He met a pilgrim shadow\u2014 \u2018Shadow,\u2019 said he, \u2018Where can it be\u2014 This land of Eldorado?\u2019 \u2018Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,\u2019 The shade replied,\u2014 \u2018If you seek for Eldorado!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I need scarcely observe that a poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul. The value of the poem is in the ratio of this elevating excitement. But all excitements are, through a psychal necessity, transient."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Believe me, there exists no such dilemma as that in which a gentleman is placed when he is forced to reply to a blackguard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December;<br />\r\nAnd each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor.<br />\r\nEagerly, I wished the morrow; - vainly I had sought to borrow<br />\r\nFrom my books surcease of sorrow  -  sorrow for the lost Leonore -<br />\r\nFor the rare and radiant maiden who the angels name Lenore  -<br />\r\nNameless here for evermore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Few persons can be made to believe that it is not quite an easy thing to invent a method of secret writing that shall baffle investigation. Yet it may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: By a route obscure and lonely Haunted by ill angels only, Where an eidolon, named NIGHT, On a black throne reigns upright, I have reached these lands but newly From an ultimate dim Thule -- From a wild, weird clime that lieth, sublime, Out of SPACE, out of TIME."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Lord help my poor soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I must perish in this deplorable folly. Thus, thus, and not otherwise, shall I be lost. I dread the events of the future, not in themselves, but in their results. I shudder at the thought of any, even the most trivial, incident, which may operate upon this intolerable agitation of soul. I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect-in terror. In this unnerved-in this pitiable condition-I feel that the period will sooner or later arrive when I must abandon life and reason together, in some struggle with the grim phantasm, FEAR."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: He knew that Hop-Frog was not fond of wine; for it excited the poor cripple almost to madness; and madness is no comfortable feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Villains!' I shrieked. 'Dissemble no more! I admit the deed! Tear up the planks! Here, here! It is the beating of his hideous heart!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: In for ever knowing, we are for ever blessed; but to know all were the curse of a fiend"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I was forced to fall back upon the unsatisfactory conclusion, that while, beyond doubt, there are combinations of very simple natural objects which have the power of thus affecting us, still the analysis of this power lies among considerations beyond our depth. It was possible, I reflected, that a mere different arrangement of the particulars of the scene, of the details of the picture, would be sufficient to modify, or perhaps to annihilate its capacity for sorrowful impression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Boston: Their hotels are bad. Their pumpkin pies are delicious. Their poetry is not so good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: And the Raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still is sitting..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Sound--<br />\nThat stealeth ever on the ear of him<br />\nWho, musing, gazeth on the distance dim,<br />\nAnd sees the darkness coming as a cloud--<br />\nIs not its form--its voice--most palpable and loud?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Out- out are the lights- out all! And, over each quivering form, The curtain, a funeral pall, Comes down with the rush of a storm, While the angels, all pallid and wan, Uprising, unveiling, affirm That the play is the tragedy, \"Man,\" And its hero the Conqueror Worm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: A change fell upon all things. Strange brilliant flowers, star-shaped, burst out upon the trees where no flowers had been before. The tints of the green carpet deepened; and when, one by one, the white daisies shrank away, there sprang up, in place of them, ten by ten of the ruby-red asphodel. And life arose in our paths; for the tall flamingo hitherto unseen, with all gay glowing birds, flaunted his scarlet plumage before us. The golden and silver fish haunted the river."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Mysteries force a man to think, and so injure his health."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: As the strong man exults in his physical ability, delighting in such exercises as call his muscles into action, so glories the analyst in that moral activity which disentangles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: There was much of the beautiful, much of the wanton, much of the bizarre, something of the terrible, and not a little of that which might have excited disgust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The best chess-player in Christendom may be little more than the best player of chess; but proficiency in whist implies capacity for success in all those more important undertakings where mind struggles with mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: It was many and many a year ago,<br />\nIn a kingdom by the sea,<br />\nThat a maiden there lived whom you may know<br />\nBy the name of Annabel Lee;--<br />\nAnd this maiden she lived with no other thought<br />\nThan to love and be loved by me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: O, Times! O, Manners! It is my opinion That you are changing sadly your dominion I mean the reign of manners hath long ceased, For men have none at all, or bad at least; And as for times, altho' 'tis said by many The \"good old times\" were far the worst of any, Of which sound Doctrine I believe each tittle Yet still I think these worst a little. I've been a thinking -isn't that the phrase?- I like your Yankee words and Yankee ways - I've been a thinking, whether it were best To Take things seriously, Or all in jest"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the foul Charonian canal.\" And then did we, the seven, start from our seats in horror, and stand trembling, and shuddering, and aghast, for the tones in the voice of the shadow were not the tones of any one being, but of a multitude of beings, and, varying in their cadences from syllable to syllable fell duskly upon our ears in the well-remembered and familiar accents of many thousand departed friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: If you have never been at sea in a heavy gale, you can form no idea of the confusion of mind occasioned by wind and spry together. They blind, deafen, and strangle you, and take away all power of action or reflection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The unity of effect or impression is a point of the greatest importance. It is clear, moreover, that this unity cannot be thoroughly preserved in productions whose perusal cannot be completed at one sitting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: But Psyche uplifting her finger said: Sadly this star I mistrust"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: He must be theory-mad beyond redemption who ... shall ... persist in attempting to reconcile the obstinate oils and waters of Poetry and Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: In the tale proper--where there is no space for development of character or for great profusion and variety of incident--mere construction is, of course, far more imperatively demanded than in the novel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Sound loves to revel in a summer night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: True! - nervous - very, very nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: A poem deserves its title only inasmuch as it excites, by elevating the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever And laugh \u2014 but smile no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: -ev'n with us the breath Of Science dims the mirror of our joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night. In their gray visions they obtain glimpses of eternity, and thrill, in waking, to find that they have been upon the verge of the great secret. In snatches, they learn something of the wisdom which is of good, and more of the mere knowledge which is of evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Scorching my seared heart with a pain, not hell shall make me fear again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The want of an international Copy-Right Law, by rendering it nearly impossible to obtain anything from the booksellers in the wayof remuneration for literary labor, has had the effect of forcing many of our very best writers into the service of the Magazines and Reviews."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The Romans worshipped their standard; and the Roman standard happened to be an eagle. Our standard is only one tenth of an eagle,--a dollar, but we make all even by adoring it with tenfold devotion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: By late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected--so entirely novel--so utterly at variance with preconceived opinions--as to leave no doubt on my mind that long ere this all Europe is in an uproar, all physics in a ferment, all reason and astronomy together by the ears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Ah, broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever! Let the bell toll!-a saintly soul floats on the Stygian river; And, Guy de Vere, hast thou no tear?-weep now or nevermore!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: A fearful instance of the ill consequences attending upon irascibility - alive, with the qualifications of the dead - dead, with the propensities of the living - an anomaly on the face of the earth - being very calm, yet breathless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: If I venture to displace ... the microscopical speck of dust... on the point of my finger,... I have done a deed which shakes the Moon in her path, which causes the Sun to be no longer the Sun, and which alters forever the destiny of multitudinous myriads of stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: As for Republicanism, no analogy could be found for it upon the face of the earth\u2014unless we except the case of the \"prairie dogs,\" an exception which seems to demonstrate, if anything, that democracy is a very admirable form of government\u2014for dogs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: In [chess], where the pieces have different and \"bizarre\" motions, with various and variable values, what is only complex, is mistaken (a not unusual error) for what is profound"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Philosophers have often held dispute As to the seat of thought in man and brute For that the power of thought attends the latter My friend, thy beau, hath made a settled matter, And spite of dogmas current in all ages, One settled fact is better than ten sages. (O,Tempora! O,Mores!)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused - in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible. On the other hand, the lightness of the artillery should not degenerate into pop-gunnery - by which term we may designate the character of the greater portion of the newspaper press - their sole legitimate object being the discussion of ephemeral matters in an ephemeral manner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I am actuated by an ambition which I believe to be an honourable one \u0097 the ambition of serving the great cause of truth, while endeavouring to forward the literature of the country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: There are some qualities, some incorporate things, that have a double life, which thus is made. A type os twin entity which springs from matter and light, envinced in solid and shade."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I might refer at once, if necessary, to a hundred well authenticated instances. One of very remarkable character, and of which the circumstances may be fresh in the memory of some of my readers, occurred, not very long ago, in the neighboring city of Baltimore, where it occasioned a painful, intense, and widely extended excitement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The history of all Magazines shows plainly that those which have attained celebrity were indebted for it to articles similar in natureto Berenice--although, I grant you, far superior in style and execution. I say similar in nature. You ask me in what does this nature consist? In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque: the fearful coloured into the horrible: the witty exaggerated into the burlesque: the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Yes,\" I said, \"for the love of God!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I was a child and she was a child, In this kingdom by the sea; But we loved with a love that was more than love- I and my Annabel Lee; With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven Coveted her and me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: He is, as you say, a remarkable horse, a prodigious horse, although as you very justly observe, a suspicious and untractable character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: It is with literature as with law or empire - an established name is an estate in tenure, or a throne in possession."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: As an individual, I myself feel impelled to fancy ... a limitless succession of Universes.... Each exists, apart and independently, in the bosom of its proper and particular God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Quoth the Raven, \"Nevermore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Blood was its Avatar and its seal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes Of the beautiful Annabel Lee; And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride, In the sepulchre there by the sea, In her tomb by the sounding sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: If in many of my productions terror has been the thesis, I maintain that terror is not of Germany, but of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: It is the curse of a certain order of mind, that it can never rest satisfied with the consciousness of its ability to do a thing.Still less is it content with doing it. It must both know and show how it was done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I could have clasped the red walls to my bosom as a garment of eternal peace. \"Death,\" I said, \"any death but that of the pit!\" Fool! might I have not known that into the pit it was the object of the burning iron to urge me?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Keeping time, time, time, In a sort of Runic rhyme, To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells, From the bells, bells, bells."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Many years ago, I contracted an intimacy with a Mr. William Legrand. He was of an ancient Huguenot family, and had once been wealthy; but a series of misfortunes had reduced him to want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: We gave him a hearty welcome, for there was nearly half as much of the entertaining as of the contemptible about the man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: As a viewed myself in a fragment of looking-glass..., I was so impressed with a sense of vague awe at my appearance ... that I was seized with a violent tremour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: And I fell violently on my face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I fashion the expression of my face, as accurately as possible, in accordance with the expression of his, and then wait to see what thoughts or sentiments arise in my mind or heart, as if to match or correspond with the expression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: If I could dwell where Israfel hath dwelt and he where I he might not sing so wildly well a mortal melody while a bolder note then this might swell from my lyre in the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Prophet!\" said I, \"thing of evil! - prophet still, if bird or devil! By that Heaven that bends above us- by that God we both adore- Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the distant Aidenn, It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore- Clasp a rare and radiant maiden whom the angels name Lenore.\" Quoth the Raven, \"Nevermore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: We allude to the short prose narrative, requiring from a half hour to one or two hours in its perusal"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: We now demand the light artillery of the intellect; we need the curt, the condensed, the pointed, the readily diffused -- in place of the verbose, the detailed, the voluminous, the inaccessible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: There is then no analogy whatever between the operations of the Chess-Player, and those of the calculating machine of Mr. Babbage , and if we choose to call the former a pure machine we must be prepared to admit that it is, beyond all comparison, the most wonderful of the inventions of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: THE thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge. You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that gave utterance to a threat. At length I would be avenged; this was a point definitely, settled --but the very definitiveness with which it was resolved precluded the idea of risk. I must not only punish but punish with impunity. A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser. It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Not hear it? --yes, I hear it, and have heard it. Long --long --long --many minutes, many hours, many days, have I heard it --yet I dared not --oh, pity me, miserable wretch that I am! --I dared not --I dared not speak! We have put her living in the tomb!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: That the play is the tragedy, \u201cMan,\u201d And its hero, the Conqueror Worm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Hear the mellow wedding bells, Golden bells! What a world of happiness their harmony foretells Through the balmy air of night How they ring out their delight! From the molten golden notes, And all in tune What a liquid ditty floats To the turtle-dove that listens while she gloats On the moon!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer Swung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor. \"Wretch,\" I cried, \"thy God hath lent thee--by these angels he hath sent thee-- Respite--respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore! Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!\" Quothe the Raven, \"Nevermore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Were the succession of stars endless, then the background of the sky would present us an uniform luminosity, like that displayed by the Galaxy-since there could be absolutely no point, in all that background, at which would not exist a star. The only mode, therefore, in which, under such a state of affairs, we could comprehend the voids which our telescopes find in innumerable directions, would be by supposing the distance of the invisible background so immense that no ray from it has yet been able to reach us at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: There was a discordant hum of human voices! There was a loud blast as of many trumpets! There was a harsh grating as of a thousand thunders! The fiery walls rushed back! An outstretched arm caught my own as I fell, fainting, into the abyss. It was that of General Lasalle. The French army had entered Toledo. The Inquisition was in the hands of its enemies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Perched upon a bust of Pallas, just above my chamber door,- Perched, and sat, and nothing more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: There might be a class of beings, human once, but now to humanity invisible, for whose scrutiny, and for whose refined appreciation of the beautiful, more especially than for our own, had been set in order by God the great landscape-garden of the whole earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: If any ambitious man have a fancy to revolutionize, at one effort, the universal world of human thought, human opinion, and human sentiment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: No murmur arose from its bed, and so gently it wandered along, that the pearly pebbles upon which we loved to gaze, far down within its bosom, stirred not at all, but lay in a motionless content, each in its own old station, shining on gloriously forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: The mental features discoursed of as the analytical, are, in themselves, but little susceptible of analysis. We appreciate them only in their effects. We know of them, among other things, that they are always to their possessor, when inordinately possessed, a source of the liveliest enjoyment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: To Helen Helen, thy beauty is to me Like those Nicean barks of yore That gently, o'er a perfumed sea, The weary, way-worn wanderer bore To his own native shore. On desperate seas long wont to roam, Thy hyacinth hair, thy classic face, Thy Naiad airs have brought me home To the glory that was Greece, And the grandeur that was Rome. Lo, in yon brilliant window-niche How statue-like I see thee stand, The agate lamp within thy hand, Ah! Psyche, from the regions which Are Holy Land!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Most writers - poets in especial - prefer having it understood that they compose by a species of fine frenzy - an ecstatic intuition - and would positively shudder at letting the public take a peep behind the scenes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Let us dismiss, as irrelevant to the poem per se, the circumstance ... which, in the first place, gave rise to the intention of composing a poem that should suit at once the popular and the critical taste."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: Over the Mountains Of the Moon, Down the Valley of the Shadow, Ride, boldly ride,\" The shade replied,- \"If you seek for Eldorado."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: If the propositions of this Discourse are tenable, the \"state of progressive collapse\" is precisely that state in which alone we are warranted in considering All Things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: I would define, in brief, the Poetry of words as the Rhythmical Creation of Beauty. Its sole arbiter is taste. With the intellect or with the conscience, it has only collateral relations. Unless incidentally, it has no concern whatever either with duty or with truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Edgar Allan Poe: My next thought concerned the choice of an impression, or effect, to be conveyed: and here I may as well observe that, throughout the construction, I kept steadily in view the design."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Earth's crammed with heaven, And every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Light tomorrow with today!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,\u2014but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea of you, my whole life long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Art is much, but love is more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I love thee to the level of everyday's most quiet need, by sun and candle light...I love thee with the breath,smiles,t ears,of all my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A great man leaves clean work behind him, and requires no sweeper up of the chips."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Whoever lives true life, will love true love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The devil's most devilish when respectable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Two human loves make one divine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: With stammering lips and insufficient sound I strive and struggle to deliver right the music of my nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The essence of all beauty, I call love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I f thou must love me, let it be for nought Except for love's sake only. Do not say, I love her for her smile ... her look ... her way Of speaking gently ... for a trick of thought That falls in well with mine, and, certes, brought A sense of pleasant ease on such a day- For these things in themselves, Beloved, may Be changed, or change for thee-and love so wrought, May be unwrought so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: truth outlives pain, as the soul does life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Love me sweet With all thou art Feeling, thinking, seeing; Love me in the Lightest part, Love me in full Being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: And if God choose I shall but love thee better after death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Never say No when the world says Aye."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: If thou must love me, let it be for naught except for love's sake only."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Earth's crammed with Heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: If we tried To sink the past beneath our feet, be sure The future would not stand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Books, books, books! I had found the secret of a garret room Piled high with cases in my father\u2019s name; Piled high, packed large,--where, creeping in and out Among the giant fossils of my past, Like some small nimble mouse between the ribs Of a mastodon, I nibbled here and there At this or that box, pulling through the gap, In heats of terror, haste, victorious joy, The first book first. And how I felt it beat Under my pillow, in the morning\u2019s dark, An hour before the sun would let me read! My books!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I heard an angel speak last night/And he said, \"Write!\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I begin to think that none are so bold as the timid, when they are fairly roused."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The Greeks said grandly in their tragic phrase, 'Let no one be called happy till his death;' to which I would add, 'Let no one, till his death, be called unhappy.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: There are nettles everywhere, but smooth, green grasses are more common still; the blue of heaven is larger than the cloud."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The world's male chivalry has perished out, but women are knights-errant to the last; and, if Cervantes had been greater still, he had made his Don a Donna."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Measure not the work until the day's out and the labor done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The essence of all beauty, I call love, The attribute, the evidence, and end, The consummation to the inward sense Of beauty apprehended from without, I still call love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I love thee with the passion put to use<br />\r\nIn my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. <br />\r\nI love thee with a love I seemed to lose<br />\r\nWith my lost saints,-I love thee with the breath, <br />\r\nSmiles, tears, of all my life!-and, if God choose, <br />\r\nI shall but love thee better after death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Who so loves believes the impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: How many desolate creatures on the earth have learnt the simple dues of fellowship and social comfort, in a hospital."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: And wilt thou have me fashion into speech The love I bear thee, finding words enough, And hold the torch out, while the winds are rough, Between our faces, to cast light on each? - I dropt it at thy feet. I cannot teach My hand to hold my spirits so far off From myself--me--that I should bring thee proof In words, of love hid in me out of reach. Nay, let the silence of my womanhood Commend my woman-love to thy belief, - Seeing that I stand unwon, however wooed, And rend the garment of my life, in brief, By a most dauntless, voiceless fortitude, Lest one touch of this heart convey its grief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: God only, who made us rich, can make us poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Guess now who holds thee?'--'Death,' I said. But,<br />\nthere,<br />\nThe silver answer rang, . . . 'Not Death, but Love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Enough! we're tired, my heart and I. We sit beside the headstone thus, And wish that name were carved for us. The moss reprints more tenderly The hard types of the mason's knife, As Heaven's sweet life renews earth's life With which we're tired, my heart and I .... In this abundant earth no doubt Is little room for things worn out: Disdain them, break them, throw them by! And if before the days grew rough We once were loved, used, - well enough, I think, we've fared, my heart and I."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The exchange of sympathy for gratitude is the most princely thing!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A woman cannot do the thing she ought, which means whatever perfect thing she can, in life, in art, in science, but she fears to let the perfect action take her part and rest there: she must prove what she can do before she does it, -- prate of woman's rights, of woman's mission, woman's function, till the men (who are prating, too, on their side) cry,  A woman's function plainly is... to talk. Poor souls, they are very reasonably vexed!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Nosegays! leave them for the waking,<br />\nThrow them earthward where they grew<br />\nDim are such, beside the breaking<br />\nAmaranths he looks unto.<br />\nFolded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Since when was genius found respectable?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: What we call Life is a condition of the soul. And the soul must improve in happiness and wisdom, except by its own fault. These tears in our eyes, these faintings of the flesh, will not hinder such improvement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: All actual heroes are essential men, And all men possible heroes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: God Himself is the best Poet, And the Real is His song."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: O brave poets, keep back nothing; Nor mix falsehood with the whole! Look up Godward! speak the truth in Worthy song from earnest soul! Hold, in high poetic duty, Truest Truth the fairest Beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: World's use is cold, world's love is vain, world's cruelty is bitter bane; but is not the fruit of pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: And I smiled to think God's greatness flowed around our incompleteness; Round our restlessness, His rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Yet how proud we are,<br />\nIn daring to look down upon ourselves!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I would not be a rose upon the wall<br />\r\nA queen might stop at, near the palace-door,<br />\r\nTo say to a courtier, \"Pluck that rose for me,<br />\r\nIt's prettier than the rest.\" O Romney Leigh!<br />\r\nI'd rather far be trodden by his foot,<br />\r\nThan lie in a great queen's bosom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The music soars within the little lark, And the lark soars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I should not dare to call my soul my own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Too much beauty, I reckon, is nothing but too much sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Yes, I answered you last night; No, this morning, sir, I say: Colors seen by candle-light Will not look the same by day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Wall must get the weather stain Before they grow the ivy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: In your patience ye are strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: O rose, who dares to name thee?<br />\r\nNo longer roseate now, nor soft, nor sweet,<br />\r\nBut pale, and hard, and dry, as stubblewheat,<br />\r\nKept seven years in a drawer, thy titles shame thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Whoso loves, believes in the impossible"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: If I leave all for thee, wilt thou exchange And be all to me?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The man, most man,<br />\nWorks best for men, and, if most men indeed,<br />\nHe gets his manhood plainest from his soul:<br />\nWhile, obviously, this stringent soul itself<br />\nObeys our old rules of development;<br />\nThe Spirit ever witnessing in ours,<br />\nAnd Love, the soul of soul, within the soul,<br />\nEvolving it sublimely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: What is art but the life upon the larger scale, the higher. When, graduating up in a spiral line of still expanding and ascending gyres, it pushes toward the intense significance of all things, hungry for the infinite?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Knowledge by suffering entereth,<br />\r\nAnd life is perfected by death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Suddenly, as rare things will, it vanished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A woman's always younger than a man at equal years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Will that light come again, As now these tears come...falling hot and real!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: And each man stands with his face in the light. Of his own drawn sword, ready to do what a hero can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Unless you can muse in a crowd all day On the absent face that fixed you; Unless you can love, as the angels may, With the breadth of heaven betwixt you; Unless you can dream that his faith is fast, Through behoving and unbehoving; Unless you can die when the dream is past \u0097 Oh, never call it loving!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Eyes of gentianellas azure, <br />\n Staring, winking at the skies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A child's kiss Set on thy sighing lips shall make thee glad; A poor man served by thee shall make thee rich; A sick man helped by thee shall make thee strong; Thou shalt be served thyself by every sense Of service which thou renderest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I love thee freely, as men strive for right. I love thee purely, as they turn from praise. I love thee with the passion put to use"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Let us be content to work To do the things we can, and not presume To fret because it's little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I would confide to you perhaps my secret profession of faith - which is ... which is ... that let us say and do what we please and can ... there is a natural inferiority of mind in women - of the intellect ... not by any means, of the moral nature - and that the history of Art and of genius testifies to this fact openly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Neither love me for<br />\r\nThine own dear pity's wiping my cheeks dry,<br />\r\nA creature might forget to weep, who bore<br />\r\nThy comfort long, and lose thy love, thereby!<br />\r\nBut love me for love's sake, that evermore<br />\r\nThou mayst love on, through love's eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I would build a cloudy House For my thoughts to live in; When for earth too fancy-loose And too low for Heaven! Hush! I talk my dream aloud - I build it bright to see, - I build it on the moonlit cloud, To which I looked with thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Behold me! I am worthy<br />\r\nOf thy loving, for I love thee!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: And yet, because I love thee, I obtain From that same love this vindicating grace, To live on still in love, and yet in vain"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: What monster have we here? A great Deed at this hour of day? A great just deed - and not for pay? Absurd - or insincere?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The man, most man, works best for men: and, if most man indeed, he gets his manhood plainest from his soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: There, that is our secret: go to sleep! You will wake, and remember, and understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Whatever's lost, it first was won."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Children use the fist until they are of age to use the brain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: O pusillanimous Heart, be comforted <br />\r\nAnd, like a cheerful traveller, take the road <br />\r\nSinging beside the hedge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: And lilies are still lilies, pulled By smutty hands, though spotted from their white."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I, who thought to sink, was caught up into love, and taught the whole of life in a new rhythm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Where Christ brings His cross He brings His presence; and where He is none are desolate, and there is no room for despair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Large, musing eyes, neither joyous nor sorry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Souls are gregarious in a sense, but no soul touches another, as a general rule."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: My future will not copy my fair past, I wrote that once. And, thinking at my side my ministering life-angel justified the word by his appealing look upcast to the white throne of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Through heaven and earth<br />\nGod's will moves freely, and I follow it,<br />\nAs color follows light. He overflows<br />\nThe firmamental walls with deity,<br />\nTherefore with love; His lightnings go abroad,<br />\nHis pity may do so, His angels must,<br />\nWhene'er He gives them charges."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: O Death, O Beyond,<br />\nThou art sweet, thou art strange!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: OF writing many books there is no end; And I who have written much in prose and verse For others' uses, will write now for mine,- Will write my story for my better self, As when you paint your portrait for a friend, Who keeps it in a drawer and looks at it Long after he has ceased to love you, just To hold together what he was and is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Experience, like a pale musician, holds a dulcimer of patience in his hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I cannot speak<br />\nIn happy tones; the tear drops on my cheek<br />\nShow I am sad;<br />\nBut I can speak<br />\nOf grace to suffer with submission meek,<br />\nUntil made glad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: With what cracked pitchers go we to deep wells In this world!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A good neighbor sometimes cuts your morning up to mince-meat of the very smallest talk, then helps to sugar her bohea at night with your reputation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Folded eyes see brighter colors than the open ever do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: This race is never grateful: from the first, One fills their cup at supper with pure wine, Which back they give at cross-time on a sponge, In bitter vinegar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I saw, in gradual vision through my tears, The sweet, sad years, the melancholy years, Those of my own life, who by turns had flung A shadow across me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Love that endures, from life that disappears!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Thank God for grace, Ye who weep only! If, as some have done, Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place And touch but tombs,--look up! Those tears will run Soon in long rivers down the lifted face, And leave the vision clear for stars and sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A man may love a woman perfectly, and yet by no means ignorantly maintain a thousand women have not larger eyes. Enough that she alone has looked at him with eyes that, large or small, have won his soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The large white owl that with eye is blind, That hath sate for years in the old tree hollow, Is carried away in a gust of wind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Who can fear<br />\r\nToo many stars, though each in heaven shall roll-<br />\r\nToo many flowers, though each shall crown the year?<br />\r\nSay thou dost love me, love me, love me-toll<br />\r\nThe silver iterance!-only minding, Dear,<br />\r\nTo love me also in silence, with thy soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Get leave to work In this world,--'tis the best you get at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: When we first met and loved, I did not build Upon the event with marble. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Yet half the beast is the great god Pan, To laugh, as he sits by the river, Making a poet out of a man. The true gods sigh for the cost and the pain-- For the reed that grows never more again As a reed with the reeds of the river."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Eve is a twofold mystery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless; That only men incredulous of despair, half-taught in anguish, through the midnight air beat upward to god's throne in loud access of shrieking and reproach"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Do ye hear the children weeping, O my brothers?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: New angel mine, unhoped for in the world!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: When the dust of death has choked a great man's voice, the common words he said turn oracles, the common thoughts he yoked like horses draw like griffins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Unless you can feel when the song is done<br />\r\nNo other is sweet in its rhythm;<br />\r\nUnless you can feel when left by one<br />\r\nThat all men else go with him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Death forerunneth Love to win \"Sweetest eyes were ever seen.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Get work, get work; Be sure 'tis better than what you work to get."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: But since he had The genius to be loved, why let him have The justice to be honoured in his grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: We have hearts within, Warm, live, improvident, indecent hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Some people always sigh in thanking God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I worked with patience which means almost power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: And I must bear<br />\r\nWhat is ordained with patience, being aware<br />\r\nNecessity doth front the universe<br />\r\nWith an invincible gesture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The plague of gold strikes far and near."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Mountain gorses, do ye teach us<br />\n. . . .<br />\nThat the wisest word man reaches<br />\nIs the humblest he can speak?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: God keeps a niche<br />\nIn Heaven, to hold our idols; and albeit<br />\nHe brake them to our faces, and denied<br />\nThat our close kisses should impair their white,--<br />\nI know we shall behold them raised, complete,<br />\nThe dust swept from their beauty, glorified,<br />\nNew Memnons singing in the great God-light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: As the moths around a taper,<br />\nAs the bees around a rose,<br />\nAs the gnats around a vapour,<br />\nSo the spirits group and close<br />\nRound about a holy childhood, as if drinking its repose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Alas, I have grieved so I am hard to love. Yet love me--wilt thou? Open thine heart wide, And fold within, the wet wings of thy dove."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I remember, when I was a child and wrote poems in little clasped books, I used to kiss the books and put them away tenderly because I had been happy near them, and take them out by turns when I was going from home, to cheer them by the change of air and the pleasure of the new place. This, not for the sake of the verses written in them, and not for the sake of writing more verses in them, but from pure gratitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: She lived, we'll say, A harmless life, she called a virtuous life, A quiet life, which was not life at all (But that she had not lived enough to know)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Utterance is the evidence of foregone study."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: You may write twenty lines one day--or even three like Euripides in three days--and a hundred lines in one more day--and yet on the hundred, may have been expended as much good work, as on the twenty and the three."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Oh, a day in the city-square, there is no such pleasure in life!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A great acacia, with its slender trunk<br />\nAnd overpoise of multitudinous leaves.<br />\n(In which a hundred fields might spill their dew<br />\nAnd intense verdure, yet find room enough)<br />\nStood reconciling all the place with green."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The great chasm between the thing I say, and the thing I would say, would be quite dispiriting to me, in spite even of such kindnesses as yours, if the desire did not master the despondency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: But I love you, sir:<br />\r\nAnd when a woman says she loves a man,<br />\r\nThe man must hear her, though he love her not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Tis aye a solemn thing to me<br />\nTo look upon a babe that sleeps--<br />\nWearing in its spirit-deeps<br />\nThe unrevealed mystery<br />\nOf its Adam's taint and woe,<br />\nWhich, when they revealed lie,<br />\nWill not let it slumber so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: It is difficult to get rid of people when you once have given them too much pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: And is it not the chief good of money, the being free from the need of thinking of it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Like to write? Of course, of course I do. I seem to live while I write - it is life, for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Books are men of higher stature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: My patience has dreadful chilblains from standing so long on a monument."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The soul hath snatched up mine all faint and weak,And placed it by thee on a golden throne,-- And that I love (O soul, we must be meek!)Is by thee only, whom I love alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: First time he kissed me, he but only kissed The fingers of this hand wherewith I write; And, ever since, it grew more clean and white."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Pan is dead! great Pan is dead!<br />\n Pan, Pan is dead!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: At painful times, when composition is impossible and reading not enough, grammars and dictionaries are excellent for distraction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The tyrant should take heed to what he doth,<br />\nSince every victim-carrion turns to use,<br />\nAnd drives a chariot, like a god made wroth,<br />\nAgainst each piled injustice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: You believe<br />\nIn God, for your part?--that He who makes<br />\nCan make good things from ill things, best from worst,<br />\nAs men plant tulips upon dunghills when<br />\nThey wish them finest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Nor myrtle--which means chiefly love: and love<br />\nIs something awful which one dare not touch<br />\nSo early o' mornings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The critics could never mortify me out of heart - because I love poetry for its own sake, - and, tho' with no stoicism and some ambition, care more for my poems than for my poetic reputation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A woman's pity sometimes makes her mad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: For me, my heart, that erst did go<br />\nMost like a tired child at a show,<br />\nThat sees through tears the mummers leap,<br />\nWould now its wearied vision close,<br />\nWould childlike on His love repose,<br />\nWho giveth His Beloved, sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Many a crown<br />\nCovers bald foreheads."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: How joyously the young sea-mew<br />\nLay dreaming on the waters blue,<br />\nWhereon our little bark had thrown<br />\nA little shade, the only one;<br />\nBut shadows ever man pursue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high.<br />\nSing, poet with the sorrow! earth is low.<br />\nThe universe's inward voices cry<br />\n\"Amen\" to either song of joy and woe.<br />\nSing, seraph, poet! sing on equally!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Earth may embitter, not remove,<br />\nThe love divinely given;<br />\nAnd e'en that mortal grief shall prove<br />\nThe immortality of love,<br />\nAnd lead us nearer heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: When God helps all the workers for His world,<br />\nThe singers shall have help of Him, not last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Or from Browning some \"Pomegranate,\" which if cut deep down the middle Shows a heart within blood-tinctured, of a veined humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: And that dismal cry rose slowly And sank slowly through the air, Full of spirit's melancholy And eternity's despair; And they heard the words it said,- \"Pan is dead! great Pan is dead! Pan, Pan is dead!\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Men of science, osteologists And surgeons, beat some poets, in respect For nature,-count nought common or unclean, Spend raptures upon perfect specimens Of indurated veins, distorted joints, Or beautiful new cases of curved spine; While we, we are shocked at nature's falling off, We dare to shrink back from her warts and blains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: And Chaucer, with his infantine Familiar clasp of things divine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I tell you, hopeless grief is passionless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: So mothers have God's license to be missed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: He lives most life whoever breathes most air."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Books are men of higher stature, and the only men that speak aloud for future times to hear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The least flower, with brimming cup, may stand and share its dew drop with another near."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Life, struck sharp on death, Makes awful lightning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Of writing many books there is no end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Think, in mounting higher, the angels would press on us, and aspire to drop some golden orb of perfect song into our deep, dear silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: But so fair, She takes the breath of men away Who gaze upon her unaware."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: She has seen the mystery hid Under Egypt's pyramid: By those eyelids pale and close Now she knows what Rhamses knows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Oh, the little birds sang east, and the little birds sang west."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: For frequent tears have run; The colours from my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: \"There is no God,\" the foolish saith, But none, \"There is no sorrow.\" And nature oft the cry of faith In bitter need will borrow: Eyes which the preacher could not school, By wayside graves are raised; And lips say, \"God be pitiful,\" Who ne'er said, \"God be praised.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: But love me for love's sake, that evermore<br />\r\nThou may'st love on, through love's eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: They say that God lives very high! But if you look above the pines You cannot see our God. And why? And if you dig down in the mines You never see Him in the gold, Though from Him all that's glory shines. God is so good, He wears a fold Of heaven and earth across His face - Like secrets kept, for love, untold. But still I feel that His embrace Slides down by thrills, through all things made, Through sight and sound of every place: As if my tender brother laid On my shut lids, her kisses' pressure, Half waking me at night; and said, \"Who kissed through the dark, dear guesser?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: And lips say \u201cGod be pitiful,\u201d Who ne'er said \u201cGod be praised.\u201d"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: For 'Tis not in mere death that men die most."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The growing drama has outgrown such toys Of simulated stature, face, and speech: It also peradventure may outgrow The simulation of the painted scene, Boards, actors, prompters, gaslight, and costume, And take for a worthier stage the soul itself, Its shifting fancies and celestial lights, With all its grand orchestral silences To keep the pauses of its rhythmic sounds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: A grave, on which to rest from singing?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: But the child's sob curses deeper in the silence than the strong man in his wrath!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: It is not merely the likeness which is precious... but the association and the sense of nearness involved in the thing... the fact of the very shadow of the person lying there fixed forever! It is the very sanctification of portraits I think - and it is not at all monstrous in me to say that I would rather have such a memorial of one I dearly loved, than the noblest Artist's work ever produced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Books succeed; and lives fail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Life treads on life, and heart on heart; We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: For poets (bear the word) Half-poets even, are still whole democrats."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: O, brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Of taking vainly in a plaintive mood, The holy name of Grief--holy herein, That, by the grief of One, came all our good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: That headlong ivy! not a leaf will grow But thinking of a wreath, . . . I like such ivy; bold to leap a height 'Twas strong to climb! as good to grow on graves As twist about a thyrsus; pretty too (And that's not ill) when twisted round a comb."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: And there my little doves did sit With feathers softly brown And glittering eyes that showed their right To general Nature's deep delight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Capacity for joy Admits temptation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: There Shakespeare, on whose forehead climb The crowns o' the world; oh, eyes sublime With tears and laughter for all time!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Sleep on, Baby, on the floor, Tired of all the playing, Sleep with smile the sweeter for That you dropped away in! On your curls' full roundness stand Golden lights serenely-- One cheek, pushed out by the hand, Folds the dimple inly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Of all the thoughts of God that are Borne inward unto souls afar, Along the Psalmist's music deep, Now tell me if that any is. For gift or grace, surpassing this-- He giveth His beloved sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The English have a scornful insular way Of calling the French light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: And friends, dear friends,--when it shall be That this low breath is gone from me, And gone my bier ye come to weep, Let One, most loving of you all, Say, \"Not a tear must o'er her fall; He giveth His beloved sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: We get no good By being ungenerous, even to a book, And calculating profits--so much help By so much reading. It is rather when We gloriously forget ourselves, and plunge Soul-forward, headlong, into a book's profound, Impassioned for its beauty, and salt of truth-- 'Tis then we get the right good from a book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Pray, pray, thou who also weepest,-- And the drops will slacken so; Weep, weep--and the watch thou keepest, With a quicker count will go. Think,--the shadow on the dial For the nature most undone, Marks the passing of the trial, Proves the presence of the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Deep violets, you liken to The kindest eyes that look on you, Without a thought disloyal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Many a fervid man writes books as cold and flat as graveyard stones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The denial of contemporary genius is the rule rather than the exception. No one counts the eagles in the nest, till there is a rush of wings; and lo! they are flown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Every wish Is like a prayer--with God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: For none can express thee, though all should approve thee.<br />\r\nI love thee so, Dear, that I only can love thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Every age, Through being beheld too close, is ill-discerned By those who have not lived past it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The beautiful seems right by force of beauty and the feeble wrong because of weakness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: May the good God pardon all good men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Men get opinions as boys learn to spell by reiteration chiefly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: He's just, your cousin, ay, abhorrently, He'd wash his hands in blood, to keep them clean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: The soul's Rialto hath its merchandise, I barter for curl upon that mart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: You smell a rose through a fence: If two should smell it, what matter?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Purple lilies Dante blew To a larger bubble with his prophet breath."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Very whitely still The lilies of our lives may reassure Their blossoms from their roots, accessible Alone to heavenly dews that drop not fewer; Growing straight out of man's reach, on the hill. God only, who made us rich, can make us poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Elizabeth Barrett Browning: I have done most of my talking by post of late years--as people shut up in dungeons take up with scrawling mottoes on the walls."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Appearances have very little to do with happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Animals are such agreeable friends - they ask no questions; they pass no criticisms."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: No man can be wise on an empty stomach."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Blessed is the influence of one true, loving human soul on another."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Our dead are never dead to us, until we have forgotten them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning; but give me the man who has the pluck to fight when he's sure of losing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is as useless to fight against the interpretations of ignorance as to whip the fog."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: One must be poor to know the luxury of giving!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We want people to feel with us more than to act for us."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is a great deal of unmapped country within us."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There are many victories worse than a defeat."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Trouble's made us kin."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I think I dislike what I don't like more than I like what I like."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Souls live on in perpetual echoes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Nice distinctions are troublesome. It is so much easier to say that a thing is black, than to discriminate the particular shade of brown, blue, or green, to which it really belongs. It is so much easier to make up your mind that your neighbour is good for nothing, than to enter into all the circumstances that would oblige you to modify that opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: After all, the true seeing is within."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: All meanings, we know, depend on the key of interpretation."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: No story is the same to us after a lapse of time; or rather we who read it are no longer the same interpreters."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: \"Abroad,\" that large home of ruined reputations."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Vague memories hang about the mind like cobwebs."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The darkest night that ever fell upon the earth never hid the light, never put out the stars. It only made the stars more keenly, kindly glancing, as if in protest against the darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We are contented with our day when we have been able to bear our grief in silence, and act as if we were not suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: One has to spend many years in learning how to be happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Every limit is a beginning as well as an ending."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined - to strengthen each other - to be at one with each other in silent unspeakable memories."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I like not only to be loved, but to be told that I am loved; the realm of<br />\r\nsilence is large enough beyond the grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Life seems to go on without effort when I am filled with music."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Religious ideas have the fate of melodies, which, once set afloat in the world, are taken up by all sorts of instruments, some of them woefully coarse, feeble, or out of tune, until people are in danger of crying out that the melody itself is detestable."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is a common sentence that knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what ignorance in an hour pulls down."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Men outlive their love, but they don\u2019t outlive the consequences of their recklessness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: ... it is one thing to like defiance, and another thing to like its consequences."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: One can say everything best over a meal."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Veracity is a plant of paradise, and the seeds have never flourished beyond the walls."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is pleasant to have a kind word now and then when one is not near enough to have a kind glance or a hearty shake by the hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: My own experience and development deepen every day my conviction that our moral progress may be measured by the degree in which we sympathize with individual suffering and individual joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We could never have loved the earth so well if we had had no childhood in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Only in the agony of parting do we look into the depths of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Life is too precious to be spent in this weaving and unweaving of false impressions, and it is better to live quietly under some degree of misrepresentation than to attempt to remove it by the uncertain process of letter-writing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Consequences are unpitying."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We must find our duties in what comes to us, not in what might have been."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: If you deliver an opinion at all, it is mere stupidity not to do it with an air of conviction and well-founded knowledge. You make it your own in uttering it, and naturally get fond of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What are a handful of reasonable men against a crowd with stones in their hands?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Rome - the city of visible history, where the past of a whole hemisphere seems moving in funeral procession with strange ancestral images and trophies gathered from afar."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: That by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we don't quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evil -- widening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasure"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What makes life dreary is the want of a motive."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The responsibility of tolerance lies with those who have the wider vision."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: People who live at a distance are naturally less faulty than those immediately under our own eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I don't want the world to give me anything for my books except money enough to save me from the temptation to write only for money."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: People are so ridiculous with their illusions, carrying their fool's caps unawares, thinking their own lies opaque while everybody else's are transparent, making themselves exceptions to everything, as if when all the world looked yellow under a lamp they alone are rosy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I love not to be choked with other men's thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Marriage must be a relation either of sympathy or of conquest."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Enveloped in a common mist, we seem to walk in clearness ourselves, and behold only the mist that enshrouds others."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I carry my unwritten poems in cipher on my face!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Those who trust us educate us."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Death is the king of this world: 'Tis his park where he breeds life to feed him. Cries of pain are music for his banquet."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I like not only to be loved, but also to be told that I am loved. I am not sure that you are of the same mind. But the realm of silence is large enough beyond the grave. This is the world of light and speech, and I shall take leave to tell you that you are very dear."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: When God makes His presence felt through us, we are like the burning bush: Moses never took any heed what sort of bush it was\u2014he only saw the brightness of the Lord."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: there are two ways of speaking an audience will always like: one is, to tell them what they don't understand; and the other is, to tell them what they're used to."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I like breakfast-time better than any other moment in the day. No dust has settled on one's mind then, and it presents a clear mirror to the rays of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Quarrel? Nonsense; we have not quarreled. If one is not to get into a rage sometimes, what is the good of being friends?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: She was no longer wrestling with the grief, <br />\r\nbut could sit down with it as a lasting companion <br />\r\nand make it a sharer in her thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is hardly any contact more depressing to a young ardent creature than that of a mind in which years full of knowledge seem to have issued in a blank absence of interest or sympathy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Will not a tiny speck very close to our vision blot out the glory of the world, and leave only a margin by which we see the blot? I know no speck so troublesome as self."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What a wretched lot of old shrivelled creatures we shall be by-and-by. Never mind - the uglier we get in the eyes of others, the lovelier we shall be to each other; that has always been my firm faith about friendship."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: To manage men one ought to have a sharp mind in a velvet sheath."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I desire no future that will break the ties of the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: How is it that the poets have said so many fine things about our first love, so few about our later love? Are their first poems their best? or are not those the best which come from their fuller thought, their larger experience, their deeper-rooted affections? The boy's flute-like voice has its own spring charm; but the man should yield a richer, deeper music."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: \"Heaven help us,\" said the old religion; the new one, from its very lack of that faith, will teach us all the more to help one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The best travel is that which one can take by one's own fireside. In memory or imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is painful to be told that anything is very fine and not be able to feel that it is fine--something like being blind, while people talk of the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Jews are not fit for Heaven, but on earth they are most useful."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I flutter all ways, and fly in none."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Examining the world in order to find consolation is very much like looking carefully over the pages of a great book in order to find our own name . ... Whether we find what we want or not, our preoccupation has hindered us from a true knowledge of the contents."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Justice is like the kingdom of God--it is not without us as a fact, it is within us as a great yearning."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is no killing the suspicion that deceit has once begotten."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Character is not cut in marble - it is not something solid and unalterable. It is something living and changing, and may become diseased as our bodies do."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: But the effect of her being on those around her was incalculably diffusive: for the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: In bed our yesterdays are too oppressive: if a man can only get up, though it be but to whistle or to smoke, he has a present which offers some resistance to the past\u2014sensations which assert themselves against tyrannous memories."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Joy and sorrow are both my perpetual companions, but the joy is called Past and the sorrow Present."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Your trouble's easy borne when everybody gives it a lift for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The thing we look forward to often comes to pass, but never precisely in the way we have imagined to ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Conscience is harder than our enemies,<br />\nKnows more, accuses with more nicety."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A human life, I think, should be well rooted in some spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar, unmistakable difference amidst the future widening of knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Love has a way of cheating itself consciously, like a child who plays at solitary hide-and-seek; it is pleased with assurances that it all the while disbelieves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is hard to believe long together that anything is \"worth while,\" unless there is some eye to kindle in common with our own, some brief word uttered now and then to imply that what is infinitely precious to us is precious alike to another mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A patronizing disposition always has its meaner side."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Human feeling is like the mighty rivers that bless the earth: it does not wait for beauty \u2014 it flows with resistless force and brings beauty with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Is not this a true autumn day? Just the still melancholy that I love - that makes life and nature harmonise. The birds are consulting about their migrations, the trees are putting on the hectic or the pallid hues of decay, and begin to strew the ground, that one's very footsteps may not disturb the repose of earth and air, while they give us a scent that is a perfect anodyne to the restless spirit. Delicious autumn! My very soul is wedded to it, and if I were a bird I would fly about the earth seeking the successive autumns."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: These gems have life in them:  their colors speak, say what words fail of."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The tale of the Divine Pity was never yet believed from lips that were not felt to be moved by human pity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A blush is no language; only a dubious flag - signal which may mean either of two contradictories"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence; it enlarges the imagined range for self to move in: but in after years it can only continue to be joy on the same terms as other long-lived love--that is, by much suppression of self, and power of living in the experience of another."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Our thoughts are often worse than we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Ignorance gives one a large range of probabilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is a very good quality in a man to have a trout-stream."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: History, we know, is apt to repeat itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I don't mind how many letters I receive from one who interests me as much as you do. The receptive part of correspondence I can carry on with much alacrity. It is writing answers that I groan over."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What a different result one gets by changing the metaphor!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Power of generalizing gives men so much the superiority in mistake over the dumb animals."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Miss Brooke had that kind of beauty which seems to be thrown into relief by poor dress."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: History, we know, is apt to repeat itself, and to foist very old incidents upon us with only a slight change of costume."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Sane people did what their neighbors did, so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A medical man likes to make psychological observations, and sometimes in the pursuit of such studies is too easily tempted into momentous prophecy which life and death easily set at nought."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: These fellow-mortals, every one, must be accepted as they are: you can neither straighten their noses, nor brighten their wit, nor rectify their dispositions; and it is these people-amongst whom your life is passed-that it is needful you should tolerate, pity, and love: it is these more or less ugly, stupid, inconsistent people whose movements of goodness you should be able to admire-for whom you should cherish all possible hopes, all possible patience."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: In every parting there is an image of death."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I shall never love anybody. I can't love people. I hate them.' 'The time will come, dear, the time will come."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Our life is determined for us--and it makes the mind very free when we give up wishing, and only think of bearing what is laid upon us, and doing what is given us to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: You are discontented with the world because you can't get just the small things that suit your pleasure, not because it's a world where myriads of men and women are ground by wrong and misery, and tainted with pollution."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Looking at your life as a debt may seem the dreariest view of things at a distance; but it cannot really be so. What makes life dreary is the want of motive; but once beginning to act with the penitential, loving purpose you have in your mind, there will be unexpected satisfactions--there will be newly-opening needs--continually coming to carry you on from day to day. You will find your life growing like a plant."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: But let the wise be warned against too great readiness to explanation: it multiplies the sources of mistake, lengthening the sum for reckoners sure to go wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is the moment when our resolution seems about to become irrevocable--when the fatal iron gates are about to close upon us--that tests our strength. Then, after hours of clear reasoning and firm conviction, we snatch at any sophistry that will nullify our long struggles, and bring us the defeat that we love better than victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: But what is opportunity to the man who can't use it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music. It seems to infuse strength into my limbs and ideas into my brain. Life seems to go on without effort, when I am filled with music."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Starting a long way off the true point, and proceeding by loops and zigzags , we now and then arrive just where we ought to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I've never any pity for conceited people, because I think they carry their comfort about with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We hand folks over to God's mercy, and show none ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The years seem to rush by now, and I think of death as a fast approaching end of a journey-double and treble reason for loving as well as working while it is day."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Effective magic is transcendent nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Our deeds are like children that are born to us; they live and act apart from our own will. Nay, children may be strangled, but deeds never: they have an indestructible life both in and out of our consciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The reward of one duty is the power to fulfill another."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Correct English is the slang of prigs."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is impossible, to me at least, to be poetical in cold weather."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The sublime delight of truthful speech to one who has the great gift of uttering it, will make itself felt even through the pangs of sorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Often the soul is ripened into fuller goodness while age has spread an ugly film, so that mere glances can never divine the preciousness of the fruit."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I am not resigned: I am not sure life is long enough to learn that lesson."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The beauty of a lovely woman is like music ... the rounded neck, the dimpled arm, move us by something more than their prettiness--by their close kinship with all we have known of tenderness and peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is better sometimes not to follow great reformers of abuses beyond the threshold of their homes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Gossip is a sort of smoke that comes from the dirty tobacco-pipes of those who diffuse it: it proves nothing but the bad taste of the smoker."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning, as it was to Adam and Eve, who kept their honey-moon in Eden, but had their first little one among the thorns and thistles of the wilderness. It is still the beginning of the home epic - the gradual conquest or irremediable loss of that complete union which make the advancing years a climax, and age the harvest of sweet memories in common."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: In high vengeance there is noble scorn."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Mankind is not disposed to look narrowly into the conduct of great victors when their victory is on the right side."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: How lovely the little river is, with its dark changing wavelets! It seems to me like a living companion while I wander along the bank, and listen to its low, placid voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Pity that consequences are determined not by excuses but by actions!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Young love-making--that gossamer web! Even the points it clings to--the things whence its subtle interlacings are swung--are scarcely perceptible: momentary touches of finger-tips, meetings of rays from blue and dark orbs, unfinished phrases, lightest changes of cheek and lip, faintest tremors. The web itself is made of spontaneous beliefs and indefinable joys, yearnings of one life towards another, visions of completeness, indefinite trust."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is no sorrow I have thought more about than that-to love what is great, and try to reach it, and yet to fail."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Perhaps the most delightful friendships are those in which there is much agreement, much disputation, and yet more personal liking."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: No soul is desolate as long as there is a human being for whom it can feel trust and reverence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: For what we call illusions are often, in truth, a wider vision of past and present realities - a willing movement of a man's soul with the larger sweep of the world's forces - a movement towards a more assured end than the chances of a single life."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is always your heaviest bore who is astonished at the tameness of modern celebrities: naturally; for a little of his company has reduced them to a state of flaccid fatigue."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Well, I aren't like a bird-clapper, forced to make a rattle when the wind blows on me. I can keep my own counsel when there's no good i' speaking."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It's a father's duty to give his sons a fine chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Anger and jealousy can no more bear to lose sight of their objects than love."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Jealousy is never satisfied with anything short of an omniscience that would detect the subtlest fold of the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A toddling little girl is a centre of common feeling which makes the most dissimilar people understand each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What to one man is the virtue which he has sunk below the possibility of aspiring to, is to another the backsliding by which he forfeits his spiritual crown."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Minds fettered by this doctrine no longer inquire concerning a proposition whether it is attested by sufficient evidence, but whether it accords with Scripture; they do not search for facts as such, but for facts that will bear out their doctrine. It is easy to see that this mental habit blunts not only the perception of truth, but the sense of truthfulness, and that the man whose faith drives him into fallacies treads close upon the precipice of falsehood."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Imagination is a licensed trespasser: it has no fear of dogs, but may climb over walls and peep in at windows with impunity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Oh may I join the choir invisible Of those immortal dead who live again In minds made better by their presence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I shall do everything it becomes me to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: But indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable; and we all know the difficulty of carrying out a resolve when we secretly long that it may turn out to be unnecessary. In such states of mind the most incredulous person has a private leaning towards miracle: impossible to conceive how our wish could be fulfilled, still - very wonderful things have happened!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: but very little achievement is required in order to pity another man's shortcomings."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Pride helps us; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our own hurts\u2014not to hurt others."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Somebody put a drop under a magnifying-glass and it was all semicolons and parentheses."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I had some ambition. I meant everything to be different with me. I thought I had more strength and mastery. But the most terrible obstacles are such as nobody can see except oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Upon my word, I think the truth is the hardest missile one can be pelted with."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: To fear the examination of any proposition apears to me an intellectual and a moral palsy that will ever hinder the firm grasping of any substance whatever."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is necessary to me, not simply to be but to utter, and I require utterance of my friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The intensest form of hatred is that rooted in fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There's times when the crockery seems alive, an' flies out o' your hand like a bird. It's like the glass, sometimes, 'ull crack as it stands. What is to be broke will be broke."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Do we not all agree to call rapid thought and noble impulse by the name of inspiration? After our subtlest analysis of the mental process, we must still say that our highest thoughts and our best deeds are all given to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is not true that a man's intellectual power is, like the strength of a timber beam, to be measured by its weakest point."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The fact is, both callers and work thicken - the former sadly interfering with the latter."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The mind that is too ready at contempt and reprobation is, I may say, as a clenched fist that can give blows, but is shut up from receiving and holding ought that is precious."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I have no courage to write much unless I am written to. I soon begin to think that there are plenty of other correspondents more interesting - so if you all want to hear from me you know the conditions."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: bad literature of the sort called amusing is spiritual gin."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: ... one always believes one's own town to be more stupid than any other."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: She was no longer struggling against the perception of facts, but adjusting herself to their clearest perception."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Many an irritating fault, many an unlovely oddity, has come of a hard sorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The first sense of mutual love excludes other feelings; it will have the soul all to itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Friendships begin with liking or gratitude- roots that can be pulled up."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth-are something better than youth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A picture of human life such as a great artist can give, surprises even the trivial and the selfish into that attention to what is apart from themselves, which may be called the raw material of moral sentiment."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is very difficult to be learned; it seems as if people were worn out on the way to great thoughts, and can never enjoy them because they are too tired."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I would rather not be engaged. When people are engaged, they begin to think of being married soon, and I should like everything to go on for a long while just as it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: For pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Confound you handsome young fellows! You think of having it all your own way in the world. You don't understand women. They don't admire you half so much as you admire yourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: When a man has seen the woman whom he would have chosen if he had intended to marry speedily, his remaining a bachelor will usually depend on her resolution rather than on his."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Let my body dwell in poverty, and my hands be as the hands of the toiler; but let my soul be as a temple of remembrance where the treasures of knowledge enter and the inner sanctuary is hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Those bitter sorrows of childhood!-- when sorrow is all new and strange, when hope has not yet got wings to fly beyond the days and weeks, and the space from summer to summer seems measureless."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Few things hold the perception more thoroughly captive than anxiety about what we have got to say"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his leg within our gates."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: and we must learn to accommodate ourselves to the discovery that some of those cunningly-fashioned instruments called human souls have only a very limited range of music, and will not vibrate in the least under a touch that fills others with tremulous rapture or quivering agony."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: For my part I am very sorry for him. It is an uneasy lot at best, to be what we call highly taught and yet not to enjoy: to be present at this great spectacle of life and never to be liberated from a small hungry shivering self--never to be fully possessed by the glory we behold, never to have our consciousness rapturously transformed into the vividness of a thought, the ardour of a passion, the energy of an action, but always to be scholarly and uninspired, ambitious and timid, scrupulous and dimsighted."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: She thought it was part of the hardship of her life that there was laid upon her the burthen of larger wants than others seemed to feel \u2013 that she had to endure this wide hopeless yearning for that something, whatever it was, that was greatest and best on this earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Her heart went out to him with a stronger movement than ever, at the thought that people would blame him. Maggie hated blame; she had been blamed her whole life, and nothing had come of it but evil tempers."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: In poor Rosamond's mind there was not room enough for luxuries to look small in."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Life is like our game at whist ... I don't enjoy the game much, but I like to play my cards well, and see what will be the end of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Old men's eyes are like old men's memories; they are strongest for things a long way off."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I might mention all the divine charms of a bright spring day, but if you had never in your life utterly forgotten yourself in straining your eyes after the mounting lark, or in wandering through the still lanes when the fresh-opened blossoms fill them with a sacred silent beauty like that of fretted aisles, where would be the use of my descriptive catalogue?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The nature o' things doesn't change, though it seems as if one's own life was nothing but change."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: So much of our early gladness vanishes utterly from our memory: we can never recall the joy with which we laid our heads on our mother's bosom or rode on our father's back in childhood; doubtless that joy is wrought up into our nature, as the sunlight of long-past mornings is wrought up in the soft mellowness of the apricot; but it is gone forever from our imagination, and we can only believe in the joy of childhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The beginning of hardship is like the first taste of bitter food--it seems for a moment unbearable; yet, if there is nothing else to satisfy our hunger, we take another bite and find it possible to go on."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I don't remember ever being see-saw, when I'd made my mind up that a thing was wrong. It takes the taste out o' my mouth for things, when I know I should have a heavy conscience after 'em. I've seen pretty clear, ever since I could cast up a sum, as you can never do what's wrong without breeding sin and trouble more than you can ever see. It's like a bit o' bad workmanship--you never see th' end o' the mischief it'll do. And it's a poor look-out to come into the world to make your fellow creatures worse off instead o' better."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Satan was a blunderer ... who made a stupendous failure. If he had succeeded, we should all have been worshipping him, and his portrait would have been more flattering."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Nature has the deep cunning which hides itself under the appearance of openness, so that simple people think they can see through her quite well, and all the while she is secretly preparing a refutation of their confident prophecies."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The light can be a curtain as well as the darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: As to memory, it is known that this frail faculty naturally lets drop the facts which are less flattering to our self-love - when it does not retain them carefully as subjects not to be approached, marshy spots with a warning flag over them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The men are mostly so slow, their thoughts overrun 'em, an' they can only catch 'em by the tail. I can count a stocking-top while a man's getting's tongue ready; an' when he outs wi' his speech at last, there's little broth to be made on't. It's your dead chicks take the longest hatchin'."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Miserliness is a capital quality to run in families; it's the safe side for madness to dip on."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It so often happens that others are measuring us by our past self while we are looking back on that self with a mixture of disgust and sorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I am open to conviction on all points except dinner and debts. I hold that the one must be eaten and the other paid."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I easily sink into mere absorption of what other minds have done, and should like a whole life for that alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Alas! the scientific conscience had got into the debasing company of money obligation and selfish respects."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A bachelor's children are always young: they're immortal children - always lisping, waddling, helpless, and with a chance of turning out good."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: in certain crises direct expression of sympathy is the least possible to those who most feel sympathy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Steady work turns genius to a loom."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: In so complex a thing as human nature, we must consider it is hard to find rules without exception."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We judge other according to results; how else?--not knowing the process by which results are arrived at."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: If I have read religious history aright, faith, hope, and charity have not always been found in a direct ratio with a sensibility to the three concords; and it is possible, thank heaven! to have very erroneous theories and very sublime feelings."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is a fact capable of amiable interpretation that ladies are not the worst disposed towards a new acquaintance of their own sex, because she has points of inferiority."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: With a single drop of ink for a mirror, the Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal to any chance comer far-reaching visions of the past. This is what I undertake to do for you, reader."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Shepperton Church was a very different looking building five-and-twenty years ago. To be sure, its substantial stone tower looks at you through its intelligent eye, the clock, with the friendly expression of former days; but in everything else what changes!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: In the days when the spinning wheels hummed busily in the farmhouses--and even great ladies, clothed in silk and thread lace, had their toy spinning wheels of polished oak--there might be seen, in districts far away among the lanes, or deep in the bosom of the hills, certain palled undersized men who, by the side of the brawny country-folk, looked like the remnants of a disinherited race."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I like to read about Moses best, in th' Old Testament. He carried a hard business well through, and died when other folks were going to reap the fruits; a man must have courage to look after his life so, and think what'll come f it after he's dead and gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Death is the only physician, the shadow of his valley the only journeying that will cure us of age and the gathering fatigue of years."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Those only can thoroughly feel the meaning of death who know what is perfect love."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: When what is good comes of age, and is likely to live, there is reason for rejoicing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Our selfishness is so robust and many-clutching that, well encouraged, it easily devours all sustenance away from our poor little scruples."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: They the royal-hearted women are<br />\nWho nobly love the noblest, yet have grace<br />\nFor needy suffering lives in lowliest place,<br />\nCarrying a choicer sunlight in their smile,<br />\nThe heavenliest ray that pitieth the vile."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Where Jack isn't safe, Tom's in danger."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is nothing I should care more to do, if it were possible, than to rouse the imagination of men and women to a vision of human claims in those races of their fellow-men who most differ from them in customs and beliefs."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: One of the tortures of jealousy is, that it can never turn away its eyes from the thing that pains it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinner-time; keep back the tears and look a little pale about the lips, and in answer to inquiries say, \"Oh, nothing!\" Pride helps; and pride is not a bad thing when it only urges us to hide our hurts\u2014 not to hurt others."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Leisure is gone,--gone where the spinning-wheels are gone, and the pack-horses, and the slow wagons, and the peddlers, who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great a mental force as the direct sequence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A proud woman who has learned to submit carries all her pride to the reinforcement of her submission, and looks down with severe superiority on all feminine assumption as unbecoming."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Two angels guide<br />\nThe path of man, both aged and yet young.<br />\nAs angels are, ripening through endless years,<br />\nOn one he leans: some call her Memory,<br />\nAnd some Tradition; and her voice is sweet,<br />\nWith deep mysterious accords: the other,<br />\nFloating above, holds down a lamp with streams<br />\nA light divine and searching on the earth,<br />\nCompelling eyes and footsteps. Memory yields,<br />\nYet clings with loving check, and shines anew,<br />\nReflecting all the rays of that bright lamp<br />\nOur angel Reason holds. We had not walked<br />\nBut for Tradition; we walk evermore<br />\nTo higher paths by brightening Reason's lamp."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is always fatal to have music or poetry interrupted."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Uncomfortable thoughts must be got rid of by good intentions for the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is not ignoble to feel that the fuller life which a sad experience<br />\r\nhas brought us is worth our personal share of pain. The growth of higher feeling<br />\r\nwithin us is like the growth of faculty, bringing with it a sense of added strength.<br />\r\nWe can no more wish to return to a narrower sympathy than painters or musicians<br />\r\ncan wish to return to their cruder manner, or philosophers to their less complete formulas."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Life is measured by the rapidity of change, the succession of influences that modify the being."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The rich ate and drank freely, accepting gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: With memory set smarting like a reopened wound, a man's past is not simply a dead history, an outworn preparation of the present: it is not a repented error shaken loose from the life: it is a still quivering part of himself, bringing shudders and bitter flavors and the tinglings of a merited shame."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: To be a poet is to have a soul so quick to discern, that no shade of quality escapes it, and so quick to feel, that discernment is but a hand playing with finely-ordered variety on the chords of emotion--a soul in which knowledge passes instantaneously into feeling, and feeling flashes back as a new organ of knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Most of us who turn to any subject we love remember some morning or evening hour when we got on a high stool to reach down an untried volume, or sat with parted lips listening to a new talker, or for very lack of books began to listen to the voices within, as the first traceable beginning of our love."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Life is so complicated a game that the devices of skill are liable to be defeated at every turn by air-blown chances, incalculable as the descent of thistle-down."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We are on a perilous margin when we begin to look passively at our future selves, and see our own figures led with dull consent into insipid misdoing and shabby achievement."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: All passion becomes strength when it has an outlet."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is a common sentence that Knowledge is power; but who hath duly considered or set forth the power of Ignorance? Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down. Knowledge, through patient and frugal centuries, enlarges discovery and makes record of it; Ignorance, wanting its day's dinner, lights a fire with the record, and gives a flavour to its one roast with the burnt souls of many generations."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We all remember epochs in our experience when some dear expectation dies, or some new motive is born."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is a fact perhaps kept a little too much in the background, that mothers have a self larger than their maternity, and that when their sons have become taller than themselves, and are gone from them to college or into the world, there are wide spaces of their time which are not filled with praying for their boys, reading old letters, and envying yet blessing those who are attending to their shirt-buttons."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I don't see how a man is to be good for much unless he has some one woman to love him dearly."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is difficult for woman to try to be anything good when she is not believed in."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Don't you meddle with me, and I won't meddle with you."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: That is the bitterest of all,--to wear the yoke of our own wrong-doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Death was not to be a leap: it was to be a long descent under thickening shadows."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: You are a good young man,\" she said. \"But I do not like husbands. I will never have another."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: If troubles were put up to market, I'd sooner buy old than new. It's something to have seen the worst."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The dull mind, once arriving at an inference that flatters the desire, is rarely able to retain the impression that the notion from which the inference started was purely problematic."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: [It is easier] to quell emotion than to incur the consequences of venting it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Resolve will melt no rocks. But it can scale them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is a chill air surrounding those who are down in the world, and people are glad to get away from them, as from a cold room."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We have all our secret sins; and if we knew ourselves we should not judge each other harshly."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It cuts one sadly to see the grief of old people; they've no way o' working it off; and the new spring brings no new shoots out on the withered tree."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Particular lies may speak a general truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Better a wrong will than a wavering; better a steadfast enemy than an uncertain friend; better a false belief than no belief at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence. There are glances of hatred that stab and raise no cry of murder; robberies that leave man or woman for ever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer --committed to no sound except that of low moans in the night, seen in no writing except that made on the face by the slow months of suppressed anguish and early morning tears. Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: In old days there were angels who came and took men by the hand and led them away from the city of destruction. We see no white-winged angels now. But yet men are led away from threatening destruction: a hand is put into theirs, which leads them forth gently towards a calm and bright land, so that they look no more backward; and the hand may be a little child's."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: If we only look far enough off for the consequence of our actions, we can always find some point in the combination of results by which those actions can be justified: by adopting the point of view of a Providence who arranges results, or of a philosopher who traces them, we shall find it possible to obtain perfect complacency in choosing to do what is most agreeable to us in the present moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: So deeply inherent is it in this life of ours that men have to suffer for each other's sins, so inevitably diffusive is human suffering, that even justice makes its victims, and we can conceive no retribution that does not spread beyond its mark in pulsations of unmerited pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us; for no age is so apt as youth to think its emotions, partings, and resolves are the last of their kind. Each crisis seems final, simply because it is new. We are told that the oldest inhabitants in Peru do not cease to be agitated by the earthquakes, but they probably see beyond each shock, and reflect that there are plenty more to come."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It\u2019s rather a strong check to one\u2019s self-complacency to find how much of one\u2019s right doing depends on not being in want of money."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The presence of a noble nature, generous in its wishes, ardent in its charity, changes the lights for us: we begin to see things again in their larger, quieter masses, and to believe that we too can be seen and judged in the wholeness of our character."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It was one of those dangerous moments when speech is at once sincere and deceptive - when feeling, rising high above its average depth, leaves flood-marks which are never reached again."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: But if Maggie had been that young lady, you would probably have known nothing about her: her life would have had so few vicissitudes that it could hardly have been written; for the happiest women, like the happiest nations, have no history."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A child, more than all other gifts That earth can offer to declining man, Brings hope with it, and forward-looking thoughts.\" \u2014WORDSWORTH."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Nature repairs her ravages, but not all. The uptorn trees are not rooted again; the parted hills are left scarred; if there is a new growth, the trees are not the same as the old, and the hills underneath their green vesture bear the marks of the past rending. To the eyes that have dwelt on the past, there is no thorough repair."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it. Nature, that great tragic dramatist, knits us together by bone and muscle, and divides us by the subtler web of our brains; blends yearning and repulsion; and ties us by our heart-strings to the beings that jar us at every movement."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Our dead are never dead to us until we have forgotten them: they can be injured by us, they can be wounded; they know all our penitence, all our aching sense that their place is empty, all the kisses we bestow on the smallest relic of their presence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: She hates everything that is not what she longs for."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Her own misery filled her heart\u2014there was no room in it for other people's sorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It's easy finding reasons why other folks should be patient."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It's but little good you'll do a-watering the last year's crops"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: In the multitude of middle-aged men who go about their vocations in a daily course determined for them much in the same way as the tie of their cravats, there is always a good number who once meant to shape their own deeds and alter the world a little."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Oh, child, men's men: gentle or simple, they're much of a muchness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Souls have complexions too: what will suit one will not suit another"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: You must love your work, and not be always looking over the edge of it, wanting your play to begin. And the other is, you must not be ashamed of your work, and think it would be more honorable to you to be doing something else. You must have a pride in your own work and in learning to do it well."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Self-confidence is apt to address itself to an imaginary dullness in others; as people who are well off speak in a cajoling tone to the poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The law and medicine should be very serious professions to undertake, should they not? People's lives and fortunes depend on them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means -one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Blows are sarcasms turned stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There are glances of hatred that stab, and raise no cry of murder."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I suppose it was that in courtship everything is regarded as provisional and preliminary, and the smallest sample of virtue or accomplishment is taken to guarantee delightful stores which the broad leisure of marriage will reveal. But the door-sill of marriage once crossed, expectation is concentrated on the present. Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and that the sea is not within sight-that, in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: College mostly makes people like bladders-just good for nothing but t'hold the stuff as is poured into 'em."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I've always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is a wonderful subduer, this need of love-this hunger of the heart-as peremptory as that other hunger by which Nature forces us to submit to the yoke, and change the face of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Among all the many kinds of first love, that which begins in childish companionship is the strongest and most enduring: when passion comes to unite its force to long affection, love is at its spring-tide."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Our consciousness rarely registers the beginning of a growth within us any more than without us; there have been many circulation of the sap before we detect the smallest sign of the bud."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: If you had a table spread for a feast, and was making merry with your friends, you would think it was kind to let me come and sit down and rejoice with you, because you'd think I should to share those good things; but I should better to share in your trouble and your labour."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I care only to know, if possible, the lasting meaning that lies in all religious doctrine from the beginning till now."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: To an old memory like mine the present days are but as a little water poured on the deep."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Memory, when duly impregnated with ascertained facts, is sometimes surprisingly fertile."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to have a discussion coolly waived when you feel that justice is all on your own side is even more exasperating in marriage than in philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is the way with half the truth amidst which we live, that it only haunts us and makes dull pulsations that are never born into sound."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The very truth hath a colour from the disposition of the utterer."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is no sort of wrong deed of which a man can bear the punishment alone; you can't isolate yourself and say that the evil that is in you shall not spread. Men's lives are as thoroughly blended with each other as the air they breathe; evil spreads as necessarily as disease."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The sense of an entailed disadvantage - the deformed foot doubtfully hidden by the shoe, makes a restlessly active spiritual yeast, and easily turns a self-centered, unloving nature into an Ishmaelite."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: You know nothing about Hope, that immortal, delicious maiden forever courted forever propitious, whom fools have called deceitful, as if it were Hope that carried the cup of disappointment, whereas it is her deadly enemy, Certainty, whom she only es"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: He was one of those men, and they are not the commonest, of whom we can know the best only by following them away from the marketplace, the platform, and the pulpit, entering with them into their own homes, hearing the voice with which they speak to the young and aged about their own hearthstone, and witnessing their thoughtful care for the everyday wants of everyday companions, who take all their kindness as a matter of course, and not as a subject for panegyric."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: One's self-satisfaction is an untaxed kind of property which it is very unpleasant to find deprecated."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Ignorance is not so damnable as humbug, but when it prescribes pills it may happen to do more harm."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is hardly any mental misery worse than that of having our own serious phrases, our own rooted beliefs, caricatured by a charlatan or a hireling."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Children demand that their heroes should be fleckless, and easily believe them so ."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: He was at a starting point which makes many a man's career a fine subject for betting, if there were any gentlemen given to that amusement who could appreciate the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: For character too is a process and an unfolding. . . among our valued friends is there not someone or other who is a little too self confident and disdainful. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life. Everything else one can turn and turn about, and make old look like new; but there's no coaxing boots and shoes to look better than they are."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is no short-cut no patent tram-road, to wisdom. After all the centuries of invention, the soul's path lies through the thorny wilderness which must still be trodden in solitude, with bleeding feet, with sobs for help, as it was trodden by them of old time."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in the diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for which men drudge up city alleys exists already in their imagination and love."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy: - in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among cloud-pictures."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What is opportunity to the man who can't use it? An unfecundated egg, which the waves of time wash away into nonentity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans - which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is only a poor sort of happiness that could ever come by caring very much about our own pleasures. We can only have the highest happiness such as goes along with being a great man, by having wide thoughts and much feeling for the rest of the world as well as ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: But she took her husband's jokes and joviality as patiently as everything else, considering that \"men would be so\", and viewing the stronger sex in the light of animals whom it had pleased Heaven to make naturally troublesome, like bulls and turkey-cocks."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Hear Everything and judge for yourself"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Explain! Tell a man to explain how he dropped into hell! Explain my preference! I never had a PREFERENCE for her, any more than I have a preference for breathing. No other woman exists by the side of her. I would rather touch her hand if it were dead, than I would touch any other woman's living."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Fine old Christmas, with the snowy hair and ruddy face, had done his duty that year in the noblest fashion, and had set off his rich gifts of warmth and color with all the heightening contrast of frost and snow."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: For years after Lydgate remembered the impression produced in him by this involuntary appeal-this cry from soul to soul, without other consciousness than their moving with kindred natures in the same embroiled medium, the same troublous fitfully-illuminated life."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I have a knack of hoping, which is as good as an estate."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is a vain thought to flee from the work that God appoints us, for the sake of finding a greater blessing, instead of seeking it where alone it is to be found - in loving obedience."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What is opportunity to the man who cant use it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Can any man or woman choose duties? No more than they can choose their birthplace or their father and mother."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It's them as take advantage that get advantage I' this world, I think: folks have to wait long enough afore it's brought to 'em."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Perspective, as its inventor remarked, is a beautiful thing. What horrors of damp huts, where human beings languish, may not become picturesque through aerial distance! What hymning of cancerous vices may we not languish over as sublimest art in the safe remoteness of a strange language and artificial phrase! Yet we keep a repugnance to rheumatism and other painful effects when presented in our personal experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Sir Joshua would have been glad to take her portrait; and he would have had an easier task than the historian at least in this, that he would not have had to represent the truth of change - only to give stability to one beautiful moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There are men whose presence infuses trust and reverence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: He was of an impressible nature, and lived a great deal in other people's opinions and feelings concerning himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The poverty of our imagination is no measure of say the world's resources. Our posterity will no doubt get fuel in ways that we are unable to devise for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: 'Character,\" says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We are rather apt to consider an act wrong because it is unpleasant to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Wise books For half the truths they hold are honored tombs."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Music sweeps by me as a messenger - Carrying a message that is not for me"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: If we use common words on a great occasion, they are the more striking, because they are felt at once to have a particular meaning, like old banners, or everyday clothes, hung up in a sacred place."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It was not that she was out of temper, but that the world was not equal to the demands of her fine organism."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: This is a puzzling world, and Old Harry's got a finger in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: To act with doubleness towards a man whose own conduct was double, was so near an approach to virtue that it deserved to be called by no meaner name than diplomacy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: But most of us are apt to settle within ourselves that the man who blocks our way is odious, and not to mind causing him a little of the disgust which his personality excites in ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I would not creep along the coast but steer Out in mid-sea, by guidance of the stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Of what use, however, is a general certainty that an insect will not walk with his head hindmost, when what you need to know is the play of inward stimulus that sends him hither and thither in a network of possible paths?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Some gentlemen have made an amazing figure in literature by general discontent with the universe as a trap of dulness into which their great souls have fallen by mistake; but the sense of a stupendous self and an insignificant world may have its consolations. Lydgate's discontent was much harder to bear; it was the sense that there was a grand existence in thought and effective action lying around him, while his self was being narrowed into the miserable isolation of egoistic fears, and vulgar anxieties for events that might allay such fears."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The desire to conquer is itself a sort of subjection."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: You must mind and not lower the Church in people's eyes by seeming to be frightened about it for such a little thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: As soon as we lay ourselves entirely at His feet, we have enough light given us to guide our own steps; as the foot-soldier who hears nothing of the councils that determine the course of the great battle he is in, hears plainly enough the word of command that they must themselves obey."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Everybody liked better to conjecture how the thing was, than simply to know it; for conjecture soon became more confident than knowledge, and had a more liberal allowance for the incompatible."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: You must love your work and not always be looking over the edge of it wanting your play to begin."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Our impartiality is kept for abstract merit and demerit, which none of us ever saw."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: One way of getting an idea of our fellow-countrymen's miseries is to go and look at their pleasures."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Mysterious haunts of echoes old and far, The voice divine of human loyalty."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What furniture can give such finish to a room as a tender woman's face? And is there any harmony of tints that has such stirring of delight as the sweet modulation of her voice?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We are not apt to fear for the fearless, when we are companions in their danger."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What mortal is there of us, who would find his satisfaction enhanced by an opportunity of comparing the picture he presents to himself of his doings, with the picture they make on the mental retina of his neighbours? We are poor plants buoyed up by the air-vessels of our own conceit."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Human longings are perversely obstinate; and to the man whose mouth is watering for a peach, it is of no use to offer the largest vegetable marrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: To men who only aim at escaping felony, nothing short of the prisoner's dock is disgrace."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Poor dog! I've a strange feeling about the dumb things as if they wanted to speak, and it was a trouble to 'em because they couldn't. I can't help being sorry for the dogs always, though perhaps there's no need. But they may well have more in them than they know how to make us understand, for we can't say half what we feel, with all our words."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Obligation may be stretched till it is no better than a brand of slavery stamped on us when we were too young to know its meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Fairy folk a-listening Hear the seed sprout in the spring, And for music to their dance Hear the hedgerows wake from trance, Sap that trembles into buds Sending little rhythmic floods Of fairy sound in fairy ears. Thus all beauty that appears Has birth as sound to finer sense And lighter-clad intelligence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: That sort of reputation which precedes performance [is] often the larger part of a man's fame."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Those who have been indulged by fortune and have always thought of calamity as what happens to others, feel a blind incredulous rage at the reversal of their lot, and half believe that their wild cries will alter the course of the storm."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: When gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I'd sooner have one real grief on my mind than twenty false. It's better to know one's robbed than to think one's going to be murdered."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The worst of all hobbies are those that people think they can get money at. They shoot their money down like corn out of a sack then."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The purifying influence of public confession springs from the fact, that by it the hope in lies is forever swept away, and the soul recovers the noble attitude of simplicity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The saints were cowards who stood by to see Christ crucified: they should have flung themselves Upon the Roman spears, and died in vain-- The grandest death, to die in vain--for love Greater than sways the forces of the world!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Folks as have no mind to be o' use have allays the luck to be out o' the road when there's anything to be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: You must learn to deal with the odd and even in life, as well as in figures."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: In the chequered area of human experience the seasons are all mingled as in the golden age: fruit and blossom hang together; in the same moment the sickle is reaping and the seed is sprinkled; one tends the green cluster and another treads the wine-press. Nay, in each of our lives harvest and spring-time are continually one, until Death himself gathers us and sows us anew in his invisible fields."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The great river-courses which have shaped the lives of men have hardly changed; and those other streams, the life-currents that ebb and flow in human hearts, pulsate to the same great needs, the same great loves and terrors. As our thought follows close in the slow wake of the dawn, we are impressed with the broad sameness of the human lot, which never alters in the main headings of its history--hunger and labour, seed-time and harvest, love and death."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: So our lives glide on: the river ends we don't know where, and the sea begins, and then there is no more jumping ashore."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: When our life is a continuous trial, the moments of respite seem only to substitute the heaviness of dread for the heaviness of actual suffering; the curtain of cloud seems parted an instant only that we may measure all its horror as it hangs low, black, and imminent, in contrast with the transient brightness; the waterdrops that visit the parched lips in the desert bear with them only the keen imagination of thirst."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Life was never anything but a perpetual see-saw between gravity and jest."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: In all failures, the beginning is certainly the half of the whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Among the blessings of love there is hardly one more exquisite than the sense that in uniting the beloved life to ours we can watch over its happiness, bring comfort where hardship was, and over memories of privation and suffering open the sweetest fountains of joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It must be sad to outlive aught we love."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Love is such a simple thing when we have only one-and-twenty summers and a sweet girl of seventeen trembles under our glance, as if she were a bud first opening her heart with wondering rapture to the morning. Such young unfurrowed souls roll to meet each other like two velvet peaches that touch softly and are at rest; they mingle as easily as two brooklets that ask for nothing but to entwine themselves and ripple with ever-interlacing curves in the leafiest hiding-places."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Blessed influence of one true loving human soul on another! Not calculable by algebra, not deducible by logic, but mysterious, effectual, mighty as the hidden process by which the tiny seed is quickened, and bursts forth into tall stem and broad leaf, and glowing tasseled flower."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We look at the one little woman's face we love, as we look at the face of our mother earth, and see all sorts of answers to our own yearnings."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Great Love has many attributes, and shrines For varied worshippers, but his force divine Shows most its many-named fulness in the man Whose nature multitudinously mixed-- Each ardent impulse grappling with a thought-- Resists all easy gladness, all content Save mystic rapture, where the questioning soul Flooded with consciousness of good that is Finds life one bounteous answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Things don't happen because they're bad or good, else all eggs would be addled or none at all, and at the most it is but six to the dozen. There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The prevarication and white lies which a mind that keeps itself ambitiously pure is as uneasy under as a great artist under the false touches that no eye detects but his own, are worn as lightly as mere trimmings when once the actions have become a lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There are few of us that are not rather ashamed of our sins and follies as we look out on the blessed morning sunlight, which comes to us like a bright-winged angel beckoning us to quit the old path of vanity that stretches its dreary length behind us."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: In the love of a brave and faithful man there is always a strain of maternal tenderness; he gives out again those beams of protecting fondness which were shed on him as he lay on his mother's knee."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Though I am not endowed with an ear to seize those earthly harmonies, which to some devout souls have seemed, as it were, the broken echoes of the heavenly choir--I apprehend that there is a law in music, disobedience whereunto would bring us in our singing to the level of shrieking maniacs or howling beasts."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Nature has her language, and she is not unveracious; but we don't know all the intricacies of her syntax just yet, and in a hasty reading we may happen to extract the very opposite of her real meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: News is often dispersed as thoughtlessly and effectively as that pollen which the bees carry off (having no idea how powdery they are) when they are buzzing in search of their particular nectar."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I've had my say out, and I shall be the' easier for't all my life. There's no pleasure i' living, if you're to be corked up forever, and only dribble your mind out by the sly, like a leaky barrel."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: When we are suddenly released from an acute absorbing bodily pain, our heart and senses leap out in new freedom; we think even the noise of streets harmonious, and are ready to hug the tradesman who is wrapping up our change."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There are moments when our passions speak and decide for us ... like a fire kindled within our being to which everything else in us is mere fuel."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is no human being who having both passions and thoughts does not think in consequences of his passions--does not find images rising in his mind which soothe the passion with hope or sting it with dread."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The best fire doesna flare up the soonest."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Life would be no better than candlelight tinsel and daylight rubbish if our spirits were not touched by what has been."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We mustn't be in a hurry to fix and choose our own lot; we must wait to be guided."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is no compensation for the woman who feels that the chief relation of her life has been no more than a mistake. She has lost her crown. The deepest secret of human blessedness has half whispered itself to her, and then forever passed her by."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Who can know how much of his most inward life is made up of the thoughts he believes other men to have about him, until that fabric of opinion is threatened with ruin?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action or concession on his behalf. That is the sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns to spend their strength In farthest striving action; breathe more free In mighty anguish than in trivial ease."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Let thy chief terror be of thine own soul: There, 'mid the throng of hurrying desires That trample o'er the dead to seize their spoil, Lurks vengeance, footless, irresistible As exhaltations laden with slow death, And o'er the fairest troop of captured joys Breathes pallid pestilence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Perhaps there is no time in a summer's day more cheering, than when the warmth of the sun is just beginning to triumph over the freshness of the morning--when there is just a lingering hint of early coolness to keep off languor under the delicious influence of warmth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Surely, surely the only one true knowledge of our fellow man is that which enables us to feel with him--which gives us a fine ear for the heart-pulses that are beating under the mere clothes of circumstance and opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Thought Has joys apart, even in blackest woe, And seizing some fine thread of verity Knows momentary godhead."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There comes a terrible moment to many souls when the great movements of the world, the larger destinies of mankind, which have lain aloof in newspapers and other neglected reading, enter like an earthquake into their own lives--when the slow urgency of growing generations turns into the tread of an invading army or the dire clash of civil war, and grey fathers know nothing to seek for but the corpses of their blooming sons, and girls forget all vanity to make lint and bandages which may serve for the shattered limbs of their betrothed husbands."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The higher life begins for us ... when we renounce our own will to bow before a Divine law."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There's truth in wine, and there may be some in gin and muddy beer; but whether it's truth worth my knowing, is another question."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It seems to me as a woman's face doesna want flowers; it's almost like a flower itself.... It's like when a man's singing a good tune, you don't want t' hear bells tinkling and interfering wi' the sound."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A woman's lot is made for her by the love she accepts."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It's a strange thing to think of a man as can lift a chair with his teeth, and walk fifty mile on end, trembling and turning hot and cold at only a look from one woman out of all the rest i' the world. It's a mystery we can give no account of."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The right word is always a power, and communicates its definiteness to our action."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A foreman, if he's got a conscience, and delights in his work, will do his business as well as if he was a partner. I wouldn't give a penny for a man as 'ud drive a nail in slack because he didn't get extra pay for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I can't abide to see men throw away their tools i' that way, the minute the clock begins to strike, as if they took no pleasure i' their work, and was afraid o' doing a stroke too much.... I hate to see a man's arms drop down as if he was shot, before the clock's fairly struck, just as if he'd never a bit o' pride and delight in's work. The very grindstone 'ull go on turning a bit after you loose it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Every man's work, pursued steadily, tends to become an end in itself, and so to bridge over the loveless chasms of his life."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There's nothing but what's bearable as long as a man can work.... The square o' four is sixteen, and you must lengthen your lever in proportion to your weight, is as true when a man's miserable as when he's happy; and the best o' working is, it gives you a grip hold o' things outside your own lot."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Are there many situations more sublimely tragic than the struggle of the soul with the demand to renounce a work which has been all the significance of its life--a significance which is to vanish as the waters which come and go where no man has need of them?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: In our spring-time every day has its hidden growths in the mind, as it has in the earth when the little folded blades are getting ready to pierce the ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A maggot must be born i' the rotten cheese to like it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Even success needs its consolations."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: O the anguish of that thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them, for the light answers we returned to their plaints or their pleadings, for the little reverence we showed to that sacred human soul that lived so close to us, and was the divinest thing God had given us to know!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I've seen pretty clear, ever since I was a young un, as religion's something else besides notions. It isn't notions sets people doing the right things--it's feelings. It's the same with the notions in religion as it is with math'matics--a man may be able to work problems straight off in's head as he sits by the fire and smokes his pipe; but if he has to make a machine or a building, he must have a will and a resolution, and love something else better than his own ease."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Some folks' tongues are like the clocks as run on strikin', not to tell you the time o' the day, but because there's summat wrong i' their own inside."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The idea of duty, that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self, is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life. No man can begin to mould himself on a faith or an idea without rising to a higher order of experience: a principle of subordination, of self-mastery, has been introduced into his nature; he is no longer a mere bundle of impressions, desires, and impulses."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Quick souls have their intensest life in the first anticipatory sketch of what may or will be, and the pursuit of their wish is the pursuit of that paradisiacal vision which only impelled them, and is left farther and farther behind, vanishing forever even out of hope in the moment which is called success."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There are but two sorts of government: one where men show their teeth at each other, and one where men show their tongues and lick the feet of the strongest."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The disappointments of life can never, any more than its pleasures, be estimated singly; and the healthiest and most agreeable of men is exposed to that coincidence of various vexations, each heightening the effect of the other, which may produce in him something corresponding to the spontaneous and externally unaccountable moodiness of the morbid and disagreeable."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: All things except reason and order are possible with a mob."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It belongs to every large nature, when it is not under the immediate power of some strong unquestioning emotion, to suspect itself, and doubt the truth of its own impressions, conscious of possibilities beyond its own horizon."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I cherish my childish loves--the memory of that warm little nest where my affections were fledged."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The human heart finds nowhere shelter but in human kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The soul of man, when it gets fairly rotten, will bear you all sorts of poisonous toad-stools, and no eye can see whence came the seed thereof."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What believer sees a disturbing omission or infelicity? The text, whether of prophet or of poet, expands for whatever we can put into it, and even his bad grammar is sublime."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Our consciences are not all of the same pattern."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: When you've been used to doing things, and they've been taken away from you, it's as if your hands had been cut off, and you felt the fingers as are of no use to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Oh, sir, the loftiest hopes on earth Draw lots with meaner hopes: heroic breasts, Breathing bad air, run risk of pestilence; Or, lacking lime-juice when they cross the Line, May languish with the scurvy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Deeds are the pulse of Time, his beating life, And righteous or unrighteous, being done, Must throb in after-throbs till Time itself Be laid in stillness, and the universe Quiver and breathe upon no mirror more."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Religion can only change when the emotions which fill it are changed; and the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Man finds his pathways: at first they were foot-tracks, as those of the beast in the wilderness; now they are swift and invisible: his thought dives through the ocean, and his wishes thread the air: has he found all the pathways yet? What reaches him, stays with him, rules him: he must accept it, not knowing its pathway."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: When we are dead : it is the living only who cannot be forgiven the living only from whom men's indulgence and reverence are held off, like the rain by the hard east wind ."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A man's a man. But when you see a king, you see the work of many thousand men."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Knightly love is blent with reverence As heavenly air is blent with heavenly blue."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Perhaps the wind Wails so in winter for the summers dead, And all sad sounds are nature's funeral cries For what has been and is not."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A suppressed resolve will betray itself in the eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: When you see fair hair Be pitiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The Jews are among the aristocracy of every land; if a literature is called rich in the possession of a few classic tragedies, what shall we say to a national tragedy lasting for fifteen hundred years, in which the poets and the actors were also the heroes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Tis a petty kind of fame At best, that comes of making violins; And saves no masses, either. Thou wilt go To purgatory none the less."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Every man who is not a monster, a mathematician, or a mad philosopher, is the slave of some woman or other."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Fate has carried me 'Mid the thick arrows: I will keep my stand Not shrink and let the shaft pass by my breast To pierce another."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The stars are golden fruit upon a tree all out of reach."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Who can prove Wit to be witty when with deeper ground Dulness intuitive declares wit dull?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Where you have friends you should not go to inns."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Grant folly's prayers that hinder folly's wish, And serve the ends of wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What if my words Were meant for deeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Our growing thought Makes growing revelation."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Fancy what a game of chess would be if all the chessmen had passions and intellects, more or less small and cunning; if you were not only uncertain about your adversary's men, but a little uncertain also about your own. You would be especially likely to be beaten, if you depended arrogantly on your mathematical imagination, and regarded your passionate pieces with contempt. Yet this imaginary chess is easy compared with a game a man has to play against his fellow-men with other fellow-men for instruments."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I can't bear fishing. I think people look like fools sitting watching a line hour after hour-or else throwing and throwing, and catching nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What is your religion? I mean-not what you know about religion but the belief that helps you most?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I could not without vile hypocrisy and a miserable truckling to the smile of the world ... profess to join in worship which I wholly disapprove."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Given, a man with moderate intellect, a moral standard not higher than the average, some rhetorical affluence and a great glibness of speech, what is the career in which, without the aid of birth or money, he may most easily attain power and reputation in English society? Where is that Goshen of mediocrity in which a smattering of science and learning will pass for profound instruction, where platitudes will be accepted as wisdom, bigoted narrowness as holy zeal, unctuous egoism as God-given piety?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Your dunce who can't do his sums always has a taste for the infinite."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: When the soul is just liberated from the wretched giant's bed of dogmas on which it has been racked and stretched ever since it began to think, there is a feeling of exultation and strong hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Better a false belief than no belief at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The idea of duty--that recognition of something to be lived for beyond the mere satisfaction of self--is to the moral life what the addition of a great central ganglion is to animal life."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I think there are stores laid up in our human nature that our understandings can make no complete inventory of."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: But faithfulness can feed on suffering,<br />\nAnd knows no disappointment."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I think I am quite wicked with roses. I like to gather them, and smell them till they have no scent left."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Those old stories of visions and dreams guiding men have their truth; we are saved by making the future present to ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is not true that love makes all things easy; it makes us choose what is difficult."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Love supreme defies all sophistry."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The worst of misery<br />\nIs when a nature framed for noblest things<br />\nCondemns itself in youth to petty joys,<br />\nAnd, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life<br />\nGasping from out the shallows."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Mighty is the force of motherhood! It transforms all things by its vital heat; it turns timidity into fierce courage, and dreadless defiance into tremulous submission; it turns thoughtlessness into foresight, and yet stills all anxiety into calm content; it makes selfishness become self-denial, and gives even to hard vanity the glance of admiring love."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Melodies die out, like the pipe of Pan, with the ears that love them and listen for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is no feeling, perhaps, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music,--that does not make a man sing or play the better."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Nature repairs her ravages,--repairs them with her sunshine and with human labor."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Dark the Night, with breath all flowers,<br />\nAnd tender broken voice that fills<br />\nWith ravishment the listening hours,--<br />\nWhisperings, wooings,<br />\nLiquid ripples, and soft ring-dove cooings<br />\nIn low-toned rhythm that love's aching stills!<br />\nDark the night<br />\nYet is she bright,<br />\nFor in her dark she brings the mystic star,<br />\nTrembling yet strong, as is the voice of love,<br />\nFrom some unknown afar."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Lord! Thou art with Thy people still; they see Thee in the night-watches, and their hearts burn within them as Thou talkest with them by the way. And Thou art near to those that have not known Thee; open their eyes that they may see Thee--see Thee weeping over them, and saying, \"Ye will not come unto me that ye might have life\"--see Thee hanging on the cross and saying, \"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do\"--see Thee as Thou wilt come again in Thy glory to judge them at the last. Amen."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Don't let us rejoice in punishment, even when the hand of God alone inflicts it. The best of us are but poor wretches, just saved from shipwreck. Can we feel anything but awe and pity when we see a fellow-passenger swallowed by the waves?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: That golden sky, which was the doubly blessed symbol of advancing day and of approaching rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Many an inherited sorrow that has marred a life has been breathed into no human ear."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: To the old, sorrow is sorrow; to the young, it is despair."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The human soul is hospitable, and will entertain conflicting sentiments and contradictory opinions with much impartiality."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A peasant can no more help believing in a traditional superstition than a horse can help trembling when be sees a camel."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Don't seem to he on the lookout for crows, else you'll set other people watching."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Ingenious philosophers tell you, perhaps, that the great work of the steam-engine is to create leisure for mankind. Do not believe them; it only creates a vacuum for eager thought to rush in."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Until every good man is brave, we must expect to find many good women timid--too timid even to believe in the correctness of their own best promptings, when these would place them in a minority."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I trust you as holy men trust God; you could do nought that was not pure and loving, though the deed might pierce me unto death."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Our vanities differ as our noses do: all conceit is not the same conceit, but varies in correspondence with the minutiae of mental make in which one of us differs from another."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The vainest woman is never thoroughly conscious of her beauty till she is loved by the man who sets her own passion vibrating in return."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The early months of marriage often are times of critical tumult,--whether that of a shrimp pool or of deeper water,--which afterwards subside into cheerful peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A woman mixed of such fine elements<br />\nThat were all virtue and religion dead<br />\nShe'd make them newly, being what she was."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A woman's rank<br />\nLies in the fulness of her womanhood:<br />\nTherein alone she is royal."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: To think of the part one little woman can play in the life of a man, so that to renounce her may be a very good imitation of heroism, and to win her may be a discipline."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We reap what we sow, but nature has love over and above that justice, and gives us shadow and blossom and fruit, that spring from no planting of ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is one thing to see your road, another to cut it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: To superficial observers his chin had too vanishing an aspect, looking as if it were being gradually reabsorbed. And it did indeed cause him some difficulty about the fit of his satin stocks, for which chins were at that time useful."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I think cheerfulness is a fortune in itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Childhood is only the beautiful and happy time in contemplation and retrospect: to the child it is full of deep sorrows, the meaning of which is unknown."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: the Press has no band of critics who go the round of the churches and chapels, and are on the watch for a slip or defect in the preacher, to make a 'feature' in their article: the clergy are, practically, the most irresponsible of all talkers."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: the mysterious complexity of our life is not to be embraced by maxims ... to lace ourselves up in formulas of that sort is to repress all the divine promptings and inspirations that spring from growing insight and sympathy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is always chilling, in friendly intercourse, to say you have no opinion to give."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is a sad weakness in us, after all, that the thought of a man's death hallows him anew to us; as if life were not sacred too."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We mortals, men and women, devour many a disappointment between breakfast and dinnertime."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It's no trifle at her time at her time of life to part with a doctor who knows her constitution."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We cannot reform our forefathers."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: You youngsters nowadays think you're to begin with living well and working easy; you've no notion of running afoot before you get on horseback."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: How impossible it is for strong healthy people to understand the way in which bodily malaise and suffering eats at the root of one's life! The philosophy that is true - the religion that is strength to the healthy - is constantly emptiness to one when the head is distracted and every sensation is oppressive."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There's good chances and bad chances, and nobody's luck is pulled only by one string."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Unhappily the habit of being offensive 'without meaning it' leads usually to a way of making amends which the injured person cannot but regard as a being amiable without meaning it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is so much to read and the days are so short! I get more hungry for knowledge every day, and less able to satisfy my hunger."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Men and women make sad mistakes about their own symptoms, taking their vague uneasy longings, sometimes for genius, sometimes for religion, and oftener still for a mighty love."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: In the ages since Adam's marriage, it has been good for some men to be alone, and for some women also."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: even those who call themselves 'intimate' know very little about each other - hardly ever know just how a sorrow is felt, and hurt each other by their very attempts at sympathy or consolation. We can bear no hand on our bruises."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The last refuge of intolerance is in not tolerating the intolerant."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I love words; they are the quoits, the bows, the staves that furnish the gymnasium of the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: trouble always seems heavier when it is only one's thought and not one's bodily activity that is employed about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: All writing seems to me worse in the state of proof than in any other form. In manuscript one's own wisdom is rather remarkable to one, but in proof it has the effect of one's private furniture repeated in the shop windows. And then there is the sense that the worst errors will go to press unnoticed!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There's many a good bit o' work done with a sad heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: All honour and reverence to the divine beauty of form! Let us cultivate it to the utmost in men, women and children -- in our gardens and in our houses. But let us love that other beauty too, which lies in no secret of proportion but in the secret of deep human sympathy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is no sense of ease like the ease we felt in those scenes where we were born."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There's things to put up wi' in ivery place, an' you may change an' change an' not better yourself when all's said an' done."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The impulse to confession almost always requires the presence of a fresh ear and a fresh heart; and in our moments of spiritual need, the man to whom we have no tie but our common nature, seems nearer to us than mother, brother, or friend. Our daily familiar life is but a hiding of ourselves from each other behind a screen of trivial words and deeds, and those who sit with us at the same hearth, are often the farthest off from the deep human soul within us, full of unspoken evil and unacted good."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: ... it is because sympathy is but a living again through our own past in a new form, that confession often prompts a response of confession."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Net the large fish and you are sure to have the small fry."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I will to make life less bitter for a few within my reach."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: If you are not proud of your cellar, there is no thrill of satisfaction in seeing your guest hold up his wineglass to the light and look judicial."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the cookery book."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Brothers are so unpleasant."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbours! We judge from our own desires, and our neighbours themselves are not always open enough even to throw out a hint of theirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Unwonted circumstances may make us all rather unlike ourselves: there are conditions under which the most majestic person is obliged to sneeze, and our emotions are liable to be acted on in the same incongruous manner."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Receptiveness is a rare and massive power, like fortitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Human experience is usually paradoxical."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: If you are to rule men, you must rule them through their own ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What courage and patience are wanted for every life that aims to produce anything!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: ... when one's outward lot is perfect, the sense of inward imperfection is the more pressing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: He had the superficial kindness of a good-humored, self-satisfied nature, that fears no rivalry, and has encountered no contrarieties."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: In the first moments when we come away from the presence of death, every other relation to the living is merged, to our feeling, in the great relation of a common nature and a common destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Men and women are but children of a larger growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Dear Friends all, A thousand Christmas pleasures and blessings to you -- good resolutions and bright hopes for the New Year! Amen. People who can't be witty exert themselves to be pious or affectionate."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: ... the business of life shuts us up within the environs of London and within sight of human advancement, which I should be so very glad to believe in without seeing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: People who write finely must not expect to be left in repose; they will be molested with thanks, at least."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What moments of despair that life would ever be made precious to me by the consciousness that I lived to some good purpose! It was that sort of despair that sucked away the sap of half the hours which might have been filled by energetic youthful activity: and the same demon tries to get hold of me again whenever an old work is dismissed and a new one is being meditated."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Some people are born to make life pretty, and others to grumble that it is not pretty enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: ... learning to love any one is like an increase of property, -- it increases care, and brings many new fears lest precious things should come to harm."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What is better than to love and live with the loved? -- But that must sometimes bring us to live with the dead; and this too turns at last into a very tranquil and sweet tie, safe from change and injury."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: If people will be censors, let them weigh their words. I mean that the words were unfair by that disproportionateness of the condemnation, which everybody with some conscience must feel to be one of the great difficulties in denouncing a particular person. Every unpleasant dog is only one of many, but we kick him because he comes in our way, and there is always some want of distributive justice in the kicking."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: ... it is one of the gains of advancing age that the good of young creatures becomes a more definite intense joy to us. With that renunciation for ourselves which age inevitably brings, we get more freedom of soul to enter into the life of others; what we can never learn they will know, and the gladness which is a departed sunlight to us is rising with the strength of morning to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: ... as usual I am suffering much from doubt as to the worth of what I am doing and fear lest I may not be able to complete it so as to make it a contribution to literature and not a mere addition to the heap of books."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion that you will like to hear from me. You see, I have asked no questions, which are the torture-screws of correspondence. Hence you have nothing to answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The perpetual mourner -- the grief that can never be healed -- is innocently enough felt to be wearisome by the rest of the world. And my sense of desolation increases. Each day seems a new beginning -- a new acquaintance with grief."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: But, bless us, things may be lovable that are not altogether handsome, I hope?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: To most mortals there is a stupidity which is unendurable and a stupidity which is altogether acceptable - else, indeed, what would become of social bonds?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The select natures who pant after the ideal, and find nothing in pantaloons or petticoats great enough to command their reverence and love, are curiously in unison with the narrowest and pettiest."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We are overhasty to speak as if God did not manifest himself by our silent feeling, and make his love felt through ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: ...Though there's reasons in things as nobody knows on---- that's pretty much what I've made out; yet some folks are so wise they'll find you fifty reasons straight off, and all the while the real reason's winking at 'em in the corner, and they niver see't."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: In Rome it seems as if there were so many things which are more wanted in the world than pictures."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is a sort of human paste that when it comes near the fire of enthusiasm is only baked into harder shape."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: ... it is seldom a medical man has true religious views--there is too much pride of intellect."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: When I married Humphrey I made up my mind to like sermons, and I set out by liking the end very much. That soon spread to the middle and the beginning, because I couldn't have the end without them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Does any one suppose that private prayer is necessarily candid--necessarily goes to the roots of action! Private prayer is inaudible speech, and speech is representative: who can represent himself just as he is, even in his own reflections?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What people do who go into politics I can't think; it drives me almost mad to see mismanagement over only a few hundred acres."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Expenditure--like ugliness and errors--becomes a totally new thing when we attach our own personality to it, and measure it by that wide difference which is manifest (in our own sensations) between ourselves and others."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: ... the true seeing is within; and painting stares at you with an insistent imperfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I don't feel sure about doing good in any way now; everything seems like going on a mission to a people whose language I don't know."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: ... we all know the wag's definition of a philanthropist: a man whose charity increases directly as the square of the distance."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: ... indefinite visions of ambition are weak against the ease of doing what is habitual or beguilingly agreeable."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: ... goodness is of a modest nature, easily discouraged, and when much elbowed in early life by unabashed vices, is apt to retire into extreme privacy, so that it is more easily believed in by those who construct a selfish old gentleman theoretically, than by those who form the narrower judgments based on his personal acquaintance."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: ... we are most of us brought up in the notion that the highest motive for not doing a wrong is something irrespective of the beings who would suffer the wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Solomon's Proverbs, I think, have omitted to say, that as the sore palate findeth grit, so an uneasy consciousness heareth innuendos."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: ... in no part of the world is genteel visiting founded on esteem, in the absence of suitable furniture and complete dinner-service."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Fine art, poetry, that kind of thing, elevates a nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: ... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to a certain point, women should; but in a light way, you know."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object, and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I think any hardship is better than pretending to do what one is paid for, and never really doing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: But with regard to critical occasions, it often happens that all moments seem comfortably remote until the last."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business - that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: When one is grateful for something too good for common thanks, writing is less unsatisfactory than speech-one does not, at least, hear how inadequate the words are."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We are apt to think it the finest era of the world when America was beginning to be discovered, when a bold sailor, even if he were wrecked, might alight on a new kingdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: To the receptive soul the river of life pauseth not, nor is diminished."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I used to come from the village with all that dirt and coarse ugliness like a pain within me, and the simpering pictures in the drawing-room seemed to me like a wicked attempt to find delight in what is false, while we don't mind how hard the truth is for the neighbors outside our walls. I think we have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: After all, people may really have in them some vocation which is not quite plain to themselves, may they not? They may seem idle and weak because they are growing. We should be very patient with each other, I think."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is better - it shall be better with me because I have known you."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I shall be so glad if you will tell me what to read. I have been looking into all the books in the library at Offendene, but there is nothing readable. The leaves all stick together and smell musty. I wish I could write books to amuse myself, as you can! How delightful it must be to write books after one's own taste instead of reading other people's! Home-made books must be so nice."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: ...there's never a garden in all the parish but what there's endless waste in it for want o' somebody as could use everything up. It's what I think to myself sometimes, as there need nobody run short o' victuals if the land was made the most on, and there was never a morsel but what could find it's way to a mouth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Animals are such agreeable friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Men can do nothing without the make-believe of a beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The greatest benefit we owe to the artist, whether painter, poet, or novelist, is the extension of our sympathies."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: If we need a true conception of the popular character to guide our sympathies rightly, we need it equally to check our theories, and direct us in their application."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: O may I join the choir invisible of those immortal dead who live again in minds made better by their presence; live in pulses stirred to generosity, in deeds of daring rectitude, in scorn for miserable aims that end with self, in thoughts sublime that pierce the night like stars, and with their mild persistence urge men's search to vaster issues."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Art is the nearest thing to life; it is a mode of amplifying experience and extending our contact with our fellow men beyond the bounds of our personal lot."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is well known to all experienced minds that our firmest convictions are often dependent on subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Subtle impressions for which words are quite too coarse a medium."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: One has to spend so many years in learning how to be happy. I am just beginning to make some progress in the science, and I hope to disprove Young's theory that \"as soon as we have found the key of life it opes the gates of death.\" Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead. I never will believe that our youngest days are our happiest. What a miserable augury for the progress of the race and the destination of the individual if the more matured and enlightened state is the less happy one!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What deep and worthy love is so, whether of woman or child, or art or music. Our caresses, our tender words, our still rapture under the influence of autumn sunsets, or pillared vistas, or calm majestic statues, or Beethoven symphonies all bring with them the consciousness that they are mere waves and ripples in an unfathomable ocean of love and beauty; our emotion in its keenest moment passes from expression into silence, our love at its highest flood rushes beyond its object and loses itself in the sense of divine mystery."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Better spend an extra hundred or two on your son's education, than leave it him in your will."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Every year strips us of at least one vain expectation, and teaches us to reckon some solid good in its stead."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The tendency toward good in human nature has a force which no creed can utterly counteract, and which insures the ultimate triumph of that tendency over all dogmatic perversions."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is easy to say how we love new friends, and what we think of them, but words can never trace out all the fibers that knit us to the old."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Cruelty, like every other vice, requires no motive outside of itself; it only requires opportunity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is a sort of jealousy which needs very little fire; it is hardly a passion, but a blight bred in the cloudy, damp despondency of uneasy egoism."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: But human experience is usually paradoxical, that means incongruous with the phrases of current talk or even current philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: People who can't be witty exert themselves to be devout and affectionate."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: That's what a man wants in a wife, mostly; he wants to make sure one fool tells him he's wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The beginning of an acquaintance whether with persons or things is to get a definite outline of our ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The sons of Judah have to choose that God may again choose them. The divine principle of our race is action, choice, resolved memory."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is no private life which has not been determined by a wider public life."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Science is properly more scrupulous than dogma. Dogma gives a charter to mistake, but the very breath of science is a contest with mistake, and must keep the conscience alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There are some cases in which the sense of injury breeds not the will to inflict injuries and climb over them as a ladder, but a hatred of all injury."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Worldly faces never look so worldly as at a funeral. They have the same effect of grating incongruity as the sound of a coarse voice breaking the solemn silence of night."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The difficult task of knowing another soul is not for young gentlemen whose consciousness is chiefly made up of their own wishes."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Poor fellow! I think he is in love with you.' I am not aware of it. And to me it is one of the most odious things in a girl's life, that there must always be some supposition of falling in love coming between her and any man who is kind to her... I have no ground for the nonsensical vanity of fancying everybody who comes near me is in love with me."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: And certainly, the mistakes that we male and female mortals make when we have our own way might fairly raise some wonder that we are so fond of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Hurt, he'll never be hurt--he's made to hurt other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Selfish\u2014 a judgment readily passed by those who have never tested their own power of sacrifice."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is very hard to say the exact truth, even about your own immediate feelings \u2013 much harder than to say something fine about them which is not the exact truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What should I do\u2014how should I act now, this very day . . . What she would resolve to do that day did not yet seem quite clear, but something that she could achieve stirred her as with an approaching murmur which would soon gather distinctness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Some discouragement, some faintness of heart at the new real future which replaces the imaginary, is not unusual, and we do not expect people to be deeply moved by what is not unusual. That element of tragedy which lies in the very fact of frequency has not yet wrought itself into the coarse emotion of mankind, and perhaps our frames could hardly bear much of it. If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: If I got places, sir, it was because I made myself fit for 'em. If you want to slip into a round hole, you must first make a ball of yourself; that's where it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is one order of beauty which seems made to turn heads. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Her future, she thought, was likely to be worse than her past, for after her years of contented renunciation, she had slipped back into desire and longing; she found joyless days of distasteful occupation harder and harder; she found the image of the intense and varied life she yearned for, and despaired of, becoming more and more importunate."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Certainly the determining acts of her life were not ideally beautiful. They were the mixed result of young and novel impulse struggling amidst the conditions of an imperfect social state, in which great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We are all of us imaginative in some form or other, for images are the brood of desire."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Saints and martyrs had never interested Maggie so much as sages and poets."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The most solid comfort one can fall back upon is the thought that the business of one's life is to help in some small way to reduce the sum of ignorance, degradation and misery on the face of this beautiful earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We have all got to exert ourselves a little to keep sane, and call things by the same names as other people call them by."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Can anything be more disgusting than to hear people called 'educated' making small jokes about eating ham, and showing themselves empty of any real knowledge as to the relation of their own social and religious life to the history of the people they think themselves witty in insulting? [...] The best thing that can be said of it is, that it is a sign of the intellectual narrowness\u2014in plain English, the stupidity which is still the average mark of our culture."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A prig is a fellow who is always making you a present of his opinions."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Blameless people are always the most exasperating."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We are all humiliated by the sudden discovery of a fact which has existed very comfortably and perhaps been staring at us in private while we have been making up our world entirely without it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Among all forms of mistake, prophecy is the most gratuitous."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I protest against any absolute conclusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: If a man goes a little too far along a new road, it is usually himself that he harms more than any one else."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It's well known there's always two sides, if no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: People are almost always better than their neighbors think they are."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We could never have loved the earth so well if we had no childhood in it if it were not the earth where the same flowers come up again every spring that we used to gather with our tiny fingers as we sat lisping to ourselves on the grass . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Plainness has its peculiar temptations and vices quite as much as beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Best friend, my well-spring in the wilderness!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: No one who has ever known what it is to lose faith in a fellow-man whom he has profoundly loved and reverenced, will lightly say that the shock can leave the faith in the Invisible Goodness unshaken. With the sinking of high human trust, the dignity of life sinks too; we cease to believe in our own better self, since that also is part of the common nature which is degraded in our thought; and all the finer impulses of the soul are dulled."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Hopes have precarious life.<br />\r\nThey are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off<br />\r\nIn vigorous growth and turned to rottenness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: But is it what we love, or how we love,<br />\r\nThat makes true good?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Women know no perfect love:<br />\r\nLoving the strong, they can forsake the strong;<br />\r\nMan clings because the being whom he loves<br />\r\nIs weak and needs him."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Affection is the broadest basis of a good life."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I think I should have no other mortal wants, if I could always have plenty of music."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Surely it is not true blessedness to be free of sorrow while there is sorrow and sin in the world. Sorrow is a part of love and love does not seek to throw it off."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: That farewell kiss which resembles greeting, that last glance of love which becomes the sharpest pang of sorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Might, could, would - they are contemptible auxiliaries."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We have no right to come forward and urge wider changes for good, until we have tried to alter the evils which lie under our own hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Kisses honeyed by oblivion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Joy is the best of wine."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Speech is often barren; but silence also does not necessarily brood over a full nest.  Your still fowl, blinking at you without remark, may all the while be sitting on one addled egg; and when it takes to cackling will have nothing to announce but that addled delusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I couldn't live in peace if I put the shadow of a willful sin between myself and God."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Hatred is like fire, it makes even light rubbish deadly."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Of a truth, Knowledge is power, but it is a power reined by scruple, having a conscience of what must be and what may be; whereas Ignorance is a blind giant who, let him but wax unbound, would make it a sport to seize the pillars that hold up the long-wrought fabric of human good, and turn all the places of joy as dark as a buried Babylon."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Great feelings will often take the aspect of error, and great faith the aspect of illusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Having once embarked on your marital voyage, it is impossible not to be aware that you make no way and the sea is not within sight; that in fact, you are exploring an enclosed basin."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I'll tell you what's the greatest power under heaven, and that is public opinion-the ruling belief in society about what is right and what is wrong, what is honourable and what is shameful. That's the steam that is to work the engines."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Time, like money, is measured by our needs."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I always think the flowers can see us, and know what we are thinking about."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Well, well, my boy, if good luck knocks at your door, don't you put your head out at window and tell it to be gone about its business, that's all."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Education was almost entirely a matter of luck \u2014 usually of ill-luck \u2014 in those distant days."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: How unspeakably the lengthening of memories in common endears our old friends!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Things are achieved when they are well begun."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The yoke a man creates for himself by wrong-doing will breed hate in the kindliest nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It's all one web, sir. The prosperity of the country is one web."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Trouble comes to us all in this life: we set our hearts on things which it isn't God's will for us to have, and then we go sorrowing."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I know forgiveness is a man's duty, but, to my thinking, that can only mean as you're to give up all thoughts o' taking revenge: it can never mean as you're t' have your old feelings back again, for that's not possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: That quiet mutual gaze of a trusting husband and wife is like the first moment of rest or refuge from a great weariness or a great danger-not to be interfered with by speech or action which would distract the sensations from the fresh enjoyment of repose."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I think what we call the dullness of things is a disease in ourselves. Else how could anyone find an intense interest in life? And many do."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is in these acts called trivialities that the seeds of joy are forever wasted, until men and women look round with haggard faces at the devastation their own waste has made, and say, the earth bears no harvest of sweetness - calling their denial knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There was no gleam, no shadow, for the heavens, too, were one still, pale cloud; no sound or motion in anything but the dark river that flowed and moaned like an unresting sorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: 'Tis God gives skill, but not without men's hand: He could not make Antonio Stradivarius's violins without Antonio."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is a sort of subjection which is the peculiar heritage of largeness and of love; and strength is often only another name for willing bondage to irremediable weakness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Would not love see returning penitence afar off, and fall on its neck and kiss it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Where women love each other, men learn to smother their mutual dislike."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A supreme love, a motive that gives a sublime rhythm to a woman's life, and exalts habit into partnership with the soul's highest needs, is not to be had where and how she wills."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: One soweth and another reapeth is a verity that applies to evil as well as good."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Our passions do not live apart in locked chambers but dress in their small wardrobe of notions, bring their provisions to a common table and mess together, feeding out of the common store according to their appetite."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: In the schoolroom her quick mind had taken readily that strong starch of unexplained rules and disconnected facts which saves ignorance from any painful sense of limpness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Family likeness has often a deep sadness in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The wrong that rouses our angry passions finds only a medium in us; it passes through us like a vibration, and we inflict what we have suffered."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles, from the desperate to the sheepish; but there is one order of beauty which seems made to turn the heads not only of men, but of all intelligent mammals, even of women. It is a beauty like that of kittens, or very small downy ducks making gentle rippling noises with their soft bills, or babies just beginning to toddle and to engage in conscious mischief \u2014 a beauty with which you can never be angry, but that you feel ready to crush for inability to comprehend the state of mind into which it throws you."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is much pain that is quite noiseless; and vibrations that make human agonies are often a mere whisper in the roar of hurrying existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is no hour that has not its births of gladness and despair, no morning brightness that does not bring new sickness to desolation as well as new forces to genius and love. There are so many of us, and our lots are so different, what wonder that Nature's mood is often in harsh contrast with the great crisis of our lives?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There's folks as make bad butter and trusten to the salt t' hide it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: We are all apt to believe what the world believes about us."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The beauty of a lovely woman is like music."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Them as ha' never had a cushion don't miss it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Whatever may be the success of my stories, I shall be resolute in preserving my incognito, having observed that a nom de plume secures all the advantages without the disagreeables of reputation."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is in the nature of foolish reasonings to seem good to the foolish reasoner."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What novelty is worth that sweet monotony where everything is known, and loved because it is known?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is a mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is a wonderful subduer-this need of love, this hunger of the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Half the sorrows of women would be averted if they could repress the speech they know to be useless-nay, the speech they have resolved not to utter."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A good solid bit of work lasts."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There's no disappointment in memory, and one's exaggerations are always on the good side."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before\u2014consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: But I think it is hardly an argument against a man's general strength of character, that he should be apt to be mastered by love. A fine constitution doesn't insure one against small-pox or any other of those inevitable diseases. A man may be very firm in other matters, and yet be under a sort of witchery from a woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Ah! but the moods lie in his nature, my boy, just as much as his reflections did, and more. A man can never do anything at variance with his own nature. He carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There is heroism even in the circles of hell for fellow-sinners who cling to each other in the fiery whirlwind and never recriminate."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The words of genius have a wider meaning than the thought that prompted them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Husbands are an inferior class of men, who require keeping in order."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A man deep-wounded may feel too much pain To feel much anger."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Beauty is part of the finished language by which goodness speaks."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Childhood has no forebodings; but then, it is soothed by no memories of outlived sorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The moment of finding a fellow-creature is often as full of mingled doubt and exultation, as the moment of finding an idea."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: How will you find good? It is not a thing of choice; it is a river that flows from the foot of the Invisible Throne and flows by the path of obedience."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: All things journey: sun and moon, Morning, noon, and afternoon, Night and all her stars; 'Twixt the east and western bars Round they journey, Come and go! We go with them!"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Under every guilty secret there is hidden a brood of guilty wishes, whose unwholesome infecting life is cherished by the darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Life is very difficult. It seems right to me sometimes that we should follow our strongest feelings; but then such feelings continually come across the ties that all our former life has made for us,--the ties that have made others dependent on us,--and would cut them in two."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: But certain winds will make men's temper bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I have always been thinking of the different ways in which Christianity is taught, and whenever I find one way that makes it a wider blessing than any other, I cling to that as the truest--I mean that which takes in the most good of all kinds, and brings in the most people as sharers in it. It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The first condition of human goodness is something to love; the second, something to reverence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It always seemed to me a sort of clever stupidity only to have one sort of talent - like a carrier pigeon."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: When a workman knows the use of his tools, he can make a door as well as a window."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism,  a regeneration, the initiation into a new state.   Suffering can be likened to a baptism - the passing over the threshold of pain and grief and anguish to claim a new state of being."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: If you could make a pudding wi' thinking o' the batter, it 'ud be easy getting dinner."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Boots and shoes are the greatest trouble of my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Our deeds are fetters that we forge ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: What can still that hunger of the heart which sickens the eye for beauty, and makes sweet-scented ease an oppression?"
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Things are achieved when they are well begun. The perfect archer calls the deer his own While yet the shaft is whistling."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: All who remember their childhood remember the strange vague sense, when some new experience came, that everything else was going to be changed, and that there would be no lapse into the old monotony."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It is strange how deeply colours seem to penetrate one, like scent."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The floods of nonsense printed in the form of critical opinions seem to me a chief curse of the times, a chief obstacle to true culture."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A fine lady is a squirrel-headed thing, with small airs and small notions; about as applicable to the business of life as a pair of tweezers to the clearing of a forest."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The commonest man, who has his ounce of sense and feeling, is conscious of the difference between a lovely, delicate woman and a coarse one. Even a dog feels a difference in her presence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The best part of a woman's love is worship; but it is hard to her to be sent away with her precious spikenard rejected, and her long tresses, too, that were let fall, ready to soothe the wearied feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Man cannot choose his duties."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Ignorant kindness may have the effect of cruelty; but to be angry with it as if it were direct cruelty would be an ignorant unkindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: And when a woman's will is as strong as the man's who wants to govern her, half her strength must be concealment."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The egoism which enters into our theories does not affect their sincerity; rather, the more our egoism is satisfied, the more robust is our belief."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: No compliment can be eloquent, except as an expression of indifference."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: You may try \u2014 but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Every woman is supposed to have the same set of motives, or else to be a monster."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: I have the conviction that excessive literary production is a social offence."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: It always remains true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbour's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Our words have wings, but fly not where we would."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Hobbies are apt to run away with us, you know; it doesn't do to be run away with. We must keep the reins."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: Hostesses who entertain much must make up their parties as ministers make up their cabinets, on grounds other than personal liking."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Eliot: In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A single conversation across the table with a wise man is better than ten years mere study of books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Ripe in wisdom was he, but patient, and simple, and childlike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Behind the clouds is the sun still shining."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Defeat may be victory in disguise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors, than from his virtues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Today is the blocks with which we build."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Every man is in some sort a failure to himself. No one ever reaches the heights to which he aspires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Ah, how good it feels!  The hand of an old friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Know how sublime a thing it is to suffer and be strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: All things must change<br />\r\nTo something new, to something strange."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Each morning sees some task begun, each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, has earned a night's repose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The sea hath its pearls<br />\r\nThe heaven hath its stars<br />\r\nBut my heart, my heart<br />\r\nHas its love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I do not believe anyone can be perfectly well, who has a brain and a heart"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: There's nothing in this world so sweet as love. And next to love the sweetest thing is hate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Dreams or illusions, call them what you will, they lift us from the commonplace of life to better things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: From dust thou art to dust returneth, was not spoken of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Fame grows like a tree if it have the principle of growth in it; the accumulated dews of ages freshen its leaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Our hearts are lamps for ever burning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Three silences there are: the first of speech, the second of desire, the third of thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: When one is truly in love, one not only says it, but shows it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A torn jacket is soon mended; but hard words bruise the heart of a child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling pulse through me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Where should the scholar live? In solitude, or in society? in the green stillness of the country, where he can hear the heart of Nature beat, or in the dark, gray town where he can hear and feel the throbbing heart of man?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: In youth all doors open outward; in old age all open inward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: If we love one another, nothing, in truth, can harm us, whatever mischances may happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Enthusiasm begets enthusiasm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Every man must patiently bide his time. He must wait -- not in listless idleness but in constant, steady, cheerful endeavors, always willing and fulfilling and accomplishing his task, that when the occasion comes he may be equal to the occasion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: They who go Feel not the pain of parting; it is they Who stay behind that suffer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews and shadows and refreshing coolness!  How beautiful the long mild twilight, which, like a silver clasp, unites today with yesterday!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Art is the gift of God, and must be used unto His glory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Nothing with God can be accidental."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: When you ask one friend to dine, Give him your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining, Blossoms flaunting in the eye of day, Tremulous leaves, with soft and silver lining, Buds that open only to decay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: In this world a man must either be anvil or hammer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: If a woman shows too often the Medusa's head, she must not be astonished if her lover is turned into stone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: When we walk towards the sun of Truth, all shadows are cast behind us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The holiest of holidays are those kept by ourselves in silence and apart; The secret anniversaries of the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o\u2019er our fears, are all with thee \u2013 are all with thee!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow it in its flight. I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Thus at the flaming forge of life<br />\r\nOur fortunes must be wrought;<br />\r\nThus on its sounding anvil shaped<br />\r\nEach burning deed and thought!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Nature paints not; In oils, but frescoes the great dome of heaven; With sunsets, and the lovely forms of clouds; And flying vapors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Music is the universal language of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: And in despair I bowed my head; \"There is no peace on earth,\" I said; \"For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!\" Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: \"God is not dead, nor doth he sleep! The Wrong shall fail, the Right prevail, With peace on earth, good-will to men!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of flowers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen by the outward eye-not creation, but insight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A thought often makes us hotter than a fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The nearer the dawn the darker the night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Perseverance is a great element of success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: To be seventy years old is like climbing the Alps. You reach a snow-crowned summit, and see behind you the deep valley stretching miles and miles away, and before you other summits higher and whiter, which you may have strength to climb, or may not. Then you sit down and meditate and wonder which it will be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Let us labor for an inward stillness-- An inward stillness and an inward healing. That perfect silence where the lips and heart Are still, and we no longer entertain Our own imperfect thoughts and vain opinions, But God alone speaks to us and we wait In singleness of heart that we may know His will, and in the silence of our spirits, That we may do His will and do that only"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Look, then, into thine heart, and write!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: We have not wings we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are the happiest, For those that wander they know not where Are full of trouble and full of care; To stay at home is best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go, Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Love is the root of creation; God's essence; worlds without number Lie in his bosom like children; he made them for this purpose only. Only to love and to be loved again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: For it is the fate of a woman Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless, Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence. Hence is the inner life of so many suffering women Sunless and silent and deep, like subterranean rivers Runnng through caverns of darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Trust no future, however pleasant! Let the dead past bury its dead! Act -- act in the living Present! Heart within and God overhead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The things that have been and shall be no more, The things that are, and that hereafter shall be, The things that might have been, and yet were not, The fading twilight of joys departed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Let us then, be up and doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate, Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Whatever hath been written shall remain,<br />\nNor be erased nor written o'er again;<br />\nThe unwritten only still belongs to thee:<br />\nTake heed, and ponder well what that shall be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: What discord we should bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered. Then we should govern the world and not God. And do you think we should govern it better? It gives me only pain when I hear the long, wearisome petitions of people asking for they know not what. . . . Thanks-giving with a full heart-and the rest silence and submission to the divine will!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I am the Angel of the Sun<br />\r\nWhose flaming wheels began to run<br />\r\nWhen God's almighty breath<br />\r\nSaid to the darkness and the Night,<br />\r\nLet there be light! and there was light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Weak minds make treaties with the passions they cannot overcome, and try to purchase happiness at the expense of principle; but the resolute will of a strong man scorns such means, and struggles nobly with his foe to achieve great deeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: All your strength in is your union. All your danger is in discord. <br />\r\nTherefore be at peace henceforward, And as brothers live together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again, So that nothing but God alone will remain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable. The elements have no forbearance. The fire burns, the water drowns, the air consumes, the earth buries. And perhaps it would be well for our race if the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Man were as inevitable as the punishment of crimes against the Laws of Nature -were Man as unerring in his judgments as Nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Quotes about Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, and things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art; to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: There is no death! What seems so is transition; this life of mortal breath is but a suburb of the life elysian, whose portal we call Death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: In the lives of the saddest of us, there are bright days like this, when we feel as if we could take the great world in our arms and kiss it. Then come the gloomy hours, when the fire will neither burn on our hearths nor in our hearts; and all without and within is dismal, cold, and dark. Believe me, every heart has its secret sorrows, which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, And leave his broken playthings on the floor. Still gazing at them through the open door, Nor wholly reassured and comforted By promises of others in their stead Which, the more splendid, may not please him more; So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest so gently, that we go Scarce knowing if we wish to go or stay, Being too full of sleep to understand How far the unknown transcends the what we know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Wreck of the Hesperus But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Nothing that is can pause or stay; / The moon will wax, the moon will wane, / The mist and cloud will turn to rain, / The rain to mist and cloud again, / Tomorrow be today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The history of the past is a mere puppet-show. A little man comes out and blows a little trumpet, and goes in again. You look for something new, and lo! another little man comes out, and blows another little trumpet, and goes in again. And it is all over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small; Though with patience He stands waiting, with exactness grinds He all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The spirit-world around this world of sense<br />\r\nFloats like an atmosphere, and everywhere<br />\r\nWafts through these earthly mists and vapours dense<br />\r\nA vital breath of more ethereal air."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: God sent his Singers upon earth <br />\n With songs of sadness and of mirth, <br />\n That they might touch the hearts of men, <br />\n And bring them back to heaven again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: If spring came but once a century instead of once a year, or<br />\r\n   \tburst forth with the sound of an earthquake and not in<br />\r\n   \tsilence, what wonder and expectation there would be<br />\r\n   \tin all the hearts to behold the miraculous change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: O beautiful, awful summer day, what hast thou given, what taken away?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Gone are the living, but the dead remain, And not neglected; for a hand unseen, Scattering its bounty like a summer rain, Still keeps their graves and their remembrance green."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Nor deem the irrevocable Past <br />\n As wholly wasted, wholly vain, <br />\n If, rising on its wrecks, at last <br />\n To something nobler we attain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: There is a beautiful spirit breathing now Its mellowed richness on the clustered trees, And, from a beaker full of richest dyes, Pouring new glory on the autumn woods, And dipping in warm light the pillared clouds. Morn on the mountain, like a summer bird, Lifts up her purple wing, and in the vales The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf, and stirs up life Within the solemn woods of ash deep-crimsoned, And silver beech, and maple yellow-leaved, Where Autumn, like a faint old man, sits down By the wayside a-weary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: To be infatuated with the power of one's own intellect is an accident which seldom happens but to those who are remarkable for the want of intellectual power. Whenever Nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A young critic is like a boy with a gun; he fires at every living thing he sees. He thinks only of his own skill, not of the pain he is giving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: There are two angels that attend unseen<br />\nEach one of us, and in great books record<br />\nOur good and evil deeds. He who writes down<br />\nThe good ones, after every action closes<br />\nHis volume, and ascends with it to God.<br />\nThe other keeps his dreadful day-book open<br />\nTill sunset, that we may repent; which doing,<br />\nThe record of the action fades away,<br />\nAnd leaves a line of white across the page.<br />\nNow if my act be good, as I believe it,<br />\nIt cannot be recalled. It is already<br />\nSealed up in heaven, as a good deed accomplished.<br />\nThe rest is yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Where'er a noble deed is wrought, Where'er is spoken a noble thought, Our hearts in glad surprise To higher levels rise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Men should soon make up their minds to be forgotten, and look about them, or within them, for some higher motive in what they do than the approbation of men, which is fame, namely, their duty; that they should be constantly and quietly at work, each in his sphere, regardless of effects, and leaving their fame to take care of itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Devil hinders me. You know I say <br />\nJust what I think, and nothing more nor less, <br />\nAnd, when I pray, my heart is in my prayer. <br />\nI cannot say one thing and mean another. <br />\nIf I can't pray, I will not make believe!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion, there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The happy should not insist too much upon their happiness in the presence of the unhappy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: At daybreak, on the bleak sea-beach,<br />\nA fisherman stood aghast,<br />\nTo see the form of a maiden fair,<br />\nLashed close to a drifting mast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: For bells are the voice of the church; They have tones that touch and search The hearts of young and old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: How beautiful the silent hour, when morning and evening thus sit together, hand in hand, beneath the starless sky of midnight!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: After a day of cloud and wind and rain Sometimes the setting sun breaks out again, And touching all the darksome woods with light, Smiles on the fields until they laugh and sing, Then like a ruby from the horizon's ring, Drops down into the night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: To charm, to strengthen, and to teach: these are the three great chords of might."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The rays of happiness, like those of light, are colorless when unbroken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Each morning sees some task begin, each evening sees it close."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Resolve and thou art free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Great men stand like solitary towers in the city of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: O little souls! as pure as white And crystalline as rays of light Direct from heaven, their source divine; Refracted through the mist of years, How red my setting sun appears, How lurid looks this soul of mine!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanes and roofs of villages, on woodland crests and their aerial neighborhoods of nests deserted, on the curtained window-panes of rooms where children sleep, on country lanes and harvest-fields, its mystic splendor rests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings - as some savage tribes determine the power of muskets by their recoil; that being considered best which fairly prostrates the purchaser."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Therefore trust to thy heart, and to what the world calls illusions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Softly the evening came. The sun from the western horizon Like a magician extended his golden want o'er the landscape; Trinkling vapors arose; and sky and water and forest Seemed all on fire at the touch, and melted and mingled together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: O gift of God! O perfect day: Whereon shall no man work, but play; Whereon it is enough for me, Not to be doing, but to be!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Fame comes only when deserved, and then is as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Ne speaketh not; and yet there lies a conversation in his eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: How wonderful is the human voice! It is indeed the organ of the soul. The intellect of man is enthroned visibly on his forehead and in his eye, and the heart of man is written on his countenance, but the soul, the soul reveals itself in the voice only."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: It was Autumn, and incessant Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves, And, like living coals, the apples Burned among the withering leaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Does not all the blood within me<br />\r\nLeap to meet thee, leap to meet thee,<br />\r\nAs the springs to meet the sunshine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: In December ring Every day the chimes; Loud the gleemen sing In the streets their merry rhymes. Let us by the fire Ever higher Sing them till the night expire!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest art of all the arts. Painting and sculpture are but images, Are merely shadows cast by outward things On stone or canvas, having in themselves No separate existence. Architecture, Existing in itself, and not in seeming A something it is not, surpasses them As substance shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The holiest of all holidays are those <br />\r\nKept by ourselves in silence and apart; <br />\r\nThe secret anniversaries of the heart, <br />\r\nWhen the full river of feeling overflows;- <br />\r\nThe happy days unclouded to their close; <br />\r\nThe sudden joys that our of darkness start <br />\r\nAs flames from ashes; swift desires that dart <br />\r\nLike swallows singing down each wind that blows!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream, Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: When thou are not pleased, beloved, Then my heart is sad and darkened, As the shining river darkens When the clouds drop shadows on it! When thou smilest, my beloved, Then my troubled heart is brightened, As in sunshine gleam the ripples That the cold wind makes in rivers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Chill air and wintry winds! My ear has grown familiar with your song; I hear it in the opening year, I listen, and it cheers me long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Patience; accomplish thy labor; accomplish thy work of affection!<br />\nSorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.<br />\nTherefore accomplish thy labor of love, till the heart is made godlike,<br />\nPurified, strengthened, perfected, and rendered more worthy of heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of His mother, as if to teach us that this holy love should be our last worldly thought - the last point of earth from which the soul should take its flight for heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: In the long, sleepless watches of the night, A gentle face the face of one long dead Looks at me from the wall, where round its head The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Not chance of birth or place has made us friends, Being oftentimes of different tongues and nations, But the endeavor for the selfsame ends, With the same hopes, and fears, and aspirations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Ah, how skillful grows the hand<br />\r\nThat obeyeth Love's command!<br />\r\nIt is the heart, and not the brain,<br />\r\nThat to the highest doth attain,<br />\r\nAnd he who followeth Love's behest<br />\r\nFar excelleth all the rest!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: All was silent as before - All silent save the dripping rain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Welcome, Disappointment! Thy hand is cold and hard, but it is the hand of a friend. Thy voice is stern and harsh, but it is the voice of a friend. Oh, there is something sublime in calm endurance, something sublime in the resolute, fixed purpose of suffering without complaining, which makes disappointment oftentimes better than success!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic, Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms. Loud from its rocky caverns, the deep-voiced neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Taste the joy<br />\nThat springs from labor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Talk not of wasted affection - affection never was wasted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The leaves of memory seemed to make A mournful rustling in the dark"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Art is the child of Nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Some critics are like chimney-sweepers; they put out the fire below, and frighten the swallows from their nests above; they scrape a long time in the chimney, cover themselves with soot, and bring nothing away but a bag of cinders, and then sing from the top of the house as if they had built it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: God sifted a whole nation that he might send choice grain over into this wilderness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you do without thought of fame. If it comes at all it will come because it is deserved, not because it is sought after."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: That was the first sound in the song of love!<br />\r\nScarce more than silence is, and yet a sound.<br />\r\nHands of invisible spirits touch the strings<br />\r\nOf that mysterious instrument, the soul,<br />\r\nAnd play the prelude of our fate. We hear<br />\r\nThe voice prophetic, and are not alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Like black hulks the shadows of the great trees ride at anchor on the billowy sea of grass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Out of the bosom of the Air, Out of the cloud-folds of her garments shaken, Over the woodlands brown and bare, Over the harvest-fields forsaken, Silent, and soft, and slow Descends the snow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Would you learn the secret of the sea? Only those who brave its dangers, comprehend its mystery!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Who dares<br />\r\nTo say that he alone has found the truth?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Decide not rashly. The decision made<br />\nCan never be recalled. The gods implore not,<br />\nPlead not, solicit not; they only offer<br />\nChoice and occasion, which once being passed<br />\nReturn no more. Dost thou accept the gift?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Age is opportunity no less than youth itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Torrent of light and river of air,<br />\r\nAlong whose bed the glimmering stars are seen,<br />\r\nLike gold and silver sands in some ravine<br />\r\nWhere mountain streams have left their channels bare!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A handful of red sand from the hot clime<br />\r\nOf Arab deserts brought,<br />\r\nWithin this glass becomes the spy of Time,<br />\r\nThe minister of Thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Being all fashioned of the self-same dust, let us be merciful as well as just"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth'; and 'Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Take this sorrow to thy heart and make it part of thee, and it shall nourish thee till thou art strong again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: As to the pure mind all things are pure, so to the poetic mind all things are poetical."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Noble souls, through dust and heat, rise from disaster and defeat the stronger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Your silent tents of green<br />\r\nWe deck with fragrant flowers;<br />\r\nYours has the suffering been,<br />\r\nThe memory shall be ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: He looks the whole world in the face for he owes not any man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Nature is a revelation of God; Art a revelation of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: He spoke well who said that graves are the footprints of angels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls The burial-ground God's-Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, And breathes a benison o'er the sleeping dust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I hear the wind among the trees Playing the celestial symphonies; I see the branches downward bent, Like keys of some great instrument."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I heard the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls! I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above; The calm, majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: With many readers, brilliancy of style passes for affluence of thought; they mistake buttercups in the grass for immeasurable gold mines under ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A boy's will is the wind's will, and the thought's of youth are long, long thoughhts"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: 'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees<br />\r\nFilled all the air with fragrance and with joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The market-place, the eager love of gain, Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Nothing that is can pause or stay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep, All things within its bosom sleep! A single step, and all is o'er, A plunge, a bubble, and no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: What is time? The shadow on the dial, the striking of the clock, the running of the sand, day and night, summer and winter, months, years, centuries-these are but arbitrary and outward signs, the measure of Time, not Time itself. Time is the Life of the Soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: In old age our bodies are worn-out instruments, on which the soul tries in vain to play the melodies of youth. But because the instrument has lost its strings, or is out of tune, it does not follow that the musician has lost his skill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Oh the long and dreary Winter! Oh the cold and cruel Winter!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: So Nature deals with us, and takes away Our playthings one by one, and by the hand Leads us to rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure when with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do, well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Whatever poet, orator, or sage may say of it, old age is still old age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: If you once understand an author's character, the comprehension of his writings becomes easy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows. Henceforth be mine a life of action and reality! I will work in my own sphere, nor wish it other than it is. This alone is health and happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: This is the place. Stand still, my steed,- Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Dead he is not, but departed, for the artist never dies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: It is autumn; not without But within me is the cold. Youth and spring are all about; It is I that have grown old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Sang in tones of deep emotion Songs of love and songs of longing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice triumphs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The atmosphere breathes rest and comfort, and the many chambers seem full of welcomes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Tis always morning somewhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Learn to labour and to wait."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater To raise the dead to life than to create Phantoms that seem to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I will be a man among men; and no longer a dreamer among shadows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Tomorrow is the mysterious, unknown guest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Do not delay,<br />\r\nDo not delay: the golden moments fly!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Mine is the Month of Roses; yes, and mine<br />\r\nThe Month of Marriages! All pleasant sights<br />\r\nAnd scents, the fragrance of the blossoming vine,<br />\r\nThe foliage of the valleys and the heights.<br />\r\nMine are the longest days, the loveliest nights;<br />\r\nThe mower's scythe makes music to my ear;<br />\r\nI am the mother of all dear delights;<br />\r\nI am the fairest daughter of the year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Listen my children and you shall hear, Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: There is a Reaper, whose name is Death,<br />\r\nAnd, with his sickle keen,<br />\r\nHe reaps the bearded grain at a breath,<br />\r\nAnd the flowers that grow between."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: See yonder fire! It is the moon slow rising o'er the eastern hill. It glimmers on the forest tips, and through the dewy foliage drips In little rivulets of light, and makes the heart in love with night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Time has laid his hand<br />\r\nUpon my heart, gently, not smiting it,<br />\r\nBut as a harper lays his open palm<br />\r\nUpon his harp, to deaden its vibrations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The pleasant books, that silently among Our household treasures take familiar places, And are to us as if a living tongue Spake from the printed leaves or pictured faces!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The secret anniversaries of the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: It is Lucifer, The son of mystery; And since God suffers him to be, He too, is God's minister, And labors for some good By us not understood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: When Christ ascended Triumphantly from star to star He left the gates of Heaven ajar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: This will be a great day in our history; the date of a New Revolution - quite as much needed as the old one. Even now as I write they are leading old John Brown to execution in Virginia for attempting to rescue slaves! This is sowing the wind to reap the whirlwind which will come soon!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Beautiful in form and feature, lovely as the day, can there be so fair a creature formed of common clay?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a cloudy sea by measuring the distance we have run, but without any observation of the heavenly bodies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Still stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow, Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping.Under the humble walls of the little catholic churchyard,In the heart of the city, they lie, unknown and unnoticed;Daily the tides of life go ebbing and flowing beside them,Thousands of throbbing hearts, where theirs are at rest and forever,Thousands of aching brains, where theirs no longer are busy,Thousands of toiling hands, where theirs have ceased from their labors,Thousands of weary feet, where theirs have completed their journey!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: More and more do I feel, as I advance in life, how little we really know of each other. Friendship seems to me like the touch of musical-glasses--it is only contact; but the glasses themselves, and their contents, remain quite distinct and unmingled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Let nothing disturb thee,<br />\nNothing affright thee;<br />\nAll things are passing;<br />\nGod never changeth;<br />\nPatient endurance<br />\nAttaineth to all things;<br />\nWho God possesseth<br />\nIn nothing is wanting;<br />\nAlone God sufficeth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: To-day, to-morrow, every day, to thousands the end of the world is close at hand. And why should we fear it? We walk here, as it were, in the crypts of life; at times, from the great cathedral above us, we can hear the organ and the chanting choir; we see the light stream through the open door, when some friend goes up before us; and shall we fear to mount the narrow staircase of the grave that leads us out of this uncertain twilight into life eternal?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: In the life of every man there are sudden transitions of feeling, which seem almost miraculous. At once, as if some magician had touched the heavens and the earth, the dark clouds melt into the air, the wind falls, and serenity succeeds the storm. The causes which produce these changes may have been long at work within us, but the changes themselves are instantaneous, and apparently without sufficient cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: There in seclusion and remote from men The wizard hand lies cold, Which at its topmost speed let fall the pen, And left the tale half told. Ah! who shall lift that wand of magic power, And the lost clew regain? The unfinished window in Aladdin's tower Unfinished must remain!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The hearts of some women tremble like leaves at every breath of love which reaches them, and they are still again. Others, like the ocean, are moved only by the breath of a storm, and not so easily lulled to rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of thy voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: O summer day beside the joyous sea! <br />\r\nO summer day so wonderful and white, <br />\r\nSo full of gladness and so full of pain! <br />\r\nForever and forever shalt thou be <br />\r\nTo some the gravestone of a dead delight, <br />\r\nTo some the landmark of a new domain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Buried was the bloody hatchet; Buried was the dreadful war-club; Buried were all warlike weapons, And the war-cry was forgotten. Then was peace among the nations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Build me straight. O worthy Master! Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Love contending with friendship, and self with each generous impulse.<br />\r\nTo and fro in his breast his thoughts were heaving and dashing,<br />\r\nAs in a foundering ship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A great sorrow, like a mariner's quadrant, brings the sun at noon down to the horizon, and we learn where we are on the sea of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: There is no light in earth or heaven but the cold light of stars; and the first watch of night is given to the red planet Mars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The life of woman is full of woe,<br />\nToiling on and on and on,<br />\nWith breaking heart, and tearful eyes,<br />\nThe secret longings that arise,<br />\nWhich this world never satisfies!<br />\nSome more, some less, but of the whole<br />\nNot one quite happy, no, not one!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and beside his own very agreeable society, I shall enjoy that of the most noted literary men of the day, which will be a great gratification to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Thou shalt learn<br />\nThe wisdom early to discern<br />\nTrue beauty in utility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: For hate is strong,<br />\nAnd mocks the song<br />\nOf peace on earth, good-will to men!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Oh, what a glory doth this world put on, for him who with a fervent heart goes forth under the bright and glorious sky, and looks on duties well performed, and days well spent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I do not love thee less for what is done,<br />\r\nAnd cannot be undone. Thy very weakness<br />\r\nHath brought thee nearer to me, and henceforth<br />\r\nMy love will have a sense of pity in it,<br />\r\nMaking it less a worship than before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Very hot and still the air was, Very smooth the gliding river, Motionless the sleeping shadows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The twilight is sad and cloudy, The wind blows wild and free, And like the wings of sea-birds Flash the white caps of the sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Ah! What would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: How far the gulf-stream of our youth may flow<br />\nInto the arctic regions of our lives,<br />\nWhere little else than life itself survives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: And the night shall be filled with music, And the cares, that infest the day, Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and silently steal away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the surface Is as the tossing buoy, that betrays where the anchor is hidden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: What child has a heart to sing in this capricious clime of ours, when spring comes sailing in from the sea, with wet and heavy cloud-sails and the misty pennon of the east-wind nailed to the mast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: For in the night, unseen, a single warrior, In sombre harness mailed, Dreaded of man, and surnamed the Destroyer, The rampart wall has scaled. He passed into the chamber of the sleeper, The dark and silent room, And as he entered, darker grew, and deeper, The silence and the gloom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Only a look and a voice; then darkness again and silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The mind of the scholar, if you would have it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds. It is better that his armor should be somewhat bruised by rude encounters even, than hang forever rusting on the wall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The course of my long life hath reached at last in fragile bark over a tempestuous sea the common harbor, where must rendered be account for all the actions of the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand,-- One touch of fire,--and all the rest is mystery!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Ah me! what wonder-working, occult science Can from the ashes in our hearts once more The rose of youth restore? What craft of alchemy can bid defiance To time and change, and for a single hour Renew this phantom-flower?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Every author has the whole past to contend with; all the centuries are upon him. He is compared with Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: All sense of hearing and of sight enfold in the serene delight and quietude of sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days That are no more, and shall no more return. Thou hast but taken up thy lamp and gone to bed; I stay a little longer, as one stays To cover up the embers that still burn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The sunshine fails, the shadows grow more dreary,<br />\nAnd I am near to fall, infirm and weary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: In the mouths of many men soft words are like roses that soldiers put into the muzzles of their muskets on holidays."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and stain from the lees of the vat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I see, but cannot reach, the height That lies forever in the light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: There rises the moon, broad and tranquil, through the branches of a walnut tree on a hill opposite. I apostrophize it in the words of Faust; \"O gentle moon, that lookest for the last time upon my agonies!\" --or something to that effect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Youth, hope, and love: To build a new life on a ruined life, To make the future fairer than the past, And make the past appear a troubled dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Enjoy the Spring of Love and Youth, to some good angel leave the rest; For Time will teach thee soon the truth, there are no birds in last year's nest!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: O little feet! that such long years Must wander on through hopes and fears, Must ache and bleed beneath your load; I, nearer to the wayside inn Where toil shall cease and rest begin, Am weary, thinking of your road!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone. Shadows of evening fall around us, and the world seems but a dim reflection - itself a broader shadow. We look forward into the coming lonely night. The soul withdraws into itself. Then stars arise, and the night is holy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Two ways the rivers Leap down to different seas, and as they roll Grow deep and still, and their majestic presence Becomes a benefaction to the towns They visit, wandering silently among them, Like patriarchs old among their shining tents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: An enlightened mind is not hoodwinked; it is not shut up in a gloomy prison till it thinks the walls of its dungeon the limits of the universe, and the reach of its own chain the outer verge of intelligence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Take them, O Death! and bear away Whatever thou canst call thine own! Thine image, stamped upon this clay, Doth give thee that, but that alone!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Winter giveth the fields, and the trees so old, <br />\n their beards of icicles and snow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,-- The wounded from the battle-plain, In dreary hospitals of pain, The cheerless corridors, The cold and stony floors. Lo! in that house of misery A lady with a lamp I see Pass through the glimmering gloom And flit from room to room. And slow, as in a dream of bliss, The speechless sufferer turns to kiss Her shadow, as it falls Upon the darkening walls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Time rides with the old<br />\nAt a great pace. As travellers on swift steeds<br />\nSee the near landscape fly and flow behind them,<br />\nWhile the remoter fields and dim horizons<br />\nGo with them, and seem wheeling round to meet them,<br />\nSo in old age things near us slip away,<br />\nAnd distant things go with us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Trouble is the next best thing to enjoyment; there is no fate in the world so horrible as to have no share in either its joys or sorrows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate, Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours Weeping upon his bed has sate, He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Maiden, that read'st this simple rhyme, Enjoy thy youth, it will not stay; Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime, For oh, it is not always May!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things if they were not troubled with great ambitions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast ball, the Earth, Was moulded out of clay, and baked in fire; Men, women, and all animals that breathe Are statues, and not paintings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Work is my recreation,<br />\nThe play of faculty; a delight like that<br />\nWhich a bird feels in flying, or a fish<br />\nIn darting through the water,--Nothing more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Think of your woods and orchards without birds! Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beams As in an idiot's brain remembered words Hang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: All was ended now, the hope, and the fear and the sorrow,<br />\r\nAll the aching of the heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing,<br />\r\nAll the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: No one is so accursed by fate, no one so utterly desolate, but some heart though unknown responds unto his own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: As Unto the bow the the cord is , So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him , yet she follows: Useless each without the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Something the heart must have to cherish, Must love and joy and sorrow learn; Something with passion clasp, or perish And in itself to ashes burn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I love the season well When forest glades are teeming with bright forms, Nor dark and many-folded clouds foretell The coming of storms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood; as the Emperors signed their names in green ink when under age, but when of age, in purple."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Write on your doors the saying wise and old,<br />\n\"Be bold! be bold!\" and everywhere - \"Be bold;<br />\nBe not too bold!\" Yet better the excess<br />\nThan the defect; better the more than less;<br />\nBetter like Hector in the field to die,<br />\nThan like a perfumed Paris turn and fly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;<br />\r\nIt rains, and the wind in never weary;<br />\r\nThe vine still clings to the mouldering wall,<br />\r\nBut at every gust the dead leaves fall,<br />\r\nAnd the day is dark and dreary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The day is done; and slowly from the scene the stooping sun upgathers his spent shafts, and puts them back into his golden quiver!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Now to rivulets from the mountains Point the rods of fortune-tellers; Youth perpetual dwells in fountains, Not in flasks, and casks, and cellars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Were a star quenched on high,For ages would its light,Still travelling downward from the sky,Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies,For years beyond our ken,The light he leaves behind him liesUpon the paths of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The secret studies of an author are the sunken piers upon which is to rest the bridge of his fame, spanning the dark waters of oblivion. They are out of sight, but without them no superstructure can stand secure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The true poet is a friendly man. He takes to his arms even cold and inanimate things, and rejoices in his heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: How beautiful is the rain!<br />\r\nAfter the dust and the heat,<br />\r\nIn the broad and fiery street,<br />\r\nIn the narrow lane,<br />\r\nHow beautiful is the rain!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives, When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives, Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain, But never will be sung to us again, Is they remembrance. Now the hour of rest Hath come to thee. Sleep, darling: it is best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Such was the wreck of the Hesperus, In the midnight and the snow! Christ save us all from a death like this, On the reef of Norman's Woe!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: O lovely eyes of azure, Clear as the waters of a brook that run Limpid and laughing in the summer sun!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: There is no flock, however watched and tended, but one dead lamb is there! There is no fireside howsoe'er defended, but has one vacant chair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Youth wrenches the sceptre from old age, and sets the crown on its own head before it is entitled to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The gentle wind, a sweet and passionate wooer, Kisses the blushing leaf."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wiseRound their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The low desire, the base design<br />\nThat makes another's virtues less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: For the structure that we raise,<br />\nTime is with materials filled;<br />\nOur to-days and yesterdays<br />\nAre the blocks with which we build."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: But the nearer the dawn the darker the night, And by going wrong all things come right. Things have been mended that were worse, and the the worse, the nearer they are to mend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught<br />\nIn schools, some graduate of the field or street,<br />\nWho shall become a master of art,<br />\nAn admiral sailing the high seas of thought<br />\nFearless and first, and steering with his fleet<br />\nFor lands not yet laid down in any chart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: O, though oft oppressed and lonely,<br />\nAll my fears are laid aside,<br />\nIf I but remember only<br />\nSuch as these have lived and died!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Our blossoms of passion, gay and luxuriant flowers, are bright and full of fragrance, but they beguile us and lead us astray, and their odor is deadly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I like that ancient Saxon phrase, which calls, The burial-ground God's-Acre."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Truly, this world can go on without us, if we would but think so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Each new epoch in life seems an encounter. There is a tussle and a cloud of dust, and we come out of it triumphant or crest-fallen, according as we have borne ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling mantle of the Prophet seems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The grave itself is but a covered bridge,<br />\r\nLeading from light to light, through a brief darkness!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: No man is so poor as that. As well might the mountain streamlets say they have nothing worth giving to the sea, because they are not rivers. Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: He that respects himself is safe from others. He wears a coat of mail that none can pierce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Some feelings are quite untranslatable; no language has yet been found for them. They gleam upon us beautifully through the dim twilight of fancy, and yet when we bring them close to us, and hold them up to the light of reason, lose their beauty all at once, as glow worms which gleam with such a spiritual light in the shadows of evening, when brought in where the candles are lighted, are found to be only worms like so many others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Let him not boast who puts his armor on as he who puts it off, the battle done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The tide rises, the tide falls, The twilight darkens, the curlew calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet security of the streets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Build today, then strong and sure, With a firm and ample base; And ascending and secure. Shall tomorrow find its place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The day is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; The vine still clings to the mouldering wall, But at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary. My life is cold, and dark, and dreary; It rains, and the wind is never weary; My thoughts still cling to the mouldering past, But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast, And the days are dark and dreary. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the clouds is the sun still shining; Thy fate is the common fate of all, Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: In the elder days of art Builders wrought with greatest care Each minute and unseen part, For the Gods are everywhere"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The twilight that surrounds the border-land of old romance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The setting of a great hope is like the setting of the sun. The brightness of our life is gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Rule by patience, Laughing Water!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: O thou child of many prayers!<br />\r\nLife hath quicksands, Life hath snares!<br />\r\nCare and age come unawares!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you depart, But put you down into the dungeon, In the round-tower of my heart, And there will I keep you forever, Yes, forever and a day, Till the walls shall crumble to ruin, And moulder in the dust away!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The star of the unconquered will, He rises in my breast, Serene, and resolute, and still, And calm, and self-possessed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: How can I tell the signals and the signs<br />\r\nBy which one heart another heart divines?<br />\r\nHow can I tell the many thousand ways<br />\r\nBy which it keeps the secret it betrays?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: You would attain to the divine perfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The morning pouring everywhere, its golden glory on the air."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Talk not of wasted affection, affection never was wasted; If it enrich not the heart of another, its waters, returning Back to their springs, like the rain, shall fill them full of refreshment; That which the fountain sends forth returns again to the fountain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Then stars arise, and the night is holy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The bravest are the tenderest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: As great Pythagoras of yore,<br />\r\nStanding beside the blacksmith's door,<br />\r\nAnd hearing the hammers, as they smote<br />\r\nThe anvils with a different note,<br />\r\nStole from the varying tones, that hung<br />\r\nVibrant on every iron tongue,<br />\r\nThe secret of the sounding wire.<br />\r\nAnd formed the seven-chorded lyre."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Into each life some rain must fall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: As the heart is, so is love to the heart. It partakes of its strength or weakness, its health or disease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: And the bright faces of my young companions<br />\nAre wrinkled like my own, or are no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A boy's will is the wind's will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Many a poem is marred by a superfluous verse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind them into powder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Sail on ship of state, sail on, I union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, with all its hopes of future years, is hanging on thy fate!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Our faith triumphant o'er our fears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Mormons make the marriage ring, like the ring of Saturn, fluid, not solid, and keep it in its place by numerous satellites."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A millstone and the human heart are driven ever round,<br />\nIf they have nothing else to grind, they must themselves be ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The poor too often turn away unheard, From hearts that shut against them with a sound That will be heard in heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: From labor there shall come forth rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Perhaps the greatest lesson which the lives of literary men teach us is told in a single word* Wait!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Big words do not smite like war-clubs, Boastful breath is not a bow-string, Taunts are not so sharp as arrows, Deeds are better things than words are, Actions mightier than boastings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The natural alone is permanent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: \"Do not fear! Heaven is as near,\" He said, \"by water as by land!\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: O flower-de-luce, bloom on, and let the river Linger to kiss thy feet! O flower of song, bloom on, and make forever The world more fair and sweet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: We see but dimly through the mists and vapors; Amid these earthly damps What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A town that boasts inhabitants like me Can have no lack of good society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The swallow is come! The swallow is come! O, fair are the seasons, and light Are the days that she brings, With her dusky wings, And her bosom snowy white!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail. And crying havoc on the slug and snail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: By unseen hands uplifted in the light Of sunset, yonder solitary cloud Floats, with its white apparel blown abroad, And wafted up to heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Our ingress into the world Was naked and bare; Our progress through the world Is trouble and care."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Many readers judge of the power of a book by the shock it gives their feelings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: No action, whether foul or fair, Is ever done, but it leaves somewhere A record, written by fingers ghostly, As a blessing or a curse, and mostly In the greater weakness or greater strength Of the acts which follow it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The country is lyric, the town dramatic. When mingled, they make the most perfect musical drama."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I am more afraid of deserving criticism than of receiving it. I stand in awe of my own opinion. The secret demerits of which we alone, perhaps, are conscious, are often more difficult to bear than those which have been publicly censured in us, and thus in some degree atoned for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: But the good deed, through the ages Living in historic pages, Brighter grows and gleams immortal, Unconsumed by moth or rust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: My own thoughts Are my companions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Nothing useless is, or low; Each thing in its place is best; And what seems but idle show Strengthens and supports the rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The warriors that fought for their country, and bled, Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed; No stone tells the place where their ashes repose, Nor points out the spot from the graves of their foes. They died in their glory, surrounded by fame, And Victory's loud trump their death did proclaim; They are dead; but they live in each Patriot's breast, And their names are engraven on honor's bright crest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Ah, the souls of those that die Are but sunbeams lifted higher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: God is not dead; nor doth He sleep;  ...  <br />\nThe wrong shall fail,<br />\nThe right prevail,<br />\nWith peace on earth, good will to men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Look at this vigorous plant that lifts its head from the meadow, See how its leaves are turned to the north, as true as the magnet; This is the compass-flower, that the finger of God has planted Here in the houseless wild, to direct the traveller's journey. Over the sea-like, pathless, limitless waste of the desert, Such in the soul of man is faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: All things come round to him who will but wait."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind, she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Every human heart is human."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Youth comes but once in a lifetime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Death is better than disease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls<br />\nStamp and neigh, as the hostler calls;<br />\nThe day returns, but nevermore<br />\nReturns the traveler to the shore,<br />\nAnd the tide rises, the tide falls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A sermon is no sermon in which I cannot hear the heartbeat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: All things are symbols."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Even cities have their graves!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Be noble in every thought And in every deed!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The picture that approaches sculpture nearest Is the best picture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: No endeavour is in vain;<br />\nIts reward is in the doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Life like an empty dream flits by."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: If we could read the secret history of our enemies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Hope has as many lives as a cat or a king."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The soul never grows old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The air of summer was sweeter than wine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: O lovely river of Yvette!<br />\nO darling river! like a bride,<br />\nSome dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette<br />\nThou goest to wed the Orge's tide.<br />\nO lovely river Yvette!<br />\nO darling stream! on balanced wings<br />\nThe wood-birds sang the chansonnette<br />\nThat here a wandering poet sings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Where, twisted round the barren oak,<br />\nThe summer vine in beauty clung,<br />\nAnd summer winds the stillness broke,<br />\nThe crystal icicle is hung."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Art is long, and Time is fleeting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Out of the shadows of night<br />\nThe world rolls into light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Oh, how short are the days! How soon the night overtakes us!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: None but yourself who are your greatest foe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: It is the heart and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Gone are the birds that were our summer guests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: .... Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's banner fly, The Black Eagle with double head. And shouts ascend on high .....'' Long live Scanderbeg."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Never idle a moment, but thrifty and thoughtful of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Wisely improve the Present. It is thine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The young may die, but the old must!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Dost thou know what a hero is? Why, a hero is as much as one should say, a hero."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: White swan of cities slumbering in thy nest . . . White phantom city, whose untrodden streets Are rivers, and whose pavements are the shifting Shadows of the palaces and strips of sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: History casts its shadow far into the land of song."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The smoking flax before it burst to flame Was quenched by death, and broken the bruised reed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: There's nothing fair nor beautiful, but takes Something from thee, that makes it beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The moon is hidden behind a cloud... On the leaves is a sound of falling rain... No other sounds than these I hear; The hour of midnight must be near... So many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night, They have driven sleep from mine eyes away: I will go down to the chapel and pray."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Thinking the deed, and not the creed, Would help us in our utmost need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: To say the least, a town life makes one more tolerant and liberal in one's judgment of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I know not how it is, but during a voyage I collect books as a ship does barnacles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The prayer of Ajax was for light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Silence is a great peacemaker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Some poems are like the Centaurs--a mingling of man and beast, and begotten of Ixion on a cloud."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: More hearts are breaking in this world of ours Than one would say. In distant villages And solitudes remote, where winds have wafted The barbed seeds of love, or birds of passage Scattered them in their flight, do they take root, And grow in silence, and in silence perish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Burn, O evening hearth, and waken Pleasant visions, as of old! Though the house by winds be shaken, Safe I keep this room of gold!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Into a world unknown,-the corner-stone of a nation!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Make not thyself the judge of any man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Fair words gladden so many a heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The natural alone is permanent. Fantastic idols may be worshipped for a while; but at length they are overturned by the continual and silent progress of Truth, as the grim statues of Copan have been pushed from their pedestals by the growth of forest-trees, whose seeds were sown by the wind in the ruined walls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The heaven of poetry and romance still lies around us and within us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Under the spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. . . . He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. . . . Toiling,-rejoicing,-sorrowing, Onward through life he goes; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The tragic element in poetry is like Saturn in alchemy, \u0097 the Malevolent, the Destroyer of Nature ; but without it no true Aurum Potabile, or Elixir of Life, can be made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: One half the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: It is curious to note the old sea-margins of human thought! Each subsiding century reveals some new mystery; we build where monsters used to hide themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended! There from the flowing bowl Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal! to the Northland! skoal! Thus the tale ended."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: All the means of action -- the shapeless masses -- the materials -- lie everywhere about us. What we need is the celestial fire to change the flint into the transparent crystal, bright and clear. That fire is genius."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace The features of the mother's face, Her aspect and her attitude, All her majestic loveliness Chastened and softened and subdued Into a more attractive grace, And with a human sense imbued. He is the greatest artist, then, Whether of pencil or of pen, Who follows Nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The men that women marry, And why they marry them, will always be A marvel and a mystery to the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: O thou sculptor, painter, poet! Take this lesson to thy heart: That is best which lieth nearest; Shape from that thy work of art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every hand, As if the ebbing tide would flow no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races, but does not restore, And the dead nations never rise again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath, While underneath such leafy tents they keep The long, mysterious Exodus of Death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: In ourselves are triumph and defeat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, And thus to journey on!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: What shall I say to you? What can I say Better than silence is?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Will without power is like children playing at soldiers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Thus departed Hiawatha, Hiawatha the Beloved, In the glory of the sunset, In the purple mists of evening, To the regions of the home-wind, Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin, To the Islands of the Blessed, To the Kingdom of Ponemah, To the Land of the Hereafter!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Books are sepulchres of thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The morrow was a bright September morn; The earth was beautiful as if newborn; There was nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration in the air, Which makes the passers in the city street Congratulate each other as they meet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The bells themselves are the best of preachers, Their brazen lips are learned teachers, From their pulpits of stone, in the upper air, Sounding aloft, without crack or flaw, Shriller than trumpets under the Law, Now a sermon and now a prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration and its hands a regular motion; and when they cease to hang upon its wheels, the pendulum no longer swings, the hands no longer move the clock stands still."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The lamps are lit, the fires burn bright. The house is full of life and light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm For the country folk to be up and to arm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft So tenderly by the wind, floats fast away Over the snowy peaks!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Life is the gift of God, and is divine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Be thy sleep<br />\nSilent as night is, and as deep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Bell, thou soundest merrily, When the bridal party To the church doth hie! Bell, thou soundest solemnly, When, on Sabbath morning, Fields deserted lie!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: But the great Master said, \"I see <br />\r\nNo best in kind, but in degree; <br />\r\nI gave a various gift to each, <br />\r\nTo charm, to strengthen, and to teach\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Sweet April! many a thought Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed; Nor shall they fail, till, to its autumn brought, Life's golden fruit is shed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Let us be merciful as well as just."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: They, the holy ones and weakly,<br />\nWho the cross of suffering bore,<br />\nFolded their pale hands so meekly,<br />\nSpake with us on earth no more!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Among the noblest in the land - Though man may count himself the least - That man I honor and revere, Who without favor, without fear, In the great city dares to stand, The friend of every friendless beast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: How in the turmoil of life can love stand,<br />\nWhere there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest,<br />\nWho cries to me: \"Remember Barmecide,<br />\nAnd tremble to be happy with the rest.\"<br />\nAnd I make answer: \"I am satisfied;<br />\nI dare not ask; I know not what is best;<br />\nGod hath already said what shall betide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Look, then, into thine heart, and write! Yes, into Life's deep stream! All forms of sorrow and delight, All solemn Voices of the Night, That can soothe thee, or affright, - Be these henceforth thy theme. (excerpt from \"Voices of the Night\")"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: By the shores of Gitchee Gumee,<br />\r\nBy the shining Big-Sea-Water,<br />\r\nStood the wigwam of Nokomis,<br />\r\nDaughter of the Moon, Nokomis,<br />\r\nDark behind it rose the forest,<br />\r\nRose the black and gloomy pine-trees,<br />\r\nRose the firs with cones upon them;<br />\r\nBright before it beat the water,<br />\r\nBeat the clear and sunny water,<br />\r\nBeat the shining Big-Sea-Water."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The nimble lie<br />\nIs like the second-hand upon a clock;<br />\nWe see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth<br />\nSeems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen,<br />\nAnd wins, at last, for the clock will not strike<br />\nTill it has reached the goal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Down sank the great red sun, and in golden, glimmering vapors Veiled the light of his face, like the Prophet descending from Sinai."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The world loves a spice of wickedness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Time has a doomsday book, upon whose pages he is continually recording illustrious names. But as often as a new name is written there, an old one disappears. Only a few stand in illuminated characters never to be effaced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: These stars of earth, these golden flowers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: And when the echoes had ceased, like a sense of pain was the silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Let the dead Past bury its dead!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Ah, to build, to build! That is the noblest of all the arts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The motives and purposes of authors are not always so pure and high, as, in the enthusiasm of youth, we sometimes imagine. To many the trumpet of fame is nothing but a tin horn to call them home, like laborers from, the field, at dinner-time, and they think themselves lucky to get the dinner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Our pleasures and our discontents, Are rounds by which we may ascend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Fortune comes well to all that comes not late."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Then fell upon the house a sudden gloom, a shadow on those features fair and thin. And softly, from the hushed and darkened room, two angels issued, where but one went in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me, Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: O ye dead Poets, who are living still Immortal in your verse, though life be fled, And ye, O living Poets, who are dead Though ye are living, if neglect can kill, Tell me if in the darkest hours of ill, With drops of anguish falling fast and red From the sharp crown of thorns upon your head, Ye were not glad your errand to fulfill?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Balder the Beautiful <br />\n Is dead, is dead!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: All things are symbols: the external shows Of Nature have their image in the mind , As flowers and fruits and falling of the leaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of heaven, and Evening stooped down to unloose the latchets of his sandal shoon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Evil is only good perverted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: There's not a ship that sails the ocean, But every climate, every soil, Must bring its tribute, great or small, And help to build the wooden wall!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Let us, then, be what we are; speak what we think; and in all things keep ourselves loyal to truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Authors have a greater right than any copyright, though it is generally unacknowledged or disregarded. They have a right to the reader's civility. There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it, and to these the author has a claim. Yet many people think that when they buy a book they buy with it the right to abuse the author."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Races, better than we, have leaned on her wavering promise,<br />\r\nHaving naught else but Hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The thoughts of Youth are long, long thoughts"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Through woods and mountain passes The winds, like anthems, roll."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Mercy more becomes a magistrate than the vindictive wrath which men call justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The shadows of the mind are like those of the body. In the morning of life they all lie behind us; at noon we trample them under foot; and in the evening they stretch long, broad, and deepening before us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of air around us comes a half-sound, a half-whisper, as if we could hear the crumbling and falling away of earth and all created things, in the great miracle of nature, decay and reproduction, ever beginning, never ending,--the gradual lapse and running of the sand in the great hour-glass of Time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter<br />\r\nOf the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: There is nothing perfectly secure but poverty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Love is sunshine, hate is shadow,<br />\r\nLife is checkered shade and sunshine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: I love thee, as the good love heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: 'Tis always morning somewhere, and aboveThe awakening continents, from shore to shore,Somewhere the birds are singing evermore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Tell me not, in mournful numbers,<br />\r\nLife is but an empty dream!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental."
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Life hath quicksands, Life hath snares!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Well I know the secret places, And the nests in hedge and tree; At what doors are friendly faces, In what hearts are thoughts of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A man who cannot command himself will always be a slave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: We see only what we know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The world is so empty if one thinks only of mountains, rivers and cities; but to know someone who thinks and feels with us, and who, though distant, is close to us in spirit, this makes the earth for us an inhabited garden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The greater the knowledge, the greater the doubt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Correction does much, but encouragement does more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I love those who yearn for the impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Sin writes histories, goodness is silent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Our destiny often looks like a fruit-tree in winter. Who would think from its pitiable aspect that those rigid boughs, those rough twigs could next spring again be green, bloom, and even bear fruit? Yet we hope it, we know it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It is not enough to take steps which may someday lead to a goal; each step must be itself a goal and a step likewise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Doesn't surprise me that Christ our Lord preferred to live with whores and sinners, seeing I go in for that myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The human mind will not be confined to any limits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Words are good, but there is something better. The best cannot be explained by words. The spirit in which we act is the chief matter. Action can only be only understood and represented by the spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: There is nothing in the world more shameful than establishing one's self on lies and fables."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: No one is willing to believe that adults too, like children, wander about this earth in a daze and, like children, do not know where they come from or where they are going, act as rarely as they do according to genuine motives, and are as thoroughly governed as they are by biscuits and cake and the rod."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Everything that frees our spirit without giving us control of ourselves is ruinous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Tell me with whom you associate, and I will tell you who you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than malice and wickedness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Doubt grows with knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: For a brave man deserves a well-endowed girl."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: And what does really matter? That is easy: thinking and doing, doing and thinking--and these are the sum of all wisdom. . . . Both must move ever onward in life, to and fro, like breathing in and breathing out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Nothing is worse than active ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Daily life is more instructive than the most effective book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously in recalling the memory of past sorrow, instead of bearing their present lot with equanimity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What we agree with leaves us inactive, but contradiction makes us productive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If one has not read the newspapers for some months and then reads them all together, one sees, as one never saw before, how much time is wasted with this kind of literature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Investigate what is, and not what pleases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Doubt can only be removed by action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows and rows of natural objects, classified with name and form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Ingratitude is always a kind of weakness. I have never known men of ability to be ungrateful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The ideal of beauty is simplicity and tranquility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Life belongs to the living, and he who lives must be prepared for changes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: By nature we have no defect that could not become a strength, no strength that could not become a defect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Freedom consists not in refusing to recognize anything above us, but in respecting something which is above us; for by respecting it, we raise ourselves to it, and, by our very acknowledgment, prove that we bear within ourselves what is higher, and are worthy to be on a level with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The sum which two married people owe to one another defies calculation. It is an infinite debt, which can only be discharged through all eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Few are open to conviction, but the majority of men are open to persuasion"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Writing history is a method of getting rid of the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: We must be young to do great things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Let us not dream that reason can ever be popular. Passions, emotions, may be made popular; but reason remains ever the property of an elect few."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Lose the day loitering, 'twill be the same story To-morrow, and the next more dilatory, For indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute! What you can do, or think you can, begin it! Only engage, and then the mind grows heated; Begin it, and the work will be completed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: We are never deceived; we deceive ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Writing is busy idleness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: To the man of thought almost nothing is really ridiculous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Whatever Nature undertakes, she can only accomplish it in a sequence. She never makes a leap."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Painting and tattooing the body is a return to animalism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: There is strong shadow where there is much light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on how one looks at it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Stupidity is without anxiety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Who can think wise or stupid things at all that were not thought already in the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Patriotism corrupts history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Man's highest merit always is, as much as possible, to rule external circumstances and as little as possible to let himself be ruled by them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Tis Lilith.<br />\nWho?<br />\nAdam's first wife is she.<br />\nBeware the lure within her lovely tresses,<br />\nThe splendid sole adornment of her hair;<br />\nWhen she succeeds therewith a youth to snare,<br />\nNot soon again she frees him from her jesses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A flippant, frivolous man may ridicule others, may controvert them, scorn them; but he who has any respect for himself seems to have renounced the right of thinking meanly of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Science and art belong to the whole world, and before them vanish the barriers of nationality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge.  The same man will, indeed, often see and judge the same things differently on different occasions: early convictions must give way to more mature ones.  Nevertheless, may not the opinions that a man holds and expresses withstand all trials, if he only remains true to himself and others?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Higher aims are in themselves more valuable, even if unfulfilled, than lower ones quite attained."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: All intelligent thoughts have already been thought; what is necessary is only to try to think them again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: To live in a great idea means to treat the impossible as though it were possible. It is just the same with a strong character; and when an idea and a character meet, things arise which fill the world with wonder for thousands of years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Love does not rule; but it trains, and that is more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Destiny grants us our wishes, but in its own way, in order to give us something beyond our wishes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Alas! how much there is in education, and in our social institutions, to prepare us and our children for insanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Love of truth shows itself in this, that a man knows how to find and value the good in everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If you wish to advance into the infinite, explore the finite in all directions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Humor is one of the elements of genius--admirable as an adjunct; but as soon as it becomes dominant, only a surrogate for genius."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Nothing is worth more than this day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: How many years must a man do nothing, before he can at all know what is to be done and how to do it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I could never have known so well how paltry men are, and how little they care for really high aims, if I had not tested them by my scientific researches. Thus I saw that most men only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: He only earns his freedom and his life Who takes them every day by storm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Correction does much, but encouragement does more. Encouragement after censure is as the sun after a shower."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Life teaches us to be less harsh with ourselves and with others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If man thinks about his physical or moral state he usually discovers that he is ill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: When I consider the narrow limits within which our active and inquiring faculties are confined; when I see how all our energies are wasted in providing for mere necessities, which again have no further end than to prolong a wretched existence; and then that all our satisfaction concerning certain subjects of investigation ends in nothing better than a passive resignation... when I consider all this... I am silent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The eternal feminine draws us on high."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Legislators and revolutionaries who promise both equality and liberty are visionaries and charlatans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: With the growth of knowledge our ideas must from time to time be organized afresh. The change takes place usually in accordance with new maxims as they arise, but it always remains provisional."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: All perishable is but an allegory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A talent is formed in stillness, a character in the world's torrent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A man is really alive only when he delights in the good-will of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: We can't form our children on our own concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Wealth and speed are what the world admires, what each pursues.   Railways, express mails, steamships and every possible facility for communications are the achievement in which the civilized world view and revels, only to languish in mediocrity by that very fact.  Indeed, the effect of this diffusion is to spread the culture of the mediocre."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Nature is the living, visible garment of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The written word has this advantage, that it lasts and can await the time when it is allowed to take effect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: How to please the public - that's the test, But nowadays I find I'm in a fix; I know they're not accustomed to the best, But they've all read so much they know the tricks. How can we give then something fresh and new That's serious, but entertaining too?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The coward only threatens when he is safe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Personality is everything in art and poetry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: They should be ashamed of themselves, all these sober people!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A great scholar is seldom a great philosopher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: nothing puts me so completely out of patience as the utterance of a wretched commonplace when I am talking from my inmost heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Unlimited activity, of whatever kind, must end in bankruptcy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Nothing is more terrible than to see ignorance in action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The flowers of life are but visionary. How many pass away and leave no trace behind! How few yield any fruit,--and the fruit itself, how rarely does it ripen! And yet there are flowers enough; and is it not strange, my friend, that we should suffer the little that does really ripen to rot, decay, and perish unenjoyed?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If you miss the first buttonhole, you will not succeed in buttoning up your coat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Live dangerously and you live right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Beauty is everywhere a welcome guest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If you inquire what people are like here, I must answer, \"The same as everywhere.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Say what you will of fortitude, but show me the man who can patiently endure the laughter of fools when they have obtained an advantage over him. 'Tis only when their nonsense is without foundation that one can suffer it without complaint."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Distance... is like futurity. A dim vastness is spread before our souls; the perceptions of our mind are as obscure as those of our vision... But alas! when we have attained our object, when the distant 'there' becomes the present 'here,' all is changed; we are as poor and circumscribed as ever, and our souls still languish for unattainable happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Great passions are incurable diseases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Originality provokes originality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The older we get the more we must limit ourselves if we wish to be active."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: All poetry is supposed to be instructive but in an unnoticeable manner; it is supposed to make us aware of what it would be valuable to instruct ourselves in; we must deduce the lesson on<br />\n our own, just as with life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Superstition is part of the poetry of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Of all peoples the Greeks have dreamt the dream of life best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Self-knowledge comes from knowing other men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: When young, one is confident to be able to build palaces for mankind, but when the time comes one has one's hands full just to be able to remove their trash."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: People are always talking about originality, but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us, and this goes on to the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Children can scarcely be fashioned to meet with our likes and our purpose. Just as God did us give them, so must we hold them and love them, nurture and teach them to fullness and leave them to be what they are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Wine rejoices the heart of man and joy is the mother of all virtues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: There is no better deliverance from the world than through art, and a man can form no surer bond with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What one has wished for in youth, in old age one has in abundance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The world runs on from one folly to another; and the man who, solely from regard to the opinion of others, and without any wish or necessity of his own, toils after gold, honour, or any other phantom, is no better than a fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Against great advantages in another, there are no means of defending ourselves except love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The century is advanced, but every individual begins afresh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I have possessed that heart, that noble soul, in whose presence I seemed to be more than I really was, because I was all that I could be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Hypotheses are lullabies for teachers to sing their students to sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A man does not mind being blamed for his faults, and being punished for them, and he patiently suffers much for them; but he becomes impatient if he is required to give them up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If children grew up according to early indications, we should have nothing but geniuses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Opponents fancy they refute us when they repeat their own opinion and pay no attention to ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Is it life, I ask, is it even prudence, To bore thyself and bore the students?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: He who moves not forward, goes backward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Nature goes her own way, and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the creative mind, and is as various as nature herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Wild dreams torment me as I lie. And though a god lives in my heart, though all my power waken at his word, though he can move my every inmost part - yet nothing in the outer world is stirred. thus by existence tortured and oppressed I crave for death, I long for rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: In art, the best is good enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Every situation--nay, every moment--is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I am proud of my heart alone, it is the sole source of everything, all our strenght, happiness &amp; misery. All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Yes! to this thought I hold with firm persistence;<br />\r\nThe last result of wisdom stamps it true;<br />\r\nHe only earns his freedom and existence<br />\r\nWho daily conquers them anew."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstakingly practiced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Children, like dogs, have so sharp and fine a scent that they detect and hunt out everything--the bad before all the rest. They also know well enough how this or that friend stands with their parents; and as they practice no dissimulation whatever, they serve as excellent barometers by which to observe the degree of favor or disfavor at which we stand with their parents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A man's manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It matters little whether a man be mathematically or philologically or artistically cultivated, so he be but cultivated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The rainbow mirrors human aims and action. Think, and more clearly wilt thou grasp it, seeing Life is but light in many-hued reflection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: They teach in academies far too many things, and far too much that is useless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: With little wit and ease to suit them, They whirl in narrow circling trails, Like kittens playing with their tails."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A man is not little when he finds it difficult to cope with circumstances, but when circumstances overmaster him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: When intelligent and sensible people despise knowledge in their old age, it is only because they have asked too much of it and of themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: There are people who make no mistakes because they never wish to do anything worth doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I hate all explanations; they who make them deceive either themselves or the other party,-generally both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The rogue has everywhere the advantage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: if only these treasures were not so fragile as they are precious and beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Hope is the second soul of the unhappy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faith is like private capital, stored in one's own house. It is like a public savings bank or loan office, from which individuals receive assistance in their days of need; but here the creditor quietly takes his interest for himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: People always fancy that we must become old to become wise; but, in truth, as years advance, it is hard to keep ourselves as wise as we were."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Hold your powers together for something good and let everything go that is for you without result and is not suited to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I am not omniscient, but I know a lot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The world is so full of simpletons and madmen, that one need not seek them in a madhouse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I will be lord over myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: We are so constituted that we believe the most incredible things; and, once they are engraved upon the memory, woe to him who would endeavor to erase them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The further one advances in experience, the closer one comes to the unfathomable; the more one learns to utilize experience, the more one recognizes that the unfathomable is of no practical value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If I love you, what business is it of yours?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Just trust yourself and you'll learn the art of living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Why should we not recognize in the lightning, the thunder, and the storm wind, the approach of an overwhelming Power, and in the scent of flowers and the gently rustling zephyr the presence of a Being full of love?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The real scholar learns how to evolve the unknown from the known, and draws near the master."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Every beginning is cheerful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: How circumscribed is woman's destiny!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Piety, like nobility, has its aristocracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What is now the foliage moving?<br />\r\nAir is still, and hush'd the breeze,<br />\r\nSultriness, this fullness loving,<br />\r\nThrough the thicket, from the trees.<br />\r\nNow the eye at once gleams brightly,<br />\r\nSee! the infant band with mirth<br />\r\nMoves and dances nimbly, lightly,<br />\r\nAs the morning gave it birth,<br />\r\nFlutt'ring two and two o'er earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Who longs in solitude to live, Ah! soon his wish will gain: Men hope and love, men get and give, and leave him to his pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What I possess, seems far away to me, and what is gone becomes reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Art is based on a strong sentiment of religion,--on a profound and mighty earnestness; hence it is so prone to co-operate with religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It is a great pleasure to transport one's-self into the spirit of the times; to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what a glorious height we have at last carried it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: There are situations in which hope and fear run together, in which they mutually destroy one another and lose themselves in dull indifference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Mediocrity has no greater consolation than in the thought that genius is not immortal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What do people mean when they talk about unhappiness? It is not so much unhappiness as impatience that from time to time possesses men, and then they choose to call themselves miserable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: We always hope, and in all things it is better to hope than to despair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Miracle is the pet child of faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Unrest and uncertainty are our lot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Is this the destiny of man? Is he only happy before he has acquired his reason or after he has lost it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: To know where a thing is we must have found it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It is quite beyond me how anyone can believe God speaks to us in books and stories. If the world does not directly reveal to us our relationship to it, if our hearts fail to tell us what we owe ourselves and others, we shall assuredly not learn it from books, which are at best designed but to give names to our errors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Everywhere, we learn only from those whom we love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: People may live as much retired from the world as they please; but sooner or later, before they are aware, they will find themselves debtor or creditor to somebody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Such is the frailty of man that even where he makes the truest and most forcible impression in the memory, in the heart of his beloved, there also he must perish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The most fortunate of men, Be he a king or commoner, is he Whose welfare is assured in his own home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: With little art, clear wit and sense Suggest their own delivery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Every step of life shows much caution is required."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Let us live in as small a circle as we will, we are either debtors or creditors before we have had time to look around."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: People will allow their faults to be shown them; they will let themselves be punished for them; they will patiently endure many things because of them; they only become impatient when they have to lay them aside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: But when all is said, the greatest art is to limit and isolate oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I treat my heart like a sick child and gratify its every fancy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A great deal may be done by severity, more by love, but most by clear discernment and impartial justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Oh happy he who still can hope in our day to breathe the truth while plunged in seas of error! What we don't know is really what we need, and what we know is of no use to us whatever!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Passions are defects or virtues in the highest power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If we could do away with death, we wouldn't object; to do away with capital punishment will be more difficult. Were that to happen, we would reinstate it from time to time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What you can do, or think you can, begin it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I hate all bungling as I do sin, but particularly bungling in politics, which leads to the misery and ruin of many thousands and millions of people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The art of governing is a great metier, requiring the whole man, and it is therefore not well for a ruler to have too strong tendencies for other affairs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The world remains ever the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how to hold on to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: He who only tastes his error will long dwell with it, will take delight in it as in a singular felicity; while he who drains it to the dregs will, if he be not crazy, find it to be what it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The artist has a twofold relation to nature; he is at once her master and her slave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Misunderstandings and neglect create more confusion in this world than trickery and malice. At any rate, the last two are certainly much less frequent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Art is long, life short, judgment difficult, opportunity transient. To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome. Every beginning is cheerful: the threshold is the place of expectation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Nature! We are enveloped and embraced by her, incapable of emerging from her and incapable of entering her more deeply. Unbidden and unwarned, she receives us into the circuits of her dance, drifting onward with us herself, until we grow tired and drop from her arms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: You'll never attain it unless you know the feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Theories are usually the over-hasty efforts of an impatient understanding that would gladly be rid of phenomena, and so puts in their place pictures, notions, nay, often mere words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence; he has no reason to give himself airs about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I hold to faith in the divine love - which, so many years ago for a brief moment in a little corner of the earth, walked about as a man bearing the name of Jesus Christ - as the foundation<br />\non which alone my happiness rests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: At all times it has not been the age, but individuals alone, who have worked for knowledge. It was the age which put Socrates to death by poison, the age which burnt Huss. The ages have always remained alike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Nature has neither kernel Nor shell"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The world of empirical morality consists for the most part of nothing but ill will and envy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It is a misfortune to pass at once from observation to conclusion, and to regard both as of equal value; but it befalls many a student."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The child, offered the mother's breast, Will not in the beginning grab it; But soon it clings to it with zest. And thus at wisdom's copious breasts You'll drink each day with greater zest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It is the great triumph of genius to make the common appear novel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Gifts come from above in their own peculiar forms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It is natural to man to regard himself as the object of the creation, and to think of all things in relation to himself, and the degree in which they can serve and be useful to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Necessity is cruel, but it is the only test of inward strength. Every fool may live according to his own likings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I consider him of no account who esteems himself just as the popular breath may chance to raise him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What a day it is when we must envy the men in their graves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Nobody, they say, is a hero to his valet. Of course; for a man must be a hero to understand a hero. The valet, I dare say, has great respect for some person of his own stamp."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Woman-Soul leadeth us upward and on!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Whoever makes it a rule to test action by thought, thought by action, cannot falter, and if he does, will soon find his way back to the right road."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Men's prejudices rest upon their character for the time being and cannot be overcome, as being part and parcel of themselves. Neither evidence nor common sense nor reason has the slightest influence upon them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: And I like those authors best whose scenes describe my own situation in life-- and the friends who are about me whose stories touch me with interest, from resembling my own homely existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Man must strive, and striving he must err."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Merely to breathe freely does not mean to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Three things are to be looked to in a building: that it stand on the right spot; that it is securely founded; that it be successfully executed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Culture which smooth the whole world licks, Also unto the devil sticks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Religion is not in want of art; it rests on its own majesty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What a man does not understand, he does not possess."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I am a part of the part that at first was all, part of the darkness that gave birth to the light, that supercilious light which now disputes with Mother Night her ancient rank and space, and yet cannot succeed; no matter how it struggles, it sticks to matter and can't get free. Light flows from substance, makes it beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: All that is transitory is but a metaphor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: There is no patriotic art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: To know of someone here and there whom we accord with, who is living on with us, even in silence - - this makes our earthly ball a peopled garden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: But who will dare to speak the truth out clear? The few who anything of truth have learned, And foolishly did not keep truth concealed, Their thoughts and visions to the common herd revealed, Since time began we've crucified and burned"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I have so much in me, and the feeling for her absorbs it all; I have so much, and without her it all comes to nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Wisdom is only found in truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Some books seem to have been written, not to teach us anything, but to let us know that the author has known something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Beauty is at once the ultimate principle and the highest aim of art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: One always has time enough, if one will apply it well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Mysteries are not necessarily miracles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Sound and sufficient reason falls, after all, to the share of but few men, and those few men exert their influence in silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If a man knows where to get good advice, it is as though he could supply it himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What is fruitful alone is true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It is a great error to take oneself for more than one is, or for less than one is worth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It is better to be deceived by one's friends than to deceive them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A useless life is an early death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: There is no patriotic art and no patriotic science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: From inaccessible mountain range by way of desert untrod by human foot to the ends of the unknown seas, the breath of the everlasting creative spirit is felt, rejoicing over every speck of dust that hearkens to it and lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: People are always talking about originality; but what do they mean? As soon as we are born, the world begins to work upon us; and this goes on to the end. And after all, what can we call our own, except energy, strength, and will? If I could give an account of all that I owe to great predecessors and contemporaries, there would be but a small balance in my favor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: To create something you must be something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Age merely shows what children we remain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I call architecture frozen music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Still this planet's soil for noble deeds grants scope abounding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Ohne Hast, aber ohne Rast. - Without haste, but without rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: We know accurately only when we know little, with knowledge doubt increases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The suffering may be moral or physical; and in my opinion it is just as absurd to call a man a coward who destroys himself, as to call a man a coward who dies of a malignant fever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Where I cannot be moral, my power is gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Piety is not an end, but a means: a means of attaining the highest culture by the purest tranquility of soul. Hence it may be observed that those who set up piety as an end and object are mostly hypocrites."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The poet should seize the Particular, and he should, if there be anything sound in it, thus represent the Universal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Vanity is a desire of personal glory, the wish to be appreciated, honoured, and run after, not because of one's personal qualities, merits, and achievements, but because of one's individual existence. At best, therefore, it is a frivolous beauty whim it befits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Thus I reel from desire to fulfillment and in fulfillment languish for desire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Man errs, till he has ceased to strive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Too rigid scruples are concealed pride."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: For a strolling damsel a doubtful reputation bears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Thou shalt abstain, Renounce, refrain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Hatred is active displeasure, envy passive. We need not wonder that envy turns to soon to hatred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The whole art of living consists in giving up existence in order to exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: There are three classes of readers; some enjoy without judgment; others judge without enjoyment; and some there are who judge while they enjoy, and enjoy while they judge. The latter class reproduces the work of art on which it is engaged. Its numbers are very small."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: To be active is the primary vocation of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Instruction does much, but encouragement everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: One's roused by this, another finds that fit: Each loves the play for what he brings to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: All professional men are handicapped by not being allowed to ignore things which are useless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I do not now begin, - I still adore Her whom I early cherish'd in my breast; Then once again with prudence dispossess'd, And to whose heart I'm driven back once more. The love of Petrarch, that all-glorious love, Was unrequited, and, alas, full sad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: In all things, to serve from the lowest station upwards is necessary. To restrict yourself to a trade is best. For the narrow mind, whatever he attempts is still a trade; for the higher, an art; and the highest in doing one thing does all, or, to speak less paradoxically, in the one thing which he does rightly he sees the likeness of all that is done rightly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: We accept every person in the world as that for which he gives himself out, only he must give himself out for something. We can put up with the unpleasant more easily than we can endure the insignificant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: In happy ignorance, I sighed for a world I did not know, where I hoped to find every pleasure and enjoyment which my heart could desire; and now, on my return from that wide world... how many disappointed hopes and unsuccessful plans have I brought back!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Does not man lack the force at the very point where he needs it most? And when he soars upward in joy, or sinks down in suffering, is not checked in both, is he not returned again to the dull, cold sphere of awareness, just when he was longing to lose himself in the fullness of the infinite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Every man must form himself as a particular being, seeking, however, to attain that general idea of which all mankind are constituents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: There is a politeness of the heart; this is closely allied to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What makes poetry? A full heart, brimful of one noble passion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It is unpleasant to miss even the most trifling thing to which we have been accustomed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: As all Nature's thousands changes But one changeless God proclaim; So in Art's wide kingdom ranges One sole meaning still the same: This is Truth, eternal Reason, Which from Beauty takes its dress, And serene through time and season Stands aye in loveliness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Superstition is a part of the very being of humanity; and when we fancy that we are banishing it altogether, it takes refuge in the strangest nooks and corners, and then suddenly comes forth again, as soon as it believes itself at all safe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: To venture an opinion is like moving a piece at chess: it may be taken, but it forms the beginning of a game that is won."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Art is in itself noble; that is why the artist has no fear of what is common. This, indeed, is already ennobled when he takes it up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Each traveler should know what he has to see, and what properly belongs to him, on a journey."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: There is no surer method of evading the world than by following Art, and no surer method of linking oneself to it than by Art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The world is so great and rich, and life so full of variety, that you can never lack occasions for poems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Truth is a torch but a tremendous one. That is why we hurry past it, shielding our eyes, indeed, in fear of getting burned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Nothing is more dangerous than solitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: We are not all equal, nor can we be so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The assault of our enemies is not part of our life; it is only part of our experience; we throw it off and guard ourselves against it as against frost, storm, rain, hail, or any other of the external evils which may be expected to happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I have always paid attention to the merits of my enemies, and found it an advantage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a principle that they both acknowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Everything which is properly business we must keep carefully separate from life. Business requires earnestness and method; life must have a freed handling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The world sees only the reflection of merit; therefore when you come to know a really great man intimately, you may as often find him above as below his reputation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The sea is flowing ever, The land retains it never."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Should I not be proud, when for twenty years I have had to admit to myself that the great Newton and all the mathematicians and noble calculators along with him were involved in a decisive error with respect to the doctrine of color, and that I among millions was the only one who knew what was right in this great subject of nature?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What must the English and French think of the language of our philosophers when we Germans do not understand it ourselves?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It is one of Heaven's best gifts to hold such a dear creature in one's arms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Our modern wars make many unhappy while they last and none happy when they are over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Everything we do has a result. But that which is right and prudent does not always lead to good, nor the contrary to what is bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If we meet someone who owes us a debt of gratitude, we remember the fact at once. How often we can meet someone to whom we owe a debt of gratitude without thinking about it at all!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: To act is easy; to think is hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A plant is like a self-willed man, out of whom we can obtain all which we desire, if we will only treat him his own way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Do people conform to the instructions of us old ones? Each thinks he must know best about himself, and thus many are lost entirely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Try novelties for salesman's bait, For novelty wins everyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Whoso shrinks from ideas ends by having nothing but sensations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A man may twist as he pleases, and do what he pleases, but he inevitably comes back to the track to which nature has destined him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: He only fears men who does not know them, and he who avoids them will soon misjudge them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Everything is simpler than one can imagine, and yet complicated and inter-twined beyond comprehension."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Just as, out of habit, one consults a run-down clock as though it were still going, so too one may look at the face of a beautiful woman as though he still loved her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I am the spirit that negates. And rightly so, for all that comes to be Deserves to perish wretchedly; 'Twere better nothing would begin. Thus everything that that your terms, sin, Destruction, evil represent\u2014 That is my proper element."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Happy is it, indeed, for me that my heart is capable of feeling the same simple and innocent pleasure as the peasant whose table is covered with food of his own rearing, and who not only enjoys his meal, but remembers with delight the happy days and sunny mornings when he planted it, the soft evenings when he watered it, and the pleasure he experienced in watching its daily growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Since you know me and my destiny only too well, you probably also know what attracts me to all unfortunate people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Superstition is the poesy of practical life; hence, a poet is none the worse for being superstitious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A vain man can never be altogether rude. Desirous as he is of pleasing, he fashions his manners after those of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: My days are as happy as those reserved by God for his elect; and whatever be my fate hereafter, I can never say that I have not tasted joy\u2014 the purest joy of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I've often heard it said a preacher might learn with a comedian for a teacher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I examine my own being, and find there a world, but a world rather of imagination and dim desires, than of distinctness and living power. Then everything swims before my senses, and I smile and dream while pursuing my way through the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: One mind is enough for a thousand hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerfulness of heart while he is passing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What we do not understand we do not possess."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The decline in literature indicates a decline in the nation. The two keep pace in their downward tendency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Whoso is content with pure experience and acts upon it has enough of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The confidant of my vices is my master, though he were my valet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Mannerism is always longing to have done, and has no true enjoyment in work. A genuine, really great talent, on the other hand, has its greatest happiness in execution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: My worthy friend, gray are all theories<br />\r\nAnd green alone Life's golden tree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Sing it not in mournful numbers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Toleration ought in reality to be merely a transitory mood. It must lead to recognition. To tolerate is to affront."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Yet through delivery orators succeed, I feel that I am far behind indeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I wish the crowd to feel itself well treated, Especially since it lives and lets me live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The threshold is the place of expectation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: In society every man is taken for what he gives himself out to be; but he must give himself out to be something. Better to be slightly disagreeable than altogether insignificant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The rose is wont with pride to swell, and ever seeks to rise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Take life too seriously, and what is it worth? If the morning wake us to no new joys, if the evening bring us not the hopes of new pleasures, is it worth while to dress and undress? Does the sun shine on me today that I may reflect on yesterday? That I may endeavor to foresee and control what can neither be foreseen nor controlled - the destiny of tomorrow?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A king there was once reigning, Who had a goodly flea, Him loved he without feigning, As his own son were he!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The close and thoughtful observer more and more learns to recognize his limitations. He realizes that with the steady growth of knowledge more and more new problems keep on emerging."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Character calls forth character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If you have a great work in your head, nothing else thrives near it; all other thoughts are repelled, and the pleasure of life itself is for the time lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Master and Doctor are my titles; for ten years now, without repose, I held my erudite recitals and led my pupils by the nose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Flowers are the beautiful hieroglyphics of nature with which she indicates how much she loves us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Properly speaking, such work is never finished; one must declare it so when, according to time and circumstances, one has done one's best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Time itself is an element."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: One of the most striking signs of the decay of art is the intermixing of different genres."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: One is led astray alike by sympathy and coldness, by praise and by blame"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The brilliant passes, like the dew at morn; The true endures, for ages yet unborn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: An angel! Nonsense! Everybody so describes his mistress; and yet I find it impossible to tell you how perfect she is, or why she is so perfect: suffice it to say she has captivated all my senses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Stood I, O Nature! man alone in thee, Then were it worth one's while a man to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Individuality of expression is the beginning and end of all art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: We amuse ourselves painting our prison-walls with bright figures and brilliant landscapes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Men are joined by conviction, sundered by opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The fate of the architect is the strangest of all. How often he expends his whole soul, his whole heart and passion, to produce buildings into which he himself may never enter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Patriotism ruins history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: He who knows no foreign languages knows nothing of his own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Man errs as long as he strives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The history of knowledge is a great fugue in which the voices of the nations one after the other emerge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The bed of flowers<br />\r\nLoosens amain,<br />\r\nThe beauteous snowdrops<br />\r\nDroop o'er the plain.<br />\r\nThe crocus opens<br />\r\nIts glowing bud,<br />\r\nLike emeralds others,<br />\r\nOthers, like blood.<br />\r\nWith saucy gesture<br />\r\nPrimroses flare,<br />\r\nAnd roguish violets,<br />\r\nHidden with care;<br />\r\nAnd whatsoever<br />\r\nThere stirs and strives,<br />\r\nThe Spring's contented,<br />\r\nIf works and thrives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Assuredly there is no more lovely worship of God than that for which no image is required, but which springs up in our breast spontaneously when nature speaks to the soul, and the soul speaks to nature face to face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Who never ate his bread in sorrow, Who never spent the darksome hours Weeping, and watching for the morrow,- He knows you not, ye heavenly Powers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The sun had, in the meanwhile, sunk behind the Ettersberg. We felt in the wood the chill of the evening, and drove all the quicker to Wiemar, and to Goethe's house. Goethe urged me to go in with him for a while, and I did so. He was in an extremely engaging mood. He talked a great deal about his theory of colors, and of his obstinate opponents; remarking that he was sure that he had done something in this science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: You acquire a language most readily in the country where it is spoken; you study mineralogy best among miners; and so with everything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Out of moderation a pure happiness springs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Seize this very minute. What you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Begin it and the work will be completed"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than to fashion my own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: In the end we retain from our studies only that which we practically apply."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: As for solitude, I cannot understand how certain people seek to lay claim to intellectual stature, nobility of soul and strength of character, yet have not the slightest feeling for seclusion; for solitude, I maintain, when joined with a quiet contemplation of nature, a serene and conscious faith in creation and the Creator, and a few vexations from outside is the only school for a mind of lofty endowment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: These auspicious aspects, which the astrologers subsequently interpreted for me, may have been the causes of my preservation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: One must be something, in order to do something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Our earthly ball a peopled garden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What you have inherited from your fathers, earn over again for yourselves, or it will not be yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Noble be man, helpful and good!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Every decided colour does a certain violence to the eye, and forces the organ to opposition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Could we perfect human nature, we might also expect a perfect state of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Nothing is good for a nation but that which arises from its own core and its own general wants, without apish imitation of another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: At bottom, no real object is unpoetical, if the poet knows how to use it properly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If a poet would work politically, he must give himself up to a party; and so soon as he does that, he is lost as a poet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Poetry is the universal possession of mankind, revealing itself everywhere, and at all times, in hundreds and hundreds of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Poor fool! in whose petty estimation all things are little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What is the freedom of the most free? To do what is right!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: To appear at church every Sunday; to look down upon, and let himself be looked at for an hour by the congregation, is the best means of becoming popular which can be recommended to a young sovereign."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: As soon as any one belongs to a narrow creed in science, every unprejudiced and true perception is gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: He is a man whom it is impossible to please, because he is never pleased with himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: One says a lot in vain, refusing; The other mainly hears the \"No.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The Evil One has left, the evil ones remain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Your messages I hear, but faith has not been given; The dearest child of Faith is Miracle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Presents at once? That's good. He is sure to succeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: To a valet no man is a hero."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: And here, poor fool, with all my lore I stand no wiser than before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: No sacred fane requires us to submit to insult."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Cursed Mammon be, when he with treasures To restless action spurs our fate! Cursed when for soft, indulgent leisures, He lays for us the pillows straight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Yet he who grasps the moment's gift, He is the proper man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What in us the women leave uncultivated, children cultivate when we retain them near us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A school of art or of anything else is to be looked on as a single individual, who keeps talking to himself for a hundred years, and feels an extreme satisfaction with his own circle of favorite ideas, be they ever so silly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I reverence the individual who understands distinctly what he wishes; who unweariedly advances, who knows the means conducive to his object, and can seize and use them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Duty is the demand of the hour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What sort of faults may we retain, nay, even cherish in ourselves? Those faults which are rather pleasant than offensive to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Wood burns because it has the proper stuff for that purpose in it; and a man becomes renowned because he has the necessary stuff in him. Renown is not to be sought, and all pursuit of it is vain. A person may, indeed, by skillful conduct and various artificial means, make a sort of name for himself; but if the inner jewel is wanting, all is vanity, and will not last a day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If youth is a fault, it is one that one gets rid of soon enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Without my attempts in natural science, I should never have learned to know mankind such as it is. In nothing else can we so closely approach pure contemplation and thought, so closely observe the errors of the senses and of the understanding, the weak and strong points of character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Time is my estate: to Time I'm heir."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Over all the mountain tops is peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: As in Rome there is, apart from the Romans, a population of statues, so apart from this real world there is a world of illusion, almost more potent, in which most men live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A state of true and universal tolerance is best ensured by leaving alone the peculiarities of men and peoples."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The deed is everything, the glory is naught."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: First and last, what is demanded of genius is love of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Talent is nurtured in solitude; character is formed in the stormy billows of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Nothing should be valued higher than the value of the day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Superstition is the poetry of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The man who occupies the first place seldom plays the principal part."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Upon the creatures we have made, we are, ourselves, at last, dependent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: two souls, alas, are housed within my breast, and each will wrestle for the mastery there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Whatever is the lot of humankind I want to taste within my deepest self. I want to seize the highest and the lowest, to load its woe and bliss upon my breast, and thus expand my single self titanically and in the end go down with all the rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If you don't feel it, you'll never achieve it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The affairs of the world are no more than so much trickery, and a man who toils for money or honour or whatever else in deference to the wishes of others, rather than because his own desire or needs lead him to do so, will always be a fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I have, alas! Philosophy, Medicine, Jurisprudence too, And to my cost Theology, With ardent labor, studied through. And here I stand, with all my lore, Poor fool, no wiser than before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Beware of her fair hair, for she excels All women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I nothing had, and yet enough for youth--Joy in Illusion, ardent thirst for Truth. Give unrestrained, the old emotion, The bliss that touched the verge of pain, The strength of Hate, Love's deep devotion,--O, give me back my youth again!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: When she sees the leaves fall, they raise no other idea in her mind than that winter is approaching."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Would you require a wretched being, whose life is slowly wasting under a lingering disease, to despatch himself at once by the stroke of a dagger? Does not the very disorder which consumes his strength deprive him of the courage to effect his deliverance?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It is in vain that a man of sound mind and cool temper understands the condition of such a wretched being... He can no more communicate his own wisdom to him than a healthy man can instil his strength into the invalid by whose bedside he is seated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: How many kings are governed by their ministers, how many ministers by their secretaries? Who, in such cases, is really the chief?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: There is no permanence in doubt; it incites the mind to closer inquiry and experiment, from which, if rightly managed, certainty proceeds, and in this alone can man find thorough satisfaction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Mathematics can remove no prejudices and soften no obduracy. It has no influence in sweetening the bitter strife of parties, and in the moral world generally its action is perfectly null."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Self-love exaggerates our faults as well as our virtues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If the world does improve on the whole, yet youth must always begin anew, and go through the stages of culture from the beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: All that is noble is in itself of a quiet nature, and appears to sleep until it is aroused and summoned forth by contrast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Men are so constituted that every one undertakes what he sees another successful in, whether he has aptitude for it or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Taste is only to be educated by contemplation, not of the tolerably good but of the truly excellent. I therefore show you only the best works; and when you are grounded in these, you will have a standard for the rest, which you will know how to value, without overrating them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Seldom in the business and transactions of ordinary life, do we find the sympathy we want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I have found a paper of mine among some others in which I call architecture 'petrified music.' Really there is something in this; the tone of mind produced by architecture approaches the effect of music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The best genius is that which absorbs and assimilates everything without doing the least violence to its fundamental destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: With knowledge grows doubt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: We are the slaves of objects around us, and appear little or important according as these contract or give us room to expand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: First let a man teach himself, and then he will be taught by others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The artist may be well advised to keep his work to himself till it is completed, because no one can readily help him or advise him with it... but the scientist is wiser not to withhold a single finding or a single conjecture from publicity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The greatest piece of folly is that every man thinks himself compelled to hand down what people think they have known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The thinker makes a great mistake when he asks after cause and effect. They both together make up the indivisible phenomenon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: How fair doth Nature<br />\r\nAppear again!<br />\r\nHow bright the sunbeams!<br />\r\nHow smiles the plain! <br />\r\nThe flow'rs are bursting<br />\r\nFrom ev'ry bough,<br />\r\nAnd thousand voices<br />\r\nEach bush yields now. <br />\r\nAnd joy and gladness<br />\r\nFill ev'ry breast!<br />\r\nOh earth!-oh sunlight!<br />\r\nOh rapture blest! <br />\r\nOh love! oh loved one!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Man would not be the finest creature in the world if he were not too fine for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: For the nature of women is closely allied to art"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Blood is a very special juice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What reason would grope for in vain, spontaneous impulse ofttimes achieves at a stroke, with light and pleasureful guidance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Errors belong to libraries; truth, to the human mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A well-bred carriage is difficult to imitate; for in strictness it is negative, and it implies a long-continued previous training."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: This world could not exist if it were not so simple. The ground has been tilled a thousand years, yet its powers remain ever the same; a little rain, a little sun, and each spring it grows green again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If thou wouldst hear what seemly is and fit, inquire of noble woman; they can tell, who in life's common usage hold their place by graceful deed and aptly chosen word."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Ah, how often I've cursed those foolish pages, <br />\n That showed my youthful sufferings to everyone! <br />\n If Werther had been my brother, and I'd killed him, <br />\n His sad ghost could hardly have persecuted me more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I believe in God and in nature and in the triumph of good over evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: In politics as on a sickbed men toss from side to side in hope of lying more comfortably."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: God could cause us considerable embarrassment by revealing all the secrets of nature to us: we should not know what to do for sheer apathy and boredom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Two souls dwell, alas! in my breast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It will be! the mass is working clearer!<br />\r\nConviction gathers, truer, nearer!<br />\r\nThe mystery which for Man in Nature lies<br />\r\nWe dare to test, by knowledge led;<br />\r\nAnd that which she was wont to organize<br />\r\nWe crystallize, instead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The works of Lavoisier and his associates operated upon many of us at that time like the Sun's rising after a night of moonshine: but Chemistry is now betrothed to the Mathematics, and is in consequence grown somewhat shy of her former admirers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exists for his sake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: While man's desires and aspirations stir he cannot choose but err."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: One lives but once in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: He who is wise puts aside all claims which may dissipate his attention, and confining himself to one branch excels in that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Deny yourself! You must deny yourself! That is the song that never ends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The soul of man is like to water; from Heaven it cometh, to Heaven it riseth<br />\n And then returning to earth, forever alternating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The true, prescriptive artist strives after artistic truth; the lawless artist, following blind instinct, after an appearance of naturalness. The one leads to the highest peaks of art, the other to its lowest depths."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: America, you have it better than our continent, the old one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Many young painters would never have taken their pencils in hand if they could have felt, known, and understood, early enough, what really produced a master like Raphael."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The misfortune in the state is, that nobody can enjoy life in peace, but that everybody must govern; and in art, that nobody will enjoy what has been produced, but that every one wants to reproduce on his own account."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: In the colored reflection we have Life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Faust: Who holds the devil, let him hold him well, He hardly will be caught a second time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Truth is contrary to our nature, not so error, and this for a very simple reason: truth demands that we should recognize ourselves as limited, error flatters us that, in one way or another, we are unlimited."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I am fully convinced that the soul is indestructible, and its activity will continue through eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If there is confusion in your head and in your heart, what more do you want! A man who no longer loves and no longer errs should have himself buried straight away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What is the destiny of man, but to fill up the measure of his sufferings, and to drink his allotted cup of bitterness?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Tolerance should really only be a passing attitude: it should lead to appreciation. To tolerate is to offend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Sweet moonlight, shining full and clear, Why do you light my torture here? How often have you seen me toil, Burning last drops of midnight oil. On books and papers as I read, My friend, your mournful light you shed. If only I could flee this den And walk the mountain-tops again, Through moonlit meadows make my way, In mountain caves with spirits play - Released from learning's musty cell, Your healing dew would make me well!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: \u200eIt has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I bid the chords sweet music make, And all must follow in my wake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The flowers of life are but illusions. How many fade away and leave no trace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Time is a strange thing. It is a whimsical tyrant, which in every century has a different face for all that one says and does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Man is a simple being, and however rich, varied, and unfathomable he may be, the cycle of his situations is soon run through."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Women are silver dishes into which we put golden apples."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The highest happiness, the purest joys of life, wear out at last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: As beauteous is the world, and many a joy Floats through its wide dominion. But, alas, When we would seize the winged good, it flies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: True happiness springs from moderation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Most man only care for science so far as they get a living by it, and that they worship even error when it affords them a subsistence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Colour itself is a degree of darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The society of women is the element of good manners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: So dear night the half of life is, And the fairest half indeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Yes, I have finally arrived to this Capital of the World! I now see all the dreams of my youth coming to life... Only in Rome is it possible to understand Rome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A human being needs only a small plot of ground on which to be happy, and even less to lie beneath."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I had rather be Mercury, the smallest among seven [planets], revolving round the sun, than the first among five [moons] revolving round Saturn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The church alone beyond all question Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: For what one has in black and white, One can carry home in comfort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What dazzles, for the moment spends its spirit; Whats genuine, shall posterity inherit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: He who serves the public is a poor animal; he worries himself to death and no one thanks him for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I hate every violent overthrow, because as much is destroyed as is gained by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Lord Byron is only great as a poet; as soon as he reflects he is a child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I am the Spirit that denies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Modern poets add a lot of water to their ink."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If I work incessantly to the last, nature owes me another form of existence when the present one collapses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It used to happen, and still happens, to me to take no pleasure in a work of art at the first sight of it, because it is too much for me; but if I suspect any merit in it, I try to get at it; and then I never fail to make the most gratifying discoveries--to find new qualities in the work itself and new faculties in myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: When Nature begins to reveal her open secret to a man, he feels an irresistible longing for her worthiest interpreter, Art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Beauty can never really understand itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Everything that we call Invention or Discovery in the higher sense of the word is the serious exercise and activity of an original feeling for truth, which, after a long course of silent cultivation, suddenly flashes out into fruitful knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If you lay duties upon people and give them no rights, you must pay them well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Certain faults are necessary to the individual if he is to exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A man who is ignorant of foreign languages is also ignorant of his own language."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If a man sets out to study all the laws, he will have no time left to transgress them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A man must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise he would not try to fathom it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: There is no greater consolation for mediocrity than that the genius is not immortal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Nature! We are surrounded by her and locked in her clasp: powerless to leave her, and powerless to come closer to her. Unasked and unwarned she takes us up into the whirl of her dance, and hurries on with us till we are weary and fall from her arms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: There is nothing worth thinking but it has been thought before; we must only try to think it again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It is not always needful for truth to take a definite shape; it is enough if it hovers about us like a spirit and produces harmony; if it is wafted through the air like the sound of a bell, grave and kindly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It is as certain as it is strange that truth and error come from one and the same source. Thus it is that we are often not at liberty to do violence to error, because at the same time we do violence to truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A man avails himself of the truth so long as it is serviceable; but he seizes on what is false with a passionate eloquence as soon as he can make a momentary use of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: If the word is not dead when it reaches the hearer, he murders it at once by a contradiction, a stipulation, a condition, a digression, an interruption, and all the thousand tricks of conversation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: We find from experience that yellow excites a warm and agreeable impression.... The eye is gladdened, the heart expanded and cheered, a glow seems at once to breathe toward us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: It is a very hard and troublesome thing to dispose of whole, half, and quarter-mistakes; to sift them and assign the portion of truth to its proper place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: I come more and more to the conclusion that one must take the side of the minority which is always the more intelligent one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The march of intellect, which licks all the world into shape, has even reached the devil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Lamps make oil-spots and candles need snuffing; it is only the light of heaven that shines pure and leaves no stain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Enthusiasm is of the greatest value, so long as we are not carried away by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Beauty and Genius must be kept afar if one would avoid becoming their slave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Talents are nurtured best in solitude, But character on life's tempestuous seas!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Noble be man,<br />\r\nHelpful and good!<br />\r\nFor that alone<br />\r\nSets him apart<br />\r\nFrom every other creature<br />\r\nOn earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: He loves not who does not see the faults of the beloved as virtues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The theater has often been at variance with the pulpit; they ought not to quarrel. How much is it to be wished that in both the celebration of nature and of God were intrusted to none but men of noble minds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A mathematician is only perfect insofar as he is a perfect man, sensitive to the beauty of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: A world without love would be no world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: What is the true test of character unless it be its progressive development in the bustle and turmoil, in the action and reaction of daily life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: No one feels himself easy in a garden which does not look like the open country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Wind is the loving Wooer of waters; Wind blends together Billows all-foaming. Spirit of man, Thou art like unto water! Fortune of man, Thou art like unto wind!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Johann Wolfgang von Goethe: Properly speaking, we learn from those books only that we cannot judge. The author of a book that I am competent to criticise would have to learn from me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Keep good company, read good books, love good things and cultivate soul and body as faithfully as you can"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: The power of finding beauty in the humblest things makes home happy and life lovely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Be comforted, dear soul! There is always light behind the clouds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Nothing is impossible to a determined woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Life is my university, and I hope to graduate from it with some distinction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: It\u2019s amazing how lovely common things become, if one only knows how to look at them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Where the heart is the mind works best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: It takes three or four women to get each man into, through, and out of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I often think flowers are the angels' alphabet whereby they write on hills and fields mysterious and beautiful lessons for us to feel and learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Love is a flower that grows in any soil, works its sweet miracles undaunted by autumn frost or winter snow, blooming fair and fragrant all the year, and blessing those who give and those who receive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I like adventures, and I\u2019m going to find some."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: It takes so little to make a child happy, that it is a pity in a world full of sunshine and pleasant things, that there should be any wistful faces, empty hands, or lonely little hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Education is not confined to books, and the finest characters often graduate from no college, but make experience their master, and life their book. [Some care] only for the mental culture, and [are] in danger of over-studying, under the delusion . . . that learning must be had at all costs, forgetting that health and real wisdom are better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: One of the sweet things about pain and sorrow is that they show us how well we are loved, how much kindness there is in the world, and how easily we can make others happy in the same way when they need help and sympathy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: We can't any of us do all we would like, but we can do our best for every case that comes to us, and that helps amazingly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: The duty we owe ourselves is greater than that we owe others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Conceit spoils the finest genius."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Wild roses are fairest, and nature a better gardener than art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Many wise and true sermons are preached us everyday by unconscious ministers in street, school, office, or home; even a fair table may become a pulpit, if it can offer the good and helpful words which are never out of season."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Women have been called queens for a long time, but the kingdom given them isn't worth ruling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Help one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Our actions are in our own hands, but the consequences of them are not. Remember that, my dear, and think twice before you do anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Mothers can forgive anything! Tell me all, and be sure that I will never let you go, though the whole world should turn from you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: life and love are very precious when both are in full bloom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I ask not for any crown But that which all may win; Nor try to conquer any world Except the one within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: When I had youth I had no money; now I have the money I have no time; and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life. I suppose it's the discipline I need; but it's rather hard to love the things I do, and see them go by because duty chains me to my galley. If I ever come into port with all sails set, that will be my reward perhaps."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Some people seemed to get all sunshine, and some all shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: People want to be amused, not preached at, you know. Morals don't sell nowadays."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Salt is like good-humor, and nearly every thing is better for a pinch of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Simple, genuine goodness is the best capital to found the business of this life upon. It lasts when fame and money fail, and is the only riches we can take out of this world with us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I like to help women help themselves, as that is, in my opinion, the best way to settle the woman question. Whatever we can do and do well we have a right to, and I don't think any one will deny us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Fame is a pearl many dive for and only a few bring up. Even when they do, it is not perfect, and they sigh for more, and lose better things in struggling for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: It takes two flints to make a fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Love is a great beautifier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I don't pretend to be wise, but I am observing, and I see a great deal more than you'd imagine. I'm interested in other people's experiences and inconsistencies, and, though I can't explain, I remember and use them for my own benefit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: . . . for when women are the advisers, the lords of creation don't take the advice till they have persuaded themselves that it is just what they intended to do. Then they act upon it, and, if it succeeds, they give the weaker vessel half the credit of it. If it fails, they generously give her the whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Honesty is the best policy, in love as in law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Remember that frost comes latest to those that bloom the highest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Cast your bread upon the waters, and after many days it will come back buttered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: She is too fond of books, and it has turned her brain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Better lose your life than your soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Don't try to make me grow up before my time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I'd rather take coffee than compliments just now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Don't shut yourself up in a band box because you are a woman, but understand what is going on, and educate yourself to take part in the world's work, for it all affects you and yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Housekeeping ain't no joke."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Jo had learned that hearts, like flowers, cannot be rudely handled, but must open naturally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: where I wholly love I wholly trust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: There is very little real liberty in the world; even those who seem freest are often the most tightly bound. Law, custom, public opinion, fear or shame make slaves of us all, as you will find when you try your experiment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I've learned to check the hasty words that rise to my lips, and when I feel that they mean to break out against my will, I just go away for a minute, and give myself a little shake for being so weak and wicked."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: He was the first, the only love her life, and in a nature like hers such passions take deep root and die-hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Oft in the silence of the night,<br />\r\nWhen the lonely moon rides high,<br />\r\nWhen wintry winds are whistling,<br />\r\nAnd we hear the owl's shrill cry,<br />\r\nIn the quiet, dusky chamber,<br />\r\nBy the flickering firelight,<br />\r\nRising up between two sleepers,<br />\r\nComes a spirit all in white."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Resolved to take fate by the throat and shake a living out of her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I believe that it is as much a right and duty for women to do something with their lives as for men and we are not going to be satisfied with such frivolous parts as you give us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Human minds are more full of mysteries than any written book and more changeable than the cloud shapes in the air."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I like good strong words that mean something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents,\" grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. \"It's so dreadful to be poor!\" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. \"I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all,\" added little Amy, with an injured sniff. \"We've got Father and Mother, and each other,\" said Beth contentedly from her corner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year,\" said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. \"That's the reason I was born in it,\" observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Love is the only thing that we can carry with us when we go, and it makes the end so easy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is the leaving you all. I'm not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: It takes very little fire to make a great deal of smoke nowadays, and notoriety is not real glory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Father asked us what was God's noblest work. Anna said men, but I said babies. Men are often bad, but babies never are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: A holiday isn't a holiday, without plenty of freedom and fun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: The scar will remain, but it is better for a man to lose both arms than his soul; and these hard years, instead of being lost, may be made the most precious of your lives, if they teach you to rule yourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Well, if I can't be happy, I can be useful, perhaps."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: If we are all alive ten years hence, let's meet, and see how many of us have got our wishes, or how much nearer we are then than now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: It's lovely to see people so happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: ...for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: You are the gull, Jo, strong and wild, fond of the storm and the wind, flying far out to sea, and happy all alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Young men often laugh at the sensible girls whom they secretly respect, and affect to admire the silly ones whom they secretly despise, because earnestness, intelligence, and womanly dignity are not the fashion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Meg's high-heeled slippers were dreadfully tight, and hurt her, though she would not own it; and Jo's nineteen hair-pins all seemed stuck straight into her head, which was not exactly comfortable; but, dear me, let us be elegant or die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Gentlemen, be courteous to the old maids, no matter how poor and plain and prim, for the only chivalry worth having is that which is the readiest to to pay deference to the old, protect the feeble, and serve womankind, regardless of rank, age, or color."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: \u2026marriage, they say, halves one's rights and doubles one's duties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Don't laugh at the spinsters, dear girls, for often very tender, tragic romances are hidden away in the hearts that beat so quietly under the sober gowns, and many silent sacrifices of youth, health, ambition, love itself, make the faded faces beautiful in God's sight. Even the sad, sour sisters should be kindly dealt with, because they have missed the sweetest part of life, if for no other reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: She had a womanly instinct that clothes possess an influence more powerful over many than the worth of character or the magic of manners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I don't like favors; they oppress and make me fell like a slave. I'd rather do everything for myself, and be perfectly independent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: A real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: You are like a chestnut burr, prickly outside, but silky-soft within, and a sweet kernel, if one can only get at it. Love will make you show your heart some day, and then the rough burr will fall off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Every few weeks she would shut herself up in her room, put on her scribbling suit, and fall into a vortex, as she expressed it, writing away at her novel with all her heart and soul, for till that was finished she could find no peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: The rooms were very still while the pages were softly turned and the winter sunshine crept in to touch the bright heads and serious faces with a Christmas greeting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Cheerfulness can change misfortune into love and friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: We're twins, and so we love each other more than other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I keep turning over new leaves, and spoiling them, as I used to spoil my copybooks; and I make so many beginnings there never will be an end. (Jo March)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Beth ceased to fear him from that moment, and sat there talking to him as cozily as if she had known him all her life, for love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Have your fun, my dear; but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Don't cry so bitterly, but remember this day, and resolve with all your soul that you will never know another like it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: The small hopes and plans and pleasures of children should be tenderly respected by grown-up people, and never rudely thwarted or ridiculed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: it was easier to do a friendly thing than it was to stay and be thanked for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Young people think they never can change, but they do in the most wonderful manner, and very few die of broken hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I make so many beginnings there never will be an end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Girls could do most things as well as boys, and some things better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Back to him she would never go, but in her lonely life still lived the sweet memory of that happy time when she believed in him and he was all in all to her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: \u2026to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I went [to war] because I couldn't help it. I didn't want the glory or the pay; I wanted the right thing done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: ...and clung more closely to the dear human love, from which our Father never means us to be weaned, but through which He draws us closer to Himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: You may try your experiment for a week and see how you like it. I think by Saturday night you will find that all play and no work is as bad as all work and no play"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: People cannot be molded like clay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: A little kingdom I possess, where thoughts and feelings dwell; And very hard the task I find of governing it well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: ...the love, respect, and confidence of my children was the sweetest reward I could receive for my efforts to be the woman I would have them copy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: \u2026proved that woman isn't a half but a whole human being, and can stand alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Love and Loyalty If ever men and women are their simplest, sincerest selves, it is when suffering softens the one, and sympathy strengthens the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: But please hug and kiss me, everyone, and don't mind my dress, I want a great many crumples of this sort put into it today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Mothers can forgive anything!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Let us be elegant or die! --Amy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I may be strong-minded, but no one can say I'm out of my sphere now, for woman's special mission is supposed to be drying tears and bearing burdens"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Simple, sincere people seldom speak much of their piety; it shows itself in acts rather than words, and has more influence than homilies or protestations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: ... for it is the small temptations which undermine integrity unless we watch and pray and never think them too trivial to be resisted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I am lonely, sometimes, but I dare say it's good for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: To me, love isn't all. I must look up, not down, trust and honor with my whole heart, and find strenght and integrity to lean on"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Sympathy is a sweet thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: The young people were playing that still more absorbing game in which hearts are always trumps."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Be worthy love, and love will come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: ...a capital patient, as she never died and never got well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Liberty is a better husband than love to many of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: \u2026misfortune was much more interesting to her than good luck."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: books have been my greatest comfort, castle-building a never-failing delight, and scribbling a very profitable amusement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: All is fish that comes to the literary net. Goethe puts his joys and sorrows into poems, I turn my adventures into bread and butter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Such hours are beautiful to live, but very hard to describe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queen's on thrones, without self-respect and peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: ...freedom being the sauce best beloved by the boyish soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Wouldn't it be fun if all the castles in the air which we make could come true and we could live in them?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: All the worse for the undeniable talent which hides the evil so subtly and makes the danger so delightful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I hate ordinary people!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Money is a needful and precious thing"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: You have grown abominably lazy, and you like gossip, and waste time on frivolous things, you are contented to be petted and admired by silly people, instead of being loved and respected by wise ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Energy is more attractive than beauty in a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Nothing seemed impossible in the beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: The clocks were striking midnight and the rooms were very still as a figure glided quietly from bed to bed, smoothing a coverlid here, settling a pillow there, and pausing to look long and tenderly at each unconscious face, to kiss each with lips that mutely blessed, and to pray the fervent prayers which only mothers utter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Go on with your work as usual, for work is a blessed solace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Well, I am happy, and I won't fret, but it does seem as if the more one gets the more one wants."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Dear me! how happy and good we'd be, if we had no worries!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: To be strong, and beautiful, and go round making music all the time. Yes, she could do that, and with a very earnest prayer Polly asked for the strength of an upright soul, the beauty of a tender heart, the power to make her life a sweet and stirring song, helpful while it lasted, remembered when it died."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Liberty must not be abused."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Ridicule is often harder to bear than self-denial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Is it not meningitis?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: \u2026books are always good company if you have the right sort. Let me pick out some for you.' And Mrs. Jo made a bee-line to the well-laden shelves, which were the joy of her heart and the comfort of her life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: You don\u2019t need scores of suitors. You need only one\u2026 if he\u2019s the right one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: In the midst of her tears came the thought, \"When people are in danger, they ask God to save them;\" and, slipping down upon her knees, she said her prayer as she had never said it before, for when human help seems gone we turn to Him as naturally as lost children cry to their father, and feel sure that he will hear and answer them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Money is a needful and precious thing, and when well used, a noble thing, but I never want you to think it is the first or only prize to strive for. I'd rather see you poor men's wives, if you were happy, beloved, contented, than queens on thrones, without self-respect and peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: We've got minds and souls as well as hearts; ambition and talents as well as beauty and accomplishments; and we want to live and learn as well as love and be loved. I'm sick of being told that is all a woman is fit for! I won't have anything to do with love until I prove that I am something beside a housekeeper and a baby-tender!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: It takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I don't think secrets agree with me, I feel rumpled up in mind since you told me that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: But, Polly, a principle that can't bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn't worthy of the name."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Wealth is certainly a most desirable thing, but poverty has its sunny side, and one of the sweet uses of adversity is the genuine satisfaction which comes from hearty work of head or hand, and to the inspiration of necessity, we owe half the wise, beautiful, and useful blessings of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Now I'm beginning to live a little and feel less like a sick oyster at low tide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: ...and Jo laid the rustling sheets together with a careful hand, as one might shut the covers of a lovely romance, which holds the reader fast till the end comes, and he finds himself alone in the work-a-day world again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Prosperity suits some people, and they blossom best in a glow of sunshine; others need the shade, and are the sweeter for a touch of frost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I only mean to say that I have a feeling that it never was intended I should live long. I'm not like the rest of you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: ...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: \u2026Jo loved a few persons very dearly and dreaded to have their affection lost or lessened in any way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: He was poor, yet always appeared to be giving something away; a stranger, yet everyone was his friend; no longer young, but as happy-hearted as a boy; plain and peculiar, yet his face looked beautiful to many."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: \u2026what splendid dreams young people build upon a word, and how bitter is the pain when the bright bubbles burst."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Don't mind me. I'm as happy as a cricket here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: When we make little sacrifices we like to have them appreciated, at least."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I think she is growing up, and so begins to dream dreams, and have hopes and fears and fidgets, without knowing why or being able to explain them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I do like men who come out frankly and own that they are not gods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Six weeks is a long time to wait, and a still longer time for a girl to keep a secret."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I'm afraid I couldn't like him without a spice of human naughtiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: If life is often so hard as this, I don't see how we ever shall get through it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: \u2026that's what old people are here for, \u2014 else their experience is of little use."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: \u2026often between ourselves and those nearest and dearest to us there exists a reserve which it is very hard to overcome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Books are always good company if you have the right sort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Conceit spoils the finest genius?and the great charm of all power is modesty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Beth could not reason upon or explain the faith that gave her courage and patience to give up life, and cheerfully wait for death. Like a confiding child, she asked no questions, but left everything to God and nature, Father and Mother of us all, feeling sure that they, and they only, could teach and strengthen heart and spirit for this life and the life to come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I was thinking what a curious thing love is; only a sentiment, and yet it has power to make fools of men and slaves of women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Dear me, if men and women would only trust, understand, and help one another as my children do, what a capital place the world would be!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: The patience and the humility of the face she loved so well was a better lesson to Jo than the wisest lecture, the sharpest reproof."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: You say often you wish a library; here I gif you one; for between these two lids (he meant covers) is many books in one. Read him well, and he will help you much; for the study of character in this book will help you to read it in the world, and paint it with your pen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: For with eyes made clear by many tears, and a heart softened by the tenderest sorrow, she recognized the beauty of her sister's life\u2014uneventful, unambitious, yet full of the genuine virtues which 'smell sweet, and blossom in the dust', the self-forgetfulness that makes the humblest on earth remembered soonest in heaven, the true success which is possible to all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I asked for bread, and I got a stone in the shape of a pedestal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Love scenes, if genuine, are indescribable; for to those who have enacted them the most elaborate description seems tame, and to those who have not, the simplest picture seems overdone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Now and then genius carries all before it, but not often. We have to climb slowly, with many slips and falls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: No woman should give her happiness into the keeping of a man without fixed principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Work is and always has been my salvation and I thank the Lord for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I'm tired of praise; and love is very sweet, when it is simple and sincere like this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I don't think it's fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: O vanity, mislead no more!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I did fail, say what you will, for Jo wouldn't love me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: John Brooke is acting dreadfully, and Meg likes it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: People don't have fortunes left them in that style nowadays; men have to work and women to marry for money. It's a dreadfully unjust world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: They were enjoying the happy hour that seldom comes but once in any life, the magical moment which bestows youth on the old, beauty on the plain, wealth on the poor, and gives human hearts a foretaste of heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Rome took all the vanity out of me; for after seeing the wonders there, I felt too insignificant to live, and gave up all my foolish hopes in despair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: There are many Beths in the world, shy and quiet, sitting in corners till needed, and living for others so cheerfully that no one sees the sacrifices till the little cricket on the hearth stops chirping, and the sweet, sunshiny presence vanishes, leaving silence and shadow behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: ...Meg learned to love her husband better for his poverty, because it seem to have made a man of him, giving him the strength and courage to fight his own way, and taught him a tender patience with which to bear and comfort the natural longings and failures of those he loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: ... because I have fallen in love with so many pretty girls and never once the least bit with any man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I for one don't want to be ranked among idiots, felons, and minors any longer, for I am none of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: \u2026in silence learned the sweet solace which affection administers to sorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: The moment Aunt March took her nap, or was busy with company, Jo hurried to this quiet place, and curling herself up in the easy chair, devoured poetry, romance, history, travels, and pictures like a regular bookworm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: ...and best of all, the wilderness of books, in which she could wander, where she liked, made the library a region of bliss to her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: It is my opinion that this day will never come to an end,\" said Prince, with a yawn that nearly rent him assunder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: She began to see that character is a better possession than money, rank, intellect, or beauty, and to feel that if greatness is what a wise man has defined it to be, 'truth, reverence, and good will,' then her friend Friedrich Bhaer was not only good, but great."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: If I didn't care about doing right and didn't feel uncomfortable doing wrong, I should get on capitally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: But many of the bravest never are known, and get no praise. That does not lessen their beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: She preferred imaginary heroes to real ones, because when tired of them, the former could be shut up in the tin kitchen till called for, and the latter were less manageable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Jo's breath gave out here, and wrapping her head in the paper, she bedewed her little story with a few natural tears, for to be independent and earn the praise of those she loved were the dearest wishes of her heart, and this seemed to be the first step toward that happy end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I'm perfectly miserable; but if you consider me presentable, I die happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Mac looked up with the oddest of all his odd expressions"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: A quick temper, sharp tongue, and restless spirit were always getting her into scrapes, and her life was a series of ups and downs, which were both comic and pathetic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Jo's eyes sparkled, for it's always pleasant to be believed in; and a friend's praise is always sweeter than a dozen newspaper puffs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I've neither beauty, money, nor rank, yet every foolish boy mistakes my frank interest for something warmer, and makes me miserable. It is my misfortune. Think of me what you will, but beware of me in time, for against my will I may do you harm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Souls and bodies should go on together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: \u2026on some occasions, women, like dreams, go by contraries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: The dirt is picturesque, so I don't mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Everybody has their days of misfortune."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: \u2026because talent isn't genius, and no amount of energy can make it so. I want to be great, or nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: \u2026tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: There was a good deal of laughing and kissing and explaining, in the simple, loving fashion which makes these home-festivals so pleasant at the time, so sweet to remember long afterward, and then all fell to work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: No love or pity, pardon or excuse should soften the sharp pang of reparation for the guilty man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Persuasive influences are better than any amount of moralizing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I put in my list all the busy, useful independent spinsters I know, for liberty is a better husband than love to many of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Self-pity in its early stages is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: [She was] kept there in the sort of embrace a man gives to the dearest creature the world holds for him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Fame is a very good thing to have in the house, but cash is more convenient."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: But the spirit of Eve is strong in all her daughters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: To most the end comes as naturally and simply as sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: To marry without love betrays as surely as to love without marriage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Her beauty satisfied [his] artistic eye, her peculiarities piqued his curiosity, her vivacity lightened his ennui, and her character interested him by the unconscious hints it gave of power, pride and passion. So entirely natural and unconventional was she that he soon found himself on a familiar footing, asking all manner of unusual questions, and receiving rather piquant replies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: ... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Fathers and mothers are too absorbed in business and housekeeping to study their children, and cherish that sweet and natural confidence which is a child's surest safeguard, and a parent's subtlest power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Power is a dangerous thing. Be careful that you don't abuse it or let it make a tyrant of you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Watch and pray, dear, never get tired of trying, and never think it is impossible to conquer your fault."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: \u2026for no matter how lost and soiled and worn-out wandering sons may be, mothers can forgive and forget every thing as they fold them into their fostering arms. Happy the son whose faith in his mother remains unchanged, and who, through all his wanderings, has kept some filial token to repay her brave and tender love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Love Jo all your days, if you choose, but don't let it spoil you, for it's wicked to throw away so many good gifts because you can't have the one you want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: So she enjoyed herself heartily, and found, what isn't always the case, that her granted wish was all she had hoped."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Head, you may think; heart, you may feel;<br />\n But hand, you shall work alway!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Now and then, in this workaday world, things do happen in the delightful storybook fashion, and what a comfort that is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will.  At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Jo began to dance a jig,...Amy nearly fell out of the window in her surprise, and Meg exclaimed, with uplifted hands, 'Well I do believe the world is coming to an end!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: She fell into the moody, miserable state of mind which often comes when strong wills have to yield to the inevitable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: But buds will be roses, and kittens, cats - more's the pity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: During the fifteen minutes that followed, the proud and sensitive girl suffered a shame and pain which she never forgot. To others it might seem a ludicrous or trivial affair, but to her it was a hard experience, for during the twelve years of her life she had been governed by love alone"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: It was fortunate that tea was at hand, to produce a lull and provide refreshment,\u2014 for they would have been hoarse and faint if they had gone on much longer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: So she doesn't call desertion, poverty, and hard work troubles? She's a brave little girl, and I shall be proud to know her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I wish I had no heart, it aches so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Where's the use of looking nice, when no one sees me but those cross midgets, and no one cares whether I'm pretty or not?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Mine first --mine last-- mine even in the grave!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: {Mrs. March to Jo} You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Go out more, keep cheerful as well as busy, for you are the sunshine-maker of the family, and if you get dismal there is no fair weather."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Laurie felt just then that his heart was entirely broken and the world a howling wilderness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: \u2026she was one of those happily created beings who please without effort, make friends everywhere, and take life so gracefully and easily that less fortunate souls are tempted to believe that such are born under a lucky star."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I love my liberty too well to be in a hurry to give it up for any mortal man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: politics were as bad as mathematics, and that the mission of politicians seemed to be calling each other names"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I'll try and be what he loves to call me, 'a little woman,' and not be rough and wild, but do my duty here instead of wanting to be somewhere else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: My definition (of a philosopher) is of a man up in a balloon, with his family and friends holding the ropes which confine him to earth and trying to haul him down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I never knew how much like heaven this world could be, when two people love and live for one another!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: My father taught in the wise way which unfolds what lies in the child"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Rivalry adds so much to the charms of one's conquests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Mrs. Jo did not mean the measles, but that more serious malady called love, which is apt to ravage communities, spring and autumn, when winter gayety and summer idleness produce whole bouquets of engagements, and set young people to pairing off like the birds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I want to be great, or nothing. I won't be a commonplace dauber, so I don't intend to try any more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious to keep head contented and face happy, that she forgot her clothes, and made others do the same. She did not know it, but that good old fashion of simplicity made the plain gowns pretty, and the grace of unconsciousness beautified their little wearer with the charm that makes girlhood sweetest to those who truly love and reverence it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: For the wise old man was universally beloved, and ministered so beautifully to his flock that many of them thanked him all their lives for the help given to both hearts and souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Jo's ambition was to do something very splendid; what it was she had no idea, as yet, but left it for time to tell her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Nothing remained but loneliness and grief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I will make a battering-ram of my head and make my way through this rough and tumble world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: \u2026I can't help seeing that you are very lonely, and sometimes there is a hungry look in your eyes that goes to my heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: It is never too early to try and plant [good principles] in a child, and never too late to cultivate them in the most neglected person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I'd have a stable full of Arabian steeds, rooms piled with books, and I'd write out of a magic inkstand, so that my works should be as famous as Laurie's music. I want to do something splendid before I go into my castle,-something heroic, or wonderful,-that won't be forgotten after I'm dead. I don't know what, but I'm on the watch for it, and mean to astonish you all, some day. I think I shall write books, and get rich and famous; that would suit me, so that is my favorite dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: It's a great comfort to have an artistic sister."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Laurie, you're an angel! How shall I ever thank you?\" \"Fly at me again. I rather liked it,\" said Laurie, looking mischievous, a thing he had not done for a fortnight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: When I had the youth I had no money, now I have the money I have no time, and when I get the time, if I ever do, I shall have no health to enjoy life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: A kiss for a blow is always best, though it's not very easy to give it sometimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Jo's face was a study next day, for the secret rather weighed upon her, and she found it hard not to look mysterious and important. Meg observed it, but did not troubled herself to make inquiries, for she had learned that the best way to manage Jo was by the law of contraries, so she felt sure of being told everything if she did not ask."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I\u2019m not like the rest of you; I never made any plans about what I\u2019d do when I grew up; I never thought of being married, as you did. I couldn\u2019t seem to imagine myself anything but stupid little Beth, trotting about at home, of no use anywhere but there. I never wanted to go away, and the hard part now is leaving you all. I\u2019m not afraid, but it seems as if I should be homesick for you even in heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: \u2026she'll go and fall in love, and there's an end of peace and fun, and cozy times together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Now we are expected to be as wise as men who have had generations of all the help there is, and we scarcely anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: We don't choose our talents; but we needn't hide them in a napkin because they are not just what we want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Oh dear, life is pretty tough sometimes, isn't it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: The girls gave their hearts into their mother's keeping-their souls into their father's; and to both parents, who lived and labored so faithfully for them, they gave a love that grew with their growth, and bound them tenderly together by the sweetest tie which blesses life and outlives death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Youth, health and freedom were meant to be enjoyed and I want to try every pleasure before I am too old to enjoy them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: \u2026it is so much better to work for others than for one's self alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: \u2026men never forgive like women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: \u2026she rejoiced as only mothers can in the good fortunes of their children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: The violin - that most human of all instruments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: [Jo to her mother] I knew there was mischief brewing. I felt it and now it's worse than I imagined. I just wish I could marry Meg myself, and keep her safe in the family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Right Jo better be happy old maids than unhappy wives or unmaidenly girls running about to find husbands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: But, like all happiness, it did not last long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: Dan clung to her in speechless gratitude, feeling the blessedness of mother love, \u2014 that divine gift which comforts, purifies, and strengthens all who seek it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I think this power of living in our children is one of the sweetest things in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Louisa May Alcott: I can get on with wild beasts first-rate; but men rile me awfully."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If you are always trying to be normal you will never know how amazing you can be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You may shoot me with your words, you may cut me with your eyes, you may kill me with your hatefulness, but still, like air, I'll rise!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If you are going down a road and don't like what's in front of you, and look behind you and don't like what you see, get off the road. Create a new path!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Each one of us has lived through some devastation, some loneliness, some weather superstorm or spiritual superstorm, when we look at each other we must say, I understand. I understand how you feel because I have been there myself. We must support each other and empathize with each other because each of us is more alike than we are unalike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You will face many defeats in your life, but never let yourself be defeated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them. Try to be a rainbow in someone else's cloud. Do not complain. Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Forgiveness. It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody. You are relieved of carrying that burden of resentment. You really are lighter. You feel lighter. You just drop that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: A leader sees greatness in other people. He nor she can be much of a leader if all she sees is herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Nothing can dim the light which shines from within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When you learn, teach, when you get, give."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Develop enough courage so that you can stand up for yourself and then stand up for somebody else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When you know you are of worth, you don't have to raise your voice, you don't have to become rude, you don't have to become vulgar; you just are. And you are like the sky is, as the air is, the same way water is wet. It doesn't have to protest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone's victim."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I think a hero is any person really intent on making this a better place for all people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You don't need another person, place or thing to make you whole. God already did that. Your job is to know it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: This is a wonderful day, I have never seen this one before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Every day I awaken I am grateful. My intent is to be totally present in that day. And laugh as much as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Hate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Nothing will work unless you do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You may not control all the events that happen to you, but you can decide not to be reduced by them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: What I try to do is write. I may write for two weeks \u2018the cat sat on the mat, that is that, not a rat,\u2019.... And it might be just the most boring and awful stuff. But I try. When I\u2019m writing, I write. And then it\u2019s as if the muse is convinced that I\u2019m serious and says, \u2018Okay. Okay. I\u2019ll come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: All great achievements require time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Stand up straight and realize who you are, that you tower over your circumstances. You are a child of God. Stand up straight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If you have only one smile in you, give it to the people you love. Don't be surly at home, then go out in the street and start grinning 'Good morning' at total strangers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Happiness is a chance to talk to a friend, to hear good music, to have a good glass of wine. Happiness is a chance to be myself and to find people with whom I agree or who I don't agree but I can learn something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You should be angry. You must not be bitter. Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. It doesn't do anything to the object of its displeasure. So use that anger. You write it. You paint it. You dance it. You march it. You vote it. You do everything about it. You talk it. Never stop talking it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to arrive at its destination full of hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Give yourself time just to be with yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Live as though life was created for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Love is like a virus. It can happen to anybody at any time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Have enough courage to trust love one more time and always one more time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: While I know myself as a creation of God, I am also obligated to realize and remember that everyone else and everything else are also God's creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We must be warriors in the struggle against ignorance"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The best candy shop a child can be left alone in, is the library"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Life loves the person who dares to live it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Success is loving life and daring to live it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You can only become truly accomplished at something you love. Don\u2019t make money your goal. Instead pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can\u2019t take their eyes off of you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential. Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision. I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one. I've learned that every day you should reach out and touch someone. People love a warm hug, or just a friendly pat on the back. I've learned that I still have a lot to learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I'm not sure if resilience is ever achieved alone. Experience allows us to learn from example. But if we have someone who loves us-I don't mean who indulges us, but who loves us enough to be on our side-then it's easier to grow resilience, to grow belief in self, to grow self-esteem. And it's self-esteem that allows a person to stand up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Be certain that you do not die without having done something wonderful for humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I don't know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes - it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, 'Well, if I'd known better I'd have done better,' that's all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me, 'I love you.' There is an African saying which is: Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: No sun outlasts its sunset, but will rise again and bring the dawn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: It is sad but true that sometimes we need the tragedy to help us to see how human we are and how we are more alike than we are different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Life is a gift, and i try to respond with grace and courtesy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I\u2019m grateful for being here, for being able to think, for being able to see, for being able to taste, for appreciating love \u2013 for knowing that it exists in a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, and yet love exists. I\u2019m grateful to know that it exists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I note the obvious differences between each sort and type, <br />\n but we are more alike, my friends, than we are unalike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If you have only one smile in you give it to the people you love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands; you need to be able to throw something back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Hoping for the best, prepared for the worst, and unsurprised by anything in between."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. And let faith be the bridge you build to overcome evil and welcome good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: It is impossible to struggle for civil rights, equal rights for blacks, without including whites. Because equal rights, fair play, justice, are all like the air: we all have it, or none of us has it. That is the truth of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If I am not good to myself, how can I expect anyone else to be good to me?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat, so that we can know who we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: In the 16th century, [Niccol\u00f2] Machiavelli - in an attempt to get back in the good graces of the powerful - wrote a slim volume called The Prince. In that book he showed the powers that be how to control the people. That book is a statement: separate and rule, divide and conquer. That's five hundred years ago and it still works, because we allow ourselves to be lead around with holes through our noses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You can't really know where you are going until you know where you have been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The horizon leans forward, offering you space to place new steps of change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You rose into my life like a promised sunrise, brightening my days with the light in your eyes. I've never been so strong. Now I'm where I belong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The ache for home lives in all of us, the safe place where we can go as we are and not be questioned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I've learned that making a 'living' is not the same thing as 'making a life'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Just like moons and suns, With certainty of tides, Just like hopes springing high, Still I'll rise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Dare to let your dreams reach beyond you..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The ship of my life may or may not be sailing on calm and amiable seas. The challenging days of my existence may or may not be bright and promising. Stormy or sunny days, glorious or lonely nights, I maintain an attitude of gratitude. If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a fashion model's size But when I start to tell them, They think I'm telling lies. I say, It's in the reach of my arms The span of my hips, The stride of my step, The curl of my lips. I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We all have that possibility, that potential and that promise of seeing beyond the seeming."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Spirit is an invisible force made visible in all life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: jealousy is conceived only in insecurity and must be nourished in fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: There is no place where God is not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Surviving is important. Thriving is elegant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If a person - any human being - is told often enough, \"You are nothing. You are nothing. You account for nothing. You count for nothing. You are less than a human being. I have no visibility of you\", the person finally begins to believe it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I don't trust any revolution where love is not allowed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Each of us has the right and the responsibility to assess the roads which lie ahead, and those over which we have traveled, and if the future road looms ominous or unpromising, and the roads back uninviting, then we need to gather our resolve and, carrying only the necessary baggage, step off that road into another direction. If the new choice is also unpalatable, without embarrassment, we must be ready to change that as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Won't it be wonderful when black history and native American history and Jewish history and all of U.S. history is taught from one book. Just U.S. history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I want to thank you, Lord, for life and all that's in it. Thank you for the day and for the hour, and the minute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I'm convinced of this: Good done anywhere is good done everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Look what you've already come through! Don't deny it. You've already come through some things, which are very painful. If you've been alive until you're 35, you have gone through some pain. It cost you something. And you've come through it. So at least look at that. And have a sense to look at yourself and say, \"Well, wait a minute. I'm stronger than I thought I was.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: There is a spirit in all music, the spirit has the ability to conjure up thoughts even pictures of something that happened or you wished would happen or you anticipate happening. Music has the ability to create ideas in you and me. It has the ability to encourage us to be creative."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If you have done the best you can do and if you have gotten all you could extract from something, you have given all you had to give, then the time has come when you can do no more than say thank you and move on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I know that when I pray, something wonderful happens. Not just to the person or persons for whom I'm praying, but also something wonderful happens to me. I'm grateful that I'm heard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: God puts rainbows in the clouds so that each of us - in the dreariest and most dreaded moments - can see a possibility of hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Make every effort to change things you do not like. If you cannot make a change, change the way you have been thinking. You might find a new solution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Laugh as much as you can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I'm grateful to be an American. I am grateful that we can be angry at the terrorist assault and at the same time be intelligent enough not to hold a grudge against every Arab and every Muslim."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Take the blinders from your vision take the padding from your ears and confess you've heard me crying and admit you've seen my tears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You can see in others what they don't see in themselves and what the world doesn't see in them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I was told many years ago by my grandmother who raised me: If somebody puts you on a road and you don't feel comfortable on it and you look ahead and you don't like the destination and you look behind and you don't want to return to that place, step off the road."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Everybody is worth everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I try to live what I consider a \"poetic existence.\" That means I take responsibility for the air I breathe and the space I take up. I try to be immediate, to be totally present for all my work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true. A simple morning's greeting and response appear loaded with innuendo and fraught with implications. Each nicety becomes more sterile and each withdrawal more permanent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: And when great souls die, after a period peace blooms, slowly and always irregularly. Spaces fill with a kind of soothing electric vibration. Our senses, restored, never to be the same, whisper to us. They existed. They existed. We can be. Be and be better. For they existed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Love heals. Heals and liberates. I use the word love, not meaning sentimentality, but a condition so strong that it may be that which holds the stars in their heavenly positions and that which causes the blood to flow orderly in our veins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: A great soul serves everyone all the time. A great soul never dies. It brings us together again and again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Have enough courage to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I believed that there was a God because I was told it by my grandmother and later by other adults. But when I found that I knew not only that there was God but that I was a child of God, when I understood that, when I comprehended that, more than that, when I internalized that, ingested that, I became courageous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise. Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear, I rise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Listen to yourself and in that quietude you might hear the voice of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The caged bird sings with a fearful trill, of things unknown, but longed for still, and his tune is heard on the distant hill, for the caged bird sings of freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don't have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Be present in all things and thankful for all things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else. Some decide that happiness and glee are the same thing, they are not. When we choose happiness we accept the responsibility to lighten the load of someone else and to be a light on the path to another who may be walking in darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We can learn to see each other and see ourselves in each other and recognize that human beings are more alike than we are unalike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We are not our brother\u2019s keeper we are our brother and we are our sister. We must look past complexion and see community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I've learned that whenever I decide something with an open heart, I usually make the right decision."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I work very hard, and I play very hard. I'm grateful for life. And I live it - I believe life loves the liver of it. I live it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Sometimes guns really matter. Protecting those who need protection - children, women, minorities in rough parts of town, old folks living in places where cops aren't nearby. Guns are true empowerment for the powerless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Anything that works against you can also work for you once you understand the Principle of Reverse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The truth brings the past into the present and prepares us for the future. That's what truth does"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence neither speed up nor slow down add to nor diminish it is an imponderably valuable gift."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If you have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is to convince yourself that the person is subhuman. And won't mind the enslavement. The second thing you must do is convince your allies that the person is subhuman so that you have some support. But the third and the unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he, she, is not quite a first class citizen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Growing up, I decided, a long time ago, I wouldn't accept any manmade differences between human beings, differences made at somebody else's insistence or someone else's whim or convenience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I am the dream and the hope of the slave"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Love liberates. It doesn't just hold, that's ego. Love liberates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The most called-upon prerequisite of a friend is an accessible ear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When we decide to be happy we accept the responsibility to bring happiness to someone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The plague of racism is insidious, entering into our minds as smoothly and quietly and invisibly as floating airborne microbes enter into our bodies to find lifelong purchase in our bloodstreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: In order to be profoundly dishonest, a person must have one of two qualities: either he is unscrupulously ambitious, or he is unswervingly egocentric."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: It\u2019s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I\u2019m a woman Phenomenally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Poetry and music are the best at the highest level of the human mind. Out of poetry, out of their need for poetry, human beings have developed the idea of God. And so when we sing, when we dance, when we speak poetry we are speaking out of God's mouth, each other out of the music from God's heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Love builds up the broken wall and straightens the crooked path. Love keeps the stars in the firmament and imposes rhythm on the ocean tides. Each of us is created of it and I suspect each of us was created for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Does my sexiness upset you? Does it come as a surprise That I dance like I've got diamonds At the meeting of my thighs?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: A Woman in Harmony with her Spirit is like a river flowing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The problem I have with haters is that they see my glory, but they don't know my story."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: It's amazing. I can do anything. And do it well. Any good thing, I can do it. That's why I am who I am, yes, because God loves me and I'm amazed at it. I'm grateful for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.  We need hours of aimless wandering or spates of time sitting on park benches, observing the mysterious world of ants and the canopy of treetops."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The honorary duty of a human being is to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Now, after years of observation and enough courage to admit what I have observed, I try to plant peace if I do not want discord; to plant loyalty and honesty if I want to avoid betrayal and lies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If we are bold, love strikes away the chains of fear from our souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When I am writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness. I'm trying for that. But I'm also trying for the language. I'm trying to see how it can really sound."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Life is going to give you just what you put in it. Put your whole heart in everything you do, and pray, then you can wait."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Here on the pulse of this new day You may have the grace to look up and out And into your sister's eyes, Into your brother's face, your country And say simply Very simply With hope Good morning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The root cause of all the problems we have in the world today is ignorance of course. But most, polarization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: There is a very fine line between loving life and being greedy for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: It is this belief in a power larger than myself and other than myself which allows me to venture into the unknown and even the unknowable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I believe that every person is born with talent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The sisters and brothers that you meet give you the materials which your character uses to build itself. It is said that some people are born great, others achieve it, some have it thrust upon them. In truth, the ways in which your character is built have to do with all three of those. Those around you, those you choose, and those who choose you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I\u2019ve got a magic charm That I keep up my sleeve, I can walk the ocean floor And never have to breathe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If you find it in your heart to care for somebody else, you will have succeeded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If we all hold on to the mistake, we can't see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can't see what we're capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one's own self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Let the brain go to work, let it meet the heart and you will be able to forgive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives. The struggle for equality continues unabated, and the woman warrior who is armed with wit and courage will be among the first to celebrate victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Remember this: When you cross my doorstep, you have already been raised. With what you have learned...you know the difference between right and wrong. Do right. Don't anybody raise you from the way you have been raised. Know you will have to make adaptations, in love, in relationships, in friends, in society, in work, but don't let anybody change your mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: This is what I am learning, at 82 years old: the main thing is to be in love with the search for truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I want to write so well that a person is 30 or 40 pages in a book of mine ... before she realizes she's reading."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We can be better, we can be wiser, we can be more kind. Yes we have to change. We have to grow up and stop acting like 10 years old. Yes there is much to do, much to see, much to go into."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Thank you, always say thank you; it's the greatest gift you can give someone; because thank you is what you say to God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away - I rose right where I'd been knocked down. And then that's how you get to know yourself. You say, hmm, I can get up!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I think that that's the wisest thing - to prevent illness before we try to cure something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Poetry is music written for the human voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Life loves the liver of it. You must live and life will be good to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: For Africa to me... is more than a glamorous fact. It is a historical truth. No man can know where he is going unless he knows exactly where he has been and exactly how he arrived at his present place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: In diversity there is beauty and there is strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I think we have systematically and critically harmed ourselves and many young people by advising them not to try things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: On the day of your birth, the Creator filled countless storehouses, set aside for your use and yours alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If one is lucky, a solitary fantasy can totally transform one million realities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I think that each of us is so much alike, and yet at the same time we are so different, and I have a feeling that if you encountered difficulty, and I with my age encountered the same difficulty, I would respond one way, and you would respond another. Neither would be right or wrong. It's just that each of us is courageous, and that's what I encourage, courage, and the courage to see, and the courage to say to oneself what one has seen. Don't be in denial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Jealousy in romance is like salt in food. A little can enhance the savor, but too much can spoil the pleasure and, under certain circumstances, can be life-threatening."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The love of the family, the love of one person can heal. It heals the scars left by a larger society. A massive, powerful society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Without willing it, I had gone from being ignorant of being ignorant to being aware of being aware. And the worst part of my awareness was that I didn't know what I was aware of. I knew I knew very little, but I was certain that the things I had yet to learn wouldn't be taught to me at George Washington High School."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I keep on dying, Because I love to live"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When I'm writing, I write. And then it's as if the muse is convinced that I'm serious and says, 'Okay. Okay. I'll come.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I sustain myself with the love of family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Women should be tough, tender, laugh as much as possible, and live long lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: In order to win, we pay with energy and effort and discipline. If we lose, we pay in disappointment, discontent, and lack of fulfillment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When women take care of their health they become their own best friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If you're serious, you really understand that it's important that you laugh as much as possible and admit that you're the funniest person you ever met. You have to laugh. Admit that you're funny. Otherwise, you die in solemnity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I am never proud to participate in violence, yet I know that each of us must care enough for ourselves that we can be ready and able to come to our own defence when and wherever needed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The black kids, the poor white kids, Spanish-speaking kids, and Asian kids in the US - in the face of everything to the contrary, they still bop and bump, shout and go to school somehow. Their optimism gives me hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Continue to plant a kiss of concern on the cheek of the sick and the aged and infirm and count that actions as natural and to be expected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, the encountering may be the very experience which creates the vitality and the power to endure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When teachers or people in authority put me down or in one way or another tried to make me feel less than equal to what they thought I should be - my mother was on my side. It was amazing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost always get God's attention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: People will never forget how you made them feel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You have to develop ways so that you can take up for yourself, and then you take up for someone else. And so sooner or later, you have enough courage to really stand up for the human race and say, 'I'm a representative. '"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I am grateful to have been loved and to be loved now and to be able to love, because that liberates. Love liberates. It doesn't just hold - that's ego. Love liberates. It doesn't bind. Love says, 'I love you. I love you if you're in China. I love you if you're across town. I love you if you're in Harlem. I love you. I would like to be near you. I'd like to have your arms around me. I'd like to hear your voice in my ear. But that's not possible now, so I love you. Go.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Don't hesitate to learn the most painful aspects of our history, understand it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The most difficult thing in the world, it seems to me, is to realize that I am a child of God; to keep that in my mind all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The truth is, no one of us can be free until everybody is free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Listen to some good poetry. You see? It keeps us from thinking we are only what our blatant appetites describe us as."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I have great respect for the past. If you don't know where you've come from, you don't know where you're going. I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment. I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: In an unfamiliar culture, it is wise to offer no innovations, no suggestions, or lessons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The quality of strength lined with tenderness is an unbeatable combination, as are intelligence and necessity when unblunted by formal education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I know that you that you may encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. If you accept that you have been defeated, you give power to the force that is trying to defeat you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Ask for what you want and be prepared to get it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise. I rise. I rise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I know for sure that love saves me and that it is here to save us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: No human being can be more human than another human being. I liberate you from my ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Indeed we have souls. And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe. That listens to water with a river flowing, or water falling in rain and is lifted up by that and listens to a wonderful singer, wonderful musicians, listens to maybe Duke Ellington or Frank Sinatra or listens to Odetta and Mary J. Blige. Yes, and thinks whoo! And thinks, yes, hmm, all right now. My soul has been washed. I feel better, I feel stronger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: It is important that we learn humility, which says there was someone else before me who paid for me. My responsibility is to prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who is yet to come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: It's one of the greatest gifts you can give yourself, to forgive. Forgive everybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Self-pity in its early stage is as snug as a feather mattress. Only when it hardens does it become uncomfortable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Being free is being able to accept people for what they are, and not try to understand all they are or be what they are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Of all the needs (there are none imaginary) a lonely child has, the one that must be satisfied, if there is going to be hope and a hope of wholeness, is the unshaking need for an unshakable God. My pretty Black brother was my Kingdom Come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: My hope is that we develop enough courage to develop courage. To try to have, try to learn to treat each other fairly, with generosity and kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The only way you can be a mark is if you want something for nothing. If you're greedy, you're set up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: It is a no-fail, incontrovertible reality: If you get, give. If you learn, teach. You can't do anything with that except do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Determine to live life with flair and laughter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Love recognizes no barriers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: But still, like air, I'll rise"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We grow despite the horror that we feed upon our own tomorrow. We grow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: My people had used music to soothe slavery's torment or to propitiate God, or to describe the sweetness of love and the distress of lovelessness, but I knew no race could sing and dance its way to freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I wish that we could look into each other's faces, in each other's eyes, and see our own selves. I hope that the children have not been so scarred by their upbringing that they only think fear when they see someone else who looks separate from them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Women been gittin' pregnant ever since Eve ate that apple."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You can never go home again, but the truth is you can never leave home, so it's all right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I could fall in love with a sumo wrestler if he told stories and made me laugh. Obviously, it would be easier if someone was African-American and lived next door and went to the same church. Because then I wouldn't have to translate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Shakespeare must be a black girl."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Alone, all alone Nobody, but nobody Can make it out here alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: What you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Money and power can liberate only if they are used to do so. They can imprison and inhibit more finally than barred windows and iron chains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not really important to turning around the wheels of the state. Well the black American woman has never been able to feel that way. No black American man at any time in our history in the United States has been able to feel that he didn't need that black woman right against him, shoulder to shoulder-in that cotton field, on the auction block, in the ghetto, wherever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I love a Hebrew National hot dog with an ice-cold Corona - no lime. If the phone rings, I won't answer until I'm done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: All knowledge is spendable currency, depending on the market."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I find it interesting that the meanest life, the poorest existence, is attributed to God's will, but as human beings become more affluent, as their living standard and style begin to ascend the material scale, God descends the scale of responsibility at commensurate speed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Look heavenward and speak the word aloud. Peace. We look at our world and speak the word aloud. Peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When we give cheerfully and accept gratefully, everyone is blessed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I don't believe an accident of birth makes people sisters or brothers. It makes them siblings, gives them mutuality of parentage. Sisterhood and brotherhood is a condition people have to work at."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Martin Luther King was a human being with a brilliant mind, a powerful heart, and insight, and courage and also with a sense of humor. So he was accessible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies. You may trod me in the very dirt, but still like dust, I'll rise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I believe that people want the scent of love, more than anything else. And I don't mean sentimentality, I don't mean mush. I mean that idea, that human beings are more alike than we are different. And that means that I can love you. I don't mean support you in bad things you do, that I can understand because you're a human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I love a statement by the apostle Paul, in the Book of Philippians in the Bible. I think the Corinthians had been writing to Paul, telling him that old men were chasing young women, nobody was tithing - and all that must have run Paul crazy. He wrote back and said, \"If there be anything of good report, speak of these things.\" That's one of my principles.It's another discipline that I encourage myself to employ - to, as much as possible, say the courteous thing, and then be it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We are the victims of the world's most comprehensive robbery. Life demands a balance. It's all right if we do a little robbing now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I'm working at trying to be a Christian, and that's serious business. It's like trying to be a good Jew, a good Muslim, a good Buddhist, a good Shintoist, a good Zoroastrian, a good friend, a good lover, a good mother, a good buddy: it's serious business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: \"Baby, you know?\" my mother once said to me. \"I think you're the greatest woman I've ever met - and I'm not including my mother or Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt in that.\" She said, \"You are very intelligent and you're very kind, and those two qualities do not often go together.\" Then she went across the street and got in her car, and I went the other way down to the streetcar. I thought, \"Suppose she's right. She's intelligent - and she's too mean to lie.\" You see, a parent has the chance - and maybe the responsibility - to liberate her child. And my mom had liberated me when I was 17."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: By love I don't mean indulgence. I do not mean sentimentality. And in this instance, I don't even mean romance. I mean that condition that allowed humans to dream of God.That condition that allowed the \"dumb\" to write spirituals and Russian songs and Irish lilts. That is love, and it's so much larger than anything I can conceive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Out of the huts of history's shame I rise Up from a past that's rooted in pain I rise I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide, Welling and swelling I bear in the tide. Leaving behind nights of terror and fear I rise Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear I rise Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave, I am the dream and the hope of the slave. I rise I rise I rise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Wouldn't take nothing for my journey now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I not only have the right to stand up for myself, but I have the responsibility. I can't ask somebody else to stand up for me if I won't stand up for myself. And once you stand up for yourself, you'd be surprised that people say, \"Can I be of help?\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: My people couldn't have survived slavery without having hope that it would get better. And there's some songs from the 19th and 18th century that say [sings], \"By and by, by and by, I will lay down, this heavy load.\" And I mean, so many songs that spoke of hope and understand it better by and by. Amazing songs. So that the slaves, just knowing that he, she, did not have the right legally to walk within one inch away from where the slave owner dictated, and yet the same person, wrote and sang with fervor, \"If the lord wants somebody, here am I, send me.\" It's amazing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision. Few, if any, survive their teens. Most surrender to the vague but murderous pressure of adult conformity. It becomes easier to die and avoid conflict than to maintain a constant battle with the superior forces of maturity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We are growing up. We are growing up! Out of the idiocies - the ignorances of racism and sexism and ageism and all those ignorances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted as an inevitable outcome of the struggle won by survivors, and deserves respect if not enthusiastic acceptance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Life loves the liver of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: My life has been long, and believing that life loves the liver of it, I have dared to try many things, sometimes trembling, but daring still."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When I write, I tend to twist my hair. Something for my small mind to do, I guess."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Writing and cookery are just two different means of communication."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I have a feeling that I make a very good friend, and I'm a good mother, and a good sister, and a good citizen. I am involved in life itself - all of it. And I have a lot of energy and a lot of nerve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Every person needs to take one day away.  A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future.  Jobs, family, employers, and friends can exist one day without any one of us, and if our egos permit us to confess, they could exist eternally in our absence.  Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.  Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When I passed forty I dropped pretense, 'cause men like women who got some sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Since time is the one immaterial object which we cannot influence - neither speed up nor slow down, add to nor diminish - it is an imponderably valuable gift. Each of us has a few minutes a day or a few hours a week which we could donate to an old folks home or a children's hospital ward. The elderly whose pillows we plump or whose water pitchers we refill may or may not thank us for our gift, but the gift is upholding the foundation of the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Every person needs to take one day away. A day in which one consciously separates the past from the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Making a decision to write was a lot like deciding to jump into a frozen lake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If I insist on being pessimistic, there is always tomorrow. Today I am blessed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I've had rainbows in my clouds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I believe that one can never leave home. I believe that one carries the shadows, the dreams, the fears and the dragons of home under one's skin, at the extreme corners of one's eyes and possibly in the gristle of the earlobe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Intelligence always had a pornographic influence on me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I live in an atmosphere of music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: There is an intimate laughter to be found only among friends"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We love and lose in China, we weep on England's moors, and laugh and moan in Guinea, and thrive on Spanish shores. We seek success in Finland, are born and die in Maine. In minor ways we differ, in major we're the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Lift up your eyes upon <br />\n This day breaking for you. <br />\n Give birth again <br />\n To the dream. <br />\n Women, children, men, <br />\n Take it into the palms of your hands. <br />\n Mold it into the shape of your most <br />\n Private need. Sculpt it into <br />\n The image of your most public self. <br />\n Lift up your hearts <br />\n Each new hour holds new chances <br />\n For a new beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Beneath the skin, beyond the differing features and into the true heart of being, fundamentally, we are more alike, my friend, than we are unalike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If you're for the right thing, you do it without thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If you will have a person enslaved, the first thing you must do is convince yourself that the person is subhuman. The second thing you have to do is convince your allies so you'll have some help, and the third and probably unkindest cut of all is to convince that person that he or she is subhuman and deserves it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: All of us knows, not what is expedient, not what is going to make us popular, not what the policy is, or the company policy - but in truth each of us knows what is the right thing to do. And that's how I am guided."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I became the kind of parent my mother was to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When we cast our bread upon the waters we can presume that someone downstream whose face we will never know will benefit from our action, as we who are downstream from another will profit from the grantor's gift."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I believe everything is energy. I believe that the meal you serve yourself, you prepare, is energy. And if you serve it to your family, it's your gift of energy to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: One isn't necessarily born with courage, but one is born with potential."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Each child belongs to all of us and they will bring us a tomorrow in direct relation to the responsibility we have shown to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Most plain girls are virtuous because of the scarcity of opportunity to be otherwise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We have to confront ourselves. Do we like what we see in the mirror? And, according to our light, according to our understanding, according to our courage, we will have to say yea or nay - and rise!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Life offers us tickets to places which we have not knowingly asked for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: In all my work, I try to say - 'You may be given a load of sour lemons, why not try to make a dozen lemon meringue pies?'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I agreed a long time ago, I would not live at any cost. If I am moved or forced away from what I think is the right thing, I will not do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: There is something more - the spirit, or the soul. I think that that quality encourages our courtesy and care and our minds. And mercy, and identity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Food served is always more than just food served. That is to say, it is more than just fuel for the body. Depending upon who has prepared the food and who has served it and with what spirit, it can uplift the - and around the world, in every culture, food is used to flirt, to be coy, a raise in the employment or to search for employment. It can bring warring factions together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, \"we have overcome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We allow our ignorance to prevail upon us and make us think we can survive alone, alone in patches, alone in groups, alone in races, even alone in genders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I have need of a friend. There is one and only one who will give the air from his failing lungs for my body's mend. And that one is my love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I thought if I could face the worst danger voluntarily, and triumph, I would forever have power over it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The breezes of the West African night were intimate and shy, licking the hair, sweeping through cotton dresses with unseemly intimacy, then disappearing into the utter blackness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Blacks concede that hurrawing, jibing, jiving, signifying, disrespecting, cursing, even outright insults might be acceptable under particular conditions, but aspersions cast against one's family call for immediate attack."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Home is that youthful region where a child is the only real living inhabitant. Parents, siblings, and neighbors are mysterious apparitions who come, go, and do strange unfathomable thing in and around the child, the region's only enfranchised citizen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We agreed that great men and women should be forced to live as long as possible. The reverence they enjoyed was a life sentence, which they could neither revoke nor modify."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If our children are to approve of themselves, they must see that we approve of ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Mostly, what I have learned so far about aging, despite the creakiness of one's bones and cragginess of one's once-silken skin, is this: Do it. By all means, do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: And if a person is religious, I think it's good, it helps you a bit. But if you're not, at least you can have the sense that there is a condition inside you which looks at the stars with amazement and awe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I'm just someone who likes cooking and for whom sharing food is a form of expression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I am a very religious person, so it is the presence of God, the constant unwavering, unrelenting presence of God which continues to help me to keep a character which I am proud to show."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I am capable of what every other human is capable of. This is one of the great lessons of war and life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I would say you might encounter many defeats but you must never be defeated, ever. In fact, it might even be necessary to confront defeat. It might be necessary, to get over it, all the way through it, and go on. I would teach her to laugh a lot. Laugh a lot at the - and the silliest things and be very, very serious. I'd teach her to love life, I can bet you that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Do not be wedded forever to fear, yoked eternally to brutishness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We may act sophisticated and worldly but I believe we feel safest when we go inside ourselves and find home, a place where we belong and maybe the only place we really do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: A bizarre sensation pervades a relationship of pretense. No truth seems true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?' To love someone takes a lot of courage. So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, 'I forbid you from loving this person'?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You dwell in whitened castles with deep and poisoned moats and cannot hear the curses which fill your children's throats."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I am convinced that most people do not grow up...We marry and dare to have children and call that growing up. I think what we do is mostly grow old. We carry accumulation of years in our bodies, and on our faces, but generally our real selves, the children inside, are innocent and shy as magnolias."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We may encounter many defeats, but we must not be defeated. It may even be necessary to encounter the defeat so that we can know who we are. So that we can see, \"Oh, that happened, and I rose. I did get knocked down flat in front of the whole world, and I rose. I didn't run away; I rose right where I'd been knocked down.\" That's how you get to know yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: While the rest of the world has been improving technology, Ghana has been improving the quality of man's humanity to man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Among other things, I'm thinking \"I'm a child of God.\" That's amazing. And \"I'm not only a child of God, but God loves me.\" The hardest part for me is to realize that while God loves me, and I am a child of God, I have to see the bigot and the brute and the rapist, and whether he or she knows it or not, I have to know that that person is a child of God. That is part of the responsibility - and it's hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I am a Woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal Woman, that's me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When younger writers and poets, musicians and painters are weakened by a stemming of funds, they come to me saddened, not as full of dreams and excitement and ideas. I am then weakened and diminished, and made less rich."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: All great artists draw from the same resource: the human heart, which tells us that we are all more alike than we are unalike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I had to trust life and believe that life loved the person who dared to live it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Moderation in all things. And even moderation in moderation. Don't get too much moderation, you know?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: It's true. I can do anything and do it well because God loves me. It still humbles me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When things were very bad his soul just crawled behind his heart and curled up and went to sleep"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: She comprehended the perversity of life, that in the struggle lies the joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Talent is like electricity. We don't understand electricity. We use it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Being a woman is hard work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I want all my senses engaged. Let me absorb the world's variety and uniqueness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Without courage we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: To grow up is to stop putting blame on parents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Hold those things that tell your history and protect them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If I have a monument in this world, it is my son."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Something made greater by ourselves and in turn that makes us greater."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Achievement brings its own anticlimax."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Elimination of illiteracy is as serious an issue to our history as the abolition of slavery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I always knew from that moment, from the time I found myself at home in that little segregated library in the South, all the way up until I walked up the steps of the New York City library, I always felt, in any town, if I can get to a library, I'll be okay. It really helped me as a child, and that never left me. So I have a special place for every library, in my heart of hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Anger is like fire. It burns all clean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Hope is born again in the faces of children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: It's good to remember that in crises, natural crises, human beings forget for awhile their ignorances, their biases, their prejudices. For a little while, neighbors help neighbors and strangers help strangers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The desire to reach hearts is wise"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: No one can take the place of a friend, no one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Sunday, if I'm lucky, I'll go to church or listen to some good spiritual advice on the television or on the radio. I take three or four baths to try to cleanse myself, so I'm fresh for Monday."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Nature has no mercy at all. Nature says, \"I'm going to snow. If you have on a bikini and no snowshoes, that's tough. I am going to snow anyway.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Therefore we pledge to bind<br />\r\nourselves to one another, to embrace<br />\r\nour lowliest, to keep company with<br />\r\nour loneliest, to educate our illiterate,<br />\r\nto feed our starving, to clothe our<br />\r\nragged, to do all good things,<br />\r\nknowing that we are more than<br />\r\nkeepers of our brothers and sisters.<br />\r\nWe are our brothers and sisters"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: It is better to control oneself, if one can, and not hit back. But on certain occasions, it is imperative to defend oneself. I don't think it's fair to ask anybody not to defend herself or himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I want to be a good human being. I'm doing my best, and I'm working at it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Those who have something to say accept the fact that that's lonely. One already knows that there will be adversaries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Nobody can enjoy unless we all enjoy, truly enjoy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I'm really saddened by the attempts to separate and polarize. This is a time when we have hungry people, people out of work, and people out of spirit. This is a time where we need to uplift, not to separate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I think a nap or a rest overnight is great. But who needs three days of rest? Please! The second day, you might die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: On this platform of peace, we can create a language to translate ourselves to ourselves and to each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The truth will lead me to all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I like good food. People want a certain taste, but when they're offered something else, they'll overeat. If they really are looking for chicken and someone gives them pork chops, they'll say, \"I will have another.\" And that's because their satisfaction is not reached. So I thought I would make great food, but eat less of it. I tried it and I've taken off over 40 pounds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The human heart is so delicate and sensitive that it always needs some tangible encouragement to prevent it from faltering in its labour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If somebody is really trying to take your head off with a baseball bat - I don't know how long you're supposed to stand there and turn the other cheek, so he or she can get a better angle at taking your head off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: It's hard because people think they have something to lose and the truth is they have everything to gain in trying to love somebody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I'm here, and I do my best to be completely centered at the place I'm at, then I go forward to the next place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You have to deal with what you encounter. But you must not be reduced. And so a way not to be reduced is don't whine! Don't let the incidents which take place in life bring you low."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Whining is not only graceless, but it can be dangerous. It can alert a brute that a victim is in the neighborhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Though we are many, each of us is achingly alone, piercingly alone. Only when we confess our confusion can we remember that he was a gift to us and we did have him. He came to us from the creator, trailing creativity in abundance. Despite the anguish, his life was sheathed in mother love, family love, and survived and did more than that. He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Hatred is the ballast of the rock which lies upon our necks and underfoot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: But a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I might have it at six-fifteen a.m. just as soon as I get in, but usually it's about eleven o'clock when I'll have a glass of sherry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If I wanted to write, I had to be willing to develop a kind of concentration found mostly in people awaiting execution. I had to learn technique and surrender my ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I know why the caged bird sings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We need to remember that we are all created creative and can invent new scenarios as frequently as they are needed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Never, never let a person know you're frightened. And a group of them ... absolutely never. Fear brings out the worst in everybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I know some people might think it odd - unworthy even - for me to have written a cookbook, but I make no apologies. The U.S. poet laureate Billy Collins thought I had demeaned myself by writing poetry for Hallmark Cards, but I am the people's poet so I write for the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If you were the President of the United States or the Queen of England - you couldn't have a person who would be more protective than my mother was for me. Which meant really that I could dare to do all sorts of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I think Clinton, after getting into office and into Washington, was shocked at being bludgeoned. So he spent time trying to be all things to all people - one way guaranteed not to be successful or respected in a lion's den. You can't just play around with all those big cats - you've got to take somebody on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Without courage you cannot practice any of the other virtues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I agree with Balzac and 19th-century writers, black and white, who say, 'I write for money.' Yes, I think everybody should be paid handsomely; I insist on it, and I pay people who work for me, or with me, handsomely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If you're a human being, you can attempt to do what other human beings have done. We don't understand talent any more than we understand electricity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: In a long meter hymn, a singer - they call it 'lays out a line.' And then the whole church joins in in repeating that line. And they form a wall of harmony so tight, you can't wedge a pin between it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Love is that condition in the human spirit so profound that it allows me to survive, and better than that, to thrive with passion, compassion, and style."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Don't trust people who don't laugh. I don't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: It is imperative that young white men and women study the black American history. It is imperative that blacks and whites study the Asian American history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If the door has been opened and I've been invited, or if I'm not invited and I somehow know I'm supposed to go in there, I put myself together and go in, praying all the while. I try to learn something before I go in. I try to show some respect of the place I'm going into."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I think the more we know the better we are. I mean not just facts. The more we know about each other, the closer we are to learn something about our selves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I like to know what's happening."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: One of the saddest things in the world is to see a cynical young person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Nathaniel Hawthorne once said that easy reading is damn hard writing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: All people in the world - who are not hermits or mutes - speak words. They speak different languages, but they speak words. They say, \"How are you\" or \"I'm not feeling well\" all over the world. These common words - these common elements that we have between us - the writer has to take some verbs and nouns and pronouns and adjectives and adverbs and arrange them in a way that sound fresh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals. Now I pray for humility because that comes from inside out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The country didn't get that way in a week; we've had years and years of getting behind in our economy. So President [Barack] Obama stepped into a hellhole and people wanted him to change it as soon as he came in. But he's got his adversaries to deal with in the House and Senate, so it's not easy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: All God's children need traveling shoes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Tragedy, no matter how sad, becomes boring to those not caught in its addictive caress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I try to see every day as a celebration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Fighting for one's freedom, struggling towards being free, is like struggling to be a poet or a good Christian or a good Jew or a good Muslim or good Zen Buddhist. You work all day long and achieve some kind of level of success by nightfall, go to sleep and wake up the next morning with the job still to be done. So you start all over again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I wrote some of the worst poetry west from the Mississippi River, but I wrote. And I finally sometimes got it right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When my grandmother died, I realized that even if I had millions of dollars, I couldn't find her anywhere on earth. My next thought was that I would die. I looked at my life and thought, \"I'm afraid to die.\" I concluded that whether I was afraid or not, I would die. It was one of the most important crossroads in my life, once I realized that no matter what, I would do this thing, the next step was to think, \"If I am going to do the most difficult and frightening thing - dying - is it possible that I could do some difficult and impossible things that are good?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Today, the first & last of every Tree/ Speaks to humankind. Come to me, here beside the River."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The needs of a society determine its ethics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: My entire stay there [high school] might have been time lost if it hadn't been for the unique personality of a brilliant teacher. Miss Kirwin was that rare educator who was in love with information. I will always believe that her love of teaching came not so much from her liking for students but from her desire to make sure that some of the things she knew would find repositories so that they could be shared again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is caught in the tripartite crossfire of masculine prejudice, white illogical hate and Black lack of power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I know something better is on the road for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Everything costs and costs the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Joy is a freedom. It helps a person to find his/her own liberation. The person who is joyous takes responsibility for the time he/she takes up and the space that he/she occupies. You share it! Some of you have it ... you share it! That is what joy is! When you continue to give it away you will still have so much more of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Timidity makes a person modest. It makes him or her say, \"I'm not worthy of being written up in the record of deeds in heaven or on earth.\" Timidity keeps people from their good. They are afraid to say, \"Yes, I deserve it.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the 'leaders' must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: My mother raised me, and then freed me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If more Africans had eaten missionaries, the continent would be in better shape."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Soft you day, be velvet soft, My true love approaches, Look you bright, you dusty sun, Array your golden coaches. Soft you wind, be soft as silk My true love is speaking. Hold you birds, your silver throats, His golden voice I'm seeking. Come you death, in haste, do come My shroud of black be weaving, Quiet my heart, be deathly quiet, My true love is leaving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I answer the heroic question, 'Death, where is thy sting?' with 'It is in my heart and mind and memories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Never whine. Whining lets a brute know that a victim is in the neighborhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: He thrived with passion and compassion, humor and style. We had him whether we know who he was or did not know, he was ours and we were his."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Glory falls around us as we sob a dirge of desolation on the Cross"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: There are some nights when sleep plays coy, aloof and disdainful. And all the wiles that I employ to win its service to my side are useless as wounded pride, and much more painful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I thought if war did not include killing, I'd like to see one every year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You don't have to tell everything you know, but let what you do say be the truth as you understand it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I am convinced that courage is the most important of all the virtues. Because without courage, you cannot practice any other virtue consistently. You can be kind for a while; you can be generous for a while; you can be just for a while, or merciful for a while, even loving for a while. But it is only with courage that you can be persistently and insistently kind and generous and fair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The trouble for the thief is not how to steal the chief\u2019s bugle, but where to blow it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You know, I never trust people who don't laugh, who said, \"I am serious\" and act as if they put airplane glue on the back of their hands and stuck the glue to their foreheads. I think, \"You're not serious; you're boring as hell.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: 'God put the rainbow in the clouds, not just in the sky'... It is wise to realize we already have rainbows in our clouds, or we wouldn't be here. If the rainbow is in the clouds, then in the worst of time, there is the possibility of seeing hope... We can say 'I can be a rainbow in the cloud for someone yet to be.' That may be our calling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Pretty women wonder where my secret lies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You can't get too high for somebody to bring you down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Human beings are more alike than unalike, and what is true anywhere is true everywhere, yet I encourage travel to as many destinations as possible for the sake of education as well as pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Every experience shapes your writing, being stuck in a car on a lonely bridge, or dancing at a prom, being the it girl on the beach, all of those things influence your life, they influence how you write, and the topics you choose to write about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: One must learn to care for oneself first, so that one can then dare to care for someone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: It's a wonderful thing to know that there is something to know there is something greater than I am, and that is God itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When I was asked to do something good, I often say yes, I'll try, yes, I'll do my best. And part of that is believing, if God loves me, if God made everything from leaves to seals and oak trees, then what is it I can't do?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The Holy Spirit upon my left leads my feet without ceasing into the camp of the righteous and into the tents of the free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: But from a distance. I would have left you whole and wholly for the delectation of those who wanted more and cared less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I've had people explain to me what one of my poems meant, and I've been surprised that it means that to them. If a person can use a poem of mine to interpret her life or his life, good. I can't control that. Nor would I want to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: There is a place in you that you must keep inviolate, a place that you must keep clean. A place where you say to any intruder, \"Back up, don't you know I'm a child of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When I'm writing, I am trying to find out who I am, who we are, what we're capable of, how we feel, how we lose and stand up, and go on from darkness into darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I was grateful to see President Obama's victory speech. I was over the moon to see the audience. There were about 60 percent white voters the other 40 percent were African Americans, Asian, Spanish speaking etc. I wept at that spectacle, it told me that the pundits that continue in our country to try to polarize us, to keep us apart, are not succeeding. Americans are waking up not only to the truth, but the truth in each other. Hallelujah!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Out of the huts of history's shame I rise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Take a month and show some kindness for the folks who thought that blindness was an illness that affected eyes alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I wasn't a pretty girl. I was six feet tall at 15, you know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I'm interested in women's health because I'm a woman. I'd be a darn fool not to be on my own side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: A certain person wondered why a big strong girl like me wouldn't keep a job which paid a normal salary. I took my time to lead her and to read her every page. Even minimal people can't survive on minimal wage. A certain person wondered why I wait all week for you. I didn't have the words to describe just what you do. I said you had the motion of the ocean in your walk, and when you solve my riddles you don't even have to talk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I learned a long time ago the wisest thing I can do is be on my own side, be an advocate for myself and others like me, if I do that well enough, then I'll be able to look after someone else -- the children or the husband or the elderly. But I have to look after myself first. I know that some people think that's being selfish, I think that's being self-full."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: There is a kind of strength that is almost frightening in Black women. It's as if a steel rod runs right through the head down to the feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: All riddles are blues, / And all blues are sad, / And I'm only mentioning / Some blues I've had."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The music was my friend, my lover, my family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: A rose by any other name may smell as sweet, but a woman called by a devaluing name will only be weakened by the misnomer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Being physically close to extreme power causes one to experience a giddiness, an intoxication."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Even here in America, we felt the cool, refreshing breeze of freedom when Nelson Mandela took the seat of Presidency in his country where formerly he was not even allowed to vote. We were enlarged by tears of pride as we saw Nelson Mandela's former prison guards invited, courteously, by him to watch from the front rows his inauguration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: In Stamps the segregation was so complete that most Black children didn't really, absolutely know what whites looked like."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Oh, the holiness of always being the injured party. The historically oppressed can find not only sanctity but safety in the stateof victimization. When access to a better life has been denied often enough, and successfully enough, one can use the rejection as an excuse to cease all efforts. After all, one reckons, \"they\" don't want me, \"they\" accept their own mediocrity and refuse my best, \"they\" don't deserve me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I made the decision to quit show business. Give up the skintight dresses and manicured smiles. The false concern over sentimental lyrics. I would never again work to make people smile inanely and would take on the responsibility of making them think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I know that I've been guided by God. I am obedient."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If you have a song to sing, who are you not to open your mouth and sing to the world?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Facts can obscure the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I never had that feeling that I had to carry the weight of somebody's ignorance around with me. And that was true for racists who wanted to use the 'n' word when talking about me or about my people, or the stupidity of people who really wanted to belittle other folks because they weren't pretty or they weren't rich or they weren't clever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I am convinced that most people do not grow up ... our real selves, the children inside, are still innocent and shy as magnolias."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Just because I am wheelchair-bound doesn't mean I don't get around."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When we come to it<br />\r\nWe must confess that we are the possible<br />\r\nWe are the miraculous, the true wonders of this world,<br />\r\nthat is when, and only when we come to it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Of course, there are those critics - New York critics as a rule - who say, 'Well, Maya Angelou has a new book out and of course it's good but then she's a natural writer.' Those are the ones I want to grab by the throat and wrestle to the floor because it takes me forever to get it to sing. I work at the language."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I do not need to know all things. I remind myself that it is sufficient that I know what I know and know that without believing that I will always know what I know or that what I know will always be true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: In all the institutions I try to be present and accountable for all I do and leave undone. I know that eventually I shall have to be present and accountable n the presence of God. I do not wish to be found wanting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If growing up is painful for the Southern Black girl, being aware of her displacement is the rust on the razor that threatens the throat. It is an unnecessary insult."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: It's in the click of my heels, The bend of my hair, the palm of my hand, The need of my care, 'Cause I'm a woman Phenomenally. Phenomenal woman, That's me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: That's what you want to do? Then nothing beats a trial but a failure. Give it everything you've got. I've told you many times, 'Cant do is like Dont Care.' Neither of them have a home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: To be left alone on the tightrope of youthful unknowing is to experience the excruciating beauty of full freedom and the threat of eternal indecision."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Ritie, don't worry 'cause you ain't pretty. Plenty pretty women I seen digging ditches or worse. You smart. I swear to God, I rather you have a good mind than a cute behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: A story went the rounds about a San Franciscan white matron who refused to sit beside a Negro civilian on the streetcar, even after he made room for her on the seat. Her explanation was that she would not sit beside a draft dodger who was a Negro as well. She added that the least he could do was fight for his country the way her son was fighting on Iwo Jima. The story said that the man pulled his body away from the window to show an armless sleeve. He said quietly and with great dignity, \"Then ask your son to look around for my arm, which I left over there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I walk into a room Just as cool as you please, And to a man, The fellows stand or Fall down on their knees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The world had taken a deep breath and was having doubts about continuing to revolve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I'm young as morning and fresh as dew. Everybody loves me and so do you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The intensity with which young people live demands that they \"blank out\" as often as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The dread of futility has been my life-long plague."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The needs of a society determine its ethics, and in the Black American ghettos the hero is that man who is offered only the crumbs from his country's table but by ingenuity and courage is able to take for himself a Lucullan feast. Hence the janitor who lives in one room but sports a robin's-egg-blue Cadillac is not laughed at but admired, and the domestic who buys forty-dollar shoes is not criticized but is appreciated. We know that they have put to use their full mental and physical powers. Each single gain feeds into the gains of the body collective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The woman who survives intact and happy must be at once tender and tough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Pretty Women Wonder Where My Secret Lies, Im Not Cute Or Built To Fit A Fashion Models Size."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The idea of overcoming is always fascinating to me. It's fascinating because few of us realize how much energy we have expended just to be here today. I don't think we give ourselves enough credit for the overcoming."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: All of childhood's unanswered questions must finally be passed back to the town and answered there. Heroes and bogey men, values and dislikes, are first encountered and labeled in that early environment. In later years they change faces, places and maybe races, tactics, intensities and goals, but beneath those penetrable masks they wear forever the stocking-capped faces of childhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I'm very blessed that I have a healthy temper. I can become quite angry and burning in anger, but I have never been bitter. Bitterness is a corrosive, terrible acid. It just eats you and makes you sick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: In a world so rife with vulgarity, with brutality and violence, love exists. I\u2019m grateful to know that it exists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Let me tell so much truth. I want to tell the truth in my work. The truth will lead me to all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Life is a glorious banquet, a limitless and delicious buffet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I go to a hotel and try to get there by 5:30 in the morning. I keep a dictionary, a thesaurus, a bible, a deck of playing cards, a bottle of sherry, and stacks of yellow sticky pads. I shut myself in for six, seven hours. I have an arrangement with the hotel that no one may go in my room. After three or four months, they might slip notes under my door like, \"Dear Ms. Angelou, please let us change the linens. We think they might be molding.\" It's probably true. I let them in if they promise not to touch anything other then the bed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I married a man once and we had been married over a year before I found he preferred potatoes. I said, \"I didn't know you loved potatoes.\" And he said that until he was about 13, he thought rice was potato seeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Growing up at my grandmother's table, she always had rice. She might do something as exotic as potatoes or spaghetti, but there was still always rice, just in case you needed a little rice fix."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I encourage courtesy. To accept nothing less than courtesy, and to give nothing less than courtesy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world who likes dance can see dance, or hear music, or see art, or admire architecture - but everybody in the world uses words who is not a recluse or mute. But the writer has to take these most common things, more common than musical notes or dance positions, a writer has to take some adverbs, and verbs and nouns and ball them up together and make them bounce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I'm a religious woman. And I feel I have responsibility. I have no modesty at all. I'm even afraid of it - it's a learned affectation and it's just stuck on me like decals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I pray for humility because that comes from inside out. And what humility does for one, is it reminds us that there are people before me. I have already been paid for. And what I need to do is prepare myself so that I can pay for someone else who has yet to come, but who may be here and needs me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: All of my history as an African-American woman, as a Jewish woman, as a Muslim woman. I'm bringing everything I ever knew, and all the stories I've read - everything good, strong, kind and powerful. I bring it all with me into every situation, and I will not allow my life to be minimized by anybody's racism or sexism or ageism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. But if you're in love with the thing, it may run like hell away from you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: You can ask goodness in, show it how much you like it, make room for it. And it says, \"Oh, I like this place, I think I'll stay here.\" Which is why people go into one house and say, \"I want to take my shoes off.\" At another house, no matter how beautiful it is, they might say, \"Hmm, I can't stay.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: There are great parents of small children - they keep their little hair in bows - but those parents are not always good parents of young adults. As soon as their children get up to some size, it's \"Shut up, sit down, you talk too much, keep your distance, I'll send you to Europe!\" My mom was a terrible parent of small children but a great parent of young adults. She'd talk to me as if I had some sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I'm sorry to say that when some people get to age 50, they say, \"Well, that's the end, I'll never have to do sex again.\" They lay down first and get up last! But in your sixties, everything is sweeter. You have more time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If I'm here, I'll be trying to be a better human being, a better writer, a better friend and a better beloved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I've learned that forgiving is one of the greatest gifts that I can give myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When I forgive other people, I let them go, I free them from my ignorance. And as soon as I do, I feel lighter, brighter and better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When people see the laughing face, even if they're jealous of it, their burden is lightened. But do it first for yourself. Laugh and dare to try to love somebody, starting with yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: It is very dangerous to make a person larger than life because, then, young men and women are tempted to believe, well, if he was that great, he's inaccessible, and I can never try to be that or emulate that or achieve that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I don't think modesty is a very good virtue, if it is a virtue at all. A modest person will drop the modesty in a minute. It's a learned affectation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Intelligence is a separate gift, for the benefit of students, so that they may think of themselves as intellectual and not very intelligent, or intelligent and not very intellectual. One hopes, of course, that they try to bring the two virtues, the two elements, into their lives at the same time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. So at this wonderful, young age of 65, I don't know yet what the Lord has for me to do. I try to live up to the energy and to the calling, but I wouldn't dare say I have even scratched the surface yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: People feel guilty. And guilt is stymieing. Guilt immobilizes. Guilt closes the air ducts and the veins, and makes people ignorant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I like to speak on matters which matter to human beings, and almost everything matters to human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I believe what I have to say is important, and I believe the people coming to hear me are important, and so the occasion of itself alone has an importance, which forces me to stare down my nerves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I have respect for the past, but I'm a person of the moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: People trying to separate people rather than bring us together... please. You don't just see it in America. It's all over the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I get up in the morning, and I'm reluctant to turn on the television."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I never have written every day. When I'm writing a book, I write Monday through Friday. I always try to take Saturday and pretend to have some sanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Because of technological breakthroughs, the society will need fewer and fewer unskilled laborers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Growing up, my grandmother did not want worldly music in the house. Then when I went out to California, I started listening to Spanish music, mostly Mexican music. But were I in Egypt, I would listen to the music of the people, or if I was in Italy, I'd listen to Italian music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: My heart is so heavy when I see the reality of the Indian reservation and as an American, I know I am, too, responsible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If you happen to fall in love with someone in another race, it's more difficult, because you have to translate yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: It's very hard for adults to maintain respect and romance so that a love affair can be sustained over years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Try, start always at home. This is my encouragement to all writers, start at home. All virtues and vices begin at home, and then spread abroad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: My work is to be honest. My work is to try to think clearly, then have the courage to make sure that what I say is the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: My great blessing is my son, but I have daughters. I have white ones and Black ones and fat ones and thin ones and pretty ones and plain. I have gay ones and straight. I have daughters. I have Asian ones, I have Jewish ones, I have Muslim ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If I'm going to a new country, I try to learn something about the language and the culture, so I don't just go bumbling over things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I have great respect for the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I'm a descendant of someone bought and sold, and brought in 1619 in what was to become the United States."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: There is a lot of ignorance, and I don't mean intellectual ignorance. I mean people think that if you get something, it will take away from what I have. It's just ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I've lived many places on the planet, and I still have friends in many places."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: My doctor told me that I really should lose some weight. \"You're mildly obese,\" he said. And I thought, \"Well, who couldn't afford to lose 20 or 30 pounds?\" He said, \"Well, a person in your category.\" I said, \"What is that category, doctor?\" He said, \"Well, you're what I call upwardly middle aged.\" And I said, \"I forgive you for everything.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: There's something beautiful about the fact that Obama was not just elected, but elected decisively across racial, and socio-economic and cultural groups and that we all celebrated in his win."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I think all poems are commissioned. They just come to me without somebody outside commissioning them. The idea comes and I will live with them 'til I get it as close to what I mean. I've never been totally satisfied. I've come close a few times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: There are those who say that poets should use her and his art to change the world. I'd agree with that, but I think everybody should do that. I think the chef and the baker and the candlestick maker - I think everybody should be hoping to make it a better world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I have enough of life in me to make somebody jealous enough to want to knock me down. I have so much courage in me that I have the effrontery, the incredible gall to stand up. That's it. That's how you get to know who you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When I want to think about what would be the right thing to do, the fair thing to do, the wise thing to do, I can just think of my grandmother. I can always hear her say, \"Now sister, you know what's right. Just do right!\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: We can see, from California to New York, from Maine to Florida, Seattle to New Mexico - everywhere there are women's groups. Everywhere there are women who have gotten together to examine global warming, and women who have gotten together to prepare each other for single parenting - there are women who have come together to be supportive to those whose mates are in prison, male or female, partners are in prison. All sorts of gatherings of women. I mean, I'm just celebrating my 80th year on this planet, and I look back 50 years ago and there was nothing like that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one - it's the first blow in a suicidal movement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: When I love somebody, I like him to be around; I like him to take me out to dinner; I like to look at the sunset with him. But if not, I love him and I hope he's looking at the same sun I am. Loving someone liberates the lover as well as the beloved. And that kind of love comes with age. Some of this wisdom came to me after I was 50 or 60."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: In the fifties, you have your beauty as a treat. I thought that until I hit the sixties.In your sixties, life decides to reward you with certain kinds of profound appreciation, so that people name their children and schools and libraries after you! And you still have your sexuality and your sensuality. If you want your sexuality, you still have it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I'm a writer and writers either have good memories or nothing at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I have no modesty. Modesty is a learned affectation. It's like decal stuck up on a person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: I'm a positive thinker and actor. I look at a glass; a negative person sees the glass and says: too bad it's half empty... I look at the same glass and say: Hallelujah!! It's half full!!!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: If we live long enough, we may even get over war. I imagine a time when somebody will mention the word war and everyone in the room will start to laugh. And what do you mean war?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: The subject of the poem usually dictates the rhythm or the rhyme and its form. Sometimes, when you finish the poem and you think the poem is finished, the poem says, \"You're not finished with me yet,\" and you have to go back and revise, and you may have another poem altogether. It has its own life to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Depending on who I am talking about or who's talking through me - if the person is a kind of hip-hop, or rhythm and blues person, or if the person is a kind of old-fashion gothic, meaning gothic attitude, then that will determine what form the poem will take."
  },
  {
    "text": "Maya Angelou: Whining is just unbecoming."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Whenever you're wrong, admit it; Whenever you're right, shut up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Some tortures are physical And some are mental, But the one that is both Is dental."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Some primal termite knocked on wood.<br />\r\nAnd tasted it, and found it good.<br />\r\nAnd that is why your Cousin May<br />\r\nFell through the parlor floor today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: God in His wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: I am a conscientious man, when I throw rocks at seabirds I leave no tern unstoned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Among other things I think humor is a shield, a weapon, a survival kit. So here we are several billion of us, crowded into our global concentration camp for the duration. How are we to survive? Solemnity is not the answer, any more than witless and irresponsible frivolity is. I think our best chance lies in humor, which in this case means a wry acceptance of our predicament. We don't have to like it but we can at least recognize its ridiculous aspects, one of which is ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Marriage is the alliance of two people, one of whom never remembers birthdays and the other who never forgets them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Here's a good rule of thumb; too clever is dumb."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: I believe that people believe what they believe they believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: The truth I do not stretch or shove<br />\r\n When I state the dog is full of love.<br />\r\n I've also proved, by actual test,<br />\r\n A wet dog is the lovingest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: If called by a panther, don't anther."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: No, you never get any fun<br />\r\nOut of the things you haven't done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: So I hope husbands and wives will continue to debate and combat<br />\r\nOver everything debatable and combatable<br />\r\nBecause I believe a little incompatibility is the spice of life<br />\r\nParticularly if he has income and she is pattable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: I think that I shall never see<br />\r\nA billboard lovely as a tree.<br />\r\nPerhaps, unless the billboards fall,<br />\r\nI'll never see a tree at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Abracadabra, thus we learn<br />\r\nThe more you create, the less you earn.<br />\r\nThe less you earn, the more you're given,<br />\r\nThe less you lead, the more you're driven,<br />\r\nThe more destroyed, the more they feed,<br />\r\nThe more you pay, the more they need,<br />\r\nThe more you earn, the less you keep,<br />\r\nAnd now I lay me down to sleep.<br />\r\nI pray the Lord my soul to take<br />\r\nIf the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: If some confectioners were willing<br />\nTo let the shape announce the filling,<br />\nWe'd encounter fewer assorted chocs,<br />\nBitten into and returned to the box."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: The trouble with a kitten is that eventually  it becomes a cat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Indeed, everybody wants to be a wow, But not everybody knows exactly how."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance, were it not for making living, which is rather a nouciance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: To love is an active verb."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Some debts are fun while you are acquiring them, But none are fun when you set about retiring them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Celery, raw,<br />\nDevelops the jaw"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: The camel has a single hump, The dromedary, two; Or else the other way around; I'm never sure. Are you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: The cow is of the bovine ilk: One end is moo, the other, milk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Oh, what a tangled web do parents weave, when they think that their children are naive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: One thing that literature would be greatly the better for<br />\nWould be a more restricted employment by authors of simile and>metaphor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: I test my bath before I sit, And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is so frigid upon the fundament."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: A husband is a guy who tells you when you've got on too much lipstick and helps you with your girdle when your hips stick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: The Pig, if I am not mistaken,<br />\r\nSupplies us sausage, ham, and Bacon.<br />\r\nLet others say his heart is big,<br />\r\nI think it stupid of the Pig."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: There is something about a martini, Ere the dining and dancing begin, And to tell you the truth, It is not the vermouth- I think that perhaps it's the gin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: You are much happier when you are happy than when you ain't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: The only incurable troubles of the rich are the troubles that money can't cure, Which is a kind of trouble that is even more troublesome if you are poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Love is a word that is constantly heard,<br />\r\nHate is a word that is not.<br />\r\nLove, I am told, is more precious than gold.<br />\r\nLove, I have read, is hot.<br />\r\nBut hate is the verb that to me is superb,<br />\r\nAnd Love but a drug on the mart.<br />\r\nAny kiddie in school can love like a fool,<br />\r\nBut Hating, my boy, is an Art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Where there is a monster, there is a miracle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: I do not like to get the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Man is a victim of dope in the incurable form of hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Some hate broccoli, some hate bacon I hate having my picture taken. How can your family claim to love you And then demand a picture of you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Bankers are just like everybody else, except richer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: It is the sin of omission, the second kind of sin,<br />\nThat lays eggs under your skin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Marriage is the only known example of the happy meeting of the immovable object and the irresistible force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Home is heaven and orgies are vile,<br />\r\nBut I like an orgy, once in a while."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Indoors or out, no one relaxes <br />\nIn March, that month of wind and taxes, <br />\nThe wind will presently disappear, <br />\nThe taxes last us all the year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Life has a tendency to obfuscate and bewilder, <br />\nSuch as fating us to spend the first part of our lives <br />\nbeing embarrassed by our parents and the last part <br />\nbeing embarrassed by our children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they don't want it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: There is one fault that I must find<br />\r\nWith the twentieth century.<br />\r\nAnd I'll put it in a couple of words;<br />\r\nToo adventury.<br />\r\nWhat I'd like would be some nice dull monotony<br />\r\nIf anyone's gotony."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons, or Celts, Can't seem just to say anything is the thing it is but have to go out of their way to say that it is like something else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: A bit of talcum Is always walcum."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: People expect old men to die, They do not really mourn old men. Old men are different. People look At them with eyes that wonder when ... People watch with unshocked eyes; But the old men know when an old man dies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Miranda in Miranda's sight is old, gray and dirty; Twenty-nine she was last night; This morning she is thirty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Whether elected or appointed he considers himself the Lord's anointed, and indeed the ointment lingers on him so thick you can't get your fingers on him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Women would rather be right than reasonable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Certainly there are lots of things in life that money won't buy, but it's very funny- Have you ever tried to buy them without money?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: One rule which woe betides the banker who fails to heed it/Never lend any money to anybody unless they don't need it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: When I remember bygone days I think how evening follows morn So many I loved were not yet dead, So many I love were not yet born."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: The only way I can distinguish proper from improper fractions is by their actions"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: The further through life I drift the more obvious it becomes that I am lacking in thrift."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy. <br />\nYou've had about seven hours of sleep since Friday. <br />\nNo wonder you feel that lost sensation. <br />\nYou're sunk from a riot of relaxation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature.... So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French premiers or sheep, And people who ought to arise from bed Yawn and go back to sleep instead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Stuyvesant chats with Kelly and Katz, The professor warms to the broker, And life is good in the brotherhood Of an air-conditioned smoker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: The doctor gets you when you're born, The preacher, when you marry, And the lawyer lurks with costly clerks If too much on you carry. Professional men, they have no cares; Whatever happens, they get theirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Only the gamefish swims upstream, But the sensible fish swims down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Snow is all right while it is snowing; it is like inebriation because it is very pleasing when it is coming, but very unpleasing when it is going."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Some people's money is merited and other people's is inherited."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: The song of canaries<br />\nNever varies,<br />\nAnd when they're moulting<br />\nThey're pretty revolting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Professional men, they have no cares; whatever happens, they get theirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Husbands are things that wives have to<br />\r\nget used to putting up with.<br />\r\nAnd with whom they breakfast with <br />\r\nand sup with. <br />\r\n<br />\r\nThey interfere with the discipline of nurseries,<br />\r\nAnd forget anniversaries, <br />\r\nAnd when they have been particularly remiss,<br />\r\nThey think they can cure everything<br />\r\nwith a great big kiss."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: I don't care how unkind the things people say about me so long as they don't say them to my face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: All that glitters is sold as gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: In the world of mules there are no rules."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Neath tile or thatch That man is rich Who has a scratch For every itch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks Which practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: A husband is a man who two minutes after his head touches the pillow is snoring like an overloaded omnibus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: How easy for those who do not bulge to not overindulge!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Then here's to the heartening wassail, Wherever good fellows are found; Be its master instead of its vassal, and order the glasses around."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Here is a pen and here is a pencil, here's a typewriter, here's a stencil, here's a list of today's appointments, and all the flies in all the ointments, the daily woes that a man endures -- take them, George, they're yours!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: We love the kindly wind and hail, The jolly thunderbolt, We watch in glee the fairy trail Of ampere, watt, and volt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: I don't mind their having a lot of money, and I don't care how they employ it, but I do think that they damn well ought to admit they enjoy it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: The noblest lord is ushered in By the practicing physician, And the humblest lout is ushered out By a certified mortician. And in between, they find their foyers Alive with summonses from lawyers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Dogs display reluctance and wrath If you try to give them a bath. They bury bones in hideaways And half the time they trot sideaways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Every Englishman is convinced of one thing, viz.: That to be an Englishman is to belong to the most exclusive club there is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: It is my duty, gentlemen, to inform you that women are dictators<br />\nall, and I recommend to you this moral:<br />\nIn real life it takes only one to make a quarrel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Don't Cry Darling, It's Blood All Right"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: So I think there is one rule every host and hostess ought to keep with the comb and nail file and bicarbonate and aromatic spirits on a handy shelf, <br />\n Which is don't spoil the denouement by telling the guests everything is terrible, but let them have the thrill of finding it out for themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: A lady is known by the product she endorses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Any kiddie in school can love like a fool, But Hating, my boy, is an Art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: In real life, it takes only one to make a quarrel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech and then interpolate them,<br />\nWith the result that whenever you mention Old Testament soldiers to<br />\npeople they say Oh yes, they're the ones that a lot of wolves dressed up in gold and purple ate them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: How Sunday into Monday melts!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: One would be in less danger From the wiles of the stranger If one's own kin and kith Were more fun to be with."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Some one invented the telephone, And interrupted a nation's slumbers, Ringing wrong but similar numbers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: I claim there ain't Another Saint As great as Valentine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: The sky is now indelible ink, The branches reft asunder; But you and I we do not shrink; We love the lovely thunder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: A cough is something that you yourself cant help, but everybody else does on purpose just to torment you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: The moral is that it is probably better not to sin at all, but if<br />\nsome kind of sin you must be pursuing,<br />\nWell, remember to do it by doing rather than by not doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Do you think my mind is maturing late, or simply rotted early?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: The dog is man's best friend. He has a tail on one end. Up in front he has teeth. And four legs underneath."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: One bliss for which There is no match Is when you itch To up and scratch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Passivity can be a provoking modus operandi;<br />\nConsider the Empire and Gandhi."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Good wine needs no bush, <br />\nAnd perhaps products that people really want <br />\nNeed no hard-sell or soft-sell TV push. <br />\nWhy not? <br />\nLook at pot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: A lady wants to be dressed exactly like everybody else but she gets pretty up- set if she sees anybody else dressed exactly like her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Middle-aged life is merry, and I love to lead it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as a legislature, Sleep is as forward as hives or goiters, And where it is least desired, it loiters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: There are two kinds of people who blow through life like a breeze, <br />\nAnd one kind is gossipers, and the other kind is gossipees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: The reason for much matrimony is patrimony."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: No matter how deep and dark your pit, how dank your shroud, their heads are heroically unbloody and unbowed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: The more you earn, the less you keep, And now I lay me down to sleep. I pray the Lord my soul to take, If the tax-collector hasn't got it before I wake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: This is my dream, It is my own dream, I dreamt it. I dreamt that my hair was kempt. Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Nobody agrees with anybody else anyhow, but adults conceal it and infants show it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: The burnt child, urged by rankling ire, Can hardly wait to get back at the fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: Another good thing about gossip is that it is within everybody's reach, And it is much more interesting than any other form of speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: But children, hark! Your mother would rather, When you arrived, have been your father."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: The old men know when an old man dies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: You can take it as understood,<br />\r\nThat your luck changes only if it's good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Ogden Nash: It is common knowledge to every schoolboy and even every Bachelor of Arts,<br />\nThat all sin is divided into two parts.<br />\nOne kind of sin is called a sin of commission, and that is very<br />\nimportant"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A passion for pleasure is the secret of remaining young."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In war, the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich makes slaves of the poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people whom we personally dislike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only horrible thing in the world is ennui."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: No man is rich enough to buy back his past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There are moments when one has to choose between living one's own life, fully, entirely, completely-or dragging out some false, shallow, degrading existence that the world in its hypocrisy demands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Women are made to be loved, not understood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Death must be so beautiful. To lie in the soft brown earth, with the grasses waving above one's head, and listen to silence. To have no yesterday, and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forgive life, to be at peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The moment that an artist takes notice of what other people want, and tries to supply the demand, he ceases to be an artist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead. The consciousness of loving and being loved brings a warmth and a richness to life that nothing else can bring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To look at a thing is very different from seeing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The truth is rarely pure and never simple."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To define is to limit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Don't use big words. They mean so little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Between men and women there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: With freedom, books, flowers, and the moon, who could not be happy?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not its growth and development."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is perfectly possible to get what you think you want and be miserable. It's possible too, to never get it but deeply enjoy the process of trying. In this world, there are only two tragedies. One is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Circumstances should never alter principles!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The final mystery is oneself. When one has weighed the sun in the balance, and measured the steps of the moon, and mapped out the seven heavens star by star, there still remains oneself. Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only way a woman can ever reform a man is by boring him so completely that he loses all possible interest in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Disobedience, in the eyes of any one who has read history, is man's original virtue. It is through disobedience that progress has been made, through disobedience and through rebellion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live; it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. And unselfishness is letting other people's lives alone, not interfering with them. Selfishness always aims at uniformity of type. Unselfishness recognizes infinite variety of type as a delightful thing, accepts it, acquiesces in it, enjoys it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Ambition is the last refuge of the failure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: People who count their chickens before they are hatched act very wisely because chickens run about so absurdly that it's impossible to count them accurately."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To regret one\u2019s own experiences is to arrest one\u2019s own development. To deny one\u2019s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one\u2019s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Anyone can sympathize with the sufferings of a friend, but it requires a very fine nature to sympathize with a friend's success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man\u2019s intelligence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A man can be happy with any woman, as long as he does not love her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A man who does not think for himself does not think at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Sooner or later we have all to pay for what we do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: we always misunderstood ourselves, and rarely understood others"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Live the wonderful life that is in you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Women are meant to be loved, not to be understood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: An excellent man; he has no enemies; and none of his friends like him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To be popular one must be a mediocrity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Without order nothing can exist-without chaos nothing can evolve. Nowadays people know the price of everything and the value of nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The curves of your lips rewrite history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Art is the only serious thing in the world. And the artist is the only person who is never serious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Ah! realize your youth while you have it. Don\u2019t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar. These are the sickly aims, the false ideals, of our age. Live! Live the wonderful life that is in you! Let nothing be lost upon you. Be always searching for new sensations. Be afraid of nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Only the shallow know themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: When the gods wish to punish us they answer our prayers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Those whom the gods love grow young."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Art only begins where Imitation ends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The good we get from art is not what we learn from it; it is what we become through it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It seems to me that we all look at Nature too much, and live with her too little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself. Sometimes I am so clever I don't understand a single word of what I am saying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: How clever you are, my dear! You never mean a single word you say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Illusion is the first of all pleasures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A mask tells us more than a face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The moon in her chariot of pearl"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The very essence of romance is uncertainty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Loveless marriages are horrible. But there is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage. A marriage in which there is love, but on one side only; faith, but on one side only; devotion, but on one side only, and in which of the two hearts one is sure to be broken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: One should always be a little improbable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Society often forgives the criminal; it never forgives the dreamer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Women are never disarmed by compliments. Men always are. That is the difference between the sexes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Pleasure is the only thing one should live for, nothing ages like happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: One does not see anything until one sees its beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: But what is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means? Anybody can say charming things and try to please and to flatter, but a true friend always says unpleasant things, and does not mind giving pain. Indeed, if he is a really true friend he prefers it, for he knows that then he is doing good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: They get up early, because they have so much to do, and go to bed early, because they have so little to think about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Yet each man kills the thing he loves, By each let this be heard, Some do it with a bitter look, Some with a flattering word, The coward does it with a kiss, The brave man with a sword! Some kill their love when they are young, And some when they are old; Some strangle with the hands of Lust, Some with the hands of Gold: The kindest use a knife, because The dead so soon grow cold. Some love too little, some too long, Some sell, and others buy; Some do the deed with many tears, And some without a sigh: For each man kills the thing he loves, Yet each man does not die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Art is individualism, and individualism is a disturbing and disintegrating force. There lies its immense value. For what it seeks is to disturb monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine. It seeks to show new perspectives and other choices. It is a way to help expand and liberate the consciousness; our experiences, understandings, imaginings, options and thereby our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What a pity that in life we only get our lessons when they are of no use to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: People fashion their God after their own understanding. They make their God first and worship him afterwards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Popularity is the one insult I have never suffered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is no sin except stupidity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To be in love is to surpass one's self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Popularity is the crown of laurel which the world puts on bad art. Whatever is popular is wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What fire does not destroy, it hardens"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The best way to make children good is to make them happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the cave-man had known how to laugh, History would have been different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is better to be beautiful than to be good. But... it is better to be good than to be ugly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Only good questions deserve good answers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back. It makes me far too conceited."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The simplicity of your character makes you exquisitely incomprehensible to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life. We are not sent into the world to air our moral prejudices. I never take any notice of what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do. If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: One should always be in love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is awfully hard work doing nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In examinations the foolish ask questions that the wise cannot answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I made your sorrow mine also, that you might have help in bearing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: No art ever survived censorship; no art ever will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I wrote when I did not know life;<br />\nnow that I do know the meaning of life,<br />\nI have no more to write.<br />\nLife cannot be written; life can only be lived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them. The past, the present and the future are but one moment in the sight of God, in whose sight we should try to live. Time and space, succession and extension, are merely accidental conditions of thought. The imagination can transcend them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.. Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect---simply a confession of failures. Faithfulness! I must analyse it some day. The passion for property is in it. There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up. But I don't want to interrupt you. Go on with your story."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Most people are other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: For one moment our lives met, our souls touched."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is one thing infinitely more pathetic than to have lost the woman one is in love with, and that is to have won her and found out how shallow she is!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously-and have somebody find out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The secret of life is in art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: After a good dinner one can forgive anybody, even one's own relations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is what we fear that happens to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Who, being loved, is poor?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed, and mourning over tragedies that were not my own. Music always seems to me to produce that effect. It creates for one a past of which one has been ignorant, and fills one with a sense of sorrows that have been hidden from one\u2019s tears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I have nothing to declare except my genuis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. It has nothing to do with the fact that other people want what they want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: She wore far too much rouge last night and not quite enough clothes. That is always a sign of despair in a woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Keep love in your heart. A life without it is like a sunless garden when the flowers are dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Men become old, but they never become good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In fact, the whole of Japan is a pure invention. There is no such country, there are no such people.... The Japanese people are ... simply a mode of style, an exquisite fancy of art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The proper basis for marriage is a mutual misunderstanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What is the good of friendship if one cannot say exactly what one means?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Mere color, unspoiled by meaning, and unallied with definite form, can speak to the soul in a thousand different ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Who am I to tamper with a masterpiece?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Wherever there is a man who exercises authority, there is a man who resists authority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Every effect that one produces gives one an enemy. To be popular one must be a mediocrity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: No work of art ever puts forward views.  Views belong to people who are not artists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If you pretend to be good, the world takes you very seriously. If you pretend to be bad, it doesn't. Such is the astounding stupidity of optimism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Where there is no love there is no understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes.  That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Those who have much are often greedy. Those who have little always share."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Hearts Live By Being Wounded"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The past is of no importance. The present is of no importance. It is with the future that we have to deal. For the past is what man should not have been. The present is what man ought not to be. The future is what artists are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I like talking to a brick wall- it's the only thing in the world that never contradicts me!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Indeed I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The aim of the liar is simply to charm, to delight, to give pleasure. He is the very basis of civilized society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only way to behave to a woman is to make love to her if she is pretty, and to someone else if she is plain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Every one is worthy of love, except him who thinks that he is. Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: But we never get back our youth\u2026 The pulse of joy that beats in us at twenty becomes sluggish. Our limbs fail, our senses rot. We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Every man of ambition has to fight his century with its own weapons. What this century worships is wealth. The God of this century is wealth. To succeed one must have wealth. At all costs one must have wealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The evolution of man is slow. The injustice of men is great."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Do you really think it is weakness that yields to temptation? I tell you that there are terrible temptations which it requires strength, strength and courage to yield to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world. I cannot conceive of any other explanation. I am convinced that there is no other, and that if the world has indeed, as I have said, been built of sorrow, it has been built by the hands of love, because in no other way could the soul of man, for whom the world was made, reach the full stature of its perfection. Pleasure for the beautiful body, but pain for the beautiful soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: No crime is vulgar,<br />\nbut all vulgarity is crime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Good intentions are invariably ungrammatical."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Now, nothing should be able to harm a man except himself. Nothing should be able to rob a man at all. What a man really has, is what is in him. What is outside of him should be a matter of no importance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Good intentions have been the ruin of the world. The only people who have achieved anything have been those who have had no intentions at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders...It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: You love the beauty that you can see and touch and handle, the beauty that you can destroy, and do destroy, but of the unseen beauty of life, of the unseen beauty of a higher life, you know nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am always astonishing myself. It is the only thing that makes life worth living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The one person who has more illusions than the dreamer is the man of action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible.  What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A sentimentalist is simply one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Prayer must never be answered: if it is, it ceases to be prayer and becomes correspondence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval. When man is happy, he is in harmony with himself and his environment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is worth knowing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: When you really want love you will find it waiting for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Veil after veil of thin dusky gauze is lifted, and by degrees the forms and colours of things are restored to them, and we watch the dawn remaking the world in its antique pattern."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I have said to you to speak the truth is a painful thing. To be forced to tell lies is much worse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Beauty is a form of genius -- is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The world is divided into two classes, those who believe the incredible, and those who do the improbable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Ones real life is often the life that one does not lead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Rich bachelors should be heavily taxed. It is not fair that some men should be happier than others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: He wanted to be where no one would know who he was. He wanted to escape from himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To make men Socialists is nothing, but to make Socialism human is a great thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one\u2019s heart\u2014hearts are made to be broken\u2014but that it turns one\u2019s heart to stone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Every woman is a rebel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely. All art is quite useless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled. It is the secret of their attraction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We are never more true to ourselves than when we are inconsistent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour, the beauty, the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is like advising a man who is starving to eat less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Duty is what one expects from others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A truth ceases to be true when more than one person believes in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Pleasures may turn a heart to stone, riches may make it callous, but sorrows cannot break it. Hearts live by being wounded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What art seeks to disturb is monotony of type, slavery of custom, tyranny of habit, and the reduction of man to the level of a machine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Genius lasts longer than beauty"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Women represent the triumph of matter over mind, just as men represent the triumph of mind over morals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The supreme object of life is to live. Few people live. It is true life only to realize one's own perfection, to make one's every dream a reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I never approve, or disapprove, of anything now. It is an absurd attitude to take towards life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We teach people how to remember, we never teach them how to grow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Would you like to know the great drama of my life? It is that I have put my genius into my life...I have put only my talent into my works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose. It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Things are because we see them, and what we see, and how we see it, depends on the Arts that influenced us. To look at a thing is very different from seeing a thing. One does not see anything until one sees its beauty. Then, and then only, does it comes into existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I have always been of the opinion that hard work is simply the refuge of people who have nothing whatever to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In war,\" answered the weaver, \"the strong make slaves of the weak, and in peace the rich make slaves of the poor. We must work to live, and they give us such mean wages that we die. We toil for them all day long, and they heap up gold in their coffers, and our children fade away before their time, and the faces of those we love become hard and evil. We tread out the grapes, another drinks the wine. We sow the corn, and our own board is empty. We have chains, though no eye beholds them; and are slaves, though men call us free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The soul is a terrible reality. It can be bought and sold and bartered away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Even now I cannot help feeling that it is a mistake to think that the passion one feels in creation is ever really shown in the work one creates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The critic has to educate the public; the artist has to educate the critic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: After the first glass, you see things as you wish they were. After the second, you see things as they are not. Finally, you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Now and then it is a joy to have one's table red with wine and roses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is no such thing as morality or immorality in thought. There is immoral emotion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Men always want to be a woman's first love. That is their clumsy vanity. We women have a more subtle instinct about things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation, and conversation must have a common basis, and between two people of widely different culture the only common basis possible is the lowest level."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Something was dead in each of us, and what was dead was hope"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The artistic life is a long, lovely suicide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To disagree with three-fourths of the British public is one of the first requisites of sanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: As for omens, there is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Good taste is the excuse I've always given for leading such a bad life"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face. The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid. Look at the successful men in any of the learned professions. How perfectly hideous they are! Except, of course, in the Church. But then in the Church they don't think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is only very ugly or very beautiful women who ever hide their faces ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: After playing Chopin, I feel as if I had been weeping over sins that I had never committed and mourning over tragedies that were not my own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: With an evening coat and a white tie, anybody, even a stockbroker, can gain a reputation for being civilized"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I live in terror of not being misunderstood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Be happy, be happy; you shall have your red rose. I will build it out of music by moonlight, and stain it with my own heart's-blood. All that I ask of you in return is that you will be a true lover, for Love is wiser than Philosophy, though she is wise, and mightier than Power, though he is mighty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A man is called affected, nowadays, if he dresses as he likes to dress. But in doing that he is acting in a perfectly natural manner. Affectation, in such matters, consists in dressing according to the views of one's neighbour, whose views, as they are the views of the majority, will probably be extremely stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What is said of man is nothing; the point is, who says it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Each of us has heaven and hell in him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Now art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Her trust makes me faithful, her belief makes me good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The note of the perfect personality is not rebellion, but peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: When a woman marries again, it is because she detested her first husband. When a man marries again, it is because he adored his first wife. Women try their luck; men risk theirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If Nature had been comfortable, mankind would never have invented architecture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Life imitates art far more than art imitates Life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What you really are is a Bunburyist. I was quite right in saying you were a Bunburyist. You are one of the most advanced Bunburyists I know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: \"I hope your hair curls naturally, does it?\" \"Yes, darling, with a little help from others.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A map of the world that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing. And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail. Progress is the realisation of Utopias."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Dear little Swallow,\u2019 said the Prince, \u2018you tell me of marvelous things, but more marvelous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The birds that were singing in the dew-drenched garden seemed to be telling the flowers about her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Christ did not die to save people, but to teach people how to save each other. This is, I have no doubt, a grave heresy, but it is also a fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Experience is a question of instinct about life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is because Humanity has never known where it was going that it has been able to find its way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To be good is to be in harmony with oneself. Discord is to be forced to be in harmony with others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Yet each man kills the thing he loves By each let this be heard Some do it with a bitter look Some with a flattering word The coward does it with a kiss The brave man with a sword"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Questions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is not the perfect, but the imperfect, who have need of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: People are very fond of giving away what they need most themselves. It is what I call the depth of generosity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I like men who have a future and women who have a past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The tragedy of the poor is that they can afford nothing but self denial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Behind the perfection of a man's style, must lie the passion of a man's soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I now see that sorrow, being the supreme emotion of which man is capable, is at once the type and test of all great art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The great events of the world take place in the brain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Give children beauty, not the record of bloody slaughters and barbarous brawls, as they call history, or of the latitude and longitude of places nobody cares to visit, as they call geography."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Nothing spoils romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is a sad thing to think of, but there is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves. In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place. The thoroughly well-informed man--that is the modern ideal. And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Man can believe the impossible, but man can never believe the improbable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Philanthropy [has become] simply the refuge of people who wish to annoy their fellow creatures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To make a good salad is to be a brilliant diplomatist - the problem is entirely the same in both cases. To know exactly how much oil one must put with one's vinegar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Genius is born-not paid"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It's tragic how few people ever 'possess their souls' before they die. 'Nothing is more rare in any man', says Emerson, 'than an act of his own.' It is quite true. Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their life is a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow one another like the withered leaves of Autumn; but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons and a possession for all eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Memory is the diary that chronicles things that never have happened and couldn't possibly have happened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The true artist is known by what he annexes, and he annexes everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is a curious fact that people are never so trivial as when they take themselves seriously"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Sometime you will find, even as I have found, that there is no such thing as romantic experience; there are romantic memories, and there is the desire of romance- that is all. Our most fiery moments of ecstasy are merely shadows of what somewhere else we have felt, or of what we long someday to feel"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: People say sometimes that Beauty is superficial. That may be so. But at least it is not so superficial as Thought is. To me, Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: You have filled my tea with lumps of sugar, and though I asked most distinctly for bread and butter, you have given me cake. I am known for the gentleness of my disposition, and the extraordinary sweetness of my nature, but I warn you, Miss Cardew, you may go too far."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One of us has got to go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: One can always be kind to people about whom one cares nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I must remember that a good friend is a new world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: When we are happy, we are always good, but when we are good, we are not always happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Everyone is born a king, and most people die in exile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To believe is very dull. To doubt is intensely engrossing. To be on the alert is to live, to be lulled into security is to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all. Relations are simply a tedious pack of people, who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live nor the smallest instinct about when to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: More than half of modern culture depends upon what one shouldn't read."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: He must have a truly romantic nature, for he weeps when there is nothing at all to weep about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If a friend of mine gave a feast, and did not invite me to it, I should not mind a bit. But if a friend of mine had a sorrow and refused to allow me to share it, I should feel it most bitterly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: You must have a cigarette. A cigarette is the perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can one want?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Extravagance is the luxury of the poor; penury is the luxury of the rich."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If one were to live his life fully and completely were to give form to every feeling, expression to every thought, reality to every dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: You can't possibly ask me to go without having some dinner. It's absurd. I never go without my dinner. No one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Consistency is the last refuge of the unimagininative."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why an unbiased opinion is always absolutely valueless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: [T]he recognition of private property has really harmed Individualism, and obscured it, by confusing a man with what he possesses. It has led Individualism entirely astray. It has made gain, not growth its aim. So that man thought that the important thing is to have, and did not know that the important thing is to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What is beautiful is a joy for all seasons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: They are always asking a writer why he does not write like somebody else, or a painter why he does not paint like somebody else, quite oblivious of the fact that if either of them did anything of the kind he would cease to be an artist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What consoles one nowadays is not repentance but pleasure. Repentance is quite out of date."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I did not think I should be ever loved: do you indeed Love me so much as now you say you do? Ask of the sea-bird if it loves the sea, Ask of the roses if they love the rain, Ask of the little lark, that will not sing Till day break, if it loves to see the day: And yet, these are but empty images, Mere shadows of my love, which is a fire So great that all the waters of the main Can not avail to quench it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say at the age of eighteen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Work is the curse of the drinking classes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A mutual misunderstanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Football is all very well as a game for rough girls, but is hardly suitable for delicate boys."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It's an odd thing, but anyone who disappears is said to be seen in San Francisco. It must be a delightful city and possess all the attractions of the next world"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: All art is immortal. For emotion for the sake of emotion is the aim of art, and emotion for the sake of action is the aim of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: sorrow...is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it. To the great poet, there is only one method of music - his own. To the great painter, there is only one manner of painting - that which he himself employs. The aesthetic critic, and the aesthetic critic alone, can appreciate all forms and all modes. It is to him that Art makes her appeal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I'll bet you anything you like that half an hour after they have met, they will be calling each other sister. Women only do that when they have called each other a lot of other things first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The burden of this world is too great for one man to bear, and the world\u2019s sorrow too heavy for one heart to suffer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: And all the woods are alive with the murmur and sound of Spring,<br />\n And the rose-bud breaks into pink on the climbing briar,<br />\n And the crocus-bed is a quivering moon of fire<br />\n Girdled round with the belt of an amethyst ring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I never change, except in my affections."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Few parents nowadays pay any regard to what their children say to them. The old fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it is always telling one things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: When one pays a visit it is for the purpose of wasting other people's time, not one's own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: For he who lives more lives than one more deaths than one must die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Love is not fashionable anymore; the poets have killed it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Pleasure is Nature's test, her sign of approval."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There are times when sorrow seems to me to be the only truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is one thing worse than an absolutely loveless marriage: a marriage in which there is love, but on one side only."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If one tells the truth, one is sure, sooner or later, to be found out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is always something ridiculous about the emotions of people whom one has ceased to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfillment or our experience. It is a thing narrowed by circumstances, incoherent in its utterance, and without that fine correspondence of form and spirit which is the only thing that can satisfy the artistic"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Wordsworth went to the Lakes, but he was never a lake poet. He found in stones the sermons he had already hidden there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The youth of the present day are quite monstrous. They have absolutely no respect for dyed hair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: All authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and it degrades those over whom it is exercised."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Science is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon eternal truths. Art is out of the reach of morals, for her eyes are fixed upon things beautiful and immortal and ever-changing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: One should never trust a woman who tells one her real age. A woman who would tell one that would tell one anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I have always been of opinion that a man who desires to get married should know either everything or nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: How marriage ruins a man! It is as demoralizing as cigarettes, and far more expensive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There are moments, psychologists tell us, when the passion for sin, or what the world calls sin, so dominates a nature, that every fibre of the body, as every cell of the brain, seems to be instinct with fearful impulses. Men and women at such moments lose the freedom of their will. They move to their terrible end as automatons move. Choice is taken from them, and conscience is either killed, or, if it lives at all, lives but to give rebellion its fascination, and disobedience its charm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is always worth while asking a question, though it is not always worth while answering one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is a fatality about good resolutions \u2013 that they are always made too late"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men, and the colour of things: I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me: I summed up all things in a phrase, all existence in an epigram: whatever I touched I made beautiful"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Nothing, indeed, is more dangerous to the young artist than any <br />\n conception of ideal beauty: he is constantly led by it either into <br />\n weak prettiness or lifeless abstraction: whereas to touch the <br />\n ideal at all you must not strip it of vitality. You must find it in life and re-create it in art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It would leave no room for developments and I intend to develop in many directions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is nothing in the world like the devotion of a married woman. It is a thing no married man knows anything about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: When a man has once loved a woman he will do anything for her except continue to love her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. The sitter is merely the accident, the occasion. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The work of art is to dominate the spectator: the spectator is not to dominate the work of art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Nobody of any real culture, for instance, ever talks nowadays about the beauty of sunset. Sunsets are quite old fashioned. To admire them is a distinct sign of provincialism of temperament. Upon the other hand they go on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Thirty-five is a very attractive age. London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am very glad I have travelled. Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one's prejudices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Poets know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Progress is the realization of utopia."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Oh! it is absurd to have a hard-and-fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There were opium-dens, where one could buy oblivion, dens of horror where the memory of old sins could be destroyed by the madness of sins that were new."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: She is very clever, too clever for a woman. She lacks the indefinable charm of weakness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If one doesn't talk about a thing, it has never happened. It is simply expression that gives reality to things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work <br />\n is new, complex, and vital."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Every great man nowadays has his disciples, and it is usually Judas who writes the biography."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: He wants to enslave you.' 'I shudder at the thought of being free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them! They seemed to be able to give a plastic form to formless things, and to have a music of their own as sweet as that of viol or of lute. Mere words! Was there anything so real as words?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: When our eyes met, I felt that I was growing pale. A curious sensation of terror came over me. I knew that I had come face to face with some one whose mere personality was so fascinating that, if I allowed it to do so, it would absorb my whole nature, my whole soul, my very art itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The honest ratepayer and his healthy family have no doubt often mocked at the dome-like forehead of the philosopher, and laughed over the strange perspective of the landscape that lies beneath him. If they really knew who he was, they would tremble. For Chuang Ts\u01d4 spent his life in preaching the great creed of Inaction, and in pointing out the uselessness of all things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In fact, I am never wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I can't help detesting my relations. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Each class preaches the importance of those virtues it need not exercise. The rich harp on the value of thrift, the idle grow eloquent over the dignity of labor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: When one is in love, one always begins by deceiving one's self, and one always ends by deceiving others. That is what the world calls a romance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Friendship never forgets. That is the wonderful thing about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Truth in art is the unity of a thing with itself: the outward rendered expressive of the inward: the soul made incarnate: the body instinct with spirit. For this reason there is no truth comparable to sorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog the feet of sin. It was the imagination that made each crime bear its misshapen brood. In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Life has been your art. You have set yourself to music. Your days are your sonnets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: All the spring may be hidden in the single bud, and the low ground nest of the lark may hold the joy that is to herald the feet of many rose-red dawns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is no mode of action, no form of emotion, that we do not share with the lower animals. It is only by language that we rise above them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Find expression for a sorrow, and it will become dear to you. Find expression for a joy, and you will intensify its ecstasy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is a luxury in self-reproach. When we blame ourselves we feel no one else has a right to blame us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: One is not always happy when one is good; but one is always good when one is happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Only people who look dull ever get into the House of Commons, and only people who are dull ever succeed there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I wanted to eat of the fruit of all the trees in the garden of the world\u2026 And so, indeed, I went out, and so I lived. My only mistake was that I confined myself so exclusively to the trees of what seemed to me the sun-lit side of the garden, and shunned the other side for its shadow and its gloom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I write because it gives me the greatest possible artistic pleasure to write. If my work pleases the few I am gratified. As for the mob, I have no desire to be a popular novelist. It is far too easy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: An acquaintance that begins with a compliment is sure to develop into a real friendship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: His sudden mad love for Sibyl Vane was a psychological phenomenon of no small interest. There was no doubt that curiosity had much to do with it, curiosity and the desire for new experiences; yet it was not a simple but rather a very complex passion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I tremble with pleasure when I think that on the very day of my leaving prison both the laburnum and the lilac will be blooming in the gardens, and that I shall see the wind stir into restless beauty the swaying gold of the one, and make the other toss the pale purple of its plumes, so that all the air shall be Arabia for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It was not intended as a compliment. It was a confession. Now that I have made it, something seems to have gone out of me. Perhaps one should never put one's worship into words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Salom\u00e9, Salom\u00e9, dance for me. I pray thee dance for me. I am sad to-night. Yes, I am passing sad to-night. When I came hither I slipped in blood, which is an evil omen; and I heard, I am sure I heard in the air a beating of wings, a beating of giant wings. I cannot tell what they mean .... I am sad to-night. Therefore dance for me. Dance for me, Salom\u00e9, I beseech you. If you dance for me you may ask of me what you will, and I will give it you, even unto the half of my kingdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The exquisite art of idleness, one of the most important things that any University can teach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: One should never listen. To listen is a sign of indifference to one's hearers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I don\u2019t write this letter to put bitterness into your heart, but to pluck it out of mine. For my own sake I must forgive you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I always like to know everything about my new friends, and nothing about my old ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I love scandals about other people, but scandals about myself don\u2019t interest me. They have not got the charm of novelty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In the old times men carried out their rights for themselves as they lived, but nowadays every baby seems born with a social manifesto in its mouth much bigger than itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is a sad truth, but we have lost the faculty of giving lovely names to things. Names are everything. I never quarrel with actions. My one quarrel is with words. The man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. It is the only thing he is fit for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Philanthropic people lose all sense of humanity. It is their distinguishing characteristic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Bad artists always admire each other's work. They call it being large-minded and free from prejudice. But a truly great artist cannot conceive of life being shown, or beauty fashioned, under any conditions other than those he has selected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I really don't see anything romantic in proposing. It is very romantic to be in love. But there is nothing romantic about a definite proposal. Why, one may be accepted. One usually is, I believe. Then the excitement is all over. The very essence of romance is uncertainty. If ever I get married, I'll certainly try to forget the fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly, and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats. Every month as it wanes bring you nearer to something dreadful. Time is jealous of you, and wars against your lilies and your roses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: He rides in the row at ten o clock in the morning, goes to the Opera three times a week, changes his clothes at least five times a day, and dines out every night of the season. You don't call that leading an idle life, do you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happy married life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The vilest deeds like poison weeds  Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man  That wastes and withers there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Now it seems to me that love of some kind is the only possible explanation of the extraordinary amount of suffering that there is in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Beauty is a form of Genius--is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is one of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in the dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Create yourself. Be yourself your poem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Modern pictures are, no doubt, delightful to look at. At least, some of them are. But they are quite impossible to live with; they are too clever, too assertive, too intellectual. Their meaning is too obvious, and their method too clearly defined. One"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: but the bravest man among us is afraid of himself"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Twenty years of romance makes a woman look like a ruin; but twenty years of marriage makes her something like a public building."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Women have become so highly educated... that nothing should surprise us nowadays, except happy marriages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Sphinxes without secrets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is not wise to find symbols in everything that one sees. It makes life too full of terrors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Women have a much better time than men in this world; there are far more things forbidden to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Every single work of art is the fulfillment of a prophecy; for every work of art is the conversion of an idea into an image."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I have grown tired of the articulate utterances of men and things. The Mystical in Art, the Mystical in Life, the Mystical in Nature this is what I am looking for. It is absolutely necessary for me to find it somewhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To get into the best society, nowadays, one has either to feed people, amuse people, or shock people - that is all!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Unless one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: When I think of all the harm [the Bible] has done, I despair of ever writing anything to equal it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is quite true that I have worshipped you with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend. Somehow, I had never loved a woman. I suppose I never had time. Perhaps, as Harry says, a really grande passion is the privilege of those who have nothing to do, and that is the use of the idle classes in a country"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I hate people who are not serious about meals. It is so shallow of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A flower blossoms for its own joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Married men are horribly tedious when they are good husbands, and abominably conceited when they are not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their Hub, as they call it, is the paradise of prigs. Chicago is a sort of monster-shop, full of bustles and bores. Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry. Baltimore is amusing for a week, but Philadelphia is dreadfully provincial; and though one can dine in New York one could not dwell there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Always! That is a dreadful word. It makes me shudder when I hear it. Women are so fond of using it. They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever. It is a meaningless word, too. The only difference between a caprice and a life-long passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It was only in the theatre that I lived"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What men call the shadow of the body is not the shadow of the body, but is the body of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A man's very highest moment is, I have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The Book of Life begins with a man and a woman in a garden. It ends with Revelations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The liar at any rate recognizes that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilized being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: When a man does exactly what a woman expects him to do she doesn't think much of him. One should always do what a woman doesn't expect, just as one should say what she doesn't understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To be natural is such a very difficult pose to keep up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To be really medi\u00e6val one should have no body. To be really modern one should have no soul. To be really Greek one should have no clothes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Knowledge would be fatal. It is the uncertainty that charms one. A mist makes things wonderful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I must say to myself that I ruined myself, and that nobody great or small can be ruined except by his own hand. I am quite ready to say so. ... Terrible as was what the world did to me, what I did to myself was far more terrible still."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is only the sacred things that are worth touching"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The English country-gentleman galloping after a fox \u2014 the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A burnt child loves the fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: People sometimes inquire what form of government is most suitable for an artist to live under. To this question there is only one answer. The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Tea is the only simple pleasure left to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern life mysterious or marvelous to us. The commonest thing is delightful if only one hides it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is that deep spiritual affection that is as pure as it is perfect. It is beautiful, it is fine, it is the noblest form of affection. There is nothing unnatural about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is art, and art only, that reveals us to ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: More women grow old nowadays through the faithfulness of their admirers than through anything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: And what sort of lives do these people, who pose as being moral, lead themselves? My dear fellow, you forget that we are in the native land of the hypocrite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I sometimes think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Oh, I love London Society! It is entirely composed now of beautiful idiots and brilliant lunatics. Just what Society should be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colorless. By its curiosity Sin increases the experience of the race. Through its intensified assertion of individualism it saves us from monotony of type. In its rejection of the current notions about morality, it is one with the higher ethics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is only shallow people who require years to get rid of an emotion. A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure. I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions. I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Ah, on what little things does happiness depend! I have read all that the wise men have written, and all the secrets of philosophy are mine, yet for want of a red rose is my life made wretched."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: My dear young lady, there was a great deal of truth; I dare say, in what you said, and you looked very pretty while you said it, which is much more important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I analyzed you, though you did not adore me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I feel that if I kept it secret it might grow in my mind (as poisonous things grow in the dark) and take its place with the other terrible thoughts that gnaw me"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I find it harder and harder every day to live up to my blue china."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The one advantage of playing with fire...is<br />\r\nthat no one ever gets singed. It is the people who don't know how to play with it who get burned up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are. A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating. The worse their rhymes are, the more picturesque they look. The mere fact of having published a book of second-rate sonnets makes a man quite irresistible. He lives the poetry that he cannot write. The others write the poetry that they dare not realize."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: He has no enemies, but he is intensely disliked by his friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is nothing that art cannot express."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Youth is the only thing worth having."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The final mystery is oneself... Who can calculate the orbit of his own soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However, I don't mind hard work when there is no definite object of any kind. To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: All modes of government are failures. Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things. Oligarchies are unjust to the many, and ochlocracies are unjust to the few. High hopes were once formed of democracy; but democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. It has been found out. I must say that it was high time, for all authority is quite degrading. It degrades those who exercise it, and degrades those over whom it is exercised."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes. Moralists had, as a rule, regarded it as a mode of warning, had claimed for it a certain ethical efficacy in the formation of character, had praised it as something that taught us what to follow and showed us what to avoid. But there was no motive power in experience. It was as little of an active cause as conscience itself. All that it really demonstrated was that our future would be the same as our past, and that the sin we had done once, and with loathing, we would do many times, and with joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To be premature is to be perfect"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The man who can dominate a London dinner-table can dominate the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: How else but through a broken heart may Lord Christ enter in?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: When one has never heard a man's name in the course of one's life, it speaks volumes for him; he must be quite respectable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Biography lends to death a new terror."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is always the unreadable that occurs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber-room. But youth is the Lord of Life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Bad art is a great deal worse than no art at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The dim roar of London was like the bourdon note of a distant organ"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Nothing annoys people so much as not receiving invitations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Sins of the flesh are nothing. They are maladies for physicians to cure, if they should be cured. Sins of the soul alone are shameful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The world is changed because you are made of ivory and gold. The curves of your lips rewrite history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Pray don't talk to me about the weather, Mr. Worthing. Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain that they mean something else. And that makes me quite nervous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Flowers are as common in the country as people are in London."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Marriage is the one subject on which all women agree and all men disagree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Human slavery is wrong, insecure, and demoralizing. On mechanical slavery, on the slavery of the machine, the future of the world depends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Nothing that actually occurs is of the smallest importance"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Better the rule of One, whom all obey, than to let clamorous demagogues betray our freedom with the kiss of anarchy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I hope you have not been leading a double life, pretending to be wicked and being good all the time. That would be hypocrisy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one center of pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: And thus we rust Life's iron chain<br />\nDegraded and alone:<br />\nAnd some men curse, and some men weep,<br />\nAnd some men make no moan:<br />\nBut God's eternal Laws are kind<br />\nAnd break the heart of stone"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Bad artists always admire each others work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: While to the claims of charity a man may yield and yet be free, to the claims of conformity no man may yield and remain free at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Public Opinion... an attempt to organize the ignorance of the community, and to elevate it to the dignity of physical force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I know not whether Laws be right, <br />\r\nOr whether Laws be wrong; <br />\r\nAll that we know who be in jail <br />\r\nIs that the wall is strong; <br />\r\nAnd that each day is like a year, <br />\r\nA year whose days are long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it. The only pity was one had to pay so often for a single fault. One had to pay over and over again, indeed. In her dealings with man, Destiny never closed her accounts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them, of course, but one cannot possibly admire them. They have made private terms with the enemy, and sold their birthright for very bad pottage. They must also be extraordinarily stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: No man should have a secret from his wife. She invariably finds it out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Do you know that I am afraid that good people do a great deal of harm in this world? Certainly the greatest harm they do is that they make badness of such extraordinary importance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Even things that are true can be proved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is much more easy to have sympathy with suffering than it is to have sympathy with thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Philosophies fall away like sand, and creeds follow on another like the withered leaves of Autumn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The gods are strange. It is not our vices only they make instruments to scourge us. They bring us to ruin through what in us is good, gentle, humane, loving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I think life too complex a thing to be settled by these hard and fast rules."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To be entirely free, and at the same time entirely dominated by law, is the eternal paradox of human life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I wonder that no criminal has ever pleaded the ugliness of your city as an excuse for his crimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There are works which wait, and which one does not understand for a long time; the reason is that they bring answers to questions which have not yet been raised; for the question often arrives a terribly long time after the answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I want to be good. I can't bear the idea of my soul being hideous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The growing influence of women is the one reassuring thing in our political life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Don't run down dyed hair and painted faces. There is an extraordinary charm in them, sometimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We live in the age of the overworked and the undereducated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Oh, I hate the cheap severity of abstract ethics!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only beautiful things are the things that do not concern us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-\u00e0-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A poet can survive everything but a misprint."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Starvation, not sin, is the parent of modern crime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There are only two kinds of women, the plain and the coloured."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: When I am in trouble, eating is the only thing that consoles me. Indeed, as any one who knows me intimately will tell you, I refuse everything except food and drink. At the present moment I am eating muffins because I am unhappy. Besides, I am particularly fond of muffins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Fashion is what one wears oneself. What is unfashionable is what other people wear. Just as vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people. And falsehoods the truths of other people. Other people are quite dreadful. The only possible society is oneself. To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I can resist everything except temptation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I forgot that every little action of the common day makes or unmakes character, and that therefore what one has done in the secret chamber one has some day to cry aloud on the house-tops."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: However, I think anything is better than high intellectual pressure. That is the most unbecoming thing there is. It makes the noses of the young girls so particularly large."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only real people are the people who never existed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Ah! The strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. Men can be analyzed, women...merely adored."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Ordinary people waited till life disclosed to them its secrets, but to the few, to the elect, the mysteries of life were revealed before the veil was drawn away. Sometimes this was the effect of art, and chiefly of the art of literature, which dealt immediately with the passions and the intellect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The one charm of the past is that it is the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: All great ideas are dangerous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: She is all the great heroines of the world in one. She is more than an individual. I love her, and I must make her love me. I want to make Romeo jealous. I want the dead lovers of the world to hear our laughter, and grow sad. I want a breath of our passion to stir dust into consciousness, to wake their ashes into pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The final mystery is oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I have never met any really wicked person before. I feel rather frightened. I am so afraid he will look just like every one else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is personalities not principles that move the age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is only one real tragedy in a woman's life. The fact that her past is always her lover, and her future invariably her husband."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A well-tied tie is the first serious step in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The public has always, and in every age, been badly brought up. They are continually asking Art to be popular, to please their want of taste, to flatter their absurd vanity, to tell them what they have been told before, to show them what they ought to be tired of seeing, to amuse them when they feel heavy after eating too much, and to distract their thoughts when they are wearied of their own stupidity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Music makes one feel so romantic - at least it always gets on one's nerves - which is the same thing nowadays."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I don't like compliments, and I don't see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Life cheats us with shadows. We ask it for pleasure. It gives it to us with bitterness and disappointment in its train."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A kiss may ruin a human life"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I may have said the same thing before... but my explanation, I am sure, will always be different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Lord AUGUSTUS:(looking around) Time to educate yourself, I suppose. DUMBY: No, time to forget all I have learned. That is much more important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak.... They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I like looking at geniuses and listening to beautiful people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: My own business always bores me to death; I prefer other people's."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I don't play accurately--any one can play accurately--but I play with wonderful expression. As far as the piano is concerned, sentiment is my forte. I keep science for Life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: One's days were too brief to take the burden of another's errors on one's shoulders. Each man lived his own life and paid his own price for living it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In the common world of fact the wicked were not punished, nor the good rewarded. Success was given to the strong, failure thrust upon the weak. That was all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If a man needs an elaborate tombstone in order to remain in the memory of his country, it is clear that his living at all was an act of absolute superfluity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is not the prisoners who need reformation, it is the prisons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I can believe anything provided it is quite incredible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There were moments when he looked on evil simply as a mode through which he could realize his conception of the beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A really well-made buttonhole is the only link between Art and Nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am not at all cynical, I have merely got experience, which, however, is very much the same thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To toil for a hard master is bitter, but to have no master to toil for is more bitter still."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Philosophy teaches us to bear with equanimity the misfortunes of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: As for the virtuous poor, one can pity them of course, but one cannot possibly admire them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created things. There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation. The thin beaten-out leaf of tremulous gold that chronicles the direction of forces the eye cannot see is in comparison coarse. It is a wound that bleeds when any hand but that of love touches it, and even then must bleed again, though not in pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Nothing is so aggravating as calmness. There is something positively brutal about the good temper of most modern men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone, and can be made as offensive as the brickbat. They at once sought for the journalist, found him, developed him, and made him their industrious and well-paid servant. It is greatly to be regretted, for both their sakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Wisdom comes with winters"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Medievalism, with its saints and martyrs, its love of self-torture, its wild passion for wounding itself, its gashing with knives, and its whipping with rods - Medievalism is real Christianity, and the medieval Christ is the real Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To be good is to be in harmony with one's self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is love, and not German philosophy, that is the true explanation of the world, whatever may be the explanation of the next."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Is it thy will that I should wax and wane,<br />\r\nBarter my cloth of gold for hodden grey,<br />\r\nAnd at thy pleasure weave that web of pain<br />\r\nWhose brightest threads are each a wasted day?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There are few of us who have not sometimes wakened before dawn, either after one of those dreamless nights that make one almost enamoured of death, or one of those nights of horror and misshapen joy, when through the chambers of the brain sweep phantoms more terrible than reality itself, and instinct with that vivid life that lurks in all grotesques, and that lends to Gothic art its enduring vitality, this art being, one might fancy, especially the art of those whose minds have been troubled with the malady of reverie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: My dear Arthur, I never talk scandal. I only talk gossip. What is the difference between scandal and gossip? Oh! Gossip is charming! History is merely gossip. But scandal is gossip made tedious by morality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: At every single moment of one's life one is what one is going to be no less than what one has been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Artists, like the Greek gods, are only revealed to one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: One should not be too severe on English novels; they are the only relaxation of the intellectually unemployed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Do you really keep a diary? I'd give anything to look at it. May I? Oh, no. You see, it is simply a very young girl's record of her own thoughts and impressions, and consequently meant for publication. When it appears in volume form I hope you will order a copy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: But she is happiest alone. She is happiest alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Make some sacrifice for your art and you will be repaid, but ask of art to sacrifice herself for you and a bitter disappointment may come to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is a tiny yellow daffodil, The butterfly can see it from afar, Although one summer evening's dew could fill Its little cup twice over, ere the star Had called the lazy shepherd to his fold, And be no prodigal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If the poor only had profiles there would be no difficulty in solving the problem of poverty"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is only through Art and through Art only that we can realize our perfection; Through Art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: God and other artists are always a little obscure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.  The systems that fail are those that rely on the permanency of human nature, and not on its growth and development.  The error of Louis XIV was that he thought human nature would always be the same.  The result of his error was the French Revolution.  It was an admirable result."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A subject that is beautiful in itself gives no suggestion to the artist.  It lacks imperfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am sick of women who love one. Women who hate one are much more interesting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: All art is at once surface and symbol. Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors. Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital. When critics disagree, the artist is in accord with himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Like all people who try to exhaust a subject, he exhausted his listeners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The truth about the life of a man is not what he does, but the legend which he creates around himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance. Ignorance is like a delicate exotic fruit; touch it and the bloom is gone. The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There are two ways of disliking poetry, one way is to dislike it, the other is to read Pope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The basis of optimism is sheer terror."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The amount of women in London who flirt with their own husbands is perfectly scandalous. It looks so bad. It is simply washing one's clean linen in public."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: On an occasion of this kind it becomes more than a moral duty to speak one's mind. It becomes a pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I never saw anybody take so long to dress, and with such little result."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The history of women is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has ever known. The tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To become a spectator of one's own life is to escape the suffering of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In the old days men had the rack. Now they have the Press."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Man is many things, but he is not rational."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In matters of grave importance, style, not sincerity, is the vital thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The youth of America is their oldest tradition. It has been going on now for three hundred years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am tired of myself to-night. I should like to be somebody else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is equally bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: When good Americans die they go to Paris."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Anybody can be good in the country. There are no temptations there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is more to be said for stupidity than people imagine.  Personally I have a great admiration for stupidity.  It is a sort of fellow-feeling, I suppose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Whenever one has anything unpleasant to say, one should always be quite candid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I have the kiss of Walt Whitman still on my lips"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If one plays good music, people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Love is easily killed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A great poet, a really great poet, is the most unpoetical of all creatures. But inferior poets are absolutely fascinating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Oh, brothers! I don't care for brothers. My elder brother won't die, and my younger brothers seem never to do anything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Religion is the fashionable substitute for belief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Progress in thought is the assertion of individualism against authority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Ah! somehow life is bigger after all<br />\r\nThan any painted angel could we see<br />\r\nThe God that is within us!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We have been able to have fine poetry in England because the public do not read it, and consequently do not influence it. The public like to insult poets because they are individual, but once they have insulted them, they leave them alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Political life at Washington is like political life in a suburban vestry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A woman will flirt with anybody in the world as long as other people are looking on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: They have been eating muffins. That looks like repentance"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Society, civilized society at least, is never very ready to believe anything to the detriment of those who are both rich and fascinating. It feels instinctively that manners are of more importance than morals, and, in its opinion, the highest respectability is of much less value than the possession of a good chef."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Youth is the only thing worth having. When I find that I am growing old, I shall kill myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is curious how vanity helps the successful man and wrecks the failure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: one pale woman all alone,<br />\nThe daylight kissing her wan hair,<br />\nLoitered beneath the gas lamps' flare,<br />\nWith lips of flame and heart of stone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is only fair to state, with regard to modern journalists, that they always apologize to one in private for what they have written against one in public."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always be in love - that's the reason one should never marry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The wild Bee reels from bough to bough<br />\r\nWith his furry coat and his gauzy wing,<br />\r\nNow in a lily cup, and now<br />\r\nSetting a jacinth bell a-swing,<br />\r\nIn his wandering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The ugly and stupid have the best of it in this world. They can sit at their ease and gape at the play. If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat. They live as we all should live-- undisturbed, indifferent, and without disquiet. They never bring ruin upon others, nor ever receive it from alien hands. Your rank and wealth, Henry; my brains, such as they are-- my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray's good looks-- we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: As one reads history, not in the expurgated editions written for schoolboys and passmen, but in the original authorities of each time, one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted; and a community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurrence of crime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Well, one must be serious about something, if one wants to have any amusement in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A woman's life revolves in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Schopenhauer has analysed the pessimism that characterize modern thought, but Hamlet invented it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The world is made by the singer for the dreamer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I expect I shall have to die beyond my means."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To stake all one's life on a single moment, to risk everything on one throw, whether the stake be power or pleasure, I care not - there is no weakness in that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand,<br />\nFor I am drowning in a stormier sea<br />\nThan Simon on thy lake of Galilee"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Whatever, in fact, is modern in our life we owe to the Greeks. Whatever is an anachronism is due to mediaevalism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Though one can dine in New York, one could not dwell there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Alas! it is a fearful thing<br />\nTo feel another's guilt!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: You shut out from your society the gentle and the good. You laugh at the simple and the pure. living, as you all do, on other and by them, you need at self-sacrifice, and if you throw bread to the poor, it is merely to keep them quiet for a season."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Don't tell me that you have exhausted Life. When a man says that, one knows that life has exhausted him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The State is to make what is useful. The individual is to make what is beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: When one is in town one amuses oneself. When one is in the country one amuses other people. It is excessively boring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I threw the pearl of my soul into a cup of wine. I went down the primrose path to the sound of flutes. I lived on honeycomb."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is no Mystery so great as Misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If it took Labouchere three columns to prove that I was forgotten, then there is no difference between fame and obscurity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: You can have your secret as long as I have your heart[.]"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Life is terrible. It rules us, we do not rule it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I forget what killed it. I think it was her proposing to sacrifice the whole world for me. That is always a dreadful moment. It fills one with the terror of eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Nothing should be out of the reach of hope. Life is a hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Genius lasts longer than Beauty. That accounts for the fact that we all take such pains to over-educate ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Like two doomed ships that pass in storm we had crossed each other's way: but we made no sign, we said no word, we had no word to say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We become lovers when we see Romeo and Juliet, and Hamlet makes us students. The blood of Duncan is upon our hands, with Timon werage against the world, and when Lear wanders out upon the heath the terror of madness touches us. Ours is the white sinlessness of Desdemona, and ours, also, the sin of Iago."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Most of our modern portrait painters are doomed to absolute oblivion. They never paint what they see. They paint what the public sees, and the public never sees anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We spend our days, each one of us, in looking for the secret of life. Well, the secret of life is in Art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I hate vulgar realism in literature. The man who would call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We have quite the same ideas. No; I think our ideas are quite different. But he has been most pleasant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Tread Lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What we have to do, what at any rate it is our duty to do, is to revive the old art of Lying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A man whose desire is to be something separate from himself, to be a member of Parliament, or a successful grocer, or a prominent solicitor, or a judge, or something equally tedious, invariably succeeds in being what he wants to be. That is his punishment. Those who want a mask have to wear it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: California is an Italy without its art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Life is not governed by will or intention. Life is a question of nerves, and fibres, and slowly built-up cells in which thought hides itself and passion has its dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If people are dishonest once, they will be dishonest a second time. And honest people should keep away from them. (Lady Chiltern)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Even men of the noblest possible moral character are extremely susceptible to the influence of the physical charms of others. Modern, no less then Ancient History, supplies us with many most painful examples of what I refer to. If it were not so, indeed, History would be quite unreadable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Romance lives by repetition, and repetition converts an appetite into an art. Besides, each time that one loves is the only time one has ever loved. Difference of object does not alter singleness of passion. It merely intensifies it. We can have in life but one great experience at best, and the secret of life is to reproduce that experience as often as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: As a wicked man I am a complete failure. Why, there are lots of people who say I have never really done anything wrong in the whole course of my life. Of course they only say it behind my back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Sympathy with joy intensifies the sum of sympathy in the world, sympathy with pain does not really diminish the amount of pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: ...The two great turning-points of my life were when my father sent to Oxford, and when society sent me to prison."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Ah, on what little things does happiness depend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: And, by the way, one of the most delightful things I find in America is meeting a people without prejudice -- everywhere open to the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Art is not to be taught in Academies. It is what one looks at, not what one listens to, that makes the artist. The real schools should be the streets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Only mediocrities progress. An artist revolves in a cycle of masterpieces, the first of which is no less perfect than the last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Women are a decorative sex. They never have anything to say, but they say it charmingly"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am afraid that woman appreciate cruelty, downright cruelty, more than anything else. They have wonderfully primitive instincts. We have emancipated them, but they remain slaves looking for their masters, all the same. They love being dominated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The fact is, that civilization requires slaves. Unless there are slaves to do the ugly, horrible, uninteresting work, culture and contemplation become almost impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The gods bestowed on Max [Beerbohm] the gift of perpetual old age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Charity creates a multitude of sins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: He had that curious love of green, which in individuals is always the sign of a subtle artistic temperament, and in nations is said to denote a laxity, if not a decadence of morals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. It is an instrument on which one plays, that is all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: As long as war is regarded as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To give an accurate description of what has never occurred is not merely the proper occupation of the historian, but the inalienable privilege of any man of parts and culture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I love scrapes. They are the only things that are never serious.\" \"Oh, that's nonsense, Algy. You never talk anything but nonsense.\" \"Nobody ever does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I have invented an invaluable permanent invalid called Bunbury, in order that I may be able to go down into the country whenever I choose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There was purification in punishment. Not 'Forgive us our sins,' but 'Smite us for our iniquities' should be the prayer of a man to a most just God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: But whether I become a believer or remain an agnostic, my belief or disbelief must derive its source from within, not from without. I, myself, must create its symbols. The transcendental is that which produces its own form. I will never discover its secret if I do not find it in my own heart; if I do not possess it already I shall never be able to acquire it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I was wrong. God's law is only Love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: You have never been poor, and never known what ambition is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: No theory of life seemed to him to be of any importance compared with life itself"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Each little thing that we do passes into the great machine of life which may grind our virtues to powder and make them worthless, or transform our sins into elements of a new civilization, more marvelous and more splendid than any that has gone before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Nobody ever commits a crime without doing something stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Bad manners make a journalist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Man is made for something better than disturbing dirt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: For us there is only one season, the season of sorrow. The very sun and moon seem taken from us. Outside, the day may be blue and gold, but the light that creeps down through the thickly-muffled glass of the small iron-barred window beneath which one sits is grey and niggard. It is always twilight in one's cell, as it is always twilight in one's heart. And in the sphere of thought, no less than in the sphere of time, motion is no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is no such thing as romance in our day, women have become too brilliant; nothing spoils a romance so much as a sense of humor in the woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am thoroughly sick of pearls. They make one look so plain, so good and so intellectual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I should have remembered that when one is going to lead an entirely new life, one requires regular and wholesome meals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is a very poor consolation to be told that the man who has given one a bad dinner, or poor wine, is irreproachable in private life. Even the cardinal virtues cannot atone for half-cold entrees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: As for borrowing Mr. Whistler's ideas about art, the only thoroughly original ideas I have heard him express have had reference to his own superiority as a painter over painters greater than himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: As it was, we always misunderstood ourselves and rarely understood others. Experience was of no ethical value. It was merely the name men gave to their mistakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: People are either charming or tedious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: St. Paul's<br />\nLoomed like a bubble o'er the town."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The real weakness of England lies, not in incomplete armaments or unfortified coasts, not in the poverty that creeps through sunless lanes, or the drunkenness that brawls in loathsome courts, but simply in the fact that her ideals are emotional and not intellectual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Surely Love is a wonderful thing. It is more precious than emeralds, and dearer than fine opals. Pearls and pomegranates cannot buy it, nor is it set forth in the marketplace. It may not be purchased of the merchants, for can it be weighed out in the balance for gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a grotesque horror about its comedies, and its tragedies seem to culminate in farce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A beautiful woman risking everything for a mad passion. A few wild weeks of happiness cut short by a hideous, treacherous crime. Months of voiceless agony, and then a child born in pain. The mother snatched away by death, the boy left to solitude and the tyranny of an old and loveless man. Yes, it was an interesting background. It posed the lad, made him more perfect as it were. Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I love acting. It is so much more real than life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: All art is quite useless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: America is the noisiest country that ever existed. One is waked up in the morning, not by the singing of the nightingale, but by the steam whistle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is only the unimaginative who ever invents. The true artist is known by the use he makes of what he annexes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Art never expresses anything but itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: London is full of women who trust their husbands. One can always recognize them. They look so thoroughly unhappy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Yet, even for us, there is left some loveliness of environment, and the dullness of tutors and professors matters very little when one can loiter in the grey cloisters at Magdalen, and listen to some flute-like voice singing in Waynfleete's chapel, or lie in the green meadow, among the strange snakespotted fritillaries, and watch the sunburnt noon smite to a finer gold the tower's gilded vanes, or wander up the Christ Church staircase beneath the vaulted ceiling's shadowy fans, or pass through the sculptured gateway of Laud's building in the College of St. John."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am too fond of reading books to care to write them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Women defend themselves by attacking, just as they attack by sudden and strange surrenders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To speak frankly, I am not in favour of long engagements. They give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which I think is never advisable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Like strange mechanical grotesques,<br />\nMaking fantastic arabesques,<br />\nThe shadows raced across the blind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The form of government that is most suitable to the artist is no government at all. Authority over him and his art is ridiculous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Through our sunless lanes creeps Poverty with her hungry eyes, and Sin with his sodden face follows close behind her.  Misery wakes us in the morning and Shame sits with us at night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Do not be afraid of the past. If people tell you that it is irrevocable, do not believe them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If we men married the women we deserved, we should have a very bad time of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am quite incapable of understanding how any work of art can be criticized from a moral standpoint. The sphere of art and the sphere of ethics are absolutely distinct and separate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I didn't have a life until I went up onstage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Love is a sacrament that should be taken kneeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Just as the worst slave-owners were those who were kind to their slaves, and so prevented the horror of the system being realized by those who suffered from it, and understood by those who contemplated it, so, in the present state of things in England, the people who do most harm are the people who try to do most good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is a very dangerous thing to know one\u2019s friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Art creates an incomparable and unique effect, and, having done so, passes on to other things. Nature, upon the other hand, forgetting that that imitation can be made the sincerest form of insult, keeps on repeating this effect until we all become absolutely wearied of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The chin a little higher, dear. Style largely depends on the way the chin is worn. They are worn very high, just at present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: M. Zola is determined to show that, if he has not got genius, he can at least be dull."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Great passions are for the great of soul, and great events can be seen only by those who are on a level with them"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: All thought is immoral. Its very essence is destruction. If you think of anything, you kill it. Nothing survives being thought of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I love hearing my relations abused. It is the only thing that makes me put up with them at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament. Its beauty comes from the fact that the author is what he is. ...Art is the most intense mode of Individualism that the world has known. I am inclined to say that it is the only real mode of Individualism that the world has known. ...Art is Individualism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: That is what the highest criticism really is, the record of one's own soul. It is more fascinating than history, as it is concerned simply with oneself. It is more delightful than philosophy, as its subject is concrete and not abstract, real and not vague. It is the only civilized form of autobiography."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: You might see nothing in him. I see everything in him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In the wild struggle for existence, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The girl never really lived, and so she has never really died."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: And certainly once a man begins to neglect his domestic duties he becomes painfully effeminate, does he not? And I don't like that. It makes men so very attractive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The poet is the supreme artist, for he is the master of colour and of form, and the real musician besides, and is lord over all life and all arts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Sin is the only real colour element left in modern life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I don't know how to talk. Oh! talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you, and at the end of your first season you will have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I have never admitted that I am more than twenty-nine, or thirty at the most. Twenty-nine when there are pink shades, thirty when there are not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Men of thoughts should have nothing to do with action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: One has a right to judge a man by the effect he has over his friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We are the zanies of sorrow. We are clowns whose hearts are broken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There are three kinds of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Scepticism is the beginning of Faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To know anything about oneself one must know all about others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community. By carefully chronicling the current events of contemporary life, it shows us of what very little importance such events really are. By invariably discussing the unnecessary, it makes us understand what things are requisite for culture, and what are not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is he who has broken the bond of marriage - not I. I only break its bondage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Perhaps there may come into my art also, no less than into my life, a still deeper note, one of greater unity of passion, and directness of impulse. Not width but intensity is the true aim of modern art. We are no longer in art concerned with the type. It is with the exception that we have to do. I cannot put my sufferings into any form they took, I need hardly say. Art only begins where Imitation ends, but something must come into my work, of fuller memory of words perhaps, of richer cadences, of more curious effects, of simpler architectural order, of some aesthetic quality at any rate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack of style."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: He who stands most remote from his age is he who mirrors it best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: She is a peacock in everything but beauty!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Poets are not so scrupulous as you are. They know how useful passion is for publication. Nowadays a broken heart will run to many editions.\" \"I hate them for it,\" cried Hallward. \"An artist should create beautiful things, but should put nothing of his own life into them. We live in an age when men treat art as if it were meant to be a form of autobiography. We have lost the abstract sense of beauty. Some day I will show the world what is it; and for that the world shall never see my portrait of Dorian Gray."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: She was a curious woman, whose dresses always looked as if they had been designed in a rage and put on in a tempest. She was usually in love with somebody, and, as her passion was never returned, she had kept all her illusions. She tried to look picturesque, but only succeeded in being untidy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The true critic is he who bears within himself the dreams and ideas and feelings of myriad generations, and to whom no form of thought is alien, no emotional impulse obscure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: He is really not so ugly after all, provided, of course, that one shuts one's eyes, and does not look at him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We who live in prison, and in whose lives there is no event but sorrow, have to measure time by throbs of pain, and the record of bitter moments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Conscience and cowardice are really the same things, Basil. Conscience is the trade-name of the firm. That is all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Everyone should keep someone else's diary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Well, I can\u2019t help going to see Sibyl play, even if it is only for an act. I get hungry for her presence; and when I think of the wonderful soul that is hidden away in that little ivory body, I am filled with awe.\" \"You can dine with me to-night, Dorian, can\u2019t you?\" He shook his head. \"To night she is Imogen,\" he answered, \"and tomorrow night she will be Juliet.\" \"When is she Sibyl Vane?\" \"Never.\" \"I congratulate you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We think that we are generous because we credit our neighbor with those virtues that are likely to benefit ourselves. We praise the banker that we may overdraw our account, and find good qualities in the highwayman in the hope that he may spare our pockets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The nineteenth century is a turning point in history, simply on account of the work of two men, Darwin and Renan, the one the critic of the Book of Nature, the other the critic of the books of God. Not to recognise this is to miss the meaning of one of the most important eras in the progress of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Men know life too early. Women know life too late. That is the difference between men and women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Well, I know, of course, how important it is not to keep a business engagement, if one wants to retain any sense of the beauty of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I made art a philosophy, and philosophy an art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Jack? . . . No, there is very little music in the name Jack, if any at all, indeed. It does not thrill. It produces absolutely no vibrations . . . I have known several Jacks, and they all, without exception, were more than usually plain. Besides, Jack is a notorious domesticity for John! And I pity any woman who is married to a man called John. She would probably never be allowed to know the entrancing pleasure of a single moment\u2019s solitude. The only really safe name is Ernest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is only the superficial qualities that last. Man's deeper nature is soon found out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Women, as some witty Frenchman once put it, inspire us with the desire to do masterpieces and always prevent us from carrying them out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To get back one's youth one has merely to repeat one's follies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am not laughing, Dorian; at least I am not laughing at you. But you should not say the greatest romance of your life. You should say the first romance of your life. You will always be loved, and you will always be in love with love. A grande passion is the privilege of people who have nothing to do. That is the one use of the idle classes of a country. Don't be afraid. There are exquisite things in store for you. This is merely the beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: All sins, except a sin against itself, Love should forgive. All lives, save loveless lives, true Love should pardon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only thing that the artist cannot see is the obvious. The only thing that the public can see is the obvious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: While one should always study the method of a great artist, one should never imitate his manner. The manner of an artist is essentially individual, the method of an artist is absolutely universal. The first personality, which no one should copy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only form of lying that is absolutely beyond reproach is lying for its own sake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Moderation is a fatal thing. Enough is as bad as a meal. More than enough is as good as a feast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I didn't say I liked it Harry. I said it fascinated me. There is a great difference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Yes, very sensible... People die of common sense, Dorian, one lost moment at a time. Life is a moment. There is no hereafter. So make it burn always with the hardest flame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is well for his peace that the saint goes to his martyrdom. He is spared the sight of the horror of his harvest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is not good for one's morals to see bad acting"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The English public always feels perfectly at ease when a mediocrity is talking to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: My dear fellow, the truth isn\u2019t quite the sort of thing one tells to a nice, sweet, refined girl. What extraordinary ideas you have about the way to behave to a woman!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: He thinks like a Tory, and talks like a Radical, and that's so important nowadays."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling. To be natural is to be obvious, and to be obvious is to be inartistic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We women, as some one says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I could deny it if I liked. I could deny anything if I liked."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What is mind but motion in the intellectual sphere?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Death is a great price to pay for a red rose\u201c, cried the Nightingale, \"and Life is very dear to all. \u201c It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The best work in literature is always done by those who do not depend on it for their daily bread and the highest form of literature, Poetry, brings no wealth to the singer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Psycholog\u00ady is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The first thing that struck me on landing in America was that if the Americans are not the most well-dressed people in the world, they are the most comfortably dressed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: She behaves as if she was beautiful. Most American women do. It is the secret of their charm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The fact is, the public make use of the classics of a country as a means of checking the progress of Art. They degrade the classics into authorities. They use them as bludgeons for preventing the free expression of Beauty in new forms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Oh, I don\u2019t care about Jack. I don\u2019t care for anybody in the whole world but you. I love you, Cecily. You will marry me, won\u2019t you? You silly boy! Of course. Why, we have been engaged for the last three months. For the last three months?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: \"There is no such thing as a good influence, Mr. Gray. All influence is immoral \u2014 immoral from the scientific point of view.\" \"Why?\" \"Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The worst of having a romance of any kind is that it leaves one so unromantic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Outcasts always mourn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can\u2019t get into it do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: For the canons of good society are, or should be, the same as the canons of art. Form is absolutely essential to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art.  It is the only thing in Life that stands in normal relations to Art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In England, an inventor is regarded almost as a crazy man, and in too many instances invention ends in disappointment and poverty. In America, an inventor is honoured, help is forthcoming, and the exercise of ingenuity, the application of science to the work of man, is there the shortest road to wealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We in the House of Lords are never in touch with public opinion. That makes us a civilised body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I have never learned anything except from people younger than myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Only the great masters of style ever succeed in being obscure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I'm sure I don't know half the people who come to my house. Indeed, from all I hear, I shouldn't like to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I never play cricket. It requires one to assume such indecent postures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: He made me see what Life is, and what Death signifies, and why Love is stronger than both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Requiescat Tread lightly, she is near Under the snow, Speak gently, she can hear The daisies grow. All her bright golden hair Tarnished with rust, She that was young and fair Fallen to dust. Lily-like, white as snow, She hardly knew She was a woman, so Sweetly she grew. Coffin-board, heavy stone, Lie on her breast, I vex my heart alone She is at rest. Peace, Peace, she cannot hear Lyre or sonnet, All my life\u2019s buried here, Heap earth upon it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I don\u2019t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: He is fond of being misunderstood. It gives him a post of vantage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: History is merely gossip"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Absolute catholicity of taste is not without its dangers.  It is only an auctioneer who should admire all schools of art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In going to America one learns that poverty is not a necessary accompaniment to civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: As for begging, it is safer to beg than to take, but it is finer to take than to beg"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is in the brain that the poppy is red, that the apple is odorous, that the skylark sings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In art, the public accept what has been, because they cannot alter it, not because they appreciate it. They swallow their classics whole, and never taste them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: He was a hero to his valet, who bullied him, and a terror to most of his relations, whom he bullied in turn. Only England could have produced him, and he always said that the country was going to the dogs. His principles were out of date, but there was a good deal to be said for his prejudices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I don't mind plain women being puritans. It is the only excuse they have for being plain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Intellectual generalities are always interesting, but generalities in morals mean absolutely nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We women adore failures. They lean on us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The sure way of knowing nothing about life is to try to make oneself useful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Really, if the lower orders don't set a good example, what on earth is the use of them?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Musical people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one is longing to be perfectly deaf."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: However, it is always nice to be expected, and not to arrive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The English have a miraculous power of turning wine into water."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: America is one long expectoration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Nowadays, all the married men live like bachelors, and all the bachelors like married men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Self-denial is simply a method by which arrests his progress, and self-sacrifice a survival of the mutilation of the savage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Learned conversation is either the affectation of the ignorant or the profession of the mentally unemployed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: When people talk to us about others they are usually dull. When they talk to us about themselves they are nearly always interesting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The General was essentially a man of peace, except in his domestic life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: And let me touch those curving claws of yellow ivory; and grasp the tail that like a monstrous asp coils round your heavy velvet paws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: You know what a woman's curiosity is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The birds did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Fantastic shadows of birds"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I see the moon like a clipped piece of silver. Like gilded bees the stars cluster round her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The worst slave owners were those who were kind to their slaves"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The Governor was strong upon<br />\r\nThe Regulation Act:<br />\r\nThe Doctor said that Death was but<br />\r\nA scientific fact:<br />\r\nAnd twice a day the Chaplain called,<br />\r\nAnd left a little tract."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: They flaunt their conjugal felicity in one's face, as if it were the most fascinating of sins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Newspapers have degenerated. They may now be absolutely relied upon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: For an artist to marry his model is as fatal as for a gourmet to marry his cook: the one gets no sittings, and the other gets no dinners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The sign of a Philistine age is the cry of immorality against art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What between the duties expected of one during one's lifetime, and the duties exacted from one after one's death, land has ceased to be either a profit or a pleasure. It gives one position, and prevents one from keeping it up. That's all that can be said about land."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If art is to have a special train, the critic must keep some seats reserved on it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Never buy a thing you don't want merely because it is dear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Artists reproduce themselves or each other, with wearisome iteration. But criticism is always moving on, and the critic is always developing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Action is limited and relative. Unlimited and absolute is the vision of him who sits at ease and watches, who walks in loneliness and dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Children have a natural antipathy to books- handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Those who try to lead the people can only do so by following the mob. It is through the voice of one crying in the wilderness that the ways of the gods must be prepared."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Every prison that men build Is built with bricks of shame, And bound with bars lest Christ should see How men their brothers maim."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Perhaps one never seems so much at ones ease as when one has to play a part."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Clergymen and people who use phrases without wisdom sometimes talk of suffering as a mystery. It is really a revelation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The essence of thought, as the essence of life, is growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Every thing to be true must become a religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is sometimes said that the tragedy of an artist's life is that he cannot realise his ideal. But the true tragedy that dogs the steps of most artists is that they realise their ideal too absolutely. For, when the ideal is realised, it is robbed of its wonder and its mystery, and becomes simply a new starting-point for an ideal that is other than itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The Ideal Man should talk to us as if we were goddesses, and treat us as if we were children. He should refuse all our serious requests, and gratify every one of our whims. He should encourage us to have caprices, and forbid us to have missions. He should always say much more than he means, and always mean much more than he says."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A man who does not think for himself does not think at all. It is grossly selfish to require of one's neighbour that he should think in the same way, and hold the same opinions. Why should he? If he can think, he will probably think differently. If he cannot think, it is monstrous to require thought of any kind from him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am afraid that you have been listening to the conversation of someone older than yourself. That is always a dangerous thing to do, and if you allow it to degenerate into a habit, you will find it absolutely fatal to any intellectual development."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The English mind is always in a rage. The intellect of the race is wasted in the sordid and stupid quarrels of second-rate politicians or third-rate theologians."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Just as the philanthropist is the nuisance of the ethical sphere, so the nuisance of the intellectual sphere is the man who is so occupied in trying to educate others, that he has never had any time to educate himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: That beauty which is meant by art is no mere accident of human life which people can take or leave, but a positive necessity of life if we are to live as nature meant us to, that is to say unless we are content to be less than men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: An engagement should come on a young girl as a surprise, pleasant or unpleasant as the case may be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: No gentleman ever has any money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: And all, but Lust, is turned to dust In Humanity's machine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: My Salome is a mystic the sister of Salammb\u00f4 a Saint Th\u00e9r\u00e8se who worships the moon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Ah! happy day they whose hearts can break<br />\nAnd peace of pardon win!<br />\nHow else may man make straight his plan<br />\nAnd cleanse his soul from Sin?<br />\nHow else but through a broken heart<br />\nMay Lord Christ enter in?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman. One might fancy she was looking for dead things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It was a fatal day when the public discovered that the pen is mightier than the paving-stone and can be made as offensive as a brickbat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Man is a being with myriad lives and myriad sensations, a complex, multiform creature that bears within itself strange legacies of thought and passion, and whose very flesh is tainted with the monstrous maladies of the dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Men are such cowards. They outrage every law in the world and are afraid of the world's tongue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: One should absorb the color of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: People seldom tell the truths that are worth telling. We ought to choose our truths as carefully as we choose our lies and to select our virtues with as much thought as we bestow upon the selection of our enemies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The world has been made by fools that wise men may live in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The proper school to learn art is not life but art"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Education is an admirable thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In England people actually try to be brilliant at breakfast. That is so dreadful of them! Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Palermo was lovely. The most beautifully situated town in the world - it dreams away its life in the Conca d'Oro, the exquisite valley that lies between two seas. The lemon groves and the orange gardens were entirely perfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There were times when it appeared to Dorian Gray that the whole of history was merely the record of his own life, not as he had lived it in act and circumstand, but as his imagination had created it for him, as it had been in his brain and in his passions. He felt that he had known them all, those strange terrible figures that had passed across the stage of the world and made sin so marvellous, and evil so full of subtlety. It seemed to him that in some mysterious way their lives had been his own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A true artist takes no notice whatever of the public. The public to him are non-existent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A publisher is simply a useful middle-man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Oh, no doubt the cod is a splendid swimmer - admirable for swimming purposes but not for eating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: At six o'clock we cleaned our cells,<br />\r\nAt seven all was still,<br />\r\nBut the sough and swing of a mighty wing<br />\r\nThe prison seemed to fill,<br />\r\nFor the Lord of Death with icy breath<br />\r\nHad entered in to kill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is always something infinitely mean about other people's tragedies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Cheap editions of great books may be delightful, but cheap editions of great men are absolutely detestable"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Truth is independent of facts always."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: And alien tears will fill for him pity's long broken urn. For his mourners will all be outcast men, and outcasts always mourn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I like Wagner's music better than anybody's. It is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Miss Prism: Do not speak slightingly of the three-volume novel, Cecily. I wrote one myself in earlier days. Cecily: Did you really, Miss Prism? How wonderfully clever you are! I hope it did not end happily? I don't like novels that end happily. They depress me so much. Miss Prism: The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A simile committing suicide is always a depressing spectacle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To shut one's eyes to half of life that one may live securely is as though one blinded oneself that one might walk with more safety in a land of pit and precipice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Grass is hard and lumpy and damp, and full of dreadful black insects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It's the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I must say... that I ruined myself: and that nobody, great or small, can be ruined except by his own hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: He is some brainless, beautiful creature, who should always be here in winter when we have no flowers to look at, and always here in the summer when we want something to chill our intelligence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: For a year after that was done to me I wept every day at the same hour and for the same space of time. That is not such a tragic thing as possibly it sounds to you. To those who are in prison tears are a part of every day's experience. A day in prison on which one does not weep is a day on which one's heart is hard, not a day on which one's heart is happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: She knew nothing, but she had everything that he had lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If they know nothing of victory, they are at least spared the knowledge of defeat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The weather still continues charming."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Conscience makes egotists of us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Every woman is a rebel, and usually in wild revolt against herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: They did not understand a single word of what he was saying, but that made no matter, for they put their heads on one side, and looked wise, which is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: You can hardly imagine that I and Lord Bracknell would dream of allowing our only daughter - a girl brought up with the utmost care - to marry into a cloak-room, and form an alliance with a parcel?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To be born, or at any rate bred, in a hand-bag, whether it had handles or not, seems to me to display a contempt for the ordinary decencies of family life that reminds one of the worst excesses of the French Revolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was true that as one watched life in its curious crucible of pain and pleasure, one could not wear over one's face a mask of glass, nor keep the sulphurous fumes from troubling the brain and making the imagination turbid with monstrous fancies and misshapen dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Thin-lipped wisdom spoke at her from the worn chair, hinted at prudence, quoted from that book of cowardice whose author apes the name of common sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Prism! Where is that baby?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Good heavens, I suppose a man may eat his own muffins in his own garden.\" \"But you have just said it was perfectly heartless to eat muffins!\" \"I said it was perfectly heartless of YOU under the circumstances. That is a very different thing.\" \"That may be, but the muffins are the same!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If the Socialism is Authoritarian; if there are Governments armed with economic power as they are now with political power; if, in a word, we are to have Industrial Tyrannies, then the last state of man will be worse than the first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Never met such a Gorgon . . . I don't really know what a Gorgon is like, but I am quite sure that Lady Bracknell is one. In any case, she is a monster, without being a myth, which is rather unfair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: you will always love, and you will always be loved"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's perfectly childish to be in mourning for a man who is actually staying a whole week with you in your house as a guest. I call it grotesque."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Society, as we have constituted it, will have no place for me, has none to offer; but Nature, whose sweet rains fall on unjust and just alike, will have clefts in the rocks where I may hide, and secret valleys in whose silence I may weep undisturbed. She will hang the night with stars so that I may walk abroad in the darkness without stumbling, and send the wind over my footprints so that none may track me to my hurt: she will cleance me in the great waters, and with bitter herbs make me whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Now produce your explanation and pray make it improbable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: And the marvellous rose became crimson, like the rose of the eastern sky. Crimson was the girdle of petals, and crimson as a ruby was the heart"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There was something terribly enthralling in the exercise of influence. No other activity was like it. To project one's soul into some gracious form, and let it tarry there for a moment; to hear one's own intellectual views echoed back to one with all the added music of passion and youth; to convey one's temperament into another as though it were a subtle fluid or a strange perfume: there was a real joy in that - perhaps the most satisfying joy left to us in an age so limited and vulgar as our own, an age grossly carnal in its pleasures, and grossly common in its aims."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: You and I will always be friends.\" \"Yet you poisoned me with a book once. I should not forgive that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Then I feel, Harry, that I have given away my whole soul to someone who treats it as if it were a flower to put in his coat, a bit of decoration to charm his vanity, an ornament for a summer's day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Can they feel, I wonder, those white silent people we call the dead?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Oh! I don't think I would like to catch a sensible man. I shouldn't know what to talk to him about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Most modern calendars mar the sweet simplicity of our lives by reminding us that each day that passes is the anniversary of some perfectly uninteresting event."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: My friend is not allowed to go out today. I sit by his side and read him passages from his own life. They fill him with surprise. Everyone should keep someone else's diary; I sometimes suspect you of keeping mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The world has become sad because a puppet was once melancholy. The nihilist, that strange martyr who has no faith, who goes to the stake without enthusiasm, and dies for what he does not believe in, is a purely literary product. He was invented by Turgenev, and completed by Dostoevsky. Robespierre came out of the pages of Rousseau as surely as the People's Palace rose out debris of a novel. Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Well, I can't eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I've now realised for the first time in my life the vital Importance of Being Earnest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces false impression"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The weather is entrancing, but in my heart there is no sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A man's life is of more value than a woman's. It has larger issues, wider scope, greater ambitions. Our lives revolve in curves of emotions. It is upon lines of intellect that a man's life progresses. I have just learnt this, and much else with it, from Lord Goring. And I will not spoil your life for you, nor see you spoil it as a sacrifice to me, a useless sacrifice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I will not bare my soul to their shallow prying eyes. My heart shall never be put under their microscope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Lord Illingworth told me this morning that there was an orchid there as beautiful as the seven deadly sins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: LORD ILLINGWORTH What do you think she'd do if I kissed her? MRS ALLONBY Either marry you, or strike you across the face with her glove. What would you do if she struck you across the face with her glove? LORD ILLINGWORTH Fall in love with her, probably."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: She has form,\" he said to himself, as he walked away through the grove - \"that cannot be denied to her; but has she got feeling? I am afraid not. In fact, she is like most artists; she is all style, without any sincerity. She would not sacrifice herself for others. She thinks merely of music, and everybody knows that arts are selfish. Still, it must be admitted that she has some beautiful notes in her voice. What a pity it is that they do not mean anything, or do any practical good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Any place you love is the world to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: \"I hope to-morrow will be a fine day, Lane.\" \"It never is, sir.\" \"Lane, you're a perfect pessimist.\" \"I do my best to give satisfaction, sir.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I have a business appointment that I am anxious... to miss."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: And now, dear Mr. Worthing, I will not intrude any longer into a house of sorrow. I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trials are often blessings in disguise. This seems to me a blessing of an extremely obvious kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I find I have, and a heart doesn\u2019t suit me, Windermere. Somehow it doesn\u2019t go with modern dress. It makes one look old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: You told me you had destroyed it.\" \"I was wrong. It has destroyed me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To be popular one must be a mediocrity.\" \"Not with Women,\" said the duchess, shaking her head; \"and women rule the world. I assure you we can't bear mediocrities. We women, as someone says, love with our ears, just as you men love with your eyes, if you ever love at all.\" \"It seems to me that we never do anything else,\" murmered Dorian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: LORD ILLINGWORTH: The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. MRS ALLONBY: And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What is termed Sin is an essential element of progress. Without it the world would stagnate, or grow old, or become colourless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: How long could you love a woman who didn't love you, Cecil? A woman who didn't love me? Oh, all my life!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: And when wind and winter harden All the loveless land, It will whisper of the garden, You will understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: memory, like a horrible malady, was eating his soul away"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Indifference is the revenge the world takes on mediocrities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Lo! with a little rod I did but touch the honey of romance \u2014 And must I lose a soul's inheritance?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Oh, why will parents always appear at the wrong time? Some extraordinary mistake in nature, I suppose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Alone, and without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I was disappointed in Niagara - most people must be disappointed in Niagara. Every American bride is taken there, and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is a dangerous thing to reform anyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The Americans are certainly hero-worshipers, and always take their heroes from the criminal classes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: If you meet at dinner a man who has spent his life in educating himself - a rare type in our time ... you rise from table richer, and conscious that a high ideal has for a moment touched and sanctified your days. But Oh! my dear Ernest, to sit next to a man who has spent his life in trying to educate others! What a dreadful experience that is!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Personally, I have a great admiration for stupidity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I would not a bit mind sleeping in the cool grass in summer, and when winter came on sheltering myself by the warm close-thatched rick, or under the penthouse of a great barn, provided I had love in my heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Nowadays to be intelligible is to be found out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I can sympathize with everything, except suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I don't like Switzerland; it has produced nothing but theologians and waiters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Give me the luxuries and I can dispense with the necessities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A community is infinitely more brutalised by the habitual employment of punishment than it is by the occasional occurence of crime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It takes a thoroughly good woman to do a thoroughly stupid thing"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A person who, because he has corns himself, always treads on other people's toes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I adore political parties. They are the only place left to us where people don't talk politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualification."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Reforms in Russia are very tragic, but they always end in a farce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only thing that can console one for being poor is extravagance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is absurd to say that there are neither ruins nor curiosities in America when they have their mothers and their manners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In England it is enough for a man to try and produce any serious, beautiful work to lose all his rights as a citizen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I believe it is customary in good society to take some slight refreshment at five o'clock."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Perhaps in nearly every joy, as certainly in every pleasure, cruelty has its place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is nothing that stirs in the whole world of thought to which sorrow does not vibrate in terrible and exquisite pulsation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Life, Lady Stutfield, is simply a mauvais quart d'heure made up of exquisite moments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Judges, like the criminal classes, have their lighter moments"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: God's eternal laws are kind-and break the heart of stone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Marriage is hardly a thing one can do now and then, except in America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Her capacity for family affection is extraordinary. When her third husband died, her hair turned quite gold from grief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: All art is at once surface and symbol."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Nature is always behind the age"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is immoral to use private property in order to alleviate the horrible evils that result from the institutions of private property."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Industry is the root of all ugliness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What do you call a bad man? The sort of man who admires innocence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is always painful fo part from people whom one has known for a very brief space of time. The absence of old friends one can endure with equanimity. But even a momentary separation from anyone to whom one has just been introduced is almost unbearable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In spite of the roaring of the young lions at the Union, and the screaming of the rabbits in the home of the vivisect, in spite of Keble College, and the tramways, and the sporting prints, Oxford still remains the most beautiful thing in England, and nowhere else are life and art so exquisitely blended, so perfectly made one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Everything is dangerous, my dear fellow. If it wasn't so, life wouldn't be worth living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There are few things easier than to live badly and die well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I never saw a man who looked With such a wistful eye Upon that little tent of blue Which prisoners call the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: An alliterative prefix served as an ornament of oratory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Music is the perfect type of art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Art, like Nature, has her monsters"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Nature, which makes nothing durable, always repeats itself so that nothing which it makes may be lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Shakespeare might have met Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in the white streets of London, or seen the serving-men of rival houses bite their thumbs at each other in the open square; but Hamlet came out of his soul, and Romeo out of his passion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such <br />\n a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Authority is quite degrading."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In one dancing saloon I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the piano was printed a notice: 'Please do not shoot the pianist. He is doing his best.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: America is not a country, it is a world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: How strange a thing this is!  The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: He had uttered a mad wish that he himself might remain untarnished, and the face on the canvas bear the burden of his passions and his sins; that the painted image might be seared with the lines of suffering and thought, and that he might keep all the delicate bloom and loveliness of his then just conscious boyhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: So much had been surrendered! And to such little purpose! There had been mad wilful rejections, monstrous forms of self-torture and self-denial, whose origin was fear and whose result was a degradation infinitely more terrible than that fancied degradation from which, in their ignorance, they had sought to escape."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Despotism is unjust to everybody, including the despot, who was probably made for better things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The American father is never seen in London. He passes his life entirely in Wall Street and communicates with his family once a month by means of a telegram in cipher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: On the whole, the great success of marriage in the States is due partly to the fact that no American man is ever idle, and partly to the fact that no American wife is considered responsible for the quality of her husband's dinners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: As for modern journalism, it is not my business to defend it. It justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgarest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Life is a great disappointment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In every first novel the hero is the author as Christ or Faust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To elope is cowardly; it is running away from danger; and danger has become so rare in modern life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Newspapers. . . give us the bald, sordid, disgusting facts of life. They chronicle, with degrading avidity, the sins of the second-rate, and with the conscientiousness of the illiterate give us accurate and prosaic details. . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Things are in their essence what we choose to make them. A thing is, according to the mode in which one looks at it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: You are young. No hungry generations tread you down. The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists. Good artists exist simply in what they make, and consequently are perfectly uninteresting in what they are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is absurd to say that the age of miracles is past. It has not yet begun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Life! Life! Don't let us go to life for our fulfilment or our experience. Life makes us pay too high a price for its wares, and we purchase the meanest of its secrets at a cost that is monstrous and infinite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is difficult not to be unjust to what one loves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Lawyers have been known to wrest from reluctant juries triumphant verdicts of acquittal for their clients, even when those clients, as often happens, were clearly and unmistakably innocent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Really, this horrid House of Commons quite ruins our husbands for us. I think the Lower House by far the greatest blow to a happy married life that there has been since that terrible thing called the Higher Education of Women was invented."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Ah! that quite does for me. I haven't a word to say... Too much care was taken with our education, I am afraid. To have been well brought up is a great drawback nowadays. It shuts one out from so much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: And, as for what is called improving conversation, that is merely the foolish method by which the still more foolish philanthropist feebly tries to disarm the just rancour of the criminal classes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The ages live in history through their anachronisms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Greek dress was in its essence inartistic.  Nothing should reveal the body but the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The criminal classes are so close to us that even the policemen can see them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I summed up all systems in a phrase, and all existence in an epigram."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Every American bride is taken there [Niagara Falls], and the sight of the stupendous waterfall must be one of the earliest, if not the keenest, disappointments in American married life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Women love us for our defects. If we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In married life three is company and two none."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: America has never quite forgiven Europe for having been discovered somewhat earlier in history than itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Millionaire models are rare enough; but model millionaires are rarer still!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The bright dawn flooded the room, and swept the fantastic shadows into dusky corners, where they lay shuddering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Cecily. This is no time for wearing the shallow mask of manners. When I see a spade I call it a spade. Gwendolen. [Satirically.] I am glad to say that I have never seen a spade. It is obvious that our social spheres have been widely different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: This ghastly state of things is what you call Bunburying, I suppose? Algernon. Yes, and a perfectly wonderful Bunbury it is. The most wonderful Bunbury I have ever had in my life. Jack. Well, you've no right whatsoever to Bunbury here. Algernon. That is absurd. One has a right to Bunbury anywhere one chooses. Every serious Bunburyist knows that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Punctuality is the thief of time"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only difference between a caprice and a lifelong passion is that the caprice lasts a little longer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The sky was pure opal now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: My life-my whole life- take it, and do with it what you will. I love you-love you as I have never loved any living thing. From the moment I met you I loved you, loved you blindly, adoringly,madly! You didn't know it then-you know it now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The terror of society, which is the basis of morals, the terror of God, which is the secret of religion-these are the two things that govern us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Civilization is not by means an easy thing to attain to. There are only two ways by which man can reach it. One is by being cultured, the other by being corrupt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: And her sweet red lips on these lips of mine Burned like the ruby fire set In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine, Or the bleeding wounds of the pomegranate, Or the heart of the lotus drenched and wet With the spilt-out blood of the rose-red wine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: With subtle and finely-wrought temperaments it is always so. Their strong passions must either bruise or bend. They either slay the man, or themselves die. Shallow sorrows and shallow loves live on. The loves and the sorrows that are great are destroyed by their own plenitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: She had a passion for secrecy, but she herself was merely a Sphinx without a secret."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The supreme vice is shallowness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What are American dry-goods? asked the duchess, raising her large hands in wonder and accentuating the verb. American novels, answered Lord Henry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It is sweet to dance to violins When love and life are fair: To dance to flutes, to dance to lutes Is delicate and rare: But it is not sweet with nimble feet To dance upon the air!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Well I won't argue about the matter. You always want to argue about things. That is exactly what things were originally made for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I have been right, Basil, haven\u2019t I, to take my love out of poetry, and to find my wife in Shakespeare\u2019s plays? Lips that Shakespeare taught to speak have whispered their secret in my ear. I have had the arms of Rosalind around me, and kissed Juliet on the mouth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat away its grace. they would defile it, and make it shameful. And yet the thing would still live on. It would be always alive. (Dorian Gray regarding his portrait)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is no such thing as a good influence. Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul. He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions. His virtures are not real to him. His sins, if there are such thing as sins, are borrowed. He becomes an echo of someone else's music, an actor of a part that has not been written for him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: A man who marries without knowing Bunbury has a very tedious time of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: LADY BRACKNELL: Do you smoke? JACK: Well, yes, I must admit I smoke. LADY BRACKNELL: I'm glad to hear it. A man should always have an occupation of some kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: [on his deathbed in a Paris hotel room] Either this wallpaper goes, or I do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: LADY STUTFIELD I adore silent men. MRS ALLONBY Oh, Ernest isn't silent. He talks the whole time. But he has got no conversation. What he talks about I don't know. I haven't listened to him for years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: It was you I thought of all the time, I gave to them the love you did not need: lavished on them a love that was not theirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Lady Bracknell. Good afternoon, dear Algernon, I hope you are behaving very well. Algernon. I\u2019m feeling very well, Aunt Augusta. Lady Bracknell. That\u2019s not quite the same thing. In fact the two things rarely go together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: No woman should have a memory. Memory in a woman is the beginning of dowdiness. One can always tell from a woman's bonnet whether she has got a memory or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Only love can keep anyone alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: You know I have loved him always. But we are very poor. Who, being loved, is poor? Oh, no one. I hate my riches. They are a burden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Far away beyond the pine-woods,' he answered, in a low dreamy voice, 'there is a little garden. There the grass grows long and deep, there are the great white stars of the hemlock flower, there the nightingale sings all night long. All night long he sings, and the cold, crystal moon looks down, and the yew-tree spreads out its giant arms over the sleepers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: How sad it is!\" murmured Dorian Gray with his eyes still fixed upon his own portrait. \"How sad it is! I shall grow old, and horrible, and dreadful. But this picture will remain always young. It will never be older than this particular day of June\u2026 . If it were only the other way! If it were I who was to be always young, and the picture that was to grow old! For that\u2014for that\u2014I would give everything! Yes, there is nothing in the whole world I would not give! I would give my soul for that!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day\u2014mock me horribly!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: the costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What a fuss people make about fidelity!\" exclaimed Lord Henry. \"Why, even in love it is purely a question for physiology. It has nothing to do with our own will. Young men want to be faithful, and are not; old men want to be faithless, and cannot: that is all one can say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: When a golden girl can win Prayer from out the lips of sin, When the barren almond bears, And a little child gives away its tears, Then shall all the house be still And peace come to Canterville."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The moment one sits down to think, one becomes all nose, or all forehead, or something horrid"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I find him in the curves of certain lines, in the loveliness and subtleties of certain colours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: You have always told me it was Ernest. I have introduced you to every one as Ernest. You answer to the name of Ernest. You look as if your name was Ernest. You are the most earnest-looking person I ever saw in my life. It is perfectly absurd your saying that your name isn't Ernest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: ever since I met you I have admired you more than any girl...I have ever met since...I met you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. You can't go anywhere without meeting clever people. The thing has become an absolute public nuisance. I wish to goodness we had a few fools left. ALGERNON: We have. JACK: I should extremely like to meet them. What do they talk about? ALGERNON: The fools? Oh! about the clever people of course. JACK: What fools."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Behind Joy and Laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind Sorrow there is always Sorrow. Pain, unlike Pleasure, wears no mask."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only proper intoxication is conversation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Individualism has really the higher aim. Modern morality consists in accepting the standard of one's age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Set in this stormy Northern sea, Queen of these restless fields of tide, England! what shall men say of thee, Before whose feet the worlds divide?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Fool, nothing is impossible in Russia but reform."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To have friends, you know, one need only be good-natured; but when a man has no enemy left there must be something mean about him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: All bad art is the result of good intentions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: And if life be, as it surely is, a problem to me, I am no less a problem to life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: As I lounged in the Park, or strolled down Piccadilly, I used to look at everyone who passed me, and wonder, with mad curiosity, what sort of lives they led. some of them fascinated me. Others filled me with terror."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The unread is always better than the unreadable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: How you can sit there, calmly eating muffins when we are in this horrible trouble, I can\u2019t make out. You seem to me to be perfectly heartless.\" \"Well, I can\u2019t eat muffins in an agitated manner. The butter would probably get on my cuffs. One should always eat muffins quite calmly. It is the only way to eat them.\" \"I say it\u2019s perfectly heartless your eating muffins at all, under the circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Is insincerity such a terrible thing? I think not. It is merely a method by which we can multiply our personalities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: American girls are as clever at concealing their parents as English women are at concealing their past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I was dominated, soul, brain, and power by you. You became to me the visible incarnation of that unseen ideal whose memory haunts us artists like an exquisite dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The longer I live, Dorian, the more keenly I feel that whatever was good enough for our fathers is not good enough for us. In art, as in politics, les grand-p\u00e8res ont toujours tort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Oh, don't cough, Ernest. When one is dictating one should speak fluently and not cough. Besides, I don't know how to spell a cough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The people who have adored me-- there have not been very many, but there have been some-- have always insisted on living on, long after I had ceased to care for them, or they to care for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: MRS ALLONBY Is she such a mystery? LORD ILLINGWORTH She is more than a mystery - she is a mood. MRS ALLONBY Moods don't last. LORD ILLINGWORTH It is their chief charm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is no good talking to him,\" said a Dragon-fly, who was sitting on the top of a large brown bulrush; \"no good at all, for he has gone away.\" \"Well, that is his loss, not mine,\" answered the Rocket. \"I am not going to stop talking to him merely because he pays no attention. I like hearing myself talk. It is one of my greatest pleasures. I often have long conversations all by myself, and I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.\" \"Then you should definitely lecture on Philosophy,\" said the Dragon-fly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There were sins whose fascination was more in the memory than in the doing of them, strange triumphs that gratified the pride more than the passions, and gave to the intellect a quickened sense of joy, greater than any joy they brought, or could ever bring, to the senses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: \"Why is it that at a bachelor's establishment the servants invariably drink the champagne? I ask merely for information.\" \"I attribute it to the superior quality of the wine, sir. I have often observed that in married households the champagne is rarely of a first-rate brand.\" \"Good Heavens! Is marriage so demoralizing as that?\" \"I believe it is a very pleasant state, sir. I have had very little experience of it myself up to the present. I have only been married once. That was in consequence of a misunderstanding between myself and a young person.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: To begin with, I dined there on Monday, and once a week is quite enough to dine with one's own relations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: JACK That is nonsense. If I marry a charming girl like Gwendolen, and she is the only girl I ever saw in my life that I would marry, I certainly won't want to know Bunbury. ALGERNON Then your wife will. You don't seem to realize, that in married life three is company and two is none. JACK That, my dear young friend, is the theory that the corrupt French Drama has been propounding for the last fifty years. ALGERNON Yes; and that the happy English home has proved in half the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Yes; poor Bunbury is a dreadful invalid. Well, I must say, Algernon, that I think it is high time that Mr. Bunbury made up his mind whether he was going to live or to die. This shillyshallying with the question is absurd."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Algy, you always adopt a strictly immoral attitude towards life. You are not quite old enough to do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: JACK Your duty as a gentleman calls you back. ALGERNON My duty as a gentleman has never interfered with my pleasures in the smallest degree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: LADY BRACKNELL Algernon is an extremely, I may almost say an ostentatiously, eligible young man. He has nothing, but he looks everything. What more can one desire?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Nowadays we are all of us so hard up that the only pleasant things to pay are compliments. They\u2019re the only things we can pay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: God knows; I won't be an Oxford don anyhow. I'll be a poet, a writer, a dramatist. Somehow or other I'll be famous, and if not famous, I'll be notorious. Or perhaps I'll lead the life of pleasure for a time and then\u2014who knows?\u2014rest and do nothing. What does Plato say is the highest end that man can attain here below? To sit down and contemplate the good. Perhaps that will be the end of me too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Be warned in time, James, and remain, as I do, incomprehensible: to be great is to be misunderstood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We call ours a utilitarian age, and we do not know the uses of any single thing. We have forgotten that water can cleanse, that fire can purify, and that the Earth is mother to us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: In England ... education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and would probably lead to acts of violence in Grosvenor Square."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only form of fiction in which real characters do not seem out of place is history. In novels they are detestable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: Divorces are made in heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: He hasn't an enemy in the world, and none of his friend like him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: But what of life whose bitter hungry sea Flows at our heels, and gloom of sunless night Covers the days which never more return? Ambition, love and all the thoughts that burn We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The sin was mine; I did not understand. So now is music prisoned in her cave, Save where some ebbing desultory wave Frets with its restless whirls this meagre strand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The only link between Literature and the Drama left to us in England at the present moment is the bill of the play."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is no country in the world where machinery is so lovely as in America. It was not until I had seen the water-works at Chicago that I realised the wonders of machinery; the rise and fall of the steel rods, the symmetrical motion of the great wheels is the most beautiful rhythmic thing I have ever seen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: We are specially designed to appeal to the sense of humour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The Bostonians take their learning too sadly: culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere; their \"Hub,\" as they call it, is the paradise of prigs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and of high unattainable ideals, are entirely due to that country having adopted for its national hero a man who, according to his own confession, was incapable of telling a lie, and it is not too much to say that the story of George Washington and the cherry-tree has done more harm, and in a shorter space of time, than any other moral tale in the whole of literature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: I find that forgiving one's enemies is a most curious morbid pleasure; perhaps I should check it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses but in all my garden there is no red rose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oscar Wilde: There is no doubt that genius lasts longer than beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: There is no insurmountable solitude. All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the enchanted place where we can dance our clumsy dance and sing our sorrowful song - but in this dance or in this song there are fulfilled the most ancient rites of our conscience in the awareness of being human and of believing in a common destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Every day you play with the light of the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: If each day falls <br />\n inside each night, <br />\n there exists a well <br />\n where clarity is imprisoned. <br />\n <br />\n We need to sit on the rim <br />\n of the well of darkness <br />\n and fish for fallen light <br />\n with patience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: so I wait for you like a lonely house till you will see me again and live in me. Till then my windows ache."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Everything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair. Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets. Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Your wide eyes are the only light I know from extinguished constellations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: You are like night, calmed, constellated. Your silence is star-like, as distant, as true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Take bread away from me, if you wish, take air away, but do not take from me your laughter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: And when you appear all the rivers sound in my body, bells shake the sky, and a hymn fills the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Under your skin the moon is alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Oh, may your silhouette never dissolve on the beach;<br />\r\nmay your eyelids never flutter into the empty<br />\r\ndistance.<br />\r\nDon't leave me for a second, my dearest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I will bring you flowers from the mountains, bluebells, dark hazels, and rustic baskets of kisses. I want to do with you what spring does with the cherry trees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: There is no space wider than that of grief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: But I love your feet only because they walked upon the earth and upon the wind and upon the waters, until they found me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Never an illness, nor the absence of grandeur, no, nothing is able to kill the best in us, that kindness, dear sir, we are afflicted with: beautiful is the flower of man, his conduct, and every door opens on the beautiful truth and never hides treacherous whispers. I always gained something from making myself better, better than I am, better than I was, that most subtle citation: to recover some lost petal of the sadness I inherited: to search once more for the light that sings inside of me, the unwavering light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I have named you queen. There are taller than you, taller. There are purer than you, purer. There are lovelier than you, lovelier. But you are the queen. When you go through the streets No one recognizes you. No one sees your crystal crown, no one looks At the carpet of red gold That you tread as you pass, The nonexistent carpet. And when you appear All the rivers sound In my body, bells Shake the sky, And a hymn fills the world. Only you and I, Only you and I, my love, Listen to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: And one by one the nights between our separated cities are joined to the night that unites us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: To feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know ... widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of the log, everything carries me to you, as if everything that exists, aromas, light, metals, were little boats that sail toward those isles of yours that wait for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Then love knew it was called love. And when I lifted my eyes to your name, suddenly your heart showed me my way"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: There were thirst and hunger, and you were the fruit. There were grief and the ruins, and you were the miracle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Hour of nostalgia, hour of happiness, hour of solitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: But <br />\r\nif each day, <br />\r\neach hour, <br />\r\nyou feel that you are destined for me <br />\r\nwith implacable sweetness, <br />\r\nif each day a flower <br />\r\nclimbs up to your lips to seek me, <br />\r\nah my love, ah my own, <br />\r\nin me all that fire is repeated, <br />\r\nin me nothing is extinguished or forgotten, <br />\r\nmy love feeds on your love, beloved, <br />\r\nand as long as you live it will be in your arms <br />\r\nwithout leaving mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I love all the things there are, <br />\nand of all fires <br />\nlove is the only inexhaustible one; <br />\nand that's why I go from life to life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Tie your heart at night to mine, love, and both will defeat the darkness like twin drums beating in the forest against the heavy wall of wet leaves. Night crossing: black coal of dream that cuts the thread of earthly orbs with the punctuality of a headlong train that pulls cold stone and shadow endlessly. Love, because of it, tie me to a purer movement, to the grip on life that beats in your breast, with the wings of a submerged swan, So that our dream might reply to the sky's questioning stars with one key, one door closed to shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: At night I dream that you and I are two plants that grew together, roots entwined, and that you know the earth and the rain like my mouth, since we are made of earth and rain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: My soul is an empty carousel at sunset."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: This time is difficult. Wait for me. We will live it out vividly. Give me your small hand: we will rise and suffer, we will feel, we will rejoice. We are once more the pair who lived in bristling places, in harsh nests in the rock. This time is difficult. Wait for me with a basket, with a shovel, with your shoes and your clothes. Now we need each other, not only for the carnations' sake, not only to look for honey \u2014 we need our hands to wash with, to make fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Our love was born outside the walls, in the wind, in the night, in the earth, and that's why the clay and the flower, the mud and the roots know your name."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: In your eyes of mourning the land of dreams begins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: In the distance someone is singing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: And I, infinitesima\u00adl being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Give me your hand out of the depths sown by your sorrows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Love is so short, forgetting is so long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: It was my destiny to love and say goodbye."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: And it follows that I am, because you are: it follows from 'you are', that I am, and we: and, because of love, you will, I will, we will, come to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I want to do to you what spring does with the cherry trees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Without doubt I praise the wild excellence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: so I love you because I know no other way than this: where I does not exist, nor you, so close that your hand on my chest is my hand, so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Only do not forget, if I wake up crying it's only because in my dream I'm a lost child hunting through the leaves of the night for your hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body... and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight, hunting for you, for your hot heart, like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Conspirators in pajamas who exchange deep kisses for passwords."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I am not jealous of what came before me. Come with a man on your shoulders, come with a hundred men in your hair, come with a thousand men between your breasts and your feet, come like a river full of drowned men which flows down to the wild sea, to the eternal surf, to Time! Bring them all to where I am waiting for you; we shall always be alone, we shall always be you and I alone on earth, to start our life!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Love is a war of lightning, <br />\n and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness. <br />\n Kiss by kiss I cover your tiny infinity, <br />\n your margins, your rivers, your diminutive villages, <br />\n and a genital fire, transformed by delight, <br />\n slips through the narrow channels of blood <br />\n to precipitate a nocturnal carnation, <br />\n to be, and be nothing but light in the dark."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I have slept with you all night long while the dark earth spins with the living and the dead, and on waking suddenly in the midst of the shadow my arm encircled your waist. Neither night nor sleep could separate us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Here I love you and the horizon hides you in vain. I love you still among these cold things. Sometimes my kisses go on those heavy vessels that cross the sea towards no arrival. I see myself forgotten like those old anchors. The piers sadden when the afternoon moors there. My life grows tired, hungry to no purpose. I love what I do not have. You are so far. My loathing wrestles with the slow twilights. But night comes and starts to sing to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Shyness is a condition foreign to the heart - a category, a dimension which leads to loneliness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: No, my dog used to gaze at me, paying me the attention I need, the attention required to make a vain person like me understand that, being a dog, he was wasting time, but, with those eyes so much purer than mine, he\u2019d keep on gazing at me with a look that reserved for me alone all his sweet and shaggy life, always near me, never troubling me, and asking nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: The days aren't discarded or collected, they are bees that burned with sweetness or maddened the sting: the struggle continues, the journeys go and come between honey and pain. No, the net of years doesn't unweave: there is no net. They don't fall drop by drop from a river: there is no river. Sleep doesn't divide life into halves, or action, or silence, or honor: life is like a stone, a single motion, a lonesome bonfire reflected on the leaves, an arrow, only one, slow or swift, a metal that climbs or descends burning in your bones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: With which stars do they go on speaking,the rivers that never reach the sea?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: You are like nobody since I love you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Don't leave me, even for an hour, because then the little drops of anguish will all run together, the smoke that roams looking for a home will drift into me, choking my lost heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: with your name on my mouth and a kiss that never broke away from yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Give me silence, water, hope Give me struggle, iron, volcanoes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: In what language does rain fall over tormented cities?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Here I came to the very edge where nothing at all needs saying, everything is absorbed through weather and the sea, and the moon swam back, its rays all silvered, and time and again the darkness would be broken by the crash of a wave, and every day on the balcony of the sea, wings open, fire is born, and everything is blue again like morning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: We have to discard the past / and, as one builds / floor by floor, window by window, / and the building rises, / so do we keep shedding - first, broken tiles, / then proud doors... and each new day / gleams / like an empty / plate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I have been a lucky man. To feel the intimacy of brothers is a marvelous thing in life. To feel the love of people whom we love is a fire that feeds our life. But to feel the affection that comes from those whom we do not know, from those unknown to us, who are watching over our sleep and solitude, over our dangers and our weaknesses \u2013 that is something still greater and more beautiful because it widens out the boundaries of our being, and unites all living things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Everything is ceremony in the wild garden of childhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Poetry is an act of peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Perhaps this war will pass like the others which divided us leaving us dead, killing us along with the killers but the shame of this time puts its burning fingers to our faces. Who will erase the ruthlessness hidden in innocent blood?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: We bear the sole, relentless tenderness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I'm not me but living matter fermenting and forming its own shapes in the fruitfulness of every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I like on the table, when we're speaking, the light of a bottle of intelligent wine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: You came to my life with what you were bringing, made of light and bread and shadow I expected you, and Like this I need you, Like this I love you, and to those who want to hear tomorrow that which I will not tell them, let them read it here, and let them back off today because it is early for these arguments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Do tears not yet spilled wait in small lakes?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: There is no insurmountable solitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I am a book of snow, a spacious hand, an open meadow, a circle that waits, I belong to the earth and its winter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: When I sleep every night, what am I called or not called? And when I wake, who am I if I was not I while I slept?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Well, now If little by little you stop loving me I shall stop loving you Little by little If suddenly you forget me Do not look for me For I shall already have forgotten you If you think it long and mad the wind of banners that passes through my life And you decide to leave me at the shore of the heart where I have roots Remember That on that day, at that hour, I shall lift my arms And my roots will set off to seek another land"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: If you no longer live, if you my beloved, my love, if you have died, all the leaves will fall in my breast, it will rain in my soul night and day, the snow will burn my heart, I shall walk with frost and fire and death and snow, my feet will want to walk to where you are sleeping, but I shall live"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: If you should ask me where I've been all this time I have to say \"Things happen.\" I have to dwell on stones darkening the earth, on the river ruined in its own duration: I know nothing save things the birds have lost, the sea I left behind, or my sister crying. Why this abundance of places? Why does day lock with day? Why the dark night swilling round in our mouths? And why the dead?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Love is a war of lightning, <br />\n and two bodies ruined by a single sweetness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Love is brief: forgetting lasts so long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Tonight I can write the saddest lines...Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer and these the last verses that I write for her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: You & I, Love, together we ratify the silence,<br />\r\nwhile the sea destroys its perpetual statues,<br />\r\ncollapses its towers of wild speed and whiteness:<br />\r\nbecause in the weavings of those invisible fabrics,<br />\r\ngalloping water, incessant sand,<br />\r\nwe make the only permanent tenderness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Once more I am the silent one who came out of the distance wrapped in cold rain and bells: I owe to earth's pure death the will to sprout."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Sonnet XXV Before I loved you, love, nothing was my own: I wavered through the streets, among Objects: Nothing mattered or had a name: The world was made of air, which waited. I knew rooms full of ashes, Tunnels where the moon lived, Rough warehouses that growled 'get lost', Questions that insisted in the sand. Everything was empty, dead, mute, Fallen abandoned, and decayed: Inconceivably alien, it all Belonged to someone else - to no one: Till your beauty and your poverty Filled the autumn plentiful with gifts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks, trailing from the heart, clawing at your insides. Hunger feels like pincers, like the bite of crabs; it burns, burns, and has no fur. Let us sit down soon to eat with all those who haven't eaten; let us spread great tablecloths, put salt in lakes of the world, set up planetary bakeries, tables with strawberries in snow, and a plate like the moon itself from which we can all eat. For now I ask no more than the justice of eating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I should like to sleep like a cat, with all the fur of time, with a tongue rough as flint, with the dry sex of fire; and after speaking to no one, stretch myself over the world, over roofs and landscapes, with a passionate desire to hunt the rats in my dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: From sorrow to sorrow love crosses its islands and establishes roots that are watered by weeping."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: When everything seems to be set to show me off as intelligent, the fool I always keep hidden takes over all that I say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her. Love is so short, forgetting is so long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: If suddenly you do not exist, If suddenly you are not living, I shall go on living. I do not dare, I do not dare to write it, if you die. I shall go on living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: On our earth, before writing was invented, before the printing press was invented, poetry flourished. That is why we know that poetry is like bread; it should be shared by all, by scholars and by peasants, by all our vast, incredible, extraordinary family of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: And I, a materialist who does not believe in the starry heaven promised to a human being, for this dog and for every dog I believe in heaven, yes, I believe in a heaven that I will never enter, but he waits for me wagging his big fan of a tail so I, soon to arrive, will feel welcomed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I am everybody and every time, I always call myself by your name."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Love, what a long way, to arrive at a kiss."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: But from each crime are born bullets that will one day seek out in you where the heart lies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I do not love you-except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, from waiting to not waiting for you my heart moves from the cold into the fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Hate is like a swordfish, working through water invisibly and then you see it coming with blood along its blade, but transparency disarms it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: We the mortals touch the metals, the wind, the ocean shores, the stones, knowing they will go on, inert or burning, and I was discovering, naming all the these things: it was my destiny to love and say goodbye."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes to pieces like a rotten pie, you... gather together whatever can be salvaged, while I cup my hands around the live coal of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: The night is shattered, and the blue stars shiver in the distance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: My duty moves along with my song: I am I am not: that is my destiny. I exist not if I do not attend to the pain of those who suffer: they are my pains. For I cannot be without existing for all, for all who are silent and oppressed, I come from the people and I sing for them: my poetry is song and punnishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Love is a clash of lightnings"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: The tomato offers its gift of fiery color and cool completeness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: In this part of the story I am the one who dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, because I love you, Love, in fire and in blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Who writes your name in letters of smoke among the stars of the south? Oh let me remember you as you were before you existed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Tell me, is the rose naked or is that her only dress? Why do trees conceal the splendor of their roots? Who hears the regrets of the thieving automobile? Is there anything in the world sadder than a train standing in the rain?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Ah, love is a voyage with water and a star, in drowning air and squalls of precipitate bran; love is a war of lights in the lightning flashes, two bodies blasted in a single burst of honey."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I don't know who it is who lives or dies, who rests or wakes, but it is your heart that distributes all the graces of the daybreak in my breast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Each in the most hidden sack kept the lost jewels of memory, intense love, secret nights and permanent kisses, the fragment of public or private happiness. A few, the wolves, collected thighs, other men loved the dawn scratching mountain ranges or ice floes, locomotives, numbers. For me happiness was to share singing, praising, cursing, crying with a thousand eyes. I ask forgiveness for my bad ways: my life had no use on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I walked around as you do, investigating the endless star, and in my net, during the night, I woke up naked, the only thing caught, a fish trapped inside the wind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: But when I call for a hero, out comes my lazy old self; so I never know who I am, nor how many I am or will be. I'd love to be able to touch a bell and summon the real me, because if I really need myself, I mustn't disappear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: In love, you have loosened yourself like seawater"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: The Truth is in the prolouge. Death to the romantic fool., the expert in solitary confinement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Love! Love until the night collapses!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Pale blind diver, luckless slinger, lost discoverer, in you everything sank!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: What does autumn go on paying for with so much yellow money?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: And our problems will crumble apart, the soul / blow through like a wind, and here where we live will all be clean again, with fresh bread on the table."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: What can I say without touching the earth with my hands?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: C\u00f3mo se acuerda con los p\u00e1jaros la traducci\u00f3n de sus idiomas?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: A book, a book full of human touches, of shirts, a book without loneliness, with men and tools, a book is victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Like a jar you housed the infinite tenderness, and the infinite oblivion shattered you like a jar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: How much does a man live, after all?/ Does he live a thousand days, or one only? For a week, or for several centuries?/ How long does a man spend dying?/ What does it mean to say 'for ever'?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Hands make the world each day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: About me, nothing worse they will tell you, my love, than what I told you"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I stood on the balcony dark with mourning... hoping the earth would spread its wings in my uninhabited love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Between lips and lips there are cities of great ash and moist summit, drops of when and how, vague comings and goings: between lips and lips as along a shore of sand and glass the wind passes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I love you only because it's you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: And what has become of it, where is that onetime love? Now it is the grave of a bird, a drop of black quartz, a chunk of wood eroded by the rain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: It is not so much light that falls over the world extended by your body its suffocating snow, as brightness, pouring itself out of you, as if you were burning inside. Under your skin the moon is alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I do not love you except because I love you; I go from loving to not loving you, From waiting to not waiting for you My heart moves from cold to fire. I love you only because it's you the one I love; I hate you deeply, and hating you Bend to you, and the measure of my changing love for you Is that I do not see you but love you blindly. Maybe January light will consume My heart with its cruel Ray, stealing my key to true calm. In this part of the story I am the one who Dies, the only one, and I will die of love because I love you, Because I love you, Love, in fire and blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: You can say anything you want, yessir, but it's the words that sing, they soar and descend...I bow to them...I love them, I cling to them, I run them down, I bite into them, I melt them down...I love words so much...The unexpected ones...The ones I wait for greedily or stalk until, suddenly, they drop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Over your breasts of motionless current, over your legs of firmness and water, over the permanence and the pride of your naked hair I want to be, my love, now that the tears are thrown into the raucous baskets where they accumulate, I want to be, my love, alone with a syllable of mangled silver, alone with a tip of your breast of snow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: How you must have suffered getting accustomed to me, my savage, solitary soul, my name that sends them all running. So many times we have seen the morning star burn, kissing our eyes, and over our heads the grey light unwinds in turning fans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: What will they say about my poetry who never touched my blood?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Raw hatred took its time making an outpost of its rage and prepared for me a savage crown with rusty, bloodstained spikes. It wasn't pride that made me keep my heart at a distance from such terror, nor did I waste on revenge or the pursuit of power the forces that came from my selfish griefs or my accumulated joys. It was something else-my helplessness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Joyful, joyful, joyful, as only dogs know how to be happy with only the autonomy of their shameless spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Death arrives among all that sound like a shoe with no foot in it, like a suit with no man in it, comes and knocks, using a ring with no stone in it, with no finger in it, comes and shouts with no mouth, with no tongue,with no throat. Nevertheless its steps can be heard and its clothing makes a hushed sound, like a tree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions: creation's original juices, irreducible, changeless, alive: so the freshness lives on"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: From scarlet to powdered gold, to blazing yellow, to the rare ashen emerald, to the orange and black velvet of your shimmering corselet, out to the tip that like an amber thorn begins you, small, superlative being, you are a miracle, and you blaze"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Wakening from the dreaming forest there, the hazel-sprig sang under my tongue, its drifting fragrance climbed up through my conscious mind as if suddenly the roots I had left behind cried out to me, the land I had lost with my childhood - and I stopped, wounded by the wandering scent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Whom can I ask what I came to make happen in this world? Why do I move without wanting to, why am I not able to sit still? Why do I go rolling without wheels, flying without wings or feathers, and why did I decide to migrate if my bones live in Chile?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: For now I ask no more Than the justice of eating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: When I got the chance I asked them a slew of questions. They offered to burn me; it was the only thing they knew."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: When did the lemons learn the same creed as the sun?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: And I watch my words from a long way off. They are more yours than mine. They climb on my old suffering like ivy. It climbs the same way on damp walls. You are to blame for this cruel sport. They are fleeing from my dark lair. You fill everything, you fill everything. Before you they peopled the solitude that you occupy, and they are more used to my sadness than you are. Now I want them to say what I want to say to you to make you hear as I want you to hear me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Is 4 the same 4 for everybody? Are all sevens equal? When the convict ponders the light is it the same light that shines on you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: And what importance do I have in the courtroom of oblivion?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: O merry, merry, merry, like only dogs know how to be happy and nothing more, with an absolute shameless nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: To harden the earth the rocks took charge: instantly they grew wings: the rocks that soared: the survivors flew up the lightning bolt, screamed in the night, a watermark, a violet sword, a meteor. The succulent sky had not only clouds, not only space smelling of oxygen, but an earthly stone flashing here and there changed into a dove, changed into a bell, into immensity, into a piercing wind: into a phosphorescent arrow, into salt of the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I've come within range of hate. Terrifying, its tremors, its dizzying obsessions. Hate's like a swordfish invisible in the water, knifing suddenly into sight with blood on its blade- clear water misleads you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Day-colored wine, night-colored wine, wine with purple feet or wine with topaz blood, wine, starry child of earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: While I'm writing, I'm far away; and when I come back, I've gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I stroll along serenely, with my eyes, my shoes, my rage, forgetting everything, I walk by, going through office buildings and orthopedic shops, and courtyards with washing hanging from the line: underwear, towels and shirts from which slow dirty tears are falling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: The word<br />\nwas born in the blood,<br />\ngrew in the dark body, beating,<br />\nand took flight through the lips and the mouth.<br />\nFarther away and nearer<br />\nstill, still it came<br />\nfrom dead fathers and from wondering races,<br />\nfrom lands which had turned to stone,<br />\nlands weary of their poor tribes,<br />\nfor when grief took to the roads<br />\nthe people set out and arrived<br />\nand married new land and water<br />\nto grow their words again.<br />\nAnd so this is the inheritance;<br />\nthis is the wavelength which connects us<br />\nwith dead men and the dawning<br />\nof new beings not yet come to light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Am I allowed to ask my book / whether it's true I wrote it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: As slippery as smooth grapes, words exploding in the light like dormant seeds waiting in the vaults of vocabulary, alive again, and giving life: once again the heart distills them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Megaphone in which the wind passes singing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: So the freshness lives on in a lemon, in the sweet-smelling house of the rind, the proportions, arcane and acerb."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Then Scale by scale, We strip off The delicacy And eat The peaceful mush Of its green heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: When your hands leap towards mine, love, what do they bring me in flight?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Latin America is very fond of the word \"hope.\" We like to be called the \"continent of hope.\" Candidates for deputy, senator, president, call themselves \"candidates of hope.\" This hope is really something like a promise of heaven, an IOU whose payment is always being put off. It is put off until the next legislative campaign, until next year, until the next century."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Nobody can claim the name of Pedro, nobody is Rosa or Mar\u00eda, all of us are dust or sand, all of us are rain under rain. They have spoken to me of Venezuelas, of Chiles and Paraguays; I have no idea what they are saying. I know only the skin of the earth and I know it has no name."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Where were you then? Who else was there? Saying what? Why will the whole of love come on me suddenly when I am sad and feel you are far away?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Your house sounds like a train at midday, the wasps buzz, the saucepans sing, the waterfall enumerates the deeds of the dew . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: The birds of night peck at the first stars that flash like my soul when I love you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Sometimes a piece of sun burned like a coin in my hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Oh each successive night that comes has something in it of an abandoned ember that is slowly burning out, and it falls swathed in ruins, surrounded by funereal objects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I ask permission to be like everybody else,like the rest of the world and what's more, like anybody else:I beg you, with all my heart,if we are talking about me, since we are talking about me,please resist blasting the trumpet during my visitand resign yourselves to my quiet absence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: I don't want to go on being a root in the dark, vacillating, stretched out, shivering with sleep, downward, in the soaked guts of the earth, absorbing and thinking, eating each day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Como se reparten el sol en el naranjo las naranjas? How do the oranges divide up sunlight in the orange tree?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: There's a country spread out in the sky, a credulous carpet of rainbows and crepuscular plants: I move toward it just a bit haggardly, trampling a gravedigger's rubble still moist from the spade to dream in a bedlam of vegetables."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pablo Neruda: Why wasn't Christopher Columbus able to discover Spain?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Go into yourself and see how deep the place is from which your life flows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Believe in a love that is being stored up for you like an inheritance, and have faith that in this love there is a strength and a blessing so large that you can travel as far as you wish without having to step outside it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Perhaps somewhere, someplace deep inside your being, you have undergone important changes while you were sad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Let everything happen to you Beauty and terror Just keep going No feeling is final"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: When anxious, uneasy and bad thoughts come, I go to the sea, and the sea drowns them out with its great wide sounds, cleanses me with its noise, and imposes a rhythm upon everthing in me that is bewildered and confused."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: This is what the things can teach us: to fall, patiently to trust our heaviness. Even a bird has to do that before he can fly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: If you will stay close to nature, to its simplicity, to the small things hardly noticeable, those things can unexpectedly become great and immeasurable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Think... of the world you carry within you, and call this thinking whatever you want to: a remembering of your own childhood or a yearning toward a future of your own - only be attentive to what is arising within you, and place that above everything you perceive around you. What is happening in your innermost self is worthy of your entire love; somehow you must find a way to work at it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Make your ego porous. Will is of little importance, complaining is nothing, fame is nothing. Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Quiet friend who has come so far, feel how your breathing makes more space around you. Let this darkness be a bell tower and you the bell. As you ring, what batters you becomes your strength. Move back and forth into the change. What is it like, such intensity of pain? If the drink is bitter, turn yourself to wine. In this uncontainable night, be the mystery at the crossroads of your senses, the meaning discovered there. And if the world has ceased to hear you, say to the silent earth: I flow. To the rushing water, speak: I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love: the more they give, the more they possess."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: To love is good, too: love being difficult. For one human being to love another: that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation. Love is a high inducement to the individual to ripen, to become something in himself, to become world for himself for another's sake, it is a great exacting claim upon him, something that chooses him out and calls him to vast things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Where something becomes extremely difficult and unbearable, there we also stand always already quite near its transformation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: If we surrendered to earth's intelligence we could rise up rooted, like trees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Just keep going - no feeling is final."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Do not allow yourself to be misled by the surfaces of things"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: you are not too old and it is not too late to dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out it's own secret"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Right in the difficult we must have our joys, our happiness, our dreams: there against the depth of this background, they stand out, there for the first time we see how beautiful they are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I want to be with those who know secret things or else alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: What batters you becomes your strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: It is clear that we must embrace struggle. Every living thing conforms to it. Everything in nature grows and struggles in its own way, establishing its own identity, insisting on it at all cost, against all resistance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I believe in all that has never yet been spoken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: There are no classes in life for beginners; right away you are always asked to deal with what is most difficult."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I would like to beg of you, dear friend, as well as I can, to have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: The point is to live everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Your solitude will expand and become a place where you can live in the twilight, where the noise of other people passes, far in the distance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: May you find in yourself enough patience to endure and enough simplicity to have faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Be out of sync with your times for just one day, and you will see how much eternity you contain within you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: You must think that something is happening upon you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in its hand; it will not let you fall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: We need, in love, to practice only this: letting each other go. For holding on comes easily; we do not need to learn it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: What is happening on your innermost self is worthy of your entire love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: It seems to me that the only way one can be helpful is to extend one's hand to someone else involuntarily, and without ever knowing how useful this will be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Embrace your solitude and love it. Endure the pain it causes, and try to sing out with it. For those near to you are distant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Perhaps creating something is nothing but an act of profound remembrance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Things aren't all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us believe; most experiences are unsayable, they happen in a space that no word has ever entered, and more unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours-that is what you must be able to attain. To be solitary as you were when you were a child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: She followed slowly, taking a long time, As though there were some obstacles in the way; And yet: as though, once it was overcome, She would be beyond all walking, and would fly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: It is a tremendous act of violence to begin anything. I am not able to begin. I simply skip what should be the beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: It is clear that we must trust what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself any way it can and is spontaneously itself, tries to be itself at all costs and against all opposition. We know little, but that we must trust in what is difficult is a certainty that will never abandon us; it is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be one more reason for us to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I hold this to be the highest task for a bond between two people: that each protects the solitude of the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: If the Angel deigns to appear, it will be because you have convinced him, not by tears but by your humble resolve to be always beginning \u2014 to be a Beginner!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: You are also the physician who must watch over yourself. But in the course of every illness there are many days in which the physician can do nothing but wait."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: This is the miracle that happens every time to those who really love; the more they give, the more they possess of that precious nourishing love from which flowers and children have their strength and which could help all human beings if they would take it without doubting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: As bees gather honey, so we collect what is sweetest out of all things and build."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Yet everything that touches us, me and you, takes us together like a violin's bow, which draws one voice out of two separate strings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: This is in the end the only kind of courage that is required of us: the courage to face the strangest, most unusual, most inexplicable experiences that can meet us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I am circling around God, around the ancient tower, and I have been circling for a thousand years, and I still don't know if I am a falcon, or a storm, or a great song."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: To be loved means to be consumed. To love is to give light with inexhaustible oil. To be loved is to pass away, to love is to endure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I could give you no advice but this: to go into yourself and to explore the depths where your life wells forth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I want to love the things as no one has thought to love them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Deeply I go down into myself. My god is Dark and like a webbing made of a hundred roots that drink in silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Surely all art is the result of one's having been in danger, of having gone through an experience all the way to the end, where no one can go any further."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Do not be bewildered by the surfaces: in the depths all becomes law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Losing too is still ours; and even forgetting still has a shape in the kingdom of transformation. When something's let go of, it circles; and though we are rarely the center of the circle, it draws around us its unbroken, marvelous curve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: One moment your life is a stone in you, and the next moment a star!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Often a star was waiting for you to notice it. A wave rolled toward you out of the distant path, or as you walked under an open window, a violin yielded itself to your hearing. All this was mission."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I want to unfold. I don\u2019t want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: My blood is alive with many voices telling me I am made of longing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I am touched by your beautiful anxiety about life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: We make our way through Everything like thread passing through fabric, giving shape to images that we ourselves do not know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for the Creator, there is no poverty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: It is true that these mysteries are dreadful, and people have always drawn away from them. But where can we find anything sweet and glorious that would never wear this mask, the mask of the dreadful? Whoever does not, sometimes or other, give his full consent, his full and joyous consent to the dreadfulness of life, can never take possession of the unutterable abundance and power of our existence; can only walk on its edge, and one day, when the judgment is given, will have been neither alive nor dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Let your beauty manifest itself without talking and calculation.\u200b You are silent. It says for you: I am. And comes in meaning thousandfold\u200b, comes at long last over everyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: The moments when something new has entered us, something unknown; our feelings grow mute in shy embarrassment, everything in us withdraws, a silence arises, and the new experience, which no one knows, stands in the midst of it all and says nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous. It is not knowledge, not content of feeling... it is not duty and not renunciation, it is not restriction: but in the infinite extent of the universe it is a direction of the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I hold this to be the highest task of a bond between two people: that each shall stand guard over the solitude of the other. For, if it lies in the nature of indifference and of the crowd to recognize no solitude, then love and friendship are there for the purpose of continually providing the opportunity for solitude. And only those are the true sharings which rhythmically interrupt periods of deep isolation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Don't observe yourself too closely. Don't be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Look, we don't love like flowers with only one season behind us; when we love, a sap older than memory rises in our arms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Joy is a marvelous increasing of what exists, a pure addition out of nothingness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I live my life in widening circles that reach out across the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: the knowledge of impermanence that haunts our days is their very fragrance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I think of you often, dear, and with such concentrated wishes that it really must help you in some way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: All things want to float."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, seperate, in the evening."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: You who let yourselves feel: enter the breathing <br />\n That is more than your own. <br />\n Let it brush your cheeks <br />\n As it divides and rejoins behind you. <br />\n <br />\n The trees you planted in childhood have grown <br />\n Too heavy. You cannot bring them along. <br />\n Give yourselves to the air, to what you cannot hold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Everything is blooming most recklessly; if it were voices instead of colors, there would be an unbelievable shrieking into the heart of the night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: They, who passed away long ago, still exist in us, as predisposition, as burden upon our fate, as murmuring blood, and as gesture that rises up from the depths of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: We see the brightness of a new page where everything yet can happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I believe that nothing that is real can pass away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: And now let us believe in a long year that is given to us, new, untouched, full of things that have never been, full of work that has never been done, full of tasks, claims, and demands; and let us see that we learn to take it without letting fall too much of what it has to bestow upon those who demand of it necessary, serious, and great things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakable tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Life is heavier than the weight of all things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: A billion stars go spinning through the night, / glittering above your head, / But in you is the presence that will be / when all the stars are dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Beauty is nothing but the beginning of terror, which we are still just able to endure, and we are so awed because it serenely disdains to annihilate us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Who has not sat before his own heart's curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is falling apart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Every happiness is the child of a separation it did not think it could survive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Openness, patience, receptivity, solitude is everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: All the soarings of my mind begin in my blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Perhaps then, some day far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Live the questions now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: God speaks to each of us as he makes us, <br />\n then walks with us silently out of the night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Success, which is something so simple in the end, is made up of thousands of things, we never fully know what."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: May what I do flow from me like a river, no forcing and no holding back, the way it is with children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: May you gain more and more confidence in what is difficult and in your solitude among other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Whoever has no house now, will never have one. Whoever is alone will stay alone, will sit, read, write long letters through the evening, and wander on the boulevards, up and down, restlessly, while dry leaves are blowing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism. Only love can touch and hold them and be fair to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Space for the Spirit to breathe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: At the bottom no one in life can help anyone else in life; this one experiences over and over in every conflict and every perplexity: that one is alone. That isn't as bad as it may first appear; and again it is the best thing in life that each should have everything in himself; his fate, his future, his whole expanse and world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step up. So many live on and want nothing And are raised to the rank of prince By the slippery ease of their light judgments But what you love to see are faces that do work and feel thirst. You love most of all those who need you as they need a crowbar or a hoe. You have not grown old, and it is not too late To dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secret."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: The deepest experience of the creator is feminine, for it is experience of receiving and bearing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Lord, it is time. The summer was very big. Lay thy shadow on the sundials, and on the meadows let the winds go loose. Command the last fruits that they shall be full; give them another two more southerly days, press them on to fulfillment and drive the last sweetiness into the heavenly wine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: My eyes already touch the sunny hill. Going far ahead of the road I have begun. So we are grasped by what we cannot grasp; it has inner light, even from a distance- and charges us, even if we do not reach it, into something else, which, hardly sensing it, we already are; a gesture waves us on answering our own wave... but what we feel is the wind in our faces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Most people have turned their solutions toward what is easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must trust in what is difficult; everything alive trusts in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: God... sat down for a moment when the dog was finished in order to watch it... and to know that it was good, that nothing was lacking, that it could not have been made better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Look, I am living. On what? Neither childhood nor future lessens . . . . Superabundant existence wells in my heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Find out the reason that commands you to write; see whether it has spread its roots into the very depth of your heart; confess to yourself you would have to die if you were forbidden to write."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)-they are experiences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: We are unutterably alone essentially, especially in the things most intimate and most important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: If you trust in Nature, in the small Things that hardly anyone sees and that can so suddenly become huge, immeasurable; if you have this love for what is humble and try very simply, as someone who serves, to win the confidence of what seems poor, then everything will become easier for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: The most visible joy can only reveal itself to us when we've transformed it, within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: But because truly being here is so much; because everything here apparently needs us, this fleeting world, which in some strange way keeps calling to us. Us, the most fleeting of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: But learning-time is always a long, secluded time, and so loving, for a long while ahead and far on into life, is-solitude, intensified and deepened loneness for him who loves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Thus we live, forever taking leave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: In one creative thought a thousand forgotten nights of love revive, filling it with sublimity and exaltation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: If no one else, the dying must notice how unreal, how full of pretense, is all that we accomplish here, where nothing is allowed to be itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I would like to sing someone to sleep, to sit beside someone and be there. I would like to rock you and sing softly and go with you to and from sleep. I would like to be the one in the house who knew: The night was cold. And I would like to listen in and listen out into you, into the world, into the woods. The clocks shout to one another striking, and one sees to the bottom of time. And down below one last, strange man walks by and rouses a strange dog. And after that comes silence. I have laid my eyes upon you wide; and they hold you gently and let you go when something stirs in the dark."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: The deep parts of my life pour onward, as if the river shores were opening out. I feel closer to what language can't reach. With my senses, as with birds, I climb into the windy heaven... in the ponds broken off from the sky. . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: the longer I live, the more necessary it seems to me to endure, to copy the whole dictation of existence to the end, for it might be that only the last sentence contains that small, perhaps inconspicuous word through which all laboriously learned and not understood orients itself toward glorious sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I want to unfold. I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie, and I want my grasp of things to be true. I want to describe myself like a painting that I looked at closely for a long time, <br />\n like a saying that I finally understood, like the pitcher I use every day, <br />\n like the face of my mother, like a ship that carried me through the wildest storm of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: He who does not at some time, with definite determination consent to the terribleness of life, or even exalt in it, never takes possession of the inexpressible fullness of the power of our existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Love is something difficult and it is more difficult than other things because in other conflicts nature herself enjoins men to collect themselves, to take themselves firmly in the hand with all their strength, while in the heightening of love the impulse is to give oneself wholly away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: In this there is no measuring with time, a year doesn\u2019t matter, and ten years are nothing. Being an artist means: not numbering and counting, but ripening like a tree, which doesn\u2019t force its sap, and stands confidently in the storms of spring, not afraid that afterward summer may not come. It does come. But it comes only to those who are patient, who are there as if eternity lay before them, so unconcernedly silent and vast. I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: If only we arrange our life according to that principle which counsels us that we must hold to the difficult, then that which now still seems to us the most alien will become what we most trust and find most faithful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Every angel is terrifying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Whoever now makes himself bigger, freer and more human in his own existence, is doing his part toward peace, \u2014 as yet it must be worked at in an inward direction, not until a few have it all big and ready within them can it let itself be brought into the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I prayed to rediscover my childhood, and it has come back, and I feel that it is just as difficult as it used to be, and that growing older has served no purpose at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Girls, there are poets who learn from you to say, what you, in your aloneness, are; and they learn through you to live distantness, as the evenings through the great stars become accustomed to eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: How I will cherish you then, you grief-torn nights! Had I only received you, inconsolable sisters, on more abject knees, only buried myself with more abandon in your loosened hair. How we waste our afflictions! We study them, stare out beyond them into bleak continuance, hoping to glimpse some end. Whereas they're really our wintering foliage, our dark greens of meaning, one of the seasons of the clandestine year -- ; not only a season --: they're site, settlement, shelter, soil, abode."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Be-and yet know the great void where all things begin, the infinite source of your own most intense vibration, so that, this once, you may give it your perfect assent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: But there is much beauty here, because there is much beauty everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Your life will still find its own paths from there, and that they may be good, rich, and wide is what I wish for you, more than I can say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: What keeps you from... living your life as a painful and lovely day in the history of a great pregnancy?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: We wasters of sorrows! How we stare away into sad endurance beyond them, trying to foresee their end! Whereas they are nothing else than our winter foliage, our sombre evergreen, one of the seasons of our interior year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I feel it now: there's a power in me to grasp and give shape to my world I know that nothing has ever been real without my beholding it. All becoming has need me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: You, darkness, of whom I am born- I love you more than the flame that limits the world to the circle it illumines and excludes the rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: No, we don't accomplish our love in a single year as the flowers do; an immemorial sap flows up through our arms when we love. Dear girl, this: that we loved, inside us, not One who would someday appear, but seething multitudes; not just a single child, but also the fathers lying in our depths like fallen mountains; also the dried-up riverbeds of ancient mothers-;also the whole soundless landscape under the clouded or clear sky of its destiny -; all this, my dear, preceded you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: The leaves are falling, falling as if from far up,as if orchards were dying high in space.Each leaf falls as if it were motioning \"no.\"And tonight the heavy earth is fallingaway from all other stars in the loneliness.We're all falling. This hand here is falling.And look at the other one. It's in them all.And yet there is Someone, whose handsinfinitely calm, holding up all this falling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: We have no reason to mistrust our world, for it is not against us. Has it terrors, they are our terrors; has it abysses, those abysses belong to us; are dangers at hand, we must try to love them.... Perhaps all the dragons of our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us once beautiful and brave. Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: What we call fate does not come into us from the outside, but emerges from us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Wanting to change, to improve, a person's situation means offering him, for difficulties in which he is practiced and experienced, other difficulties that will find him perhaps even more bewildered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Resolve to be always beginning-to be a beginner!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: We must accept our reality as vastly as we possibly can; everything, even the unprecedented, must be possible within it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Why should you want to give up a child's wise not-understanding in exchange for defensiveness and scorn, since not-understanding is, after all, a way of being alone, whereas defensiveness and scorn are a participation in precisely what, by these means, you want to separate yourself from."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Do continue to believe that with your feeling and with your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate in yourself this belief, the more will reality and world go forth from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: a good marriage is that in which each appoints the other guardian of his solitude"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Verses are not, as people think, feelings (those one has early enough) -- they are experiences. For the sake of a verse one must see many cities, men, and things, one must know the animals feel how birds fly, and know the gesture with which the little flowers open in the morning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Read as little as possible of literary criticism - such things are either partisan opinions, which have become petrified and meaningless, hardened and empty of life, or else they are just clever word-games, in which one view wins today, and tomorrow the opposite view. Works of art are of an infinite solitude, and no means of approach is so useless as criticism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Love the questions, themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Nothing touches a work of art so little as criticism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: That is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most singular, and the most inexplicable that we may encounter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: It is good to be solitary, for solitude is difficult; that something is difficult must be a reason the more for us to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I don't want to stay folded anywhere, because where I am folded, there I am a lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: All feelings that concentrate you and lift you up are pure; only that feeling is impure which grasps just one side of your being and thus distorts you. Everything you can think of as you face your childhood, is good. Everything that makes more of you than you have ever been, even in your best hours, is right. Every intensification is good, if it is in your entire blood, if it isn't intoxication or muddiness, but joy which you can see into, clear to the bottom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: The only sadnesses that are dangerous and unhealthy are the ones that we carry around in public in order to drown them out with the noise; like diseases that are treated superficially and foolishly, they just withdraw and after a short interval break out again all the more terribly; and gather inside us and are life, are life that is unlived, rejected, lost, life that we can die of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I live my life in widening circle That reach out across the world. I may not ever complete the last one, But I give myself to it. I circle around God, that primordial tower. I have been circling for thousands of years, And I still don't know: am I a falcon, A storm, or a great song? [I, 2]"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: It is part of the nature of every definitive love that sooner or later it can reach the beloved only in infinity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: A work of art is good if it has arisen out of necessity. That is the only way one can judge it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: What is needed is, in the end, simply this: solitude, great inner solitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: To have a childhood means to live a thousand lives before the one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Everyone once, once only. Just once and no more. And we also once. Never again. But this having been once, although only once, to have been of the earth, seems irrevocable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: To be an artist means not to compute or count."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Who, if I cried out, would hear me among the angels'hierarchies? and even if one of thempressed me against his heart: I would be consumedin that overwhelming existence. For beauty is nothingbut the beginning of terror, which we still are just able to endure,and we are so awed because it serenely disdainsto annihilate us. Every angel is terrifying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: You must change your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: And one of the things I find most moving is the way people with infirmities manage to embrace Life, and from the cool flowers by the wayside reach conclusions about the vast splendour of its great gardens. They can, if their souls' strings are finely tuned, arrive with much less effort at the feeling of eternity; for everything we do, they may dream. And precisely where our deeds end, theirs begin to bear fruit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Our being is continually undergoing and entering upon changes. ... We must, strictly speaking, at every moment give each other up and let each other go and not hold each other back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I have patience for centuries in me and will live as though my time were very big."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Whoever you are: in the evening step out of your room, where you know everything; yours is the last house before the far-off: whoever you are. With your eyes, which in their weariness barely free themselves from the worn-out threshold, you lift very slowly one black tree and place it against the sky: slender, alone. And you have made the world. And it is huge and like a word which grows ripe in silence. And as your will seizes on its meaning, tenderly your eyes let it go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: The hero is strangely akin to those who die young."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I am much too alone in this world, yet not alone enough"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Never believe fate is more than the condensation of childhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Everything is gestation and then birthing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: But you, divine poet, you sang on till the end as the swarm of rejected maenads attacked you, shrieking, you overpowered their noise with harmony, and from pure destruction arose your transfigured song."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: The creator must be a world for himself and must find everything in himself and in Nature, to whom his whole life is devoted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: In the depths all becomes law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: The artist's experience lies so unbelievably close to the sexual, to its pain and its pleasure, that the two phenomena are really just different forms of one and the same longing and bliss."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Winning does not tempt that man. This is how he grows: by being defeated, decisively, by constantly greater beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Those tasks that have been entrusted to us are difficult; almost everything serious is difficult; and everything is serious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I know of no other advice than this: Go within and scale the depths of your being from which your very life springs forth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Comfort me from wherever you are\u2013alone, we are quickly worn out; if I place my head on the road, let it seem softened by you. Could it be that even from afar we offer each other a gentle breath?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: More unsayable than all other things are works of art, those mysterious existences, whose life endures beside our own small, transitory life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: You, Beloved, who are all the gardens I have ever gazed at, longing. An open window in a country house - , and you almost stepped out, pensive, to meet me. Streets that I chanced upon, - you had just walked down them and vanished. And sometimes, in a shop, the mirrors were still dizzy with your presence and, startled, gave back my too-sudden image. Who knows? Perhaps the same bird echoed through both of us yesterday, separate, in the evening."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: If only it were possible for us to see farther than our knowledge reaches, and even a little beyond the outworks of our presentiment, perhaps we would bear our sadnesses with greater trust than we have in our joys."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: And you suddenly know: It was here! You pull yourself together, and there stands an irrevocable year of anguish and vision and prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Everything in the world of things and animals is still filled with happening, which you can take part in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way-and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Never has grief been possessed, never has love been learned, and what removes us in death is not revealed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Be ahead of all parting, as though it already were behind you, like the winter that has just gone by. For among these winters there is one so endlessly winter that only by wintering through it will your heart survive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: One of the most difficult tests for the creator: he must always remain unconscious, unaware of his best virtues, if he doesn't want to rob them of their candor and innocence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Across the moment, aeons speak with aeons. More than we experienced has gone by."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: ... be indulgent toward those who ... are afraid of the aloneness that you trust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Young people, who are beginners in everything, cannot yet know love: they have to learn it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Now for some heartwork."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Poetic power is great, strong as a primitive instinct; it has its own unyielding rhythms in itself and breaks out as out of mountains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Swells, Marina? we ocean, depths, Marina? we sky!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: My life is not this steeply sloping hour, in which you see me hurrying. Much stands behind me; I stand before it like a tree; I am only one of my many mouths, and at that, the one that will be still the soonest. I am the rest between two notes, which are somehow always in discord because Death\u2019s note wants to climb over\u2014 but in the dark interval, reconciled, they stay there trembling. And the song goes on, beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: People have (with the help of conventions) oriented all their solutions toward the easy and toward the easiest side of the easy; but it is clear that we must hold to what is difficult; everything alive holds to it, everything in Nature grows and defends itself in its own way and is characteristically and spontaneously itself, seeks at all costs to be so and against all opposition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: To be in circumstances that are working upon us, that from time to time place us in front of great natural Things - that is all we need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Whoever you are, go out into the evening, leaving your room, of which you know every bit; your house is the last before the infinite, whoever you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: There exists a creature which is perfectly harmless; when it passes before your eyes you scarcely notice it and forget it again immediately. But as soon as it invisibly gets somehow into your ears, it develops there, it hatches, as it were, and cases have been known where it was penetrated even into the brain and has thriven devastatingly in that organ, like those pneumococci in dogs that gain entrance through the nose.This creature is one's neighbor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Some day when I lose you, will you still be able to sleep, without me to whisper over you like a crown of linden branches?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: If your everyday life appears to be unworthy subject matter, do not complain to life. Complain to yourself, Lament that you are not poet enough to call up its wealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Nothing touches a work of art so little as words of criticism: they always result in more or less fortunate misunderstandings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world, for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone, and then no one outside learns of you. But the darkness pulls in everything: shapes and fires, animals and myself, how easily it gathers them! - powers and people - and it is possible a great energy is moving near me. I have faith in nights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I learn it every day of my life, learn it with pain I am grateful for: patience is everything!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: He was a worker whose only desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficult significance of his tools. Therein lay a certain renunciation of Life, but in just this renunciation lay his triumph, for Life entered into his work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: His vision, from the constantly passing bars, has grown so weary that it cannot hold anything else. It seems to him there are a thousand bars, and behind the bars, no world. As he paces in cramped circles, over and over, the movement of his powerful soft strides is like a ritual dance around a center in which a mighty will stands paralyzed. Only at times, the curtain of the pupils lifts, quietly. An image enters in, rushes down through the tense, arrested muscles, plunges into the heart and is gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: True singing is a different breath, about nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Art too is just a way of living, and however one lives, one can, without knowing, prepare for it; in everything real one is closer to it, more its neighbor, than in the unreal half-artistic professions, which, while they pretend to be close to art, in practice deny and attack the existence of all art - as, for example, all of journalism does and almost all criticism and three quarters of what is called (and wants to be called) literature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: And yet, for some time now I have believed that it is our own force, all our own force that is still too great for us. It is true we do not know it; but is it not just that which is most our own of which we know the least?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Works of Art are of an infinite loneliness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: We are not permitted to linger, even with what is most intimate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Just as the creative artist is not allowed to choose, neither is he permitted to turn his back on anything: a single refusal, and he is cast out of the state of grace and becomes sinful all the way through."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: with poems one accomplishes so little when one writes them early. One should hold off and gather sense and sweetness a whole life long, a long life if possible, and then, right at the end, one could perhaps write ten lines that are good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: That is the principal thing-not to remain with the dream, with the intention, with the being-in-the-mood, but always forcibly to convert it all into things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: The artist's task consists of making one thing of many, and a<br />\r\nworld from the smallest part of a thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Not since Moses has anyone seen a mountain so greatly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Dying is strange and hard if it is not our death, but a death that takes us by storm, when we've ripened none within us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Life and death: they are one, at core entwined. Who understands himself from his own strain presses himself into a drop of wine and throws himself into the purest flame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Weren't you always distracted by expectation, as if every event announced a beloved? (Where can you find a place to keep her, with all the huge strange thoughts inside you going and coming and often staying all night.)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Be forever dead in Eurydice-more gladly arise into the seamless life proclaimed in your song. Here, in the realm of decline, among momentary days, be the crystal cup that shattered even as it rang."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his reflective processes, and incomprehensibly to himself, all his progress should enter so swiftly into the work that he is unable to recognize them in the moment of transition. Alas, the artist who waits in ambush there, watching, detaining them, will find them transformed like the beautiful gold in the fairy tale which cannot remain gold because some small detail was not taken care of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I am so afraid of people's words.They describe so distinctly everything: And this they call dog and that they call house, here the start and there the end. I worry about their mockery with words, they know everything, what will be, what was; no mountain is still miraculous; and their house and yard lead right up to God. I want to warn and object: Let the things be! I enjoy listening to the sound they are making. But you always touch: and they hush and stand still. That's how you kill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: It almost seems as if autumn were the true creator, more creative than the spring, which is too even-toned, more creative when it comes with its will-to-change and shatters the much too ready-made, self-satisfied and really almost bourgeois-complacent image of summer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I am a house gutted by fire where only the guilty sometimes sleep before the punishment that devours them hounds them out in the open."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I would like to step out of my heart<br />\n and go walking beneath the enormous sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: She who reconciles the ill-matched threads Of her life, and weaves them gratefully Into a single cloth \u2013 It\u2019s she who drives the loudmouths from the hall And clears it for a different celebration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Fame, that public destruction of one in process of becoming, into whose building-ground the mob breaks, displacing his stones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: There is only one solitude, and it is vast, heavy, difficult to bear, and almost everyone has hours when he would gladly exchange it for any kind of sociability, however trivial or cheap, for the tiniest outward agreement with the first person who comes along."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: To all that is used-up, and to all the muffled and dumb creatures in the world's full reserve, the unsayable sums, joyfully add yourself, and cancel the count."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Physical pleasure is a sensual experience no different from pure seeing or the pure sensation with which a fine fruit fills the tongue; it is a great unending experience, which is given us, a knowing of the world, the fullness and the glory of all knowing. And not our acceptance of it is bad; the bad thing is that most people misuse and squander this experience and apply it as a stimulant at the tired spots of their lives and as distraction instead of a rallying toward exalted moments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: The sky puts on the darkening blue coat held for it by a row of ancient trees; you watch: and the lands grow distant in your sight, one journeying to heaven, one that falls; and leave you, not at home in either one, not quite so still and dark as the darkened houses, not calling to eternity with the passion of what becomes a star each night, and rises; and leave you (inexpressibly to unravel) your life, with its immensity and fear, so that, now bounded, now immeasurable it is alternately stone in you and star."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: FALLING STARS: Do you remember still the falling stars that like swift horses through the heavens raced and suddenly leaped across the hurdles of our wishes -- do you recall? And we did make so many! For there were countless numbers of stars: each time we looked above we were astounded by the swiftness of their daring play, while in our hearts we felt safe and secure watching these brilliant bodies disintegrate, knowing somehow we had survived their fall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: There are quite a number of people in the reading-room; but one is not aware of them. They are inside the books. They move, sometimes, within the pages like sleepers turning over between two dreams. Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: It was not in me It came and went I wanted to hold it It was held by wine (I no longer know what it was)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: sometimes a man stands up during supper and walks outdoors, and keeps on walking, because of a church that stands somewhere in the East. And his children say blessings on him as if he were dead. And another man, who remains inside his own house, stays there, inside the dishes and in the glasses, so that his children have to go far out into the world toward that same church, which he forgot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: The thought of being a creator, of engendering, of shaping is nothing without the continuous great confirmation and embodiment in the world, nothing without the thousandfold assent from Things and animals... beautiful and rich only because it is full of inherited memories of the engendering and birthing of millions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: So it's back once more, back up the slope. Why do they always ruin my rope with their cuts? I felt so ready the other day, Had a real foretaste of eternity In my guts. Spoonfeeding me yet another sip from life's cup. I don't want it, won't take any more of it. Let me throw up. Life is medium rare and good, I see, And the world full of soup and bread, But it won't pass into the blood for me, Just goes to my head. It makes me ill, though others it feeds; Do see that I must deny it! For a thousand years from now at least I'm keeping a diet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Painting is something that takes place among the colors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Rose, oh pure contradiction, joy of being No-one's sleep under so many lids."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: It is not inertia alone that is responsible for human relationships repeating themselves from case to case, indescribably monotonous and unrenewed: it is shyness before any sort of new, unforeseeable experience with which one does not think oneself able to cope. But only someone who is ready for everything, who excludes nothing, not even the most enigmatical will live the relation to another as something alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: To work is to live without dying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Look, lovers: almost separately they come towards us through the flowery grass and slowly; parting's so far from thought of, they indulge the extravagance of walking unembraced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Painting is something that takes place among the colors, and one has to leave them alone completely, so that they can settle the matter among themselves. Their intercourse: this is the whole of painting. Whoever meddles, arranges, injects his human deliberation, his wit, his advocacy, his intellectual agility in any way, is already disturbing and clouding their activity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: O how all things are far removed and long have passed away. I do believe the star, whose light my face reflects, is dead and has been so for many thousand years. I had a vision of a passing boat and heard some voices saying disquieting things. I heard a clock strike in some distant house... but in which house?... I long to quiet my anxious heart and stand beneath the sky's immensity. I long to pray... And one of all the stars must still exist. I do believe that I would know which one alone endured, and which like a white city stands at the ray's end shining in the heavens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: They all have tired mouths and bright seamless souls. And a longing (as for sin) sometimes haunts their dreams. They are almost all alike; in God's gardens they keep still, like many, many intervals in his might and melody. Only when they spread their wings are they wakers of a wind: as if God with his broad sculptor- hands leafed through the pages in the dark book of the beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Interior of the hand. Sole that has come to walk only on feelings. That faces upward and in its mirror receives heavenly roads, which travel along themselves. That has learned to walk upon water when it scoops, that walks upon wells, transfiguring every path. That steps into other hands, changes those that are like it into a landscape: wanders and arrives within them, fills them with arrival."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: How can I keep my soul in me, so that it doesn't touch your soul? How can I raise it high enough, past you, to other things?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: And we, spectators always, everywhere, looking at, never out of, everything! It fills us. We arrange it. It collapses. We re-arrange it, and collapse ourselves. Who's turned us round like this, so that we always, do what we may, retain the attitude of someone who's departing? Just as he, on the last hill, that shows him all his valley for the last time, will turn and stop and linger, we live our lives, for ever taking leave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: We must assume our existence as broadly as we in any way can; everything, even the unheard - of, must be possible in it. This is at bottom the only courage that is demanded of us: to have courage for the most strange, the most inexplicable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: He reproduced himself with so much humble objectivity, with the unquestioning, matter of fact interest of a dog who sees himself in a mirror and thinks: there's another dog."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: I never read anything concerning my work. I feel that criticism is a letter to the public which the author, since it is not directed to him, does not have to open and read."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Just as language has no longer anything in common with the thing it names, so the movements of most of the people who live in cities have lost their connection with the earth; they hang, as it were, in the air, hover in all directions, and find no place where they can settle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: It is good to say it aloud: 'Nothing has happened.' Once again: 'Nothing has happened.' Does that help?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Perhaps the great renewal of the world will consist of this, that man and woman, freed of all confused feelings and desires, shall no longer seek each other as opposites, but simply as members of a family and neighbors, and will unite as human beings, in order to simply, earnestly, patiently, and jointly bear the heavy responsibility of sexuality that has been entrusted to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: That is longing: To dwell in the flux of things,<br />\n To have no home in the present.<br />\n And these are wishes: gentle dialogues<br />\n Of the poor hours with eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: No experience has been too unimportant, and the smallest event unfolds like a fate, and fate itself is like a wonderful, wide fabric in which every thread is guided by an infinitely tender hand and laid alongside another thread and is held and supported by a hundred others"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Music: breathing of statues. Perhaps: silence of paintings. You language where all language ends. You time standing vertically on the motion of mortal hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rainer Maria Rilke: Stand up during supper and walk outdoors, and keep on walking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: When I run after what I think I want, my days are a furnace of stress and anxiety; if I sit in my own place of patience, what I need flows to me, and without pain. From this I understand that what I want also wants me, is looking for me and attracting me. There is a great secret here for anyone who can grasp it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the river. Listen to the ocean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: God turns you from one feeling to another and teaches by means of opposites so that you will have two wings to fly, not one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: What hurts you, blesses you. Darkness is your candle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Love is the bridge between you and everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: When you do things from your soul, you feel a river moving in you, a joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Inside you there's an artist you don't know about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If you could leave your selfishness, you would see how you've been torturing your soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Many of the faults you see in others, dear reader, <br />\n are your own nature reflected in them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: This being human is a guest house. Every morning is a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes as an unexpected visitor...Welcome and entertain them all. Treat each guest honorably. The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in. Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Water in the boat is the ruin of the boat, but water under the boat is its support."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Sorrow prepares you for joy. It violently sweeps everything out of your house, so that new joy can find space to enter. It shakes the yellow leaves from the bough of your heart, so that fresh, green leaves can grow in their place. It pulls up the rotten roots, so that new roots hidden beneath have room to grow. Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Thankfulness brings you to the place where the Beloved lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Appear as you are, or be as you appear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Apparently two, but one in soul, you and I."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Why should I be unhappy? Each parcel of my being is in full bloom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The angel is free because of his knowledge, the beast because of his ignorance. Between the two remains the son of man to struggle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Giving thanks for abundance is sweeter than the abundance itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: In your light I learn how to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshiper, lover of leaving. It doesn't matter. Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come, even if you have broken your vows a thousand times. Come, yet again, come, come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I always thought that <br />\n I was me \u2014 but no, <br />\n I was you <br />\n and never knew it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Deep in our Hearts, the Light of Heaven is shining."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Consider how wool is turned into an elegantly designed carpet by coming into contact with an intelligent person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Everything that is made beautiful and fair and lovely is made for the eye of one who sees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Watch for all that beauty reflecting from you and sing a love song to your existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Yesterday is gone and took away its tale. <br />\n Today we must live a fresh story again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If you wish mercy, show mercy to the weak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: When your heart becomes the grave of your secrets, that desire of yours will be gained more quickly. The prophet said that anyone who keeps secret his inmost thought will soon attain the object of his desire. When seeds are buried in the earth, their inward secrets become the flourishing garden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more - more unseen forms become manifest to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Be with those who help your being. Don't sit with indifferent people, whose breath comes cold out of their mouths."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Love itself describes its own perfection. Be speechless and listen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Love is fearless in the midst <br />\n of the sea of fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The intellectual is always showing off,<br />\nthe lover is always getting lost.<br />\nThe intellectual runs away.<br />\nafraid of drowning;<br />\nthe whole business of love<br />\nis to drown in the sea.<br />\nIntellectuals plan their repose;<br />\nlovers are ashamed to rest.<br />\nThe lover is always alone.<br />\neven surrounded by people;<br />\nlike water and oil, he remains apart.<br />\nThe man who goes to the trouble<br />\nof giving advice to a lover<br />\nget nothing. He's mocked by passion.<br />\nLove is like musk. It attracts attention.<br />\nLove is a tree, and the lovers are its shade."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Let the beauty of what you love be what you do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah\u2026it makes absolutely no difference what people think of you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If Your Eyes Are Opened, You'll See The Things Worth Seeing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Come into my eyes, and look at me through them, for I have chosen a home far beyond what eyes can see."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Every moment, a voice, out of this world, calls on our soul, to wake up and rise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Come, seek, for search is the foundation of fortune:<br />\r\nevery success depends upon focusing the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: All the particles of the World are in Love <br />\n and looking for Lovers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Always search for your innermost nature in those you are with, as rose oil imbibes from roses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: When I am with you, we stay up all night. When you're not here, I can't go to sleep. Praise God for those two insomnias! And the difference between them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If you are irritated by every rub, how will your mirror be polished?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: A moment of happiness, you and I sitting on the verandah, apparently two, but one in soul, you and I. We feel the flowing water of life here, you and I, with the garden's beauty and the birds singing. The stars will be watching us, and we will show them what it is to be a thin crescent moon. You and I unselfed, will be together, indifferent to idle speculation, you and I. The parrots of heaven will be cracking sugar as we laugh together, you and I. In one form upon this earth, and in another form in a timeless sweet land."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: A soul which is not clothed <br />\n with the inner garment of Love <br />\n should be ashamed of its existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Love risks everything and asks for nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The wound is the place where the Light enters you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The only way to measure a lover <br />\n is by the grandeur of the beloved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Let silence take you to the core of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: But listen to me. For one moment quit being sad. Hear blessings dropping their blossoms around you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Ignore those that make you fearful and sad, that degrade you back towards disease and death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Our death is our wedding with eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Although I may try to describe Love, When I experience it, I am speechless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: A white flower grows in the quietness. Let your tongue become that flower."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I\u2019m sure of that,and I intend to end up there. Who looks out with my eyes? What is the soul? I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks. I didn\u2019t come here of my own accord, and I can\u2019t leave that way. Whoever brought me here, will have to take me home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Pull the thorn of existence out of the heart! Fast! For when you do, you will see thousands of rose gardens in yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Beauty is the garden scent of roses, murmuring water flowing gently...Can words describe the indescribable?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Those who don't want to change, let them sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The body is not hidden from the soul, nor is the soul hidden from the body, and yet the soul is not for everyone to see."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Just as the heart becomes carefree in a place of green, growing plants, goodwill and kindness are born when our souls enter happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Every moment is made glorious by the light of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: What strikes the oyster shell <br />\n doesn't damage the pearl."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Your longing for ME is my message to you, All your attempts to reach ME, Are in reality MY attempts to reach you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I am the servant of the Qur'an as long as I have life. I am the dust on the path of Muhammad, the Chosen One."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame, abandoned by a fantasy. \u2026People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Let Go of Your Worries Let go of your worries and be completely clear-hearted, like the face of a mirror that contains no images. If you want a clear mirror, behold yourself and see the shameless truth, which the mirror reflects. If metal can be polished to a mirror-like finish, what polishing might the mirror of the heart require? Between the mirror and the heart is this single difference: the heart conceals secrets, while the mirror does not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I want a heart which is split, part by part, because of the pain of separation from God, so that I might explain my longing and complaint to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: No mirror ever became iron again; <br />\r\nNo bread ever became wheat; <br />\r\nNo ripened grape ever became sour fruit. <br />\r\nMature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. <br />\r\nBecome the light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: When LOVE for GOD has been doubled in your HEART, <br />\n there is no doubt that GOD has love for YOU."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: My head is bursting with the joy of the unknown. My heart is expanding a thousand fold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There are many languages in the world; in meaning all are the same. If you break the cups, water will be unified and will flow together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Do not believe in an absurdity no matter who says it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: They are the chosen ones <br />\n who have surrendered ... <br />\n Once they were particles of light <br />\n now they are the radiant sun!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I honor those who try to rid themselves of any lying, who empty the self and have only clear being there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Silence <br />\nis an ocean. Speech is a river. <br />\nWhen the ocean is searching for you, don't walk <br />\ninto the language-river. Listen to the ocean, <br />\nand bring your talky business to an end. <br />\nTraditional words are just babbling <br />\nin that presence, and babbling is a substitute <br />\nfor sight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Conventional opinion is the ruin of our souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I didn't come here of my own accord, and I can't leave that way. Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Who gets up early to discover the moment light begins?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: A lover is always accused of something. But when he finds his love, whatever was lost in the looking comes back completely changed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Work on your stony qualities and become resplendent like the ruby. Practice self-denial and accept difficulty. Always see infinite life in letting the self die. Your stoniness will decrease; your ruby nature will grow. The signs of self-existence will leave your body, and ecstasy will take you over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If you are wholly perplexed and in straits, have patience, for patience is the key to joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Your light is more magnificent than sunrise or sunset"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Seek passion, seek passion, seek passion!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Love so needs to love that it will endure almost anything, even abuse, just to flicker for a moment. But the sky's mouth is kind, its song will never hurt you, for I sing those words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The lover never despairs. <br />\n For a committed heart everything is possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Christian, Jew, Muslim, shaman, Zoroastrian, stone, ground, mountain, river, each has a secret way of being with the mystery, unique and not to be judged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The breezes at dawn have secrets to tell you Don't go back to sleep! You must ask for what you really want. Don't go back to sleep! People are going back and forth across the doorsill where the two worlds touch, The door is round and open Don't go back to sleep!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: A true Lover is proved such by his pain of Heart! <br />\n No sickness is there like sickness of Heart!!!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in every heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Things are such that someone lifting a cup, or watching the rain, petting a dog, or singing, just singing - could be doing as much for this universe as anyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Be a spot of ground where nothing is growing, <br />\n where something might be planted, <br />\n a seed, possibly, from the Absolute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Your calling my name is My reply. Your longing for Me is My message to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Once you conquer your selfish self, all your darkness will change to light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Be kind to yourself, dear - to our innocent follies. <br />\r\nForget any sounds or touch you knew that did not help you dance. <br />\r\nYou will come to see that all evolves us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterwards repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before. Your desire for the illusory is a wing, by means of which a seeker might ascend to Reality. When you have indulged a lust, your wing drops off; you become lame and that fantasy flees. Preserve the wing and don't indulge such lust, so that the wing of desire may bear you to Paradise. People fancy they are enjoying themselves, but they are really tearing out their wings for the sake of an illusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: In the slaughterhouse of love, they kill only the best, none of the weak or deformed. Don't run away from this dying. Whoever's not killed for love is dead meat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The lamps are different, but the Light is the same. One matter, one energy, one Light, one Light-mind, endlessly emanating all things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: This place is a dream. Only a sleeper considers it real. Then death comes like dawn, and you wake up laughing at what you thought was your grief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: God works in mysterious ways. Things may look good outwardly, but there may be evil contained inside. Let no one be deluded by pride that he himself has conceived good ideas or done good deeds. If everything were as it seemed, the Prophet would not have cried out with such illuminated and illuminating perspicacity, Show me things as they are! You make things appear beautiful when in reality they are ugly; You make things appear ugly when in reality they are beautiful. Show us therefore each thing as it is lest we fall into a snare and be ever errant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Love is reckless; not reason. Reason seeks a profit. Loves comes on strong, consuming herself unabashed. Yet in the midst of suffering love proceeds like a millstone, hard surfaced and straight forward. Having died to self interest, she risks everything and asks for nothing. Love gambles away every gift God bestows. Without cause God gave us Being; without cause give it back again. Gambling yourself away is beyond any religion. Religion seeks grace and favor, but those who gamble these away are God's favorites, for they neither put God to the test nor knock at the door of gain and loss."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Patience is the key to joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The cure for pain is in the pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Love rushed into my veins emptying me of myself. Now filled with the Beloved my only possession is my name."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Walk to the well. <br />\n Turn as the earth and the moon turn, <br />\n circling what they love. <br />\n Whatever circles comes from the center."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Be grateful for whoever comes, because each has been sent as a guide from beyond."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Be drunk with LOVE, for Love is all that exists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Be helpless, dumbfounded, Unable to say yes or no. Then a stretcher will come from grace to gather us up. We are too dull-eyed to see that beauty. If we say we can, we\u2019re lying. If we say No, we don\u2019t see it, That No will behead us And shut tight our window onto spirit. So let us rather not be sure of anything, Beside ourselves, and only that, so Miraculous beings come running to help. Crazed, lying in a zero circle, mute, We shall be saying finally, With tremendous eloquence, Lead us. When we have totally surrendered to that beauty, We shall be a mighty kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: You moan, \"She left me.\"  \"He left me,\"<br />\r\nTwenty more will come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: What was said to the rose that made it open, was said to me, here in my chest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The illuminated life can happen now, in the moments left. Die to your ego, and become a True Human Being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If the foot of the trees were not tied to earth, they would be pursuing me; <br />\nFor I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: That which God said to the rose, and caused it to laugh in full-blown beauty, He said to my heart, and made it a hundred times more beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There is no room for hypocrisy. Why use bitter soup for healing when sweet water is everywhere?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Whenever Beauty looks,<br />\r\nLove is also there;<br />\r\nWhenever beauty shows a rosy cheek<br />\r\nLove lights Her fire from that flame.<br />\r\nWhen beauty dwells in the dark folds of night<br />\r\nLove comes and finds a heart<br />\r\nentangled in tresses.<br />\r\nBeauty and Love are as body and soul.<br />\r\nBeauty is the mine, Love is the diamond."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: All day I think about it, then at night I say it. Where did I come from, and what am I supposed to be doing? I have no idea. My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: This is how it always is when I finish a poem. A great silence overcomes me and I wonder why I ever thought to use language."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: For hundreds of thousands of years I have been dust-grains floating and flying in the will of the air, often forgetting ever being in that state, but in sleep I migrate back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Your legs will get heavy and tired. Then comes a moment of feeling the wings you've grown, lifting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: In the orchard and rose garden I long to see your face. In the taste of Sweetness I long to kiss your lips. In the shadows of passion I long for your love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Are you fleeing from Love because of a single humiliation?<br />\r\nWhat do you know of Love except the name?<br />\r\nLove has a hundred forms of pride and disdain,<br />\r\nand is gained by a hundred means of persuasion.<br />\r\nSince Love is loyal, it purchases one who is loyal:<br />\r\nit has no interest in a disloyal companion.<br />\r\nThe human being resembles a tree; its root is a covenant with God:<br />\r\nthat root must be cherished with all one's might."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The moment I first heard love I gave up my soul, my heart, and my eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Don't be satisfied with stories, how things have gone with others. Unfold your own myth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Humankind is being led along an evolving course, through this migration of intelligences, and though we seem to be sleeping, there is an inner wakefulness that directs the dream, and that will eventually startle us back to the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: When the remedy you have offered only increases the disease, then leave him who will not be cured, and tell your story to someone who seeks the truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depth of the stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The garden of love is green without limit and yields many fruits other than sorrow or joy. Love is beyond either condition: without spring, without autumn, it is always fresh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: You're not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Last night you left me and slept your own deep sleep. Tonight you turn and turn. I say, 'You and I will be together till the Universe dissolves.' You mumble back things you thought of when you were drunk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If you knew yourself for even one moment, if you could just glimpse your most beautiful face, maybe you wouldn\u2019t slumber so deeply in that house of clay. Why not move into your house of joy and shine into every crevice! For you are the secret Treasure-bearer, and always have been. Didn\u2019t you know?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: When the rose is gone and the garden faded you will no longer hear the nightingale's song. The Beloved is all; the lover just a veil. The Beloved is living; the lover a dead thing. If love withholds its strengthening care, the lover is left like a bird without care, the lover is left like a bird without wings. How will I be awake and aware if the light of the Beloved is absent? Love wills that this Word be brought forth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: This is a gathering of Lovers.<br />\r\nIn this gathering<br />\r\nthere is no high, no low,<br />\r\nno smart, no ignorant,<br />\r\nno special assembly,<br />\r\nno grand discourse,<br />\r\nno proper schooling required.<br />\r\nThere is no master,<br />\r\nno disciple.<br />\r\nThis gathering is more like a drunken party,<br />\r\nfull of tricksters, fools,<br />\r\nmad men and mad women.<br />\r\nThis is a gathering of Lovers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Love isn't the work of the tender and the gentle; Love is the work of wrestlers. The one who becomes a servant of lovers is really a fortunate sovereign. Don't ask anyone about Love; ask Love about Love. Love is a cloud that scatters pearls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Like a sculptor, if necessary, carve a friend out of stone. Realize that your inner sight is blind and try to see a treasure in everyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: He whose intellect overcomes his lust is higher than the angels; he whose lust overcomes his intelligence is less than an animal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Sunlight fell upon the wall; the wall received a borrowed splendor. Why set your heart on a piece of earth, O simple one? Seek out the source which shines forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Stop looking for something out there and begin seeing within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Your depression is connected to your insolence and refusal to praise. Whoever feels himself walking on the path, and refuses to praise--that man or woman steals from others every day--is a shoplifter! The sun became full of light when it got hold of itself. Angels only began shining when they achieved discipline. The sun goes out whenever the cloud of not-praising comes. The moment the foolish angel felt insolent, he heard the door close."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his hear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and kiss the ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The miracle of Jesus is himself, not what he said or did about the future. Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: You must ask for what you really want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Whether one moves <br />\n slowly or with speed, <br />\n the one who <br />\n is a seeker <br />\n will be a finder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The undisciplined man doesn't wrong himself alone- he sets fire to the whole world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don't finally meet somewhere. They're in each other all along."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Kindle in thy heart the flame of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Birdsong brings relief to my longing. I am just as ecstatic as they are, but with nothing to say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: A thief loves the night. I am day. I reveal essences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If in thirst you drink water from a cup, you see God in it. Those who are not in love with God will see only their own faces in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The cure for pain is in the pain. Good and bad are mixed. If you don't have both, you don't belong with us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: People are distracted by objects of desire, and afterward repent of the lust they've indulged, because they have indulged with a phantom and are left even farther from Reality than before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Through love, all pain will turn to medicine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I am sunlight slicing the dark."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The branch might seem like the fruit's origin: <br />\n In fact, the branch exist because of the fruit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Listen, O drop, give yourself up without regret, and in exchange gain the Ocean. Listen, O drop, bestow upon yourself this honor, and in the arms of the Sea be secure. Who indeed should be so fortunate? An Ocean wooing a drop! In God's name, in God's name, sell and buy at once! Give a drop, and take this Sea full of pearls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There is my body, in it an ocean formed of his glory, all the creation, all the universes, all the galaxies, are lost in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The men of God are like fishes in the ocean; they pop up into view on the surface here and there and everywhere, as they please."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: You left and I cried tears of blood. My sorrow grows. Its not just that You left. But when You left my eyes went with You. Now, how will I cry?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I know you're tired but come, this is the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Be with those who help your being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: While still in the cage of your being behold the spirit bird before it flies away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Come to the Root of the Root of your Self"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Ignorance is God's prison. Knowing is God's palace"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The water has a Water that is driving it; <br />\n The spirit has a Spirit that is Calling it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: All we really want is love's confusing joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If thou wilt be observant and vigilant, thou wilt see at every moment the response to thy action. Be observant if thou wouldst have a pure heart, for something is born to thee in consequence of every action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them at the door laughing, and invite them in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If the house of the world is dark, Love will find a way to create windows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking. Live in silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Darkness is your candle. <br />\n Your boundaries are your quest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: And so it is, that both the Devil and the angelic Spirit present us with objects of desire to awaken our power of choice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Free of who I was, free of presence, free of dangerous fear, hope, free of mountainous wanting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Bring the sky beneath your feet and listen to celestial music everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The fault is in the one who blames. Spirit sees nothing to criticize."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I was dead, then alive. Weeping, then laughing. The power of love came into me, and I became fierce like a lion, then tender like the evening star."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Every moment, the sunlight <br />\n is totally empty and totally full."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There is an invisible strength within us; when it recognizes two opposing objects of desire, it grows stronger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Even though you're not equipped, keep searching: equipment isn't necessary on the way to the Lord."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Look at these worlds spinning out of nothingness. That is within your power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Stay with friends who support you in these. Talk with them about sacred texts, and how you are doing, and how they are doing, and keep your practices together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The world's flattery and hypocrisy is a sweet morsel: eat less of it, for it is full of fire. Its fire is hidden while its taste is manifest, but its smoke becomes visible in the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If you don't find true balance, anyone can deceive you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I cannot stop asking. If I could taste one sip of an answer, I could break out of this prison for drunks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Listen. Make a way for yourself inside yourself. Stop looking in the other way of looking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: A pen went scribbling along. When it tried to write love, it broke."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: When the ocean surges, don't let me just hear it. Let it splash inside my chest!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Lovers O lovers, lovers it is time to set out from the world. I hear a drum in my soul's ear coming from the depths of the stars. Our camel driver is at work; the caravan is being readied. He asks that we forgive him for the disturbance he has caused us, He asks why we travellers are asleep. Everywhere the murmur of departure; the stars, like candles thrust at us from behind blue veils, and as if to make the invisible plain, a wondrous people have come forth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Remember God so much that you are forgotten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Love is the cure, for your pain will keep giving birth to more pain until your eyes constantly exhale love as effortlessly as your body yields its scent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The Earth turns to Gold, in the hands of the wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Those who don't feel this love pulling them like a river, those who don't drink dawn like a cup of  springwater or take in sunset like a supper, those who don't want to change, let them sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Woman is a ray of God. She is not that earthly beloved: she is creative, not created."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Knowledge that is acquired is not like this. Those who have it worry if audiences like it or not. It's a bait for popularity. Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul... The only real customer is God. Chew quietly your sweet sugarcane God-Love, and stay playfully childish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The final flight make your last journey from this strange world soar for the heights where there is no more God has created your wings not to be dormant as long as you are alive you must try more and more to use your wings to show you're alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Inside you there\u2019s an artist you don\u2019t know about\u2026 say yes quickly, if you know, if you\u2019ve known it from before the beginning of the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: At every instant and from every side, resounds the call of Love:<br />\r\nWe are going to sky, who wants to come with us?<br />\r\nWe have gone to Heaven, we have been the friends of the angels,<br />\r\nAnd now we will go back there, for there is our country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Friend, our closeness is this: anywhere you put your foot, feel me in the firmness under you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Gamble everything for love, if you're a true human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Everything you possess of skill, and wealth, and handicraft, wasn't it first merely a thought and a quest?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Without the frown of clouds and lightning, the vines would be burned by the smiling sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: No One in the Entire World is as Precious as You are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Love opens my chest, and thought returns to its confines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The Real Beloved is that one who is Unique, <br />\n who is your Beginning and your End."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Let go of your mind and then be mindful. Close your ears and listen!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence is in every small contracting and expanding, the two as beautifully balanced and coordinated as birds' wings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Look at me as many times as you wish, <br />\n but you won\u2019t get to know me! <br />\n Since you have last seen me, <br />\n I\u2019ve changed a hundred times!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If you put your heart against the earth with me <br />\n In serving every creature, our Beloved will enter you <br />\n From our sacred realm, and we will be, we will be <br />\n So happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: What is the body? That shadow of a shadow<br />\r\nof your love, that somehow contains<br />\r\nthe entire universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The lion who breaks the enemy's ranks is a minor hero compared to the lion who overcomes himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: My place is the Placeless, my trace is the Traceless ; 'Tis neither body nor soul, for I belong to the soul of the Beloved. I have put duality away, I have seen that the two worlds are one; One I seek, One I know, One I see, One I call."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The body is a device to calculate <br />\n the astronomy of the spirit. <br />\n Look through that astrolabe <br />\n and become oceanic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, be all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Become the sky. Take an axe to the prison wall. Escape."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Whatever posessions and objects of its desires the lower self may obtain, it hangs on to them, refusing to let them go out of greed for more, or out of fear of poverty and need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: A mountain keeps an echo deep inside itself. That's how I hold your voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I belong to the beloved. Have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know. ...First, Last, Outer, Inner, only that breath breathing. HUMAN BEING."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Beg of God the removal of envy, that God may deliver you from externals, and bestow upon you an inward occupation, which will absorb you so that your attention is not drawn away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The way to heaven is within. Shake the wings of love-when love's wings have become strong, there is no need to trouble about a ladder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Flowers every night Blossom in the sky; Peace in the Infinite, At peace am I."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I am filled with you. Skin, blood, bone, brain, and soul. There's no room for lack of trust, or trust. Nothing in this existence but that existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: To a frog that's never left his pond, the ocean seems like a gamble. Look what he's giving up: security, mastery of his world, recognition! The ocean frog just shakes his head. \"I can't explain where I live, but someday I'll take you there.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There is a light seed grain inside. You fill it with yourself, or it dies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If you wish to shine like day, burn up the night of self-existence. Dissolve in the Being who is everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Until the juice ferments a while in the cask, it isn't wine. If you wish your heart to be bright, you must do a little work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Let people catch something from your heart that will cause no discomfort, but help them to sing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Awe is the salve that will heal our eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Don\u2019t knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, \"How are you?\" and no one says How aren\u2019t you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded.<br />\r\nSomeone sober will worry about events going badly.<br />\r\nLet the lover be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I have no companion but Love, no beginning, no end, no dawn. The Soul calls from within me: 'You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Discipline enabled Heaven to be filled with light; discipline enabled the angels to be immaculate and holy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Love is the vital core of the soul. And of all you see, only love is infinite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If you find the mirror of the heart dull, the rust has not been cleared from its face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: He alone has the right to break, for He alone has the power to mend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Passion makes the old medicine new:<br />\nPassion lops off the bough of weariness.<br />\nPassion is the elixir that renews:<br />\nhow can there be weariness<br />\nwhen passion is present?<br />\nOh, don't sigh heavily from fatigue:<br />\nseek passion, seek passion, seek passion!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If you yearn for holy felicity, <br />\n shed your arrogance and Become A Seeker Of Hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Whoever brought me here will have to take me home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: When The Goodwill Of Hearts Is With You, <br />\n Fountains Of Wisdom Will Begin To Flow <br />\n From Within Your Own Being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Wash the dust from your SOUl and HEART with wisdom's WATER."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: My friend, you thought you lost Him; that all your life you've been separated from Him. Filled with wonder, you've always looked outside for Him, and haven't searched within your own house."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: And watch two men washing clothes, one makes dry clothes wet. The other makes wet clothes dry. they seem to be thwarting each other, but their work is a perfect harmony. Every holy person seems to have a different doctrine and practice, but there's really only one work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: What will our children do in the morning if they do not see us fly?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Soul receives from soul that knowledge, therefore not by book nor from tongue. If knowledge of mysteries come after emptiness of mind, that is illumination of heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: When someone mentions the gracefulness of the night sky, climb up on the roof and dance and say, like this?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Flow down and down in always widening rings of being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The spiritual path wrecks the body And afterwards restores it to health. It destroys the house to unearth the treasure, And with that treasure builds it better than before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If you dig a pit for others to fall into, you will fall into it yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Pain is a treasure, for it contains mercies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: This mirror inside me shows. I can\u2019t say what, but I can\u2019t not know. I run from body. I run from spirit. I do not belong anywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The morning wind spreads its fresh smell. We must get up and take that in, that wind that lets us live. Breathe before it's gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Beauty and Love are as body and soul. <br />\n Beauty is the mine, LOVE is the diamond. <br />\n They have together since the beginning of time- <br />\n Side by side, step by step."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Thirst drove me down to the water <br />\n where I drank the moon's reflection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: But meditate now on steadfastness and clarity, and let those be the wings that lift and soar through the celestial spheres."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Nightingales are put in cages because their songs give pleasure. Whoever heard of keeping a crow?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: For sixty years I have been forgetful every minute, but not for a second has this flowing toward me stopped or slowed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Quit acting like a wolf, and feel the shepherd's love filling you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Feeling lonely and ignoble indicates that you haven't been patient."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The breeze at dawn has secrets to tell you. Don't go back to sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Till man destroys \"self\" he is no true friend of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Whatever sorrow shakes from your heart, far better things will take their place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. Welcome and entertain them all!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There is a Soul within the Soul. Seek it out. There is a Treasure in your mountain. Seek it Out. A mystic in motion, if that's what you are, don't seek out there; seek inside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: My religion is, to live through Love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I am like the heaven, like the moon, like a candle by your glow; I am all reason, all love, all soul, by your soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Reason is like an officer when the king appears. The officer then loses his power and hides himself. Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Rise up nimbly and go on your strange journey!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: What the sayer of praise is really praising is himself, by saying implicitly, My eyes are clear.\" Likewise, someone who criticizes is criticizing himself, saying implicitly, \"I can't see very well with my eyes so inflamed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: As for us, He has appointed the job of permanent unemployment. If he wanted us to work, after all, He would not have created this wine. With a skinfull of this, Sir, would you rush out to commit economics?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.<br />\n There is a gem in the mountain of your body, seek that mine.<br />\n O traveller, if you are in search of that<br />\n Don't look outside, look inside yourself and seek that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: From \"Wetness and Water\" How does a part of the world leave the world? How can wetness leave water? Do not try to put out a fire by throwing on more fire. Do not wash a wound with blood. No matter how fast you run, your shadow more than keeps up. Sometimes it's in front. Only full, overhead sun diminishes your shadow. But that shadow has been serving you. What hurts you blesses you. Darkness is your candle. Your boundaries are your quest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Love, the life-giving garden of this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Play the flute of felicity! You, yourself, are the melody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: This phantom world gave you false signs But you turned from the illusion and journeyed to the land of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I have seen the king with a face of Glory, He who is the eye and the sun of heaven, He who is the companion and healer of all beings, He who is the soul and the universe that births souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Love Is the Treasure The temple of love is not love itself; True love is the treasure, Not the walls about it. Do not admire the decoration, But involve yourself in the essence, The perfume that invades and touches you- The beginning and the end. Discovered, this replaces all else, The apparent and the unknowable. Time and space are slaves to this presence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass the world is too full to talk about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Respond to every call that excites your spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The friend who knows a lot more than you do will bring difficulties, and grief, and sickness, as medicine, as happiness, as the essence of the moment when you're beaten when you hear Checkmate, and can finally say, I trust you to kill me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: To praise the sun is to praise your own eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: My place is placeless, a trace of the traceless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: This is love: to fly toward a secret sky"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I can't stop pointing <br />\nto the beauty. <br />\nEvery moment and place says, <br />\n'Put this design in your carpet!'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: We began as mineral. We emerged into plant life, and into the animal state, and then into being human, and always we have forgotten our former states, except in early spring when we slightly recall being green again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say. I don't plan it. When I'm outside the saying of it, I get very quiet and rarely speak at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There is a community of the spirit. Join it, and feel the delight of walking in the noisy street and being the noise. Drink all your passion, and be a disgrace. Close both eyes to see with the other eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There are no edges to my loving now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Give up to grace. The ocean takes care of each wave 'til it gets to shore. You need more help than you know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Reason is the shadow cast by God; God is the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There are many winds full of anger, and lust and greed. They move the rubbish around, but the solid mountain of our true nature stays where it's always been."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I am burning. If anyone lacks tinder, let him set his rubbish ablaze with my fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: This is not a day for asking questions, not a day on any calendar. This day is conscious of itself. This day is a lover, bread, and gentleness, more manifest than saying can say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Close both eyes to see with the other eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I was you <br />\n and never knew it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The whole business of love is to drown in the sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Remember. The way you make love is the way God will be with you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: You know the value of every article of merchandise, but if you don't know the value of your own soul, it's all foolishness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Although you see the pit, you cannot avoid it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Be occupied, then, with what you really value and let the thief take something else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Whoever gives reverence receives reverence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There is no Love greater than Love with no object. For then you, yourself, have become love, itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; don't give your heart to anything, but the love of those whose hearts are glad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Know the true definition of yourself. That is essential. Then, when you know your own definition, flee from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There is another language beyond language, <br />\n another place beyond heaven and hell. <br />\n Precious gems come from another mine, <br />\n the heart draws light from another source."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The ear participates, and helps arrange marriages; the eye has already made love with what it sees. The eye knows pleasure, delights in the body's shape: the ear hears words that talk about all this. When hearing takes place, character areas change; but when you see, inner areas change. If all you know about fire is what you have heard see if the fire will agree to cook you! Certain energies come only when you burn. If you long for belief, sit down in the fire! When the ear receives subtly; it turns into an eye. But if words do not reach the ear in the chest, nothing happens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Every object, every being...is a jar full of delight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I am part of the load not rightly balanced . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as a plant and rose to animal, I died as an animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Remember God so much that you are forgotten. Let the caller and the called disappear; be lost in the Call."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Your grief for what you've lost lifts a mirror up to where you're bravely working."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Love\u2019s secret is always lifting its head out from under the covers, \u201cHere I am!\u201d"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If you are a man of learning, read something classic, a history of the human struggle and don't settle for mediocre verse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: O tongue you are an endless treasure. O tongue, you are also an endless disease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: LOVE comes of its own free will, <br />\n it can't be learned in any school!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: You are the Essence of the Essence, The intoxication of Love. I long to sing Your Praises but stand mute with the agony of wishing in my heart !"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I am so happy, I cannot be contained in the world; <br />\nBut like a spirit, I am hidden from the eyes of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The gifts of lovers to one another are, in respect to love, nothing but forms; yet, they testify to invisible love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There goes a river dragging an ocean behind it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: To Love is to reach God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Drink from the presence of saints, not from those other jars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: In the blackest of your moments, wait with no fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: We are even higher than the heavens, we are greater than angels; Why should we not transcend both? Our lodging-place is Majesty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Lovers think they are looking for each other, but there is only one search: wandering This world is wandering that, both inside one transparent sky. In here there is no dogma and no heresy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Oh, bird of my soul, fly away now, For I possess a hundred fortified towers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Look at the moon in the sky, not the one in the lake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: You were born with wings, why prefer to crawl through life?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Light up the fire of love inside and blaze the thoughts away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: You think the shadow is the substance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If you desire healing, let yourself fall ill let yourself fall ill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Don't be the rider who gallops all nightand never sees the horse that is beneath him"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: We are as the flute, and the music in us is from thee; we are as the mountain and the echo in us is from thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Hungry, you're a dog, angry and bad-natured. having eaten your fill, you become a carcass; you lie down like a wall, senseless. At one time a dog, at another time a carcass, how will you run with lions, or follow the saints?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Love said to me, there is nothing that is not me. Be silent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I would love to kiss you. The price of kissing is your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I don't want learning, or dignity, or respectability. I want this music, and this dawn, and the warmth of your cheek against mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: You have forgotten the One who doesn't care about ownership, who doesn't try to turn a profit from every human exchange."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Through love all that is bitter will be sweet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: O Beloved, where is the Beloved?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The spirit is so near that you can't see it! <br />\n But reach for it... don't be a jar, full of water, whose rim is always dry. Don't be the rider who gallops all night and never sees the horse that is beneath him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First, to let go of life. In the end, to take a step without feet; to regard this world as invisible, and to disregard what appears to be the self. Heart, I said, what a gift it has been to enter this circle of lovers, to see beyond seeing itself, to reach and feel within the breast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Silence is the language of God, all else is poor translation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Don't insist on going where you think you want to go. Ask the way to the spring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: May this marriage be full of laughter, our every day in paradise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: We are the mirror - As well as the face in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The moon has become a dancer <br />\n at this festival of LOVE."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: This dance is the joy of existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Only love itself can explain love and lovers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Love rests on no foundation. It is an endless ocean, with no beginning or end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Late, by myself, in the boat of myself, no light and no land anywhere, cloudcover thick. I try to stay just above the surface, yet I'm already under and living within the ocean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Because I cannot sleep I make music at night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: You must ask for what you really want. / Don't go back to sleep. / The door is round and open. / Don't go back to sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: O Love, O pure deep Love, be here, be now, Be all \u2013 worlds dissolve into your stainless endless radiance, Frail living leaves burn with your brighter than cold stares \u2013 Make me your servant, your breath, your core."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There's courage involved if you want to become Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Love's creed is separate from all religions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: For years, copying other people, I tried to know myself. From within, I couldn't decide what to do. Unable to see, I heard my name being called. Then I walked outside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Dance when you're perfectly free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Let the Beloved be a hat pulled down firmly on my head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Words can fertilize space now and then; don't deny yourself becoming enriched."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: You, ignorant of the way of Love, set Me free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I am so small I can hardly be seen. How can this great love be inside me? Look at your eyes. They are small, but they see enormous things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Love is a tree; and lovers are its shade."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: And if one of our instruments breaks, it doesn't matter. <br />\n We have fallen into the place where everything is music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The here-and-now mountain <br />\n is a tiny piece of a piece of straw <br />\n blown off into emptiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: God has allowed some magical reversal to occur, so that you see the scorpion pit as an object of desire, and all the beautiful expanse around it as dangerous and swarming with snakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Disputational knowing wants customers. It has no soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Revile those who flatter you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Know, son, that everything in the universe is a pitcher brimming with wisdom and beauty, the universe is a drop of the 'Tigris of His beauty, this beauty was a Hidden Treasure so full it burst open and made the earth more radiant than the heavens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There are thousands of wines that can take over our minds. Don't think all ecstasies are the same!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: No better love than love with no object"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Be drunk with Love, for Love is all that exists. Where is intimacy found if not in the give and take of Love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Little by little, wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of invisible game."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: You are a fountain of the sun's light. I am a willow shadow on the ground. You make my raggedness silky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Shams, my body is a candle touched with fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Your hand opens and closes and opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralyzed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If you don't try to fly and so break yourself apart, you will be broken open by death, when it's too late for all you could become."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Ground yourself, strip yourself down, To blind loving Silence"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: In your beauty, how to make poems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I've said before that every craftsman searches for what's not there to practice his craft."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If I Separated Myself <br />\n From You . . . I Would Turn <br />\n Entirely Thorn!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: May these vows and this marriage be blessed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Every need brings in what's needed. Pain bears its cure like a child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Let a thousand wrangling desires become one Love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There is something to be said for anyone who sits alone with dignity and silently begs for God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Let your throat-song <br />\n be clear and strong enough to make an emperor fall full-length <br />\n suppliant, at the door."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: This is the essence of all sciences - that you should know who you will be when the Day of Reckoning arrives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: If you want what visible reality can give, you are an employee. <br />\n If you want the unseen world you are not living with your truth. <br />\n Both wishes are foolish, but you'll be forgiven for forgetting that what you really want is loves confusing joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Knowest thou not the beauty of thine own face? Quit this temper that leads thee to war with thyself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Spirit, find your way, in seeking lowness like a stream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The drum of the realization of the promise is beating, we are sweeping the road to the sky. Your joy is here today, what remains for tomorrow?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: When water gets caught in habitual whirlpools, dig a way out through the bottom of the ocean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Jesus was lost in his love for God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Any wine will get you high. Judge like a king, and choose the purest, the ones unadulterated with fear, or some urgency about \"what's needed.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: In the Friend-place nothing true can be said. Let Me Just Be Here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The fluteplayer puts breath into a flute, and who makes the music? Not the flute. The Fluteplayer!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I have blossomed so much, I am the envy of the gardens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: We are as pieces of chess engaged in victory and defeat!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Your way begins at the other side. Become the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The armies of the day have chased the army of the night, Heaven and earth are filled with purity and light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Forget the future. I'd worship someone who could do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Love is the ark appointed for the righteous,<br />\r\nWhich annuls the danger and provides a way of escape.<br />\r\nSell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.<br />\r\nCleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment intuition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I've brought you a mirror. Look at yourself and remember me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: This poetry. I never know what I'm going to say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: To Love is to be God. <br />\nNever will a Lover's chest <br />\nfeel any sorrow. <br />\nNever will a Lover's robe <br />\nbe touched by mortals. <br />\nNever will a Lover's body <br />\nbe found buried in the earth. <br />\nTo Love is to be God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Let the beauty we love do what we do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Body is not veiled from soul, neither soul from body, Yet no man hath ever seen a soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Where, with your one rose you can buy hundreds of rose gardens?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: We should ask God to help us toward manners. Inner gifts do not find their way to creatures without just respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The way the Beloved can fit in my heart, two thousand lives could fit in this body of mine. One kernel could contain a thousand bushels, and a hundred worlds pass through the eye of the needle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: The wine of this fleeting world caused your head to ache."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: This that is tormented and very tired, tortured with restraints like a madman, this heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: We alchemists look for talent that can heat up and change. Lukewarm won't do. Halfhearted holding back, well-enough getting by? Not here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: I drank water from your spring <br />\n and felt the current take me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: There\u2019s nothing left of me.<br />\nI\u2019m like a ruby held up to the sunrise.<br />\nIs it still a stone, or a world<br />\nmade of redness? It has no resistance<br />\nto sunlight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Rumi: Faith in the king comes easily in lovely times, but be faithful now and endure, pale lover."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All the world's a stage, and all the men and women mearly players."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Have more than you show, Speak less than you know."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will not choose what many men desire, Because I will not jump with common spirits And rank me with the barbarous multitudes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He wears his faith but as the fashion of his hat."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To be, or not to be, that is the question."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In struggling with misfortunes lies the true proof of virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let gentleness my strong enforcement be."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius, That you would have me seek into myself For that which is not in me?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feelings as to sight?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Brevity is the soul of wit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's a time for all things."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Wisdom cries out in the streets, and no man regards it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I wish you all the joy that you can wish."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To me, fair friend, you never can be old, For as you were when first your eye I ey'd, Such seems your beauty still."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Beauty lives with kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No legacy is so rich as honesty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Strong reasons make strong actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Give thy thoughts no tongue."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be great in act, as you have been in thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Every why has a wherefore."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If I could write the beauty of your eyes And in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say, 'This poet lies; Such heavenly touches ne'er touch'd earthly faces.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This above all; to thine own self be true."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To climb steep hills requires a slow pace at first."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We know what we are, but know not what we may be."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I can no other answer make, but, thanks, and thanks."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I do desire we may be better strangers."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The best is yet to come."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll note you in my book of memory."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O Lord that lends me life, Lend me a heart replete with thankfulness!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis the times' plague, when madmen lead the blind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Better three hours too soon than a minute too late."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Words are easy, like the wind; Faithful friends are hard to find."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sit by my side, and let the world slip: we shall ne'er be younger."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love comforteth like sunshine after rain,<br />\r\nBut Lust's effect is tempest after sun;<br />\r\nLove's gentle spring doth always fresh remain,<br />\r\nLust's winter comes ere summer half be done;<br />\r\nLove surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies;<br />\r\nLove is all truth, Lust full of forged lies."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My friends were poor, but honest, so's my love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Friendship is full of dregs."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A smile cures the wounding of a frown."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A light heart lives long."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let every man be master of his time."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide and lantern to my feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Heaven truly knows that thou art false as hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: One touch of nature makes the whole world kin."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If your mind dislike anything obey it"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My crown is in my heart, not on my head; not decked with diamonds and Indian stones, nor to be seen: my crown is called content, a crown it is that seldom kings enjoy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is a sin to be a mocker."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Say as you think and speak it from your souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All things are ready, if our mind be so."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Affection is a coal that must be cooled; else, suffered, it will set the heart on fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: One may smile, and smile, and be a villain."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Good night, good night! Parting is such sweet sorrow, that I shall say good night till it be morrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A good leg will fall; a straight back will stoop; a black beard will turn white; a curl'd pate will grow bald; a fair face will wither; a full eye will wax hollow: but a good heart, Kate, is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun, and not the moon, \u2014 for it shines bright, and never changes, but keeps his course truly."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My grief lies all within,<br />\r\nAnd these external manners of lament<br />\r\nAre merely shadows to the unseen grief<br />\r\nThat swells with silence in the tortured soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once. Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, It seems to me most strange that men should fear; Seeing that death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Beauty is bought by judgement of the eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To unpathed waters, undreamed shores."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Make use of time, let not advantage slip."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Frame your mind to mirth and merriment which bars a thousand harms and lengthens life."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The course of true love never did run smooth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men of few words are the best men.\" (3.2.41)"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love sought is good, but given unsought, is better."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Praising what is lost makes the remembrance dear"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lawless are they that make their wills their law."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's many a man hath more hair than wit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Good morning to you, fair and gracious daughter."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: One half of me is yours, the other half is yours, Mine own, I would say; but if mine, then yours, And so all yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nothing can come of nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Highly fed and lowly taught."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I say there is no darkness but ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: More of your conversation would infect my brain."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Well, every one can master a grief but he that has it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I understand a fury in your words But not your words."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The art of our necessities is strange That can make vile things precious."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If you have tears, prepare to shed them now."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Having nothing, nothing can he lose."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The good I stand on is my truth and honesty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I would not wish any companion in the world but you."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You speak an infinite deal of nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land; the great ones eat up the little ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What must be shall be."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Forget, forgive; conclude, and be agreed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The instruments of darkness tell us truths."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Dispute not with her: she is lunatic."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What my tongue dares not that my heart shall say"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In nature there's no blemish but the mind. None can be called deformed but the unkind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In time we hate that which we often fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Forbear to judge, for we are sinners all."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A sympathy in choice."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A good heart is the sun and the moon; or, rather, the sun and not the moon, for it shines bright and never changes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They do not love that do not show their love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Who could refrain that had a heart to love and in that heart courage to make love known?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Few love to hear the sins they love to act."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin, as self-neglecting."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale<br />\r\nHer infinite variety."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My soul is in the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sweet are the uses of adversity"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why, what's the matter, That you have such a February face, So full of frost, of storm and cloudiness?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The silence often of pure innocence persuades when speaking fails."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am wealthy in my friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let me embrace thee, sour adversity, for wise men say it is the wisest course."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Neither a borrower nor a lender be, for loan oft loses both itself and friend, and borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Your gentleness shall force More than your force move us to gentleness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The more pity, that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Pleasure and action make the hours seem short."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Woe to that land that's governed by a child."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Parting is such sweet sorrow"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another: you jig, you amble, and you lisp, and nick-name God's creatures, and make your wantonness your ignorance. Go to, I'll no more on't; it hath made me mad."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If music be the food of love, play on."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What's done can't be undone."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To do a great right do a little wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let's go hand in hand, not one before another."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How can tyrants safely govern home,<br />\nUnless abroad they purchase great alliance."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How far that little candle throws its beams! So shines a good deed in a naughty world."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come. And let my liver rather heat with wine, than my heart cool with mortifying groans."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My heart is ever at your service."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I was a coward on instinct."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper,<br />\r\nThy head, thy sovereign; one that cares for thee,<br />\r\nAnd for thy maintenance commits his body<br />\r\nTo painful labour both by sea and land,<br />\r\nTo watch the night in storms, the day in cold,<br />\r\nWhilst thou liest warm at home, secure and safe;<br />\r\nAnd craves no other tribute at thy hands<br />\r\nBut love, fair looks and true obedience;<br />\r\nToo little payment for so great a debt."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears, And frame my face for all occasions"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My crown is called content, a crown that seldom kings enjoy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A politician... one that would circumvent God."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am giddy, expectation whirls me round. <br />\r\nThe imaginary relish is so sweet <br />\r\nThat it enchants my sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Jesters do oft prove prophets."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To thine own self be true, and it must follow, as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nature teaches beasts to know their friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Time's the king of men; he's both their parent, and he is their grave, and gives them what he will, not what they crave."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot that it do singe yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Confusion now hath made his masterpiece."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I must be cruel only to be kind; Thus bad begins, and worse remains behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The robbed that smiles, steals something from the thief."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If we are mark'd to die, we are enow<br />\nTo do our country loss; and if to live,<br />\nThe fewer men, the greater share of honour.<br />\nGod's will! I pray thee; wish not one man more."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Grief makes one hour ten."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that plays the king shall be welcome- his Majesty shall<br />\r\nhave tribute of me; the adventurous knight shall use his foil and<br />\r\ntarget; the lover shall not sigh gratis; the humorous man shall<br />\r\nend his part in peace; the clown shall make those laugh whose<br />\r\nlungs are tickle o' th' sere; and the lady shall say her mind<br />\r\nfreely, or the blank verse shall halt fort."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: She's beautiful, and therefore to be wooed; She is a woman, therefore to be won."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now I will believe that there are unicorns."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What is past is prologue."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In peace there's nothing so becomes a man as modest stillness and humility."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Are you sure/That we are awake? It seems to me/That yet we sleep, we dream"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Speak low, if you speak love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The man that hath no music in himself, Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Corruption wins not more than honesty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Farewell! God knows when we shall meet again."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If I be waspish, best beware my sting."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let us not burden our remembrances with a heaviness that's gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Bid me run, and I will strive with things impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fair thoughts and happy hours attend on you."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There was a star danced, and under that was I born."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Life's uncertain voyage."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For she had eyes and chose me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Until I know this sure uncertainty, I'll entertain the offered fallacy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou canst not speak of what thou dost not feel."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He jests at scars that never felt a wound."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: God, the best maker of all marriages, Combine your hearts into one."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Boundless intemperance In nature is a tyranny. It hath been Th' untimely emptying of the happy throne And fall of many kings."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The moon shines bright. In such a night as this. When the sweet wind did gently kiss the trees and they did make no noise, in such a night."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: April ... hath put a spirit of youth in everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Like as the waves make towards the pebbl'd shore, so do our minutes, hasten to their end."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Look, how this ring encompasseth thy finger, Even so thy breast encloseth my poor heart; Wear both of them, for both of them are thine."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For I have neither wit, nor words, nor worth, Action, nor utterance, nor the power of speech, To stir men's blood: I only speak right on; I tell you that which you yourselves do know."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But love is blind and lovers cannot see"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men have died from time to time, and worms have eaten them, but not for love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love is a smoke made with the fume of sighs."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lovers and madmen have such seething brains Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All days are nights to see till I see thee, And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is Throats to be cut, and Works to be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A heavy heart bears not a nimble tongue."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All that glitters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life has sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold Had you been as wise as bold, Your in limbs, in judgment old, Your answer had not been in'scroll'd Fare you well: your suit is cold.' Cold, indeed, and labour lost: Then, farewell, heat and welcome, frost!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Defer no time, delays have dangerous ends."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might ever do nothing but that."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Man, proud man, drest in a little brief authority, most ignorant of what he's most assur d, glassy essence, like an angry ape, plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, as make the angels weep."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You have witchcraft in your lips"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My long sickness Of health and living now begins to mend, And nothing brings me all things."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No profit grows where no pleasure is taken."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Good company, good wine, good welcome, can make good people."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nothing emboldens sin so much as mercy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Better a little chiding than a great deal of heartbreak."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Every man has his fault, and honesty is his."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We all are men, in our own natures frail, and capable of our flesh; few are angels."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: True hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Your \"if\" is the only peacemaker; much virtue in \"if."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Conscience is but a word that cowards use, devised at first to keep the strong in awe"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, call back yesterday, bid time return"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Omission to do what is necessary Seals a commission to a blank of danger; And danger, like an ague, subtly taints Even then when we sit idly in the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Doubt thou the stars are fire; Doubt that the sun doth move; Doubt truth to be a liar; But never doubt I love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Suit the action to the word, the word to the action."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: By being seldom seen, I could not stir<br />\nBut like a comet I was wondered at."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now entertain conjecture of a time When creeping murmur and the poring dark Fills the wide vessel of the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A knavish speech sleeps in a fool's ear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Come not between the dragon and his wrath."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we will."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They met so near with their lips that their breaths embraced together."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Journeys end in lovers meeting."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They say best men are molded out of faults, And, for the most, become much more the better For being a little bad"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In a false quarrel there is no true valor."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Many a good hanging prevents a bad marriage."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: These violent delights have violent ends."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Small cheer and great welcome makes a merry feast."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is a wise father that knows his own child."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To weep is to make less the depth of grief."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Well, honor is the subject of my story."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We waste our lights in vain, like lamps by day."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The wheel is come full circle."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For a quart of ale is a dish for a king."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We that are true lovers run into strange capers."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The Devil hath power To assume a pleasing shape."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Pleasure and revenge<br />\nHave ears more deaf than adders to the voice<br />\nOf any true decision."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Come away, come away, Death, And in sad cypress let me be laid; Fly away, fly away, breath, I am slain by a fair cruel maid. My shroud of white stuck all with yew, O prepare it! My part of death no one so true did share it. Not a flower, not a flower sweet, On my black coffin let there be strewn: Not a friend, not a friend greet My poor corpse, where my bones shall be thrown. A thousand thousand sighs to save, lay me O where Sad true lover never find my grave, to weep there!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Do not for one repulse, forego the purpose <br />\nThat you resolved to effect."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, beware, my lord, of jealousy; It is the green-ey'd monster, which doth mock The meat it feeds on."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To gild refined gold, to paint the lily... is wasteful and ridiculous excess"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A woman would run through fire and water for such a kind heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Not proud you have, but thankful that you have. Proud can I never be of what I hate, but thankful even for hate that is meant love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fair youth, I would I could make thee believe I love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Conceit, more rich in matter than in words, <br />\nBrags of his substance, not of ornament: <br />\nThey are but beggars that can count their worth; <br />\nBut my true love is grown to such excess, <br />\nI cannot sum up half my sum of wealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love is too young to know what conscience is."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My story starts at sea... a perilous voyage to an unknown land... a shipwreck... The wild waters roar and heave... The brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned... all save one... a lady... whose soul is greater than the ocean... and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace... Not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore. It will be a love story... for she will be my heroine for all time. And her name will be... Viola."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Blood will have blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tongues I'll hang on every tree<br />\nThat shall civil sayings show. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Shine out fair sun, till I have bought a glass, That I may see my shadow as I pass."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now stand you on the top of happy hours,<br />\r\nAnd many maiden gardens yet unset,<br />\r\nWith virtuous wish would bear you living flowers,<br />\r\nMuch liker than your painted counterfeit:<br />\r\nSo should the lines of life that life repair<br />\r\nWhich this, Time's pencil, or my pupil pen<br />\r\nNeither in inward worth nor outward fair<br />\r\nCan make you live your self in eyes of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A young man married is a man that's marred."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: the time of life is short; To spend that shortness basely were too long."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A true repentance shuns the evil itself, more than the external suffering or the shame."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is not night when I do see your face."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge, That no king can corrupt."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite: Therefore love moderately\u2014 long love doth so."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Do you not know I am a woman? when I think, I must speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that commends me to mine own content Commends me to the thing I cannot get. I to the world am like a drop of water That in the ocean seeks another drop, Who, falling there to find his fellow forth, Unseen, inquisitive, confounds himself: So I, to find a mother and a brother, In quest of them, unhappy, lose myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A flock of blessings light upon thy back"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O for a horse with wings!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In delay there lies no plenty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And since you know you cannot see yourself, so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself, that of yourself which you yet know not of."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You lack the season of all natures, sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Striving to better, oft we mar what\u2019s well."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till, by broad spreading, it disperse to naught."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I see, sir, you are liberal in offers. You taught me first to beg, and now methinks You teach me how a beggar should be answered."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The prize of all too precious you."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Well, whiles I am a beggar, I will rail, And say there is no sin but to be rich; And being rich, my virtue then shall be To say there is no vice but beggary"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: See how she leans her cheek upon her hand. O, that I were a glove upon that hand That I might touch that cheek!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So many horrid Ghosts."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The morning steals upon the night,<br />\nMelting the darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love like a shadow flies when substance love pursues Pursuing that that flies, and flying what pursues."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: in black ink my love may still shine bright."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I would give all of my fame for a pot of ale and safety."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is special providence in the fall of a sparrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Truth is truth to the end of reckoning."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: 'Tis one thing to be tempted, another thing to fall."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Opinion, a sovereign mistress of effects."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Greatness knows itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The fashion of the world is to avoid cost, and you encounter it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Despair and die. The ghosts"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What's done cannot be undone.<br />\r\nTo bed, to bed, to bed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No, I will be the pattern of all patience; I will say nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother; be he ne\u2019er so vile, This day shall gentle his condition; And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs\u2019d they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin\u2019s day."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Angels and ministers of grace defend us!<br />\r\nBe thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd,<br />\r\nBring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,<br />\r\nBe thy intents wicked, or charitable,<br />\r\nThou com'st in such a questionable shape,<br />\r\nThat I will speak to thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight; which therein works a miracle in Nature, making them lightest that wear most of it: so are those crisped snaky golden locks which make such wanton gambols with the wind upon supposed fairness, often known to be the dowry of a second head, the skull that bred them in the sepulchre."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hot lavender, mints, savory, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun, and with him rise weeping."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Adieu! I have too grieved a heart to take a tedious leave."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is a law in each well-ordered nation<br />\nTo curb those raging appetites that are<br />\nMost disobedient and refractory."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Though she be but little, she is fierce!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Our holy lives must win a new world's crown."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore,<br />\nSo do our minutes hasten to their end;<br />\nEach changing place with that which goes before,<br />\nIn sequent toil all forwards do contend."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I feel within me a peace above all earthly dignities, a still and quiet conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am not bound to please thee with my answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How my achievements mock me!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Though this be madness, yet there is method in't."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse, how have I frighted thee, That thou no more wilt weigh my eyelids down And steep my senses in forgetfulness? Why rather, sleep, liest thou in smoky cribs, Upon uneasy pallets stretching thee, And hush'd with buzzing night-flies to thy slumber, Than in the perfum'd chambers of the great, Under the canopies of costly state, And lull'd with sound of sweetest melody?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Every subject's duty is the Kings, but every subject's soul is his own."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: love is blind and lovers cannot see the pretty follies that themselves commit"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When beggars die, there are no comets seen; the heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That man that hath a tongue, I say is no man, if with his tongue he cannot win a woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Before the curing of a strong disease, Even in the instant of repair and health, The fit is strongest. Evils that take leave, On their departure most of all show evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's nothing in this world can make me joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The last taste of sweets is sweetest last."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Do not speak like a death's-head, do not bid me remember mine end."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I count myself in nothing else so happy as in a soul remembering my good Friends"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shows to him as it doth to me; all his senses have but human conditions; his ceremonies laid by, in his nakedness he appears but a man; and though his affections are higher mounted than ours, yet, when they stoop, they stoop with the like wing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man's happiness, glad of other men's good, content with my harm."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Rich honesty dwells like a miser, Sir, in a poor house; as your pearl in your foul oyster."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now join your hands, and with your hands your hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Do as the heavens have done, forget your evil; With them forgive yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And all my mother came into mine eyes And gave me up to tears."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: [Marriage is] a world-without-end bargain."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Perseverance... keeps honor bright: to have done, is to hang quite out of fashion, like a rusty nail in monumental mockery."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The head is not more native to the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands,--This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For I am fresh of spirit, and resolved <br />\nTo meet all perils very constantly."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, but still remember what the Lord hath done."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be stirring as the time; be fire with fire. Threaten the threat'ner, and outface the brow Of bragging horror. So shall inferior eyes, That borrow their behaviors from the great, Grow great by your example and put on The dauntless spirit of resolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My meaning in saying he is a good man, is to have you understand me that he is sufficient."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love is merely a madness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The worm is not to be trusted."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hereafter, in a better world than this, I shall desire more love and knowledge of you"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Here, thou incestuous, murderous, damned Dane,<br />\r\nDrink off this potion!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why, thou deboshed fish thou...Wilt thou tell a monstrous lie, being but half a fish and half a monster?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Most dear actors, eat no onions nor garlic, for we are to utter sweet breath."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Beware the ides of March."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In time the savage bull doth bear the yoke."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Good wine is a good familiar creature if it be well used."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Like madness, is the glory of this life."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Their savage eyes turned to a modest gaze by the sweet power of music."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Absence from those we love is self from self - a deadly banishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Have I thought long to see this morning\u2019s face, And doth it give me such a sight as this?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Death rock me asleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Poor and content, is rich and rich enough; But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter, To him that ever fears he shall be poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: She's gone. I am abused, and my relief must be to loathe her."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The common curse of mankind, folly and ignorance, be thine in great revenue!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Conscience doth make cowards of us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The proverb is something musty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My tongue will tell the anger of my heart, or else my heart concealing it will break."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So wise so young, they say, do never live long."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Small things make base men proud."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So we grew together like to a double cherry, seeming parted, but yet an union in partition, two lovely berries molded on one stem."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My father's wit, and my mother's tongue, assist me!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that is proud eats up himself: pride is his own glass, his own trumpet, his own chronicle."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Alas, I am a woman friendless, hopeless!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is some soul of goodness in things evil, Would men observingly distill it out."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men at some time are masters of their fates."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have had a most rare vision. I have had a dream, past the wit of man to say what dream it was."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have not slept. Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The Genius and the mortal instruments Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have not slept one wink."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am a Jew: Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with die same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Boldness be my friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Women may fail when there is no strength in man"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I wonder men dare trust themselves with men."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A beggar's book outworths a noble's blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is the very error of the moon; She comes more nearer earth than she was wont, And makes men mad."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In nature's infinite book of secrecy<br />\r\nA little I can read."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Not a whit, we defy augury: there's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the readiness is all."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Good name in man and woman is the immediate jewel of their souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You are a tedious fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You know That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, And after scandal them."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For in that sleep of death what dreams may come."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Oft expectation fails, and most oft there where most it promises; and oft it hits where hope is coldest, and despair most fits."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love is merely a madness; and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do; and the reason why they are not so punish'd and cured is that the lunacy is so ordinary that the whippers are in love too."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Myself--a prince by fortune of my birth,<br />\nNear to the king in blood, and near in love<br />\nTill you did make him misinterpret me--<br />\nHave stooped my neck under your injuries<br />\nAnd sighed my English breath in foreign clouds,<br />\nEating the bitter bread of banishment,<br />\nWhilst you have fed upon my signories,<br />\nDisparked my parks and felled my forest woods,<br />\nFrom my own windows torn my household coat,<br />\nRased out my imprese, leaving me no sign,<br />\nSave men's opinions and my living blood,<br />\nTo show the world I am a gentleman."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Who alone suffers suffers most i' th' mind,<br />\nLeaving free things and happy shows behind;<br />\nBut then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip<br />\nWhen grief hath mates, and bearing fellowship."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Every why hath a wherefore."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This look of thine will hurl my soul from heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Silence is the perfectest herault of joy. I were but little happy if I could say how much."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A thousand kisses buys my heart from me;<br />\r\nAnd pay them at thy leisure, one by one."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love for thy love , and hand for hand I give."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I can express no kinder sign of love, than this kind kiss."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh at gilded butterflies."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The means that heaven yields must be embraced, and not neglected; else, if heaven would, and we will not heaven's offer, we refuse the proffered means of succor and redress."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more!<br />\nMacbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep,<br />\nSleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve of care,<br />\nThe death of each day's life, sore labour's bath,<br />\nBalm of hurt minds, great nature's second course,<br />\nChief nourisher in life's feast..."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He's a soldier; and for one to say a soldier lies, is stabbing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Good name in man and woman, dear my lord, Is the immediate jewel of their souls: Who steals my purse steals trash; \u2019tis something, nothing; \u2019twas mine, \u2019tis his, and has been slave to thousands; But he that filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What a fool honesty is."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The love of wicked men converts to fear;<br />\nThat fear to hate, and hate turns one or both<br />\nTo worthy danger and deserved death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For naught so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We are oft to blame in this, - 'tis too much proved, - that with devotion's visage, and pios action we do sugar o'er the devil himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What's gone, and what's past help, Should be past grief."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things . . . nose-painting, sleep, and urine. Lechery, sir, it provokes, and unprovokes; it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The tartness of his face sours ripe grapes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thine eyes I love, and they, as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain. And truly not the morning sun of heaven Better becomes the grey cheeks of the east, Nor that full star that ushers in the even, Doth half that glory to the sober west, As those two mourning eyes become thy face: O! let it then as well beseem thy heart To mourn for me since mourning doth thee grace, And suit thy pity like in every part. Then will I swear beauty herself is black, And all they foul that thy complexion lack"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Woe, destruction, ruin, and decay; the worst is death and death will have his day."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I do beseech you- Though I perchance am vicious in my guess , that your wisdom yet From one that so imperfectly conjects Would take no notice, nor build yourself a trouble Out of his scattering and unsure observance."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That we would do<br />\nWe should do when we would, for this 'would' changes,<br />\nAnd hath abatements and delays as many<br />\nAs there are tongues, are hands, are accidents,<br />\nAnd then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,<br />\nThat hurts by easing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is a good divine that follows his own instructions."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Graze on my lips; and if those hills be dry, stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Come, woo me, woo me, for now I am in a holiday humor, and like enough to consent."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This is the very ecstasy of love, whose violent property ordoes itself and leads the will to desperate undertakings."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, the difference of man and man!<br />\nTo thee a woman's services are due."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Care for us! True, indeed! They ne'er cared for us yet: suffer us to famish, and their storehouses crammed with grain; make edicts for usury, to support usurers; repeal daily any wholesome act established against the rich, and provide more piercing statutes daily to chain up and restrain the poor. If the wars eat us not up, they will; and there's all the love they bear us."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When I was at home I was in a better place"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When he shall die, Take him and cut him out in little stars, And he will make the face of heaven so fine That all the world will be in love with night And pay no worship to the garish sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This thou perceivest, which makes thy love more strong, to love that well which thou must leave ere long"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He's of the colour of the nutmeg. And of the heat of the ginger.... he is pure air and fire; and the dull elements of earth and water never appear in him, but only in patient stillness while his rider mounts him; he is indeed a horse, and all other jades you may call beasts."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But if the while I think on thee, dear friend, All losses are restored and sorrows end."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace. Rich she shall be, that's certain; wise, or I'll none; virtuous, or I'll never cheapen her; fair, or I'll never look on her; mild, or come not near me; noble, or not I for an angel; of good discourse, and excellent musician and her hair shall be of what colour it shall please God."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O gentle son, Upon the heat and flame of thy distemper, sprinkle cool patience."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: wert thou as far As that vast shore washed with the farthest sea, I would adventure for such merchandise."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sir, the year growing ancient,<br />\nNot yet on summer's death nor on the birth<br />\nOf trembling winter, the fairest flowers o' th' season<br />\nAre our carnations and streaked gillyvors,<br />\nWhich some call nature's bastards."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am a feather for each wind that blows"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: She says I am not fair, that I lack manners;<br />\r\nShe calls me proud, and that she could not love me,<br />\r\nWere man as rare as Phoenix."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As flies to wanton boys, are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hear my soul speak. Of the very instant that I saw you, did my heart fly at your service"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Were kisses all the joys in bed, <br />\nOne woman would another wed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Women may fall when there's no strength in men."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This cold night will turn us all to fools and madmen."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Can you nominate in order now the degrees of the lie? I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth; the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct. All these you may avoid but the Lie Direct; and you may avoid that too, with an If. . . . Your If is the only peace-maker; much virtue in If."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But Kate, dost thou understand thus much English? Canst thou love me?\" Catherine: \"I cannot tell.\" Henry: \"Can any of your neighbours tell, Kate? I'll ask them."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In persons grafted in a serious trust,<br />\nNegligence is a crime."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at: I am not what I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now, infidel, I have you on the hip!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history, is second childishness and mere oblivion. I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Good wine needs no bush."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A heaven on earth I have won by wooing thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This is the excellent foppery of the world, that, when we are sick in fortune,--often the surfeit of our own behavior,--we make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars: as if we were villains by necessity; fools by heavenly compulsion; knaves, thieves, and treachers, by spherical predominance; drunkards, liars, and adulterers, by an enforced obedience of planetary influence; and all that we are evil in, by a divine thrusting on: an admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition to the charge of a star."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And do as adversaries do in law, strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why then, O brawling love! O loving hate! O any thing, of nothing first create! O heavy lightness, serious vanity, Misshapen chaos of well-seeming forms, Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health, Still-waking sleep, that is not what it is! This love feel I, that feel no love in this."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To this urn let those repair<br />\r\nThat are either true or fair;<br />\r\nFor these dead birds sigh a prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Come now, what masques, what dances shall we have<br />\nTo wear away this long age of three hours<br />\nBetween our after-supper and bedtime?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I durst not laugh for fear of opening my lips and receiving the bad air."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Never; he will not: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety: other women cloy The appetites they feed: but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A lean cheek; which you have not: a blue eye, and sunken; which you have not: an unquestionable spirit; which you have not: a beard neglected; which you have not: \u2014 but I pardon you for that; for, simply, your having1 in beard is a younger brother's revenue: \u2014 Then your hose should be ungarter'd, your bonnet unhanded, your sleeve unbuttoned, your shoe untied, and every thing about you demonstrating a careless desolation."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou has no name to be known by, let us call thee devil....O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have a kind soul that would give you thanks. And knows not how to do it but with tears."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Here feel we but the penalty of Adam,<br />\r\nThe seasons' difference, as the icy fang<br />\r\nAnd churlish chiding of the winter's wind,<br />\r\nWhich, when it bites and blows upon my body,<br />\r\nEven till I shrink with cold, I smile."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My thoughts are whirled like a potter's wheel; I know not where I am nor what I do."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The summer's flow'r is to the summer sweet,<br />\nThough to itself it only live and die'<br />\nBut if that flow'r with base infection meet,<br />\nThe basest weed outbraves his dignity:<br />\nFor sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds;<br />\nLilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In me thou see'st the twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth take away Death's second self, that seals up all in rest. -Sonnet 73"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Every inordinate cup is unbless'd, and the ingredient is a devil."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hot blood begets hot thoughts, And hot thoughts beget Hot deeds, And hot deeds is love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, swear not by the moon, the fickle moon, the inconstant moon, that monthly changes in her circle orb, Lest that thy love prove likewise variable"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To die, to sleep - To sleep, perchance to dream - ay, there's the rub, For in this sleep of death what dreams may come."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And therefore, \u2014 since I cannot prove a lover, To entertain these fair well-spoken days, \u2014 I am determined to prove a villain, And hate the idle pleasures of these days."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To you your father should be as a god; <br />\r\n One that composed your beauties, yea, and one <br />\r\n To whom you are but as a form in wax, <br />\r\n By him imprinted, and within his power <br />\r\n To leave the figure or disfigure it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Blow, blow, thou winter wind, Thou art not so unkind As mans ingratitude Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. Heigh-ho sing, heigh-ho unto the green holly Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly. Then heigh-ho the holly This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze, thou bitter sky, That dost not bite so nigh As benefits forgot Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As friend rememberd not."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou art thy mother's glass, and she in thee<br />\nCalls back the lovely April of her prime..."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine, Thou robb'st me of a moiety."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What, all so soon asleep! I wish mine eyes Would, with themselves, shut up my thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age have left me naked to mine enemies."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's rosemary and rue. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Grace and remembrance be to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This is the very ecstasy of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Crabbed age and youth cannot live together; Youth is full of pleasure, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, age is tame. Age, I do abhor thee; youth, I do adore thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I crave fit disposition for my wife;<br />\nDue reference of place, and exhibition;<br />\nWith such accommodation, and besort,<br />\nAs levels with her breeding."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A tardiness in nature,<br />\nWhich often leaves the history unspoke,<br />\nThat it intends to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement; shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole; stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I love him for his sake;<br />\r\nAnd yet I know him a notorious liar,<br />\r\nThink him a great way fool, solely a coward;<br />\r\nYet these fix'd evils sit so fit in him<br />\r\nThat they take place when virtue's steely bones<br />\r\nLooks bleak i' th' cold wind; withal, full oft we see<br />\r\nCold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is as easy to count atomies as to resolve the propositions of a lover."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Feed on her damask cheek: she pined in thought, And with a green and yellow melancholy She sat like patience on a monument, Smiling at grief"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The moon of Rome, chaste as the icicle that's curded by the frost from purest snow."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth, he writes verses, he speaks holiday, he smells April and May."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Teach not thy lip such scorn, for it was made For kissing, lady, not for such contempt."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Cannot you tell that? Every fool can tell that. It was the very day that young Hamlet was born, he that is mad and sent into England.\" \"Ay, marry, why was he sent into England?\" \"Why, because he was mad. He shall recover his wits there, or, if he do not, it's no great matter there.\" \"Why?\" \"'Twill not be seen in him there. There the men are as mad as he."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My grief lies onward, and my joy behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love is familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.\" -"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Officers, what offence have these men done? DOGBERRY Marry, sir, they have committed false report; moreover, they have spoken untruths; secondarily, they are slanders; sixth and lastly, they have belied a lady; thirdly, they have verified unjust things; and, to conclude, they are lying knaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's rosemary, that's for remembrance; pray you, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts. There's fennel for you, and columbines: \u2014 there 's rue for you; and here's some for me: \u2014 we may call it, herb of grace o'Sundays: \u2014 you may wear your rue with a difference. \u2014 There's a daisy: \u2014 I would give you some violets; but they withered all, when my father died: \u2014 They say, he made a good end."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When I bestride him, I soar, I am a hawk: he trots the air; the earth sings when he touches it; the basest horn of his hoof is more musical than the pipe of Hermes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll have no husband, if you be not he."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Trifles light as air are to the jealous confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It was a lover and his lass, <br />\r\nWith a hey, and a ho, and a hey nonino,<br />\r\nThat o'er the green corn-field did pass,<br />\r\nIn the spring time, the only pretty ring time,<br />\r\nWhen birds do sing, hey ding a ding, ding;<br />\r\nSweet lovers love the spring."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now 'tis spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now and they'll o'ergrow the garden."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Being daily swallowed by men's eyes, They surfeited with honey and began To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof a little More than a little is by much too much. So, when he had occasion to be seen, He was but as the cuckoo is in June. Heard, not regarded."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A horse, a horse, my kingdom for a horse!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When great leaves fall, the winter is at hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This is a way to kill a wife with kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All pity choked with custom of fell deeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy,<br />\r\nNature and Fortune join'd to make thee great:<br />\r\nOf Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast,<br />\r\nAnd with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul that, struggling to be free, art more engaged! Help, angels! Make assay! Bow, stubborn knees! and, heart with strings of steel, be soft as sinews of the new-born babe!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Yes, faith; it is my cousin's duty to make curtsy and say 'Father, as it please you.' But yet for all that, cousin, let him be a handsome fellow, or else make another curtsy and say 'Father, as it please me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Summer's lease hath all too short a date."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Flout 'em, and scout 'em; and scout 'em, and flout 'em; / Thought is free."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ingratitude is monstrous."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Heaven give you many, many merry days."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white<br />\nNature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hope is a lover's staff; walk hence with that<br />\r\nAnd manage it against despairing thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We must not make a scarecrow of the law, Setting it up to fear the birds of prey, And let it keep one shape till custom make it Their perch, and not their terror."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I know a lady in Venice would have walked barefoot to Palestine for a touch of his nether lip"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Vengeance is in my heart, death in my hand,Blood and revenge are hammering in my head."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Drink down all unkindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: England is safe, if true within itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No doubt they rose up early to observe the rite of May; and, hearing our intent, Came here in grace of our solemnity."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fear no more the heat o' th' sun Nor the furious winters' rages; Thou thy worldly task hast done, Home art gone, and ta'en thy wages. Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not so unkind, As man's ingratitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In religion, What damned error but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, (135) Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: (140) So excellent a king; that was, to this."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They love least that let men know their loves."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues we write in water."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Most dangerous is that temptation that doth goad us on to sin in loving virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Did my heart love till now? forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Rude am I in my speech, And little blessed with the soft phrase of peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The pow'r that I have on you is to spare you; The malice towards you to forgive you."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, speak again, bright angel! for thou art As glorious to this night, being o'er my head As is a winged messenger of heaven"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be patient, for the world is broad and wide."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Happy thou art not; for what thou hast not, still thou strivest to get; and what thou hast, forgettest."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For this relief, much thanks"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Time be thine,<br />\r\nAnd thy best graces spend it at thy will."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So may he rest, his faults lie gently on him!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What is done cannot be now amended."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When rich villains have need of poor ones, poor ones may make what price they will"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men\u2019s cottages princes\u2019 palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I must be gone and live, or stay and die."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My love is strengthen'd, though more weak in seeming; I love not less, though less the show appear: That love is merchandised whose rich esteeming The owner's tongue doth publish every where."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lay her i' the earth: And from her fair and unpolluted flesh May violets spring! I tell thee, churlish priest, A ministering angel shall my sister be, When thou liest howling. HAMLET. What, the fair Ophelia! QUEEN GERTRUDE. Sweets to the sweet: farewell!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My language! heavens!I am the best of them that speak this speech. Were I but where 'tis spoken."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Daffodils,<br />\r\nThat come before the swallow dares, and take<br />\r\nThe winds of March with beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You are strangely troublesome."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Blind is his love, and best befits the dark."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What made me love thee? let that persuade thee, there's something extraordinary in thee"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is this the generation of love? Hot blood, hot thoughts and hot deeds? Why, they are vipers. Is love a generation of vipers?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He makes a July's day short as December."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If love be blind, it best agrees with night"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This royal throne of kings, this scepter'd isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-Paradise."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I hold it cowardice To rest mistrustful where a noble heart Hath pawned an open hand in sign of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The words of Mercury are harsh after the songs of Apollo."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You are not worth the dust which the rude wind Blows in your face."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Comets importing change of times and states,<br />\nBrandish your crystal tresses in the sky<br />\nAnd with them scourge the bad revolting stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The color of the king doth come and go,<br />\nBetween his purpose and his conscience,<br />\nLike heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set:<br />\nHis passion is so ripe, it needs must break."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is a heretic that makes the fire, Not she which burns in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ambition's debt is paid."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Pray, love, remember: and there is pansies, that's for thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love surfeits not, Lust like a glutton dies; Love is all truth, Lust full of forged lies"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I say, without characters, fame lives long."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I was too young that time to value her, But now I know her. If she be a traitor, Why, so am I. We still have slept together, Rose at an instant, learned, played, eat together, And wheresoe'er we went, like Juno's swans, Still we went coupled and inseparable."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: France is a dog-hole, and it no more merits the tread of a man's foot."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Get thee to a nunnery."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Foul whisperings are abroad"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This making of Christians will raise the price of hogs."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No man's pie is freed <br />\r\nFrom his ambitious finger."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It warms the very sickness in my heart, That I shall live and tell him to his teeth, \"Thus diddest thou;\""
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in the most humorous sadness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For sorrow ends not, when it seemeth done."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The extreme parts of time extremely forms all causes to the purpose of his speed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Experience is by industry achieved, And perfected by the swift course of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But like of each thing that in season grows."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Not stepping over the bounds of modesty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou whoreson zed! thou unnecessary letter!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A very scurvy fellow."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The trust I have is in mine innocence, and therefore am I bold and resolute."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The loyalty, well held to fools, does make Our faith mere folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Anger's my meat. I sup upon myself,<br />\nAnd so shall starve with feeding."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Though age from folly could not give me freedom, It does from childishness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blest; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes: 'Tis mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway; It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tell them, that, to ease them of their griefs, Their fear of hostile strokes, their aches, losses, Their pangs of love, with other incident throes That nature's fragile vessel doth sustain In life's uncertain voyage, I will some kindness do them."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What though care killed a cat, thou hast mettle enough in thee to kill care."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The wildest hath not such a heart as you. Run when you will, the story shall be changed: Apollo flies, and Daphne holds the chase; The dove pursues the griffin; the mild hind Makes speed to catch the tiger; bootless speed, When cowardice pursues and valour flies."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The venom clamours of a jealous woman poison more deadly than a mad dog's tooth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You told a lie, an odious damned lie; Upon my soul, a lie, a wicked lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And where the offense is, let the great axe fall."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thus die I, thus, thus, thus. Now am I dead, Now am I fled; My soul is in the sky: Tongue, lose thy light; Moon take thy flight. Now die, die, die, die, die."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: CLEOPATRA: If it be love indeed, tell me how much. ANTONY: There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. CLEOPATRA: I'll set a bourne how far to be belov'd. ANTONY: Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thine eyes I love, and they as pitying me, Knowing thy heart torment me with disdain, Have put on black, and loving mourners be, Looking with pretty ruth upon my pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Pain pays the income of each precious thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lords, I protest my soul is full of woe<br />\nThat blood should sprinkle me to make me grow.<br />\nCome, mourn with me for what I do lament,<br />\nAnd put sullen black incontinent.<br />\nI'll make a voyage to the Holy Land<br />\nTo wash this blood off from my guilty hand.<br />\nMarch sadly after. Grace my mournings here<br />\nIn weeping after this untimely bier."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This sanguine coward, this bed-presser, this horseback-breaker, this huge hill of flesh!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Poise the cause in justice's equal scales,<br />\nWhose beam stands sure, whose rightful cause prevails."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Then imitate the action of the tiger; stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall with our English dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Can one desire too much of a good thing?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We see which way the stream of time doth run."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A wicked conscience mouldeth goblins swift as frenzy thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Courage mounteth with occasion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Perseverance, my dear Lord.  Keeps honour bright."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He doth nothing but talk of his horses."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He uses his folly like a stalking-horse, and under the presentation of that he shoots his wit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am misanthropos, and hate mankind, For thy part, I do wish thou wert a dog, That I might love thee something."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As in a theatre, the eyes of men, after a well-graced actor leaves the stage, are idly bent on him that enters next."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My only love sprung from my only hate! Too early seen unknown, and known too late! Prodigious birth of love it is to me, That I must love a loathed enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll fight, till from my bones my flesh be hacked."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Our jovial star reigned at his birth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Romans, countrymen, and lovers, hear me for my cause, and be silent, that you may hear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A man cannot make him laugh - but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So distribution should undo excess, and each man have enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Death makes no conquest of this conqueror: For now he lives in fame, though not in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love is a spirit all compact of fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A lion among ladies is a most dreadful thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts <br />\r\nFall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose,<br />\r\nAnd on old Hiems' thin and icy crown <br />\r\nAn odorous chaplet of sweet summer buds<br />\r\nIs, as in mockery, set. The spring, the summer,<br />\r\nThe childing autumn, angry winter, change<br />\r\nTheir wonted liveries, and the mazed world,<br />\r\nBy their increase, now knows not which is which."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Farewell, fair cruelty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: His neigh is like the bidding of a monarch, and his countenance enforces homage. He is indeed a horse."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Had I no eyes but ears, my ears would love. That inward beauty and invisible; Or were I deaf, thy outward parts would move each part in me that were but sensible: Though neither eyes nor ears, to hear nor see, yet should I be in love by touching thee. 'Say, that the sense of feeling were bereft me, and that I could not see, nor hear, nor touch, and nothing but the very smell were left me, yet would my love to thee be still as much; for from the stillitory of thy face excelling comes breath perfum'd that breedeth love by smelling."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Look, what envious streaks do lace the severing clouds in yonder east! Night's candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tip-toe on the misty mountain-tops."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, let my books be then the eloquence and dumb presages of my speaking breast."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No, no, I am but shadow of myself: You are deceived, my substance is not here."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, Straining upon the start. The game's afoot; Follow your spirit: and upon this charge, Cry \u2014 God for Harry! England and Saint George!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Who knows himself a braggart, Let him fear this; for it will come to pass That every braggart will be found an ass."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll go find a shadow, and sigh till he come\" (Phebe)"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In brief, sir, study what you most affect."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Abate the edge of traitors, gracious Lord,<br />\nThat would reduce these bloody days again<br />\nAnd make poor England weep in streams of blood!<br />\nLet them not live to taste this land's increase<br />\nThat would with treason wound this fair land's peace!<br />\nNow civil wounds are stopped, peace lives again:<br />\nThat she may long live here, God say amen!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have trod a measure, I have flattered a lady, I have<br />\nbeen politic with my friend, smooth with mine enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The teeming Autumn big with rich increase, bearing the wanton burden of the prime like widowed wombs after their lords decease."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And send him many years of sunshine days!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And my poor fool is hanged! No, no, no life! Why should a dog, a horse, a rat, have life, And thou no breath at all? Thou'lt come no more, Never, Never, Never, Never, Never! Pray you, undo this button."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As love is full of unbefitting strains,<br />\r\nAll wanton as a child, skipping and vain,<br />\r\nForm'd by the eye and therefore, like the eye,<br />\r\nFull of strange shapes, of habits and of forms,<br />\r\nVarying in subjects as the eye doth roll<br />\r\nTo every varied object in his glance"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And nothing is, but what is not."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There are many events in the womb of time which will be delivered."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Then with the losers let it sympathize,<br />\nFor nothing can seem foul to those that win."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis much when sceptres are in children's hands,<br />\nBut more when envy breeds unkind division:<br />\nThere comes the ruin, there begins confusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A very little thief of occasion will rob you of a great deal of patience."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tremble, thou wretch,<br />\nThat hast within thee undivulged crimes<br />\nUnwhipped of justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Mercy but murders, pardoning those that kill."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Are there no stones in heaven<br />\nBut what serves for thunder?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I do not hate a proud man, as I do hate the engendering of toads."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A glooming peace this morning with it brings; The sun, for sorrow, will not show his head: Go hence, to have more talk of these sad things; Some shall be pardon'd, and some punished: For never was a story of more woe Than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love laughs at locksmiths."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Season your admiration for a while."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For I am proverbed with a grandsire phrase."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Her blood is settled, and her joints are stiff; Life and these lips have long been separated: Death lies on her like an untimely frost Upon the sweetest flower of all the field."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Swift as shadow, short as any dream"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Come what sorrow can, It cannot countervail the exchange of joy, That one short minute gives me in her sight"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hanging and wiving goes by destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The ides of March are come. Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am that merry wanderer of the night."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Come give us a taste of  your quality."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine,<br />\nNor age so eat up my invention,<br />\nNor fortune made such havoc of my means,<br />\nNor my bad life reft me so much of friends,<br />\nBut they shall find awaked in such a kind<br />\nBoth strength of limb and policy of mind,<br />\nAbility in means, and choice of friends,<br />\nTo quit me of them throughly."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No sooner met but they looked; no sooner looked but they loved; no sooner loved but they sighed; no sooner sighed but they asked one another the reason; no sooner knew the reason but they sought the remedy; and in these degrees have they made a pair of stairs to marriage."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am a foe to tyrants, and my country's friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Prepare for mirth, for mirth becomes a feast."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lovers can do their amorous rites by their own beauties"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Present mirth hath present laughter. What's to come is still unsure."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now, neighbor confines, purge you of your scum! Have you a ruffian that will swear, drink, dance, revel the night, rob, murder, and commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Speak comfortable words."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Bell, book and candle shall not drive me back, When gold and silver becks me to come on."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Yet, for I know thou art religious<br />\nAnd hast a thing within thee called conscience,<br />\nWith twenty popish tricks and ceremonies<br />\nWhich I have seen thee careful to observe,<br />\nTherefore I urge thy oath; for that I know<br />\nAn idiot holds his bauble for a god<br />\nAnd keeps the oath which by that god he swears,<br />\nTo that I'll urge him: therefore thou shalt vow<br />\nBy that same god, what god soe'er it be,<br />\nThat thou adorest and hast in reverence,<br />\nTo save my boy, to nourish and bring him up,<br />\nOr else I will discover naught to thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Besides, our nearness to the King in love<br />\r\nIs near the hate of those love not the King."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A countenance more in sorrow than in anger."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You undergo too strict a paradox, Striving to make an ugly deed look fair."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No matter where; of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My only love sprung from my only hate."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Take pains. Be perfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Great floods have flown From simple sources."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I must to the barber's, monsieur, for methinks I am marvellous hairy about the face."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Scorn, at first, makes after-love the more."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Omittance is no quittance."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Knit your hearts with an unslipping knot."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: See where she comes apparelled like the spring."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: for Mercutio's soul Is but a little way above our heads, Staying for thine to keep him company: Either thou, or I, or both, must go with him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I was born free as Caesar; so were you"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The language I have learnt these forty years, My native English, now I must forgo; And now my tongue's use is to me no more Than an unstringed viol or a harp, Or like a cunning instrument cased up Or, being open, put into his hands That knows no touch to tune the harmony."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Full fathom five thy father lies"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Friends now fast sworn,<br />\r\nWhose double bosoms seems to wear one heart,<br />\r\nWhose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise<br />\r\nAre still together, who twin, as 'twere, in love,<br />\r\nUnseparable, shall within this hour,<br />\r\nOn a dissension of a doit, break out<br />\r\nTo bitterest enmity; so fellest foes,<br />\r\nWhose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep<br />\r\nTo take the one the other, by some chance,<br />\r\nSome trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends<br />\r\nAnd interjoin their issues."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hereditary sloth instructs me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Awake, awake, English nobility! Let not sloth dim your horrors new-begot."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: These cardinals trifle with me; I abhor; This dilatory sloth and tricks of Rome."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The bird that hath been limed in a bush, with trembling wings misdoubteth every bush."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And to the English court assemble now, From every region, apes of idleness!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now the fair goddess, Fortune,<br />\r\nFall deep in love with thee, and her great charms<br />\r\nMisguide thy opposers' swords!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Who is Silvia What is she, That all our swains commend her Holy, fair, and wise is she."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Good morrow, fair ones; pray you, if you know,<br />\r\nWhere in the purlieus of this forest stands<br />\r\nA sheep-cote fenc'd about with olive trees?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Miracles are ceased; and therefore we must needs admit the means, how things are perfected."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So every bondman in his own hand bears <br />\n The power to cancel his captivity."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The day shall not be up so soon as I, <br />\n To try the fair adventure of tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love is merely a madness, and, I tell you, deserves as well a dark house and a whip as madmen do."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And blind oblivion swallowed cities up."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Set we forward; let<br />\nA Roman and a British ensign wave<br />\nFriendly together. So through Lud's town march,<br />\nAnd in the temple of the great Jupiter<br />\nOur peace we'll ratify, seal it with feasts.<br />\nSet on there! Never was a war did cease,<br />\nEre bloody hands were washed, with such a peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens to the which our wills are gardeners."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentler gamester is the soonest winner"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods or to reside In thrilling regions of thick-ribbed ice; To be imprison'd in the viewless winds, And blown with restless violence round about The pendant world."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Myself will straight aboard, and to the state<br />\nThis heavy act with heavy heart relate."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I stalk about her door, like a strange soul upon the Stygian banks staying for waftage."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Therefore I tell my sorrows to the stones; Who, though they cannot answer my distress, Yet in some sort they are better than the tribunes, For that they will not intercept my tale: When I do weep, they humbly at my feet Receive my tears and seem to weep with me; And, were they but attired in grave weeds, Rome could afford no tribune like to these."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness, did lay siege to it, Making it momentary as a sound, Swift as a shadow, short as any dream, Brief as the lightning in the collied night That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth, And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!' The jaws of darkness do devour it up; So quick bright things come to confusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I sat upon a promontory, <br />\n And heard a mermaid, on a dolphin's back, <br />\n Uttering such dulcet and harmonious breath, <br />\n That the rude sea grew civil at her song; <br />\n And certain stars shot madly from their spheres, <br />\n To hear the sea-maid's music."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Oh, that way madness lies; let me shun that."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: She dreams of him that has forgot her love; You dote on her that cares not for your love. 'Tis pity love should be so contrary; And thinking of it makes me cry 'alas!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O Helena, goddess, nymph, perfect, divine! To what, my love, shall I compare thine eyne? Crystal is muddy. O, how ripe in show Thy lips, those kissing cherries, tempting grow!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hamlet: Lady, shall I lie in your lap? Ophelia: No, my lord. Hamlet: DId you think I meant country matters? Ophelia: I think nothing, my lord. Hamlet: That's a fair thought to lie between maids' legs. Ophelia: What is, my lord? Hamlet: Nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You have witchcraft in your lips, there is more eloquence in a sugar touch of them than in the tongues of the French council; and they should sooner persuade Harry of England than a general petition of monarchs."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What's more to do,<br />\r\nWhich would be planted newly with the time,<br />\r\nAs calling home our exiled friends abroad<br />\r\nThat fled the snares of watchful tyranny,<br />\r\nProducing forth the cruel ministers<br />\r\nOf this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,<br />\r\nWho, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands<br />\r\nTook off her life; this, and what needful else<br />\r\nThat calls upon us, by the grace of Grace<br />\r\nWe will perform in measure, time, and place."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O jest unseen, inscrutable, invisible, As a nose on a man's face, or a weathercock on a steeple."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hath Romeo slain himself? Say thou but ay, And that bare vowel ay shall poison more Than the death-darting eye of cockatrice. I am not I,if there be such an ay, Or those eyes shut,that make thee answer ay: If he be slain say ay,or if not,no: Brief sounds,determine of my weal or woe."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The why is plain as way to parish church:<br />\r\nHe that a fool doth very wisely hit<br />\r\nDoth very foolishly, although he smart,<br />\r\nNot to seem senseless of the bob; if not,<br />\r\nThe wise man's folly is anatomiz'd<br />\r\nEven by the squand'ring glances of the fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thyself shall see the act; For, as thou urgest justice, be assured Thou shalt have justice, more than thou desir'st."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators, save only he,Did that they did in envy of Caesar;He only, in a general honest thoughtAnd common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elementsSo mixd in him that Nature might stand upAnd say to all the world, This was a man!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Accommodated; that is, when a man is, as they say, accommodated; or when a man is, being, whereby a' may be thought to be accommodated,?which is an excellent thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Confess yourself to heaven, Repent what's past, avoid what is to come, And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is great sin to swear unto a sin, But greater sin to keep a sinful oath."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A great while ago the world begun,<br />\nWith hey, ho, the wind and the rain;<br />\nBut that's all one, our play is done,<br />\nAnd we'll strive to please you every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thus have I, Wall, my part discharged so; And, being done, thus Wall away doth go."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: His forward voice now is to speak well of his friend. His backward voice is to utter foul speeches and to detract."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For so work the honey bees, creatures that by a rule in nature teach the act of order to a peopled kingdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, then, what graces in my love do dwell, that he hath turn'd a heaven unto hell"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Madness in great ones must not unwatched go."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Conscience is a thousand swords."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once restore a purse of gold that (by chance) I found. It beggars any man that keeps it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In springtime, the only pretty ring time Birds sing, hey ding A-ding, a-ding Sweet lovers love the spring\u2014"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To be honest, as this world goes, is to be one man picked out of ten thousand."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I love thee so, that, maugre all thy pride,<br />\r\nNor wit nor reason can my passion hide.<br />\r\nDo not extort thy reasons from this clause,<br />\r\nFor that I woo, thou therefore hast no cause<br />\r\nBut rather reason thus with reason fetter,<br />\r\nLove sought is good, but given unsought better."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: 'Tis dangerous to take a cold, to sleep, to drink; but I tell you, my lord fool, out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The peace of heaven is theirs that lift their swords, in such a just and charitable war."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But thy eternal summer shall not fade."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's rosemary, that's for remembrance. Pray you, love, remember."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The prince of darkness is a gentleman!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Get thee glass eyes, and like a scurvy politician, seem to see the things thou dost not."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To be in love- where scorn is bought with groans,<br />\r\nCoy looks with heart-sore sighs, one fading moment's mirth<br />\r\nWith twenty watchful, weary, tedious nights;<br />\r\nIf haply won, perhaps a hapless gain;<br />\r\nIf lost, why then a grievous labour won;<br />\r\nHowever, but a folly bought with wit,<br />\r\nOr else a wit by folly vanquished."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A hit, a very palpable hit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fear not, Cesario, take thy fortunes up. Be that thou know'st thou art and then thou art as great as that thou fear'st."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am one, sir, that comes to tell you your daughter and the Moor are now making the beast with two backs.(IAGO,ActI,SceneI)"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!\" - Cassio (Act II, Scene iii)"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I do not know<br />\nWhat kind of my obedience I should tender.<br />\nMore than my all is nothing; nor my prayers<br />\nAre not words holy hallowed, nor my wishes<br />\nMore worth than empty vanities; yet prayers and wishes<br />\nAre all I can return."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: At this hour Lie at my mercy all mine enemies."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Time is like a fashionable host <br />\r\nThat slightly shakes his parting guest by the hand, <br />\r\nAnd with his arm outstretch'd, as he would fly, <br />\r\nGrasps in the comer."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What, man, defy the devil. Consider, he's an enemy to mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My desolation does begin to make A better life."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the Devil!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And be these juggling friends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense; That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The gods are just, and of our pleasant vices<br />\r\nMake instruments to plague us."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Give me a staff of honor for mine age,<br />\nBut not a sceptre to control the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is a history in all men's lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Art thou afeard To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire? Wouldst thou have that Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life, And live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting 'I dare not' wait upon 'I would,' Like the poor cat i' the adage?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Our very eyes<br />\nAre sometimes, like our judgments, blind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I do oppose<br />\r\nMy patience to his fury, and am arm'd<br />\r\nTo suffer, with a quietness of spirit,<br />\r\nThe very tyranny and rage of his."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let me not to the marriage of true minds"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lechery, lechery; still, wars and lechery: nothing else holds fashion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Poor and content is rich, and rich enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The undiscovered country from whose bourn no traveler returns."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The sweat of industry would dry and die,<br />\nBut for the end it works to."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Angels and ministers of grace defend us."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I told you, sir, they were red-hot with drinking; so full of valor that they smote the air, for breathing in their faces, beat the ground for kissing of their feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How is it that the clouds still hang on you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You take my life when you do take the means whereby I live"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All's well that ends well; still the fine's the crown. Whate'er the course, the end is the renown."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Indeed, sir, he that sleeps feels not the toothache; but a man that were to sleep your sleep, and a hangman to help him to bed, I think he would change places with his officer; for look you, sir, you know not which way you shall go."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Give me a bowl of wine,<br />\r\nIn this I bury all unkindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is this a vision? Is this a dream? Do I sleep?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Farewell, a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: today he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, tomorrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honours thick upon him: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And - when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening - nips his root, And then he falls, as I do."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be not afeard; the isle is full of noises, Sounds, and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not. Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments Will hum about mine ears; and sometime voices, That, if I then had waked after long sleep, Will make me sleep again: and then, in dreaming, The clouds methought would open, and show riches Ready to drop upon me; that, when I waked, I cried to dream again."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Justice always whirls in equal measure."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When daffodils begin to peer, <br />\r\nWith heigh! the doxy, over the dale,<br />\r\nWhy, then comes in the sweet o' the year;<br />\r\nFor the red blood reigns in the winter's pale. <br />\r\nThe white sheet bleaching on the hedge,<br />\r\nWith heigh! the sweet birds, O, how they sing! <br />\r\nDoth set my pugging tooth on edge; <br />\r\nFor a quart of ale is a dish for a king."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nothing in his life became him like leaving it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We fail!<br />\r\nBut screw your courage to the sticking-place,<br />\r\nAnd we'll not fail."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O comfort-killing night, image of hell, Dim register and notary of shame, Black stage for tragedies and murders fell, Vast sin-concealing chaos, nurse of blame!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The Brightness of her cheek would shame those stars as daylight doth a lamp; her eyes in heaven would through the airy region stream so bright that birds would sing, and think it were not night."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have unclasp'd to thee the book even of my secret soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to you-trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines. Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently; for in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, the whirlwind of your passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If I may trust the flattering truth of sleep,<br />\nMy dreams presage some joyful news at hand.<br />\nMy bosom's lord sits lightly in his throne,<br />\nAnd all this day an unaccustomed spirit<br />\nLifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Every man has a bag hanging before him, in which he puts his neighbour's faults, and another behind him in which he stows his own."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is man no more than this? Consider him well. Thou ow'st the worm no silk, the beast no hide, the sheep no wool, the cat no perfume. Here's three on's are sophisticated. Thou art the thing itself; unaccommodated man is no more than such a poor, bare, forked animal as thou art."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile; Filths savour but themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Have you not a moist eye, a dry hand, a yellow cheek, a white beard, a decreasing leg, an increasing belly? Is not your voice broken, your wind short, your chin double, your wit single, and every part about you blasted with antiquity?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He reads much; He is a great observer and he looks Quite through the deeds of men: he loves no plays, As thou dost, Antony; he hears no music; Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock'd himself and scorn'd his spirit That could be moved to smile at any thing. Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The rain, it raineth every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I doubt not then but innocence shall makeFalse accusation blush, and tyrannyTremble at patience."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This England never did, nor never shall, <br />\r\n Lie at the proud foot of a conqueror, <br />\r\n But when it first did help to wound itself. <br />\r\n Now these her princes are come home again, <br />\r\n Come the three corners of the world in arms, <br />\r\n And we shall shock them. Nought shall make us rue, <br />\r\n If England to itself do rest but true."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Memory, the warder of the brain."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Young men's love then lies not truly in their hearts, but in their eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So may the outward shows be least themselves; The world is still deceived with ornament."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: These words are razors to my wounded heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The man that hath no music in himself"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lilies that fester smell far worse than weeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O father Abram, what these Christians are, Whose own hard dealing teaches them suspect The thoughts of others!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: By-and-by is easily said."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Grief best is pleased with grief's society."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We cannot all be masters, nor all masters Cannot be truly followed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis a happy thing To be the father unto many sons."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite The man that mocks at it and sets it light."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A woman is a dish for the gods, if the devil dress her not."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O war! thou son of Hell!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He does me double wrong<br />\nThat wounds me with the flatteries of his tongue."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O Romeo, Romeo! wherefore art thou Romeo? Deny thy father and refuse thy name; Or, if thou wilt not, be but sworn my love... 'Tis but thy name that is my enemy;<br />\nWhat's in a name? that which we call a rose By any other name would smell as sweet."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have full cause of weeping, but this heart shall break into a hundred thousand flaws or ere I'll weep."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified in. and the best of me is diligence."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The sense of death is most in apprehension."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The Thane of Cawdor lives,<br />\nA prosperous gentleman; and to be King<br />\nStands not within the prospect of belief,<br />\nNo more than to be Cawdor."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Verily, I swear, it is better to be lowly born, and range with humble livers in content, than to be perked up in a glistering grief, and wear a golden sorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Bondage is hoarse, and may not speak aloud."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My rage is gone,<br />\nAnd I am struck with sorrow. Take him up.<br />\nHelp, three o' th' chiefest soldiers; I'll be one.<br />\nBeat thou the drum, that it speaks mournfully,<br />\nTrail your steel spikes. Though in this city he<br />\nHath widowed and unchilded many a one,<br />\nWhich to this hour bewail the injury,<br />\nYet he shall have a noble memory.<br />\nAssist."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Well, while I live I'll fear no other thing<br />\nSo sore as keeping safe Nerissa's ring."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fight valiantly to-day; and yet I do thee wrong to mind thee of it, for thou art framed of the firm truth of valor."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is no love-broker in the world can more prevail in man's commendation with woman than report of valor."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We must be brief when traitors brave the field."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange<br />\nThat even our loves should with our fortunes change,<br />\nFor 'tis a question left us yet to prove,<br />\nWhether love lead fortune, or else fortune love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All things that we ordained festival<br />\nTurn from their office to black funeral--<br />\nOur instruments to melancholy bells,<br />\nOur wedding cheer to a sad burial feast;<br />\nOur solemn hymns to sullen dirges change;<br />\nOur bridal flowers serve for a buried corse;<br />\nAnd all things change them to the contrary."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nay, had I pow'r, I should<br />\nPour the sweet milk of concord into hell,<br />\nUproar the universal peace, confound<br />\nAll unity on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As chaste as is the bud ere it be blown."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Of chastity, the ornaments are chaste."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Besides, they are our outward consciences,<br />\nAnd preachers to us all, admonishing<br />\nThat we should drew us fairly for our end."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The cheek<br />\nIs apter than the tongue to tell an errand."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The wounds invisible that Love's keen arrows make."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fruits that blossom first will first be ripe."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We must be gentle now we are gentlemen."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How much an ill word may empoison liking!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am not prone to weeping as our sex commonly are; the want of which vain dew perchance shall dry your pities;<br />\nbut I have that honorable grief lodged here which burns worse than tears drown."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A dream itself is but a shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Never anything can be amiss, when simpleness and duty tender it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Those, that with haste will make a mighty fire,<br />\nBegin it with weak straws."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Wisely, I say, I am a bachelor."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries,<br />\nI would give no man a reason upon compulsion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A man I am cross'd with adversity."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Though yet of Hamlet our dear brother's death the memory be green."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In sweet music is such art: killing care and grief of heart fall asleep, or hearing, die."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Patience is sottish, and impatience does become a dog that's mad."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Do not banish reason for inequality; but let your reason serve to make the truth appear where it seems hid, and hide the false seems true."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou art as tyrannous, so as thou art, As those whose beauties proudly make them cruel; For well thou know'st to my dear doting heart Thou art the fairest and most precious jewel."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O call not me to justify the wrong, That thy unkindness lays upon my heart, Wound me not with thine eye but with thy tongue, Use power with power, and slay me not by art."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So now I have confessed that he is thine, And I my self am mortgaged to thy will, My self I'll forfeit, so that other mine, Thou wilt restore to be my comfort still."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Then hate me when thou wilt, if ever, now."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Then happy I that love and am beloved, where I may not remove nor be removed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is a devilish mercy in the judge, if you'll implore it, that will free your life, but fetter you till death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Though music oft hath such a charm to make bad good, and good provoke to harm."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love, whose month is ever May,<br />\nSpied a blossom passing fair,<br />\nPlaying in the wanton air:<br />\nThrough the velvet leaves the wind,<br />\nAll unseen can passage find;<br />\nThat the lover, sick to death,<br />\nWish'd himself the heaven's breath."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They say, the tongues of dying men<br />\r\nEnforce attention, like deep harmony;<br />\r\nWhere words are scarce, they're seldom spent in vain;<br />\r\nFor they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Gentle and low, an excellent thing in woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's daggers in men's smiles."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Look on beauty,<br />\nAnd you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight,<br />\nWhich therein works a miracle in nature,<br />\nMaking them lightest that wear most of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The most peaceable way for you, if you do take a thief, is, to let him show himself what he is and steal out of your company."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: An angel; or, if not,<br />\r\nAn earthly paragon."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Enjoy'd no sooner but despised straight, Past reason hunted, and no sooner had Past reason hated"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Alas, our frailty is the cause , not we! For, such as we are made of, such we be."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sweets to the sweet."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Do you bite your thumb at us, sir?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This we prescribe, though no physician; Deep malice makes too deep incision; Forget, forgive; conclude and be agreed; Our doctors say this is no month to bleed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why didst thou promise such a beauteous day And make me travel forth without my cloak, To let base clouds o'ertake me in my way, Hiding they brav'ry in their rotten smoke?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: it is my lady! *sighs* o, it is my love! o, that she knew she were! she speaks, yet she sais nothing. what of that? her eye discourses; i will answer it. i am too bold, 'tis not to me she speaks; two of the fairest stars in all the heaven, having some business, do entreat her eyes to twinkle in their spheres till they return."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more. Sure he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unused."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nor shall this peace sleep with her; but as when The bird of wonder dies, the maiden phoenix, Her ashes new-create another heir As great in admiration as herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What's his offense? Groping for trout in a peculiar river."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Good Lord, for alliance! Thus goes every one to the world but I, and I am sunburnt; I may sit in a corner and cry heigh-ho for a husband!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Well, in that hit you miss. She'll not be hit With Cupid's arrow. She hath Dian's wit, And, in strong proff of chastity well armed, From Love's weak childish bow she lives uncharmed. She will not stay the siege of loving terms, Nor bide th' encounter of assailing eyes, Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold. O, she is rich in beauty; only poor That, when she dies, with dies her store. Act 1,Scene 1, lines 180-197"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Exit, pursued by a bear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his back a thousand times; and now, how abhorred in my imagination it is! my gorge rims at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft. Where be your gibes now? your gambols? your songs? your flashes of merriment, that were wont to set the table on a roar? Not one now, to mock your own grinning? quite chap-fallen?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There are no tricks in plain and simple faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Danger knows full well that Caesar is more dangerous than he. We are two lions litter\u2019d in one day, and I the elder and more terrible."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Do thou amend thy face, and I'll amend my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my soul But I do love thee! and when I love thee not, Chaos is come again."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And yet, by heaven, I think my love as rare As any she belied with false compare."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The quality of nothing hath not such need to hide itself"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men are April when they woo, December when they wed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why are our bodies soft, and weak, and smooth But that our soft conditions and our hearts Should well agree with our external parts?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Death, that hath suck'd the honey of thy breath hath had no power yet upon thy beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I go, I go, look how I go, swifter than an arrow from a bow"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A pox o\u2019 your throat, you bawling, blasphemous, incharitable dog!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is nothing serious in Mortality"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How art thou out of breath when thou hast breath To say to me that thou art out of breath?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They are but beggars that can count their worth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And will he not come again? And will he not come again? No, no, he is dead. Go to thy deathbed. He never will come again."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murder in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You cram these words into mine ears against The stomach of my sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried, Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel; But do not dull thy palm with entertainment Of each new-hatch'd, unfledg'd comrade."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When the mind's free, The Body's delicate."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by, From this day to the ending of the world, But we in it shall be remembered- We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; For he to-day that sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Enough no more; Tis not so sweet now as it was before."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The summer's flower is to the summer sweet Though to itself it only live and die"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Under the greenwood tree, Who loves to lie with me And tune his merry note, Unto the sweet bird's throat; Come hither, come hither, come hither. Here shall he see No enemy But winter and rough weather."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Wooing, wedding, and repenting is as a Scotch jig, a measure, and a cinque-pace: the first suit is hot and hasty like a Scotch jig--and full as fantastical; the wedding, mannerly modest, as a measure, full of state and ancientry; and then comes repentance and with his bad legs falls into the cinque-pace faster and faster, till he sink into his grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I should think this a gull, but that the white-bearded fellow speaks it; knavery cannot, sure, hide himself in such reverence."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Where love is great, the littlest doubts are fear; Where little fears grow great, great love grows there."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is a world elsewhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why, thou knowest I am as valiant as Hercules, but beware instinct. The lion will not touch the true prince. Instinct is a great matter. I was a coward on instinct."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, she's warm! If this be magic, let it be an art Lawful as eating."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This thing of darkness I Acknowledge mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears: Look, when I vow, I weep; and vows so born, In their nativity all truth appears. How can these things in me seem scorn to you, Bearing the badge of faith, to prove them true?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Four days will quickly steep themselves in nights; Four nights will quickly dream away the time; And then the moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven, shall behold the night of our solemnities."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In sooth I know not why I am so sad. It wearies me, you say it wearies you; But how I caught it, found it, or came by it, What stuff 'tis made of, whereof it is born, I am to learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Plain and not honest is too harsh a style."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Can I go forward when my heart is here?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And nature must obey necessity."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, let him pass. He hates him That would upon the rack of this tough world Stretch him out longer."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The icy precepts of respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: These are the forgeries of jealousy; And never, since the middle summer's spring, Met we on hill, in dale, forest, or mead, By paved fountain or by rushy brook, Or in the beached margent of the sea, To dance our ringlets to the whistling wind, But with thy brawls thou hast disturbed our sport."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Avaunt, you cullions!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Such antics do not amount to a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He is white-livered and red-faced."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They are hare-brain'd slaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Take her away; for she hath lived too long, <br />\r\nTo fill the world with vicious qualities."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I had rather chop this hand off at a blow,<br />\r\nAnd with the other fling it at thy face."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Teeth hadst thou in thy head when thou wast born, <br />\r\nTo signify thou camest to bite the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I can see his pride <br />\r\nPeep through each part of him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O you beast! <br />\r\nI'll so maul you and your toasting-iron, <br />\r\nThat you shall think the devil is come from hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O faithless coward! O dishonest wretch! <br />\r\nWilt thou be made a man out of my vice?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Some report a sea-maid spawn'd him; some that he was begot between two stock-fishes. But it is certain that when he makes water his urine is congealed ice."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou art a Castilian King urinal!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Vile worm, thou wast o'erlook'd even in thy birth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My cousin's a fool, and thou art another."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thy food is such<br />\r\nAs hath been belch'd on by infected lungs."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou unfit for any place but hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I shall laugh myself to death at this puppy-headed <br />\r\nmonster!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Marriage is a matter of more worth<br />\r\nThan to be dealt in by attorneyship."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will be master of what is mine own:<br />\r\nShe is my goods, my chattels; she is my house,<br />\r\nMy household stuff, my field, my barn,<br />\r\nMy horse, my ox, my ass, my any thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Come,<br />\r\nLet's have one other gaudy night. Call to me<br />\r\nAll my sad captains. Fill our bowls once more.<br />\r\nLet's mock the midnight bell."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: While we lie tumbling in the hay."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will be correspondent to command, And do my spiriting gently."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that dies pays all debts."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This is the short and the long of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: These blessed candles of the night."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in 't."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Patch grief with proverbs."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: ...Vaulted with such ease into his seat, As if an angel dropp'd down from the clouds, To turn and wind a fiery Pegasus, And witch the world with noble horsemanship."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Many can brook the weather that love not the wind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love's gentle spring doth always fresh remain."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This man, lady, hath robb'd many beasts of their particular additions: he is as valiant as a lion, churlish as the bear, slow as the elephant-a man into whom nature hath so crowded humours that his valour is crush'd into folly, his folly sauced with discretion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: She marking them begins a wailing note And sings extemporally a woeful ditty How love makes young men thrall and old men dote How love is wise in folly, foolish-witty Her heavy anthem still concludes in woe, And still the choir of echoes answer so."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Some sins do bear their privilege on earth,<br />\r\nAnd so doth yours: your fault was not your folly;<br />\r\nNeeds must you lay your heart at his dispose,<br />\r\nSubjected tribute to commanding love,<br />\r\nAgainst whose fury and unmatched force<br />\r\nThe aweless lion could not wage the fight<br />\r\nNor keep his princely heart from Richard's hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We that are true lovers run into strange capers; but as all is mortal in nature, so is all nature in love mortal in folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And writers say, as the most forward bud<br />\r\nIs eaten by the canker ere it blow,<br />\r\nEven so by love the young and tender wit<br />\r\nIs turn'd to folly, blasting in the bud,<br />\r\nLosing his verdure even in the prime,<br />\r\nAnd all the fair effects of future hopes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Strikes deeper, grows with more pernicious root."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A table-full of welcome!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They are fairies; he that speaks to them shall die.  I'll wink and couch; no man their works must eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Set your heart at rest.  The fairyland buys not the child of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Appetite, a universal wolf."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O' thinkest thou we shall ever meet again? I doubt it not; and all these woes shall serve For sweet discourses in our times to come."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ay, Much is the force of heaven-bred poesy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Remuneration! O! That's the Latin word for three farthings"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If they love they know not why, they hate upon no better ground, they hate upon no better a ground"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All fancy-sick she is and pale of cheer, with sighs of love, that costs the fresh blood dear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now see that noble and most sovereign reason, Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am asham'd that women are so simple To offer war where they should kneel for peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Give it an understanding, but no tongue."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let us our lives, our souls,<br />\r\nOur debts, our careful wives,<br />\r\nOur children, and our sins, lay on the King!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Flesh and blood,<br />\r\nYou, brother mine, that entertain'd ambition,<br />\r\nExpell'd remorse and nature, who, with Sebastian-<br />\r\nWhose inward pinches therefore are most strong-<br />\r\nWould here have kill'd your king, I do forgive thee,<br />\r\nUnnatural though thou art."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If you be King, why should not I succeed?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: An earnest conjuration from the King,<br />\r\nAs England was his faithful tributary,<br />\r\nAs love between them like the palm might flourish,<br />\r\nAs peace should still her wheaten garland wear<br />\r\nAnd stand a comma 'tween their amities,<br />\r\nAnd many such-like as's of great charge,<br />\r\nThat, on the view and knowing of these contents,<br />\r\nWithout debatement further, more or less,<br />\r\nHe should the bearers put to sudden death,<br />\r\nNot shriving time allow'd."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This sleep is sound indeed; this is a sleep<br />\r\nThat from this golden rigol hath divorc'd<br />\r\nSo many English kings."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Strong reasons make strong actions let us go If you say ay, the king will not say no."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Titus Andronicus, my lord the Emperor<br />\r\nSends thee this word, that, if thou love thy sons,<br />\r\nLet Marcus, Lucius, or thyself, old Titus,<br />\r\nOr any one of you, chop off your hand<br />\r\nAnd send it to the King: he for the same<br />\r\nWill send thee hither both thy sons alive,<br />\r\nAnd that shall be the ransom for their fault."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O King, believe not this hard-hearted man!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A man may see how this world goes with no eyes. Look with thine ears: see how yond justice rails upon yon simple thief. Hark, in thine ear: change places; and, handy-dandy, which is the justice, which is the thief?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Like a man made after supper of a cheese-paring: when a' was naked, he was, for all the world, like a forked radish, with a head fantastically carved upon it with a knife."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Britain is A world by itself, and we will nothing pay For wearing our own noses."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, what a world of vile ill-favored faults, looks handsome in three hundred pounds a year!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Give thy thoughts no tongue, nor any unproportioned thought his act. Be thou familiar but by no means vulgar."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is the purpose that makes strong the vow; But vows to every purpose must not hold."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis not the many oaths that make the truth; But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let the end try the man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis but a base, ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The brain may devise laws for the blood, but a hot temper leaps o'er a cold decree."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For where is any author in the world Teaches such beauty as a woman's eye?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved, Or not at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Trust not your daughter's minds By what you see them act."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: ... And death unloads thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This fell sergeant, Death, Is strict in his arrest."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sweets grown common lose their dear delight."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love that well which thou must leave ere long."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That affable familiar ghost Which nightly gulls him with intelligence."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Pride went before, ambition follows him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When a wise man gives thee better counsel, give me mine again."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have more care to stay than will to go."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O Ceremony, show me but thy worth? What is thy soul of adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nor age so eat up my invention."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Though now this grained face of mine be hid<br />\nIn sap-consuming winter's drizzled snow,<br />\nAnd all the conduits of my blood froze up,<br />\nYet hath my night of life some memory,<br />\nMy wasting lamps some fading glimmer left,<br />\nMy dull deaf ears a little use to hear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is no such sport as sport by sport o'erthrown."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Have you not love enough to bear with me, when that rash humor which my mother gave me makes me forgetful."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To be in anger is impiety, but who is man that is not angry?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You are yoked with a lamb,<br />\nThat carries anger as the flint bears fire;<br />\nWho, much enforced, shows a hasty spank,<br />\nAnd straight is cold again."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Bait the hook well. This fish will bite."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He receives comfort like cold porridge."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Here is a rural fellow that will not be denied your Highness' presence: he brings you figs."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Mine eyes smell onions: I shall weep anon."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I can call spirits from the vasty deep."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The sweetest honey<br />\nIs loathsome in his own deliciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men prize the thing ungained more than it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There should be hours for necessities, not for delights; times to repair our nature with comforting repose, and not for us to waste these times."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am wrapped in dismal thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Good things should be praised."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But since the affairs of men rests still incertain,<br />\nLet's reason with the worst that may befall."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am one, my liege,<br />\nWhom the vile blows and buffets of the world<br />\nHave so incensed that I am reckless what<br />\nI do to spite the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sin, that amends, is but patched with virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You have lost no reputation at all, unless you repute yourself such a loser."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To hell, allegiance! vows, to the blackest devil!<br />\nConscience, and grace, to the profoundest pit!<br />\nI dare damnation: To this point I stand,--<br />\nThat both the worlds I give to negligence,<br />\nLet come what comes; only I'll be reveng'd."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is nothing but roguery to be found in villainous men."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hold, or cut bowstrings."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is no slander in an allowed fool, though he do nothing but rail."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ay me! for aught that I could ever read, Could ever hear by tale or history, The course of true love never did run smooth. But, either it was different in blood,- Or else it stood upon the choice of friends,- Or, if there were a sympathy in choice, War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Venus smiles not in a house of tears."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Weep not, sweet queen, for trickling tears are vain."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The weakest goes to the wall."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A table full of welcome makes scarce one dainty dish."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A good wit will make use of anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Good words are better than bad strokes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Good hay, sweet hay, hath no fellow."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To persevere<br />\nIn obstinate condolement is a course<br />\nOf impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Beware<br />\nOf entrance to a quarrel."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So get the start of the majestic world<br />\nAnd bear the palm alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: ...lest too light winning make the prize light."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes' favors."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But thought's the slave of life, and life time's fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Winter, which, being full of care, makes summer's welcome thrice more wish'd, more rare."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let me not live, after my flame lacks oil, to be the snuff of younger spirits."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He's loved of the distracted multitude, who like not in their judgement, but their eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Examine well your blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ten masts make not the altitude<br />\nWhich thou hast perpendicularly fell.<br />\nThy life's a miracle."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle;<br />\nI am no traitor's uncle, and that word \"grace\"<br />\nIn an ungracious mouth is but profane."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Say, what abridgement have you for this evening?<br />\nWhat masque, what music? How shall we beguile<br />\nThe lazy time if not with some delight?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How strange or odd some'er I bear myself,<br />\nAs I perchance hereafter shall think meet<br />\nTo put an antic disposition on."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Bear with my weakness. My old brain is troubled.<br />\nBe not disturbed with my infirmity."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I cannot draw a cart, nor eat dried oats;<br />\nIf it be man's work, I'll do't."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am disgraced, impeached, and baffled here,<br />\nPierced to the soul with slander's venomed spear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The blood weeps from my heart when I do shape,<br />\nIn forms imaginary, th' unguided days<br />\nAnd rotten times that you shall look upon<br />\nWhen I am sleeping with my ancestors."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But we have reason to cool our raging motions, our carnal stings, our unbitted lusts; whereof I take this that you call love to bea sect or scion.... It is merely a lust of the blood and a permission of the will."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will despair, and be at enmity<br />\nWith cozening hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If I had my mouth, I would bite; if I had my liberty, I would do my liking. In the meantime, let me be that I am, and seek not toalter me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now no way can I stray;<br />\nSave back to England, all the world's my way."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The fewer men, the greater share of honor."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The poor world is almost six thousand years old, and in all this time there was not any man died in his own person,<br />\nvidelicet, in a love-cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Were it my cue to fight, I should have known it<br />\nWithout a prompter."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Time travels in divers paces with divers persons."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A college of wit-crackers cannot flout me out of my humor. Dost thou think I care for a satire or an epigram?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How every fool can play upon the word!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Who can control his fate?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O that a lady, of one man refused,<br />\nShould of another therefore be abused!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's little of the melancholy element in her, my lord: she is never sad but when she sleeps; and not ever sad then; for I have heard my daughter say, she hath often dreamt of unhappiness, and waked herself with laughing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; <br />\r\nClouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, <br />\r\nAnd loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud. <br />\r\nAll men make faults."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The deep of night is crept upon our talk,<br />\nAnd Nature must obey necessity."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed The dear repose for limbs with travel tired; But then begins a journey in my head To work my mind, when body's work's expir'd: For then my thoughts-from far where I abide- Intend a zealous pilgrimage to thee, And keep my drooping eyelids open wide, Looking on darkness which the blind do see: Save that my soul's imaginary sight Presents thy shadow to my sightless view, Which, like a jewel hung in ghastly night, Makes black night beauteous and her old face new. Lo! thus, by day my limbs, by night my mind, For thee, and for myself no quiet find."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He hath borne himself beyond the promise of his age, doing, in the figure of a lamb, the feats of a lion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Praise us as we are tasted, allow us as we prove."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The attempt and not the deed confounds us."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let no such man be trusted."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So foul and fair a day I have not seen."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He is the half part of a blessed man, Left to be finished by such as she; And she a fair divided excellence, Whose fullness of perfection lies in him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground And tell sad stories of the death of kings."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Drown thyself? Drown cats and blind puppies."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In thy foul throat thou liest."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Out of my sight! Thou dost infect mine eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have set my life upon a cast, And I will stand the hazard of the die."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But I am constant as the Northern Star, Of whose true fixed and resting quality There is no fellow in the firmament."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This goodly frame, the earth, seems to me a sterile promontory, this most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, why, it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapours. What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord! O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls Are level now with men; the odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O God, I could be bound in a nutshell, and count myself a king of infinite space \u2013 were it not that I have bad dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: She speaks poniards, and every word stabs."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If thou dost seek to have what thou dost hide, By self-example mayst thou be denied."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When truth kills truth, O devilish holy fray!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: it is not enough to speak, but to speak truee"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Which can say more than this rich praise, that you alone are you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Friendship is constant in all other things, save in the office and affairs of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O Mistress mine, where are you roaming? O, stay and hear; your true love's coming, That can sing both high and low: Trip no further, pretty sweeting; Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know. What is love? 'Tis not hereafter; Present mirth hath present laughter; What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies not plenty; Then, come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: While he was drunk asleep, or in his rage, or in the incestuous pleasure of his bed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The let-alone lies not in your good will."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ten kisses short as one, one long as twenty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty!, guilty!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Think you a little din can daunt mine ears? Have I not in my time heard lions roar? Have I not heard the sea, puffed up with winds, Rage like an angry boar chafed with sweat? Have I not heard great ordinance in the field, And Heaven's artillery thunder in the skies? Have I not in a pitched battle heard Loud 'larums, neighing steeds, and trumpets' clang? And do you tell me of a woman's tongue, That gives not half so great a blow to hear As will a chestnut in a farmer's fire? Tush! tush! fear boys with bugs. Grumio: For he fears none."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is to be all made of fantasy, All made of passion and all made of wishes, All adoration, duty, and observance, All humbleness, all patience and impatience, All purity, all trial, all observance"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All that glitters is not gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Our wills and fates do so contrary run."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am your wife if you will marry me. If not, I'll die your maid. To be your fellow You may deny me, but I'll be your servant Whether you will or no."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My liege, and madam, to expostulate What majesty should be, what duty is, Why day is day, night night, and time is time, Were nothing but to waste night, day and time. Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Refrain to-night; And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence, the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature, And either master the devil or throw him out With wondrous potency."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am not yet of Percy's mind, the Hotspur of the North; he that kills me some six or seven dozen of Scots as a breakfast, washes his hands, and says to his wife, 'Fie upon this quiet life! I want work."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Or are you like the painting of a sorrow, a face without a heart?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What is honour? a word. What is in that word honour? what is that honour? air. A trim reckoning! Who hath it? he that died o' Wednesday. Doth he feel it? no. Doth he hear it? no."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Each substance of a grief has twenty shadows."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My stars shine darkly over me"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hang there like fruit, my soul, Till the tree die!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now my charms are all o'erthrown,<br />\nAnd what strength I have's mine own,<br />\nWhich is most faint: now, 'tis true,<br />\nOr sent to Naples. Let me not, <br />\nSince I have my dukedom got <br />\nAnd pardon 'd the deceiver, dwell <br />\nIn this bare island by your spell;<br />\nI must be here confined by you,<br />\nBut release me from my bands<br />\nWith the help of your good hands:<br />\nGentle breath of yours my sails<br />\nMust fill, or else my project fails,<br />\nWhich was to please: now I want<br />\nSpirits to enforce, art to enchant,<br />\nAnd my ending is despair,<br />\nUnless I be relieved by prayer,<br />\nWhich pierces so, that it assaults<br />\nMercy itself, and frees all faults.<br />\nAs you from crimes would pardon'd be,<br />\nLet your indulgence set me free."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Suffer love; a good epithet! I do suffer love, indeed, for I love thee against my will."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nothing 'gainst Times scythe can make defence."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ruin has taught me to ruminate, <br />\r\nThat Time will come and take my love away. <br />\r\nThis thought is as a death, which cannot choose <br />\r\nBut weep to have that which it fears to lose."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Short time seems long in sorrow's sharp sustaining."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The time is out of joint : O cursed spite, that ever I was born to set it right!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The whirligig of time brings in his revenges."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back <br />\r\nWherein he puts alms for oblivion, <br />\r\nA great-sized monster of ingratitudes: <br />\r\nThose scraps are good deeds past, which are devour'd <br />\r\nAs fast as they are made, forgot as soon as done."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And, looking on it with lack-lustre eye,<br />\r\nSays very wisely, \"It is ten o'clock:<br />\r\nThus we may see,\" quoth he, \"how the world wags.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: See the minutes, how they run,<br />\r\nHow many make the hour full complete;<br />\r\nHow many hours bring about the day;<br />\r\nHow many days will finish up the year;<br />\r\nHow many years a mortal man may live."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The end crowns all,<br />\r\nAnd that old common arbitrator, Time,<br />\r\nWill one day end it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Old fashions please me best; I am not so nice<br />\r\nTo change true rules for odd inventions."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And nothing can we call our own but death<br />\r\nAnd that small model of the barren earth<br />\r\nWhich serves as paste and cover to our bones.<br />\r\nFor God's sake, let us sit upon the ground<br />\r\nAnd tell sad stories of the death of kings."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But I will be,<br />\r\nA bridegroom in my death, and run into't<br />\r\nAs to a lover's bed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And so, from hour to hour, we ripe and ripe.<br />\r\nAnd then, from hour to hour, we rot and rot;<br />\r\nAnd thereby hangs a tale."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: She is your treasure, she must have a husband;<br />\r\nI must dance bare-foot on her wedding day,<br />\r\nAnd, for your love to her, lead apes in hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If thou remeber'st not the slightest folly that ever love did make thee run into, thou hast not lov'd"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ere I could make thee open thy white hand, and clap thyself my love; then didst thou utter, I am your's for ever!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Old Time the clock-setter."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Have patience, and endure"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And oft, my jealousy shapes faults that are not."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If I shall be condemned Upon surmises, all proofs sleeping else But what your jealousies awake, I tell you 'Tis rigor and not law."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But jealous souls will not be answered so, They are not ever jealous for the cause, But jealous for they're jealous. 'Tis a monster Begot upon itself, born on itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's no better sign of a brave mind than a hard hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: . . from this moment The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. And even now, To crown my thoughts with acts, be it thought and done."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Two lovely berries moulded on one stem;<br />\nSo, with two seeming bodies, but one heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For there was never yet philosoper<br />\r\nThat could endure the toothache patiently,<br />\r\nHowever they have writ the style of gods,<br />\r\nAnd made a push at chance and sufferance."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We wound our modesty and make foul the clearness of our deservings, when of ourselves we publish them."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I do repent; but heaven hath pleas'd it so<br />\r\nTo punish me with this, and this with me,<br />\r\nThat I must be their scourge and minister.<br />\r\nI will bestow him, and will answer well<br />\r\nThe death I gave him. So again good night.<br />\r\nI must be cruel only to be kind.<br />\r\nThus bad begins and worse remains behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The king's name is a tower of strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men judge by the complexion of the sky The state and inclination of the day."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And simple truth miscalled simplicity"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love adds a precious seeing to the eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear Of him that hears it, never in the tongue Of him that makes it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A golden mind stoops not to shows of dross."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A very honest woman but something given to lie"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou mak'st me merry: I am full of pleasure; let us be jocund"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That is the way to lay the city flat, To bring the roof to the foundation, And bury all, which yet distinctly ranges, In heaps and piles of ruin."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thus we play the fool with the time and the spirits of the wise sit in the clouds and mock us."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If it be honor in your wars to seem The same you are not,--which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy--how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war: since that to both It stands in like request?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A stirring dwarf we do allowance give Before a sleeping giant."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but you must tarry the bolting. Have I not tarried? Ay, the bolting; but you must tarry the leavening. Still have I tarried. Ay, to the leavening; but here's yet in the word 'hereafter' the kneading, the making of the cake, the heating of the oven, and the baking; nay, you must stay the cooling too, or you may chance to burn your lips."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Would the cook were o' my mind!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: By Jove, I am not covetous for gold, Nor care I who doth feed upon my cost; It yearns me not if me my garments wear; Such outward things dwell not in my desires: But if it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How many cowards whose hearts are all as false As stairs of sand, wear yet upon their chins The beards of Hercules and frowning Mars, Who inward searched, have livers white as milk!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The even mead, that erst brought sweetly forth The freckled cowslip, burnet, and green clover, Wanting the scythe, all uncorrected, rank, Conceives by idleness, and nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burrs, Losing both beauty and utility."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The crow doth sing as sweetly as the lark When neither is attended; and I think The nightingale, if she should sing by day When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. How many thing by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Discomfort guides my tongue And bids me speak of nothing but despair."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let's teach ourselves that honorable stop, Not to outsport discretion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If you love an addle egg as well as you love an idle head, you would eat chickens i' th' shell."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that keeps not crust nor crum Weary of all, shall want some."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Should all despair That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind Would hang themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The people are the city."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Good luck lies in odd numbers."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Equality of two domestic powers Breeds scrupulous faction."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Extreme fear can neither fight nor fly."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Mend when thou canst; be better at thy leisure."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most lov'd, despis'd! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Some glory in their birth , some in their skill , Some in their wealth , some in their bodies' force , Some in their garments, though new-fangled ill; Some in their hawks and hounds , some in their horse ; And every humor hath his adjunct pleasure , Wherein it finds a joy above the rest ."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furious Is to be frightened out of fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nothing teems But hateful docks, rough thistles, kecksies, burs, Losing both beauty and utility."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Words pay no debts, give her deeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am not in the roll of common men."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Faults that are rich are fair."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My will enkindled by mine eyes and ears, Two traded pilots 'twixt the dangerous shores Of will and judgment."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Never anger made good guard for itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Our content Is our best having."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Small herbs have grace, great weeds do grow apace."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If the boy have not a woman's gift To rain a shower of commanded tears, An onion will do well for such a shift."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A good man's fortune may grow out at heels."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Our praises are our wages."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fools are not mad folks."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In scorn of nature, art gave lifeless life."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Do not spread the compost on the weeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that filches from me my good name robs me of that which enriches him and makes me poor indeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The weakest kind of fruit drops earliest to the ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Making night hideous."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Time is the king of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We must not stint<br />\nOur necessary actions in the fear<br />\nTo cope malicious censurers, which ever,<br />\nAs rav'nous fishes, do a vessel follow<br />\nThat is new-trimmed, but benefit no further<br />\nThan vainly longing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What is a man, if his chief good and market of his time be but to sleep and feed? a beast, no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The old folk, time's doting chronicles."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis beauty that doth oft make women proud; but, God He knows, thy share thereof is small."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Good morrow, 'tis Saint Valentine's Day, All in the morn betime, And I a maid at your window, To be your valentine."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The cat will mew, and dog will have his day."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But 'tis common proof, that lowliness is young ambition's ladder, whereto the climber-upward turns his face; but when he once attains the upmost round, he then turns his back, looks in the clouds, scorning the vase defrees by which he did ascend."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The fear's as bad as falling."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All the contagion of the south light on you,<br />\nYou shames of Rome! you herd of--boils and plagues<br />\nPlaster you o'er; that you may be abhorr'd<br />\nFurther than seen, and one infect another<br />\nAgainst the wind a mile!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What, can the devil speak true?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If to do were as easy as to know what were good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottage princes' palaces."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will praise any man that will praise me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Neither a borrower nor a lender be."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Death is a fearful thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's place and means for every man alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My pride fell with my fortunes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For mine own part, it was Greek to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: ... the spring, the summer, The chilling autumn, angry winter, change Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world By their increase, now knows not which is which."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Winter's not gone yet, if the wild geese fly that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Never durst poet touch a pen to write Until his ink were temper'd with Love's sighs."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For thy sweet love remember'd such wealth brings<br />\r\nThat then I scorn to change my state with kings."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He says, he loves my daughter;<br />\r\nI think so too; for never gaz'd the moon<br />\r\nUpon the water, as he'll stand and read,<br />\r\nAs 'twere, my daughter's eyes: and, to be plain,<br />\r\nI think, there is not half a kiss to choose,<br />\r\nWho loves another best."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What is light, if Sylvia be not seen? What is joy if Sylvia be not by?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love hath made thee a tame snake"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In thy youth wast as true a lover, As ever sighed upon a midnight pillow"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You cannot call it love, for at your age the heyday in the blood is tame"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men's vows are women's traitors"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love will not be spurred to what it loathes"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They are in the very wrath of love, and they will go together. Clubs cannot part them"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lovers ever run before the clock"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll make my heaven in a lady's lap"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Kiss me, Kate, we shall be married o'Sunday"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O world, how apt the poor are to be proud!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let us sit and mock the good housewife Fortune from her wheel, that her gifts may henceforth be bestowed equally, I would we could do so for her benefits are mightily misplaced and the bountiful blind girl doth most mistake in her gifts to women. 'Tis true for those that she makes fair she scarce makes honest and those that she makes honest she makes very ill-favouredly. Nay, now thou goest from Fortunes office to Natures. Fortune reigns in gifts of the world, not in the lineaments of Nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Talkers are no good doers."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For to define true madness,<br />\r\nWhat is't but to be nothing else but mad?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Though Death be poor, it ends a mortal woe."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Death is my son-in-law, death is my heir."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Where hateful Death put on his ugliest mask."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When the age is in, the wit is out"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Glory is like a circle in the water"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This is a gift that I have, simple, simple; a foolish extravagant spirit full of forms, figures, shapes, objects, ideas, apprehensions, motions, revolutions; these are begot in the ventricle of memory, nourished in the womb of pia mater, and delivered upon the mellowing of occasion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Come, go with us, speak fair; you may salve so,<br />\r\nNot what is dangerous present, but the los<br />\r\nOf what is past."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is he on his horse? O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thus hath the candle sing'd the moth. O these deliberate fools!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am not of that feather, to shake off my friend when he must need me"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A rarer spirit never Did steer humanity; but you gods will give us Some faults to make us men."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You are not wood, you are not stones, but men."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is that fery person for all the orld, as just as you will desire; and seven hundred pounds of moneys, and gold, and silver, is her grandsire upon his death's-bed-Got deliver to a joyful resurrections!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A goodly portly man, i' faith, and a corpulent; of a cheerful look, a pleasing eye, and a most noble carriage; and, as I think, his age some fifty, or, by'r Lady, inclining to threescore; and now I remember me, his name is Falstaff."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Right joyous are we to behold your face, Most worthy brother England; fairly met!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My joy is death- Death, at whose name I oft have been afeard, Because I wish'd this world's eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Bring me a constant woman to her husband, One that ne'er dream'd a joy beyond his pleasure, And to that woman, when she has done most, Yet will I add an honour-a great patience."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For here, I hope, begins our lasting joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O love, be moderate, allay thy ecstasy, In measure rain thy joy, scant this excess!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My life, my joy, my food, my ail the world!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If it be aught toward the general good, Set honor in one eye and death i' th' other, And I will look on both indifferently; For let the gods so speed me as I love The name of honor more than I fear death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What say you to a piece of beef and mustard?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My cake is dough, but I'll in among the rest, Out of hope of all but my share of the feast."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Condemn the fault and not the actor of it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fire that's closest kept burns most of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I can counterfeit the deep tragedian;<br />\nSpeak and look back, and pry on every side,<br />\nTremble and start, at wagging of a straw,<br />\nIntending deep suspicion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Your bait of falsehood takes this carp of truth,<br />\nAnd thus do we of wisdom and of reach,<br />\nWith windlasses and with assays of bias,<br />\nBy indirections find directions out."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But fish not with this melancholy bait<br />\nFor this fool gudgeon, this opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, let my books be then the eloquence<br />\nAnd dumb presagers of my speaking breast,<br />\nWho plead for love, and look for recompense,<br />\nMore than that tongue that more hath more expressed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For the success,<br />\nAlthough particular, shall give a scantling<br />\nOf good or bad unto the general;<br />\nAnd in such indexes, although small pricks<br />\nTo their subsequent volumes, there is seen<br />\nThe baby figure of the giant mass<br />\nOf things to come at large."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Bad is the trade that must play fool to sorrow,<br />\nAng'ring itself and others."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A hand as fruitful as the land that feeds us; His dew falls everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Gently to hear, kindly to judge."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So shaken as we are, so wan with care,<br />\nFind we a time for frighted peace to pant<br />\nAnd breathe short-winded accents of new broils<br />\nTo be commenced in stronds afar remote."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Greatness, once fallen out with fortune, must fall out with men too."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All offences come from the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That is my home of love: if I have ranged,<br />\nLike him that travels I return again,<br />\nJust to the time, not with the time exchanged."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Wish chastely, and love dearly."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All his successors gone before him have done 't; and all his ancestors that come after him may."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let the sap of reason quench the fire of passion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: An old man, broken with the storms of state,<br />\nIs come to lay his weary bones among ye;<br />\nGive him a little earth for charity!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Experience teacheth us<br />\nThat resolution 's a sole help at need:<br />\nAnd this, my lord, our honour teacheth us,<br />\nThat we be bold in every enterprise:<br />\nThen since there is no way, but fight or die,<br />\nBe resolute, my lord, for victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Put on<br />\nThe dauntless spirit of resolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The king-becoming graces,<br />\nAs justice, verity, temp'rance, stableness,<br />\nBounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness,<br />\nDevotion, patience, courage, fortitude,<br />\nI have no relish of them, but abound<br />\nIn the division of each several crime,<br />\nActing in many ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A jest's prosperity lies in the ear"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A fool's bolt is soon shot."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Methinks a father Is at the nuptial of his son a guest That best becomes the table."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ingratitude is monstrous; and for the multitude to be ingrateful were to make a monster of the multitude; of which we being members, should bring ourselves to be monstrous members."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown When judges have been babes; great floods have flown From simple sources, and great seas have dried When miracles have by the greatest been denied."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No place indeed should murder sanctuarize; Revenge should have no bounds."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I hourly learn a doctrine of obedience."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Very good orators, when they are out, they will spit; and for lovers, lacking--God warn us!--matter, the cleanliest shift is to kiss."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with passion would I shake the world, And rouse from sleep that fell anatomy Which cannot hear a lady's feeble voice, Which scorns a modern invocation."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To say the truth, so Judas kissed his master And cried, 'All hail!' when as he meant all harm."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Treason and murder ever kept together, As two yoke-devils sworn to either's purpose, Working so grossly in a natural cause That admiration did not whoop at them; But thou, 'gainst all proportion, didst bring in Wonder to wait on treason and on murder; And whatsoever cunning fiend it was That wrought upon thee so preposterously Hath got the voice in hell for excellence."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Supposition all our lives shall be stuck full of eyes; For treason is but trusted like the fox, Who, ne'er so tame, so cherished and locked up, Will have a wild trick of his ancestors."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Know my name is lost, By treason's tooth bare-gnawn and canker-bit; Yet am I noble as the adversary I come to cope."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Who has a book of all that monarchs do, He's more secure to keep it shut than shown; For vice repeated is like the wand'ring wind, Blows dust in others' eye, to spread itself; And yet the end of all is bought thus dear, The breath is gone, and the sore eyes see clear To stop the air would hurt them."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And either victory, or else a grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A fellow by the hand of nature mark'd, Quoted, and sign'd, to do a deed of shame."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was wont to have."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Of all complexions the culled sovereignty Do meet, as at a fair, in her fair cheek, Where several worthies make one dignity, Where nothing wants that want itself doth seek."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If you shall marry, You give away this hand, and this is mine; You give away heaven's vows, and those are mine; You give away myself, which is known mine; For I by vow am so embodied yours That she which marries you must marry me-- Either both or none."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Get thee a good husband, and use him as he uses thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My love is thine to teach; teach it but how, And thou shalt see how apt it is to learn. Any hard lesson that may do thee good."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For who so firm that cannot be seduced?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We are not ourselves When nature, being oppressed, commands the mind To suffer with the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lions make leopards tame."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: God mark thee to His grace! Thou was the prettiest babe that e'er I nursed. And might I live to see thee married once, I have my wish."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, how I faint when I of you do write, Knowing a better spirit doth use your name, And in the praise thereof spends all his might To make me tongue-tied speaking of your fame."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You are a lover. Borrow Cupid's wings and soar with them above a common bound."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Delay leads impotent and snail-paced beggary."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will be free, even to the uttermost, as I please, in words."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What I have done is yours; what I have to do is yours; being part in all I have, devoted yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That god forbid, that made me first your slave, I should in thought control your times of pleasure, Or at your hand th' account of hours to crave, Being your vassal bound to stay your leisure."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And it is very much lamented,... That you have no such mirrors as will turn Your hidden worthiness into your eye That you might see your shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If ever thou shalt love,<br />\nIn the sweet pangs of it remember me;<br />\nFor such as I am all true lovers are,<br />\nUnstaid and skittish in all motions else<br />\nSave in the constant image of the creature<br />\nThat is beloved."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is silliness to live when to live is torment, and then have we a prescription to die when death is our physician."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou call'st me dog before thou hadst a cause, But since I am a dog, beware my fangs."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The third day comes a frost, a killing frost."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Better a witty fool than a foolish wit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Un-thread the rude eye of rebellion, and welcome home again discarded faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We are time's subjects, and time bids be gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He does it with better grace, but I do it more natural."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Here come the lovers, full of joy and mirth.\u2014 Joy, gentle friends! joy and fresh days of love Accompany your hearts!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ay me! sad hours seem long."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I pray you, do not fall in love with me, for I am falser than vows made in wine."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let me be boiled to death with melancholy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Many strokes, though with a little axe, hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What a deformed thief this fashion is."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Eternity was in our lips and eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So quick bright things come to confusion.\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let's take the instant by the forward top;<br />\r\nFor we are old, and on our quick'st decrees<br />\r\nThe inaudible and noiseless foot of Time<br />\r\nSteals ere we can effect them."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We have seen better days."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Assume a virtue if you have it not."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: An honest tale speeds best being plainly told."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And sleep, that sometime shuts up sorrow's eye, Steal me awhile from mine own company."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O God, O God, how weary, stale, flat, and unprofitable seem to me all the uses of this world!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love goes toward love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is the stars, The stars above us, govern our conditions."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I bear a charmed life."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I speak of peace, while covert enmity under the smile of safety wounds the world"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud;<br />\r\nAnd after summer evermore succeeds<br />\r\nBarren winter, with his wrathful nipping cold:<br />\r\nSo cares and joys abound, as seasons fleet."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Things done well and with a care, exempt themselves from fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now is the winter of our discontent."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis in ourselves that we are thus, or thus."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I loved Ophelia. Forty thousand brothers could not, with all their quantity of love, make up my sum."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou weigh'st thy words before thou givest them breath."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hide not thy poison with such sugar'd words"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: thus with a kiss I die"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Out of this nettle - danger - we pluck this flower - safety."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As merry as the day is long."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,Was once thought honest."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love's best habit is a soothing tongue"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: May never glorious sun reflex his beams<br />\nUpon the country where you make abode!<br />\nBut darkness and the gloomy shade of death<br />\nEnviron you till mischief and despair<br />\nDrive you to break your necks or hang yourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That is honor's scorn<br />\nWhich challenges itself as honor's born<br />\nAnd is not like the sire. Honors thrive<br />\nWhen rather from our acts we them derive<br />\nThan our foregoers."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see how<br />\nmany of my old acquaintance are dead!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Here's flowers for you; Hot lavender, mints, savoury, marjoram; The marigold, that goes to bed wi' the sun And with him rises weeping: these are flowers Of middle summer, and I think they are given To men of middle age."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: 'Tis not enough to help the feeble up, but to support them after."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All furnished, all in arms;<br />\r\nAll plum'd like estridges that with the wind<br />\r\nBated like eagles having lately bathed;<br />\r\nGlittering in golden coats like images;<br />\r\nAs full of spirit as the month of May<br />\r\nAnd gorgeous as the sun at midsummer;<br />\r\nWanton as youthful goats, wild as young bulls."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's small choice in rotten apples."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou seest we are not all alone unhappy: This wide and universal theatre Presents more woeful pageants than the scene Wherein we play in."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Society is no comfort, to one not sociable."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Delivers in such apt and gracious words that aged ears play truant at his tales; And younger hearings are quite ravished; So sweet and voluble is his discourse."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And in some perfumes there is more delight than in the breath that from my mistress reeks. I love to hear her speak, yet well I know that music hath a far more pleasing sound."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's such divinity doth hedge a king <br />\nThat treason can but peep to what it would."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What is the city but the people?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What's to come is still unsure: In delay there lies no plenty; Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty, Youth's a stuff will not endure."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Golden lads and girls all must as chimney sweepers come to dust."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Much rain wears the marble."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Commit the oldest sins the newest kind of ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: \"Fair, kind, and true\" is all my argument,<br />\r\n\"Fair, kind, and true\" varying to other words;<br />\r\nAnd in this change is my invention spent,<br />\r\nThree themes in one, which wondrous scope affords."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Death lies on her like an untimely frost."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Beshrew that heart that makes my heart to groan For that deep wound it gives my friend and me; Is't not enough to torture me alone, But slave to slavery my sweet'st friend must be?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Civil dissension is a viperous worm That gnaws the bowels of the commonwealth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nimble thought can jump both sea and land."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is silliness to live when to live is torment."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ah, what a sign it is of evil life, Where death's approach is seen so terrible!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts wandring here and there Troop home to church-yards.... For fear lest day should look their shames upon, They willfully exile themselves from light, And must for aye consort with black brow'd night."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But men are men; the best sometimes forget."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I would fain die a dry death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When I waked, I cried to dream again"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I did never know so full a voice issue from so empty a heart: but the saying is true 'The empty vessel makes the greatest sound'."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Upon thy cheek I lay this zealous kiss, as seal to the indenture of my love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He is not great who is not greatly good."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, where manners ne'er were preached."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In love the heavens themselves do guide the state;<br />\r\nMoney buys lands, and wives are sold by fate."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ambition, the soldier's virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O God of battles! steel my soldiers\u2019 hearts. Possess them not with fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What freezings I have felt, what dark days seen,<br />\r\nWhat old December's bareness everywhere!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Eternity was in our lips and eyes,<br />\r\nBliss in our brows' bent; none our parts so poor<br />\r\nBut was a race of heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The curse of marriage<br />\r\nThat we can call these delicate creatures ours<br />\r\nAnd not their appetites!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Like one <br />\r\nWho having into truth, by telling of it, <br />\r\nMade such a sinner of his memory, <br />\r\nTo credit his own lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise,<br />\nThree-piled hyperboles, spruce affection,<br />\nFigures pedantical--these summer flies<br />\nHave blown me full of maggot ostentation."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In thy face I see the map of honour, truth and loyalty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Through tattered clothes great vices do appear; Robes and furred gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold and the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks. Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw does pierce it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Shall I compare thee to a summer day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate... When in eternal lines to time thou growst So long as men can breathe or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou hast most traitorously corrupted the youth of the realm in erecting a grammar school."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My brain more busy than the labouring spider Weaves tedious snares to trap mine enemies."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The violence of either grief or joy, their own enactures with themselves destroy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I dote on his very absence."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sir, he's a good dog, and a fair dog."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A ministering angel shall my sister be."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tax not so bad a voice to slander music any more than once."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Therefore another prologue must tell he is not a lion"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The tongues of dying men enforce attention like deep harmony."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I think the devil will not have me damned, lest the oil that's in me should set hell on fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Pardon's the word to all."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Orpheus with his lute made trees, And the mountain tops that freeze, Bow themselves, when he did sing; To his music, plants and flowers Ever sprung; as sun and showers There had made a lasting spring. Every thing that heard him play, Even the billows of the sea, Hung their heads, and then lay by. In sweet music is such art, Killing care and grief of heart Fall asleep, or hearing, die."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Present fears are less than horrible imaginings."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This bud of love, by summer's ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now let it work. Mischief, thou art afoot. Take thou what course thou wilt."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What seest thou else<br />\r\nIn the dark backward and abysm of time?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What win I, if I gain the thing I seek? A dream, a breath, a froth of fleeting joy. Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sells eternity to get a toy? For one sweet grape who will the vine destroy? Or what fond beggar, but to touch the crown, Would with the sceptre straight be strucken down?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ay, that incestuous, that adulterate beast, With witchcraft of his wit, with traitorous gifts- O wicked wit and gifts, that have the power So to seduce!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He thinks too much. Such men are dangerous."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Better be with the dead,<br />\nWhom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace,<br />\nThan on the torture of the mind to lie<br />\nIn restless ecstasy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Words without thoughts never to heaven go."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I wish my horse had the speed of your tongue."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Truth will come to sight; murder cannot be hid long."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is flattery in friendship."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lay aside life-harming heaviness, And entertain a cheerful disposition."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In winter's tedious nights sit by the fire With good old folks, and let them tell thee tales Of woeful ages, long ago betid"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O madam, my old heart is cracked, it's cracked!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Full fathom five thy father lies;<br />\nOf his bones are coral made;<br />\nThose are pearls that were his eyes;<br />\nNothing of him that doth fade,<br />\nBut doth suffer a sea-change<br />\nInto something rich and strange.<br />\nSea-nymphs hourly ring his knell:<br />\nDing-dong.<br />\nHark! now I hear them \u2014 Ding-dong, bell."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have neither the scholar's melancholy, which is emulation; nor the musician's, which is fantastical; nor the courtier's, which is proud; not the soldier's which is ambitious; nor the lawyer's, which is politic; nor the lady's, which is nice; nor the lover's, which is all these: but it is a melancholy of mine own, compounded of many simples, extracted from many objects, and indeed the sundry contemplation of my travels, which, by often rumination, wraps me in a most humorous sadness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It may do good; pride hath no other glass To show itself but pride, for supple knees Feed arrogance and are the proud man's fees."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The strawberry grows underneath the nettle And wholesome berries thrive and ripen best Neighbour'd by fruit of baser quality."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Do you see yonder cloud that\u2019s almost in shape of a camel? Polonius: By the mass, and \u2018tis like a camel, indeed. Hamlet: Methinks it is like a weasel. Polonius: It is backed like a weasel. Hamlet: Or like a whale? Polonius: Very like a whale."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men's eyes were made to look, and let them gaze. I will not budge for no man's pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No beast so fierce but knows some touch of pity. But I know none, and therefore am no beast."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love's not love When it is mingled with regards that stand Aloof from th' entire point."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: By how much unexpected, by so much<br />\r\nWe must awake endeavour for defence;<br />\r\nFor courage mounteth with occasion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, when she's angry, she is keen and shrewd! She was a vixen when she went to school; And though she be but little, she is fierce."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; And all the clouds that lour'd upon our house In the deep bosom of the ocean buried."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In law, what plea so tainted and corrupts, but being seasoned with a gracious voice obscures the show of evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'? I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen' Stuck in my throat."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Light seeking light doth light of light beguile: So, ere you find where light in darkness lies, Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The miserable have no other medicine But only hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Come, and take choice of all my library,  And so beguile thy sorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am a man more sinned against than sinning"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I must be cruel, only to be kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But I remember now<br />\r\nI am in this earthly world, where to do harm<br />\r\nIs often laudable, to do good sometime<br />\r\nAccounted dangerous folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, my lord, You said that idle weeds are fast in growth: The prince my brother hath outgrown me far."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that is thy friend indeed, He will help thee in thy need: If thou sorrow, he will weep; If thou wake, he cannot sleep: Thus of every grief in heart He with thee does bear a part. These are certain signs to know Faithful friend from flattering foe."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why, look you, I am whipp'd and scourg'd with rods, <br />\r\nNettled and stung with pismires[nettles], when I hear <br />\r\nOf this vile politician, Bolingbroke."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have been long a sleeper; but I trust<br />\nMy absence doth neglect no great design<br />\nWhich by my presence might have been concluded."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Knowing I lov'd my books, he furnish'd me From mine own library with volumes that I prize above my dukedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: [S]ince brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart. Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I rather would entreat thy company; To see the wonders of the world abroad, Than, living dully sluggardized at home, Wear out thy youth with shapeless idleness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To die: - to sleep: No more; and, by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Methinks I am a prophet new inspired And thus, expiring, do foretell of him: His rash fierce blaze of riot cannot last, For violent fires soon burn out themselves; Small show'rs last long, but sudden storms are short; He tires betimes that spurs too fast betimes; With eager feeding doth choke the feeder; Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Where I could not be honest,<br />\nI never yet was valiant."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Frailty, thy name is woman!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How low am I, thou painted maypole?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Here comes a man of comfort, whose advice Hath often stilled my brawling discontent."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I once did hold it, as our statists do,<br />\r\nA baseness to write fair, and labour'd much<br />\r\nHow to forget that learning; but, sir, now<br />\r\nIt did me yeoman's service."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As he was valiant, I honour him. But as he was ambitious, I slew him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I long To hear the story of your life, which must Take the ear strangely."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Music, moody food Of us that trade in love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O fortune, fortune! all men call thee fickle."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Base men being in love have then a nobility in their natures more than is native to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How much better is it to weep at joy than to joy at weeping?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that sleeps feels not the tooth-ache"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis no sin for a man to labor in his vocation."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O momentary grace of mortal men,<br />\nWhich we more hunt for than the grace of God!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Every man has business and desire, Such as it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is no creature loves me;<br />\nAnd if I die, no soul will pity me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Oh, how this spring of love resembleth, The uncertain glory of an April day, Which now shows all beauty of the Sun, And by and by a cloud takes all away"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: ...an old man is twice a child."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The apparel oft proclaims the man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: An overflow of good converts to bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: GLOUCESTER: Yet so much is my poverty of spirit, So mighty and so many my defects, As I had rather hide me from my greatness, Being a bark to brook no mighty sea, Than in my greatness covet to be hid, And in the vapour of my glory smother'd. But God be thanked. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The moon's an arrant thief, And her pale fire she snatches from the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This wimpled, whining, purblind, wayward boy, this Senior Junior, giant dwarf...Cupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, how full of briers is this working-day world!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Foolery, sir, does walk about the orb like the sun; it shines everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To offend and judge are distinct offices, And of opposed natures."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Religious canons, civil laws, are cruel; then what should war be?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: By that sin fell the angels."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast, Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now, God be praised, that to believing souls gives light in darkness, comfort in despair."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The will is infinite and the execution confin'd, the desire is boundless and the act a slave to limit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Suit the action to the word : the word to the action : with this special observance that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I know them, yea,<br />\nAnd what they weigh, even to the utmost scruple;<br />\nScambling, out-facing, fashion-mong'ring boys,<br />\nThat lie, and cog, and flout, deprave, and slander,<br />\nGo antickly, and show outward hideousness,<br />\nAnd speak off half a dozen dangerous words,<br />\nHow they might hurt their enemies, if they durst;<br />\nAnd this is all."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll forbear; And am fallen out with my more headier will To take the indisposed and sickly fit For the sound man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary-buds begin To ope their golden eyes: With every thing that pretty is, My lady sweet, arise."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery: it makes him and it mars him; it sets him on and it takes him off."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou art a boil, a plague sore, an embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why, then the world \u2019s mine oyster, Which I with sword will open."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A high hope for a low heaven: God grant us patience!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is there no pity sitting in the clouds, That sees into the bottom of my grief?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is it not strange, that sheep's guts should hale souls out of men's bodies!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Pray you now, forget and forgive."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And yet,to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I had rather be a toad, and live upon the vapor of a dungeon than keep a corner in the thing I love for others uses."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Welcome ever smiles, and farewell goes out sighing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And gentlemen in England now-a-bed Shall think themselves accurs'd they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Alack, there lies more peril in thine eye Than twenty of their swords: look thou but sweet, And I am proof against their enmity."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If all the year were playing holidays; To sport would be as tedious as to work."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I cannot tell what you and other men<br />\r\nThink of this life; but, for my single self,<br />\r\nI had as lief not be as live to be<br />\r\nIn awe of such a thing as I myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men in rage strike those that wish them best."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How long a time lies in one little word?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So well thy words become thee as thy wounds."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For we, which now behold these present days, Have eyes to wonder, but lack tongues to praise."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The seeming truth which cunning times put on to entrap the wisest."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now, good digestion wait on appetite, and health on both!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Seems,\" madam? Nay, it is; I know not \"seems.\" 'Tis not alone my inky cloak, good mother, Nor customary suits of solemn black, Nor windy suspiration of forced breath, No, nor the fruitful river in the eye, Nor the dejected 'havior of the visage, Together with all forms, moods, shapes of grief, That can denote me truly: these indeed seem, For they are actions that a man might play: But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: IAGO: She that was ever fair and never proud, Had tongue at will and yet was never loud, Never lack'd gold and yet went never gay, Fled from her wish and yet said 'Now I may,' She that being anger'd, her revenge being nigh, Bade her wrong stay and her displeasure fly, She that in wisdom never was so frail To change the cod's head for the salmon's tail; She that could think and ne'er disclose her mind, See suitors following and not look behind, She was a wight, if ever such wight were,-- DESDEMONA: To do what? IAGO: To suckle fools and chronicle small beer."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Oh! that you could turn your eyes towards the napes of your necks, and make but an interior survey of your good selves."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This is some fellow,<br />\nWho having been prais'd for bluntness, doth affect<br />\nA saucy roughness and constrains the garb<br />\nQuite from his nature: he can't flatter, he!<br />\nAn honest mind and plain,--he must speak truth!<br />\nAnd they will take it so; if not he's plain.<br />\nThese kind of knaves I know, which in this plainness<br />\nHarbor more craft, and far corrupter ends,<br />\nThan twenty silly, ducking observants,<br />\nThat stretch their duty nicely."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Downy sleep, death's counterfeit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A book? O, rare one,<br />\nBe not, as is our fangled world, a garment<br />\nNobler than that it covers."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I like not fair terms and a villain's mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, full of scorpions is my mind!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Unquiet meals make ill digestions."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What a piece of work is a man"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December? how, In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I love you with so much of my heart that none is left to protest."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, a kiss<br />\r\nLong as my exile, sweet as my revenge!<br />\r\nNow, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss I carried from thee, dear, and my true lip<br />\r\nHath virgined it e'er since."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I wish you well and so I take my leave,<br />\r\nI Pray you know me when we meet again."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, but they say, the tongues of dying men enforce attention, like deep harmony: where words are scarce, they are seldom spent in vain: for they breathe truth, that breathe their words in pain. he, that no more must say, is listened more than they whom youth and ease have taught to gloze; more are men's ends marked, than their lives before: the setting sun, and music at the close, as the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last; writ in rememberance more than things long past"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Because it is a customary cross, As die to love as thoughts, and dreams, and sighs, Wishes, and tears, poor fancy's followers."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Presume not that I am the thing I was."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Gnawing with my teeth my bonds in sunder, I gain'd my freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The hideous god of war."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But here's the joy: my friend and I are one, Sweet flattery!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And, if you love me, as I think you do, let's kiss and part, for we have much to do"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Remember thee!<br />\nAy, thou poor ghost, while memory holds a seat<br />\nIn this distracted globe."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From the world-wearied flesh"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I heard a bird so sing, Whose music, to my thinking, pleased the king."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is it possible he should know what he is, and be that he is?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am as true as truth's simplicity,<br />\nAnd simpler than the infancy of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am as vigilant as a cat to steal cream."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How soar sweet music is, when time is broke, and no proportion kept!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To fear the worst oft cures the worst."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue:<br />\nHis faults lie open to the laws; let them,<br />\nNot you, correct him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality that it is but a shadow's shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, Office, and custom, in all line of order."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nature does require her time of preservation, which perforce, I her frail son amongst my brethren mortal, must give my attendance to."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am sure care's an enemy to life."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to Earth, from Earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them to shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a name; such tricks hath strong imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As many arrows, loosed several ways, come to one mark...so many a thousand actions, once afoot, end in one purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nothing routs us but the villainy of our fears."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am too old to fawn upon a nurse,<br />\nToo far in years to be a pupil now."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: From women's eyes this doctrine I derive: They sparkle still the right Promethean fire; They are the books, the arts, the academes, That show, contain and nourish all the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We, ignorant of ourselves, Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers Deny us for our good; so find we profit By losing of our prayers."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O excellent! I love long life better than figs."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, how shall summer's honey breath hold out<br />\r\nAgainst the wreckful siege of battering days,<br />\r\nWhen rocks impregnable are not so stout,<br />\r\nNor gates of steel so strong, but Time decays?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: These flowers are like the pleasures of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Would I were in an alehouse in London."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Grief fills the room up of my absent child, Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me, Puts on his pretty look, repeats his words, Remembers me of his gracious parts, Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis in my memory lock'd, And you yourself shall keep the key of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Time shall unfold what plaited cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: At Christmas I no more desire a rose <br />\r\nThan wish a snow in May's new-fangled mirth;<br />\r\nBut like of each thing that in season grows."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis now the very witching time of night, when churchyards yawn and hell itself breathes out Contagion to this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Preposterous ass, that never read so far to know the cause why music was ordain'd! Was it not to refresh the mind of man, after his studies or his usual pain?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This passion, and the death of a dear friend, would go near to make a man look sad."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have been studying how I may compare This prison where I live unto the world; And, for because the world is populous, And here is not a creature but myself, I cannot do it. Yet I'll hammer it out."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength, gives in your weakness strength unto your foe."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I could a tale unfold whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul, freeze thy young blood, Make thy two eyes like stars start from their spheres, Thy knotted and combined locks to part, And each particular hair to stand on end Like quills upon the fretful porpentine. But this eternal blazon must not be To ears of flesh and blood. List, list, O list!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sir, in my heart there was a kind of fighting That would not let me sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Things in motion sooner catch the eye than what not stirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What early tongue so sweet saluteth me? Young son, it argues a distemper'd head So soon to bid good morrow to thy bed: Care keeps his watch in every old man's eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie; But where unbruised youth with unstuff'd brain Doth couch his limbs, there golden sleep doth reign."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o-erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's nothing in this world can make me joy: Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale Vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man; And bitter shame hath spoil'd the sweet world's taste That it yields nought but shame and bitterness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How slow<br />\nThis old moon wanes! she lingers my desires,<br />\nLike to a stepdame, or a dowager,<br />\nLong withering out a young man's revenue."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sweet flowers are slow and weeds make haste."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How sometimes nature will betray its folly, Its tenderness, and make itself a pastime To harder bosoms!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm from an anointed King."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Silence is the perfectest herald of joy: I were but little happy, if I could say how much. Lady, as you are mine, I am yours: I give away myself for you and dote upon the exchange."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content!<br />\nFarewell the plumed troops, and the big wars<br />\nThat make ambition virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's no trust, No faith, no honesty in men; all perjured, All forsworn, all naught, all dissemblers."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: An two men ride of a horse, one must ride behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Virtue is chok'd with foul ambition"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Look to her, Moor, if thou has eyes to see. She has deceived her father, and may thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How many fond fools serve mad jealousy!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Some there be that shadows kiss; Such have but a shadow's bliss."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For sweetest things turn sourest by their deeds; Lillies that fester smell far worse than weeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Were I the Moor I would not be Iago. In following him I follow but myself; Heaven is my judge, not I for love and duty, But seeming so for my peculiar end. For when my outward action doth demonstrate The native act and figure of my heart In compliment extern, \u2019tis not long after But I will wear my heart upon my sleeve For daws to peck at. I am not what I am"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Rumour is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures And of so easy and so plain a stop That the blunt monster with uncounted heads, The still-discordant wavering multitude, Can play upon it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But that the dread of something after death,<br />\r\nThe undiscover'd country from whose bourn<br />\r\nNo traveller returns, puzzles the will<br />\r\nAnd makes us rather bear those ills we have<br />\r\nThan fly to others that we know not of?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If I must die, I will encounter darkness as a bride, and hug it in mine arms."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ever note, Lucilius, When love begins to sicken and decay It useth an enforced ceremony. There are no tricks in plain and simple faith; But hollow men, like horses hot at hand, Make gallant show and promise of their mettle; But when they should endure the bloody spur, They fall their crests, and like deceitful jades Sink in the trial."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Being your slave what should I do but tend, Upon the hours, and times of your desire? I have no precious time at all to spend; Nor services to do till you require."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thyself and thy belongings<br />\r\nAre not thine own so proper, as to waste<br />\r\nThyself upon thy virtues, they on thee.<br />\r\nHeaven doth with us as we with torches do,<br />\r\nNot light them for themselves; for if our virtues<br />\r\nDid not go forth of us 't were all alike<br />\r\nAs if we had them not. Spirits are not finely touch'd<br />\r\nBut to fine issues; nor Nature never lends<br />\r\nThe smallest scruple of her excellence,<br />\r\nBut, like a thrifty goddess, she determines<br />\r\nHerself the glory of a creditor -<br />\r\nBoth thanks and use."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But when I came, alas, to wive, With hey, ho, the wind and the rain, By swaggering could I never thrive, For the rain it raineth every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The horn, the horn, the lusty horn Is not a thing to laugh to scorn."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The earth, that is nature's mother, is her tomb."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And his unkindness may defeat my life, But never taint my love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Life is as tedious as twice-told tale, vexing the dull ear of a drowsy man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Farewell, my sister, fare thee well. The elements be kind to thee, and make Thy spirits all of comfort: fare thee well."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I do not seek to quench your love's hot fire,<br />\nBut qualify the fire's extreme rage,<br />\nLest it should burn above the bounds of reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Give me to drink mandragora."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into the vale of years\u2014yet that\u2019s not much\u2014 She\u2019s gone. I am abused, and my relief Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others\u2019 uses. Yet \u2019tis the plague of great ones; Prerogatived are they less than the base. \u2019Tis destiny unshunnable, like death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And why not death rather than living torment? To die is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her Is self from self: a deadly banishment!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But shall we wear these glories for a day? Or shall they last, and we rejoice in them?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No, by my soul, I never in my life<br />\nDid hear a challenge urged more modestly,<br />\nUnless a brother should a brother dare<br />\nTo gentle exercise and proof of arms."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I kissed thee ere I killed thee. No way but this, Killing myself, to die upon a kiss."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But virtue never will be mov'd,<br />\nThough lewdness court it in a shape of heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For in the fatness of these pursy times<br />\nVirtue itself of vice must pardon beg."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Virtue preserv'd from fell destruction's blast,<br />\nLed on by heaven, and crown'd with joy at last."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Virtue that transgresses is but patched with sin; and sin that amends is but patched with virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Virtue's office never breaks men's troth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My heart laments that virtue cannot live<br />\nOut of the teeth of emulation."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Therefore it is most expedient for the wise, if Don Worm (his conscience) find no impediment to the contrary, to be the trumpet of his own virtues, as I am to myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The appurtenance of welcome is fashion and ceremony."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The will of man is by his reason sway'd."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We must every one be a man of his own fancy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have touched the highest point of all my greatness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Send danger from the east unto the west, so honor cross it from the north to south."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My nature is subdued to what it works in, like the dyer's hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep'st so sound."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: By the apostle Paul, shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou art a soul in bliss; but I am bound Upon a wheel of fire; that mine own tears Do scald like molten lead."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Well, God's above all; and there be souls must be saved, and there be souls must not be saved."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank! Here will we sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony. Sit, Jessica: look, how the floor of heaven Is thick inlaid with patines of bright gold; There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings, Still quiring to the young-eyed cherubins. Such harmony is in immortal souls; But whilst this muddy vesture of decay Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To lapse in fulness Is sorer than to lie for need, and falsehood Is worse in kings than beggars."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Help, master, help! here's a fish hangs in the net, like a poor man's right in the law; 'twill hardly come out."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When I have plucked the rose,  I cannot give it vital growth again,  It needs must wither. I'll smell it on the tree."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The gloomy shade of death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What ugly sights of death within mine eyes!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O wretched state! o bosom black as death!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: On pain of death, no person be so bold."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tired with all these, for restful death I cry."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What is thy sentence then but speechless death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why, thou owest god a death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Speak me fair in death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Dream on, dream on, of bloody deeds and death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Whose heart the accustom'd sight of death makes hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fair, kind, and true, have often lived alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Even so; an't please your worship, Brakenbury,<br />\r\nYou may partake of any thing we say:<br />\r\nWe speak no treason, man; we say the King<br />\r\nIs wise and virtuous, and his noble queen<br />\r\nWell struck in years, fair, and not jealous;<br />\r\nWe say that Shore's wife hath a pretty foot,<br />\r\nA cherry lip, a bonny eye, a passing pleasing tongue;<br />\r\nAnd that the Queen's kindred are made gentlefolks."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He was too good to be<br />\r\nWhere ill men were, and was the best of all<br />\r\nAmongst the rar'st of good ones- sitting sadly<br />\r\nHearing us praise our loves of Italy<br />\r\nFor beauty that made barren the swell'd boast<br />\r\nOf him that best could speak; for feature, laming<br />\r\nThe shrine of Venus or straight-pight Minerva,<br />\r\nPostures beyond brief nature; for condition,<br />\r\nA shop of all the qualities that man<br />\r\nLoves woman for; besides that hook of wiving,<br />\r\nFairness which strikes the eye-<br />\r\nCYMBELINE."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And she's fair I love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Virtuous and fair, royal and gracious."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: 'Tis not to make me jealous<br />\r\nTo say my wife is fair, feeds well, loves company,<br />\r\nIs free of speech, sings, plays, and dances well;<br />\r\nWhere virtue is, these are more virtuous."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That if you be honest and fair, your honesty should admit no discourse to your beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Withal I did infer your lineaments,<br />\r\nBeing the right idea of your father,<br />\r\nBoth in your form and nobleness of mind;<br />\r\nLaid open all your victories in Scotland,<br />\r\nYour discipline in war, wisdom in peace,<br />\r\nYour bounty, virtue, fair humility;<br />\r\nIndeed, left nothing fitting for your purpose<br />\r\nUntouch'd or slightly handled in discourse."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now old desire doth in his deathbed lie,<br />\r\nAnd young affection gapes to be his heir;<br />\r\nThat fair for which love groan'd for and would die,<br />\r\nWith tender Juliet match'd, is now not fair."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Not an angel of the air, <br />\r\nBird melodious or bird fair, <br />\r\nBe absent hence!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Because I cannot flatter and look fair,<br />\r\nSmile in men's faces, smooth, deceive, and cog,<br />\r\nDuck with French nods and apish courtesy,<br />\r\nI must be held a rancorous enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What the vengeance, could he not speak 'em fair?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When most I wink, then do my eyes best see"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O sleep! O gentle sleep! Nature's soft nurse."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let men say we be men of good government, being governed, as the sea is, by our noble and chaste mistress the moon, under whose countenance we steal."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A sad tale's best for winter. I have one of sprites and goblins."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Make not your thoughts your prisons."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Keep up your bright swords, for the dew will rust them."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So musical a discord, such sweet thunder."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Against love's fire fear`s frost hath dissolution"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love thrives not in the heart that shadows dreadeth"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If love be blind, love cannot hit the mark"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Even as one heat another heat expels, or as one nail by strength drives out another, so the remembrance of my former love is by a newer object quite forgotten."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: By heaven, I do love: and it hath taught me to rhyme, and to be mekancholy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But miserable most, to love unloved? This you should pity rather than despise"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be like you thought our love would last too long, if it were chain'd together"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And ruin`d love when it is built anew, grows fairer than at first, more strong, far greater"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Alas, their love may be call'd appetite. No motion of the liver, but the palate"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What power is it which mounts my love so high, that makes me see, and cannot feed mine eye"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Things base and vile, holding no quantity, love can transpose to form and dignity"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The chameleon Love can feed on the air"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: She cannot love, nor take no shape nor project or affection, she is so self-endeared"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My love admits no qualifying dross"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love`s reason`s without reason"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Being of no power to make his wishes good: His promises fly so beyond his state That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes For every word."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Spirits are not finely touched  But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a thrifty goddess she determines Herself the glory of a creditor,Both thanks and use."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Blessed are the peacemakers on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Alas, how love can trifle with itself!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Do not plunge thyself too far in anger."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Every true man's apparel fits your thief."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Read o'er this And after, this, and then to breakfast with What appetite you have."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The gods are deaf to hot and peevish vows. They are polluted off'rings, more abhorred! Than spotted livers in the sacrifice."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Few things loves better Than to abhor himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A rotten case abides no handling."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents The armorers accomplishing the knights, With busy hammers closing rivets up, Give dreadful note of preparation."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men that make Envy and crooked malice nourishment, Dare bite the best."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And fearless minds climb soonest unto crowns."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Diseased Nature oftentimes breaks forth In strange eruptions."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How hard it is to hide the sparks of Nature!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Light vanity, insatiate cormorant, Consuming means, soon preys upon itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Most subject is the fattest soil to weeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hung be the heavens with black! Yield, day, to night!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I cannot be a man with wishing, therefore I will die a woman with grieving."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lord, I could not endure a husband with a beard on his face! I had rather lie in the woolen."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So doth the greater glory dim the less:<br />\nA substitute shines brightly as a king<br />\nUntil a king be by."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Those that do teach young babes<br />\nDo it with gentle means and easy tasks."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What thing, in honor, had my father lost,<br />\nThat need to be revived and breathed in me?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Barnes are blessings."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What, keep a week away? Seven days and nights,<br />\nEightscore-eight hours, and lovers' absent hours<br />\nMore tedious than the dial eightscore times!<br />\nO weary reckoning!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Death, as the Psalmist saith, is certain to all, all shall<br />\ndie."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Time is a very bankrupt and owes more than he's worth to<br />\nseason.<br />\nNay, he's a thief too: have you not heard men say,<br />\nThat Time comes stealing on by night and day?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Retire me to my Milan, where<br />\nEvery third thought shall be my grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Shorten my days thou canst with sullen sorrow,<br />\nAnd pluck nights from me, but not lend a morrow;<br />\nThou canst help time to furrow me with age,<br />\nBut stop no wrinkle in his pilgrimage."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What e'er you are<br />\nThat in this desert inaccessible,<br />\nUnder the shade of melancholy boughs,<br />\nLose and neglect the creeping hours of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am now of all humors that have showed themselves humors<br />\nsince the old days of goodman Adam to the pupil age of this<br />\npresent twelve o'clock at midnight."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I that please some, try all, both joy and terror<br />\nOf good and bad, that makes and unfolds error."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: His jest will savour but of shallow wit, When thousands weep, more than did laugh at it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But whate'er I am, nor I nor any man that but man is, With nothing shall be pleased 'til he be eased With being nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Cupid is a knavish lad, Thus to make poor females mad."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Your face, my thane, is as a book where men May read strange matters. To beguile the time, Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have supped full with horrors."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A little more than kin, and less than kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Under loves heavy burden do I sink. --Romeo"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As I love the name of honour more than I fear death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For I am he am born to tame you, Kate; and bring you from a wild Kate to a Kate conformable as other household Kates."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I dreamt my lady came and found me dead . . . . . . . . . . . . And breathed such life with kisses in my lips That I revived and was an emperor."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, train me not, sweet mermaid, with thy note, to drown me in thy sister\u2019s flood of tears."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For it falls out That what we have we prize not to the worth Whiles we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost, Why, then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us While it was ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You lie, in faith; for you are call'd plain Kate, And bonny Kate and sometimes Kate the curst; But Kate, the prettiest Kate in Christendom Kate of Kate Hall, my super-dainty Kate, For dainties are all Kates, and therefore, Kate, Take this of me, Kate of my consolation; Hearing thy mildness praised in every town, Thy virtues spoke of, and thy beauty sounded, Yet not so deeply as to thee belongs, Myself am moved to woo thee for my wife."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: POLONIUS: What do you read, my lord? HAMLET: Words, words, words."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Too nice, and yet too true!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have drunk and seen the spider."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How much salt water thrown away in waste/ To season love, that of it doth not taste."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Too early seen unknown, and known too late!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, here Will I set up my everlasting rest, And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars From this world-wearied flesh. Eyes, look your last! Arms, take your last embrace! and, lips, O you The doors of breath, seal with a righteous kiss A dateless bargain to engrossing death!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We will have rings and things and fine array"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let life be short, else shame will be too long."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O for a Muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention, A kingdom for a stage, princes to act And monarchs to behold the swelling scene!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why, what is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust? And, live we how we can, yet die we must."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep, perchance to dream\u2014For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause, there's the respect, That makes calamity of so long life"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: where civil blood makes civil hands unclean"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For which of my bad parts didst thou first fall in love with me?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, reason not the need!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As you from crimes would pardon'd be, Let your indulgence set me free."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis in ourselves that we are thus or thus. Our bodies are our gardens, to the which our wills are gardeners: so that if we will plant nettles, or sow lettuce, set hyssop and weed up tine, supply it with one gender of herbs, or distract it with many, either to have it sterile with idleness, or manured with industry, why, the power and corrigible authority of this lies in our wills."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Wherefore was I to this keen mockery born? When at your hands did I deserve this scorn? Is't not enough, is't not enough, young man, That I did never, no, nor never can, Deserve a sweet look from Demetrius' eye, But you must flout my insufficiency?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For where thou art, there is the world itself, With every several pleasure in the world, And where thou art not, desolation."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Yet this my comfort: when your words are done, My woes end likewise with the evening sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou Romeo?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A plague on both your houses."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To sleep perchance to dream"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I do profess to be no less than I seem; to serve him truly that will put me in trust: to love him that is honest; to converse with him that is wise, and says little; to fear judgment; to fight when I cannot choose; and to eat no fish."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To die, is to be banish'd from myself; And Silvia is myself: banish'd from her, Is self from self: a deadly banishment! What light is light, if Silvia be not seen? What joy is joy, if Silvia be not by? Unless it be to think that she is by, And feed upon the shadow of perfection. Except I be by Silvia in the night, There is no music in the nightingale; Unless I look on Silvia in the day, There is no day for me to look upon; She is my essence, and I leave to be, If I be not by her fair influence Foster'd, illumin'd, cherish'd, kept alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have no way and therefore want no eyes I stumbled when I saw. Full oft 'tis seen our means secure us, and our mere defects prove our commodities."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If the skin were parchment and the blows you gave were ink, Your own handwriting would tell you what I think."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Glendower: I can call the spirits from the vasty deep. Hotspur: Why, so can I, or so can any man; But will they come, when you do call for them?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ay, when fowls have no feathers and fish have no fin."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me, I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ill deeds are doubled with an evil word."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I hate the murderer, love him murdered."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ay, but hearken, sir; though the chameleon Love can feed on the air, I am one that am nourished by my victuals, and would fain have meat."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And Caesar shall go forth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You taught me language, and my profit on't / Is, I know how to curse"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For some must watch, while some must sleep So runs the world away"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For death remembered should be like a mirror, Who tells us life\u2019s but breath, to trust it error."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou shalt be free As mountain winds: but then exactly do All points of my command."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Oh, God! I have an ill-divining soul!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: for my grief's so great That no supporter but the huge firm earth Can hold it up: here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it. (Constance, from King John, Act III, scene 1)"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Still it cried \u2018Sleep no more!\u2019 to all the house: \u2018Glamis hath murder\u2019d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,\u2014Macbeth shall sleep no more!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: \u2018tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune\u2019s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No; this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.\u201d \u201cMy hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white. A little water clears us of this deed: How easy it is then! Your constancy hath left you unattended."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cool\u2019d to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were in\u2019t: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is my soul that calls upon my name; How silver-sweet sound lovers' tongues by night, like softest music to attending ears! -Romeo"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: These violent delights have violent ends And in their triumph die, like fire and powder, Which as they kiss consume. The sweetest honey Is loathsome in his own deliciousness And in the taste confounds the appetite. Therefore love moderately; long love doth so; Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will be brief. Your noble son is mad."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To think but nobly of my grandmother: Good wombs have borne bad sons."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So are you to my thoughts as food to life, or as sweet seasoned showers are to the ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I cannot speak your england."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: RUMOUR: \"Upon my tongues continual slanders ride, The which in every language I pronounce, Stuffing the ears of men with false reports."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Pause awhile, And let my counsel sway you."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I see a woman may be made a fool, If she had not a spirit to resist."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is not politic in the commonwealth of nature to preserve virginity. Loss of virginity is rational increase, and there was never virgin got till virginity was first lost. That you were made of is metal to make virgins. Virginity, by being once lost, may be ten times found: by being ever kept, it is ever lost. \u2019Tis too cold a companion: away with \u2019t!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We will meet; and there we may rehearse most obscenely and courageously."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Either to die the death or to abjure For ever the society of men. Therefore, fair Hermia, question your desires; Know of your youth, examine well your blood, Whether, if you yield not to your father's choice, You can endure the livery of a nun, For aye to be in shady cloister mew'd, To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. Thrice-blessed they that master so their blood, To undergo such maiden pilgrimage; But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd, Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: DEMETRIUS Relent, sweet Hermia: and, Lysander, yield Thy crazed title to my certain right. LYSANDER You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: QUINCE Francis Flute, the bellows-mender. FLUTE Here, Peter Quince. QUINCE Flute, you must take Thisby on you. FLUTE What is Thisby? a wandering knight? QUINCE It is the lady that Pyramus must love. FLUTE Nay, faith, let me not play a woman; I have a beard coming."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Demand me nothing: what you know, you know."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We few. We happy few. We band of brothers, for he today That sheds his blood with me Shall be my brother."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Romeo: Courage, man; the hurt cannot be much. Mercutio: No, 'tis not so deep as a well, nor so wide as a church-door; but 'tis enough, 'twill serve. Ask for me tomorrow, and you shall find me a grave man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Believe then, if you please, that I can do strange things. [Act 5, Scene 2]"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Unless hours were cups of sack, and minutes capons, and clocks the tongues of bawds, and dials the signs of leaping-houses, and the blessed sun himself a fair hot wench in flame-colored taffeta, I see no reason why thou shouldst be so superfluous to demand the time of the day."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Were't not for laughing, I should pity him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hal, if I tell thee a lie, spit in my face, call me horse."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Before, I loved thee as a brother, John, But now, I do respect thee as my soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am the Prince of Wales; and think not, Percy, To share with me in glory any more: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is not night when I do see your face, Therefore I think I am not in the night; Nor doth this wood lack worlds of company, For you in my respect are all the world: Then how can it be said I am alone, When all the world is here to look on me?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love is my sin, and thy dear virtue hate, Hate of my sin, grounded on sinful loving."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none: And some condemned for a fault alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Can I go forward when my heart is here? Turn back, dull earth, and find thy centre out."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You may my Glories and my State depose, But not my Griefes; still am I King of those."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You have too much respect upon the world; They lose it that do buy it with much care"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's nothing ill can dwell in such a temple. If the ill spirit have so fair a house, Good things will strive to dwell with't"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The world is not thy friend, nor the world's law. - Romeo"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize upon: Be it lawful I take up what's cast away. Gods, gods! 'tis strange that from their cold'st neglect My love should kindle to inflamed respect. Thy dowerless daughter, king, thrown to my chance, Is queen of us, of ours, and our fair France: Not all the dukes of waterish Burgundy Can buy this unprized precious maid of me. Bid them farewell, Cordelia, though unkind: Thou losest here, a better where to find."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O Judgment ! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason !"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thus weary of the world, away she hies, And yokes her silver doves; by whose swift aid Their mistress mounted through the empty skies In her light chariot quickly is convey'd; Holding their course to Paphos, where their queen Means to immure herself and not be seen."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For this, be sure, tonight thou shalt have cramps, Side-stitches that shall pen thy breath up. Urchins Shall forth at vast of night that they may work All exercise on thee. Thou shalt be pinched As thick as honeycomb, each pinch more stinging Than bees that made 'em."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Minutes, hours, days, months, and years,<br />\r\nPass'd over to the end they were created,<br />\r\nWould bring white hairs unto a quiet grave.<br />\r\nAh, what a life were this!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We should hold day with the Antipodes,<br />\r\nIf you would walk in absence of the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Beauty, wit,<br />\r\nHigh birth, vigour of bone, desert in service,<br />\r\nLove, friendship, charity, are subjects all<br />\r\nTo envious and calumniating time."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Time is the nurse and breeder of all good."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Make use of time, let not advantage slip;<br />\r\nBeauty within itself should not be wasted:<br />\r\nFair flowers that are not gather'd in their prime<br />\r\nRot and consume themselves in little time."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Yet, do thy worst, old Time; despite thy wrong,<br />\r\nMy love shall in my verse ever live young."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth<br />\r\nAnd delves the parallels in beauty's brow."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; for in my youth I never did apply hot and rebellious liquors in my blood; and did not, with unbashful forehead, woo the means of weakness and debility: therefore my age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My age is as a lusty winter, frosty but kindly."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Do you set down your name in the scroll of youth, that are written down old with all the characters of age?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Grace and remembrance be to you both."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Honor, riches, marriage-blessing<br />\r\nLong continuance, and increasing,<br />\r\nHourly joys be still upon you!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You must not think<br />\r\nThat we are made of stuff so fat and dull<br />\r\nThat we can let our beard be shook with danger<br />\r\nAnd think it pastime."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, the blood more stirs<br />\r\nTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To set a gloss on faint deeds, hollow welcomes,<br />\r\nRecanting goodness, sorry ere 'tis shown;<br />\r\nBut where there is true friendship, there needs none."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I desire you in friendship, and I will one way or other make you amends."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To mingle friendship far is mingling bloods."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thy friendship makes us fresh."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Within the book and volume of thy brain."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets, but gold that's put to use more gold begets."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Gold were as good as twenty orators."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Put forth thy hand, reach at the glorious gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To wilful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Trust not my reading, nor my observations, Which with experimental seal do warrant The tenor of my book."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Well, I will find you twenty lascivious turtles ere one chaste man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O mischief, thou art swift to enter in the thoughts of desperate men!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If I were a woman I would kiss as many of you as had beards that pleased me, complexions that liked me and breaths that I defied not"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lady, with me, with me thy fortune lies."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Which means she to deceive, father or mother?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We are advertis'd by our loving friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If ever thou be'st bound in thy scarf and beaten, thou shalt find what it is to be proud of thy bondage."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Remembrance of things past."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian or an ordinary man has; but I am a great eater of beef, and I believe that does harm to my wit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Constant you are, But yet a woman; and for secrecy, No lady closer; for I well believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fie, thou dishonest Satan! I call thee by the most modest terms; for I am one of those gentle ones that will use the devil himself with courtesy: sayest thou that house is dark?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility: But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger; Stiffen the sinews, summon up the blood, Disguise fair nature with hard-favour'd rage; Then lend the eye a terrible aspect; . . . . Now set the teeth and stretch the nostril wide, Hold hard the breath and bend up every spirit To his full height. On, on, you noblest English."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Chewing the food of sweet and bitter fancy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Stay, my lord, And let your reason with your choler question What 'tis you go about: to climb steep hills Requires slow pace at first: anger is like A full-hot horse, who being allow'd his way, Self-mettle tires him. Not a man in England Can advise me like you: be to yourself As you would to your friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hast any philosophy in thee shepherd? .\u2022 \u2022 \u2022 \u2022 . . . He that wants money, means and content, is without three good friends; that the property of rain is to wet and fire to burn; that good pasture makes fat sheep, and a great cause of the night is lack of the sun; that he that hath learned no wit by nature nor art may complain of good breeding or comes of a very dull kindred."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is twenty hundred kisses such a trouble?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why, there's a wench! Come on, and kiss me, Kate."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If I profane with my unworthiest hand<br />\r\nThis holy shrine, the gentle fine is this:<br />\r\nMy lips, two blushing pilgrims, ready stand<br />\r\nTo smooth that rough touch with a tender kiss."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You kiss by th' book."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up Thine own life's means!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, To follow still the changes of the moon With fresh suspicions? No; to be once in doubt Is once to be resolved."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: . . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in his death To throw away the dearest thing he owed, As 'twere a careless trifle."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All is well ended if this suit be won. That you express content; which we will pay, With strife to please you, day exceeding day."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O! that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come; But it sufficeth that the day will end, And then the end is known."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That strain again! It had a dying fall: <br />\r\nO, it came o'er my ear like the sweet sound <br />\r\nThat breathes upon a bank of violets, <br />\r\nStealing and giving odour! Enough; no more: <br />\r\n'Tis not so sweet as it was before."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Young Adam Cupid, he that shot so trim, When King Cophetua loved the beggar-maid!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love moderately; long love doth so; too swift arrives as tardy as too slow."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why, friends, you go to do you know not what: Wherein hath Caesar thus deserved your loves? Alas, you know not: I must tell you then: You have forgot the will I told you of. . . . . Here is the will, and under Caesar's seal. To every Roman citizen he gives, To every several man, seventy-five drachmas. . . . . Moreover, he hath left you all his walks, His private arbours and new-planted orchards, On this side Tiber; he hath left them you, And to your heirs for ever, common pleasures, To walk abroad, and recreate yourselves. Here was a Caesar! when comes such another?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No worse a husband than the best of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Company, villainous company, hath been the spoil of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lady, you know no rules of charity, Which renders good for bad, blessings for curses."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hot and hasty, like a Scotch jig."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You Jig, you amble, and you lisp."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My glass shall not persuade me I am old, So long as youth and thou are of one date; But when in thee time's furrows I behold, Then look I death my days should expiate."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: ROMEO to BALTHASAR But if thou, jealous, dost return to pry In what I further shall intend to do, By heaven, I will tear thee joint by joint And strew this hungry churchyard with thy limbs: The time and my intents are savage-wild, More fierce and more inexorable far Than empty tigers or the roaring sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But whate'er you are That in this desert inaccessible, Under the shade of melancholy boughs, Lose and neglect the creeping hours of time; If you have ever looked on better days, If ever been where bells knoll'd to church, If ever sat at any good man's feast, If ever from your eyelids wiped a tear, And know what 'tis to pity and be pitied, Let gentleness my strong enforcement be. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have seen better faces in my time Than stands on any shoulder that I see Before me at this instant."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Then to Silvia let us sing that Silvia is excelling.  She excels each mortal thing upon the dull earth dwelling."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How now, wit! Whither wander you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Report of fashions in proud Italy Whose manners still our tardy-apish nation Limps after in base imitation"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And makes me poor indeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Evermore thanks, the exchequer of the poor"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To saucy doubts and fears."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Never, never, never, never, never! Pray you, undo this button."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Go, write it in a martial hand; be curst and brief; it is no matter how witty, so it be eloquent and fun of invention: taunt him with the licence of ink: if thou thou'st him some thrice, it shall not be amiss; and as many lies as will lie in thy shee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, she misused me past the endurance of a block."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Falsehood falsehood cures"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They have been grand-jurymen since before Noah was a sailor"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Every fair from fair sometime declines"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Die for adultery! No: The wren goes to't, and the small gilded fly does lecher in my sight"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Truth hath a quiet breast."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This thought is as a death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For now they kill me with a living death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou detestable maw, thou womb of death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Death-counterfeiting sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is she kind as she is fair?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Advance our standards, set upon our foes;<br />\r\nOur ancient word of courage, fair Saint George,<br />\r\nInspire us with the spleen of fiery dragons!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect,<br />\r\nFor slander's mark was ever yet the fair;<br />\r\nThe ornament of beauty is suspect,<br />\r\nA crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Join not with grief, fair woman, do not so,<br />\r\nTo make my end too sudden."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Come away, come away, death,<br />\r\nAnd in sad cypres let me be laid;<br />\r\nFly away, fly away, breath;<br />\r\nI am slain by a fair cruel maid."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Faith, stay here this night; they will surely do us no harm; you saw they speak us fair, give us gold; methinks they are such a gentle nation that, but for the mountain of mad flesh that claims marriage of me, could find in my heart to stay here still and turn witch."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But pearls are fair; and the old saying is:<br />\r\nBlack men are pearls in beauteous ladies' eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Day, night, late, early,<br />\r\nAt home, abroad, alone, in company,<br />\r\nWaking or sleeping, still my care hath been<br />\r\nTo have her match'd; and having now provided<br />\r\nA gentleman of princely parentage,<br />\r\nOf fair demesnes, youthful, and nobly train'd,<br />\r\nStuff'd, as they say, with honourable parts,<br />\r\nProportion'd as one's thought would wish a man-<br />\r\nAnd then to have a wretched puling fool,<br />\r\nA whining mammet, in her fortune's tender,<br />\r\nTo answer 'I'll not wed, I cannot love;<br />\r\nI am too young, I pray you pardon me'!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The arms are fair, When the intent of bearing them is just."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As I hope<br />\r\nFor quiet days, fair issue, and long life,<br />\r\nWith such love as 'tis now, the murkiest den,<br />\r\nThe most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion<br />\r\nOur worser genius can, shall never melt<br />\r\nMine honour into lust, to take away<br />\r\nThe edge of that day's celebration,<br />\r\nWhen I shall think or Phoebus' steeds are founder'd<br />\r\nOr Night kept chain'd below."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fair Katherine, and most fair,<br />\r\nWill you vouchsafe to teach a soldier terms<br />\r\nSuch as will enter at a lady's ear,<br />\r\nAnd plead his love-suit to her gentle heart?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: 'By heaven, that thou art fair, is most infallible true, that thou art beauteous truth itself, that thou art lovely. More fairer than fair, beautiful than beauteous, truer than truth itself, have commiseration on thy heroical vassal."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Speak, my fair, and fairly, I pray thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Such an act<br />\r\nThat blurs the grace and blush of modesty;<br />\r\nCalls virtue hypocrite; takes off the rose<br />\r\nFrom the fair forehead of an innocent love,<br />\r\nAnd sets a blister there; makes marriage vows<br />\r\nAs false as dicers' oaths."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Two loves I have, of comfort and despair,<br />\r\nWhich like two spirits do suggest me still:<br />\r\nThe better angel is a man right fair,<br />\r\nThe worser spirit a woman coloured ill."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Rest you fair, good signior;<br />\r\nYour worship was the last man in our mouths."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: you saw her fair, none else being by,<br />\r\nHerself pois'd with herself in either eye;<br />\r\nBut in that crystal scales let there be weigh'd<br />\r\nYour lady's love against some other maid<br />\r\nThat I will show you shining at this feast,<br />\r\nAnd she shall scant show well that now seems best."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose, In piteous chase."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That's a valiant flea that dares eat his breakfast on the lip of a lion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Oh! it offends me to the soul to hear a robust periwig-pated fellow, tear a passion to tatters, to very rags, to split the ears of the groundlings."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Soft pity enters an iron gate."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's her cousin, an she were not possessed with a fury, exceeds her as much in beauty as the first of May doth the last of December."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You dull ass will not mend his pace with beating."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is an old poor man,. . . . Oppress'd with two weak evils, age and hunger."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To be slow in words is a woman's only virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Methought I was enamour'd of an ass."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In the night, imagining some fear,<br />\r\nHow easy is a bush supposed a bear!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be as thou wast wont to be.<br />\r\nSee as thou wast wont to see."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Earth-treading stars that make dark heaven light"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Methinks sometimes I have no more wit than a Christian."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thy head is as full of quarrels as an egg is full of meat, and yet thy head hath been beaten as addle as an egg for quarrelling."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Report me and my cause aright."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What need the bridge much broader than the flood?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For 'tis the sport to have the engineerHoist with his own petard."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men;<br />\r\nAs hounds, and greyhounds, mongrels, spaniels, curs,<br />\r\nShoughs, water-rugs, and demi-wolves, are 'clept<br />\r\nAll by the name of dogs: the valued file<br />\r\nDistinguishes the swift, the slow, the subtle,<br />\r\nThe housekeeper, the hunter, every one<br />\r\nAccording to the gift which bounteous nature<br />\r\nHath in him closed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am sir Oracle, and when I ope my lips, let no dog bark."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Past and to come, seems best; things present, worse."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hamlet: Is this a prologue, or the posy of a ring? Ophelia: 'Tis brief, my lord. Hamlet: As woman's love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thieves for their robbery have authority When judges steal themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis ever common That men are merriest when they are from home."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel just."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Honour travels in a strait so narrow Where one but goes abreast."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Such tricks hath strong imagination, That, if it would but apprehend some joy, It comprehends some bringer of that joy; Or in the night, imagining some fear, How easy is a bush supposed a bear!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: ... I am At war 'twixt will and will not."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And how his audit stands who knows, save Heaven?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is no sure foundation set on blood, No certain life achieved by others' death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Learning is but an adjunct to ourself, And where we are our learning likewise is."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Liberty plucks justice by the nose; The baby beats the nurse, and quite athwart Goes all decorum."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I may command where I adore."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nothing comes amiss, so money comes withal."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity. O that estates, degrees, and offices Were not derived corruptly, and that clear honour Were purchased by the merit of the wearer!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What Time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The daintiest last, to make the end most sweet."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What to ourselves in passion we propose, The passion ending, doth the purpose lose."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Prosperity's the very bond of love, Whose fresh complexion and whose heart together Affliction alters."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The eagle suffers little birds to sing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That in the captains but a choleric word Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Within the hollow crown That rounds the mortal temples of a king Keeps Death his court."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Rumor is a pipe Blown by surmises, jealousies, conjectures."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Rumour doth double, like the voice and echo, The numbers of the feared."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Greatest scandal waits on greatest state."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I do know of these That therefore only are reputed wise For saying nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Slander lives upon succession, For ever housed where it gets possession."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This fellow pecks up wit, as pigeons peas; And utters it again when God doth please: He is wit's pedler; and retails his wares."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He was ever precise in promise-keeping."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If it be true that good wine needs no bush, 'tis true that a good play needs no epilogue."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry. But were we burd'ned with like weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain: So thou, that hast no unkind mate to grieve thee, With urging helpless patience wouldst relieve me; But if thou live to see like right bereft, This fool-begged patience in thee will be left."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Two may keep counsel putting one away!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O shame, where is thy blush?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ships are but boards, sailors but men."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, I have suffered With those that I saw suffer! a brave vessel (Who had no doubt some noble creature in her) Dashed all to pieces! O, the cry did knock Against my very heart! Poor souls, they perished!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Base is the slave that pays."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This world to me is like a lasting storm,Whirring me from my friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When clouds are seen wise men put on their cloaks; When great leaves fall then winter is at hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-searched with saucy looks: Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Against self-slaughter There is a prohibition so divine That cravens my weak hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And the more pity that great folk should have count'nance in this world to drown or hang themselves more than their even-Christen."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in the ocean Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ask God for temp'rance. That's th' appliance only Which your disease requires."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Make less thy body hence, and more thy grace. Leave gormandizing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Great men should drink with harness on their throats."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Do not give dalliance too much rein; the strongest oaths are straw to the fire in the blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In limited professions there's boundless theft."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I cannot, nor I will not hold me still; My tongue, though not my heart, shall have his will."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why, universal plodding poisons up The nimble spirits in the arteries, As motion and long-during action tires The sinewy vigor of the traveller."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The private wound is deepest. O time most accurst, 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For the poor wren (The most diminutive of birds) will fight, Her young ones in her nest, against the owl."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love's fire heats water, water cools not love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Give me mine angle, we'll to th' river: there,  My music playing far off, I will betray  Tawny-finned fishes. My bended hook shall pierce  Their slimy jaws; and as I draw them up,  I'll think them every one an Antony,  And say, 'Ah, ha! are caught!'"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish  Cut with her golden oars the silver stream  And greedily devour the treacherous bait."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: 'Twas merry when You wagered on your angling, when your diver Did hang a salt fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive?  A fish: he smells like a fish;  a very ancient and fishlike smell;  a kind of not of the newest poor-John.  A strange fish!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thrust your head into the public street, to gaze on Christian fools with varnish'd faces."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Cursed be the hand that made these fatal holes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As you are old and reverend, you should be wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be to yourself as you would to your friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let me be ignorant, and in nothing good, but graciously to know I am no better."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Bid the dishonest man mend himself; if he mend, he is no longer dishonest."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The play's the thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: God grant us patience!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The cunning livery of hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thrice is he arm'd that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath; Who shuns not to break one will sure crack both."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The insolence of office."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The clock upbraids me with the waste of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now I am past all comforts here, but prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To take arms against a sea of troubles."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No reckoning made, but sent to my account with all my imperfections on my head."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nor aught so good but strained from that fair use,<br />\nRevolts from true birth stumbling on abuse."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The bitter clamor of two eager tongues."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis often seen<br />\nAdoption strives with nature; and choice breeds<br />\nA native slip to us from foreign lands."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Direct not him whose way himself will choose;<br />\n'Tis breath not lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Affection, mistress of passion, sways it to the mood of what it likes or loathes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nature, as it grows again toward earth, is fashioned for the journey, dull and heavy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care<br />\nWho chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou dost conspire against thy friend, Iago,<br />\nIf thou but think'st him wronged, and mak'st his ear<br />\nA stranger to thy thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O constancy, be strong upon my side,<br />\nSet a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue!<br />\nI have a man's mind, but a woman's might."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Call me what instrument you will, though you can fret me, you cannot play upon me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Contention, like a horse,<br />\nFull of high feeding, madly hath broke loose,<br />\nAnd bears down all before him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Live loath'd and long,<br />\nMost smiling, smooth, detested parasites,<br />\nCourteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,<br />\nYou fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies<br />\nCap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Poor wretches that depend<br />\nOn greatness' favor, dream as I have done;<br />\nWake, and find nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The caterpillars of the commonwealth,<br />\nWhich I have sworn to weed and pluck away."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The thorny point<br />\nOf bare distress hath ta'en from me the show<br />\nOf smooth civility; yet am I inland bred<br />\nAnd know some nurture."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nay, I am the very pink of courtesy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Women are angels, wooing:<br />\nThings won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing:<br />\nThat she beloved knows naught, that knows not this--<br />\nMen prize the thing ungained more than it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Plenty and peace breed cowards; hardness ever of hardiness is mother."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!<br />\nThou little valiant, great in villainy!<br />\nThou ever strong upon the stronger side!<br />\nThou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight<br />\nBut where her humorous ladyship is by<br />\nTo teach thee safety."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For my part, I may speak it to my shame,<br />\nI have a truant been to chivalry;<br />\nAnd so I hear he doth account me too."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Foul fiend of France and hag of all despite,<br />\nEncompassed with thy lustful paramours,<br />\nBecomes it thee to taunt his valiant age<br />\nAnd twit with cowardice a man half dead?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Foul deeds will rise,<br />\nThough all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Between the acting of a dreadful thing<br />\nAnd the first motion, all the interim is<br />\nLike a phantasma or a hideous dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If little faults proceeding on distemper<br />\nShall not be winked at, how shall we stretch our eye<br />\nWhen capital crimes, chewed, swallowed, and digested,<br />\nAppear before us?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For what I will, I will, and there an end."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sick in the world's regard, wretched and low."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is this government of Britain's Isle, and this the royalty of Albion's King?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fairies use flowers for their charactery."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,<br />\nYou moonshine revellers, and shades of night,<br />\nYou orphan heirs of fixed destiny,<br />\nAttend your office and your quality."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Farewell the plumed troop, and the big wars<br />\nThat make ambition virtue! O, farewell!<br />\nFarewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump,<br />\nThe spirit-stirring drum, th' ear-piercing fife,<br />\nThe royal banner, and all quality,<br />\nPride, pomp, and circumstance of glorious war!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And mind, with my heart in't; and now farewell<br />\nTill half an hour hence."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If ever (as that ever may be near) you meet in some fresh cheek the power of fancy, then shall you know the wounds invisible that love's keen, arrows make."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In maiden meditation, fancy free."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, more longing, wavering, sooner lost and won, than women's are."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hang those that talk of fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer,<br />\nEre we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep<br />\nIn the affliction of these terrible dreams<br />\nThat shake us nightly."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To fear the foe, since fear oppresseth strength,<br />\nGives, in your weakness, strength unto your foe,<br />\nAnd so your follies fight against yourself.<br />\nFear, and be slain--so worse can come to fight;<br />\nAnd fight and die is death destroying death,<br />\nWhere fearing dying pays death servile breath."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Chain me with roaring bears;<br />\nOr shut me nightly in a charnel-house,<br />\nO'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones,<br />\nWith reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;<br />\nOr bid me go into a new-made grave,<br />\nAnd hide me with a dead man in his shroud;<br />\nThings that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;<br />\nAnd I will do it without Fear or Doubt,<br />\nTo live an unstain'd Wife of my sweet Love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How lush and lusty the grass looks! how green!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A heavier task could not have been impos'd,<br />\nThan I to speak my griefs unspeakable."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A plague of sighing and grief! It blows a man up like a bladder."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Cease to lament for that thou canst not help; and study help for that which thou lamentest."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Great griefs medicine the less."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet<br />\nCould rule them both without ten women's wit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: None can cure their harms by wailing them."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Weep I cannot;<br />\nBut my heart bleeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind<br />\nAnd makes it fearful and degenerate."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But there is no such man; for, brother, men<br />\nCan counsel and speak comfort to that grief<br />\nWhich they themselves not feel; but, tasting it,<br />\nTheir counsel turns to passion, which before<br />\nWould give preceptial medicine to rage,<br />\nFetter strong madness in a silken thread,<br />\nCharm ache with air and agony with words."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Neither my place, nor aught I heard of business,<br />\nHath raised me from my bed; nor doth the general care<br />\nTake hold on me; for my particular grief<br />\nIs of so floodgate and o'erbearing nature<br />\nThat it engluts and swallows other sorrows,<br />\nAnd it is still itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When remedies are past, the griefs are ended<br />\nBy seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He must needs go that the devil drives."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No man means evil but the devil, and we shall know him by his horns."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind, more than quick words, do move a woman's mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The sweets we wish for, turn to loathed sours,<br />\nEven in the moment that we call them ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The present eye praises the present object."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All pride is willing pride."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When a gentlemen is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I do know when the blood burns, how prodigal the soul lends the tongue vows."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love reasons without reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Good reasons must of force give place to better."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let fame, that all hunt after in their lives,<br />\nLive regist'red upon our brazen tombs<br />\nAnd then grace us in the disgrace of death;<br />\nWhen, spite of cormorant devouring Time,<br />\nTh' endeavor of this present breath may buy<br />\nThat honor which shall bate his scythe's keen edge<br />\nAnd make us heirs of all eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be just, and fear not. <br />\n Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, <br />\n Thy God's and truth's."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The Hebrew will turn Christian; he grows kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A virtuous and a Christianlike conclusion--<br />\nTo pray for them that have done scathe to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that dies this year is quit for the next."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: England, bound in with the triumphant sea,<br />\nWhose rocky shore beats back the envious siege<br />\nOf watery Neptune."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It was always yet the trick of our English nation, if they have a good thing, to make it too common."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: After your death you were better have a bad epitaph than their ill report while you live."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Either our history shall with full mouth<br />\nSpeak freely of our acts, or else our grave,<br />\nLike Turkish mute, shall have a tongueless mouth,<br />\nNot worshipped with a waxen epitaph."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fortune is merry,<br />\nAnd in this mood will give us anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Friendship's full of dregs."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Gold--what can it not do, and undo?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: However wickedness outstrips men, it has no wings to fly from God."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: God is our fortress, in whose conquering name<br />\nLet us resolve to scale their flinty bulwarks."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Till all grace be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To some kind of men their graces serve them but as enemies."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When once our grace we have forgot, Nothing goes right."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: An honest man, sir, is able to speak for himself, when a knave is not."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For honesty coupled to beauty, is to have honey a sauce to sugar."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The due of honor in no point omit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Look what thy soul holds dear, imagine it<br />\nTo lie that way thou goest, not whence thou com'st.<br />\nSuppose the singing birds musicians,<br />\nThe grass whereon thou tread'st the presence strewed,<br />\nThe flowers fair ladies, and thy steps no more<br />\nThan a delight measure or a dance;<br />\nFor gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite<br />\nThe man that mocks at it and sets it light."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll never<br />\nBe such a gosling to obey instinct, but stand<br />\nAs is a man were author of himself<br />\nAnd knew no other kin."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I beseech you,<br />\nWrest once the law to your authority:<br />\nTo do a great right, do a little wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Too much to know is to know nought but fame;<br />\nAnd every godfather can give a name."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Faith, I have been a truant in the law<br />\nAnd never yet could frame my will to it,<br />\nAnd therefore frame the law unto my will."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When law can do no right,<br />\nLet it be lawful that law bar no wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am a subject,<br />\nAnd I challenge law. Attorneys are denied me,<br />\nAnd therefore personally I lay my claim<br />\nTo my inheritance of free descent."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Headstrong liberty is lashed with woe."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I must have liberty<br />\nWithal, as large a charter as the wind,<br />\nTo blow on whom I please, for so fools have."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why, headstrong liberty is lashed with woe.<br />\nThere's nothing situate under heaven's eye<br />\nBut hath his bound, in earth, in sea, in sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But love that comes too late,<br />\nLike a remorseful pardon slowly carried,<br />\nTo the great sender turns a sour offense,<br />\nCrying, 'That's good that's gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love's heralds should be thoughts,<br />\nWhich ten times faster glide than the sun's beams<br />\nDriving back shadows over low'ring hills.<br />\nTherefore do nimble-pinioned doves draw Love,<br />\nAnd therefore hath the wind-swift Cupid wings."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love thyself last, cherish those hearts that hate thee;<br />\nCorruption wins not more than honesty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Pardon, gentles all, the flat unraised spirits that have dared on this unworthy scaffold to bring forth so great an object."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Better conquest never canst thou make than arm thy constant and thy nobler parts against giddy, loose suggestions."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To kill, I grant, is sin's extremest gust;<br />\nBut, in defence, by mercy, 'tis most just."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love yourself; and in that love not unconsidered leave your honor."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men have marble, women waxen, minds."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ingrateful man with liquorish draughts, and morsels unctuous, greases his pure mind that from it all consideration slips."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O thou that dost inhabit in my breast, leave not the mansion so long tenantless; lest, growing ruinous, the building fall and leave no memory of what it was!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You know that love<br />\nWill creep in service where it cannot go."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Silence is only commendable<br />\nIn a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be checked for silence,<br />\nBut never taxed for speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sin will pluck on sin."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Mechanic slaves<br />\nWith greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall<br />\nUplift us to the view."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm<br />\nWith favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Winding up days with toil and nights with sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Princes have but their titles for their glories,<br />\nAn outward honor for an inward toil;<br />\nAnd, for unfelt imaginations,<br />\nThey often feel a world of restless cares."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nature does require her times of preservation."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Canst thou, O partial sleep, give thy repose to the wet sea-boy in an hour so rude, and in the calmest and most stillest night, with all appliances and means to boot, deny it to a king?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: On your eyelids crown the god of sleep,<br />\nCharming your blood with pleasing heaviness,<br />\nMaking such difference 'twixt wake and sleep<br />\nAs is the difference betwixt day and night<br />\nThe hour before the heavenly-harness'd team<br />\nBegins his golden progress in the east."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sleep dwell upon thine eyes, peace in thy breast!<br />\nWould I were sleep and peace, so sweet to rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To bed, to bed; sleep kill those pretty eyes,<br />\nAnd give as soft attachment to thy senses,<br />\nAs infants empty of all thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The heavenly-harness'd team<br />\nBegins his golden progress in the east."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The sun with one eye vieweth all the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I 'gin to be aweary of the sun,<br />\nAnd wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When the sun shines let foolish gnats make sport,<br />\nBut creep in crannies when he hides his beams."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Look how the world's poor people are amazed at apparitions, signs and prodigies!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: See what a ready tongue suspicion hath!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: See, what a ready tongue suspicion hath!<br />\nHe that but fears the thing he would not know,<br />\nHath, by instinct, knowledge from others' eyes,<br />\nThat what he feared is chanced."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Suspicion shall be all stuck full of eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll be damned for never a king's son in Christendom."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My father names me Autolycus, who being, as I am, littered under Mercury, was likewise a snapper-up of unconsidered trifles."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But yet, I say, if imputation and strong circumstances, which lead directly to the door of truth, will give you satisfaction, you may have it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But say, my lord, it were not regist'red,<br />\nMethinks the truth should live from age to age,<br />\nAs 'twere retailed to all posterity,<br />\nEven to the general all-ending day."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hardness ever of hardness is mother."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The weary sun hath made a golden set<br />\nAnd by the bright tract of his fiery car<br />\nGives token of a goodly day to-morrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How easy it is for the proper-false in woman's waxen hearts to set their forms!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Use almost can change the stamp of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is held that valor is the chiefest virtue, and most dignifies the haver."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: One sin another doth provoke."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Vice repeated is like the wandering wind, blows dust in others' eyes to spread itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I came, saw, and overcame."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now the time is come,<br />\nThat France must veil her lofty-plumed crest,<br />\nAnd let her head fall into England's lap."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What is aught but as 'tis valued?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I would that I were low laid in my grave.<br />\nI am not worth this coil that's made for me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am declined<br />\nInto the vale of years."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For youth no less becomes<br />\nThe light and careless livery that it wears,<br />\nThan settled age his sables, and his weeds<br />\nImporting health and graveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The spirit of a youth<br />\nThat means to be of note, begins betimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: God defend the right."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They that touch pitch will be defiled."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Our rash faults<br />\nMake trivial price of serious thing we have,<br />\nNot knowing them until we know their grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The bitter past, more welcome is the sweet."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What our contempts do often hurl from us,<br />\nWe wish it ours again."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is a willow grows aslant a brook, That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; There with fantastic garlands did she come Of crow-flowers, nettles, daisies, and long purples That liberal shepherds give a grosser name, But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them: There, on the pendent boughs her coronet weeds Clambering to hang, an envious sliver broke; When down her weedy trophies and herself Fell in the weeping brook."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He was met even now As mad as the vex'd sea; singing aloud; Crown'd with rank fumiter and furrow-weeds, With bur-docks, hemlock, nettles, cuckoo-flowers, Darnel, and all the idle weeds that grow In our sustaining corn."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When Caesar says, 'Do this', it is performed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it's spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I had rather live with cheese and garlic in a windmill."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Wilt thou whip thine own faults in other men?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,<br />\r\nDoth glance from heaven to earth,<br />\r\nFrom earth to heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let each man do his best."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If wishes would prevail with me, my purpose should not fail with me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The fool multitude, that choose by show, not learning more than the fond eye doth teach."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Look on beauty, and you shall see 'tis purchased by the weight."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ornament is but the guiled shore to a most dangerous sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How hard it is for women to keep counsel!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It easeth some, though none it ever cured, to think their dolour others have endured."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor; for 'tis the mind that makes the body rich"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My heart suspects more than mine eye can see."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue but moody and dull melancholy, kinsman to grim and comfortless despair."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Experience teacheth that resolution is a sole help in need."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The undeserver may sleep when the man of action is called on."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Were it good<br />\nTo set the exact wealth of all our states<br />\nAll at one cast? to set so rich a main<br />\nOn the nice hazard of one doubtful hour?<br />\nIt were not good."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That England, that was wont to conquer others,<br />\nHath made a shameful conquest of itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is certain that either wise bearing or ignorant carriage is caught as men take diseases, one of another."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Though justice be thy plea consider this, that in the course of justice none of us should see salvation."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll make death love me; for I will contend<br />\r\nEven with his pestilent scythe."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For 'tis the sport to have the engineer Hoist with his own petar; and't shall go hard But I will delve one yard below their mines And blow them at the moon."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll look to like; if looking, liking move."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be merry; you have cause, so have we all, of joy; for our escape is much beyond our loss . . . . then wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night,<br />\nThe hum of either army stilly sounds,<br />\nThat the fixed sentinels almost receive<br />\nThe secret whispers of each other's watch.<br />\nFire answers fire, and through their play flames<br />\nEach battle sees the other's umbered face.<br />\nSteed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs<br />\nPiercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents<br />\nThe armorers accomplishing the knights,<br />\nWith busy hammers closing rivets up,<br />\nGive dreadful note of preparation."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The bay-trees in our country are all withered,<br />\nAnd meteors fright the fix\u00e8d stars of heaven.<br />\nThe pale-faced moon looks bloody on the earth,<br />\nAnd lean-looked prophets whisper fearful change.<br />\nRich men look sad, and ruffians dance and leap;<br />\nThe one in fear to lose what they enjoy,<br />\nThe other to enjoy by rage and war.<br />\nThese signs forerun the death or fall of kings."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil.<br />\nAre empty trunks o'erflourished by the devil."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I can give the loser leave to chide."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A great cause of the night is lack of the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Speak on, but be not over-tedious."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Such thanks as fits a king's remembrance."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Beauty within itself should not be wasted."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why, who cries out on pride that can therein tax any private party? Doth it not flow as hugely as the sea till the weary very means do ebb?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So curses all Eve's daughters of what complexion soever."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ay; beauty's princely majesty is such,<br />\r\nConfounds the tongue and makes the senses rough."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that is truly dedicated to war hath no self-love"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: She is a woman, therefore to be won."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For God's sake, let us sit upon the ground, and tell sad stories of the death of kings... All murdered; for within the hollow crown that rounds the mortal temples of a king, keeps Death his court... and with a little pin bores through his castle wall, and farewell king!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In the modesty of fearful duty, I read as much as from the rattling tongue of saucy and audacious eloquence."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ideas are the very coinage of your brain."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is the cowish terror of his spirit that dares not undertake; he'll not feel wrongs which tie him to an answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To have seen much and to have nothing is to have rich eyes and poor hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let not the world see fear and sad distrust govern the motion of a kingly eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Yea from the table of my memory I'll wipe away all trivial fond records."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The heavens forbid<br />\nBut that our loves and comforts should increase<br />\nEven as our days do grow!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I see a man's life is a tedious one."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The happiest youth, viewing his progress through,<br />\nWhat perils past, what crosses to ensue,<br />\nWould shut the book, and sit him down and die."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Even through the hollow eyes of death<br />\nI spy life peering."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You take my house when you do take the prop<br />\nThat doth sustain my house; you take my life<br />\nWhen you do take the means whereby I live."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My father compounded with my mother under the Dragon's tail, and my nativity was under Ursa Major, so that it follows, I am roughand lecherous. Tut, I should have been that I am, had the maidenliest star in the firmament twinkled on my bastardizing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I swear again, I would not be a queen<br />\nFor all the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll read enough<br />\nWhen I do see the very book indeed<br />\nWhere all my sins are writ, and that's myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Will Fortune never come with both hands full,<br />\nBut write her fair words still in foulest terms?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;<br />\nAnd being men, hearing the will of Caesar,<br />\nIt will inflame you, it will make you mad."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My wits begin to turn."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Watch tonight, pray tomorrow. Gallants, lads, boys, hearts of gold, all the titles of good fellowship come to you!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Good God, the souls of all my tribe defend<br />\nFrom jealousy!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will through and through<br />\nCleanse the foul body of th' infected world,<br />\nIf they will patiently receive my medicine."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: One sin, I know, another doth provoke.<br />\nMurder's as near to lust as flame to smoke."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Good fortune then!<br />\nTo make me blest or cursed'st among men."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So may I, blind fortune leading me,<br />\nMiss that which one unworthier may attain,<br />\nAnd die with grieving."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I would not lose so great an honor<br />\nAs one man more methinks would share with me<br />\nFor the best hope I have."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am sure,<br />\nThough you can guess what temperance should be,<br />\nYou know not what it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth, / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Give me that man that is not passion's slave, and I will wear him in my heart's core, in my heart of heart, as I do thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And keep you in the rear of your affection, Out of the shot and danger of desire, The chariest maid is prodigal enough If she unmasks her beauty to the moon."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What sadness lengthens Romeo\u2019s hours?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: One fire burns out another's burning, One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will make thee think thy swan a crow."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: One fairer than my love? The all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match since first the world begun."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: she shall scant show well that now shows best."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have a soul of lead So stakes me to the ground I cannot move."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that hath the steerage of my course, Direct my sail."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet Grace must still look so."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The rest, is silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ay me! for aught that ever I could read, could ever hear by tale or history, the course of true love never did run smooth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Care keeps his watch in every old man\u2019s eye, And where care lodges, sleep will never lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What early tongue so sweet saluteth me?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You have dancing shoes with nimble soles. I have a soul of lead."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not\" (5.3.25-28)."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Make me a willow cabin at your gate, And call upon my soul within the house; Write loyal cantons of contemned love And sing them loud even in the dead of night."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A little water clears us of this deed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To beguile the time, look like the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Cheerily to sea; the signs of war advance: No king of England, if not king of France"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: ROMEO There is thy gold, worse poison to men's souls, Doing more murders in this loathsome world, Than these poor compounds that thou mayst not sell. I sell thee poison; thou hast sold me none. Farewell: buy food, and get thyself in flesh. Come, cordial and not poison, go with me To Juliet's grave; for there must I use thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Proper deformity shows not in the fiend So horrid as in woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So sweet was ne'er so fatal. I must weep. But they are creul tears. This sorrow's heavenly; it strikes where it doth love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Benvolio: What sadness lengthens Romeo's hours? Romeo: Not having that, which, having, makes them short."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What, with my tongue in your tail? nay, come again, Good Kate; I am a gentleman."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: in that small [time] most greatly lived this star of England: Fortune made his sword, By which the world's best garden he achiev'd And left it to his son imperial lord. Henry the Sixth, in infant bands crown'd King of France and England did this King succeed; Whose state so many of had the managing, That they lost France and made his England bleed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Short summers lightly have a forward spring."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And then he drew a dial from his poke, And looking with lack-lustre eye, Says very wisely, 'It is ten o'clock: Thus we may see', Quoth he, 'how the world wags: 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine, And after one hour more 'twill be eleven; And so from hour to hour we ripe and ripe, And then from hour to hour we rot and rot."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He hath disgrac'd me and hind'red me half a million; laugh'd at my losses, mock'd at my gains, scorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated my enemies. And what's his reason? I am a Jew."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The poorest service is repaid with thanks."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will do anything, Nerissa, ere I'll be married to a sponge."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The eye of man hath not heard, the ear of man hath not seen, man's hand is not able to taste, his tongue to conceive, nor his heart to report, what my dream was."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Could beauty, my lord, have better commerce than with honesty?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Say she rail; why, I'll tell her plain She sings as sweetly as a nightingale. Say that she frown; I'll say she looks as clear As morning roses newly wash'd with dew. Say she be mute and will not speak a word; Then I'll commend her volubility, and say she uttereth piercing eloquence."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll give my jewels for a set of beads, My gorgeous palace for a hermitage, My gay apparel for an almsman's gown, My figured goblets for a dish of wood, My scepter for a palmer's walking staff My subjects for a pair of carved saints and my large kingdom for a little grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Wrong hath but wrong, and blame the due of blame."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If [God] send me no husband, for the which blessing I am at him upon my knees every morning and evening."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: LEONATO Well, niece, I hope to see you one day fitted with a husband. BEATRICE Not till God make men of some other metal than earth. Would it not grieve a woman to be overmastered with a pierce of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marl? No, uncle, I'll none: Adam's sons are my brethren; and, truly, I hold it a sin to match in my kindred."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: DON PEDRO Come, lady, come; you have lost the heart of Signior Benedick. BEATRICE Indeed, my lord, he lent it me awhile; and I gave him use for it, a double heart for his single one: marry, once before he won it of me with false dice, therefore your grace may well say I have lost it. DON PEDRO You have put him down, lady, you have put him down. BEATRICE So I would not he should do me, my lord, lest I should prove the mother of fools."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Time goes on crutches till love have all his rites."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When you depart from me sorrow abides and happiness takes his leave."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He knows what it's like to strut and fret his hour upon the stage and then be heard no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Master, go on, and I will follow thee To the last gasp with truth and loyalty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Put money in thy purse."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But men may construe things after their fashion, Clean from the purpose of the things themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Awake, dear heart, awake. Thou hast slept well. Awake."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Up and down, up and down I will lead them up and down I am feared in field in town Goblin, lead them up and down"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And where two raging fires meet together, they do consume the thing that feeds their fury."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: so full of shapes is fancy"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is there no pity sitting in the clouds That sees into the bottom of my grief? O sweet my mother, cast me not away! Delay this marriage for a month, a week, Or if you do not, make the bridal bed In that dim monument where Tybalt lies."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tempt not a desperate man"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My noble father, I do perceive here a divided duty. To you I am bound for life and education. My life and education both do learn me How to respect you. You are the lord of my duty, I am hitherto your daughter. But here\u2019s my husband, And so much duty as my mother showed To you, preferring you before her father, So much I challenge that I may profess Due to the Moor my lord."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinable gum. Set you down this, And say besides that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by th' throat the circumcised dog And smote him thus."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . . She is the fairies\u2019 midwife, and she comes In shape no bigger than an agate stone On the forefinger of an alderman, Drawn with a team of little atomi Athwart men\u2019s noses as they lie asleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Out of her favour, where I am in love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A violet in the youth of primy nature, Forward, not permanent--sweet, not lasting; The perfume and suppliance of a minute; No more."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O wonderful, wonderful, and most wonderful wonderful! And yet again wonderful, and after that, out of all hooping."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ha. \"Against my will I am sent to bid you come into dinner.\" There's a double meaning in that. -Benedick (Much Ado)"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ready to go but never to return."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And thence from Athens turn away our eyes To seek new friends and stranger companies."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men must learn now with pity to dispense; For policy sits above conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Those that much covet are with gain so fond, For what they have not, that which they possess They scatter and unloose it from their bond, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Or, gaining more, the profit of excess Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What is your substance, whereof are you made, That millions of strange shadows on you tend? Since everyone hath every one, one shade, And you, but one, can every shadow lend. Describe Adonis, and the counterfeit Is poorly imitated after you. On Helen\u2019s cheek all art of beauty set, And you in Grecian tires are painted new. Speak of the spring and foison of the year; The one doth shadow of your beauty show, The other as your bounty doth appear, And you in every bless\u00e8d shape we know. In all external grace you have some part, But you like none, none you, for constant heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I never yet did hear, That the bruis'd heart was pierced through the ear"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He is as full of valor as of kindness. Princely in both."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Every subject's duty is the King's; but every subject's soul is his own. Therefore, should every soldier in the wars do as every sick man in his bed, wash every mote out of his conscience; and dying so, death is to him advantage; or not dying, the time was blessedly lost wherein such preparation was gained; and in him that escapes, it were no sin to think that, making God so free an offer, He let him outlive the day to see His greatness and to teach others how they should prepare."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nice customs curtsy to great kings."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Their manners are more gentle, kind, than of Our human generation you shall find."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I know a place where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Friendship is constant in all other things Save in the office and affairs of love. Therefore all hearts in love use their own tongues. Let every eye negotiate for itself, And trust no agent; for beauty is a witch Against whose charms faith melteth into blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All dark and comfortless."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This music crept by me upon the waters, Allaying both their fury and my passion With its sweet air: thence I have follow\u2019d it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No deeper wrinkles yet? Hath sorrow struck So many blows upon this face of mine And made no deeper wounds?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Though I be but prince of Wales, yet I am the king of courtesy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be not afraid of greatness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When remedies are past, the griefs are ended By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended. To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on. What cannot be preserved when fortune takes, Patience her injury a mockery makes. The robb'd that smiles steals something for the thief; He robs himself that spends a bootless grief."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will not trust you, I, Nor longer stay in your curst company. Your hands than mine are quicker for a fray, My legs are longer though, to run away."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Foul words is but foul wind, and foul wind is but foul breath, and foul breath is noisome; therefore I will depart unkissed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes\u2014and moreover, I will go with thee to thy uncle\u2019s."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Mercutio: \"If love be rough with you, be rough with love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sigh no more ladies, sigh no more, men were deceivers ever"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For to be wise and love exceeds man's might."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: JAQUES: Rosalind is your love's name? ORLANDO: Yes, just. JAQUES: I do not like her name. ORLANDO: There was no thought of pleasing you when she was christened."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What light through yonder window breaks?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burnt on the water."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Time travels in divers paces with divers persons. I'll tell you who Time ambles withal, who Time trots withal, who Time gallops withal, and who he stands still withal."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The time is out of joint."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Time, that takes survey of all the world,<br />\r\nMust have a stop."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So many hours must I take my rest;<br />\r\nSo many hours must I contemplate."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The smallest worm will turn being trodden on,<br />\r\nAnd doves will peck in safeguard of their brood."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why, courage then! what cannot be avoided<br />\r\n'Twere childish weakness to lament or fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The thing of courage<br />\r\nAs rous'd with rage doth sympathise,<br />\r\nAnd, with an accent tun'd in self-same key,<br />\r\nRetorts to chiding fortune."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What if this cursed hand<br />\r\nWere thicker than itself with brother's blood<br />\r\nIs there not rain enough in the sweet heaves<br />\r\nTo wash it white as snow?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I pardon him, as God shall pardon me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: At once, good night-<br />\r\nStand not upon the order of your going,<br />\r\nBut go at once."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Look, the world's comforter, with weary gait,<br />\r\nHis day's hot task hath ended in the west:<br />\r\nThe owl, night's herald, shrieks-'tis very late;<br />\r\nThe sheep are gone to fold, birds to their nest;<br />\r\nAnd coal-black clouds, that shadow heaven's light,<br />\r\nDo summon us to part, and bid good night."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Too much to know is to know naught but fame."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Crowns have their compass-length of days their date-<br />\r\nTriumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate-<br />\r\nOf nought but earth can earth make us partaker,<br />\r\nBut knowledge makes a king most like his Maker."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All difficulties are easy when they are known."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why, what should be the fear?<br />\r\nI do not set my life at a pin's fee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And a man's life's no more than to say \"One.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O gentlemen, the time of life is short!<br />\r\nTo spend that shortness basely were too long,<br />\r\nIf life did ride upon a dial's point,<br />\r\nStill ending at the arrival of an hour."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The sands are number'd that make up my life;<br />\r\nHere must I stay, and here my life must end."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This day I breathed first: time is come round,<br />\r\nAnd where I did begin there shall I end;<br />\r\nMy life is run his compass."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,<br />\r\nNor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,<br />\r\nCan be retentive to the strength of spirit;<br />\r\nBut life, being weary of these worldly bars,<br />\r\nNever lacks power to dismiss itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That but this blow<br />\r\nMight be the be-all and the end-all here,<br />\r\nBut here, upon this bank and shoal of time,<br />\r\nWe'ld jump the life to come."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Had I but died an hour before this chance,<br />\r\nI had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant,<br />\r\nThere's nothing serious in mortality:<br />\r\nAll is but toys; renown, and grace is dead;<br />\r\nThe wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees<br />\r\nIs left this vault to brag of."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,<br />\r\nThat I would set my life on any chance,<br />\r\nTo mend, or be rid on't."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Through tattered clothes, small vices do appear. Robes and furred gowns hide all."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Keep thy friend<br />\r\nUnder thy own life's key."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A friend should bear his friend's infirmities."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The band that seems to tie their friendship together will be the very strangler of their amity."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Since my dear soul was mistress of her choice<br />\r\nAnd could of men distinguish her election,<br />\r\nSh'ath sealed thee for herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If thou wilt lend this money, lend it not<br />\r\nAs to thy friends; for when did friendship take<br />\r\nA breed for barren metal of his friend?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That which I would discover<br />\r\nThe law of friendship bids me to conceal."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Reputation, reputation, reputation! O, I ha' lost my reputation, I ha' lost the immortal part of myself, and what remains is bestial!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimms, and makes it indistinct As water is in water"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Well-apparel'd April on the heel<br />\r\nOf limping Winter treads."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I understand thy kisses, and thou mine, And that's a feeling disputation."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, Thou hast damnable iteration; and art, indeed, able to corrupt a saint."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There live not three good men unhanged in England; and one of them is fat and grows old."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A man can die but once."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Go, bid the soldiers shoot."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will kill thee a hundred and fifty ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Upon his royal face there is no note how dread an army hath enrounded him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Here I and sorrows sit; Here is my throne, bid kings come bow to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To whom God will, there be the victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Come the three corners of the world in arms, and we shall shock them."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A victory is twice itself when the achiever brings home full numbers."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Violent fires soon burn out themselves, small showers last long, but sudden storms are short; he tires betimes that spurs too fast."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A grandma's name is little less in love than is the doting title of a mother."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O polished perturbation! golden care! That keep'st the ports of slumber open wide To many a watchful night."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And therefore is love said to be a child, Because in choice he is so oft beguil'd"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We cannot fight for love, as men may do; we shou'd be woo'd, and were not made to woo"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So far be distant; and good night, sweet friend: thy love ne'er alter, till they sweet life end"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Say, thou art mine; and ever, My love, as it begins, shall so persevere"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love, which teacheth me that thou and I am one"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say - I love you"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I love you more than word can wield the matter, Dearer than eye-sight, space and liberty"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: By Heaven, my soul is purg'd from grudging hate; And with my hand I seal my true heart's love"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What? do I love her, that I desire to hear her speak again, and feast upon her eyes"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Oh, injurious love, that respites me a life, whose very comfort is still a dying horror"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have pursued her, as love hath pursued me"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I love thee; none but thee, and thou deservest it"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his will!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: With love's light wings did I o'er-perch these walls, for stony limits cannot hold love out"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: By Heaven, I love thee better than myself"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is it possible that love should of a sudden take such a hold?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I love thee, and it is my love that speaks"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou ever young, fresh, lov'd, and delicate wooer, whose blush doth thaw the consecrated snow"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thanks, sir; all the rest is mute."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Then is it sin to rush into the secret house of death. Ere death dare come to us?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is the mind that makes the body rich; and as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds, so honor peereth in the meanest habit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: T'is true: there's magic in the web of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: 'Tis the soldier's life to have their balmy slumbers waked with strife."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Every good servant does not all commands."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: From you have I been absent in the spring,<br />\r\nWhen proud pied April, dressed in all his trim,<br />\r\nHath put a spirit of youth in every thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou knowest, winter tames man, woman, and beast."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To me, fair friend, you never can be old, <br />\r\nFor as you were when first your eye I eyed,<br />\r\nSuch seems your beauty still. Three winters cold <br />\r\nHave from the forests shook three summers' pride,<br />\r\nThree beauteous springs to yellow autumn turn'd <br />\r\nIn process of the seasons have I seen, <br />\r\nThree April perfumes in three hot Junes burn'd,<br />\r\nSince first I saw you fresh, which yet are green."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So loving to my mother,<br />\r\nThat he might not beteem the winds of heaven,<br />\r\nVisit her face' too roughly."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let me not to the marriage of true minds<br />\r\nAdmit impediments. Love is not love<br />\r\nWhich alters when it alteration finds,<br />\r\nOr bends with the remover to remove:<br />\r\nO no! it is an ever-fixed mark<br />\r\nThat looks on tempests and is never shaken;<br />\r\nIt is the star to every wandering bark,<br />\r\nWhose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.<br />\r\nLove's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks<br />\r\nWithin his bending sickle's compass come:<br />\r\nLove alters not with his brief hours and weeks,<br />\r\nBut bears it out even to the edge of doom.<br />\r\nIf this be error and upon me proved,<br />\r\nI never writ, nor no man ever loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Have I caught thee, my heavenly jewel? Why, now let<br />\r\nme die, for I have lived long enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Such is my love, to thee I so belong,<br />\r\nThat for thy right myself will bear all wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But love, first learned in a lady's eyes,<br />\r\nLives not alone immured in the brain;<br />\r\nBut, with the motion of all elements,<br />\r\nCourses as swift as thought in every power,<br />\r\nAnd gives to every power a double power,<br />\r\nAbove their functions and their offices."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The sight of lovers feedeth those in love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As good luck would have it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Blessings of your heart, you brew good ale."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My crown is in my heart, not on my head."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am not merry, but I do beguile the thing I am by seeming otherwise."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, what men dare do! what men may do! what men daily do, not knowing what they do."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; for grief is proud, and makes his owner stoop."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Rebellion in this land shall lose his sway, meeting the check of such another day."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Women are as roses, whose fair flower, being once displayed, doth fall that very hour."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Give obedience where 'tis truly owed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A harmless necessary cat."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: 'Tis brief, my lord...as woman's love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My love is as a fever, longing still<br />\r\nFor that which longer nurseth the disease,<br />\r\nFeeding on that which doth preserve the ill,<br />\r\nTh' uncertain sickly appetite to please.<br />\r\nMy reason, the physician to my love,<br />\r\nAngry that his prescriptions are not kept,<br />\r\nHath left me, and I desperate now approve<br />\r\nDesire is death, which physic did except."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All thy vexations Were but my trials of thy love, and thou Hast strangely stood the test; here, afore heaven, I ratify this my rich gift."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My charity is outrage, life my shame; And in that shame still live my sorrow's rage!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Her virtues, graced with external gifts, Do breed love's settled passions in my heart; And like as rigour of tempestuous gusts Provokes the mightiest hulk against the tide, So am I driven by breath of her renown Either to suffer shipwreck or arrive Where I may have fruition of her love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: God bless thee; and put meekness in thy breast, Love, charity, obedience, and true duty!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fortune reigns in gifts of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For by his face straight shall you know his heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Farewell! a long farewell to all my greatness!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A scar nobly got is a good livery of honor."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; his love sincere, his thoughts immaculate; his tears pure messengers sent from his heart; his heart as far from fraud, as heaven from earth"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Methinks you are my glass, and not my brother: I see by you I am a sweet-faced youth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: She is mine own, And I as rich in having such a jewel As twenty seas, if all their sand were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The hand of little employment hath the daintier sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am a kind of burr; I shall stick."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Plutus himself,<br />\r\nThat knows the tinct and multiplying med'cine,<br />\r\nHath not in nature's mystery more science<br />\r\nThan I have in this ring."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As true as steel, as plantage to the moon,<br />\r\nAs sun to day, at turtle to her mate,<br />\r\nAs iron to adamant, as earth to centre."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We were not born to sue, but to command."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Discuss unto me: art thou officer, Or art thou base, common, and popular?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fall Greeks; fail fame; honour or go or stay; My major vow lies here, this I'll obey."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In thee thy mother dies, our household's name, My death's revenge, thy youth, and England's fame."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You great benefactors, sprinkle our society with thankfulness. For your own gifts, make yourselves praised."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You, and your lady, Take from my heart all thankfulness!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star, whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes Will ever after droop."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's villainous news abroad."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?<br />\r\nThou art more lovely and more temperate:<br />\r\nRough winds do shake the darling buds of May,<br />\r\nAnd summer's lease hath all too short a date . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Did he so often lodge in open field, In winter's cold and summer's parching heat, To conquer France, his true inheritance?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love bears it out even to the edge of doom."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You are not worth another word, else I'd call you knave."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He is deformed, crooked, old and sere, Ill-faced, worse bodied, shapeless everywhere; Vicious, ungentle, foolish, blunt, unkind; Stigmatical in making, worse in mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou whoreson, senseless villain!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Dissembling harlot, thou art false in all!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You wear out a good wholesome forenoon in hearing a cause between an orange wife and a fosset-seller."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For such things as you, I can scarce think there's any, ye're so slight."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Away! Thou'rt poison to my blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You had measured how long a fool you were upon the ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They have a plentiful lack of wit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Take you me for a sponge?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou hast the most unsavoury similes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: 'Sblood, you starveling, you elf-skin, you dried neat's tongue, you bull's pizzle, you stock-fish! O for breath to utter what is like thee! you tailor's-yard, you sheath, you bowcase; you vile standing-tuck!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's no more faith in thee than in a stewed prune."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hang him, swaggering rascal!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I scorn you, scurvy companion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Away, you mouldy rogue, away!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Away, you cut-purse rascal! you filthy bung, away! By this wine, I'll thrust my knife in your mouldy chaps, an you play the saucy cuttle with me. Away, you bottle-ale rascal! you basket-hilt stale juggler, you!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O braggart vile and damned furious wight!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They were devils incarnate."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men from children nothing differ."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou lump of foul deformity!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A knot you are of damned bloodsuckers."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You peasant swain! You whoreson malt-horse drudge!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why, this hath not a finger's dignity."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than <br />\r\nthou learn a prayer without book."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A fusty nut with no kernel."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Go hang yourself, you naughty mocking uncle!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You cannot make gross sins look clear: To revenge is no valour, but to bear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If it will feed nothing else, it will feed my revenge."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A king of infinite space"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The patient must minister to himself"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is a tide in the affairs of men"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's not the smallest orb which thou behold'st But in his motion like an angel sings."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be wary then; best safety lies in fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If men could be contented to be what they are, there were no fear in marriage."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: With mirth in funeral and with dirge in marriage."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The instances that second marriage move <br />\r\nAre base respects of thrift, but none of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For what is wedlock forced but a hell,<br />\r\nAn age of discord and continual strife?<br />\r\nWhereas the contrary bringeth bliss,<br />\r\nAnd is a pattern of celestial peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hasty marriage seldom proveth well."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou art sad; get thee a wife, get thee a wife!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have thrust myself into this maze,<br />\r\nHaply to wive and thrive as best I may."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;<br />\r\nAnd if I die no soul will pity me:<br />\r\nAnd wherefore should they, since that I myself<br />\r\nFind in myself no pity to myself?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Each present joy or sorrow seems the chief."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But no perfection is so absolute, That some impurity doth not pollute."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Speak to me as to thy thinkings, <br />\r\nAs thou dost ruminate, and give thy worst of thoughts <br />\r\nThe worst of words."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We have some salt of our youth in us."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My salad days,<br />\r\nWhen I was green in judgment."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Come not within the measure of my wrath."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: While thou livest keep a good tongue in thy head."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou art the Mars of malcontents."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let me not to the marriage of true minds <br />\r\nAdmit impediments: love is not love <br />\r\nWhich alters when it alteration finds."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thy words, I grant are bigger, for I wear not, my dagger in my mouth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Your hearts are mighty, your skins are whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I do begin to have bloody thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This England never did, nor never shall, <br />\r\nLie at the proud foot of a conqueror."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is meant that noble minds keep ever with their likes; for who so firm that cannot be seduced."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Though inclination be as sharp as will,<br />\r\nMy stronger guilt defeats my strong intent,<br />\r\nAnd, like a man to double business bound,<br />\r\nI stand in pause where I shall first begin,<br />\r\nAnd both neglect."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If fortune torments me, hope contents me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Care is no cure, but rather corrosive, For things that are not to be remedied."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When daisies pied and violets blue And lady-smocks all silver-white And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue Do paint the meadows with delight, The cuckoo then, on every tree, Mocks married men; for thus sings he, Cuckoo; Cuckoo, cuckoo; O, word of fear, Unpleasing to a married ear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it: what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Gives not the hawthorn bush a sweeter shade To shepherds, looking on their silly sheep, Than doth a rich embroider'd canopy To kings that fear their subjects treachery?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it were Cain's jaw-bone, that did the first murder! It might be the pate of a politician, which this ass now o'er-reaches; one that would circumvent God, might it not?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So our virtues lie in the interpretation of the time"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We are not the first<br />\r\nWho with best meaning have incurred the worst"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A noble shalt thou have, and present pay;<br />\r\nAnd liquor likewise will I give to thee,<br />\r\nAnd friendship shall combine, and brotherhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: King Henry: But what a point, my lord, your falcon made, And what a pitch she flew above the rest! To see how God in all his creatures works! Yea, man and birds are fain of climbing high. Suffolk: No marvel, an it like your majesty, My lord protectors hawks do tower so well; They know their masters loves to be aloft, And bears his thoughts above his falcon's pitch. Gloucester: My lord, 'tis but a base ignoble mind That mounts no higher than a bird can soar."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that wants money, means, and content is without three good friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My purpose is, indeed, a horse of that color."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is not the truth the truth?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The wind-shak'd surge, with high and monstrous main,<br />\r\nSeems to cast water on the burning Bear,<br />\r\nAnd quench the guards of the ever-fixed pole."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We make guilty of our disasters the sun, the moon, and the stars; as if we were villians by compulsion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My stronger guilt defeats my strong intent."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O coward conscience, how dost thou afflict me!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Mine eyes Were not in fault, for she was beautiful; Mine ears, that heard her flattery; nor my heart, That thought her like her seeming. It had been vicious To have mistrusted her."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nay, do not think I flatter. For what advancement may I hope from thee, That no revenue hast but thy good spirits To feed and clothe thee? Why should the poor be flattered?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If he be so resolved, I can o'ersway him; for he loves to hear That unicorns may be betrayed with trees And bears with glasses, elephants with holes, Lions with toils, and men with flatterers"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: By God, I cannot flatter, I do defy The tongues of soothers! but a braver place In my heart's love hath no man than yourself. Nay, task me to my word; approve me, lord."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poisoned flattery?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O that men's ears should be To counsel deaf but not to flattery!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They do not abuse the king that flatter him. For flattery is the bellows blows up sin; The thing the which is flattered, but a spark To which that blast gives heat and stronger glowing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Take no repulse, whatever she doth say; For 'get you gone,' she doth not mean 'away.' Flatter and praise, commend, extol their graces; Though ne'er so black, say they have angels' faces"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For as a surfeit of the sweetest things The deepest loathing to the stomach brings, Or as tie heresies that men do leave Are hated most of those they did deceive, So thou, my surfeit and my heresy, Of all be hated, but the most of me!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is not birth, beauty, good shape, discourse, Manhood, learning, gentleness, virtue, youth, liberality, and such like, the spice and salt that season a man"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Every thing that grows / Holds in perfection but a little moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And oftentimes excusing of a fault Doth make the fault the worse by the excuse, As patches set upon a little breach, Discredit more in hiding of the fault Than did the fault before it was so patch'd."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Zounds! sir, you are one of those that will not serve God if the devil bid you."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sometimes we are devils to ourselves When we will tempt the frailty of our powers, Presuming on their changeful potency."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: ...too much sadness hath congealed your blood,And melancholy is the nurse of frenzy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Moderate lamentation is the right of the dead, excessive grief the enemy to the living."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He's all my exercise, my mirth, my matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The little dogs and all, Tray, Blanch, and Sweetheart-see, they bark at me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur. There thou mightst behold the great image of authority-a dog's obeyed in office."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: 'Tis thought the king is dead; we will not stay. The bay trees in our country are all wither'd."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: 'Tis pride that pulls the country down."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That time of year thou mayst in me behold When yellow leaves, or none, or few, do hang Upon those boughs which shake against the cold, Bare ruin'd choirs, where late the sweet birds sang. In me thou seest the twilight of such day, As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by-and-by black night doth take away."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How quickly nature falls into revolt When gold becomes her object! For this the foolish over-careful fathers Have broke their sleep with thoughts, their brains with care, Their bones with industry."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I had rather be a Kitten, and cry mew, Than one of these same Meeter Ballad-mongers: I had rather heare a Brazen Candlestick turn'd, Or a dry Wheele grate on the Axle-tree, And that would set my teeth nothing an edge, Nothing so much, as mincing Poetrie."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Speak of me as I am. Nothing extenuate, nor set down aught in malice."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Manhood is melted into courtesies, valor into compliment, and men are only turned into tongue, and trim ones, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Who is so firm that can't be seduced?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It comes to pass oft that a terrible oath, with a swaggering accent sharply twanged off, gives manhood more approbation than ever proof itself would have earned him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A whoreson jackanapes must take me up for swearing; as if I borrowed mine oaths of him and might not spend them at my pleasure. When a gentleman is disposed to swear, it is not for any standers-by to curtail his oaths, ha?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Policy sits above conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: ... by indirections find directions out."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes: Some falls are means the happier to arise"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: New customs, Though they be never so ridiculous (Nay, let em be unmanly), yet are followed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How ill white hairs become a fool and jester!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Beauty provoketh thieves sooner than gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They that stand high have many blasts to shake them."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The apprehension of the good Gives but the greater feeling to the worse."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Beware of entrance to a quarrel, but, being in, bear t that th' opposed may beware of thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Then know, that I have little wealth to lose. A man I am, crossed with adversity; My riches are these poor habiliments, Of which if you should here disfurnish me, You take the sum and substance that I have."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Then let thy love be younger than thyself, Or thy affection cannot hold the bent."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Affection faints not like a pale-faced coward, But then woos best when most his choice is froward."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Henceforth, I'll bear Affliction till it do cry out itself, 'Enough, enough, and die."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Affliction may one day smile again; and till then, sit thee down, sorrow!."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No longer mourn for me when I am dead Than you shall hear the surly sullen bell Give warning to the world that I am fled From this vile world, with vilest worms to dwell."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The benediction of these covering heavens Fall on their heads like dew, for they are worthy To inlay heaven with stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Blind fear, that seeing reason leads, finds safer footing than blind reason stumbling without fear: to fear the worst oft cures the worse."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will go wash; And when my face is fair, you shall perceive Whether I blush or no."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis gold Which buys admittance--oft it doth--yea, and makes Diana's rangers false themselves, yield up This deer to th' stand o' th' stealer: and 'tis gold Which makes the true man kill'd and saves the thief, Nay, sometimes hangs both thief and true man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What, shall one of us, That struck for the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers--shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honors For so much trash as may be grasped thus?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No might nor greatness in mortality Can censure 'scape; back- wounding calumny The whitest virtue strikes. What king so strong Can tie the gall up in the slanderous tongue?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Things past redress are now with me past care"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What infinite heart's-ease Must kings neglect that private men enjoy! And what have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony, save general ceremony?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And what art thou, thou idol Ceremony? What kind of god art thou, that suffer'st more Of mortal griefs than do thy worshippers?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect For what they have been: 'tis a cruelty To load a falling man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou speak'st like him's untutored to repeat: Who makes the fairest show means most deceit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So holy and so perfect is my love, And I in such a poverty of grace, That I shall think it a most plenteous crop To glean the broken ears after the man That the main harvest reaps."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Dost thou love hawking? Thou hast hawks will soar Above the morning lark."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have sounded the very base-string of humility."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I think the King is but a man as I am: the violet smells to him as it doth to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A woman that is like a German clock, Still a-repairing, ever out of frame, And never going aright, being a watch, But being watched that it may still go right!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Do all men kill the things they do not love?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's never a villain dwelling in all Denmark But he's an arrant knave."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Knavery's plain face is never seen till used."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Like the lily That once was mistress of the field and flourished, I'll hang my head and perish."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Many a man's tongue shakes out his master's undoing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What many men desire--that 'many' may be meant By the fool multitude that choose by show, Not learning more than the fond eye doth teach, Which pries not to th' interior, but like the martlet Builds in the weather on the outward wall, Even in the force and road of casualty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, Men's vows are women's traitors! All good seeming, By thy revolt, O husband, shall be thought Put on for villainy, not born where't grows, But worn a bait for ladies."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A time, methinks, too short To make a world-without-end bargain in."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let husbands know Their wives have sense like them. They see, and smell, And have their palates both for sweet and sour, As husbands have."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens more just."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Whereto serves mercy But to confront the visage of offense?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Open thy gate of mercy, gracious God, My soul flies through these wounds to seek out thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To move wild laughter in the throat of death? It cannot be; it is impossible: Mirth cannot move a soul in agony."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What should a man do but be merry? For look you how cheerfully my mother looks, and my father died within's two hours."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Can it be That modesty may more betray our sense Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough, Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary And pitch our evils there?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All impediments in fancy's course Are motives of more fancy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak With most miraculous organ."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If't be summer news, Smile to't before; if winterly, thou need'st But keep that count'nance still."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For now I stand as one upon a rock environed with a wilderness of sea, who marks the waxing tide grow wave by wave, expecting ever when some envious surge will in his brinish bowels swallow him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will not be sworn but love may transform me to an oyster; but I'll take my oath on it, till he have made an oyster of me he shall never make me such a fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tut, man, one fire burns out another's burning; One pain is less'ned by another's anguish; Turn giddy, and be holp by backward turning; One desperate grief cures with another's languish."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I do love My country's good with a respect more tender, More holy and profound, then mine own life, My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase, And treasure of my loins."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hear me profess sincerely: had I a dozen sons, each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, I had rather have eleven die nobly for their country than one voluptuously surfeit out of action."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let there be gall enough in thy ink, though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have ventured, Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory, But far beyond my depth. My high-blown pride At length broke under me, and now has left me, Weary and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream that must for ever hide me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy, With a near aim, of the main chance of things As yet not come to life, which in their seeds And weak beginnings lie intreasured."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I could be well content To entertain the lag-end of my life With quiet hours."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The mightier man, the mightier is the thing That makes him honored or begets him hate; For greatest scandal waits on greatest state."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Some say that ever 'gainst the season comes Wherein our Saviour's birth is celebrated, The bird of dawning singeth all night long: And then, they say, no spirit can walk abroad; The nights are wholesome; then no planets strike, No fairy takes, nor wi"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For I am nothing if not critical."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thank me no thankings, nor proud me no prouds."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Where art thou, Muse, that thou forget'st so long / To speak of that which gives thee all thy might?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounce it to you, trippingly on the tongue; but if you mouth it, as many of your players do, I had as lief the town-crier spoke my lines."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The truest poetry is the most feigning."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The Foole doth thinke he is wise, but the wiseman knowes himselfe to be a Foole."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Zounds! I was never so bethumped with words since I first called my brother's father dad."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All hoods make not monks."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Twere to consider too curiously, to consider so."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But clay and clay differs in dignity, Whose dust is both alike."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let none presume To wear an undeserved dignity."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Promising is the very air o' the time; it opens the eyes of expectation."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To stand against the deep dread-bolted thunder, In the most terrible and nimble stroke Of quick, cross lightning."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Divers philosophers hold that the lips is parcel of the mouth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Have not saints lips, and holy palmers too Ay, pilgrim, lips that they must use in prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For my part, if a lie may do thee grace, I'll gild it with the happiest terms I have."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: War is no strife To the dark house and the detested wife."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A sentence is but a cheveril glove to a good wit; How quickly the wrong side may be turned outward!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Youth to itself rebels, though none else near."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Charity itself fulfills the law. And who can sever love from charity?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Mean and mighty, rotting Together, have one dust."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is a basilisk unto mine eye, Kills me to look on't."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Truly the souls of men are full of dread: Ye cannot reason almost with a man That looks not heavily and full of fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have thought some of Nature's journeymen had made men and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: His worst fault is, he's given to prayer; he is something peevish that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I always thought it was both impious and unnatural that such immanity and bloody strife should reign among professors of one faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To pore upon a book, to seek the light of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Anger is like<br />\nA full hot horse, who being allowed his way,<br />\nSelf-mettle tires him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fore God, you have here a goodly dwelling and a rich."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hadst thou no poison mixed, no sharp-ground knife,<br />\nNo sudden mean of death, though ne'er so mean,<br />\nBut 'banished' to kill me--'banished'?<br />\nO friar, the damned use that word in hell;<br />\nHowling attends it! How hast thou the heart,<br />\nBeing a divine, a ghostly confessor,<br />\nA sin-absolver, and my friend professed,<br />\nTo mangle me with that word 'banished'?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Some kinds of baseness are nobly undergone."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What valor were it, when a cur doth grin, for one to thrust his hand between his teeth, when he might spurn him with his foot away?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Like one who draws the model of a house beyond his power to build it who, half through, gives o'er, and leaves his part-created cost a naked subject to the weeping clouds."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A woman's fitness comes by fits."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Speak, what trade art thou?<br />\nWhy, sir, a carpenter.<br />\nWhere is thy leather apron and thy rule?<br />\nWhat does thou with thy best apparel on?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Against ill chances men are ever merry,<br />\nBut heaviness foreruns the good event."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love and meekness, lord,<br />\nBecome a churchman better than ambition:<br />\nWin straying souls with modesty again,<br />\nCast none away."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My prophecy is but half his journey yet,<br />\nFor yonder walls, that pertly front your town,<br />\nYon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds,<br />\nMust kiss their own feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O my good lord, that comfort comes too late,<br />\n'Tis like a pardon after execution.<br />\nThat gentle physic, given in time, had cured me;<br />\nBut now I am past all comforts here but prayers."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: One whom the music of his own vain tongue doth ravish like enchanting harmony."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be as just and gracious unto me,<br />\nAs I am confident and kind to thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let not our babbling dreams affright our souls;<br />\nConscience is but a work that cowards use,<br />\nDevised at first to keep the strong in awe:<br />\nOur strong arms be our conscience, swords our law!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Villains, vipers, damn'd without redemption;<br />\nDogs, easily won to fawn on any man;<br />\nSnakes in my heart-blood warm'd, that sing my heart;<br />\nThree Judases, each one thrice worse than Judas."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If is a custom,<br />\nMore honor'd in the breach than the observance."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The breach of custom<br />\nIs breach of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The tyrant custom, most grave senators,<br />\nHath made the flinty and steel couch of war<br />\nMy thrice-driven bed of down."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What man dare, I dare.<br />\nApproach thou like the rugged Russian bear,<br />\nThe armed rhinoceros, or th' Hyrcan tiger;<br />\nTake any shape but that, and my firm nerves<br />\nShall never tremble."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou hast her, France; let her be thine, for we<br />\nHave no such daughter, nor shall ever see<br />\nThat face of hers again. Therefore be gone<br />\nWithout our grace, our love, our benison."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The gray-eyed morn smiles on the frowning night,<br />\nCheckering the eastern clouds with streaks of light."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Yon grey lines<br />\nThat fret the clouds are messengers of day."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, where is loyalty?<br />\nIf it be banished from the frosty head,<br />\nWhere shall it find a harbor in the earth?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No visor does become black villainy so well as soft and tender flattery."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Oh, flatter me; for love delights in praises."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O Prosperina,<br />\nFor the flowers now that, frighted, thou let'st fall<br />\nFrom Dis's wagon; daffodils,<br />\nThat come before the swallow dares, and take<br />\nThe winds of March with beauty; violets dim,<br />\nBut sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes<br />\nOr Cytherea's breath; pale primroses,<br />\nThat die unmarried, ere they can behold<br />\nBright Phoebus in his strength--a malady<br />\nMost incident to maids; bold oxlips and<br />\nThe crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,<br />\nThe flower-de-luce being one."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest,<br />\nA motley fool! a miserable world!<br />\nAs I do live by food, I met a fool<br />\nWho laid him down and basked him in the sun<br />\nAnd railed on Lady Fortune in good terms,<br />\nIn good set terms, and yet a motley fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Marry, sir, they praise me and make an ass of me. Now my foes tell me plainly I am an ass; so that by my foes, sir, I profit in the knowledge of myself, any by my friends I am abused; so that, conclusions to be as kisses, if your four negatives make your two affirmatives, why then, the worse for my friends, and the better for my foes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There are a sort of men, whose visages<br />\nDo cream and mantle, like a standing pond;<br />\nAnd do a willful stillness entertain,<br />\nWith purpose to be dressed in an opinion<br />\nOf wisdom, gravity profound conceit;<br />\nAs who should say, I am sir Oracle,<br />\nAnd when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state,<br />\nMy mind exceeds the compass of her wheel."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis better using France than trusting France;<br />\nLet us be back'd with God, and with the seas,<br />\nWhich He hath given for fence impregnable,<br />\nAnd with their helps only defend ourselves;<br />\nIn them, and in ourselves, our safety lies."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Before thee stands this fair Hesperides,<br />\nWith golden fruit, but dangerous to be touched;<br />\nFor death-like dragons here affright thee hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men that hazard all<br />\nDo it in hope of fair advantages:<br />\nA golden mind stoops not to shows of dross."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That, sir, which serves and seeks for gain,<br />\nAnd follows but for form,<br />\nWill pack, when it begins to rain,<br />\nAnd leave thee in a storm."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is lost at dice, what ancient honor won."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Bounty, being free itself, thinks all others so."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O the world is but a word; were it all yours to give it in a breath, how quickly were it gone!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To be generous, guiltless, and of a free disposition is to take those things for bird-bolts that you deem cannon-bullets."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O heresy in fair, fit for these days,<br />\nA giving hand, though foul, shall have fair praise."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is none but he<br />\nWhose being I do fear; and under him<br />\nMy genius is rebuked, as it is said<br />\nMark Antony's was by Caesar."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My master hath been an honorable gentleman; tricks he hath had in him which gentlemen have."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am thy father's spirit;<br />\nDoom'd for a certain term to walk the night<br />\nAnd, for the day, confin'd to fast in fires,<br />\nTill the foul crimes, done in my days of nature,<br />\nAre burnt and purg'd away."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Glory grows guilty of detested crimes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Who would be so mocked with glory, or to live<br />\nBut in a dream of friendship,<br />\nTo have his pomp and all what state compounds<br />\nBut only painted, like his varnished friends?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Foul whisp'rings are abroad."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The devil shall have his bargain; for he was never yet a breaker of proverbs--he will give the devil his due."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What is more miserable than discontent?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Misery makes sport to mock itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Then was I as a tree whose boughs did bend with fruit; but in one night, a storm or robbery, call it what you will, shook down my mellow hangings, nay, my leaves, and left me bare to weather."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The moon, like to a silver bow new bent in heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If money go before, all ways do lie open."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am never merry when I hear sweet music."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If I for my opinion bleed, opinion shall be surgeon to my hurt, and keep me on the side where still I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Opinion crowns with an imperial voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan<br />\nThe outward habit by the inward man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Here comes a pair of very strange beasts, which in all tongues <br />\nare called fools."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Passion makes the will lord of the reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tear-falling pity dwells not in this eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In God's name cheerly on, courageous friends,<br />\nTo reap the harvest of perpetual peace<br />\nBy this one bloody trial of sharp war."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If yon bethink yourself of any crime<br />\nUnreconcil'd as yet to heaven and grace,<br />\nSolicit for it straight."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nymph, in thy orisons be all my sins remembered!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Bow, stubborn knees, and, heart with strings of steel,<br />\nBe soft as sinews of the new-born babe.<br />\nAll many be well."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Rashly,<br />\nAnd praised be rashness for it--let us know,<br />\nOur indiscretion sometime serves us well<br />\nWhen our deep plots do pall, and that should learn us<br />\nThere's a divinity that shapes our ends,<br />\nRough-hew them how we will"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For oaths are straws, men's faiths are wafer-cakes,<br />\nAnd hold-fast is the only dog."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Full of wise saws and modern instances."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The gates of monarchs<br />\nAre arched so high that giants may jet through<br />\nAnd keep their impious turbans on without<br />\nGood morrow to the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A substitute shines brightly as a king<br />\nUntil a king be by, and then his state<br />\nEmpties itself, as dot an inland brook<br />\nInto the main of waters."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All surfeit is the father of much fast."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To loathe the taste of sweetness, whereof little more than a little is by much too much."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This act is an ancient tale new told;<br />\nAnd, in the last repeating, troublesome,<br />\nBeing urged at a time unseasonable."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fie, fie, how frantically I square my talk!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Things are often spoke and seldom meant."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valor."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How many a holy and obsequious tear hath dear religious love stolen from mine eye, as interest of the dead!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nature's tears are reason's merriment."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The liquid drops of tears that you have shed<br />\nShall come again, transform'd to orient pearl,<br />\nAdvantaging their loan with interest<br />\nOf ten times double gain of happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lords, knights and gentlemen, what I should say<br />\nMy tears gainsay; for every word I speak,<br />\nYe see I drink the water of my eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The southern wind<br />\nDoth play the trumpet to his purposes;<br />\nAnd, by his hollow whistling in the leaves,<br />\nForetells a tempest and a blustering day."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thanks to men<br />\nOf noble minds, is honorable meed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A woman's thought runs before her actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Faster than spring-time showers comes thought on thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: From this time forth<br />\nMy thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But now behold,<br />\nIn the quick forge and working-house of thought,<br />\nHow London doth pour out her citizens!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The heart hath treble wrong<br />\nWhen it is barr'd the aidance of the tongue."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: An arrant traitor as any is in the universal world, or in France, or in England."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Travelers must be content."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile,<br />\nHath not old custom made this life more sweet<br />\nThan that of painted pomp? Are not these woods<br />\nMore free from peril than the envious court?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fight, gentlemen of England! fight, bold yeomen!<br />\nDraw, archers, draw your arrows to the head!<br />\nSpur your proud horses hard, and ride in blood;<br />\nAmaze the welkin with your broken staves!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now all the youth of England are on fire,<br />\nAnd silken dalliance in the wardrobe lies;<br />\nNow thrive the armorers, and honor's thought<br />\nReigns solely in the breast of every man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Shall we upon the footing of our land<br />\nSend fair-play orders, and make compromise,<br />\nInsinuation, parley, and base truce,<br />\nTo arms invasive?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is war's prize to take all vantages;<br />\nAnd ten to one is no impeach of valor."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If she be not honest, chaste, and true, there's no man happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A hundred thousand welcomes: I could weep,<br />\nAnd I could laugh; I am light and heavy:<br />\nWelcome."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Wisdom and fortune combating together,<br />\nIf that the former dare but what it can,<br />\nNo chance may shake it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will keep where there is wit stirring, and leave the faction of fools."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Slanders, sir, for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging think amber and plum-tree gum, and that they have a plentiful lack of wit, together with most weak hams."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So many miseries have craz'd my voice,<br />\nThat my woe-wearied tongue is still and mute."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Wise men ne'er sit and wail their woes, but presently prevent the ways to wail."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Would it not grieve a woman to be over-mastered by a piece of valiant dust? to make an account of her life to a clod of wayward marle?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As for my wife,<br />\nI would you had her spirit in such another;<br />\nThe third o' th' world is yours, which with a snaffle<br />\nYou may pace easy, but not such a wife."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I was not born under a rhyming planet, nor I cannot woo to in festival terms."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be merry, and employ your chiefest thoughts<br />\nTo courtship and such fair ostents of love<br />\nAs shall conveniently become you there."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A woman impudent and mannish grown<br />\nIs not more loath'd than an effeminate man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ah me, how weak a thing<br />\nThe heart of woman is!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fear and niceness, the handmaids of all women, or more truly, woman its pretty self."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But indeed an old religious uncle of mine taught me to speak, who was in his youth an inland man; one that knew courtship too well, for there he fell in love. I have heard him read many lectures against it; and I thank God I am not a woman, to be touched with so many giddy offenses as he hath generally taxed their whole sex withal."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O most delicate fiend!<br />\nWho is't can read a woman? Is there more?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fair ladies, masked, are roses in their bud;<br />\nDismasked, the damask sweet commixture shown,<br />\nAre angels vailing clouds, or roses blown."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Two women placed together makes cold weather."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Have you not heard it said full oft,<br />\nA woman's nay doth stand for naught?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Would I were dead, if God's good will were so,<br />\nFor what is in this world but grief and woe?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Some innocents 'scape not the thunderbolt."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Think'st thou it honourable for a noble man<br />\nStill to remember wrongs?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For there's no motion<br />\nThat tends to vice in man, but I affirm<br />\nIt is the woman's part."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tired with all these for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimmed in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If there be devils, would I were a devil, To live and burn in everlasting fire, So I might have your company in hell, But to torment you with my bitter tongue!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Beshrew the heart that makes my heart to groan."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: She speaks poniards, and every word stabs: if her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her; she would infect to the north star. I would not marry her, though she were endowed with all that Adam bad left him before he transgressed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteemed, When not to be, receives reproach of being, And the just pleasure lost, which is so deemed, Not by our feeling, but by others' seeing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be advised; Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot That it do singe yourself: we may outrun, By violent swiftness, that which we run at, And lose by over-running. Know you not, The fire that mounts the liquor til run o'er, In seeming to augment it wastes it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O no, thy love though much, is not so great, It is my love that keeps mine eye awake, Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake. For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But what's so blessed-fair that fears no blot? Thou mayst be false, and yet I know it not."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Yet mark'd I where the bolt of Cupid fell: It fell upon a little western flower, Before milk-white, now purple with love's wound, And maidens call it love-in-idleness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lawn as white as driven snow; Cyprus black as e'er was crow; Gloves as sweet as damask roses."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What, no more ceremony? See, my women! Against the blown rose may they stop their nose That kneel'd unto the buds."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Yet nor the lays of birds nor the sweet smell Of different flowers in odour and in hue Could make me any summer's story tell, Or from their proud lap pluck them where they grew; Nor did I wonder at the lily's white, Nor praise the deep vermilion in the rose; They were but sweet, but figures of delight, Drawn after you, you pattern of all those."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The lily I condemned for thy hand, And buds of marjoram had stol'n thy hair: The roses fearfully on thorns did stand, One blushing shame, another white despair; A third, nor red nor white, had stol'n of both And to his robbery had annex'd thy breath; But, for his theft, in pride of all his growth A vengeful canker eat him up to death. More flowers I noted, yet I none could see But sweet or colour it had stol'n from thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Wishers were ever fools."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A man in all the world's new fashion planted, That hath a mint of phrases in his brain."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You shall more command with years than with your weapons."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Show me a mistress that is passing fair, what doth her beauty serve but as a note where I may read who pass'd that passing fair?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Women being the weaker vessels, are ever thrust to the walls."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How much more doth beauty beauteous seem by that sweet ornament which truth doth give!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ships are but boards, sailors but men; there be land-rats and water-rats, water-thieves and land-thieves, I mean pirates, and thenthere is the peril of waters, winds, and rocks."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Value dwells not in particular will;<br />\nIt holds his estimate and dignity<br />\nAs well wherein 'tis precious of itself<br />\nAs in the prizer."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The tongues of mocking wenches are as keen<br />\nAs is the razor's edge invisible."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have nothing<br />\nOf woman in me; now from head to foot<br />\nI am marble-constant."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nay, we must think men are not gods,<br />\nNor of them look for such observancy<br />\nAs fits the bridal."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis not a year or two shows us a man:<br />\nThey are all but stomachs, and we all but food;<br />\nThey eat us hungerly, and when they are full<br />\nThey belch us."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Women's weapons, water-drops."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Haply a woman's voice may do some good<br />\nWhen articles too nicely urged be stood on."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I had as lief have been myself alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I do the wrong, and first begin to brawl.<br />\nThe secret mischiefs that I set abroach<br />\nI lay unto the grievous charge of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My endeavors<br />\nHave ever come too short of my desires.<br />\nYet filed with my abilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A good sherris-sack hath a twofold operation in it. It<br />\nascends me into the brain,... makes it apprehensive, quick,<br />\nforgetive, full of nimble, fiery, and delectable shapes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have heard it said<br />\nThere is an art which in their piedness shares<br />\nWith great creating nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A very little little let us do<br />\nAnd all is done."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What should such fellows as I do crawling between earth and<br />\nheaven?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They told me I was everything. 'Tis a lie, I am not ague-proof."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have of late--but wherefore I know not--lost all my mirth,<br />\nforgone all custom of exercise."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Every offense is not a hate at first."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This is no time to lend money, especially upon bare friendship without security."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I hope to see London once ere I die."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Crowns in my purse I have, and goods at home,<br />\nAnd so am come abroad to see the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's not a shirt and a half in all my company, and the half<br />\nshirt is two napkins tacked together and thrown over the<br />\nshoulders like a herald's coat without sleeves."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ne'er ask me what raiment I'll wear, for I have no more doublets than backs, no more stockings than legs, nor no more shoes than feet--nay, sometime more feet than shoes, or such shoes as my toes look through the overleather."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Honor's thought<br />\nReigns solely in the breast of every man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I see that the fashion wears out more apparel than the man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I were better to be eaten to death with a rust than to be scoured to nothing with perpetual motion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They say miracles are past."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, had I but followed the arts!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There was never yet fair woman but she made mouths in a glass."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Use every man after his desert, and who should scape whipping?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Where every something, being blent together turns to a wild of nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nature hath framed strange fellows in her time."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Virtue itself scapes not calumnious strokes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow? If the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad, Threatening the welkin with his big-swoln face? And wilt thou have a reason for this coil? I am the sea; hark, how her sighs do blow! She is the weeping welkin, I the earth: Then must my sea be moved with her sighs; Then must my earth with her continual tears Become a deluge, overflow'd and drown'd: For why my bowels cannot hide her woes, But like a drunkard must I vomit them. Then give me leave, for losers will have leave To ease their stomachs with their bitter tongues."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A wretched soul, bruised with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burdened with light weight of pain, As much or more we should ourselves complain."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: His life was gentle; and the elements So mixed in him, that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, THIS WAS A MAN!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lord Polonius: What do you read, my lord? Hamlet: Words, words, words. Lord Polonius: What is the matter, my lord? Hamlet: Between who? Lord Polonius: I mean, the matter that you read, my lord."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou hast nor youth nor age But as it were an after dinner sleep Dreaming of both."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: These violent delights have violent ends And in their triump die, like fire and powder Which, as they kiss, consume"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O! she doth teach the torches to burn bright It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiop's ear; Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. - Romeo -"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To sue to live, I find I seek to die; And, seeking death, find life: let it come on."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They lie deadly that tell you have good faces."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let still woman take An elder than herself: so wears she to him, So sways she level in her husband's heart, For, boy, however we do praise ourselves, Our fancies are more giddy and unfirm, More longing, wavering, sooner to be lost and warn, Than women's are."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ere yet the salt of most unrighteous tears Had left the flushing of her gall\u00e8d eyes, She married. O, most wicked speed, to post With such dexterity to incestuous sheets!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will speak daggers to her, but use none."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: the fire seven times tried this; seven times tried that judgement is that did never choose amiss some there be that shadows kiss; such have but a shadows bliss, there be fool alive, i wis silverd o'er, and so was this Take what wife you will to bed I will ever be your head. So be gone; you are sped."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The iron tongue of Midnight hath told twelve lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. I fear we shall outstep the coming morn as much as we this night over-watch'd."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: By my troth, I care not; a man can die but once; we owe God a death and let it go which way it will he that dies this year is quit for the next"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is love a tender thing? It is too rough, too rude, too boisterous, and it pricks like thorn."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: She lov'd me for the dangers I had pass'd, And I lov'd her that she did pity them"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You speak like a green girl / unsifted in such perilous circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thus play I in one person many people, And none contented: sometimes am I king; Then treasons make me wish myself a beggar, And so I am: then crushing penury Persuades me I was better when a king; Then am I king'd again: and by and by Think that I am unking'd by Bolingbroke, And straight am nothing: but whate'er I be, Nor I nor any man that but man is With nothing shall be pleased, till he be eased With being nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If she lives till doomsday, she'll burn a week longer than the whole world."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, grief hath changed me since you saw me last, And careful hours with Time's deformed hand Have written strange defeatures in my face. But tell me yet, dost thou not know my voice?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We came into the world like brother and brother, And now let's go hand in hand, not one before another."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But thou, contracted to thine own bright eyes, Feed'st thy light's flame with self-substantial fuel, Making a famine where abundance lies, Thyself thy foe, to thy sweet self too cruel."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love is a smoke rais'd with the fume of sighs; being purg'd, a fire sparkling in lovers' eyes; being vex'd, a sea nourish'd with lovers' tears; what is it else? A madness most discreet, a choking gall, and a preserving sweet."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice. Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme. . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I charge thee, hence, and do not haunt me thus."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Bassanio: Do all men kill all the things they do not love? Shylock: Hates any man the thing he would not kill? Bassanio: Every offence is not a hate at first."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beast!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: HAMLET [...] we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots. Your fat king and your lean beggar is but variable service, two dishes, but to one table; that's the end. CLAUDIUS Alas, alas. HAMLET A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm. CLAUDIUS What dost thou mean by this? HAMLET Nothing but to show you how a king may go a progress through the guts of a beggar."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing - GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord? HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Madam, you have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Reason thus with life:<br />\r\nIf I do lose thee, I do lose a thing<br />\r\nThat none but fools would keep."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Her father lov'd me; oft invited me;<br />\r\nStill question'd me the story of my life,<br />\r\nFrom year to year, the battles, sieges, fortunes,<br />\r\nThat I have pass'd."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: On a day - alack the day! -<br />\r\nLove, whose month is ever May,<br />\r\nSpied a blossom passing fair<br />\r\nPlaying in the wanton air"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks<br />\r\nWithin his bending sickle's compass come;<br />\r\nLove alters not with his brief hours and weeks,<br />\r\nBut bears it out even to the edge of doom.<br />\r\nIf this be error and upon me prov'd,<br />\r\nI never writ, nor no man ever lov'd."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sufferance is the badge of all our tribe."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Like Patience gazing on kings' graves, and smiling<br />\r\nExtremity out of act."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For thou hast given me in this beauteous face A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When my love swears that she is made of truth, <br />\r\nI do believe her, though I know she lies."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: At Christmas, I no more desire a rose."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: With this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as 'twere, the mirror up to nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In right and service to their noble country."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Who is here so vile that will not love his country?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I thank you all and here dismiss you all, and to the love and favor of my country commit myself, my person, and the cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Having my freedom, boast of nothing else."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let's all cry peace, freedom, and liberty!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This liberty is all that I request."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Leave us to our free election."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They are sick that surfeit with too much, as they that starve with nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We cannot all be masters."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is not vain glory for a man and his glass to confer in his own chamber."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is no vice so simple but assumes some mark of virtue on his outward parts."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: God defend me from that Welsh fairy, Lest he transform me to a piece of cheese!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But most it is presumption in us when the help of heaven we count the act of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Words, vows, gifts, tears, and love's full sacrifice, He offers in another's enterprise; But more in Troilus thousand-fold I see Than in the glass of Pandar's praise may be, Yet hold I off."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: She told her, while she kept it, 'Twould make her amiable and subdue my father Entirely to her love, but if she lost it Or made a gift of it, my father's eye Should hold her loathed and his spirits should hunt After new fancies."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am not in the giving vein today."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Under the colour of commending him I have access my own love to prefer; But Silvia is too fair, too true, too holy, To be corrupted with my worthless gifts."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Gloucester, we have done deeds of charity, made peace of enmity, fair love of hate, between these swelling wrong-incensed peers."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Heaven would that she these gifts should have, and I to live and die her slave."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The readiness is all."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We go to gain a little patch of ground that hath in it no profit but the name."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Being holiday, the beggar's shop is shut."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The path is smooth that leadeth on to danger."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We do pray for mercy, and that same prayer doth teach us all to render the deeds of mercy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My falcon now is sharp and passing empty, and till she stoop she must not be full-gorged, for then she never looks upon her lure."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The will is deaf and hears no heedful friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: His heart as far from fraud as heaven from earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Art made tongue-tied by authority."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Honest plain words best pierce the ear of grief."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To be direct and honest is not safe."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The plants look up to heaven, from whence they have their nourishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fools are as like husbands as pilchards are to herrings, the husband's the bigger."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Merrily, merrily shall I live now, <br />\r\nUnder the blossom that hangs on the bough."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is a familiar beast to man, and signifies love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Those that are good manners at the court are as ridiculous in the country, as the behavior of the country is most mockable at the court."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A very ancient and fish-like smell."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounc'd it to you, trippingly on the tongue."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ay, is it not a language I speak?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To business that we love we rise betime, and go to't with delight."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O world, world! thus is the poor agent despised. O traitors and bawds, how earnestly are you set a-work, and how ill requited! Why should our endeavor be so loved, and the performance so loathed?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am bewitched with the rogue's company. If the rascal have not given me medicines to make me love him, I'll be hanged."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Good counselors lack no clients."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Beauty is but a vain and doubtful good; a shining gloss that fadeth suddenly; a flower that dies when it begins to bud; a doubtful good, a gloss, a glass, a flower, lost, faded, broken, dead within an hour."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For precious friends hid in death's dateless night."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age, Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburdened crawl toward death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When holy and devout religious men are at their beads, 'tis hard to draw them thence; so sweet is zealous contemplation."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If thou art rich, thou art poor; for, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, and death unloads thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ay, but to die, and go we know not where."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O Death, made proud with pure and princely beauty!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So shalt thou feed on Death, that feeds on men."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Crack'd in pieces by malignant Death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Death, not Romeo, take my maidenhead!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When Death doth close his tender dying eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Till our King Henry had shook hands with Death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The sudden hand of Death close up mine eye!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Unsubstantial Death is amorous."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Then love-devouring Death do what he dare."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All things that are, are with more spirit chased than enjoyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Hopeless and helpless doth Egeon wend, But to procrastinate his liveless end."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Where is your ancient courage? You were used to say extremities was the trier of spirits; That common chances common men could bear; That when the sea was calm all boats alike showed mastership in floating."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The king hath note of all that they intend, by interception which they dream not of."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He is well paid that is well satisfied."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My love is as a fever, longing still."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men should be what they seem; Or those that be not, would they might seem none!."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: God send everyone their heart's desire!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men's faults do seldom to themselves appear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Wine loved I deeply, dice dearly."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Of all knowledge the wise and good seek most to know themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Patch up thine old body for heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou hast not half that power to do me harm As I have to be hurt."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Murder most foul, as in the best it it; But this most foul, strange, and unnatural."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: One man in his time plays many parts."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: First Witch He knows thy thought: Hear his speech, but say thou nought."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is none of my uncle's marks upon you; he taught me how to know a man in love; in which cage of rushes I am sure you are not prisoner."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This is his uncle's teaching, this Worcester, Malevolent to you In all aspects, Which makes him prune himself and bristle up The crest of youth against your dignity."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Behold the threaden sails,<br />\r\nBorne with the invisible and creeping wind,<br />\r\nDraw the huge bottoms through the furrow'd sea,<br />\r\nBreasting the lofty surge"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am ill at these numbers."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Full many a glorious morn I have seen Flatter the mountain-tops with sovereign eye, Kissing with golden face the meadows green, Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Here will be an old abusing of God's patience and the king's English."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let's meet as little as we can"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I knew when seven justices could not take up a quarrel, but when the parties were met themselves, one of them thought but of an If, as, 'If you said so, then I said so;' and they shook hands and swore brothers. Your If is the only peacemaker; much virtue in If."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sweetest nut hath sourest rind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A pair of star-crossed lovers."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,<br />\r\nPale in her anger washes all the air,<br />\r\nThat rheumatic diseases do abound;<br />\r\nAnd through this distemperature we see<br />\r\nThe seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts<br />\r\nFall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To be furious, is to be frighted out of fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Devils soonest tempt, resembling spirits of light."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thy best of rest is sleep, And that thou oft provok'st; yet grossly fear'st Thy death, which is no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O all you host of heaven! O earth! What else? And shall I couple Hell?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For many men that stumble at the threshold are well foretold that danger lurks within."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Who riseth from a feast With that keen appetite that he sits down?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To be once in doubt Is once to be resolved."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax; no levelled malice Infects one comma in the course I hold, But flies an eagle flight, bold and forth on, Leaving no tract behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The eagle suffers little birds to sing, And is not careful what they mean thereby, Knowing that with the shadow of his wings He can at pleasure stint their melody: Even so mayest thou the giddy men of Rome."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I almost die for food, and let me have it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We make ourselves fools to disport ourselves And spend our flatteries to drink those men Upon whose age we void it up again With poisonous spite and envy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No metal can--no, not the hangman's axe--bear half the keenness of thy sharp envy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Promising is the very air o' th' time; it opens the eyes of expectation. Performance is ever duller for his act; and, but in the plainer and simpler kind of people, the deed of saying is quite out of use. To promise is most courtly and fashionable; performance is a kind of will or testament which argues a great sickness in his judgment that makes it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All men's faces are true, whatsome'er their hands are."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Though men can cover crimes with bold, stern looks, poor women's faces are their own faults' books."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let fancy still in my sense in Lethe steep; If it be thus to dream, still let me sleep!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So full of shapes is fancy That it alone is high fantastical."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head? How begot, how nourished? Reply, reply. It is engend'red in the eyes, With gazing fed, and fancy dies In the cradle where it lies."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll be at charges for a looking-glass And entertain a score or two of tailors To study fashions to adorn my body: Since I am crept in favor with myself, I will maintain it with some little cost."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will chide no breather in the world but myself, against whom I know most faults."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This night I hold an old accustomed feast, Whereto I have invited many a guest, Such as I love; and you among the store, One more, most welcome, makes my number more."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Full many a lady I have eyed with best regard, and many a time Th' harmony of their tongues hath into bondage Brought my too diligent ear; for several virtues Have I liked several women; never any With so full soul but some defect in her Did quarrel with the noblest grace she owed, And put it to the foil."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now the good gods forbid That our renowned Rome, whose gratitude Towards her deserved children is enrolled In Jove's own book, like an unnatural dam Should now eat up her own!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Guiltiness will speak, though tongues were out of use"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Mine honor is my life, both grow in one. Take honor from me, and my life is done. Then, dear my liege, mine honor let me try; In that I live, and for that I will die."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I stand for judgment: answer: shall I have it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: An envious fever of pale and bloodless emulation."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Things may serve long, but not serve ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: More can I bear than you dare execute."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The error of our eye directs our mind.<br />\nWhat error leads must err."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Allow not nature more than nature needs."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Modest wisdom plucks me from over-credulous haste."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Inconstancy falls off ere it begins."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust ensuing danger; as, by proof, we see the waters swell before a boisterous storm."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The presence of a king engenders love<br />\nAmongst his subjects, and his royal friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Kindness nobler ever than revenge."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Light and lust are deadly enemies."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The blood of youth burns not with such excess as gravity's revolt to wantonness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A maiden hath no tongue--but thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As a walled town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honorable than the bare brow of a bachelor."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Melancholy is the nurse of frenzy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let them obey that knows not how to rule."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Bid me discourse, I will enchant thine ear"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What's past and what's to come is strew'd with husks<br />\nAnd formless ruin of oblivion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You must confine yourself within the modest limits of order."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I bear a charmed life, which must not yield<br />\nTo one of woman born."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity<br />\nIn least speak most, to my capacity."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love is your master, for he masters you;<br />\nAnd he that is so yoked by a fool<br />\nMethinks should not be chronicled for wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I myself am best<br />\nWhen least in company."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No villainous bounty yet hath passed my heart;<br />\nUnwisely, not ignobly, have I given."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Cold indeed, and labor lost:<br />\nThen farewell heat, and welcome frost!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let us, like merchants, show our foulest wares,<br />\nAnd think perchance they'll sell; if not,<br />\nThe lustre of the better yet to show<br />\nShall show the better."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The seasons change their manners, as the year<br />\nHad found some months asleep and leapt them over."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This bless\u00e8d plot, this earth, this realm, this England<br />\nThis nurse, this teeming womb of royal kings,<br />\n. . .<br />\nThis land of such dear souls, this dear dear land."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To England will I steal, and there I'll steal."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That island of England breeds very valiant creatures; their<br />\nmastiffs are of unmatchable courage."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A turn or two I'll walk<br />\nTo still my beating mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, I do not like that paying back, 'tis a double labor."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am indeed, sir, a surgeon to old shoes; when they are in great danger I recover them."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Here was a Caesar! When comes such another?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The commonwealth of Athens is become a forest of beasts."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let me, if not by birth, have lands by wit;<br />\nAll with me's meet that I can fashion fit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I begin to find an idle and fond bondage in the oppression of aged tyranny, who sways, not as it hath power, but as it is suffered."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I would with such perfection govern, sir,<br />\nT'excel the golden age."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For conspiracy,<br />\nI know not how it tastes, though it be dished<br />\nFor me to try how."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What else may hap, to time I will commit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A thousand moral paintings I can show<br />\nThat shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's<br />\nMore pregnantly than words."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I do not set my life at a pin's fee,<br />\nAnd for my soul, what can it do to that,<br />\nBeing a thing immortal as itself?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Doubting things go ill often hurts more<br />\nThan to be sure they do; for certainties<br />\nEither are past remedies, or, timely knowing,<br />\nThe remedy then born."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The time of universal peace is near.<br />\nProve this a prosp'rous day, the three-nooked world<br />\nShall bear the olive freely."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Alack, the night comes on, and the bleak winds<br />\nDo sorely ruffle; for many miles about<br />\nThere's scarce a bush."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou art an elm, my husband, I a vine,<br />\nWhose weakness, married to thy stronger state,<br />\nMakes me with thy strength to communicate."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thus did I keep my person fresh and new,<br />\nMy presence, like a robe pontifical,<br />\nNe'er seen but wondered at, and so my state,<br />\nSeldom but sumptuous, showed like a feast."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You are made<br />\nRather to wonder at the things you hear<br />\nThan to work any."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be collected.<br />\nNo more amazement. Tell your piteous heart<br />\nThere's no harm done."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano; A stage where every man must play a part, And mine is a sad one."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The lady doth protest too much, methinks."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sweet are the uses of adversity which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Desire of having is the sin of covetousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For I can raise no money by vile means."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Time and the hour run through the roughest day."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Such as we are made of, such we be."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that is giddy thinks the world turns round."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men shut their doors against a setting sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's not a note of mine that's worth the noting."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: 'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Our peace shall stand as firm as rocky mountains."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Truly, I would not hang a dog by my will, much more a man who hath any honesty in him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How well he's read, to reason against reading!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I shall the effect of this good lesson keeps as watchman to my heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You are thought here to the most senseless and fit man for the job."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks! Rage! Blow! You cataracts and hurricanoes, spout Till you have drenched our teeples, drowned the cocks! You sulphurour and thought-executing fires, Vaunt-couriers to oak-cleaving thunderbolts, Singe my white head! And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world! Crack nature's molds, all germens spill at once That make ingrateful man!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more, Men were deceivers ever,- One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Then is courtesy a turncoat. But it is certain I am loved of all ladies, only you excepted: and I would I could find in my heart that I had not a hard heart; for, truly, I love none. Beatrice: A dear happiness to women: they would else have been troubled with a pernicious suitor. I thank God and my cold blood, I am of your humour for that: I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow than a man swear he loves me. -Much Ado About Nothing"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The Play's the Thing, wherein I'll catch the conscience of the King."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Then others for breath of words respect, Me for my dumb thoughts, speaking in effect."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Truly thou art damned, like an ill-roasted egg, all on one side."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While shadows like to thee do mock my sight? Is it thy spirit that thou send'st from thee So far from home into my deeds to pry, To find out shames and idle hours in me, The scope and tenor of thy jealousy? O, no! thy love, though much, is not so great: It is my love that keeps mine eye awake: Mine own true love that doth my rest defeat, To play the watchman ever for thy sake: For thee watch I, whilst thou dost wake elsewhere, From me far off, with others all too near."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou art a very ragged Wart."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am joined with no foot land-rakers, no long-staff, sixpenny strikers, none of these mad, mustachio purple-hued maltworms, but with nobility and tranquillity."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is Are clamorous goans, which strike upon my heart, Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans Show minutes, times, and hours."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Scratching could not make it worse, an't were such a face as yours were."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let me be that I am and seek not to alter me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Passion lends them power, time means to meet, tempering extremities with extremes sweet."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So will I turn her virtue into pitch, And out of her own goodness make the net That shall enmesh them all."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let him smell his way to Dover!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tell me where is fancy bred, Or in the heart, or in the head?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All love's pleasure shall not match its woe."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now the melancholy of God protect thee, and the tailor make thy doublet of changable taffata, for thy mind is a very opal. I would have men of such constancy put to sea, that their business might be everything, and their intent everywhere, for that's it, that always makes a good voyage of nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I would we were all of one mind, and one mind good."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why, i' faith, methinks she's too low for a high praise, too brown for a fair praise and too little for a great praise: only this commendation I can afford her, that were she other than she is, she were unhandsome; and being no other but as she is, I do not like her. (Benedick, from Much Ado About Nothing)"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner. BENEDICK Fair Beatrice, I thank you for your pains. BEATRICE I took no more pains for those thanks than you take pains to thank me: if it had been painful, I would not have come. BENEDICK You take pleasure then in the message? BEATRICE Yea, just so much as you may take upon a knife's point ... You have no stomach, signior: fare you well. Exit BENEDICK Ha! 'Against my will I am sent to bid you come in to dinner;' there's a double meaning in that... (Much Ado About Nothing)"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: LEONATO Neighbours, you are tedious. DOGBERRY It pleases your worship to say so, but we are the poor duke's officers; but truly, for mine own part, if I were as tedious as a king, I could find it in my heart to bestow it all of your worship."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sweet Beatrice, wouldst thou come when I called thee? BEATRICE Yea, signior, and depart when you bid me. BENEDICK O, stay but till then! BEATRICE 'Then' is spoken; fare you well now... (Much Ado About Nothing)"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A miracle. Here's our own hands against our hearts. Come, I will have thee, but by this light I take thee for pity. Beatrice: I would not deny you, but by this good day, I yield upon great persuasion, and partly to save your life, for I was told you were in a consumption. Benedick: Peace. I will stop your mouth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Two households, both alike in dignity In fair Verona, where we lay our scene From ancient grudge break to new mutiny Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes A pair of star-cross'd lovers take their life Whose misadventured piteous overthrows Do with their death bury their parents' strife."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You are an alchemist; make gold of that."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For what good turn? Messenger: For the best turn of the bed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve ... the more merit in your bounty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now my charms are all o'erthrown."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Blest are those Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled, That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I\u2019ll look to like, if looking liking move; But no more deep will I endart mine eye than your consent gives strength to make it fly."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat, Of habits devil, is angel yet in this, That to the use of actions fair and good He likewise gives a frock or livery That aptly is put on. Refrain tonight, And that shall lend a kind of easiness To the next abstinence; the next more easy; For use almost can change the stamp of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I would there were no age between sixteen and three-and-twenty, or that youth would sleep out the rest; for there is nothing in the between but getting wenches with child, wronging the ancientry, stealing, fighting"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My love to thee is sound, sans crack or flaw."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Therefore was I created with a stubborn outside, with an aspect of iron, that when I come to woo ladies, I fright them. But, in faith, Kate, the elder I wax, the better I shall appear. My comfort is that old age, that ill layer-up of beauty, can do no more spoil upon my face. Thou hast me, if thou hast me, at the worst, and thou shalt wear me, if thou wear me, better and better."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is not, nor it cannot, come to good, But break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men should be what they seem."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, That not your trespass but my madness speaks."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O me, you juggler, you canker-blossom, you thief of love!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My affection hath an unknown bottom, like the Bay of Portugal."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I drink to the general joy o\u2019 the whole table.\" Macbeth"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Muster your wits; stand in your own defence."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Lady, you are the cruel'st she alive If you will lead these graces to the grave And leave the world no copy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: thou art the best o' the cut-throats"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A Devil, a born Devil on whose nature, nurture can never stick, on whom my pain, humanly taken, all lost, quite lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Who buys a minute's mirth to wail a week? Or sell eternity to get a toy? For one grape who will the vine destroy?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What, my dear Lady Disdain! are you yet living? Beatrice: Is it possible disdain should die while she hath such meet food to feed it as Signior Benedick?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If her breath were as terrible as her terminations, there were no living near her, she would infect to the north star!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love is begun by time and time qualifies the spark and fire of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Yet but three come one more. Two of both kinds make up four. Ere she comes curst and sad. Cupid is a knavish lad. Thus to make poor females mad."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Done to death by slanderous tongue"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Olivia: What's a drunken man like, fool? Feste: Like a drowned man, a fool, and a madman: one draught above heat makes him a fool; the second mads him; and a third drowns him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What showers arise, blown with the windy tempest of my heart"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize As the dead carcasses of unburied men That do corrupt my air, I banish you; And here remain with your uncertainty!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So. Lie there, my art."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven; Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own read."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: By my soul I swear, there is no power in the tongue of man to alter me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: She moves me not, or not removes at least affection's edge in me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He kills her in her own humor."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tell me, daughter Juliet, How stands your dispositions to be married\" It is an honor that I dream not of"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Captain of our fairy band, Helena is here at hand, And the youth, mistook by me, Pleading for a lover's fee. Shall we their fond pageant see? Lord, what fools these mortals be!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And worse I may be yet: the worst is not So long as we can say 'This is the worst."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll be supposed upon a book, his face is the worst thing about him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The very instant I saw you, did My heart fly to your service; there resides To make me slave to it. ...mine unworthiness, that dare not offer What I desire to give, and much less take What I shall die to want."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Where souls do couch on flowers we'll hand in hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Virtue and genuine graces in themselves speak what no words can utter."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Men must endure Their going hence, even as their coming hither. Ripeness is all."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No longer mourn for me when I am dead than you shall hear the surly sullen bell give warning to the world that I am fled from this vile world with vilest worms to dwell: nay, if you read this line, remember not the hand that writ it, for I love you so, that I in your sweet thoughts would be forgot, if thinking on me then should make you woe. O! if, I say, you look upon this verse when I perhaps compounded am with clay, do not so much as my poor name rehearse; but let your love even with my life decay; lest the wise world should look into your moan, and mock you with me after I am gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Comfort's in heaven, and we are on the earth"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack: the round world Should have shook lions into civil streets, And citizens to their dens."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears: But yet It is our trick; nature her custom holds, Let shame say what it will: when these are gone, The woman will be out. \u2014 Adieu, my lord! I have a speech of fire, that fain would blaze, But that this folly drowns it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright! It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope\u2019s ear, Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear. So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows. The measure done, I\u2019ll watch her place of stand, And, touching hers, make bless\u00e8d my rude hand. Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight! For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Cordelia! stay a little. Ha! What is't thou say'st? Her voice was ever soft."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have felt."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In truth, fair Montague, I am too fond."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Here comes Monseiur Le Beau. Rosalind: With his mouth full of news. Celia: Which he will put on us, as pigeons feed their young. Rosalind: Then shall we be news-crammed. Celia: All the better; we shall be the more marketable."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This fellow is wise enough to play the fool; And to do that well craves a kind of wit: He must observe their mood on whom he jests, The quality of persons, and the time, And, like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. This is a practise As full of labour as a wise man's art For folly that he wisely shows is fit; But wise men, folly-fall'n, quite taint their wit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Oh why rebuke you him that loves you so? / Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it accuseth him; a man cannot swear, but it checks him; a man cannot lie with his neighbor's wife, but it detects him. 'Tis a blushing, shame -faced spirit, that mutinies in a man's bosom ; it fills one full of obstacles; it made me once restore a purse of gold that by chance I found; it beggars any man that keeps it; it is turned out of all towns and cities for a dangerous thing; and every man that means to live well endeavors to trust to himself and live without it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When devils will the blackest sins put on They do suggest at first with heavenly shows"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fare thee well, king: sith thus thou wilt appear, Freedom lives hence, and banishment is here."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Too much of water hast thou, poor Ophelia, And therefore I forbid my tears."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For trust not him that hath once broken faith"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Death is my son-in-law. Death is my heir. My daughter he hath wedded. I will die, And leave him all. Life, living, all is Death\u2019s."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let me twine Mine arms about that body, where against My grained ash an hundred times hath broke And scarr'd the moon with splinters: here I clip The anvil of my sword, and do contest As hotly and as nobly with thy love As ever in ambitious strength I did Contend against thy valour. Know thou first, I loved the maid I married; never man Sigh'd truer breath; but that I see thee here, Thou noble thing! more dances my rapt heart Than when I first my wedded mistress saw Bestride my threshold."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I take thee at thy word: Call me but love, and I'll be new baptized; Henceforth I never will be Romeo."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: By heaven, I'll make a ghost of him that lets me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Benvolio- \"By my head, here come the Capulets.\" Mercutio- \"By my heel, I care not."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Happy are they that hear their detractions, and can put them to mending."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I can hardly forbear hurling things at him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel: Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him! This was the most unkindest cut of all"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All the world's a stage."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tam: What begg\u2019st thou then? fond woman, let me go. Lav: \u2019Tis present death I beg; and one thing more That womanhood denies my tongue to tell. O! keep me from their worse than killing lust, And tumble me into some loathsome pit, Where never man\u2019s eye may behold my body: Do this, and be a charitable murderer. Tam: So should I rob my sweet sons of their fee: No, let them satisfy their lust on thee. Dem: Away! for thou hast stay\u2019d us here too long. Lav: No grace! no womanhood! Ah, beastly creature, The blot and enemy to our general name. Confusion fall\u2014"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, spirit of love, how quick and fresh art thou!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To be in love, where scorn is bought with groans; coy looks, with heart-sore sighs; one fading moment's mirth"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sweet love! Sweet lines! Sweet life! Here is her hand, the agent of her heart; Here is her oath for love, her honour's pawn"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have lov'd her ever since I saw her; and still I see her beautiful"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For love, thou know'st, is full of jealousy"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My love is thaw'd; Which, like a waxen image 'gainst a fire, bears no impression of the thing it was"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The quality of mercy is not strained"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For grief is crowned with consolation."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Be just, and fear not."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Beauty itself doth of itself persuade the eyes of men without an orator."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is a kind of character in thy life, That to the observer doth thy history, fully unfold."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If thou dost marry, I'll give thee this plague for thy dowry: be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, thou shalt not escape calumny."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My chastity's the jewel of our house, bequeathed down from many ancestors."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The soul of this man is his clothes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Friendly counsel cuts off many foes."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But to my mind, though I am native here, And to the manner born, it is a custom, More honored in the breach than the observance."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He lives in fame that died in virtue's cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They whose guilt within their bosom lies, imagine every eye beholds their blame."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The jury passing on the prisoner's life may in the sworn twelve have a thief or two guiltier than him they try."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: She's good, being gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I care not, a man can die but once; we owe God and death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The weariest and most loathed worldly life, that age, ache, penury and imprisonment can lay on nature is a paradise, to what we fear of death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Come my spade.  There is no ancient gentlemen but gardeners, ditchers, and grave-makers; they hold up Adam's profession."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Here's that which is too weak to be a sinner, honest water, which ne'er left man i' the mire."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is there no respect of place, persons, nor time in you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The hind that would be mated by the lion <br />\r\nMust die for love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The pleasing punishment that women bear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Away, you trifler! Love! I love thee not, <br />\r\nI care not for thee, Kate: this is no world <br />\r\nTo play with mammets and to tilt with lips: <br />\r\nWe must have bloody noses and cracked crowns."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thy tongue <br />\r\nMakes Welsh as sweet as ditties highly penn'd, <br />\r\nSung by a fair queen in a summer's bower, <br />\r\nWith ravishing division, to her lute."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Swear me, Kate, like a lady as thou art, <br />\r\nA good mouth-filling oath."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A breath thou art, Servile to all the skyey influences."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Was ever woman in this humour wooed? <br />\r\nWas ever woman in this humour won?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front; <br />\r\nAnd now, instead of mounting barbed steeds <br />\r\nTo fright the souls of fearful adversaries, <br />\r\nHe capers nimbly in a lady's chamber <br />\r\nTo the lascivious pleasing of a lute."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now, by the world, it is a lusty wench; I love her ten times more than e'er I did: O, how I long to have some chat with her!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fie, fie upon her! <br />\r\nThere's language in her eye, her cheek, her lip, <br />\r\nNay, her foot speaks; her wanton spirits look out <br />\r\nAt every joint and motive of her body."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is she not passing fair?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O heaven! were man, But constant, he were perfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I love a ballad in print o' life, for then we are sure they are true."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Good Hamlet, cast thy nighted colour off ... Do not for ever with thy vailed lids Seek for thy noble father in the dust."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The Dear father Would with his daughter speak, commands her service; Are they inform'd of this?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To you your father should be as a god."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You have her father's love, Demetrius; Let me have Hermia's: do you marry him!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Give them great meals of beef and iron and steel, they will eat like wolves and fight like devils."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For I can raise no money by vile means. By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that commends me to mine own content<br />\r\nCommends me to the thing I cannot get."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A kind <br />\r\nOf excellent dumb discourse."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I will make a Star-chamber matter of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am falser than vows made in wine."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A man cannot make him laugh; but that's no marvel; he drinks no wine.... If I had a thousand sons, the first human principle I would teach them should be, to forswear thin potations and to addict themselves to sack."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: A light wife doth make a heavy husband."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis the mind that makes the body rich."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This senior-junior, giant-dwarf, Dan Cupid;<br />\r\nRegent of love-rhymes, lord of folded arms,<br />\r\nThe anointed sovereign of sighs and groans,<br />\r\nLiege of all loiterers and malcontents."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Aand in the end, Having my freedom, boast of nothing else But that I was a journeyman to grief?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sorrow breaks seasons and reposing hours, Makes the night morning, and the noontide night."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No, no; 'tis all men's office to speak patience To those that wring under the load of sorrow, But no man's virtue nor sufficiency To be so moral when he shall endure The like himself. Therefore give me no counsel: My griefs cry louder than advertisement."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Cry \"havoc!\" and let loose the dogs of war, That this foul deed shall smell above the earth With carrion men, groaning for burial."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Can we outrun the heavens?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Heaven take my soul, and England keep my bones!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Look, what a horse should have he did not lack, Save a proud rider on his back."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Well could he ride, and often men would say, \"That horse his mettle from his rider takes: Proud of subjection, noble by the sway, What rounds, what bounds, what course, what stop he makes!\" And controversy hence a question takes, Whether the horse by him became his deed, Or he his manage by the well-doing steed."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love,<br />\r\nThe matron's glance that would those looks reprove."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You are my true and honourable wife;<br />\r\nAs dear to me as the ruddy drops<br />\r\nThat visit my sad heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, what damned minutes tells he o'er<br />\r\nWho dotes, yet doubts, suspects, yet fondly loves!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No .... holy father, throw away that thought.<br />\r\nBelieve not that the dribbling dart of love<br />\r\nCan pierce a complete bosom."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There's neither honesty, manhood, nor good fellowship in thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O powerful love, that in some respects makes a beast a man, in some other, a man a beast."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am not mad; I would to heaven I were! For then, 'tis like I should forget myself; O, if I could, what grief should I forget!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Such men as he be never at heart's ease Whiles they behold a greater than themselves, And therefore are they very dangerous."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It is the bright day that brings forth the adder, and that craves wary walking."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright, who art as black as hell, as dark as night."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: These earthly godfathers of Heaven's lights, that give a name to every fixed star, have no more profit of their shining nights than those that walk and know not what they are."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For he was likely, had he been put on, to have proved most royally."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O how wretched is that poor man that hangs on princes favors! There is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, that sweet aspect of princes, and their ruin, more pangs and fears than wars or women have, and when he falls, he falls like Lucifer, never to hope again."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: One pain is lessened by another's anguish."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tis mad idolatry To make the service greater than the god."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To show our simple skill, That is the true beginning of our end."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Take all the swift advantage of the hours."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We bring forth weeds when our quick minds lie still."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Never shame to hear what you have nobly done"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I thought my heart had been wounded with the claws of a lion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O tiger's heart wrapped in a woman's hide!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He's truly valiant that can wisely suffer The worst that man can breathe, and make his wrongs His outsides, to wear them like his raiment, carelessly, And ne'er prefer his injuries to his heart, To bring it into danger."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My heart is turned to stone; I strike it, and it hurts my hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He hath a heart as sound as a bell, and his tongue is the clapper; for what his heart thinks his tongue speaks."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Take heed, dear heart, of this large privilege; The hardest knife ill-used doth lose his edge."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou ominous and fearful owl of death."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The force of his own merit makes his way-a gift that heaven gives for him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful and ridiculous excess."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: One woman is fair, yet I am well; another is wise, yet I am well; another virtuous, yet I am well; but till all graces be in one woman, one woman shall not come in my grace."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O good old man, how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat but for promotion, And having that do choke their service up Even with the having. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: One good deed dying tongueless Slaughters a thousand waiting upon that. Our praises are our wages."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I...Kisss the tender inward of thy hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Man and wife, being two, are one in love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Like a red morn that ever yet betokened, <br />\n Wreck to the seaman, tempest to the field, <br />\n Sorrow to the shepherds, woe unto the birds, <br />\n Gusts and foul flaws to herdmen and to herds."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Costly thy habit [dress] as thy purse can buy; But not expressed in fancy - rich, not gaudy. For the apparel oft proclaims the man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The painful warrior famous for fight, After a thousand victories, once foil'd, Is from the books of honor razed quite, And all the rest forgot for which he toil'd"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I fill up a place, which may be better... when I have made it empty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might. Whoever lov'd that lov'd not at first sight."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Live how we can, yet die we must."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Set honour in one eye and death i' the other, And I will look on both indifferently."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Make passionate my sense of hearing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Every cloud engenders not a storm."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Keep thy foot out of brothels, thy hand out of plackets, thy pen from lender's books, and defy the foul fiend."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: To go to bed after midnight is to go to bed betimes"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Write till your ink be dry, and with your tears <br />\n Moist it again, and frame some feeling line <br />\n That may discover such integrity."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let me confess that we two must be twain, although our undivided loves are one."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou seest I have more flesh than another man, and therefore more frailty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man!  Give me the spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll speak in a monstrous little voice."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: With these shreds They vented their complainings, which being answered And a petition granted them, a strange one, To break the heart of generosity, And make bold power look pale, they threw their caps As they would hang them on the horns o' th' moon, Shouting their emulation."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If thou couldst, doctor, cast The water of my land, find her disease, And purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud you again."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll privily away; I love the people, But do not like to stage me to their eyes; Though it do well, I do not relish well Their loud applause and aves vehement, Nor do I think the man of safe discretion That does not affect it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When thou cam'st first, Thou strok'st me and made much of me; wouldst give me Water with berries in't; and teach me how To name the bigger light, and how the less, That burn by day and night; and then I loved thee And showed thee all the qualities o' th' isle, The fresh springs, brine-pits, barren place and fertile."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My lord, they say five moons were seen to-night-- Four fixed, and the fifth did whirl about The other four in wondrous motion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you His absolute 'shall'?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thus can the demigod Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight The words of heaven; on whom it will, it will, On whom it will not, so: yet still 'tis just."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Merciful heaven, Thou rather with thy sharp and sulphurous bolt Splits the unwedgeable and gnarled oak Than the soft myrtle; but man, proud man, Dressed in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assured His glassy essence--like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As makes the angels weep; who, with our spleens, would all themselves laugh mortal."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Well, I must be patient; there is no fettering of authority."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Shall I never see a bachelor of three score again?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I had rather be a kitten and cry mew Than one of these same metre ballet-mongers."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I love a ballad but even too well if it be doleful matter merrily set down, or a very pleasant thing indeed and sung lamentably."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Were beauty under twenty locks kept fast, yet love breaks through and picks them all at last."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The most peerless piece of earth, I think, that e' er the sun shone bright on."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Beggar that I am, I am even poor in thanks, but I thank you; and sure, dear friends, my thanks are too dear a halfpenny."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What: is the jay more precious than the lark because his feathers are more beautiful?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But when the fox hath once got in his nose, He'll soon find means to make the body follow."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Whatever praises itself but in the deed, devours the deed in the praise."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What, gone without a word? Ay, so true love should do; it cannot speak, For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For truth hath better deeds than words to grace it."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Why, all delights are vain, but that most vain Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain: As, painfully to pore upon a book, To seek the light of truth, which truth the while Doth falsely blind the eyesight of his look."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nay then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Let me say amen betimes lest the devil cross my prayer, for here he comes in the likeness of a Jew."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have seen the day of wrong through the little hole of discretion, and I will right myself like a soldier."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Stones have been known to move and trees to speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Nature hath meal and bran, contempt and grace."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Prosperity's the very bond of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Words are grown so false, I am loath to prove reason with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Your wisdom is consum'd in confidence. Do not go forth to-day."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So all my best is dressing old words new."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Things at the worst will cease or else climb upward To what they were before."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid, though it were hid indeed Within the centre."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Covering discretion with a coat of folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When a man's verses cannot be understood, nor a man's good wit seconded with the forward child understanding, it strikes a man more dead than a great reckoning in a little room. Truly, I would the gods had made thee poetical."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Quote: What angel wakes me from my flowery bed?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Come, swear it, damn thyself, lest, being like one of heaven, the devils themselves should fear to seize thee; therefore be double-damned, swear,--thou art honest."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We make trifles of terrors,<br />\n Ensconcing ourselves into seeming knowledge,<br />\n When we should submit ourselves to an unknown fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Pray, do not mock me.<br />\nI am a very foolish fond old man,<br />\nFourscore and upward, not an hour more nor less;<br />\nAnd, to deal plainly,<br />\nI fear I am not in my perfect mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Pastime passing excellent, if it he husbanded with modesty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Scarce can I speak, my choler is so great. Oh! I could hew up rocks, and fight with flint."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If it be you that stirs these daughters' hearts<br />\nAgainst their father, fool me not so much<br />\nTo bear it tamely; touch me with noble anger,<br />\nAnd let not women's weapons, water drops,<br />\nStain my man's cheeks."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The tempter or the tempted, who sins most? Ha! Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I That, lying by the violet in the sun, Do as the carrion does, not as the flower, Corrupt with virtuous season."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And thou, all-shaking thunder,<br />\nStrike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!<br />\nCrack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once<br />\nThat makes ingrateful man!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Since I do purpose to marry, I will think nothing to any purpose that<br />\nthe world can say against it; and therefore never floutat me for what I have said against it; for man is a giddy thing, and this is my conclusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, I have suffered<br />\nWith those that I saw suffer!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When heaven doth weep, doth not the earth o'erflow?<br />\nIf the winds rage, doth not the sea wax mad,<br />\nThreatening the welkin with his big-swollen face?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Adieu, adieu, adieu! remember me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What wouldst thou do, old man?<br />\nThink'st thou that duty shall have dread to speak<br />\nWhen power to flattery bows?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Mine eyes are full of tears, my heart of grief."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Poor Desdemona! I am glad thy father's dead.<br />\nThy match was mortal to him, and pure grief<br />\nShore his old thread in twain."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: There is a river in Macedon, and there is moreover a river in Monmouth. It is called Wye at Monmouth, but it is out of my prains what is the name of the other river; but 'tis all one, 'tis alike as my fingers is to my fingers, and there is salmons in both."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: What can be avoided<br />\nWhose end is purposed by the mighty gods?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Think, when we talk of horses, that you see them <br />\r\nPrinting their proud hoofs i' the receiving earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O England! Model to thy inward greatness, like little body with a might heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sleep knits up the raveled sleeve of care."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: They may seize<br />\r\nOn the white wonder of dear Juliet's hand<br />\r\nAnd steal immortal blessing from her lips,<br />\r\nWho, even in pure and vestal modesty,<br />\r\nStill blush, as thinking their own kisses sin."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O! Let me not be mad, not mad, sweet heaven; keep me in temper; I would not be mad!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Life every man holds dear; but the dear man holds honor far more precious dear than life."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I was adored once too."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits and Are melted into air, into thin air: And, like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd towers, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life Is rounded with a sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Kent. Where's the king? Gent. Contending with the fretful elements; Bids the wind blow the earth into the sea, Or swell the curled waters 'bove the main, That things might change or cease; tears his white hair, Which the impetuous blasts, with eyeless rage, Catch in their fury and make nothing of; Strives in his little world of man to outscorn The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain. This night, wherein the cub-drawn bear would couch, The lion and the belly-pinched wolf Keep their fur dry, unbonneted he runs, And bids what will take all."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Alas, sir, how fell you besides your five wits?\" Malvolio: \"Fool, there was never a man so notoriously abused. I am as well in my wits, fool, as thou art.\" Feste: \"But as well? Then you are mad indeed, if you be no better in you wits than a fool."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: An old black ram is tupping your white ewe"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thrift, thrift, Horatio! The funeral bak'd meats did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Take it in what sense thou wilt."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This rudeness is a sauce to his good wit, Which gives men stomach to digest his words With better appetite."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The fringed curtains of thine eye advance, And say what thou seest yond."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He that hath a beard is more than a youth, and he that hath no beard is less than a man. He that is more than a youth is not for me, and he that is less than a man, I am not for him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou shalt not stir one foot to seek a foe."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Oh, I am fortune's fool!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And too soon Marred are those so early Made."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Me, poor man, my library Was dukedom large enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: World, world, O world! But that thy strange mutations make us hate thee/ Life would not yield to age."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: In such business Action is eloquence, and the eyes of th\u2019 ignorant More learned than the ears."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If there were reason for these miseries, then into limits could I bind my woes. If the winds rages, doth not the sea wax mad, threat'ning the welkin with its big-swoll'n face? And wilt though have a reason for this coil? I am the sea. Hark how her sighs doth blow. She is the weeping welkin, I the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But I, that am not shaped for sportive tricks, Nor made to court an amorous looking-glass; I, that am rudely stamped, and want love's majesty To strut before a wanton ambling nymph; I, that am curtailed of this fair proportion, Cheated of feature by dissembling nature, Deformed, unfinished, sent before my time Into this breathing world, scarce half made up, And that so lamely and unfashionable That dogs bark at me as I halt by them,-- Why, I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to spy my shadow in the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: On the bat\u2019s back I do fly After summer merrily."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumber'd here While these visions did appear."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: God's will! my liege, would you and I alone, Without more help, could fight this royal battle!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And to be merry best becomes you; for, out of question, you were born in a merry hour. BEATRICE No, sure, my lord, my mother cried; but then there was a star danced, and under that was I born."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The clamorous owl that nightly hoots and wonders At our quaint spirits."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Come, Lady, die to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: More matter with less art."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Where the bee sucks, there suck I In the cow-slip's bell i lie There I couch when owls do cry"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Who is it that can tell me who I am?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Polonius: Do you know me, my lord? Hamlet: Excellent well. You are a fishmonger."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Where is Polonius? HAMLET In heaven. Send hither to see. If your messenger find him not there, seek him i' th' other place yourself. But if indeed you find him not within this month, you shall nose him as you go up the stairs into the lobby."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage: but doth not the appetite alter? a man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. Shall quips and sentences and these paper bullets of the brain awe a man from the career of his humour? No, the world must be peopled. When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And when love speaks, the voice of all the gods makes Heaven drowsy with the harmony."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: thy wit is a very bitter sweeting; it is a most sharp sauce."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, and Robin shall restore amends."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, let me kiss that hand! KING LEAR: Let me wipe it first; it smells of mortality."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So full of artless jealousy is guilt, It spills itself in fearing to be spilt."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I hold my peace, sir? no; No, I will speak as liberal as the north; Let heaven and men and devils, let them all, All, all, cry shame against me, yet I'll speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Prophet may you be! If I be false, or swerve a hair from truth, when time is old and hath forgot itself, when waterdrops have worn the stones of Troy, and blind oblivion swallowed cities up, and mighty states characterless are grated to dusty nothing, yet let memory, from false to false, among false maids in love, upbraid my falsehood!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied, And vice sometime by action dignified."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: True, I talk of dreams, Which are the children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy, Which is as thin of substance as the air, And more inconstant than the wind, who woos Even now the frozen bosom of the north, And, being anger'd, puffs away from thence, Turning his side to the dew-dropping south."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The world must be peopled!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Though those that are betray'd Do feel the treason sharply, yet the traitor stands in worse case of woe"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Your tale, sir, would cure deafness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now get you to my lady's chamber, and tell her, let her paint an inch thick, to this favour she must come; make her laugh at that."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Teach me, dear creature, how to think and speak; Lay open to my earthy-gross conceit, Smother'd in errors, feeble, shallow, weak, The folded meaning of your words' deceit."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: This rough magic I here abjure and when I have required some heavenly music, which even now I do, to work mine end upon their senses that this airy charm is for, I'll break my staff, bury it certain fathoms in the earth, and deeper than did ever plummet sound, I'll drown my book."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For this relief much thanks. 'Tis bitter cold, and I am sick at heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Come unto these yellow sands, And then take hands. Curtsied when you have and kissed The wild waves whist, Foot is featly here and there; And, sweet sprites, the burden bear. Ariel's song, scene II, Act I"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Tush! Fear not, my lord, we will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers: be assured We come to use our hands and not our tongues."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Give me my sin again."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Romeo: I dreamt a dream tonight. Mercutio: And so did I. Romeo: Well, what was yours? Mercutio: That dreamers often lie. Romeo: In bed asleep while they do dream things true."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: No, no, no, no! Come, let's away to prison: We two alone will sing like birds i' the cage: When thou dost ask me blessing, I'll kneel down, And ask of thee forgiveness: so we'll live, And pray, and sing, and tell old tales, and laugh At gilded butterflies, and hear poor rogues Talk of court news; and we'll talk with them too, Who loses and who wins; who's in, who's out; And take upon's the mystery of things, As if we were God's spies: and we'll wear out, In a wall'd prison, packs and sects of great ones, That ebb and flow by the moon."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I, measuring his affections by my own, Which then most sought where most might not be found, Being one too many by my weary self, Pursued my humor not pursuing his, And gladly shunned who gladly fled from me."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: It were a grief so brief to part with thee. Farewell."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: These times of woe afford no time to woo."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: When I have seen by Time's fell hand defaced The rich proud cost of outworn buried age; When sometime lofty towers I see down-razed And brass eternal slave to mortal rage; When I have seen the hungry ocean gain Advantage on the kingdom of the shore, And the firm soil win of the watery main, Increasing store with loss and loss with store; When I have seen such interchange of state, Or state itself confounded to decay; Ruin hath taught me thus to ruminate, That Time will come and take my love away. This thought is as a death which cannot choose But weep to have that which it fears to lose."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Will you walk out of the air, my lord? HAMLET Into my grave."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Ill met by moonlight, proud Titania"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Through the forest have I gone. But Athenian found I none, On whose eyes I might approve This flower's force in stirring love. Night and silence.--Who is here? Weeds of Athens he doth wear: This is he, my master said, Despised the Athenian maid; And here the maiden, sleeping sound, On the dank and dirty ground. Pretty soul! she durst not lie Near this lack-love, this kill-courtesy. Churl, upon thy eyes I throw All the power this charm doth owe. When thou wakest, let love forbid Sleep his seat on thy eyelid: So awake when I am gone; For I must now to Oberon."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: She never told her love, but let concealment, like a worm 'i th' bud, feed on her damask cheek. She pinned in thought; and, with a green and yellow melancholy, she sat like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief. Was not this love indeed? We men may say more, swear more; but indeed our shows are more than will; for we still prove much in our vows but little in our love."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He's mad that trusts in the tameness of a wolf."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun. Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon, Who is already sick and pale with grief, That thou, her maid, art far more fair than she. Be not her maid, since she is envious; Her vestal livery is but sick and green And none but fools do wear it; cast it off. It is my lady, O, it is my love! Oh, that she knew she were!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And some that smile have in their hearts, I fear, millions of mischiefs."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And what\u2019s he then that says I play the villain?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fondling,' she saith, 'since I have hemm'd thee here Within the circuit of this ivory pale, I'll be a park, and thou shalt be my deer; Feed where thou wilt, on mountain or in dale: Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry, Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou art as wise as thou art beautiful"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: ...and then, in dreaming, / The clouds methought would open and show riches / Ready to drop upon me, that when I waked / I cried to dream again."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love denied blights the soul we owe to God."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll follow thee and make a heaven of hell,<br />\r\nTo die upon the hand I love so well"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Love is not love<br />\r\nWhich alters when it alteration finds,<br />\r\nOr bends with the remover to remove.<br />\r\nO, no! It is an ever-fixed mark,<br />\r\nThat looks on tempests and is never shaken.<br />\r\nIt is the star to every wandering bark,<br />\r\nWhose worth's unknown, although his height be taken."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: So they loved as love in twain Had the essence but in one; Two distinct, divisions none."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll say she looks as clear as morning roses newly washed with dew."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For you and I are past our dancing days."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Then come kiss me, sweet and twenty."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: As chaste as unsunned snow."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: All lovers swear more performance than they are able, and yet reserve an ability that they never perform; vowing more than the perfection of ten, and discharging less than the tenth part of one."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: We will draw the curtain and show you the picture."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: You draw me, you hard-hearted adamant;<br />\r\nBut yet you draw not iron, for my heart<br />\r\nIs true as steel: leave you your power to draw,<br />\r\nAnd I shall have no power to follow you."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: My love's more richer than my tongue."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Who wooed in haste, and means to wed at leisure."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea,<br />\r\nBut bad mortality o'ersways their power,<br />\r\nHow with this rage shall beauty hold a plea,<br />\r\nWhose action is no stronger than a flower?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have very poor and unhappy brains for drinking: I could well wish courtesy would invent some other custom of entertainment."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Who are the violets now<br />\r\nThat strew the lap of the new-come spring?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Their lips were four red roses on a stalk."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Flower of this purple dye, Hit with Cupid's archery, Sink in apple of his eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: But earthlier happy is the rose distill'd<br />\r\nThan that which withering on the virgin thorn<br />\r\nGrows, lives, and dies in single blessedness."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He wears the rose<br />\r\nOf youth upon him."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The seasons alter: hoary-headed frosts<br />\r\nFall in the fresh lap of the crimson rose."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And I will make it felony to drink small beer."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Although the last, not least."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Small to greater matters must give way."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: For Brutus is an honourable man; <br />\r\nSo are they all, all honourable men."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: He hath eaten me out of house and home."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The law hath not been dead, though it hath slept."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou art all the comfort,<br />\r\nThe Gods will diet me with."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How use doth breed a habit in a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Is this a dagger which I see before me, <br />\r\nThe handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. <br />\r\nI have thee not, and yet I see thee still. <br />\r\nArt thou not, fatal vision, sensible <br />\r\nTo feeling as to sight? or art thou but <br />\r\nA dagger of the mind, a false creation, <br />\r\nProceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: How many ages hence <br />\r\nShall this our lofty scene be acted over <br />\r\nIn states unborn and accents yet unknown!"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Thou shalt be both the plaintiff and the judge of thine own cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I cannot tell what the dickens his name is."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Their understanding<br />\r\nBegins to swell and the approaching tide<br />\r\nWill shortly fill the reasonable shores<br />\r\nThat now lie foul and muddy."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I have heard of your paintings too, well enough; God has given you one face, and you make yourselves another."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Fill all thy bones with aches."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Now would I give a thousand furlongs of sea for an acre of barren ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I pray thee cease thy counsel, <br />\r\nWhich falls into mine ears as profitless as water in a sieve."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I, thus neglecting worldly ends, all dedicated <br />\r\nTo closeness and the bettering of my mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Cursed be he that moves my bones."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: These signs have marked me extraordinary, And all the courses of my life do show I am not in the roll of common men."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: I'll teach you differences."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: O, my offence is rank, it smells to heaven"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Of all the fair resort of gentlemen<br />\r\nThat every day with parle encounter me,<br />\r\nIn thy opinion which is worthiest love?"
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: Holy, fair, and wise is she; <br />\r\nThe heaven such grace did lend her, <br />\r\nThat she might admired be."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If you did wed my sister for her wealth,<br />\r\nThen for her wealth's sake use her with more kindness;<br />\r\nOr, if you like elsewhere, do it by stealth;<br />\r\nMuffle your false love with some show of blindness;<br />\r\nLet not my sister read it in your eye;<br />\r\nBe not thy tongue thy own shame's orator;<br />\r\nLook sweet, speak fair, become disloyalty;<br />\r\nApparel vice like virtue's harbinger;<br />\r\nBear a fair presence, though your heart be tainted;<br />\r\nTeach sin the carriage of a holy saint;<br />\r\nBe secret-false."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: And do so, love, yet when they have devised<br />\r\nWhat strain\u00e8d touches rhetoric can lend,<br />\r\nThou, truly fair, wert truly sympathized<br />\r\nIn true plain words by thy true-telling friend;<br />\r\nAnd their gross painting might be better used<br />\r\nWhere cheeks need blood; in thee it is abused."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem<br />\r\nFor that sweet odour which doth in it live."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: . . . it is impossible you should take true root but by the fair weather that you make yourself it is needful that you frame the season of your own harvest."
  },
  {
    "text": "William Shakespeare: If she be fair and wise, fairness and wit,<br />\r\nThe one's for use, the other useth it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Compassion and tolerance are not a sign of weakness, but a sign of strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If you have fear of some pain or suffering, you should examine whether there is anything you can do about it. If you can, there is no need to worry about it; if you cannot do anything, then there is also no need to worry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Many people think that patience is a sign of weakness. \n I think this is a mistake. It is anger that is a sign of \n weakness, whereas patience is a sign of strength"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Through difficult experiences, life sometimes becomes more meaningful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Although you may not always be able to avoid difficult situations,you can modify the extent to which you can suffer by how you choose to respond to the situation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Like a lamp, dispelling the darkness of ignorance"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We often add to our pain and suffering by being overly sensitive, over-reacting to minor things, and sometimes taking things too personally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The problems we face today, violent conflicts, destruction of nature, poverty, hunger, and so on, are human-created problems which can be resolved through human effort, understanding and the development of a sense of brotherhood and sisterhood. We need to cultivate a universal responsibility for one another and the planet we share."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I have found that the greatest degree of inner tranquility comes from the development of love and compassion. The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being. Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It is the ultimate source of success in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We are all here on this planet, as it were, as tourists. None of us can live here forever. The longest we might live is a hundred years. So while we are here we should try to have a good heart and to make something positive and useful of our lives. Whether we live just a few years or a whole century, it would be truly regrettable and sad if we were to spend that time aggravating the problems that afflict other people, animals, and the environment. The most important things is to be a good human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: A tree with strong roots can withstand the most violent storm, but the tree can't grow roots just as the storm appears on the horizon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Foolish, selfish people are always thinking of themselves and the result is always negative. Wise persons think of others, helping them as much as they can, and the result is happiness. Love and compassion are beneficial both for you and others. Through your kindness to others, your mind and heart will open to peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Compassion is the wish for another being to be free from suffering; love is wanting them to have happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Look at children... \nIf they feel angry with someone, \nthey express it, and then it is finished. \nThey can still play with that person the following day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I don't take myself too seriously! That makes me happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: It is worth remembering that the time of greatest gain in terms of wisdom and inner strength is often that of greatest difficulty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The purpose of life is to be happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I feel that compassionate thought is the most precious thing there is. It is something that only we human beings can develop. And if we have a good heart, a warm heart, warm feelings, we will be happy and satisfied ourselves, and our friends will experience a friendly and peaceful atmosphere as well. This can be experienced community to community, country to country, continent to continent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: One can be deceived by three types of laziness: of indolence, which is the wish to procrastinate; the laziness of inferiority, which is doubting your capabilities; and the laziness that is attachment to negative actions, or putting great effort into non-virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Because we all share this planet earth, we have to learn to live in harmony and peace with each other and with nature. This is not just a dream, but a necessity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If you want to change the world, first try to improve and bring about change within yourself. That will help change your family. From there it just gets bigger and bigger. Everything we do has some effect, some impact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Some people, sweet and attractive, and strong and healthy, happen to die young. They are masters in disguise teaching us about impermanence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of inner peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion and elimination of ignorance, selfishness and greed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I feel that the essence of spiritual practice is your attitude toward others. When you have a pure, sincere motivation, then you have right attitude toward others based on kindness, compassion, love and respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: To be aware of a single shortcoming within oneself is more useful than to be aware of a thousand in somebody else. Rather than speaking badly about people and in ways that will produce friction and unrest in their lives, we should practice a purer perception of them, and when we speak of others, speak of their good qualities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The world will be saved by the western woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I remain convinced that most human conflicts can be solved through genuine dialogue conducted with a spirit of openness and reconciliation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others\u2019 actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether we like it or not, there is hardly a moment of our lives when we do not benefit from others\u2019 activities. For this reason, it is hardly surprising that most of our happiness arises in the context of our relationships with others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: One of the most effective ways to overcome anxiety is to try to shift the focus of attention away from self and toward others. When we succeed in this, we find that the scale of our own problems diminishes. This is not to say we should ignore our own needs altogether, but rather that we should try to remember others' needs alongside our own, no matter how pressing ours may be"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If there is love, there is hope that one may have real families, real brotherhood, real equanimity, real peace. If the love within your mind is lost and you see other beings as enemies, then no matter how much knowledge or education or material comfort you have, only suffering and confusion will ensue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: It is necessary to help others, not only in our prayers, but in our daily lives. If we find we cannot help others, the least we can do is to desist from harming them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Learning to forgive is much more useful than merely picking up a stone and throwing it at the object of one's anger, the more so when the provocation is extreme. For it is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for oneself and others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Each of us has the potential to contribute... You have a great opportunity to make a new shape of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The essence of compassion is a desire to alleviate the suffering of others and to promote their well-being"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger. Instead of getting angry nurture a deep caring and respect for troublemakers because by creating such trying circumstances they provide us with invaluable opportunities to practice tolerance and patience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Responsibility does not only lie with the leaders of our countries or with those who have been appointed or elected to do a particular job. It lies with each of us individually."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If we ourselves remain angry and then sing world peace, it has little meaning. First, our individual self must learn peace. \r\nThis we can practice. Then we can teach the rest of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Through violence, you may 'solve' one problem, but you sow the seeds for another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: My earnest request is that you practice love and kindness whether you believe in a religion or not"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If someone has a gun and is trying to kill you, it would be reasonable to shoot back with your own gun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Human use, population, and technology have reached that certain stage where mother Earth no longer accepts our presence with silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I have come to the conclusion that whether or not a person is a religious believer does not matter. Far more important is that they be a good human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Happiness is determined more by one's state of mind than by external events."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The purpose of our lives is to be happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: When the days become longer and there is more sunshine, the grass becomes fresh and, consequently, we feel very happy. On the other hand, in autumn, one leaf falls down and another leaf falls down. The beautiful plants become as if dead and we do not feel very happy. Why? I think it is because deep down our human nature likes construction, and does not like destruction. Naturally, every action which is destructive is against human nature. Constructiveness is the human way. Therefore, I think that in terms of basic human feeling, violence is not good. Non-violence is the only way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I don't know whether the universe, with its countless galaxies, stars and planets, has a deeper meaning or not, but at the very least, it is clear that we humans who live on this earth face the task of making a happy life for ourselves. Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the greatest degree of happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The time has come to educate people, to cease all quarrels in the name of religion, culture, countries, different political or economic systems. Fighting is useless. Suicide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: To remain indifferent to the challenges we face is indefensible. If the goal is noble, whether or not it is realized within our lifetime is largely irrelevant. What we must do therefore is to strive and persevere and never give up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticize others. Rather, we must criticize ourselves. How much am I doing about my anger? About my attachment, about my hatred, about my pride, my jealousy? These are the things which we must check in daily life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We don\u2019t need more money, we don\u2019t need greater success or fame, we don\u2019t need the perfect body or even the perfect mate-right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Buddhism does not accept a theory of God, or a creator. According to Buddhism, one's own actions are the creator, ultimately. Some people say that, from a certain angle, Buddhism is not a religion but rather a science of mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The purpose of all the major religious traditions is not to construct big temples on the outside, but to create temples of goodness and compassion inside, in our hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Real affection comes from the face. Those political leaders, when they meet, they are always hugging, but not very genuine. Deep, sincerity comes from face and eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I pray for all of us, oppressor and friend, that together we succeed in building a better world through human understanding and love, and that in doing so we may reduce the pain and suffering of all sentient beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Love and compassion are the pillars of world peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: There is competition, but it is used in a good way.  It is positive to want to go first, provided the intention is to pave the way for others, make their path more easy, help them, or show the way.  Competition is negative when we wish to defeat others, to bring them down in order to lift ourselves up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Scientists may study mainly matter but they cannot ignore the human mind, or consciousness: spiritual practitioners may be engaging mainly in developing the mind but they cannot completely ignore their physical needs. It is for this reason that I have always stressed the importance of combining both mental and the material approach to achieving happiness for humankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: True compassion is not just an emotional response but a firm commitment founded on reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If you can cultivate the right attitude, your enemies are your best spiritual teachers because their presence provides you with the opportunity to enhance and develop tolerance, patience and understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Suffering increases your inner strength. Also, the wishing for suffering makes the suffering disappear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change. In my view, science and Buddhism share a search for the truth and for understanding reality. By learning from science about aspects of reality where its understanding may be more advanced, I believe that Buddhism enriches its own worldview."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I feel that a genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives. How one creates that smile largely depends on one's own attitude. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behaviour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: A female Dalai Lama must be very attractive, otherwise not much use."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The creatures that inhabit this earth-be they human beings or animals-are here to contribute, each in its own particular way, to the beauty and prosperity of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I feel many problems that we are facing, are man-made problems, we have too much emphasis on this secondary thing, forgetting our foundation. At foundation, we are the same human being and we are sharing the same planet. Six billion human beings' future is my future and my future is never separate from the future of six billion human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: In the present circumstances, no one can afford to assume that someone else \n will solve their problems. Every individual has a responsibility to help guide our global family in the right direction. Good wishes are not sufficient; we must become actively engaged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The training of the mind is an art. If this can be considered art, one's life is art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We can't blame the entire Muslim society because of the mischievous acts of a few individuals. Therefore, at the general public level we must cultivate the notion of not just one religion, one truth, but pluralism and many truths. We can change the atmosphere, and we can modify certain ways of thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: When I look at birds and animals, their survival is without rules, without conditions, without organization. But mothers take good care of their offspring. That's nature. In human beings also, parents - particularly mothers - and children have a special bond. Mother's milk is a sign of this affection. We are created that way. The child's survival is entirely dependent on someone else's affection. So, basically, each individual's survival or future depends on society. We need these human values."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Anger and hatred cannot bring harmony. The noble task of arms control and disarmament cannot be accomplished by confrontation and condemnation. Hostile attitudes only serve to heat up the situation, whereas a true sense of respect gradually cools down what otherwise could become explosive. We must recognize the frequent contradictions between short-term benefit and long-term harm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Mutual respect is the foundation of genuine harmony."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If science proves some belief of Buddhism wrong, then Buddhism will have to change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Happiness mainly comes from our own attitude, rather than from external factors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Death is a part of all our lives. Whether we like it or not, it is bound to happen. Instead of avoiding thinking about it, it is better to understand its meaning. We all have the same body, the same human flesh, and therefore we will all die. There is a big difference, of course, between natural death and accidental death, but basically death will come sooner or later. If from the beginning your attitude is 'Yes, death is part of our lives,' then it may be easier to face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: True compassion is not just an emotional response, but a firm commitment founded on reason. Therefore, a truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change, even if they behave negatively. Through universal altruism, you develop a feeling of responsibility for others: the wish to help them actively overcome their problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: What is the purpose of life? I believe that the purpose of life is to be happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The creation of a more peaceful and happier society has to begin from the level of the individual, and from there it can expand to one's family, to one's neighborhood, to one's community and so on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: In order to satisfy one human stomach, so many lives are taken away. We must promote vegetarianism. It is extremely important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If science proves facts that conflict with Buddhist understanding, Buddhism must change accordingly. We should always adopt a view that accords with the facts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: A truly compassionate attitude toward others does not change even if they behave negatively or hurt you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Today, due to the massive Chinese population transfer, the nation of Tibet truly faces the threat of extinction, along with its unique cultural heritage of Buddhist spirituality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: With the realization of ones own potential and self-confidence in ones ability, one can build a better world. According to my own experience, self-confidence is very important. That sort of confidence is not a blind one; it is an awareness of ones own potential. On that basis, human beings can transform themselves by increasing the good qualities and reducing the negative qualities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We have a natural creative ability and it is very important to realize this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Love and kindness are the very basis of society. If we lose these feelings, society will face tremendous difficulties; the survival of humanity will be endangered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Through money or power you cannot solve all problems. The problem in the human heart must be solved first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: For a practitioner of love and compassion, an enemy is one of the most important teachers. Without an enemy you cannot practice tolerance, and without tolerance you cannot build a sound basis of compassion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: People once considered that religions were obsolete and that material science would solve all human problems. Then they have become disillusioned with materialism and machinery and have realized that spiritual sciences are also indispensable for human welfare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Unlike an external enemy, the inner enemy cannot regroup and launch a comeback once it has been destroyed from within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I think the problem is these basic sort of human values from our - from the beginning, from birth, are not sort of properly nurtured. So then our mind, our brain, through education and also difference of experiences, that eventually, these basic values or what are called dominant, not have the catching up our intelligence, experience growth, that also should grow. Then our life become more human."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance. Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas [enlightened heroes and heroines] - it enables you to refrain from reacting angrily to the harm inflicted on you by others. You could call this practice \"inner disarmament,\" in that a well-developed tolerance makes you free from the compulsion to counterattack. For the same reason, we also call tolerance the \"best armor,\" since it protects you from being conquered by hatred itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We humans have existed in our present form for about a hundred thousand years. I believe that if during this time the human mind had been primarily controlled by anger and hatred, our overall population would have decreased. But today, despite all our wars, we find that the human population is greater than ever. This clearly indicates to me that love and compassion predominate in the world. And this is why unpleasant events are \"news\"; compassionate activities are so much a part of daily life that they are taken for granted and , therefore, largely ignored."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Meditation is valuable for all of humanity because it involves looking inward. People don't have to be religious to look inside themselves more carefully. It is constructive and worthwhile to analyze our emotions, including compassion and our sense of caring, so that we can become more calm and happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If scientific analysis were conclusively to demonstrate certain claims in Buddhism to be false, then we must accept the findings of science and abandon those claims."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Whether we love humanity or not, we must realize that we are part of it. My future depends entirely on the future of humanity, and so I am compelled to take care of humanity. That is why being compassionate is actually in my own best interest. And a symptom of my own peace of mind is that I can share comfort with others around me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Harmony can not thrive in a climate of mistrust, cheating, bullying; mean-spirited competition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Human beings will continue to deceive and overpower one another. Basically, everyone exists in the very nature of suffering, so to abuse or mistreat each other is futile. The foundation of all spiritual practice is love. That you practice this well is my only request."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Real power has to do with one's ability to influence the hearts and minds of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If one's cause is supported by sound reasoning, there is no point in using violence. It is those who have no motive other than selfish desire and who cannot achieve their goal through logical reasoning who rely on force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: There should be pluralism - the concept of many religions, many truths. But we must also be careful not to become nihilistic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister. No matter how new the face or how different the dress and behavior, there is no significant division between us and other people. It is foolish to dwell on external differences, because our basic natures are the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I call myself a feminist. Isn't that what you call someone who fights for women's rights?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: From one point of view we can say that we have human bodies and are practicing the Buddha's teachings and are thus much better than insects. But we can also say that insects are innocent and free from guile, where as we often lie and misrepresent ourselves in devious ways in order to achieve our ends or better ourselves. From this perspective, we are much worse than insects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Buddha himself taught different teachings to different people under different circumstances. For some people, there are beliefs based on a Creator. For others, no Creator. The only \"definitive truth\" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Without your own effort it is impossible for blessings to come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Always embrace the common humanity that lies at the heart of us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Our life depends on others so much that at the root of our existence is a fundamental need for love. That is why it is good to cultivate an authentic sense of responsibility and concern for the welfare of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: A balanced and skillful approach to life, taking care to avoid extremes, becomes a very important factor in conducting one's everyday existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We need a little more compassion, and if we cannot have it, then no politician or even a magician can save the planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: For discovering one's true inner nature, I think one should try to take out some time, with quiet and relaxation, to think more inwardly and to investigate the inner world. That may help."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The various features and aspects of human life, such as longevity, good health, success, happiness, and so forth, which we consider desirable, are all dependent on kindness and a good heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: According to Buddhist practice, there are three stages or steps. The initial stage is to reduce attachment towards life. The second stage is the elimination of desire and attachment to this samsara. Then in the third stage, self-cherishing is eliminated"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Encountering sufferings will definitely contribute to the elevation of your spiritual practice, provided you are able to transform calamity and misfortune into the path."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: All the world\u2019s major religions, with their emphasis on love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness, can and do promote inner values. But the reality of the world today is that grounding ethics in religion is no longer adequate. This is why I believe the time has come to find a way of thinking about spirituality and ethics that is beyond religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Every religion emphasizes human improvement, love, respect for others, sharing other people's suffering. On these lines every religion had more or less the same viewpoint and the same goal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Reason well from the beginning and then there will never be any need to look back with confusion and doubt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I believe all religions pursue the same goals, that of cultivating human goodness and bringing happiness to all human beings. Though the means might appear different the ends are the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Human happiness and human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself. It is wrong to expect some final satisfaction to come from money or from a computer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Human satisfaction must ultimately come from within oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Unfortunately, love and compassion have been omitted from too many spheres of social interaction for too long. Usually confined to family and home, their practice in public life is considered impractical, even naive. This is tragic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Happiness comes through taming the mind; without taming the mind there is no way to be happy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: By deceiving one another through false assumptions and misrepresentations there has been, in reality, a great lapse and delay in achieving the real goals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Today we face many problems. Some are created essentially by ourselves based on divisions due to ideology, religion, race, economic status, or other factors. Therefore, the time has come for us to think on a deeper level, on the human level, and from that level we should appreciate and respect the sameness of others as human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The purpose of our life needs to be positive. We weren't born with the purpose of causing trouble, harming others. For our life to be of value, I think we must develop basic good human qualities - warmth, kindness, compassion. Then our life becomes meaningful and more peaceful - happier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: First one must change. I first watch myself, check myself, then expect changes from others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We are visitors on this planet. We are here for one hundred years at the very most. During that period we must try to do something good, something useful, with our lives. if you contribute to other people's happiness, you will find the true meaning of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: When we face problems or disagreements today, we have to arrive at solutions through dialogue. Dialogue is the only appropriate method. One-sided victory is no longer acceptable. We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: No matter what part of the world we come from, we are all basically the same human beings. We all seek happiness and try to avoid suffering. We have the same basic human needs and concerns. All of us human beings want freedom and the right to determine our own destiny as individuals and as peoples. That is human nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we all are seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is towards happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The very purpose of our life is to seek happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Unless we possess high spiritual qualifications, there is no doubt that the events life throws upon us will give rise to frustration, emotional turmoil, and other distorted states of consciousness. These imperfect states of mind in turn give rise to imperfect activities, and the seeds of suffering are ever planted in a steady flow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: By developing a sense of respect for others and a concern for their welfare, we reduce our own selfishness, which is the source of all problems, and enhance our sense of kindness, which is a natural source of goodness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: It is my dream that the entire Tibetan plateau should become a free refuge where humanity and nature can live in peace and in harmonious balance. It would be a place where people from all over the world could come to seek the true meaning of peace within themselves, away from the tensions and pressures of much of the rest of the world"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Those who suffer from an exaggerated sense of their own ability and accomplishment are continually subject to frustration, disappointment, and rage when reality intrudes and the world doesn't validate their idealized view of themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The very purpose of religion is to control yourself, not to criticise others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Look at children. Of course they may quarrel, but generally speaking they do not harbor ill feelings as much or as long as adults do. Most adults have the advantage of education over children, but what is the use of an education if they show a big smile while hiding negative feelings deep inside? Children don\ufffdt usually act in such a manner. If they feel angry with someone, they express it, and then it is finished. They can still play with that person the following day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Most of our troubles are due to our passionate desire for and attachment to things that we misapprehend as enduring entities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: It is important to have determination and optimism and patience. If you lack patience, even when you face some small obstacle, you lose courage. There is a Tibetan saying, \"Even if you have failed at something nine times, you have still given it effort nine times.\" I think that's important. Use your brain to analyze the situation. Do not rush through it, but think. Once you decide what to do about that obstacle, then there's a possibility that you will achieve your goal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If you help others with sincere motivation and sincere concern, that will bring you more fortune, more friends, more smiles, and more success. If you forget about others' rights and neglect others' welfare, ultimately you will be very lonely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Forgiveness doesn't mean forget what happened. If something is serious and it is necessary to take counter-measures, you have to take counter-measures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Just as rust, which arose from the iron itself, wears out the iron, likewise, performing an action without examination would destroy us by projecting us into a negative state of existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If we continue to approach problems from the perspective of temporary expediency, future generations will face tremendous difficulties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: What is the relationship between spirituality and ethical practice? Since love and compassion and similar qualities all, by definition, presume some level of concern for others' well-being, they presume ethical restraint. We cannot be loving and compassionate unless at the same time we curb our own harmful impulses and desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: No material object, however beautiful or valuable, can make us feel loved, because our deeper identity and true character lie in the subjective nature of the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If we have a positive mental attitude, then even when surrounded by hostility, we shall not lack inner peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If you resort to violent methods because the other side has destroyed your monastery, for example, you then have lost not only your monastery, but also your special Buddhist practices of detachment, love, and compassion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If we make consistent effort, based on proper education, we can change the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: It's not enough to be compassionate. You must act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I myself feel, and also tell other Buddhists that the question of Nirvana will come later.\nThere is not much hurry.\nIf in day to day life you lead a good life, honesty, with love,\nwith compassion, with less selfishness,\nthen automatically it will lead to Nirvana."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: As far as your personal requirements are concerned, the ideal is to \n have fewer involvements, fewer obligations, and fewer affairs, \n business or whatever. However, so far as the interest of the larger \n community is concerned, you must have as many involvements as \n possible and as many activities as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Compassion is the wish to see others free from suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Number of people have said to me, after hearing your thinking, their mind becomes much more happier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Inner peace is the key: if you have inner peace, the external problems do not affect your deep sense of peace and tranquility... Without this inner peace, no matter how comfortable your life is materially, you may still be worried, disturbed or unhappy because of circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Brute force, no matter how strongly applied, can never subdue the basic human desire for freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Human potential is the same for all. Your feeling, 'I am of no value', is wrong. Absolutely wrong. You are deceiving yourself. We all have the power of thought \u2014 so what are you lacking? If you have will-power , then you can do anything. It is usually said that you are your own master."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: One has to try to develop one's inner feelings, which can be done simply by training one's mind. This is a priceless human asset and one you don't have to pay income tax on!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The real test of compassion is not what we say in abstract discussions but how we conduct ourselves in daily life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Education is the way to achieve far-reaching results, it is the proper way to promote compassion and tolerance in society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The very purpose of our life is happiness, which is sustained by hope. We have no guarantee about the future, but we exist in the hope of something better. Hope means keeping going, thinking, \u2018I can do this.\u2019 It brings inner strength, self-confidence , the ability to do what you do honestly, truthfully and transparently."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: It is not enough to be compassionate, we must act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: When you lose, don't lose the lesson."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: It is not only our right as members of the global human family to protest when our brothers and sisters are being treated brutally, but it is also our duty to do whatever we can to hep them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: A mind committed to compassion is like an overflowing reservoir - a constant source of energy, determination, and kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Even a small act of compassion grants meaning and purpose to our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I have been confronted with many difficulties throughout the course of my life, and my country is going through a critical period. But I laugh often, and my laughter is contagious. When people ask me how I find the strength to laugh now, I reply that I am a professional laugher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The proper use of our intelligence and knowledge is to effect changes from within to develop a good heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Because we all share an identical need for love, it is possible to feel that anybody we meet, in whatever circumstances, is a brother or sister."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: It is the enemy who can truly teach us to practice the virtues of compassion and tolerance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Every noble work is bound to face problems and obstacles. It is important to check your goal and motivation thoroughly. One should be very truthful, honest, and reasonable. One's actions should be good for others, and for oneself as well. Once a positive goal is chosen, you should decide to pursue it all the way to the end. Even if it is not realized, at least there will be no regret."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: It is felt that a disciplined mind leads to happiness and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering, and in fact it is said that bringing about discipline within one's mind is the essence of the Buddha's teaching."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Every human actions becomes dangerous when it is deprived of human feeling. When they are performed with feeling and respect for human values, all activities become constructive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I believe that at every level of society the key to a happier world is the growth of compassion. We do not need to become religious, nor do we need to believe in an ideology. All that is necessary is for each of us to develop our good human qualities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We live within the environment. So that directly relates with our survival, our life. So through that way, more concern of well being of humanity, then naturally concerned about environment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Anger or hatred is like a fisherman's hook. It is very important for us to ensure that we are not caught by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: My religion is kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Anger and hatred are the real enemies that we must confront and defeat, not the 'enemies' who appear from time to time in our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: When you engage in fulfilling the needs of others, your own needs are fulfilled as a by-product."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Hatred, jealousy, and fear hinder peace of mind. When you're angry or unforgiving, for example, your mental suffering is constant. It is better to forgive than to spoil your peace of mind with ill feelings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: After I handed over all my authority, I feel now our struggle [for Tibet ] become much, much safer. And me personally, the day I officially handed over, that night, very unusual sound. I am quite free now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Since periods of great change, such as the present one, come so rarely in human history, it is up to each of us to make the best use of our time to help create a happier world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: At a personal level, as a Buddhist practitioner, I deliberately visualize and think about death in my daily practice. Death is not separated from our lives. Due to my research and thoughts about death, I have some guarantee and some conviction that it will be a positive experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I love smiles. That is a fact. How to develop smiles? There are a variety of smiles. Some smiles are sarcastic. Some smiles are artificial-diplomatic smiles. These smiles do not produce satisfaction, but rather fear or suspicion. But a genuine smile gives us hope, freshness. If we want a genuine smile, then first we must produce the basis for a smile to come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Not so long ago people believed in ideologies, systems, and institutions to save all societies. Today, they have given up such hopes and have returned to relying on the individual, on individual freedom, individual initiative, individual creativity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Appreciate how rare and full of potential your situation is in this world, then take joy in it, and use it to your best advantage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If I say, \"I am a monk.\" or \"I am a Buddhist,\" these are, in comparison to my nature as a human being, temporary. To be human is basic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If there are sound reasons or bases for the points you demand, then there is no need for violence. On the other hand, when there is no sound reason that concessions should be made to you but mainly your own desire, then reason cannot work and you have to rely on force. Thus using force is not a sign of strength but rather a sign of weakness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Only the development of compassion and understanding for others can bring us the tranquility and happiness we all seek."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: A good motivation is what is needed: compassion without dogmatism, without complicated philosophy; just understanding that others are human brothers and sisters and respecting their human rights and dignities. That we humans can help each other is one of our unique human capacities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Self satisfaction alone cannot determine if a desire or action is positive or negative. The demarcation between a positive and a negative desire or action is not whether it gives you a immediate feeling of satisfaction, but whether it ultimately results in positive or negative consequences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I will not propose to you that my way is best. The decision is up to you. If you find some point which may be suitable to you, then you can carry out experiments for yourself. If you find that it is of no use, then you can discard it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: One country ... one ideology, one system is not sufficient. It is helpful to have a variety of different approaches ... We can then make a joint effort to solve the problems of the whole of humankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: On the philosophical level, both Buddhism and modern science share a deep suspicion of any notion of absolutes, whether conceptualize as a transcendent being, as an eternal, unchanging principle such as soul, or as a fundamental substratum of reality. ... In the Buddhist investigation of reality, at least in principle, empirical evidence should triumph over scriptural authority, no matter how deeply venerated a scripture may be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If each of us can learn to relate to each other more out of compassion, with a sense of connection to each other and a deep recognition of our common humanity, and more important, to teach this to our children, I believe that this can go a long way in reducing many of the conflicts and problems that we see today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: World peace begins with inner peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: An enemy is indeed a precious teacher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: A generous heart and wholesome actions lead to greater peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Where there is a mind, there are feelings such as pain, pleasure, and joy. No sentient being wants pain: all wants happiness instead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: In olden times when there was a war, it was a human-to-human confrontation.  The victor in battle would directly see the blood and suffering of the defeated enemy.  Nowadays, it is much more terrifying because a person in an office can push a button and kill millions of people and never see the human tragedy that he or she has created.  The mechanization of war, the mechanization of human conflict, poses an increasing threat to peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Religion does not mean just precepts, a temple, monastery, or other external signs, for these as well as hearing and thinking are subsidiary factors in taming the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We need to teach people that the environment has a direct bearing on our own benefit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Conservation is not merely a question of morality, but a question of our own survival."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: It is important not to allow ourselves to be put off by the magnitude of others' suffering. The misery of millions is not a cause for pity. Rather it is a cause for compassion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I am just one human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: My desire to devolve authority has nothing to do with a wish to shirk responsibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: According to Buddhist psychology most of our troubles stem from attachment to things that we mistakenly see as permanent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: To a large extent, whether you suffer depends on how you respond to a given situation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Basically, from the viewpoint of real human value we are all the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: May I examine my mind in all actions and as soon as a negative state occurs, since it endangers myself and others, may I firmly face and avert it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Our purpose in life is to be happy. From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: World peace must develop from inner peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Peace can only last where human rights are respected, where the people are fed, and where individuals and nations are free. True peace with oneself and with the world around us can only be achieved through the development of mental peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We have to make a sustained effort, again and again, to cultivate the positive aspects within us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I think that ethical behaviour is another feature of the kind of inner discipline that leads to a happier existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: So the first step in seeking happiness is learning. We first have to learn how negative emotions and behaviors are harmful to us and how positive emotions are helpful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: It is also possible within this lifetime to enhance the power of the mind, enabling one to reaccess memories from previous lives. Such recollection tends to be more accessible during meditative experiences in the dream state. Once one has accessed memories of previous lives in the dream state, one gradually recalls them in the waking state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The most important benefit of patience consists in the way it acts as a powerful antidote to the affliction of anger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I hope that at this moment you are thinking of yourself as a human being rather than as an American, Asian, European, African, or member of any particular country. These loyalties are secondary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: There is a true feminist movement in Buddhism that relates to the goddess T\u0101r\u0101. Following her cultivation of bodhicitta, the bodhisattva's motivation, she looked upon the situation of those striving towards full awakening and she felt that there were too few people who attained Buddhahood as women. So she vowed, 'I have developed bodhicitta as a woman. For all my lifetimes along the path I vow to be born as a woman, and in my final lifetime when I attain Buddhahood, then, too, I will be a woman.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Sometimes, whether a desire is excessive or negative depends on the circumstances or society in which you live in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Only through kindness and love can peace of mind be achieved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Ultimately, the reason why love and compassion bring the greatest happiness is simply that our nature cherishes them above all else. The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Once you encourage the thought of compassion in your mind, once it becomes active, then your attitude towards others changes automatically."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The enemy is the necessary condition for practicing patience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: A disciplined mind leads to happiness, and an undisciplined mind leads to suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: One can overcome the forces of negative emotions, like anger and hatred, by cultivating their counter-forces, like love and compassion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The most important thing is practice in daily life; then you can \n know gradually the true value of religion. Doctrine is not meant for \n mere knowledge, but for the improvement of our minds. In order to do \n that, it must be part of our life. If you put religious doctrine in \n a building and when you leave the building depart from the practices, \n you cannot gain its value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: One great question underlies our experience, whether we think about \n it or not: what is the purpose of life? From the moment of birth \n every human being wants happiness and does not want suffering. \n Neither social conditioning nor education nor ideology affects this. \n >From the very core of our being, we simply desire contentment. \n Therefore, it is important to discover what will bring about the \n greatest degree of happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: According to Buddhism, individuals are masters of their own destiny. And all living beings are believed to possess the nature of the Primordial Buddha Samantabhadra, the potential or seed of enlightenment, within them. So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: There is a saying in Tibetan that \"at the door of the miserable rich man sleeps the contented beggar\". The point of this saying is not that poverty is a virtue, but that happiness does not come with wealth, but from setting limits to one's desires, and living within those limits with satisfaction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Don't compare me with Jesus. He is a great master, a great master."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Tolerance and patience should not be read as signs of weakness.\r\nThey are signs of strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: True change is within; leave the outside as it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Our every action has a universal dimension, a potential impact on others' happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I think the person who has had more experience of hardships can stand more firmly in the face of problems than the person who has never experienced suffering. From this angle then, some suffering can be a good lesson for life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Our attitude towards suffering becomes very important because it can affect how we cope with suffering when it arises."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If the mind is tranquil and occupied with positive thoughts, the body will not easily fall prey to disease"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I find that because of modern technological evolution and our global economy, and as a result of the great increase in population, our world has greatly changed: it has become much smaller. However, our perceptions have not evolved at the same pace; we continue to cling to old national demarcations and the old feelings of 'us' and 'them'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The root of happiness is altruism - the wish to be of service to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: ...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We must cultivate a universal responsibility toward each other and extend it to the planet that we have to share"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I really do not want to carry some kind of party function."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent. Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by \"voidness.\" Therefore, Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The universe that we inhabit and our shared perception of it are the results of a common karma. Likewise, the places that we will experience in future rebirths will be the outcome of the karma that we share with the other beings living there. The actions of each of us, human or nonhuman, have contributed to the world in which we live. We all have a common responsibility for our world and are connected with everything in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: A genuine, affectionate smile is very important in our day-to-day lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The universe is a single atom: the convergence of science and spirituality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: My own share making contribution [to the the well-being of humanity]. So I never feel I am something special."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Up to now my involvement in the Tibetan freedom struggle has been part of my spiritual practice, because the issues of the survival of the Buddha Teaching and the freedom of Tibet are very much related. In this particular struggle, there is no problem with many monks and nuns, including myself, joining."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: In our own case, we don't consider the loss of a monastery or a monument the end of our entire way of life. If one monastery is destroyed, sometimes it happens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: It is worthwhile for one to make an effort to achieve happiness. Just as the purpose of a plant is to grow, so it is that the main purpose of every human being is to survive and to grow until death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Even within one person, yesterday and today, there are differences. We must look at a deeper level."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If the Dalai Lama joins one party, then that makes it hard for the system to work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We have never declared war on China. We have only asked them to leave us in peace, to let us have our natural freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: It may seem unrealistic to think we can ever become free from hatred, but Buddhists have systematic methods for gradually developing a tolerance powerful enough to give such freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Self-rule means that China must stop its intensive effort to colonize Tibet with Chinese settlers and must allow Tibetans to hold responsible positions in the government of Tibet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: China can keep her troops on the external frontiers of Tibet, and Tibetans will pledge to accept the appropriate form of union with China."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: At the beginning of this century, people never questioned the effectiveness of war, never thought there could be real peace. Now, people are tired of war and see it as ineffective in solving anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: In some cases, lack of full knowledge or holistic view, that is also part of the problem. But mainly lack of moral principle. So long you have this genuine sort of concern, well being of other. That's the foundation of moral principle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Americans are interested because they are open-minded. They have an education system that teaches them to find out for themselves why things are the way they are. Open-minded people tend to be interested in Buddhism because Buddha urged people to investigate things - he didn't just command them to believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Yet even the rich have their own kind of suffering, anxiety, doubt, and fear. So in many cases, wealthy people aren't happy! And once those with material wealth encounter small difficulties, their amount of mental suffering is sometimes bigger than it is for those who have faced such difficulties every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: There should be a spirit of dialogue. Whenever we see any disagreements, we must think how to solve them on the basis of recognition of oneness of the entire humanity. This is the modern reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: There are differences between us. But it doesn't make sense to emphasize that, because my future and yours is connected with everyone else's. So we have to take seriously our concern for all of humanity. When we focus on our individuality, humanity inevitably suffers. And once humanity suffers, each one of us will also suffer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We must realize that it is best to focus on our oneness, to re emphasize what is the same about each of us rather than dwell on what is different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: On those days when I can spend a few hours getting some understanding, I feel fulfilled. I feel as if I have made good use of my time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The Buddha gave equal opportunities to women. But we, even as followers of Buddha, neglected that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I have never been any place where I was not first invited. And upon invitation, if I feel that there is potential for making some contribution to humanity, I will comply in spite of being tired."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: No single Tibetan dreaming return of previous sort of backwardness, therefore as far as economy development is concerned, Tibet remain within the People's Republic of China, we will get greater benefit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: You use force, you create fear. Fear destroys trust. Trust is the basis of harmony. The hardliner believes harmony and unity can be brought by force. That's totally unscientific, totally wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The female biologically [has] more potential to show affection and compassion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I met an American lady many years ago, much distant. Then I told her about my own difficult experiences and I showed some genuine concern. She responded, \"Why are you so concerned about me?\" We need more patience. At a fundamental level, we are the same human brothers and sisters. Then forget it. The human mind is very strange. Like that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Your motivation should be sincere and your life should be of benefit to some people. That is the main thing. Don't care after my death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: In a free country, America, or India, and Japan, and many places, democracy country, free country, but still within the sort of rule of law, some injustice, some sort of problems, some discrimination, and also some sort of scandals or the corruptions. These things, you see, they are always in my mind, I think many people agree, lack of moral principle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I always emphasize that it is much safer and better to keep one's own religious faith. The other major religions are thousands of years old and have long traditions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: As far as mental development is concerned, we should never be complacent. We can develop our minds infinitely - there is no limitation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: In pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Democratic institutions are necessary and very important, and if I remained at the head of government, it could be an obstacle to democratic practice. Also, if I were to remain, then I would have to join one of the parties. If the Dalai Lama joins one party, then that makes it hard for the system to work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: When a person is in a miserable situation, then, yes, it is difficult to develop genuine compassion toward others. That's why I find it difficult to say to poor people, \"Please have compassion toward millionaires.\" That's not easy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Tolerance is an important virtue of bodhisattvas ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Compassion is concern of others' well being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Compassion can be roughly defined in terms of a state of mind that is nonviolent, nonharming, and nonaggressive. It is a mental attitude based on the wish for others to be free of their suffering and is associated with a sense of commitment, responsibility, and respect towards others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Cats, dogs, and some I mean, birds, many species of mammals, they also have the sort of potential to show affection firstly because of the biological factor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I only escaped from Tibet because I feared my people would resort to desperate violence if the Chinese took me as their prisoner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: In my childhood, and particularly when I take the responsibility, I already have sort of keen desire, we must change our system. Then as soon as we reach India, 1959, at once we start working for democratization. Now here if remain in a political sort of field, supreme leader, at the same time religious leader, that may become hindrance of proper democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Then another thing, now this is mainly for our interest about Tibet, our struggle. Whole struggle depend on within person. For dangerous. Foolish! Not for this only institution or even not only for Buddhist dogma, but before national sort of right, our right. So therefore this struggle must carried by people themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If you develop a pure and sincere motivation, if you are motivated by a wish to help on the basis of kindness, compassion, and respect, then you can carry on any kind of work, in any field, and function more effectively."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I think many people knows what I am thinking. The whole world knows I am not seeking independence, therefore is many Tibetan disappointed, and also some of our supporters - many Indians, many Europeans, many Americans are also disappointed because I am not seeking independence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: In some places, there's the concept of one religion, one truth. In the Muslim world, there's the notion of Allah. The Western, multireligious modern society is some kind of a challenge to this. These, I feel, are the main causes [for terrorism], and, when combined with lots of anger and frustration, cause a huge amount of hate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment. So merely changing formal religious affiliations will often not help much. On the other hand, in pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Initially, terrorism was a certain mixture of politics, economics, and religion. Now, it seems that terrorism is more individual and done to avenge personal grudges. So there are two kinds of terrorism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We have always been a nation different from the Chinese. Long ago we fought wars with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Just give food without showing affection, [animals] might not get sort of 100% satisfaction. So they also, you see, when we human beings, we show affection, the poor animal also respond to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If your mind is scattered, it is quite powerless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: In order to develop the willpower it takes to sacrifice, you must first realize that spending all your time and energy pursuing material comforts means you will eventually suffer. It's all about positive and negative consequences. It's very important to be aware that there are long-term consequences [for every action]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Maybe, just maybe, I would like to become a real spiritual teacher, a working lama!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: When invitation come, then I inquire just to see new place or seeing just the one sort of family, then not much interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We must not lose our trust in the power of truth. Everything is always changing in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The only \"definitive truth\" for Buddhism is the absolute negation of any one truth as the Definitive Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: There are many different kinds of power. True power comes from serving and helping others. Such behavior makes people respect you. They are willing to listen to your views and advice, and they support you. The energy of many people is thus channeled through one person. This kind of power is positive and authentic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The invitation come from some institution who really involving so-called my own profession, these fields. And then different universities or education sort of institution, I feel that is the place where the awareness of these things to start and to spread a more human community. So then on that level, yes, I have some obligation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: A lot of problems we are facing, essentially, man made problem. Own creation. Not due to lack of intelligence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If your own mental attitude is correct, even if you remain in a hostile atmosphere, you feel happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I have three commitments. Number one commitment is promotion of human value. Number two commitment is promotion of race harmony. Number three commitment is about Tibet. My retirement is the third commitment. The previous two commitments, to my death, I have committed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Anger, jealousy, impatience, and hatred are the real troublemakers, with them problems cannot be solved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Those who don't have a life filled with luxury may have a home filled with compassion, based on their choice to be content and to practice self-discipline. Even when we have physical hardships, we can be very happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Happiness is a state of mind. With physical comforts if your mind is still in a state of confusion and agitation, it is not happiness. Happiness means calmness of mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Some people get the impression that Buddhism talks too much about suffering. In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time. Similarly, the Buddhist is willing to sacrifice immediate comfort so that he or she can achieve lasting happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I one individual human being. One of the seven billion human being. I believe each of us, our future depends on the rest of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: People should not rush to change religions. There is real value in finding the spiritual resources you need in your home religion. Even secular humanism has great spiritual resources; it is almost like a religion to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: In my mind of course natural disaster like tsunami, and these things, also I think indirectly may relate to human behavior. But then major sort of problems actually they're due to a lack of moral principle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Nothing comes into being without a cause and when all the conditions are created, there is nothing that can prevent the consequence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Ultimately, the decision to save the environment must come from the human heart. The key point is a call for a genuine sense of universal responsibility that is based on love, compassion and clear awareness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I truly believe that compassion provides the basis of human survival."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: World economies are always so tenuous and we are subject to so many losses in life, but a compassionate attitude is something we can always carry with us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: So long as space remains \r\nSo long as sentient beings'\r\nSuffering remains \r\nI will remain\r\nIn order to help,\r\nIn order to serve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: It is in everybody's interest to seek those [actions] that lead to happiness and avoid those which lead to suffering. And because our interests are inextricably linked, we are compelled to accept ethics as the indispensable interface between my desire to be happy and yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: When we consider reality itself we quickly become aware of its infinite complexity, and we realize that our habitual perception of it is often inadequate. If this were not so, the concept of deception would be meaningless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The great benefit of science is that it can contribute tremendously to the alleviation of suffering at the physical level, but it is only through the cultivation of the qualities of the human heart and the transformation of our attitudes that we can begin to address and overcome our mental suffering..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Along with selfishness, anger is one of the most serious problems facing the world today"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I don't want to convert people to Buddhism - all major religions, when understood properly, have the same potential for good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: All I can do is engage with complete sincerity. Then whatever happens, there is no regret."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Helping others is not limited to providing food, shelter, and so forth, but includes relieving the basic causes of suffering and providing the basic causes of happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: When selflessness is seen in objects, the seed of cyclic existence is destroyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Happiness can be achieved through training the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: So our future is in our own hands. What greater free will do we need?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: In order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at all by future generations. We have the capability and the responsibility to act; we must do so before it is too late."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If you practice in accord with your individual capacity, little by little you will find more pleasure and joy in it. As you gain inner strength, your positive actions will gain in profundity and scope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: No one can afford to assume that someone else will solve their problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If your life becomes only a medium of production, then many of the good human values and characteristics will be lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If you're looking for work and have a choice of a job, choose a job that allows the opportunity for some creativity, and for spending time with your family. Even if it means less pay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: It is our custom to say that someone is 'lucky' or 'unlucky' if they meet with fortunate or unfortunate circumstances, respectively. It is, however, too simplistic to think in terms of random 'luck.' Even from a scientific point of view, this is not a sufficient explanation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I feel they should be discussed informally, truthfully, honestly, and in some cases, I think, without forgetting ... long-term vision. They should be practical."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Our state of mind plays a major role in our day-to-day experiences as well as our physical and mental well-being. If a person has a calm and stable mind, this influences his or her attitude and behavior in relation to others. In other words, if someone remains in a peaceful and tranquil state of mind, external surroundings can cause them only a limited disturbance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, yet when they waste the precious moments of their lives they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: True friends share genuine closeness and remain friends irrespective of fluctuating fortunes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We must work to resolve conflicts in a spirit of reconciliation and always keep in mind the interests of others. We cannot destroy our neighours! We cannot ignore their interests!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I always believed in love, compassion and a sense of universal respect. Every human being has that potential."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: It is... very helpful to think of adversity not so much as a threat to our peace of mind but rather as the very means by which patience is attained."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: ... Our individual well-being is intimately connected both with that of all others and with the environment within which we live.... Our every action, our every deed, word, and thought, no matter how slight or inconsequential it may seem, has an implication not only for ourselves, but for all others, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We can hardly call a beggar an obstacle to generosity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We had a rule in Tibet that anyone proposing a new invention had to guarentee that it was beneficial, or at least harmless, for seven generations of humans before it could be adopted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I feel that we should not only maintain gentle, peaceful relations with our fellow human beings bur also that is very important to extend the same kind of attitude toward the natural environment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The proper way to create friends is to have a warm heart, not simply money or power. The friend of power and the friend of money are something different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Everybody loves to talk about calmness and peace, whether in a family, national, or international context, but without inner peace how can we make real peace? World peace through hatred and force is impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: When a problem first arises, try to remain humble and maintain a sincere attitude, and be concerned that the outcome is fair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: For a person who cherishes compassion and love, the practice of tolerance is essential, and for that, and enemy is indispinsable. So we should be grateful to our enemies, for it is they who can best help us to develop a tranquil mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The highest happiness is when one reaches the stage of liberation, at which there is no more suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: When ever Buddhism has taken root in a new land, there has been a certain variation in the style in which it is observed. The Buddha himself taught differently according to the place, the occasion and the situation of those who were listening to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Samsara - our conditioned existence in the perpetual cycle of habitual tendencies and nirvana - genuine freedom from such an existence- are nothing but different manifestations of a basic continuum. So this continuity of consciousness us always present. This is the meaning of tantra."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: To develop genuine devotion, you must know the meaning of teachings. The main emphasis in Buddhism is to transform the mind, and this transformation depends upon meditation. in order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If there's good, strong evidence from science that such and such is the case and this is contrary to Buddhism, then we will change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Neither a space station nor an enlightened mind can be realized in a day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: This we can all bear witness to, living as we do plagued by unremitting anxiety . It becomes more and more imperative that the life of the spirit be avowed as the only firm basis upon which to establish happiness and peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Morally speaking, we should be concerned for our whole environment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Although you can find certain differences among the Buddhist philosophical schools about how the universe came into being, the basic common question addressed is how the two fundamental principles-external matter and internal mind or consciousness-although distinct, affect one another. External causes and conditions are responsible for certain of our experiences of happiness and suffering. Yet we find that it is principally our own feelings, our thoughts and our emotions, that really determine whether we are going to suffer or be happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If you can cultivate wholesome mental states prior to sleep and allow them to continue right into sleep without getting distracted, then sleep itself becomes wholesome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The mind is key.  If anything should be considered a god, so to speak, it is the mind, not money.  A healthy positive mind is the utmost priority.  But if we were to reverse the order of these priorities, what would happen?  I find it hard to imagine how a person with great wealth, bad health, no friends, and no peace of mind could feel even slightly happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The basic Buddhist stand on the question of equality between the genders is age-old. At the highest tantric levels, at the highest esoteric level, you must respect women: every woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We cannot overcome anger and hatred simply by suppressing them. We need to actively cultivate the antidotes: patience and tolerance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: It is a wonderful thing if one can use one's place of work as a place of spiritual practice as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The mind must be developed by you alone. There is no way for others to do the work and for you to reap the results. Reading someone else's blueprint of mental progress will not transfer its realizations to you. You have to develop them yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: There are five billion human beings and in a certain way I think we need five billion different religions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: A sense of contentment is a key factor for attaining happiness"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Universal responsibility is the key to human survival. It is the best foundation for world peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Constructiveness is the human way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Spiritual practice . . . involves, on the one hand, acting out of concern for others' well-being. On the other, it entails transforming ourselves so that we become more readily disposed to do so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: When we think carefully, we see that the brief elation we experience when appeasing sensual impulses may not be very different from what the drug addict feels when indulging his or her habit. Temporary relief is soon followed by a craving for more. And in just the same way that taking drugs in the end only causes trouble, so, too, does much of what we undertake to fulfill our immediate sensory desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: In the past, the respect people had for religion meant that ethical practice was maintained through a majority following one religion or another.  But this is no longer the case.  We must therefore find some other way of establishing basic ethical principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We can wake ourselves up, discover in ourselves an energy that was hidden there, and act with more clarity, more force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Today we understand that the future of humanity very much depends on our planet, and that the future of the planet very much depends on humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Happiness that depends mainly on physical pleasure is unstable; one day it's there, the next day it may not be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The question of real, lasting world peace concerns human beings, so basic human feelings are also at its roots. Through inner peace, genuine world peace can be achieved. In this the importance of individual responsibility is quite clear; an atmosphere of peace must first be created within ourselves, then gradually expanded to include our families, our communities, and ultimately the whole planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The jealousy that arises from another's achievement is overcome by developing an awareness of and admiration for one's own and other's achievement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Media people should have long noses like an elephant to smell out politicians, mayors, prime ministers and businessmen. We need to know the reality, the good and the bad, not just the appearance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Sectarian feelings and criticism of other teachings or other sects is very bad, poisonous, and should be avoided."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We know that to wage a nuclear war today, for example, would be a form of suicide; or that to pollute the air or the oceans in order to achieve some short-term benefit would be to destroy the very basis for our survival."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I am a simple Buddhist monk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We must openly accept all ideologies and systems as a means of solving humanity's problems. One country, one nation, one ideology, one system is not sufficient."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Just as compassion is the wish that all sentient beings be free of suffering, loving-kindness is the wish that all may enjoy happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Under no circumstances should you lose hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: As human, we all have the same human potential, unless there is some sort of retarded brain function. The wonderful human brain is the source of our strength and the source of our future, provided we utilize it in the right direction. If we use the brilliant human mind in the wrong way, it is really a disaster."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Each of you should feel that you have great potential and that, with self-confidence and a little more effort, change really is possible if you want it. If you feel that your present way of life is unpleasant or has some difficulties, then don't look at these negative things. See the positive side, the potential, and make an effort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I believe the ultimate aim of all human beings is to obtain happiness and a sense of fulfillment... I have always stressed the importance of combining both the mental and material approach to achieving happiness for humankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Religion, any religion, no matter what sort of wonderful religion, never be universal. So now education is universal, so we have to sort of find ways and means through education system, from kindergarten up to university level, to make awareness these good things, the values, inner values."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Forming a new world religion is difficult and not particularly desirable. However, in that love is essential to all religions, one could speak of the universal religion of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Kindness is the key to peace and harmony in family life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I think really, China, Chinese, I think they really have a long history of civilization, rich culture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I never dreamt, in my dream, I'm Dalai Lama."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Physically you are a human being, but mentally you are incomplete. Given that we have this physical human form, we must safeguard our mental capacity for judgment. For that, we cannot take out insurance; the insurance company is within: self-discipline, self-awareness, and a clear realization of the disadvantages of anger and the positive effects of kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that establishing binding ethical principles is possible when we take as our starting point the observation that we all desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Hard times build determination and inner strength. Through them we can also come to appreciate the uselessness of anger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Furthermore, I shall explain the nature of dharmata: Such a nature as this cannot be determined to be any one thing. So however you label it, that is how it appears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Without religion, also there is a way, it could be this way, through education, through scientific findings, then you get conviction. Not necessarily really love other, but for their own interest they are showing love, compassion to other like that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Let us have that kind of effort from all, except those child or handicapped or too old. But the many people, they sort of have the opportunity to create trouble or to create a good thing, now should think more seriously, should not indulge any work to create more problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: [Animals] appreciate others' affection, they also have the sort of ability to show their own affection. And then as soon as we're born, child, no religious faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The affection is mainly biological factor. Then further sort of strengthening, that religion helps."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I think every human being, born from mother, and at least the next few years, you see, received immense affection from our mother. So the child's first experience in this lifetime at the beginning, I think that immense affection from other is in our blood. So therefore, the whole rest of life, other people show you smile, genuine sort of closeness feeling. You feel happy. Even animals also like that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Medical science begin to notice for good health, peace of mind, self-confidence, optimism is something very important. And also preventive measure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Every sort of seven billion human being have to think about the well-being of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Spirituality actually must be above politics. Or some other sort of business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If you the owner of the dog, really showing not just food but real affection, then dog very much appreciate. Isn't it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: But when it comes to democratic political parties, I prefer that monks and nuns not join them - in order to ensure proper democratic practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The Dalai Lama should not be partisan either, should remain above."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I must have dialogue with the Chinese government, and dialogue requires compromise. Therefore, I'm speaking for genuine self-rule, not for independence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I am a firm believer in the importance of democracy, not only as the ultimate goal, but also as an essential part of the process."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Buddhism strongly discourages blind faith and fanaticism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Humanity happy, I get benefit. Humanity in state of trouble, or violence, I cannot escape from that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I could justify violence only in this extreme case, to save the last living knowledge of Buddhism itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Since we became Buddhist, we have lived in peace with them. We did not invade them. We did not want them to invade us. We have never declared war on China."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The antidote to hatred in the heart, the source of violence, is tolerance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I have found a much greater appreciation of Buddhism because I couldn't take it for granted here in exile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Buddha was speaking about reality. Reality may be one, in its deepest essence, but Buddha also stated that all propositions about reality are only contingent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Reality is devoid of any intrinsic identity that can be captured by any one single proposition - that is what Buddha meant by \"voidness.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I am basically optimistic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We are working as hard as we can; we are preparing ourselves as carefully as we can; we fully intend to make our contribution to the world in the coming century."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The peace of mind, is very essential for our health. So in that level, I think scientific finding, immense benefit to get our wellness and eventually conviction, peace of mind is not just a luxurious item, but peace of mind is actually very important for our survival, for our healthy survival."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If there were really serious consequences if I did not accept, then of course I would do whatever was necessary. But in general I really prefer some freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Although under particular circumstances, the violence method - any method - can be justified, nevertheless once you commit violence, then counterviolence will be returned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: One scientist had discussions about love and compassion. Usually, he felt irritation. After our meeting, for some months, anger never come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: My responsibility is to save Tibet, to protect its ancient cultural heritage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Because my main concern is the Tibetan Buddhist culture, not just political independence, I cannot seek self-rule for central Tibet and exclude the 4 million Tibetans in our two eastern provinces of Amdo and Kham."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I have been clear in my position for quite a while, but the Chinese have not responded. Therefore, we are now in the process of holding a referendum on our policy among all the Tibetan community in exile and even inside Tibet, to check whether the majority thinks we are on the right track."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Look at South Africa, the former Soviet Union, and the Middle East. They still have many problems, setbacks as well as breakthroughs, but basically changes have happened that were considered unthinkable a decade ago."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: From that viewpoint, America, free country, democratic country, so more opportunity. Still is more sort of Alive. This is my feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I'm nothing special, just an ordinary human being. That's why I always describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I do not want to carry any public position."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Of course, there are different truths on different levels. Things are true relative to other things; \"long\" and \"short\" relate to each other, \"high\" and \"low,\" and so on. But is there any absolute truth? Something self-sufficient, independently true in itself? I don't think so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The person who received maximum affection from mother, that person also sort of cultivated the potential showing affection to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I can do what my energy, my time, to my other sort of commitment. And then also emotional, religious harmony. So in these two field, now that more or less I think the spirituality or human values in these fields, I may consider my only professional field. The political, national struggle, these are not my profession."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Some people say that the West has a cruel history. These people also may see the achievements of Western countries - in terms of the economy, education, health, and social achievements - as a result of exploitation of poorer countries, including Arab countries. Western nations get rich by using resources such as Arab oil. Meanwhile, the countries supplying them raw materials remain poor. Due to such injustices, jealousies are created."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We don't need to respond with desperate violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Here, the certain temple rule, this seems to me to have a certain responsibility to look after the well-being of society and look after Buddhism and culture. I consider these part of the practice of spirituality. There is no competition between spiritual practice and party politics. That is outdated. We already, since 2001, have elected political position. My position is semi-retired. I am looking forward to complete retirement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I consider others as just brothers and sisters. Nothing barrier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: When I talk to a few thousand people, I just feel I am talking to an old friend. Like that. I never felt some kind of distance, so therefore, I feel one source of happiness. In that kind of atmosphere, my experience seems some benefit to some people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I feel like my life is something purposeful. Many people have told me that after they listen to my talk, some point which I made, they got certain ideas and their whole life is changed. They are happier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Perhaps our teachings seem less religious and more technical, like psychology, so they are easier for secular people to use."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If I were to die today, I would have some concern for Tibet. But I know that I have personally done as much as I can to use my existence for others. So I have no regret."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I make small mistakes every day. But major mistakes? It doesn't seem so. I've examined my service to the Tibetan people and to humanity, and I've done as much as I can in my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Altruism is the best source of happiness. There is no doubt about that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: One Mongolian leader became a very, very brutal dictator and eventually became a murderer. Previously, he was a monk, and then he became a revolutionary. Under the influence of his new ideology, he actually killed his own teacher. Pol Pot's family background was Buddhist. Whether he himself was a Buddhist at a young age, I don't know. Even Chairman Mao's family background was Buddhist. So one day, if the Dalai Lama becomes a mass murderer, he will become the most deadly of mass murderers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: For Tibetans, the real strength of our struggle is truth - not size, money, or expertise. China is much bigger, richer, more powerful militarily, and has much better skill in diplomacy. They outdo us in every field. But they have no justice. We have placed our whole faith in truth and in justice. We have nothing else, in principle and in practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Without mutual tolerance emerging as the foundation, terrible situations like those of Tibet and Sri Lanka, Bosnia and Rwanda, can never be effectively improved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Tibetans must take full authority and responsibility for developing industry, looking from all different perspectives, taking care of the environment, conserving resources for long-term economic health, and safeguarding the interests of Tibetan workers, nomads, and farmers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Different people describe me in a different ways. Some describe me as the living Buddha. Nonsense. Some describe me as 'God-king.' Nonsense. Some consider me as a demon or a wolf in Buddhist robes. That also, I think nonsense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I am simply just one monk. That's all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I don't want to be a prisoner in a palace, living in such a constricted way - too tight!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: We have made a great effort to maintain all levels of Buddhist education; it has helped us have a kind of renaissance, really."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: When a certain community is destroyed, in reality it destroys a part of all of us. So there should be a clear recognition that the entire humanity is just one family. Any conflict within humanity should be considered as a family conflict. We must find a solution within this atmosphere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: The way of presentation is different according to each religion. In theistic religions like Buddhism, Buddhist values are incorporated. In nontheistic religions, like some types of ancient Indian thought, the law of karma applies. If you do something good, you get a good result. Now, what we need is a way to educate nonbelievers. These nonbelievers may be critical of all religions, but they should be decent at heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I think when religions such as Hinduism and Buddhism - as well as Christianity and Judaism - were founded, at that time societies were generally male-dominated. So, therefore this social notion also influenced religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Sometimes people feel mind is merely the - in some animal, the energy or something from the brain. Now there are little sort of curiosities or I think doubt sometimes a sheer sort of mental attitude, some change in our brain. So these fields, now scientists are showing some interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I think, that in the twenty-second century, there will be more female reincarnations at female institutions. Then there'll be competition between male lama institutions and female lama institutions. It'll be a positive sort of competition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: If the situation was such that there was only one learned lama or genuine practitioner alive, a person whose death would cause the whole of Tibet to lose all hope of keeping its Buddhist way of life, then it is conceivable that in order to protect that one person it might be justified for one or 10 enemies to be eliminated if there was no other way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Spiritually, yes, now many people knows Tibetans in spiritual field are very, very advanced but in material field is very, very backward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: I am confident that the next century will be better than this one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Climate change has been immense difficulties of pains or illness or hard life on this planet. So through that way, you have sense of concern of the well being, not sky, not just the environment itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Therefore we have to make effort through well through every corner, media people, education sort of institution, and family, parents, everywhere. It is our common goal, common interest promote more compassion toward the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Dalai Lama: Rulers come and go. It's the people who are the real rulers of the country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: Do all you can to preach the gospel and if necessary use words!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. \nWhere there is hatred, let me sow love, \nWhere there is injury, pardon; \nWhere there is doubt, faith; \nWhere there is despair, hope; \nWhere there is darkness, light; \nAnd where there is sadness, joy. \nO Divine Master, \nGrant that I may not so much seek \nTo be consoled as to console, \nTo be understood as to understand, \nTo be loved, as to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: Where there is Love and Wisdom, there is neither Fear nor Ignorance.\r\nWhere there is Patience and Humility, there is neither Anger nor Annoyance.\r\nWhere there is Poverty and Joy, there is neither Cupidity nor Avarice. \r\nWhere there is Peace and Contemplation, there is neither Care nor Restlessness.\r\nWhere there is the Fear of God to guard the dwelling, there no enemy can enter.\r\nWhere there is Mercy and Prudence, there is neither Excess nor Harshness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: By the anxieties and worries of this life Satan tries to dull man's heart and make a dwelling for himself there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: For it is in giving that we receive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: Hold back nothing of yourselves for yourselves so that He who gives Himself totally to you may receive you totally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: We should all realize that no matter where or how a man dies, if he is in the state of mortal sin and does not repent, when he could have done so and did not, the Devil tears his soul from his body with such anguish and distress that only a person who has experienced it can appreciate it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: Don't canonize me too soon. I'm perfectly capable of fathering a child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: Be praised, My Lord, through Sister Water; she is very useful, and humble, and precious, and pure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: We should have no more use or regard for money in any of its forms than we have for dust. Those who think it is worth more, or who are greedy for it, expose themselves to the danger of being deceived by the Devil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: Be Thou praised, my Lord, of our Sister Mother Earth, which sustains and hath us in rule, and produces divers fruits with coloured flowers and herbs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: Study always to have Joy, for it befits not the servant of God to show before his brother or another sadness or a troubled face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: Where there is injury let me sow pardon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: ...In this world I cannot see the Most High Son of God with my own eyes, except for His Most Holy Body and Blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: Holy obedience confounds all bodily and fleshly desires and keeps the body mortified to the obedience of the spirit and to the obedience of one's brother and makes a man subject to all the\nmen of this world and not to men alone, but also to all beasts and wild animals, so that they may do with him whatsoever they will, in so far as it may be granted to them from above by the\nLord."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: Be praised, my Lord, through those who forgive for love of you; through those who endure sickness and trial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: There is absolutely no man in the whole world who can possess one among you unless he first die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis of Assisi: Such was the will of the Father that his Son, blessed and glorious, whom he gave to us, and who was born for us, should by his own blood, sacrifice, and oblation, offer himself on the altar of the cross, not for himself, by whom \"all things were made,\" but for our sins, leaving us an example that we should follow his steps."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: America, it is said, is suffering from intolerance - it is not. It is suffering from tolerance. Tolerance of right and wrong, truth and error, virtue and evil, Christ and chaos. Our country is not nearly so overrun with the bigoted as it is overrun with the broadminded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself. You have a duty to worship God, not because He will be imperfect and unhappy if you do not, but because you will be imperfect and unhappy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Let those who think that the Church pays too much attention to Mary give heed to the fact that Our Blessed Lord Himself gave ten times as much of His life to her as He gave to His Apostles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Ever since the days of Adam, man has been hiding from God and saying, 'God is hard to find."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Broadmindedness, when it means indifference to right and wrong, eventually ends in a hatred of what is right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Joy is not the same as pleasure or happiness. A wicked and evil man may have pleasure, while any ordinary mortal is capable of being happy. Pleasure generally comes from things, and always through the senses; happiness comes from humans through fellowship. Joy comes from loving God and neighbor. Pleasure is quick and violent, like a flash of lightning. Joy is steady and abiding, like a fixed star. Pleasure depends on external circumstances, such as money, food, travel, etc. Joy is independent of them, for it comes from a good conscience and love of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: If you do not worship God, you worship something, and nine times out of ten it will be yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Love is the key to the mystery. Love by its very nature is not selfish, but generous. It seeks not its own, but the good of others. The measure of love is not the pleasure it gives-that is the way the world judges it-but the joy and peace it can purchase for others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: It is easy to find truth, though it is hard to face it, and harder still to follow it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Unless souls are saved, nothing is saved; there can be no world peace unless there is soul peace. World wars are only projections of the conflicts waged inside the souls of men and women, for nothing happens in the external world that has not first happened within a soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Most commit the same mistake with God that they do with their friends: they do all the talking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: There are angels near you to guide you and protect you, if you would but invoke them. It is not later than we think, it is a bigger world than we think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: The Rosary is the book of the blind, where souls see and there enact the greatest drama of love the world has ever known; it is the book of the simple, which initiates them into mysteries and knowledge more satisfying than the education of other men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: It was to a virgin woman that the birth of the Son of God was announced. It was to a fallen woman that his resurrection was announced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: The wicked fear the good, because the good are a constant reproach to their consciences. The ungodly like religion in the same way that they like lions, either dead or behind bars; they fear religion when it breaks loose and begins to challenge their consciences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Love was meant to be also a sign, a symbol, a messenger, a telltale of the Divine. Love is a messenger from God saying that every human affection and every ecstasy of love are sparks from the great flame of love that is God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Life is like a cash register, in that every account, every thought, every deed, like every sale, is registered and recorded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Love is a mutual self-giving which ends in self-recovery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Christianity, unlike any other religion in the world, begins with catastrophe and defeat. Sunshine religions and psychological inspirations collapse in calamity and wither in adversity. But the Life of the Founder of Christianity, having begun with the Cross, ends with the empty tomb and victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Jealousy is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: The nearer Christ comes to a heart, the more it becomes conscious of its guilt; it will then either ask for his mercy and find peace, or else it will turn against Him because it is not yet ready to give up its sinfulness. Thus He will separate the good from the bad, the wheat from the chaff. Man's reaction to this Divine Presence will be the test: either it will call out all the opposition of egotistic natures, or else galvanize them into a regeneration and a resurrection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Every moment comes to you pregnant with divine purpose . . . . Once it leaves your hands and your power to do with it as you please, it plunges into eternity, to remain forever what you made it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: When the record of any human life is set down, there are three pairs of eyes who see it in a different light. There is the life as I see it. as others see it, and as God sees it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: The mark of man is initiative, but the mark of woman is cooperation. Man talks about freedom; woman about sympathy, love, sacrifice. Man cooperates with nature; woman cooperates with God. Man was called to till the earth, to \"rule over the earth\"; woman to be the bearer of a life that comes from God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: No man hates God without first hating himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: No one has ever laughed at a pun who did not see in the one word a twofold meaning. To materialists this world is opaque like a curtain; nothing can be seen through it. A mountain is just a mountain, a sunset just a sunset; but to poets, artists, and saints, the world is transparent like a window pane - it tells of something beyond....a mountain tells of the Power of God, the sunset of His Beauty, and the snowflake of His Purity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: To fall in love means to fall into something... And that something is responsibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: The danger today is in believing there are no sick people, there is only a sick society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive. They are too often praised for being broadminded when they are so broadminded they can never make up their minds about anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: A reasonable being should ask himself why - if chemicals can enter into plants, and plants be taken up into animals, and animals be taken into man - why man himself, who is the peak of visible creation, should be denied the privilege of being assimilated into a higher power? The rose has no right to say that there is no life above it and neither has man, who has a vast capacity and unconquerable yearning for eternal life and truth and love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Baloney is flattery laid on so thick it cannot be true, and blarney is flattery so thin we love it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Whenever man attempts to do what he knows to be the Master's will, a power will be given him equal to the duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Once a man ceases to be of service to his neighbor, he begins to be a burden to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Grace does not work like a penny in a slot machine. Grace will move you only when you want it to move you, and only when you let it move you. The supernatural order supposes the freedom of the natural order, but it does not destroy it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: If you wish to convert anyone to the fullness of the knowledge of Our Lord and of His Mystical Body, then teach him the Rosary. One of two things will happen. Either he will stop saying the Rosary - or he will get the gift of faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: The principle of democracy is a recognition of the sovereign, inalienable rights of man as a gift from God, the Source of law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: All my sermons are prepared in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament. As recreation is most pleasant and profitable in the sun, so homiletic creativity is best nourished before the Eucharist. The most brilliant ideas come from meeting God face to face. The Holy Spirit that presided at the Incarnation is the best atmosphere for illumination. Pope John Paul II keeps a small desk or writing pad near him whenever he is in the presence of the Blessed Sacrament; and I have done this all my life - I am sure for the same reason he does, because a lover always works better when the beloved is with him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Too many people get credit for being good, when they are only being passive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: The Rosary is the book of the blind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: One function of the angels is illumination, and the other function is that of being a guardian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Head knowledge is worthless, unless accompanied by submission of the will and right action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Any book which inspires us to lead a better life is a good book."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Atheism, nine times out of ten, is born from the womb of a bad conscience. Disbelief is born of sin, not of reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Tolerance is an attitude of reasoned patience toward evil... a forbearance that restrains us from showing anger or inflicting punishment. Tolerance applies only to persons... never to truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Some will not look on suffering because it creates responsibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Love burdens itself with the wants and woes and losses and even the wrongs of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: If we had intellectual vigour enough to ascend from effects to causes, we would explain political, economical and social phenomena less by credit sheets, balance of trade and reparations than by our attitude towards God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib, the continuing Christ under the appearance of bread on an altar, and a meditation and a prayer on a string of beads"
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: To love what is below the human is degradation; to love what is human for the sake of the human is mediocrity; to love the human for the sake of the Divine is enriching; to love the Divine for its own sake is sanctity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: If all things in this universe exist, it is because they participate in the Being of God, if there are some things with life, it is because they are reflections of the life of God; if there are beings endowed with intellect and will - like men and angels - it's because they are a participation of the Sovereign Intellect which is God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: God could not keep, as it were, the secret of His love, and the telling of it was creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: His words even imply that philanthropy has deeper depths than is generally realized. The great emotions of compassion and mercy are traced to Him; there is more to human deeds than the doers are aware. He identified every act of kindness as an expression of sympathy with Himself. All kindnesses are either done explicitly or implicitly in His name, or they are refused explicitly or implicitly in His name."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: You have a chance to move in far better society than the Joneses. Why worry about keeping up with the Joneses? Keep up with the Angels and you'll be far wiser and happier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: All our anxieties relate to time. The major problems of psychiatry revolve around an analysis of the despair, pessimism, melancholy, and complexes that are the inheritances of what has been or with the fears, anxieties, worries, that are the imaginings of what will be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: The very freedom which the sinner supposedly exercises in his self-indulgence is only another proof that he is ruled by the tyrant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: By the mere fact that we do not go forward, we go backward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: All love craves unity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: Buddha wrote a code which he said would be useful to guide men in darkness, but he never claimed to be the Light of the world. Buddhism was born with a disgust for the world, when a prince's son deserted his wife and child, turning from the pleasures of existence to the problems of existence. Burnt by the fires of the world, and already weary with it, Buddha turned to ethics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: If there is continuity in the universe, it is fitting that there should be intelligent beings without bodies which are called angels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Fulton J. Sheen: All our anxieties relate to time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: The secret of praying is praying in secret. A sinning man will stop praying, and a praying man will stop sinning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: There is a world of difference between knowing the Word of God and knowing the God of the Word."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: There are three persons living in each of us: the one we think we are, the one other people think we are, and the one God knows we are!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: The church that is man-managed instead of God-governed is doomed to failure. A ministry that is college-trained but not Spirit-filled works no miracles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: The tragedy is that we have too many dead men in the pulpits giving out too many dead sermons to too many dead people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: Prayer is as mighty as God, because He has committed Himself to answer it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: The law of prayer is the law of harvest: sow sparingly in prayer, reap sparingly; sow bountifully in prayer, reap bountifully. The trouble is we are trying to get from our efforts what we never put into them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: Could a mariner sit idle if he heard the drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort and just let his patients die? Could a fireman sit idle, let men burn and give no hand? Can you sit at ease in Zion with the world around you damned?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: If we displease God, does it matter whom we please? If we please Him, does it matter whom we displease?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: The brutal, soul-shaking truth is that we are so earthly minded we are of no heavenly use."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: We have adopted the convenient theory that the Bible is a Book to be explained, whereas first and foremost it is a Book to be believed (and after that to be obeyed.)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: Men of prayer must be men of steel, for they will be assaulted by Satan even before they attempt to assault his kingdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: The secret of praying is praying in secret."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: He who fears God fears no man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: No man is greater than his prayer life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: Men build our churches but do not enter them, print our Bibles but do not read them, talk about God but do not believe Him, speak of Christ but do not trust Him for salvation, sing our hymns and then forget them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: Books on prayer are good, but not good enough. As books on cooking are good but hopeless unless there is food to work on, so with prayer. One can read a library of prayer books and not be one whit more powerful in prayer. We must learn to pray, and we must pray to learn to pray."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: Preaching affects men; prayer affects God. Preaching affects time; prayer affects eternity"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: By our attitude to prayer we tell God that what was begun in the Spirit we can finish in the flesh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: Prayer is no substitute for work; equally true is it that work is no substitute for prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: One of these days some simple soul will pick up the Book of God, read it, and believe it. Then the rest of us will be embarrassed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: The man who can get believers to praying would, under God, usher in the greatest revival that the world has ever known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: Where there is no passion, the church perishes, even though it be full to the doors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: The Cinderella of the church today is the prayer meeting.  This handmaid of the Lord is unloved and unwooed because she is not dripping with the pearls of intellectualism, nor glamorous with the silks of philosophy; neither is she enchanting with the tiara of psychology.  She wears the homespuns of sincerity and humility and so is not afraid to kneel!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: Surely revival delays because prayer decays."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: The understanding soul prays; the praying soul gets understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: Ministers who do not spend two hours a day in prayer are not worth a dime a dozen - degrees or no degrees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: When God-given, heaven-sent revival does come, it will undo in weeks the damage that blasphemous Modernism has taken years to build."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: The Holy Book of the living God suffers more from its exponents today than from its opponents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: We must live a holy life if we want to pray."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: No faith is required to do the possible; actually only a morsel of this atom-powered stuff is needed to do the impossible, for a piece as large as a mustard seed will do more than we have ever dreamed of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: At God's counter there are no sale days, for the price of revival is ever the same: travail!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: The only power that God yields to is that of prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: But have we Holy Ghost power \u2014 power that restricts the devil's power, pulls down strongholds, and obtains promises? Daring delinquents will be damned if they are not delivered from the devil's dominion. What has hell to fear other than a God-anointed, prayer-powered church?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: It may be that Satan has little cause to fear most preaching. Yet past experiences sting him to rally all his infernal army to fight against God's people praying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: If Thou canst do something with us and through us, then please, God, do something without us! Bypass us and take up a people who now know Thee not!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: Some preachers master thier subjects; some subjects master the preacher; once in awhile one meets a preacher who is both master of, and also mastered by his subject. The apostle Paul, I am sure, was in that category."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonard Ravenhill: The Cinderella of the church of today is the prayer meeting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Unless I am convicted by Scripture and plain reason-I do not accept the authority of popes and councils, for they have contradicted each other-my conscience is captive to the Word of God. I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I cannot do otherwise. God help me. Amen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: He who loves not women, wine, and song Remains a fool his whole life long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: To be a Christian without prayer is no more possible than to be alive without breathing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: No man understands the Scriptures, unless he be acquainted with the Cross."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Lord, grant that anger or other bitterness does not reign over us, but that your grace, genuine kindness, loyalty, and every kind of friendliness, generosity, and gentleness may reign in us. Amen"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The world doesn't want to be punished. It wants to remain in darkness. It doesn't want to be told that what it believes is false. If you also don't want to be corrected, then you might as well leave the church and spend your time at the bar and brothel. But if you want to be saved-and remember that there's another life after this one-you must accept correction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that a man would stake his life on it one thousand times. This confidence in God's grace and knowledge of it makes men glad and bold and happy in dealing with God and with all creatures; and this is the work of the Holy Ghost in faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: It is not necessary for a preacher to express all his thoughts in one sermon. A preacher should have three principles: first, to make a good beginning, and not spend time with many words before coming to the point; secondly, to say that which belongs to the subject in chief, and avoid strange and foreign thoughts; thirdly, to stop at the proper time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The bible is a remarkable fountain: the more one draws and drinks of it, the more it stimulates thirst."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Now the Church is not wood and stone, but the company of believing people; one must hold to them, and see how they believe, live and teach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: We must make a great difference between God's Word and the word of man. A man's word is a little sound, that flies into the air, and soon vanishes; but the Word of God is greater than heaven and earth, yea, greater than death and hell, for it forms part of the power of God, and endures everlastingly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The more a person loves, the closer he approaches the image of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Pray, and let God worry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Many pass for saints on earth whose souls are in hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: As long as we live there is never enough singing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: In a word, the Holy Scripture is the highest and best of books, abounding in comfort under all afflictions and trials. It teaches us to see, to feel, to grasp, and to comprehend faith, hope, and charity, far otherwise than mere human reason can; and while evil oppresses us, it teaches how these virtues throw light upon the darkness, and how, after this poor, miserable existence of ours on earth, there is another and an eternal life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: May a merciful God preserve me from a Christian Church in which everyone is a saint! I want to be and remain in the church and little flock of the fainthearted, the feeble and the ailing, who feel and recognize the wretchedness of their sins, who sigh and cry to God incessantly for comfort and help, who believe in the forgiveness of sins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: War is the greatest plague that can afflict humanity, it destroys religion, it destroys states, it destroys families. Any scourge is preferable to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Your thoughts of God are too human"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: One is not righteous who does much, but the one who, without work, believes much in Christ. The law says, 'Do this,' and it is never done. Grace says, 'Believe in this,' and everything is already done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: When the devil wants to cause offense against the true doctrine and faith, he does not do so through insignificant people, who do not rate highly with the world, but through those who are the very best, the wisest, the holiest, and the most learned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Nothing is more beautiful in the eyes of God than a soul that loves to hear His Word."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: This is the most dangerous trial of all, when there is no trial and every thing goes well; for then a man is tempted to forget God, to become too bold and to misuse times of prosperity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: We can mention only one point (which experience confirms), namely, that next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise. No greater commendation than this can be found \u2014 at least not by us. After all, the gift of language combined with the gift of song was only given to man to let him know that he should praise God with both word and music, namely, by proclaiming [the Word of God] through music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: This life therefore is not righteousness, but growth in righteousness, not health, but healing, not being but becoming, not rest but exercise. We are not yet what we shall be, but we are growing toward it, the process is not yet finished, but it is going on, this is not the end, but it is the road. All does not yet gleam in glory, but all is being purified."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: None can believe how powerful prayer is, and what it is able to effect, but those who have learned it by experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The devil doesn't stay where there is music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: There is no more lovely, friendly and charming relationship, communion or company than a good marriage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Peter erred in life and in doctrine. Paul might have dismissed Peter's error as a matter of no consequence. But Paul saw that Peter's error would lead to the damage of the whole Church unless it were corrected. Therefore he withstood Peter to his face. The Church, Peter, the apostles, angels from heaven, are not to be heard unless they teach the genuine Word of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: By faith we began, by hope we continue, and by revelation we shall obtain the whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Faith is the yes of the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: God wants us to pray, and he wants to hear our prayers-not because we are worthy, but because he is merciful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Christians fight best on their knees. Whatever good may be done is done and brought about by prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: We are not to look upon our sins as insignificant trifles. On the other hand, we are not to regard them as so terrible that we must despair. Learn to believe that Christ was given, not for picayune and imaginary transgressions, but for mountainous sins; not for one or two, but for all; not for sins that can be discarded, but for sins that are stubbornly ingrained."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The cross alone is our theology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The fewer the words, the better the prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I would advise no one to send his child where the Holy Scriptures are not supreme. Every institution that does not unceasingly pursue the study of God's word becomes corrupt. Because of this we can see what kind of people they become in the universities and what they are like now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Not only the adoration of images is idolatry, but also trust in one's own righteousness, works and merits, and putting confidence in riches and power. As the latter is the commonest, so it also is the most noxious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God. Now if it is lying on your back, you are lost; but if it is resting on Christ, you are free, and you will be saved. Now choose what you want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: God is not a God of sadness, death, etc., but the devil is. Christ is a God of joy, and so the Scriptures often say that we should rejoice ... A Christian should and must be a cheerful person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: A preacher must be both soldier and shepherd. He must nourish, defend, and teach; he must have teeth in his mouth, and be able to bite and fight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: For some years now I have read through the Bible twice every year. If you picture the Bible to be a mighty tree and every word a little branch, I have shaken every one of these branches because I wanted to know what it was and what it meant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Grace was not given to heal the spiritually sick but to decorate spiritual heroes!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The Bible is the proper book for men. There the truth is distinguished from error far more clearly than anywhere else, and one finds something new in it every day. For twenty-eight years, since I became a doctor, I have now constantly read and preached the Bible; and yet I have not exhausted it but find something new in it every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Faith is a living, daring, confidence in God's grace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: We conclude, therefore, that a Christian lives not in himself, but in Christ and in his neighbor. Otherwise he is not a Christian. He lives in Christ through faith, in his neighbor through love. By faith he is caught up beyond himself into God. By love he descends beneath himself into his neighbor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Faith is a living, daring confidence in God's grace, so sure and certain that the believer would stake his life on it a thousand times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The Clergy is the greatest hindrance to faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: My conscience is captive to the Word of God"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: What is our death but a night's sleep? For as through sleep all weariness and faintness pass away and cease, and the powers of the spirit come back again, so that in the morning we arise fresh and strong and joyous; so at the Last Day we shall rise again as if we had only slept a night, and shall be fresh and strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I am bound by the texts of the Bible, my conscience is captive to the Word of God, I neither can nor will recant anything, since it is neither right nor safe to act against my conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: We are but the instruments or assistants, by whom God works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: God delights in our temptations and yet hates them. He delights in them when they drive us to prayer; he hates them when they drive us to despair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: In short, I will preach it [the Word], teach it, write it, but I will constrain no man by force, for faith must come freely without compulsion. Take myself as an example. I opposed indulgences and all the papists, but never with force. I simply taught, preached, and wrote God's Word; otherwise I did nothing. And while I slept, or drank Wittenberg beer with my friends Philip and Amsdorf, the Word so greatly weakened the papacy that no prince or emperor ever inflicted such losses upon it. I did nothing; the Word did everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Christ ought to be preached with this goal in mind--that we might be moved to faith in him so that he is not just a distant historical figure but actually Christ for you and me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Nothing is more unbecoming to a teacher of the Word than flippancy. He must be serious and should not act like a clown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: You should be certain that angels are protecting you when you go to sleep. Yea, that they are protecting you also in all your business, whether you enter or leave your home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: If a man serves not God only, then surely he serves the devil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: After the devil himself, there is no worse folk than the pope and his followers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: God can be found only in suffering and the cross."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I have undertaken to translate the Bible into German. This was good for me; otherwise I might have died in the mistaken notion that I was a learned fellow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Prayer is a very precious medicine, one that certainly helps and never fails, if you will only use it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The first care of every Christian ought to be to lay aside all reliance on works, and strengthen his faith alone more and more, and by it grow in the knowledge, not of works, but of Christ Jesus, who has suffered and risen again for him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates from God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: A penny saved is better than a penny earned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: You have as much laughter as you have faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The Devil fears the word of God, He can't bite it; it breaks his teeth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: For God is wholly present in all creation, in every corner, he is behind you and before you. Do you think he is sleeping on a pillow in heaven? He is watching over you and protecting you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Those who lapse from the Gospel to the Law are no better off than those who lapse from grace to idolatry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: When our Lord and Master Jesus Christ said, 'Repent,' he willed the entire life of believers to be one of repentance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: No great saint lived without errors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Wealth is the smallest thing on earth, the least gift that God has bestowed on mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: All the cunning of the devil is exercised in trying to tear us away from the word."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Father and Mother are apostles, bishops and priests to their children, for it is they who make them acquainted with the gospel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: How great, therefore, the wickedness of human nature is! How many girls there are who prevent conception and kill and expel tender fetuses, although procreation is the work of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: When God works in us, the will, being changed and sweetly breathed upon by the Spirit of God, desires and acts, not from compulsion, but responsively."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: A man must completely despair of himself in order to become fit to obtain the grace of Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Either sin is with you, lying on your shoulders, or it is lying on Christ, the Lamb of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: It would be a good thing if young people were wise and old people were strong, but God has arranged things better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: To have peace and love in marriage is a gift which is next to the knowledge of the Gospel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Sinners are attractive because they are loved; they are not loved because they are attractive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Superstition, idolatry, and hypocrisy have ample wages, but truth goes a begging."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: And I'll tell you, I've seen the lightning flash. I've heard the thunder roll. I felt sin-breakers dashing, trying to conquer my soul. But I heard the voice of Jesus saying still to fight on. He promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone. No, never alone. He promised never to leave me, never to leave me alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The truth of the matter is rather as Christ says, \"He who is not with me is against me.\" ... He does not say \"He who is not with me is not against me either, but merely neutral."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Sin is essentially a departure from God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: God is not hostile to sinners, but only to unbelievers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The inner man cannot be forced to do out of his own free will, what he should do, except the grace of God change the heart and make it willing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: He that will maintain that man's free will is able to do or work anything in spiritual cases, be they never so small, denies Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The veneration of Mary is inscribed in the very depths of the human heart"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: It is the nature of all hypocrites and false prophets to create a conscience where there is none, and to cause conscience to disappear where it does exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Can he who understands not God's word, understand God's works?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Let the man who would hear God speak, read Holy Scriptures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: This error of free will is a special doctrine of the Antichrist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I have done nothing; the Word has done and accomplished everything.... I let the Word do its work!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Heavy thoughts bring on physical maladies; when the soul is oppressed so is the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: We ought first to know that there are no good works except those which God has commanded, even as there is no sin except that which God has forbidden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Here I stand; I can do no other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: How rich a God our God is! He gives enough, but we don't notice it. He gave the whole world to Adam, but this was nothing in Adam's eyes; he was concerned about one tree and had to ask why God had forbidden him to eat it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: In truth you cannot read too much in Scripture; and what you read you cannot read too carefully, and what you read carefully you cannot understand too well, and what you understand well you cannot teach too well, and what you teach well you cannot live too well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Pure Christian love is not derived from the merit of the object."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Take a look at your own heart, and you will soon find out what has stuck to it and where your treasure is. It is easy to determine whether hearing the Word of God, living according to it, and achieving such a life gives you as much enjoyment and calls forth as much diligence from you as does accumulating and saving money and property."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: When Eve was brought unto Adam, he became filled with the Holy Spirit, and gave her the most sanctified, the most glorious of appellations. He called, her Eva--that is to say, the Mother of All. He did not style her wife, but simply mother--mother of all living creatures. In this consists the glory and the most precious ornament of woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: If there is anything in us, it is not our own; it is a gift of God. But if it is a gift of God, then it is entirely a debt one owes to love, that is, to the law of Christ. And if it is a debt owed to love, then I must serve others with it, not myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Christian life consists of faith and charity"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Riches, understanding, beauty, are fair gifts of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The highest and most precious treasure we receive of God is, that we can speak, hear, see, etc.; but how few acknowledge these as God's special gifts, much less give God thanks for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I frankly confess that even if it were possible I should not wish to have free choice given to me, or to have anything left in my own hands by which I might strive for salvation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The Holy Spirit has a way of His own to say much in few words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: But Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of all (which of all other I should never have foreseen or once suspected) he hath raised up a sect of such as teach that the Ten Commandments ought to be taken out of the church, and that men should not be terrified with the law, but gently exerted by the preaching of the grace of Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I cannot and will not recant anything, for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand, I can do no other, so help me God. Amen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Those speak foolishly who ascribe their anger or their impatience to such as offend them or to tribulation. Tribulation does not make people impatient, but proves that they are impatient. So everyone may learn from tribulation how his heart is constituted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: We find no rest for our weary bones unless we cling to the word of grace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Rough, boisterous, stormy and altogether warlike, I am born to fight against innumerable monsters and devils."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: It is the part of a Christian to take care of his own body for the very purpose that, by its soundness and wellbeing, he may be enabled to labour, and to acquire and preserve property, for the aid of those who are in want, that thus the stronger member may serve the weaker member, and we may be children of God, and busy for one another, bearing one another's burdens, and so fulfiling the law of Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: That the Creator himself comes to us and becomes our ransom - this is the reason for our rejoicing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: God foreknows nothing by contingency, but that He foresees, purposes, and does all things according to His immutable, eternal, and infallible will. By this thunderbolt, \"Free-will\" is thrown prostrate, and utterly dashed to pieces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: A Christian has no need of any law in order to be saved, since through faith we are free from every law. Thus all the acts of a Christian are done spontaneously, out of a sense of pure liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: When we hear that Christ was made a curse for us, let us believe it with joy and assurance. By faith Christ changes places with us. He gets our sins, we get His holiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I did nothing. The Word did it all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I must remain a child and pupil of the Catechism, and am glad so to remain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The Holy Ghost must here be our only master and tutor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: When I am assailed with heavy tribulations, I rush out among my pigs rather than remain alone by myself. The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away. So the human heart, unless it be occupied with some employment, leaves space for the devil, who wriggles himself in and brings with him a whole host of evil thoughts, temptations, and tribulations, which grind out the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I have before me God's Word which cannot fail, nor can the gates of hell prevail against it; thereby will I remain, though the whole world be against me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The church converteth the whole world by blood and prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The defects of a preacher are soon spied."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: For all works and things, which are either commanded or forbidden by God and thus have been instituted by the supreme Majesty, are 'musts.' Nevertheless, no one should be dragged to them or away from them by the hair, for I can drive no man to heaven or beat him into it with a club."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I am of a different mind ten times in the course of a day. But I resist the devil, and often it is with a fart that I chase him away. When he tempts me with silly sins I say, 'Devil, yesterday I broke wind too. Have you written it down on your list?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Let all the 'free-will' in the world do all it can with all its strength; it will never give rise to a single instance of ability to avoid being hardened if God does not give the Spirit, or of meriting mercy if it is left to its own strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: One thing, and only one thing, is necessary for Christian life, righteousness, and freedom. That one thing is the most holy Word of God, the gospel of Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Take this to heart and doubt not that you are the one who killed Christ. Your sins certainly did, and when you see the nails driven through his hands, be sure that you are pondering, and when the thorns pierce his brow, know that they are your evil thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Is it not a thing most abominable, that God who feeds so many mouths, should be held in such low esteem by me, that I will not trust him to feed me? Yea, that a guilder, thirty-eight cents, should be valued more highly than God, who pours out his treasures everywhere in rich profusion. For the world is full of God and his works. He is everywhere present with his gifts, and yet we will not trust in him, nor accept his visitation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: That which the sober man keeps in his breast, the drunken man lets out at the lips. Astute people, when they want to ascertain a man's true character, make him drunk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing: our helper He amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The Holy Ghost has called me by the gospel and illuminated me with his gifts and sanctified and preserved me in the true faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I believe that the devil has destroyed many good books of the church, as, aforetime, he killed and crushed many holy persons, the memory of whom has now passed away; but the Bible he was fain to leave subsisting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: A just law is a man-made code that squares with the moral law or the law of God. An unjust law is a code that is out of harmony with the moral law. To put it in the terms of Saint Thomas Aquinas, an unjust law is a human law that is not rooted in eternal and natural law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: In the bonds of Death He lay Who for our offence was slain; But the Lord is risen to-day, Christ hath brought us life again, Wherefore let us all rejoice, Singing loud, with cheerful voice, Hallelujah!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: You must learn that if you are a Christian, you will without a doubt experience all kinds of opposition and evil inclinations in the flesh. For when you have faith, there will be a hundred more evil thoughts and a hundred more temptations than before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Accordingly if the devil should say, 'Do not drink,' you should reply to him, 'On this very account, because you forbid it, I shall drink, and what is more, I shall drink a generous amount. Thus one must always do the opposite of that which Satan prohibits. What do you think is my reason for drinking wine undiluted, talking freely, and eating more often, if it is not to torment and vex the devil who made up his mind to torment and vex me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: All we who believe on Christ are kings and priests in Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: For God does not want to save us by our own but by an extraneous righteousness, one that does not originate in ourselves but comes to us from beyond ourselves, which does not arise on earth but comes from heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Although the Christian is thus free from all works, he ought in this liberty to empty himself, take upon himself the form of a servant, be made in the likeness of men, be found in human form, and to serve, help and in every way deal with his neighbor as he sees that God through Christ has dealt and still deals with him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: If obedience is not rendered in the homes, we shall never have a whole city, country, principality, or kingdom well governed. For this order in the homes is the first rule; it is the source of all other rule and government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Undoubtedly they do more and viler things than those which we know and discover"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: No greater mischief can happen to a Christian people, than to have God's word taken from them, or falsified, so that they no longer have it pure and clear. God grant we and our descendants be not witness to such a calamity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Here is the truly Christian life, here is faith really working by love, when a man applies himself with joy and love to the works of that freest servitude in which he serves others voluntarily and for nought, himself abundantly satisfied in the fulness and riches of his own faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: To turn one's eyes away from Jesus means to turn them to the Law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Our suffering is not worthy the name of suffering. When I consider my crosses, tribulations, and temptations, I shame myself almost to death, thinking what are they in \n comparison of the sufferings of my blessed Savior Christ Jesus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Whoever does not accept my teaching may not be saved - for it is God's teaching and not mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Daily there have to be many troubles and trials in every house, city, and country. No station in life is free of suffering and pain, both from your own, like your wife or children or household help or subjects, and from the outside, from your neighbors and all sorts of accidental trouble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: But the power of God cannot be so determined and measured, for it is uncircumscribed and immeasurable, beyond and above all that is or may be. On the other hand, it must be essentially present at all places, even in the tiniest tree leaf."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: This is the good and happy news, that Christ has paid for our sin, and through His suffering has redeemed us from eternal death. It is His kingdom and His ministry, to preach the Gospel to the poor; that is His purpose. For to the great and holy He cannot come. They do not wish to be counted sinners, and therefore do not need His Gospel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Our Lord God doesn't do great things except by violence, as they say"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: When Jesus Christ utters a word, He opens His mouth so wide that it embraces all Heaven and earth, even though that word be but in a whisper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: what is sought by means of free choice is to make room for merits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Divinity consists in use and practice, not in speculation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Thus, dear friends, I have said it clearly enough, and I believe you ought to understand it and not make liberty a law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Prayer is a powerful thing; for God has bound and tied himself thereunto."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I do not deny that medicine is a gift of God, nor do I refuse to acknowledge science in the skill of many physicians; but, take the best of them, how far are they from perfection? A sound regimen produces excellent effects. When I feel indisposed, by observing a strict diet and going to bed early, I generally manage to get round again, that is, if I can keep my mind tolerably at rest. I have no objection to the doctors acting upon certain theories, but, at the same time, they must not expect us to be the slaves of their fancies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: A Christian is a perfectly free lord of all, subject to none. A Christian is a perfectly dutiful servant of all, subject of all, subject to all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: In human affairs we accomplish everything through prayer. What has been properly arranged we keep in order, what has gone amiss we change and improve, what cannot be changed and improved we bear, overcoming all the trouble and sustaining all the good by prayer. Against force there is no help but prayer alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: ...Hope endures and overcomes misfortune and evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Being by his faith replaced afresh in paradise and created anew, he (the believer)does not need works for his justification, but that he may not be idle, but that he may exercise his own body and preserve it. His works are to be done freely, with the sole object of pleasing God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The believing man hath the Holy Ghost; and where the Holy Ghost dwelleth, He will not suffer a man to be idle, butstirreth him up to all exercises of piety and godliness, and of true religion, to the love of God, to the patient suffering of afflictions, to prayer, to thanksgiving, and the exercise of charity towards all men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The purpose of marriage is not to have pleasure and to be idle but to procreate and bring up children, to support a household. This, of course, is a huge burden full of great cares and toils. But you have been created by God to be a husband or a wife and that you may learn to bear these troubles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Christ desires nothing more of us than that we speak of him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Good works are the seals and proofs of faith; for even as a letter must have a seal to strengthen the same, even so faith must have good works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: It is God who creates, effects, and preserves all things through his almighty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: So great are the effectiveness and power of the Word of God that the more it is persecuted the more it flourishes and grows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The soul can do without everything except the word of God, without which none at all of its wants are provided for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Holy Christendom has, in my judgment, no better teacher after the apostles than St. Augustine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: what the situation will be like in the world before the Lord returns, namely, Christ will be despised, and the preachers of the Gospel will be regarded as fools."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: There never yet have been, nor are there now, too many good books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Peace is more important than all justice; and peace was not made for the sake of justice, but justice for the sake of peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: A great variety of reading confuses and does not teach. It makes the student like a man who dwells everywhere and, therefore, nowhere in particular."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Dear rulers ... I maintain that the civil authorities are under obligation to compel the people to send their children to school. ... If the government can compel such citizens as are fit for military service to bear spear and rifle, to mount ramparts, and perform other martial duties in time of war, how much more has it a right to compel the people to send their children to school, because in this case we are warring with the devil, whose object it is secretly to exhaust our cities and principalities of their strong men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The great unthankfulness, contempt of God's word, and wilfulness of the world, make me fear that the divine light will soon cease to shine on man, for God's word has ever had its certain course."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The heavenly blessing is to be delivered from the law, sin and death; to be justified and quickened to life: to have peace with God; to have a faithful heart, a joyful conscience, a spiritual consolation; to have the knowledge of Jesus Christ; to have the gift of prophecy, and the revelation of the Scriptures; to have the gift of the Holy Ghost, and to rejoice in God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: What harm would it do, if a man told a good strong lie for the sake of the good and for the Christian church ... a lie out of necessity, a useful lie, a helpful lie, such lies would not be against God, he would accept them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: God wants our conscience to be certain and sure that it is pleasing to Him. This cannot be done if the conscience is led by its own feelings, but only if it relies on the Word of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Even if all the world were to combine forces, they could not bring about the conception of a single child in any woman's womb nor cause it to be born; that is wholly the work of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The mystery of the humanity of Christ, that he sunk himself into our flesh, is beyond all human understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: If I should neglect prayer but a single day, I should lose a great deal of the fire of faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: When God wants to speak and deal with us, he does not avail himself of an angel but of parents, or the pastor, or of our neighbor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The spiritual rest, which God particularly intends in this Commandment, is this: that we not only cease from our labor and trade, but much more, that we let God alone work in us and that we do nothing of our own with all our powers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Grace remits sin, and peace quiets the conscience. Sin and conscience torment us, but Christ has overcome these fiends now and forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: God is ready to give more quickly, and to give more than you ask; yea, he offers his treasures if we only take them. It is truly a great shame and a severe chastisement for us Christians that God should still upbraid us for our slothfulness in prayer, and that we fail to let such a rich and excellent promise incite us to pray."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: A fiery shield is God's Word; of more substance and purer than gold, which, tried in the fire, loses nought of its substance, but resists and overcomes all the fury of the fiery heat; even so, he that believes God's Word overcomes all, and remains secure everlastingly, against all misfortunes; for this shield fears nothing, neither hell nor the devil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The devil and temptations also do give occasion unto us somewhat to learn and understand the Scriptures, by experience and practice. Without trials and temptations we should never understand anything thereof; no, not although we diligently read and heard the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Our preaching does not stop with the law. That would lead to wounding without binding up, striking down and not healing, killing and not making alive, driving down to hell and not bringing back up, humbling and not exalting. Therefore, we must also preach grace and the promise of forgiveness - this is the means by which faith is awakened and properly taught. Without this word of grace, the law, contrition, penitence, and everything else are done and taught in vain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: God our Father has made all things depend on faith so that whoever has faith will have everything, and whoever does not have faith will have nothing"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Christians are to be taught that the pope would and should wish to give of his own money, even though he had to sell the basilica of St. Peter, to many of those from whom certain hawkers of indulgences cajole money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Glory to God in highest heaven,  Who unto man His Son hath given;  While angels sing with tender mirth,  A glad new year to all the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Not only the words (vocabula) which the Holy Spirit and Scripture use are divine, but also the phrasing"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The article of justification is fragile. Not in itself, of course, but in us. I know how quickly a person can forfeit the joy of the Gospel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: This doctrine (justification) is the head and the cornerstone. It alone begets, nourishes, builds, preserves, and defends the church of God and without it the church of God cannot exist for one hour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: We need not invite the Devil to our table; he is too ready to come without being asked. The air all about us is filled with demons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Personally I declare that I owe the Pope no other obedience than that to Antichrist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Anyone who can be proved to be a seditious person is an outlaw before God and the emperor; and whoever is the first to put him to death does right and well. Therefore let everyone who can, smite, slay and stab, secretly or openly, remembering that nothing can be more poisonous, hurtful, or devilish than a rebel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Those who turn proud when their praise is sounded, who seek their own glory, not Christ's, or those who are moved by slanders and by infamy, had better leave the ministry of the Word."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Godly people are waiting for the Lord; therefore they live, therefore they are saved, therefore they receive what has been promised."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Nothing is easier than sinning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Here again you confuse and mix everything up in your usual way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Every doer of the law and every moral worker is accursed, for he walketh in the presumption of his own righteousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: For that purpose Christ instituted holy baptism, thereby to clothe you with his righteousness. It is tantamount to his saying, My righteousness shall be your righteousness; my innocence, your innocence. Your sins indeed are great, but by baptism I bestow on you my righteousness; I strip death from you and clothe you with my life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Wer nicht liebt Wein,Weib und Gesang, Der bleibt ein Narr sein Leben lang. Who loves not woman, wine and song Remains a fool his whole life long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Riches are the pettiest and least worthy gifts which God can give a man. What are they to God's Word, to bodily gifts, such as beauty and health; or to the gifts of the mind, such as understanding, skill, wisdom! Yet men toil for them day and night, and take no rest. Therefore God commonly gives riches to foolish people to whom he gives nothing else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Our faith is an astounding thing-astounding that I should believe him to be the Son of God who is suspended on the cross, whom I have never seen, with whom I have never become acquainted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: God wants to be praised for nourishing and cherishing, for He cherishes all creatures. He is not only the Creator, but He is also the Sustainer and Nourisher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Faith is the 'yes' of the heart, a conviction on which one stakes one's life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Even like as St. Paul was converted, just so are all others converted; for we all resist God, but the Holy Ghost draws the will of mankind, when he pleases, through preaching."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Faith looks to the word and the promise; that is, to the truth. But hope looks to that which the word has promised, to the gift ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: We ought not to criticize, explain, or judge the Scriptures by our mere reason, but diligently, with prayer, meditate thereon, and seek their meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Twas a special gift of God that speech was given to mankind; for through the Word, and not by force, wisdom governs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The law works fear and wrath; grace works hope and mercy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Maternity is a glorious thing, since all mankind has been conceived, born, and nourished of women. All human laws should encourage the multiplication of families."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: If God were willing to sell His grace, we would accept it more quickly and gladly than when He offers it for nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: If he have faith, the believer cannot be restrained. He betrays himself. He breaks out. He confesses and teaches this gospel to the people at the risk of life itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of this life, the best and something divine. It is the inventor and mentor of all the arts, medicines, laws, and of whatever wisdom, power, virtue, and glory men possess in this life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: To pray well is the better half of study."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Men have broad and large chests, and small narrow hips, and more understanding than women, who have but small and narrow breasts, and broad hips, to the end they should remain at home, sit still, keep house, and bear and bring up children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: After theology I give to music the highest place and the greatest honor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The Pope is a mere tormentor of conscience. The assembly of his greased and religious crew in praying was altogether like the croaking of frogs, which edified nothing at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: At Sussen, the Devil carried off, last Good Friday, three grooms who had devoted themselves to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: It is as if a wolf devoured a sheep and the sheep were so powerful that it transformed the wolf and turned him into a sheep. So, when we eat Christ's flesh physically and spiritually, the food is so powerful that it transforms us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Good works do not make a good man, but a good man does good works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: A penny saved is of more value than a penny paid out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: We should die relying on grace alone"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I pray that God would open the mouth in me and the heart in you and that he would be the teacher in the midst of us who may in us speak and hear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Amen meaneth assuredly, namely, that I am sure that petitions of this kind are accepted by my Heavenly Father, and heard by him, because he hath commanded us, that we should pray after this manner, and hath promised that he will hear us. Amen, Amen: that is, truly, certainly, so be it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: In a delightful garden, sowing, planting or digging are not hardship but are done with a zeal and a certain pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: A safe stronghold our God is still. A trusty shield and weapon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Whenever the word is rightly preached, and attentively heard, it never fails to bring forth fruit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: God indeed tempteth no man; but yet we ask, in this petition, that he would keep and preserve us, lest the devil, the world, and our own flesh delude and draw us away from the true faith, and throw us into superstition, distrust, despair, and other grievous sins and wickedness; and that, if we should be tempted therewith even to the highest degree, we still may conquer, and at last triumph over them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Christ and his word can hardly be recognized because of the great vermin of human ordinances. However, let this suffice for the time being on their lies against doctrine or faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: And though this world with devils filled, Should threaten to undo us, We will not fear, for God hath willed His truth to triumph through us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: He who loses sight of the word of God, falls into despair; the voice of heaven no longer sustains him; he follows only the disorderly tendency of his heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I have many times essayed thoroughly to investigate the ten commandments, but at the very outset, \"I am the Lord thy God,\" I stuck fast; that very one word, I, put me to a non-plus. He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Ambition begat simony; simony begat the pope and his brethren, about the time of the Babylonish captivity"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Through faith we are restored to paradise and created anew. We have no need of works in order to be righteous; however, in order to avoid idleness and so that the body might be cared for an disciplined, works are done freely to please God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The human heart is like a millstone in a mill: when you put wheat under it, it turns and grinds and bruises the wheat to flour; if you put no wheat, it still grinds on, but then 'tis itself it grinds and wears away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Let every man recognize what he is, and be certain that we are all equally priests, that is, we have the same power in the word and in any sacrament whatever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: We know that death never skips or spares anybody and that no one ever returns. And yet we go on like the blind, who see as little at midday as in the pitch-dark night. We do not take these examples to heart; we do not realize that today or tomorrow our turn will come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: An angel is a spiritual creature created by God without a body, for the service of Christendom and of the church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Leave the ass burdened with laws behind in the valley. But your conscience, let it ascend with Isaac into the mountain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers, unless they have been well exercised in music"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: As concerning faith we ought to be invincible, and more hard, if it might be, than the adamant stone; but as touching charity, we ought to be soft, and more flexible than the reed or leaf that is shaken with the wind, and ready to yield to everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: For they who think they make an end of temptation by yeilding to it, only set themselves on fire the more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The proverb has it that Hunger is the best cook. The Law makes afflicted consciences hungry for Christ. Christ tastes good to them. Hungry hearts appreciate Christ. Thirsty souls are what Christ wants. He invites them: Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. Christ's benefits are so precious that He will dispense them only to those who need them and really desire them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I cannot believe that my illness is natural. I suspect Satan, and therefore I am the more inclined to take it lightly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: God does not save those who are only imaginary sinners. Be a sinner, and let your sins be strong (sin boldly), but let your trust in Christ be stronger, and rejoice in Christ who is the victor over sin, death, and the world. We will commit sins while we are here, for this life is not a place where justice resides. We, however, ... are looking forward to a new heaven and a new earth where justice will reign."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Idiots, the lame, the blind, the dumb, are men in whom the devils have established themselves: and all the physicians who heal these infirmities, as though they proceeded from natural causes, are ignorant blockheads."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: We must not regard what or how the world esteems us, so we have the Word pure, and are certain of our doctrine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: so it is with human reason, which strives not against faith, when enlightened, but rather furthers and advances it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Whatever your heart clings to and confides in, that is really your God, your functional savior."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Reason is the greatest enemy that faith has: it never comes to the aid of spiritual things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I know that a Christian should be humble, but against the Pope I am going to be proud and say to him: \"You, Pope, I will not have you for my boss, for I am sure that my doctrine is divine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Be a sinner and sin strongly, but more strongly have faith and rejoice in Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Thus my learning is not my own; it belongs to the unlearned and is the debt I owe themMy wisdom belongs to the foolish, my power to the oppressed. Thus my wealth belongs to the poor, my righteousness to the sinners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The gospel cannot be preached and heard enough, for it cannot be grasped well enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: He that has but one word of God before him, and out of that word cannot make a sermon, can never be a preacher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Now just behold these miserable, blind, and senseless people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Next to the Word of God, music deserves the highest praise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Sleep is a most useful and most salutary operation of nature. Scarcely any minor annoyance angers me more than the being suddenly awakened out of a pleasant slumber. I understand that in Italy they torture poor people by depriving them of sleep. `Tis a torture that cannot long be endured."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I would not have preachers torment their hearers, and detain them with long and tedious preaching."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: And I myself, in Rome, heard it said openly in the streets, \"If there is a hell, then Rome is built on it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: He who is well acquainted with the text of scripture, is a distinguished theologian. For a Bible passage or text is of more value than the comments of four authors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Many have been deceived by outward appearances and have proceeded to write and teach about good works and how they justify without even mentioning faith.... Wearying themselves with many works, they never come to righteousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The faith towards God in Christ must be sure and steadfast, that it may solace and make glad the conscience, and put it to rest. When a man has this certainty, he has overcome the serpent; but if he be doubtful of the doctrine, it is for him very dangerous to dispute with the devil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The Holy Scriptures surpass in efficaciousness all the arts and all the sciences of the philosophers and jurists; these, though good and necessary to life here below, are vain and of no effect as to what concerns the life eternal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: It is the most ungodly and dangerous business to abandon the certain and revealed will of God in order to search in to the hidden mysteries of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: [It is] essentially wholesome and necessary, for a Christian to know, whether or not the will does any thing in those things which pertain unto Salvation. Nay, let me tell you, this is the very hinge upon which our discussion turns. It is the very heart of the subject"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: True Christian love is not derived from things without, but floweth from the heart, as from a spring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has fixed upon as one of the chief residences of his evil spirits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Whoever teaches differently from what I have taught, or whoever condemns me therein, he condemns God and must remain a child of hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: No man should be alone when he opposes Satan. The Church and the ministry of the Word were instituted for this purpose, that hands may be joined together and one may help another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Once sure that the doctrine we teach is God's Word, once certain of this, we may build thereupon, and know that this cause shall and must remain; the devil shall not be able to overthrow it, much less the world be able to uproot it, how fiercely soever it rage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can't be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what's coming."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Let whatsoever will or can befall me, I will surely cleave by my sweet Savior Christ Jesus, for in Him am I baptized; I can neither do nor know anything but only what He has taught me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: When the gospel flourishes in the church, everything flourishes with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: We should consider the histories of Christ three manner of ways; first, as a history of acts or legends; second, as a gift or a present; thirdly, as an example, which we should believe and follow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: A man must be able to affirm, I know for certain, that what I teach is the only Word of the high Majesty of God in heaven, his final conclusion and everlasting, unchangeable truth, and whatsoever concurs and agrees not with this doctrine, is altogether false, and spun by the devil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The confidence and faith of the heart alone make both God and an idol. If your faith and trust be right, then is your god also true; and, on the other hand, if your trust be false and wrong, then you have not the true God; for these two belong together faith and God. That now, I say, upon which you set your heart and put your trust is properly your god."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Singing has nothing to do with the affairs of this world: it is not for the law. Singers are merry, and free from sorrows and cares."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: When God contemplates some great work, He begins it by the hand of some poor, weak, human creature, to whom He afterwards gives aid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Indeed, to spur your Baal to action, I will taunt and challenge you ... to create as much as a single frog in the name and by the power of free choice, though the heathen and ungodly magicians in Egypt were able to create many.... I will not set you the heavy task of creating lice, which they could not produce either"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: How often have not the demons called 'Nix,' drawn women and girls into the water, and there had commerce with them, with fearful consequences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: You see then, that Diatribe truly possesses a free choice in her handling of Scriptures, so that words of one and the same type are for her obliged to prove endeavor in one place and freedom in another, exactly as she pleases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Oh! how great and glorious a thing it is to have before one the Word of God! With that we may at all times feel joyous and secure; we need never be in want of consolation, for we see before us, in all its brightness, the pure and right way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: from you, my dear Erasmus, let me obtain this request, that just as I bear with your ignorance in these matters, so you in turn will bear with my lack of eloquence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Heaven and earth, all the emperors, kings, and princes of the world, could not raise a fit dwelling-place for God; yet, in a weak human soul, that keeps His Word, He willingly resides."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: But then eject them forever from this country. For, as we have heard, God's anger with them is so intense that gentle mercy will only tend to make them worse and worse, while sharp mercy will reform them but little. Therefore, in any case, away with them!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: At Poltersberg, there is a lake similarly cursed. If you throw a stone into it, a dreadful storm immediately arises, and the whole neighboring district quakes to its centre. 'Tis the devils kept prisoner there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one who, running out of the rain, falls into the river."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I hate myself, that I cannot believe it so constantly and surely as I should; but no human creature can rightly know how mercifully God is inclined toward those that steadfastly believe in Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: He who knoweth and understandeth Christ's life, knoweth and understandeth Christ Himself; and in like manner, he who understandeth not His life, doth not understand Christ Himself. And he who believeth on Christ, believeth that His life is the best and noblest life that can be, and if a man believe not this, neither doth he believe on Christ Himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: However, they have not acquired a perfect mastery of the art of lying; they lie so clumsily and ineptly that anyone who is just a little observant can easily detect it. But for us Christians they stand as a terrifying example of God's wrath."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: O, when it comes to faith, what a living, creative, active, powerful thing it is. It cannot do other than good at all times. It never waits to ask whether there is some good work to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Our bodies are always exposed to Satan. The maladies I suffer are not natural, but Devil's spells."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Whoso hearkens not to God's voice, is an idolator, though he perform the highest and most heavy service of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: It cannot, indeed, be denied, that a good man is more worthy of love than a bad one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Music is one of the fairest and most glorious gifts of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Why do you rant and brag with such a spate of words, as if you wanted to overwhelm me with a sort of tempest and deluge of oratory-which nevertheless falls with the greater force on your own head, while my ark rides aloft in safety?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Hereby we may understand that God, of His special grace, maketh the teachers of the gospel subject to the Cross, and to all kinds of afflicitons, for the salvation of themselves and of the people; for otherwise they could by no means beat down this beast which is called vain-glory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: It is not I that smite, stab, and slay, but God and my prince, for my hand and my body are now their servants."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The body they may kill: \n God\u2019s truth abideth still, \n His Kingdom is forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: If the heart has been reformed by the spirit, it makes use of both the useful and delightful things created and given by God in a holy manner and with thanksgiving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: It is not the imitation that makes sons; it is sonship that makes imitators."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: He who wholly renounces himself, and relies not on mere human reason, will make good progress in the Scriptures; but the world comprehends them not, from ignorance of that mortification which is the gift of God's word."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: A theologian should be thoroughly in possession of the basis and source of faith--that is to say, the Holy Scriptures. Armed with this knowledge it was that I confounded and silenced all my adversaries; for they seek not to fathom and understand the Scriptures; they run them over negligently and drowsily; they speak, they write, they teach, according to the suggestion of their heedless imaginations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The works of the righteous would be mortal sins if they would not be feared as mortal sins by the righteous themselves out of pious fear of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Therefore we Christians, in turn, are obliged not to tolerate their wanton and conscious blasphemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: It is the duty of a prudent minister of God to hold his ministry in honor and to see to it that it is respected by those who are in his charge. Moreoever, it is the duty of a faithful minister not to exceed his powers and not to abuse his office in pride, but, rather, to administer it for the benefit of his subjects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The hair is the finest ornament women have. Of old, virgins used to wear it loose, except when they were in mourning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The multitude of books is a great evil. There is no limit to this fever for writing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: To preach Christ is to feed the soul, to justify it, to set it free, and to save it, if it believes the preaching."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Whoever wishes to be a Christian, let him pluck out the eyes of his reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: If it were art to overcome heresy with fire, the executioners would be the most learned doctors on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Truly speech has wonderful strength and power, that through a mere word, proceeding out of the mouth of a poor human creature, the devil, that so proud and powerful spirit, should be driven away, shamed and confounded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: My counsel is, that we draw water from the true source and fountain, that is, that we diligently search the Scriptures. He who wholly possesses the text of the Bible, is a consummate divine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Two devils rose from the water, and flew off through the air, crying, 'Oh, oh, oh!' and turning one over another, in sportive mockery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Oh, what thoughts man might have had about the fact that God is in all creatures, and so might have reflected on the power and the wisdom of God in even the smallest flowers!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: God scorns and mocks the devil, in setting under his very nose a poor, weak, human creature, mere dust and ashes, yet endowed with the firstfruits of the Spirit, against whom the devil can do nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Christians are rare people on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Justice is a temporary thing that must at last come to an end; but the conscience is eternal and will never die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Adam was created, as it were, intoxicated with rejoicing toward God and was delighted also with all the other creatures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Angels are our true and trusty servants, performing offices and works that one poor miserable mendicant would be ashamed to do for another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: A man would have to be an idiot to write a book of laws for an apple tree telling it to bear apples and not thorns, seeing that the apple-tree will do it naturally and far better than any laws or teaching can prescribe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: No man ought to lay a cross upon himself, or to adopt tribulation, as is done in popedom; but if a cross or tribulation come upon him, then let him suffer it patiently, and know that it is good and profitable for him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I myself saw and touched at Dessay, a child of this sort, which had no human parents, but had proceeded from the Devil. He was twelve years old, and, in outward form, exactly resembled ordinary children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: What can only be taught by the rod and with blows will not lead to much good; they will not remain pious any longer than the rod is behind them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I compare it with a lie, which like to a snowball, the longer it is rolled the greater it becomes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Heretics cannot themselves appear good unless they depict the Church as evil, false, and mendacious. They alone wish to be esteemed as the good, but the Church must be made to appear evil in every respect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The mad mob does not ask how it could be better, only that it be different. And when it then becomes worse, it must change again. Thus they get bees for flies, and at last hornets for bees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: I have grounded my preaching upon the literal word; he that pleases may follow me; he that will not may stay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: A mighty fortress is our God, a bulwark never failing; \n Our helper He, amid the flood of mortal ills prevailing: \n For still our ancient foe doth seek to work us woe; \n His craft and power are great, and, armed with cruel hate, \n On earth is not his equal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Though in midst of life we be\nSnares of death surround us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The universities only ought to turn out men who are experts in the Holy Scriptures, men who can become bishops and priests, and stand in the front line against heretics, the devil, and all the world. But where do you find that?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Exhort your household to learn [the Ten Commandments] word for word, that they should obey God\u2026For if you teach and urge your families things will go forward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: As when my little son John offendeth: if then I should not whip him, but call him to the table unto me, and give him sugar and plums, thereby, I should make him worse, yea should quite spoil him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: A Christian is free and independent in every respect, a bond servant to none. A Christian is a dutiful servant in every respect, owing a duty to everyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: women and girls begin to bare themselves behind and in front, and there is nobody to punish and hold in check, and besides, God's word is mocked."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: It is an unsufferable blasphemy to reject the public ministry or to say that people can become holy without sermons and Church. This involves a destruction of the Church and rebellion against ecclesiastical order; such upheavals must be warded off and punished like all other revolts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Christ will remain a priest and king; though He was never consecrated by any papist bishop or greased by any of those shavelings; but he was ordained and consecrated by God Himself, and by Him anointed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Isaiah calls the Church barren because her children are born without effort by the Word of faith through the Spirit of God. It is a matter of birth, not of exertion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The winds are nothing else but good or bad spirits. Hark! how the Devil is puffing and blowing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: The Devil, it is true, is not exactly a doctor who has taken degrees, but he is very learned, very expert for all that. He has not been carrying on his business during thousands of years for nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Men are so delving into the mysteries of things that today a boy of twenty knows more than twenty doctors formerly knew."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Over against the devil and his missionaries, the authors of false doctrines and sects, we ought to be like the Apostle, impatient, and rigorously condemnatory, as parents are with the dog that bites their little one, but the weeping child itself they soothe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Some will object that the Law is divine and holy. Let it be divine and holy. The Law has no right to tell me that I must be justified by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Let us not lose the Bible, but with diligence, in fear and invocation of God, read and preach it. While that remains and flourishes, all prospers with the state; 'tis head and empress of all arts and faculties. Let but divinity fall, and I would not give a straw for the rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: God created Adam master and lord of living creatures, but Eve spoilt all, when she persuaded him to set himself above God's will. 'Tis you women, with your tricks and artifices, that lead men into error."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive them that trespass against us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Martin Luther: Mary was not only holy. She was also the mother of the Lord."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: At the end of life we will not be judged by how many diplomas we have received, how much money we have made, how many great things we have done. We will be judged by \"I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat, I was naked and you clothed me. I was homeless, and you took me in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Every time you smile at someone, it is an action of love, a gift to that person, a beautiful thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We have only today. Let us begin"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Give your hands to serve and your hearts to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Be happy in the moment, that's enough. Each moment is all we need, not more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Prayer is not asking. Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God, at His disposition, and listening to His voice in the depth of our hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: When you know how much God is in love with you then you can only live your life radiating that love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: There are so many religions and each one has its different ways of following God. I follow Christ:\n Jesus is my God,\n Jesus is my Spouse,\n Jesus is my Life,\n Jesus is my only Love,\n Jesus is my All in All;\n Jesus is my Everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Do ordinary things with extraordinary love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread, but there are many more dying for a little love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Whenever you share love with others, you'll notice the peace that comes to you and to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Be the living expression of God's kindness; kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile. Smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all. Do it for peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: To Almighty God, it's not how much we give, but how much love we put in the giving. Love is not measured by how much we do; love is measured by how much love we put in; how much it is hurting us in loving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Never be so busy as not to think of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Peace and war begin at home. If we truly want peace in the world, let us begin by loving one another in our own families. If we want to spread joy, we need for every family to have joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Whatever our religion, we know that if we really want to love, we must first learn to forgive before anything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Any country that accepts abortion is not teaching its people to love but to use violence to get what they want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: What we sometimes consider a stumbling block is rather a rock we can step on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Love to be real, it must cost\u2014it must hurt\u2014it must empty us of self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: If you are humble nothing will touch you, neither praise nor disgrace, because you know what you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Spread love everywhere you go; first of all in your house. Give love to your children, to your wife or husband, to a next door neighbor. Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We must make our homes centers of compassion and forgive endlessly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Intense love does not measure, it just gives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: May God give back to you in love all the love you have given."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I think the world today is upside down, and is suffering so much, because there is so very little love in the homes and in family life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Do not allow yourselves to be disheartened by any failure as long as you have done your best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: When a poor person dies of hunger it has not happened because God did not take care of him or her. It has happened because neither you nor I wanted to give that person what he or she needed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: In the silence of the heart God speaks. If you face God in prayer and silence, God will speak to you. Then you will know that you are nothing. It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself. Souls of prayer are souls of great silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: There are many people who can do big things, but there are very few people who will do the small things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Be kind to each other. It is better to commit faults with gentleness than to work miracles with unkindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Do we know our poor people? Do we know the poor in our house, in our family? Perhaps they are not hungry for a piece of bread. Perhaps our children, husband, wife, are not hungry, or naked, or dispossessed, but are you sure there is no one there who feels unwanted, deprived of affection?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: God has created us to love and to be loved, and this is the beginning of prayer-to know that He loves me, that I have been created for greater things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Do not think that love, in order to be genuine, has to be extraordinary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: You may be exhausted with work, you may even kill yourself, but unless your work is interwoven with love, it is useless. To work without love is slavery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: God loves me. I'm not here just to fill a place, just to be a number. He has chosen me for a purpose. I know it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: God has identified himself with the hungry, the sick, the naked, the homeless; hunger not only for bread, but for love, for care, to be somebody to someone; nakedness, not for clothing only, but nakedness of that compassion that very few people give to the unknown; homelessness, not only just for a shelter made from stone but for that homelessness that comes from having no one to call your own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Life is an adventure, dare it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: In the developed countries there is a poverty of intimacy, a poverty of spirit, of loneliness, of lack of love. There is no greater sickness in the world today than that one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The fruit of love is service. The fruit of service is peace. And peace begins with a smile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: God will never, never, never let us down if we have faith and put our trust in Him. He will always look after us. So we must cleave to Jesus. Our whole life must simply be woven into Jesus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Silence of the heart is necessary so you can hear God everywhere - in the closing of the door, in the person who needs you, in the birds that sing, in the flowers, in the animals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We are called to be contemplatives. ..by seeking the face of God in everything, everyone, everywhere, all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: At the hour of death when we all come face to face with God we are going to be judged on love: how much we have loved, not how much we have done but how much love we have put in our action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents.\r\nParents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Before you speak, it is necessary for you to listen, for God speaks in the silence of the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: You must give what will cost you something. This, then, is not just giving what you can live without but what you can't live without or don't want to live without, something you really like. Then your gift becomes a sacrifice, which will have value before God. Any sacrifice is useful if it is done out of love. This giving until it hurts - this sacrifice - is what I call love in action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: It is not enough for us to say: I love God, but I do not love my neighbour. St. John says you are a liar if you say you love God and you don't love your neighbour. How can you love God whom you do not see, if you do not love your neighbour whom you see, whom you touch, with whom you live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Words which do not give the light of Christ increase the darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Only humility will lead us to unity, and unity will lead to peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Prayer is as necessary as the air, as the blood in our bodies, as anything to keep us alive-to keep us alive to the grace of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We learn humility through accepting humiliations cheerfully."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Love has a hem to her garment that reaches to the very dust. It sweeps the stains from the streets and lanes, and because it can, it must."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide \u2014 the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing, trifles. Needs increase because one thing calls for another. The result is uncontrollable dissatisfaction. Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Let us touch the dying, the poor, the lonely and the unwanted according to the graces we have received and let us not be ashamed or slow to do the humble work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: God is everywhere and in everything and without Him we cannot exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: One filled with joy preaches without preaching."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately, it is not fashionable to talk with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: For all those who make such stories which are not true, I only say God forgive all these people. I feel sorry for them because they are doing so much harm to themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Let us more and more insist on raising funds of love, of kindness, of understanding, of peace. Money will come if we seek first the Kingdom of God - the rest will be given."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Like her [Mary], let us be full of zeal to go in haste to give Jesus to others. She was full of grace when, at the Annunciation, she received Jesus. Like her. we too become full of grace every time we receive Holy Communion. It is the same Jesus whom she received and whom we receive at Mass. As soon as she received Him. she went with haste to give Him to John. For us also. As soon as we receive Jesus in Holy Communion, let us go in haste to give Him to our sisters, to our poor, to the sick, to the dying, to the lepers, to the unwanted, and the unloved. By this we make Jesus present in the world today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: A clean heart can see God, can speak to God, and can see the love of God in others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having someone to call their own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We are at Jesus' disposal. If he wants you to be sick in bed, if he wants you to proclaim His work in the street, if he wants you to clean the toilets all day, that's all right, everything is all right. We must say, \"I belong to you. You can do whatever you like.\" And this ..is our strength, and this is the joy of the Lord."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Love means to be willing to give until it hurts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Prayer is putting oneself in the hands of God"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Make sure that you let God's grace work in your souls by accepting whatever He gives you, and giving Him whatever He takes from you. True holiness consists in doing God's work with a smile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Don't look for big things, just do small things with great love...the smaller the thing, the greater must be our love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Life is a game, play it... Life is too precious, do not destroy it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Yesterday is gone and tomorrow has not yet come; we must live each day as if it were our last so that when God calls us we already, and prepared, to die with a clean heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I think that we in our family don't need bombs and guns, to destroy to bring peace - just get together, love one another, bring that peace, that joy, that strength of presence of each other in the home. And we will be able to overcome all the evil that is in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Holiness does not consist in doing extraordinary things. It consists in accepting, with a smile, what Jesus sends us. It consists in accepting and following the will of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I must be willing to give whatever it takes to do good to others. This requires that I be willing to give until it hurts. Otherwise, there is no true love in me, and I bring injustice, not peace, to those around me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Prayer is the breath of life to our soul; holiness is impossible without it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Sweetest Lord, make me appreciative of the dignity of my high vocation, and its many responsibilities. Never permit me to disgrace it by giving way to coldness, unkindness, or impatience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We too are called to withdraw at certain intervals into deeper silence and aloneness with God, together as a community as well as personally; to be alone with Him \u2014 not with our books, thoughts, and memories but completely stripped of everything \u2014 to dwell lovingly in His presence, silent, empty, expectant, and motionless. We cannot find God in noise or agitation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: There is no great difference in reality between one country and another, because it is always people you meet everywhere. They may look different or be dressed differently, they may have a different education or position; but they are all the same. They are all people to be loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Life is beauty, admire it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: When Christ said: \"I was hungry and you fed me,\" he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Be humble and you will never be disturbed. It is very difficult in practice because we all want to see the result of our work. Leave it to Jesus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Love begins at home, and it is not how much we do, but how much love we put in the action that we do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I have told everybody that what we are doing is for the love of God and works of love are always to accept and respect others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I have a diplomatic passport for India, diplomatic passport for Albania. I have Vatican passport and to America, I can go any time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Nobody can convert you except God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Suffering is nothing by itself. But suffering shared with the passion of Christ is a wonderful gift, the most beautiful gift, a token of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Prayer in action is love, and love in action is service. Try to give unconditionally whatever a person needs in the moment. The point is to do something, however small, and show you care through your actions by giving your time ... Do not worry about why problems exist in the world - just respond to people's needs ... We feel what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean, but that ocean would be less without that drop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The joy of Jesus will be my strength - it will be in my heart. Every person I meet will see it in my work; my walk, my prayer - in everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: People everywhere are the same; they are all people to be loved. They are all hungry for love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Love is not patronizing and charity isn't about pity, it is about love. Charity and love are the same -- with charity you give love, so don't just give money but reach out your hand instead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The fullness of our heart is expressed in our eyes, in our touch, in what we write, in what we say, in the way we walk, the way we receive, the way we serve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: If you really love one another, you will not be able to avoid making sacrifices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The success of love is in the loving - it is not in the result of loving. Of course it is natural in love to want the best for the other person, but whether it turns out that way or not does not determine the value of what we have done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I believe in person to person; every person is Christ for me, and since there is only one Jesus, that person is only one person in the world for me at that moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Work without love is slavery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The greatest disease in the West today is not TB or leprosy; it is being unwanted, unloved, and uncared for. We can cure physical diseases with medicine, but the only cure for loneliness, despair, and hopelessness is love. There are many in the world who are dying for a piece of bread but there are many more dying for a little love. The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty -- it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There's a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Jesus has made Himself the Bread of Life to give us life. Night and day, He is there. If you really want to grow in love, come back to the Eucharist, come back to that Adoration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We need silence to be able to touch souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: How much love did you put into what you did?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: America needs no words from me to see how your decision in Roe v. Wade has deformed a great nation. The so-called right to abortion has pitted mothers against their children and women against men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I still think that the greatest suffering is being lonely, feeling unloved, just having no one... That is the worst disease that any human being can ever experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of Christ risen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Let us not use bombs and guns to overcome the world. Let us use love and compassion. Peace begins with a smile-smile five times a day at someone you don't really want to smile at at all-do it for peace. So let us radiate peace...and extinguish in the world and in the hearts of all men all hatred and love for power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: And so let us always meet each other with a smile, for the smile is the beginning of love, and once we begin to love each other naturally we want to do something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: It is impossible to love God without loving our neighbor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: She lived almost fifty years of her life completely dedicated to the care of the poor and the marginalized. Astonishingly, for those nearly fifty years she identified completely with the poor she served by her own experience of being seemingly unwanted and unloved by God. In a mystical way \u2014 through this painful interior \"darkness\" \u2014 she tasted their greatest poverty of being \"unwanted, unloved, and uncared for.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Joy is strength- Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. She gives most who gives with Joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The world today is hungry Not only for bread But hungry for love; Hungry to be wanted, Hungry to be loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Peace begins with a smile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: There should be less talk. A preaching point is not a meeting point."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Keep Giving Jesus to the people, not by words but by your example, by being in love with Jesus, by radiating holiness and spreading his fragrance of love everywhere you go. Just keep the joy of Jesus as your strength, be happy and at peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Today, if we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other-that man, that woman, that child is my brother or my sister. If everyone could see the image of God in his neighbor, do you think we would still need tanks and generals?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted, and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child, and be loved by the child. From our children's home in Calcutta alone, we have saved over 3,000 children from abortions. These children have brought such love and joy to their adopting parents, and have grown up so full of love and joy!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: [My mother tongue is] Albanian. But, I am equally fluent in Bengali (language of Calcutta) and English."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We pick up people dying full of worms from the street. We have picked up more than 40,000 of them. If I lift up such a person, clean him, love him and serve him, is it conversion? He has been there like an animal in the street but I am giving him love and he dies peacefully. That peace comes from his heart. That's between him and God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The poverty in the West is a different kind of poverty\u2014it is not only a poverty of loneliness but also of spirituality. There\u2019s a hunger for love, as there is a hunger for God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We need to give Christ a chance to make use of us, to be His word and His work, to share His food and His clothing in the world today. If we do not radiate the light of Christ around us, the sense of the darkness that prevails in the world will increase."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: There is hunger for ordinary bread, and there is hunger for love, for kindness, for thoughtfulness, and this is the great poverty that makes people suffer so much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: \u200eI don't think we can do anything more than what we are doing now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Cheerfulness is a sign of a generous and mortified person who forgetting all things, even herself, tries to please her God in all she does for souls. Cheerfulness is often a cloak which hides a life of sacrifice and a continual union with God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Let's do something beautiful for God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Conversion is not only changing the faith. Conversion is changing the heart and working over there is the grace of God. Then only comes the question of change of faith. Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Our progress in holiness depends on God and ourselves - on God's grace and on our will to be holy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: It is only when you realize your nothingness, your emptiness, that God can fill you with Himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We must have a real living determination to reach holiness. ''I will be a saint'' means I will despoil myself of all that is not God; I will strip my heart of all created things; I will live in poverty and detachment; I will renounce my will, my inclinations, my whims and fancies, and make make myself a willing slave to the will of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Holiness grows so fast where there is kindness. The world is lost for want of sweetness and kindness. Do not forget we need each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: What we say does not matter - only what God says to souls through us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: There is only one God and He is God to all; therefore it is important that everyone is seen as equal before God. I've always said we should help a Hindu become a better Hindu, a Muslim become a better Muslim, a Catholic become a better Catholic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: If I ever become a Saint - I will surely be one of \"darkness.\" I will continually be absent from heaven - to light the light of those in darkness on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other and have the courage to accept each other as we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Souls of prayer are souls of great silence"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: God does not demand that I be successful. God demands that I be faithful. When facing God, results are not important. Faithfulness is what is important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Each time anyone comes in contact with us, they must become different and better people because of having met us. We must radiate God's love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Where was Mother Teresa's Jesus? He was in the Bible, in the church, in her prayer, in the Eucharist, in her sisters, in the heart of everyone she met, and especially in the poorest of the poor and the lowest of the low. Jesus was in disguise in each one of them. Jesus was behind the foundation of her order. Jesus was behind all that she did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: When Christ said: I was hungry and you fed me, he didn't mean only the hunger for bread and for food; he also meant the hunger to be loved. Jesus himself experienced this loneliness. He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by. Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: By abortion the Mother does not learn to love, but kills her own child to solve her problems. And, by abortion, that father is told that he does not have to take any responsibility at all for the child he has brought into the world. The father is likely to put other women to the same trouble. So abortion leads to more abortion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Suffering will come, trouble will come - that's part of life; a sign that you are alive. If you have no suffering and no trouble, the devil is taking it easy. You are in his hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I always begin my prayer in silence, for it is in the silence of the heart that God speaks. God is the friend of silence-we need to listen to God because it's not what we say but what He says to us and through us that matters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Let us be very sincere in our dealings with each other, and have the courage to accept each other as we are. Do not be surprised or become preoccupied at each other's failures - rather, see and find in each other the good, for each one of us is created in the image of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Where does love begin? In our own homes. When does it begin? When we pray together. The family that prays together stays together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Christ prays in me, Christ works in me, Christ thinks in me, Christ looks through my eyes, Christ speaks through my words, Christ works with my hands, Christ walks with my feet, Christ loves with my heart. As St Paul's prayer was: I belong to Christ and nothing will separate me from the love of Christ. It was that oneness, oneness with God in the Holy Spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Mary, my dearest Mother, give me your heart so beautiful, so pure, so immaculate, your heart so full of love and humility, that I may be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life, love Him as you loved Hitn and serve Him in the distressing disguise of the poorest of the poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: A joyful heart is like the sunshine of God's love, the hope of eternal happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I don't think there is anyone who needs God's help as much as I do. Sometimes I feel so helpless and weak. I think that is why God uses me. Because I cannot depend on my own strength, I rely on Him twenty-four hours a day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We need silence to be alone with God, to speak to him, to listen to him, to ponder his words deep in our hearts.  We need to be alone with God in silence to be renewed and transformed.  Silence gives us a new outlook on life.  In it we are filled with the energy of God himself that makes us do all things with joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The greatest destroyer of peace is abortion because if a mother can kill her own child, what is left for me to kill you and you to kill me? There is nothing between."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I think it is very beautiful for the poor to accept their lot, to share it with the passion of Christ. I think the world is being much helped by the suffering of the poor people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We cannot separate our lives from the Eucharist; the moment we do, something breaks. People ask, 'Where do the sisters get the joy and the energy to do what they are doing?' The Eucharist involves more than just receiving; it also involves satisfying the hunger of Christ. He says, 'Come to Me.' He is hungry for souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: How do we persuade a woman not to have an abortion? As always, we must persuade her with LOVE, and we remind ourselves that love means to be willing to give until it hurts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: They should give until it hurts, maybe a very small thing, maybe just a packet of cigarettes, but instead of by smoking that one packet, maybe I share that packet with somebody who has not got even one cigarette, and that's the beginning of love, to give until it hurts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Be faithful in little things, for in them your strength lies. To the good God nothing is little, because He is so great and we are so small."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: A joyful heart is the normal result of a heart burning with love. She gives most who gives with joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Prayer feeds the soul - as blood is to the body, prayer is to the soul - and it brings you closer to God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Joy must be one of the pivots of our life. It is the token of a generous personality. Sometimes it is also a mantle that clothes a life of sacrifice and self-giving. A person who has this gift often reaches high summits. He or she is like sun in a community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Let us not be satisfied with just giving money. Money is not enough, money can be got, but they need your hearts to love them. So, spread your love everywhere you go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: By abortion, the mother does not learn to love, but kills even her own child to solve her problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Please don't kill the child. I want the child. Please give me the child. I am willing to accept any child who would be aborted and to give that child to a married couple who will love the child and be loved by the child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: If you are hungry to hear the voice of God, you will hear. To hear, you have to cut out all other things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: True love is love that causes us pain, that hurts, and yet brings us joy. That is why we must pray to God and ask Him to give us the courage to love"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: This is the meaning of true love, to give until it hurts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Whatever religion we are, we must pray together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Listen in silence because if your heart is full of other things you cannot hear the voice of God"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Charity isn't about pity, it is about love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East-especially in India-I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening without a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving-it is not in the result of loving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Sometimes people can hunger for more than bread. It is possible that our children, our husband, our wife, do not hunger for bread, do not need clothes, do not lack a house. But are we equally sure that none of them feels alone, abandonded, neglected, needing some affection? That, too, is poverty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: As far as I am concerned, the greatest suffering is to feel alone, unwanted, unloved. The greatest suffering is also having no one, forgetting what an intimate, truly human relationship is, not knowing what it means to be loved, not having a family or friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Dearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and, whilst nursing them, minister unto you. Though you hide yourself behind the unattractive disguise of the irritable, the exacting, the unreasonable, may I still recognize you, and say: \"Jesus, my patient, how sweet it is to serve you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We belong to each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: At the moment of death we will not be judged according to the number of good deeds we have done or by the diplomas we have received in our lifetime. We will be judged according to the love we have put into our work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Hungry not only for bread - but hungry for love. Naked not only for clothing - but naked of human dignity and respect. Homeless not only for want of a home of bricks - but homeless because of rejection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Put your sins in the chalice for the precious blood to wash away. One drop is capable of washing away the sins of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: To show great love for God and our neighbor we need not do great things. It is how much love we put in the doing that makes our offering something beautiful for God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The first step to becoming is to will it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Make us worthy Lord to serve our fellow men throughout the world who live and die in poverty and hunger. Give them through our hands this day their daily bread and by our understanding love, give peace and joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: One thing that I ask of you: Never be afraid of giving. There is a deep joy in giving, since what we receive is much more than what we give."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Joy is a sign of generosity. When you are full of joy, you move faster and you want to go about doing good to everyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I see God in every human being. When I wash the leper's wounds I feel I am nursing the Lord himself. Is it not a beautiful experience?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Every act of love is a work of peace no matter how small."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: What we need is love without getting tired."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Silence came before creation, and the heavens were spread without a word"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: In the home begins the disruption of the peace of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We will never know how much just a simple smile will do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: If there are people who feel that God wants them to change the structures of society, that is something between them and their God. We must serve him in whatever way we are called. I am called to help the individual; to love each poor person. Not to deal with institutions. I am in no position to judge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, but in the fervor of the desire which raises the heart to Jesus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: If we were humble, nothing would change us-neither praise nor discouragement. If someone were to criticize us, we would not feel discouraged. If someone would praise us, we also would not feel proud."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Open your hearts to the love God instills . . . God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under lock and key, but to be shared."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Prayer is nothing but that complete surrender, complete oneness with Christ. And this is what makes us contemplative in the heart of the world; for we are twenty-four hours then in His presence: in the hungry, in the naked, in the homeless, in the unwanted, unloved, uncared for. For Jesus said, Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Whatever you do to the least of my brethren, you do it to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Love is a fruit in season at all times, and within reach of every hand. Anyone may gather it and no limit is set. Everyone can reach this love through meditation, spirit of prayer, and sacrifice, by an intense inner life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We have picked up people full of worms from the streets, cared for them and let them die in peace and love. When they are brought to our home, they feel they are in their own homes, with their own families. Now, I am trying to open a house for AIDS victims here (in Delhi). The people are dying because of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Profound joy of the heart is like a magnet that indicates the path of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Life is an opportunity, benefit from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Somebody loves us, too - God Himself. We have been created to love and to be loved"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Even if I want I cannot make you say sorry to God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I do make conversion, if conversion means really turning people to God - to have a clean heart and to love God. That's the real conversion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We are fighting abortion through adoption."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Let me thus praise You in the way You love best: by shining on those around me. Let me preach You without preaching, not by words, but by my example, by the catching force, the sympathetic influence of what I do, the evident fullness of the love my heart bears to You. Amen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Once that living love is destroyed by contraception, abortion follows very easily."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: If we remember that God loves us, and that we can love others as He loves us, then America can become a sign of peace for the world. From here, a sign of care for the weakest of the weak - the unborn child - must go out to the world. If you become a burning light of justice and peace in the world, then really you will be true to what the founders of this country stood for. God bless you!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile, kindness in your warm greeting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Let's not pray long, drawn-out prayers, but let's pray short ones full of love. Let us pray on behalf of those who do not pray. Let us remember, if we want to be able to love, we must be able to pray!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: God speaks in the silence of the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: In vocal prayer we speak to God; in mental prayer he speaks to us. It is then that God pours Himself into us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The fruit of faith is love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I realized that I had the call to take care of the sick and the dying, the hungry, the naked, the homeless - to be God's Love in action to the poorest of the poor. That was the beginning of the Missionaries of Charity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Prayer to be fruitful must come from the heart and must be able to touch the heart of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: On certain continents poverty is more spiritual than material, a poverty that consists of loneliness, discouragement, and the lack of meaning in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I have the feeling that we are in such a hurry that we do not have time to look at one another and smile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I do not agree with a big way of doing things. What matters is the individual. If we wait till we get numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Real prayer is union with God, a union as vital as that of the vine to the branch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: You can and you must expect suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: He came amongst his own and his own received him not, and it hurt him then and it has kept on hurting him. The same hunger, the same loneliness, the same having no one to be accepted by and to be loved and wanted by."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Prayer does not demand that we interrupt our work, but that we continue working as if it were a prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: You have to do that here in your country. You must come to know the poor. Maybe our people here have material things, everything, but I think that if we all look into our own homes, how difficult we find it sometimes to smile at each other, and that the smile is the beginning of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I want you to find the poor here, right in your own home first. And begin love there. Be that good news to your own people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I always say \"if you are afraid of them (the unborn), give them to me. Please, don't kill them.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Anybody who helps the poor is delighted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Many people (who go to her as volunteers) have found peace, joy and unity in their families by helping the poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The right to life does not depend, and must not be declared to be contingent, on the pleasure of anyone else, not even a parent or sovereign."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We should not serve the poor like they were Jesus. We should serve the poor because they are Jesus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Works of love are always to accept and respect others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: There should be less talk. . . . What do you do then? Take a broom and clean someone's house. That says enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Jesus has very clearly said in the gospel. \"Whatever you do, do to the least of my brethren.\" Clear? That was the work of Jesus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We never had any problem from them. Jyoti Basu has been very kind to us. He was the one who told me \"Mother, please do something for these (jail) girls. He has been helpful and always accessible to us over phone. We also never had any problem whenever we wanted to meet him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Prayer is in all things, in all gestures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: As each Sister is to become a Co-Worker of Christ in the slums, each ought to understand what God and the Missionaries of Charity expect from her. Let Christ radiate and live his life in her and through her in the slums. Let the poor, seeing her, be drawn to Christ and invite him to enter their homes and their lives. Let the sick and suffering find in her a real angel of comfort and consolation. Let the little ones of the streets cling to her because she reminds them of him, the friend of the little ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: God made the world for the delight of human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: You can find Calcutta all over the world, if you have the eyes to see."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Faith is a gift from God and he gives it to whomever he chooses"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Even if I wanted, I cannot do anything. When they die, we always send for their co-religionists. Muslims take the Muslim's body to bury it, Hindus come and take away the dead to be cremated and Christians come and bury their dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: God loves the world through us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We have a vow to give wholeheartedly everything to the poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: \u200eWe are already taking care of people from jail. Hundred and ten non-criminal women are already with us in Shantidhan (abode of peace)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Real prayer is union with God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: It is by forgiving that one is forgiven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: From the moment a soul has the grace to know God, she must seek."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: In Calcutta alone, we have given more than 1,000 children in adoption. I cannot calculate how many babies we get a year. But we never refuse anybody. Everybody is most welcome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: How can I act in an impersonal manner? When a man dies in the street for want of food, how can I ignore him? When I find a starving or naked man in the street, I cannot walk past him. I think no human being can do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We all long for heaven where God is, but we have it in our power to be in heaven with him right now-to be happy with him at this very moment. But being happy with him now means."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: My secret is a very simple one: I pray. To pray to Christ is to love him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: If there are poor on the moon, we will go there too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: It is not possible to engage in the direct apostolate without being a soul of prayer. We must be aware of oneness with Christ, as he was aware of oneness with his Father. Our activity is truly apostolic only insofar as we permit him to work in us and through us with his power, with his desire, with his love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: By praying ... If you want to pray better, you must pray more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Our life of contemplation shall retain the following characteristics: \u2014missionary: by going out physically or in spirit in search of souls all over the universe. \u2014contemplative: by gathering the whole universe at the very center of our hearts where the Lord of the universe abides, and allowing the pure water of divine grace to flow plentifully and unceasingly from the source itself, on the whole of his creation. \u2014universal: by praying and contemplating with all and for all, especially with and for the spiritually poorest of the poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Every human being in that case resembles Christ in his loneliness; and that is the hardest part, that's real hunger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I prefer to make a mistake because I am too kind than to perform miracles without any kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: O God, how easily I make them happy! Give me strength to be always the light of their lives and so lead them to You!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I feel called to help individuals, to love each human being. I never think in terms of crowds in general but in terms of persons. Were I to think about crowds, I would never begin anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: But I feel that the greatest destroyer of peace today is abortion, because it is a war against the child, a direct killing of the innocent child, murder by the mother herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: In loving one another through our works we bring an increase of grace and a growth in divine love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Hungry for love, He looks at you. Thirsty for kindness, He begs of you. Naked for loyalty, He hopes in you. Homeless for shelter in your heart, He asks of you. Will you be that one to Him?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Each of us is merely a small instrument; all of us, after accomplishing our mission, will disappear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Lord give me this seeing faith, then my work will never be monotonous. I will find joy in humoring the fancies and gratifying the wishes of all poor sufferers. O beloved sick, how doubly dear you are to me, when you personify Christ; and what a privilege is mine to be allowed to tend you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: One day I met a lady who was dying of cancer in a most terrible condition. And I told her, I say, \"You know, this terrible pain is only the kiss of Jesus - a sign that you have come so close to Jesus on the cross that he can kiss you.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Our hours of adoration will be special hours of reparation for sins, and intercession for the needs of the whole world, exposing the sin-sick and suffering humanity to the healing, sustaining and transforming rays of Jesus, radiating from the Eucharist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The time we spend in having our daily audience with God is the most precious part of the whole day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Do not look for Jesus away from yourselves. He is not out there; He is in you. Keep your lamp burning, and you will recognize him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Jesus wants me to tell you again...how much is the love He has for each one of you-beyond all what you can imagine...Not only He loves you, even more - He longs for you. He misses you when you don't come close. He thirsts for you. He loves you always, even when you don't feel worthy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We must become holy, not because we want to feel holy, but because Christ must be able to live his life fully in us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Joy is prayer. Joy is strength. Joy is love. Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Death, in the final analysis, is only the easiest and quickest means to go back to God. If only we could make people understand that we come from God and that we have to go back to Him!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Riches, both material and spiritual, can choke you if you do not use them fairly. For not even God can put anything in a heart that is already full."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Holiness is not a luxury for the few; it is not just for some people. It is meant for you and for me and for all of us. It is a simple duty, because if we learn to love, we learn to be holy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Many people are very, very concerned with the children in India, with the children in Africa where quite a number die, maybe of malnutrition, of hunger and so on, but millions are dying deliberately by the will of the mother. And this is what is the greatest destroyer of peace today. Because if a mother can kill her own child - what is left for me to kill you and you kill me -- there is nothing between."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Put yourself completely under the influence of Jesus, so that he may think his thoughts in your mind, do his work through your hands, for you will be all-powerful with him to strengthen you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: All we do our prayers our work our suffering is for Jesus. Our life has no other reason or motivation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I have never found a problem with people from different religions praying together. What I have found is that people are just hungry for God, and be they Christian or Muslim we invite them to pray with us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The mass is the spiritual food that sustains me, without which I could not get through one single day or hour in my life; in the mass we have Jesus in the appearance of bread. While in the slums we see Christ and touch him in the broken bodies, in the abandoned children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Our poverty is freedom. This is our poverty - the giving up our freedom to dispose of things, to choose, to possess"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Silence gives us a new outlook on everything. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say but what God says to us and through us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We may not be able to give much but we can always give the joy that springs in a heart that is in LOVE WITH GOD."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: It is much easier to conquer a country than to conquer ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: In the silence of our hearts, God speaks of His love; with our silence, we allow Jesus to love us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: In order for us to be able to love, we need to have faith, because faith is love in action and love in action is service. In order for us to be able to love, we have to see and touch. Faith in action through prayer, faith in action through service: each is the same thing, the same love, the same compassion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Jesus has said \"Come, blessed of my Father, take the seat in the kingdom prepared for you, because I was hungry you gave me food, I was thirsty you have me drink, I was naked you clothed me, I was homeless you took me home and I was sick you visited me.\" And we are just doing that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Anybody who helps the poor is delighted. So naturally, they (critics) are not very happy with us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Very less to say, I can make one Catholic or Protestant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Every time I ask for visa, they (USA) give me visa for five years. I have never had any problem in getting a visa to any nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: If you are Catholic, and some other person comes to you seeking guidance, naturally you take him straight away to someone who can show him God's love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Whatever we get from the government or other people - even one rupee we get, we give it to the poor. Completely free service."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I don't look at anything. Every person whether he is Hindu, Muslim or Buddhist, he is my brother, my sister. I think we all do like that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: If a Hindu wants to find the way to God, he has the right to go to any priest, nun or any other person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Every country I love and I am a child of God to love the humans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: There are others who take up that (liberating) role. I have no time to spend for that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I am busy with my work. My path is clear. I see somebody dying, I pick him up. I find somebody hungry, I give him food. He can love and be loved. I don't look at his color, I don't look at his religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: In our home (for the dying at Kali Ghat) in Calcutta, there is great peace, unity and love. Many Hindu families bring food, clothing nonstop to our home for the dying. This is an act of love. I didn't ask them. They have only heard about what I am doing and they all come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We have no salaries. When one says he is from a good Catholic family and says he wants to help us, why should we refuse his offer?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Brothers, Fathers and Sisters - all of us in the Missionaries of Charity are doing the same. All of us have been created by God to love and to be loved. We are involved in this work. When you do that, there is joy, unity and love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: [West Bengal state] Government has decided that non-criminal persons should not be kept in these kind of places and asked us to take care of them. They should live in an atmosphere of love. They need to be loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: We are now in 126 countries. We have 561 houses - tabernacles we call them - and over 4600 nuns. It's simply to serve the poorest of the poor. We are wanted and we have championed those who have nothing, the deprived children of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Nobody can change your religion unless you want to and God gives you the grace. It's between you and God alone. Nobody can force you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I see somebody dying, I pick him up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: The fruit of Silence is Prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: Nobody can force you, not even the holy prophets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Mother Teresa: I am busy with my work. My path is clear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: No one is more worthy of your kindness and compassion than you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Silence is essential. We need silence just as much as we need air, just as much as plants need light. If our minds are crowded with words and thoughts, there is no space for us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Around us, life bursts with miracles--a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops. If you live in awareness, it is easy to see miracles everywhere. Each human being is a multiplicity of miracles. Eyes that see thousands of colors, shapes, and forms; ears that hear a bee flying or a thunderclap; a brain that ponders a speck of dust as easily as the entire cosmos; a heart that beats in rhythm with the heartbeat of all beings. When we are tired and feel discouraged by life's daily struggles, we may not notice these miracles, but they are always there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything - anger, anxiety, or possessions - we cannot be free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When we give ourselves the chance to let go of all our tension, the body's natural capacity to heal itself can begin to work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The way you speak to others can offer them joy, happiness, self-confidence, hope, trust, and enlightenment. Mindful speaking is a deep practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The secret to happiness is happiness itself. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, the wonder of our breathing. We don't have to travel anywhere else to do so. We can be in touch with these things right now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Some people live as though they are already dead. There are people moving around us who are consumed by their past, terrified of their future, and stuck in their anger and jealousy. They are not alive; they are just walking corpses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Anxiety, the illness of our time, comes primarily from our inability to dwell in the present moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Be Yourself. Life is precious as it is. All the elements for your happiness are already here. There is no need to run, strive, search, or struggle. Just Be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: There is a story in Zen circles about a man and a horse. The horse is galloping quickly, and it appears that the man on the horse is going somewhere important. Another man standing alongside the road, shouts, \u00abWhere are you going?\u00bb and the first man replies, \u00abI don't know! Ask the horse!\u00bb This is also our story. We are riding a horse, and we don't know where we are going and we can't stop. The horse is our habit energy pulling us along, and we are powerless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within himself, and his suffering is spilling over. He does not need punishment; he needs help. That's the message he is sending."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The buddha called suffering a holy truth, because our suffering has the capacity of showing us the path to liberation. Embrace your suffering and let it reveal to you the way to peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Sometimes when I am alone in my room in the dark, I practice smiling to myself.  I do this to be kind to myself, to take good care of myself, to love myself.  I know that if I cannot take care of myself, I cannot take care of anyone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If you think that peace and happiness are somewhere else and you run after them, you will never arrive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Only the present moment contains life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Because you are alive, everything is possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Silence is something that comes from your heart, not from outside. Silence doesn't mean not talking and not doing things; it means that you are not disturbed inside. If you're truly silent, then no matter what situation you find yourself in you can enjoy the silence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift! We have the capacity to live in a way that these twenty-four hours will bring peace, joy, and happiness to ourselves and others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Enlightenment, peace, and joy will not be granted by someone else. The well is within us, And if we dig deeply in the present moment, The water will spring forth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If you love someone but rarely make yourself available to him or her, that is not true love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views about them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: My actions are my only true belongings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: There is no way to happiness - happiness is the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If love is in our hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle. Because understanding is the very foundation of love, words and actions that emerge from our love are always helpful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: People have a hard time letting go of their suffering. Out of a fear of the unknown, they prefer suffering that is familiar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something nicer to come up and replace it; you read some inspiring words, you listen to a piece of beautiful music, you go somewhere in nature, or you do some walking meditation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Take my hand. We will walk. We will only walk. We will enjoy our walk without thinking of arriving anywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: I think, therefore I am ... not here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Today is the most important day of our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The Seven Factors of Awakening are mindfulness, investigation of phenomena, diligence, joy, ease, concentration, and letting go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Every word, every look, every action, and every smile can bring happiness to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We all have the seeds of love in us.We can develop this wonderful source of energy, nurturing the unconditional love that does not expect anything in return."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When you love someone, the best thing you can offer is your presence. How can you love if you are not there?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Choose to be in touch with what is wonderful, refreshing, and healing within yourself and around you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to take place. To meditate is to learn how to stop\u2014to stop being carried away by our regrets about the past, our anger or despair in the present, or our worries about the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The quality of our life depends on the quality of the seeds that lie deep in our consciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The past is gone, the future is not yet here, and if we do not go back to ourselves in the present moment, we cannot be in touch with life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: People normally cut reality into compartments, and so are unable to see the interdependence of all phenomena. To see one in all and all in one is to break through the great barrier which narrows one's perception of reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Hatred and fear blind us. We no longer see each other. We see only the faces of monsters, and that gives us the courage to destroy each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be the source of your joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself. \r\nWhen you are carried away with your worries, fears, cravings, anger, and desire, you run away from yourself and you lose yourself. \r\nThe practice is always to go back to oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Human beings are not our enemy. Our enemy is not the other person. Our enemy is the violence, ignorance, and injustice in us and in the other person. When we are armed with compassion and understanding, we fight not against other people, but against the tendency to invade, to dominate, and to exploit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: In the moment when we are able to smile, to look at ourselves with compassion, our world begins to change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Attachment to views is the greatest impediment to the spiritual path."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The amount of happiness that you have depends on the amount of freedom you have in your heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Be angry, it's okay. To be angry, that is very human. And to learn how to smile at your anger and make peace with your anger is very nice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The Three Kinds of Pride are: (1) thinking I am better than the other(s); (2) thinking I am worse than the other(s); and (3) thinking I am just as good as the other(s)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Your presence is a miracle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: There is the mud, and there is the lotus that grows out of the mud. We need the mud in order to make the lotus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Only your compassion and your loving kindness are invincible, and without limit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: To be loved means to be recognized as existing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The desire to be a free person is very worthwhile. To be free means you are no longer the victim of fear, anger, craving, or suspicion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Go back and take care of yourself. Your body needs you, your feelings need you, your perceptions need you. Your suffering needs you to acknowledge it. Go home and be there for all these things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Many people are alive but don't touch the miracle of being alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We will be more successful in all our endeavors if we can let go of the habit of running all the time, and take little pauses to relax and re-center ourselves. And we'll also have a lot more joy in living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Often we tell ourselves, \"Don't just sit there, do something!\" But when we practice awareness, we discover that the opposite may be more helpful: \"Don't just do something, sit there!\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: My actions are my only true belongings. I cannot escape the consequences of my actions. My actions are the ground on which I stand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Understanding means throwing away your knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: In our consciousness, there are many negative seeds and also many positive seeds. The practice is to avoid watering the negative seeds, and to identify and water the positive seeds every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: There is no birth, there is no death; there is no coming, there is no going; there is no same, there is no different; there is no permanent self, there is no annihilation. We only think there is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: It's like growing lotus flowers. You cannot grow lotus flowers on marble. You have to grow them on the mud. Without mud you cannot have lotus flowers. Without suffering, you have no way to learn how to be understanding and compassionate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The wave does not need to die to become water. She is already water."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The more we see, the more we understand. The more we understand, the easier it is for us to have compassion and love. Understanding is the source of love. Understanding is love itself. Understanding is another name for love; love is another name for understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Mindful time spent with the person we love is the fullest expression of true love and real generosity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: \u200eWe have a lamp inside us. The oil of that lamp is our breathing, our steps, and our peaceful smile. Our practice is to light up the lamp."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Our notions about happiness entrap us. We forget that they are just ideas. Our idea of happiness can prevent us from actually being happy. We fail to see the opportunity for joy that is right in front of us when we are caught in a belief that happiness should take a particular form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When we change our daily lives - the way we think, speak and act - we change the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When we have anger in us, we suffer. When we have discrimination in us, we suffer. When we have the complex of superiority, we suffer. When we have the complex of inferiority, we suffer also. So when we are capable of transforming these negative things in us, we are free and happiness is possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The heart of the matter is always our oneness with divine spirit, our union with all life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: What you are looking for is already in you...You already are everything you are seeking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If you get angry easily, it may be because the seed of anger in you has been watered frequently over many years, and unfortunately you have allowed it or even encouraged it to be watered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When you say something really unkind, when you do something in retaliation your anger increases. You make the other person suffer, and he will try hard to say or to do something back to get relief from his suffering. That is how conflict escalates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We humans think we are smart, but an orchid, for example, knows how to produce noble, symmetrical flowers, and a snail knows how to make a beautiful, well-proportioned shell. Compared with their knowledge, ours is not worth much at all. We should bow deeply before the orchid and the snail and join our palms reverently before the monarch butterfly and the magnolia tree. The feeling of respect for all species will help us recognize the noblest nature in ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: You cannot transmit wisdom and insight to another person. The seed is already there. A good teacher touches the seed, allowing it to wake up, to sprout, and to grow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: By eating meat we share responsibility for causing climate change, the destruction of our forests, and the poisoning of our air and water. The simple act of becoming a vegetarian can make a difference in the health of our planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Due to attachment, anger, and foolishness, I have committed numberless mistakes in speech, deed and thought. I bow my head and repent. I vow from today to begin anew, to live day and night in mindfulness, and not to repeat my previous mistakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The source of a true smile is an awakened mind. Smiling helps you approach the day with gentleness and understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Our own life has to be our message."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart. Even if he says things that are full of wrong perceptions, full of bitterness, you are still capable of continuing to listen with compassion. Because you know that listening like that, you give that person a chance to suffer less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: It is possible to live twenty-four hours a day in a state of love. Every movement, every glance, every thought, and every word can be infused with love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: A teacher cannot give you the truth The truth is already in you You only need to open yourself \u2013 body, mind and heart- so that his or her teachings will penetrate your own seeds of understanding and enlightenment If you let the words enter you, the soil and the seeds will do the rest of the work"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: As long as you find something beautiful, good, and true to believe in and abide by, you have the equivalent of God in your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Each moment you are alive is a gem. It needs you to breathe gently for the miracles to be displayed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We can help many people suffer less and realize a lot of happiness without being rich or influential.  If love and compassion are in out hearts, every thought, word, and deed can bring about a miracle"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: I promise myself that I will enjoy every minute of the day that is given me to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When you love someone, you want to share everything with him or her. So it is your duty to say, \"I suffer and I want you to know\" - and he will, she will, appreciate it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Real love means loving kindness and compassion, the kind of love that does not have any conditions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: \u200e\"The earth is so beautiful. We are beautiful also. We can allow ourselves to walk mindfully, touching the earth, our wonderful mother, with each step. We don't need to wish our friends, 'Peace be with you.' Peace is already with them. We only need to help them cultivate the habit of touching peace in each moment.\"-"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: First, let us light the torch of our awareness and learn again how to drink tea, eat, wash dishes, walk, sit, drive, and work in awareness. We do not have to be swept along by circumstances. We are not just a leaf or a log in a rushing river. With awareness, each of our daily acts takes on a new meaning, and we discover that we are more than machines, that our activities are not just mindless repetitions. We find that life is a miracle, the universe is a miracle, and we too are a miracle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Each moment is a chance for us to make peace with the world, to make peace possible for the world, to make happiness possible for the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish. If you are not capable of generatng that kind of energy toward yourself - if you are not capable of taking care of yourself, of nourishing yourself, of protecting yourself - it is very difficult to take care of another person. In the Buddhist teaching, it's clear that to love oneself is the foundation of the love of other people. Love is a practice. Love is truly a practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We have the Statue of Liberty on the East Coast. But in the name of freedom, people have done a lot of damage. I think we have to build a Statue of Responsibility on the West Coast in order to counterbalance. Because liberty without responsibility is not true liberty. We are not free to destroy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: People sacrifice the present for the future. But life is available only in the present. That is why we should walk in such a way that every step can bring us to the here and the now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: You are me, and I am you. Isn't it obvious that we \"inter-are\"? You cultivate the flower in yourself, so that I will be beautiful. I transform the garbage in myself, so that you will not have to suffer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: A flower is not a flower. It is made only of non-flower elements - sunshine, clouds, time, space, earth, minerals, gardeners, and so on. A true flower contains the whole universe. If we return any one of these non-flower elements to its source, there will be no flower."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: A bodhisattva doesn't have to be perfect. Anyone who is aware of what is happening and who tries to wake up other people is a bodhisattva. We are all bodhisattvas, doing our best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Everything inside and around us wants to reflect itself in us. We don't have to go anywhere to obtain the truth. We only need to be still and things will reveal themselves in the still water of our heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: You are a miracle, and everything you touch could be a miracle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Anger is like a flame blazing up and consuming our self-control, making us think, say, and do things that we will probably regret later."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Life is filled with suffering, but it is also filled with many wonders, like the blue sky, the sunshine, the eyes of a baby.  To suffer is not enough.  We must also be in touch with the wonders of life.  They are within us and all around us, everywhere, any time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: There are some people who eat an orange but don't really eat it. They eat their sorrow, fear, anger, past, and future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Each thought, each action in the sunlight of awareness becomes sacred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Fear keeps us focused on the past or worried about the future. If we can acknowledge our fear, we can realize that right now we are okay. Right now, today, we are still alive, and our bodies are working marvelously. Our eyes can still see the beautiful sky. Our ears can still hear the voices of our loved ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Without being peace, we cannot do anything for peace. If we cannot smile, we cannot help other people to smile. If we are not peaceful, then we cannot contribute to the peace movement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If you look deeply into the palm of your hand, you will see your parents and all generations of your ancestors. All of them are alive in this moment. Each is present in your body. You are the continuation of each of these people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: It is not impermanence that makes us suffer. What makes us suffer is wanting things to be permanent when they are not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Earth will be safe when we feel in us enough safety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The source of love is deep in us and we can help others realize a lot of happiness. One word, one action, one thought can reduce another person\u2019s suffering and bring that person joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When you call me European, I say yes. When you call me Arab, I say yes. When you call me black, I say yes. When you call me white, I say yes. Because I am in you and you are in me. We have to inter-be with everything in the cosmos."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: There is a time for everything. There is a time when I sit down, I concentrate myself on the problem of my bills, but I would not worry before that. One thing at a time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Meditation is, first of all, a tool for surveying our territory so we can know what is going on. With the energy of mindfulness, we can calm things down, understand them, and bring harmony back to the conflicting elements inside us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Being rich is an obstacle to loving. When you are rich, you want to continue to be rich, and so you end up devoting all your time, all your energy, in your daily life to stay rich."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The way must be in you; the destination also must be in you and not somewhere else in space or time. If that kind of self-transformation is being realized in you, you will arrive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: A look filled with understanding, an accepting smile, a loving word, a meal shared in warmth and awareness are the things which create happiness in the present moment.   By nourishing awareness in the present moment, you can avoid causing suffering to yourself and those around you.   The way you look at others, your smile, and your small acts of caring can create happiness.   True happiness does not depend on wealth or fame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: In true love, you attain freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Your breathing should flow gracefully, like a river, like a watersnake crossing the water, and not like a chain of rugged mountains or the gallop of a horse. To master our breath is to be in control of our bodies and minds. Each time we find ourselves dispersed and find it difficult to gain control of ourselves by different means, the method of watching the breath should always be used."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We are determined not to take as the aim of our life fame, profit, wealth, or sensual pleasure, nor to accumulate wealth while millions are hungry and dying.  We are committed to living simply and sharing our time, energy, and material resources with those who are in need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If you are truly present and know how to take care of the present moment as best you can, you are doing your best for the future already."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Even if you only stop and focus on your breathing for a few breaths, or for a minute or two, its very valuable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When we come into contact with the other person, our thoughts and actions should express our mind of compassion, even if that person says and does things that are not easy to accept. We practice in this way until we see clearly that our love is not contingent upon the other person being lovable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When you sit in a caf\u00e9, with a lot of music in the background and a lot of projects in your head, you're not really drinking your coffee or your tea. You're drinking your projects, you're drinking your worries. You are not real, and the coffee is not real either. Your coffee can only reveal itself to you as a reality when you go back to your self and produce your true presence, freeing yourself from the past, the future, and from your worries. When you are real, the tea also becomes real and the encounter between you and the tea is real. This is genuine tea drinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: In Buddhism, we speak of touching Nirvana with our own body, In Christianity, you can also touch the Kingdom of God with your body, right here and now. it is much safer than placing our hope in the future. If we cling to the idea of hope in the future, we might not notice the peace and joy that are available in the present moment. The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The nectar of compassion is so wonderful. If you are committed to keeping it alive, then you are protected. What the other person says will not touch off the anger and irritation in you, because compassion is the real antidote to anger. Nothing can heal anger except compassion. That is why the practice of compassion is a very wonderful practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Fear is born from ignorance. We think that the other person is trying to take away something from us. But if we look deeply, we see that the desire of the other person is exactly our own desire - to have peace, to be able to have a chance to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If we face our unpleasant feelings with care, affection, and nonviolence, we can transform them into a kind of energy that is healthy and has the capacity to nourish us. By the work of mindful observation, our unpleasant feelings can illuminate so much for us, offering us insight and understanding into ourselves and society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The other person has wrong perceptions about himself and about us. And we have wrong perceptions about ourselves and the other person. And that is the foundation for violence and conflict and war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: You only need to walk in mindfulness, making peaceful, happy steps on our planet. Breathe deeply, and enjoy your breathing. Be aware that the sky is blue and the birds' songs are beautiful. Enjoy being alive and you will help the living Christ and the living Buddha continue for a long, long time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We may think of peace as the absence of war, that if the great powers would reduce their weapons arsenals, we could have peace. But if we look deeply into the weapons, we will see our own minds - our own prejudices, fears, and ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: True love always brings joy to ourself and the one we love. If our love does not bring joy to both of us, it is not true love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment. If you breathe in and are aware that you are alive - that you can touch the miracle of being alive - then that is a kind of enlightenment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If you do not give right attention to the one you love, it is a kind of killing. When you are in the car together, if you are lost in your thoughts, assuming you already know everything about her, she will slowly die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When we are mindful, deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace and love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Are we treating our body kindly by the way we eat, by the way we drink, by the way we work? Are we treating ourselves with enough joy and tenderness and peace? Or are we feeding ourselves with toxins that we get from the market - the spiritual, intellectual, entertainment market?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Nirvana is the complete silencing of concepts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When your mind is liberated, your heart floods with compassion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: No thought about the past or future can pull you away from your present peace and joy. The universe exists in this present moment. No desire can pull you away from this present peace, not even the desire to become a Buddha or the desire to save all beings. Know that to become a Buddha and to save all beings can only be realized on the foundation of the pure peace of the present moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If we do not know how to take care of ourselves and to love ourselves, we cannot take care of the people we love. Loving oneself is the foundation for loving another person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Smiling is very important. If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. It is not by going out for a demonstration against nuclear missiles that we can bring about peace. It is with our capacity of smiling, breathing, and being peace that we can make peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet \u2014 to infuse every act of body, speech, and mind \u2014 with mindfulness, to illuminate every leaf and pebble, every heap of garbage, every path that leads to our mind's return home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: I would not look upon anger as something foreign to me that I have to fight... I have to deal with my anger with care, with love, with tenderness, with nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Suffering is not enough. Life is both dreadful and wonderful...How can I smile when I am filled with so much sorrow? It is natural--you need to smile to your sorrow because you are more than your sorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: A bodhisattva is someone who has compassion within himself or herself and who is able to make another person smile or help someone suffer less. Every one of us is capable of this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Every one of us needs a home.  The world needs a home.  There are so many young people who are homeless.  They may have a building to live in, but they are homeless in their hearts.  That is why the most important practice of our time is to give each person a home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When we hug, our hearts connect and we know that we are not separate beings. Hugging with mindfulness and concentration can bring reconciliation, healing, understanding, and much happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am eating is me. The mustard greens I am planting are me. I plant with all my heart and mind. I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath. Nothing should be treated more carefully than anything else. In mindfulness, compassion, irritation, mustard green plant, and teapot are all sacred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Your true home is in the here and the now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Deep listening is the kind of listening that can help relieve the suffering of another person. You can call it compassionate listening. You listen with only one purpose: to help him or her to empty his heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: It is said that God has created man in his own image. But it may be that humankind has created God in the image of humankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Reality is reality. It transcends every concept. There is no concept which can adequately describe it, not even the concept of interdependence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We need to be aware of the suffering, but retain our clarity, calmness and strength so we can help transform the situation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Usually when we hear or read something new, we just compare it to our own ideas. If it is the same, we accept it and say that it is correct. If it is not, we say it is incorrect. In either case, we learn nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: As you embrace your pain, you get relief and you find out how to handle that emotion. And if you know how to handle the fear, then you have enough insight in order to solve the problem. The problem is to not allow that anxiety to take over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Suppose you are drinking a cup of tea. When you hold your cup, you may like to breathe in, to bring your mind back to your body, and you become fully present. And when you are truly there, something else is also there - life, represented by the cup of tea. In that moment you are real, and the cup of tea is real. You are not lost in the past, in the future, in your projects, in your worries. You are free from all of these afflictions. And in that state of being free, you enjoy your tea. That is the moment of happiness, and of peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Our capacity to make peace with another person and with the world depends very much on our capacity to make peace with ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Enlightenment for a wave is the moment the wave realizes it is water. At that moment, all fear of death disappears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Words and thoughts concerning compassionate action that are not put into practice are like beautiful flowers that are colorful but have no fragrance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The reason we might lose love is because we are always looking outside of us, thinking that the object or action of love is out there. That is why we allow the love, the harmony, the mature understanding, to slip away from ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When we live in the spirit of gratitude, there will be much happiness in our life. The one who is grateful is the one who has much happiness while the one who is ungrateful will not be able to have happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If we are not happy, if we are not peaceful, we cannot share peace and happiness with others, even those we love, those who live under the same roof. If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile and blossom like a flower, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Each second of life is a miracle"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We really have to understand the person we want to love. If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love. If we only think of ourselves, if we know only our own needs and ignore the needs of the other person, we cannot love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Find joy and peace in this very moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Before practicing meditation, we see that mountains are mountains. When we start to practice, we see that mountains are no longer mountains. After practicing a while, we see that mountains are again mountains. Now the mountains are very free. Our mind is still with the mountains, but it is no longer bound to anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: What we most need to do is to hear within us the sound of the Earth crying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Simple practices like conscious breathing and smiling are very important. They can change our civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Anxiety is the illness of our age. We worry about ourselves, our family, our friends, our work, and our state of the world. If we allow worry to fill our hearts, sooner or later we will get sick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The seed of suffering in you may be strong, but don't wait until you have no more suffering before allowing yourself to be happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The purpose of a vacation is to have the time to rest. But many of us, even when we go on vacation, don't know how to rest. We may even come back more tired than before we left."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: With negative energy you can make the positive energy. A flower will become compost someday, but if you know how to transform the compost back into the flower, then you don't have to worry. You don't have to worry about your anger because you know how to handle it - to embrace, to recognize, and to transform it. So this is what is possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The practice of peace and reconciliation is one of the most vital and artistic of human actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: You are not an observer, you are a participant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: In order to be loved, we have to love, which means we have to understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If you find yourself in some difficulty, step aside, and allow Buddha to take your place. The Buddha is in you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Leaves are usually looked upon as the children of the tree. Yes, they are children of the tree, born from the tree, but they are also mothers of the tree. The leaves combine raw sap, water, and minerals, with sunshine and gas, and convert it into a variegated sap that can nourish the tree. In this way, the leaves become the mother of the tree. We are all children of society, but we are also mothers. We have to nourish society. If we are uprooted from society, we can not trasform it into a more liveable place for us and our children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Reconciliation is to understand both sides; to go to one side and describe the suffering being endured by the other side, and then go to the other side and describe the suffering being endured by the first side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Walk and touch peace every moment.\r\nWalk and touch happiness every moment.\r\nEach step brings a fresh breeze.\r\nEach step makes a flower bloom.\r\nKiss the Earth with your feet.\r\nBring the Earth your love and happiness.\r\nThe Earth will be safe\r\nwhen we feel safe in ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Training is needed in order to love properly; and to be able to give happiness and joy, you must practice DEEP LOOKING directed toward the other person you love. Because if you do not understand this person, you cannot love properly. Understanding is the essence of love. If you cannot understand, you cannot love. That is the message of the Buddha."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If a child smiles, if an adult smiles, that is very important. If in our daily lives we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. If we really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile? Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy. The source of a true smile is an awakened mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Sometimes you have a flash of insight, but it's not strong enough to survive. Therefore in the practice of Buddhism, samadhi is the power to maintain insight alive in every moment, so that every speech, every word, every act will bear the nature of that insight. It is a question of cleaning. And you clean better if you are surrounded by those who are practicing exactly the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Fearlessness is not only possible, it is the ultimate joy. When you touch nonfear, you are free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When you have a toothache, you think that not having a toothache will make you very happy. But when you don't have a toothache, often you are still not happy. If you practice awareness, you suddenly become very rich, very very happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Whenever anger comes up, take out a mirror and look at yourself. When you are angry, you are not very beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: True self is non-self, the awareness that the self is made only of non-self elements. There's no separation between self and other, and everything is interconnected. Once you are aware of that you are no longer caught in the idea that you are a separate entity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: As a human being, you have the right to get angry; but as a practitioner, you do not have the right to stop practicing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: As you walk, you touch the ground mindfully, and every step can bring you solidity and joy and freedom. Freedom from your regret concerning the past, and freedom from your fear about the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Nothing is more precious than being in the present moment. Fully alive, fully aware."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Keeping your body healthy is an expression of gratitude to the whole cosmos \u2014 the trees, the clouds, everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The problem is whether we are determined to go in the direction of compassion or not. If we are, then can we reduce the suffering to a minimum? If I lose my direction, I have to look for the North Star, and I go to the north. That does not mean I expect to arrive at the North Star. I just want to go in that direction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Love is the capacity to take care, to protect, to nourish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in touch with Mother Earth and eating in such a way, you feel in touch with true life, your roots, and that is meditation. If we chew every morsel of our food in that way we become grateful and when you are grateful, you are happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: What is most important is to find peace and to share it with others. To have peace, you can begin by walking peacefully. Everything depends on your steps."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Aware of the suffering caused by the destruction of life, I am committed to cultivating compassion and learning ways to protect the lives of people, animals, plants, and minerals. I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If we know how to create the energy of love, understanding, compassion, and beauty, then we can contribute a lot to the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: A real love letter is made of insight, understanding, and compassion. Otherwise it's not a love letter. A true love letter can produce a transformation in the other person, and therefore in the world. But before it produces a transformation in the other person, it has to produce a transformation within us. Some letters may take the whole of our lifetime to write."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Each time you look at a tangerine, you can see deeply into it. You can see everything in the universe in one tangerine. When you peel it and smell it, it\u2019s wonderful. You can take your time eating a tangerine and be very happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If we are too busy, if we are carried away every day by our projects, our uncertainty, our craving, how can we have the time to stop and look deeply into the situation-our own situation, the situation of our beloved one, the situation of our family and of our community, and the situation of our nation and of the other nations?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: To think in terms of either pessimism or optimism oversimplifies the truth. The problem is to see reality as it is. A pessimistic attitude can never create the calm and serene smile which blossoms on the lips of Bodhisattvas and all those who obtain the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Do not avoid contact with suffering or close your eyes before suffering. Do not lose awareness of the existence of suffering in the life of the world. Find ways to be with those who are suffering by all means, including personal contact and visits, images, sounds. By such means, awaken yourself and others to the reality of suffering in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When reality is perceived in its nature of ultimate perfection, the practitioner has reached a level of wisdom called non-discrimination mind - a wondrous communion in which there is no longer any distinction made between subject and object."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If our love is only a will to possess, it is not love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: In us, there is a river of feelings, in which every drop of water is a different feeling, and each feeling relies on all the others for its existence. To observe it, we just sit on the bank of the river and identify each feeling as it surfaces, flows by, and disappears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When you love someone, the best you can offer is your presence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The fact is that when you make the other suffer, he will try to find relief by making you suffer more. The result is an escalation of suffering on both sides."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Preventing war is much better than protesting against the war. Protesting the war is too late."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Life has left her footprints on my forehead. But I have become a child again this morning. The smile, seen through leaves and flowers, is back to smooth away the wrinkles, as the rains wipe away footprints on the beach. Again a cycle of birth and death begins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: I vow to live fully in each moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When we say, \"I take refuge in the Buddha,\" we should also understand that \"The Buddha takes refuge in me,\" because without the second part the first part is not complete. The Buddha needs us for awakening, understanding, and love to be real things and not just concepts. They must be real things that have real effects on life. Whenever I say, \"I take refuge in the Buddha,\" I hear \"the Buddha takes refuge in me.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Nonviolent action, born of the awareness of suffering and nurtured by love, is the most effective way to confront adversity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The fact that I am standing there and washing bowls is a wondrous reality. I'm being completely myself, following my breath, conscious of my presence, and conscious of my thoughts and actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The secret of Buddhism is to remove all ideas, all concepts, in order for the truth to have a chance to penetrate, to reveal itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Before you do something to help, your presence already can bring some relief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Do not be idolatrous about or bound to any doctrine, theory, or ideology, even Buddhist ones. All systems of thought are guiding means; they are not absolute truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: So if we love someone, we should train in being able to listen. By listening with calm and understanding, we can ease the suffering of another person. [True Love. A Practice for Awakening the Heart.]"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Today, you can decide to walk in freedom. You can choose to walk differently. You can walk as a free person, enjoying every step."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem.\nTo meditate means to observe.\nYour smile proves it.\nIt proves that you are being gentle with yourself,\nthat the sun of awareness is shining in you,\nthat you have control of your situation.\nYou are yourself,\nand you have acquired some peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If you do not know how to take care of yourself, and the violence in you, then you will not be able to take care of others. You must have love and patience before you can truly listen to your partner or child. If you are irritated you cannot listen. You have to know how to breath mindfully, embrace your irritation and transform it. Offer ONLY understand and compassion to your partner or child - This is the true practice of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Without understanding, your love is not true love. You must look deeply in order to see and understand the needs, aspirations, and suffering of the one you love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: I am in the present. I don't think of the past. I don't think of the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We try to live every moment like that, dwelling peacefully in the present moment, and respond to events with compassion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We all need a place that is safe and wholesome enough for us to return for refuge. In Buddhism, that refuge is mindfulness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Wrong perceptions cannot be removed by guns and bombs. They should be removed by deep listening, compassionate listening, and loving space."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Love doesn't have any color. Other people may discriminate against us, but what is more important is whether we discriminate against them. If we don't do that, we are a happier person, and as a happier person, we are in a position to help. And anger, this is not a help."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Wherever we are we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other and the wonder of our breathing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Around us, life bursts with miracles, a glass of water, a ray of sunshine, a leaf, a caterpillar, a flower, laughter, raindrops."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: To live in the present moment is a miracle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: It is possible to live happily in the here and the now. So many conditions of happiness are available - more than enough for you to be happy right now. You don't have to run into the future in order to get more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Words can travel thousands of miles. May my words create mutual understanding and love. May they be as beautiful as gems, as lovely as flowers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Our smile affirms our awareness and determination to live in peace and joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: With mindfulness - the practice of peace - we can begin by working to transform the wars in ourselves. Conscious breathing helps us do this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: You have to learn how to help a wounded child while still practicing mindful breathing. You should not allow yourself to get lost in action. Action should be meditation at the same time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Mindfulness is like that\u2014it is the miracle which can call back in a flash our dispersed mind and restore it to wholeness so that we can live each minute of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Life is available only in the present moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The essence of nonviolence is love. Out of love and the willingness to act selflessly, strategies, tactics, and techniques for a nonviolent struggle arise naturally. Nonviolence is not a dogma; it is a process."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: In the Light of interbeing, peace and happiness in your daily life means peace and happiness in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: To live in the present moment is a miracle. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green Earth in the present moment, to appreciate the peace and beauty that are available now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If you establish serenity and happiness inside yourself, you provide the world with a solid base of peace. If you do not give yourself peace, how can you share it with others? If you do not begin your peace work with yourself, where will you go to begin it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: There is no enlightenment outside of daily life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Real peace is not in power, money, or weapons, but in deep inner peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Through your love for each other, through learning the art of making one person happy, you learn to express your love for the whole of humanity and all beings. Please help us develop the curriculum for the Institute for the Happiness of One Person. Don't wait until we open the school. You can begin practicing right away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Live the actual moment. Only this moment is life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When you enter deeply into this moment, you see the nature of reality, and this insight liberates you from suffering and confusion. Peace is already there to some extent: the problem is whether we know how to touch it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: There are always some people who are ready to embrace a doctrine, a notion, a dogma, and they miss the real teaching."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Those who are without compassion cannot see what is seen with the eyes of compassion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: May we awaken from forgetfulness and realize our true home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When we come to the table, we shouldn't negotiate right away. We should spend time walking together, eating together, making acquaintance, telling each other about our own suffering, without blame or condemnation. It takes maybe one, two, three weeks to do that. And if communication and understanding are possible, negotiation will be easier. So if I am to organize a peace negotiation, I will organize it in that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: I am committed to cultivating loving speech and deep listening in order to bring joy and happiness to others and relieve others of their suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Our nature is the nature of no birth and no death. It is impossible for a cloud to pass from being into nonbeing. And that is true with a beloved person. They have not died. They have continued in many new forms and you can look deeply and recognize them in you and around you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: I am determined to practice deep listening. I am determined to practice loving speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If in our daily life we can smile, if we can be peaceful and happy, not only we, but everyone will profit from it. This is the most basic kind of peace work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: From time to time, to remind ourselves to relax and be peaceful, we may wish to set aside some time for a retreat, a day of mindfulness, when we can walk slowly, smile, drink tea with a friend, enjoy being together as if we are the happiest people on Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get relief. And if you continue with your practice of mindfulness, you understand the roots, the nature of the suffering, and you know the way to transform it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We are often sad and suffer a lot when things change, but change and impermanence have a positive side. Thanks to impermanence, everything is possible. Life itself is possible... If your daughter is not impermanent, she cannot grow up to become a woman. Then your grandchildren would never manifest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: I clean this teapot with the kind of attention I would have were I giving the baby Buddha or Jesus a bath."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Until there is peace between religions, there can be no peace in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Freedom is the basic condition for you to touch life, to touch the blue sky, the trees, the birds, the tea, and the other person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Most of us experience a life full of wonderful moments and difficult moments. But for many of us, even when we are most joyful, there is fear behind our joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The joy of life is born of concentration. When you are having a cup of tea, the value of that experience depends on your concentration. You have to drink the tea with 100 percent of your concentration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When we recognise the virtues, the talent, the beauty of Mother Earth, something is born in us, some kind of connection; love is born."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Every day we do things, we are things that have to do with peace.  If we are aware of our life..., our way of looking at things, we will know ohw to make peace right in the moment, we are alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Every day we touch what is wrong, and, as a result, we are becoming less and less healthy. That is why we have to learn to practice touching what is not wrong\u2014inside us and around us. When we get in touch with our eyes, our heart, our liver, our breathing, and our non-toothache and really enjoy them, we see that the conditions for peace and happiness are already present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Each breath we take, each step we make, each smile we realize, is a positive contribution to peace... a necessary step in the direction of peace for the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Breathe in and take one step, and focus all your attention on the sole of your foot. If you have not arrived fully, one hundred percent in the here and the now, don't take the next step."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: It's like a mother, when the baby is crying, she picks up the baby and she holds the baby tenderly in her arms. Your pain, your anxiety is your baby. You have to take care of it. You have to go back to yourself, to recognize the suffering in you, embrace the suffering, and you get a relief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: There is a paradise of form and colors in the world. And because you have eyes still in good condition, you can get in touch with the paradise. So when I become aware of my eyes, I touch one of the conditions of happiness. And when I touch it, happiness comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: You need the practice of mindfulness to bring your mind back to the body and establish yourself in the moment. If you are fully present, you need only make a step or take a breath in order to enter the kingdom of God. And once you have the kingdom, you don't need to run after objects of your craving, like power, fame, sensual pleasure, and so on. Peace is possible. Happiness is possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the body of the new Buddha. This is not a dream but is possible today and tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: A human being is like a television set with millions of channels.... We cannot let just one channel dominate us. We have the seed of everything in us, and we have to recover our own sovereignty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The raft is used to cross the river. It isn't to be carried around on your shoulders. The finger which points at the moon isn't the moon itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: There are many levels of Christianity. There are many notions about God. To believe that God is a person is just one of the notions of God that you can find in Christianity. So, we should not say that there is one Christianity. There are many Christianities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We may not have done anything but when we are relaxed, when we are peaceful, when we are able to smile and not to be violent in the way we look at the system, at that moment there is a change already in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: You are like fireworks. You go out into your children, your friends, your society, and the whole world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: At first glance, that might seem a little silly: why put so much stress on a simple thing? But that's precisely the point."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Reconciliation is a deep practice that we can do with our listening and our mindful speech. To reconcile means to bring peace and happiness to nations, people, and members of our family.... In order to reconcile, you have to possess the art of deep listening."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When we shout at the oak tree, the oak tree is not offended. When we praise the oak tree, it doesn't raise its nose. We can learn the Dharma from the oak tree; therefore, the oak tree is part of our Dharmakaya. We can learn from everything that is around, that is in us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Once you develop the practice of smiling, you may not need a reminder. You will smile as soon as you hear a bird singing or see the sunlight streaming through the window."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: An oak tree is an oak tree. That is all it has to do. If an oak tree is less than an oak tree, then we are all in trouble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If we are peaceful, if we are happy, we can smile, and everyone in our family, our entire society, will benefit from our peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When you produce peace and happiness in yourself, you begin to realize peace for the whole world. With the smile that you produce in yourself, with the conscious breathing you establish within yourself, you begin to work for peace in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Civilisations have been destroyed many times, and this civilisation is no different. It can be destroyed. We can think of time in terms of millions of years and life will resume little by little. The cosmos operates for us very urgently, but geological time is different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The moment you wake up, right away, you can smile... You are aware that a new day is beginning, that life is offering you twenty-four brand new hours to live, and that that's the most precious of gifts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Dealing with our overweight - or with any of our life's difficulties, for that matter - is not a battle to be fought. Instead, we must learn how to make friends with our hardships and challenges. They are there to help us; they are natural opportunities for deeper understanding and transformation, brining us more joy and peace as we learn to work with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Mother Earth is very talented."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: I hold my face in my two hands.   No, I am not crying.  I hold my face in my two hands   to keep the loneliness warm -   two hands protecting,   two hands nourishing,   two hands preventing  my soul from leaving me   in anger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: To take good care of yourself and to take good care of living beings and of the environment is the best way to love God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: In one sheet of paper, we see everything else, the cloud, the forest, the logger. I am, therefore you are. You are, therefore I am. That is the meaning of the word \"interbeing.\" We interare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: To be or not to be is not the question.\nThe question is whether you can transcend these notions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When the energy of compassion and love touches us, healing establishes itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: To make peace, our hearts must be at peace with the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Knowing that anger makes me ugly, I smile instead. I return to myself and meditate on love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: All violence is injustice. Responding to violence with violence is injustice, not only to the other person but also to oneself. Responding to violence with violence resolves nothing; it only escalates violence, anger and hatred. It is only with compassion that we can embrace and disintegrate violence. This is true in relationships between individuals as well as in relationships between nations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: In the past there were people who were not rich but contented with their living style, laughing and happy all day. But when the new rich people appear, people look at them and ask why don't I have a life like that too, a beautiful house, car and garden and they abandon their values."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The Buddha also counseled the monks and nuns to avoid wasting any precious time by engaging in idle conversation, oversleeping, pursuing fame and recognition, chasing after desires, spending time with people of poor character, and being satisfied with only a shallow understanding of the teaching."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If you really know how to live, what better way to start the day than with a smile?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: I think Buddhism should open the door of psychology and healing to penetrate more easily into the Western world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: During the last 2,500 years in Buddhist monasteries, a system of seven practices of reconciliation has evolved. Although these techniques were formulated to settle disputes within the circle of monks, i think they might also be of use in our households and in our society.The first practice is Face-to-Face-Sitting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Live your daily life in a way that you never lose yourself"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The present moment is the only moment available to us and it is the door to all other moments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Happiness is the cessation of suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: 'Emptiness' means empty of a separate self. It is full of everything, full of life. The word emptiness should not scare us. It is a wonderful word. To be empty does not mean non-existent. Emptiness is the ground of everything. Thanks to emptiness, everything is possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: I am determined not to kill, not to let others kill, and not to support any act of killing in the world, in my thinking, and in my way of life"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and in the world. When we settle into the present moment, we can see the beauties and wonders before our eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Seeds can produce seeds Seeds can produce formations. Formations can produce seeds. Formations can produce formations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: I realize that many elements of the Buddhist teaching can be found in Christianity, Judaism, Islam. I think if Buddhism can help, it is the concrete methods of practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If you can feel that Mother Earth is in you, and you are Mother Earth, then you are not any longer afraid to die because the earth is not dying. Like a wave appears and disappears and appears again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If you realize that the other person is a human being too, and you have exactly the same kind of spiritual path, and then the two can become good practitioners. This appears to be practical for both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If we are at war with our parents, our family, our society, or our church, there is probably a war going on inside us also, so the most basic work for peace is to return to ourselves and create harmony among the elements within us - our feelings, our perceptions, and our mental states. That is why the practice of meditation, looking deeply, is so important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When you suffer, you can look deeply at your situation and find the many blessings that are already surrounding you. It is wonderful to sit with a pen and paper and write down all the conditions for happiness that are already there, already available to you right in this moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If you are motivated by loving kindness and compassion, there are many ways to bring happiness to others right now, starting with kind speech."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If we can not smile, we cannot help other people to smile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: To be a monk is to have time to practice for your transformation and healing. And after that to help with the transformation and healing of other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The best way to take care of the future is to take care of the present moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When you look deeply into your anger, you will see that the person you call your enemy is also suffering. As soon as you see that, the capacity of accepting and having compassion for them is there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Anger and hatred are the materials from which hell is made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: You can only recognize your happiness against the background of suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Wisdom is a living stream, not an icon to be preserved in a museum. Only when a practitioner finds the spring of wisdom in his or her own life can it flow to a future generation"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: With a practice, we can always remain alive in the present moment. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Life is only available in the present moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Happiness is the cessation of suffering. Well-being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: To be free, first of all, is to be free from wrong views that are the foundation of all kinds of suffering and fear and violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: While washing dishes one should be washing the dishes, which means that while washing the dishes one should be completely aware of the fact that one is washing dishes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: In every one of us there are good seeds and bad. We have the seed of brotherhood, love, compassion, insight. But we have also the seed of anger, hate, dissent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The larger your beloved community, the more you can accomplish in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Compassion is our most important practice. Understanding brings compassion. Understanding the suffering that living beings undergo helps liberate the energy of compassion. And with that energy you know what to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When you climb a ladder and arrive on the sixth step and you think that is the highest, then you cannot come to the seventh. So the technique is to abandon the sixth in order for the seventh step to be possible. And this is our practice, to release our views. The practice of nonattachment to views is at the heart of the Buddhist practice of meditation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: I know that we do not know enough. We have to continue to learn. We have to be open. And we have to be ready to release our knowledge in order to come to a higher understanding of reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: What happens in the present moment? In the present moment, you are producing thought, speech, and action. And they continue in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If the people who hurt us have anger or desperation within them then they suffer. When you see that someone suffers, you might be motivated by a desire to help him not to suffer anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The Buddha always reminds us that our afflictions, including our fear and our desiring, are born from our ignorance. That is why in order to dissipate fear, we have to remove wrong perception."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Loving ourselves means loving our community. When we are capable of loving ourselves, nourishing ourselves properly, not intoxicating ourselves, we are already protecting and nourishing society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Enlightenment is always there. Small enlightenment will bring great enlightenment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If we have fear and despair in us, we cannot remove the suffering in society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Buddhism is in your heart. Even if you don't have any temple or any monks, you can still be a Buddhist in your heart and life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The only answer to fear is more understanding. And there is no understanding if there is no effort to look more deeply to see what is there in our heart and in the heart of the other person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When you understand the roots of anger in yourself and in the other, your mind will enjoy true peace, joy and lightness"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: By taking a look at your anger it can be transformed into the kind of energy that you need - understanding and compassion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: To make your voice heard is difficult. Sometimes we have to burn ourselves in order to be heard. It is out of compassion that you do that. It is the act of love and not of despair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: In Zen Buddhism, the greater your doubt, the greater will be your enlightenment. That is why doubt can be a good thing. If you are too sure, if you always have conviction, then you may be caught in your wrong perception for a long time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Action is called karma. And that's your continuation. When this body disintegrates, you continue on with your actions. It's like the cloud in the sky. When the cloud is no longer in the sky, it hasn't died. The cloud is continued in other forms like rain or snow or ice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Breathing in, I am aware of my heart. Breathing out, I smile to my heart and know that my heart still functions normally. I feel grateful for my heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If you are capable of brushing your teeth in mindfulness, then you will be able to enjoy the time when you take a shower, cook your breakfast, sip your tea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Do not live with a vocation that is harmful to humans and nature. Do not invest in companies that deprive others of their chance to live. Select a vocation that helps realise your ideal of compassion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We ourselves need love; it's not only society, the world outside, that needs love. But we can't expect that love to come from outside of us. We should ask the question whether we are capable of loving ourselves as well as others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The present moment contains past and future. The secret of transformation, is in the way we handle this very moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: I don't have to hate any person because I can always start anew, I can always reconcile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The terrorists, they have the wrong perception. They believe that the other group is trying to destroy them as a religion, as a civilization. So they want to abolish us, to kill us before we can kill them. And the antiterrorist may think very much the same way - that these are terrorists and they are trying to eliminate us, so we have to eliminate them first. Both sides are motivated by fear, by anger, and by wrong perception."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: While drinking, while talking, while writing, while watering our garden, it's always possible to practice living in the here and the now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Peace in every step. The shining red sun is my heart. Each flower smiles with me. How green, how fresh all that grows. How cool the wind blows. Peace is every step. It turns the endless path to joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Each time you take a mindful step you are back in the arms of Mother Earth and are reminded of your true sweet home in the here and now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Freedom from suffering is a great happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When we look deeply into the heart of a flower, we see clouds, sunshine, minerals, time, the earth, and everything else in the cosmos in it. Without clouds there could be no rain, and without rain there would be no flower."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If you have the chance to be exposed to a loving, understanding environment where the seed of compassion, loving kindness, can be watered every day, then you become a more loving person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The sangha is a community where there should be harmony and peace and understanding. That is something created by our daily life together. If love is there in the community, if we've been nourished by the harmony in the community, then we will never move away from love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When you feel anger arising, remember to return to your breathing and follow it. The other person may see that you are practicing, and she may even apologize."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Mother Earth is very talented. She has produced Buddhas, bodhisattvas, great beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If we are not empty, we become a block of matter. We cannot breathe, we cannot think. To be empty means to be alive, to breathe in and to breathe out. We cannot be alive if we are not empty. Emptiness is impermanence, it is change. We should not complain about impermanence, because without impermanence, nothing is possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: As children, Siddhartha and Jesus both realized that life is filled with suffering. The Buddha became aware at an early age that suffering is pervasive. Jesus must have had the same kind of insight, because they both made every effort to offer a way out. We, too, must learn to live in ways that reduce the world's suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: People kill and are killed because they cling too tightly to their own beliefs and ideologies. When we believe that ours is the only faith that contains the truth, violence and suffering will surely be the result."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The real power of the Buddha was that he had so much love. He saw people trapped in their notions of small separate self, feeling guilty or proud of that self, and he offered revolutionary teachings that resounded like a lion's roar, like a great rising tide, helping people to wake up and break free from the prison of ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Anyone who is practicing understanding and compassion can exemplify true power. Anyone can be a Buddha."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Awareness is a mirror reflecting the four elements. Beauty is a heart that generates love and a mind that is open."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Every morning, when we wake up, we have twenty-four brand-new hours to live. What a precious gift!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Water flows from high in the mountains Water runs deep in the Earth Miraculously, water comes to us, And sustains all life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: One included all, and all were contained in one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The necessary condition for the existence of peace and joy is the awareness that peace and joy are available."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: There may be a time when a country will have to wake up from a vision of happiness, when they have to realize that theirs is not the perfect idea, that there are many aspects that do not correspond to the reality of what is there, the real need and aspirations of the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Many Communist government officials have a rigid, dictatorial power, but they live in constant suspicion and fear of anything that might undermine the power they have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: To educate people for peace, we can use words or we can speak with our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him or her. When you suffer, you make people around you suffer. That's very natural. This is why we have to learn how to handle our suffering, so we won't spread it everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Loneliness cannot be alleviated just by the coming together of two bodies, unless there is also good communication, understanding, and loving kindness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If we are not peaceful, if we are not feeling well in our skin, we cannot demonstrate real peace, and we cannot raise our children well either."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The Buddha said that if we know how to look deeply into our suffering and recognize what feeds it, we are already on the path of emancipation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Happiness is not an individual matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Contemplate to see that awakened people, while not being enslaved by the work of serving living beings, never abandon their work of serving living beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Scientists tell us that we have enough technology to save our planet. . . . Yet we don't take advantage of this new technology. . . . The technological has to work hand-in-hand with the spiritual. Our spiritual life is the element that can bring about the energies of peace, calm, brotherhood, understanding, and compassion. Without that, our planet doesn't stand a chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: It is not a matter of faith, it is a matter of practice"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The first thing I learned was that even if you have a lot of money and power and fame, you can still suffer very deeply."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Compassion is a mind that removes the suffering that is present in the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: There's no way I can be tossed around like a bottle slapped here and there on the waves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Mindfulness must be engaged. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. Otherwise, what's the use of seeing?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The roots of war are in the way we live our daily lives -- the way we develop our industries, build up our society, and consume goods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Buddhism has to do with your daily life, with your suffering and with the suffering of the people around you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Follow your breathing, dwell mindfully on your steps, and soon you will find your balance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Live in such a way that you embody true peace, that you can be peace in every moment of your daily life.  It is possible for everyone to generate the energy of peace in every step."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When we eat mindfully, we consume exactly what we need to keep our bodies, our minds, and the Earth healthy. When we practice like this, we reduce suffering for ourselves and for others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand.  Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.  You have to be able to transcend your knowledge the way people climb a ladder.  If you are on the fifth step of a ladder and think that you are very high, there is no hope for you to climb to the sixth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Maybe we have enough technology to save the planet but it is not enough because the people are not ready."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: One Buddha is not enough; we need to have many Buddhas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: I still arrive, in order to laugh and to cry, to fear and to hope. The rhythm of my heart is the birth and death of all that is alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life - a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature of suffering in order to recognize its cause, the making of the suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper.  Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow; and without trees, we cannot make paper.  The cloud is essential for the paper to exist.  If the cloud is not here, the sheet of paper cannot be here either.  So we can say that the cloud and the paper inter-are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Without collective awakening the catastrophe will come. I think people in the mass media, journalists, film makers and others, you can contribute to the collective awakening if you are awake and then your life will embody that awakening."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If we chew every morsel of our food, in that way we become grateful, and when you are grateful, you are happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Inside every one of us is a garden, and every practitioner has to go back to their garden and take care of it. Maybe in the past, you left in untended for a long time. You should know exactly what is going on in your own garden, and try to put everything in order. Restore the beauty; restore the harmony in your garden. If it is well tended, many people will enjoy your garden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We are always running, and it has become a habit. We struggle all the time, even during our sleep. We are at war with ourselves, and we can easily start a war with others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We have to look deeply at things in order to see. When a swimmer enjoys the clear water of the river, he or she should also be able to be the river."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Anyone can practice some nonviolence, even soldiers. Some army generals, for example, conduct their operations in ways that avoid killing innocent people; this is a kind of nonviolence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The electron is first of all your concept of the electron."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The miracle is to walk on the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Happiness does not come from consumption of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We are looking for happiness and running after it in such a way that creates anger, fear and discrimination. So when you attend a retreat, you have a chance to look at the deep roots of this pollution of the collective energy that is unwholesome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: There are many, many Christians who practice Buddhism, and they become better and better Christians all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Our walking is not a means to an end. We walk for the sake of walking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: When our beliefs are based on our own direct experience of reality and not on notions offered by others, no one can remove these beliefs from us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: In Buddhism, there are three gems: Buddha, the awakened one; Dharma,\nthe way of understanding and loving; and Sangha, the community that\nlives in harmony and awareness. The three are interrelated, and at\ntimes it is hard to distinguish one from another. In everyone there\nis the capacity to wake up, to understand, and to love. So in\nourselves we find Buddha, and we also find Dharma and Sangha."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Do we need to make a special effort to enjoy the beauty of the blue sky? Do we have to practice to be able to enjoy it? No, we just enjoy it. Each second, each minute of our lives can be like this. Wherever we are, any time, we have the capacity to enjoy the sunshine, the presence of each other, even the sensation of our breathing. We don't need to go to China to enjoy the blue sky. We don't have to travel into the future to enjoy our breathing. We can be in touch with these things right now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: The only way to ease our fear and be truly happy is to acknowledge our fear and look deeply at its source. Instead of trying to escape from our fear, we can invite it up to our awareness and look at it clearly and deeply."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: It's wonderful to be alive and to walk on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Fear, separation, hate and anger come from the wrong view that you and the Earth are two separate entities, the Earth is only the environment. You are in the centre and you want to do something for the Earth in order for you to survive. That is a dualistic way of seeing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We fear that this moment will end, that we won't get what we need, that we will lose what we love, or that we will not be safe. Often, our biggest fear is the knowledge that one day our bodies will cease functioning. So even when we are surrounded by all the conditions for happiness, our joy is not complete."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: Contemplating the bowl, it is possible to see the interdependent elements which give rise to the bowl."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: One day I saw a picture of the Buddha on a Buddhist magazine and he was sitting on the grass, and he was sitting on the grass, very peaceful, smiling, and I was impressed. Around me people were not like that, so I had the desire to be someone like him. I nourished that kind of desire until the age of sixteen, when I had the permission from my parents to go and ordain as a Buddhist monk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: I would not be happy if I had not become a monk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: I would not be happy if I could not become a monk. They call it the beginner's mind - the deep intention, the deepest desire that a person may have. And I can say that until this day, this beginner's mind is still alive in me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: There is no real separation between self or no-self. Anything you do for yourself you do for the society at the same time. And anything you do for society you do for yourself also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nhat Hanh: We may think that justice is everyone being equal, having the same rights, sharing the same kind of advantages, but maybe we have not had the chance to look at the nature of justice in terms of no-self. That kind of justice is based on the idea of self, but it may be very interesting to explore justice in terms of no-self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don't know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: If you want to be sad, no one in the world can make you happy. But if you make up your mind to be happy, no one and nothing on earth can take that happiness from you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: It is spiritual poverty, not material lack, that lies at the core of all human suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Mind is the creator of everything. You should therefore guide it to create only good. If you cling to a certain thought with dynamic will power, it finally assumes a tangible outward form. When you are able to employ your will always for constructive purposes, you become the controller of your destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Those persons who have perceptive eyes enjoy beauty everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: A good rule in life is to tell yourself simply, 'What comes of itself, let it come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Do your best and then relax. Let things go on in a natural way, rather than force them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation, remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego; it doesn't belong to the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Whenever you want to produce something, do not depend upon the outside source: go deep and seek the Infinite Source."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another"
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Divisions are imaginary lines drawn by small minds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Never count your faults. Just see that your love for God is deeply \n sincere. For God doesn't mind your imperfections: He minds your \n indifference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Nothing is impossible unless you think it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: A saint is a sinner who never gave up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Learn to be calm and you will always be happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: People are running, running, but there is no place in the world to which they can flee to escape themselves. Ultimately, each one must face himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Success is hastened or delayed by one\u2019s habits. It is not your passing inspirations or brilliant ideas so much as your everyday mental habits that control your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: In the spiritual life one becomes just like a little child, without resentment, without attachment, full of life and joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Your success in life does not altogether depend on ability and training; it also depends on your determination to grasp opportunities that are presented to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: The purpose of the guru is not to weaken your will. It is to teach you secrets of developing your inner power, until you can stand unshaken amidst the crash of breaking worlds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Truths are not truths to you unless you realize them within yourself. Without realization, they are just ideas. For spiritual perception, spiritual consciousness, lies not in vague theological ideas, but in the acquisition of Self-realization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: The wave is the same as the ocean, though it is not the whole ocean. So each wave of creation is a part of the eternal Ocean of Spirit. The Ocean can exist without the waves, but the waves cannot exist without the Ocean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: As water by cooling and condensation becomes ice, so thought by condensation assumes physical form. Everything in the universe is thought in material form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: In that power of self-control lies the seed of eternal freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: It is blessedness for yourself and others if you are happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Whatever I do, I do with the greatest love that I have in me. Try this, and you will see that you do not become fatigued at all. Love is one of the greatest stimulants to the will. Under the influence of love the will can do almost anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Forget the past. The vanished lives of all men are dark with many shames. Human conduct is ever unreliable until man is anchored in the Divine. Everything in future will improve if you are making a spiritual effort now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Roam in the world as a lion of self-control; see that the frogs of weakness don\u2019t kick you around."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Happiness lies in making others happy, in forsaking self-interest to bring joy to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Thinkers do not accept the inevitable; they turn their efforts toward changing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Some people try to be tall by cutting off the heads of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Remain calm, serene, always in command of yourself. You will then find out how easy it is to get along."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Success is hastened or delayed by one's habits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: I could not think of being unkind, even to a mortal enemy. It would hurt me. I see so much unkindness in the world, and there is no excuse for me to add to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Remain quiet. Don't feel you have to talk all the time. Go within and you will see the Loveliness behind all beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Why forgive one who wrongs you? Because if you angrily strike back you misrepresent your own divine soul nature-you are no better than your offender. But if you manifest spiritual strength you are blessed, and the power of your righteous behavior will also help the other person to overcome his misunderstanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: You had to fight to get into the womb. Not only you but many souls rushed to enter, and the ones that won are you, and you and I. It was not an easy victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: If you possess happiness you possess everything: to be happy is to be in tune with God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Incredible amounts of energy are hidden in your brain; \n enough in a gram of flesh to run the city of Chicago for 2 days. \n And you say you are tired?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Analyze yourself. All emotions are reflected in the body and mind. Envy and fear cause the face to pale, love makes it glow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Another qualification of success is that we not only bring harmonious and beneficial results to ourselves, but also share those benefits with others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: The deeper the Self-realization of a man, the more he influences the whole universe by his subtle spiritual vibrations, and the less he himself is affected by the phenomenal flux."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Seclusion is the price of greatness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: The time will come when mankind will begin to get away from the consciousness of needing so many material things. More security and peace will be found in the simple life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Truths are more than imagination; they are real. Yet their origin is a thought in the mind of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Be afraid of nothing. Hating none, giving love to all, feeling the love of God, seeing His presence in everyone, and having but one desire - for His constant presence in the temple of your consciousness - that is the way to live in this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Mind is the creator of everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: The way to liberation lies through this realization of the Self, by God-communion and by remaining in this God-aware state of the soul while performing dutiful actions. Any individual can reach this supreme actionless state by the renunciation of all fruits of actions: performing all dutiful acts without harbouring in his heart any likes and dislikes, possessing no material desires, and feeling God, not the ego, as the Doer of all actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Coercion or compulsion never brings about growth. It is freedom that accelerates evolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Intuition is soul guidance, appearing naturally in man during those instants when his mind is calm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: To commune daily with God in deep meditation, and to carry His love and guidance with you into all your dutiful activities, is the way that leads to permanent peace and happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: The power of unfulfilled desires is the root of all man's slavery"
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: The true basis of religion is not belief, but intuitive experience. Intuition is the soul\u2019s power of knowing God. To know what religion is really all about, one must know God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Mankind is engaged in an eternal quest for that \u2018something else' he hopes will bring him happiness, complete and unending.For those individual souls who have sought and found God, the search is over: He is that Something Else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: From joy I came, for joy I live, in sacred joy I melt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: There are always two forces warring against each other within us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Words saturated with sincerity, conviction, faith, and intuition are like highly explosive vibration bombs, which, when set off, shatter the rocks of difficulties and create the change desired."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: No action is ever an isolated event. Always, it invites from the universe a reaction that corresponds exactly to the type and the force of energy behind the deed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: A harmonized mind produces harmony in this world of seeming discord."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: God is simple, everything else is complex"
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Weaken a bad habit by avoiding everything that occasioned it or stimulated it, without concentrating upon it in your zeal to avoid it. Then divert your mind to some good habit and steadily cultivate it until it becomes a dependable part of you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He who has fled his Self in earthly joys will not recapture It amidst the gossamer charms of an astral world. There he merely accumulates finer perceptions and more sensitive responses to the beautiful and the good, which are one. It is on the anvil of this gross earth that struggling man must hammer out the imperishable gold of spiritual identity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: The soul is bound to the body by a chain of desires, temptations, troubles and worries, and it is trying to free itself.  If you keep tugging at that chain which is holding you to mortal consciousness, some day an invisible Divine Hand will intervene and snap it apart and you will be free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: People are so skillful in their ignorance!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Thought is the primary energy and vibration that emanated from God and is thus the creator of life, electrons, atoms, and all forms of energy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Subtle astral colors... are hidden in everything around you. Could you but see, you would be amazed at their beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Absolute, unquestioning faith in God is the greatest method of instantaneous healing. An unceasing effort to arouse that faith is man's highest and most rewarding duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: The ocean of Spirit has become the little bubble of my soul. Whether floating in birth, or disappearing in death, in the ocean of cosmic awareness the bubble of my life cannot die. I am indestructible consciousness, protected in the bosom of Spirit\u2019s immortality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: The reflection, the verisimilitude, of life that shines in the fleshly cells from the soul source is the only cause of man's attachment to his body; obviously he would not pay solicitous homage to a clod of clay. A human being falsely identifies himself with his physical form because the life currents from the soul are breath-conveyed into the flesh with such intense power that man mistakes the effect for a cause, and idolatrously imagines the body to have life of its own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Loyalty is the first law of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Gandhi has sound economic and cultural reasons for encouraging the revival of cottage industries, but he does not counsel a fanatical repudiation of all modern progress. Machinery, trains, automobiles, the telegraph have played important parts in his own colossal life! Fifty years of public service, in prison and out, wrestling daily with practical details and harsh realities in the political world, have only increased his balance, open-mindedness, sanity, and humorous appreciation of the quaint human spectacle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Wise guidance never violates people's Free Will. A superior who demands obedience of his subordinates should show respect for their capacity to understand, and also for their Innate Right to their own Free Will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Love is the Song of the Soul singing to God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Release for constructive purposes the power you already have, and more will come. Move on your path with unflinching determination, using all the attributes of success. Tune yourself with the creative power of spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Thoughts are universally and not individually rooted; a truth cannot be created, but only perceived. The erroneous thoughts of man result from imperfections in his discernment. The goal of Yoga Science is to calm the mind, that without distortion it may mirror the Divine vision in the Universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: As I radiate love and goodwill to others, I will open the channel for God's love to come to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it with devotional zeal. Feel yourself inside it: That is where God dwells."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: As God talked with Arjuna, so will He talk with you. As He lifted up the spirit and consciousness of Arjuna, so will He uplift you. As he granted Arjuna supreme spiritual vision, so will He confer enlightenment on you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Brotherhood is an ideal better understood by example than precept!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Those in the West who have adopted Christ as their own should remember that he was an Oriental. Love and sympathy for Jesus should be expanded into love and sympathy for all Orientals, and for all the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Just as oil is present in every part of the olive, so love permeates every part of creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: He who has realized oneness with God possesses all knowledge contained in Him. Knowing the Lord as Beginning and End of all beings and worlds, a true Brahmin has knowledge of the hereafter and of the workings of nature on this plane of existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Truth is exact correspondence with reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Realize the tremendous spiritual power and beauty of the life of Christ, and try to live as he lived. Christ had no nationality. He loved all races as the children of God. Try to feel that brotherhood with all nationalities. Real brotherhood can never come unless we feel it in our hearts. Such feeling can be attained only through the actual contact of God in our hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: I am calmly active, actively calm. I am the prince of peace sitting on a throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Sri Yukteswar used to poke gentle fun at the commonly inadequate conceptions of renunciation.\"A beggar cannot renounce wealth,\" Master would say. \"If a man laments: 'My business has failed; my wife has left me; I will renounce all and enter a monastery,' to what worldly sacrifice is he referring? He did not renounce wealth and love; they renounced him!\"Saints like Gandhi, on the other hand, have made not only tangible material sacrifices, but also the more difficult renunciation of selfish motive and private goal, merging their inmost being in the stream of humanity as a whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Self-realization is, in fact, the only religion. For it is the true purpose of religion, no matter how people define their beliefs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: If religion means primarily God-consciousness, or the realization of God both within and without, and secondarily a body of beliefs, tenets and dogmas, then, strictly speaking, there is but one religion in the world, for there is but one God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Lord Krishna... proclaims Self-realization, true wisdom, as the highest branch of all human knowledge-the king of all sciences, the very essence of dharma (\"religion\")-for it alone permanently uproots the cause of man's threefold suffering and reveals to him his true nature of Bliss. Self-realization is yoga or \"oneness\" with truth-the direct perception or experience of truth by the all-knowing intuitive faculty of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: The reality of my life cannot die for I am indestructible consciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: The Spirit of God, I realized, is exhaustless Bliss; His body is countless tissues of light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: We don't become angels merely by the instrument of death. If we are angels now, we will be angels in the hereafter. If we are dark, negative personalities now, we will be the same after death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: You don't know what is going to come to you in this world; you have to go on living and worrying. Those who die are pitying us; they are blessing us. Why should you grieve for them?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: The things you need in life are those that will help you to fulfill your dominant purpose.  Things you may want but not need may lead you aside from that purpose.  It is only by making everything serve your main objective that success is attained."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Behold thine immortal Self resurrected with Christ in the light of illumination, present in every soul, every flower, every atom!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Discerning placement of a comma does not atone for a spiritual coma."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: May Thy Love shine forever on the sanctuary of my devotion. And may I be able to awaken Thy love in all hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Love is the song of the soul singing to God.  It is the balanced rhythmic dance of planets - sun and moon lit"
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: We should bathe our spirits in the deep, pure feeling that stirs within us when we gaze on the glories of His creation. This is the way to know God as beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite ingenuity. Devotees like yourself who have found the way to God never dream of exchanging Him for any other happiness; He is seductive beyond thought of competition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Paramahansa Yogananda: When you exercise your will power you release the power of life energy - not when you merely wish passively to be able to obtain an objective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed. Each of us is loved. Each of us is necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: If you follow the will of God, you know that in spite of all the terrible things that happen to you, you will never lose a final refuge. You know that the foundation of the world is love, so that even when no human being can or will help you, you may go on, trusting in the One that loves you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: God seeks us where we are, not so that we stay there, but so that we may come to be where He is, so that we may get beyond ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Love alone makes us happy, because we live in relation, and we live to love and to be loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Do not be afraid of Christ. He takes nothing away and he gives you everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: God loves us; we need only to summon up the humility to allow ourselves to be loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: We can fall, but in the end we fall into God's hands, and God's hands are good hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Forgiveness does not replace justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes. But I think it's very important to be able to see the funny side of life and its joyful dimension and not to take everything too tragically. I'd also say it's necessary for my ministry. A writer once said that angels can fly because they don't take themselves too seriously. Maybe we could also fly a bit if we didn't think we were so important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: How much we need, in the church and in society, witnesses of the beauty of holiness, witnesses of the splendour of truth, witnesses of the joy and freedom born of a living relationship with Christ!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Holiness never goes out of fashion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: We are moving toward a dictatorship of relativism which does not recognize anything as for certain and which has as its highest goal one's own ego and one's own desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Rediscover the joy of believing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Mary's greatness consists in the fact that she wants to magnify God, not herself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: It is theologically and anthropologically important for woman to be at the center of Christianity. Through Mary, and the other holy women, the feminine element stands at the heart of the Christian religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: In a world where there is so much noise, so much bewilderment, there is a need for silent adoration of Jesus concealed in the Host. Be assiduous in the prayer of adoration and teach it to the faithful. It is a source of comfort and light, particularly to those who are suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Indeed, truth draws strength from itself and not from the number of votes in its favour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The ways of the Lord are not easy, but we were not created for an easy life, but for great things, for goodness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Judas is neither a master of evil nor the figure of a demoniacal power of darkness but rather a sycophant who bows before the anonymous power of changing moods and current fashions. But it is precisely this anonymous power that crucified Jesus, for it was anonymous voices that cried 'away with him! Crucify him!'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: It was easy to know the doctrine. It's much harder to help a billion people live it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: We must trust in the mighty power of God's mercy. We are all sinners, but His grace transforms us and makes us new."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: We are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: It is the beautiful task of Advent to awaken in all of us memories of goodness and thus to open doors of hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: It is when we attempt to avoid suffering by withdrawing from anything that might involve hurt, when we try to spare ourselves the effort and pain of pursuing truth, love, and goodness, that we drift into a life of emptiness, in which there may be almost no pain, but the dark sensation of meaninglessness and abandonment is all the greater."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Every human life is precious in God's sight and no effort should be spared in the attempt to promote throughout the world a genuine respect for the inalienable rights and dignity of individuals and peoples everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: May you always experience the joy that comes from putting Christ at the centre of your lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: In the Eucharist, the Son of God comes to meet us and desires to become one with us; eucharistic adoration is simply the natural consequence of the eucharistic celebration, which is itself the Church's supreme act of adoration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Wherever politics tries to be redemptive, it is promising too much. Where it wishes to do the work of God, it becomes not divine, but demonic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: To desire the common good and strive towards it is a requirement of justice and charity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: A Christian knows when it is time to speak of God and when it is better to say nothing and to let love alone speak. He knows that God is love and that God's presence is felt at the very time when the only thing we do is to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Receiving the Eucharist means adoring Him whom we receive. Only in this way do we become one with Him, and are given, as it were, a foretaste of the beauty of the heavenly liturgy. The act of adoration outside Mass prolongs and intensifies all that takes place during the liturgical celebration itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Only if there is love, if hearts are opened, can one person truly know the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The environment is God's gift to everyone, and in our use of it we have a responsibility towards the poor, towards future generations, and towards humanity as a whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Friends, do not be afraid of silence or stillness. Listen to God. Adore Him in the Eucharist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The capacity to accept suffering for the sake of goodness, truth and justice is an essential criterion of humanity, because if my own well-being and safety are ultimately more important than truth and justice, then the power of the stronger prevails, then violence and untruth reigns supreme."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Today Christmas has become a commercial celebration, whose bright lights hide the mystery of God\u2019s humility, which in turn calls us to humility and simplicity. Let us ask the Lord to help us see through the superficial glitter of this season, and to discover behind it the child in the stable in Bethlehem, so as to find true joy and true light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: We are building a dictatorship of relativism that does not recognize anything as definitive and whose ultimate goal consists solely of one's own ego and desires. \nWe, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man. He is the measure of true humanism. An \"adult\" faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Only from God does true revolution come... the definitive way to change the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: We, however, have a different goal: the Son of God, the true man.  He is the measure of true humanism.  An \"adult\" faith is not a faith that follows the trends of fashion and the latest novelty; a mature, adult faith is deeply rooted in friendship with Christ.  It is this friendship that opens us up to all that is good and gives us a criterion by which to distinguish the true from the false, and deceit from truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Only in truth does charity shine forth, only in truth can charity be authentically lived. Truth is the light that gives meaning and value to charity. That light is both the light of reason and the light of faith, through which the intellect attains to the natural and supernatural truth of charity: it grasps its meaning as gift, acceptance, and communion. Without truth, charity degenerates into sentimentality. Love becomes an empty shell, to be filled in an arbitrary way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Wherever applause breaks out in the liturgy because of some human achievement, it is a sure sign that the essence of liturgy has totally disappeared and been replaced by a kind of religious entertainment. Such attraction fades quickly - it cannot compete in the market of leisure pursuits, incorporating as it increasingly does various forms of religious titillation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: God no longer simply stands before us as the One who is totally Other. He is within us, and we are in him. His dynamic enters into us and then seeks to spread outward to others until it fills the world, so that his love can truly become the dominant measure of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Nature expresses a design of love and truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Purgatory basically means that God can put the pieces back together again. That He can cleanse us in such a way that we are able to be with Him and can stand there in the fullness of life. Purgatory strips off from one person what is unbearable and from another the inability to bear certain things, so that in each of them a pure heart is revealed, and we can see that we all belong together in one enormous symphony of being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Do not be fooled by those who see you as just another consumer in a market of undifferentiated possibilities, where choice itself becomes the good, novelty usurps beauty, and subjective experience displaces truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Today, having a clear faith based on the Creed of the Church is often labeled today as fundamentalism. Whereas relativism, that is, letting oneself be \"tossed here and there, carried about by every wind of doctrine,\" seems the only attitude that can cope with modern times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The blessing hands of Christ are like a roof that protects us. But at the same time, they are a gesture of opening up, tearing the world open so that heaven my enter in, may become \"present\" within it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: We become new if we let ourselves be grasped and shaped by the new Man, Jesus Christ. He is the new Man par excellence. In him the new human existence became reality and we can truly become new if we deliver ourselves into his hands and let ourselves be moulded by him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The fundamental human right, the presupposition of every other right, is the right to life itself. This is true of life from the moment of conception until its natural end. Abortion, consequently, cannot be a human right \u2013 it is the very opposite. It is \u201ca deep wound in society\u201d."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Lent stimulates us to let the Word of God penetrate our life and in this way to know the fundamental truth: who we are, where we come from, where we must go, what path we must take in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Islam has a total organization of life that is completely different from ours; it embraces simply everything,...There is a very marked subordination of woman to man; there is a very tightly knit criminal law, indeed, a law regulating all areas of life, that is opposed to our modern ideas about society. One has to have a clear understanding that it is not simply a denomination that can be included in the free realm of a pluralistic society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: It is important always to remember that virtual contact cannot and must not take the place of direct human contact with people at every level of our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: People from the world's richest countries should be prepared to accept the burden of debt reduction for heavily indebted poor countries, and should urge their leaders to fulfill the pledges made to reduce world poverty, especially in Africa, by the year 2015."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: It is deplorable that homosexual persons have been and are the object of violent malice in speech or in action. Such treatment deserves condemnation from the church's pastors wherever it occurs. ... The intrinsic dignity of each person must always be respected in work, in action and in law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself. This is what is new and distinctive about the Christian liturgy: God himself acts and does what is essential."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: A Catholic would be guilty of formal cooperation in evil, and so unworthy to \r\npresent himself for Holy Communion, if he were to deliberately vote for a \r\ncandidate precisely because of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion \r\nand/or euthanasia."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Advent, this powerful liturgical season that we are beginning, invites us to pause in silence to understand a presence. It is an invitation to understand that the individual events of the day are hints that God is giving us, signs of the attention he has for each one of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: After having repeatedly examined my conscience before God, I have come to the certainty that my strengths, due to an advanced age, are no longer suited to an adequate exercise of the Petrine ministry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: A good school provides a rounded education for the whole person. And a good Catholic school, over and above this, should help all its students to become saints."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: When human affairs are so ordered that there is no recognition of God, there is a belittling of man. That is why, in the final analysis, worship and law cannot be completely separated from each other. God has a right to a response from man, to man himself, and where that right of God totally disappears, the order of law among men is dissolved, because there is no cornerstone to keep the whole structure together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: We must have great respect for these people who also suffer and who want to find their own way of correct living. On the other hand, to create a legal form of a kind of homosexual marriage, in reality, does not help these people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: I am simply a pilgrim beginning the last leg of his pilgrimage on this earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Prayer itself, born in Catholic families, nurtured by programs of Christian formation, strengthened by the grace of the sacraments, is the first means by which we come to know the Lord\u2019s will for our lives. To the extent that we teach young people to pray, and to pray well, we will be cooperating with God\u2019s call. Programs, plans and projects have their place; but the discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God\u2019s call."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our human life: we are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Thus, the apostles' adventure began as a gathering of persons who open to one another reciprocally. A direct knowledge of the Teacher began for the disciples. They saw where he lived and began to know him. They would not have to be heralds of an idea, but witnesses of a person. Before being sent to evangelize, they would have to \"be\" with Jesus (cf. Mark 3:14), establishing a personal relationship with him. With this foundation, evangelization is no more than a proclamation of what has been experienced and an invitation to enter into the mystery of communion with Christ (cf. 1 John 13)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Jesus Christ does not teach us a spirituality \u201cof closed eyes\u201d, but one of \u201calertness\u201d, one which entails an absolute duty to take notice of the needs of others and of situations involving those whom the Gospel tells us are our neighbours. The gaze of Jesus, what \u201chis eyes\u201d teach us, leads to human closeness, solidarity, giving time, sharing our gifts and even our material goods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: We can learn from him that suffering and the gift of himself is an essential gift we need in our time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: To make a concrete response to the appeal of our brothers and sisters in humanity, we must come to grips with the first of these challenges: solidarity among generations, solidarity between countries and entire continents, so that all human beings may share more equitably in the riches of our planet. This is one of the essential services that people of good will must render to humanity. The earth, in fact, can produce enough to nourish all its inhabitants, on the condition that the rich countries do not keep for themselves what belongs to all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: For in this world, marked by sin, the gravitational pull of our lives is weighted by the chains of the \"I\" and the \"self.\" These chains must be broken to free us for a new love that places us in another gravitational field where we can enter new life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Material possessions, in themselves, are good. We would not survive for long without money, clothing and shelter. We must eat in order to stay alive. Yet if we are greedy, if we refuse to share what we have with the hungry and the poor, then we make our possessions into a false god. How many voices in our materialist society tell us that happiness is to be found by acquiring as many possessions and luxuries as we can! But this is to make possessions into a false god. Instead of bringing life, they bring death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Anyone who has discovered Christ must lead others to him. A great joy cannot be kept to oneself. It has to be passed on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: To suffer with the other and for others; to suffer for the sake of truth and justice; to suffer out of love and in order to become a person who truly loves - these are fundamental elements of humanity, and to abandon them would destroy man himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Love in truth-caritas in veritate-is a great challenge for the Church in a world that is becoming progressively and pervasively globalized. The risk for our time is that the de facto interdependence of people and nations is not matched by ethical interaction of consciences and minds that would give rise to truly human development. Only in charity, illumined by the light of reason and faith, is it possible to pursue development goals that possess a more humane and humanizing value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Ultimately, in the battle against lies and violence, truth and love have no other weapon than the witness of suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The freedom to kill is not a true freedom, but a tyranny that reduces human beings to slavery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Both strength of mind and body are necessary, strengths which in the last few months have deteriorated in me to the extent that I have had to recognize my incapacity to adequately fulfill the ministry entrusted to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: A united humanity will be able to confront the many troubling problems of the present time: from the menace of terrorism to the humiliating poverty in which millions of human beings live, from the proliferation of weapons to the pandemics and the environmental destruction which threatens the future of our planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Everything in this world will pass away. In eternity only Love will remain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Making the sign of the Cross - as we will do during the Blessing - means saying a visible and public \"yes\" to the One who died and rose for us, to God who in the humility and weakness of his love is the Almighty, stronger than all the power and intelligence of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: God's heart calls to our hearts, inviting us to come out of ourselves, to forsake our human certainties, to trust in him and, by following his example, to make ourselves a gift of unbounded love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Forgiveness is not substitute for justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Dancing is not a form of expression for the Christian liturgy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The discernment of a vocation is above all the fruit of an intimate dialogue between the Lord and his disciples. Young people, if they know how to pray, can be trusted to know what to do with God's call."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: If we let Christ into our lives, we lose nothing, nothing, absolutely nothing of what makes life free, beautiful, and great. No! Only in this friendship are the doors of life opened wide. Only in this friendship is the great potential of human existence truly revealed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The new Pope knows that his task is to make the light of Christ shine before men and women of world - not his own light, but that of Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: That the entire People of God, to whom Christ entrusted the mandate to go and preach the Gospel to every creature, may eagerly assume their own missionary responsibility and consider it the highest service they can offer humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The extermination of millions of unborn children, in the name of the fight against poverty, actually constitutes the destruction of the poorest of all human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: God of peace, bring your peace to our violent world: peace in the hearts of all men and women and peace among the nations of the Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Praying actualizes and deepens our communion with God. Our prayer can and should arise above all from our heart, from our needs, our hopes, our joys, our sufferings, from our shame over sin, and from our gratitude from the good. It can and should be a wholly personal prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Love has a particular trait: far from being indulgent or fickle, it has a task or purpose to fulfil: to abide. By its nature love is enduring. Again, dear friends, we catch a further glimpse of how much the Holy Spirit offers our world: love which dispels uncertainty; love which overcomes the fear of betrayal; love which carries eternity within; the true love which draws us into a unity that abides!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Purity of heart is what enables us to see."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Dear brothers and sisters, after the great Pope John Paul II, the cardinals have elected me - a simple, humble worker in the vineyard of the Lord."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd! Do not allow your net to be torn, help us to be servants of unity!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Young people in particular, I appeal to you: bear witness to your faith through the digital world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Do not be afraid to say \u201cyes\u201d to Jesus, to find your joy in doing his will..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The main task for us all is that of a new evangelization aimed at helping younger generations to rediscover the true face of God, who is Love. To you young people, who are in search of a firm hope, I address the very words that Saint Paul wrote to the persecuted Christians in Rome at that time: \"May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, so that you may abound in hope by the power of the Holy Spirit\" (Rom 15:13)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The relationship between individuals or communities and the environment ultimately stems from their relationship with God. When \u2018man turns his back on the Creator\u2019s plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The highest things, the things that really matter, we cannot achieve on our own; we have to accept them as gifts and enter in to the dynamic of the gift, so to speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The life of the community, both domestically and internationally, clearly demonstrates that respect for rights, and the guarantees that follow from them, are measures of the common good that serve to evaluate the relationship between justice and injustice, development and poverty, security and conflict."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The human being of all times prays because he cannot fail to wonder about the meaning of his life, which remains obscure and discomforting of it is not put in relations to the mystery of God and if his plan for the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The Gospel purifies and renews, it bears fruit, wherever the community of believers hears it and receives God\u2019s grace in truth and charity. This is my confidence, this is my joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: A just laicism allows religious freedom. The state does not impose religion but rather gives space to religions with a responsibility toward civil society, and therefore it allows these religions to be factors in building up society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: A new generation of Christians is being called to help build a world in which God's gift of life is welcomed, respected and cherished-not rejected, feared as a threat and destroyed. A new age in which love is not greedy or self-seeking, but pure, faithful and genuinely free, open to others, respectful of their dignity, seeking their good, radiating joy and beauty. A new age in which hope liberates us from the shallowness, apathy and self-absorption that deaden our souls and poison our relationships."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Children truly are the family's greatest treasure and most precious good. Consequently, everyone must be helped to become aware of the intrinsic evil of the crime of abortion. In attacking human life in its very first stages, it is also an aggression against society itself. Politicians and legislators, therefore, as servants of the common good, are duty bound to defend the fundamental right to life, the fruit of God's love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: You have suffered grievously and I am truly sorry. I know that nothing can undo the wrong you have endured. Your trust has been betrayed and your dignity has been violated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The rediscovery of the value of one's own Baptism is at the root of every Christian's missionary commitment, because as we see in the Gospel, those who allow themselves to be fascinated by Christ cannot fail to witness to the joy of following in his footsteps... We understand ever more that it is precisely in virtue of Baptism that we possess a co-natural missionary vocation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: There may be a basis in the case of some individuals, as perhaps when a male prostitute uses a condom, where this can be a first step in the direction of a moralisation, a first assumption of responsibility..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion in the members of his mystical body, the church in every age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The State which would provide everything, absorbing everything into itself, would ultimately become a mere bureaucracy incapable of guaranteeing the very thing which the suffering person\u2014every person\u2014needs: namely, loving personal concern. We do not need a State which regulates and controls everything, but a State which, in accordance with the principle of subsidiarity, generously acknowledges and supports initiatives arising from the different social forces and combines spontaneity with closeness to those in need. The Church is one of those living forces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: That the Jews are connected with God in a special way and that God does not allow that bond to fail is entirely obvious. We wait for the instant in which Israel will say yes to Christ, but we know that it has a special mission in history now ... which is significant for the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Our Christian conviction is that Christ is also the messiah of Israel. Certainly it is in the hands of God how and when the unification of Jews and Christians into the people of God will take place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Prudence does not mean failing to accept responsibilities and postponing decisions; it means being committed to making joint decisions after pondering responsibly the road to be taken, decisions aimed at strengthening that covenant between human beings and the environment, which should mirror the creative love of God, from whom we came and towards whom we are journeying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Too often, attention is diverted from the needs of populations, insufficient emphasis is placed on work in the fields, and the goods of the earth are not given adequate protection. As a result, economic imbalance is produced, and the inalienable rights and dignity of every human person are ignored."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Humanity today is rightly concerned about the ecological balance of tomorrow. It is important for assessments in this regard to be carried out prudently, in dialogue with experts and people of wisdom, uninhibited by ideological pressure to draw hasty conclusions, and above all with the aim of reaching agreement on a model of sustainable development capable of ensuring the well-being of all while respecting environmental balances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Which direction do we take? The one prompted by the passions or the one indicated by the star which shines in your conscience? The Magi heard the answer: \"In Bethlehem of Judea; for so it is written by the prophet\" (Mt 2: 5), and, enlightened by these words, they chose to press forward to the very end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The wrath of God is a way of saying that I have been living in a way that is contrary to the love that is God. Anyone who begins to live and grow away from God, who lives away from what is good, is turning his life toward wrath."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Perhaps reluctantly we come to acknowledge that there are also scars which mark the surface of our earth: erosion, deforestation, the squandering of the world\u2019s mineral and ocean resources in order to fuel an insatiable consumption."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Monsters, among other brutes, are the ones without guilt feelings. Perhaps Hitler did not have any, or Himmler, or Stalin. Maybe Mafia bosses do not have any guilt feelings either, or maybe their remains are just well hidden in the cellar. Even aborted guilt feelings...All men need guilt feelings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Meaning that is self-made is in the last analysis no meaning. Meaning, that is, the ground on which our existence as a totality can stand and live, cannot be made but only received."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Dear young people, we have seen that it is the Holy Spirit who brings about the wonderful communion of believers in Jesus Christ. True to his nature as giver and gift alike, he is even now working through you. Let unifying love be your measure; abiding love your challenge; self-giving love your mission!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: I encourage all of you to discover ever more fully in the Eucharist, the sacrament of Christ's sacrificial love, the inspiration and strength needed to work ever more generously for the spread of God's Kingdom and the growth of the civilization of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Their example testifies that Baptism commits Christians to participating courageously in the spreading of the Kingdom of God, if need be cooperating with the sacrifice of life itself... This martyrdom of ordinary life constitutes a particularly important witness in the secularized society of our time. It is the peaceful battle of love which every Christian, like Paul, must fight without flagging: the race to spread the Gospel that involves us until our death. May the Virgin Mary, Queen of Martyrs and Star of Evangelization, help us in our daily witness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Since politics fundamentally should be a moral enterprise, the church in this sense has something to say about politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Each generation, as it seeks to advance the common good, must ask anew: 'What are the requirements that governments may reasonably impose upon citizens, and how far do they extend? By appeal to what authority can moral dilemmas be resolved?'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The more administrative machinery we construct, be it the most modern, the less place there is for the Spirit, the less place there is for the Lord, and the less freedom there is. It is my opinion that we ought to begin an unsparing examination of conscience on this point at all levels in the Church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: I believe that in a certain way this is proof of the truth of Christianity: Heart and reason encounter one another, beauty and truth converge, and the more that we ourselves succeed in living in the beauty of truth, the more that faith will be able to return to being creative in our time too, and to express itself in a convincing form of art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The fields are still ripe for harvesting (cf. Jn 4:35); God continues to give the growth (cf. 1 Cor 3:6). We can and must believe, with the late Pope John Paul II, that God is preparing a new springtime for Christianity (cf. Redemptoris Missio, 86). What is needed above all, at this time in the history of the Church in America, is a renewal of that apostolic zeal which inspires her shepherds actively to seek out the lost, to bind up those who have been wounded, and to bring strength to those who are languishing (cf. Ez 34:16)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: If a Pope clearly realizes that he is no longer physically, psychologically, and spiritually capable of handling the duties of his office, then he has a right and, under some circumstances, also an obligation to resign."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Can we remain indifferent before the problems associated with such realities as climate change?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The Church needs your faith, your idealism and your generosity, so that she can always be young in the Spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Grace, lavished upon us by God and communicated through the Mystery of the Incarnate Word, is an absolutely free gift with which nature is healed, strengthened and assisted in pursuing the innate desire for happiness in the heart of every man and of every woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The sharing of goods and resources, from which authentic development proceeds, is not guaranteed by merely technical progress and relationships of utility, but by the potential of love that overcomes evil with good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: When, as today, there is a market in human organs, when fetuses are produced to make spare organs available, or to make progress in research and preventive medicine, many regard the human content of these practices as implicit. But the contempt for man that underlies it, when man is used and abused, leads -- like it or not -- to a descent into hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Before it's too late, we need to make courageous choices that will recreate a strong alliance between man and Earth. We need a decisive 'yes' to care for creation and a strong commitment to reverse those trends that risk making the situation of decay irreversible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The promotion of human rights remains the most effective strategy for eliminating \tinequalities between countries and social groups, and for increasing security."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The Church does not invent sins but recognizes the will of God and has to declare it. Of course, the great thing.. is that upon the Church, which has to declare the will of God in its full magnitude, in its unconditional rigor, so that man should know his true measure, is bestowed as a gift, at the same time, the task of forgiving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: My dear friends, God\u2019s creation is one and it is good. The concerns for nonviolence, sustainable development, justice and peace, and care for our environment are of vital importance for humanity. They cannot, however, be understood apart from a profound reflection on the innate dignity of every human life from conception to natural death: a dignity conferred by God himself and thus inviolable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The Catholic tradition maintains that the objective norms governing right action are accessible to reason, prescinding from the content of revelation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: A theologian who does not love art, poetry, music and nature can be dangerous. Blindness and deafness toward the beautiful are not incidental; they necessarily are reflected in his theology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The Church is not a political power, nor a political party, but rather a moral reality, a moral force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Respecting the environment does not mean considering material or animal nature more important than man. Rather, it means not selfishly considering nature to be at the complete disposal of our own interests, for future generations also have the right to reap its benefits and to exhibit towards nature the same responsible freedom that we claim for ourselves. Nor must we overlook the poor, who are excluded in many cases from the goods of creation destined for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The glory of God is the living man, but the life of man is the vision of God', says St. Irenaeus, getting to the heart of what happens when man meets God on the mountain in the wilderness. Ultimately, it is the very life of man, man himself as living righteously, that is the true worship of God, but life only becomes real life when it receives its form from looking toward God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The Christian faith can never be separated from the soil of sacred events, from the choice made by God, who wanted to speak to us, to become man, to die and rise again, in a particular place and at a particular time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Listen to the voice of the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Reason always stands in need of being purified by faith"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Authentic love is obviously something good... When we love, we become most fully ourselves, most fully human... People often think they are being loving when actually they are being possessive or manipulative. People sometimes treat others as objects to satisfy their own needs... How easy it is to be deceived by the many voices in our society that advocate a permissive approach to sexuality, without regard for modesty, self-respect or the moral values that bring quality to human relationships! This is worship of a false god. Instead of bringing life, it brings death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The Cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble labourer in the vineyard of the Lord. The fact that the Lord knows how to work and to act even with inadequate instruments comforts me, and above all I entrust myself to your prayers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: While the Church exhorts civil authorities to seek peace, not war, and to exercise discretion and mercy in imposing punishment on criminals, it may still be permissible to take up arms to repel an aggressor or to have recourse to capital punishment. There may be a legitimate diversity of opinion even among Catholics about waging war and applying the death penalty, but not however with regard to abortion and euthanasia."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Let us seek in particular to communicate the deepest joy, that of knowing God in Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: I am consoled by the fact that the Lord knows how to work and how to act, even with insufficient tools."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The proclamation of the Gospel remains the primary service that the Church owes to humanity, to offer the salvation of Christ to the man of our time, who is in many ways humiliated and oppressed, and to orientate in a Christian way cultural, social, and ethical transformations that are unfolding in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The ecclesial communities which have not preserved the valid Episcopate and the genuine and integral substance of the Eucharistic mystery, are not Churches in the proper sense; however, those who are baptized in these communities are, by Baptism, incorporated in Christ and thus are in a certain communion, albeit imperfect, with the Church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Experience shows that disregard for the environment always harms human coexistence, and vice versa. It becomes more and more evident that there is an inseparable link between peace with creation and peace among men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Can man, the finite and sinful one, cooperate with God, the Infinite and Holy One? Yes, he can, precisely because God Himself has become man, become body, and here (in the liturgy), again and again, he comes through his body to us who live in the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The Church is missionary by nature and her principal task is evangelization, which aims to proclaim and to witness to Christ and to promote his Gospel of peace and love in every environment and culture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: How much filth there is in the church, even among those who, in the priesthood, should belong entirely to Him. How much pride, how much self-sufficiency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: God is alive. He has created every one of us, and he knows us all. He is so great that He has time for the little things in our lives: \u201cEvery hair of your head is numbered\u201d. God is alive, and makes sense to become a priest: the world needs priests, pastors, today, tomorrow and always, until the end of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Grant that we may be one flock and one shepherd."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: When, in adoration, we look at the consecrated Host, the sign of creation speaks to us. And so, we encounter the greatness of his gift; but we also encounter the Passion, the Cross of Jesus and his Resurrection. Through this gaze of adoration, he draws us toward himself, within his mystery, through which he wants to transform us as he transformed the Host."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Global interconnectedness has led to the emergence of a new political power, that of consumers and their associations. It is good for people to realize that purchasing is always a moral - and not simply economic - act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Popular piety is one of our strengths because it consists of prayers deeply rooted in people's hearts. These prayers even move the hearts of people who are somewhat cut off from the life of the Church and who have no special understanding of faith. All that is required is to 'illuminate' these actions and 'purify' this tradition so that it may become part of the life of the Church today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Society today is being fragmented by a way of thinking that is inherently short-sighted because it disregards the full horizon of truth - the truth about God and about us. By its nature, relativism fails to see the whole picture. It ignores the very principles that enable us to live and flourish in unity, order and harmony."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Terrorist activity is continually recurring in various parts of the world, sowing death and destruction and plunging many of our brothers and sisters into grief and despair"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: In the pierced heart of the Crucified, God's own heart is opened up - here we see who God is and what he is like. Heaven is no longer locked up. God has stepped out of his hiddenness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: I leave from where the apostle arrived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Can we disregard the growing phenomenon of \"environmental refugees\", people who are forced by the degradation of their natural habitat to forsake it - and often their possessions as well - in order to face the dangers and uncertainties of forced displacement? Can we remain impassive in the face of actual and potential conflicts involving access to natural resources? All these are issues with a profound impact on the exercise of human rights, such as the right to life, food, health and development."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Rock... is the expression of elemental passions... In the ecstasy of having all their defenses torn down, the participants sink, as it were, beneath the elemental force of the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: We do not seek a Christ whom we have invented, for only in the real communion of the Church do we encounter the real Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The fact that the Church is convinced of not having the right to confer priestly ordination on women, is now considered by some as irreconcilable with the European Constitution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet at the same time of joyful hope and profound gratitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Today, I, too, wish to reaffirm that I intend to continue on the path toward improved relations and friendship with the Jewish people, following the decisive lead given by John Paul II."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: I'm not a man who constantly thinks up jokes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: For each one of you, as for the apostles, the encounter with the divine Teacher who calls you friends may be the beginning of an extraordinary venture: that of becoming apostles among your contemporaries to lead them to live their own experience of friendship with God, made Man, with God who has made himself my friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: [The atheist believes] a world marked by so much injustice, innocent suffering, and cynicism of power cannot be the work of a good God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The Jesus who makes everything okay for everyone is a phantom, a dream, not a real figure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The Cross is the approbation of our existence, not in words, but in an act so completely radical that it caused God to become flesh and pierced this flesh to the quick; that, to God, it was worth the death of his incarnate Son."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Indeed, beauty is one of mankind's greatest needs; it is the root from which the branches of our peace and the fruits of our hope come forth. Beauty also reveals God because, like him, a work of beauty is pure gratuity; it calls us to freedom and draws us away from selfishness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The fundamental task of the evangelization of culture is the challenge to make God visible in the human face of Jesus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: In Latin America in general, it's very important that Christianity not be simply a thing of reason, but also of the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: I think in particular of our need to speak to the hearts of young people, who, despite their constant exposure to messages contrary to the Gospel, continue to thirst for authenticity, goodness and truth. Much remains to be done, particularly on the level of preaching and catechesis in parishes and schools, if the new evangelization is to bear fruit for the renewal of ecclesial life in America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The Earth is indeed a precious gift of the Creator who, in designing its intrinsic order, has given us bearings that guide us as stewards of his creation. Precisely from within this framework, the Church considers matters concerning the environment and its protection intimately linked to the theme of integral human development."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Humor is in fact an essential element in the mirth of creation. We can see how, in many matters in our lives, God wants to prod us into taking things a bit more lightly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: A spiritual desert is spreading: an interior emptiness, an unnamed fear, a quiet sense of despair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The world needs transparent lives, clear souls, pure minds that refuse to be perceived as mere objects of pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: The destruction of images, the first signs of which reach back to the 1920s, eliminated a lot of kitsch and unworthy art, but ultimately it left behind a void."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Sometimes we are looked upon as people who speak only of prohibitions. Nothing could be further from the truth! Authentic Christian discipleship is marked by a sense of wonder. We stand before the God we know and love as a friend, the vastness of his creation, and the beauty of our Christian faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Joy is the true gift of Christmas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: the Twelve Apostles are the most evident sign of Jesus' will regarding the existence and mission of his Church, the guarantee that between Christ and the Church there is no opposition: despite the sins of the people who make up the Church, they are inseparable. Therefore, a slogan that was popular some years back, 'Jesus yes, Church no,' is totally inconceivable with the intention of Christ. This individualistically chosen Jesus is an imaginary Jesus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and of sacred polyphony."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: If Jesus has become your hope, communicate this to others with your joy and your spiritual, apostolic and social engagement. Let Christ dwell within you, and having placed all your faith and trust in Him, spread this hope around you. Make choices that demonstrate your faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Every State has the primary duty to protect its own population from grave and sustained violations of human rights, as well as from the consequences of humanitarian crises, whether natural or man-made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Celibacy is not a matter of compulsion. Someone is accepted as a priest only when he does it of his own accord."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: If you find your sustenance in Christ, my dear young people, and if you live profoundly in him as did the Apostle Paul, you will not be able to resist speaking about him and making him known and loved by many of your friends and contemporaries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Young people in particular, I appeal to you: bear witness to your faith through the digital world!....Employ these new technologies to make the Gospel known, so that the Good News of God's infinite love for all people, will resound in new ways across our increasingly technological world!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Tell others about the truth that sets you free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Knowing is not simply a material act, since the object that is known always conceals something beyond the empirical datum. All our knowledge, even the most simple, is always a minor miracle, since it can never be fully explained by the material instruments that we apply to it. In every truth there is something more than we would have expected, in the love that we receive there is always an element that surprises us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Preservation of the environment, promotion of sustainable development and particular attention to climate change are matters of grave concern for the entire human family.  No nation or business sector can ignore the ethical implications present in all economic and social development.  With increasing clarity scientific research demonstrates that the impact of human actions in any one place or region can have worldwide effects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Benedict XVI: Deeply saddened by the news of the terrorist attacks in central London, the Holy Father offers his fervent prayers for the victims and for all those who mourn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The world tells us to seek success, power and money; God tells us to seek humility, service and love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: To change the world we must be good to those who cannot repay us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The perfect family doesn't exist, nor is there a perfect husband or a perfect wife, and let's not talk about the perfect mother-in-law! It's just us sinners. A healthy family life requires frequent use of three phrases: \"May I? Thank you, and I'm sorry\" and \"never, never, never end the day without making peace.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: All it takes is one good person to restore hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Each one of us is called to be an artisan of peace, by uniting and not dividing, by extinguishing hatred and not holding on to it, by opening paths to dialogue and not by constructing new walls!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Filipinos everywhere are known for their love of God, their fervent piety and their warm devotion to Our Lady and her rosary"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others. To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love, is to open up a horizon of hope; it is to let a shaft of light break through the heavy clouds; it is to bring the warmth of hope!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Our infinite sadness can only be cured by an infinite love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We all need to improve, to change for the better. Lent helps us fight against our faults."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity. They are children, women and men who leave or who are forced to leave their homes for various reasons, who share a legitimate desire for knowing and having, but above all for being more"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I prefer a church which is bruised, hurting and dirty because it has been out on the streets, rather than a church which is unhealthy from being confined and from clinging to its own security."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Whenever we take a step towards Jesus, we come to realize that he is already there, waiting for us with open arms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We must overcome...all forms of racism. The problem of intolerance should be dealt with as a whole: every time a minority is persecuted and marginalized...the good of the whole society is in danger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us pause before the Child of Bethlehem. Let us allow our hearts to be touched, let us allow ourselves to be warmed by the tenderness of God; we need his caress. God is full of love: to him be praise and glory forever! God is peace: let us ask him to help us to be peacemakers each day, in our life, in our families, in our cities and nations, in the whole world. Let us allow ourselves to be moved by God's goodness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: One cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one\u2019s life. Those who listen to us and observe us must be able to see in our actions what they hear from our lips, and so give glory to God!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: There is so much noise in the world! May we learn to be silent in our hearts and before God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Eucharist, although it is the fullness of sacramental life, is not a prize for the perfect but a powerful medicine and nourishment for the weak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up: there are no situations which God cannot change, there is no sin which he cannot forgive if only we open ourselves to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us learn from Christ how to pray, to forgive, to sow peace, and to be near those in need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Being a disciple means being constantly ready to bring the love of Jesus to others, and this can happen unexpectedly and in any place: on the street, in a city square, during work, on a journey."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If we are truly in love with Christ and if we sense how much he loves us, our heart will 'light up' with a joy that spreads to everyone around us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We must walk united with our differences: there is no other way to become one. This is the way of Jesus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The family is the greatest treasure of any country. Let us all work to protect and strengthen this, the cornerstone of society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: This is precisely the reason for the dissatisfaction of some, who end up sad - sad priests - in some sense becoming collectors of antiques or novelties, instead of being shepherds living with 'the odor of the sheep.' This I ask you: Be shepherds, with the 'odor of the sheep,' make it real, as shepherds among your flock, fishers of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us thank all those who teach in Catholic schools. Educating is an act of love; it is like giving life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Lord, teach us to step outside ourselves. Teach us to go out into the streets and manifest your love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The measure of the greatness of a society is found in the way it treats those most in need, those who have nothing apart from their poverty!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: So many of you have lost everything. I do not know what to tell you. But surely he knows what to tell you! So many of you have lost members of your family. I can only be silent; I accompany you silently, with my heart..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Dear young people, please, don\u2019t be observers of life, but get involved. Jesus did not remain an observer, but he immersed himself. Don\u2019t be observers, but immerse yourself in the reality of life, as Jesus did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: In the poor and outcast we see Christ\u2019s face; by loving and helping the poor, we love and serve Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: A little bit of mercy makes the world less cold and more just."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If we want security, let us give security; if we want life, let us give life; if we want opportunities, let us provide opportunities. The yardstick we use for others will be the yardstick which time will use for us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be - and not building bridges - is not Christian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: A person once asked me, in a provocative manner, if I approved of homosexuality. I replied with another question: 'Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?' We must always consider the person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer remain poor: we are enriched. I am well aware that when someone needing food knocks at your door, you always find a way of sharing food; as the proverb says, one can always 'add more water to the beans'! Is it possible to add more water to the beans?...Always?...And you do so with love, demonstrating that true riches consist not in materials things, but in the heart!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Every man, every woman who has to take up the service of government, must ask themselves two questions: \u2018Do I love my people in order to serve them better? Am I humble and do I listen to everybody, to diverse opinions in order to choose the best path.\u2019 If you don\u2019t ask those questions, your governance will not be good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Migrants and refugees are not pawns on the chessboard of humanity"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the feverish pursuit of frivolous pleasures, and a blunted conscience. Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Wretched are those who are vindictive and spiteful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Once capital becomes an idol and guides people's decisions, once greed for money presides over the entire socioeconomic system, it ruins society, it condemns and enslaves men and women, it destroys human fraternity, it sets people against one another and it even puts at risk our common home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Our deepest joy comes from Christ: remaining with him, walking with him, being his disciples."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: All walls fall. Today, tomorrow or in 100 years, they will fall. It's not a solution. The wall isn't a solution. In this moment, Europe is in difficult, it's true. We have to be intelligent, and whoever comes...that migrant flow. It's not easy to find solutions, but with dialogue between nations they should be found. Walls are never solutions. But bridges are, always, always."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Miracles happen. But prayer is needed! Prayer that is courageous, struggling and persevering, not prayer that is a mere formality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: In a very real way, the poor are our teachers. They show us that people\u2019s value is not measured by their possessions or how much money they have in the bank. A poor person, a person lacking material possessions, always maintains his or her dignity. The poor can teach us much about humility and trust in God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If we wish to follow Christ closely, we cannot choose an easy, quiet life. It will be a demanding life, but full of joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus. Those who accept His offer of salvation are set free from sin, sorrow, inner emptiness, and loneliness. With Christ joy is constantly born anew."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Practicing charity is the best way to evangelize."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: True charity requires courage: Let us overcome the fear of getting our hands dirty so as to help those in need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Just as we need the courage to be happy, we also need the courage to live simply."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Gossip can also kill, because it kills the reputation of the person! It is so terrible to gossip! At first it may seem like a nice thing, even amusing, like enjoying a candy. But in the end, it fills the heart with bitterness, and even poisons us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: All political activity must serve and promote the good of the human person and be based on respect for his or her dignity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: God never tires of forgiving us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Today people are suffering from poverty, but also from lack of love"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The great biblical tradition enjoins on all peoples the duty to hear the voice of the poor.  It bids us break the bonds of injustice and oppression which give rise to glaring, and indeed scandalous, social inequalities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: A simple lifestyle is good for us, helping us to better share with those in need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Some people continue to defend trickle-down theories which assume that economic growth, encouraged by a free market, will inevitably succeed in bringing about greater justice and inclusiveness in the world. This opinion, which has never been confirmed by the facts, expresses a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I ask you to ensure that humanity is served by wealth, and not ruled by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Working for a just distribution of the fruits of the earth and human labor is not mere philanthropy. It is a moral obligation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Our life is not given to us like an opera libretto, in which all is written down; but it means going, walking, doing, searching, seeing.... We must enter into the adventure of the quest for meeting God; we must let God search and encounter us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Our faith in Christ, who became poor, and was always close to the poor and the outcast, is the basis of our \n concern for the integral development of society\u2019s most neglected members."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Agape, the love of each one of us for the other, from the closest to the furthest, is in fact the only way that Jesus has given us to find the way of salvation and of the Beatitudes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: When one lives attached to money, pride or power, it is impossible to be truly happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Going out to others in order to reach the fringes of humanity does not mean rushing out aimlessly into the world. Often it is better simply to slow down, to put aside our eagerness in order to see and listen to others, to stop rushing from one thing to another and to remain with someone who has faltered along the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: To all people of good will who are working for social justice: never tire of working for a more just world, marked by greater solidarity!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Help one another: this is what Jesus teaches us and this what I am doing, and doing with all my heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The right to life is the first human right. Abortion is killing someone that cannot defend himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: It seems clear to me also that climate change is a problem which can no longer be left to our future generation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us be renewed by God's mercy ... and let us become agents of this mercy, channels through which God can water the earth, protect all creation and make justice and peace flourish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The true strength of the Christian is the power of truth and love, which leads to the renunciation of all violence. Faith and violence are incompatible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Inconsistency on the part of pastors and the faithful between what they say and what they do, between word and manner of life, is undermining the church's credibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself. So protect your families! See in them your country\u2019s greatest treasure and nourish them always by prayer and the grace of the sacraments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Every threat to the family is a threat to society itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Religious fundamentalism, even before it eliminates human beings by perpetrating horrendous killings, eliminates God himself, turning him into a mere ideological pretext."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Lord Jesus, make us capable of loving as you love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I cannot imagine a Christian who does not know how to smile. May we joyfully witness to our faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I believe in God - not in a Catholic God; there is no Catholic God. There is God, and I believe in Jesus Christ, his incarnation. Jesus is my teacher and my pastor, but God, the Father, Abba, is the light and the Creator. This is my Being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: God asks everything of us, yet at the same time he offers everything to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The whole of salvation history is the story of God looking for us: he offers us love and welcomes us with tenderness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If investments in banks fall, it is a tragedy, and people say, 'What are we going to do?' but if people die of hunger, have nothing to eat or suffer from poor health, that's nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If we don\u2019t think about God, everything ends up being about 'me' and my own comfort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I think the church has to apologize not only to the gay person it has offended, but also to the poor, to women who are exploited, to children forced into labor and for having blessed so many weapons in the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Without mercy, we have little chance nowadays of becoming part of a world of 'wounded' persons in need of understanding, forgiveness, love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I distrust a charity that costs nothing and does not hurt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: You have cast out the wonder of creation - man and woman - and you have put money in its place. This is a basic terrorism against all of humanity! Think about it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: This is what marriage is all about - Man and woman walking together, wherein the husband helps his wife to become ever more a woman, and wherein the woman has the task of helping her husband to become ever more a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: How I wish everyone had decent work! It is essential for human dignity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Vanity, showing off, is an attitude that reduces spirituality to a worldly thing, which is the worst sin that could be committed in the church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Dear young people, Jesus wants to be your friend, and wants you to spread the joy of this friendship everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Peace is a daily commitment. It is a homemade peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The joy of the gospel fills the hearts and lives of all who encounter Jesus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Eucharist is essential for us: it is Christ who wishes to enter our lives and fill us with his grace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Since many of you do not belong to the Catholic Church and others are non-believers, from the bottom of my heart I give this silent blessing to each and every one of you, respecting the conscience of each one of you but knowing that each one of you is a child of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I see the church as a field hospital after battle. It is useless to ask a seriously injured person if he has high cholesterol and about the level of his blood sugars. You have to heal his wounds. Then we can talk about everything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Christians are those who let God clothe them with goodness and mercy, with Christ, so as to become, like Christ, servants of God and others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Where there is calumny, there is Satan himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: When families bring children into the world, train them in faith and sound values, and teach them to contribute to society, they become a blessing in our world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Dear young people, let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life. Be amazed by what is true and beautiful, what is of God!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: May no one use religion as a pretext for actions against human dignity and against the fundamental rights of every man and woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: There is another important point: encountering the poor. If we step outside ourselves we find poverty. Today-it sickens the heart to say so-the discovery of a tramp who has died of the cold is not news. Today what counts as news is, maybe, a scandal. A scandal: ah, that is news! Today, the thought that a great many children do not have food to eat is not news. This is serious, this is serious! We cannot put up with this! Yet that is how things are. We cannot become starched Christians, those over-educated Christians who speak of theological matters as they calmly sip their tea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Today too, amid so much darkness, we need to see the light of hope and to be men and women who bring hope to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Francis of Assisi tells us we should work to build peace.  But there is no true peace without truth!  There cannot be true peace if everyone is his own criterion, if everyone can always claim exclusively his own rights, without at the same time caring for the good of others, of everyone, on the basis of the nature that unites every human being on this earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Our world is facing a refugee crisis of a magnitude not seen since the Second World War. This presents us with great challenges and many hard decisions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: A society which abandons children and the elderly severs its roots and darkens its future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Each individual Christian and every community is called to be an instrument of God for the liberation and promotion of the poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I am a sinner. This is the most accurate definition. It is not a figure of speech, a literary genre. I am a sinner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him? ... The problem is not having this tendency, no, we must be brothers and sisters to one another. The problem is in making a lobby of this tendency: a lobby of misers, a lobby of politicians, a lobby of masons, so many lobbies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: In effect, a selfish and boundless thirst for power and material prosperity leads both to the misuse of available natural resources and to the exclusion of the weak and the disadvantaged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Today, there are those who say that marriage is out of fashion... They say that it is not worth making a life-long commitment, making a definitive decision, \u2018for ever\u2019, because we do not know what tomorrow will bring. I ask you, instead, to be revolutionaries, I ask you to swim against the tide; yes, I am asking you to rebel against this culture that sees everything as temporary and that ultimately believes you are incapable of responsibility, that believes you are incapable of true love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Dear young people, you have many plans and dreams for the future. But, is Christ at the center of each of your plans and dreams?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: China is a great nation that offers the world a great culture, so many good things. I love the Chinese people and I hope there is the possibility of having good relations. We're in contact, we talk, we are moving forward but for me, to have as a friend a great country like China, which has so much culture and has so much opportunity to do good, would be a joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The right to life is the first among human rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Our efforts must aim at restoring hope, righting wrongs, maintaining commitments, and thus promoting the well-being of individuals and of peoples."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for \n others, no place for the poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Needing to talk badly about others indicates low self esteem. That means, 'I feel so low that instead of picking myself up, I have to cut others down.' Letting go of negative things quickly is healthy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: You can't govern without loving the people and without humility!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: An evangelizer must never look like someone who has just come back from a funeral."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Only by becoming poor ourselves, by stripping away our complacency, will we be able to identify with the least of our brothers and sisters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Joy adapts and changes, but it always endures, \n even as a flicker of light born of our personal certainty that, \n when everything is said and done, we are infinitely loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: One day we will see our animals again in eternity of Christ. Paradise is open to all God\u2019s creatures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Drug addiction is an evil, and with evil there can be no yielding or compromise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Reforming the social structures which perpetuate poverty and the exclusion of the poor first requires a conversion of mind and heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Human rights are not only violated by terrorism, repression or assassination, but also by unfair economic structures that creates huge inequalities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Environmental degradation is one of the biggest challenges we have. I think a question that we're not asking ourselves is: 'Isn't humanity committing suicide with this indiscriminate and tyrannical use of nature?'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If a person is gay and seeks God and has good will, who am I to judge him? The Catechism of the Catholic Church explains this very well. It says they should not be marginalized because of this (orientation) but that they must be integrated into society. The problem is not having this orientation. We must be brothers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Dear young people, don't be afraid to marry. A faithful and fruitful marriage will bring you happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Together with a culture of work, there must be a culture of leisure as gratification. To put it another way: people who work must take the time to relax, to be with their families, to enjoy themselves, read, listen to music, play a sport."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The worship of the golden calf of old (cf. Ex 32:15-34) has found a new and heartless image in the cult of money and the dictatorship of an economy which is faceless and lacking any truly humane goal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Book of Genesis tells us that God created man and woman entrusting them with the task of filling the earth and subduing it, which does not mean exploiting it but nurturing and protecting it, caring for it through their work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Fathers are so necessary as examples and guides for our children in wisdom and virtue. Without father figures, young people often feel orphaned; left adrift at a critical moment in their growth and development."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: When we talk about the environment, about creation, my thoughts turn to the first pages of the Bible, the Book of Genesis, which states that God placed man and woman on earth to cultivate and care for it. And the question comes to my mind: What does cultivating and caring for the earth mean? Are we truly cultivating and caring for creation? Or are we exploiting and neglecting it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: [Orthodox Patriarch] Kirill, my brother. We kissed each other, embraced, and then a conversation for two hours. Old age doesn't come on its own.Two hours where we spoke as brothers, sincerely and no one knows what was spoke about, only what we said at the end publicly about how we felt as we spoke."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We are called to reach out to those who find themselves in the existential peripheries of our societies and to show particular solidarity with the most vulnerable of our brothers and sisters: the poor, the disabled, the unborn and the sick, migrants and refugees, the elderly and the young who lack employment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: While the earnings of a minority are growing exponentially, so too is the gap separating the majority from the prosperity enjoyed by those happy few. This imbalance is the result of ideologies which defend the absolute autonomy of the marketplace and financial speculation. Consequently, they reject the right of states, charged with vigilance for the common good, to exercise any form of control."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If my good friend Dr. Gasparri says a curse word against my mother, he can expect a punch. It's normal. It's normal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Do you know what the title was of the Pope, which ought to be used? Servant of the servants of God. It's a little different from the stars. Stars are beautiful to look at. I like to look at them in the summer when the sky is clear. But the Pope must be, must be the servant of the servants of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: ...these things become the norm: that some homeless people die of cold on the streets is not news. In contrast, a ten point drop on the stock markets of some cities, is a tragedy. A person dying is not news, but if the stock markets drop ten points it is a tragedy! Thus people are disposed of, as if they were trash."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: It is true that going out on to the street implies the risk of accidents happening, as they would to any ordinary man or woman. But if the church stays wrapped up in itself, it will age. And if I had to choose between a wounded church that goes out on to the streets and a sick, withdrawn church, I would definitely choose the first one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Truth, according to the Christian faith, is God's love for us in Jesus Christ. Therefore, truth is a relationship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We must not reduce the bosom of the universal church to a nest protecting our mediocrity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The confessional is not a torture chamber, but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: How many innocent people and children suffer in the world! Lord, grant us your peace!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: How many kinds of moral and material poverty we face today as a result of denying God and putting so many idols in his place!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Perhaps I can say that I am a bit astute, that I can adapt to circumstances, but it is also true that I am a bit naive. Yes, but the best summary, the one that comes more from the inside and I feel most true is this: I am a sinner whom the Lord has looked upon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Pope loves everyone, rich and poor alike, but the Pope has the duty, in Christ's name, to remind the rich to help the poor, to respect them, to promote them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods. The teaching of the church, for that matter, is clear and I am a son of the church, but it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: When we walk without the cross, when we build without the cross and when we proclaim Christ without the cross, we are not disciples of the Lord. We are worldly. We may be bishops, priests, cardinals, popes, all of this, but we are not disciples of the Lord."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points? This is a case of exclusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The culture of prosperity deadens us; we are thrilled if the market offers us something new to purchase; and in the meantime all those lives stunted for lack of opportunity seem a mere spectacle; they fail to move us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Instead of seeming to impose new obligations, they should appear as people who wish to share their joy, who point to a horizon of beauty and who invite others to a delicious banquet. It is not by proselytizing that the Church grows, but by attraction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: It is not 'progressive' to try to resolve problems by eliminating a human life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I join the March for Life in Washington with my prayers. May God help us respect all life, especially the most vulnerable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Human life, the person is no longer perceived as a primary value to be respected and protected, especially if poor or disabled, if not yet useful - such as the unborn child - or no longer needed - such as the elderly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: It means caring for one another in our families: husbands and wives first protect one another, and then, as parents, they care for their children, and children themselves, in time, protect their parents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let's not be naive, we're not talking about a simple political battle; it is a destructive pretension against the plan of God. We are not talking about a mere bill, but rather a machination of the Father of Lies that seeks to confuse and deceive the children of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: A fundamental role in the renewal of society is played, of course, by the family and especially by young people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary enthusiasm!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: War is the suicide of humanity because it kills the heart and kills love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: To be friends with God means to pray with simplicity, like children talking to their parents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Dear young people, put your talents at the service of the Gospel, with creativity and boundless charity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Indifference to our neighbour and to God also represents a real temptation for us Christians. Each year during Lent we need to hear once more the voice of the prophets who cry out and trouble our conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Life rejuvenates and acquires energy when it multiplies: It is enriched, not impoverished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: May the Lord bless the family and strengthen it in this moment of crisis"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Dear young people, do not give up your dreams of a more just world!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We have created new idols. The worship of the ancient golden calf (cf. Ex 32:1-35) has returned in a new and ruthless guise in the idolatry of money and the dictatorship of an impersonal economy lacking a truly human purpose. The worldwide crisis affecting finance and the economy lays bare their imbalances and, above all, their lack of real concern for human beings; man is reduced to one of his needs alone: consumption."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Why is it taken for granted that women should earn less than men? No! They have the same rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Today, this selfish attitude of indifference has taken on global proportions, to the extent that we can speak of a globalization of indifference. It is a problem which we, as Christians, need to confront."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We are all missionary disciples"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We must avoid the spiritual disease of the Church that can become self-referential: when this happens, the Church itself becomes sick. It\u2019s true that accidents can happen when you go out into the street, as can happen to any man or woman. But if the Church remains closed onto itself, self-referential, it grows old. Between a Church that goes into the street and gets into an accident and a Church that is sick with self-referentiality, I have no doubts in preferring the first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I pray every day for all who are suffering in Iraq. Please join me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us never yield to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us remember well, however, that whenever food is thrown out it is as if it were stolen from the table of the poor, from the hungry!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I have come that they may have life and have it in abundance, says Jesus. This is where true wealth is found, not in material things!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Church in the Philippines is called to acknowledge and combat the causes of the deeply rooted inequality and injustice which mar the face of Filipino society, plainly contradicting the teaching of Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Dear parents, have great patience, and forgive from the depths of your heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.' If a computer breaks it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs and dramas of so many people end up being considered normal. ... When the stock market drops 10 points in some cities, it constitutes a tragedy. Someone who dies is not news, but lowering income by 10 points is a tragedy! In this way people are thrown aside as if they were trash."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I would like to ask you all to see a ray of hope as well in the eyes and hearts of refugees and of those who have been forcibly displaced. A hope that is expressed in expectations for the future, in the desire for friendship, in the wish to participate in the host society also through learning the language, access to employment and the education of children. I admire the courage of those who hope to be able gradually to resume a normal life, waiting for joy and love to return to brighten their existence. We can and must all nourish this hope!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Jesus teaches us another way: Go out. Go out and share your testimony, go out and interact with your brothers, go out and share, go out and ask. Become the Word in body as well as spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We have to work harder to develop a profound theology of women within the church. The feminine genius is needed wherever we make important decisions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Unfortunately, what is thrown away is not only food and dispensable objects, but often human beings themselves, who are discarded as 'unnecessary.' For example, it is frightful even to think there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day; children being used as soldiers, abused and killed in armed conflicts; and children being bought and sold in that terrible form of modern slavery which is human trafficking, which is a crime against humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Even today, after the second failure of another world war, perhaps one can speak of a third war, one fought piecemeal, with crimes, massacres, destruction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Wars shatter so many lives. I think especially of children robbed of their childhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Auschwitz cries out with the pain of immense suffering and pleads for a future of respect, peace and encounter among peoples."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The secret of Christian living is love. Only love fills the empty spaces caused by evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: May each family rediscover family prayer, which helps to bring about mutual understanding and forgiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Youth Ministry, as traditionally organized, has also suffered the impact of social changes. Young people often fail to find responses to their concerns, needs, problems and hurts in the usual structures. As adults, we find it hard to listen patiently to them, to appreciate their concerns, demands, and to speak to them in a language they can understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The family is threatened by growing efforts on the part of some to redefine the very institution of marriage, by relativism, by the culture of the ephemeral, by a lack of openness to life. These realities are increasingly under attack from powerful forces, which threaten to disfigure God\u2019s plan for creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We have to find a new balance; otherwise even the moral edifice of the church is likely to fall like a house of cards, losing the freshness and fragrance of the Gospel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Church needs you, your enthusiasm, your creativity and the joy that is so characteristic of you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We have to state, without mincing words, that there is an inseparable bond between our faith and the poor. May we never abandon them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We cannot become starched Christians, too polite, who speak of theology calmly over tea. We have to become courageous Christians and seek out those (who need help most)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: How often we forget to dedicate ourselves to that which truly matters! We forget that we are children of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Dear young people, Jesus gives us life, life in abundance. If we are close to him we will have joy in our hearts and a smile on our face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Christians must respond to evil with good, taking the cross upon themselves as Jesus did"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Family is the salt of the earth and the light of the world, it is the leaven of society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Reject every form of corruption."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We don't need youth museums but we do need holy young people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I want to see the church get closer to the people. I want to get rid of clericalism, the mundane, this closing ourselves off within ourselves, in our parishes, schools or structures. Because these need to get out!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: There is no worse material poverty, I am keen to stress, than the poverty which prevents people from earning their bread and deprives them of the dignity of work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We ask the risen Jesus, who turns death into life, to change hatred into love, vengeance into forgiveness, war into peace. Yes, Christ is our peace, and through him to implore peace for all the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Forgiveness, dialogue, reconciliation - these are the words of peace, in beloved Syria, in the Middle East, in all the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a 'disposable' culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I ask everyone with political responsibility to remember two things: human dignity and the common good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Faith transforms the whole person precisely to the extent that he or she becomes open to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Peace is the language we must speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We face so many challenges in life: poverty, distress, humiliation, the struggle for justice, persecutions, the difficulty of daily conversion, the effort to remain faithful to our call to holiness, and many others. But if we open the door to Jesus and allow him to be part of our lives, if we share our joys and sorrows with him, then we will experience the peace and joy that only God, who is infinite love, can give."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Sometimes we are tempted to find excuses and complain, acting as if we could only be happy if a thousand conditions were met...I can say that the most beautiful and natural expressions of joy which I have seen in my life were in poor people who had little to hold on to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: At times we are slaves of sin. Lord, come to free us!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Religious freedom is a fundamental human right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We need courage if we are to be faithful to the Gospel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Dear brothers and sisters, the Church loves you! Be an active presence in the community, as living cells, as living stones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Dear young people, Christ asks you to be wide awake and alert, to see the things in life that really matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Embrace with tender affection the whole of humanity, especially the poorest, the weakest, the least important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us never forget that authentic power is service, which has its radiant culmination on the Cross."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The thing the Church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: One cannot provoke, one cannot insult other people's faith, one cannot make fun of faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Christians know how to face difficulties, trials and defeat with serenity and hope in the Lord."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us not close our hearts, let us not lose confidence, let us never give up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The one who listens attentively to the Word of God and truly prays, always asks the Lord: what is your will for me?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Love is more powerful, love gives life, love makes hope blossom in the wilderness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Say no to an ephemeral, superficial and throwaway culture, a culture that assumes that you are incapable of taking on responsibility and facing the great challenges of life!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Things have a price and can be for sale. But people have a dignity that is priceless and worth far more than things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Lord put it clearly: you cannot serve two masters. You have to choose between God and money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information. The latter is a tendency which our important and influential modern communications media can encourage. Information is important, but it is not enough. All too often things get simplified, different positions and viewpoints are pitted against one another, and people are invited to take sides, rather than to see things as a whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: God loves us. May we discover the beauty of loving and being loved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: There is never a reason to lose hope. Jesus says: \u201cI am with you until the end of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: It is the attitude of some leaders of God's people; they continually scold others, hurl reproaches at them, tell them to be quiet. ... 'Madam, take your crying child out of the church as I am preaching.' As if the cries of a child were not a sublime homily."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I would like especially to mention you, the women, wives and mothers of Paraguay, who at great cost and sacrifice were able to lift up a country defeated, devastated and laid low by an abominable war. God bless your perseverance, God bless and encourage your faith, God bless the women of Paraguay, the most glorious women of America."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: To imitate the hatred and violence of tyrants and murderers is the best way to take their place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Even today we raise our hand against our brother... We have perfected our weapons, our conscience has fallen asleep, and we have sharpened our ideas to justify ourselves as if it were normal we continue to sow destruction, pain, death. Violence and war lead only to death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic reform to benefit everyone. This would nevertheless require a courageous change of attitude on the part of political leaders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I have a dogmatic certainty: God is in every person's life. God is in everyone's life. Even if the life of a person has been a disaster, even if it is destroyed by vices, drugs or anything else - God is in this person's life. You can - you must - try to seek God in every human life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Before all else, the Gospel invites us to respond to the God of love who saves us, to see God in others and to go forth from ourselves to seek the good of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Throwing away food is like stealing from the table of those who are poor and hungry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Sometimes we are saddened by the weight of our sins. May we not be discouraged. Christ has come to lift this burden and give us peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Concealing or denying evil is like allowing a wound to keep bleeding without bandaging it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Dear young friends, learn to pray every day: this is the way to know Jesus and invite him into your lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If you withdraw into yourself, you run the risk of becoming egocentric. And stagnant water becomes putrid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The proclamation of the saving love of God comes before moral and religious imperatives. Today sometimes it seems that the opposite order is prevailing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Lent is a time of grace, a time to convert and live out our baptism fully."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Ask Jesus what he wants from you and be brave!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Your sins are great? Just tell the Lord: Forgive me, help me to get up again, change my heart!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Only those who serve with love are able to protect!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Being a Christian means renouncing ourselves, taking up the cross and carrying it with Jesus. There is no other way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us all remember this: one cannot proclaim the Gospel of Jesus without the tangible witness of one's life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Do not be afraid of what God asks of you! It is worth saying 'yes' to God. In him we find joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Lord, help us to recognize you in the sick, poor and suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Inequality is the root of social evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I beg the Lord to grant us more politicians who are genuinely disturbed by the state of society, the people, the lives of the poor!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The important thing is to not walk alone, but to rely on each other as brothers and sisters"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us protect with love all that God has given us!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: To all of you, I repeat: Do not let yourselves be robbed of hope! Do not let yourselves be robbed of hope! And not only that, but I say to us all: let us not rob others of hope, let us become bearers of hope!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Christian family is missionary: it announces the love of God to the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Every religion has its dignity ... in freedom of expression there are limits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Where we find hate and darkness, may we bring love and hope, in order to give a more human face to society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Peacemaking calls for courage, much more so than warfare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: To live charitably means not looking out for our own interests, but carrying the burdens of the weakest and poorest among us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Be close to the poor and to those in need, so as to touch in their flesh the wounded flesh of Jesus. Please, draw near to them!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: It means protecting people, showing loving concern for each and every person, especially children, the elderly, those in need, who are often the last we think about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Many powerful people don't want peace, because they live off war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I believe that Catholics involved in politics carry the values of their religion within them, but have the mature awareness and expertise to implement them. The Church will never go beyond its task of expressing and disseminating its values, at least as long as I'm here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Once man has lost the fundamental orientation which unifies his existence, he breaks down into the multiplicity of his desires; in refusing to await the time of promise, his life-story disintegrates into a myriad of unconnected instants."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I would like to ask all those who have positions of responsibility in economic, political and social life, and all men and women of goodwill: let us be 'protectors' of creation, protectors of God's plan inscribed in nature, protectors of one another and of the environment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Today everything comes under the laws of competition and the survival of the fittest, where the powerful feed upon the powerless. As a consequence, masses of people find themselves excluded and marginalized: without work, without possibilities, without any means of escape."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Almost without being aware of it, we end up being incapable of feeling compassion at the outcry of the poor, weeping for other people's pain, and feeling a need to help them, as though all this were someone else's responsibility and not our own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of increased profits, whatever is fragile, like the environment, is defenseless before the interests of a deified market, which become the only rule."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us say \"Yes\" to life and not death. Let us say \"Yes\" to freedom and not enslavement to the many idols of our time. In a word, let us say \"Yes\" to the God who is love, life and freedom, and who never disappoints."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: No one must say that they cannot be close to the poor because their own lifestyle demands more attention to other areas. This is an excuse commonly heard in academic, business or professional, and even ecclesial circles. While it is quite true that the essential vocation and mission of the lay faithful is to strive that earthly realities and all human activity may be transformed by the Gospel, none of us can think we are exempt from concern for the poor and for social justice"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Any Church community, if it thinks it can comfortably go its own way without creative concern and effective cooperation in helping the poor to live with dignity and reaching out to everyone, will also risk breaking down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We don't want this globalised economic system which does us so much harm. Men and women have to be at the centre (of an economic system) as God wants, not money. The world has become an idolator of this god called money. To defend this economic culture, a throwaway culture has been installed. We throw away grandparents, and we throw away young people. We have to say no to his throwaway culture. We want a just system that helps everyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The growth of equality\u2026 calls for decisions, mechanisms and processes directed to a better distribution of wealth, the creation of sources of employment and an integral promotion of the poor, which goes beyond a simple welfare mentality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Humanity needs to weep, and this is the time to weep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: It hurts me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car, you can't do this. A car is necessary to do a lot of work, but please, choose a more humble one. If you like the fancy one, just think about how many children are dying of hunger in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: More than by fear of going astray, my hope is that we will be moved by the fear of remaining shut up within structures which give us a false sense of security, within rules which make us harsh judges, within habits which make us feel safe, while at our door people are starving and Jesus does not tire of saying to us: 'Give them something to eat.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: God does not reveal himself in strength or power, but in the weakness and fragility of a newborn babe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us never give in to pessimism, to that bitterness that the devil offers us every day. Do not give in to pessimism and discouragement. We have the firm certainty that the Holy Spirit gives the Church with His mighty breath, the courage to persevere and also to seek new methods of evangelization, to bring the Gospel to the ends of the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Work is fundamental to the dignity of a person. . . . It gives one the ability to maintain oneself, one's family, to contribute to the growth of one's own nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The imbalance results from ideologies which uphold the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation, and thus deny the right of control to States, which are themselves charged with providing for the common good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Resolve not to be overcome by evil, but to combat evil with good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us pray that the Church be holier and more humble, loving God by serving the poor, the lonely and the sick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Human trafficking is an open wound on the body of contemporary society, a scourge upon the body of Christ. It is a crime against humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Human beings are themselves considered consumer goods to be used and then discarded. We have created a \u201cdisposable\u201d culture which is now spreading. It is no longer simply about exploitation and oppression, but something new. Exclusion ultimately has to do with what it means to be a part of the society in which we live; those excluded are no longer society\u2019s underside or its fringes or its disenfranchised \u2013 they are no longer even a part of it. The excluded are not the \u201cexploited\u201d but the outcast, the \u201cleftovers\u201d."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Just as the commandment 'Thou shalt not kill' sets a clear limit in order to safeguard the value of human life, today we also have to say 'thou shalt not' to an economy of exclusion and inequality. Such an economy kills. How can it be that it is not a news item when an elderly homeless person dies of exposure, but it is news when the stock market loses two points?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Be sanctuaries of respect for life, proclaiming the sacredness of every human life from conception to natural death"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Worshipping the Lord means giving him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing-not only by our words- that he alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before him that he is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: God is not afraid of new things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: A beautiful homily, a genuine sermon, must begin with the first proclamation, with the proclamation of salvation. There is nothing more solid, deep and sure than this proclamation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: In God\u2019s great plan, every detail is important, even yours, even my humble little witness, even the hidden witness of those who live their faith with simplicity in everyday family relationships, work relationships, friendships. There are the saints of every day, the \u201chidden\u201d saints, a sort of \u201cmiddle class of holiness\u201d to which we can all belong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The only war that we must all fight is the one against evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Despite the slowness, the infidelity, the errors and sins it committed and might still commit against its members, the Church, trust me, has no other meaning and goal but to live and witness Jesus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Religion has the right to express its opinion in the service of the people, but God in creation has set us free: it is not possible to interfere spiritually in the life of a person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Some people believe that - pardon my language - in order to be good Catholics, we should be like rabbits. No."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Obeying God is listening to God, having an open heart to follow the path that God points out to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I wish everyone a wonderful World Cup, played in a spirit of true fraternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Peace is handcrafted. It is made every day. Also friendship among people, mutual knowledge, esteem, is handcrafted. It's made every day. Respect the other, say that which one thinks, but with respect, but walk together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The great challenge facing us today is to learn once again how to talk to one another, not simply how to generate and consume information."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Gospel, radiant with the glory of Christ\u2019s cross, constantly invites us to rejoice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Lord has redeemed all of us, all of us, with the Blood of Christ: all of us, not just Catholics. Everyone! 'Father, the atheists?' Even the atheists. Everyone!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: It is horrific even to think that there are children, victims of abortion, who will never see the light of day"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Right now, we don't have a very good relation with creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let those desert places in our hearts bloom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: To build peace is difficult but to live without it is torment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Politics is the most important of the civil activities and has its own field of action, which is not that of religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Suffering is a call to conversion: it reminds us of our frailty and vulnerability."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Every child who, rather than being born, is condemned unjustly to being aborted, bears the face of Jesus Christ, bears the face of the Lord, who even before he was born, and then just after birth, experienced the world\u2019s rejection. And every elderly person\u2026even if he is ill or at the end of his days, bears the face of Christ. They cannot be discarded, as the \u2018culture of waste\u2019 suggests!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Prayer, humility, and charity toward all are essential in the Christian life: they are the way to holiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: When we do not adore God, we adore something else. Money and power are false idols which often take the place of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Division within a Christian community is a very grave sin; it is the work of the devil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us protect Christ in our lives, so that we can protect others, so that we can protect creation!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: In the Gospel we have just heard, Jesus, the Master, teaches the crowds and the small group of his disciples by accommodating himself to their ability to understand. ... Jesus does not seek to 'play the professor.' Instead, he seeks to reach people's hearts, their understanding and their lives, so that they may bear fruit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Beware of getting too comfortable! When we are comfortable, it\u2019s easy to forget other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Money has to serve, not to rule!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: No one is saved alone, as an isolated individual, but God attracts us looking at the complex web of relationships that take place in the human community. God enters into this dynamic, this participation in the web of human relationships."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: In the Western Church to which I belong, priests cannot be married as in the Byzantine, Ukrainian, Russian or Greek Catholic Churches. In those Churches, the priests can be married, but the bishops have to be celibate. They are very good priests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us leave a spare place at our table: a place for those who lack the basics, who are alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Big Bang, which today we hold to be the origin of the world, does not contradict the intervention of the divine creator but, rather, requires it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: When fundamentalism comes to kill, it can kill with the language - the Apostle James says this, not me - and even with a knife, no?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The joy of the Gospel is for all people: no one can be excluded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: There are some things we really need to take care of: the children, and grandparents. Children, whether they are young or older, they are the strength that moves us forward. We place our hope in them.Grandparents are the living memory of the family. They passed on the faith, they transmitted the faith, to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Take care of God\u2019s creation. But above all, take care of people in need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: One of the more serious temptations which stifles boldness and zeal is a defeatism, which turns us into querulous and disillusioned pessimists, sourpusses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Rest is so necessary for the health of our minds and bodies, and often so difficult to achieve due to the many demands placed on us. But rest is also essential for our spiritual health, so that we can hear God\u2019s voice and understand what he asks of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: All Christians need an 'ecological conversion', whereby the effects of their encounter with Jesus Christ become evident in their relationship with the world around them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: A poverty learned with the humble, the poor, the sick and all those who are on the existential outskirts of life. A theoretical poverty is no use to us. Poverty is learned by touching the flesh of the poor Christ, in the humble, in the poor, in the sick and in children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I have great love for Saint Joseph, because he is a man of silence and strength. On my table I have an image of Saint Joseph sleeping. Even when he is asleep, he is taking care of the Church! Yes! We know that he can do that. So when I have a problem, a difficulty, I write a little note and I put it underneath Saint Joseph, so that he can dream about it! In other words I tell him: pray for this problem!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: How good it is for us when the Lord unsettles our lukewarm and superficial lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Do not be afraid to go and to bring Christ into every area of life, to the fringes of society, even to those who seem farthest away, most indifferent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Dear young people, the Church expects great things of you and your generosity. Don\u2019t be afraid to aim high."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: You cannot insult the faith of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We forget to remain focused on the things that really matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Human trafficking is a crime against humanity. We must unite our efforts to free the victims and stop this increasingly aggressive crime which threatens not only individuals but the basic values of society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Every child that isn't born, but is unjustly condemned to be aborted, has the face of Jesus Christ, has the face of the Lord."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The process of healing also needs to include the pursuit of truth, not for the sake of opening old wounds, but rather as a necessary means of promoting justice, healing and unity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. He created human beings and let them develop according to the internal laws that he gave to each one so they would reach their fulfillment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Challenges exist to be overcome! Let us be realists, but without losing our joy, our boldness and our hope-filled commitment. Let us not allow ourselves to be robbed of missionary vigour!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: When we do not profess Jesus Christ, we profess the worldliness of the devil, a demonic worldliness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: How many of us, myself included, have lost our bearings; we are no longer attentive to the world in which we live; we don\u2019t care; we don\u2019t protect what God created for everyone, and we end up unable even to care for one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The family is where we are formed as people. Every family is a brick in the building of society"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Mercy is the true power that can save humanity and the world from sin and evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: At stake are the lives of many children who will be discriminated against in advance, and deprived of their human development given by a father and a mother and willed by God. At stake is the total rejection of God\u2019s law engraved in our hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Accept the risen Jesus into your life. Even if you have been far away, take a small step towards Him. He awaits you with open arms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices for the journey."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is good... Everyone has his own idea of good and evil and must choose to follow the good and fight evil as he conceives them. That would be enough to make the world a better place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: A Christian who does not protect Creation, who does not let it grow, is a Christian who does not care about the work of God, that work that was born from the love of God for us. And this is the first response to the first creation: protect creation, make it grow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If we are to know the Lord, we must go to Him. Listen to Him in silence before the Tabernacle and approach Him in the Sacraments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: When we read about Creation in Genesis, we run the risk of imagining God was a magician, with a magic wand able to do everything. But that is not so. God is not a demiurge [demigod] or a magician, but the Creator who gives being to all entities. Evolution in nature is not opposed to the notion of Creation, because evolution presupposes the creation of beings that evolve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Church is or should go back to being a community of God's people, and priests, pastors and bishops, who have the care of souls, are at the service of the people of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The vocation of being a 'protector' [. . .] means protecting all creation, the beauty of the created world, as the Book of Genesis tells us and as Saint Francis of Assisi showed us [. . .] In the end, everything has been entrusted to our protection, and all of us are responsible for it. Be protectors of God\u2019s gifts!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Every Christian can witness to God in the workplace, not only with words, but above all with an honest life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Sometimes negative news does come out, but it is often exaggerated and manipulated to spread scandal. Journalists sometimes risk becoming ill from coprophilia and thus fomenting coprophagia: which is a sin that taints all men and women, that is, the tendency to focus on the negative rather than the positive aspects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Obsession with a consumerist lifestyle, above all when few people are capable of maintaining it, can only lead to violence and mutual destruction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The fact is that woman was taken from a rib."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We cannot be tepid disciples. The Church needs our courage in order to give witness to truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: God shows up with surprises."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Tell me: when God looks at a gay person, does he endorse the existence of this person with love, or reject and condemn this person?... It is necessary to accompany them with mercy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Cross is the Word through which God has responded to evil in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Dear young people, pray with me for peace in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: It is necessary to broaden the opportunities for a stronger presence of women in the church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Dear young people, listen within: Christ is knocking at the door of your heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Oh, how I would like a poor Church, and for the poor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The emptier a person's heart is, the more he or she needs to buy, own, and consume."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I like to speak with the youth, and I like to hear the youth. They always put me in difficulty. They tell me things that I haven't thought of, or that I've partly thought of. The restless youth, the creative youth, I like them!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: From Rome, now the nuncio is on the border where [Ukrainians] are fighting, helping soldiers and the wounded. The Church of Rome has sent so much help there. It's always peace, agreements. We must respect the Minsk accords and so on. This is the entirety. But, don't get scared by that phrase. And this is a lesson that a piece of news must be interpreted with the hermeneutic of everything and not just a part."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Do not feel discouraged by all the challenges and hardships you might face. I ask you not to forget that, like those who came here before you, you bring many gifts to this new nation of yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us not be satisfied with a mediocre life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: A friendship with a woman is not a sin. (It's) a friendship. A romantic relationship with a woman who is not your wife, that is a sin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I don't like to speak of Islamic violence, because every day, when I browse the newspapers, I see violence, here in Italy... this one who has murdered his girlfriend, another who has murdered the mother-in-law... and these are baptized Catholics! There are violent Catholics!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: When we are generous in welcoming people and sharing something with them-some food, a place in our homes, our time-not only do we no longer remain poor: we are enriched."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If we live according to the law \"an eye for an eye...,\" we will never escape from the spiral of evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Terrorism grows when there are no other options, and when the center of the global economy is the god of money and not the person - men and women - this is already the first terrorism!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I think that even the Mexican society is a victim of all of this, of these crimes of \"cleaning\" people, of discarding people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Peace is always possible but we have to seek it. Let us pray for peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We need to include the excluded and preach peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The people that does not care for its children or grandparents is a people that has not future. Because it doesn't have the strength or the memory to go forward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Not to share one\u2019s goods with the poor is to rob them and to deprive them of life. It is not our goods that we possess, but theirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I asked [Guadalupe] for the world, for peace, so many things. I asked forgiveness, I asked that the Church grows healthy, I asked for the Mexican people. And another thing I asked a lot for: that priests be true priests, and sisters true sisters, and bishops true bishops. As the Lord wants."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil. In certain cases, as in this one, or in the one I mentioned of Blessed Paul VI, it was clear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: In this case [the Charlemagne Prize], I don't say (I was) forced, but convinced by the holy and theological headstrongness of Cardinal [Walter] Kasper, because he was chosen, elected by Aachen to convince me. And I said yes, but in the Vatican. And I said I offer it for Europe, as a co-decoration for Europe, a prize so that Europe may do what I desired at Strasburg; that it may no longer be \"grandmother Europe\" but \"mother Europe.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The imposition of anomalous models and lifestyles are alien to people's identity and, in the end, are irresponsible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Jesus spoke in such a way that the people loved the things of God. That\u2019s why they followed him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: All men and women of good will are bound by the task of pursuing peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: They are our future, and we must have a dialogue. This dialogue between the past and the future is important. Because of this I underline so much the relationship between the youth and grandparents. They must speak with."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I know married Catholics in a second union who go to church, who go to church once or twice a year and say I want communion, as if joining in Communion were an award. It's a work towards integration, all doors are open, but we cannot say, 'from here on they can have communion.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I would love to be a well-educated black, because I believe they do have an actual advantage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I have neither silver nor gold, but I bring with me the most precious thing given to me: Jesus Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Many people who are forced into emigration suffer and often die tragically; many of their rights are violated, they are obliged to separate from their families and, unfortunately, continue to be subjected to racist attitudes and xenophobia."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The key phrase used by the synod, which I'll take up again, is 'integrate' in the life of the Church the wounded families, remarried families, etc. But of this one mustn't forget the children in the middle. They are the first victims, both in the wounds, and in the conditions of poverty, of work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I already knew about this friendship between St. John Paul II and this philosopher [Ana Teresa Tymieniecka] when I was in Buenos Aires. It was known. Also her books are known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Our relationship with the followers of Islam has taken on great importance, since they are now significantly present in many traditionally Christian countries, where they can freely worship and become fully a part of society. We must never forget that they \"profess to hold the faith of Abraham, and together with us they adore the one, merciful God, who will judge humanity on the last day\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I'm overwhelmed by shame that the people who had the responsibility to take care of the tender ones violated that trust and caused them great pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: How many young people, how many young people of our Europe, whom we have left empty of ideals, who do not have work... they take drugs, alcohol, or go there to enlist in fundamentalist groups."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not say is unique, but it has a force, a culture, a history that cannot be wasted, and we must do everything so that the European Union has the strength and also the inspiration to make it go forward. That's what I think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: To use a telling phrase of the Reverend Martin Luther King, we can say that we have defaulted on a promissory note and now is the time to honor it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Children are victims of a social problem that wounds the family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Above all, you ask if the God of Christians forgives those who do not believe and who do not seek faith. Given the premise, and this is fundamental, that the mercy of God is limitless for those who turn to him with a sincere and contrite heart, the issue for the unbeliever lies in obeying his or her conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The popes have spoken of human ecology, closely linked to environmental ecology. We are living in a time of crisis: we see this in the environment, but above all we see this in mankind Man is not in charge today, money is in charge, money rules. God our Father did not give the task of caring for the earth to money, but to us, to men and women: we have this task! Instead, men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the 'culture of waste.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Faith is not a light which scatters all our darkness, but a lamp which guides our steps in the night and suffices for the journey. To those who suffer, God does not provide arguments which explain everything; rather, his response is that of an accompanying presence, a history of goodness which touches every story of suffering and opens up a ray of light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The two key words for the European Union are creativity and fruitfulness. That's the challenge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Putin has big plans for Russia...Hats off to the Russians. I think I would just get along very well with Vladimir Putin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Jesus Christ conferred power upon Peter, but what sort of power was it? Jesus\u2019 three questions to Peter about love are followed by three commands: feed my lambs, feed my sheep. Let us never forget that authentic power is service, and that the Pope too, when exercising power, must enter ever more fully into that service which has its radiant culmination on the Cross."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Families will always have their trials; be living examples of love, forgiveness, and care"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I invite all Christians, everywhere, at this very moment, to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ, or at least an openness to letting him encounter them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: In these cases, where there is an unjust aggression, I can only say that it is licit to stop the unjust aggressor.  I emphasize the word: \"stop\". I'm not saying drop bombs, make war, but stop the aggressor. The means used to stop him would have to be evaluated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We who are Christians, members of God\u2019s family, are called to go out to the needy and to serve them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: It makes no difference whether they be Catholics, Orthodox, Copts or Protestants. They are Christians! Their blood is one and the same. Their blood confesses Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: ...because with us what is highest must be at the service of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: But you too, help one another: help one another always. One another. In this way, by helping one another, we will do some good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: \"God is love\". His is not a sentimental, emotional kind of love but the love of the Father who is the origin of all life, the love of the Son who dies on the Cross and is raised, the love of the Spirit who renews human beings and the world. Thinking that God is love does us so much good, because it teaches us to love, to give ourselves to others as Jesus gave himself to us and walks with us. Jesus walks beside us on the road through life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: So let us ask ourselves this evening, in adoring Christ who is really present in the Eucharist: do I let myself be transformed by him? Do I let the Lord who gives himself to me, guide me to going out ever more from my little enclosure, in order to give, to share, to love him and others? Brothers and sisters, following, communion, sharing. Let us pray that participation in the Eucharist may always be an incentive: to follow the Lord every day, to be instruments of communion and to share what we are with him and with our neighbour. Our life will then be truly fruitful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If in so many parts of the world there are children who have nothing to eat, that's not news, it seems normal. It cannot be this way!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We need to proclaim the Gospel on every street corner, preaching the good news of the kingdom and healing, even with our preaching, every kind of disease and wound."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Violence and war lead only to death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Today, we need a Church capable of walking at people's side, of doing more than simply listening to them; a Church which accompanies them on their journey."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Gospel calls individual Christians to live lives of honesty, integrity and concern for the common good.. to create circles of integrity.., networks of solidarity which can expand to embrace and transform society by their prophetic witness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: You can't provoke, you can't insult the faith of others, you can't make fun of faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the devil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Today is the World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation. Let us work and pray."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Why are deadly weapons being sold to those who plan to inflict untold suffering on individuals and society? Sadly, the answer, as we all know, is simply for money: money that is drenched in blood, often innocent blood. In the face of this shameful and culpable silence, it is our duty to confront the problem and to stop the arms trade."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: God never closes off horizons; He is never unconcerned about the lives and sufferings of His children. God never allows Himself to be outdone in generosity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: In a word: charity cannot be neutral, antiseptic, indifferent, lukewarm or impartial! Charity is infectious, it excites, it risks and it engages! For true charity is always unmerited, unconditional and gratuitous!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: When it comes to the care of our common home, we are living at a critical moment of history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Cars are necessary, but take a more humble one. Think of how many children die of hunger and dedicate the savings to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Legislative activity is always best based on care for the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Who am I to judge a gay person?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We need to see each child as a gift to be welcomed, cherished, and protected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We need to 'go out,' then, in order to experience our own anointing, its power and its redemptive efficacy: to the 'outskirts' where there is suffering, bloodshed, blindness that longs for sight, and prisoners in thrall to many evil masters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Every people deserves to conserve its identity without being ideologically colonised."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Today let us all ask ourselves whether we are afraid of what God might ask, or of what he does ask.... Do I truly let God into my life? How do I answer him?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Children have a right to grow up in a family with a father and a mother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: There are the saints of every day, the 'hidden' saints, a sort of 'middle class of holiness'... to which we can all belong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Small yet strong in the love of God, like Saint Francis of Assisi, all of us, as Christians, are called to watch over \n and protect the fragile world in which we live, and all its peoples."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Be men and women with others and for others: true champions at the service of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Pope appeals for disinterested solidarity and for a return to person-centred ethics in the world of finance and economics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Church encourages those in power to be truly at the service of the common good of their peoples. She urges financial leaders to take account of ethics and solidarity. And why should they not turn to God to draw inspiration from his designs? In this way, a new political and economic mindset would arise that would help to transform the absolute dichotomy between the economic and social spheres into a healthy symbiosis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Where the elderly are not honored, there is no future for the young."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Whenever we encounter another person in love, we learn something new about God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Profound peace, spiritual consolation, love of God and love of all things in God - this is the sign that you are on this right path."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We could also say that there is only one real kind of poverty: not living as children of God and brothers and sisters of Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: My people are poor and I am one of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Today, we need a Church capable of walking at people's side, of doing more than simply listening to them.... At times we lose people because they don't understand what we are saying, because we have forgotten the language of simplicity and import an intellectualism foreign to our people.... We cannot keep ourselves shut up in parishes, in our communities, when so many people are waiting for the Gospel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Christian hope is not a ghost and it does not deceive. It is a theological virtue and therefore, ultimately, a gift from God that cannot be reduced to optimism, which is only human. God does not mislead hope; God cannot deny himself. God is all promise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: War is not to be waged in the name of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We have so much information but maybe we don\u2019t know what to do with that information. So we run the risk of becoming museums of young people who have everything but not knowing what to do with it. We don\u2019t need young museums but we do need holy young people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: You may be poor yourselves in material ways, but you have an abundance of gifts to offer when you offer Christ and the community of his Church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Koran is a book of peace, it is a prophetic book of peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: You just can\u2019t say that, just as you can\u2019t say that all Christians are fundamentalists. We have our share of them (fundamentalists). All religions have these little groups."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: May Christ the Savior give peace to Nigeria, where more blood is being shed and too many people are unjustly deprived of their possessions, held as hostages or killed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We ask for peace and freedom for the many men and women subject to old and new forms of enslavement on the part of criminal individuals and groups."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I think both freedom of religion and freedom of expression are both fundamental human rights, everyone has not only the freedom and the right but the obligation to say what Pope Francis thinks for the common good... we have the right to have this freedom openly without offending."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: May the power of Christ, which brings freedom and service, be felt in so many hearts afflicted by war, persecution and slavery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I don't know if human activity is the only cause, but mostly, in great part, it is man who has slapped nature in the face, we have in a sense taken over nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I don\u2019t know if it is all (man\u2019s fault) but the majority is, for the most part, it is man who continuously slaps down nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: There can be no renewal of our relationship with nature without a renewal of humanity itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The climate is a common good, belonging to all and meant for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We now live in a culture of the temporary, in which more and more people are simply giving up on marriage as a public commitment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: A person who is not convinced, enthusiastic, certain and in love, will convince nobody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I think we too are the people who, on the one hand, want to listen to Jesus, but on the other hand, at times, like to find a stick to beat others with, to condemn others. And Jesus has this message for us: mercy. I think - and I say it with humility - that this is the Lord's most powerful message: mercy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: How beautiful it is to see that young people are 'street preachers,' joyfully bringing Jesus to every street, every town square and every corner of the earth!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Without prolonged moments of adoration, of prayerful encounter with the word, of sincere conversation with the Lord, our work easily becomes meaningless; we lose energy as a result of weariness and difficulties, and our fervor dies out. The Church urgently needs the deep breath of prayer, and to my great joy groups devoted to prayer and intercession, the prayerful reading of God's word and the perpetual adoration of the Eucharist are growing at every level of ecclesial life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: In some countries, if you carry the Gospel, you can go to jail. You can't carry a cross, because you'll have to pay a fine. But still, the heart rejoices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: There is a danger that threatens everyone in the church, all of us. The danger of worldliness. It leads us to vanity, arrogance and pride."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Where there is no work, there is no dignity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Today, the news is scandals, that is news, but the many children who don\u2019t have food - that\u2019s not news. This is grave. We can\u2019t rest easy while things are this way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I then greet and cordially thank you all, dear friends belonging to other religious traditions; first of all the Muslims, who worship the one God, living and merciful, and call upon Him in prayer, and all of you. I really appreciate your presence: in it I see a tangible sign of the will to grow in mutual esteem and cooperation for the common good of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: In our ecclesiastical region there are priests who don't baptize the children of single mothers because they weren't conceived in the sanctity of marriage. These are today's hypocrites. Those who clericalize the church. Those who separate the people of God from salvation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Unrestrained liberalism only makes the strong stronger and the weak weaker and excludes the most excluded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I like it when someone tells me: 'I don't agree.' This is a true collaborator. When they say 'Oh, how great, how great, how great,' that's not useful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: More and more people work on Sundays as a consequence of the competitiveness imposed by a consumer society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The root of this possibility of doing good - that we all have - is in creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Roman Curia has its defects, but it seems to me that people often overemphasize its defects and talk too little about the health of the many religious and laypeople who work there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Those who today always look for disciplinarian solutions, those who long for an exaggerated doctrinal 'security,' those who stubbornly try to recover a past that no longer exists - they have a static and inward-directed view of things. In this way, faith becomes an ideology among other ideologies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle\u2019s wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance\u2026 and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: You might say, 'Can't we have a more human Christianity, without the cross, without Jesus, without stripping ourselves?' In this way we'd become pastry-shop Christians, like a pretty cake and nice sweet things. Pretty, but not true Christians."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We also try to reach out to people who are far away, via digital means, the web and brief messaging."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Given - and this is the fundamental thing - that God's mercy has no limits, if He is approached with a sincere and repentant heart, the question for those who do not believe in God is to abide by their own conscience. There is sin, also for those who have no faith, in going against one's conscience. Listening to it and abiding by it means making up one's mind about what is good and evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Creation is not a property, which we can rule over at will; or, even less, is the property of only a few: Creation is a gift, it is a wonderful gift that God has given us, so that we care for it and we use it for the benefit of all, always with great respect and gratitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Today in many places we hear a call for greater security. But until exclusion and inequality in society and between peoples is reversed, it will be impossible to eliminate violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Mere administration can no longer be enough. Throughout the world, let us be permanently in a state of mission."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: God's word is unpredictable in its power... The Church has to accept this unruly freedom of the word, which accomplishes what it wills in ways that surpass our calculations and ways of thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: For just as some people want a purely spiritual Christ, without flesh and without the cross, they also want their interpersonal relationships provided by sophisticated equipment, by screens and systems which can be turned on and off on command. Meanwhile, the Gospel tells us constantly to run the risk of a face-to-face encounter with others, with their physical presence which challenges us, with their pain and their pleas, with their joy which infects us in our close and continuous interaction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I feel so low that instead of picking myself up I have to cut others down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I see clearly that the thing the church needs most today is the ability to heal wounds and to warm the hearts of the faithful; it needs nearness, proximity. I see the church as a field hospital after battle... The church sometimes has locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules. The most important thing is the first proclamation: Jesus Christ has saved you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Living together is an art. It's a patient art, it's a beautiful art, it's fascinating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We are far from the so called 'end of history,' since the conditions for a sustainable and peaceful development have not yet been adequately articulated and realized."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: None of us can think we are exempt from concerns for the poor and for social justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: People in every nation enhance the social dimension of their lives by acting as committed and responsible citizens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Because if we destroy Creation, Creation will destroy us! Never forget this!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Mary is more important than the apostles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: As long as the problems of the poor are not radically resolved by rejecting the absolute autonomy of markets and financial speculation and by attacking the structural causes of inequality, no solution will be found for the world\u2019s problems or, for that matter, to any problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I cannot live without people. I need to live my life with others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Do not be afraid of confession!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Things from the heart don't have an explanation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Be the first to seek to bring good, do not grow accustomed to evil, but defeat it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Our world needs good and strong families."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Proceed calmly in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We can inspire others through witness so that one grows together in communicating. BUt the worst thing of all is religious proselytism, which paralyses: 'I am talking with you in order to persuade you.' No. Each person dialogues, starting with his and her own identity. The church grows by attracting, not proselytizing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Laboratories are useful, but reflection for us must always start from experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: These two criteria are like the pillars of true love: deeds, and the gift of self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We cannot live as Christians separate from the rock who is Christ. He gives us strength and stability, but also joy and serenity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us open the doors to the Spirit, let ourselves be guided by him, and allow God's constant help to make us new men and women, inspired by the love of God which the Holy Spirit bestows on us! How beautiful it would be if each of you, every evening, could say: Today at school, at home, at work, guided by God, I showed a sign of love towards one of my friends, my parents, an older person! How beautiful!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If we start without confidence, we have already lost half the battle and we bury our talents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: And does not true freedom mean choosing ways in this world that lead to the good of all and are guided by love?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us go back to the Lord. The Lord never tires of forgiving: never! It is we who tire of asking his forgiveness. Let us ask for the grace not to tire of asking forgiveness, because he never tires of forgiving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Become the Word in body as well as spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The life of a family is filled with beautiful moments: rest, meals together, walks in the park or the countryside, visits to grandparents or to a sick person... But if love is missing, joy is missing, nothing is fun. Jesus gives always gives us that love: he is its endless source. In the sacrament he gives us his word and he gives us the bread of life, so that our joy may be complete."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Be dispensers of God's grace, not controllers. Don't be the Holy Spirit's customs agents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We have begun a throw away culture. This tendency is seen on the level of individuals and whole societies; and it is being promoted! In circumstances like these, solidarity, which is the treasure of the poor, is often considered counterproductive, opposed to the logic of finance and the economy. While the income of a minority is increasing exponentially, that of the majority is crumbling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: ...men and women are sacrificed to the idols of profit and consumption: it is the \"culture of waste.\" If you break a computer it is a tragedy, but poverty, the needs, the dramas of so many people end up becoming the norm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: In your school you take part in various activities that habituate you not to shut yourselves in on yourselves or in your small world, but to be open to others, especially to the poorest and neediest, to work to improve the world in which we live. Be men and women with others and for others, real champions in the service of others. To be magnanimous with interior liberty and a spirit of service, spiritual formation is necessary. Dear children, dear youths, love Jesus Christ ever more!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: People have to struggle to live and, frequently, to live in an undignified way. One cause of this situation, in my opinion, is in the our relationship with money, and our acceptance of its power over ourselves and our society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The worldwide financial and economic crisis seems to highlight their distortions and above all the gravely deficient human perspective, which reduces man to one of his needs alone, namely, consumption. Worse yet, human beings themselves are nowadays considered as consumer goods which can be used and thrown away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: In a world like this, media can help us to feel closer to one another, creating a sense of unity of the human family which can in turn inspire solidarity and serious efforts to ensure a more dignified life for all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Work ends up dehumanizing people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I dream of a church that is a mother and shepherdess."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Each of us has a vision of good and of evil. We have to encourage people to move towards what they think is Good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Proselytism is solemn nonsense, it makes no sense. We need to get to know each other, listen to each other and improve our knowledge of the world around us. Sometimes after a meeting I want to arrange another one because new ideas are born and I discover new needs. This is important: to get to know people, listen, expand the circle of ideas. The world is crisscrossed by roads that come closer together and move apart, but the important thing is that they lead towards the Good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: It also happens to me that when I meet a clericalist, I suddenly become anti-clerical. Clericalism should not have anything to do with Christianity. St. Paul, who was the first to speak to the Gentiles, the pagans, to believers in other religions, was the first to teach us that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Do good: we will meet one another there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Pay attention, my young friends: to go against the current; this is good for the heart, but we need courage to swim against the tide. ... We Christians were not chosen by the Lord for little things; push onwards toward the highest principles.  Stake your lives on noble ideals, my dear young people!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: While all too many people live in dire poverty, others are caught up in materialism and lifestyles which are destructive of family life and the most basic demands of Christian morality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Be present to those who, living in the midst of a society burdened by poverty and corruption, are broken in spirit, tempted to give up, to leave school and to live on the streets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Sometimes we are tempted to be that kind of Christian who keeps the Lord\u2019s wounds at arm\u2019s length. Yet Jesus wants us to touch human misery, to touch the suffering flesh of others. He hopes that we will stop looking for those personal or communal niches which shelter us from the maelstrom of human misfortune and instead enter into the reality of other people\u2019s lives and know the power of tenderness. Whenever we do so, our lives become wonderfully complicated and we experience intensely what it is to be a people, to be part of a people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: All revealed truths derive from the same divine source and are to be believed with the same faith, yet some of them are more important for giving direct expression to the heart of the Gospel. In this basic core, what shines forth is the beauty of the saving love of God made manifest in Jesus Christ who died and rose from the dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Marriage now tends to be viewed as a form of mere emotional satisfaction that can be constructed in any way or modified at will. But the indispensible contribution of marriage to society transcends the feelings and momentary needs of the couple."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If anyone feels offended by my words, I would respond that I speak them with affection and with the best of intentions, quite apart from any personal interest or political ideology. My words are not those of a foe or an opponent. I am interested only in helping those who are in thrall to an individualistic, indifferent and self-centred mentality to be freed from those unworthy chains and to attain a way of living and thinking which is more humane, noble and fruitful, and which will bring dignity to their presence on this earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us not forget this word: God never ever tires of forgiving us!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The time has come for the Church to take up the joyful call to mercy once more. It is time to return to the basics and to bear the weaknesses and struggles of our brothers and sisters. Mercy is the force that reawakens us to new life and instils in us the courage to look to the future with hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us always pray for one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Before God and his people I express my sorrow for the sins and grave crimes of clerical sexual abuse committed against you. And I humbly ask forgiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: There is another form of poverty! It is the spiritual poverty of our time, which afflicts the so-called richer countries particularly seriously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: A delicate balance is required to combat violence perpetrated in the name of a religion, an ideology or an economic system, while also safeguarding religious freedom, intellectual freedom and individual freedoms. But there is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The fight against poverty and hunger must be fought constantly and on many fronts, especially in its causes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Fundamental relationships are being called into question, as is the very basis of marriage and the family. I can only reiterate the importance and, above all, the richness and the beauty of family life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Among us, who is above must be in service of the others. This doesn't mean we have to wash each other's feet every day, but we must help one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Worshipping is stripping ourselves of our idols, even the most hidden ones, and choosing the Lord as the centre, as the highway of our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If someone is gay and is searching for the Lord and has good will, then who am I to judge him?... No one should marginalize these people for this, they must be integrated into society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: My choices, including those related to the day-to-day aspects of life, like the use of a modest car, are related to a spiritual discernment that responds to a need that arises from looking at things, at people and from reading the signs of the times. Discernment in the Lord guides me in my way of governing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: A Church without women is like the college of the Apostles without Mary... Our Lady is more important than the Apostles! She is more important! The Church is feminine. She is Church, she is bride, she is mother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Jesuits make a vow of obedience to the Pope. But if the Pope is a Jesuit, perhaps he has to make a vow of obedience to the General of the Jesuits! I don\u2019t know how to resolve this \u2026 I feel a Jesuit in my spirituality; in the spirituality of the Exercises, the spirituality deep in my heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: You tell me: Can you live crushed under the weight of the present? Without a memory of the past and without the desire to look ahead to the future by building something, a future, a family? Can you go on like this? This, to me, is the most urgent problem that the Church is facing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If the Christian is a restorationist, a legalist, if he wants everything clear and safe, then he will find nothing. Tradition and memory of the past must help us to have the courage to open up new areas to God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I want to remind priests that the confessional must not be a torture chamber but rather an encounter with the Lord\u2019s mercy which spurs us on to do our best. A small step, in the midst of great human limitations, can be more pleasing to God than a life which appears outwardly in order but moves through the day without confronting great difficulties. Everyone needs to be touched by the comfort and attraction of God\u2019s saving love, which is mysteriously at work in each person, above and beyond their faults and failings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I address a strong appeal from my heart that the dignity and safety of the worker always be protected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Total openness to serving others is our hallmark, it alone is our title of honour!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We need to provide an education which teaches crit\u00adical thinking and encourages the development of mature moral values."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: An evangelizing community gets involved in word and deed in people\u2019s daily lives; it bridges distances, it is willing to abase itself if necessary, and it embraces human life, touching the suffering flesh of Christ in others"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: From the way children are treated society can be judged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The first setting in which faith enlightens the human city is the family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We are called to be 'ambassadors for Christ' (2 Cor 5:20). Ours is a ministry of reconciliation ... To be an ambassador for Christ means above all to invite everyone to a renewed personal encounter with the Lord Jesus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We hear many offers from the world around us; but let us take up God's offer instead: his is a caress of love. For God, we are not numbers, we are important, indeed we are the most important thing to him; even if we are sinners, we are what is closest to his heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Every expression of true beauty can be acknowledged as a path leading to an encounter with the Lord Jesus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The earth, our home, is beginning to look more and more like an immense pile of filth. In many parts of the planet, the elderly lament that once beautiful landscapes are now covered with rubbish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The blood of our Christian brothers and sisters is a testimony which cries out to be heard by everyone who can still distinguish between good and evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let us pray for peace, and let us bring it about, starting in our own homes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: To protect creation, to protect every man and every woman, to look upon them with tenderness and love is to open up a horizon of hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: As Christians, we have an additional reason to love and serve the poor; for in them we see the face and the flesh of Christ, who made himself poor so to enrich us with his poverty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Church is the home that accepts everyone and refuses no one ... the greater the sin, the greater the love that the Church should show towards those who convert."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: To the criminals and all their accomplices, I, today, humbly and as a brother, repeat: convert yourselves to love and justice. It is possible to return to honesty. The tears of the mothers of Naples are asking this of you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Although it is a symbol of life, the female body is unfortunately not rarely attacked and disfigured, even by those who should be its protector and life companion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Life gradually becomes a surrender to situations conditioned by technology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Money at the service of life can be managed in the right way by cooperatives, on condition that it is a real cooperative where capital does not have command over men but men over capital."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Our life is made up of time, and time is a gift from God, so it is important that it be used in good and fruitful actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The pace of consumption, waste and environmental change has so stretched the planet's capacity that our contemporary lifestyle, unsustainable as it is, can only precipitate catastrophes, such as those which even now periodically occur in different areas of the world ... we need to reflect on our accountability before those who will have to endure the dire consequences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Let the risen Jesus enter your life, welcome him as a friend, with trust: he is life! If up till now you have kept him at a distance, step forward. He will receive you with open arms. If you have been indifferent, take a risk: you won\u2019t be disappointed. If following him seems difficult, don\u2019t be afraid, trust him, be confident that he is close to you, he is with you and he will give you the peace you are looking for and the strength to live as he would have you do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If we, each doing our own part, if we do good to others, if we meet there, doing good, and we go slowly, gently, little by little, we will make that culture of encounter: we need that so much. We must meet one another doing good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If God, in the Christmas mystery, reveals himself not as One who remains on high and dominates the universe, but as the One who bends down, descends to the little and poor earth, it means that, to be like him, we should not put ourselves above others, but indeed lower ourselves, place ourselves at the service of others, become small with the small and poor with the poor. It is regrettable to see a Christian who does not want to lower himself, who does not want to serve. A Christian who struts about is ugly: this is not Christian, it is pagan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We cannot sleep peacefully while babies are dying of hunger and the elderly are without medical assistance"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Cross of Christ bears the suffering and the sin of mankind, including our own. Jesus accepts all this with open arms, bearing on His shoulders our crosses and saying to us: 'Have courage! You do not carry your cross alone! I carry it with you. I have overcome death and I have come to give you hope, to give you life' (John 3:16)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Poverty is the center of the Gospel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The goods of the earth are meant for everyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The first reform must be the attitude. The ministers of the Gospel must be people who can warm the hearts of the people, who walk through the dark night with them, who know how to dialogue and to descend themselves into their people's night, into the darkness, but without getting lost. The people of God want pastors, not clergy acting like bureaucrats or government officials."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: A great challenge: stop ruining the garden which God has entrusted to us so that all may enjoy it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The teachings of the Gospel have direct consequences for our way of thinking, feeling and living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: This is ideological colonization. They colonize people with ideas that try to change mentalities or structures, but this is not new. This was done by the dictatorships of the last century."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Who are we, as we stand before the child Jesus? Who are we, standing as we stand before today's children? Are we like Mary and Joseph, who welcomed Jesus and cared for him with the love of a father and a mother? Or are we like Herod, who wanted to eliminate him? Are we like the shepherds, who went in haste to kneel before him in worship and offer him their humble gifts? Or are we indifferent?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: But please know, Jesus never lets you down. Please know that the love and tenderness of Mother Mary never lets you down. And holding on to her mantle and with the power that comes from Jesus love on the cross, let us move forward, always forward, and walk together as brothers and sisters in the Lord forward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Certain realities of life we only see through eyes cleansed by our tears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Each encounter with Jesus changes our life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Church of Rome, the Pope has always said, 'Seek peace.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another. That's what the Mafia does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Abortion is not a theological problem, it is a human problem, it is a medical problem. You kill one person to save another, in the best case scenario. Or to live comfortably, no? It's against the Hippocratic oaths doctors must take."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: [Abortion] is an evil in and of itself, but it is not a religious evil in the beginning, no, it's a human evil. Then obviously, as with every human evil, each killing is condemned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like [prizes or honors]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Not so much anymore but some years ago in my homeland there was a habit, something called 'casamiento de apuro,' a marriage in haste because the baby is coming and to cover socially the honor of the family. There, they weren't free and it happened many times this marriage is null. As a bishop I forbade my priests to do this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Another very interesting chapter is the education of children: the victims of problems of the family are the children. The children. Even of problems that neither husband nor wife have a say in. For example, the needs of a job. When the dad doesn't have free time to speak to his children, when the mother doesn't have time to speak with her children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: A man who does not know how to have a relationship of friendship with a woman - I'm not talking about misogynists, who are sick - well, he's a man who is missing something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: In my own experience, including when I ask for advice, I would ask a collaborator, a friend, I also like to hear the opinion of a woman because they have such wealth. They look at things in a different way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Every Catholic parliamentarian must vote according their well-formed conscience. I would say just this. I believe it is sufficient because - I say well-formed because it is not the conscience of 'what seems to me.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I would like to say something just about the Mexican people. It is a population that has a wealth, such great wealth, a people that surprises."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Today, in Mexico, they speak 65 languages, counting the indigenous languages, 65. It is a people of great faith. They have also suffered religious persecution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: There are martyrs [between Mexican people], now I will canonize two. It is a population that you can't explain, you can't explain it because the word 'people' is not a logical category, it's a mythical category."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Mexican people, you cannot explain this wealth, this history, this joy, the capacity to celebrate amid these tragedies that you have asked about. I can say another thing, that this unity, that this people has managed not to fail, not to end with so many wars, things, things that are happening now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I invite [journalists] to seriously study the facts of Guadalupe. The Madonna is there. I cannot find another explanation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: It would be nice if you as journalists - there are some books that explain the painting [ of Guadalupe] what it is like, the significance, and that is how you can understand better this great and beautiful people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I'd say I dream in Esperanto. Sometimes I remember some dreams in another language, but dreaming in languages no, but figures yes, my psychology is this way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I tell priests to flee from clericalism because clericalism distances people. May they flee from clericalism and I add: it's a plague in the Church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in U.S, which was largely built by such families."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Remembrance saves a people's soul from whatever or whoever would attempt to dominate it or use it for their interests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Religious freedom certainly means the right to worship God, individually and in community, as our consciences dictate. But religious liberty, by its nature, transcends places of worship and the private sphere of individuals and families."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If globalization seeks to bring all of us together, but to do so respecting each person, each individual person's peculiarity, that globalization is good and makes us good and grow and leads to peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If globalization is a sphere, where each point is equidistant from the centre, then it isn't good because it annuls each of us. But if globalization joins us as a polyhedron where we're all together but conserves the dignity of each ... that's good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Families have a citizenship which is divine. The identity card they have is given to them by God. So that within the heart of the family, truth, goodness and beauty may truly grow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I don't live in the papal residence. I live in a simple apartment behind the Vatican gas station."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: As stewards of God's creation, we are called to make the earth a beautiful garden for the human family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: It grieves me when I see a priest or a nun with the latest model car."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: [Joseph Ratzinger] is a man who as the prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith had everything in his hands. He conducted all the investigations, and went on, went on, went on, until he couldn't go any further in the execution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: In the Pro-Eligendo Pontefice Mass, despite knowing that [ Joseph Ratzinger] was a candidate [to become Pope], he wasn't stupid, he didn't care to \"make-up\" his answer, he said exactly the same thing [that we needed to clean up the dirt of the Church]. He was the brave one who helped so many open this door. So, I want to remember him because sometimes we forget about this hidden works that were the foundations for \"taking the lid off the pot.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I say only that this man [Donald Trump] is not Christian if he has said things like that [about wall]. We must see if he said things in that way and in this I give the benefit of the doubt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: [Orthodox] are brothers, but I must respect them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I will be praying with my best wishes that the Orthodox move ahead because they are brothers and their bishops are bishops like us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: For example, this, what I said about the bishops who move pedophile priests, the best thing they can do is resign. This isn't a dogmatic thing, but this is what I think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: [Sviatoslav] Schevchuk, in the dogmatic part declares himself to be a son of the Church and in communion with the bishop of Rome and the Church. He speaks of the Pope and his closeness of the Pope and of himself, his faith, and also of the Orthodox people there. The dogmatic part, there's no difficulty. He's Orthodox in the good sense of the word, that is in Catholic doctrine, no."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Patriarch Kirill. I would prefer - because if I say one thing, I have to say another and another and another. I would prefer that what we spoke about, us, alone, will remain only what we said in public."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: It is vital that government leaders and financial leaders take heed and broaden their horizons, working to ensure that all citizens have dignified work, education, and healthcare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Education, work, and access to health care for all are key elements for development and the just distribution of goods, for the attainment of social justice, for membership in society, and for free and responsible participation in political life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I try to lead a life where I don't have to ask God for forgiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Every conflict is emblematic of the throwaway culture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Accompanying the people in their growth through good times and also through their difficulties, accompanying people in their joy and in their bad moments, in their difficulties when there is no work, ill health and the challenge of the Church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Avoiding pregnancy is not an absolute evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I had the habit of not accepting prizes or honors, but always, not out of humility, but because I don't like them. Maybe it's a little crazy, but it's good to have it, but I just don't like them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I read little, I just glance through one newspaper. Just 15 minutes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I like this idea of the re-foundation of the European Union, maybe it can be done, because Europe - I do not say is unique, but it has a force, a culture, a history that cannot be wasted, and we must do everything so that the European Union has the strength and also the inspiration to make it go forward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Preparation for marriage is very important. It's very, very important because I believe it is something that in the Church, in common pastoral ministry, at least in my country, in South America, the Church it has not valued much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Integrating in the Church doesn't mean receiving communion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I like to say that women are those who form life in their wombs - and this is a comparison I make - they have this charism of giving you things you can build with."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I do not believe, that it is true or right that Islam is terrorist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Terrorism is everywhere. You think of the tribal terrorism of some African countries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: It is difficult to judge the past by the criteria of the present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do it, you can ask for a dispensation, you leave, and everything is OK. On the other hand, to make a sacrament (marriage), which is for your whole life, three to four conferences...Preparation for marriage is very important. It's very, very important because I believe it is something that in the Church, in common pastoral ministry, at least in my country, in South America, the Church has not valued much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: [Mexican people] have a culture, a culture that goes back millennia."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I believe in the old warrior's credo that \"to the victor go the spoils.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Church's challenge is staying close to the people, close to the people of the United States, not being a detached Church from the people but close to them, close, close, and this is something that the Church in the United States has understood and understood well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If a person has done wrong, is conscious of what he has done and does not say sorry, I ask God to take him into account. I forgive him, but he does not receive that forgiveness, he is closed to forgiveness. We must forgive, because we were all forgiven. It is another thing to receive that forgiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If priest is closed to forgiveness, he won't receive it, because he locked the door from the inside. And what remains is to pray for the Lord to open that door. To forgive you must be willing. But not everyone can receive or know how to receive it, or are just not willing to receive it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I don't know how things stand in the thinking of the Italian parliament. The Pope doesn't get mixed up in Italian politics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Don't confuse the evil of avoiding pregnancy by itself, with abortion. Abortion is not a theological problem, it is a human problem, it is a medical problem. You kill one person to save another, in the best case scenario."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Imagine, to become a priest there are eight years of study and preparation, and then if after a while you can't do it, you can ask for a dispensation, you leave, and everything is OK."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Pope is a man. The Pope needs the input of women, too. And the Pope, too, has a heart that can have a healthy, holy friendship with a woman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I love it when people can actually engage with the materials of the sacrament in advance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I made reference continuously to the killings, the death, the life taken by all of these narcotrafficking gangs and human smugglers. I spoke of this problem as one of the wounds that Mexico suffers. It's a great pain that I'm taking, because this nation [Mexicans] doesn't deserve a drama like this one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I allow myself to honor the man who fought in moments when he had no strength to impose himself, until he managed to impose himself. [Joseph] Ratzinger. Cardinal Ratzinger deserves applause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: 10 days before the death of St. John Paul II, in that Via Crucis of Holy Friday, Joseph Ratzinger said to the whole Church that it needed to clean up the dirt of the Church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Thank God [Donald Trump] said I was a politician because Aristotle defined the human person as 'animal politicus.' At least I am a human person. As to whether I am a pawn, well, maybe, I don't know. I'll leave that up to your judgment and that of the people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: At the first meeting I had with the (Italian) bishops in May 2013, one of the three things I said was: with the Italian government you're on your own. Because the pope is for everybody and he can't insert himself in the specific internal politics of a country. This is not the role of the pope, right?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: American Catholics are committed to building a society which is truly tolerant and inclusive, to safeguarding the rights of individuals and communities, and to rejecting every form of unjust discrimination. With countless other people of good will, they are likewise concerned that efforts to build a just and wisely ordered society respect their deepest concerns and their right to religious liberty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I don't know if I had success or not. But I am afraid of myself. Why am I afraid of myself? I always feel - I don't know - weak in the sense of not having power and also power is a fleeting thing, here today, gone tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: It's important if you can do good with power. And Jesus defined power, true power is to serve, to do service, to do the most humble services, and I must still make progress on this path of service because I feel that I don't do everything I should do. That's the sense I have of power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The economic part is the one that came out first because there were some problems about which the press spoke a lot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I had an experience of knowing the Polish people when I was a child, and where my father worked many Poles came to work after the war. They were good people, and this has stayed in my heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I don't like it when I hear it said: 'but these youth say stupid things!'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I believe that in pretty much every religion there is always a small group of fundamentalists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The victims of problems of the family are the children. The children. Even of problems that neither husband nor wife have a say in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: When I confess a couple who have kids, a married couple, I ask, 'how many children do you have?' Some get worried and think the priest will ask why I don't have more. I would make a second question, 'Do you play with your children?' The majority say, 'but father, I have no time. I work all day.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The first genocide of the 21st century was against you, the Armenian people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The youth say stupid things and they say good things, as we do, as everyone does. But hear them, speak with them, because we must learn from them and they must learn from me, from us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: When I had to say something that I didn't like to Turkey, but of which I was sure, I said it, with the consequences that you all know [Editor's note: a reference to his comments on the Armenian Genocide]. I said these words ... I was sure"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: It's true, harm to Catholics must always be avoided, and all of us do this...but not at the price of the truth!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I had a long conversation with the imam, the Grand Imam of the Al-Azhar University, and I know how they think... They seek peace, encounter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: If I speak of Islamic violence, I must speak of Catholic violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Not all Muslims are violent, not all Catholics are violent. It is like a fruit salad; there's everything. There are violent persons of this religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: I do not believe it is right to identify Islam with violence. This is not right or true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The Golden Rule reminds us of our responsibility to protect and defend human life at every stage of its development. This conviction has led me, from the beginning of my ministry, to advocate at different levels for the global abolition of the death penalty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: Business is a noble vocation, directed to producing wealth and improving the world. It can be a fruitful source of prosperity for the area in which it operates, especially if it sees the creation of jobs as an essential part of its service to the common good. This common good also includes the earth... the environmental challenge we are undergoing, and its human roots, concern and affect us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: There is another temptation which we must especially guard against: the simplistic reductionism which sees only good or evil; or, if you will, the righteous and sinners. The contemporary world, with its open wounds which affect so many of our brothers and sisters, demands that we confront every form of polarization which would divide it into these two camps."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The people of America, are not fearful of foreigners, because most of us were once foreigners."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The charismatics confused the holy liturgy with a school of samba, but than I was converted when I got to know them better and saw the good they do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: We can coexist well [with Muslims]. But there are fundamentalist groups."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: My brothers, the United States Bishops, have reminded us, all are called to be vigilant, precisely as good citizens, to preserve and defend that freedom from everything that would threaten or compromise it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: All of us benefit from remembering our past. A people which remembers does not repeat past errors; instead, it looks with confidence to the challenges of the present and the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope Francis: The world is polarized. The middle class becomes smaller. The polarization makes the difference between rich and the poor big. This is true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Faith leads us beyond ourselves. It leads us directly to God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: There is no evil to be faced that Christ does not face with us. There is no enemy that Christ has not already conquered. There is no cross to bear that Christ has not already borne for us, and does not now bear with us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Do not be afraid. Open wide the doors to Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: From Mary we learn to surrender to God's Will in all things. From Mary we learn to trust even when all hope seems gone. From Mary we learn to love Christ her Son and the Son of God!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return. In comparison to the love of Jesus, everything else is secondary. And, without the love of Jesus, everything is useless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: If you really wish to follow Christ, if you want your love for him to grow and last, then you must be faithful to prayer. It is the key to the vitality of your life in Christ. Without prayer, your faith and love will die. If you are constant in daily prayer and in the Sunday celebration of Mass, your love for Jesus will increase. And your heart will know deep joy and peace, such as the world could never give."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Life with Christ is a wonderful adventure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Do not be afraid. Do not be satisfied with mediocrity. Put out into the deep and let down your nets for a catch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: There is no true peace without fairness, truth, justice and solidarity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Christ remains primary in your life only when he enjoys the first place in your mind and heart. Thus you must continuously unite yourself to him in prayer.... Without prayer there can be no joy, no hope, no peace. For prayer is what keeps us in touch with Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The distinctive mark of the Christian, today more than ever, must be love for the poor, the weak, the suffering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Do not abandon yourselves to despair. We are the Easter people and hallelujah is our song."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Faith and reason are like two wings on which the human spirit rises to the contemplation of truth; and God has placed in the human heart a desire to know the truth- in a word, to know himself- so that, by knowing and loving God, men and women may also come to the fullness of truth about themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Peoples of the entire world need to hear these words. Their conscience needs to grow in the certainty that Someone exists who holds in His Hands the destiny of this passing world... And this Someone is Love- Love that became Man, Love crucified and risen, Love unceasingly present among men. It is Eucharistic Love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Freedom is not the ability to do anything we want, whenever we want. Rather, FREEDOM is the ability to live responsibly the truth of our relationship with God and with one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops. Do not be afraid to break out of comfortable and routine modes of living in order to take up the challenge of making Christ known in the modern metropolis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Jesus Christ has taken the lead on the way of the cross. He has suffered first. He does not drive us toward suffering but shares it with us, wanting us to have life and to have it in abundance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The way Jesus shows you is not easy. Rather, it is like a path winding up a mountain. Do not lose heart! The steeper the road, the faster it rises towards ever wider horizons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: To maintain a joyful family requires much from both the parents and the children. Each member of the family has to become, in a special way, the servant of the others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: You must be strong, dear brothers and sisters. You must be strong with the strength that comes from faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The Mother of Christ, who stands at the very center of this mystery...is given as mother to every single individual and all mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Once the truth is denied to human beings, it is pure illusion to try to set them free. Truth and freedom either go together hand in hand or together they perish in misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: What really matters in life is that we are loved by Christ and that we love Him in return"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: America you are beautiful . . . and blessed . . . . The ultimate test of your greatness is the way you treat every human being, but especially the weakest and most defenseless. If you want equal justice for all and true freedom and lasting peace, then America, defend life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Christ is the sacrament of the invisible God - a sacrament that indicates presence. God is with us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Every effort to make society sensitive to the importance of the family, is a great service to humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Life is entrusted to man as a treasure which must not be squandered, as a talent which must be used well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The earth will not continue to offer its harvest, except with faithful stewardship. We cannot say we love the land and then take steps to destroy it for use by future generations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Each man, in his suffering, can also become a sharer in the redemptive suffering of Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Today, the scale and horror of modern warfare - whether nuclear or not - makes it totally unacceptable as a means of settling differences between nations. War should belong to the tragic past, to history; it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: And Christ, through His own salvific suffering, is very much present in every human suffering, and can act from within that suffering by the powers of His Spirit of truth, His consoling spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Following Christ, the Church seeks the truth, which is not always the same as the majority opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The modern world, a world which has experienced marvelous achievements but which seems to have lost its sense of ultimate realities and of existence itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: When man turns his back on the Creator's plan, he provokes a disorder which has inevitable repercussions on the rest of the created order. If man is not at peace with God, then earth itself cannot be at peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Man cannot live without love. He remains a being that is incomprehensible for himself, his life is senseless, if love is not revealed to him, if he does not encounter love, if he does not experience it and make it his own, if he does not participate intimately in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Believers do not surrender. They can continue on their way to the truth because they are certain that God has created them \"explorers\", whose mission is to leave no stone unturned, though the temptation to doubt is always there. Leaning on God, they continue to reach out, always and everywhere, for all that is beautiful, good, and true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Holiness is not reserved for a small number of exceptional persons. It is for everyone. It is the Lord who brings us to holiness when we are willing to collaborate in the salvation of the world for the glory of God, despite our sin and our sometimes rebellious temperament."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Confession is an act of honesty and courage - an act of entrusting ourselves, beyond sin, to the mercy of a loving and forgiving God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Science can purify religion from error and superstition. Religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Real love is demanding. I would fail in my mission if I did not clearly tell you so. For it was Jesus - our Jesus himself - who said: 'You are my friends if you do what I command you'. Love demands effort and a personal commitment to the will of God. It means discipline and sacrifice, but it also means joy and human fulfilment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Man's life comes from God: it is his image and imprint, as sharing in his breath of life. God therefore is the sole Lord of this life: Man cannot do with it as he wills."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world look to Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: From the Eucharist comes strength to live the Christian life and zeal to share that life with others"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The Church and the world have a great need of eucharistic worship. Jesus waits for us in this sacrament of love. Let us be generous with our time in going to meet Him in adoration and in contemplation that is full of faith and ready to make reparation for the great faults and crimes of the world. May our adoration never cease"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Love consists of a commitment which limits one's freedom - it is a giving of the self, and to give oneself means just that: to limit one's freedom on behalf of another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Never again war! Never again hatred and intolerance!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: St. Joseph was a just man, a tireless worker, the upright guardian of those entrusted to his care. May he always guard, protect and enlighten families."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: In the past, it was possible to destroy a village, a town, a region, even a country. Now it is the whole planet that has come under threat. This fact should compel everyone to face a basic moral consideration; from now on, it is only through a conscious choice and then deliberate policy that humanity will survive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Not all are called to be artists in the specific sense of the term. Yet, as Genesis has it, all men and women are entrusted with the task of crafting their own life: in a certain sense, they are to make of it a work of art, a masterpiece."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: A community needs a soul if it is to become a true home for human beings. You.. the people must give it this soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Love is a constant challenge, thrown to us by God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: A man shows himself a true disciple of Christ by carrying the cross in his turn every day in the activity that he is called to perform."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: We can pray perfectly when we are out in the mountains or on a lake and we feel at one with nature. Nature speaks for us or rather speaks to us. We pray perfectly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: There is nothing more man needs than Divine Mercy - that love which is benevolent, which is compassionate, which raises man above his weakness to the infinite heights to the holiness of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: War is a defeat for humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Thus to share in the sufferings of Christ is, at the same time, to suffer for the kingdom of God. In the eyes of the just God, before his judgment. Those who share in the sufferings of Christ become worthy of this kingdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: [On his 83rd birthday] Physical condition or advancing of age are not obstacles to a perfect life. God does not look at external things but at the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Only in Christ can men and women find answers to the ultimate questions that trouble them. Only in Christ can they fully understand their dignity as persons created and loved by God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: This is no time to be ashamed of the Gospel. It is the time to preach it from the rooftops."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual pleasure, escape in drugs, escape in violence, escape in indifference and cynical attitudes. I propose to you the option of love, which is the opposite of escape."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: An important day in a young person's life is the day on which he becomes convinced that Christ is the only Friend who will not disappoint him, on which he can always count."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The goal and target of our life is He, the Christ who awaits us -- each one singly and altogether -- to lead us across the boundaries of time to the eternal embrace of the God who loves us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The man who wishes to understand himself thoroughly must with his unrest, uncertainty, and even his weakness and sinfulness, with his life and death, draw near to Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The fear of making permanent commitments can change the mutual love of husband and wife into two loves of self-two loves existing side by side, until they end in separation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Wars generally do not resolve the problems for which they are fought and therefore, in addition to causing horrendous damage, they prove ultimately futile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Radical changes in world politics leave America with a heightened responsibility to be, for the world, an example of a genuinely free, democratic, just and humane society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Violence is a crime against humanity, for it destroys the very fabric of society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: I have a sweet tooth for song and music. This is my Polish sin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Love demands effort and a personal commitment to the will of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: I do not hesitate to proclaim before you and before the world that all human life-from the moment of conception and through all subsequent stages-is sacred, because human life is created in the image and likeness of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Motherhood implies from the beginning a special openness to the new person: and this is precisely the woman's 'part'. In this openness, in conceiving and giving birth to a child, the woman 'discovers herself through a sincere gift of self'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: To reach peace, teach peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Prayer joined to sacrifice constitutes the most powerful force in human history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The Church counters the culture of death with the culture of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: God of our fathers,\nyou chose Abraham and his descendants\nto bring your Name to the Nations:\nwe are deeply saddened by the behaviour of those\nwho in the course of history\nhave caused these children of yours to suffer,\nand asking your forgiveness we wish to commit ourselves\nto genuine brotherhood\nwith the people of the Covenant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The Eucharist is the full realization of the worship which humanity owes to God, and it cannot be compared to any other religious experience.... The risen Lord ... calls the faithful together to give them the light of His Word and the nourishment of His Body as the perennial sacramental wellspring of redemption. The grace flowing from this wellspring renews mankind, life, and history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The poor of the United States and of the world are your brothers and sisters in Christ. You must never be content to leave them just the crumbs from the feast. You must take of your substance, and not just of your abundance, in order to help them. And you must treat them like guests at your family table."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Those in society who are in charge of schools must never forget that the parents have been appointed by God himself as the first and principal educators of their children and that their right is completely inalienable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The Eucharist is the source and summit of the Christian life"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The Church must breathe with her two lungs!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The Gospel must not be kept hidden because of fear or indifference. It was never meant to be hidden away in private. It has to be put on a stand so that people may see its light and give praise to our Heavenly Father."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Another name for peace is development."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: What we talked about will have to remain a secret between him and me. I spoke to him as a brother whom I have pardoned and who has my complete trust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: In the sacrifice which Jesus Christ makes of Himself on the Cross for His bride, the Church... there is entirely revealed that plan which God has imprinted on the humanity of man and woman since their creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The Gospel of Life is not for believers alone: it is for everyone. The issue of life and its defense and promotion is not a concern of the Christian alone. Although faith provides special light and strength, this question arises in every human conscience which seeks the truth and which cares about the future of humanity. Life certainly has a sacred and religious value, but in no way is that value a concern only of believers. The value at stake is one which every human being can grasp by the light of reason; thus it necessarily concerns everyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Freedom exists for the sake of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Solidarity is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far. On the contrary, it is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good; that is to say to the good of all and of each individual, because we are all really responsible for all"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Creating the human race in His own image and continually keeping it in being, God inscribed in the humanity of man and woman the vocation... of love and communion. Love is therefore the fundamental and innate vocation of every human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The United Nations organization has proclaimed 1979 as the Year of the Child. Are the children to receive the arms race from us as a necessary inheritance?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Christians will want to be in the vanguard in favoring ways of life that decisively break with the exhausting and joyless frenzy of consumerism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: You made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. In this creative restlessness beats and pulsates what is most deeply human - the search for truth, the insatiable need for the good, hunger for freedom, nostalgia for the beautiful, and the voice of conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: It would appear that, on the level of individual nations and of international relations, the free market is the most efficient instrument for utilizing resources and effectively responding to needs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The universality of salvation means that it is granted not only to those who explicitly believe in Christ and have entered the Church. Since salvation is offered to all, it must be made concretely available to all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: As believers, how can we fail to see that abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide are a terrible rejection of God's gift of life and love? And as believers, how can we fail to feel the duty to surround the sick and those in distress with the warmth of our affection and the support that will help them always to embrace life?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The historical experience of socialist countries has sadly demonstrated that collectivism does not do away with alienation but rather increases it, adding to it a lack of basic necessities and economic inefficiency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: A society will be judged on the basis of how it treats its weakest members; and among the most vulnerable are surely the unborn and the dying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The challenge is to make the church's yes to life concrete and effective. The struggle will be long, and it needs each one of you. Place your intelligence, your talents, your enthusiasm, your compassion and your fortitude at the service of life!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: This worship, given therefore to the Trinity of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, above all accompanies and permeates the celebration of the Eucharistic liturgy. But it must fill our churches also outside the timetable of Masses. Indeed, since the Eucharistic mystery was instituted out of love, and makes Christ sacramentally present, it is worthy of thanksgiving and worship. And this worship must be prominent in all our encounters with the Blessed Sacrament, both when we visit our churches and when the sacred species are taken to the sick and administered to them"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The call for a sincere gift of self is the fullest way to realize our personal freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: I sense that the moment has come to commit all of the Church's energies to a new evangelization... No believer in Christ, no institution of the Church can avoid this supreme duty: to proclaim Christ to all peoples."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity, of the heights to which he is raised, of the surpassing worth of his own humanity, and of the meaning of his existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The Eucharist is a priceless treasure: by not only celebrating it but also by praying before it outside of Mass we are enabled to make contact with the very wellspring of grace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The human person is a unique composite - a unity of spirit and matter, soul and body, fashioned in the image of God and destined to live forever. Every human life is sacred, because every human person is sacred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: In the context of the \"great mystery\" of Christ and of the Church, all are called to respond - as a bride - with the gift of their lives to the inexpressible gift of the love of Christ, who alone, as the Redeemer of the world, is the Church's Bridegroom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The sacraments infuse holiness into the terrain of man's humanity: they penetrate the soul and body, the femininity and masculinity of the personal subject, with the power of holiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: To be actively pro-life is to contribute to the renewal of society through the promotion of the common good. It is impossible to further the common good without acknowledging and defending the right to life, upon which all the other inalienable rights of individuals are founded and from which they develop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The choice of euthanasia becomes more serious when it takes the form of a murder committed by others on a person who has in no way requested it and who has never consented to it. The height of arbitrariness and injustice is reached when certain people, such as physicians or legislators, arrogate to themselves the power to decide who ought to live and who ought to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: All human activity takes place within a culture and interacts with culture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: It is unbecoming for a cardinal to ski badly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Our future on this planet, exposed as it is to nuclear annihilation, depends one one single factor: humanity must make a moral about-face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: In the newborn child is realized the common good of the family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: You are our dearly beloved brothers, and in a certain way, it could be said that you are our elder brothers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Hands are the heart's landscape."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The essential commitment and, above all, the visible grace and source of supernatural strength for the Church as the People of God is to persevere and advance constantly in Eucharistic life and Eucharistic piety and to develop spiritually in the climate of the Eucharist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Economic activity, especially the activity of a market economy, cannot be conducted in an institutional, juridical or political vacuum. On the contrary, it presupposes sure guarantees of individual freedom and private property, as well as a stable currency and efficient public services."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Every act of reverence, every genuflection that you make before the Blessed Sacrament is important because it is an act of faith in Christ, and act of love for Christ. And every sign of the cross and gesture of respect made each time you pass a church is also an act of faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Technology that pollutes can also cleanse, production that amasses can also distribute justly, on condition that the ethic of respect for life and human dignity, for the rights of today's generations and those to come, prevails."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: In Christ and through Christ man has acquired full awareness of his dignity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Born and nurtured when the human being first asked questions about the reason for things and their purpose, philosophy shows in different modes and forms that the desire for truth is part of human nature itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The state of inequality between individuals and between nations not only still exists; it is increasing. It still happens that side by side with those who are wealthy and living in plenty there exist those who are living in want, suffering misery and often actually dying of hunger; and their number reaches tens, even hundreds of millions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The [abortion] excommunication affects all those who commit this crime with knowledge of the penalty attached, and thus includes those accomplices without which the crime would not have been committed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: It is manifestly unjust that a privileged few should continue to accumulate excess goods, squandering available resources, while masses of people are living in conditions of misery at the very lowest level of subsistence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Once again, through myself, the Church, in the words of the well-known declaration Nostra Aetate, 'deplores the hatred, persecutions and displays of anti-Semitism directed against the Jews at any time and by anyone.' I repeat, 'By anyone.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The new evangelization calls for followers of Christ who are unconditionally pro-life who will proclaim, celebrate, and serve the Gospel of life in every situation. A sign of hope is the increasing recognition that the dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil. I renew the appeal I made ... for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is both cruel and unnecessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Truth can never be confined to time and culture; in history it is known, but it also reaches beyond history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Work bears a particular mark of man and of humanity, the mark of a person operating within a community of persons"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The Eucharist is not only a particularly intense expression of the reality of the Church's life, but also in a sense its fountainhead. The Eucharist feeds and forms the Church: 'Because there is one bread, we who are many are one body, for we all partake of the one bread' (1 Cor 10:17, RSV). Because of this vital link with the sacrament of the Body and Blood of the Lord, the mystery of the Church is savored, proclaimed, and lived supremely in the Eucharist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Faith intervenese not to abolish reason's autonomy nor to reduce its scope for action, but solely to bring the human being to understand that in these events it is the God of Israel who acts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Original sin is not only the violation of a positive command \u2026 but \u2026 attempts \u2026 to abolish fatherhood, destroying its rays which permeate the created world, placing in doubt the truth about God who is Love and leaving man with only a sense of the master-slave relationship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God, since it is the deliberate and morally unacceptable killing of a human person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Limitation of one's freedom might seem to be something negative and unpleasant, but love makes it a positive, joyful and creative thing. Freedom exists for the sake of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: It is the responsibility of Pastors to encourage, also by their personal witness, the practice of Eucharistic adoration, and exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in particular, as well as prayer of adoration before Christ present under the Eucharistic species."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Reason and faith cannot be separated without diminishing the capacity of men and women to know themselves, the world and God in an appropriate way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: This is why moral uneasiness is destined to become even more acute. It is obvious that a fundamental defect, or rather a series of defects, indeed a defective machinery is at the root of contemporary economics and materialistic civilization, which does not allow the human family to break free from such radically unjust situations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: New knowledge has led to the recognition in the theory of evolution of more than a hypothesis. It is indeed remarkable that this theory has been progressively accepted by researchers, following a series of discoveries in various fields of knowledge.  The convergence, neither sought nor fabricated, of the results of work that was conducted independently is in itself a significant argument in favor of this theory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Precisely in an age when the inviolable rights of the person are solemnly proclaimed and the value of life is publicly affirmed, the very right to life is being denied or trampled upon, especially at the more significant moments of existence: the moment of birth and the moment of death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The Church has a special duty to safeguard and strengthen the sacredness of the Eucharist. In our pluralistic and often deliberately secularized society, the living faith of the Christian community - a faith always aware of its rights vis-a-vis those who do not share the faith - ensures respect for this sacredness"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Interdependence must be transformed into solidarity based upon the principle that the goods of creation are meant for all. That which human industry produces through the processing of raw materials with the contribution of work must serve equally for the good of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The encouragement and the deepening of Eucharistic worship are proofs of the authentic renewal which the Council set itself as an aim and of which they are the central point."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Eucharistic worship is not so much worship of the inaccessible transcendence as worship of the divine condescension, and it is also the merciful and redeeming transformation of the world in the human heart"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: With supernatural intuition Blessed Josemaria untiringly preached the universal call to holiness and apostolate. Christ calls everyone to become holy in the realities of everyday life. Hence work too is a means of personal holiness and apostolate when it is done in union with Jesus Christ"
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: None are so poor that they have nothing to give...and none are so rich that they have nothing to receive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: Let me go to the house of the Father."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Pope John Paul II: The greatness of work is inside man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: What does love look like? It has the hands to help others. It has the feet to hasten to the poor and needy. It has eyes to see misery and want. It has the ears to hear the sighs and sorrows of men. That is what love looks like."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: In order to discover the character of people we have only to observe what they love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Bad times, hard times, this is what people keep saying; but let us live well, and times shall be good. We are the times: Such as we are, such are the times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Patience is the companion of wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: What is reprehensible is that while leading good lives themselves and abhorring those of wicked men, some, fearing to offend, shut their eyes to evil deeds instead of condemning them and pointing out their malice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Since love grows within you, so beauty grows. For love is the beauty of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Fasting cleanses the soul, raises the mind, subjects one\u2019s flesh to the spirit, renders the heart contrite and humble, scatters the clouds of concupiscence, quenches the fire of lust, and kindles the true light of chastity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Because a thing is eloquently expressed it should not be taken to be as necessarily true; nor because it is uttered with stammering lips should it be supposed false."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Without God, we cannot. Without us, God will not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Come unto me, all ye that labor and are heavy laden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: It is not by change of place that we can come nearer to Him who is in every place, but by the cultivation of pure desires and virtuous habits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: People travel to wonder at the height of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars; and they pass by themselves without wondering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: ... at the beginning of the human race the woman was made of a rib taken from the side of the man while he slept; for it seemed fit that even then Christ and His Church should be foreshadowed in this event. For that sleep of the man was the death of Christ, whose side, as He hung lifeless upon the Cross, was pierced with a spear, and there flowed from it blood and water, and these we know to be the sacraments by which the Church is built up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: As the soul is the life of the body, so God is the life of the soul. As therefore the body perishes when the soul leaves it, so the soul dies when God departs from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: For God loves saving, not condemning, and therefore He is patient with bad people, in order to make good people out of bad people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Our heart is restless until it rests in You."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The punishment of every disordered mind is its own disorder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: He who falls, falls by his own will, and he who stands, stands by God's will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: What grace is meant to do is to help good people, not to escape their sufferings, but to bear them with a stout heart, with a fortitude that finds its strength in faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: O Lord my God, \ntell me what you are to me. \nSay to my soul, \nI am your salvation. \nSay it so that I can hear it. \nMy heart is listening, Lord; \nopen the ears of my heart \nand say to my soul, \nI am your salvation. \nLet me run toward this voice \nand seize hold of you. \nDo not hide your face from me: \nlet me die so that I may see it, \nfor not to see it would be death to me indeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: No one can have God as his father who does not have the Church as his mother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Give me chastity and continence, but not yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Narrow is the mansion of my soul; enlarge Thou it, that Thou mayest enter in. It is ruinous; repair Thou it. It has that within which must offend Thine eyes; I confess and know it. But who shall cleanse it? or to whom should I cry, save Thee? Lord, cleanse me from my secret faults, and spare Thy servant from the power of the enemy. I believe, and therefore do I speak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Let your old age be childlike, and your childhood like old age; that is, so that neither may your wisdom be with pride, nor your humility without wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: No man has a right to lead such a life of contemplation as to forget in his own ease the service due to his neighbor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: I will plant my feet on that step where my parents put me as a child, until self-evident truth comes to light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: In matters that are so obscure and far beyond our vision, we find in Holy Scripture passages which can be interpreted in very different ways without prejudice to the faith we have received. In such cases, we should not rush in headlong and so firmly take our stand on one side that, if further progress in the search for truth justly undermines this position, we too fall with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The good Christian should beware the mathematician and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of hell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: If you don't believe it you won't understand it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: You never go away from us, yet we have difficulty in returning to You. Come, Lord, stir us up and call us back. Kindle and seize us. Be our fire and our sweetness. Let us love. Let us run."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: \"Otherwise grace is no more grace,\" since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: For you [God] are infinite and never change. In you \"today\" never comes to an end: and yet our \"today\" does come to an end in you, because time, as well as everything else, exists in you. If it did not, it would have no means of passing. And since your years never come to an end, for you they are simply \"today.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The will is truly free, when it is not the slave of vices and sins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: We were ensnared by the wisdom of the serpent; we are set free by the foolishness of God ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Why is it that we remember with difficulty and without difficulty forget? Learn with difficulty and without difficulty remain ignorant?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Don't let your life give evidence against your tongue. Sing with your voices... sing also with your conduct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Love is ever new because it never groweth old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: When [men] go to war, what they want is to impose on their enemies the victor's will and call it peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being little. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation. Modest humility is beauty's crown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: And I will ask the Father, and He shall give you another Paraclete, seeing He saith this of the Holy Spirit, Whom except we have, we can neither love God, nor keep His commandments?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The people who remained victorious were less like conquerors than conquered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Understanding is the reward of faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The mere change of custom, even though it may be of advantage in some respects, unsettles men by reason of the novelty: therefore, if it brings no advantage, it does much harm by unprofitably disturbing the Church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave, and not the slave of a single man, but- what is worse - the slave of as many masters as he has vices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Whoever possesses God is happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Free curiosity is of more value in learning than harsh discipline."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: If there is something more excellent than the truth, then that is God; if not, then truth itself is God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: In doing what we ought we deserve no praise, because it is our duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Believe that you may understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Venerate the martyrs, praise, love, proclaim, honor them. But worship the God of the martyrs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The soul is \"torn apart in a painful condition as long as it prefers the eternal because of its Truth but does not discard the temporal because of familiarity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: For great are you, Lord, and you look kindly on what is humble, but the lofty-minded you regard from afar. Only to those whose hearts are crushed do you draw close. You will not let yourself be found by the proud, nor even by those who in their inquisitive skill count stars or grains of sand, or measure the expanses of heaven, or trace the paths of the planets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Why then be perverted and follow thy flesh? Be it converted and follow thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: I believe in order to understand"
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: He who thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but pardon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. \"What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: I acknowledge Thee, Lord of heaven and earth, and praise Thee for my first rudiments of being, and my infancy, whereof I remember nothing; for Thou hast appointed that man should from others guess much as to himself; and believe much on the strength of weak females."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger.  This is the disease of curiosity.  It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Thou must be emptied of that wherewith thou art full, that thou mayest be filled with that whereof thou art empty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: I would not believe in the Gospel, if the authority of the Catholic Church did not bid me to do so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The mind commands the body, and it obeys forthwith; the mind commands itself, and is resisted. The mind commands the hand to be moved, and such readiness is there that the command is scarce to be distinguished from the obedience. Yet the mind is mind, and the hand is body. The mind commands the mind to will, and yet, though it be itself, it obeyeth not. Whence this monstrous thing? and why is it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The Heavenly City outshines Rome beyond comparison. There, instead of victory, is truth; instead of high rank, holiness; instead of peace, felicity; instead of life, eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Oh, beauty, ever ancient and ever new."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Tolle, lege: take up and read."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: What difference, if you are mistaken? For if I am mistaken, I am. For he who is not, assuredly cannot be mistaken; and therefore I am, if I am mistaken. Therefore because I am if I am mistaken, how am I mistaken that I am, when it is sure that I am, if I am mistaken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Once for all, then, a short precept is given thee: Love, and do what thou wilt: whether thou hold thy peace, through love hold thy peace; whether thou cry out, through love cry out; whether thou correct, through love correct; whether thou spare, through love do thou spare: let the root of love be within, of this root can nothing spring but what is good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: How high a price we pay for the burden of habit! I am fitted for life here where I do not want to be, I want to live there but am unfit for it, and on both counts I am miserable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Let our lives be good, and the times are good. We make our times; such as we are, such are the times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: For where I found Truth, there found I my God, the Truth itself; which since I learnt, I have not forgotten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Can any praise be worthy of the Lord's majesty?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately resolved not to think through what they say but merely to speak, just so long as they contradict our arguments in any way they can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Nobody should ever doubt that in the washing of rebirth (Titus 3:5) absolutely all sins, from the least to the greatest, are altogether forgiven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: It is not with respect to our convenience or discomfort, but with respect to their own nature that the creatures are glorifying to their Artificer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Love is the beauty of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Will is to grace as the horse is to the rider."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: A thing is not necessarily true because badly uttered, nor false because spoken magnificently."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: There is something in humility which, strangely enough, exalts the heart, and something in pride which debases it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: And how shall I call upon my God, my God and Lord, since, when I call for Him, I shall be calling Him to myself? and what room is there within me, whither my God can come into me? whither can God come into me, God who made heaven and earth? is there, indeed, O Lord my God, aught in me that can contain thee?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: I do not comprehend all that I am. Is the mind, therefore, too limited to possess itself?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: If bodies please thee, praise God on occasion of them, and turn back thy love upon their Maker; lest in these things which please thee, thou displease. If souls please thee, be they loved in God: for they too are mutable, but in Him they are firmly established."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Is any man skillful enough to have fashioned himself?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: There is a joy which is not given to the ungodly, but to those who love Thee for Thine own sake, whose joy Thou Thyself art. And this is the happy life, to rejoice to Thee, of Thee, for Thee; this it is, and there is no other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Christ was born of a woman without the man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: In the Catholic Church, there are many other things which most justly keep me in her bosom. The consent of peoples and nations keeps me in the Church; so does her authority, inaugurated by miracles, nourished by hope, enlarged by love, established by age. The succession of priests keeps me, beginning from the very seat of the Apostle Peter, to whom the Lord, after His resurrection, gave it in charge to feed His sheep (Jn 21:15-19), down to the present episcopate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Give me yourself, O my God, give yourself back to me. Lo, I love you, but if my love is too mean, let me love more passionately. I cannot gauge my love, nor know how far it fails, how much more love I need for my life to set its course straight into your arms, never swerving until hidden in the covert of your face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The greatest evil is physical pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: What do I love when I love my God?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Sin is to a nature what blindness is to an eye. The blindness of an evil or defect which is a witness to the fact that the eye was created to see the light and, hence, the very lack of sight is the proof that the eye was meant... to be the one particularly capable of seeing the light. Were it not for this capacity, there would be no reason to think of blindness as a misforture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: For when God said, \"Let there be light, and there was light,\" if we are justified in understanding in this light the creation of the angels, then certainly they were created partakers of the eternal light which is the unchangeable Wisdom of God, by which all things were made, and whom we call the only-begotten Son of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according to God, he is like the devil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: And I entered and beheld with the eye of my soul... the Light Unchangeable... He that knows the Truth, knows what that Light is; and he that knows It, knows Eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: What art Thou then, my God? what, but the Lord God? For who is Lord but the Lord? or who is God save our God? Most highest, most good, most potent, most omnipotent; most merciful, yet most just; most hidden, yet most present; most beautiful, yet most strong; stable, yet incomprehensible; unchangeable, yet all-changing; never new, never old; all-renewing, and bringing age upon the proud, and they know it not; ever working, ever at rest; still gathering, yet nothing lacking; supporting, filling, and overspreading; creating, nourishing, and maturing; seeking, yet having all things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: I was looking for something to love, for I was in love with loving, and I hated security and a smooth way, free from snares."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Every day my conscience makes confession relying on the hope of Your mercy as more to be trusted than its own innocence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Your best servant is the person who does not attend so much to hearing what he himself wants as to willing what he has heard from you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: When regard for truth has been broken down or even slightly weakened, all things will remain doubtful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Grant what Thou commandest, and command what Thou wilt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: I was not yet in love, yet I loved to love...I sought what I might love, in love with loving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Then assuredly the world was made, not in time, but simultaneously with time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The verdict of the world is conclusive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: We make ourselves a ladder out of our vices if we trample the vices themselves underfoot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: His knowledge is not like ours, which has three tenses; present, past, and future. God's knowledge has no change or variation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: God is best known in not knowing him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Don't hold yourselves cheap, seeing that the creator of all things and of you estimates your value so high, so dear, that he pours out for you every day the most precious blood of his only-begotten Son."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: I have learnt to love you late, Beauty at once so ancient and so new!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: For if God is man's chief good, which you cannot deny, it clearly follows, since to seek the chief good is to live well, that to live well is nothing else but to love God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The rich are like beasts of burden, carrying treasure all day, and at the night of death unladen; they carry to their grave only the bruises and marks of their toil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: For what is time? ... Who can even in thought comprehend it, so as to utter a word about it? ... If no one asks me, I know: If I wish to explain it to one that asketh, I know not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Divine Scripture is wont to frame, as it were, allurements for children from the things which are found in the creature; whereby, according to their measure, and as it were by steps, the affections of the weak may be moved to seek those things that are above, and to leave those things that are below. But the same Scripture rarely employs those things which are spoken properly of God, and are not found in any creature; as, for instance, that which was said to Moses, I am that I am; and, I Am has sent me to you.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: For what is the self-complacent man but a slave to his own self-praise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: My love for you, Lord, is not an uncertain feeling, but a matter of concious certainty. With your word you pierced my heart, and I loved you. But heaven and earth and everything in them on all sides tell me to love you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Whoever, therefore, thinks that he understands the divine scriptures or any part of them so that it does not build on the double love of God and of our neighbor does not understand it at all. Thus a man supported by faith, hope, and charity, with an unshaken hold upon them does not need the scriptures. . . And many live by these three things in solitude without books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: For if a thing is not diminished by being shared with others, it is not rightly owned if it is only owned and not shared."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: I beseech Thee, my God, I would fain know, if so Thou willest, for what purpose my baptism was then deferred? was it for my good that the rein was laid loose, as it were, upon me, for me to sin? or was it not laid loose? If not, why does it still echo in our ears on all sides, \"Let him alone, let him do as he will, for he is not yet baptised?\" but as to bodily health, no one says, \"Let him be worse wounded, for he is not yet healed.\" How much better then, had I been at once healed; and then, by my friends' diligence and my own, my soul's recovered health had been kept safe in Thy keeping who gavest it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: In no passage of the holy canonical books there can be found either divine precept or permission to take away our own life, whether for the sake of entering on the enjoyment of immortality, or of shunning, or ridding ourselves of anything whatever. Nay, the law, rightly interpreted, even prohibits suicide, where it says, 'Thou shalt not kill.' This is proved especially by the omission of the words \"thy neighbor,\" which are inserted when false witness is forbidden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: By faithfulness we are collected and wound up into unity within ourselves, whereas we had been scattered abroad in multiplicity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Choose to love whomsoever thou wilt: all else will follow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: What then, is correctness of speech but the maintenance of the practice of others, as established by the authority of ancient speakers? But the weaker men are, the more they are troubled by such matters. Their weakness stems from a desire to appear learned, not with a knowledge of things, by which we are edified, but with a knowledge of signs, by which it is difficult not to be puffed up in some way; even a knowledge of things often makes people boastful, unless their necks are held down by the Lord's yoke."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: For I did not know that the soul needs to be enlightened by light from outside itself, so that it can participate in truth, because it is not itself the nature of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: You can live, provided you live; that is, you can live for ever, provided you live a good life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: It is indeed better (as no one ever could deny) that men should be led to worship God by teaching, than that they should be driven to it by fear of punishment or pain; but it does not follow that because the former course produces the better men, therefore those who do not yield to it should be neglected. For many have found advantage (as we have proved, and are daily proving by actual experiment), in being first compelled by fear or pain, so that they might afterwards be influenced by teaching, or might follow out in act what they had already learned in word."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Consequently, if the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not associated by a common acknowledgment of right, and if there is no right where there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is no justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The Head and the body are Christ wholly and entirely. The Head is the only begotten Son of God, the body is His Church; the bridegroom and the bride, two in one flesh. All who dissent from the Scriptures concerning Christ, although they may be found in all places in which the Church is found, are not in the Church; and again all those who agree with the Scriptures concerning the Head, and do not communicate in the unity of the Church, are not in the Church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: In our own times, you see, an emperor came to the city of Rome, where there's the temple of an emperor, where there's a fisherman's tomb. And so that pious and Christian emperor, wishing to beg for health, for salvation from the Lord, did not proceed to the temple of a proud emperor, but to the tomb of a fisherman, where he could imitate that fisherman in humility, so that he, being thus approached, might then obtain something from the Lord, which a haughty emperor would be quite unable to earn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Charity is no substitute for justice withheld."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: One generation and another generation; the generation by which we are made the faithful, and are born again by baptism; the generation by which we shall rise again from the dead, and shall live with the Angels for ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Let him who desires to be harsh in making demands upon his debtors consider that he is God\u2019s debtor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: If a shameless woman expects to be defiled and then dies of her fierce love because you do not consent, will chastity also be homicide?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: I was in misery, and misery is the state of every soul overcome by friendship with mortal things and lacerated when they are lost. Then the soul becomes aware of the misery which is its actual condition even before it loses them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: For, as it is written in the book of the Prophets: 'And the angel that spoke in me, said to me...' He does not say, 'Spoke to me' but 'Spoke in me'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Try as they may to savor the taste of eternity, their thoughts still twist and turn upon the ebb and flow of things in past and future time. But if only their minds could be seized and held steady, they would be still for a while and, for that short moment, they would glimse the splendor of eternity, which is forever still."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Why persist in walking difficult and toilsome paths? There is no repose where you are seeking it. Search as you like, it is not where you are looking. You are seeking a happy life in the realm of death, and it will not be found there. How could life be happy where there is no life at all?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: He who labours, prays."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: It is not earthly riches which make us or our sons happy; for they must either be lost by us in our lifetime, or be possessed when we are dead, by whom we know not, or perhaps by whom we would not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: You are my Lord, because You have no need of my goodness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: He pleaseth God whom God pleaseth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: If you comprehend, it is not God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: When I come to be united to thee with all my being, then there will be no more pain and toil for me, and my life shall be a real life, being wholly filled by thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: A Christian man is on his guard with respect to those who philosophize according to the elements of this world, not according to God, by Whom the world itself was made; for he is warned by the precept of the apostle and faithfully hears what has been said, 'Beware that no one deceive you through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the elements of the world'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: My weight is my love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: If they find a Christian mistaken in a field which they themselves know well and hear him maintaining his foolish opinions about our books, how are they going to believe those books in matters concerning the resurrection of the dead, the hope of eternal life, and the kingdom of heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: My mother spoke of Christ to my father, by her feminine and childlike virtues, and, after having borne his violence without a murmur or complaint, gained him at the close of his life to Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Now, justification in this life is given to us according to these three things: first by the laver of regeneration by which all sins are forgiven; then, by a struggle with the faults from whose guilt we have been absolved; the third, when our prayer is heard, in which we say: 'Forgive us our debts,' because however bravely we fight against our faults, we are men; but the grace of God so aids as we fight in this corruptible body that there is reason for His hearing us as we ask forgiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: So while he made you without you, he doesn't justify you without you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo (Give me chastity and continence, but not just yet)!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Heaven forbid that we should believe in such a way as not to accept or seek reasons, since we could not even believe if we did not possess rational souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: It is salutary for us to learn to hold cheap such things, be they good or evil, as attach indifferently to good men and bad, and to covet those good things which belong only to good men, and flee those evils which belong only to evil men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Charity is the root of all good works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Love all men, even your enemies; love them, not because they are your brothers, but that they may become your brothers. Thus you will ever burn with fraternal love, both for him who is already your brother and for your enemy, that he may by loving become your brother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: I thought that continence was a matter of our own strength, and I knew that I had not the strength: for in my utter foolishness I did not know the word of Your Scripture that none can be continent unless You give it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: O that men would know themselves to be men; and that he that glorieth would glory in the Lord."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: For if it is not lawful to take the law into our own hands and slay even a guilty person, whose death no public sentence has warranted. Then certainly he who kills himself is a homicide, and so much the guiltier of his own death as he was more innocent of that offence for which he doomed himself to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Thou movest us to delight in praising Thee; for Thou hast formed us for Thyself, and our hearts are restless till they find rest in Thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Do you who are a Christian desire to be revenged and vindicated, and the death of Jesus Christ has not yet been revenged, nor His innocence vindicated?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self; the heavenly by the love of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Custom is second nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Why is it that man desires to be made sad, beholding doleful and tragical things, which yet himself would by no means suffer?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: He that loveth little prayeth little, he that loveth much prayeth much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: So if you can manage it, you shouldn't touch your partner, except for the sake of having children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: I too have sworn heedlessly and all the time, I have had this most repulsive and death-dealing habit. I'm telling your graces; from the moment I began to serve God , and saw what evil there is in forswearing oneself, I grew very afraid indeed, and out of fear I applied the brakes to this old, old, habit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The good man, though a slave, is free; the wicked, though he reigns, is a slave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Someone who knows enough to become the owner of a tree, and gives thanks to you for the benefits it brings him, is in a better state, even if ignorant of its height in feet and the extent of its spread, than another who measures and counts all its branches but neither owns it nor knows its creator nor loves him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Samson crushed himself and his enemies to death beneath the ruins of a building. He can only be excused on the grounds that the Spirit of the Lord, who wrought miracles through him, had bidden him to do so. But, apart from such men excepted by the command of a just law in general or of God, the very Source of justice, in a special case, any one who kills a human being, himself or another, is guilty of murder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The Church even now is the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of heaven. Accordingly, even now His saints reign with Him, though otherwise than as they shall reign hereafter; and yet, though the tares grow in the Church along with the wheat, they do not reign with Him. For they reign with Him who do what the apostle says, 'If you are risen with Christ, mind the things which are above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. Seek those things which are above, not the things which are on the earth'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Moreover, from the time when He said, 'Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of heaven;' and again, 'He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it; ' no one becomes a member of Christ except it be either by baptism in Christ, or death for Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: So give to the poor; I'm begging you, I'm warning you, I'm commanding you, I'm ordering you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: And so, lastly, does the very name of \"Catholic\", which, not without reason, amid so many heresies, the Church has thus retained; so that, though all heretics wish to be called Catholics, yet when a stranger asks where the Catholic Church meets, no heretic will venture to point to his own chapel or house."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: For I wondered that others, subject to death, did live, since he whom I loved, as if he should never die, was dead; and I wondered yet more that myself, who was to him a second self, could live, he being dead. Well said one of his friend, \"Thou half of my soul\"; for I felt that my soul and his soul were \"one soul in two bodies\": and therefore was my life a horror to me, because I would not live halved. And therefore perchance I feared to die, lest he whom I had much loved should die wholly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Give what You command and command what You will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Therefore, give to the poor. I beg you, I admonish you, I charge you, I command you to give."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Within the Church, sins are forgiven in three ways: by baptism, by prayer, and by the greater humility of penance; yet God does not forgive sins except to the baptized."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: There is no salvation outside the church."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: I have said before, and I shall say again, that I write this book for love of your love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The human race is inquisitive about other people's lives, but negligent to correct their own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: I became evil for no reason. I had no motive for my wickedness except wickedness itself. It was foul, and I loved it. I loved the self-destruction, I loved my fall, not the object for which I had fallen but my fall itself. My depraved soul leaped down from your firmament to ruin. I was seeking not to gain anything by shameful means, but shame for its own sake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The mind commands the body and is instantly obeyed. The mind commands itself and meets resistance. The mind commands the hand to move, and it so easy that one hardly distinguishes the order from its execution. Yet mind is mind and hand is body. The mind orders the mind to will. The recipient of the order is itself, yet it does not perform it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: \r\nThe same as you do when you infest the whole world;\r\nbut because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber,\r\nand because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself as many books as I could get concerning the so-called liberal arts?...I had turned my back to the light and my face to the things it illuminated, and so no light played upon my own face, or on the eyes that perceived them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Free curiosity has greater power to stimulate learning than rigorous coercion. Nevertheless, the free ranging flux of curiosity is channeled by discipline under Your Law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: I asked the whole frame of the world about my God; and he answered, I am not He, but He made me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The fellow who eggs you on to avenge yourself will rob you of what you were going to say - as we forgive our debtors . When you have forfeited that, all your sins will be held against you; absolutely nothing is forgiven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Often the contempt of vainglory becomes a source of even more vainglory, for it is not being scorned when the contempt is something one is proud of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Justice being taken away, then, what are kingdoms but great robberies? For what are robberies themselves, but little kingdoms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Alternate translation: Come brethren, if you have a mind to be ingrafted in the vine, It is a pity to see you lopped off in this manner From the stock. Reckon up the prelates in the very see of Peter; And in that order of fathers see which has succeeded which. This is the rock over which the proud gates of hell prevail not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Of this I am certain, that no one has ever died who was not destined to die some time. Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with the shortest... And of what consequence is it what kind of death puts an end to life, since he who has died once is not forced to go through the same ordeal a second time? They, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to inquire what death they are to die, but into what place death will usher them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of \"heaven,\" when it is said, \"In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: You have been professing yourself reluctant to throw off your load of illusion because truth was uncertain. Well, it is certain now, yet the burden still weighs you down, while other people are given wings on freer shoulders, people who have not worn themselves out with research, nor spent a decade and more reflecting on these questions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: The weakness of little children's limbs is innocent, not their souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Augustine: God suffers not the pain of repentance, nor is He deceived in any matter, so that He would wish to correct that wherein He has erred. But as when a man repents of anything, he wishes to change what he has done; thus where you hear that God repents, look for an actual change. God does it differently from you, although He calls it by the name of repentance; for thou dost it, because you had erred; while He does it, because He avenges, or frees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Patrick: If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Patrick: I arise today\nThrough the strength of heaven:\nLight of sun\nBrilliance of moon\nSplendor of fire\nSpeed of lightning\nSwiftness of wind\nDepth of sea\nStability of earth\nFirmness of rock."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Patrick: Christ beside me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ within me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Patrick: Christ be with me, Christ within me, Christ behind me, Christ before me, Christ beside me, Christ to win me, Christ to comfort me and restore me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ in quiet, Christ in danger, Christ in hearts of all that love me, Christ in mouth of friend and stranger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Patrick: I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that 'all that I am,' I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Patrick: I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Patrick: Christ before me, Christ behind me,Christ in me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Patrick: Let anyone laugh and taunt if he so wishes. I am not keeping silent, nor am I hiding the signs and wonders that were shown to me by the Lord many years before they happened, who knew everything, even before the beginning of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Patrick: So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Patrick: For after chastisement from God, and recognizing him, our way to repay him is to exalt him and confess his wonders before every nation under heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Patrick: If I be worthy, I live for my God to teach the heathen, even though they may despise me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Patrick: I grieve for you, how I mourn for you, who are so very dear to me, but again I can rejoice within my heart, not for nothing have I labored, neither has my exile been in vain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Saint Patrick: No one should ever say that it was my ignorance if I did or showed forth anything however small according to God's good pleasure; but let this be your conclusion and let it so be thought, that - as is the perfect truth - it was the gift of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Everything can be sacrificed for truth, but truth cannot be sacrificed for anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Experience is the only teacher we have. We may talk and reason all our lives, but we shall not understand a word of truth until we experience it ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea alone. This is the way to success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Stand up and be strong! No fear. No superstition. Face the truth as it is!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is only one Soul in the Universe.  There is no 'you' or 'me'; all variety is merged into the absolute unity, the one infinite existence - God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Devotion to duty is the highest form of worship of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: May the shadow of the Almighty ever rest on all those you love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Take up an idea, devote yourself to it, struggle on in patience, and the sun will rise for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is the greatest manifestation of power to be calm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: He who struggles is better than he who never attempts"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The remedy for weakness is not brooding over weakness, but thinking of strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The cause of today is the effect of the past and the cause for the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If you really want to judge the character of a man, look not at his great performances. Watch a man do his most common actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every wave of passion restrained is a balance in your favor. It is therefore good policy not to return anger for anger, as with all true morality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The whole point is to discipline the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The organs are the horses, the mind is the rein, the intellect is the charioteer, the soul is the rider, and the body is the chariot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The awakening of the soul to its bondage and its effort to stand up and assert itself - this is called life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If you are pure, if you are strong, you, one man are equal to the whole world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Our supreme duty is to advance toward freedom - physical, mental, and spiritual - and help others to do so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Be an atheist if you want, but do not believe in anything unquestioningly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We must plunge heart and soul and body into the work. And until we are ready to sacrifice everything else to one Idea and to one alone, we never, never will see the Light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The infinite library of the Universe is in your mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: As soon as extreme attachment comes, a man loses himself, he is no more master of himself, he is a slave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The man who becomes angry never does a great amount of work, and the man whom nothing can make angry accomplishes so much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The mind is but the subtle part of the body. You must retain great strength in your mind and words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Mind you, there is no value in learning. You are all mistaken in learning. The only value of knowledge is in the strengthening, the disciplining, of the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Whatever you think, that you will be. If you think yourselves weak, weak you will be; if you think yourselves strong, strong you will be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot feel the pure joy of real freedom"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: As soon as we react, we become slaves. A man blames me, and I immediately react in the form of anger. A little vibration which he created made me a slave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is no other teacher but your own soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do not look back upon what has been done. Go Ahead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: They only live, who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The present is determined by our past actions, and the future by the present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: True progress is slow but sure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The best principles in our lives were those which we heard from our mothers through our ears."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is faith that makes a lion of a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Each soul is a star and all stars are set in the infinite azure, the eternal sky-the Lord."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Everything is ended if you forgive and forget."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Thank God for giving you this world as a moral gymnasium to help your development, but never imagine you can help the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Never talk about the faults of others, no matter how bad they may be. Nothing is ever gained by that. You never help one by talking about his fault; you do him an injury, and injure yourself as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do not hate anybody, because that hatred which comes out from you must, in the long run, come back to you. If you love, that love will come back to you, completing the circle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work- this is the only way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every successful man must have behind him somewhere tremendous integrity, tremendous sincerity, and that is the cause of his signal success in life. He may not have been perfectly unselfish; yet he was tending towards it. If he had been perfectly unselfish, his would have been as great a success as that of the Buddha or of the Christ. The degree of unselfishness marks the degree of success everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This is the first lesson to learn: be determined not to curse anything outside, not to lay the blame upon anyone outside, but stand up, lay the blame on yourself. You will find that is always true. Get hold of yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Purity, patience and perseverance overcome all obstacles. All great things must of necessity be slow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Fear is death, fear is sin, fear is hell, fear is unrighteousness, and fear is wrong life. All the negative thoughts and ideas that are in the world have proceeded from this evil spirit of fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Let us blame none, let us blame our own Karma."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Whatever you believe, that you will be. If you believe yourselves to be sages, sages you will be tomorrow. There is nothing to obstruct you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do any thing and everything, without even the guidance of any one. Stand up and express the divinity within you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Be free; hope for nothing from anyone. I am sure if you look back upon your lives you will find that you were always vainly trying to get help from others which never came."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, hatred is death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All the strength and succour you want is within yourselves. Therefore make your own future. \"Let the dead past bury its dead.\" The infinite future is before you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man's experience in the world is to enable him to get out of its whirlpool."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You yourselves are the Being you are seeking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The man who gives way to anger, or hatred, or any other passion, cannot work; he only breaks himself to pieces, and does nothing practical. It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Never say any man is hopeless, because he only represents a character, a bundle of habits, which can be checked by new and better ones. Character is repeated habits, and repeated habits alone can reform character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: He who has infinite patience and infinite energy at his back, will alone succeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: What power is higher than the power of purity?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The real work is in the practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: He who has conquered the internal nature controls the whole universe; it becomes his servant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Never say, \u2018No\u2019, never say, \u2018I cannot\u2019, for you are infinite. Even time and space are as nothing compared with your nature. You can do anything and everything, you are almighty"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Ask nothing; want nothing in return. Give what you have to give; it will come back to you, but do not think of that now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Learn Everything that is Good from Others, but bring it in, and in your own way absorb it; do not become others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The greatest truths are the simplest things in the world, simple as your own existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind?....... We make our own destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every time you meditate you will keep your growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Through practice comes Yoga, through Yoga comes knowledge, through knowledge love, and through love bliss."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Be perfectly resigned, perfectly unconcerned; then alone can you do any true work. No eyes can see the real forces; we can only see the results. Put out self, forget it; just let God work, it is HIS business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: He whose book of the heart has been opened needs no other books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If you have knowledge and see a man weak, do not condemn him. Go to his level and help him if you can. He must grow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If the Absolute becomes limited by the mind, It is no more Absolute; It has become finite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Tell the truth boldly, whether it hurts or not. Never pander to weakness. If truth is too much for intelligent people and sweeps them away, let them go; the sooner the better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This is the gist of all worship: to be pure and to do good to others. He who sees Shiva in the poor, in the weak, and in the diseased, really worships Shiva. And if he sees Shiva only in the image, his worship is but preliminary. He who has served and helped one poor man seeing Shiva in him, without thinking of his caste or creed or race or anything, with him Shiva is more pleased than with the man who sees Him only in temples"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: He who has no faith in himself can never have faith in God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: What is material and what is not? When the world is the end and God is the means to attain that end, that is material. When God is the end and the world is only the means to attain that end, spirituality has begun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All truth is eternal. Truth is nobody\u2019s property; no race, no individual can lay any exclusive claim to it. Truth is the nature of all souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: As long as we require someone else to make us happy, we are slaves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Fill the brain with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In a conflict between the heart and the brain, follow your heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted , cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Know that every time you feel weak, you not only hurt yourself but also the cause. Infinite faith and strength are the only conditions of success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Therefore we must always expect to find things not up to our highest ideal. Knowing this, we are bound to make the best of everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The greatest force is derived from the power of thought. The finer the element, the more powerful it is. The silent power of thought influences people even at a distance, because mind is one as well as many. The universe is a cobweb; minds are spiders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The greatest sin is to think yourself weak"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You must all pay attention to your health first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Work done for the Self gives no bondage. Neither desire pleasure nor fear pain from work. It is the mind and body that work, not I. Tell yourself this unceasingly and realise it. Try not to know that you work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Books are infinite in number and time is short. The secret of knowledge is to take what is essential. Take that and try to live up to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Onward, my brave boys - money or no money - men or no men! Have you love? Have you God? Onward and forward to the breach, you are irresistible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This life is a hard fact; work your way through it boldly, though it may be adamantine; no matter, the soul is stronger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Please everyone without becoming a hypocrite or a coward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Great work requires great and persistent effort for a long time. ... Character has to be established through a thousand stumbles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Love conquers in the long run. It won't do to become impatient - wait, wait - patience is bound to give success. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do not wait for anybody or anything. Do whatever you can. Build your hope on none."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: To get any reason out of the mass of incongruity we call human life, we have to transcend our reason, but we must do it scientifically, slowly, by regular practice, and we must cast off all superstition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The moment you fear, you are nobody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The earth is enjoyed by heroes\u201d\u2014this is the unfailing truth. Be a hero. Always say, \u201cI have no fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man can become like God and acquire control over the whole universe if he multiplies infinitely his centre of self-consciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Manushya (man) is a being with Manas (mind); and as soon as his thinking power goes, he becomes no better than an animal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man makes the mistake of separating himself from God and identifying himself with the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Let a man go down as low as possible; there must come a time when out of sheer desperation he will take an upward curve and will learn to have faith in himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Purity, patience and perseverance are the three essentials to success and above all love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: A perfect life is a contradiction in terms. Life itself is a state of continuous struggle between ourselves and everything outside. Every moment we are fighting actually with external nature, and if we are defeated, our life has to go. It is, for instance, a continuous struggle for food and air. If food or air fails, we die. Life is not a simple and smoothly flowing thing, but it is a compound effect. This complex struggle between something inside and the external world is what we call life. So it is clear that when this struggle ceases, there will be an end of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: He who is alone is happy. Do good to all, like everyone, but do not love anyone. It is a bondage, and bondage brings only misery. Live alone in your mind - that is happiness. To have nobody to care for and never minding who cares for one is the way to be free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine-and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: None of us have yet seen an ideally perfect man, and yet without that ideal we cannot progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Always keep the mind cheerful. Everyone will die once. Cowards suffer the pangs of death again and again, solely due to the fear in their own minds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Why are people so afraid? The answer is that they have made themselves helpless and dependent on others. We are so lazy, we do not want to do anything ourselves. We want a Personal God, a Savior or a Prophet to do everything for us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We cannot see outside what we are not inside. The universe is to us what the huge engine is to the miniature engine; and indication of any error in the tiny engine leads us to imagine trouble in the huge one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Strength, strength it is that we want so much in this life, for what we call sin and sorrow have all one cause, and that is our weakness. With weakness comes ignorance, and with ignorance comes misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: No one step back, that is the idea.... Fight it out, whatever comes. Let the stars move from the sphere! Let the whole world stand against us!.... What of it? Thus fight! You gain nothing by becoming cowards.... Taking a step backward, you do not avoid any misfortune."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You must keep a strict eye on your health; let everything else be subordinated to that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Our first duty is not to hate ourselves, because to advance we must have faith in ourselves first and then in God. Those who have no faith in themselves can never have faith in God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: By practice men can bring even the heart under control, until it will just beat at will, slowly, or quickly, or almost stop. Nearly every part of the body can be brought under control."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Stand up, be bold, be strong.\r\nTake the whole responsibility on your own shoulders,\r\nand know that you are the creator of your own destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The power of meditation gets us everything. If you want to get power over nature, [you can have it through meditation]. It is through the power of meditation all scientific facts are discovered today. They study the subject and forget everything, their own identity and everything, and then the great fact comes like a flash."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If in this hell of a world one can bring a little joy and peace even for a day into the heart of a single person, that much alone is true; this I have learnt after suffering all my life; all else is mere moonshine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is not God's fault. It is our fault that we suffer. Whatever we sow we reap."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is the subjective world that rules the objective.  Change the subject, and the object is bound to change; purify youreslf, and the world is bound to be purified."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge is shining in Its own lustre."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: \"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher.\" That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Desire, ignorance, and inequality\u2014this is the trinity of bondage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Know that all sins and all evils can be summed up in that one word, weakness. It is weakness that is the motive power in all evil doing; it is weakness that makes men injure others; it is weakness that makes them manifest what they are not in reality. Let them know what they really are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Give up all self, all egotisms get out of anger, lust, give all to God. \"I am not, but Thou art; the old man is all gone, only Thou remainest.\" \"I am Thou.\" Blame none; if evil comes, know the Lord is playing with you and be exceeding glad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: According to the Hindu way of thinking, marriage is rather a duty than a privilege."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Have faith in yourself. You people were once the Vedic Rishis. Only, you have come in different forms, that's all. I see it clear as daylight that you all have infinite power in you. Rouse that up; arise, arise - apply yourselves heart and soul, gird up your loins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Feel like Christ and you will be a Christ; feel like Buddha and you will be a Buddha. It is feeling that is the life, the strength, the vitality, without which no amount of intellectual activity can reach God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain \u2014 and the whole world is at your feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Here lies the secret. Says Patanjali, the father of Yoga, \"When a man rejects all the superhuman powers, then he attains to the cloud of virtue.\" He sees God. He becomes God and helps others to become the same. This is all I have to preach. Doctrines have been expounded enough. There are books by the million. Oh, for an ounce of practice!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In this external world, which is full of finite things, it is impossible to see and find the Infinite. The Infinite must be sought in that alone which is infinite, and the only thing infinite about us is that which is within us, our own soul. Neither the body, nor the mind, nor even our thoughts, nor the world we see around us, is infinite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Watch people do their most common actions; these are indeed the things that will tell you the real character of a great person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Never lose faith in yourself; you can do anything in the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it be after his heart. But the intelligent man is he who can convert every work into one that suits his taste. No work is petty. Everything in this world is like a banyan seed, which, though appearing tiny as a mustard seed, has yet the gigantic banyan tree latent with it. He indeed is intelligent who notices this and succeeds in making all work truly great."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I am inclined to believe that one who is a coward will be born after death as an insect or a worm, that there is no salvation for a coward even after millions of years of penance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Everything that has form must have a beginning and an end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Remember the words of Christ: \"Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.\" These words are literally true, not figures or fiction. They were the outflow of the heart's blood of one of the greatest sons of God who have ever come to this world of ours; words which came as the fruit of realisation, from a man who had felt and realised God himself; who had spoken with God, lived with God, a hundred times more intensely than you or I see this building."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Education is not filling the mind with a lot of facts. Perfecting the instrument and getting complete mastery of my own mind [is the ideal of education]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is no help for you outside of yourself; you are the creator of the universe. Like the silkworm you have built a cocoon around yourself.... Burst your own cocoon and come out as the beautiful butterfly, as the free soul. Then alone you will see Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Be strong , my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We do not look at our own faults; the eyes do not see themselves, they see the eyes of everybody else. We human beings are very slow to recognise our own weakness, our own faults, so long as we can lay the blame upon somebody else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: \"Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all good things will be added unto you.\" Follow God and you shall have whatever you desire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I have come to this conclusion that there is only one country in the world which understands religion - it is India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Let positive, strong, helpful thoughts enter into your brains from very childhood. Lay yourselves open to these thoughts, and not to weakening and paralysing ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Are great things ever done smoothly? Time, patience, and indomitable will must show."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I stand for truth. Truth will never ally itself with falsehood. Even if all the world should be against me, Truth must prevail in the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We came to enjoy; we are being enjoyed. We came to rule; we are being ruled. We came to work; we are being worked. All the time, we find that. And this comes into every detail of our life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: ...never try to follow another's path for that is his way, not yours. When that path is found, you have nothing to do but fold your arms and the tide will carry you to freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Marriage or non-marriage, good or evil, learning or ignorance, any of these is justified, if it leads to the goal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The difference between God and the devil is in nothing except in unselfishness and selfishness. The devil knows as much as God, is as powerful as God; only he has no holiness that makes him a devil. Apply the same idea to the modern world: excess of knowledge and power, without holiness, makes human beings devils."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We know how often in our lives through laziness and cowardice we give up the battle and try to hypnotise our minds into the belief that we are brave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: . . . If you are really my children, you will fear nothing, stop at nothing. You will be like lions. We must rouse India and the whole world. No cowardice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We have either to progress or to degenerate. Our ancestors did great things in the past, but we have to grow into a fuller life and march beyond even their great achievements."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves. If what we are now has been the result of our own past actions, it certainly follows that whatever we wish to be in the future can be produced by our present actions; so we have to know how to act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Feel nothing, know nothing, do nothing, have nothing, give up all to God, and say utterly, 'Thy will be done.' We only dream this bondage. Wake up and let it go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All power is within you. Believe in that,do not believe that you are weak... Stand up and express the Divinity within you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If a thing happens once, it can happen again. If any human being has ever realised perfection, we too can do so. If we cannot become perfect here and now, we never can in any state or heaven or condition we may imagine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Is enjoyment the goal of life? Were it so, it would be a tremendous mistake to become a man at all. What man can enjoy a meal with more gusto than the dog or the cat ? Go to a menagerie and see the [wild animals] tearing the flesh from the bone. Go back and become a bird! . . . What a mistake then to become a man! Vain have been my years - hundreds of years - of struggle only to become the man of sense-enjoyments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is no virtue higher than non-injury."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Learn to feel yourself in other bodies, to know that we are all one. Throw all other nonsense to the winds. Spit out your actions, good or bad, and never think of them again. What is done is done. Throw off superstition. Have no weakness even in the face of death. Be free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Ishvara is the highest manifestation of the Absolute Reality, or in other words, the highest possible reading of the Absolute by the human mind. Creation is eternal, and so also is Ishvara."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every idea that strengthens you must be taken up and every thought that weakens you must be rejected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: When I asked God for strength, He gave me difficult situations to face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.  In meditation we divest ourselves of all material condition and feel our divine nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Work on with the intrepidity of a lion but at the same time with the tenderness of a flower."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Be moral. Be brave. Be a heart-whole man, strictly moral, brave unto desperation. Don't bother your head with religious theories. Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: To injure another creates bondage and hides the truth. Negative virtues are not enough; we have to conquer Maya, and then she will follow us. We only deserve things when they cease to bind us. When the bondage ceases, really and truly, all things come to us. Only those who want nothing are masters of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Everything that we perceive around us is struggling towards freedom, from the atom to the man, from the insentient, lifeless particle of matter to the highest existence on earth, the human soul. The whole universe is in fact the result of this struggle for freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man always is perfect, or he never could become so; but he had to realise it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Be grateful that the poor man is there, so that by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do not run away, it is cowardice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All love is expansion, all selfishness is contraction. Love is therefore the only law of life. He who loves lives, he who is selfish is dying. Therefore love for love's sake, because it is the only law of life, just as you breathe to live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Shri Ramakrishna use to say, \"As Long as I Live, so long do I learn\". That man or that society which has nothing to learn is already in the jaws of death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: When you are doing any work, do not think of anything beyond. Do it as worship, as the highest worship, and devote your whole life to it for the time being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Understanding human nature is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing it can we know God. It is also a fact that the knowledge of God is the highest knowledge, and only by knowing God can we understand human nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Bear in mind, my children, that only cowards and those who are weak commit sin and tell lies. The brave are always moral. Try to be moral, try to be brave, try to be sympathising."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Religion is not an imitation of Jesus or Mohammed. Even if an imitation is good, it is never genuine. Be not an imitation of Jesus, but be Jesus, You are quite as great as Jesus, Buddha, or anybody else. If we are not ... we must struggle and be. I would not be exactly like Jesus. It is unnecessary that I should be born a Jew."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do not say, \u2018You are bad\u2019; say only, \u2018You are good\u2019, but be better!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Each work has to pass through these stages\u2014ridicule, opposition, and then acceptance. Those who think ahead of their time are sure to be misunderstood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The sky never changes: it is the cloud that is changing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Infinite patience, infinite purity, and infinite perseverance are the secret of success in a good cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is our own mental attitude which makes the world what it is for us. Our thought make things beautiful, our thoughts make things ugly. The whole world is in our own minds. Learn to see things in the proper light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Let him who has courage in his mind and love in his heart come with me. I want none else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Blame neither man, nor God, nor anyone in the world. When you find yourselves suffering, blame yourselves, and try to do better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Advance like a hero. Do not be thwarted by anything. How many days will this body last, with its happiness and misery? When you have the human body, then rouse the Atman within and say-I have reached the state of fearlessness!...and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: 'Thou art That', 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If you have infinite patience and perseverance, success is bound to come. No mistake in that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Be not Afraid of anything. You will do Marvelous work. it is Fearlessness that brings Heaven even in a moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Work unto death! I am with you, and when I am gone, my spirit will work with you. This life comes and goes; wealth, fame, enjoyments are only of a few days. It is better, far better to die on the field of duty, preaching the truth, than to die like a worldly worm. Advance!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If one has got power, one must manifest it in action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Each man has a mission in life, which is the result of all his infinite past Karma."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Don't look back\u2014forward, infinite energy, infinite enthusiasm, infinite daring, and infinite patience\u2014then alone can great deeds be accomplished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Even luxuries are arranged according to ideas and ideals, to make them reflect as much of thought-life as possible - and this is Art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: . . . Wait, my child, wait and work on. Patience, patience. . . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Be brave! Be strong! Be fearless! Once you have taken up the spiritual fife, fight! Fight as long as there is any life in you! Even though you know that you are going to be killed, fight till you are killed! Don't die of fright! Die fighting! Don't go down till you are knocked down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is the calm, forgiving, equable, well-balanced mind that does the greatest amount of work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Self-sacrifice, not self-assertion, is the law of the highest universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do not believe a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself. Reason it out. That is realization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Take any path you like; follow any prophet you like; but have only that method which suits your own nature, so that you will be sure to progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Neither seek nor avoid, take what comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The spirit is the cause of all our thoughts and body-action, and everything, but it is untouched by good or evil, pleasure or pain, heat of cold, and all the dualism of nature, although it lends its light to everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Blessed are they whose bodies get destroyed in the service of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Give everything and look for no return."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: They alone live, who live for others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Never turn back to see the result of what you have done. Give all to the Lord and go on, and think not of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Form and formless are intertwined in this world. The formless can only be expressed in form and form can only be thought with the formless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Never even attempt to disturb anyone's tendencies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We are all of us self-important, which never produces any work. Great enterprise, boundless courage, tremendous energy, and, above all, perfect obedience; these are the only traits that lead to individual and national regeneration. These traits are altogether lacking in us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Liberty is the first condition of growth. It is wrong, a thousand times wrong, if any of you dares to say, 'I will work out the salvation of this woman or child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Faith in ourselves will do everything. I have experienced it in my own life, and am still doing so; and as I grow older that faith is becoming stronger and stronger. He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Work and worship are necessary to take away the veil, to lift off the bondage and illusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Perfect sincerity, holiness, gigantic intellect, and all-conquering will. Let only a handful of men work with these, and the whole world will be revolutionized."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Our religion teaches that anger is a great sin, even if it is \"righteous\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: God is very merciful to those whom He sees struggling heart and soul for spiritual realization. But remain idle, without any struggle, and you will see that His grace will never come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You are the creator of your own destiny"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In the primal state before any manifestation, when there was no motion but perfect balance, this Prakriti was indestructible, because decomposition or death comes from instability or change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Dare to be free, dare to go as far as your thought leads, and dare to carry that out in your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Eka-Nishtha or devotion to one ideal is absolutely necessary for the beginner in the practice of religious devotion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Go on bravely. Do not expect success in a day or a year. Always hold on to the highest. Be steady. Avoid jealousy and selfishness. Be obedient and eternally faithful to the cause of truth, humanity, and your country, and you will move the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is no help for you, outside yourself; You are the creator of the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do not desire, for what you desire you get, and with it comes terrible bondage. It is nothing but bringing \"noses on us,\" as in the case of the man who had three boons to ask. We never get freedom until we are self-contained. \"Self is the Saviour of self, none else.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desires for name and fame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man in his true nature is substance, soul, spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man the infinite dreamer, dreaming finite dreams!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Manifest the divinity within you and everything will be harmoniously arranged around it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All motion in this universe is in the form of waves, successively rising and falling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Doing good to others is the  #\u200e one  great Universal Religion"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Books cannot teach God, but they can destroy ignorance; their action is negative."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If you really want the good of others, the whole universe may stand against you and cannot hurt you. It must crumble before your power of the Lord Himself in you if you are sincere and really unselfish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: God is always God, but the views which people and nations may take of him vary.  No higher view is known than that of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If you dare declare that you are free, free you are this moment. If you say you are bound, bound you will remain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do not fret because the world looks with suspicion at every new attempt, even though it be in the path of spirituality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We are the living devils."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The great lesson is, that unity is behind all. Call it God, Love, Spirit. Allah, Jehovah - it is the same unity that animates all life from the lowest animal to the noblest man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: So long as even a single dog in my country is without food, my whole religion will be to feed it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Be a hero. Always say, 'I have no fear.' Tell this to everyone - 'Have no fear.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind; therefore as soon as they are becoming prominent in our minds, we should see a physician, take good food, and rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Condemn none: if you can stretch out a helping hand, do so. If you cannot, fold your hands, bless your brothers, and let them go their own way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is the hero alone, not the coward, who has liberation within his easy reach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: My children, the secret of religion lies not in theories but in practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Losing faith in one's self means losing faith in God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You cannot believe in God until you believe in yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Not one is constant, but everything is changing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The finer the instrument, the greater the power. The mind is much finer and more powerful than the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This attachment of Love to God is indeed one that does not bind the soul but effectively breaks all its bondages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Think of a space in your heart, and in the midst of that space think that a flame is burning. Think of that a flame is burning. Think of that flame as your own soul and inside the flame is another effulgent light, and that is the Soul of your soul, God. Meditate upon that in the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Have faith in yourselves, great convictions are the mother of great deeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All sectarian religions take for granted that all men are equal. This is not warranted by science. There is more difference between minds than between bodies. One fundamental doctrine of Hinduism is that all men are different, there being unity in variety. Even for a drunkard, there are some Mantras-even for a man going to a prostitute!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The kingdom of heaven is already in existence if we will have it, that perfection is already in man if he will see it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Only by practice and non-attachment can we conquer mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: \"Why should I become angry just because another man has made a fool of himself. Do thou resist not evil!\" That is what the lovers of God say. Whatever the world does, wherever it goes, has no influence [on them]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We must be bright and cheerful. Long faces do not make religion. Religion should be the most joyful thing in the world, because it is the best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The sign of death is weakness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Oh, if only you knew yourselves! You are souls; you are Gods. If ever I feel like blaspheming, it is when I call you man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one thorn which has stuck into the foot, another thorn is requisitioned, and when the thorn is taken out, both are thrown away. So the bad tendencies are to be counteracted by the good ones, but after that, the good tendencies have also to be conquered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you, none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but your own soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You cannot teach a child any more than you can grow a plant. All you can do is on the negative side - you can only help. It is a manifestation from within; it develops its own nature - you can only take away obstructions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: \"The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.\" Where goest thou to seek for the Kingdom of God, asks Jesus of Nazareth, when it is there, within you? Cleanse the spirit, and it is there. It is already yours. How can you get what is not yours? It is yours by right. You are the heirs of immortality, sons of the Eternal Father."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Those that only take a nibble here and a nibble there will never attain anything ... Those who really want to be yogis must give up, once and for all, this nibbling at things. Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life - think of it, dream of it, live on that idea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is no end to the power a man can obtain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Go on saying, I am free. Never mind if the next moment delusion comes and says, I am bound. Dehypnotize the whole thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts; the voice that you heard was right, says Vedanta, but the direction you gave to the voice was wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If a piece of burning charcoal be placed on a man\u2019s head, see how he struggles to throw it off. Similar will be the struggle for freedom of those who really understand that they are slaves of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Think day and night, I am of the essence of that Supreme Existence, Knowledge, Bliss-what fear and anxiety have I? This body, mind, and intellect are all transient, and That which is beyond these is myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Fool indeed is he, who, living on the banks of the Ganga, digs a little well for water. Fool indeed is the man who, coming to a mine of diamonds, begins to search for glass beads."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: No better commentary on the Vedas has been written or can be written."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: What we want is progress, development, realisation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Perfection does not come from belief or faith. Talk does not count for anything. Parrots can do that. Perfection comes through the disinterested performance of action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Seek no praise, no reward, for anything you do. No sooner do we perform a good action than we begin to desire credit for it. No sooner do we give money to some charity than we want to see our names blazoned in the papers. Misery must come as the result of such desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: God is not to be reached by the weak. Never be weak. You have infinite strength within you. How else will you conquer anything? How else will you come to God?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The attempt is to kill the false \"I\", so that the real \"I\", the Lord, will reign. \"I the Lord thy God am a jealous God. Thou shalt have no other gods before me,\" say the Hebrew scriptures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: My hope of the future lies in the youths of character, intelligent, \n renouncing all for the service of others, and obedient - good to themselves and the country at large"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: With everything we do in life we identify ourselves. Here is a man who says harsh words to me. I feel anger coming on me. In a few seconds anger and I are one, and then comes misery. Attach yourselves to the Lord and to nothing else, because everything else is unreal. Attachment to the unreal will bring misery. There is only one Existence that is real, only one Life in which there is neither object nor [subject]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This, I have seen in life - those who are overcautious about themselves fall into dangers at every step. Those who are afraid of losing honor and respect, get only disgrace; and those who are always afraid of loss, always lose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This little separate self must die. Then we shall find that we are in the Real, and that Real is God, and He is our own true nature, and He is always in us and with us. Let us live in Him and stand in Him. It is the only joyful state of existence. Life on the plane of the Spirit is the only life, and let us all try to attain to this realization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Many of us do not believe in any form of idolatry; but they have no right to object when others do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils. We are the living devils. The sign of life is strength and growth. The sign of death is weakness. Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death. If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it! There is salvation only for the brave. Everyone must work out his own salvation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I am one of the proudest men ever born, but let me tell you frankly, it is not for myself, but on account of my ancestry. The more I have studied the past, the more I have looked back, more and more has this pride come to me, and it has given me the strength and courage of conviction, raised me up from the dust of the earth, and set me working out that great plan laid out by those great ancestors of ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every act of charity, every thought of sympathy, every action of help, every good deed, is taking so much of self-importance away from our little selves and making us think of ourselves as the lowest and the least, and, therefore, it is all good. Here we find that Jn\u00e2na, Bhakti, and Karma - all come to one point."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: One way for attaining Bhakti is by repeating the name of God a number of times. Mantras have effect: the mere repetition of words.... To obtain Bhakti, seek the company of holy men who have Bhakti, and read books like the Gita and the Imitation of Christ; always think of the attributes of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Books suggest the inner light and the method of bringing that out, but we can only understand them when we have earned the knowledge ourselves. When the inner light has flashed for you, let the books go, and look only within. You have in you all and a thousand times more than is in all the books. Never lose faith in yourself, you can do anything in this universe. Never weaken, all power is yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Brave, bold people, these are what we want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every one wants to command, and no one wants to obey; and this is owing to the absence of that wonderful brahmacharya system of yore. First, learn to obey. The command will come by itself. Always first learn to be a servant, and then you will be fit to be a master."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The banyan tree does not mean awakening, nor does the hill, nor the saint, nor the European couple. The lotus is a symbol of regeneration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Purity, perseverance, and energy- these three I want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The ignorant man never enjoys."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Hold to the idea, \"I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act,\" and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Religion has no business to formulate social laws and insist on the difference between beings, because its aim and end is to obliterate all such fictions and monstrosities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Not one atom can rest until it finds its freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Let people say whatever they like, stick to your own convictions, and rest assured, the world will be at your feet. They say, \"Have faith in this fellow or that fellow\", but I say, \"Have faith in yourself first\", that's the way. Have faith in yourself-all power is in you-be conscious and bring it out. Say, \"I can do everything.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Freedom can never be reached by the weak. Throw away all weakness. Tell your body that it is strong, tell your mind that it is strong, and have unbounded faith and hope in yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If you are a strong man, very good! But do not curse others who are not strong enough for you. ...Everyone says, \"Woe unto you people!!\" Who says, \"Woe unto me that I cannot help you?\" The people are doing all right to the best of their ability and means and knowledge. Woe unto me that I cannot lift them to where I am!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Plunge into the world, and then, after a time, when you have suffered and enjoyed all that is in it, will renunciation come; then will calmness come. So fulfill your desire for power and everything else, and after you have fulfilled the desire, will come the time when you will know that they are all very little things; but until you have fulfilled this desire, until you have passed through that activity, it is impossible for you to come to the state of calmness, serenity, and self-surrender."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All power is within you; you can do anything and everything. Believe in that, do not believe that you are weak; do not believe that you are half-crazy lunatics, as most of us do nowadays. You can do anything and everything without even the guidance of any one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: God is the ever active providence, by whose power systems after systems are being evolved out of chaos, made to run for a time and again destroyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside: it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils'; what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Even the least work done for others awakens the power within; even thinking the least good of others gradually instills into the heart the strength of a lion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Wherever in any society there are too many laws, it is a sure sign that that society will soon die. If you study the characteristics of India, you will find that no nation possesses so many laws as the Hindus, and national death is the result."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: True religion comes not front the teaching of men or the reading of books; it is the awakening of the spirit within us, consequent upon pure and heroic action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All differences in this world are of degree, and not of kind, because oneness is the secret of everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: What do you gain in heaven? You become gods, drink nectar, and get rheumatism. There is less misery there than on earth, but also less truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Feel, my children, feel; feel for the poor, the ignorant, the downtrodden; feel till the heart stops and the brain reels and you think you will go mad; then pour the soul out at the feet of the Lord, and then will come power, help and indomitable energy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This is the only way to reach the goal, to tell ourselves, and to tell everybody else, that we are divine. And as we go on repeating this, strength comes. He who falters at first will get stronger and stronger, and the voice will increase in volume until the truth takes possession of our hearts, and courses through our veins, and permeates our bodies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You see, no one can teach anybody. The teacher spoils everything by thinking that he is teaching. Thus Vedanta says that within man is all knowledge-even in a boy it is so-and it requires only an awakening, and that much is the work of a teacher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Ordinary love is mere animal attraction. Otherwise why is the distinction between the sexes? If one kneels before an image, it is dreadful idolatry; but if one kneels before husband or wife, it is quite permissible!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: First, believe in the world - that there is meaning behind everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Gita is like a bouquet composed of the beautiful flowers of spiritual truths collected from the Upanishads."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If you think that you are bound, you remain bound; you make your own bondage. If you know that you are free, you are free this moment. This is knowledge, knowledge of freedom. Freedom is the goal of all nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The moment I have realized God sitting in the temple of every human body, the moment I stand in reverence before every human being and see God in him - that moment I am free from bondage, everything that binds vanishes, and I am free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Nothing else is necessary but these - love, sincerity, and patience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Though an atom is invisible, unthinkable, yet in it are the whole power and potency of the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The essential thing in religion is making the heart pure; the Kingdom of Heaven is within us, but only the pure in heart can see the King. While we think of the world, it is only the world for us; but let us come to it with the feeling that the world is God, and we shall have God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Where you find the attraction for lust and wealth considerably diminished, to whatever creed he may belong, know that his inner spirit is awakening."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: BY the study of different RELIGIONS we find that in essence they are one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Friends or foes, they are all instruments in Her hands to help us work out our own karma, through pleasure or pain. As such, 'Mother' bless all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: When the soul wants to depend upon nothing, not even upon life, that is the height of philosophy, the height of manhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All action of Sattva, a modification of Prakriti characterised by light and happiness, is for the soul. When Sattva is free from egoism and illuminated with the pure intelligence of Purusha, it is called the self-centred one, because in that state it becomes independent of all relations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We are all born cowards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The ideal of faith in ourselves is of the greatest help to us. If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished. Throughout the history of mankind, if any motive power has been more potent than another in the lives of all great men and women, it is that of faith in themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We must have friendship for all; we must be merciful toward those that are in misery; when people are happy, we ought to be happy; and to the wicked we must be indifferent. These attitudes will make the mind peaceful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Only when a man sees this universe as God does the veil fall from his eyes; then that man, purified and cleansed, finds his whole vision changed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We do not seek to thrust the principles of our religion upon anyone. The fundamental principles of our religion forbid that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Each one of us reaps what we ourselves have sown. These miseries under which we suffer, these bondages under which we struggle, have been caused by ourselves, and none else in the universe is to blame. God is the least to blame for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is this difference between the love taught by Christianity and that taught by Hinduism: Christianity teaches us to love our neighbours as we should wish them to love us; Hinduism asks us to love them as ourselves, in fact to see ourselves in them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If there is inequality in nature, still there must be equal chance for all - or if greater for some and for some less - the weaker should be given more chance than the strong. In other words, a Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten. For greater help must be given to him whom nature has not endowed with an acute intellect from birth. It is a madman who carries coals to Newcastle. The poor, the downtrodden, the ignorant, let these be your God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The glory of man is that he is a thinking being. It is the nature of man to think and therein he differs from animals"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Look upon every man, woman, and everyone as God. You cannot help anyone, you can only serve: serve the children of the Lord, serve the Lord Himself, if you have the privilege."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do not stand on a high pedestal and take 5 cents in your hand and say, here, my poor man, but be grateful that the poor man is there, so by making a gift to him you are able to help yourself.It is not the reciever that is blessed, but it is the giver.Be thankful that you are allowed to exercise your power of benevolence and mercy in the world, and thus become pure and perfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man is a degeneration of what he was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Perfection can never be attained by work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There cannot be two almighty beings in this world. [Imagine having] two or three Gods; one will create the world, another says, \"I will destroy the world.\" It [can] never happen. There must be one God. The soul attains to perfection; [it becomes] almost omnipotent [and] omniscient. This is the worshipper. Who is the worshipped? He, the Lord God Himself, the Omnipresent, the Omniscient, and so on. And above all, He is Love. How is [the soul] to attain this perfection? By worship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Be Grateful to the Man you help, think of Him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: \"Comfort\" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being \"comfortable\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The world has seen thousands of prophets, and the world has yet to see millions"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Each one of you has a glorious future if you dare believe me. Have a tremendous faith in yourselves, like the faith I had when I was I was young... Have that faith, each one of you, in yourself - that eternal power is lodged in every soul - and you will revive the whole of India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The main feature should be the teaching of principles through stories. Don't make it metaphysical at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The disciple must have great power of endurance. Bear all evil and misery without one thought of unhappiness, resistance, remedy, or retaliation. That is true endurance, and that you must acquire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Wherever there has been expansion in love or progress in well-being, of individuals or numbers, it has been through the perception, realisation, and the practicalisation of the Eternal Truth-the oneness of all beings"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Men are taught from childhood that they are weak and sinners. Teach them that they are all glorious children of immortality, even those who are the weakest in manifestation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: No cowardice, no sin, no crime, no weakness - the rest will come of itself. . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: No negative, all positive, affirmative. I am, God is, everything is in me. I will manifest health, purity, knowledge, whatever I want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is salvation only for the brave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In one sense Brahman is known to every human being; he knows, \"I am\"; but man does not know himself as he is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do not figure out big plans at first, but, begin slowly, feel your ground and proceed up and up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The mind generally takes up various objects, runs into all sorts of things. That is the lower state. There is a higher state of the mind, when it takes up one object and excludes all others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: How has all the knowledge in the world been gained but by the concentration of the powers of the mind? The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration. There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point; that is the secret."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We first observe facts, then generalise, and then draw conclusions or principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Life is called Samsara - it is the result of the conflicting forces acting upon us. Materialism says, \"The voice of freedom is a delusion.\" Idealism says, \"The voice that tells of bondage is but a dream.\" Vedanta says, \"We are free and not free at the same time.\" That means that we are never free on the earthly plane, but ever free on the spiritual side. The Self is beyond both freedom and bondage. We are Brahman, we are immortal knowledge beyond the senses, we are Bliss Absolute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every one is struggling for freedom-from the atom to the star. The ignorant man is satisfied if he can get freedom within a certain limit-if he can get rid of the bondage of hunger or of being thirsty. But that sage feels that there is a stronger bondage which has to be thrown off. He would not consider the freedom of the Red Indian as freedom at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Great occasions rouse even the lowest of human beings to some kind of greatness, but he alone is the really great man whose character is great always, the same wherever he be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The sign of vigour, the sign of life, the sign of hope, the sign of health, the sign of everything that is good, is strength. As long as the body lives, there must be strength in the body, strength in the mind, [and strength] in the hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I am a slave of Ramakrishna, who left his work to be done by me and will not give me rest till I have finished it. And oh, how shall I speak of him? Oh, his love for me!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: None deserves liberty who is not ready to give liberty"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The weak have no place here, in this life or any other life. Weakness leads to slavery. Weakness leads to all kinds of misery, physical and mental. Weakness is death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In every man and in every animal, however weak or wicked, great or small, resides the same omnipresent, omniscient soul. The difference is not in the soul, but in the manifestation. Between me and the smallest animal, the difference is only in manifestation, but as a principle he is the same as I am, he is my brother, he has the same soul as I have. This is the greatest principle that India has preached."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Excessive attention to the minutiae of astrology is one of the superstitions which has hurt the Hindus very much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Work hard, be steady, and have faith in the Lord. Set to work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This is the line of life, this is the line of growth, and this is the line of well-being in India - to follow the track of religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Indian mind is first religious, then anything else. So this is to be strengthened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Even now, when you get love, you see Radha. Become Radha and be saved. There is no other way, Christians do not understand Solomon's song. They call it prophecy symbolising Christ's love for the Church. They think it nonsense and father some story upon it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You may meditate on whatever you like, but I shall meditate on the heart of a lion. That gives strength"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We are slaves in the hands of nature - slaves to a bit of bread, slaves to praise, slaves to blame, slaves to wife, to husband, to child, slaves to everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Action will come. Fill yourselves with the ideal; whatever you do, think well on it. All your actions will be magnified, transformed, deified, by the very power of the thought. If matter is powerful, thought is omnipotent. Bring this thought to bear upon your life, fill yourselves with the thought of your almightiness, your majesty, and your glory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: When once you consider an action, do not let anything dissuade you. Consult your heart, not others, and then follow its dictates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If superstition enters, the brain is gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We have lost faith in ourselves. Therefore to preach the Advaita aspect of the Vedanta is necessary to rouse up the hearts of men, to show them the glory of their souls. It is therefore that I preach this Advaita, and I do so not as a sectarian, but upon universal and widely acceptable grounds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Build up your health. Do not dwell in silence upon your sorrows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs. It is the same land which stands firmer than any rock in the world, with its undying vigour, indestructible life. Its life is of the same nature as the soul, without beginning and without end, immortal; and we are the children of such a country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Last of all will come self-surrender. Then we shall be able to give ourselves up to the Mother. If misery comes, welcome; if happiness comes, welcome. Then, when we come up to this love, all crooked things shall be straight. There will be the same sight for the Brahmin, the Pariah, and the dog. Until we love the universe with samesightedness, with impartial, undying love, we are missing again and again. But then all will have vanished, and we shall see in all the same infinite eternal Mother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Knowledge of the Absolute depends upon no book, nor upon anything; it is absolute in itself. No amount of study will give this knowledge; is not theory, it is realization. Cleanse the dust from the mirror, purify your own mind, and in a flash you know that you are Brahman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man is guided by the stomach. He walks and the stomach goes first and the head afterwards. Have you not seen that? It will take ages for the head to go first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Have faith in yourself, all power is in you, be conscious and bring it out"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work. It is fear that is the great cause of misery in the world. It is fear that is the greatest of all superstitions. It is fear that is the cause of all our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven even in a moment. Therefore, \"arise, awake and stop not until the goal is reached."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Tremendous purity, tremendous renunciation, is the one secret of spirituality. \u201cNeither through wealth, nor through progeny, but through renunciation alone is immortality to be reached,\u201d say the Vedas. \u201cSell all that thou hast and give to poor, and follow me,\u201d says the Christ. So all great saints and prophets have expressed it, and have carried it out in their lives. How can great spirituality come without renunciation?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it after the hour, you have had the most beautiful rest you ever had in your life. That is the only way you ever give rest to your system. Not even the deepest sleep will give you such a rest as that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Truth does not pay homage to any society, ancient or modern. Society has to pay homage to Truth or die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In the world take always the position of the giver. Give everything and look for no return. Give love, give help, give service, give any little thing you can, but keep out barter. Make no conditions and none will be imposed on you. Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no one has the right to make others miserable by his foolish acts. Wait, have patience, everything will come right in time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: With the attraction for lust and lucre working the other way, how many long for the realisation of God?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This is the great fact: strength is life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything they really deserve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The happiest is the man who is not at all selfish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Let there be as little materialism as possible, with the maximum of spirituality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Spirituality is the science of the Soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We are ever free if we would only believe it, only have faith enough. You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest this divinity by controlling nature, external and internal. Do this either by work, or worship, or psychic control, or philosophy - by one, or more, or all of these - and be free. This is the whole of religion. Doctrines, or dogmas, or rituals, or books, or temples, or forms, are but secondary details."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If I ask you to plunge into the Ganga or to jump from the roof of a house, meaning it all for your good, could you do even that without any hesitations Just think of it even now; otherwise don't rush forward on the spur of the moment to accept me as your Guru."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: First get rid of the delusion \"I am the body,\" then only will we want real knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Crossing over mountains, rivers, arid oceans, setting at naught, as it were, the obstacles of the distance of space and time, the blood of Indian thought has flowed, and is still flowing into the veins of other nations of the globe, whether in a distinct or in some subtle unknown way. Perhaps to us belongs the major portion of the universal ancient inheritance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The power is with the silent ones, who only live and love and then withdraw their personality. They never say \u201cme\u201d and \u201cmine\u201d; they are only blessed in being instruments"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is nature that is driving us towards perfection, and eventually she will bring everyone there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every soul is destined to be perfect, and every being, in the end, will attain the state of perfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do you know how much energy, how many powers, how many forces, are still lurking behind that frame of yours? What scientist has known all that is in man? Millions of years have passed since man came here, and yet but one infinitesimal part of his powers has been manifested. Therefore, you must not say that you are weak. How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Om is the greatest, meaning the Absolute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every idea has to become broad till it covers the whole of this world, every aspiration must go on increasing till it has engulfed the whole of humanity, nay, the whole of life, within its scope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Om is the pointed piece and Dhy\u00e2na (meditation) is the friction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This misery that I am suffering is of my own doing, and that very thing proves that it will have to be undone by me alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Look here \u2014 we shall all die! Bear this in mind always, and then the spirit within will wake up. Then only, meanness will vanish from you, practicality in work will come, you will get new vigour in mind and body, and those who come in contact with you will also feel that they have really got something uplifting from you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: A point of rest alone explains motion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Just as the law of gravitation existed before its discovery and would exist if all humanity forgets it, so it is with the laws that govern the spiritual world. The moral, ethical and spiritual relations between soul and soul and between individual spirits and the Father of all spirits were there before their discovery and would remain even if we forget them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Whatever you think, that you will be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Was there ever a sillier thing before in the world than what I saw in Malabar country? The poor Pariah is not allowed to pass through the same street as the high-caste man, but if he changes his name to a hodge-podge English name, it is all right; or to a Mohammedan name, it is all right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The fire that warms us can also consume us; it is not the fault of the fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We are what our thoughts have made us"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: However we may receive blows, and however knocked about we may be, the Soul is there and is never injured. We are that Infinite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Knowledge is inherent in man; no knowledge comes from outside; it is all inside. We say Newton discovered gravitation. Was it sitting anywhere waiting for him? It was in his own mind; the time came and he found it out. All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind. The external world is simply the suggestion, the occasion, which sets you to study your own mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: With eternal faith in Him, set fire to the mountain of misery that has been heaped upon India for ages - and it shall be burned down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The same fire that cooks a meal for us may burn a child, and it is no fault of the fire if it does so; the difference lies in the way in which it is used."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Tapas and the other hard Yogas that were practiced in other Yugas do not work now. What is needed in this Yuga is giving, helping others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If money help a man to do good to others, it is of some value; but if not, it is simply a mass of evil, and the sooner it is got rid of, the better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every atom is trying to go and join itself to the next atom. Atoms after atoms combine, making huge balls, the earths, the suns, the moons, the stars, the planets. They in their turn, are trying to rush towards each other, and at last, we know that the whole universe, mental and material, will be fused into one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I am a Hindu, I am proud to belong to a religion which has taught the world both tolerance and universal acceptance. We believe not only in universal toleration, but we accept all religions as true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Had I lived in Palestine, in the days of Jesus of Nazareth, I would have washed his feet, not with my tears, but with my heart's blood!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Have fire and spread all over. Work, work. Be the servant while leading, be unselfish, and never listen to one friend in private accusing another. Have infinite patience, and success is yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The chief helps in this liberation are Abhyasa and Vairagya. Vairagya is non - attachment to life, because it is the will to enjoy that brings all this bondage in its train; and Abhyasa is constant practice of any one of the Yogas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Drama is the most difficult of all arts. In it two things are to be satisfied - first, the ears, and second, the eyes. To paint a scene, if one thing be painted, it is easy enough; but to paint different things and yet to keep up the central interest is very difficult. Another difficult thing is stage - management, that is, combining different things in such a manner as to keep the central interest intact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is the free alone which never changes, and the unchangeable alone which is free; for change is produced by something exterior to a thing, or within itself, which is more powerful than the surroundings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The devil comes in many guises-anger in the form of justice-passion in the form of duty. When it first comes, the man knows and then he forgets. Just as your pleaders' conscience; at first they know it is all Badmashi (roguery), then it is duty to their clients; at last they get hardened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Only love for the Supreme Lord is true Bhakti. Love for any other being, however great, is not Bhakti. The \"Supreme Lord\" here means Ishvara, the concept of which transcends what you in the West mean by the personal God. \"He from whom this universe proceeds, in whom it rests, and to whom it returns, He is Ishvara, the Eternal, the Pure, the All-Merciful, the Almighty, the Ever-Free, the All-Knowing, the Teacher of all teachers, the Lord who of His own nature is inexpressible Love.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Strength, strength for us. What we need is strength, who will give us strength? There are thousands to weaken us, and of stories we have had enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If there is no strength in body and mind, the Atman cannot be realized. First you have to build the body by good nutritious food-then only will the mind be strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Strength is life, Weakness is death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Was there ever a more horrible blasphemy than the statement that all the knowledge of God is confined to this or that book? How dare men call God infinite, and yet try to compress Him within the covers of a little book!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Take courage and work on. Patience and steady work - this is the only way. Go on; remember - patience and purity and courage and steady work. . . . So long as you are pure, and true to your principles, you will never fail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The sum total of all the cells in an organism is one person; so each soul is like one cell and the sum of them is God, and beyond that is the Absolute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Principles must conquer in the long run, for that is the manhood of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Have faith in your destiny"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is to be found in every religion the manifestation of the struggle toward freedom. It is the groundwork of all morality, of unselfishness, which means getting rid of the idea that human beings are the same as this little body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The great Vaishnava religion of India has also sprung from a Tamil Pariah - Shathakopa - \"who was a dealer in winnowing-fans but was a Yogin all the while\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: That is the great fact which you ought to remember. We are the children of the Almighty, we are sparks of the infinite, divine fire. How can we be nothings? We are everything, ready to do everything, we can do everything, and man must do everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This world is nothing. It is at best only a hideous caricature, a shadow of the Real. We must go to the Real. Renunciation will take us to It. Renunciation is the very basis of our true life; every moment of goodness and real life that we enjoy is when we do not think of ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This is no world. It is God Himself. In delusion we call it world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Wherever there is evil and wherever there is ignorance and want of knowledge, I have found out by experience that all evil comes, as our scriptures say, relying upon differences, and that all good comes from faith in equality, in the underlying sameness and oneness of things. This is the great Vedantic ideal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The road to goo\u010f is the roughest and steepest in \n the universe. It is a wonder that so many succeed, \n no wonder that so many fall. Character has to be \n established through a thousand stumbles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Be strong, get beyond all superstitions, and be free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Realize all this as illusion, realize that within the illusion is the Real."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All work is simply to bring out the power of the mind which is already there, to wake up the soul. The power is inside every man, so is knowing; the different works are like blows to bring them out, to cause these giants to wake up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Thirst after body is the great bane of human life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I am teaching you now about it, but how many of you will practice it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There will never be a perfectly good or bad world, because the very idea is a contradiction in terms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: He who asserts he is free, shall be free. He who says he is bound, bound he shall remain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The less passion there is, the better we work. The calmer we are the better for us and the more the amount of work we can do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Proclaim the glory of the Atman with the roar of a lion, and impart fearlessness unto all beings by saying, 'Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached'!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Until we realise ourselves as the Absolute, we cannot attain to deliverance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Poetry and philosophy will become friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will. Next, assert what we really are-existence, knowledge, and bliss-being, knowing, and loving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I pity the Hindu who does not see the beauty in Jesus Christ's character. I pity the Christian who does not reverence the Hindu Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Rama, the ancient idol of the heroic ages, the embodiment of truth, of morality, the ideal son, the ideal husband, and above all, the ideal king, this Rama has been presented before us by the great sage Valmiki. No language can be purer, none chaster, none more beautiful, and at the same time simpler, than the language in which the great poet has depicted the life of Rama."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: One atom in this universe cannot move without dragging the whole world along with it. There cannot be any progress without the whole world following in the wake, and it is becoming every day dearer that the solution of any problem can never be attained on racial, or national, or narrow grounds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I am persuaded that a leader is not made in one life. He has to be born for it. For the difficulty is not in organisation and making plans; the test, the real test, of the leader, lies in holding widely different people together along the line of their common sympathies. And this can only be done unconsciously, never by trying."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This craving for health, wealth, long life, and the like - the so - called good - is nothing but an illusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We must not forget that what I mean by the conquest of the world by spiritual thought is the sending out of the life-giving principles, not the hundreds of superstitions that we have been hugging to our breasts for centuries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We want today that bright sun of intellectuality joined with the heart of Buddha, the wonderful infinite heart of love and mercy. This union will give us the highest philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The sign of life is strength and growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The human soul has sojourned in lower and higher forms, migrating from one to another according to the samskaras or impressions, but it is only in the highest form as a human being that it attains to freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then you will find time to read to them the scriptures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: \u201cBlessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.\u201d This sentence alone would save mankind, if all books and prophets were lost. This purity of heart will bring the vision of God. It is the theme of the whole music of this universe. In purity is no bondage. Remove the veils of ignorance by purity; then we manifest ourselves as we really are and know that we were never in bondage. The seeing of 'many' is the great sin of all the world. See all as Self and love all; let all idea of separateness go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We must patiently practice every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Whatever is weak, avoid! It is death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The ground under the Bilva tree is very holy. Meditating here quickly brings about an awakening of the religious instinct. Shri Ramakrishna used to say so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Where no bondage is, there is no cause and effect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We must always bear in mind that we are not going to be free, but are free already.  Every idea that we are bound is a delusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others' \"fads\" through the greed of getting supporters. Your \u00c2tman is the support of the universe - whose support do you stand in need of? Wait with patience and love and strength; if helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The same power is in every man, the one manifesting more, the other less; the same potentiality is in everyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We must get out of materialism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There can be no love so long as there is lust- even a speck of it, as it were, in the heart. None but men of great renunciation, none but mighty giants among men, have a right to that Love Divine. If that highest ideal of love is held out to the masses, it will indirectly tend to stimulate its worldly which dominates the heart of man- for, meditating on love to God by thinking of oneself as His wife or beloved, one would very likely be thinking most of the time of one's own wife- the result is too obvious to point out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Faith, sympathy - fiery faith and fiery sympathy! Life is nothing, death is nothing, hunger nothing, cold nothing. Glory unto the Lord - march on, the Lord is our General. Do not look back to see who falls - forward - onward! Thus and thus we shall go on, brethren. One falls, and another takes up the work"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: One point of difference between Hinduism and other religions is that in Hinduism we pass from truth to truth-from a lower truth to a higher truth-and never from error to truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The body must be properly taken care of. The people who torture their flesh are demoniacal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: He who always thinks himself as weak will never become strong, but he who knows himself to be a lion, rushes out from the worlds meshes, as a lion from its cage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We want to know in order to make ourselves free. That is our life: one universal cry for freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Die in obeying commands like a soldier, and go to Nirvana, but no cowardice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: What is this universe but name and form?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The apparent man is only a limitation of that Real Man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Know this also to be one of the spiritual practices, a discipline for God - realisation. Its aim also is Self - realisation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Perfection is always infinite. We are the Infinite already. You and I, and all beings, are trying to manifest that infinity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: As soon as I think that I am a little body, I want to preserve it, to protect it, to keep it nice, at the expense of other bodies; then you and I become separate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man, therefore, according to the Vedanta philosophy, is the greatest being that is in the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All these disciplines are for the purification of the heart. And as soon as it is pure, all truths flash upon it in a minute; all truth in the universe will manifest in your heart, if you are sufficiently pure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man is born to conquer nature and not to follow it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You must also remember that the world has God to govern it, and He has not left it to our charity. The Lord God is its Governor and Maintainer, and in spite of these wine fanatics and cigar fanatics, and all sorts of marriage fanatics, it would go on. If all these persons were to die, it would go on none the worse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The soul ... is nameless because it is formless. It will neither go to heaven nor [to hell] any more than it will enter this glass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The whole universe is composed of name and form. Whatever we see is either a compound of name and form, or simply name with form which is a mental image."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: According to the history of human progress, it is disobedience to nature that has constituted that progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: God is present in every Jiva; there is no other God besides that. Who serves Jiva serves God indeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: As the different streams, having their sources in different places, all mingle their water in the sea; O Lord, so the different paths which men take through different tendencies, various though they appear, crooked or straight, all lead to Thee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I hate this world, this dream, this horrible nightmare, with its churches and chicaneries, its books and blackguardisms, its fair faces and false hearts, its howling righteousness on the surface and utter hollowness beneath and, above all, its sanctified shopkeeping!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Don't you find that in a weak physique it is difficult to control the sex - appetite or anger?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Holiness sincerity, and faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: One link in a chain explains the infinite chain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: To be good and to do good-that is the whole of religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All motion, either in the body or anywhere else, is the work of this Prana."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Is there no room for art in the spoken language? What is the use of creating an unnatural language to the exclusion of the natural one?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If religion and life depend upon books or upon the existence of any prophet whatsoever, then perish all religion and books! Religion is in us. No books or teachers can do more than help us to find it, and even without them we can get all truth within. You have gratitude for books and teachers without bondage to them; and worship your Guru as God, but do not obey him blindly; love him all you will, but think for yourself. No blind belief can save you, work out your own salvation. Have only one idea of God - that He is an eternal help."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We can have no conception of God higher than man, so our God is man, and man is God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In these days of intellectual awakening and steadily asserting public opinion, the holy places of the Hindus, their condition, and method of work have not escaped tile keen eye of criticism; and this city, being the holy of holies to all Hindus, has not failed to attract its full share of censure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man is really free, the real man cannot but be free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I do not call it religion so long as it is confined to books and dogmas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Motion is the sign of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The perfect man sees nothing but God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I am the thread that runs through all these pearls, and each pearl is a religion or even a sect thereof. Such are the different pearls, and God is the thread that runs through all of them; most people, however, are entirely unconscious of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Come out into the Universe of Light. Everything in the Universe is Yours, stretch out your arms and Embrace it with Love"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every little bit, every atom inside the universe, is in a constant state of change and motion, but the universe as a whole is unchangeable, because motion or change is a relative thing; we can only think of something in motion in comparison with something which is not moving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: India is immortal if she persists in her search for God. But if she goes in for politics and social conflict, she will die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Perfection is one thing and enjoyment another; these two having different ends, engage men differently."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do you think there is any other means of achieving progress except through Rajas?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Meditation is the means of unification of the subject and object. Meditate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: He is an atheist who does not believe in himself. The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is an atheist who does not believe in himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We hear all around us about practical religion, and analysing all that, we find that it can be brought down to one conception - charity to our fellow beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The secret of Greek Art is its imitation of nature even to the minutest details; whereas the secret of Indian Art is to represent the ideal. The energy of the Greek painter is spent in perhaps painting a piece of flesh, and he is so successful that a dog is deluded into taking it to be a real bit of meat and so goes to bite it. Now, what glory is there in merely imitating nature? Why not place an actual bit of flesh before the dog?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We have to practice to become perfect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Out of Mahat comes universal egoism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Church tries to fit Christ into it, not the Church into Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The bane of sects, especially in Bengal, is that if any one happens to have a different opinion, he immediately starts a new sect, he has no patience to wait."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: After every happiness comes misery; they may be far apart or near. The more advanced the soul, the more quickly does one follow the other. What we want is neither happiness nor misery. Both make us forget our true nature; both are chains-one iron, one gold; behind both is the Atman, who knows neither happiness nor misery. These are states, and states must ever change; but the nature of the Atman is bliss, peace, unchanging. We have not to get it, we have it; only wash away the dross and see it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Live for an ideal and leave no place in the mind for anything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: These practices - non-killing, truthfulness, non-stealing, chastity, and non-receiving - are to be practised by every man, woman, and child; by every soul, irrespective of nation, country, or position."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first. As certain religions of the world say that a man who does not believe in a Personal God outside of himself is an atheist, so the Vedanta says, a man who does not believe in himself is an atheist. Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Everything has a cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The calm man is not the man who is dull. You must not mistake Sattva for dullness or laziness. The calm man is the one who has control over the mind waves. Activity is the manifestation of inferior strength, calmness, of the superior."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man will have to go beyond intellect in the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Whenever power is used for evil, it becomes diabolical; it must be used for good only."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: These births and deaths are changes in nature which we are mistaking for changes in us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Here in India, it is religion that forms the very core of the national heart. It is the backbone, the bed-rock, the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built. Politics, power, and even intellect form a secondary consideration here. Religion, therefore, is the one consideration in India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: My son, there is no rest for me. That which Sri Ramakrishna called \"Kali\" took possession of my body and soul three or four days before his passing away. That makes me work and work and never lets me keep still or look to my personal comfort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: To his enemies the householder must be a hero. Them he must resist. That is the duty of the householder. He must not sit down in a corner and weep, and talk nonsense about non-resistance. If he does not show himself a hero to his enemies he has not done his duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This World will always continue to be a mixture of Good and Evil. Our duty is to sympathize with the weak and to Love even the wrongdoer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I hate cowardice; I will have nothing to do with cowards or political nonsense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: What makes a man stand up and work? Strength. Strength is goodness, weakness is sin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is no power on earth which can be kept long confined within a narrow limit. It cannot be kept compressed too long to allow of expansion at a subsequent period."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Through the grace of the Almighty Power, it is sure to manifest itself in time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Stand upon the Atman, then only can we truly love the world. Take a very, very high stand; knowing our universal nature, we must look with perfect calmness upon all the panorama of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I love my nation, I cannot see you degraded, weakened any more than you are now. Therefore I am bound for your sake and for truth's to cry, \"Hold!\" and to raise my voice against this degradation of my race. Give up these weakening mysticism and be strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Matter is motion outside, mind is motion inside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: When I asked God for Brains and Brawn, He gave me Puzzles in life to Solve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is, however, only one idea of duty which has been universally accepted by all mankind, of all ages and sects and countries, and that has been summed up in a Sanskrit aphorism thus: \"Do not injure any being; not injuring any being is virtue, injuring any being is sin.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Remember the only sign of life is motion and growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The vapour becomes snow, then water, then Ganga; but when it is vapour, there is no Ganga, and when it is water, we think of no vapour in it. The idea of creation or change is inseparably connected with will. So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: So long as we perceive this world in motion, we have to conceive will behind it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Avoid excessive merriment. A mind in that state never becomes calm; it becomes fickle. Excessive merriment will always be followed by sorrow. Tears and laughter are near kin. People so often run from one extreme to the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The earth is enjoyed by heroes"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Always remember that renunciation is the root idea. Unless one is initiated into this idea, not even Brahma and the World - gods have the power to attain Mukti"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: To the other nations of the world, religion is one among the many occupations of life. There is politics, there are the enjoyments of social life, there is all that wealth can buy or power can bring, there is all that the senses can enjoy; and among all these various occupations of life and all this searching after something which can give yet a little more whetting to the cloyed senses - among all these, there is perhaps a little bit of religion. But here, in India, religion is the one and the only occupation of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Everything that can weaken us as a race we have had for the last thousand years. It seems as if during that period the national life had this one end in view, viz how to make us weaker and weaker, till we have become real earthworms, crawling at the feet of every one who dares to put his foot on us. Therefore my friends, as one of your blood, as one that lives and dies with you, let me tell you that we want strength, strength, and every time strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man is the best mirror, and the purer the man, the more clearly he can reflect God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Throw overboard all idea of jealousy and egotism, once for all. Come on to the practical field with tremendous energy; to work, in the fullness of strength! As to the rest, the Lord will point out the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every attempt to solve the laws of causation, time, and space would be futile, because the very attempt would have to be made by taking for granted the existence of these three."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We have not faith, we have not patience to see this. We trust the man in the street; but there is one being in the universe we never trust and that is God. We trust Him when He works just our way. But the time will come when, getting blow after blow, the self - sufficient mind will die. In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up. We are glad that there are so many thorns on the path. They strike the hood of the cobra."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: To devote your life to the good of all and to the happiness of all is religion. Whatever you do for your own sake is not religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: What is meant by charity? Charity is not fundamental. It is really helping on the misery of the world, not eradicating it. One looks for name and fame and covers his efforts to obtain them with the enamel of charity and good works. He is working for himself under the pretext of working for others. Every so-called charity is an encouragement of the very evil it claims to operate against."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In every attempt there will be one set of men who will applaud, and another who will pick holes. Go on doing your own work, what need have you to reply to any party?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Neither numbers nor powers nor wealth nor learning nor eloquence nor anything else will prevail, but purity, living the life, in one word, anubhuti, realisation. Let there be a dozen such lion-souls in each country, lions who have broken their own bonds, who have touched the Infinite, whose whole soul is gone to Brahman, who care neither for wealth nor power nor fame, and these will be enough to shake the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: A tremendous stream is flowing toward the ocean, carrying us all along with it; and though like straws and scraps of paper we may at times float aimlessly about, in the long run we are sure to join the Ocean of Life and Bliss."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This idea of body is a simple superstition. It is superstition that makes us happy or unhappy. It is superstition caused by ignorance that makes us feel heat and cold, pain and pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Patanjali, declares that the true secret of evolution is the manifestation of the perfection which is already in every being; that this perfection has been barred and the infinite tide behind is struggling to express itself. These struggles and competitions are but the results of our ignorance, because we do not know the proper way to unlock the gate and let the water in. This infinite tide behind must express itself; it is the cause of all manifestation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man never dies, nor is he ever born; bodies die, but he never dies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In India the mother is the center of the family and our highest ideal. She is to us the representative of God, as God is the mother of the universe. It was a female sage who first found the unity of God, and laid down this doctrine in one of the first hy mns of the Vedas. Our God is both personal and absolute, the absolute is male, the personal, female. And thus it comes that we now say: 'The first manifestation of God is the hand that rocks the cradle'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Have faith. We will do"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Out of purity and silence comes the word of power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Live for an ideal, and that one ideal alone. Let it be so great, so strong, that there may be nothing else left in the mind; no place for anything else, no time for anything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Upanishads do not reveal the life of any teacher, but simply teach principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is clear to us that, for good or for evil, our vitality is concentrated in our religion. You cannot change it. You cannot destroy it and put in its place another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Christ said, \"I and my father are one\", and you repeat it. Yet it has not helped mankind. For nineteen hundred years men have not understood that saying. They make Christ the saviour of men. He is God and we are worms!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Marriage is the truest goal for ninety-nine per cent of the human race, and they will live the happiest life as soon as they have learnt and are ready to abide by the eternal lesson - that we are bound to bear and forbear and that life to every one must be a compromise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Religion is not in fault."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The coward, afraid of the lash, with one hand wipes his eyes and gives with the other. Of what avail are such gifts?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Behind my work was ambition, behind my love was personality, behind my purity was fear, behind my guidance the thirst for power. Now they are vanishing and I drift. I come, Mother, I come, in Thy warm bosom, floating wheresoever Thou takest me, in the voiceless, in the strange, in the wonderland, I come - a spectator, no more an actor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: See here, how fresh is the air, there is the Ganga, and the Sadhus (holy men) are practising meditation, and holding lofty talks! While the moment you will go to Calcutta, you will be thinking of nasty stuff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All the superior religions had their growth between the Ganga and the Euphrates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: He in whose mind is no anger, hatred, or envy, who never loses his balance, dies, or is born, who is he but God?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Cut the bondage of all worldly affections; go beyond laziness and all care as to what becomes of you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Those who work at a thing heart and soul not only achieve success in it but through their absorption in that they also realize the supreme truth-Brahman. Those who work at a thing with their whole heart receive help from God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The world is a demon. It is a kingdom of which the puny ego is king. Put it away and stand firm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Absolute God of the universe, the creator, preserver, and destroyer of the universe, is impersonal principle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Business is business, no child's play."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Books never make religions, but religions make books. We must not forget that. No book ever created God, but God inspired all the great books. And no book ever created a soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: He who is the servant of all is their true master. He never becomes a leader in whose love there is a consideration of high or low. He whose love knows no end and never stops to consider high or low has the whole world lying at his feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: No study has taken so much of human energy, whether in times past or present, as the study of the soul, of God, and of human destiny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Thought is like a bubble rising to the surface. When thought is joined to will, we call it power. That which strikes the sick person whom you are trying to help is not thought, but power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: That man has reached immortality who is disturbed by nothing material."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All objective pleasure in the long run must bring pain, because of the fact of change or death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: As body, mind, or soul, you are a dream; you really are Being, Consciousness, Bliss (satchidananda). You are the God of this universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In Shankaracharya we saw tremendous intellectual power, throwing the scorching light of reason upon everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Be strong! Don't talk of ghosts and devils."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Give up the awful disease that is creeping into our national blood, that idea of ridiculing everything, that loss of seriousness. Give that up. Be strong and have this Shraddha, and everything else is bound to follow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do not say we are weak; we can do anything and everything. What can we not do? Everything can be done by us; we all have the same glorious soul, let us believe in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: My child, what I want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel, inside which dwells a mind of the same material as that of which the thunderbolt is made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Children of those ancient Aryans, through the grace of the Lord may you have the same pride, may that faith in your ancestors come into your blood, may it become a part and parcel of your lives, may it work towards the salvation of the world!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is the Prana that is manifesting as motion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You cannot take away one atom of matter or one foot-pound of force. You cannot add to the universe one atom of matter or one foot-pound of force. As such, evolution does not come out of zero; then, where does it come from? From previous involution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In nature alone are forms. That which is not of nature cannot have any forms, fine or gross. It must be formless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do not blame any supernatural being, neither be hopeless and despondent, nor think we are in a place from which we can never escape unless someone comes and lends us a helping hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is no such thing as \"righteous\" anger or justifiable killing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If the whole responsibility is thrown upon our own shoulders, we shall be at our highest and best; when we have nobody to grope towards, no devil to lay our blame upon, no Personal God to carry our burdens, when we are alone responsible, then we shall rise to our highest and best. I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Some people are so afraid of losing their individuality. Wouldn't it be better for the pig to lose his pig-individuality if he can become God? Yes. But the poor pig does not think so at the time. Which state is my individuality? When I was a baby sprawling on the floor trying to swallow my thumb? Was that the individuality I should be sorry to lose? Fifty years hence I shall look upon this present state and laugh, just as I now look upon the baby state. Which of these individualities shall I keep?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The more we grow in love and virtue and holiness, the more we see love and virtue and holiness outside. All condemnation of others really condemns ourselves. Adjust the microcosm (which is in your power to do) and the macrocosm will adjust itself for you. It is like the hydrostatic paradox, one drop of water can balance the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Because the Soul is not made of matter, since it is spiritual, it cannot obey the laws of matter, it cannot be judged by the laws of matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The progress and civilisation of the human race simply mean controlling this nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: \"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.\" Can we see God? Of course not. Can we know God? Of course not. If God can be known, He will be God no longer. Knowledge is limitation. But I and my Father are one: I find the reality in my soul. These ideas are expressed in some religions, and in others only hinted. In some they were expatriated. Christ's teachings are now very little understood in this country. If you will excuse me, I will say that they have never been very well understood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Unselfishness is more paying, only people have not the patience to practice it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Father is the existence out of which everything comes; Son is that knowledge. It is in Christ that God will be manifest. God was everywhere, in all beings, before Christ; but in Christ we became conscious of Him. This is God. The third is bliss, the Holy Spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Religion is the one and sole interest of the people of India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: One possessing Vairagya does not understand by Atman the individual ego but the All-pervading Lord, residing as the Self and Internal Ruler in all. He is perceivable by all as the sum total."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man is the nearest approach to Brahman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: . . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another; they exist in a sea of blood. A European said that the reason why in India animals were not killed was because it was supposed that they contained the spirits of ancestors. This reason was worthy of a savage nation who are not many steps from the brute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If there be no eternal life, still the enjoyment of spiritual thoughts as ideals is keener and makes a man happier, whilst the foolery of materialism leads to competition and undue ambition and ultimate death, individual and national."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Some men, who begin by saying that the world is a hell, often end by saying that it is a heaven when they succeed in the practice of self-control."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Nature, body, mind go to death, not we. We neither go nor come. The man Vivekananda is in nature, is born and dies. But the Self we see as Vivekananda is never born and never dies. It is the eternal and unchangeable Reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: My bones are destined to make corals in the Ganga."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If a man, day and night, thinks he is miserable, low and nothing, nothing he becomes. If you say yea, yea, \"I am, I am\", so shall you be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Everything is fraught with fear: Renunciation alone is fearless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You know it already that each one of us is the effect of the infinite past; the child is ushered into the world not as something flashing from the hands of nature, as poets delight so much to depict, but he has the burden of an infinite past; for good or evil he comes to work out his own past deeds"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Practice makes us what we shall be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Absolute is the material of both God and man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Even forgiveness, if weak and passive, is not true: fight is better. Forgive when you could bring legions of angels to the victory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: These tremendous contradictions in our intellect, in our knowledge, yea, in all the facts of our life face us on all sides."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: What is the idea of God in heaven? Materialism. The Vedantic idea is the infinite principle of God embodied in every one of us. God sitting up on a cloud! Think of the utter blasphemy of it! It is materialism - downright materialism. When babies think this way, it may be all right, but when grown - up men try to teach such things, it is downright disgusting - that is what it is. It is all matter, all body idea, the gross idea, the sense idea. Every bit of it is clay and nothing but clay. Is that religion?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: With the Holy Mother as the centre of inspiration, a Math is to be established on the eastern bank of the Ganga. . . .  On the other side of the Ganga a big plot of land will be acquired, where unmarried girls or Brahmacharini widows will live; devout married women will also be allowed to stay now and then. Men will have no concern with this Math."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I am thoroughly convinced that no individual or nation can live by holding itself apart from the community of others. Give and take is the law; and if India wants to raise herself once more, it is absolutely necessary that she brings out her treasures and throws them broadcast among the nations of the earth, and in return be ready to receive what others have to give her. Expansion is life, contraction is death. Love is life, and hatred is death. We commenced to die the day we began to hate other races; and nothing can prevent our death unless we come back to expansion, which is life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Wait with patience and love and strength. If helpers are not ready now, they will come in time. Why should we be in a hurry? The real working force of all great work is in its almost unperceived beginnings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Shri Krishna says: \"Better die in your own path than attempt the path of another.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Never producing pain by thought, word, and deed, in any living being, is what is called Ahims\u00e2, non-injury."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Let each one of us pray day and night for the downtrodden millions who are held fast by poverty, priestcraft, and tyranny. Pray day and night for them. I care more to preach religion to them than to the high and the rich."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Present-day Hinduism and Buddhism were growths from the same branch. Buddhism degenerated, and Shankara lopped it off!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Out of this idea of separation between atom and atom comes all misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: [The seers call him wise] whose every attempt is free, without any desire for gain, without any selfishness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The animal man lives in the senses. If he does not get enough to eat, he is miserable; or if something happens to his body, he is miserable. In the senses both his misery and his happiness begin and end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Prana, according to the Vedanta, is the principle of life. It is like ether, an omnipresent principle; and all motion, either in the body or anywhere else, is the work of this Prana. It is greater than Akasha, and through it everything lives. Prana is in the mother, in the father, in the sister, in the teacher, Prana is the knower."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: External motion we call action; internal motion is human thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Here in this blessed land, the foundation, the backbone, the life-centre is religion and religion alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All these practices and struggles to become religious are only negative work, to take off the bars, and open the doors to that perfection which is our birthright, our nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You gain nothing by becoming cowards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The moment you think creed and form and ceremony the \"be-all\" and \"end-all\", then you are in bondage. Take part in them to help others, but take care they do not become a bondage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Some imaginations help to break the bondage of the rest. The whole universe is imagination, but one set of imaginations will cure another set. Those that tell us that there is sin and sorrow and death in the world are terrible. But the other set - thou art holy, there is God, there is no pain - these are good, and help to break the bondage of the others. The highest imagination that can break all the links of the chain is that of the Personal God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body - to cast it off like a disused garment. But I shall not cease to work! I shall inspire men everywhere, until the world shall know that it is one with God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The one eternal religion is applied to the opinions of various minds and various races. There never was my religion or yours, my national religion or your national religion; there never existed many religions, there is only the one. One infinite religion existed all through eternity and will ever exist, and this religion is expressing itself in various countries in various ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Ahimsa (non-killing), truthfulness, purity, mercy, and godliness are always to be kept."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: What is the use of talking of one's mistakes to the world? They cannot thereby be undone. For what one has done one must suffer; one must try and do better. The world sympathizes only with the strong and the powerful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Non-injuring has to be attained by him who would be free. No one is more powerful than he who has attained perfect non-injuring. No one could fight, no one could quarrel, in his presence. Yes, his very presence, and nothing else, means peace, means love wherever he may be. Nobody could be angry or fight in his presence. Even the animals, ferocious animals, would be peaceful before him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the place of the old and the decaying. Nature favours the dying out of the unfit and the survival of the fittest. The final result of such conflict between the priestly and the other classes has been mentioned already."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Freedom can never be true of name and form; it is the clay out of which we (the pots) are made; then it is limited and not free, so that freedom can never be true of the related. One pot can never say \"I am free\" as a pot; only as it loses all ideas of form does it become free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Pay particular attention to your health, but too much coddling of the body will, on the contrary, also spoil the health."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Mark you, if you give up spirituality, leaving it aside to go after the materializing civilization of the West, the result will be that in three generations you will be an extinct race; because the backbone of the nation will be broken, the foundation upon which the national edifice has been built will be undermined, and the result will be annihilation all round."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Know for certain that there is no power in the universe to injure us unless we first injure ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Give up, renounce the world. Now we are like dogs strayed into a kitchen and eating a piece of meat, looking round in fear lest at any moment some one may come and drive them out. Instead of that, be a king and know you own the world. This never comes until you give it up and it ceases to bind. Give up mentally, if you do not physically. Give up from the heart of your hearts"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We shall progress inch by inch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man dies but once. My disciples must not be cowards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Religion for a long time has come to be static in India. What we want is to make it dynamic. I want it to be brought into the life of everybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Whatsoever has form must be the result of combinations of particles and requires something else behind it to move it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The book one must read to learn natural sciences is the book of nature. The book from which to learn religion is your own mind and heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Let us give out of our own bounty, just as God gives to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Charity opens the heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Help and not fight. Assimilation and not destruction. Harmony and Peace and not dissension."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Only man makes Karma."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This caste system had grown by the practice of the son always following the business of the father."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is the patient building of character, the intense struggle to realize the truth, which alone will tell in the future of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Let us not depend upon the world for pleasure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Where God is, there is no other. Where world is, there is no God. These two will never unite. Like light and darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In countries where there is no marriage, there is no duty between husband and wife; when marriage comes, husband and wife live together on account of attachment; and that kind of living together becomes settled after generations; and when it becomes so settled, it becomes a duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: As soon as a man stands up and says he is right or his church is right, and all others are wrong, he is himself all wrong. He does not know that upon the proof of all the others depends the proof of his own. Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness. I do not mean the sentimental statement that all men are brothers, but that one must feel the oneness of human life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Who shall blame whom, who praise whom? Whom to seek, whom to avoid? I seek none, nor avoid any, for I am all the universe. I praise myself, I blame myself, I suffer for myself, I am happy at my own will, I am free. This is the Jn\u00e2ni, the brave and daring. Let the whole universe tumble down; he smiles and says it never existed, it was all a hallucination. He sees the universe tumble down. Where was it! Where has it gone!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: What is salvation? To live with God. Where? Anywhere. Here this moment. One moment in infinite time is quite as good as any other moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We have none of us seen a form which had not a beginning and will not have an end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All these ideas such as astrology, although there may be a grain of truth in them, should be avoided."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: So we find that in almost every religion these are the three primary things which we have in the worship of God - forms or symbols, names, God-men. All religions have these, but you find that they want to fight with each other...These are the external forms of devotion, through which man has to pass; but if he is sincere, if he really wants to reach the truth, he goes higher than these, to a plane where forms are as nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do not be afraid of a small beginning. great things come afterwards. Be courageous. Do not try to lead your brethren, but serve them. The brutal mania for leading has sunk many a great ships in the waters of life. Take care especially of that, i.e. be unselfish even unto death, and work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If there's a God, we must see him and if there's a soul we must perceive it. Otherwise, it's better not to believe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Science and religion will meet and shake hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This world is not for cowards. Do not try to fly. Look not for success or failure. Join yourself to the perfectly unselfish will and work on. Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres. You have the right to work, but do not become so degenerate as to look for results. Work incessantly, but see something behind the work. Even good deeds can find a man in great bondage. Therefore be not bound by good deeds or by desire for name and fame. Those who know this secret pass beyond this round of birth and death and become immortal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Perfection can be had by everybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Not only we can, but some have reached perfection; so no matter what finer bodies come, they could only be on the relative plane and could do no more than we, for to attain freedom is all that can be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The body and mind are continually changing, and are, in fact, only names of series of changeful phenomena, like rivers whose waters are in a constant state of flux, yet presenting the appearance of unbroken streams. Every particle in this body is continually changing; no one has the same body for many minutes together, and yet we think of it as the same body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Ours is the only religion that does not depend on a person or persons; it is based upon principles. At the same time there is room for millions of persons. There is ample ground for introducing persons, but each one of them must be an illustration of the principles. We must not forget that. These principles of our religion are all safe, and it should be the life-work of everyone of us to keep then safe, and to keep them free from the accumulating dirt and dust of ages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Whatever had form or shape must be limited, and could not be eternal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is always for greater joy that you give up the lesser. This is practical religion-the attainment of freedom, renunciation. Renounce the lower so that you may get the higher. Renounce! Renounce! Sacrifice! Give up! Not for zero. Not for nothing. But to get the higher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You know your real nature [to be divine]. You are the king and play you are a beggar. . . . It is all fun. Know it and play. That is all there is to it. Then practice it. The whole universe is a vast play."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Music is the highest art and to those who understand, is the highest worship"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control, to attain to that consciousness from which you will be able to study the mind and remain unmoved by any of its wild gyrations. Otherwise the facts observed will not be reliable; they will not apply to all people and therefore will not be truly facts or data at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The wind is blowing; those vessels whose sails are unfurled catch it, and go forward on their way, but those which have their sails furled do not catch the wind. Is that the fault of the wind? Is it the fault of the merciful Father, whose wind of mercy is blowing without ceasing, day and night, whose mercy knows no decay, is it His fault that some of us are happy and some unhappy? We make our own destiny. His sun shines for the weak as well as for the strong. His wind blows for saint and sinner alike. He is the Lord of all, the Father of all, merciful, and impartial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Indian mythology has a theory of cycles, that all progression is in the form of waves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All is the Self or Brahman. The saint, the sinner, the lamb, the tiger, even the murderer, as far as they have any reality, can be nothing else, because there is nothing else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas. Avoid all these. Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion. Is there any mystery in the Vedanta, or in the Vedas, or in the Samhit\u00e2s, or in the Puranas? What secret societies did the sages of yore establish to preach their religion? What sleight-of-hand tricks are there recorded as used by them to bring their grand truths to humanity?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Until we give up the world manufactured by the ego, never can we enter the kingdom of heaven. None ever did, none ever will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Religion in India must be made as free and as easy of access as is God's air."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We never change, we never die, and we are never born."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All the powers in the universe are already ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Society is an organism which obeys the immutable law of progress; and change, judicious and cautious change, is necessary for the well being, and indeed the preservation of the social system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is the witness alone that can work without any desire, without any idea of going to heaven, without any idea of blame, without any idea of praise. The witness alone enjoys, and none else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man cannot live upon words, however he may try."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere, let them read, let them become familiar with the great principles underlying these ideas, and it is ninety-nine to one that the charm will come over them, and fascination will be the result. Slow and silent, as the gentle dew that falls in the morning, unseen and unheard yet producing a most tremendous result, has been the work of the calm, patient, all-suffering spiritual race upon the world of thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every one is as much bound in thought, word, deed, and mind, as a piece of stone or this table. That I talk to you now is as rigorous in causation as that you listen to me. There is no freedom until you go beyond Maya. That is the real freedom of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The coward is an object to be pitied."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Never can a reforming sect survive if it is only reforming; the formative elements alone - the real impulse, that is, the principles - live on and on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: What the world wants today is twenty men and women who can dare to stand in the street yonder and say that they possess nothing but God. Who will go? Why should one fear? If this is true, what else could matter? If it is not true, what do our lives matter?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Move onward and carry into practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: A certain motion becomes understood when it is referred to a force; certain sensations, to matter; certain changes outside, to law; certain changes in thought, to mind; certain order singly, to causation - and joined to time, to law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Spirituality brings a class of men who lay exclusive claim to the special powers of the world. The immediate effect of this is a reaction towards materialism, which opens the door to scores of exclusive claims, until the time comes when not only all the spiritual powers of the race, but all its material powers and privileges are centred in the hands of a very few; and these few, standing on the necks of the masses of the people, want to rule them. Then society has to help itself, and materialism comes to the rescue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We do not depend upon any external help in meditation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Motion is always a relative thing. I move in relation to something else. Any particle in this universe can change in relation to any other particle; but take the whole universe as one, and in relation to what can it move? There is nothing besides it. So this infinite Unit is unchangeable, immovable, absolute, and this is the Real Man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Our misery comes, not from work, but by our getting attached to something. Take for instance, money: money is a great thing to have, earn it, says Krishna; struggle hard to get money, but don't get attached to it. So with children, with wife, husband, relatives, fame, everything; you have no need to shun them, only don't get attached. There is only one attachment and that belongs to the Lord, and to none other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is the nature of the brute to remain where he is (not to progress); it is the nature of man to seek good and avoid evil; it is the nature of God to seek neither, but just to be eternally blissful. Let us be God!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In this world we find that all happiness is followed by misery as its shadow. Life has its shadow, death. They must go together, because they are not contradictory, not two separate existences, but different manifestations of the same unit, life and death, sorrow and happiness, good and evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There are the altars, but here is the greatest of altars, the living, conscious human body, and to worship at this altar is far higher than the worship of any dead symbols."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Purusha is the; great attraction of the universe; though untouched by and unconnected with the universe, yet it attracts the whole; universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The world cares little for principles. They care for persons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Even the lowest of the Hindus, the Pariah, has less of the brute in him than a Briton in a similar social status. This is the result of an old and excellent religious civilization. This evolution to a higher spiritual state is possible only through discipline and education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Forget not that thy marriage, thy wealth, thy life are not for sense-pleasure, are not for thy individual personal happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We never want Him. We say, \"Lord, give me a fine house.\" We want the house, not Him. \"Give me health! Save me from this difficulty!\" When a man wants nothing but Him, [he gets Him]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Hindus have cultivated the power of analysis and abstraction. No nation has yet produced a grammar like that of Panini."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Come out into the broad light of day, come out from the little narrow paths, for how can the infinite soul rest content to live and die in small ruts?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: How can there be any progress of the country without the spread of education, the dawning of knowledge?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The way to God is the opposite to that of the world. And to few, very few, are given to have God and mammon at the same time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: A man, and a cat, and a dog, are all animals. These particular examples, as man, or dog, or cat, are parts of a bigger and more general concept, animal. The man, and the cat, and the dog, and the plant, and the tree, all come under the still more general concept, life. Again, all these, all beings and all materials, come under the one concept of existence, for we all are in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Materialism prevails in Europe today. You may pray for the salvation of the modern sceptics, but they do not yield, they want reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Give up bondage; become a son, be free, and then you can \"see the Father\", as did Jesus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Truth, purity, and unselfishness wherever these are present, there is no power below or above the sun to crush the possessor thereof. Equipped with these, one individual is able to face the whole universe in opposition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I want to start two institutions, one in Madras and one in Calcutta, to carry out my plan; and that plan briefly is to bring the Vedantic ideals into the everyday practical life of the saint or the sinner, of the sage or the ignoramus, of the Brahmin or the Pariah."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: But on the heights of the Himalayas I have a place where I am determined nothing shall enter except pure truth. There I want to work out this idea about which I have spoken to you today. There are an Englishman and an Englishwoman in charge of the place. The purpose is to train seekers of truth and to bring up children without fear and without superstition. They shall not hear about Christs and Buddhas and Shivas and Vishnus - none of these."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Free thyself from the mighty attraction-\r\nThe maddening wine of love, the charm of sex.\r\nBreak the harp! Forward, with the ocean's cry!. . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: \"Face the brutes.\" That is a lesson for all life-face the terrible, face it boldly. Like the monkeys, the hardships of life fall back when we cease to flee before them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I remember that grand word of the Katha Upanishad - Shraddh\u00e2 or marvellous faith. An instance of Shraddha can be found in the life of Nachiket\u00e2. To preach the doctrine of Shraddha or genuine faith is the mission of my life. Let me repeat to you that this faith is one of the potent factors of humanity and of all religions. First, have faith in yourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man's free agency is not of the mind, for that is bound. There is no freedom there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Religion is the peculiarity of the growth of the Indian mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: They alone live whose lives are in the whole universe, and the more we concentrate our lives on limited things, the faster we go towards death. Those moments alone we live when our lives are in the universe, in others; and living this little life is death, simply death, and that is why the fear of death comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Jiva (individual soul) is the conscious ruler of this body, in whom the five life principles come into unity, and yet that very Jiva is the Atman, because all is Atman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: He who wants to become a Bhakta must be strong, must be healthy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look charitably upon one another; and the first step towards that much-needed charity is to look charitably and kindly upon the religious convictions of others. Nay more, to understand that not only should we be charitable, but positively helpful to each other, however different our religious ideas and convictions may be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: So long as there is desire or want, it is a sure sign that there is imperfection. A perfect, free being cannot have any desire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The guide, the guru, the leader, the teacher, has passed away; the boy, the student, the servant, is left behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: According to us, there are three things in the makeup of man. There is the body, there is the mind, and there is the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We believe that every being is divine, is God. Every soul is a sun covered over with clouds of ignorance; the difference between soul and soul is owing to the difference in density of these layers of clouds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Experience is the only teacher we have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The progress of the world means more enjoyment and more misery too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Vedas teach that the soul is divine, only held in the bondage of matter; perfection will be reached when this bond will burst, and the word they use for it is, therefore, Mukti - freedom, freedom from the bonds of imperfection, freedom from death and misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Prana is the driving power of the world, and can be seen in every manifestation of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Who makes us ignorant? We ourselves. We put our hands over our eyes and weep that it is dark."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay, where would I have been if I had not been blessed with the dust of the holy feet of that orthodox, image-worshipping Brahmin!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I am neither man nor angel. I have no sex nor limit. I am knowledge itself. I am He. I have neither anger nor hatred. I have neither pain nor pleasure. Death or birth I never had. For I am Knowledge Absolute, and Bliss Absolute. I am He, my soul, I am He!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is entirely wrong to think that we have done, or can do, good to the world, or to think that we have helped such and such people. It is a foolish thought, and all foolish thoughts bring misery. We think that we have helped some man and expect him to thank us, and because he does not, unhappiness comes to us. Why should we expect anything in return for what we do? Be grateful to the man you help, think of him as God. Is it not a great privilege to be allowed to worship God by helping our fellow men?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: My name should not be made prominent. It is my ideas that I want to see realized. The disciples of all the prophets have always inextricably mixed up the ideas of the Master with person, and at last killed the ideas for the person. The disciples of Sri Ramakrishna must guard against doing the same thing. Work for the idea, not the person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We know there is no progress in a straight line."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The only way to study the mind is to get at facts, and then intellect will arrange them and deduce the principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The three essentials of Hinduism are belief in God, in the Vedas as revelation, in the doctrine of Karma and transmigration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the ghastly battlefield of maya is now changed into something good and beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: ...Really, there is no greater sin than cowardice; cowards are never saved - that is sure. I can stand everything else but not that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Say - i am the Atman in which my lower ego has become merged for ever. Be perfect in this idea; and then as long as the body endures, speak unto others this message of fearlessness: \"Thou art That\", \"Arise, awake, and stop not till the goal is reached!\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Religion, in India, means realisation and nothing short of that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Proselytism is tolerated by Hinduism. Any man, whether he be a Shudra or Chandala, can expound philosophy even to a Brahmin. The truth can be learnt from the lowest individual, no matter to what caste or creed he belongs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You are the Children of God, the sharers of immortal bliss, holy and perfect beings. You divinities on earth. Come up, O lions, and shake off the delusion that you are sheep; you are souls immortal, spirits free, blest and eternal; you are not matter, you are not bodies; matter is your servant,not you the servant of matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I have seen some astrologers who predicted wonderful things; but I have no reason to believe they predicted them only from the stars, or anything of the sort. In many cases it is simply mind-reading. Sometimes wonderful predictions are made, but in many cases it is arrant trash."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: High achievements in art, music, etc., are the results of concentration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Go and preach to all, 'Arise, awake, sleep no more: within each of you there is the power to remove all wants and all miseries. Believe this, and that power will be manifested."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The sum total or Ishwara may be said to be All-good, Almighty, and Omniscient. These are obvious qualities, and need no argument to prove, from the very fact of totality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one melt the other, that into the next higher, that into mind, that into spirit, and then you are spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The person is only a phenomenon, the principle is behind it. Thus from both sides, simultaneously, we find the breaking down of personalities and the approach towards principles, the Personal God approaching the Impersonal, the personal man approaching the Impersonal Man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: A man ought to live in this world like a lotus leaf, which grows in water but is never moistened by water; so a man ought to live in the world - his heart to God and his hands to work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every Hindu knows that astrologers try to fix the caste of every boy or girl as soon as he or she is born. That is the real caste - the individuality, and Jyotisha (astrology) recognises that. And we can only rise by giving it full sway again. This variety does not mean inequality, nor any special privilege."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Land where humanity has attained its highest towards gentleness, towards generosity, towards purity, towards calmness - it is India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Everything is substance plus name and form. Name and form come and go, but substance remains ever the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Religion and religion alone is the life of India, and when that goes India will die, in spite of politics, in spite of social reforms, in spite of Kubera's wealth poured upon the head of every one of her children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The first angle is, love questions not. It is not a beggar. ... When love asks nothing, [when it] gives everything. This is the real spiritual worship, the worship through love. Whether God is merciful is no longer questioned. He is God; He is my love. Whether God is omnipotent and almighty, limited or unlimited , is no longer questioned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that will not give us religion. Theoretical religion is easy enough to get, any one may get that. What we want is practical religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is only one sin and it is: weakness. When I was a boy, I read Milton's Paradise Lost. The only good man I had any respect for was Satan. The only saint is that person who never weakens, faces everything, and determines die game."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man can think of divine things only in his own human way, to us the Absolute can be expressed only in our relative language."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Pleasure is not the goal of man, but knowledge. Pleasure and happiness comes to an end. It is a mistake to suppose that pleasure is the goal. The cause of all the miseries we have in the world is that men foolishly think pleasure to be the ideal to strive for. After a time man finds that it is not happiness, but knowledge, towards which he is going, and that both pleasure and pain are great teachers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Despondency is not religion, whatever else it may be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: My faith is in the younger generation, the modern generation. Out of them will come my workers. They will work out the whole problem like lions"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Never mind failures; they are quite natural, they are the beauty of life, these failures. What would life be without them? It would not be worth having if it were not for struggles. Where would be the poetry of life? Never mind the struggles, the mistakes. I never heard a cow tell a lie, but it is only a cow-never a man. So never mind these failures, these little backslidings; hold the ideal a thousand times, and if you fail a thousand times, make the attempt once more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Let us realise [that] we are the infinite power. Who put a limit to the power of mind? Let us realise we are all mind. Every drop has the whole of the ocean in it. That is the mind of man. The Indian mind reflects upon these [powers and potentialities] and wants to bring [them] all out. For himself he doesn't care what happens. It will take a great length of time [to reach perfection]. If it takes fifty thousand years, what of that!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Each nation has its own peculiar method of work. Some work through politics, some through social reforms, some through other lines. With us, religion is the only ground along which we can move."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The history of the world is the history of a few men who had faith in themselves. That faith calls out the divinity within. You can do anything. You fail only when you do not strive sufficiently to manifest infinite power. As soon as a man or a nation loses faith, death comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Who can break the law? If I break this glass, it will fall down. If anyone succeeds in throwing one atom out of place, every other atom will go out of balance. . . . The law can never be broken. Each atom is kept in its place. Each is weighed and measured and fulfils its [purpose] and place. Through His command the winds blow, the sun shines. Through His rule the worlds are kept in place. Through His orders death is sporting upon the earth. Just think of two or three Gods having a wrestling match in this world! It cannot be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: That which is selfish is immoral, and that which is unselfish is moral."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There are hundreds of thousands of microbes surrounding us, but they cannot harm us unless we become weak, until the body is ready and predisposed to receive them. There may be a million microbes of misery floating about us. Never mind! They dare not approach us, they have no power to get a hold on us, until the mind is weakened. This is the great fact: strength is life. Weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal. Weakness is constant strain and misery: weakness is death"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Religion is the life of India, religion is the language of this country, the symbol of all its movements."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is an irrational claim to believe in the teachings of Jesus Christ and at the same time to hold that the greater part of his teachings have no application at the present time. If you say that the reason why the powers do not follow them that believe (as Christ said they would) is because you have not faith enough and are not pure enough-that will be all right. But to say that they have no application at the present time is to be ridiculous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In one word, this ideal is that you are divine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Have faith that you are all, my brave lads, born to do great things! Let not the barks of puppies frighten you, no, not even the thunderbolts of heaven, but stand up and work!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Be not afraid , for all great power throughout the history of humanity has been with the people. From out of their ranks have come all the greatest geniuses of the world, and history can only repeat itself. Be not afraid of anything. You will do marvellous work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The West regards marriage as consisting in all that lies beyond the legal tie, while in India it is thought of as a bond thrown by society round two people to unite them together for all eternity. Those two must wed each other, whether they will or not, in life after life. Each acquires half of the merit of the other. And if one seems in this life to have fallen hopelessly behind, it is for the other only to wait and beat time, till he or she catches up again!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: None will be able to resist truth and love and sincerity. Are you sincere? Unselfish even unto death, and loving? Then fear not, not even death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Just as the body has its progress and decadence, so also has the mind, and, therefore, the mind is not the soul, because the soul can neither decay nor degenerate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Women will work out their destinies \u2014 much better, too, than men can ever do for them. All the mischief to women has come because men undertook to shape the destiny of women."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Change is always in regard to something which does not change, or which changes relatively less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Why is it that we three hundred and thirty millions of people have been ruled for the last one thousand years by any and every handful of foreigners who chose to walk over our prostrate bodies? Because they had faith in themselves and we had not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Bhakta (devotee) renounces all little loves for the almighty and omnipresent love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: When we free ourselves from name and form, especially from a body - when we need no body, good or bad - then only do we escape from bondage. Eternal progression is eternal bondage; annihilation of form is to be preferred. We must get free from any body, even a \"god-body\". God is the only real existence, there cannot be two. There is but One Soul, and I am That."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it. This is one phase of my line of thought. In time, I hope to bring them all out, but at present I find I have a mission in this country also. Moreover, I expect help in this country and from here alone. But up to date I could not do anything except spreading my ideas. Now I want that a similar attempt be made in India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The fact is that we have many superstitions, many bad spots and sores on our body - these have to be excised, cut off, and destroyed - but these do not destroy our religion, our national life, our spirituality. Every principle of religion is safe, and the sooner these black spots are purged away, the better the principles will shine, the more gloriously. Stick to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Liberty is the first condition of growth. Your ancestors gave every liberty to the soul, and religion grew. They put the body under every bondage, and society did not grow. The opposite is the case in the West - every liberty to society, none to religion. Now are falling off the shackles from the feet of Eastern society as from those of Western religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism. It is not religion. It is no better than atheism - a little less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All law has its essence in causation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Life without death and happiness without misery are contradiction and neither can be found alone, because each of them is a different manifestation of the same thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The present Hindu society is organised only for spiritual men, and hopelessly crushes out everybody else. Why? Where shall they go who want to enjoy the world a little with its frivolities? Just as our religion takes in all, so should our society. This is to be worked out by first understanding the true principles of our religion and then applying them to society. This is the slow but sure work to be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If I, as an Oriental have to worship Jesus of Nazareth, there is only one way, that is, to worship him as God and nothing else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Vedas give information on various subjects. They have come together and form one book. And in later times, when other subjects were separated from religion - when astronomy and astrology were taken out of religion - these subjects, being connected with the Vedas and being ancient, were considered very holy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In the English character, the \"give and take\" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Stamping down the weakness of mind and heart, stand up, saying, \"I am possessed of heroism, I am possessed of a steady intellect...\" Never allow weakness to overtake your mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The only religion that ought to be taught is the religion of fearlessness. Either in this world or in the world of religion, it is true that fear is the sure cause of degradation and sin. It is fear that brings misery, fear that brings death, fear that breeds evil. And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In Tibet there is no marriage, and there is no jealousy, yet we know that marriage is a much higher state. The Tibetans have not known the wonderful enjoyment, the blessing of chastity, the happiness of having a chaste, virtuous wife, or a chaste, virtuous husband. These people cannot feel that. And similarly they do not feel the intense jealousy of the chaste wife or husband, or the misery caused by unfaithfulness on either side, with all the heart-burnings and sorrows which believers in chastity experience. On one side, the latter gain happiness, but on the other, they suffer misery too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If Jesus Christ was not perfect, then the religion bearing his name falls to the ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Never allow weakness to overtake your mind. Remember Mahavira, remember the Divine Mother! And you will see that all weakness, all cowardice will vanish at once."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Superstitions are all materialism, because they are all based on the consciousness of body, body, body. No spirit there. Spirit has no superstitions - it is beyond the vain desires of the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: A wave in the ocean is a wave, only in so far as it is bound by name and form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Liberty in thought and action is the only condition of life, growth and well-being: Where it does not exist, the man, the race, and the nation must go down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If you can think that infinite power, infinite knowledge and indomitable energy lie within you, and if you can bring out that power, you also can become like me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If the mind is pleased with praise, it will be displeased with blame."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Stand up, be bold, and take the blame on your own shoulders. Do not go about throwing mud at others; for all the faults you suffer from, you are the sole and only cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We are suffering from our own Karma. It is not the fault of God. What we do is our own fault, nothing else. Why should God be blamed?. . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The older I grow, the more I see behind the idea of the Hindus that man is the greatest of all beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Neither idealists nor materialists are right; we must take both idea and expression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We get caught. How? Not by what we give but by what we expect. We get misery in return for our love: not from the fact that we love but from the fact that we want love in return. There is no misery where there is no want. Desire, want, is the father of all misery. Desires are bound by the laws of success and failure. Desires must bring misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is nature that is changing, not the soul of man. This never changes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: TO worship God even for the sake of salvation or any other reward is equally degenerate. Love knows no reward. Give your love unto to God, but do not ask anything in return even from Him through pray."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Imitation of Christ is a cherished treasure of the Christian world. This great book was written by a Roman Catholic monk. \"Written\", perhaps, is not the proper word. It would be more appropriate to say that each letter of the book is marked deep with the heart's blood of the great soul who had renounced all for his love of Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Life in this world is an attempt to see God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Is God to blame for what I myself have done?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: For the next fifty years this alone shall be our keynote - this, our great Mother India. Let all other vain gods disappear for the time from our minds. This is the only god that is awake, our own race - \"everywhere his hands, everywhere his feet, everywhere his ears, he covers everything.\" All other gods are sleeping. What vain gods shall we go after and yet cannot worship the god that we see all round us, the Vir\u00e2t? When we have worshiped this, we shall be able to worship all other gods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Modern Hinduism, modern Jainism, and Buddhism branched off at the same time. For some period, each seemed to have wanted to outdo the others in grotesqueness and humbuggism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Even the least work done for others awakens the power within."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Good and evil thoughts are each a potent power, and they fill the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Renunciation - non-resistance - non-destructiveness - are the ideals to be attained through less and less worldliness, less and less resistance, less and less destructiveness. Keep the ideal in view and work towards it. None can live in the world without resistance, without destruction, without desire. The world has not come to that state yet when the ideal can be realised in society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You and I and everything in the universe are that Absolute, not parts, but the whole. You are the whole of that Absolute, and so are all others, because the idea of part cannot come into it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: He is everywhere, the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All-merciful. \"Thou art our father, Thou art our mother, Thou art our beloved friend, Thou art the source of all strength; give us strength. Thou art He that beareth the burdens of the universe; help me bear the little burden of this life.\" Thus sang the Rishis of the Vedas. And how to worship Him? Through love. \"He is to be worshipped as the one beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Chastity, non-injury, forgiving even the greatest enemy, truth, faith in the Lord, these are all different Vrittis. Be not afraid if you are not perfect in all of these; work, they will come. He who has given up all attachment, all fear, and all anger, he whose whole soul has gone unto the Lord, he who has taken refuge in the Lord, whose heart has become purified, with whatsoever desire he comes to the Lord, He will grant that to him. Therefore worship Him through knowledge, love, or renunciation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is a retarding element creating hatred and anger, and causing people to fight each other, and making them unsympathetic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Men may have given millions of dollars and fed rats and cats, as some do in India. They say that men can take care of themselves, but the poor animals cannot. . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Woman has suffered for eons, and that has given her infinite patience and infinite perseverance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Each one has a special nature peculiar to himself which he must follow and through which he will find his way to freedom"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Each soul is potentially divine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Art must be in touch with nature - and wherever that touch is gone, Art degenerates - yet it must be above nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every artist paints his Madonna according to his own pre-conceived ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We must recognise that duty and morality vary under different circumstances; not that the man who resists evil is doing what is always and in itself wrong, but that in the different circumstances in which he is placed it may become even his duty to resist evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: As soon as we identify ourselves with the work we do, we feel miserable; but if we do not identify ourselves with it, we do not feel that misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Attachment comes only where we expect a return."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: When the last moment arrives, praise and blame will be the same to you, to me, and to others. We are here to work, and will have to leave all when the call comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Doing is very good, but that comes from thinking. Little manifestations of energy through the muscles are called work. But where there is no thought, there will be no work. Fill the brain, therefore, with high thoughts, highest ideals, place them day and night before you, and out of that will come great work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The soul has neither sex, nor caste nor imperfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All that is real in me is God; all that is real in God is I. The gulf between God and me is thus bridged. Thus by knowing God, we find that the kingdom of heaven is within us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is really no difference between matter, mind and Spirit.  They are only different phases of experiencing the One."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The highest manifestation of strength is to keep ourselves calm and on our own feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Hindus progressed in the subjective sciences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Too early religious advancement of the Hindus and that superfineness in everything which made them cling to higher alternatives, have reduced them to what they are. The Hindus have to learn a little bit of materialism from the West and teach them a little bit of spirituality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Hindus believe Buddha to be an Avatara."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Unity in variety is the plan of the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We should cultivate the optimistic temperament, and endeavour to see the good that dwells in everything. If we sit down and lament over the imperfection of our bodies and our minds, we profit nothing; it is the heroic endeavour to subdue adverse circumstances that carries our spirit upward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Many a time comes when we want to interpret our weakness and cowardice as forgiveness and renunciation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one. Have faith in man, whether he appears to be an angel or the very devil himself. Have faith in man first, and then having faith in him, believe that if there are defects in him, if he makes mistakes, if he embraces the crudest and the vilest doctrines, believe that it is not from his real nature that they come, but from the want of higher ideals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I am proud to call myself a Hindu, I am proud that I am one of your unworthy servants. I am proud that I am a countryman of yours, you the descendants of the sages, you the descendants of the most glorious Rishis the world ever saw. Therefore have faith in yourselves, be proud of your ancestors, instead of being ashamed of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The essence of our Faith consists simply in this freedom of the Ishta."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You know the disease, you know the remedy, only have faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I am neither the mind, nor the intellect, nor the ego, nor the mind-stuff"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man only remains hypnotised with the false idea of an ego. When this ghost is off from us, all dreams vanish, and then it is found that the one Self only exists from the highest Being to a blade of grass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We become forgetful of the ego when we think of the body as dedicated to the service of others - the body with which most complacently we identify the ego."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: When I see an object there is no will; when its sensations are carried to the brain, there comes the reaction, which says \"Do this\", or \"Do not do this\", and this state of the ego-substance is what is called will"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Anything that is in space has form. Space itself has form. Either you are in space, or space is in you. The soul is beyond all space. Space is in the soul, not the soul in space."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Change is inherent in every form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The subtle are the causes, the gross the effects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The wave is the same thing as the water, the effect is the cause in another form"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There cannot be a cause without an effect, the present must have had its cause in the past and will have its effect in the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every work has got to pass through hundreds of difficulties before succeeding. Those that persevere will see the light, sooner or later."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Know it for certain that without steady devotion for the Guru and unflinching patience and perseverance, nothing is to be achieved. You must have strict morality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: God is cruel and not cruel. He is all being and not being at the same time. Hence He is all contradictions. Nature also is nothing but a mass of contradictions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Whatever others think or do, lower not your standard of purity, morality and love of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All power is His and within His command."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The whole universe is one. There is only one Self in the universe, only One Existence, and that One Existence, when it passes through the forms of time, space, causation, is called by different names, buddhi, fine matter, gross matter, all mental and physical forms. Everything in the universe is that One, appearing in various forms. When a little part of it comes, as it were, into this network of time, space and causation, it takes forms. Take off the network, and it is all one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There cannot be friendship without equality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: When we come to nonattachment, then we can understand the marvelous mystery of the universe: how it is intense activity and at the same time intense peace, how it is work every moment and rest every moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Who will bring light to the poor? Who will travel from door to door bringing education to them? Let these people be your God-think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly. The Lord will show you the way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Give me few men and women who are pure and selfless and I shall shake the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In real meditation you forget the body. You may be cut to pieces and not feel it at all. You feel such pleasure in it. You become so light. This perfect rest we will get in meditation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is a good discipline to be forced to work for work's sake, even to the length of not being allowed to enjoy the fruits of one's labour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: No doubt it is an evil to be bound by laws, but it is necessary at the immature stage to be guided by rules; in other words, as the Master used to say that the sapling must be hedged round, and so on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: To be unselfish, perfectly selfless, is salvation itself; for the man within dies, and God alone remains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Well has it been said that man is the only animal that naturally looks upwards; every other animal naturally looks down. That looking upward and going upward and seeking perfection are what is called salvation; and the sooner a man begins to go higher, the sooner he raises himself towards this idea of truth as salvation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I believe that the Hindu faith has developed the spiritual in its devotees at the expense of the material, and I think that in the Western world the contrary is true. By uniting the materialism of the West with the spiritualism of the East I believe much can be accomplished. It may be that in the attempt the Hindu faith will lose much of its individuality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In everything, there are two kinds of development-analytical and synthetical. In the former the Hindus excel other nations. In the latter they are nil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward 'love' unselfishly for love's sake."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All perfection is there already in the soul. But this perfection has been covered up by nature; layer after layer of nature is covering this purity of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: No authority can save us, no beliefs. If there is a God, all can find Him. No one needs to be told it is warm; all can discover it for themselves. So it should be with God. He should be a fact in the consciousness of every person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Stick to God! Who cares what comes to the body or to anything else! Through the terrors of evil, say-my God, my love! Through the pangs of death, say-my God, my love! Through all the evils under the sun, say-my God, my love! Thou art here, I see Thee. Thou art with me, I feel Thee. I am Thine, take me. I am not of the world's but Thine, leave not then me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested. Every man has in him the potentiality of attaining to perfect saintliness, Rishihood, or to the most exalted position of an Avat\u00e2ra, or to the greatness of a hero in material discoveries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: My Master used to say, when a pitcher is being filled (by immersion), it gurgles, but when full, it is noiseless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The development of man is a return to an original perfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Who shall make me perfect? I am perfect already."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: . . . Have patience and be faithful unto death. Do not fight among yourselves. Be perfectly pure in money dealings. . . . We will do great things yet. . . . So long as you have faith and honesty and devotion, everything will prosper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Let me draw your attention to one thing which unfortunately we always forget: that is - \"O man, have faith in yourself.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Never forget that a man is made great and perfect as much by his faults as by his virtues. So we must not seek to rob a nation of its character, even if it could be proved that the character was all faults."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes on from one thought to another, he must necessarily reject the first. But no error can lead to truth. The soul passing through its different stages goes from truth to truth, and each stage is true; it goes from lower truth to higher truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The test of having ceased to be an idolater is: \"When you say 'I', does the body come into your thought or not? If it does, then you are still a worshipper of idols.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This external worship of images has, however, been described in all our Shastras as the lowest of all the low forms of worship. But that does not mean that it is a wrong thing to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Those reformers who preach against image-worship, or what they denounce as idolatry - to them I say \"Brothers, if you are fit to worship God-without-form discarding all external help, do so, but why do you condemn others who cannot do the same?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Too much faith in personality has a tendency to produce weakness and idolatry, but intense love for the Guru makes rapid growth possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The world is ready to give up its secrets if we only know how to knock, how to give it the necessary blow. The strength and force of the blow come through concentration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Superhuman power is not strong enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: A Sannyasin cannot belong to any religion, for his is a life of independent thought, which draws from all religions; his is a life of realisation, not merely of theory or belief, much less of dogma."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Let the end and the means be joined into one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Changes in the universe are not in the Absolute; they are in nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Absolute cannot be worshipped, so we must worship a manifestation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Absolute does not change, or re-evolve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The sea calm is the Absolute; the same sea in waves is Divine Mother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I could not for my soul distinguish ever the distinction between \"religious anger\" and \"commonplace anger\", \"religious killing\" and \"commonplace killing\", \"religious slandering and irreligious\", and so forth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Is it freedom to be a slave to the senses, to anger, to jealousies and a hundred other petty things that must occur every day in human life?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Each atom is trying to fly off from its centre. In the internal world, each thought is trying to go beyond control. Again each particle in the external world is checked by another force, the centripetal, and drawn towards the centre. Similarly in the thought - world the controlling power is checking all these outgoing desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This world, this universe which our senses feel, or our mind thinks, is but one atom, so to say, of the Infinite, projected on to the plane of consciousness; and within that narrow limit, defined by the network of consciousness, works our reason, and not beyond. Therefore, there must be some other instrument to take us beyond, and that instrument is called inspiration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Impurity is a mere superimposition under which your real nature has become hidden. But the real you is already perfect, already strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Blows are what awaken us & help to break the dream. They show us the insufficiency of this world & make us long to escape, to have freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: To succeed, you must have tremendous perseverance, tremendous will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: \"You are pure and perfect, and what you call sin does not belong to you\". Sins are low degrees of Self-manifestation; manifest your Self in a high degree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Say to your own minds, \"I am He, I am He\". Let it ring day and night in your minds like a song, and at the point of death declare : \"I am He\". That is truth; the infinite strength of the world is yours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We must travel; we must go to foreign parts. We must see how the engine of society works in other countries, and keep free and open communication with what is going on in the minds of other nations, if we really want to be a nation again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Truth alone triumphs, not untruth. Through truth alone lies the way to Devayana (the way to the gods). Those who think that a little sugar - coating of untruth helps the spread of truth are mistaken and will find in the long run that a single drop of poison poisons the whole mass ... The man who is pure, and who dares, does all things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: To me the thought of oneself as low and humble is a sin and ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Strength, strength is what the Upanishads speak to me from every page. This is the one great thing to remember, it has been the one great lesson I have been taught in my life; strength, it says, strength, O man, be not weak. Are there no human weaknesses? - says man. There are, say the Upanishads, but will more weakness heal them, would you try to wash dirt with dirt? Will sin cure sin, weakness cure weakness? Strength, O man, strength, say the Upanishads, stand up and be strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: God is self-evident, impersonal, omniscient, the Knower and the Master of nature, the Lord of all. He is behind all worship and it is being done according to Him, whether we know it or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Have faith in Guru, in his teachings, and in the surety that you can get free. Think day and night that this universe is zero, only God is. Have intense desire to get free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I am no metaphysician, no philosopher, nay, no saint. But I am poor and I love the poor. I see what they call the poor of this country and how many there are who feel for them!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If you want to have life, you have to die every moment for it. Life and death are only different expressions of the same thing looked at from different standpoints; they are the falling and the rising of the same wave, and the two form one whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Love is always mutual and reflective. You may hate me, and if I want to love you, you repulse me. But if I persist, in a month or a year you are bound to love me. It is a well-known psychological phenomenon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all souls-and, above all, my God the wicked, my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species, is the special object of my worship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If you can get rid of your attachment to a single thing, you are on the way to liberation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Even our smallest attempts are not in vain. We know that nothing is lost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Now is wanted intense Karma-Yoga with unbounded courage and indomitable strength in the heart. Then only will the people of the country be roused."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Body is an unreal dream, and we think we are all bodies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Body is the name of a stream of matter continuously changing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In this body, He resides, the Lord of souls and the King of kings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: No two persons have the same mind or the same body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The body is mortal and the mind is mortal; both, being compounds, must die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This body is a combination. It is only a fiction to say that I have one body, you another, and the sun another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: When the forces that hold it together go away, the body must fall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Even books are nurses, medicines are nurses. But we must work to bring about the time when man shall recognise his mastery over his own body. Herbs and medicines have power over us as long as we allow them; when we become strong, these external methods are no more necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Those who die, merely suffering the woes of life like cats and dogs, are they men?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Mankind ought to be taught that religions are but the varied expressions of THE RELIGION, which is Oneness, so that each may choose the path that suits him best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: On this basic - being right and doing right the whole world can unite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: A changeable God would be no God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Whenever there is a conflict between the pure heart and the intellect, always side with the pure heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If the suns come down, and the moons crumble into dust, and systems after systems are hurled into annihilation, what is that to you? Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self, the God of the universe. Say - \"I am Existence Absolute, Bliss Absolute, Knowledge Absolute, I am He,\" and like a lion breaking its cage, break your chain and be free forever. What frightens you, what holds you down? Only ignorance and delusion; nothing else can bind you. You are the Pure One, the Ever-blessed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We have seemingly been divided, limited, because of our ignorance; and we have become as it were the little Mrs. so - and - so and Mr. so - and - so. But all nature is giving this delusion the lie every moment. I am not that little man or little woman cut off from all else; I am the one universal existence. The soul in its own majesty is rising up every moment and declaring its own intrinsic Divinity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This is the central idea of the Gita- to be calm and steadfast in all circumstances, with one's body, mind, and soul centered at His hallowed feet!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Let the mind be cheerful but calm. Never let it run into excesses, because every excess will be followed by a reaction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Everything will come right if you are pure and sincere. We want hundreds like you bursting upon society and bringing new life and vigor of the spirit wherever they go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: What makes you weep, my friend? In you is all power. Summon up your all-powerful nature, O mighty one, and this whole universe will lie at your feet. It is the Self alone that predominates, and not matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The test of ahimsa is the absence of jealousy. The man whose heart never cherishes even the thought of injury to anyone, who rejoices at the prosperity of even his greatest enemy, that man is the bhakta, he is the yogi, he is the guru of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The more you think of yourself as shining immortal spirit, the more eager you will be to be absolutely free of matter, body, and senses. This is the intense desire to be free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Both the forces of good and evil will keep the universe alive for us, until we awake from our dreams and give up this building of mud pies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I have been asked many times, Why do you laugh so much and make so many jokes? I become serious sometimes-when I have a stomachache! The Lord is all blissfulness. He is the reality behind all that exists. He is the goodness, the truth in everything. You are His incarnations. That is what is glorious. The nearer you are to Him, the less you will have occasions to cry or weep. The further we are from Him, the more will long faces come. The more we know of Him, the more misery vanishes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If you want to be a yogi, you must be free, and place yourself in circumstances where you are alone and free from all anxiety. One who desires a comfortable and nice life and at the same time wants to realize the Self is like the fool who, wanting to cross the river, caught hold of a crocodile, mistaking it for a log of wood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Holy meditation helps to burn out all mental impurities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: So long as you have faith in your Guru, nothing will be able to obstruct your way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Hold on to your own ideal. . . . Above all, never attempt to guide or rule others, or, as the Yankees say, \"boss\" others. Be the servant of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: When we let loose our feelings, we waste so much energy, shatter our nerves, disturb our minds, and accomplish very little work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Each nation has a theme: everything else is secondary. India's theme is religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The test of Ahimsa is absence of jealousy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: As long as a man thinks, this struggle must go on, and so long man must have some form of religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Infinite perfection is in every man, though unmanifested."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This rascal ego must be obliterated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: To give up the world is to forget the ego, to know it not at all - living in the body, but not of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man is the product of two forces, action and reaction, which make him think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The real man is the one Unit Existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: A form comes out of a combination of force and matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The forms have value only so far as they are expressions of the life within. If they have ceased to express life, crush them out without mercy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Indian idea is that the soul is formless. Whatever is form must break some time or other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There cannot be any form unless it is the result of force and matter; and all combinations must dissolve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This is the work of N\u00e2ma-Rupa - name and form. Everything that has form, everything that calls up an idea in your mind, is within Maya; for everything that is bound by the laws of time, space, and causation is within Maya."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: What is meant by cause? Cause is the fine state of the manifested state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All is bound by the law of causation"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Something cannot be made out of nothing. Nor can something be made to go back to nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The cause being finite, the effect must be finite. If the cause is eternal the effect can be eternal, but all these causes, doing good work, and all other things, are only finite causes, and as such cannot produce infinite result."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The finer is always the cause, the grosser the effect. So the external world is the effect, the internal the cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The law of Karma is the law of causation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The principles of the Vedanta not only should be preached everywhere in India, but also outside. Our thought must enter into the make-up of the minds of every nation, not through writings, but through persons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Nobody has a right now to say that the Hindus are not liberal to a fault."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All growth, progress, well - being, or degradation is but relative."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: \"Some would call you a saint, some a chandala; some a lunatic, others a demon. Go on then straight to thy work without heeding either\" - thus saith one of our great Sannyasins, an old emperor of India, King Bhartrihari, who joined the order in old times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Pariahs, our fellow beings, ought to be educated by the higher castes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: No more materialism, no more this egoism, I must become spiritual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Whether on the ground of materialism, or of intellect, or of spirituality, the compensation that is given by the Lord to every one impartially is exactly the same. Therefore we must not think that we are the saviours of the world. We can teach the world, a good many things, and we can learn a good many things from it too. We can teach the world only what it is waiting for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: See what an atmosphere of holiness is here  the pure air of the Ganga  what an assemblage of Sadhus will you find anywhere a place like this!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I have long given up the idea of a little house on the Ganges, as I have not the money."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The waters of the Ganga are roaring among his matted locks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There are men who practice Titiksha, and succeed in it. There are men who sleep on the banks of the Ganga in the midsummer sun of India, and in winter float in the waters of the Ganga for a whole day; they do not care. Men sit in the snow of the Himalayas, and do not care to wear any garment. What is heat? What is cold? Let things come and go, what is that to me, I am not the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This Maya is everywhere. It is terrible. Yet we have to work through it. The man who says that he will work when the world has become all good and then he will enjoy bliss is as likely to succeed as the man who sits beside the Ganga and says, \"I will ford the river when all the water has run into the ocean.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We must always remember that God is Love. \"A fool indeed is he who, living on the banks of the Ganga, seeks to dig a little well for water. A fool indeed is the man who, living near a mine of diamonds, spends his life in searching for beads of glass.\" God is that mine of diamonds. We are fools indeed to give up God for legends of ghosts or flying hobgoblins. It is a disease, a morbid desire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Whether you bathe in the Ganga for a thousand years or live on vegetable food for a like period, unless it helps towards the manifestation of the Self, know that it is all of no use."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The more power there is, the more bondage, the more fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The one who actually succeeds in making himself believe that he is having a good time is the man of splendid physical health."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Science, art, learning and metaphysical research all have their proper functions in life, but if you seek to blend them, you destroy their individual characteristics until, in time, you eliminate the spiritual, for instance, from the religious altogether."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All the forces that we see in nature, such as gravitation, attraction, and repulsion, or as thought, feeling, and nervous motion - all these various forces resolve into that Prana, and the vibration of the Prana ceases. In that state it remains until the beginning of the next cycle. Prana then begins to vibrate, and that vibration acts upon the Akasha, and all these forms are thrown out in regular succession."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Whenever two particles come together, they are held by a certain attraction; and there will come a time when those particles will separate. This is the eternal law. So, wherever there is a body - either grosser or finer, either in heaven or on earth - death will overcome it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We want the education by which character is formed, strength of mind is increased, the intellect is expanded, and by which one can stand on one's own feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Body is the name of a series of changes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Bodies come and go, but the soul does not change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I am responsible for my fate, I am the bringer of good unto myself, I am the bringer of evil. I am the Pure and Blessed One. We must reject all thoughts that assert to the contrary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Take off the veil of hypnotism which you have cast upon the world, send not out thoughts and words of weakness unto humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: First, let us be Gods, and then help others to be Gods. \"Be and make.\" Let this be our motto. Say not man is a sinner. Tell him that he is a God. Even if there were a devil, it would be our duty to remember God always, and not the devil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The road to salvation is through truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This is the one great idea to understand that our power is already ours, our salvation is already within us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There have been two lines of progress in this world-political and religious. In the former the Greeks are everything, the modern political institutions being only the development of the Grecian; in the latter the Hindus are everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Hindus believe in God positively. Buddhism does not try to know whether He is or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Vedanta teaches men to have faith in themselves first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It will be a great pity if any feeling of jealousy or egotism gain ground amongst you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is no good in store so long as malice and jealousy and egotism will prevail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather together and react on the stone, and all through the lake they will spread and be felt. The mind is like the lake; it is constantly being set in vibrations, which leave an impression on the mind; and the idea of the Ego, or personal self, the \"I\", is the result of these impressions. This \"I\" therefore is only the very rapid transmission of force and is in itself no reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This ego - the less there is of it, the nearer I am to that which I really am: the universal body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This intelligence itself is modified into what we call egoism, and this intelligence is the cause of all the powers in the body. It covers the whole ground, sub-consciousness, consciousness, and super-consciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: External practices have value only as helps to develop internal purity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: One ounce of the practice of righteousness and of spiritual Self-realisation outweighs tons and tons of frothy talk and nonsensical sentiments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Yogi must always practice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Through faithful practice, layer after layer of the mind opens before us, and each reveals new facts to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Consciously or unconsciously, health can be transmitted. A very strong man, living with a weak man, will make him a little stronger, whether he knows it or not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Suppose cats became philosophers, they would see a cat universe and have a cat solution of the problem of the universe, and a cat ruling it. So we see from this that our explanation of the universe is not the whole of the solution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every change is being forced upon us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Heart and core of everything here is good, that whatever may be the surface waves, deep down and underlying everything, there is an infinite basis of Goodness and Love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: A sapling must be hedged about for protection, but when it becomes a tree, a hedge would be a hindrance. So there is no need to criticise and condemn the old forms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The only test of goods things is that they make us strong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Cowards never win victories. We have to fight fear and troubles and ignorance if we expect them to flee before us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Egotism, pride, etc. must be given up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Even the minds of animals, such as dogs, lions, cats, and serpents, become charmed with music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them forward and forward in the march of civilisation, and if there has been degeneration, if there has been defect, mark my words, you will find that degeneration to have started on the day our people lost faith in themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: How do you know what possibilities lie behind that degradation on the surface? You know but little of that which is within you. For behind you is the ocean of infinite power and blessedness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do you believe in that Infinite, good Providence working in and through you? If you believe that this Omnipresent One is present in every atom, is through and through, Ota-Prota, as the Sanskrit word goes, penetrating your body, mind and soul, how can you lose heart?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: And what causes fear? Ignorance of our own nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Pray all the time, read all the scriptures in the world, and worship all the gods there are ...but unless you realize the Truth, there is no freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The correct meaning of the statement The Vedas are beginningless and eternal is that the law or truth revealed by them is permanent and changeless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The power of purity-it is a definite power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Self when it appears behind the universe is called God. The same Self when it appears behind this little universe-the body-is the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Those who grumble at the little thing that has fallen to their lot to do will grumble at everything. Always grumbling, they will lead a miserable life, and everything will be a failure. But those who do their duties as they go, putting their shoulders to the wheel, will see the light, and higher duties will fall to their share."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: An atheist can be charitable but not religious. But the religious man must be charitable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Charity never faileth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: [Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The ego of man and woman is the soul. If the soul is independent, how then can it be isolated from the infinite whole?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every action that helps us manifest our divine nature more and more is good; every action that retards it is evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Each man is divine. Each man that you see is a God by his very nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man as Atman is really free; as man he is bound, changed by every physical condition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I think the Greeks first took astrology to India and took from the Hindus the science of astronomy and carried it back with them from Europe. Because in India you will find old altars made according to a certain geometrical plan, and certain things had to be done when the stars were in certain positions, therefore I think the Greeks gave the Hindus astrology, and the Hindus gave them astronomy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man has wanted to look beyond, wanted to expand himself; and all that we call progress, evolution, has been always measured by that one search, the search for human destiny, the search for God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Everything that we know is within our universe, and everything within our universe is moulded by the conditions of space, time, and causation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The effect is delusion, and therefore the cause must be delusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We are all the time, from our childhood, trying to lay the blame upon something outside ourselves. We are always standing up to set right other people, and not ourselves. If we are miserable, we say, \"Oh, the world is a devil's world.\" We curse others and say, \"What infatuated fools!\" But why should we be in such a world, if we really are so good? If this is a devil's world, we must be devils also; why else should we be here? \"Oh, the people of the world are so selfish!\" True enough; but why should we be found in that company, if we be better? Just think of that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You nourish your minds by reading books. There is no good in doing that unless you hold it also as a sacrifice to the whole world. For the whole world is one; you are rated a very insignificant part of it, and therefore it is right for you that you should serve your millions of brothers rather than aggrandise this little self"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Business is business, that is, you must do everything promptly; delay and shuffling won't do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments, etc.; but when it comes to preaching religion, they cannot come near the Asiatic, whose business it has been all the time, and he knows it, and he does not use too much machinery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Is there any sex-distinction in the Atman (Self)? Out with the differentiation between man and woman\u2014all is Atman! Give up the identification with the body, and stand up!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Bold words and bolder deeds are what we want. Awake, awake, great ones! The world is burning with misery. Can you sleep?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do any deserve liberty who are not ready to give it to others? Let us calmly go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary fretting and fuming."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: One who leans on others cannot serve the God of Truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The animal has its happiness in the senses, the human beings in their intellect, and the gods in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We can never lose what is really ours. Who can lose his being? Who can lose his very existence? If I am good, it is the existence first, and then that becomes colored with the quality of goodness. If I am evil, it is the existence first, and that becomes colored with the quality of badness. That existence is first, last, and always; it is never lost but ever present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We want to lead mankind to the place where there is neither the Vedas, nor the Bible, nor the Koran; yet this has to be done by harmonizing the Vedas, the Bible, and the Koran."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Space-time-causation, or name-and-form, is what is called Maya."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Ch\u00e2rv\u00e2kas, a very ancient sect in India, were rank materialists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: What can be my highest idea of forgiveness? Nothing beyond myself. Which of you can jump out of your own bodies? Which of you can jump out of your own minds? Not one of you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: One ounce of practice is worth a thousand pounds of theory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Art is - representing the beautiful. There must be Art in everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is only by doing good to others that one attains to one's own good"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: May He who is the Brahman of the Hindus, the Ahura-Mazda of the Zoroastrians, the Buddha of the Buddhists, the Jehovah of the Jews, the Father in Heaven of the Christians give strength to you to carry out your noble idea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: External nature is only internal nature writ large."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I direct my attention to the individual, to make him strong, to teach him that he himself is divine, and I call upon men to make themselves conscious of this divinity within. That is really the ideal --conscious or unconscious --of every religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If there is one word that you find coming out like a bomb from the Upanishads, bursting like a bombshell upon masses of ignorance, it is the word \"fearlessness.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Hinduism threw away Buddhism after taking its sap. The attempt of all the Southern Acharyas was to effect a reconciliation between the two. Shankaracharya's teaching shows the influence of Buddhism. His disciples perverted his teaching and carried it to such an extreme point that some of the later reformers were right in calling the Acharya's followers \"crypto-buddhists\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: What is marriage but the renunciation of unchastity? The savage does not marry. Man marries because he renounces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Unselfishness is God. One may live on a throne, in a golden palace, and be perfectly unselfish; and then he is in God. Another may live in a hut and wear rags, and have nothing in the world; yet, if he is selfish, he is intensely merged in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is no God separate from you, no God higher than you, the real \"you.\" All the gods are little beings to you, all the ideas of God and Father in heaven are but your own reflection. God Himself is your image. \u201cGod created man after His own image.\" That is wrong. Man creates God after his own image. That is right. Throughout the universe we are creating gods after our own image. We create the god and fall down at his feet and worship him; and when this dream comes, we love it !"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Jesus Christ was God - the Personal God become man. He has manifested Himself many times in different forms and these alone are what you can worship. God in His absolute nature is not to be worshipped. Worshipping such God would be nonsense. We have to worship Jesus Christ, the human manifestation, as God. You cannot worship anything higher than the manifestation of God. The sooner you give up the worship of God separate from Christ, the better for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Faith, faith, faith in ourselves, faith, faith in God, this is the secret of greatness.If you have faith in all the three hundred and thirty millions of your mythological Gods, and in all the Gods which foreigners have now and again introduced into your midst, and still have no faith in yourselves, there is no salvation for you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Renunciation means that none can serve both God and Mammon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: An intellectual, heartless man never becomes an inspired man. It is always the heart that speaks in the man of love; it discovers a greater instrument than intellect can give you, the instrument of inspiration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: \"The fool, dwelling on the bank of the Ganga, digs a well for water!\" Such are we! Living in the midst of God - we must go and make images."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The powers of the mind should be concentrated and the mind turned back upon itself; as the darkest places reveal their secrets before the penetrating rays of the sun, so will the concentrated mind penetrate its own innermost secrets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If it is strength, go down into hell and get hold of it!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Make no conditions and none will be imposed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Nature grinds all of us. Keep count of the ounce of pleasure you get. In the long run, nature did her work through you, and when you die your body will make other plants grow. Yet we think all the time that we are getting pleasure ourselves. Thus the wheel goes round."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In the world take always the position of the giver."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is but one temple - the body. It is the only temple that ever existed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We want to worship a living God. I have not seen anything but God all my life, nor have you... He is everywhere, saying, \"I am.\" The moment you feel \"I am,\" you are conscious of Existence. Where shall we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Where will you go to seek Brahman? He is immanent in all beings. Here, here is the visible Brahman! Shame on those who, neglecting the visible Brahman, set their minds on other things! Here is the visible Brahman before you as tangible as a fruit in one's hand! Can't you see? Here - here - is Brahman!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Buddha taught kindness towards lower beings; and since then there has not been a sect in India that has not taught charity to all beings, even to animals. This kindness, this mercy, this charity - greater than any doctrine - are what Buddhism left to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You have heard that Christ said, 'My words are spirit and they are life'. So are my words spirit and life; they will burn their way into your brain and you will never get away from them!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Cowards only sin, brave men never, no, not even in mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: As long as we believe ourselves to be even the least different from God, fear remains with us; but when we know ourselves to be the One, fear goes; of what can we be afraid.?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This is the ancient land, where wisdom made its home before it went into any other country... Here is the same India whose soil has been trodden by the feet of the greatest sages that ever lived... Look back, therefore, as far as you can, drink deep of the eternal fountains that are behind, and after that look forward, march forward, and make India brighter, greater, much higher, than she ever was."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You will be nearer to Heaven through foot ball than through study of Gita."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Renunciation is the background of all religious thought wherever it be, and you will always find that as this idea of renunciation lessens, the more will the senses creep into the field of religion, and spirituality will decrease in the same ratio."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it is not religion. Misery is caused by sin, and by no other cause. What business have you with clouded faces? It is terrible. If you have a clouded face, do not go out that day, shut yourself up in your room. What right have you to carry this disease out into the world?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is fear that is the greatest cause of misery in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness. The animal has its happiness in the senses, the man in his intellect, and the god in spiritual contemplation. It is only to the soul that has attained to this contemplative state that the world really becomes beautiful. To him who desires nothing, and does not mix himself up with them, the manifold changes of nature are one panorama of beauty and sublimity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The idea of God grew side by side with the idea of materialism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether \"the wise ones praise or blame us\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: When we suffer, it is because of our own acts; God is not to be blamed for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: According to this philosophy, each man consists of three parts - the body, the internal organ or the mind, and behind that, what is called the Atman, the Self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The root of evil is in the illusion that we are bodies. This, if any, is the original sin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Nothing is gained except by sacrifice.... Do not degrade it to the level of the brutes.... Make yourselves decent men! ... Be chaste and pure! ... There is no other way. Did Christ find any other way?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Jesus Christ was willing to admit every good man to the family of God. It is not the man who believes a certain something, but the man who does the will of the Father in heaven, who is right. On this basis-being right and doing right-the whole world can unite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The difference between architecture and building is that the former expresses an idea, while the latter is merely a structure built on economical principles. The value of matter depends solely on its capacities of expressing ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The whole life is a succession of dreams. My ambition is to be a conscious dreamer, that is all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We have all been hearing from childhood of such things as love, peace, charity, equality, and universal brotherhood; but they have become to us mere words without meaning, words which we repeat like parrots, and it has become quite natural for us to do so. We cannot help it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I am really not \"cyclonic\" at all. Far from it. What I want is not here, nor can I longer bear this \"cyclonic\" atmosphere. This is the way to perfection, to strive to be perfect, and to strive to make perfect a few men and women. My idea of doing good is this: to evolve out a few giants, and not to strew pearls before swine, and so lose time, health, and energy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I do not care what philosophy you take up; only I am ready to prove here that throughout the whole of India, there runs a mutual and cordial string of eternal faith in the perfection of humanity, and I believe in it myself. And let that faith be spread over the whole land."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Did Buddha teach that the many was real and the ego unreal, while orthodox Hinduism regards the One as the real, and the many as unreal?\" the Swami was asked. \"Yes\", answered the Swami. \"And what Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and I have added to this is, that the Many and the One are the same Reality, perceived by the same mind at different times and in different attitudes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If the Lord wills, we shall make this Math a great centre of harmony. Our Lord is the visible embodiment of the harmony of all ideals. He will be established on earth if we keep alive that spirit of harmony here. We must see to it that people of all creeds and sects, from the Brahmana down to the Chandala, may come here and find their respective ideals manifested."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Two attempts have been made in the world to found social life: the one was upon religion, and the other was upon social necessity. The one was founded upon spirituality, the other upon materialism; the one upon transcendentalism, the other upon realism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Some may be helped by images, some may not. Some require an image outside, others one inside the brain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The idol is the expression of religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The secret of image - worship is that you are trying to develop your vision of Divinity in one thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God. But the image-God is a mere Pratika."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I hear, Western people say, \"The world was created for us.\" If tigers could write books, they would say, man was created for them and that man is a most sinful animal, because he does not allow him (the tiger) to catch him easily. The worm that crawls under your feet today is a God to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Let us calmly and in a manly fashion go to work, instead of dissipating our energy in unnecessary frettings and fumings. I, for one, thoroughly believe that no power in the universe can withhold from anyone anything he really deserves. The past was great no doubt, but I sincerely believe that the future will be more glorious still."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: You are the makers of your own fortunes. You make yourselves suffer, you make good and evil, and it is you who put your hands before your eyes and say it is dark. Take your hands away and see the light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is good and very grand to conquer external nature, but grander still to conquer our internal nature.... This conquering of the inner man, understanding the secrets of the subtle workings that are within the human mind, and knowing its wonderful secrets, belong entirely to religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: National prosperity is another name for death and degradation to millions of other races."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: How absurd to take the credit of doing the good act on oneself and lay the blame for the evil act on the Lord!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Get rid of the bondage of body; we have become slaves to it and learnt to hug our chains and love our slavery; so much so that we long to perpetuate it, and go on with \"body\" \"body\" for ever. Do not cling to the idea of \"body\", do not look for a future existence in any way like this one; do not love or want the body, even of those dear to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is a constant change. Not one body is constant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is the want that creates the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We must become free. We are free; the work is to know it. We must give up all slavery, all bondage of whatever kind. We must not only give up our bondage to earth and everything and everybody on earth, but also to all ideas of heaven and happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: As thou thinkest, so art thou."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In spirituality the Americans are very inferior to us. But their society is very superior to ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Religion lies in being and becoming, in realization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Above all, beware of compromises. I do not mean that you are to get into antagonism with anybody, but you have to hold on to your own principles in weal or woe and never adjust them to others \"fads\" thought the greed of getting supporters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: What we want is muscles of iron and nerves of steel. We have wept long enough. No more weeping, but stand on your feet and be men. It is man-making theories that we want. It is man-making education all round that we want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Pay no attention whatsoever to newspaper nonsense or criticism. Be sincere and do your duty. Everything will come all right. Truth must triumph."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: A nation is not to be judged by its weaklings called the wicked, as they are only the weeds which lag behind, but by the good, the noble, and the pure, who indicate the national life current flowing clear and vigorous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every step I take in light is mine forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Everything must be sacrificed, if necessary, for that one sentiment: universality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Give love, give help, give service, and give any little thing you can, but keep out barter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Today the West is awakening to its wants; and the \"true self of man and spirit\" is the watchword of the advanced school of Western theologians. The student of Sanskrit philosophy knows where the wind is blowing from, but it matters not whence the power comes so longs as it brings new life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I am a socialist not because I think it is a perfect system, but half a loaf is better than no bread. The other system has been tried and found wanting"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Sincerity of conviction and purity of motive will surely gain the day; and even a small minority, armed with these, is surely destined to prevail against all odds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do not go for glass beads leaving the mine of diamonds. This life is a great chance. What, seekest thou the pleasures of the world? He is the fountain of all bliss. See for the highest, aim at that highest, and you shall reach the highest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: By doing well the duty which is nearest to us, the duty which is in our hands, we make ourselves stronger"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Even the greatest fool can accomplish a task if it were after his or her heart. But the intelligent ones are those who can convert every work into one that suits their taste."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Give up the idea that by ruling over others you can do any good to them. But you can do just as much as you can in the case of the plant: you can supply the growing seed with the materials for the making up of its body, bringing to it the earth, the water, the air, that it wants. It will take all that it wants by its own nature, it will assimilate and grow by its own nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I have come to deal with principles. I have only to preach that God comes again and again, and that He came in India as Krishna, Rama, and Buddha, and that He will come again. It can almost be demonstrated that after each 500 years the world sinks, and a tremendous spiritual wave comes, and on the top of the wave is a Christ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: After so much austerity I have known that the highest truth is this: He is present in every being! These are all in manifold forms of him. There is no other God to seek for! He alone is worshipping God, who serves all beings!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Love and charity for the whole human race, that is the test of true religiousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Religion has become to many merely a means of doing a little charity work, just to amuse them after a hard day's labour - they get five minutes religion to amuse them. This is the danger with the liberal thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Jivanmukta ('the living free' or one who knows) alone is able to give real love, real charity, real truth, and it is truth alone that makes us free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All progress and power are already in every man; perfection is man's nature, only it is barred in and prevented from taking its proper course."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Consciously or unconsciously, we are all striving for perfection. Every being must attain to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Perfection is always infinite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This perfection must come through the practice of holiness and love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: To be more free is the goal of all our efforts, for only in perfect freedom can there be perfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: A man may be the greatest philosopher in the world but a child in RELIGION. When a man has developed a high state of spirituality he can understand that the kingdom of heaven is within him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Nothing can be produced without a cause, and the effect is but the cause reproduced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The progress of the world through all its evils making it fit for the ideals, slowly but surely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is implanted in every man, naturally, a strong desire for progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The power which works through the formative principles of every religion in every country is manifested in the forms of religion. . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I must remark that what I mean by our religion working upon the nations outside of India comprises only the principles, the background, the foundation upon which that religion is built."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is contrary to our principles to multiply organizations, since, in all conscience, there are enough of them. And when organizations are created they need individuals to look after them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It will not do merely to listen to great principles. You must apply them in the practical field, turn them into constant practice. What will be the good of cramming the high - sounding dicta of the scriptures? You have first to grasp the teachings of the Shastras, and then to work them out in practical life. Do you understand? This is called practical religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Arise! Arise! A tidal wave is coming! Onward! Men and women, down to the Chandala (Pariah) - all are pure in his eyes. Onward! Onward! There is no time to care for name, or fame, or Mukti, or Bhakti! We shall look to these some other time. Now in this life let us infinitely spread his lofty character, his sublime life, his infinite soul. This is the only work - there is nothing else to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: He who was Shri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the outcaste); Oh, who ever was engaged in doing good to the world though superhuman by nature, whose renown there is none to equal in the three worlds, Sita's beloved, whose body of Knowledge Supreme was covered by devotion sweet in the form of Sita. (part of A Hymn To Shri Ramakrishna)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Be proud that thou art an Indian, and proudly proclaim, \"I am an Indian, every Indian is my brother.\" Say, \"The ignorant Indian, the poor and destitute Indian, the Brahmin Indian, the Pariah Indian, is my brother.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: \"Learn good knowledge with all devotion from the lowest caste. Learn the way to freedom, even if it comes from a Pariah, by serving him. If a woman is a jewel, take her in marriage even if she comes from a low family of the lowest caste.\" Such is the law laid down by our great and peerless legislator, the divine Manu."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We are all born idolaters, and idolatry is good, because it is in the nature of man. Who can get beyond it? Only the perfect man, the God-man. The rest are all idolaters. So long as we see this universe before us, with its forms and shapes, we are all idolaters. This is a gigantic symbol we are worshipping. He who says he is the body is a born idolater."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Renunciation is always the ideal of every race; only other races do not know what they are made to do by nature unconsciously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Renunciation is the very basis upon which ethics stands. There never was an ethical code preached which had not renunciation for its basis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The atom cannot disobey the law. Whether it is the mental or the physical atom, it must obey the law. \"What is the use of [external restraint]?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This is the great lesson that we are here to learn through myriads of births and heavens and hells - that there is nothing to be asked for, desired for, beyond one's spiritual Self (atman)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: My son, hold fast! Do not care for anybody to help you. Is not the Lord infinitely greater than all human help? Be holy--trust in the Lord, depend on him always, and you are on the right track. Nothing can prevail against you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: When we have become free, we need not go mad and throw up society and rush off to die in the forest or the cave; we shall remain where we were but we shall understand the whole thing. The same phenomena will remain but with a new meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Our minds are forced to become fixed upon different things by an attraction in them which we cannot resist. To control the mind, to place it just where we want it, requires special training. It cannot be done in any other way. In the study of religion the control of the mind is absolutely necessary. We have to turn the mind back upon itself in this study."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The uplift of the women, the awakening of the masses must come first, and then only can any real good come about for the country, for India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Renunciation, and renunciation alone, is the real secret, the Mulamantra, of all Realisation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Infinite power of the spirit, brought to bear upon matter evolves material development, made to act upon thought evolves intellectuality, and made to act upon itself makes of man a God. First, let us be Gods, and then help other to be GOds. Be and Make. Let this be our motto."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Superstition is great enemy of man but bigotry is worse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Bullies are always cowards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Cowardice is no virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: A man must not only have faith but intellectual faith too. To make a man take up everything and believe it, would be to make him a lunatic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Faith is not belief, it is the grasp on the Ultimate, an illumination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: To work with undaunted energy! What fear! Who is powerful enough to thwart you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: No great work can be achieved by humbug. It is through love, a passion for truth, and tremendous energy, that all undertakings are accomplished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Above all, India is the land of religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only takes the trouble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man has infinite power within himself, and he can realise it - he can realise himself as the one infinite Self. It can be done; but you do not believe it. You pray to God and keep your powder dry all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man is the apex of the only world we can ever know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man is the epitome of all things and all knowledge is in him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man is the greatest being that ever can be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man is the highest being that exists, and this is the greatest world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Everything which has name and form must die. If there are heavens with forms, these heavens must vanish in course of time; they may last millions of years, but there must come a time when they will have to go."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Everything is present in its cause, in its fine form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Internal and external nature, mind and matter, are in time and space, and are bound by the law of causation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: No effect of work can be eternal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Ay! says the Vedanta, it is not the fault of God that this partiality exists, that this competition exists. Who makes it? We ourselves. There is a cloud shedding its rain on all fields alike. But it is only the field that is well cultivated, which gets the advantage of the shower; another field, which has not been tilled or taken care of cannot get that advantage. It is not the fault of the cloud."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I do not believe in eternal progress, that we are growing on ever and ever in a straight line. It is too nonsensical to believe. There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. The force sent out will complete the circle and return to its starting place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Soul is not composed of any materials. It is unity indivisible. Therefore it must be indestructible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In all our Yogas this renunciation is necessary. This is the stepping-stone and the real centre and the real heart of all spiritual culture - renunciation. This is religion - renunciation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If I am immune against all anger, I never feel angry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If you are angry, and then happy, the next moment the anger passes away. Out of that anger you manufactured the next state. These states are always interchangeable. Eternal happiness and misery are a child's dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: My brother, do men grieve over the fight of cats and dogs? So the jealousy, envy, and elbowing of common men should make no impression on your mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Change of the unchangeable would be a contradiction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Everybody is changing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Buddhists or the Jains do not depend upon God; but the whole force of their religion is directed to the great central truth in every religion, to evolve a God out of man. They have not seen the Father, but they have seen the Son. And he that hath seen the Son hath seen the Father also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This life is a tremendous assertion of freedom"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: D\u00e2na, charity. There is no higher virtue than charity. The lowest man is he whose hand draws in, in receiving; and he is the highest man whose hand goes out in giving. The hand was made to give always. Give the last bit of bread you have even if you are starving. You will be free in a moment if you starve yourself to death by giving to another. Immediately you will be perfect, you will become God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: From the high spiritual flights of the Vedanta philosophy, of which the latest discoveries of science seem like echoes, to the low ideas of idolatry with its multifarious mythology, the agnosticism of the Buddhists and the atheism of the Jains, each and all have a place in the Hinduism religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is another way in which this idea of mercy and selfless charity can be put into practice; that is, by looking upon work as \"worship\" in case we believe in a Personal God. Here we give up all the fruits our work unto the Lord, and worshipping Him thus, we have no right to expect anything from man kind for the work we do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Those who are acquainted with the literature of India will remember a beautiful old story about this extreme charity, how a whole family, as related in the Mah\u00e2bh\u00e2rata, starved themselves to death and gave their last meal to a beggar. This is not an exaggeration, for such things still happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We may convert every house in the country into a charity asylum, we may fill the land with hospitals, but the misery of man will still continue to exist until man's character changes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The happiest moments we ever know are when we entirely forget ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If the poor boy cannot come to education, \n education must go to him"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is the highest manifestation of the power of Vairagya when it takes away even our attraction towards the qualities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We are the sons of Light and children of God. Glory unto the Lord, we will succeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: March on, the Lord is our General."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The best guide in life is strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Religion in India culminates in freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: May blessings and happiness attend every step of your progress in this world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Forgive offences by the million. And if you love all unselfishly, all will by degrees come to love one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This doctrine of prenatal influence is now slowly being recognized, and science as well as religion calls out: 'Keep yourself holy, and pure.' So deeply has this been recognized in India, that there we even speak of adultery in marriage, except when marriage is consummated in prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Everything that occupies space has form. The formless can only be infinite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: God is pure, and the same to all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: To realize the spirit as spirit is practical religion. Everything else is good so far as it leads to this one grand idea. That realization is to be attained by renunciation, by meditation-renunciation of all the senses, cutting the knots, the chains that bind us down to matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or two things well with very little effort, having practiced them every day through generations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Salvation never will come through hope of reward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All progression is in the relative world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All real progress must be slow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Language is the chief means and index of a nation's progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: A Brahmin is not so much in need of education as a Chandala. If the son of a Brahmin needs one teacher, that of a Chandala needs ten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I reached Ghazipur three days ago. Here I am putting up in the house of Babu Satish Chandra Mukherji, a friend of my early age. The place is very pleasant. Close by flows the Ganga, but bathing there is troublesome, for there is no regular path, and it is hard work wading through sands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Marriage and sex and money the only living devils."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Absolute and the Infinite can become this universe only by limitation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Absolute cannot be divided."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In everything we do, the serpent ego is rising up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: At the head of all these laws, in and through every particle of matter and force, stands One through whose command the wind blows, the fire burns, the clouds rain, and death stalks upon the earth. And what is His nature? He is everywhere the pure and formless One, the Almighty and the All Merciful. Thou art our Father. Thou art our beloved Friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do you recall the story of the young Yogi in the Mah\u00e2bh\u00e2rata who prided himself on his psychic powers by burning the bodies of a crow and crane by his intense will, produced by anger?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Through the senses, anger comes, and sorrow comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Every individual is a center for the manifestation of a certain force. This force has been stored up as the resultant of our previous works, and each one of us is born with this force at our back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The natural state of this universe is attraction; and that is surely followed by an ultimate disunion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We see many persons talking the most wonderfully fine things about charity and about equality and the rights of other people and all that, but it is only in theory. I was so fortunate as to find one who was able to carry theory into practice. He had the most wonderful faculty of carrying everything into practice which he thought was right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Happiness presents itself to man, wearing the crown of sorrow on its head. He who welcomes it must also welcome sorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The varieties of religious belief are an advantage, since all faiths are good, so far as they encourage us to lead a religious life. The more sects there are, the more opportunities there are for making a successful appeal to the divine instinct in all of us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is nothing so high as renunciation of self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Only when creation stops can we find the Absolute. The Absolute is in the soul, not in creation. So by stopping creation, we come to know the Absolute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Philosophy insists that there is a joy which is absolute, which never changes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Salvation means knowing the truth. We do not become anything; we are what we are. Salvation [comes] by faith and not by work. It is a question of knowledge! You must know what you are, and it is done. The dream vanishes. This you [and others] are dreaming here. When they die, they go to [the] heaven [of their dream]. They live in that dream, and [when it ends], they take a nice body [here], and they are good people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The \"ego\" like its correlative \"non-ego\", is the product of the body, mind etc. The only proof of the existence of the real Self is realisation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Infinite strength is religion and God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is no salvation for man until he sees God, realises his own soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Do not disturb the faith of any. . .  Our duty is not to disturb the faith of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The householder must always please his wife with money, clothes, love and faith and never do anything to disturb her. That man who has succeeded in getting the love of a chaste wife has succeeded in his religion and has all the virtues."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: God is the one goal of all our passions and emotions. If you want to be angry, be angry with Him. Chide your Beloved, chide your Friend. Whom else can you safely chide? Mortal man will not patiently put up with your anger; there will be a reaction. If you are angry with me I am sure quickly to react, because I cannot patiently put up with your anger. Say unto the Beloved, \"Why do You not come to me; why do You leave me thus alone?\" Where is there any enjoyment but in Him? What enjoyment can there be in little clods of earth?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Even if our every attempt is a failure, and we bleed and are torn asunder, yet, through all this, we have to preserve our heart - we must assert our Godhead in the midst of all these difficulties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This world is not for cowards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: It is fear that is the cause of our woes, and it is fearlessness that brings heaven in a moment \"The earth is enjoyed by heroes\" - this is the unfailing truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: This is a world of good and evil. Wherever there is good, evil follows, but beyond and behind all these manifestations, all these contradictions, the Vedanta finds out that Unity. It says, \"Give up what is evil and give up what is good.\" What remains then? Behind good and evil stands something which is yours, the real you, beyond every evil, and beyond every good too, and it is that which is manifesting itself as good and bad. Know that first, and then and then alone you will be a true optimist, and not before; for then you will be able to control everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: As the cause is, so the effect will be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Let the churches preach doctrines, theories, philosophies to their hearts' content, but when it comes to worship, the real practical part of religion, it should be as Jesus says, \"When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Then from the world all spirituality will be extinct, all moral perfection will be extinct, all sweet-souled sympathy for religion will be extinct, all ideality will be extinct; and in its place will reign the duality of lust and luxury as the male and female deities, with money as its priest, fraud, force, and competition its ceremonies, and the human soul its sacrifice. Such a thing can never be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All misery and pain come from attachment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Everything that you do under compulsion goes to build up attachment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Any time you attempt to make a God beyond Christ, you murder the whole thing. God alone can worship God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: \"If you die, you get to heaven; and if you win, you enjoy the earth\" (Gita). Even if you die in this attempt, well and good, many will take up the work, following your example. And if you succeed, you will live a life of great opulence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The body is subject to the law of growth and decay, what grows must of necessity decay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The body is the external coating and the mind is the internal coating of the Atman who is the real perceiver, the real enjoyer, the being in the body who is working the body by means of the internal organ or the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We are bound to earth by desire and also to God, heaven, and the angels. A slave is a slave whether to man, to God, or to angels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Seeing a cat loving her kittens stand and pray. God has become manifest there; literally believe this. Repeat \"I am Thine, I am Thine\", for we can see God everywhere. Do not seek for Him, just see Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All change is in the screen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Change can only be in the limited."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Change is always subjective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Change is the nature of all objective things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: What do we call the river? Every moment the water is changing, the shore is changing, every moment the environment is changing, what is the river then? It is the name of this series of changes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Know that the mind which is born to succeed joins itself to a determined will and perseveres."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Learn to recognise the mother in Evil, Terror, Sorrow, Denial, as well as in Sweetness and in Joy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Christ, being man, had to see impurity and denounced it; but God, infinitely higher, does not see iniquity and cannot be angry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: If you want to live, go back to Christ. You are not Christians. Go back to Christ. Go back to him who had nowhere to lay his head. Better be ready to live in rags with Christ than to live in palaces without him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Everything is the living God, the living Christ; see it as such."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Renounce and give up. What did Christ say? \"He that loseth his life for my sake shall find it.\" Again and again did he preach renunciation as the only way to perfection. There comes a time when the mind awakes from this long and dreary dream-the child gives up its play and wants to go back to its mother. Renunciation is not asceticism. Are all beggars Christ? Poverty is not a synonym for holiness; often the reverse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Christians believe that Jesus Christ died to save man. With you it is belief in a doctrine, and this belief constitutes your salvation. With us doctrine has nothing whatever to do with salvation. Each one may believe in whatever doctrine he likes; or in no doctrine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Trinitarian Christ is elevated above us; the Unitarian Christ is merely a moral man; neither can help us. The Christ who is the Incarnation of God, who has not forgotten His divinity, that Christ can help us, in Him there is no imperfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Christ said, \"Resist not evil\", and we do not understand it until we discover that it is not only moral but actually the best policy, for anger is loss of energy to the man who displays it. You should not allow your minds to come into those brain-combinations of anger and hatred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The kingdom of heaven is within us. The Jewish idea was a kingdom of heaven upon this earth. That was not the idea of Jesus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The Buddhist tenet, \"Non-killing is supreme virtue\", is very good, but in trying to enforce it upon all by legislation without paying any heed to the capacities of the people at large, Buddhism has brought ruin upon India."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that the worshippers are really worshipping, whether in the temple, in the image, or in the temple of their own bodies. First know for certain what they are doing - which more than ninety per cent of the revilers are thoroughly ignorant of - and then it will explain itself in the light of the Vedantic philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: One thing I must tell you. Idolatry in India does not mean anything horrible. It is not the mother of harlots."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: In every attempt there are many obstacles to cope with, but gradually the path becomes smooth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: We have to cover everything with the Lord himself, not a false sort of optimism, not by blinding our eyes to the evil, but by really seeing God in everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and everything shall be added unto you. This is the one great duty, this is renunciation. Live for an ideal, and leave no place in the mind for anything else. Let us put forth all our energies to acquire that which never fails-our spiritual perfection. If we have true yearning for realization, we must struggle, and through struggle growth will come. We shall make mistakes, but they may be angels unawares."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man is greater than the gods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: All forms are transitory, that is why all religions say, \"God has no form\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Have charity towards all beings. Pity those who are in distress. Love all creatures. Do not be jealous of anyone. Look not to the faults of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: The fault with all religions like Christianity is that they have one set of rules for all. But Hindu religion is suited to all grades of religious aspiration and progress. It contains all the ideals in their perfect form. For example, the ideal of Shanta or blessedness is to be found in Vasishtha; that of love in Krishna; that of duty in Rama and Sita; and that of intellect in Shukadeva. Study the characters of these and of other ideal men. Adopt one which suits you best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Our allegiance is to the principles always, and not to the persons. Persons are but the embodiments, the illustrations of the principles. If the principles are there, the persons will come by the thousands and millions. If the principle is safe, persons like Buddha will be born by the hundreds and thousands. But if the principle is lost and forgotten and the whole of national life tries to cling round a so-called historical person, woe unto that religion, danger unto that religion!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Man stands in materialism; you and I are materialists. Our talking about God and Spirit is good; but it is simply the vogue in our society to talk thus: we have learnt it parrot-like and repeat it. So we have to take ourselves where we are as materialists, and must take the help of matter and go on slowly until we become real spiritualists, and feel ourselves spirits, understand the spirit, and find that this world which we call the infinite is but a gross external form of that world which is behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Highest love for God can never be achieved without renunciation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: There is no end to renunciation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: Whom anger chains, can ever pass thro' Maya's gates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Swami Vivekananda: I want each one of my children to be a hundred times greater than I could ever be. Everyone of you must  be a giant- must, that is my word. Obedience, readiness, and love for the cause- if you have these three, nothing can hold you back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Failure is success in progress"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Men marry women with the hope they will never change. Women marry men with the hope they will change. Invariably they are both disappointed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or objects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts and feeling as something separated from the rest, a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The state is made for man, not man for the state.... That is to say, the state should be our servant and not we its slaves"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: There is, however, one other human right which is infrequently mentioned but which seems to be destined to become very important: this is the right, or the duty, of the individual to abstain from cooperating in activities which he considers wrong or pernicious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious children before the Great Mystery into which we were born."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: God reveals himself in the orderly harmony of what exists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The individual who has experienced solitude will not easily become a victim of mass suggestion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Peace cannot be kept by force; it can only be achieved by understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: School failed me, and I failed the school. It bored me. The teachers behaved like Feldwebel (sergeants). I wanted to learn what I wanted to know, but they wanted me to learn for the exam. What I hated most was the competitive system there, and especially sports. Because of this, I wasn't worth anything, and several times they suggested I leave."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Whoever is careless with the truth in small matters cannot be trusted in important affairs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A large part of our attitude toward things is conditioned by opinions and emotions which we unconsciously absorb as children from our environment. In other words, it is tradition\u2014besides inherited aptitudes and qualities\u2014which makes us what we are. We but rarely reflect how relatively small as compared with the powerful influence of tradition is the influence of our conscious thought upon our conduct and convictions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I have only two rules which I regard as principles of conduct. The first is: Have no rules. The second is: Be independent of the opinion of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science. If there is any such concept as a God, it is a subtle spirit, not an image of a man that so many have fixed in their minds. In essence, my religion consists of a humble admiration for this illimitable superior spirit that reveals itself in the slight details that we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble minds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The economic anarchy of capitalist society as it exists today is, in my opinion, the real source of evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Force always attracts men of low morality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am happy because I want nothing from anyone. I do not care for money. Decorations, titles or distinctions mean nothing to me. I do not crave praise. The only thing that gives me pleasure, apart from my work, my violin and my sailboat, is the appreciation of my fellow workers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It would be foolish to despise tradition. But with our growing self-consciousness and increasing intelligence we must begin to control tradition and assume a critical attitude toward it, if human relations are ever to change for the better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Scientific research can reduce superstition by encouraging people to think and view things in terms of cause and effect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Try not to become a man of success, but a man of value. Look around at how people want to get more out of life than they put in. A man of value will give more than he receives. Be creative, but make sure that what you create is not a curse for mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I have not eaten enough of the tree of knowledge, though in my profession I am obligated to feed on it regularly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding. You cannot subjugate a nation forcibly unless you wipe out every man, woman, and child. Unless you wish to use such drastic measures, you must find a way of settling your disputes without resort to arms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Three Rules of Work: Out of clutter find simplicity. From discord find harmony. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Bureaucracy is the death of all sound work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I speak to everyone in the same way, whether he is the garbage man or the president of the university."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The minority, the ruling class at present, has the schools and press, usually the Church as well, under its thumb.  This enables it to organize and sway the emotions of the masses, and make its tool of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Don't think about why you question, simply don't stop questioning. Don't worry about what you can't answer, and don't try to explain what you can't know. Curiosity is its own reason. Aren't you in awe when you contemplate the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure behind reality? And this is the miracle of the human mind - to use its constructions, concepts, and formulas as tools to explain what man sees, feels and touches. Try to comprehend a little more each day. Have holy curiosity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If A is a success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The main task of the spirit is to free man from his ego."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Philosophy is empty if it isn't based on science. Science discovers, philosophy interprets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I cannot accept any concept of God based on the fear of life or the fear of death, or blind faith. I cannot prove to you that there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him I would be a liar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: One should not pursue goals that are easily achieved. One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one\u2019s greatest efforts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Condemnation without investigation is the height of ignorance"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Everything is determined, the beginning as well as the end, by forces over which we have no control. It is determined for the insect, as well as for the star. Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If I were not a physicist, I would probably be a musician. I often think in music. I live my daydreams in music. I see my life in terms of music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I like to experience the universe as one harmonious whole. Every cell has life. Matter, too, has life; it is energy solidified. Our bodies are like prisons, and I look forward to be free, but I don't speculate on what will happen to me. I live here now, and my responsibility is in this world now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: There is a race between mankind and the universe. Mankind is trying to build bigger, better, faster, and more foolproof machines. The universe is trying to build bigger, better, and faster fools. So far the universe is winning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Any society which does not insist upon respect for all life must necessarily decay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Out of clutter, find simplicity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Imagination is more important than knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Freedom of teaching and of opinion in book or press is the foundation for the sound and natural development of any people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The most beautiful emotion we can experience is the mystical. It is the power of all true art and science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty, which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their most primitive forms - this knowledge, this feeling, is at the center of true religiousness. In this sense, and in this sense only, I belong to the rank of devoutly religious men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The more cruel the wrong that men commit against an individual or a people, the deeper their hatred and contempt for their victim."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Man can find meaning in life only through devoting himself to society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Politics is a pendulum whose swings between anarchy and tyranny are fueled by perennially rejuvenated illusions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Innovation is not the product of logical thought, even though the final product is tied to a logical structure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Nothing happens unless something moves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Never regard study as a duty, but as the enviable opportunity to learn"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I never think of the future - it comes soon enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The devil has put a penalty on all things we enjoy in life. Either we suffer in our health, or we suffer in our soul, or we get fat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Where there is love, there is no imposition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A thought that sometimes makes me hazy: Am I - or are the others crazy?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am a deeply religious nonbeliever - this is a somewhat new kind of religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A happy man is too satisfied with the present to dwell too much on the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I believe in intuitions and inspirations...I sometimes FEEL that I am right. I do not KNOW that I am."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I admit that thoughts influence the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A man who is convinced of the truth of his religion is indeed never tolerant. At the least, he is to feel pity for the adherent of another religion but usually it does not stop there. The faithful adherent of a religion will try first of all to convince those that believe in another religion and usually he goes on to hatred if he is not successful. However, hatred then leads to persecution when the might of the majority is behind it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth. To make a goal of comfort or happiness has never appealed to me; a system of ethics built on this basis would be sufficient only for a herd of cattle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I was originally supposed to become an engineer but the thought of having to expend my creative energy on things that make practical everyday life even more refined, with a loathsome capital gain as the goal, was unbearable to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Truth is what stands the test of experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through their eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Let every man judge according to his own standards, by what he has himself read, not by what others tell him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: We should be on our guard not to overestimate science and scientific methods when it is a question of human problems, and we should not assume that experts are the only ones who have the right to express themselves on questions affecting the organization of society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: One had to cram all this stuff into one's mind for the examinations, whether one liked it or not. This coercion had such a deterring effect on me that, after I had passed the final examination, I found the consideration of any scientific problems distasteful to me for an entire year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: True art is characterized by an irresistible urge in the creative artist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The dog is very smart. He feels sorry for me because I receive so much mail; that's why he tries to bite the mailman."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am content in my later years. I have kept my good humor and take neither myself nor the next person seriously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The truth of a theory can never be proven, for one never knows if future experience will contradict its conclusions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the kind that we experience in ourselves. Neither can I nor would I want to conceive of an individual that survives his physical death; let feeble souls, from fear or absurd egoism, cherish such thoughts. I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life and with the awareness and a glimpse of the marvelous structure of the existing world, together with the devoted striving to comprehend a portion, be it ever so tiny, of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I take it to be true that pure thought can grasp the real, as the ancients had dreamed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I believe in standardizing automobiles. I do not believe in standardizing human beings. Standardization is a great peril which threatens American culture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The ideals which have always shone before me and filled me with the joy of living are goodness, beauty, and truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Not until the creation and maintenance of decent conditions of life for all men are recognized and accepted as a common obligation of all men and all countries \u2014 not until then shall we, with a certain degree of justification, be able to speak of mankind as civilized."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is only to the individual that a soul is given."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I should much rather see reasonable agreement with the Arabs on the basis of living together in peace than the creation of a Jewish state. My awareness of the essential nature of Judaism resists the idea of a Jewish state with borders, an army, and a measure of temporal power, no matter how modest. I am afraid of the inner damage Judaism will sustain\u2014especially from the development of a narrow nationalism within our own ranks, against which we have already had to fight strongly, even without a Jewish state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A tyranny based on ... deception and maintained by terror must inevitably perish from the poison it generates within itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The life of the individual has meaning only insofar as it aids in making the life of every living thing nobler and more beautiful. Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private greed draped in the color's of patriotism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The armament industry is indeed one of the greatest dangers that beset mankind. It is the hidden evil power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Life is a great tapestry. The individual is only an insignificant thread in an immense and miraculous pattern."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It would be better if you began to teach others only after you yourself have learned something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of Nature, and therefore this holds for the action of people. For this reason, a research scientist will hardly be inclined to believe that events could be influenced by a prayer, i.e. by a wish addressed to a Supernatural Being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I have come to know the mutability of all human relationships and have learned to insulate myself against both heat and cold so that a temperature balance is fairly well assured."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It almost seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can\u2019t grasp them. There is a pattern in creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am convinced there is only one way to eliminate these grave evils, namely through the establishment of a socialist economy, accompanied by an educational system which would be oriented toward social goals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The value of achievement lies in the achieving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Nationalism is an infantile disease. It is the measles of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A person starts to live when he can live outside himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The effort to strive for truth has to precede all \n other efforts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is abhorrent to me when a fine intelligence is paired with an unsavory character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I believe that we don't need to worry about what happens after this life, as long as we do our duty here-to love and to serve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The religious geniuses of all ages have been distinguished by this kind of religious feeling, which knows no dogma and no God conceived in man's image; so that there can be no church whose central teachings are based on it. Hence it is precisely among the heretics of every age that we find men who were filled with this highest kind of religious feeling and were in many cases regarded by their contemporaries as atheists, sometimes also as saints. Looked at in this light, men like Democritus, Francis of Assisi, and Spinoza are closely akin to one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Nature conceals her secrets because she is sublime, not because she is a trickster."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Life is sacred, that is to say, it is the supreme value, to which all other values are subordinate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am satisfied with the mystery of the eternity of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Children don\u2019t heed the life experiences of their parents, and nations ignore history. Bad lessons always have to be learned anew."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful muscles, but no personality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Teaching should be such that what is offered is perceived as a valuable gift and not as a hard duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Whatever there is of God and goodness in the universe, it must work itself out and express itself through us. We cannot stand aside and let God do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The Bible is a great source of wisdom and consolation and should be read frequently."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Small is the number of them that see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: God is subtle but he is not malicious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If I can't picture it, I can't understand it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The led must not be compelled; they must be able to choose their own leader."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am not a positivist. Positivism states that what cannot be observed does not exist. This conception is scientifically indefensible, for it is impossible to make valid affirmations of what people 'can' or 'cannot' observe. One would have to say 'only what we observe exists,' which is obviously false."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: With fame I become more and more stupid, which of course is a very common phenomenon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Is it not a terrible thing to be forced by society to do things which all of us as individuals regard as abominable crimes?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I have never belonged wholeheartedly to country or State, to my circle of friends or even to my own family... Such isolation is sometimes bitter, but I do not regret being cut off from the understanding and sympathy of other men. I lose something by it,to be sure, but I am compensated for it in being rendered independent of the customs, opinions and prejudices of others, and am not tempted to rest my peace of mind upon such shifting foundations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Nothing truly valuable can be achieved except by the unselfish cooperation of many individuals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is not a lack of real affection that scares me away again and again from marriage. Is it a fear of the comfortable life, of nice furniture, of dishonor that I burden myself with, or even the fear of becoming a contented bourgeois."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is difficult to say what truth is, but sometimes it is so easy to recognize a falsehood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed to the empty. The trite objects of human efforts \u2014 possessions, outward success, luxury\u2014have always seemed to me contemptible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. \n So I stopped wearing socks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Everyone sits in the prison of his own ideas; he must burst it open, and that in his youth, and so try to test his ideas on reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Desire for approval and recognition is a healthy motive, but the desire to be acknowledged as better, stronger, or more intelligent than a fellow being or fellow scholar easily leads to an excessively egoistic psychological adjustment, which may become injurious for the individual and for the community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust, we all dance to a mysterious tune, intoned in the distance by an invisible piper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The real difficulty, the difficulty which has baffled the sages of all times, is rather this: how can we make our teaching so potent in the motional life of man, that its influence should withstand the pressure of the elemental psychic forces in the individual?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The most beautiful gift of nature is that it gives one pleasure to look around and try to comprehend what we see."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, forms my idea of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: ... the desire for truth must take precedence over all other desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am an adherent of the ideal of democracy, although I well know the weaknesses of the democratic form of government. Social equality and economic protection of the individual appeared to me always as the important communal aims of the state. Although I am a typical loner in daily life, my consciousness of belonging to the invisible community of those who strive for truth, beauty, and justice has preserved me from feeling isolated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A life directed chiefly toward the fulfillment of personal desires will sooner or later always lead to bitter disappointment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Each of us is here for a brief sojourn; for what purpose\r\nhe knows not, though he sometimes thinks he senses it.\r\nBut without deeper reflection one knows from daily life\r\nthat one exists for other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Our schoolbooks glorify war and conceal its horrors. They indoctrinate children with hatred. I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Feeling and longing are the motive forces behind all human endeavor and human creations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Mozart's music is so pure and beautiful that I see it as a reflection of the inner beauty of the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Arrows of hate have been aimed at me too, but they have never hit me, because somehow they belonged to another world with which I have no connection whatsoever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: One reason why mathematics enjoys special esteem,above all other sciences,is\n that its laws are absolutely certain and indisputable,while those of all\n other sciences are to some extent debatable and in constant danger of being\n overthrown by newly discovered facts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: But love brings much happiness - much more so than pining brings pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am absolutely convinced that no wealth in the world can help humanity forward, even in the hands of the most devoted worker in this cause. The example of great and pure characters is the only thing that can produce fine ideas and noble deeds. Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The American lives even more for his goals, for the future, than the European. Life for him is always becoming, never being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: An oligarchy of private capital cannot be effectively checked even by a democratically organized political society because under existing conditions, private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Private capitalists inevitably control, directly or indirectly, the main sources of information. It is thus extremely difficult, and indeed in most cases quite impossible, for the individual citizen to come to objective conclusions and to make intelligent use of his political rights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Bear in mind that the wonderful things you learn in your schools are the work of many generations. All this is put in your hands as your inheritance in order that you may receive it, honor it, add to it, and one day faithfully hand it on to your children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I live my daydreams in music I see my life in terms of music. I get most joy in life out of music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: My feeling is religious insofar as I am imbued with the consciousness of the insufficiency of the human mind to understand more deeply the harmony of the Universe which we try to formulate as \"laws of nature\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Body and soul are not two different things, but only two different ways of perceiving the same thing. Similarly, physics and psychology are only different attempts to link our experiences together by way of systematic thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: While I am a convinced pacifist there are circumstances in which I believe the use of force is appropriate - namely, in the face of an enemy unconditionally bent on destroying me and my people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is my inner conviction that the development of science seeks in the main to satisfy the longing for pure knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Never lose a holy curiosity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is, in fact, nothing short of a miracle that the modern methods of instruction have not yet entirely strangled the holy curiosity of inquiry; for this delicate little plant, aside from stimulation, stands mainly in need of freedom; without this it goes to wrack and ruin without fail. It is a grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Matter is real to my senses, but they aren't trustworthy. If Galileo or Copernicus had accepted what they saw, they would never have discovered the movement of the earth and planets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Knowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Nothing will end war unless the peoples themselves refuse to go to war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: As I have said so many times, God doesn't play dice with the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A forced faithfulness is a bitter fruit for all concerned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I soon learned to scent out that which was able to lead to fundamentals and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: An empty stomach is not a good political adviser."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: My life is a simple thing that would interest no one. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Enjoying the joys of others and suffering with them-these are the best guides for man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: We have to do the best we are capable of. This is our sacred human responsibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: We all try to escape pain and death, while we seek what is pleasant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: No amount of experimentation can ever prove me right; a single experiment can prove me wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Never lose a holy curiosity. Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. He is considered successful in our day who gets more out of life than he puts in. But a man of value will give more than he receives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Experience alone can decide on truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: God does not play dice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are capable of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: As a human being, one has been endowed with just enough intelligence to be able to see clearly how utterly inadequate that intelligence is when confronted with what exists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I love to travel, but hate to arrive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Politics is more difficult than physics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Non-cooperation in military matters should be an essential moral principle for all true scientists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Pablo Casals is a very great artist. What I admire is the firm stand he has taken not only against the oppressors of his countrymen, but also against those opportunists who are always ready to compromise with the Devil. He perceives clearly that the world is in greater peril from those who tolerate or encourage evil than from those who actually commit it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Our situation on this earth seems strange. Every one of us appears here involuntarily and uninvited for a short stay, without knowing the whys and the wherefore. In our daily lives we only feel that man is here for the sake of others, for those whom we love and for many other beings whose fate is connected with our own. I am often worried at the thought that my life is based to such a large extent on the work of my fellow human beings and I am aware of my great indebtedness to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The distinctions separating the social classes are false; in the last analysis they rest on force."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: There is separation of colored people from white people in the United States. That separation is not a disease of colored people. It is a disease of white people. I do not intend to be quiet about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: For me the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: More and more I come to value charity and love of one's fellow being above everything else...All our lauded technological progress-our very civilization-is like the axe in the hand of the pathological criminal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The heart says yes, but the mind says no."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I believe the most important mission of the state is to protect the individual and make it possible for him to develop into a creative personality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: This crippling of individuals I consider the worst evil of capitalism. Our whole educational system suffers from this evil. An exaggerated competitive attitude is inculcated into the student, who is trained to worship acquisitive success as a preparation for his future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: What I see in Nature is a magnificent structure that we can comprehend only very imperfectly, and that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility. This is a genuinely religious feeling that has nothing to do with mysticism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Physical concepts are free creations of the human mind, and are not, however it may seem, uniquely determined by the external world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism - how passionately I hate them!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I always have a high regard for the individual and have an insuperable distaste for violence and clubmanship. All these motives made me into a passionate pacifist and anti-militarist. I am against any nationalism, even in the guise of mere patriotism. Privileges based on position and property have always seemed to me unjust and pernicious, as did any exaggerated personality cult."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: To have security against atomic bombs and against the other biological weapons, we have to prevent war, for if we cannot prevent war every nation will use every means that is at their disposal; and in spite of all promises they make, they will do it. At the same time, so long as war is not prevented, all the governments of the nations have to prepare for war, and if you have to prepare for war, then you are in a state where you cannot abolish war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Concern for man and his fate must always form the chief interest of all technical endeavors. Never forget this in the midst of your diagrams and equations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: the scientist's religious feeling takes the form of a rapturous amazement at the harmony of natural law, which reveals an intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is utterly insignificant reflection. This feeling is the guiding principle of his life and work, in so far as he succeeds in keeping himself from the shackles of selfish desire. It is beyond question closely akin to that which has possessed the religious geniuses of all ages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Man like every other animal is by nature indolent. If nothing spurs him on, then he will hardly think, and will behave from habit like an automaton."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A man's ethical behaviour should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and \n requirements - indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I believe that the horrifying deterioration in the ethical conduct of people today stems from the mechanization and dehumanization of our lives. A disastrous by-product of the development of the scientific and technical mentality. We are guilty. Man grows cold faster than the planet he inhabits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The theoretical idea ... does not arise apart from and independent of experience; nor can it be derived from experience by a purely logical procedure. It is produced by a creative act. Once a theoretical idea has been acquired, one does well to hold fast to it until it leads to an untenable conclusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If men as individuals surrender to the call of their elementary instincts, avoiding pain and seeking satisfaction only for their own selves, the result for them all taken together must be a state of insecurity, of fear, and of promiscuous misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I live my daydreams in music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike -- and yet it is the most precious thing we have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will. The Jews believe in free will. They believe that man shapes his own life. I reject that doctrine philosophically. In that respect I am not a Jew."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world, stimulating progress, giving birth to evolution. It is, strictly speaking, a real factor in scientific research."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I see my life in terms of music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: As long as I have any choice in the matter, I shall live only in a country where civil liberty, tolerance and equality of all citizens before the law prevail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Knowledge is dead; the school, however, serves the living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Thus I came...to a deep religiosity, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of 12. Through the reading of popular scientific books I soon reached a conviction that much in the stories of the Bible could not be true....Suspicion against every kind of authority grew out of this experience...an attitude which has never left me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way, but intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Communities tend to be guided less than individuals by conscience and a sense of responsibility. How much misery does this fact cause mankind! It is the source of wars and every kind of oppression, which fill the earth with pain, sighs and bitterness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Nothing truly valuable arises from ambition or from a mere sense of duty; it stems rather from love and devotion towards men and towards objective things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am not an atheist. I do not know if I can define myself as a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited minds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I want to be cremated so people won't come to worship at my bones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I do not play games. There is not time for it. When I get through with work, I don't want anything that requires the working of the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: ... a person who is religiously enlightened appears to me to be one who has, to the best of his ability, liberated himself from the fetters of his selfish desires and is preoccupied with thoughts, feelings, and aspirations to which he clings because of their superpersonal value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I also cannot imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere... Science has been charged with undermining morality, but the charge is unjust. A man's ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties and needs; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The really valuable thing in the pageant of human life seems to me not the political state, but the creative, sentient individual, the personality; it alone creates the noble and the sublime, while the herd as such remains dull in thought and dull in feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The development of general ability for independent thinking and judgment should always be placed foremost, not the acquisition of special knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Nationalism, on my opinion, is nothing more than an idealistic rationalization for militarism and aggression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - this critical basis I call the ideal of a pigsty. The ideals that have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. Without the sense of kinship with men of like mind, without the occupation with the objective world, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific endeavors, life would have seemed empty to me. The trite objects of human efforts - possessions, outward success, luxury - have always seemed to me contemptible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It seems to me that the idea of a personal God is an anthropological concept which I cannot take seriously. I feel also not able to imagine some will or goal outside the human sphere. My views are near those of Spinoza: admiration for the beauty of and belief in the logical simplicity of the order which we can grasp humbly and only imperfectly. I believe that we have to content ourselves with our imperfect knowledge and understanding and treat values and moral obligations as a purely human problem-the most important of all human problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If my theory of relativity is proven successful, Germany will claim me as a German and France will declare me a citizen of the world. Should my theory prove untrue, France will say that I am a German, and Germany will declare that I am a Jew."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Physics is essentially an intuitive and concrete science. Mathematics is only a means for expressing the laws that govern phenomena."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers of mind and character to them. This has been my fate, and the contrast between the popular estimate of my powers and achievements and the reality is simply grotesque."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Common sense is nothing more than a deposit of prejudices laid down by the mind before you reach eighteen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: We must be prepared to make the same heroic sacrifices for the cause of peace that we make ungrudgingly for the cause of war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I appeal to all men and women, whether they be eminent or humble, to declare that they will refuse to give any further assistance to war or the preparation of war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: All these constructions and the laws connecting them can be arrived at by the principle of looking for the mathematically simplest concepts and the link between them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The prestige of government has undoubtedly been lowered considerably by the prohibition law. For nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this country is closely connected with this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The harmony of natural law reveals an Intelligence of such superiority that, compared with it, all the systematic thinking and acting of human beings is an utterly insignificant reflection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: What distinguishes the language of science from language as we ordinarily understand the word? ... What science strives for is an utmost acuteness and clarity of concepts as regards their mutual relation and their correspondence to sensory data."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Strenuous intellectual work and the study of God's Nature are the angels that will lead me through all the troubles of this life with consolation, strength, and uncompromising rigor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I do not share the crusading spirit of the professional atheist whose fervor is mostly due to a painful act of liberation from the fetters of religious indoctrination received in youth. I prefer an attitude of humility corresponding to the weakness of our intellectual understanding of nature and of our own being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Why do people speak of great men in terms of nationality? Great Germans, great Englishmen? Goethe always protested against being called a German poet. Great men are simply men and are not to be considered from the point of view of nationality, nor should the environment in which they were brought up be taken into account."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Imagination encircles the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, senseless brutality, deplorable love-of-country stance, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action! It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Joy in looking and comprehending is nature's most beautiful gift."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The man of science is a poor philosopher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The fact that man produces a concept \"I\" besides the totality of his mental and emotional experiences or perceptions does not prove that there must be any specific existence behind such a concept. We are succumbing to illusions produced by our self-created language, without reaching a better understanding of anything. Most of so-called philosophy is due to this kind of fallacy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: We are here for the sake of others"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Fraulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I became more and more convinced that even nature could be understood as a relatively simple mathematical structure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I believe that Gandhi\u2019s views were the most enlightened of all the political men of our time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: One cannot help but be in awe when \n [one] contemplates the mysteries of eternity, \n of life, of the marvelous structure of reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: In the teaching of geography and history a sympathetic understanding (should) be fostered for the characteristics of the different peoples of the world, especially for those who we are in the habit of describing as \"primitive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Smoke like a chimney, work like a horse, eat without thinking, go for a walk only in really pleasant company."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being. As a solitary being, he attempts to protect his own existence and that of those who are closest to him, to satisfy his personal desires, and to develop his innate abilities. As a social being, he seeks to gain the recognition and affection of his fellow human beings, to share in their pleasures, to comfort them in their sorrows, and to improve their conditions of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: E=mc2. Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The scientific theorist is not to be envied. For Nature, or more precisely experiment, is an exorable and not very friendly judge of his work. It never says \"yes\" to a theory. In the most favorable cases it says \"Maybe,\" and in the great majority of cases simply \"No.\" If an experiment agrees with a theory it means for the latter \"Maybe,\" and if it does not agree it means \"No.\" Probably every theory will some day experience its \"No\" - most theories, soon after conception."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: War seems to me to be a mean, contemptible thing: I would rather be hacked in pieces than take part in such an abominable business. And yet so high, in spite of everything, is my opinion of the human race that I believe this bogey would have disappeared long ago, had the sound sense of the nations not been systematically corrupted by commercial and political interests acting through the schools and the Press"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Curiosity has its own reason for existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The highest principles for our aspirations and judgments are given to us in the Jewish-Christian religious tradition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don't read that hogwash, but rather leave it for the reptile from whom it has been fabricated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe; a part limited in time and space. He experiences himself, his thoughts, and his feelings as something separate from the rest - a kind of optical delusion of consciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Hail to the man who went through life always helping others, knowing no fear, and to whom aggressiveness and resentment are alien. Such is the stuff of which the great moral leaders are made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: My comprehension of God comes from a deeply felt conviction of a superior intelligence that reveals itself in the knowable world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Concepts that have proven useful in ordering things easily achieve such authority over us that we forget their earthly origins and accept them as unalterable givens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Since the mathematicians have invaded the theory of relativity I do not understand it myself any more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Violence sometimes may have cleared away obstructions quickly, but it never has proved itself creative."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Knowledge is limited."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If you want to make your children brilliant, tell them fairy tales. If you want to make them more brilliant, tell them more fairy tales."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Science has brought forth this danger, but the real problem is in the minds and hearts of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: My position concerning God is that of an agnostic. I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law-giver, especially a law-giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Strange is our situation here on earth. Each of us comes for a short visit, not knowing why, yet sometimes seeming to divine a purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A knowledge of the existence of something we cannot penetrate, of the manifestations of the profoundest reason and the most radiant beauty - it is this knowledge and this emotion that constitute the truly religious attitude; in this sense, and in this alone, I am a deeply religious man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: One has a feeling that one has a kind of home in this timeless community of human beings that strive for truth. ... I have always believed that Jesus meant by the Kingdom of God the small group scattered all through time of intellectually and ethically valuable people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am strongly drawn to the simple life and am often oppressed by the feeling that I am engrossing an unnecessary amount of the labour of my fellow men. I regard class differences as contrary to justice and, in the last resort, based on force. I also consider that plain living is good for everybody, physically and mentally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I cannot write in English, because of the treacherous spelling. When I am reading, I only hear it and am unable to remember what the written word looks like."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I do know that kind fate allowed me to find a couple of nice ideas after many years of feverish labor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: My scientific work is motivated by an irresistible longing to understand the secrets of nature and by no other feeling. My love for justice and striving to contribute towards the improvement of human conditions are quite independent from my scientific interests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: But without deeper reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people--first of all for those upon whose smiles and well-being our own happiness is wholly dependent, and then for the many, unknown to us, to whose destinies we are bound by the ties of sympathy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The opinion prevailed among advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is a very grave mistake to think that the enjoyment of seeing and searching can be promoted by means of coercion and a sense of duty. To the contrary, I believe it would be possible to rob even a healthy beast of prey of its voraciousness, if it were possible, with the aid of a whip, to force the beast to devour continuously, even when not hungry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I cannot then believe in this concept of an anthropomorphic God who has the powers of interfering with these natural laws. As I said before, the most beautiful and most profound religious emotion that we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. And this mysticality is the power of all true science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The individual feels the futility of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in nature and in the world of thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Science is the century-old endeavor to bring together by means of systematic thought the perceptible phenomena of this world into as thorough-going an association as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It stands to the everlasting credit of science that by acting on the human mind it has overcome man's insecurity before himself and before nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Work is the only thing that gives substance to life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Hunger, love, pain, fear are some of those inner forces which rule the individual's instinct for self preservation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Everything that the human race has done and thought is concerned with the satisfaction of deeply felt needs and the assuagement of pain. One has to keep this constantly in mind if one wishes to understand spiritual movements and their development. Feeling and longing are the motive force behind all human endeavor and human creation, in however exalted a guise the latter may present themselves to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: No, this trick won't work... How on earth are you ever going to explain in terms of chemistry and physics so important a biological phenomenon as first love?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: There is not the slightest indication that nuclear energy will ever be obtainable. It would mean that the atom would have to be shattered at will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The word 'God' is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, and religious scripture a collection of honourable, but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish. No interpretation, no matter how subtle, can (for me) change this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: But could not our situation be compared to one of a menacing epidemic? People are unable to view this situation in its true light, for their eyes are blinded by passion. General fear and anxiety create hatred and aggressiveness. The adaptation to warlike aims and activities has corrupted the mentality of man; as a result, intelligent, objective and humane thinking has hardly any effect and is even suspected and persecuted as unpatriotic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: What humanity owes to personalities like Buddha, Moses, and Jesus ranks for me higher than all the achievements of the enquiring and constructive mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The aim (of education) must be the training of independently acting and thinking individuals who, however, see in the service to the community their highest life problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief. The opinion prevailed amoung advanced minds that it was time that belief should be replaced increasingly by knowledge; belief that did not itself rest on knowledge was superstition, and as such had to be opposed. According to this conception, the sole function of education was to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If I were not a Jew I would be a Quaker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am strongly drawn to a frugal life and am often oppressively aware that I am engrossing an undue amount of the labor of my fellow men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: For the moral attitudes of a people that is supported by religion need always aim at preserving and promoting the sanity and vitality of the community and its individuals, since otherwise this community is bound to perish. A people that were to honour falsehood, defamation, fraud, and murder would be unable, indeed, to subsist for very long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: What I seek to accomplish is simply to serve with my feeble capacity truth and justice, at the risk of pleasing no one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I want to know God's thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am a determinist. As such, I do not believe in free will...Practically, I am, nevertheless, compelled to act as if freedom of the will existed. If I wish to live in a civilized community, I must act as if man is a responsible being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: There exists a passion for comprehension, just as there exists a passion for music. That passion is rather common in children, but gets lost in most people later on. Without this passion there would be neither mathematics nor natural science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Then there are the fanatical atheists whose intolerance is of the same kind as the intolerance of the religious fanatics and comes from the same source."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am truly a \"lone traveler\" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I do not believe in race as such. Race is a fraud. All modern people are the conglomeration of so many ethnic mixtures that no pure race remains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Intelligence makes clear to us the interrelationship of means and ends. But mere thinking cannot give us a sense of the ultimate and fundamental ends. To make clear these fundamental ends and valuations and to set them fast in the emotional life of the individual, seems to me precisely the most important function which religion has to form in the social life of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The health of society thus depends quite as much on the independence of the individuals composing it as on their close political cohesion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Development of Western science is based on two great achievements: the invention of the formal logical system (in Euclidean geometry) by the Greek philosophers, and the discovery of the possibility to find out causal relationships by systematic experiment (during the Renaissance). In my opinion, one has not to be astonished that the Chinese sages have not made these steps. The astonishing thing is that these discoveries were made at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If this being is omnipotent, then every occurrence, including every human action, every human thought, and every human feeling and aspiration is also His work; how is it possible to think of holding men responsible for their deeds and thoughts before such an almighty Being?  In giving out punishment and rewards He would to a certain extent be passing judgment on Himself.  How can this be combined with the goodness and righteousness ascribed to Him?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: What can the schools do to defend democracy? Should they preach a specific political doctrine? I believe they should not. If they are able to teach young people to have a critical mind and a socially oriented attitude, they will have done all that is necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Man would indeeded be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life perpetuating itself through all eternity, to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the universe which we dimly perceive, and to try humbly to comprehend an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Your fervent wishes can only find fulfillment if you succeed in attaining love and understanding of men, and animals, and plants, and stars, so that every joy becomes your joy and every pain your pain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: What is significant in one's own existence one is hardly aware, and it certainly should not bother the other fellow. What does a fish know about the water in which he swims all his life?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Yes, we now have to divide up our time like that, between politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: In talking about human rights today, we are referring primarily to the following demands: protection of the individual against arbitrary infringement by other individuals or by the government; the right to work and to adequate earnings from work; freedom of discussion and teaching; adequate participation of the individual in the formation of his government. These human rights are nowadays recognised theoretically, although, by abundant use of formalistic, legal manoeuvres, they are being violated to a much greater extent than even a generation ago."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am fascinated by Spinoza's pantheism, but admire even more his contributions to modern thought because he is the first philosopher to deal with the soul and the body as one, not two separate things"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Knowledge exists in two forms - lifeless, stored in books, and alive, in the consciousness of men. The second form of existence is after all the essential one; the first, indispensable as it may be, occupies only an inferior position."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Certainly there are things worth believing. I believe in the brotherhood of man and the uniqueness of the individual. But if you ask me to prove what I believe, I can't. You know them to be true but you could spend a whole lifetime without being able to prove them. The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a leap\u2014call it intuition or what you will\u2014and comes out upon a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Nothing that I can do or say will change the structure of the universe. But maybe, by raising my voice, I can help the greatest of all causes \u2014 good will among men and peace on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute and it seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty girl for an hour, and it seems like a minute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: He who cherishes the value of cultures cannot fail to be a pacifist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I have always eaten animal flesh with a somewhat guilty conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The more a country makes military weapons, the more insecure it becomes: if you have weapons, you become a target for attack."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The hardest thing to understand in the world is the income tax."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It seems to me an utterly futile task to prescribe rules and limitations for the conduct of war. War is not a game; hence one cannot wage war by rules as one would in playing games. Our fight must be against war itself. The masses of people can most effectively fight the institution of war by establishing an organization for the absolute refusal of military service."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I do not believe that civilization will be wiped out in a war fought with the atomic bomb. Perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth will be killed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Personally, I experience the greatest degree of pleasure in having contact with works of art. They furnish me with happy feelings of an intensity that I cannot derive from other sources."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Nature shows us only the tail of the lion. But there is no doubt in my mind that the lion belongs with it even if he cannot reveal himself to the eye all at once because of his huge dimension."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Jesus is too colossal for the pen of phrasemongers, however artful. No man can dispose of Christianity with a bon mot"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is this mythical, or rather symbolic, content of the religious traditions which is likely to come into conflict with science. This occurs whenever this religious stock of ideas contains dogmatically fixed statements on subjects which belong in the domain of science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I have just got a new theory of eternity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: While it is true that an inherently free and scrupulous person may be destroyed, such an individual can never be enslaved or used as a blind tool."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Money only appeals to selfishness and always tempts its owners irresistibly to abuse  it. Can anyone imagine Moses, Jesus, or Gandhi armed with the money-bags of  Carnegie?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It followed from the special theory of relativity that mass and energy are both but different manifestations of the same thing - a somewhat unfamiliar conception for the average mind. Furthermore, the equation E = mc\u00b2, in which energy is put equal to mass, multiplied by the square of the velocity of light, showed that very small amounts of mass may be converted into a very large amount of energy and vice versa."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A photograph never grows old. You and I change, people change all through the months and years but a photograph always remains the same. How nice to look at a photograph of mother or father taken many years ago. You see them as you remember them. But as people live on, they change completely. That is why I think a photograph can be kind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: We believe that an informed citizenry will act for life and not for death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Mankind must give up war in the Atomic Era. What is at stake is the life or death of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: As an elderly man, I have remained estranged from the society here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Members of legislative bodies are selected by political parties, largely financed or otherwise influenced by private capitalists who, for all practical purposes, separate the electorate from the legislature. The consequence is that the representatives of the people do not in fact sufficiently protect the interests of the underprivileged sections of the population."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is just as important to make knowledge live and keep it alive as to solve specific problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I could say analogously that tolerance is the affable appreciation of qualities, views, and actions of other individuals which are foreign to one`s own habits, beliefs, and tastes. Thus being tolerant does not mean being indifferent towards the actions and feelings of others. Understanding and empathy must also be present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I believe that Gandhi\u2019s views were the most enlightened of all the political men in our time. We should strive to do things in his spirit: not to use violence in fighting for our cause, but by non-participation in anything you believe is evil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The theory must not contradict empirical facts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I have repeatedly said that in my opinion the idea of a personal God is a childlike one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I see in Nature a magnificent structure... that must fill a thinking person with a feeling of humility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The desire for guidance, love, and support prompts men to form the social or moral conception of God. This is the God of Providence, who protects, disposes, rewards, and punishes; the God who, according to the limits of the believer's outlook, loves and cherishes the life of the tribe or of the human race, or even of life itself; the comforter in sorrow and unsatisfied longing; he who preserves the souls of the dead. This is the social or moral conception of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I think we have to safeguard ourselves against people who are a menace to others, quite apart from what may have motivated their deeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: How can cosmic religious feeling be communicated from one person to another, if it can give rise to no definite notion of a God and no theology? In my view, it is the most important function of art and science to awaken this feeling and keep it alive in those who are receptive to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The mind can proceed only so far upon what it knows and can prove. There comes a point where the mind takes a higher plane of knowledge, but can never prove how it got there. All great discoveries have involved such a leap"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It's no accident that capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge. Egoism and competition are, alas, stronger forces than public spirit and sense of duty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The Jewish scriptures admirably illustrate the development from the religion of fear to moral religion, a development continued in the New Testament. The religions of all civilized peoples, especially the peoples of the Orient, are primarily moral religions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I believe in mystery and, frankly, I sometimes face this mystery with great fear. In other words, I think that there are many things in the universe that we cannot perceive or penetrate, and that also we experience some of the most beautiful things in life only in a very primitive form. Only in relation to these mysteries do I consider myself to be a religious man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: To know what is impenetrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty... this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science.  Since, however, sense perception only gives information of this external world or of \"physical reality\" indirectly, we can only grasp the latter by speculative means.  It follows from this that our notions of physical reality can never be final.  We must always be ready to change these notions - that is to say, the axiomatic basis of physics - in order to do justice to perceived facts in the most perfect way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am doing just fine, considering that I have triumphantly survived Nazism and two wives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The goal of pacifism is possible only though a supranational organization. To stand unconditionally for this cause is the criterion of true pacifism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: There are few enough people with sufficient independence to see the weaknesses and follies of their contemporaries and remain themselves untouched by them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character; it becomes lack of power to act with courage proportionate to danger. All this must lead to the destruction of our intellectual life unless the danger summons up strong personalities able to fill the lukewarm and discouraged with new strength and resolution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Everybody acts not only under external compulsion but also in accordance with inner necessity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence, for he finds it impossible to imagine that he is the first to have thought out the exceedingly delicate threads that connect his perceptions"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: ... one does people the best service by giving them some elevating work to do and thus indirectly elevating them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is not so important where one settles down. The best thing is to follow your instincts without too much reflection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Science is the attempt to make the chaotic diversity of our sense-experience correspond to a logically uniform system of thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If you want to find out anything from the theoretical physicists about the methods they use, I advise you to stick closely to one principle: don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds. To him who is a discoverer in this field the products of his imagination appear so necessary and natural that he regards them, and would like to have them regarded by others, not as creations of thought but as given realities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: War cannot be humanized. It can only be abolished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I no longer believed in the known God of the Bible, but rather in the mysterious God expressed in nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and human communities. I am truly a 'lone traveler' and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge has not yet been able to set foot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Science not only purifies the religious impulse of the dross of its anthropomorphism but also contributes to a religious spiritualization of our understanding of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: About God, I cannot accept any concept based on the authority of the Church... As long as I can remember. I have resented mass indoctrination. I cannot prove to you there is no personal God, but if I were to speak of him, I would be a liar. I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: There will come a point in everyone's life , however, where only intuition can make the leap ahead, without ever knowing precisely how. One can never know why but one must accept intuition as a fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: In the temple of science are many mansions, and various indeed are they that dwell therein and the motives that have led them thither. Many take to science out of a joyful sense of superior intellectual power; science is their own special sport to which they look for vivid experience and the satisfaction of ambition; many others are to be found in the temple who have offered the products of their brains on this altar for purely utilitarian purposes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Insofar as we may at all claim that slavery has been abolished today, we owe its abolition to the practical consequences of science"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I would teach peace rather than war, love rather than hate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The most evident difference springs from the important part which is played in man by a relatively strong power of imagination and by the capacity to think, aided as it is by language and other symbolically devices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Even the scholars in various lands have been acting as if their brains had been amputated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is not so very important for a person to learn facts. For that he does not really need a college. He can learn them from books. The value of an education in a liberal arts college is not learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think something that cannot be learned from textbooks."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is also a natural thing for a serious young man that he should form for himself as precise an idea as possible of the goal of his desires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The traditional religions worry me. Their long history proves that they have not understood the meaning of the commandment: Thou shalt not kill. If we want to save this world from unimaginable destruction we should concentrate not on the faraway God , but on the heart of the individual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is important to foster individuality, for only the individual can produce the new ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Where the world ceases to be the scene of our personal hopes and wishes, where we face it as free beings admiring, asking and observing, there we enter the realm of Art and Science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I believe in intuition and inspiration...at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing the reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: God gave me the stubbornness of a mule and a fairly keen scent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I believe that the first step in the setting of a real external world is the formation of the concept of bodily objects and of bodily objects of various kinds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Man owes his strength in the struggle for existence to the fact that he is a social animal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: One must console oneself with the thought that time has a sieve through which most of these important things run into the ocean of oblivion and what remains after this selection is often still trite and bad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind... life would have seemed to me empty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I have made no secret, either privately or publicly, of any sense of outrage over officially enforced military and war service. I regard it as a duty of conscience to fight against such barbarous enslavement of the individual with every means available."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Selection [of UN delegates] by governments cannot give the peoples of the world the feeling of being fairly and proportionately represented. The moral authority of the UN would be considerable enhanced if the delegates were elected directly by the people. Were they responsible to an electorate, they would have much more freedom to follow their consciences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: You must be aware that most men (and also not only a few women) are by nature not monogamous. This nature makes itself even more forceful when tradition and circumstance stand in an individual's way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope - we must hope - that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science. Truth is what stands the test of experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Science has gone a long way toward helping man to free himself from the burden of hard labor; yet, science itself is not a liberator. It creates means, not goals. It is up to men to utilize those means to achieve reasonable goals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: As for the search for truth, I know from my own painful searching, with its many blind alleys, how hard it is to take a reliable step, be it ever so small, towards the understanding of that which is truly significant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I consider it important, indeed urgently necessary, for intellectual workers to get together, both to protect their own economic status and, also, generally speaking, to secure their influence in the political field."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Israel is the only place on earth where Jews have the possibility to shape public life according to their own traditional ideals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: There are two different conceptions about the nature of the universe: (1) the world as a unity dependent on humanity; (2) the world as a reality independent of the human factor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The cult of individual personalities is always, in my view, unjustified. To be sure, nature distributes her gifts variously among her children. But there are plenty of the well-endowed ones too, thank God, and I am firmly convinced that most of them live quiet, unregarded lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The Nuremberg Trial of the German war criminals was tacitly based on the recognition of the principle: criminal actions cannot be excused if committed on government orders; conscience supersedes the authority of the law of the state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: In the shadow of the atomic bomb it has become even more apparent that all men are, indeed, brothers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The solution to this problem lies in the heart of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The most important human endeavor is the striving for morality in our actions. Our inner balance and even our very existence depend on it. Only morality in our actions can give beauty and dignity to life. To make this a living force and bring it to clear consciousness is perhaps the foremost task of education. The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The most important method of education always has consisted of that in which the pupil was urged to actual performance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Degeneracy follows every autocratic system of violence, for violence inevitably attracts moral inferiors. Time has proven that illustrious tyrants are succeeded by scoundrels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Though our conduct seems so very different from that of the higher animals, the primary instincts are much alike in them and in us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. \u2026 The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul\u2019s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Out yonder there is this huge world, which exists independently of us human beings and which stands before us like a great, eternal riddle, at least partially accessible to our inspection and thinking"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: That little word 'we' I mistrust and here's why:\n No man of another can say, 'He is I.'\n Behind all agreement lies something amiss\n All seeming accord cloaks a lurking abyss."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: In the matter of physics, the first lessons should contain nothing but what is experimental and interesting to see. A pretty experiment is in itself often more valuable than twenty formulae extracted from our minds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. He to whom the realm of the spirit for your own personal joy and to the profit of the community to which your later work belongs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Mere unbelief in a personal God is no philosophy at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Regarding sex education: no secrets!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence in such a theory is certainly justified. There is less danger of going completely astray, particularly since it takes so much less time and effort to disprove such theories by experience. Yet more and more, as the depth of our knowledge increases, we must give up this advantage in our quest for logical simplicity in the foundations of physical theory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Despite my being an old gypsy there is a tendency to respectability inherent in old age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I believe, indeed, that overemphasis on the purely intellectual attitude, often directed solely to the practical and factual, in our education, has led directly to the impairment of ethical values. I am not thinking so much of the dangers with which technical progress has directly confronted mankind, as of the stifling of mutual human considerations by a 'matter-of-fact' habit of thought which has come to lie like a killing frost upon human relations. Without 'ethical culture' there is no salvation for humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Watch the stars, and from them learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it. One should earn one's living by work of which one is sure one is capable. Only when we do not have to be accountable to anybody can we find joy in scientific endeavor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I agree with your remark about loving your enemy as far as actions are concerned. But for me the cognitive basis is the trust in an unrestricted causality. 'I cannot hate him, because he must do what he does.' That means for me more Spinoza than the prophets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If I could remember the names of all these particles, I'd be a botanist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain, and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The man who regards his own life and that of his fellow-creatures as meaningless is not merely unfortunate but almost disqualified for life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I believe in Spinoza's God, who reveals Himself in the lawful harmony of the world, not in a God who concerns Himself with the fate and the doings of mankind... to Rabbi Herbert Goldstein (1929)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: All such action would cease if those powerful elemental forces were to cease stirring within us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Every thoughtful, well-meaning and conscientious human being\n should assume in time of peace,\n the solemn and unconditional obligation\n not to participate in any war, for any reason\n or to lend support of any kind, whether direct or indirect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A religious person is devout in the sense that he has no doubt about the significance of those superpersonal objects and goals which neither require nor are capable of rational foundation"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The solitude and peace of mind are serving me quite well, not the least of which is due to the excellent and truly enjoyable relationship with my cousin; its stability will be guaranteed by the avoidance of marriage."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: [I] must seek in the stars that which was denied [to me] on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Anonymity is no excuse for stupidity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: One of the strongest motives that lead men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness, from the fetters of one's own ever-shifting desires. A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: My intellectual development was retarded, as a result of which I began to wonder about space and time only when I had already grown up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Now to the term 'relativity theory.' I admit that it is unfortunate, and has given occasion to philosophical misunderstandings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: When a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: All our thinking is of this nature, a free play with concepts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: All means prove but blunt instruments, if they have not behind them a living spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If the believers of the present-day religions would earnestly try to think and act in the spirit of the founders of these religions then no hostility on the basis of religion would exist among the followers of the different faiths. Even the conflicts and the realm of religion would be exposed as insignificant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I advocate world government because I am convinced that there is no other possible way of eliminating the most terrible danger in which man has ever found himself. The objective of avoiding total destruction must have priority over any other objective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: When the Special Theory of Relativity began to germinate in me, I was visited by all sorts of nervous conflicts... I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Scientists believe that every occurrence, including the affairs of human beings, is due to the laws of nature. Therefore a scientist cannot be inclined to believe that the course of events can be influenced by prayer, that is, by a supernaturally manifested wish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I cannot conceive of a God who rewards and punishes his creatures, or has a will of the type of which we are conscious in ourselves. An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is my belief that the problem of bringing peace to the world on a supranational basis will be solved only by employing Gandhi's method on a larger scale."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I have reached the conviction that the abolition of the death penalty is desirable. Reasons: 1) Irreparability in the event of an error of justice, 2) Detrimental moral influence of the execution procedure on those who, whether directly or indirectly, have to do with the procedure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: My position concerning God is that of an agnostic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Chess holds its master in its own bonds, shackling the mind and brain so that the inner freedom of the very strongest must suffer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I know little about nature and hardly anything about men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: What is the meaning of human life, or, for that matter, of the life of any creature? To know the answer to this question means to be religious. You ask: Does it make any sense, then, to pose this question? I answer: The man who regards his fellow creatures as meaningless is not merely unhappy but hardly fit for life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The words of language, as they are written or spoken, do not seem to play any role in my mechanism of thought. The physical entities which seem to serve as elements in thought are certain signs and more or less clear images."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Had I known that the Germans would not succeed in producing an atomic bomb, I would not have lifted a finger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: There is no salvation for civilization, or even the human race, other than the creation of a world government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Man tries to make for himself in the fashion that suits him best a simplified and intelligible picture of the world; he then tries to some extent to substitute this cosmos of his for the world of experience, and thus to overcome it. This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion. Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Ever since childhood I have scorned the commonplace limits so often set upon human ambition. Possessions, outward success, publicity, luxury - to me these have always been contemptible. I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone; best both for the body and the mind"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A conflict arises when a religious community insists on the absolute truthfulness of all statements recorded in the Bible. This means an intervention on the part of religion into the sphere of science; this is where the struggle of the Church against doctrines of Galileo and Darwin belongs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The greatest scientists are artists as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: To take those fools in clerical garb seriously is to show them too much honor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: What I'm really interested in is whether God could have made the world in a different way; that is, whether the necessity of logical simplicity leaves any freedom at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability. Therefore the deep impression which classical thermodynamics made upon me. It is the only physical theory of universal content concerning which I am convinced that within the framework of the applicability of its basic concepts, it will never be overthrown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: We [Jews] have no other means of self-defense than our solidarity"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The conflict that exists today is no more than an old-style struggle for power, once again presented to mankind in semireligious trappings. The difference is that, this time, the development of atomic power has imbued the struggle with a ghostly character; for both parties know and admit that, should the quarrel deteriorate into actual war, mankind is doomed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I came- though the child of entirely irreligious (Jewish) parents - to a deep religiousness, which, however, reached an abrupt end at the age of twelve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Without creative, independently thinking and judging personalities the upward development of society is as unthinkable as the development of the individual personality without the nourishing soil of the community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Thanks to my fortunate idea of introducing the relativity principle into physics, you (and others) now enormously overrate my scientific abilities, to the point where this makes me quite uncomfortable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that\n tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: People are like bicycles. They can keep their balance only as long as they keep moving."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It's not that I'm so smart."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The ancients knew something, which we seem to have forgotten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I never failed in mathematics. Before I was fifteen I had mastered differential and integral calculus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A successful man is he who receives a great deal from his fellow men, usually incomparably more than corresponds to his service to them. The value of a man, however, should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A single bomb of this type, carried by boat and exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port, together with some of the surrounding territory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: From discord, find Harmony."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A theory is something nobody believes, except the person who made it. An experiment is something everybody believes, except the person who made it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I do not believe that a man should be restrained in his daily actions by being afraid of punishment after death or that he should do things only because in this way he will be rewarded after he dies. This does not make sense. The proper guidance during the life of a man should be the weight that he puts upon ethics and the amount of consideration that he has for others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The normal objective of my thought affords no insight into the dark places of human will and feeling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove that it corresponds to nature.' You are right, dear sceptic. Experience alone can decide on truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: This is a time, when there seems to be a particular need for friends of wisdom and truth to join together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: For the most part we humans live with the false impression of security and a feeling of being at home in a seemingly familiar and trustworthily physical and human environment. But when the expected course of everyday life is interrupted, we realize that we are like shipwrecked people trying to keep their balance on a miserable plank in the open sea, having forgotten where they came from and not knowing whether they are drifting. But once we fully accept this, life becomes easier and there is no longer any disappointment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: My political ideal is democracy. Let every man be respected as an individual and no man idolized."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am satisfied with the mystery of life's eternity and with a knowledge, a sense, of the marvelous structure of existence - as well as the humble attempt to understand even a tiny portion of the Reason that manifests itself in nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The human mind has first to construct forms, independently, before we can find them in things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I recently discussed with an intelligent and well-disposed man the threat of another war, which in my opinion would seriously endanger the existence of mankind, and I remarked that only a supranational organization would offer protection from that danger. Thereupon my visitor, very calmly and coolly, said to me: \"Why are you so deeply opposed to the disappearance of the human race?\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I have also considered many scientific plans during my pushing you around in your pram!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: There are two ways of resisting war: the legal way and the revolutionary way. The legal way involves the offer of alternatinve service not as a privilege for a few but as a right for all. The revolutionary view involves an uncompromising resistance, with a view to breaking the power of militarism in time of peace or the resources of the state in time of war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Even if only 2 percent of those assigned to perform military service should announce their refusal to fight, governments would be powerless, they would not dare send such a large number of people to jail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: There is, however, a somber point in the social outlook of Americans. Their sense of equality and human dignity is mainly limited to people of white skin.... The more I feel like an American, the more the situation pains me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: As far as I'm concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Morality is of the highest importance - but for us, not for God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Hope that justice will be done to those brave men who stood up for their convictions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: America is today the hope of all honorable men who respect the rights of their fellow men and who believe in the principle of freedom and justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Science will stagnate if it is made to serve practical goals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I do not like to state an opinion on a matter unless I know the precise facts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If there is no price to be paid, it is also not of value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: We must dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war: ammunition factories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his convictions in political affairs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Science can only state what is, not what should be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Science is a wonderful thing if one does not have to earn one's living at it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Relativity is a purely scientific matter and has nothing to do with religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: In science, moreover, the work of the individual is so bound up with that of his scientific predecessors and contemporaries that it appears almost as an impersonal product of his generation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Physics is an attempt conceptually to grasp reality as something that is considered to be independent of its being observed. In this sense one speaks of physical reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: How can it be that mathematics, being after all a product of human thought which is independent of experience, is so admirably appropriate to the objects of reality?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: But the creative principle resides in mathematics. In a certain sense, therefore, I hold true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Out of the multitude of our sense experiences we take, mentally and arbitrarily, certain repeatedly occurring complexes of sense impression (partly in conjunction with sense impressions which are interpreted as signs for sense experiences of others), and we attribute to them a meaning the meaning of the bodily object."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Capitalism has brought with it progress, not merely in production but also in knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: But then, after all, we are all alike, for we are all derived from the monkey."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Even on the most solemn occasions I got away without wearing socks and hid that lack of civilization in high boots"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: We must not conceal from ourselves that no improvement in the present depressing situation is possible without a severe struggle; for the handful of those who are really determined to do something is minute in comparison with the mass of the lukewarm and the misguided. And those who have an interest in keeping the machinery of war going are a very powerful body; they will stop at nothing to make public opinion subservient to their murderous ends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I received your letter of June 10th. I have never talked to a Jesuit priest in my life and I am astonished by the audacity to tell such lies about me. From the viewpoint of a Jesuit priest I am, of course, and have always been an atheist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Why does this magnificent applied science which saves work and makes life easier bring us so little happiness? ... The simple answer runs: 'Because we have not yet learned to make sensible use of it.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Without \"ethical culture\", there is no salvation for humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: God does not care about our mathematical difficulties. He integrates empirically."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: In the beginning (if there was such a thing), God created Newton's laws of motion together with the necessary masses and forces. This is all; everything beyond this follows from the development of appropriate mathematical methods by means of deduction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Culture in its higher forms is a delicate plant which depends on a complicated set of conditions and is wont to flourish only in a few places at any given time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: We must recognize what in our accepted tradition is damaging to our fate and dignity-and shape our lives accordingly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The idea of a personal God is quite alien to me and seems even na\u00efve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Germany had the misfortune of becoming poisoned, first because of plenty, and then because of want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Something deeply hidden had to be behind things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right also implies a duty: one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events the firmer becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered regularity for causes of a different nature.  For him neither the rule of human nor the rule of divine will exist as an independent cause of natural events."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: To my mind, to kill in war is not a whit better than to commit ordinary murder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: America is a large country and its people have so far not shown much interest in great international problems, among which the problem of disarmament occupies first place today. This must be changed, if only in America's own interest. The last war has shown that there are no longer any barriers between the continents and that the destinies of all countries are closely interwoven. The people of this country must realize that they have a great responsibility in the sphere of international politics. The part of passive spectator is unworthy of this country and is bound in the end to lead to disaster all round."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: One must take what nature gives as one finds it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is true that my parents were worried  because I began to speak fairly late, so that they even consulted a  doctor. I can't say how old I was - but surely not less than three."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is really a puzzle what drives one to take one's work so devilishly seriously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: One scientific epoch ended and another began with James Clerk Maxwell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Don't be too hard on me. Everyone has to sacrifice at the altar of stupidity from time to time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It was the experience of mystery - even if mixed with fear - that engendered religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: To the Master's honor all must turn, each in its track, without a sound, forever tracing Newton's ground."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: No fairer destiny could be allotted to any physical theory than that it should of itself point out the way to the introduction of a more comprehensive theory, in which it lives on as a limiting case."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Brief is this existence, as a visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Man has an intense desire for assured knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Although I tried to be universal in thought, I am European by instinct and inclination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The series of integers is obviously an invention of the human mind, a self-created tool which simplifies the ordering of certain sensory experiences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Our defense is not in our armaments, nor in science, nor in going underground. Our defense is in law and order."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: During the youthful period of mankind's spiritual evolution human fantasy created gods in man's own image, who, by the operations of their will were supposed to determine, or at any rate to influence, the phenomenal world. Man sought to alter the disposition of these gods in his own favour by means of magic and prayer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Considered logically this concept is not identical with the totality of sense impressions referred to; but it is an arbitrary creation of the human (or animal) mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: People like you and I, though mortal of course like everyone else, do not grow old no matter how long we live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: One must not attempt to justify them, but rather to sense their nature simply and clearly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am convinced that some political and social activities and practices of the Catholic organizations are detrimental and even dangerous for the community as a whole, here and everywhere. I mention here only the fight against birth control at a time when overpopulation in various countries has become a serious threat to the health of people and a grave obstacle to any attempt to organize peace on this planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I have to apologize to you that I am still among the living. There will be a remedy for this, however."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: By an application of the theory of relativity to the taste of readers, today in Germany I am called a German man of science, and in England I am represented as a Swiss Jew. If I come to be represented as a b\u00eate noire, the descriptions will be reversed, and I shall become a Swiss Jew for the Germans and a German man of science for the English!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am an absolute pacifist...It is an instinctive feeling. It is a feeling that possesses me, because the murder of men is disgusting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is a precarious undertaking to say anything reliable about aims and intentions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: As long as there are sovereign nations possessing great power, war is inevitable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Nevertheless, it is necessary to remember that a planned economy is not yet socialism. A planned economy as such may be accompanied by the complete enslavement of the individual. The achievement of socialism requires the solution of some extremely difficult socio-political problems: how is it possible, in view of the far-reaching centralisation of political and economic power, to prevent bureaucracy from becoming all-powerful and overweening? How can the rights of the individual be protected and therewith a democratic counterweight to the power of bureaucracy be assured?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The school has always been the most important means of transferring the wealth of tradition from one generation to the next. This applies today in an even higher degree than in former times, for through modern development of economic life, the family"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: There is, fortunately, a minority composed of those who recognize early in their lives that the most beautiful and satisfying experiences open to humankind are not derived from the outside, but are bound up with the development of the individual's own feeling, thinking and acting. The genuine artists, investigators and thinkers have always been persons of this kind. However inconspicuously the life of these individuals runs its course, none the less the fruits of their endeavors are the most valuable contributions which one generation can make to its successors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I refuse to make money out of my science. My laurel is not for sale like so many bales of cotton."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is an outcome of faith that nature-as she is perceptible to our five senses-takes the character of such a well formulated puzzle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is open to every man to choose the direction of his striving; and also every man may draw comfort from Lessing's fine saying, that the search for truth is more precious than its possession."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am not more gifted than anybody else. I am just more curious than the average person and I will not give up a problem until I have found the proper solution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Falling in love is not at all the most stupid thing that people do - but gravitation cannot be held responsible for it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The wireless telegraph is not difficult to understand. The ordinary telegraph is like a very long cat. You pull the tail in New York, and it meows in Los Angeles. The wireless is the same, only without the cat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is my view that the vegetarian manner of living, by its purely physical effect on the human temperament, would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The great moral teachers of humanity were in a way artistic geniuses in the art of living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: For me the Jewish religion like all others is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions, and the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything chosen about them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Each makes this cosmos and its construction the pivot of his emotional life, in order to find in this way peace and security which he can not find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: They come into being not through demonstration but through revelation, through the medium of powerful personalities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Everyone likes me, yet nobody understands me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: One has to realize that the powerful industrial groups concerned in the manufacture of arms are doing their best in all countries to prevent the peaceful settlement of international disputes, and that rulers can achieve this great end only if they are sure of the vigorous support of the majority of their peoples."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am by heritage a Jew, by citizenship a Swiss, and by makeup a human being, and only a human being, without any special attachment to any state or national entity whatsoever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The point is to develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition and to guide the child over to important fields for society. Such a school demands from the teacher that he be a kind of artist in his province."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The content of scientific theory itself offers no moral foundation for the personal conduct of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly and as a feeble reflection, this is religiousness. In this sense I am religious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: During the last century, and part of the one before, it was widely held that there was an unreconcilable conflict between knowledge and belief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A man's value to the community primarily depends on how far his feelings, thoughts, and actions are directed towards promoting the good of his fellows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: All these primary impulses, not easily described in words, are the springs of man's actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: But the personality that finally emerges is largely formed by the environment in which a man happens to find himself during his development, by the structure of the society in which he grows up, by the tradition of that society, and by its appraisal of particular types of behavior."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Every serious scientific worker is painfully conscious of this involuntary relegation to an ever-narrowing sphere of knowledge, which threatens to deprive the investigator of his broad horizon and degrades him to the level of a mechanic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self-inflicted fate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Measured objectively, what a man can wrest from Truth by passionate striving is utterly infinitesimal. But the striving frees us from the bonds of the self and makes us comrades of those who are the best and the greatest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The importance of a problem should not be judged by the number of pages devoted to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Overemphasis of the competitive system and premature specialization on the ground of immediate usefulness kill the spirit on which all cultural life depends, specialized knowledge included."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Political leaders or governments owe their position partly to force and partly to popular election. They cannot be regarded as representative of best elements, morally or intellectually, in their respective nations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Anybody who really wants to abolish war must resolutely declare himself in favor of his own country's resigning a portion of sovereignty in place of international institutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: ...Intelligence and character of the masses are incomparably lower than the intelligence and character of the few who produce something valuable for the community."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Curiosity is its own reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly that civilized mankind finds itself at present in grave danger. In the totalitarian states it is the rulers themselves who strive actually to destroy that spirit of humanity. In less threatened parts it is nationalism and intolerance, as well as the oppression of the individuals by economic means, which threaten to choke these most precious traditions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: ... it is a welcome symptom in an age which is commonly denounced as materialistic, that it makes heroes of men whose goals lie wholly in the intellectual and moral sphere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: But if the longing for the achievement of the goal is powerfully alive within us, then shall we not lack the strength to find the means for reaching the goal and for translating it into deeds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Convictions can best be supported with experience and clear thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I know that it is a hopeless undertaking to debate about fundamental value judgements. For instance, if someone approves, as a goal, the extirpation of the human race from the earth, one cannot refute such a viewpoint on rational grounds. But if there is agreement on certain goals and values, one can argue rationally about the means by which these objectives may be obtained."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Non-comprehenders are often distressed. Not you, though-because with good humor you're blessed. After all, your thoughts went like this, I dare say: It was none but the Lord who made us that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as \"methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: ... knowledge must continually be renewed by ceaseless effort, if it is not to be lost. It resembles a statue of marble which stands in the desert and is continually threatened with burial by the shifting sand. The hands of service must ever be at work, in order that the marble continue to lastingly shine in the sun. To these serving hands mine shall also belong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Even though the realms of religion and science in themselves are clearly marked off from each other, nevertheless there exist between the two strong reciprocal relationships and dependencies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The individual feels the vanity of human desires and aims, and the nobility and marvelous order which are revealed in nature and in the world of thought. He feels the individual destiny as an imprisonment and seeks to experience the totality of existence as a unity full of significance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: In quitting this strange world he has once again preceded me by a little. That doesn't mean anything. For those of us who believe in physics, this separation between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however tenacious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The satisfaction of physical needs is indeed the indispensable pre-condition of a satisfactory existence, but in itself it is not enough. In order to be content, men must also have the possibility of developing their intellectual and artistic powers to whatever extent accords with their personal characteristics and abilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Belief in an external world independent of the perceiving subject is the basis of all natural science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: May the conscience and the common sense of the peoples be awakened, so that we may reach a new stage in the life of nations, where people will look back on war as an incomprehensible aberration of their forefathers!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: What a person thinks on his own without being stimulated by the thoughts and experiences of the other people is even in the best case rather paltry and monotonous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I was supposed to choose apractical profession, but this was simply unbearable to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is easier to denature plutonium than to denature the evil spirit of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Strange is our situation here upon earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Raffiniert ist der Herr Gott, aber boshaft ist er nicht. God is subtle, but he is not malicious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: People will not disarm step by step; they will disarm at one blow or not at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: One ought to be ashamed to make use of the wonders of science embodied in a radio set, the while appreciating them as little as a cow appreciates the botanic marvels in the plants she munches."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: the contemplation of this world beckoned like a liberation"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If we have the courage to decide ourselves for peace we will have peace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Galileo - the father of modern physics - indeed of modern science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Warfare cannot be humanized."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: In conclusion I wish to say that in working at the problem here dealt with I have had the loyal assistance of my friend and colleague M. Besso, and that I am indebted to him for several valuable suggestions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The physicists say that I am a mathematician, and the mathematicians say that I am a physicist. I am a completely isolated man and though everybody knows me, there are very few people who really know me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is difficult even to attach a precise meaning to the term \"scientific truth.\" So different is the meaning of the word \"truth\" according to whether we are dealing with a fact of experience, a mathematical proposition or a scientific theory. \"Religious truth\" conveys nothing clear to me at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If I were to start taking care of my grooming, I would no longer be my own self... so the hell with it... I will continue to be unconcerned about it, which surely has the advantage that I'm left in peace by many a fop who would otherwise come to see me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: For any one who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. Neither the religion of fear nor the social-moral religion can have any hold on him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: An important advance in the life of a people is the transformation of the religion of fear into the moral religion. But one must avoid the prejudice that regards the religions of primitive peoples as pure fear religions and those of the civilized races as pure moral religions. All are mixed forms, though the moral element predominates in the higher levels of social life. Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of the idea of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Make a lot of walks to get healthy and don't read that much but save yourself some until you're grown up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: There has been an earth for a little more than a billion years. As for the question of the end of it I advise: Wait and see!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Who would have thought around 1900 that in fifty years time we would know so much more and understand so much less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The idea of achieving security through national armament is, at the present state of military technique, a disastrous illusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: On quantum theory I use up more brain grease (rough translation of German idiom) than on relativity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Since others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal god, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to avail themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more difficult but an incomparably more worthy task."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Princeton is a wonderful little spot. A quaint and ceremonious village of puny demigods on stilts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I believe that whatever we do or live for has its causality; it is good, however, that we cannot see through to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else unless it is an enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I have second thoughts. Maybe God is malicious.\r\nTold to Valentine Bargmann."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: You accept the historical Jesus?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The scientist finds his reward in what Henri Poincare calls the joy of comprehension, and not in the possibility of application to which any discovery may lead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: At the same time, as social beings, we are moved in the relations with our fellow beings by such feelings as sympathy, pride, hate, need for power, pity, and so on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is a very high goal which, with our weak powers, we can reach only very inadequately, but which gives a sure foundation to our aspirations and valuations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Just as with the man in the fairy tale who turned whatever he touched into gold, with me everything is turned into newspaper clamor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: To one bent on age, death will come as a release. I feel this quite strongly now that I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The creative principle [of science] resides in mathematics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: There have already been published by the bucketsful such brazen lies and utter fictions about me that I would long since have gone to my grave if I had allowed myself to pay attention to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A finely tempered nature longs to escape from the personal life into the world of objective perception and thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is best, it seems to me, to separate one's inner striving from one's trade as far as possible. It is not good when one's daily break is tied to God's special blessing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The only way to escape the personal corruption of praise is to go on working. One is tempted to stop and listen to it. The only thing is to turn away and go on working. Work. There is nothing else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Everybody felt his superiority, but nobody felt oppressed by it. Though he had no illusions about people and human affairs, he was full of kindness toward everybody and everything. Never did he give the impression of domineering, always of serving and helping. He was extremely conscientious, without allowing anything to assume undue importance; a subtle humor guarded him, which was reflected in his eyes and in his smile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: To put it boldly, it is the attempt at a posterior reconstruction of existence by the process of conceptualization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Galileo had already made a significant beginning toward a knowledge of the law of motion. He discovered the law of inertia and the law of bodies falling freely in the gravitational field of the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: For scientific endeavor is a natural whole the parts of which mutually support one another in a way which, to be sure, no one can anticipate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am not a Jew in the sense that I would demand the preservation of the Jewish or any other nationality as an end in itself. Rather, I see Jewish nationality as a fact and I believe that every Jew must draw the consequences from this fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Unlimited competition leads to a huge waste of labor, and to that crippling of the social consciousness of individuals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The war is won, but the peace is not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Unless the cause of peace based on law gathers behind it the force and zeal of a religion, it hardly can hope to succeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Dear Posterity, If you have not become more just, more peaceful, and in general more sensible... then may the Devil take you!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I must try, however, as best I can, although I am very conscious of the fact that our feelings and strivings are often contradictory and obscure and that they cannot be expressed in easy and simple formulas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The discovery of nuclear chain reactions need not bring about the destruction of mankind\n any more than did the discovery of matches. We only must do everything in our power to\n safeguard against its abuse. Only a supranational organization, equipped with a sufficiently\n strong executive power, can protect us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Let me tell you what I look like: pale face, long hair, and a tiny start of a paunch. In addition, an awkward gait, and a cigar in the mouth and a pen in pocket or hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It may affront the military-minded person to suggest a regime that does not maintain any military secrets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Newton did not know what happened to the apple, and I can prove this when the next eclipse comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is only to the individual that a soul is given. And the high destiny of the individual is to serve rather than to rule, or to impose himself in any other way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: This topic brings me to that worst outcrop of herd life, the military system, which I abhor... This plague-spot of civilization ought to be abolished with all possible speed. Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a simple datum of experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Honestly, I cannot understand what people mean when they talk about the freedom of the human will. I have a feeling, for instance, that I will something or other; but what relation this has with freedom I cannot understand at all. I feel that I will to light my pipe and I do it; but how can I connect this up with the idea of freedom? What is behind the act of willing to light the pipe ? Another act of willing?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Dear Habicht, / Such a solemn air of silence has descended between us that I almost feel as if I am committing a sacrilege when I break it now with some inconsequential babble... / What are you up to, you frozen whale, you smoked, dried, canned piece of soul...?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Perfection of means and confusion of goals seem to characterize our age. If we desire sincerely and passionately the safety, the welfare and the free development of the talents of all men, we shall not be in want of the means to approach such a state."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The consequence was a positively fanatic [orgy of] freethinking coupled with the impression that youth is being deceived by the state through lies; it was a crushing impression"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If I would follow your advice and Jesus could perceive it, he, as a Jewish teacher, surely would not approve of such behavior."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The world needs heroes and it's better they be harmless men like me than villains like Hitler"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Mathematics deals exclusively with the relations of concepts to each other without consideration of their relation to experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is quite possible that we can do greater things than Jesus, for what is written in the Bible about him is poetically embellished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: On the other hand, the concept owes its meaning and its justification exclusively to the totality of the sense impressions which we associate with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: We have penetrated far less deeply into the regularities obtaining within the realm of living things, but deeply enough nevertheless to sense at least the rule of fixed necessity... what is still lacking here is a grasp of the connections of profound generality, but not a knowledge of order itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I don't know what weapons will be used in the Third World War. But I can tell you what they'll use in the Fourth - rocks!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The truth of a theory is in your mind, not in your eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: There is no greater satisfaction for a just and well-meaning person than the knowledge that he has devoted his best energies to the service of the good cause."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The world is a dangerous place to live"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: My God may not be your idea of God, but one thing I know of my God he makes me a humanitarian. I am a proud Jew because we gave the world the Bible and the story of Joseph."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: If the workers of this world, men and women, decide not to manufacture and transport ammunition, it would end war for all time. We must do that. Dedicate our lives to drying up the source of war; ammunition factories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles.... That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need to grasp principles has caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless pursuits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: My relationship to the Jewish people has become my strongest human bond, ever since I became fully aware of our precarious situation among the nations of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I have remained a simple fellow who asks nothing of the world; only my youth is gone - the enchanting youth that forever walks on air."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The bitter and the sweet come from the outside, the hard from within, from one's own efforts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: One is born into a herd of buffaloes and must be glad if one is not trampled under foot before one's time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: No idea is conceived in our mind independent of our five senses [i.e., no idea is divinely inspired]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Is there not a certain satisfaction in the fact that natural limits are set to the life of the individual, so that at the conclusion it may appear as a work of art?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: .. free and responsible development of the individual, so that he may place his powers freely and gladly in the service of all mankind. There is no room in this for the divinization of a nation, of a class, let alone of an individual. Are we not all children of one father, as it is said in religious language?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The really good music, whether of the East or of the West, cannot be analyzed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Quantum mechanics is certainly imposing. But an inner voice tells me that this is not yet the real thing. The theory says a lot, but does not bring us any closer to the secrets of the \"Old One.\" I, at any rate, am convinced that He is not playing at dice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: When the number of factors coming into play in a phenomenological complex is too large scientific method in most cases fails. One need only think of the weather, in which case the prediction even for a few days ahead is impossible. Nevertheless, no one doubts that we are confronted with a causal connection whose causal components are in the main known to us. Occurrences in this domain are beyond the reach of exact prediction because of the variety of factors in operation, not because of any lack of order in nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Often in evolutionary processes a species must adapt to new conditions in order to survive. Today the atomic bomb has altered profoundly the nature of the world as we know it, and the human race consequently finds itself in a new habitat to which it must adapt its thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: One feels the insignificance of the individual, and it makes one happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: While it is true that science, to the extent of its grasp of causative connections, may reach important conclusions as to the compatibility and incompatibility of goals and evaluations, the independent and fundamental definitions regarding goals and values remain beyond science's reach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The payment of the worker is not determined by the value of his product."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: We scientists, whose tragic destination has been to help in making the methods of annihilation more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I believe serious progress (in the abolition of war) can be achieved only when men become organized on an international scale and refuse, as a body, to enter military or war service."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely personal,' from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended its area of applicability."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: ...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: All my life I have dealt with objective matters; hence I lack both the natural aptitude and the experience to deal properly with people and to carry out official functions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Earnestly I must exert myself in order to return as much as I have received."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The finest emotion of which we are capable is the mystic emotion. Herein lies the germ of all art and all true science. Anyone to whom this feeling is alien, who is no longer capable of wonderment and lives in a state of fear is a dead man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Joy and amazement of the beauty and grandeur of this world of which man can just form a faint notion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: ... we will hope that future historians will explain the morbid symptoms of present-day society as the childhood ailments of an aspiring humanity, due entirely to the excessive speed at which civilization was advancing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is my conviction that pure mathematical construction enables us to discover the concepts and the laws connecting them, which gives us the key to the understanding of nature ... In a certain sense, therefore, I hold it true that pure thought can grasp reality, as the ancients dreamed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A mathematical equation stands forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I am of the opinion that all the finer speculations in the realm of science spring from a deep religious feeling, and that without such feeling they would not be fruitful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: There is one ray of hope. It seems to me that today the responsible leaders of the several peoples have, in the main, the honest will to abolish war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: In living through this great epoch, it is difficult to reconcile oneself to the fact that one belongs to that mad, degenerate species that boasts of its free will. How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of good will. In such a place even I should be an ardent patriot!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: In my personal experience I have hardly come to know the wretchedness of mankind better than as a result of the general theory of relativity and everything connected to it. But it doesn't bother me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgements of all kinds remain necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Striving for peace and preparing for war are incompatible with each other, and in our time more so than ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Out yonder there was this huge world...which stands before us like a great eternal riddle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: [When asked \"Dr. Einstein, why is it that when the mind of man has stretched so far as to discover the structure of the atom we have been unable to devise the political means to keep the atom from destroying us?\"] That is simple, my friend. It is because politics is more difficult than physics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: What a deep faith in the rationality of the structure of the world and what a longing to understand even a small glimpse of the reason revealed in the world there must have been in Kepler and Newton to enable them to unravel the mechanism of the heavens in long years of lonely work!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I very rarely think in words at all. A thought comes, and I may try to express in words afterwards."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: What is the meaning of human life, or of organic life altogether? To answer this question at all implies a religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: An autocratic system of coercion, in my opinion, soon degenerates. For force always attracts men of low morality, and I believe it to be an invariable rule that tyrants of genius are succeeded by scoundrels. For this reason I have always been passionately opposed to systems such as we see in Italy and Russia to-day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Realising the healthy international relations can be created only among populations made up of individuals who themselves are healthy and enjoy a measure a independence, the United Nations elaborated a Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly on December 10, 1948."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I can understand your aversion to the use of the term 'religion' to describe an emotional and psychological attitude which shows itself most clearly in Spinoza... I have not found a better expression than 'religious' for the trust in the rational nature of reality that is, at least to a certain extent, accessible to human reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The ordinary adult never gives a thought to space-time problems ... I, on the contrary, developed so slowly that I did not begin to wonder about space and time until I was an adult. I then delved more deeply into the problem than any other adult or child would have done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The economists will have to revise their theories of value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I should very much like to remain in the darkness of not having been analyzed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I wouldn't want to live if I did not have my work. In any case, it's good that I'm already old and personally don't have to count on a prolonged future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I would absolutely refuse any direct or indirect war service and would try to persuade my friends to do the same, regardless of the reasons for the cause of a war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I myself should also be dead already, but I am still here."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: In the past it never occurred to me that every casual remark of mine would be snatched up and recorded. Otherwise I would have crept further into my shell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Berlin is the place to which I am most closely bound by human and scientific ties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: In my relativity theory I set up a clock at every point in space, but in reality I find it difficult to provide even one clock in my room."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: For science can only ascertain what is, but not what should be, and outside of its domain value judgments of all kinds remain necessary. Religion, on the other hand, deals only with evaluations of human thought and action: it cannot justifiably speak of facts and relationships between facts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves. This ethical basis I call the ideal of the pigsty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The special theory of relativity owes its origins to Maxwell's equations of the electromagnetic field."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I must seem like an ostrich who forever burries its head in the relativistic sands in order not to face the evil quanta."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: [Freud's] sense of reality is less clouded by wishful thinking than is the case with other people and [he combines] the qualities of critical judgment, earnestness and responsibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The work on satisfactory formulation of technical patents was a true blessing for me. It compelled me to be many-sided in thought, and also offered important stimulation for thought about physics. Following a practical profession is a blessing for people of my type. Because the academic career puts a young person in a sort of compulsory situation to produce scientific papers in impressive quantity, a temptation to superficiality arises that only strong characters are able to resist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: One can only continue to expect to be read if one omits everything that is unimportant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: Only in mathematics and physics was I, through self-study, far beyond the school curriculum, and also with regard to philosophy as it was taught in the school curriculum."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: O, Youth: Do you know that yours is not the first generation to yearn for a life full of beauty and freedom?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: You are the only person I know who has the same attitude towards physics as I have: belief in the comprehension of reality through something basically simple and unified... It seems hard to sneak a look at God's cards. But that He plays dice and uses 'telepathic' methods... is something that I cannot believe for a single moment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: With me every peep becomes a trumpet solo."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: I rarely think in words at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: What lead me more or less directly to the special theory of relativity was the conviction that the electromotive force acting on a body in motion in a magnetic field was nothing else but an electric field."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It has often been said, and certainly not without justification, that the man of science is a poor philosopher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: It is true that the grasping of truth is not possible without empirical basis. However, the deeper we penetrate and the more extensive and embracing our theories become the less empirical knowledge is needed to determine those theories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Albert Einstein: The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Connectivity enables transparency for better government, education, and health."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Don't let complexity stop you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: How you gather, manage, and use information will determine whether you win or lose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: It's fine to celebrate success but it is more important to heed the lessons of failure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Technology is just a tool. In terms of getting the kids working together and motivating them, the teacher is the most important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Getting ready for a global pandemic is every bit as important as nuclear deterrence and avoiding a climate catastrophe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Stolen's a strong word. It's copyrighted content that the owner wasn't paid for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The CEO's role in raising a company's corporate IQ is to establish an atmosphere that promotes knowledge sharing and collaboration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I hope someday what people can do with their lives depends on their talents and how hard they are willing to work, rather than on where they happen to be born."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: There were a lot of missteps in the early days, but because we got in early we got to make more mistakes than other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I'm serious when I do my work. I'm not serious when I'm home with my kids."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I don't think culture is something you can describe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: When you are failing, you are forced to be creative, to dig deep and think, night and day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Eradications are special. Zero is a magic number. You either do what it takes to get to zero and you're glad you did it; or you get close, give up and it goes back to where it was before, in which case you wasted all that credibility, activity, money that could have been applied to other things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The more you learn, the more you have a framework that the knowledge fits into."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Some very poor countries run great vaccination systems, and some richer ones run terrible programs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Embrace bad news to learn where you need the most improvement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If something's expensive to develop, and somebody's not going to get paid, it won't get developed. So you decide: Do you want software to be written, or not?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Billionaires should never be responsible for solving problems, because they're not the government."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If you can't make it good, at least make it look good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today's ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I went public too soon. Stay private as long as you can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The obvious mathematical breakthrough would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The information society should serve all of its citizens, not only the technically sophisticated and economically privileged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate in a binary fashion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Sometimes, I think my most important job as a CEO is to listen for bad news. If you don't act on it, your people will eventually stop bringing bad news to your attention and that is the beginning of the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Success is a lousy teacher. It seduces smart people into thinking they can't lose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The PC has improved the world in just about every area you can think of. Amazing developments in communications, collaboration and efficiencies. New kinds of entertainment and social media. Access to information and the ability to give a voice people who would never have been heard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: In three years, every product my company makes will be obsolete. The only question is whether we will make them obsolete or somebody else will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Intellectual property has the shelf life of a banana."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The moral systems of religion, I think, are super important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: When Paul Allen and I started Microsoft over 30 years ago, we had big dreams about software. We had dreams about the impact it could have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: An important re-engineering principle is that companies should focus on their core competence and outsource everything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I have an excellent memory, a most excellent memory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: For one thing, there's an essential human factor in every business endeavor. It doesn't matter if you have a perfect product, production plan and marketing pitch; you'll still need the right people to lead and implement those plans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Well, I don't think there's any need for people to focus on my career."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: When you have a product that has zero sales, it is easy for people to say whatever they want about it and almost fantasize about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If I'd had some set idea of a finish line, don't you think I would have crossed it years ago?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: It's hard to improve public education - that's clear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Life is a lot more fun if you treat its challenges in creative ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: A fundamental new rule for business is that the Internet changes everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Microsoft was founded with a vision of a computer on every desk, and in every home. We've never wavered from that vision."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We all have the chance to create a world where extreme poverty is the exception rather than the rule."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We all learn best in our own ways. Some people do better studying one subject at a time, while some do better studying three things at once. Some people do best studying in structured, linear way, while others do best jumping around, surrounding a subject rather than traversing it. Some people prefer to learn by manipulating models, and others by reading."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: It's pretty amazing to go from a world where computers were unheard of and very complex to where they're a tool of everyday life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have - whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: These four policy prescriptions - strengthening educational opportunities, revamping immigration rules for highly skilled workers, increasing federal funding for basic scientific research, and providing incentives for private-sector R&D - should in my view be top priorities as Congress and the Administration consider how to maintain the nation's leadership in science, technology, and innovation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning."
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  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Software innovation, like almost every other kind of innovation, requires the ability to collaborate and share ideas with other people, and to sit down and talk with customers and get their feedback and understand their needs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I definitely think leaving kids massive amounts of money is not a favor to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Five years from now on the Web for free you\u2019ll be able to find the best lectures in the world. It will be better than any single university."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The leader needs to create an environment in which people can analyze the situation and develop a good response."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I think of myself as a global citizen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Well-spent aid money is saving lives for a few thousand dollars per life saved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next ten. Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I have seen firsthand that agricultural science has enormous potential to increase the yields of small farmers and lift them out of hunger and poverty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If your goal is to make the world a better place, one thing you can do is pick a specific challenge that you really care about. Then, learn as much as you can about it and try to volunteer your time to help an organization that is working in this area. While you're doing that, look for creative new ways to use technology to tackle parts of the problem that you come in contact with."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I believe that if you show people the problems and you show them the solutions they will be moved to act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competitors, the best way to put distance between you and the crowd is to do an outstanding job with information. How you gather, manage and use information will determine whether you win or lose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Know your numbers' is a fundamental precept of business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: By 2035, there will be almost no poor countries left in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Robotics and other combinations will make the world pretty fantastic compared with today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If you're too focused on your current business, it's hard to change and concentrate on innovating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: There's only one trick in software, and that is using a piece of software that's already been written."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Don't let complexity stop you. Be activists. Take on the big inequities. It will be one of the great experiences of your lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If we can find approaches that meet the needs of the poor in ways that generate profits for business and votes for politicians, we will have found a sustainable way to reduce inequity in the world. This task is open-ended. It can never be finished. But a conscious effort to answer this challenge will change the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I hope you will judge yourselves not on your professional accomplishments alone, but also on how well you have addressed the world's deepest inequities...on how well you treated people a world away who have nothing in common with you but your humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: My dream is that every child has enough food to eat, good medical care, and the chance to go to school and even attend college."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: You've got to be willing to read other people's code, then write your own, then have other people review your code."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I spend a lot of time reading."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: You always overestimate what you can get done in a year and underestimate what you can get done in 10 years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The computer will live your life, listen to you and understand you better than humans can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: A bad strategy will fail no matter how good your information is. And lame execution will stymie a good strategy. If you do enough things poorly, you'll go out of business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The mainstream is always under attack."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: My success, part of it certainly, is that I have focused in on a few things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Humanity\u2019s greatest advances are not in its discoveries \u2013 but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: In business, the idea of measuring what you are doing, picking the measurements that count like customer satisfaction and performance... you thrive on that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is that automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I work hard because I love my work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Who decides what's in Windows? The customers who buy it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: It's the knowledge derived from information that gives you a competitive edge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: SPAM is taking e-mail, which is a wonderful tool, and exploiting the idea that it's very inexpensive to send mail."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Don't let yourself be lulled into inaction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The barrier to change is not too little caring; it is too much complexity. To turn caring into action, we need to see a problem, see a solution, and see the impact. But complexity blocks all three steps."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If you take from the most wealthy and give to the least wealthy, it's good. It tries to balance out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I think it makes sense to believe in God, but exactly what decision in your life you make differently because of it, I don't know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Other paths would include making nuclear fission cheap enough and safe enough that people broadly embrace it, so that could be scaled up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Thanks to quality education, Israel is one of the most advanced countries in the world .. Israel is advancing in high-tech even more than other developed countries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Exposure from a young age to the realities of the world is a super-big thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes ... Money has no utility to me beyond a certain point. Its utility is entirely in building an organization and getting the resources out to the poorest in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Humanity\u2019s greatest advances are not in its discoveries \u2013 but in how those discoveries are applied to reduce inequity. Whether through democracy, strong public education, quality health care, or broad economic opportunity \u2013 reducing inequity is the highest human achievement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Our modern lifestyle is not a political creation. Before 1700, everybody was poor as hell. Life was short and brutish. It wasn't because we didn't have good politicians; we had some really good politicians. But then we started inventing - electricity, steam engines, microprocessors, understanding genetics and medicine and things like that. Yes, stability and education are important - I'm not taking anything away from that - but innovation is the real driver of progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If GM had kept up with technology like the computer industry has, we would all be driving $25 cars that got 1,000 MPG."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The world has been very careful to pick very few diseases for eradication, because it is very tough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Information work is thinking work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The only thing I understand deeply, because in my teens I was thinking about it, and every year of my life, is software. So I'll never be hands-on on anything except software."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Success is a lousy teacher."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If success corrupts, I'm probably pretty corrupted by now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: People don't want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I'm not a macroeconomics person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If Africa seeks prosperity, it must provide for the health and nutrition of all \u2013 including the poorest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like. I was watching my daughter ride horses this weekend and that is also a bit old fashioned but fun. I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Drones overall will be more impactful than I think people recognize in positive ways to help society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return for innovation unleashes a broad set of talented people in pursuit of many different discoveries. This system, driven by self-interest, is responsible for the incredible innovations that have improved so many lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: About three million computers get sold every year in China, people don't pay for the software. Someday they will, though. And as long as they're going to steal it, we want them to steal ours. They'll get sort of addicted, and then we'll somehow figure out how to collect sometime in the next decade."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Strategically, a major function of the CEO is to look for bad news and encourage the organization to respond to it. Employees must be encouraged to share bad news as much as good news."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If you're using first-class land for biofuels, then you're competing with the growing of food. And so you're actually spiking food prices by moving energy production into agriculture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: In fact, batteries haven't improved over the last 100 years as much as they would need to in order to make that happen. So I'm invested in a lot of battery companies - and there's a lot that exists I'm not in. They're all having a tough time achieving it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Who can afford to do professional work for nothing? What hobbyist can put three man-years into programming, finding all bugs, documenting his product, and distributing it for free?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The belief that the world is getting worse, that we can't solve extreme poverty and disease, isn't just mistaken. It is harmful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If you believe that every life has equal value, it\u2019s revolting to learn that some lives are seen as worth saving and others are not. We said to ourselves: \u201cThis can\u2019t be true. But if it is true, it deserves to be the priority of our giving.\u201d"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If we think long term, the younger generation here is better about embracing the world. Not seeing countries boundaries kind of an \"us versus them\" thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Over 80% of the poor are people who have small plots of land and grow their own food and they don't grow enough to sell much into the marketplace. So they will be hit hard by the worst in climate. They really get hit hard starting in the 20-year time frame and thereafter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: In the US in the 1900's 60 % of people were employed on the farms. Today it's less than 1%. If you told people back then that this would happen they wouldn't have believed it. If you told them we would have therapy, massages and spas that played important parts in our lives they would've have believed us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: As I see it, there are two great forces of human nature: self-interest, and caring for others. Capitalism harnesses self-interest in a helpful and sustainable way, but only on behalf of those who can pay. Government aid and philanthropy channel our caring for those who can't pay. But to provide rapid improvement for the poor we need a system that draws in innovators and businesses in a far better way than we do today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Nobody has a guaranteed position in computer technologies business. We've done some good work, but all of these products become obsolete so fast and the structure of the business as it broadens out is going to be so different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I believe that with great wealth comes great responsibility, a responsibility to give back to society and a responsibility to see that those resources are put to work in the best possible way to help those most in need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The answer is simple, and harsh. The market did not reward saving the lives of these children, and governments did not subsidize it. So the children died because their mothers and their fathers had no power in the market and no voice in the system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Security is, I would say, our top priority because for all the exciting things you will be able to do with computers - organizing your lives, staying in touch with people, being creative - if we don't solve these security problems, then people will hold back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: My tax return in the United States has to be kept on a special computer because their normal computers can't deal with the numbers. So I am constantly getting these notices telling me I haven't paid something when really it is just on the wrong computer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: For a highly motivated learner, it's not like knowledge is secret and somehow the Internet made it not secret. It just made knowledge easy to find. If you're a motivated enough learner, books are pretty good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I'm certainly well taken care of in terms of food and clothes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering. When you finally get done and get to appreciate what you have done it is like a part of yourself that you've put together. I think a lot of the people here feel that way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I hope corporations will dedicate a percentage of their top innovators' time to issues that could help people left out of the global economy. This kind of contribution is even more powerful than giving cash or offering employees' time off to volunteer. It is a focused use of what your company does best. It is a great form of creative capitalism, because it takes the brainpower and makes life better for the richest, and dedicates some of it to improving the lives of everyone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority. It wasn't like somebody told me about it and I said, \"I don't know how to spell that.\" I said, \"Yeah, I've got that on my list, so I'm okay.\" But there came a point when we realized it was happening faster and was a much deeper phenomenon than had been recognized in our strategy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We win because we hire the smartest people. We improve our products based on feedback, until they're the best. We have retreats each year where we think about where the world is heading."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: There are no significant bugs in our released software that any significant number of users want fixed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The way to be successful in the software world is to come up with breakthrough software, and so whether it's Microsoft Office or Windows, its pushing that forward. New ideas, surprising the marketplace, so good engineering and good business are one in the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Well the protester I think is a very powerful thing. It's basically a mechanism of democracy that, along with capitalism, scientific innovation, those things have built the modern world. And it's wonderful that the new tools have empowered that protestor so that state secrets, bad developments are not hidden anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The world is not flat, and PCs are not, in the hierarchy of human needs, in the first five rungs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I don't think there's anything unique about human intelligence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: When I say \"an energy miracle,\" I mean that there will be some form of energy whose 24 hour cost really is competitive with hydrocarbons given, say, 20 years of learning curve. You invent it, then you look at how much its costs go down over the next 20 years, that it really beats hydrocarbons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If you're taking care of your family and society and are comfortable you can start to think about helping those most in need globally. That's how we became engaged in those things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I like the idea of putting your Christmas wish list up and letting people share it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Kenya\u2019s M-Pesa proves that when people are empowered, they will use digital tech to innovate on their own behalf."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We were young, but we had good advice and good ideas and lots of enthusiasm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Security guys break the Mac every single day. Every single day, they come out with a total exploit, your machine can be taken over totally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: It's fantastic that Microsoft in the cloud space is one of very few companies that's got the critical mass, the particular emphasis on helping business customers get up to that cloud with all the unique requirements they have. It's very exciting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The dreams of the past - whether it was public TV being rolled into the classroom to teach Spanish, or the film projectors or the videotapes or the computer-aided instruction drill systems - the hopes have been dashed in terms of technology having some big impact. The foundation, I think can play a unique role there. Now, our money is more to the teacher-effectiveness thing, and technology is No. 2, but I'll probably spend more money on the technology things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: On the supply side, for innovation, you'd say, go look at those R&D budgets, and they haven't moved in the last 20 years. In the case of the US - which is the majority of R&D funding across every category you can name: health, energy, whatever - it's been about $5 billion a year from the Department of Energy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: It is really gratifying, for example, to visit India now and see that because they've had good educational institutions, and they've had a focus on it, there are more and more people in India participating in the world economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: To get a big company moving fast, especially on a many-headed opportunity like the Internet, you have to have hundreds of people participating and coming up with ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I really do think cancer will largely be a solved problem. I think most of the infectious diseases like malaria - our foundation is very involved - once we're finishing polio eradication, then starting up this malaria eradication, and getting that done as fast as we can."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: When I say \"miracle\" I mean a kind of thing like a computer on a chip, or the internet, or the cellphone, that are really quite miraculous. Most people would not have predicted them, and their effect has been very, very dramatic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Why do people benefit in inverse proportion to their need? Well, market incentives make that happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We are seeing smarter philanthropy, more philanthropy, and that's true world wide. So it's kind of a movement that has a lot of accomplishments, even though as a percentage of the economy, it's still only a few per cent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: This [philanthropy] work is even more fascinating. It requires us to think harder about how we build partnerships, who we get behind. And yet we get to see progress that in some ways is even more profound than the great advances that digital technology has provided."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I could name about a dozen paths, and you'd like to have a whole bunch of research on all those paths, and then, eventually, at least four to five companies with really significant financing try and get to big scale, going down and really trying to prove it out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car. Actually, the dark horse in that race was internal combustion, but because of the energy density of gasoline and discovery of oil in large amounts at that point in first Pennsylvania and then Texas, it won out over those other two, to the point that those other two are actually viewed as obscure footnotes in history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Here at work we're all just trying to get a job done. My people have the confidence of their convictions and they know their skills. And that occupies most of my time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: So on the demand side [for energy], there have been a variety of policies that globally have been way over $50 billion a year of tax credits, raising the price of electricity through things like renewable portfolio standards, so the total amount of money that's gone into sending a price signal to push up demand versus what would happen without it has been gigantic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: By helping us to be more productive, technology lets us to spend less time focusing on survival, and more on solving other challenges."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Having kids has been a fantastic thing for me. It's meant that I'm a little more balanced. In my twenties I worked massively, hardly took vacation at all. Now, I, with the help of my wife, I'm always making sure I've got a good balance of how I spend my time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: As we get robots becoming more sophisticated, I think we should worry sooner rather than later on how much they could take over, but I think it'll mostly be a positive thing. In terms of deadlines it won't be any worse than nuclear weapons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Until we're educating every kid in a fantastic way, until every inner city is cleaned up, there is no shortage of things to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Success on the Web require high-level corporate understanding of the Internet's capabilities and support of early test-and-invest projects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I am surprised that in various countries, whether it's the U.K. or the U.S., you see isolationist tendencies that would tend to work against the co-operation, whether it's climate change, immigration, innovation, helping the very poorest. Those are things where you want to think across country boundaries and see a win-win-type solution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I didn't used to wear a watch. Now I have a SPOT watch, which I wear all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I don't have a magic formula for prioritizing the world's problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I understand how every healthy child, every new road, puts a country on a better path, but instability and war will arise from time to time, and I'm not an expert on how you get out of those things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: At some point, that risk-taking private capital can take over, and have patents and trade secrets and things that let them lead the way, which happened with the steam engine and some other things, although with energy, the time of adoption is a lot longer than it is with, say, IT products or even medical advances, like drugs and vaccines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Like almost everyone who uses e-mail, I receive a ton of spam every day. Much of it offers to help me get out of debt or get rich quick. It would be funny if it weren't so irritating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I've been very lucky, and therefore I owe it to try and reduce the inequity in the world. And that's kind of a religious belief. I mean, it's at least a moral belief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Unfortunately, in rich-world health, innovation is both your friend and your enemy. Innovation is inventing organ replacement, joint replacement. We're inventing ways of doing new things that cost $300,000 and take people in their 70s and, on average, give them an extra, say, two or three years of life. And then you have to say, given finite resources, should we fire two or three teachers to do this operation?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Personal computing today is a rich ecosystem encompassing massive PC-based data centers, notebook and Tablet PCs, handheld devices, and smart cell phones. It has expanded from the desktop and the data center to wherever people need it - at their desks, in a meeting, on the road or even in the air."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If I think something's a waste of time or inappropriate I don't wait to point it out. I say it right away. It's real time. So you might hear me say 'That's the dumbest idea I have ever heard' many times during a meeting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Given how few young people actually read the newspaper, it's a good thing they'll be reading a newspaper on a screen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I am not a huge gamer. My son knows a LOT more than I do about what is cool on Xbox. I played Halo but the sports games that the whole family can use are the things I use the most. I threw the javelin very very far!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: One of the wonderful things about the information highway is that virtual equity is far easier to achieve than real-world equity...We are all created equal in the virtual world and we can use this equality to help address some of the sociological problems that society has yet to solve in the physical world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We paired this announcement of the R&D [commitment] with the so-called Breakthrough Energy Coalition, which is 27 [major investors] saying, \"Hey, we'll put significant money into [energy innovations] when they're ready to spin out probably into startup companies.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: How much further beyond basic research the role of the government should be, you could have a really good debate about it. Almost nobody would say it's zero. But that's where at least we need the private sector to play a big role."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The most interesting biofuel efforts avoid using land that's expensive and has high opportunity costs. They do this by getting onto other types of land, or taking advantage of byproducts that aren't used in the food chain today, or by intercropping."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The government is there day in and day out, if you want all kids to have education, if you want to run courts, if you want to have an army, if you want to have roads, you've got to have the taxation system that funds everything that you expect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: So we can simulate Richter-10 earthquakes. We simulate 70-foot waves coming into these things. Very cool. We basically say no human should ever be required to do anything, because if you judge by Chernobyl and Fukushima, the human element is not on your side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Driving up the value of the advertising is a big commitment for Microsoft."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: It's energy intensification, where we essentially have, through our light bulbs and cars, the manpower of [hundreds of] people working on our behalf, helping our food being created, helping our materials like steel and plastic and wood and paper be created. Our lifestyles are incredibly energy intense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Considering their impact, you might expect mosquitoes to get more attention than they do. Sharks kill fewer than a dozen people every year, and in the U.S. they get a week dedicated to them on TV every year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: With tech companies, whoever's the leader is always questioned, you know. They say, 'Is this the end of them?' And - there's more - more times people think that's the case than it really is the case."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The tool that's most associated with the recent progress against malaria is the long-lasting bed net. Bed nets are a fantastic innovation. But we can do even better. We can invent new ways to control the mosquitoes that carry the malaria parasite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: You may have heard of Black Friday and Cyber Monday. There's another day you might want to know about: Giving Tuesday. The idea is pretty straightforward. On the Tuesday after Thanksgiving, shoppers take a break from their gift-buying and donate what they can to charity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The general idea of the rich helping the poor, I think, is important. That your sense of justice says, why should rich kids - who barely get these diseases and almost never die of them - why should they get the vaccines, when poor kids, who actually do die from these diseases, don't get those things? It's an unbelievable inequity that there isn't that access."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: There's no such thing as going to a soapbox and saying, 'The government's corrupt,' and not having the intelligence service see your face. In the digital world, that can be done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: There are websites that any government wants to block. The truth about the Internet is that it's extremely hard to block anything - extremely hard. You'll never get perfect blocking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: There's nobody getting rich writing software that I know of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Students deserve great teachers. And teachers deserve the support they need to become great."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I\u2019ve been waiting more than 30 years to say this: \u201cDad, I always told you I\u2019d come back and get my degree.\u201d I want to thank Harvard for this timely honor. I\u2019ll be changing my job next year \u2026 and it will be nice to finally have a college degree on my resume."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: By almost any measure, the world is better than it has ever been. People are living longer, healthier lives. Many nations that were aid recipients are now self-sufficient. You might think that such striking progress would be widely celebrated, but in fact, Melinda and I are struck by how many people think the world is getting worse. The belief that the world can\u2019t solve extreme poverty and disease isn\u2019t just mistaken. It is harmful. That\u2019s why in this year\u2019s letter we take apart some of the myths that slow down the work. The next time you hear these myths, we hope you will do the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The fact that there was no catastrophic pandemic in recent history does not mean there won't be another one. And we are certainly not prepared for the next pandemic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If you say to people that there's less violence today than in the past, they would be stunned to hear that. But it's the truth, even though we have awful things happening in Syria or Sudan."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: People can criticize Microsoft for supporting this TV thing for the past eight years, but it is a long-term bet, There is not any other software business that is as dedicated to the vision of the TV and the PDA [personal digital assistant] as we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I want to make clear that we respect the role of government in our legal andeconomic system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: You know, I'm a big believer in touch and digital reading, but I still think that some mixture of voice, the pen and a real keyboard - in other words a netbook - will be the mainstream on that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Flying cars are not a very efficient way to move things from one point to another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I have drifted away from thinking about these philanthropic things. And it was only as the wealth got large enough and Melinda and I had talked about the view that wealth wasn't something that would be good to just pass to the children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: It's the poorer people in tropical zones who will get really hit by climate change - as well as some ecosystems, which nobody wants to see disappear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Does the e-mail say it's about 'enlargement' - that might be spam."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: There are several hundred people who stayed in the Ebola-affected countries and continued to do the work, put themselves at great risk because medical workers are the most likely to be infected because they're helping out when the person's health is deteriorating, including quite a bit of bleeding as they're getting very, very sick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Today, we take the risk of nuclear war quite seriously, climate change not so much and epidemics least of all. But no single country, not even the United States, is well prepared. And even if one country is doing the right things to protect itself, it has to be a global thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: It's an experiment, and it's probably good to have a couple states try it out to see before you make that national policy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The finest pieces of software are those where one individual has a complete sense of exactly how the program works. To have that, you have to really love the program and concentrate on keeping it simple, to an incredible degree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: OK, I have a nickname. My family calls me 'Trey' because I'm William the third. My dad has the same name, which is always confusing because my dad is well known, and I'm also known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: There's always been a lot of information about your activities. Every phone number you dial, every credit-card charge you make. It's long since passed that a typical person doesn't leave footprints."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Good stuff tends to happen gradually, whereas violence or catastrophes are deemed more newsworthy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Whatever they announce, they announce. They're in their honeymoon period, and anything they announce gets hype ... They will obviously branch out beyond Internet search, but I think the expectations won't live up to reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Programs today get very fat; the enhancements tend to slow the program down because people put in special checks. When they want to add some feature, they\u2019ll just stick in these checks without thinking about how they might slow the thing down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Eventually we'll be able to sequence the human genome and replicate how nature did intelligence in a carbon-based system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Automation applied to an inefficient operation will magnify the inefficiency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: 50 years from now we won't need as much human labour to do what manual workers do, so we should be able to take that extra productivity and put it to better use."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: There are ecosystems like coral reefs [at risk] through ocean acidification. Those are valuable things that we should protect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The only role other than paying their taxes, whatever those are, the only role for philanthropy broadly - of which the rich should give disproportionately - the more, the better - and I think there is a positive trend in that direction - there are certain risk-taking things, like trying out a new type of charter school or funding a new kind of medicine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Philanthropy, although it's tiny compared to the government, it's 2% of the US economy, which is the largest percentage, other than the Middle East."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The US in some ways has been the best. Who figured out shale gas? Although that wasn't a good thing [for CO2 levels], it was very innovative. It's led to low-cost energy. Who figured out nuclear power? Largely the United States. Once you get past the steam engine, which is mostly British, then the US has been at the center of most of the energy things that have happened."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: You might say, well, aren't people saying that about wind and solar today? Not really. Only in the super-narrow sense that the capital costs per output, when the wind is blowing, is slightly lower."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: At the end of the day, natural-gas peakers sit back there and get financed so that the Midwest corridor can have a huge [period] of four to five days of no wind. The peakers are running big time to make that up, because that is the swing piece that can always be turned on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate. In fact, I would have said we should more than double it, if I thought the absorptive capacity could scale up and if it was actually possible to get to that level."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: There was a magical breakthrough when the computer became cheap and we could see that everyone could afford a computer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Vaccination is pretty special because you can do a vaccination campaign anywhere in the world. All you are doing is gathering women from the villages, getting them the vaccines and asking them to go around and find the children."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I believe technology will continue to become more affordable and more people will have the chance to use it. This will help more people get medical care and a good education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Death is something we really understand extremely well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: In low-income countries, getting to a health post is hard. It's very expensive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Intermittency [in availability for wind and solar] changes the economics, particularly this requirement that the power company at all times be able to require power. That's large."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I'm a big believer that as much as possible, and there's obviously political limitations, freedom of migration is a good thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Although I don't have a prescription for what others should do, I know I have been very fortunate and feel a responsibility to give back to society in a very significant way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: There certainly is a case to be made that taxes should be more progressive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: There's no magic line between an application and an operating system that some bureaucrat in Washington should draw."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: That's the part where the governments have a unique role, and then when it progresses well enough, then existing companies or new startup companies should take it. In the $3 trillion a year energy market, the rewards will be quite fantastic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: (On being the world's richest man) I wish I wasn't ... There's nothing good that comes out of that. You get more visibility as a result of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The spread of online information isn't just good for charities. It's also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Windows 8 is key to the future, the Surface computer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Sorghum is kind of unusual. It can go to very high heats, but it's not as productive in most environments as maize is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: [AIDS ] is not a short-term emergency but it is something that, just like smallpox was many decades ago, we should aim for complete eradication."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Most of our competitors were one-product wonders... They would do their one product, but never get their engineering sorted out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: It's a nice reader, but there's nothing on the iPad I look at and say, 'Oh, I wish Microsoft had done it.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Depending on where you live, cooking, sex and pooping are either 3 of life's pleasures or what kills you"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: You don't have to own a TV network to go out and do a cool show."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: A company needs to have good business reflexes, to be able to marshal its forces in a crisis or in response to any unplanned event."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The government's ability to select scientists and pick things that are fairly strange, because politicians don't like failures. They're only in office a short term, and many of these things take a long time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Finally, assuming that many of those are fulfilled, which won't be easy in tight budget times, we're taking the supply side at the basic research level, because that's where government is absolutely fundamental."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I'm going to save my public voice largely for the issues where I have some depth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I've been studying how quickly we can get energy out to the poor countries - a lot of which are in Africa - and how little progress we've made there. There's no more electricity today in sub-Saharan Africa per person than there was 20 years ago."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Government investment unlocks a huge amount of private sector activity, but the basic research that we put into IT work that led to the Internet and lots of great companies and jobs, the basic work we put into the health care sector, where it's over $30 billion a year in R&D that led the biotech and pharma jobs. And it creates jobs and it creates new technologies that will be productized. But the government has to prime the pump here. The basic ideas, as in those other industries, start with government investment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Contrary to popular belief, I don't spend a whole lot of time following soccer. But as I have traveled around the world to better understand global development and health, I've learned that soccer is truly universal. No matter where I go, that's what kids are playing. That's what people are talking about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We need to start thinking about the future of food if we are going to feed 9 billion people in a way that does not destroy our environment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: When a country has the skill and self-confidence to take action against its biggest problems, it makes outsiders eager to be a part of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Unemployment rates among Americans who never went to college are about double that of those who have a postsecondary education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I think the thing we see is that as people are using video games more, they tend to watch passive TV a bit less. And so using the PC for the Internet, playing video games, is starting to cut into the rather unbelievable amount of time people spend watching TV."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: What are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The best way to prepare [to be a programmer] is to write programs, and to study great programs that other people have written. In my case, I went to the garbage cans at the Computer Science Center and I fished out listings of their operating systems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The world is very disparate, in terms of the US using the most energy per person, and then the other rich countries - Europe, Japan, New Zealand - using about half of what we do, and then the world average being about a fifth of what we use, with China just now surpassing the world average."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We work with whoever is elected. Some will bring a more generous, open view of the world than others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: For all these infectious diseases, the goal is to eventually get rid of them. And to do that we need to invent new tools, but nobody was doing that because there was no money to buy on behalf of the poorest, even the existing tools."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: American dependence on oil has only gone up as we've gone through various crises and not invested in R&D."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: ...one of the most inventive forms of creative capitalism involves someone we all know very well. A few years ago, I was sitting in a bar here in Davos with Bono. Late at night, after a few drinks, he was on fire, talking about how we could get a percentage of each purchase from civic-minded companies to help change the world. He kept calling people, waking them up, and handing me the phone to show me the interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: It's OK for China to invent cancer drugs that cure patients in the United States. We want them to catch up. But as the leader, we want to keep setting a very, very high standard. We don't want them to catch up because we're slowing down or, even worse, going into reverse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If you withdraw the incredible focus on polio, it will spread back, and in poor countries you'll get something like 100,000 cases a year. So by being very intense and getting the cases down to zero, what you do is you avoid all the future cases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Windows 2000 already contains features such as the human discipline component, where the PC can send an electric shock through the keyboard if the human does something that does not please Windows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I considered law and math. My Dad was a lawyer. I think though I would have ended up in physics if I didn't end up in computer science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Software substitution, whether it's for drivers or waiters or nurses ... it's progressing. ... Technology over time will reduce demand for jobs, particularly at the lower end of skill set. ... 20 years from now, labor demand for lots of skill sets will be substantially lower. I don\u2019t think people have that in their mental model."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Oh, I think there are a lot of people who would be buying and selling online today that go up there and they get the information, but then when it comes time to type in their credit card they think twice because they're not sure about how that might get out and what that might mean for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The U.S. immigration laws are bad - really, really bad. I'd say treatment of immigrants is one of the greatest injustices done in our government's name."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Steve Jobs' ability to focus in on a few things that count, get people who get user interface right, and market things as revolutionary are amazing things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We should all grow our own food and do our own waste processing, we really should."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: When you have the medical advances you think will they be available to everyone. Will they not just be for the rich world or even just the rich people and the rich world? Will they be for the world at large?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: When I was trying to figure out why lives have improved so much in the last 300 years, where we've gone from a third of kids dying before 5 to - by 1990 it was down to 10% - now it's down to 5%. And saying why, over all history, there were smart people, but that number didn't change. Average life span didn't change. What's magical about what's been deemed the Industrial Revolution? It's really energy intensity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: India just went 3 years with no cases [of polio]. Pakistan is our toughest location right now because some parts of the Taliban have not allowed vaccinators to come in and have even attacked vaccinators. We are hopeful this will get resolved since no one wants their kid to be paralyzed. I spend a lot of time making sure the polio campaign is doing the best it can. We have great computer models that help guide our activities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Creative capitalism takes this interest in the fortunes of others and ties it to our interest in our own fortunes in ways that help advance both. This hybrid engine of self-interest and concern for others can serve a much wider circle of people than can be reached by self-interest or caring alone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: China has many successful entrepreneurs and business people. I hope that more people of insight will put their talents to work to improve the lives of poor people in China and around the world, and seek solutions for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Online education is pretty special for two reasons. One is that you can get the very best lecture in the world and wherever you are, whenever you want, you can connect to that lecture. The other is this interactivity, where if you know a topic, you can kind of skip over it. Or if you're confused about it, [the area] where you're confused can be analyzed by software."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Globalization has made copper and other minerals more valuable, and Ghana and Kenya have recently discovered mineral resources."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Now everyone takes it for granted that you can look up movie reviews, track locations, and order stuff online. I wish there was a way we could take it away from people for a day so they could remember what it was like without it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The Center for Disease Control started out as the malaria war control board based in Atlanta. Partly because the head of Coke had some people out to his plantation and they got infected with malaria, and partly cause all the military recruits were coming down and having a higher fatality rate from malaria while training than in the field."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: With Windows 8, Microsoft is trying to gain market share in what has been dominated by the iPad-type device. But a lot of those users are frustrated. They can't type. They can't create documents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I mean, if we said right now, there's somebody in the next room who's dying, let's all go save their life, you know, everybody would just get up immediately and go get involved in that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We need a malaria epidemic in the blogging community! Either that or we need people who have seen the malaria epidemic to start blogging."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: It is hard to overstate how valuable it is to have all the incredible tools that are used for human disease to study plants."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: When you have a fortune that is almost hard to imagine, the best thing is not to pass that on to one's children. That distorts their life situation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I was lucky to be involved and get to contribute to something that was important, which is empowering people with software."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software - that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The first big effects will be farmers that live on the edge. Today's weather, they barely get by. Their kids, a high percentage are malnourished, and so if you impose more variable weather and more heat, you're getting more floods, more droughts, and during the germination time, the high heat, most crops...do poorly when there's more heat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The key thing you can do to reduce population growth is actually improve health."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: There was a concept a long time ago that you would do a different type of reactor called a \"fast reactor,\" that would make a bunch of another element called plutonium, and then you would pull that out, and then you would burn that. That's called \"breeding\" in a fast reactor. That is bad because plutonium is nuclear weapons material. It's messy. The processing you have to get through is not only environmentally difficultly, it's extremely expensive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Bringing together the right information with the right people will dramatically improve a company's ability to develop and act on strategic business opportunities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: In the same way that when the car got going, people thought it would be an electric car, people thought it would be a steam car."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: In terms of doing things I take a fairly scientific approach to why things happen and how they happen. I don't know if there's a god or not, but I think religious principles are quite valid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: How we deal with the AIDS epidemic should be one of the greatest ways that the world gets measured. The report card for this era."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The typical project design time for a large company like IBM - and they keep track of this - is a little over four years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If you really could take the CO2, when you burn hydrocarbons - coal, for example - if you could really capture the carbon and sequester it - they call it CCS - if the extra capital cost, energy cost, and storage costs over time didn't make it super expensive, then that's another path that you could go down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I know that historically our foundation has had great relations with all the administrations.[Bill] Clinton administration did a lot of outreach. The greatest rise in U.S. foreign aid was under the [George] Bush administration, that's where we got the AIDS initiative, which is called PEPFAR."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The media covers what\u2019s new \u2013 and millions of people dying is nothing new. So it stays in the background, where it\u2019s easier to ignore. But even when we do see it or read about it, it\u2019s difficult to keep our eyes on the problem. It\u2019s hard to look at suffering if the situation is so complex that we don\u2019t know how to help. And so we look away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The phenomenal generosity of the United States in its aid budget towards health issues is the best in the world. You can look at that broadly, you can look at it in terms of HIV, the PEPFAR money which came together in a Republican administration with bipartisan support."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I don't think there is any philosophy that suggests having polio is a good thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The year I was born, 1955, the first big disease-eradication program in the world was declared for malaria. After about a decade of work, they realized that, at least in the tropical areas, they did not have the tools to get it done."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I'll get to see many disease eradications. and we're seeing a lot of progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: In the philanthropy game, you're going for different outcomes: saving childhood lives, having kids grow up - because they don't have malnutrition or disease - that they achieve their full potential. We take for Warren [Buffett] things that, because he's very intelligent about the world but doesn't get to go out in Africa and see what we see, we've taken and say to him where we stand and it's basically a very positive report that his gift has made a phenomenal difference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Now we've got that [children's death rate] down to about 5 percent, so we've more than cut it in half, and that's because we're getting vaccines out, economic improvement also helps there, but the vaccines are why we've seen an acceleration in getting that down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: People think about this idea that there's 122 million kids that are alive that would not be if that fatality rate had stayed at the 1990 level, that's 122 million families."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We're still missing about a dozen vaccines that will make a huge difference. For adults, we've got HIV and TB are still huge; for kids malaria is still killing a half million kids a year out of that 6 million. We probably need some vaccines, but we need a little more data to make sure we're getting the vaccines that will save the most lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: In most of these things our foundation is a co-funder, so I can say that a polio or an HIV vaccine, that I'm putting our resources behind it in a very big way and the U.S. government would be the best partner for those efforts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If somebody is considering being willing to go out and work in the field in global health, those are a particular class of heroes because it's hard to work in those places. Our foundation gets so many of our learnings from people who've been out there and seen, \"this tool is not going to work there, there's more of a problem here than you know.\" You should really get involved in that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Our leadership [in Microsoft ] has that - \"hey, we are the best in certain ways,\" and so we get the best people. That any kind of positive dynamic is quite good, so I love what's going on there, it's fun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Melinda [Gates] has been my partner in raising the kids and I went from before I met her, intentionally having an unbalanced life, to having a more balanced life with all sorts of fun things that she and I do together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The people who resist change will be confronted by the growing number of people who see that better ways are available; thanks to technology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Leaders need to provide strategy and direction and to give employees tools that enable them to gather information and insight from around the world. Leaders shouldn't try to make every decision."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I have to say that in 1981, making those decisions, I felt like I was providing enough freedom for 10 years. That is, a move from 64k to 640k felt like something that would last a great deal of time. Well, it didn't - it took about only 6 years before people started to see that as a real problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The Global Fund is a central player in the progress being achieved on HIV, TB and malaria. It channels resources to help countries fight these diseases. I believe in its impact because I have seen it firsthand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: [Melinda Gates] is a lot of fun to work with. There's some of the people skills that she's better at and cares about more. It'd be a mistake not to think of her as very numerical and interested in the science. I enjoy, if I get ahead of her, say, understanding the immune system, then we can spend a few hours, where I'm going through how amazing it is and interesting, and how that affects our creating new products, so I've always had a partner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We need to look at less obvious paths, things like the wind in the jet stream, which is very high up. The material science of what type of kite string you would need to connect up to that. That's still at the basic research level."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I am super lucky. I've been in the area where things have been changing and been part of the digital revolution, the magic of software, the internet, the computer, and now the cellphone... so it's been a great privilege."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I think Ebola is a great example of where the world really needs to come together. The three countries where this outbreak took place have had a lot of civil war, very weak health systems. And so, it did take a while for people to understand ....that eventually what we saw was a very unique Ebola epidemic. I think it is quite impressive what's being pulled together, and I think we will be able to get this under control."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: In the next 15 years, we can halve childhood deaths. That's doable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: It is a high bar to say that it's more fun than working on software because the work at Microsoft that both Melinda [Gates] and I did was thrilling. We were making breakthroughs and empowering people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: [Warren Buffett ] met with all sorts of different groups about a lot of different things, but yes, he took the time, he listened and he wanted to understand about some of the different diseases and the strength of the American role in doing all these things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: When you say that after World War I there was a pandemic that killed more people than the war itself, most will say: \"Wait, are you kidding? I know World War I, but there was no World War 1.5, was there?\" But people were traveling around after the war, and that meant the force of infection was much higher. And the problem is that the rate of travel back then was dramatically less than what we have nowadays."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The most important work I got a chance to be involved in, no matter what I do, is the personal computer... I even knew not to get married until later because I was so obsessed with it. That's my life's work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: You wish that you could move more rapidly and you have setbacks. You know, the AIDS epidemic was a huge setback for Africa, and it's only through generosity that we've avoided that just completely crippling an entire generation there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Playing Bridge is a pretty old fashioned thing in a way that I really like... I do the dishes every night - other people volunteer but I like the way I do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time. As the successor to DOS, which has over 10,000,000 systems in use, it creates incredible opportunities for everyone involved with PCs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Sometimes we do get taken by surprise. For example, when the Internet came along, we had it as a fifth or sixth priority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Instead of buying airplanes and playing around like some of our competitors, we've rolled almost everything back to the company."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We\u2019re no longer in the days where every program is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you\u2019ll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really knew what they were doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Should surveillance be usable for petty crimes like jaywalking or minor drug possession? Or is there a higher threshold for certain information? Those aren't easy questions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I think when smallpox was eliminated, the whole world got pretty excited about that because it\u2019s just such a dramatic success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: For Africa to move forward, you've really got to get rid of malaria."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I believe in generous aid policies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I think we knew that this would be just like raising the kids together, this would be a fun thing to do in partnership. And you know, we're so lucky because we get to hire in very smart people. We get to partner with governments like the Canadian Development Organization - CIDA, USAID - tonnes of scientists doing this work. This is fascinating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: So not only are we saving lives now, we're creating the incentive for the breakthroughs that over the next generation will mean we can take AIDS, malaria and TB and bring those numbers dramatically down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The death of a child is an incredible tragedy all over the world. Back in 1990, about 12 percent of children were dying before they reached the age of 5."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Investing in innovation, which was my broad theme talking to [Warren Buffett ], that included health vaccines, it included energy and education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Contraception really shouldn't be all that controversial because it's a tool a woman can use to delay her first birth until she's, say, 18 or 19 years old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: In low-income countries, the main problems you have is infectious diseases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: 3D is a way of organizing things, particularly as we're getting much more media information on the computer, a lot more choices, a lot more navigation than we've ever had before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Computers are great because when you're working with them you get immediate results that let you know if your program works. It's feedback you don't get from many other things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I remember thinking quite logically that I didn't want to spoil my children with wealth and so that I would create a foundation, but not knowing exactly what it would focus on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We believe the world changes when the boldest thinking is directed at the toughest problems"
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I think philanthropy is also growing and catching on. Figuring out how the philanthropy sector, which is quite small compared to the private sector, which is the biggest by far, and then the governments, you know, even in these poor countries over time has to take on these key responsibilities. How does philanthropy accelerate that? Drive the kind of innovations, make sure they get used well. So it plays this kind of special role."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Whenever you have a few setbacks, the idea that half as many children are dying now as back in 1990 and so... it was over 12 million a year, now it's less than 6 million a year. We have a clear path to get that under 3 million a year and we know what to do. And this generation of young Africans is a very large group."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Vaccines are a miracle; they're fantastic. Anything that makes people hesitate to give their children these vaccines according to the recommended schedule creates risk. Risk for the children who don't get vaccinated and risk for children, some of whom don't have an immune system, so they're benefiting from the fact that the community protection means the disease doesn't get to them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Test scores aren't perfect, but having a test score for math or reading or other things that we can objectively measure is a meaningful component that makes a lot of sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: So it's an absolute lie that has killed thousands of kids. Because the mothers who heard that lie, many of them didn't have their kids take either pertussis or measles vaccine, and their children are dead today. And so the people who go and engage in those anti-vaccine efforts -- you know, they, they kill children. It's a very sad thing, because these vaccines are important."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Make sure people get educated, help out with health emergencies. Those things, the government should do. That's 96 per cent of the economy, those two sectors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: There's a unique thing about the UK, where you give a very generous foreign aid budget to support globally, which is spent wisely. We partner with the government here to make sure that that money is spent well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Music, even with these dial-up connections you have to the Internet, is very practical to download."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If you count E-mail, I'm on the Internet all day, every day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The quality of research in the U.S. is absolutely the best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Getting the word out that, yes vaccines are great, the safety data's very, very clear, including any of these specific concerns, that's very important to our foundation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Vaccination is one of the easiest things on the way to development. It's much easier than roads and a great education system. It's very basic. It's one of the first things you want to get right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I admire leaders in science, people who really figure things out like Richard Fineman or people who work on vaccines, tons of people working on [the] HIV vaccine. There's leaders in business, people like Warren Buffett, who've got a certain approach they take that are pretty amazing. There [are] product innovators like Steve Jobs was, where he gets behind a concept and does a fantastic job."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Well, it's taken time to get this going, but he was right. If you give people a chance to associate themselves with a cause they care about, while buying a great product, they will. That was how the RED Campaign was born, here in Davos."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The close relationships we form between researchers and product groups have already shown we can move the great ideas as they come along, without a schedule, into the products."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: here are economies like China's economy where it's less than a tenth [of a percent] today, although it is growing, is quite small, because of the notion that the government takes care of everything, and Europe and China, philanthropy has not been nearly of the same scale."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Our flame is taking the normal depleted uranium - the 99.3 percent that's cheap as heck, and there's a pile of it sitting in Paducah, Kentucky that's enough to power the United States for hundreds and hundreds of years. You're taking that and you are converting it to plutonium - and then you're burning that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Well the Global Fund, because of how well it's worked on not only AIDS, but also malaria and tuberculosis, I'd say it's well accepted. I mean, it's not politically controversial that this is a great humanitarian effort. But budgets are very very tight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Every three years, we have to go to the governments and say, okay, you know you're saving millions of lives and even though your budgets are tight, helping Africa avoid this disaster really is a priority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Even when things are stable, that's not easy [to work in Africa] because there are not roads, and the weather is tough, the education system hasn't been there. But this is how you get great countries, is step by step."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: You have to be willing to see that sometimes the governments of these poor countries don't come through. You have to think about that as a constraint. How do you help them be better? How do you come up with things that actually work, even in those tough situations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Software was changing so fast, so unbelievable, that that got very quick adoption."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The idea of explaining why free trade is good, why immigration is good, why the world is so connected, that we need to think in terms of humanity and being generous to each other, you know, that's proving to be a challenge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Innovation is often the hidden thing, because we can't put numbers to it. And yet it's the thing that defines the way we live, the things we'd like to have for everyone whether it's health or education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If we [the USA] don't innovate in education, it's literally going to mean less people get to go have that education at a time when more people are going to want it. We've got to put courses out on the Web, we've got to put interactive learning out on the Web."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We really have to work hard to remind people even though this is far away, that's it's probably the most generous thing governments have ever come together to do. Since World War II, this new institution is the only one that's emerged and is saving all these lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Two years from now, spam will be solved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We believe unbelievable progress can be made, in both inventing new vaccines and making sure they get out to all the children who need them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If you want to build a great company, get the hell out of Silicon Valley."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The UK is a very international country."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: When AIDS emergency broke out and was killing millions in Africa, the Global Fund was created so that a level of generosity would show up and buy the medicines to save those lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: In a system of capitalism, as people's wealth rises, the financial incentive to serve them rises. As their wealth falls, the financial incentive to serve them falls, until it becomes zero. We have to find a way to make the aspects of capitalism that serve wealthier people serve poorer people as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Whenever you have multiple devices including multiple PCs that you want to share information with, it's always been a bit complicated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Windows is probably the most important product in the entire PC industry. Everything we do in terms of supporting touch, new hardware, accessibility has incredible impact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: This antitrust thing will blow over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The Green Revolution focused on the big three - maize, rice and wheat - and the Green Revolution did not adapt the big three to African conditions, other than South Africa, as much as they should have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Rich countries can afford to overpay for things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If the 1980s were about quality and the 1990s were about reengineering, then the 2000s will be about velocity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I've said some stupid things and some wrong things, but not that. No one involved in computers would ever say that a certain amount of memory is enough for all time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The US really has to get out in front. We are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I think given all the different imperatives - getting energy to Africa, security of energy, climate change, that we should be spending half as much as we spend on health, which will get you all the way up to $15 billion - the health people don't like it when things get compared to their number."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Anyway, the US, as in most issues, is the best, has the best capability to lead, and really needs to lead. It doesn't [mean] that other countries won't pick different tacks and emphasize different things. In aggregate, they're almost half of the energy R&D. Europe, China, Japan - it's very important that they come along and contribute to these things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Natural epidemics can be extremely large. Intentionally caused epidemics, bioterrorism, would be the largest of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: My broad sense of this is that authors like Smil really paint the clear picture, and once you see that, it's kind of Oh, of course. That's such a primal thing to all these physical services that we take for granted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I've for some reason or other... never met Donald Trump."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Well depending on the government, you either work through the government, which is ideal, because then you're strengthening their capabilities, or you work through the non-governmental organizations. It's never easy, and you know, it's just about the very basics of health. This is not hospitals. This is just primary health care [in Africa], the most simple things, and even so, getting the supplies out, getting the trained workers there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Teaching is the human thing, in terms of building the kids' self-confidence, so if we take the broad ways that we want to see society to be better, science can only provide certain pieces of that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I have a company that is not Microsoft, called Corbis. Corbis is the operation that merged with Bettman Archives. It has nothing to do with Microsoft. It was intentionally done outside of Microsoft because Microsoft isn't interested."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I believe it\u2019s not only possible to eradicate malaria; I believe it\u2019s necessary. Ultimately, the cost of controlling it endlessly is not sustainable. The only way to stop this disease is to end it forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We [US] are the biggest per person, by a substantial amount, greenhouse emitters, and we give the most foreign aid, not per person but in absolute. This is another issue where hopefully we will take a long-term approach which, even though we sometimes have a hard time doing that, it's easier for us, as a rich country with this kind of scientific depth, than it is for the poor countries who will suffer the problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The information highway will transform our culture as dramatically as Gutenberg's press did the Middle Ages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Antitrust is the way that the government promotes markets when there are market failures. It has nothing to do with the idea of free information."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: It's easier to add things on to a PC than it's ever been before. It's one click, and boom, it comes down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Most innovations, unfortunately, actually increase the net costs of the healthcare system. There's a few, particularly having to do with chronic diseases, that are an exception. If you could cure Alzheimer's, if you could avoid diabetes - those are gigantic in terms of saving money. But the incentive regime doesn't favor them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Someone in the society has to deal with the reality that there are finite resources and we're making trade-offs, and be explicit about that. When the car companies were found to have a memo that actually said, \"This safety feature costs X and saved Y lives,\" the very existence of that memo was considered damning. Or when you made it reimbursable for a doctor to ask, \"Do you want heroic care at the end-of-life,\" that was a death panel. No, it wasn't a death panel! It was asking somebody to make a decision."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The malaria parasite has been killing children and sapping the strength of whole populations for tens of thousands of years. It is impossible to calculate the harm malaria has done to the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I have always loved the competitive forces in this business. You know I certainly have meetings where I spur people on by saying, \"Hey, we can do better than this. How come we are not out ahead on that?\" Thats what keeps my job one of the most interesting in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: You know, development sometimes is viewed as a project in which you give people things and nothing much happens, which is perfectly valid, but if you just focus on that, then you'd also have to say that venture capital is pretty stupid, too. Its hit rate is pathetic. But occasionally, you get successes, you fund a Google or something, and suddenly venture capital is vaunted as the most amazing field of all time. Our hit rate in development is better than theirs, but we should strive to make it better."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: It's easier for our software to compete with Linux when there's piracy than when there's not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Business isn't that complicated. I wouldn't want to put it on my business card."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: So we do software for watches, for phones, for TV sets, for cars. And some of these take a long time to catch on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: In the decade ahead I can predict that we will provide over twice the productivity improvement that we provided in the '90s."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The next generation of interesting software will be done on the Macintosh, not the IBM PC."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If you think of global public goods like polio eradication, the kind of risk-taking new approach, philanthropy really does have a role to play there, because government doesn't do R&D about new things naturally as much as it probably should, and so philanthropy's there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: [We in Microsoft] are not the only software company but we are a great software company doing some unique work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: You know capitalism is this wonderful thing that motivates people, it causes wonderful inventions to be done. But in this area of diseases of the world at large, it's really let us down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: There is no doubt PC prices will be coming down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I do normal kind of contributions, particularly for people who are going over to Africa and help highlighting global health, and that's tended to be pretty bipartisan in nature because of the coalition there exists fortunately around these global health issues. But I don't think my backing, putting a lot of money into political contributions is a way I'm going to try and help improve the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: When we face a choice between adding features and resolving security issues, we need to choose security."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I can understand wanting to have millions of dollars; there's a certain freedom, meaningful freedom, that comes with that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The most straightforward path would be if we could bring the cost of solar electric and wind down by another factor of say, three, and then have some miraculous storage solution, so that not only over the 24-hour day but over long periods of time where the wind doesn't blow, you have reliable energy. That's a path. But energy storage is hard. That's not a guaranteed path."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We need to get a broader awareness. People say climate change is really bad, but painting that picture of what you're putting at risk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Depending on how quickly you get ocean rise, you have people who live in river deltas [at risk]. Bangladesh is largely a river delta, and the rising sea level means that when storms come in, the human sanitation is backing up, the ability to farm, it's destructive-type situations like you saw in New Orleans with Katrina. You're increasing the frequency of that stuff in low-lying areas fairly dramatically."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather and things like that, we sought false explanations for them. Now science has filled in some of the realm \u2013 not all \u2013 that religion used to fill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Microsoft has had clear competitors in the past. It's a good thing we have museums to document that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: People often overestimate what will happen in the next two years and underestimate what will happen in ten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Now, if you're rich, you can spend a lot of money, Netherlands-style, and reduce that. But Bangladesh or parts of India, like Calcutta, they just simply won't be able to afford that kind of protection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I love nuclear. It does this radiation thing that's tricky. But they're good solutions. You know, it was interesting; recently, in Connecticut this natural gas plant blew up 11 guys. It just blew them up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The concept of this so-called \"TerraPower reactor\" is that you, in the same reactor, you both burn and breed. So, instead of making plutonium and then extracting it, we take uranium - the 99.3 percent that you normally don't do anything with - we convert that, and we burn it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: People are always coming up to me and saying, 'I heard your dad's speech, and it's really great.' And they'll mention some place I didn't even know my dad was going to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Whenever you have war, you often have more deaths because the medical system and the food system breaks down, than you have directly through violence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Of all the statistics in health, death is the easiest, because you can go out and ask people, \"Hey, have you had any children who died, did your siblings have any children who died?\" People don't forget that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: AIDS we're - most of these diseases - we are down from the peak. We're down about 40 per cent from the peak and if we got the right vaccines, which are at the early stage of discovering, then the numbers would come down very dramatically. So that's why we talk about it as an emergency."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Going out in the field, it's always enlightening to see what's working and what's not and to sit down and talk - I was with young girls in south Africa - understanding why our tools for prevention aren't being adopted, and what way may need to invent to help protect them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The U.S. and Canada are two generous governments and we reach out and partner with anyone who believes in foreign aid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I have not met [Donald] Trump and discussed any issues with him. There have been Republican administrations like the [George] Bush administration who initiated this AIDS generosity. So it's not purely a right-left thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Scientists and companies weren't creating things like new vaccines. Now that we have this fund that's there to buy at the lowest price, but buy for those people these medicines, we see scientists everywhere coming up with those new tools."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I was announcing to the public, in 2006, that I'd be leaving Microsoft in a couple of years and focusing full-time on the foundation. That was the time at which we went back to New York and Warren [Buffett] announced these gifts to a number of foundations, with a very high percentage of it going to us and basically doubling our capacity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Thinking about impact on children meant adding to the agenda, both the R&D agenda and the delivery agenda, but it's amazing news, even in the scale of other tragedies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: That it's a worldwide thing that families are better off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I would certainly use my voice to try and avoid anything that undermines confidence, so that parents are using vaccines fully."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: My innovation message, specifically including energy, happened to be the same week that on Monday and Tuesday I announced the Breakthrough Energy Venture Group. Then on that Tuesday afternoon, in December, was when I sat down with him. I explained the US has great science here, this is where the market for these things is going to be. It connects to less pollution, it connects to U.S. jobs, it connects to security, not needing the energy coming from far away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Energy is very primal stuff and there are a lot of leads that are promising, still at a fairly risky stage, but over the next decade some of these breakthrough approaches are going to pay out, and U.S. research and U.S. leadership on this should be part of how it gets solved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We're in a period of uncertainty about [Donald Trump] administration policies and the range of what might happen is particularly higher. I don't think that these R&D and innovation budgets will be substantially reduced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I think there's even a chance that [R&D and innovation budgets] might be increased [during Donald Trump Administration] and we should go and make that case to the executive branch, to the Congress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: R&D generally has been a bipartisan thing, because in the IT space, in the medical space, the U.S., the benefits to ourselves and the world and our economy have been very, very clear. I'm hopeful we can make a very strong case there. Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Hopefully, whether it's energy or child vaccines, the case of the many benefits helping countries so that they are stable, so these refugee problems that have been troubling for Europe - a little less so for the U.S. but, even so, a lot of controversy there - these things are why the future's going to be better than the past. People really do look to the United States, so we'll be there making the case."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: As we have taken diarrhea and pneumonia down, even malaria down quite a bit, the portion of the days that are very early in that 5 years - the first month, the first day - it's about half now. Yet that's the part we understand the least."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in Seattle called the Institute for Disease Modelling that is a mix of computer science and math-type people, and the progress we're making in polio or plans for malaria or really driven by their deep insights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Microsoft has some assets like Office that have stayed strong and there's so much room for innovation in those."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Something like Windows is still an unbelievable asset but because the world is somewhat phone-centric, it's an asset that has to be managed very carefully to make sure that it's extended, and there are very interesting things that are being done with that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We have completely eradicated smallpox; we have almost eradicated polio. That's the miracle of vaccines, which is even greater than that of antibiotics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Vaccines are extremely well tested; their safety is well understood. The false allegations about vaccines causing autism have been disproven. But there are still echoes out there confusing people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: There is this broad, broad recognition of how technology is enabling new things. Companies that never paid attention to computers in any form now see digital technology as creating threats and opportunities for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: People in business understand paying money to be more efficient. You can bootstrap markets where the devices are too expensive at first because these are so valuable to some people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: With polio, we've gone several years with no polio in all of Africa, but now with this we're having to go and mop up in that whole region, so it's a bit of a setback for polio. So in parallel we have to go back and get rid of those cases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We have two other countries, Pakistan and Afghanistan - again it's the instability that is a problem there. So over the next several years, we expect to drive the number of [polio] cases back down to zero because that is likely to be the second disease after smallpox that we completely eradicate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: With nuclear weapons, you'd think you would probably stop after killing 100million. Smallpox won't stop. Because the population is na\u00efve, and there are no real preparations. That, if it got out and spread, would be a larger number."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: In 1990, one in 10 children died before the age of five. That's now down to one in 20, and vaccines were the single biggest factor in that. Had it stayed at 10 percent, 122 million more children would have died."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: I have this very positive view of the world getting better and better. The list of things that could be huge setbacks is not very long: A nuclear war, climate change and epidemics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: If there was an epidemic, that definitely would make people accept vaccines. I wouldn't hope for that, of course, but if you wanted people to love vaccines, an epidemic would remind them how magical they are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Part of the magic of economic growth is how you educate people, and the leading economies have to stay in front of that. From an economic point of view, it affects competitiveness and creates jobs. Or from a social justice point of view, you can take someone in the bottom tier of income and let him compete to be a doctor or lawyer. The education system is the only reason the dream of equal opportunity has a chance of being delivered - and we're not running a good education system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: You have the refugee crisis triggered by Syria. That's got a lot of costs associated with it. Domestically, budgets are incredibly tight because the economy's not generating the growth that makes for easy trade-offs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Talking to mothers, always brings it home because they're so anxious to do everything they can for their kids and so tragic for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: President [George] Bush made the U.S. absolutely the leader, between its own PEPFAR, and it's been by far the biggest Global Fund donor. That's a legacy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: [Africa] is the one continent where you still have a lot more young people than old people. So making sure they're healthy, good nutrition, good education. That'll be important for the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The scientific understanding of some of these [childhood] diseases is advancing quite rapidly. There's some things like premature birth or nutrition, first day deaths that we need a lot more insights so that we can build the tools to solve those problems."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We got a malaria initiative, really a phenomenal time, even though in the early stages there was some uncertainty. Then of course [Barack] Obama, although he had budget constraints, he believed in these things; a lot of new initiatives, including in agriculture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Even in some of our vaccine areas, like an AIDS vaccine, things have taken longer than we expected, but we have the pipeline of tools. The biological information that we have that gives us insights is fantastic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Even for the diseases we don't focus on, cancer, heart disease, you're going to be way better off being sick 10 years from now than any time in the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: It was really phenomenal [Warren Buffett donation]. It grew out of the friendship that we had and the fact that his plan to have his wife run the foundation and give things away changed when she tragically died."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: Take agriculture, where we haven't done much, or sanitation; saying, \"okay, we will be able to make a really huge effort there.\" It really energized the foundation and half of what we've gotten done in this last decade is because Warren [Buffett] trusted us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We're creating this alliance, GAVI, that has helped buy the vaccines that were in the rich world but not getting to the poor kids, getting a very cheap price and figuring out the cold chain, getting the delivery right, and then funding research for new vaccines. A lot of them are coming along. We've got a meningitis vaccine out, got that through large parts of Africa. That has been a huge success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We need to cooperate globally on epidemic preparedness and prevention in the same way we are cooperating globally to stop people from getting nuclear weapons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: You can go overboard in how quickly you might expect new technologies to transform people's lives. But I very much believe the way software is used, the way information gets distributed, will be dramatically different within 10 years. There is fire to go with all this smoke."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: In fact, that's where my vision of the coming digital opportunity is somewhat different from other people's. I divide it into three parts. One is the office. That's the one I'm most excited about and is the most concrete."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: We're very enthused about the idea that in the third trimester we actually give the mother a vaccine and her antibodies, the protective things that the immune system makes, actually pass through to the baby, both when the baby is born, and through the mother's milk. Because the baby's immune system is actually not very strong for that first few months, using the mother's immune system to do this - it's a very exciting idea and something that we're investing heavily in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Bill Gates: The US spends more on energy R&D than all other countries put together, and I personally consider it quite inadequate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we\u2019ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We\u2019re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It\u2019s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we\u2019ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: What counts is not what sounds plausible, not what we would like to believe, not what one or two witnesses claim, but only what is supported by hard evidence rigorously and skeptically examined. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power. But if the citizens are educated and form their own opinions, then those in power work for us. In every country, we should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit. In the demon-haunted world that we inhabit by virtue of being human, this may be all that stands between us and the enveloping darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I have a foreboding of an America in my children's or grandchildren's time - [...] when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what\u2019s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The truth may be puzzling. It may take some work to grapple with. It may be counterintuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consonant with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what's true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If God is omnipotent and omniscient, why didn't he start the universe out in the first place so it would come out the way he wants? Why's he constantly repairing and complaining? No, there's one thing the Bible makes clear: The biblical God is a sloppy manufacturer. He's not good at design, he's not good at execution. He'd be out of business, if there was any competition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The fact is that far more crime and child abuse has been committed by zealots in the name of God, Jesus and Mohammed than has ever been committed in the name of Satan. Many people don\u2019t like that statement, but few can argue with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Science is not only compatible with spirituality; it is a profound source of spirituality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Who is more humble? The scientist who looks at the universe with an open mind and accepts whatever the universe has to teach us, or somebody who says everything in this book must be considered the literal truth and never mind the fallibility of all the human beings involved?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The difference between physics and metaphysics is not that the practitioners of one are smarter than the practitioners of the other. The difference is that the metaphysicist has no laboratory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: we make our world significant by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If I finish a book a week, I will read only a few thousand books in my lifetime, about a tenth of a percent of the contents of the greatest libraries of our time. The trick is to know which books to read."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Every star may be a sun to someone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: You have to know the past to understand the present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I promise to question everything my leaders tell me. I promise to use my critical faculties. I promise to develop my independence of thought. I promise to educate myself so I can make my own judgments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I don't want to believe. I want to know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The Hindu religion is the only one of the world\u2019s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths. It is the only religion in which the time scales correspond, no doubt by accident, to those of modern scientific cosmology. Its cycles run from our ordinary day and night to a day and night of Brahma, 8.64 billion years long, longer than the age of the Earth or the Sun and about half the time since the Big Bang."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If you look at Earth from space you see a dot, that's here. That's home. That's us. It underscores the responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: What a marvelous cooperative arrangement - plants and animals each inhaling each other's exhalations, a kind of planet-wide mutual mouth-to-stoma resuscitation, the entire elegant cycle powered by a star 150 million kilometers away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The notion that science and spirituality are somehow mutually exclusive does a disservice to both."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If we can't think for ourselves, if we're unwilling to question authority, then we're just putty in the hands of those in power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Science is based on experiment, on a willingness to challenge old dogma, on an openness to see the universe as it really is. Accordingly, science sometimes requires courage - at the very least the courage to question the conventional wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture, and our concern for the future, can all be tested by how well we support our libraries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: National boundaries are not evident when we view the Earth from space. Fanatical ethnic or religious or national chauvinisms are a little difficult to maintain when we see our planet as a fragile blue crescent fading to become an inconspicuous point of light against the bastion and citadel of the stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The price we pay for anticipation of the future is anxiety about it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology. This is a prescription for disaster. We might get away with it for a while, but sooner or later this combustible mixture of ignorance and power is going to blow up in our faces."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: War is murder writ large."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Think of how many religions attempt to validate themselves with prophecy. Think of how many people rely on these prophecies, however vague, however unfulfilled, to support or prop up their beliefs. Yet has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? ... No other human institution comes close."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The total number of stars in the Universe is larger than all the grains of sand on all the beaches of the planet Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The idea that God is an oversized white male with a flowing beard, who sits in the sky and tallies the fall of every sparrow is ludicrous. But if by 'God,' one means the set of physical laws that govern the universe, then clearly there is such a God. This God is emotionally unsatisfying... it does not make much sense to pray to the law of gravity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep thoughts can be winnowed from deep nonsense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Human beings have a demonstrated talent for self-deception when their emotions are stirred."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If we are not able to ask skeptical questions, to interrogate those who tell us that something is true, to be skeptical of those in authority, then, we are up for grabs for the next charlatan (political or religious) who comes rambling along."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: .. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence. Because God can be relegated to remote times and places and to ultimate causes, we would have to know a great deal more about the universe than we do now to be sure that no such God exists. To be certain of the existence of God and to be certain of the nonexistence of God seem to me to be the confident extremes in a subject so riddled with doubt and uncertainty as to inspire very little confidence indeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Understanding is a kind of ecstasy"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The words \"question\" and \"quest\" are cognates. Only through inquiry can we discover truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We humans look rather different from a tree. Without a doubt we perceive the world differently than a tree does. But down deep, at the molecular heart of life, the trees and we are essentially identical."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: At the heart of science is an essential balance between two seemingly contradictory attitudes-an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre or counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny of all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep nonsense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The size and age of the Cosmos are beyond ordinary human understanding. Lost somewhere between immensity and eternity is our tiny planetary home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The open road still softly calls, like a nearly forgotten song of childhood"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I would suggest that science is, at least in my part, informed worship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: An extraterrestrial being, newly arrived on Earth - scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books - might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Your religion assumes that people are children and need a boogeyman so they'll behave. You want people to believe in God so they'll obey the law. That's the only means that occurs to you: a strict secular police force, and the threat of punishment by an all-seeing God for whatever the police overlook. You sell human beings short."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: It took the Church until 1832 to remove Galileo 's work from its list of books which Catholics were forbidden to read at the risk of dire punishment of their immortal souls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Humans \u2014 who enslave, castrate, experiment on, and fillet other animals \u2014 have had an understandable penchant for pretending animals do not feel pain. A sharp distinction between humans and 'animals' is essential if we are to bend them to our will, make them work for us, wear them, eat them \u2014 without any disquieting tinges of guilt or regret. It is unseemly of us, who often behave so unfeelingly toward other animals, to contend that only humans can suffer. The behavior of other animals renders such pretensions specious. They are just too much like us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Our ancestors lived out of doors. They were as familiar with the night sky as most of us are with our favorite television programs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The library connects us with the insight and knowledge, painfully extracted from Nature, of the greatest minds that ever were, with the best teachers, drawn from the entire planet and from all our history, to instruct us without tiring, and to inspire us to make our own contribution to the collective knowledge of the human species."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: But nature is always more subtle, more intricate, more elegant than what we are able to imagine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after. We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage. We are the custodians of life's meaning. We long for a Parent to care for us, to forgive us our errors, to save us from our childish mistakes. But knowledge is preferable to ignorance. Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: After the earth dies, some 5 billion years from now, after it's burned to a crisp, or even swallowed by the Sun, there will be other worlds and stars and galaxies coming into being - and they will know nothing of a place once called Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We should be teaching our children the scientific method and the reasons for a Bill of Rights. With it comes a certain decency, humility and community spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called \"leaves\") imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time \u2015 proof that humans can work magic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Wisdom lies in understanding our limitations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Cosmos is a Greek word for the order of the universe. It is, in a way, the opposite of Chaos. It implies the deep interconnectedness of all things. It conveys awe for the intricate and subtle way in which the universe is put together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We are the only species on the planet, so far as we know, to have invented a communal memory stored neither in our genes nor in our brains. The warehouse of this memory is called the library"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We are the product of 4.5 billion years of fortuitous, slow biological evolution. There is no reason to think that the evolutionary process has stopped. Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: [Science] is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything. It has two rules. First: there are no sacred truths; all assumptions must be critically examined; arguments from authority are worthless. Second: whatever is inconsistent with the facts must be discarded or revised. ... The obvious is sometimes false; the unexpected is sometimes true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Some racists still reject the plain testimony written in the DNA that all the races are not only human but nearly indistinguishable. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The method of science is tried and true. It is not perfect, it's just the best we have. And to abandon it, with its skeptical protocols, is the pathway to a dark age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We were wanderers from the beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Coal, oil and gas are called fossil fuels, because they are mostly made of the fossil remains of beings from long ago. The chemical energy within them is a kind of stored sunlight originally accumulated by ancient plants. Our civilization runs by burning the remains of humble creatures who inhabited the Earth hundreds of millions of years before the first humans came on the scene. Like some ghastly cannibal cult, we subsist on the dead bodies of our ancestors and distant relatives. - Dr. Carl Sagan"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Our perceptions are fallible. We sometimes see what isn't there. We are prey to optical illusions. Occasionally we hallucinate. We are error-prone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I believe that the extraordinary should be pursued. But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Other things being equal, it is better to be smart than to be stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The very act of understanding is a celebration of joining, merging, even if on a very modest scale, with the magnificence of the Cosmos."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We are made of stellar ash. Our origin and evolution have been tied to distant cosmic events. The exploration of the cosmos is a voyage of self-discovery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Advances in medicine and agriculture have saved vastly more lives than have been lost in all the wars in history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: All of us cherish our beliefs. They are, to a degree, self-defining. When someone comes along who challenges our belief system as insufficiently well-based - or who, like Socrates, merely asks embarrassing questions that we haven't thought of, or demonstrates that we've swept key underlying assumptions under the rug - it becomes much more than a search for knowledge. It feels like a personal assault."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the standards of evidence must be if we are really to know something is true, how many false starts and dead ends have plagued human thinking, how our biases can colour our interpretation of evidence, and how often belief systems widely held and supported by the political, religious and academic hierarchies turn out to be not just slightly in error, but grotesquely wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: How smart does a chimpanzee have to be before killing him constitutes murder?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Absolute certainty will always elude us. We will always be mired in error. The most each generation can hope for is to reduce the error. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the fact that, deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the sceptics, are trying to figure out how the world works and what our role in it might be. Their motives are in many cases consonant with science. If their culture has not given them all the tools they need to pursue this great quest, let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you're in love, you want to tell the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is it not stirring to understand how the world actually works \u2014 that white light is made of colors, that color is the way we perceive the wavelengths of light, that transparent air reflects light, that in so doing it discriminates among the waves, and that the sky is blue for the same reason that the sunset is red? It does no harm to the romance of the sunset to know a little bit about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Except in pure mathematics, nothing is known for certain (although much is certainly false)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons: territoriality and aggression and dominance hierarchies. We are each of us largely responsible for what gets put in to our brains. For what as adults we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain we can change ourselves. Think of the possibilities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We wish to find the truth, no matter where it lies. But to find the truth we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate, but we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: A central lesson of science is that to understand complex issues (or even simple ones), we must try to free our minds of dogma and to guarantee the freedom to publish, to contradict, and to experiment. Arguments from authority are unacceptable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: She had studied the universe all her life, but had overlooked its clearest message: For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Science is an attempt, largely successful, to understand the world, to get a grip on things, to get hold of ourselves, to steer a safe course. Microbiology and meteorology now explain what only a few centuries ago was considered sufficient cause to burn women to death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: In Mozambique, the story goes, monkeys do not talk, because they know if they utter even a single word some man will come and put them to work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The Bill of Rights decoupled religion from the state, in part because so many religions were steeped in an absolutist frame of mind - each convinced that it alone had a monopoly on the truth and therefore eager for the state to impose this truth on others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The suppression of uncomfortable ideas may be common in religion or in politics, but it is not the path to knowledge, and there's no place for it in the endeavor of science. We do not know beforehand where fundamental insights will arise from about our mysterious and lovely solar system. The history of our study of our solar system shows us clearly that accepted and conventional ideas are often wrong, and that fundamental insights can arise from the most unexpected sources."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If chimpanzees have consciousness, if they are capable of abstractions, do they not have what until now has been described as 'human rights'? How smart does a chimp have to be before killing him constitutes murder?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Atoms are mainly empty space. Matter is composed chiefly of nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: First rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: An atheist has to know a lot more than I know. An atheist is someone who knows there is no god. By some definitions atheism is very stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition. They avoid rather than confront the world. But those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: In the fabric of space and in the nature of matter, as in a great work of art, there is, written small, the artist's signature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, \u201cThis is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: A blade of grass is a commonplace on Earth; it would be a miracle on Mars. Our descendants on Mars will know the value of a patch of green. And if a blade of grass is priceless, what is the value of a human being?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: As the ancient myth makers knew, we are children equally of the earth and the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Many religions have attempted to make statues of their gods very large, and the idea, I suppose, is to make us feel small. But if that's their purpose, they can keep their paltry icons. We need only look up if we wish to feel small."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: There are huge advertising budgets only when there's no difference between the products. If the products really were different, people would buy the one that's better. Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: An organism at war with itself is doomed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Imagine a room awash in gasoline, and there are two implacable enemies in that room. One of them has nine thousand matches. The other has seven thousand matches. Each of them is concerned about who's ahead, who's stronger. Well that's the kind of situation we are actually in. The amount of weapons that are available to the United States and the Soviet Union are so bloated, so grossly in excess of what's needed to dissuade the other, that if it weren't so tragic, it would be laughable. What is necessary is to reduce the matches and to clean up the gasoline."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Religions contradict one another-on small matters, such as whether we should put on a hat or take one off on entering a house of worship, or whether we should eat beef and eschew pork or the other way around, all the way to the most central issues, such as whether there are no gods, one God, or many gods."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The neurochemistry of the brain is astonishingly busy, the circuitry of a machine more wonderful than any devised by humans. But there is no evidence that its functioning is due to anything more than the 10(14) neural connections that build an elegant architecture of consciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Whenever our ethnic or national prejudices are aroused, in times of scarcity, during challenges to national self esteem or nerve, when we agonize about our diminished cosmic place and purpose, or when fanaticism is bubbling up around us - then, habits of thought familiar from ages past reach for the controls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there is a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice, a faint sensation, as if a distant memory, of falling from a height. We know we are approaching the greatest of mysteries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Indeed the reasoned criticism of a prevailing belief is a service to the proponents of that belief; if they are incapable of defending it, they are well advised to abandon it. This self-questioning and error-correcting aspect of the scientific method is its most striking property."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If we offer too much silent assent about mysticism and superstition - even when it seems to be doing a little good - we abet a general climate in which scepticism is considered impolite, science tiresome, and rigorous thinking somehow stuffy and inappropriate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I set before you two ways: You can use your technology to destroy yourselves or to carry you to the planets and the stars. It's up to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: At a few hundred kilometers altitude, the Earth fills half your sky, and the band of blue that stretches from Mindanao to Bombay, which your eye encompasses in a single glance, can break your heart with its beauty. Home you think. Home. This is my world. This is where I come from. Everyone I know, everyone I ever heard of, grew up down there, under that relentless and exquisite blue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: A millennium before Europeans were willing to divest themselves of the Biblical idea that the world was a few thousand years old, the Mayans were thinking of millions and the Hindus billions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: There is much that science doesn't understand, many mysteries still to be resolved. In a Universe tens of billions of light-years across and some ten or fifteen billion years old, this may be the case forever. We are constantly stumbling on new surprises"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group Groups of people from divergent ethnic and cultural backgrounds working in some sense together [is] surely a humanizing and character building experience. If we are to survive, our loyalties must be broadened further, to include the whole human community, the entire planet Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: That kind of skeptical, questioning, \"don't accept what authority tells you\" attitude of science - is also nearly identical to the attitude of mind necessary for a functioning democracy. Science and democracy have very consonant values and approaches, and I don't think you can have one without the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: When you look more generally at life on Earth, you find that it is all the same kind of life. There are not many different kinds; there's only one kind. It uses about fifty fundamental biological building blocks, organic molecules."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The visions we offer our children shape the future. It _matters_ what those visions are. Often they become self-fulfilling prophecies. Dreams are maps."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology and yet have cleverly arranged things so that almost no one understands science and technology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I think if we ever reach the point where we think we thoroughly understand who we are and where we came from, we will have failed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs \u2014 in time, in space, and in potential \u2014 the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I hold that popularization of science is successful if, at first, it does no more than spark the sense of wonder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: 'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is \"a peculiar evil.\" If the opinion is right, we are robbed of the \"opportunity of exchanging error for truth\"; and if it's wrong, we are deprived of a deeper understanding of the truth in its \"collision with error.\" If we know only our own side of the argument, we hardly know even that: it becomes stale, soon learned by rote, untested, a pallid and lifeless truth.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We've tended in our cosmologies to make things familiar. Despite all our best efforts, we've not been very inventive. In the West, Heaven is placid and fluffy, and Hell is like the inside of a volcano. In many stories, both realms are governed by dominance hierarchies headed by gods or devils. Monotheists talked about the king of kings. In every culture we imagined something like our own political system running the Universe. Few found the similarity suspicious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. On this shore, we've learned most of what we know. Recently, we've waded a little way out, maybe ankle-deep, and the water seems inviting. Some part of our being knows this is where we came from. We long to return, and we can, because the cosmos is also within us. We're made of star stuff. We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Nevertheless, (Jefferson) believed that the habit of skepticism is an essential prerequisite for responsible citizenship. He argued that the cost of education is trivial compared to the cost of ignorance, of leaving government to the wolves. He taught that the country is safe only when the people rule."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: In Italy, the Inquisition was condemning people to death until the end of the eighteenth century, and inquisitional torture was not abolished in the Catholic Church until 1816. The last bastion of support for the reality of witchcraft and the necessity of punishment has been the Christian churches."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The Earth is a place. It is by no means the only place. It is not even a typical place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I also wish that the Pledge of Allegiance were directed at the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, as it is when the President takes his oath of office, rather than to the flag and the nation"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: While our behavior is still significantly controlled by our genetic inheritance, we have, through our brains, a much richer opportunity to blaze new behavioral and cultural pathways on short timescales."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Modern science has been a voyage into the unknown, with a lesson in humility waiting at every stop. Many passengers would rather have stayed home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy much less of a universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Nature does not always conform to our predispositions and preferences, to what we deem comfortable and easy to understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Since, in the long run, every planetary society will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring \u2014 not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy, unfulfilled, even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven't forgotten: The open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: What an astonishing thing a book is. It\u2019s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you\u2019re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. ... Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence are provided by such a god. We would be unappreciative of those gifts (as well as unable to take such a course of action) if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves. On the other hand, if such a traditional god does not exist, our curiosity and our intelligence are the essential tools for managing our survival. In either case, the enterprise of knowledge is consistent with both science and religion, and is essential for the welfare of the human species."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Real patriots ask questions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Not all bits have equal value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: It's sometimes easier to reject strong evidence than to admit that we've been wrong, this is information about ourselves worth having."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable. If we crave some cosmic purpose, then let us find ourselves a worthy goal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Much of human history can, I think, be described as a gradual and sometimes painful liberation from provincialism, the emerging awareness that there is more to the world than was generally believed by our ancestors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: A googolplex is precisely as far from infinity as is the number 1... no matter what number you have in mind, infinity is larger still."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Science is much more than a body of knowledge. It is a way of thinking. This is central to its success. Science invites us to let the facts in, even when they don't conform to our preconceptions. It counsels us to carry alternative hypotheses in our heads and see which ones best match the facts. It urges on us a fine balance between no-holds-barred openness to new ideas, however heretical, and the most rigorous skeptical scrutiny of everything - new ideas and established wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God. I know of no such compelling evidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Religions are often state-protected nurseries of pseudoscience, although there's no reason why religions have to play that role. In a way, it's an artefact from times long gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The candle flame gutters. Its little pool of light trembles. Darkness gathers. The demons begin to stir."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The visions we offer our children shape the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: For all I know we may be visited by a different extraterrestrial civilization every second Tuesday, but there's no support for this appealing idea. The extraordinary claims are not supported by extraordinary evidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later such a religion will emerge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: In a complex universe, in a society undergoing unprecedented change, how can we find the truth if we are not willing to question everything and to give a fair hearing to everything?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: There is in this Universe much of what seems to be design."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Science arouses a soaring sense of wonder. But so does pseudoscience. Sparse and poor popularizations of science abandon ecological niches that pseudoscience promptly fills. If it were widely understood that claims to knowledge require adequate evidence before they can be accepted, there would be no room for pseudoscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: They (i. e., the Pythagoreans) did not advocate the free confrontation of conflicting points of view. Instead, like all orthodox religions, they practised a rigidity that prevented them from correcting their errors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I believe our future depends powerfully on how well we understand this cosmos in which we float, like a mote of dust in the morning sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If we are merely matter intricately assembled, is this really demeaning? If there's nothing here but atoms, does that make us less or does that make matter more?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. You become a crotchety old person convinced that nonsense is ruling the world. (There is, of course, much data to support you.) But every now and then, a new idea turns out to be on the mark, valid and wonderful. If you are too much in the habit of being skeptical about everything, you are going to miss or resent it, and either way you will be standing in the way of understanding and progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We are rare and precious because we are alive, because we can think as well as we can. We are privileged to influence and perhaps control our future. I believe we have an obligation to fight for life on Earth - not just for ourselves, but for all those, humans and others, who came before us, and to whom we are beholden, and for all those who, if we are wise enough, will come after."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Even today the most jaded city dweller can be unexpectedly moved upon encountering a clear night sky studded with thousands of twinkling stars. When it happens to me after all these years it still takes my breath away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: It goes with a courageous intent to greet the universe as it really is, not to foist our emotional predispositions on it but to courageously accept what our explorations tell us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: In the deepest sense the search for extraterrestrial intelligence is a search for ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The prediction of nuclear winter is drawn not, of course, from any direct experience with the consequences of global nuclear war, but rather from an investigation of the governing physics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The illegality of cannabis is outrageous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Chlorine is a deadly poison gas employed on European battlefields in World War I. Sodium is a corrosive metal which burns upon contact with water. Together they make a placid and unpoisonous material, table salt. Why each of these substances has the properties it does is a subject called chemistry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean. From it we have learned most of what we know. Recently, we have waded a little out to sea, enough to dampen our toes or, at most, wet our ankles. The water seems inviting. The ocean calls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: All inquiries carry with them some element of risk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Valid criticism does you a favor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I'd like the [Cosmos] series to be so visually stimulating that somebody who isn't even interested in the concepts will just watch for the effects. And I'd like people who are prepared to do some thinking to be really stimulated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We are the custodians of life's meaning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Recent research shows that many children without enough to eat wind up with diminished capacity to understand and learn (\u201ccognitive impairment\u201d ). Children don't have to be starving for this to happen. Even mild undernourishment \u2014 the kind most common among poor people in America \u2014 can do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of magic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Our concern for the future can be tested by how well we support our libraries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I am often amazed at how much more capability and enthusiasm for science there is among elementary school youngsters than among college students."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have to be real scientific data, not mere anecdote. As with the face on Mars and alien abductions, better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: There are many instances in science, where those closest to the intricacies of the subject have a more highly developed sense of its intractability than those at some remove. On the other hand, those at too great a distance may, I am well aware, mistake ignorance for perspective."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Looking at fires when high, by the way, especially through one of those prism kaleidoscopes which image their surroundings, is an extraordinarily moving and beautiful experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We have heard the rationales offered by the nuclear superpowers. We know who speaks for the nations. But who speaks for the human species? Who speaks for Earth?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I believe that in every person is a kind of circuit which resonates to intellectual discovery-and the idea is to make that resonance work"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We all have a thirst for wonder. It's a deeply human quality. Science and religion are both bound up with it. What I'm saying is, you don't have to make stories up, you don't have to exaggerate. There's wonder and awe enough in the real world. Nature's a lot better at inventing wonders than we are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: There is today-in a time when old beliefs are withering-a kind of philosophical hunger, a need to know who we are and how we got here. It is an on-going search, often unconscious, for a cosmic perspective for humanity"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: In the middle 1970s an astronomer I admire put together a modest manifesto called \"Objections to Astrology\" and asked me to endorse it. I struggled with his wording, and in the end found myself unable to sign, not because I thought astrology has any validity whatever, but because I felt (and still feel) that the tone of the statement was authoritarian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Those who seek power at any price detect a societal weakness, a fear that they can ride into office."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: With insufficient data it is easy to go wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: How is it that hardly any major religion has looked at science and concluded, \u201cThis is better than we thought! The Universe is much bigger than our prophets said, grander, more subtle, more elegant?\u201d Instead they say, \u201cNo, no, no! My god is a little god, and I want him to stay that way.\u201d A religion, old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the Universe as revealed by modern science might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy. And in the final tolling it often turns out that the facts are more comforting than the fantasy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Perhaps, in retrospect, there would be little motivation even for malevolent extraterrestrials to attack the Earth; perhaps, after a preliminary survey, they might decide it is more expedient just to be patient for a little while and wait for us to self-destruct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: There is perhaps no better a demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We are made of starstuff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If the constellations had been named in the twentieth century, I suppose we would see bicycles and refrigerators in the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The cosmos is full beyond measure of elegant truths; of exquisite interrelationships; of the awesome machinery of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Arguments from authority carry little weight \u2013 authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better way to say it is that in science there are no authorities; at most, there are experts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: My parents were not scientists. They knew almost nothing about science. But in introducing me simultaneously to skepticism and to wonder, they taught me the two uneasily cohabiting modes of thought that are central to the scientific method."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us - but with more of our strengths and fewer of our weaknesses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: It is all a matter of time scale. An event that would be unthinkable in a hundred years may be inevitable in a hundred million."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: What is called for is an exquisite balance between two conflicting needs: the most skeptical scrutiny of all hypotheses that are served up to us and at the same time a great openness to new ideas. If you are only skeptical, then no new ideas make it through to you. On the other hand, if you are open to the point of gullibility and have not an ounce of skeptical sense in you, then you cannot distinguish useful ideas from the worthless ones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Imagine we could accelerate continuously at 1 g-what we're comfortable with on good old terra firma-to the midpoint of our voyage, and decelerate continuously at 1 g until we arrive at our destination. It would take a day to get to Mars, a week and a half to Pluto, a year to the Oort Cloud, and a few years to the nearest stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: By exploring other worlds we safeguard this one. By itself, I think this fact more than justifies the money our species has spent in sending ships to other worlds. It is our fate to live during one of the most perilous and, at the same time, one of the most hopeful chapters in human history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The surface of the Earth is the shore of the cosmic ocean."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The prediction I can make with the highest confidence is that the most amazing discoveries will be the ones we are not today wise enough to foresee."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The Apollo pictures of the whole Earth conveyed to multitudes something well known to astronomers: On the scale of the worlds - to say nothing of stars or galaxies - humans are inconsequential, a thin film of life on an obscure and solitary lump of rock and metal"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: It would be wryly interesting if in human history the cultivation of marijuana led generally to the invention of agriculture, and thereby to civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: You can get into a habit of thought in which you enjoy making fun of all those other people who don't see things as clearly as you do. We have to guard carefully against it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue. But as much as I want to believe that, and despite the ancient and worldwide cultural traditions that assert an afterlife, I know of nothing to suggest that it is more than wishful thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: It is the tension between creativity and skepticism that has produced the stunning and unexpected findings of science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I think the discomfort that some people feel in going to the monkey cages at the zoo is a warning sign."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: All of the rocky and metallic material we stand on, the iron in our blood, the calcium in our teeth, the carbon in our genes were produced billions of years ago in the interior of a red giant star. We are made of star stuff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: You mean am I for it or against it? You think this is a key question I'm going to be asked on Vega, and you want to make sure I give the right answer? Okay. Overpopulation is why I'm in favor of homosexuality and a celibate clergy. A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Books permit us to voyage through time, to tap the wisdom of our ancestors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Those with the courage to explore the weave and structure of the Cosmos, even where it differs profoundly from their wishes and prejudices, will penetrate its deepest mysteries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Has there ever been a religion with the prophetic accuracy and reliability of science? . . . No other human institution comes close."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The Universe forces those who live in it to understand it. Those creatures who find everyday experience a muddled jumble of events with no predictability, no regularity, are in grave peril. The Universe belongs to those who, at least to some degree, have figured it out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: My deeply held belief is that if a god of anything like the traditional sort exists, our curiosity and intelligence is provided by such a God. We would be unappreciative of that gift if we suppressed our passion to explore the universe and ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: One of the reasons for its success is that science has a built-in, error-correcting machinery at its very heart. Some may consider this an overbroad characterization, but to me every time we exercise self-criticism, every time we test our ideas against the outside world, we are doing science. When we are self-indulgent and uncritical, when we confuse hopes and facts, we slide into pseudoscience and superstition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire - has been ethically ambiguous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We are prodding, challenging, seeking contradictions or small, persistent residual errors, proposing alternative explanations, encouraging heresy. We give our highest rewards to those who convincingly disprove established beliefs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Which aspects of our nature will prevail is uncertain, particularly when our visions and prospects are bound to one small part of the small planet Earth. But up there in the Cosmos an inescapable perspective awaits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: So those who wished for some central cosmic purpose for us, or at least our world, or at least our solar system, or at least our galaxy, have been disappointed, progressively disappointed. The universe is not responsive to our ambitious expectations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If we're capable of conjuring up terrifying monsters in childhood, why shouldn't some of us, at least on occasion, be able to fantasize something similar, something truly horrifying, a shared delusion, as adults?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: It's perilous and foolhardy for the average citizen to remain ignorant about global warming, say, or ozone depletion, air pollution, toxic and radioactive wastes, acid rain, topsoil erosion, tropical deforestation, exponential population growth. Jobs and wages depend on science and technology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: These days there seems to be nowhere left to explore, at least on the land area of the Earth. Victims of their very success, the explorers now pretty much stay home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the victim is caught up in a powerful emotion -- wonder, fear, greed, grief. Credulous acceptance of baloney can cost you money; that's what P. T. Barnum meant when he said, 'There's a sucker born every minute.' But it can be much more dangerous than that, and when governments and societies lose the capacity for critical thinking, the results can be catastrophic -- however sympathetic we may be to those who have bought the baloney."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience..... To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The impediment to scientific thinking is not, I think, the difficulty of the subject. Complex intellectual feats have been mainstays even of oppressed cultures. Shamans, magicians and theologians are highly skilled in their intricate and arcane arts. No, the impediment is political and hierarchical."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Otherwise we don't run the government the government runs us"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The near side of a galaxy is tens of thousands of light-years closer to us than the far side; thus we see the front as it was tens of thousands of years before the back. But typical events in galactic dynamics occupy tens of millions of years, so the error in thinking of an image of a galaxy as frozen in one moment of time is small."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I\u2019m struck again by the irony that spaceflight-conceived in the cauldron of nationalist rivalries and hatreds-brings with it a stunning transnational vision. You spend even a little time contemplating the Earth from orbit and the most deeply engrained nationalisms begin to erode. They seem the squabbles of mites on a plum."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Our intelligence is imperfect, surely, and newly arisen; the ease with which it can be sweet-talked, overwhelmed, or subverted by other hardwired propensities - sometimes themselves disguised as the cool light of reason - is worrisome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Ours is the first generation that has grown up with science-fiction ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: For a long time the human instinct to understand was thwarted by facile religious explanations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I can find in my undergraduate classes, bright students who do not know that the stars rise and set at night, or even that the Sun is a star."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I believe that even a smattering of such findings in modern science and mathematics is far more compelling and exciting than most of the doctrines of pseudoscience, whose practitioners were condemned as early as the fifth century B.C. by the Ionian philosopher Heraclitus as \u201cnigh -walkers, magicians, priests of Bacchus, priestesses of the wine-vat, mystery-mongers.\u201d But science is more intricate and subtle, reveals a much richer imiverse, and powerfully evokes our sense of wonder."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The open road still softly calls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: You're capable of such beautiful dreams and such horrible nightmares."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We go about our daily lives understanding almost nothing of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: In science it often happens that scientists say, \"You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken...\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Science is far from a perfect instrument of knowledge. It's just the best we have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The fact that so little of the findings of modern science is prefigured in Scripture to my mind casts further doubt on it divine inspiration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: When permitted to listen to alternative opinions and engage in substantive debate, people have been known to change their minds. It can happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Science is more than a body of knowledge. It's a way of thinking: a way of skeptically interrogating the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: When Kepler found his long-cherished belief did not agree with the most precise observation, he accepted the uncomfortable fact. He preferred the hard truth to his dearest illusions, that is the heart of science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: All inquires carry with them some element of risk. There is no guarantee that the universe will conform to our predispositions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Any faith that admires truth, that strives to know God, must be brave enough to accommodate the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Those afraid of the universe as it really is, those who pretend to nonexistent knowledge and envision a Cosmos centered on human beings will prefer the fleeting comforts of superstition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: At the extremes it is difficult to distinguish pseudoscience from rigid, doctrinaire religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: After I give lectures-on almost any subject-I am often asked, \"Do you believe in UFOs?\" I'm always struck by how the question is phrased, the suggestion that this is a matter of belief and not evidence. I'm almost never asked, \"How good is the evidence that UFOs are alien spaceships?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We invest far off places with a certain romance... Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game; none of them lasts for ever. Your own life, or your bands, or even your species - might be owed to a restless few, drawn by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands, and new worlds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We have entered, almost without noticing, an age of exploration and discovery unparalleled since the Renaissance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Human history can be viewed as a slowly dawning awareness that we are members of a larger group."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: What began in deadly competition has helped us to see that global cooperation is the essential precondition for our survival. Travel is broadening. It's time to hit the road again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I never said it. Honest. Oh, I said there are maybe 100 billion galaxies and 10 billion trillion stars. It's hard to talk about the Cosmos without using big numbers. I said \"billion\" many times on the Cosmos television series, which was seen by a great many people. But I never said \"billions and billions.\" For one thing, it's too imprecise. How many billions are \"billions and billions\"? A few billion? Twenty billion? A hundred billion? \"Billions and billions\" is pretty vague. When we reconfigured and updated the series, I checked-and sure enough, I never said it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call \"mind\" - are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Thus the recent rapid evolution of human intelligence is not only the cause of but also the only conceivable solution to the many serious problems that beset us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Goddard represented a unique combination of visionary dedication and technological brilliance. He studied physics because he needed physics to get to Mars. In reading the notebooks of Robert Goddard, I am struck by how powerful his exploratory and scientific motivations were - and how influental speculative ideas, even erroneous ones, can be on the shaping of the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: What's the harm of a little mystification? It sure beats boring statistical analyses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Both the Freudian and the Platonic metaphors emphasize the considerable independence of and tension among the constituent parts of the psyche, a point that characterizes the human condition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: A multitude of aspects of the natural world that were considered miraculous only a few generations ago are now thoroughly understood in terms of physics and chemistry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not always follow this commandment.)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The wind whips through the canyons of the American Southwest, and there is no one to hear it but us - a reminder of the 40,000 generations of thinking men and women who preceded us, about whom we know almost nothing, upon whom our civilization is based."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together. Information distilled over 4 billion years of biological evolution. Incidentally, all the organisms on the Earth are made essentially of that stuff. An eyedropper full of that liquid could be used to make a caterpillar or a petunia if only we knew how to put the components together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The fossil record implies trial and error, an inability to anticipate the future, features inconsistent with an efficient Great Designer (although not with a Designer of a more remote and indirect temperament)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We can't help it. Life looks for life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Cleverly designed experiments are the key."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I find science so much more fascinating than science fiction. It also has the advantage of being true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Cutting off fundamental, curiosity-driven science is like eating the seed corn. We may have a little more to eat next winter but what will we plant so we and our children will have enough to get through the winters to come?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Any sufficiently crisp question can be answered by a single binary digit-0 or 1, yes or no."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: In the vastness of the Cosmos there must be other civilizations far older and more advanced than ours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I would love to believe that when I die I will live again, that some thinking, feeling, remembering part of me will continue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The immense distances to the stars and the galaxies mean that we see everything ins pace int he past, some as they were before the Earth came to be. Telescopes are time machines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Each of us is a tiny being, permitted to ride on the outermost skin of one of the smaller planets for a few dozen trips around the local star."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Perhaps the depth of love can be calibrated by the number of different selves that are actively involved in a given relationship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: In more than one respect, the exploring of the Solar System and homesteading other worlds constitutes the beginning, much more than the end, of history."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: You mustn't think of the Universe as a wilderness. It hasn't been that for billions of years,\" he said. \"Think of it more as... ..cultivated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Science is only a Latin word for knowledge"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Eratosthenes was the director of the great library of Alexandria, the Centre of science and learning in the ancient world. Aristotle had argued that humanity was divided into Greeks and everybody else, whom he called barbarians and that the Greeks should keep themselves racially pure. He thought it was fitting for the Greeks to enslave other peoples. But Erathosthenes criticized Aristotle for his blind chauvinism, he believed there was good and bad in every nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: A tiny blue dot set in a sunbeam. Here it is. That's where we live. That's home. We humans are one species and this is our world. It is our responsibility to cherish it. Of all the worlds in our solar system, the only one so far as we know, graced by life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Every thinking person fears nuclear war, and every technological state plans for it. Everyone knows it is madness, and every nation has an excuse"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Societies will, of course, wish to exercise prudence in deciding which technologies that is, which applications of science are to be pursued and which not. But without funding basic research, without supporting the acquisition of knowledge for its own sake, our options become dangerously limited."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We need to reduce military budgets; raise living standards; engender respect for learning; support science, scholarship, invention, and industry; promote free inquiry; reduce domestic coercion; involve the workers more in managerial decisions; and promote genuine respect and understanding derived from an acknowledgement of our common humanity and our common jeopardy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: What an astonishing thing a book is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The cannabis experience has greatly improved my appreciation for art, a subject which I had never much appreciated before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: (When asked merely if they accept evolution, 45 percent of Americans say yes. The figure is 70 percent in China.) When the movie Jurassic Park was shown in Israel, it was condemned by some Orthodox rabbis because it accepted evolution and because it taught that dinosaurs lived a hundred million years ago-when, as is plainly stated at every Rosh Hashonhan and every Jewish wedding ceremony, the Universe is less than 6,000 years old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: In our time, we have sifted the sands of Mars, we have established a presence there, we have fulfilled a century of dreams!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: I don?t feel rejected by the sky. I?m a part of it- tiny, to be sure, but everything is tiny compared to that overwhelming immensity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: For myself, I like a universe that, includes much that is unknown and, at the same time, much that is knowable. A universe in which everything is known would be static and dull, as boring as the heaven of some weak-minded theologians. A universe that is unknowable is no fit place for a thinking being. The ideal universe for us is one very much like the universe we inhabit. And I would guess that this is not really much of a coincidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Nobody listens to mathematicians."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: And after we returned to the savannahs and abandoned the trees, did we long for those great graceful leaps and ecstatic moments of weightlessness in the shafts of sunlight of the forest roof?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: What does it mean for a civilisation to be a million years old? We have had radio telescopes and spaceships for a few decades; our technical civilisation is a few hundred years old ... an advanced civilisation millions of years old is as much beyond us as we are beyond a bushbaby or a macaque"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: In the long run, the aggressive civilizations destroy themselves, almost always. It's their nature. They can't help it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The secrets of evolution are death and time-the deaths of enormous numbers of lifeforms that were imperfectly adapted to the environment; and time for a long succession of small mutations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: In exchange for freedom of inquiry, scientists are obliged to explain their work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: For years I've been stressing with regard to UFOs that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Humans are very good at dreaming, although you'd never know it from your television."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If we teach only the findings and products of science - no matter how useful and even inspiring they may be - without communicating its critical method, how can the average person possibly distinguish science from pseudoscience?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We can make a similar examination, but with greater uncertainty, of the extraterrestrial hypothesis that holds that a wide range of UFOs viewed on the planet Earth are space vehicles from planets of other stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Maybe it's a little early. Maybe the time is not quite yet. But those other worlds - promising untold opportunities - beckon. Silently, they orbit the Sun, waiting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We are the children equally of the Sky and the Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Billions and billions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: There is a lurking fear that some things are not \u201cmeant\" to be known, that some inquiries are too dangerous for human beings to make."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The universe forces those who live in it to understand it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We are, in a way, temporary ambulatory repositories for our nucleic acids. This does not deny our humanity; it does not prevent us from pursuing the good, the true and the beautiful. But it would be a great mistake to ignore where we have come from in our attempt to determine where we are going."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: Books are key to understanding the world and participating in a democratic society."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We are at a crossroads in human history. Never before has there been a moment so simultaneously perilous and promising. We are the first species to have taken evolution into our own hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: It means nothing to be open to a proposition we don't understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle. When we think well, we feel good. Understanding is a kind of ecstasy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: A stars rich in europium; of distant galaxies analyzed through the collective light of a hundred billion constituent stars. Astronomical spectroscopy is an almost magical technique. It amazes me still. Auguste Comte picked a particularly unfortunate example."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: If the press descended, the science would surely suffer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Carl Sagan: The understanding of the intent of the artist which I can achieve when high sometimes carries over to when I\u2019m down. This is one of many human frontiers which cannabis has helped me traverse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: All colours will agree in the dark."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: All bravery stands upon comparisons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Painting is the pattern of one's own nervous system being projected on canvas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: In all negotiations of difficulty, a man may not look to sow and reap at once; but must prepare business, and so ripen it by degrees."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: A man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of the senses and understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: He that cannot possibly mend his own case will do what he can to impair another's."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is superior."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Always let losers have their words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The French are wiser than they seem, and the Spaniards seem wiser than they are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: We cannot command Nature except by obeying her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss will not be felt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Some men covet knowledge out of a natural curiosity and inquisitive temper; some to entertain the mind with variety and delight; some for ornament and reputation; some for victory and contention; many for lucre and a livelihood; and but few for employing the Divine gift of reason to the use and benefit of mankind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The lame man who keeps the right road outstrips the runner who takes the wrong one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: In one and the same fire, clay grows hard and wax melts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Books will speak plain when counselors blanch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: No pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage-ground of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Believe not much them that seem to despise riches, for they despise them that despair of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Ipsa scientia potestas est. (Knowledge itself is power.)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: We read that we ought to forgive our enemies; but we do not read that we ought to forgive our friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obstructs the understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Why should I be angry with a man for loving himself better than me?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Mysteries are due to secrecy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes the middle course, it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Money is a good servant, a dangerous master."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Revenge is a kind of wild justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall: but in charity there is no excess; neither can angel nor man come in danger by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man\u2019s mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men\u2019s minds about to religion. For while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them, confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch not in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Chiefly the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: He of whom many are afraid ought himself to fear many."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Judges must beware of hard constructions and strained inferences, for there is no worse torture than that of laws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased by tales, so is the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is impossible to love and to be wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Boldness is a child of ignorance"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father; to his wife, but as a husband; to his enemy, but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak, as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Cure the disease and kill the patient."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Nakedness is uncomely, as well in mind as body, and it addeth no small reverence to men's manners and actions if they be not altogether open. Therefore set it down: That a habit of secrecy is both politic and moral."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Love and envy make a man pine, which other affections do not, because they are not so continual."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: He that will not apply new remedies, must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time, of course, alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Fortune makes him fool, whom she makes her darling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Truth emerges more readily from error than from confusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: A sudden bold and unexpected question doth many times surprise a man and lay him open."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: To say that a man lieth, is as much to say, as that he is brave towards God, and a coward towards men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled: Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again; and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said, 'If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The greatest trust between man and man is the trust of giving counsel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Innovations, which are the births of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: To spend too much time in studies is sloth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Much bending breaks the bow; much unbending the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Of all virtues and dignities of the mind, goodness is the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The human understanding is of its own nature prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds. And though there be many things in nature which are singular and unmatched, yet it devises for them parallels and conjugates and relatives which do not exist. Hence the fiction that all celestial bodies move in perfect circles, spirals and dragons being (except in name) utterly rejected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is the peculiar and perpetual error of the human understanding to be more moved and excited by affirmatives than by negatives"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The human understanding of its own nature is prone to suppose the existence of more order and regularity in the world than it finds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: God's first creature, which was light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: That things are changed, and that nothing really perishes, and that the sum of matter remains exactly the same, is sufficiently certain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Wounds cannot be cured without searching."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: O life! An age to the miserable, a moment to the happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Who then to frail mortality shall trust But limns the water, or but writes in dust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtle; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The cord breaketh at last by the weakest pull."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Great art is always a way of concentrating, reinventing what is called fact, what we know of our existence- a reconcentration\u2026 tearing away the veils, the attitudes people acquire of their time and earlier time. Really good artists tear down those veils"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: In all superstition wise men follow fools."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The monuments of wit survive the monuments of power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: In charity there is no excess."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Good fame is like fire; when you have kindled you may easily preserve it; but if you extinguish it, you will not easily kindle it again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Silence is the virtue of fools."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: He that cometh to seek after knowledge, with a mind to scorn, shall be sure to find matter for his humour, but no matter for his instruction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Great boldness is seldom without some absurdity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error; first, the volume of the Scriptures, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express His power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There is nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little, and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more, and not keep their suspicions in smother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There is no such flatterer as is a man's self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: States are great engines moving slowly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: A principal fruit of friendship, is the ease and discharge of the fullness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Nothing is to be feared but fear itself. Nothing grievous but to yield to grief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Reading maketh a full man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The general root of superstition is that men observe when things hit, and not when they miss, and commit to memory the one, and pass over the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Since my logic aims to teach and instruct the understanding, not that it may with the slender tendrils of the mind snatch at and lay hold of abstract notions (as the common logic does), but that it may in very truth dissect nature, and discover the virtues and actions of bodies, with their laws as determined in matter; so that this science flows not merely from the nature of the mind, but also from the nature of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Books must follow sciences, and not sciences books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Liberty of speech invites and provokes liberty to be used again, and so bringeth much to a man's knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: A forbidden writing is thought to be a certain spark of truth, that flies up in the face of them who seek to tread it out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: To know truly is to know by causes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: No man's fortune can be an end worthy of his being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: A good name is like precious ointment ; it filleth all round about, and will not easily away; for the odors of ointments are more durable than those of flowers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: For no man can forbid the spark nor tell whence it may come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Envy is ever joined with the comparing of a man's self; and where there is no comparison, no envy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The master of superstition, is the people; and in all superstition, wise men follow fools; and arguments are fitted to practice, in a reversed order."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The poets did well to conjoin music and medicine, in Apollo, because the office of medicine is but to tune the curious harp of man's body and reduce it to harmony."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: As the births of living creatures at first are ill-shapen, so are all innovations, which are the births of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: I would like, in my arbitrary way, to bring one nearer to the actual human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: A young man not yet, an elder man not at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament; adversity is the blessing of the New."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The voice of the people has about it something divine: for how otherwise can so many heads agree together as one?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: This is certain, that a man that studieth revenge keeps his wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Therefore if a man look sharply and attentively, he shall see Fortune; for though she be blind, yet she is not invisible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The great advantages of simulation and dissimulation are three. First to lay asleep opposition and to surprise. For where a man's intentions are published, it is an alarum to call up all that are against them. The second is to reserve a man's self a fair retreat: for if a man engage himself, by a manifest declaration, he must go through, or take a fall. The third is, the better to discover the mind of another. For to him that opens himself, men will hardly show themselves adverse; but will fair let him go on, and turn their freedom of speech to freedom of thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: I work for posterity, these things requiring ages for their accomplishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Men of noble birth are noted to be envious towards new men when they rise. For the distance is altered, and it is like a deceit of the eye, that when others come on they think themselves go back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Men on their side must force themselves for a while to lay their notions by and begin to familiarize themselves with facts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him \"Was your mother never at Rome?\" He answered \"No Sir; but my father was.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The Idols of Tribe have their foundation in human nature itself, and in the tribe or race of men. For it is a false assertion that the sense of man is the measure of things. On the contrary, all perceptions as well of the sense as of the mind are according to the measure of the individual and not according to the measure of the universe. And the human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Great riches have sold more men than they have bought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The worst solitude is to have no real friendships."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Opportunity makes a thief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: First the amendment of their own minds. For the removal of the impediments of the mind will sooner clear the passages of fortune than the obtaining fortune will remove the impediments of the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: A king that would not feel his crown too heavy for him, must wear it every day; but if he think it too light, he knoweth not of what metal it is made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Knowledge is power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Discretion in speech is more than eloquence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Next to religion, let your care be to promote justice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: No one has yet been found so firm of mind and purpose as resolutely to compel himself to sweep away all theories and common notions, and to apply the understanding, thus made fair and even, to a fresh examination of particulars. Thus it happens that human knowledge, as we have it, is a mere medley and ill-digested mass, made up of much credulity and much accident, and also of the childish notions which we at first imbibed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes; and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: If a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: I hold every man a debtor to his profession."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It was prettily devised of Aesop, The fly sat on the axle tree of the chariot wheel and said, what dust do I raise!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Such is the way of all superstition, whether in astrology, dreams, omens, divine judgments, or the like; wherein men, having a delight in such vanities, mark the events where they are fulfilled, but where they fail, though this happen much oftener."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Rather to excite your judgment briefly than to inform it tediously."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Again there is another great and powerful cause why the sciences have made but little progress; which is this. It is not possible to run a course aright when the goal itself has not been rightly placed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is a secret both in nature and state, that it is safer to change many things than one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There ought to be gardens for all months in the year, in which, severally, things of beauty may be then in season."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Nay, number itself in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage; for, as Virgil saith, It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: In mathematics I can report no deficiency, except it be that men do not sufficiently understand the excellent use of Pure Mathematics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Death is a friend of ours; and he that is not ready to entertain him is not at home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Human knowledge and human power meet in one; for where the cause is not known the effect cannot be produced. Nature to be commanded must be obeyed; and that which in contemplation is as the cause is in operation as the rule."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Suspicion amongst thoughts are like bats amongst birds, they never fly by twilight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: For the chain of causes cannot by any force be loosed or broken, nor can nature be commanded except by being obeyed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: By indignities men come to dignities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: More dangers have deceived men than forced them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry? 'A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Riches are for spending."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: We are much beholden to Machiavel and others, that write what men do, and not what they ought to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The human understanding when it has once adopted an opinion (either as being the received opinion or as being agreeable to itself) draws all things else to support and agree with it. And though there be a greater number and weight of instances to be found on the other side, yet these it either neglects and despises, or else by some distinction sets aside and rejects, in order that by this great and pernicious predetermination the authority of its former conclusions may remain inviolate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Learning hath his infancy, when it is but beginning and almost childish; then his youth, when it is luxuriant and juvenile; then his strength of years, when it is solid and reduced; and lastly his old age, when it waxeth dry and exhaust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: ...to invent is to discover that we know not, and not to recover or resummon that which we already know"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: One of the fathers saith . . . that old men go to death, and death comes to young men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Neither the naked hand nor the understanding left to itself can effect much. It is by instruments and helps that the work is done, which are as much wanted for the understanding as for the hand. And as the instruments of the hand either give motion or guide it, so the instruments of the mind supply either suggestions for the understanding or cautions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends; without which the world is but a wilderness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Man, being the servant and interpreter of Nature, can do and understand so much and so much only as he has observed in fact or thought of the course of nature; beyond this he neither knows anything nor can do anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Riches are for spending, and spending for honor and good actions; therefore extraordinary expense must be limited by the worth of the occasion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Upon a given body to generate and superinduce a new nature or new natures is the work and aim of human power. To discover the Form of a given nature, or its true difference, or its causal nature, or fount of its emanation... this is the work and aim of human knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Whence we see spiders, flies, or ants entombed and preserved forever in amber, a more than royal tomb."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: My praise shall be dedicated to the mind itself. The mind is the man, and the knowledge is the mind. A man is but what he knoweth. The mind is but an accident to knowledge, for knowledge is the double of that which is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It's always hopeless to talk about painting - one never does anything but talk around it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: ... wife and children are a kind of discipline of humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The folly of one man is the fortune of another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Friends are thieves of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is madness and a contradiction to expect that things which were never yet performed should be effected, except by means hitherto untried."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Medical men do not know the drugs they use, nor their prices."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Friendship redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in half."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: I would like my pictures to look as if a human being had passed between them, like a snail, leaving a trail of the human presence and memory trace of past events, as the snail leaves its slime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Photographs are not only points of reference... they're often triggers of ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Why should a man be in love with his fetters, though of gold?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There is little friendship in the world, and least of all between equals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: To seek to extinguish anger utterly is but a bravery of the Stoics. We have better oracles: 'Be angry, but sin not.' 'Let not the sun go down upon your wrath.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Out of monuments, names, words proverbs ...and the like, we do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: A good conscience is a continual feast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: All superstition is much the same whether it be that of astrology, dreams, omen, retributive judgment, or the like, in all of which the deluded believers observe events which are fulfilled, but neglect and pass over their failure, though it be much more common."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: States, as great engines, move slowly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Discretion of speech is more than eloquence, and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal is more than to speak in good words, or in good order."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is natural to die as to be born."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: A man that hath no virtue in himself, ever envieth virtue in others. For men's minds, will either feed upon their own good, or upon others' evil; and who wanteth the one, will prey upon the other; and whoso is out of hope, to attain to another's virtue, will seek to come at even hand, by depressing another's fortune."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: In things that are tender and unpleasing, it is good to break the ice by some one whose words are of less weight, and to reserve the more weighty voice to come in as by chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: For what a man would like to be true, that he more readily believes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation, all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There was never law, or sect, or opinion did so much magnify goodness, as the Christian religion doth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: If a man's wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores, splitters of hairs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Truth is a naked and open daylight, that does not show the masques, and mummeries, and triumphs of the world, half so stately and daintily as candle-lights. . . A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways and witty reconcilements,--as if they would make an arbitrament between God and man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: And as for Mixed Mathematics, I may only make this prediction, that there cannot fail to be more kinds of them, as nature grows further disclosed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: An illustrational form tells you through the intelligence immediately what the form is about, whereas a non-illustrational form works first upon sensation and then slowly leaks back into the fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: I knew a wise man that had it for a by-word, when he saw men hasten to a conclusion, \"Stay a little, that we may make an end the sooner.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: If my people look as if they're in a dreadful fix, it's because I can't get them out of a technical dilemma."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed: for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Nor is mine a trumpet which summons and excites men to cut each other to pieces with mutual contradictions, or to quarrel and fight with one another; but rather to make peace between themselves, and turning with united forces against the Nature of Things"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There are and can be only two ways of searching into and discovering truth. The one flies from the senses and particulars to the most general axioms, and from these principles, the truth of which it takes for settled and immovable, proceeds to judgment and to the discovery of middle axioms. And this way is now in fashion. The other derives axioms from the senses and particulars, rising by a gradual and unbroken ascent, so that it arrives at the most general axioms last of all. This is the true way, but as yet untried."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There is another ground of hope that must not be omitted. Let men but think over their infinite expenditure of understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less use and value; whereof, if but a small part were directed to sound and solid studies, there is no difficulty that might not be overcome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways of contemplation are not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the ancients; the one plain and smooth in the beginning, and in the end impassable; the other rough and troublesome in the entrance, but after a while fair and even. So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It would be unsound fancy and self-contradictory to expect that things which have never yet been done can be done except by means which have never yet been tried."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The speaking in a perpetual hyperbole is comely in nothing but love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Be so true to thyself, as thou be not false to others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered it could hardly have entered any man's head to think of; they would have been simply set aside as impossible. For in conjecturing what may be men set before them the example of what has been, and divine of the new with an imagination preoccupied and colored by the old; which way of forming opinions is very fallacious, for streams that are drawn from the springheads of nature do not always run in the old channels."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The place of justice is a hallowed place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Nature is often hidden, sometimes overcome, seldom extinguished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The way of fortune is like the milky way in the sky; which is a meeting, or knot, of a number of small stars, not seen asunder, but giving light together : so are there a number of little and scarce discerned virtues, or rather faculties and customs, that make men fortunate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Judges ought to be more learned, than witty, more reverend, than plausible, and more advised, than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The greatest vicissitude of things amongst men, is the vicissitude of sects and religions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: He that seeketh to be eminent amongst able men hath a great task; but that is ever good for the public. But he that plots to be the only figure amongst ciphers is the decay of a whole age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: I think I tend to destroy the better paintings, or those that have been better to a certain extent. I try and take them further, and they lose all their qualities, and they lose everything. I think I would say that I destroy all the better paintings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The best preservative to keep the mind in health is the faithful admonition of a friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Excusations, cessions, modesty itself well governed, are but arts of ostentation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time, and capable of perpetual renovation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The inclination to goodness is imprinted deeply in the nature of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: But I account the use that a man should seek of the publishing of his own writings before his death, to be but an untimely anticipation of that which is proper to follow a man, and not to go along with him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to standing upon the vantage ground of truth . . . and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: I always think of myself not so much as a painter but as a medium for accident and chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: I feel that I am much freer if I'm on my own, but I'm sure that there are a lot of painters who would perhaps be even more inventive if they had people round them... I find that if I am on my own I can allow the paint to dictate to me. So the images that I'm putting down on the canvas dictate the thing to me and it gradually builds up and comes along."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: But the greatest error of all the rest is the mistaking or misplacing of the last or farthest end of knowledge: for men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: To conclude, therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or the book of God's works, divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavor an endless progress or proficience in both; only let men beware that they apply both to charity, and not to swelling; to use, and not to ostentation; and again, that they do not unwisely mingle or confound these learnings together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Lastly, I would address one general admonition to all: that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or fame, or power, or any of these inferior things: but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: When Christ came into the world, peace was sung; and when He went out of the world, peace was bequeathed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The essential form of knowledge... is nothing but a representation of truth: for the truth of being and the truth of knowing are one, differing no more than the direct beam and the beam reflected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: But by far the greatest hindrance and aberration of the human understanding proceeds from the dullness, incompetency, and deceptions of the senses; in that things which strike the sense outweigh things which do not immediately strike it, though they be more important. Hence it is that speculation commonly ceases where sight ceases; insomuch that of things invisible there is little or no observation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Truth ... is the sovereign good of human nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air than in the hand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Man seeketh in society comfort, use and protection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is idle to expect any great advancement in science from the superinducing and engrafting of new things upon old. We must begin anew from the very foundations, unless we would revolve for ever in a circle with mean and contemptible progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Many secrets of art and nature are thought by the unlearned to be magical."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The nature of things betrays itself more readily under the vexations of art than in its natural freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Aristotle... a mere bond-servant to his logic, thereby rendering it contentious and well nigh useless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Friendship maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: But the best demonstration by far is experience, if it go not beyond the actual experiment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: What, then, remains but that we still should cry, For being born, and, being born, to die?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Anger is certainly a kind of baseness; as it appears well in the weakness of those subjects in whom it reigns; children, women, old folks, sick folks. Only men must beware, that they carry their anger rather with scorn, than with fear; so that they may seem rather to be above the injury, than below it; which is a thing easily done, if a man will give law to himself in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Fortune is like the market, where, many times, if you can stay a little, the price will fall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Salomon saith, There is no new thing upon the earth. So that as Plato had an imagination, that all knowledge was but remembrance; so Salomon giveth his sentence, that all novelty is but oblivion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Mark what a generosity and courage (a dog) will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Truth is a naked and open daylight"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affection; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Libraries are as the shrine where all the relics of the ancient saints, full of true virtue, and that without delusion or imposture, are preserved and reposed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Nothing is to be feared but fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Nothing is terrible except fear itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The eye of understanding is like the eye of the sense; for as you may see great objects through small crannies or levels, so you may see great axioms of nature through small and contemptible instances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It was a high speech of Seneca that \"The good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished, but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: A just fear of an imminent danger, though be no blow given, is a lawful cause of war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Medicine is a science which hath been (as we have said) more professed than laboured, and yet more laboured than advanced: the labour having been, in my judgment, rather in circle than in progression. For I find much iteration, but small addition. It considereth causes of diseases, with the occasions or impulsions; the diseases themselves, with the accidents; and the cures, with the preservation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: But by far the greatest obstacle to the progress of science and to the undertaking of new tasks and provinces therein is found in this-that men despair and think things impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: For fountains, they are a Great Beauty and Refreshment, but Pools mar all, and make the Garden unwholesome, and full of Flies and Frogs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: When a traveler returneth home, let him not leave the countries where he hath traveled altogether behind him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death . . . Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honor aspireth to it; grief flieth to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is by discourse that men associate, and words are imposed according to the apprehension of the vulgar. And therefore the ill and unfit choice of words wonderfully obsesses the understanding. Nor do the definitions or explanations wherewith in some things learned men are wont to guard and defend themselves, by any means set the matter right. But words plainly force and overrule the understanding, and throw all into confusion, and lead men away into innumerable and inane controversies and fancies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The stage is more beholding to love than the life of man. For as to the stage, love is ever matter of comedies and now and then of tragedies; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Disciples do owe their masters only a temporary belief, and a suspension of their own judgment till they be fully instructed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Princes are like heavenly bodies, which cause good or evil times, and which have much veneration, but no rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: A man must make his opportunity, as oft as find it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Seek not proud riches, but such as thou mayest get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The remedy is worse than the disease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: When a doubt is once received, men labour rather how to keep it a doubt still, than how to solve it; and accordingly bend their wits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Ask counsel of both timesof the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The divisions of science are not like different lines that meet in one angle, but rather like the branches of trees that join in one trunk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Of all things known to mortals, wine is the most powerful and effectual for exciting and inflaming the passions of mankind, being common fuel to them all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is greater many times over than the subtlety of argument. But axioms duly and orderly formed from particulars easily discover the way to new particulars, and thus render sciences active."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: For friends... do but look upon good Books: they are true friends, that will neither flatter nor dissemble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Some paint comes across directly onto the nervous system and other paint tells you the story in a long diatribe through the brain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: In civil business; what first? boldness; what second and third? boldness: and yet boldness is a child of ignorance and baseness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Of all the things in nature, the formation and endowment of man was singled out by the ancients."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Moreover, the works already known are due to chance and experiment rather than to sciences; for the sciences we now possess are merely systems for the nice ordering and setting forth of things already invented; not methods of invention or directions for new works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Rebellions of the belly are the worst."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The human understanding, from its peculiar nature, easily supposes a greater degree of order and equality in things than it really finds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The world's a bubble, and the life of man, Less than a span."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: In Philosophy, the contemplations of man do either penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to Nature, or are reflected and reverted upon himself. Out of which several inquiries there do arise three knowledges, Divine Philosophy, Natural Philosophy, and Human Philosophy or Humanity. For all things are marked and stamped with this triple character of the power of God, the difference of Nature and the use of Man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is rightly laid down that 'true knowledge is knowledge by causes'. Also the establishment of four causes is not bad: material, formal, efficient and final."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The human understanding is unquiet; it cannot stop or rest, and still presses onward, but in vain. Therefore it is that we cannot conceive of any end or limit to the world, but always as of necessity it occurs to us that there is something beyond... But he is no less an unskilled and shallow philosopher who seeks causes of that which is most general, than he who in things subordinate and subaltern omits to do so"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: That which above all other yields the sweetest smell in the air is the violet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Virtue is like precious odours,-most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Perils commonly ask to be paid in pleasures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Hurl your calumnies boldly; something is sure to stick."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Great art is deeply ordered. Even if within the order there may be enormously instinctive and accidental things, nevertheless they come out of a desire for ordering and for returning fact onto the nervous system in a more violent way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There is in human nature generally more of the fool than of the wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: I like, you may say, the glitter and colour that comes from the mouth, and I've always hoped in a sense to be able to paint the mouth like Monet painted a sunset."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: For cleanness of body was ever esteemed to proceed from a due reverence to God, to society, and to ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The surest way to prevent seditions...is to take away the matter of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Money is like muck, not good unless spread."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is a good point of cunning for a man to shape the answer he would have in his own words and propositions, for it makes the other party stick the less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The study of nature with a view to works is engaged in by the mechanic, the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but by all as things now are with slight endeavour and scanty success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The Syllogism consists of propositions, propositions consist of words, words are symbols of notions. Therefore if the notions themselves (which is the root of the matter) are confused and over-hastily abstracted from the facts, there can be no firmness in the superstructure. Our only hope therefore lies in a true induction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: No artist knows in his own lifetime whether what he does will be the slightest good, because it takes at least seventy-five to a hundred years before the thing begins to sort itself out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: God Almighty first planted a Garden. And indeed it is the purest of human pleasures. It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks. And a man shall ever see, that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely, as if gardening were the greater perfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: That conceit, elegantly expressed by the Emperor Charles V., in his instructions to the King, his son, \"that fortune hath somewhat the nature of a woman, that if she be too much wooed she is the farther off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Time is the greatest innovator."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is good discretion not make too much of any man at the first; because one cannot hold out that proportion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: For whatever deserves to exist deserves also to be known, for knowledge is the image of existence, and things mean and splendid exist alike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, then that this universall Frame, is without a Minde. And therefore, God never wrought Miracle, to convince Atheisme, because his Ordinary Works Convince it. It is true, that a little Philosophy inclineth Mans Minde to Atheisme; But depth in Philosophy, bringeth Mens Mindes about to Religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body; and if he be not kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There are many wise men that have secret hearts and transparent countenances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Come home to men's business and bosoms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The more a man drinketh of the world, the more it intoxicateth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The Scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God; it is not said, The fool hath thought in his heart; so as he rather saith it, by rote to himself, as that he would have, than that he can thoroughly believe it, or be persuaded of it....It appeareth in nothing more, that atheism is rather in the lip, than in the heart of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There is a cunning which we in England call \"the turning of the cat\" in the pan; which is, when that which a man says to another, he says it as if another had said it to him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Nevertheless if any skillful Servant of Nature shall bring force to bear on matter, and shall vex it and drive it to extremities as if with the purpose of reducing it to nothing, then will matter (since annihilation or true destruction is not possible except by the omnipotence of God) finding itself in these straits, turn and transform itself into strange shapes, passing from one change to another till it has gone through the whole circle and finished the period."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There is nothing more certain in nature than that it is impossible for any body to be utterly annihilated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: I do not believe that any man fears to be dead, but only the stroke of death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience, we have found none equal to it for the commodiousness it affords in working with the Understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The genius of any single man can no more equal learning, than a private purse hold way with the exchequer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: If you dissemble sometimes your knowledge of that you are thought to know, you shall be thought, another time, to know that you know not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: But we are not dedicating or building any Capitol or Pyramid to human Pride, but found a holy temple in the human Intellect, on the model of the Universe... For whatever is worthy of Existence is worthy of Knowledge-which is the Image (or Echo) of Existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Praise is the reflection of virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Deformed persons commonly take revenge on nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The human understanding is no dry light, but receives an infusion from the will and affections... What a man had rather were true he more readily believes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man, poesy feigneth acts and events greater and more heroical."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: A lie faces God and shrinks from man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The colors that show best by candlelight are white, carnation, and a kind of sea-water green."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Since custom is the principal magistrate of man's life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: He that hath a wife and children hath given hostages to fortune."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: God hangs the greatest weights upon the smallest wires."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There is in man's nature a secret inclination and motion towards love of others, which, if it be not spent upon some one or a few, doth naturally spread itself towards many, and maketh men become humane and charitable, as it is seen sometimes in friars. Nuptial love maketh mankind, friendly love perfecteth it, but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Nobility of birth commonly abateth industry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men, is more lively than that of old; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There is no secrecy comparable to celerity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: For there is a great difference in delivery of the mathematics , which are the most abstracted of knowledges, and policy , which is the most immersed. And howsoever contention hath been moved , touching a uniformity of method in multiformity of matter, yet we see how that opinion, besides the weakness of it, hath been of ill desert towards learning, as that which taketh the way to reduce learning to certain empty and barren generalities; being but the very husks and shells of sciences, all the kernel being forced out and expulsed with the torture and press of the method."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: All authority must be out of a man's self, turned . . . either upon an art, or upon a man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: First therefore let us seek the dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which is in the attributes and acts of God, as far as they are revealed to man and may be observed with sobriety; wherein we may not seek it by the name of Learning; for all Learning is Knowledge acquired, and all Knowledge in God is original: and therefore we must look for it by another name, that of Wisdom or Sapience, as the Scriptures call it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: ...neither is it possible to discover the more remote and deeper parts of any science, if you stand but upon the level of the same science, and ascend not to a higher science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: If there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: For my name and memory I leave to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Defer not charities till death; for certainly, if a man weigh it rightly, he that doth so is rather liberal of another man's than of his own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: For first of all we must prepare a Natural and Experimental History, sufficient and good; and this is the foundation of all; for we are not to imagine or suppose, but to discover, what nature does or may be made to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Pyrrhus, when his friends congratulated to him his victory over the Romans under Fabricius, but with great slaughter of his own side, said to them, \"Yes; but if we have such another victory, we are undone.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Cleanness of body was ever deemed to proceed from a due reverence to God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: I want a very ordered image, but I want it to come about by chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It's such an extraordinary supple medium that you never do quite know what paint will do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: For many parts of Nature can neither be invented with sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, nor accommodated unto use with sufficient dexterity, without the aid and intervening of the mathematics, of which sort are perspective, music, astronomy, cosmography, architecture, engineery, and divers others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: I think that one of the things is that, if you are going to decide to be a painter, you have got to decide that you are not going to be afraid of making a fool of yourself. I think another thing is to be able to find subjects which really absorb you to try and do. I feel that without a subject you automatically go back into decoration because you haven't got the subject which is always eating into you to bring it back - and the greatest art always returns you to the vulnerability of the human situation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Nothing doth so much keep men out of the Church, and drive men out of the Church, as breach of unity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: They are the best physicians, who being great in learning most incline to the traditions of experience, or being distinguished in practice do not reflect the methods and generalities of art."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There arises from a bad and unapt formation of words a wonderful obstruction to the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Antiquities, or remnants of history, are, as was said, tanquam tabula naufragii: when industrious persons, by an exact and scrupulous diligence and observation, out of monuments, names, words, proverbs, traditions, private records and evidences, fragments of stories, passages of books that concern not story, and the like, do save and recover somewhat from the deluge of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: So that every wand or staff of empire is forsooth curved at top."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Take an arrow, and hold it in flame for the space of ten pulses, and when it cometh forth you shall find those parts of the arrow which were on the outsides of the flame more burned, blacked, and turned almost to coal, whereas the midst of the flame will be as if the fire had scarce touched it. This is an instance of great consequence for the discovery of the nature of flame; and sheweth manifestly, that flame burneth more violently towards the sides than in the midst."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There is superstition in avoiding superstition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune, for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works and of greatest merit for the public have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public. He was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question, when a man should marryA young man not yet, an elder man not at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The cause and root of nearly all evils in the sciences is this-that while we falsely admire and extol the powers of the human mind we neglect to seek for its true helps."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Nor do apophthegms only serve for ornament and delight, but also for action and civil use, as being the edge-tools of speech which cut and penetrate the knots of business and affairs: for occasions have their revolutions, and what has once been advantageously used may be so again, either as an old thing or a new one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Crafty men condemn studies; Simple men admire them; And wise men use them: For they teach not their own use: but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Painting today is pure intuition and luck and taking advantage of what happens when you splash the stuff down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: ...those experiments be not only esteemed which have an immediate and present use, but those principally which are of most universal consequence for invention of other experiments, and those which give more light to the invention of causes; for the invention of the mariner's needle, which giveth the direction, is of no less benefit for navigation than the invention of the sails, which give the motion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: All the crimes on earth do not destroy so many of the human race nor alienate so much property as drunkenness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: The images of mens wits and knowledge remain in books. They generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages"
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Knowledge hath in it somewhat of the serpent, and therefore where it entereth into a man it makes him swell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Believing that I was born for the service of mankind, and regarding the care of the commonwealth as a kind of common property which, like the air and the water, belongs to everybody, I set myself to consider in what way mankind might be best served, and what service I was myself best fitted by nature to perform."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: There was never miracle wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature might have led him to confess a God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: I have often thought upon death, and I find it the least of all evils."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: It is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: I foresee it and yet I hardly ever carry it out as I foresee it. It transforms itself by the actual paint. I don't in fact know very often what the paint will do, and it does many things which are very much better than I could make it do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Francis Bacon: God Almighty first planted a garden. And indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington Carver: Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington Carver: No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington Carver: It is not the style of clothes one wears, neither the kind of automobile one drives, nor the amount of money one has in the bank, that counts.  These mean nothing.  It is simply service that measures success."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington Carver: Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington Carver: To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington Carver: As I worked on projects which fulfilled a real human need forces were working through me which amazed me. I would often go to sleep with an apparently insoluble problem. When I woke the answer was there. Why, then, should we who believe in Christ be so surprised at what God can do with a willing man in a laboratory? Some things must be baffling to the critic who has never been born again."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington Carver: Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. Keep your thoughts free from hate, and you need have no fear from those who hate you."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington Carver: Since new developments are the products of a creative mind, we must therefore stimulate and encourage that type of mind in every way possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington Carver: My purpose alone must be God's purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington Carver: It is simply service that measures success."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington Carver: I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington Carver: Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington Carver: The rapid growth of industry, the ever increasing population and the imperative need for a more varied, wholesome and nourishing foodstuff makes it all the more necessary to exhaust every means at our command to fill the empty dinner pail, enrich our soils, bring greater wealth and influence to our beautiful South land, which is synonymous to a healthy, happy and contented people."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington Carver: More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington Carver: I think I'll sleep now."
  },
  {
    "text": "George Washington Carver: The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that \"my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. The only function of a school is to make self-education easier; failing that, it does nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The easiest way to solve a problem is to deny it exists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: People think of education as something that they can finish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It has been my philosophy of life that difficulties vanish when faced boldly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Man's greatest asset is the unsettled mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that \"my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I believe in evidence. I believe in observation, measurement, and reasoning, confirmed by independent observers. I'll believe anything, no matter how wild and ridiculous, if there is evidence for it. The wilder and more ridiculous something is, however, the firmer and more solid the evidence will have to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Increasingly, our leaders must deal with dangers that threaten the entire world, where an understanding of those dangers and the possible solutions depends on a good grasp of science. The ozone layer, the greenhouse effect, acid rain, questions of diet and heredity. All require scientific literacy. Can Americans choose the proper leaders and support the proper programs if they themselves are scientifically illiterate? The whole premise of democracy is that it is safe to leave important questions to the court of public opinion - but is it safe to leave them to the court of public ignorance?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Democracy cannot survive overpopulation. Human dignity cannot survive it. Convenience and decency cannot survive it. As you put more and more people into the world, the value of life not only declines, but it disappears. It doesn't matter if someone dies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: They won't listen. Do you know why? Because they have certain fixed notions about the past. Any change would be blasphemy in their eyes, even if it were the truth. They don't want the truth; they want their traditions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I wish that I could say I was optimistic about the human race. I love us all, but we are so stupid and shortsighted that I wonder if we can lift our eyes to the world about us long enough not to commit suicide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means \"I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve\". It's easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I don't subscribe to the thesis, 'Let the buyer beware,' I prefer the disregarded one that goes, 'Let the seller be honest.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I don't believe in an afterlife, so I don't have to spend my whole life fearing hell, or fearing heaven even more. For whatever the tortures of hell, I think the boredom of heaven would be even worse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Any fool can tell a crisis when it arrives. The real service to the state is to detect it in embryo."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: At odd and unpredictable times, we cling in fright to the past ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: While he lives, he must think; while he thinks, he must dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: You don't have to be able to lay eggs to know when one of them is rotten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: To succeed, planning alone is insufficient. One must improvise as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Once, when a religionist denounced me in unmeasured terms, I sent him a card saying, \"I am sure you believe that I will go to hell when I die, and that once there I will suffer all the pains and tortures the sadistic ingenuity of your deity can devise and that this torture will continue forever. Isn't that enough for you? Do you have to call me bad names in addition?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in the absence of good memory. It's the ability to draw consequences from causes, to make correct inferences, to foresee what might be the result, to work out logical problems, to be reasonable, rational, to have the ability to understand the solution from perhaps insufficient information. You know when a person is intelligent, but you can be easily fooled if you are not yourself intelligent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It is well-known that the friend of a conqueror is but the last victim."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is increased that way, and the pleasures of the belief outweigh the occasional disappointments. To be a cynic about people works just the other way around and makes you incapable about enjoying the good things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Isn't it sad that you can tell people that the ozone layer is being depleted, the forests are being cut down, the deserts are advancing steadily, that the greenhouse effect will raise the sea level 200 feet, that overpopulation is choking us, that pollution is killing us, that nuclear war may destroy us - and they yawn and settle back for a comfortable nap. But tell them that the Martians are landing, and they scream and run."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It is not so much that I have confidence in scientists being right, but that I have so much in nonscientists being wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The closer to the truth, the better the lie, and the truth itself, when it can be used, is the best lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: When I read about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that American society has found one more way to destroy itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of dull arguments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise - even in their own field."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I am not a speed reader. I am a speed understander."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The great secret of the successful fool is that he's no fool at all"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Only a lie that wasn't ashamed of itself could possibly succeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing-to be clear. I have given up all thought of writing poetically or symbolically or experimentally, or in any of the other modes that might (if I were good enough) get me a Pulitzer prize. I would write merely clearly and in this way establish a warm relationship between myself and my readers, and the professional critics-Well, they can do whatever they wish."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The soft bonds of love are indifferent to life and death. They hold through time so that yesterday\u2019s love is part of today\u2019s and the confidence in tomorrow\u2019s love is also part of today\u2019s. And when one dies, the memory lives in the other, and is warm and breathing. And when both die - I almost believe, rationalist though I am - that somewhere it remains, indestructible and eternal, enriching all of the universe by the mere fact that once it existed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: To bring about destruction by overcrowding, mass starvation, anarchy, the destruction of our most cherished values, there is no need to do anything. We need only do nothing except what comes naturally, and breed. And how easy it is to do nothing"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Night will always be a time of fear and insecurity, and the heart will sink with the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Every religion seems like a fantasy to outsiders, but as holy truth to those of the faith."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Science doesn't purvey absolute truth. Science is a mechanism... for testing your thoughts against the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Mathematicians deal with large numbers sometimes, but never in their income."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The world in general disapproves of creativity, and to be creative in public is particularly bad. Even to speculate in public is rather worrisome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Where any answer is possible, all answers are meaningless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: There is nothing so eternally adhesive as the memory of power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Gratitude is best and most effective when it does not evaporate itself in empty phrases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: When asked for advice by beginners. Know your ending, I say, or the river of your story may finally sink into the desert sands and never reach the sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one-Marie, the famous Madame Curie-and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to fruition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Inspect every piece of pseudoscience and you will find a security blanket."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The Earth should not be cut up into hundreds of different sections, each inhabited by a self-defined segment of humanity that considers its own welfare and its own \"national security\" to be paramount above all other consideration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Many a prophecy, by the mere force of its being believed, is transmuted to fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Once you get it into your head that somebody is controlling events, you can interpret everything in that light and find no reasonable certainty anywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: You show me someone who can't understand people and I'll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I have never, in all my life, not for one moment, been tempted toward religion of any kind. The fact is that I feel no spiritual void. I have my philosophy of life, which does not include any aspect of the supernatural and which I find totally satisfying. I am, in short, a rationalist and believe only that which reason tells me is so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: When people thought the earth was flat, they were wrong. When people thought the earth was spherical, they were wrong. But if you think that thinking the earth is spherical is just as wrong as thinking the earth is flat, then your view is wronger than both of them put together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It is almost impossible to think of something no one has thought of before, but it is always possible to add different frills."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Science is a mechanism, a way of trying to improve your knowledge of nature. It's a system for testing your thoughts against the universe, and seeing whether they match."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The tyranny that now exists is actual. That which may exist in the future is potential. If we are always to draw back from change with the thought that the change may be for the worse, then there is no hope at all of ever escaping injustice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However... the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had. The storm-blast whistles through the branches of the Empire even now. Listen... and you will hear the creaking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Where is the world whose people don't prefer a comfortable, warm, and well-worn belief, however illogical, to the chilly winds of uncertainty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Anything you make forbidden gains sexual attractiveness. Would you be particularly interested in women's breasts if you lived in a society in which they were displayed at all times?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Boasts are wind and deeds are hard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed to the more plodding varieties of reason, and because this is more than made up by the accumulation of experience, old men think themselves wiser than the young."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I am an atheist, out and out. It took me a long time to say it. I've been an atheist for years and years, but somehow I felt it was intellectually unrespectable to say that one is an atheist, because it assumed knowledge that one didn't have. Somehow it was better to say one was a humanist or agnostic. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect that he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: To all my gentle readers who have treated me with love for over 30 years, I must say farewell. It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys, but that's not the way it worked out. I have had a long and happy life and I have no complaints about the ending, thereof, and so farewell - farewell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The Three Laws of Robotics: 1: A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm; 2: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law; 3: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law; The Zeroth Law: A robot may not harm humanity, or, by inaction, allow humanity to come to harm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Any planet is 'Earth' to those that live on it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Words are a pretty fuzzy substitute for mathematical equations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Robots will neither be common nor very good in 2014, but they will be in existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The Bible contains legendary, historical, and ethical contents. It is quite possible to consider them separately, and one doesn't have to accept the legends in order to get the ethics. Fundamentalists make a grave mistake to insist on the letter of the writings, because they drive away many who can't swallow the Adam-and-Eve bit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Even as a youngster, though, I could not bring myself to believe that if knowledge presented danger, the solution was ignorance. To me, it always seemed that the solution had to be wisdom. You did not refuse to look at danger, rather you learned how to handle it safely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. That is all wrong. The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers. The true scientist is quite imaginative as well as rational, and sometimes leaps to solutions where reason can follow only slowly; if he does not, his science suffers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: In my life there have been several individuals whose presence made it easier for me to think, pleasanter to make my responses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The spell of power never quite releases its hold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Nonsense! The most hopelessly stupid man is he who is not aware that he is wise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: ... you just can't differentiate between a robot and the very best of humans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: There\u2019s nothing to it. All you have to do is take a close look at yourself and you will understand everyone else. We\u2019re in no way different ourselves... You show me someone who can\u2019t understand people and I\u2019ll show you someone who has built up a false image of himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: All the hundreds of millions of people who, in their time, believed the Earth was flat never succeeded in unrounding it by an inch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The final end of Eternity, and the beginning of Infinity"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The further a device is removed from human control, the more authentically mechanical it seems, and the whole trend in technology has been to devise machines that are less and less under direct human control and more and more under their own apparent will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: What I will be remembered for are the Foundation Trilogy and the Three Laws of Robotics. What I want to be remembered for is no one book, or no dozen books. Any single thing I have written can be paralleled or even surpassed by something someone else has done. However, my total corpus for quantity, quality and variety can be duplicated by no one else. That is what I want to be remembered for."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Saying something is 'too bad' is easy. You say you disapprove, which makes you a nice person, and then you can go about your business and not be interested anymore. It's a lot worse than 'too bad.' It's against everything decent and natural."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Korell is that frequent phenomenon in history : the republic whose ruler has every attribute of the absolute monarch but the name. It therefore enjoyed the usual despotism unrestrained even by those two moderating influences in the legitimate monarchies: regal \"honor\" and court etiquette."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Speech, originally, was the device whereby Man learned, imperfectly, to transmit the thoughts and emotions of his mind. By setting up arbitrary sounds and combinations of sounds to represent certain mental nuances, he developed a method of communication--but one which in its clumsiness and thick-thumbed inadequacy degenerated all the delicacy of the mind into gross and guttural signaling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Intuition is the art, peculiar to the human mind, of working out the correct answer from data that is, in itself, incomplete or even, perhaps, misleading."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The human brain, then, is the most complicated organization of matter that we know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Democracy cannot survive overpopulation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: If a conclusion is not poetically balanced, it cannot be scientifically true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Dreams may be impossible, yet still be dreamed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Flattery is useful when dealing with youngsters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Why ... did so many people spend their lives not trying to find answers to questions -- not even thinking of questions to begin with? Was there anything more exciting in life than seeking answers?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The important prediction is not the automobile, but the parking problem; not radio, but the soap opera; not the income tax, but the expense account; not the Bomb, but the nuclear stalemate"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: If you suspect that my interest in the Bible is going to inspire me with sudden enthusiasm for Judaism and make me a convert of mountain-moving fervor and that I shall suddenly grow long earlocks and learn Hebrew and go about denouncing the heathen - you little know the effect of the Bible on me. Properly read, it is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I am not responsible for what other people think. I am responsible only for what I myself think, and I know what that is. No idea I've ever come up with has ever struck me as a divine revelation. Nothing I have ever observed leads me to think there is a God watching over me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Naturally, since [the Sumerians] didn't know what caused the flood anymore than we do, they blamed the gods. (That's the advantage of religion. You're never short an explanation for anything.)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The energy requirements for interstellar travel are so great that it is inconceivable to me that any creatures piloting their ships across the vast depths of space would do so only in order to play games with us over a period of decades. If they want to make contact, they would make contact; if not, they would save their energy and go elsewhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The lucky few who can be involved in creative work of any sort will be the true elite of mankind, for they alone will do more than serve a machine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: A robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Finished products are for decadent minds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The Earth faces environmental problems right now that threaten the imminent destruction of civilization and the end of the planet as a livable world. Humanity cannot afford to waste its financial and emotional resources on endless, meaningless quarrels between each group and all others. there must be a sense of globalism in which the world unites to solve the real problems that face all groups alike."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: After years of finding mathematics easy, I finally reached integral calculus and came up against a barrier. I realized that this was as far as I could go, and to this day I have never successfully gone beyond it in any but the most superficial way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The law of conservation of energy tells us we can't get something for nothing, but we refuse to believe it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Writing is a lonely job. Even if a writer socializes regularly, when he gets down to the real business of his life, it is he and his type writer or word processor. No one else is or can be involved in the matter."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Past glories are poor feeding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know - and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know - even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction - than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I was once being interviewed by Barbara Walters. In between two of the segments she asked me: \"But what would you do if the doctor gave you only six months to live?\" I said, \"Type faster.\" This was widely quoted, but the \"six months\" was changed to \"six minutes,\" which bothered me. It's \"six months.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: A good question is, of course, the key by which infinite answers can be educed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It was obvious that bigotry was never a one-way operation, that hatred bred hatred!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I don\u2019t believe in extraordinary concatenations of coincidence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Radiation, unlike smoking, drinking, and overeating, gives no pleasure, so the possible victims object."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I consider violence an uneconomical way of attaining an end. There are always better substitutes, though they may sometimes be a little less direct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The Master created humans first as the lowest type, most easily formed. Gradually, he replaced them by robots, the next higher step, and finally he created me, to take the place of the last humans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Early in my school career, I turned out to be an incorrigible disciplinary problem. I could understand what the teacher was saying as fast as she could say it, I found time hanging heavy, so I would occasionally talk to my neighbor. That was my great crime, I talked in school."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: All life is nucleic acid; the rest is commentary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: What do you call that nice, shiny white metal they use to make sidings and airplanes out of? Aluminum, right? Aluminum, pronounced 'uh-LOO-mih-num', right? Anybody knows that! But do you know how the British spell it? 'Aluminium', pronounced 'Al-yoo-MIH-nee-um'. Ever hear anything so ridiculous? The French and Germans spell it 'aluminium', too, but they're foreigners who don't speak Earth-standard. You'd think the British, however, using our language, would be more careful"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Inertia! Our ruling class knows one law; no change. Despotism! They know one rule; force. Maldistribution! They know one desire; to hold what is theirs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: You wait for the war to happen like vultures. If you want to help, prevent the war. Don't save the remnants. Save them all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Of course there are worlds. Millions of them! Every star you see has worlds, and most of those you don't see."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Happiness is doing it rotten your own way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I don\u2019t like anything that\u2019s got to be. I want to know why."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It's your fiction that interests me. Your studies of the interplay of human motives and emotion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: From my close observation of writers... they fall into two groups: 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: If you're born in a cubicle and grow up in a corridor, and work in a cell, and vacation in a crowded sun-room, then coming up into the open with nothing but sky over you might just give you a nervous breakdown."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Society is much more easily soothed than one's own conscience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I made up my mind long ago to follow one cardinal rule in all my writing \u2014 to be clear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: How then to enforce peace? Not by reason, certainly, nor by education. If a man could not look at the fact of peace and the fact of war and choose the former in preference to the latter, what additional argument could persuade him? What could be more eloquent as a condemnation of war than war itself? What tremendous feat of dialectic could carry with it a tenth the power of a single gutted ship with its ghastly cargo?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile \u2014 except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power, it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far and superior to that of muscle and sinew. Let me tell you, if you don't know it from your own experience, that reading a good book, losing yourself in the interest of words and thoughts, is for some people (me, for instance) an incredible intensity of happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It was childish to feel disappointed, but childishness comes almost as naturally to a man as to a child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: An atom-blaster is a good weapon, but it can point both ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: There never can be a man so lost as one who is lost in the vast and intricate corridors of his own lonely mind, where none may reach and none may save."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Although the time of death is approaching me, I am not afraid of dying and going to Hell or (what would be considerably worse) going to the popularized version of Heaven. I expect death to be nothingness and, for removing me from all possible fears of death, I am thankful to atheism."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Do not forget that a traitor within our ranks, known to us, can do more harm to the enemy than a loyal man can do good to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Human beings thought with their hands. It was their hands that were the answer of curiosity, that felt and pinched and turned and lifted and hefted. There were animals that had brains of respectable size, but they had no hands and that made all the difference."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: If all human beings understood history, they might cease making the same stupid mistakes over and over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Custom is second nature. Be accustomed to a bald head, sufficiently accustomed, and hair on it would seem monstrous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The Tyranni rule fifty worlds; they are outnumbered hundreds to one. In such a position, simple force is insufficient. Devious methods, intrigue, assassination are their specialties. The net they weave across space is a wide one, and close-meshed. I can well believe that it extends across five hundred light-years to Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The true artist is quite rational as well as imaginative and knows what he is doing; if he does not, his art suffers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Laws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Why is it, I wonder, that anyone who displays superior athletic ability is an object of admiration to his classmates, while one who displays superior mental ability is an object of hatred?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: How many people is the earth able to sustain?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Every human being lived behind an impenetrable wall of choking mist within which no other but he existed. Occasionally there were the dim signals from deep within the cavern in which another man was located so that each might grope toward the other. Yet because they did not know one another, and could not understand one another, and dared not trust one another, and felt from infancy the terrors and insecurity of that ultimate isolation there was the hunted fear of man for man, the savage rapacity of man toward man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: [A]ll knowledge is one. When a light brightens and illuminates a corner of a room, it adds to the general illumination of the entire room. Over and over again, scientific discoveries have provided answers to problems that had no apparent connection with the phenomena that gave rise to the discovery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The fundamentalists deny that evolution has taken place; they deny that the earth and the universe as a whole are more than a few thousand years old, and so on. There is ample scientific evidence that the fundamentalists are wrong in these matters, and that their notions of cosmogony have about as much basis in fact as the Tooth Fairy has."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I'm gradually managing to cram my mind more and more full of things. I've got this beautiful mind and it's going to die, and it'll all be gone. And then I say, not in my case. Every idea I've ever had I've written down, and it's all there on paper. And I won't be gone; it'll be there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I even got a letter from a young woman in British Columbia that began as follows: 'Today I am eighteen. I am sitting at the window, looking out at the rain, and thinking how much I love you.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It is in meeting the great tests that mankind can most successfully rise to great heights. Out of danger and restless insecurity comes the force that pushes mankind to newer and loftier conquests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: During the century after Newton, it was still possible for a man of unusual attainments to master all fields of scientific knowledge. But by 1800, this had become entirely impracticable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It\u2019s a poor atom blaster that won\u2019t point both ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: One might accept death reasoningly, with every aspect of the conscious mind, but the body was a brute beast that knew nothing of reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: If you were to insist I was a robot, you might not consider me capable of love in some mystic human sense, but you would not be able to distinguish my reactions from that which you would call love so what difference would it make?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I, on the other hand, am a finished product. I absorb electrical energy directly and utilize it with an almost one hundred percent efficiency. I am composed of strong metal, am continuously conscious, and can stand extremes of environment easily. These are facts which, with the self-evident proposition that no being can create another being superior to itself, smashes your silly hypothesis to nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Speech as known to us was unnecessary. A fragment of a sentence amounted almost to a long-winded redundancy. A gesture, a grunt, the curve of a facial line--even a significantly timed pause yielded informational juice."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: In theory, there is nothing the computer can do that the human mind can not do. The computer merely takes a finite amount of data and performs a finite number of operations upon them. The human mind can duplicate the process"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: When, however, the lay public rallies round an idea that is denounced by distinguished but elderly scientists and supports that idea with great fervor and emotion - the distinguished but elderly scientists are then, after all, probably right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Never judge your own writing. You're not fit to do so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: All roads lead to Trantor, says the old proverb, and that is where all stars end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: In all the known history of Mankind, advances have been made primarily in physical technology; in the capacity of handling the inanimate world about Man. Control of self and society has been left to to chance or to the vague gropings of intuitive ethical systems based on inspiration and emotion. As a result no culture of greater stability than about fifty-five percent has ever existed, and these only as the result of great human misery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I am the beneficiary of a lucky break in the genetic sweepstakes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The history of science is full of revolutionary advances that required small insights that anyone might have had, but that, in fact, only one person did."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: We're forever teetering on the brink of the unknowable, and trying to understand what can't be understood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The fall of Empire, gentlemen, is a massive thing, however, and not easily fought. It is dictated by a rising bureaucracy, a receding initiative, a freezing of caste, a damming of curiosity \u2014 a hundred other factors. It has been going on, as I have said, for centuries, and it is too majestic and massive a movement to stop."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Married life had taught Toran the futility of arguing with a female in a dark-brown mood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: There is as yet insufficient data for a meaningful answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I never considered myself a patriot. I like to think I recognize only humanity as my nation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Considering what human beings do and have done to human beings (and to other living things as well) ... I can never imagine what the devil people think computers can add to the horrors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Life would be impossible on such a planet. It wouldn't get enough heat and light, and if it rotated there would be total darkness half of every day. There wouldn't be any native inhabitants. You couldn't expect life - which is fundamentally dependent on light - to develop under such extreme conditions of light deprivation. Half of every axial rotation spent in Darkness! No, nothing could exist under conditions like that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It has always been my ambition to die in harness with my head face down on a keyboard and my nose caught between two of the keys."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It is the chief characteristic of the religion of science that it works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Unfortunately, in many cases, people who write science fiction violate the laws of nature, not because they want to make a point, but because they don't know what the laws of nature are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Scientists expect to be improved on and corrected; they hope to be"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect--but, nearly invariably, the stupidest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Fifty years,\" I hackneyed, \"is a long time.\" \"Not when you're looking back at them,\" she said. \"You wonder how they vanished so quickly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It is the invariable lesson to humanity that distance in time, and in space as well, lends focus. It is not recorded, incidentally, that the lesson has ever been permanently learned."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: There are many aspects of the universe that still cannot be explained satisfactorily by science; but ignorance implies only ignorance that may someday be conquered. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: People are entirely too disbelieving of coincidence. They are far too ready to dismiss it and to build arcane structures of extremely rickety substance in order to avoid it. I, on the other hand, see coincidence everywhere as an inevitable consequence of the laws of probability, according to which having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I don't expect to live forever, nor do I repine over that, but I am weak enough to want to be remembered forever. - Yet how few of those who have lived, even of those who have accomplished far more than I have, linger on in world memory for even a single century after death"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Having reached 451 books as of now doesn't help the situation. If I were to be dying now, I would be murmuring, \"Too bad! Only four hundred fifty-one.\" (Those would be my next-to-last words. The last ones will be: \"I love you, Janet.\") [They were. -Janet.]"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It is change continuing change, inevitable change that is the dominant factor in society today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It is remarkable, Hardin, how the religion of science has grabbed hold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer - by demonstration - would take care of that, too. For another timeless interval, AC thought how best to do this. Carefully, AC organized the program. The consciousness of AC encompassed all of what had been a Universe and brooded over what was now Chaos. Step by step, it must be done. And AC said, \"LET THERE BE LIGHT!\" And there was light..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Emotionally I am an atheist. I don't have the evidence to prove that God doesn't exist, but I so strongly suspect he doesn't that I don't want to waste my time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The laws of history are as absolute as the laws of physics, and if the probabilities of error are greater, it is only because history does not deal with as many humans as physics does atoms, so that individual variations count for more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Author's Notes: This story starts with section 6. This is not a mistake. I have my own subtle reasoning. So, just read, and enjoy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional patterns that are as unstable as sunbeams on a cloudy day. It is this instability that is life, since it is forever changing its position in an effort to maintain its identity--in the manner of a long rod balanced on an acrobat's nose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: In the presence of total Darkness, the mind finds it absolutely necessary to create light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I wanted to be a psychological engineer, but we lacked the facilities, so I did the next best thing - I went into politics. It's practically the same thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Now any dogma, based primarily on faith and emotionalism, is a dangerous weapon to use on others, since it is almost impossible to guarantee that the weapon will never be turned on the user."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: True literacy is becoming an arcane art, and the nation is steadily \"dumbing down.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: When I sit down at the typewriter, I write. Someone once asked me if I had a fixed routine before I start, like setting up exercises, sharpening pencils, or having a drink of orange juice. I said, \"No, the only thing I do before I start writing is to make sure that I'm close enough to the typewriter to reach the keys.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: There was this superstitious fear on the part of the pygmies of the present for the relics of the giants of the past."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: So, then, what is style? There are two chief aspects of any piece of writing: 1) what you say and 2) how you say it. The former is \"content\" and the latter is \"style.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The facts, gentlemen, and nothing but the facts, for careful eyes are narrowly watching."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Arthur Clarke says that I am first in science and second in science fiction in accordance with an agreement we have made. I say he is first in science fiction and second in science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: To any who know the star field well from one certain reference point, stars are as individual as people. Jump ten parsecs, however, and not even your own sun is recognizable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Any system which allows men to choose their own future will end by choosing safety and mediocrity, and in such a Reality the stars are out of reach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: A robot must obey the orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. [The Second Law of Robotics]"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: No one can possibly have lived through the Great Depression without being scarred by it. No amount of experience since the depression can convince someone who has lived through it that the world is safe economically."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Nothing interferes with my concentration. You could put on an orgy in my office and I wouldn't look up. Well, maybe once."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Economics is on the side of humanity now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I am all for cultural diversity and would be willing to see each recognizable group value its cultural heritage. I am a New York patriot, for instance, and if I lived in Los Angeles, I would love to get together with other New York expatriates and sing \"Give My Regards to Broadway\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Naturally, there's got to be a limit for I don't expect to live forever, but I do intend to hang on as long as possible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I type 90 words per minute on the typewriter; I type 100 words per minute on the word processor. But, of course, I don't keep that up indefinitely - every once in a while I do have to think a few seconds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: If there is a category of human being for whom his work ought to speak for itself, it is the writer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It was easy to cover up ignorance by the mystical word \"intuition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It is the nature of the mind that makes individuals kin, and the differences in the shape, form or manner of the material atoms out of whose intricate relationships that mind is built are altogether trivial."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Although we will hate and fight the machines, we will be supplanted anyway, and rightly so, for the intelligent machines to which we will give birth may, better than we, carry on the striving toward the goal of understanding and using the Universe, climbing to heights we ourselves could never aspire to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Courtiers don't take wagers against the king's skill. There is the deadly danger of winning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It is always useful, you see, to subject the past life of reform politicians to rather inquisitive research."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: There is no Master but the Master,\u201d he said, \u201cand QT-1 is his prophet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be. This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our every man must take on a science fictional way of thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Love life seems to be that factor which requires the largest quantity of magical tinkering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: The whole world might know you and acclaim you, but someone in the past, forever unreachable, forever unknowing, spoils it all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Asimov: [O]ur statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: I do not feign hypotheses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Pictures, propagated by motion along the fibers of the optic nerves in the brain, are the cause of vision."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: The great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: And from true lordship it follows that the true God is living, intelligent, and powerful; from the other perfections, that he is supreme, or supremely perfect. He is eternal and infinite, omnipotent and omniscient; that is, he endures from eternity to eternity; and he is present from infinity to infinity; he rules all things, and he knows all things that happen or can happen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: The other part of the true religion is our duty to man. We must love our neighbour as our selves, we must be charitable to all men for charity is the greatest of graces, greater then even faith or hope & covers a multitude of sins. We must be righteous & do to all men as we would they should do to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Errors are not in the art but in the artificers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: God created everything by number, weight and measure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: The changing of Bodies into Light, and Light into Bodies, is very conformable to the Course of Nature, which seems delighted with Transmutations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Nature does nothing in vain when less will serve; for Nature is pleased with simplicity and affects not the pomp of superfluous causes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: To every action there is always opposed an equal reaction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: No being exists or can exist which is not related to space in some way. God is everywhere, created minds are somewhere, and body is in the space that it occupies; and whatever is neither everywhere nor anywhere does not exist. And hence it follows that space is an effect arising from the first existence of being, because when any being is postulated, space is postulated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: It is the perfection of God's works that they are all done with the greatest simplicity. He is the God of order and not of confusion. And therefore as they would understand the frame of the world must endeavor to reduce their knowledge to all possible simplicity, so must it be in seeking to understand these visions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: We account the Scriptures of God to be the most sublime philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful Being. And if the fixed stars are the centres of other like systems, these, being formed by the like wise counsel, must be all subject to the dominion of One; especially since the light of the fixed stars is of the same nature with the light of the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Every particle of matter is attracted by or gravitates to every other particle of matter with a force inversely proportional to the squares of their distances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Hypotheses non fingo. I frame no hypotheses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Did blind chance know that there was light and what was its refraction, and fit the eyes of all creatures after the most curious manner to make use of it? These and other suchlike considerations, always have, and always will prevail with mankind, to believe that there is a Being who made all things, who has all things in his power, and who is therefore to be feared."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: God is able to create particles of matter of several sizes and figures and perhaps of different densities and forces, and thereby to vary the laws of nature, and make worlds of several sorts in several parts of the Universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind that it never had many professors."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: He rules all things, not as the world soul but as the lord of all. And because of his dominion he is called Lord God Pantokrator\". For \u201cgod\" is a relative word and has reference to servants, and godhood is the lordship of God, not over his own body \"as is supposed by those for whom God is the world soul', but over servants."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: As Attraction is stronger in small Magnets than in great ones in proportion to their Bulk, and Gravity is greater in the Surfaces of small Planets than in those of great ones in proportion to their bulk, and small Bodies are agitated much more by electric attraction than great ones; so the smallness of the Rays of Light may contribute very much to the power of the Agent by which they are refracted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: I see I have made my self a slave to Philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Impressed force is the action exerted on a body to change its state either of resting or of moving uniformly straight forward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Whence arises all that order and beauty we see in the world?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: To explain all nature is too difficult a task for any one man or even for any one age. Tis much better to do a little with certainty &amp; leave the rest for others that come after than to explain all things by conjecture without making sure of any thing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Absolute, true, and mathematical time, in and of itself and of its own nature, without reference to anything external, flows uniformly and by another name is called duration. Relative, apparent, and common time is any sensible and external measure (precise or imprecise) of duration by means of motion; such as a measure-for example, an hour, a day, a month, a year-is commonly used instead of true time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Is not Fire a Body heated so hot as to emit Light copiously? For what else is a red hot Iron than Fire? And what else is a burning Coal than red hot Wood?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: We are not to consider the world as the body of God: he is an uniform being, void of organs, members, or parts; and they are his creatures, subordinate to him, and subservient to his will."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: I feign no hypotheses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: To derive two or three general Principles of Motion from Ph\u00e6nomena, and afterwards to tell us how the Properties and Actions of all corporeal Things follow from those manifest Principles, would be a very great step in Philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Do not several sorts of Rays make Vibrations of several bignesses, which according to their bigness excite Sensations of several Colours, much after the manner that the Vibrations of the Air, according to their several bignesses excite Sensations of several Sounds? And particularly do not the most refrangible Rays excite the shortest Vibrations for making a Sensation of deep violet, the least refrangible the largest form making a Sensation of deep red, and several intermediate sorts of Rays, Vibrations of several intermediate bignesses to make Sensations of several intemediate Colours?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: It seems probable to me that God, in the beginning, formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, moveable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportions to space, as most conduced to the end for which He formed them; and that these primitive particles, being solids, are incomparably harder than any porous bodies compounded of them, even so very hard as never to wear or break in pieces; no ordinary power being able to divide what God had made one in the first creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: The Ignis Fatuus is a vapor shining without heat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds beasts & men have their right side & left side alike shaped (except in their bowels) & just two eyes & no more on either side the face & just two ears on either side the head & a nose with two holes & no more between the eyes & one mouth under the nose & either two fore legs or two wings or two arms on the shoulders & two legs on the hips one on either side & no more?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Blind metaphysical necessity, which is certainly the same always and every where, could produce no variety of things. All that diversity of natural things which we find suited to different times and places could arise from nothing but the ideas and will of a Being, necessarily existing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: The monarchy of the Greeks for want of an heir was broken into several kingdoms; four of which, seated to the four winds of heaven, were very eminent. For Ptolemy reigned over Egypt, Lybia and Ethiopia ; Antigonus over Syria and the lesser Asia; Lysimachus over Thrace ; and Cassander over Macedon, Greece and Epirus ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Philosophy is such an impertinently litigious lady that a man had as good be engaged in lawsuits as have to do with her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: If the ancient churches, in debating and deciding the greatest mysteries of religion, knew nothing of these two texts, I understand not why we should be so fond of them now the debate is over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: God in the beginning formed matter in solid, massy, hard, impenetrable, movable particles, of such sizes and figures, and with such other properties, and in such proportion to space, as most conduced to the end for which he formed them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Are not gross bodies and light convertible into one another; and may not bodies receive much of their activity from the particles of light which enter into their composition? The changing of bodies into light, and light into bodies, is very conformable to the course of Nature, which seems delighted with transmutations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Absolute, true and mathematical time, of itself, and from its own nature flows equably without relation to anything external."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: All the characters of the Passion agree to the year 34; and that is the only year to which they all agree."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: ...from the same principles, I now demonstrate the frame of the System of the World."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: A Vulgar Mechanick can practice what he has been taught or seen done, but if he is in an error he knows not how to find it out and correct it, and if you put him out of his road he is at a stand. Whereas he that is able to reason nimbly and judiciously about figure, force, and motion, is never at rest till he gets over every rub. (from a letter dated 25 May, 1694)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: The Prophecies of Daniel are all of them related to one another, as if they were but several parts of one general Prophecy, given at several times. The first is the easiest to be understood, and every following Prophecy adds something new to the former."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate to gravity, levity, elastic force, the resistance of fluids, and the like forces, whether attractive or impulsive; and therefore we offer this work as mathematical principles of philosophy; for all the difficulty of philosophy seems to consist in this from the phenomena of motions to investigate the forces of nature, and then from these forces to demonstrate the other phenomena."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: From what has been said it is also evident, that the Whiteness of the Sun's Light is compounded all the Colours wherewith the several sorts of Rays whereof that Light consists, when by their several Refrangibilities they are separated from one another, do tinge Paper or any other white Body whereon they fall. For those Colours ... are unchangeable, and whenever all those Rays with those their Colours are mix'd again, they reproduce the same white Light as before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: I do not define time, space, place, and motion, as being well known to all. Only I must observe, that the common people conceive those quantities under no other notions but from the relation they bear to sensible objects. And thence arise certain prejudices, for the removing of which it will be convenient to distinguish them into absolute and relative, true and apparent, mathematical and common."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Do not great Bodies conserve their heat the longest, their parts heating one another, and may not great dense and fix'd Bodies, when heated beyond a certain degree, emit Light so copiously, as by the Emission and Re-action of its Light, and the Reflexions and Refractions of its Rays within its Pores to grow still hotter, till it comes to a certain period of heat, such as is that of the Sun?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: In scripture we are told of some trusting in God and others trusting in idols, and that God is our refuge, our strength, our defense. In this sense God is the rock of his people, and false Gods are called the rock of those that trust in them. In the same sense the Gods of the King who shall do according to his will are called Mahuzzims, munitions, fortresses, protectors, guardians, or defenders."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: The Synthesis consists in assuming the Causes discovered and established as Principles, and by them explaining the Ph\u00e6nomena proceeding from them, and proving the Explanations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: A cylinder of air reaching to the top of the atmosphere is of equal weight with a cylinder of water about 33 feet high."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: 'Tis the temper of the hot and superstitious part of mankind in matters of religion ever to be fond of mysteries, and for that reason to like best what they understand least."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: I have presented principles of philosophy that are not, however, philosophical but strictly mathematical-that is, those on which the study of philosophy can be based. These principles are the laws and conditions of motions and of forces, which especially relate to philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: It is indeed a matter of great difficulty to discover, and effectually to distinguish, the true motions of particular bodies from the apparent; because the parts of that immovable space, in which those motions are performed, do by no means come under the observation of our senses. Yet the thing is not altogether desperate; for we have some arguments to guide us, partly from the apparent motions, which are the differences of the true motions; partly from the forces, which are the causes and effects of the true motions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: The kingdoms represented by the second and third Beasts, or the Bear and Leopard, are again described by Daniel in his last Prophecy written in the third year of Cyrus over Babylon , the year in which he conquered Persia. For this Prophecy is a commentary upon the Vision of the Ram and He-Goat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: My Design in this Book is not to explain the Properties of Light by Hypotheses, but to propose and prove them by Reason and Experiments: In order to which, I shall premise the following Definitions and Axioms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Henceforward the Christian Churches having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof, came into the hands of the Encratites: and the Heathens, who in the fourth century came over in great numbers to the Christians, embraced more readily this sort of Christianity, as having a greater affinity with their old superstitions, than that of the sincere Christians; who by the lamps of the seven Churches of Asia, and not by the lamps of the Monasteries, had illuminated the Church Catholic during the three first centuries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Our present work sets forth mathematical principles of philosophy. For the basic problem of philosophy seems to be to discover the forces of nature from the phenomena of motions and then to demonstrate the other phenomena from these forces. It is to these ends that the general propositions in books 1 and 2 are directed, while in book 3 our explanation of the system of the world illustrates these propositions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Now the smallest Particles of Matter may cohere by the strongest Attractions, and compose bigger Particles of weaker Virture.... There are therefore Agents in Nature able to make the Particles of Bodies stick together by very strong Attraction. And it is the Business of experimental Philosophy to find them out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: To any action there is always an opposite and equal reaction; in other words, the actions of two bodies upon each other are always equal and always opposite in direction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Qu. 31. Have not the small Particles of Bodies certain Powers, Virtues or Forces, by which they act at a distance, not only upon the Rays of Light for reflecting, refracting and reflecting them, but also upon one another for producing a great part of the Ph\u00e6nomena of Nature?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Do not Bodies act upon Light at a distance, and by their action bend its Rays; and is not this action (caeteris paribus) [all else being equal] strongest at the least distance?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Centripetal force is the force by which bodies are drawn from all sides, are impelled, or in any way tend, toward some point as to a center."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Oh Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done! [Apocryphal]"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: [1.] And first I suppose that there is diffused through all places an aethereal substance capable of contraction & dilatation, strongly elastick, & in a word, much like air in all respects, but far more subtile. 2. I suppose this aether pervades all gross bodies, but yet so as to stand rarer in their pores then in free spaces, & so much ye rarer as their pores are less ... 3. I suppose ye rarer aether within bodies & ye denser without them, not to be terminated in a mathematical superficies, but to grow gradually into one another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Do not Bodies and Light act mutually upon one another; that is to say, Bodies upon Light in emitting, reflecting, refracting and inflecting it, and Light upon Bodies for heating them, and putting their parts into a vibrating motion wherein heat consists?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Do not the Rays of Light which fall upon Bodies, and are reflected or refracted, begin to bend before they arrive at the Bodies; and are they not reflected, refracted, and inflected, by one and the same Principle, acting variously in various Circumstances?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: You sometimes speak of gravity as essential and inherent to matter. Pray do not ascribe that notion to me, for the cause of gravity is what I do not pretend to know, and therefore would take more time to consider of it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: All material Things seem to have been composed of the hard and solid Particles ... variously associated with the first Creation by the Counsel of an intelligent Agent. For it became him who created them to set them in order: and if he did so, it is unphilosophical to seek for any other Origin of the World, or to pretend that it might arise out of a Chaos by the mere Laws of Nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Bullialdus wrote that all force respecting ye Sun as its center & depending on matter must be reciprocally in a duplicate ratio of ye distance from ye center."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: In experimental philosophy, propositions gathered from phenomena by induction should be considered either exactly or very nearly true notwithstanding any contrary hypotheses, until yet other phenomena make such propositions either more exact or liable to exceptions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: One [method] is by a Watch to keep time exactly. But, by reason of the motion of the Ship, the Variation of Heat and Cold, Wet and Dry, and the Difference of Gravity in different Latitudes, such a watch hath not yet been made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Pontus, instituted among all people, as an addition or corollary of devotion towards God, that festival days and assemblies should be celebrated to them who had contended for the faith (that is, to lie martyrs )."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: As in Mathematicks, so in Natural Philosophy, the Investigation of difficult Things by the Method of Analysis, ought ever to precede the Method of Composition. This Analysis consists in making Experiments and Observations, and in drawing general Conclusions from them by Induction, and admitting of no Objections against the Conclusions, but such as are taken from Experiments, or other certain Truths. For Hypotheses are not to be regarded in experimental Philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: In the reign of the Greek Emperor Justinian , and again in the reign of Phocas , the Bishop of Rome obtained some dominion over the Greek Churches, but of no long continuance. His standing dominion was only over the nations of the Western Empire, represented by Daniel's fourth Beast."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: As I am writing, another illustration of ye generation of hills proposed above comes into my mind. Milk is as uniform a liquor as ye chaos was. If beer be poured into it & ye mixture let stand till it be dry, the surface of ye curdled substance will appear as rugged & mountanous as the Earth in any place."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: The main Business of Natural Philosophy is to argue from Ph\u00e6nomena without feigning Hypotheses, and to deduce Causes from Effects till we come to the very first Cause, which certainly is not mechanical; and not only to unfold the Mechanism of the World, but chiefly to resolve these, and to such like Questions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Are not all Hypotheses erroneous, in which Light is supposed to consist in Pression or Motion, propagated through a fluid Medium? For in all these Hypotheses the Phaenomena of Light have been hitherto explain'd by supposing that they arise from new Modifications of the Rays; which is an erroneous Supposition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: I have not been able to discover the cause of those properties of gravity from phenomena, and I frame no hypotheses; for whatever is not deduced from the phenomena is to be called a hypothesis, and hypotheses, whether metaphysical or physical, whether of occult qualities or mechanical, have no place in experimental philosophy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Those qualities of bodies that cannot be intended and remitted [i.e., qualities that cannot be increased and diminished] and that belong to all bodies on which experiments can be made should be taken as qualities of all bodies universally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Against filling the Heavens with fluid Mediums, unless they be exceeding rare, a great Objection arises from the regular and very lasting Motions of the Planets and Comets in all manner of Courses through the Heavens."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Do not the Rays which differ in Refrangibility differ also in Flexibity; and are they not by their different Inflexions separated from one another, so as after separation to make the Colours in the three Fringes above described? And after what manner are they inflected to make those Fringes?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Doth not this \u00c6thereal Medium in passing out of Water, Glass, Crystal, and other compact and dense Bodies into empty Spaces, grow denser and denser by degrees, and by that means refract the Rays of Light not in a point, but by bending them gradually in curve Lines? And doth not the gradual condensation of this Medium extend to some distance from the Bodies, and thereby cause the Inflexions of the Rays of Light, which pass by the edges of dense Bodies, at some distance from the Bodies?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Isaac Newton: Through algebra you easily arrive at equations, but always to pass therefrom to the elegant constructions and demonstrations which usually result by means of the method of porisms is not so easy, nor is one's ingenuity and power of invention so greatly exercised and refined in this analysis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Truth was always but the daughter of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Not to punish evil is equivalent to authorizing it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: As a well spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Experience is a truer guide than the words of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: We know well that mistakes are more easily detected in the works of others than in one's own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: It should not be hard for you to stop sometimes and look into the stains of walls, or ashes of a fire, or clouds, or mud or like places, in which...you may find really marvellous ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Motion is created by the destruction of balance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: There is nothing which deceives us as much as our own judgement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Obstacles cannot bend me. Every obstacle yields to effort."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Everything comes from everything, and everything is made out of everything, and everything returns into everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: That which has no limitations, has no form."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Make your work to be in keeping with your purpose"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Nature never breaks her own laws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself. If you are accompanied by even one companion you belong only half to yourself or even less in proportion to the thoughtlessness of his conduct and if you have more than one companion you will fall more deeply into the same plight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Love shows itself more in adversity than in prosperity; as light does, which shines most where the place is darkest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: In her (nature's) inventions nothing is lacking and nothing is superfluous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Virtue is our true wealth and the true reward of its possessor; it cannot be lost, it never deserts us until life leaves us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Reprove your friend in secret and praise him openly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The supreme misfortune is when theory outstrips performance"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Painting is concerned with all the 10 attributes of sight; which are: Darkness, Light, Solidity and Colour, Form and Position, Distance and Propinquity, Motion and Rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Darkness is absence of light. Shadow is diminution of light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold. For if you put on more clothes as the cold increases, it will have no power to hurt you. So in like manner you must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: You must grow in patience when you meet with great wrongs, and they will then be powerless to vex your mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: He who never puts his trust in any man will never be deceived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: A well-spent day brings happy sleep."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Learn diligence before speedy execution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Let not your rage or malice destroy a life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Obstacles cannot crush me. Every obstacle yields to stern resolve. He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Everything proceeds from everything else and everything becomes everything, and everything can be turned into everything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: If you are alone you belong entirely to yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Vows begin when hope dies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: He who walks straight rarely falls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Poor is the pupil who does not surpass his master."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The five senses are the ministers of the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Tears come from the heart and not from the brain"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: In rivers, the water that you touch is the last of what has passed and the first of that which comes; so with present time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: He who thinks little errs much."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Every obstacle yields to stern resolve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Inaction saps the vigor of the mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Truth is so excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The soul is content to stay imprisoned in the human body... for through the eyes all the various things of nature are represented to the soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: He who is fixed to a star does not change his mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Great love is born of great knowledge of the thing that is loved, and if you do not know it, you can love it little or not at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The eye is the window of the human body through which it feels its way and enjoys the beauty of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: If on your own or by the criticism of others you discover error in your work, correct it then and there; otherwise in exposing your work to the public, you will expose your error also."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Love, Fear, and Esteem, - Write these on three stones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Experience does not err. Only your judgments err by expecting from her what is not in her power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Ask advice of him who governs himself well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: It is ill to praise, and worse to blame, the thing which you do not understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Nothing is hidden under the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: When Fortune comes, seize her in front with a sure hand, because behind she is bald."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: All our knowledge is the offspring of our perceptions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Wisdom is the daughter of experience"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Our life is made by the death of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Thou, O God, dost sell us all good things at the price of labor."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: It vexes me greatly that having to earn my living has forced me to interrupt the work and to attend to small matters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: He who in reasoning cites authority is making use of his memory rather than of his intellect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: That which can be lost cannot be deemed riches."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The worst evil which can befall the artist is that his work should appear good in his own eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Such is the supreme folly of man that he labours so as to labour no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Envy wounds with false accusations, that is with detraction, a thing which scares virtue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The natural desire of good men is knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Those who are enamoured of practice without science are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty of where he is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: O sleepers! what a thing is slumber! Sleep resembles death. Ah, why then dost thou not work in such wise as that after death thou mayst retain a resemblance to perfect life, when, during life, thou art in sleep so like to the hapless dead?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Small rooms or dwellings discipline the mind, large ones weaken it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Among the great things which are found among us the existence of Nothing is the greatest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Oysters open completely when the moon is full; and when the crab sees one it throws a piece of stone or seaweed into it and the oyster cannot close again so that it serves the crab for meat. Such is the fate of him who opens his mouth too much and thereby puts himself at the mercy of the listener."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: There is no result in nature without a cause; understand the cause and you will have no need of the experiment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: He who fears dangers will not perish by them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: To speak well of a base man is much the same as speaking ill of a good man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The sun gives spirit and life to the plants and the earth nourishes them with moisture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The grave will fall in upon him who digs it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Many have made a trade of delusions and false miracles, deceiving the stupid multitudes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: In fact, whatever exists in the universe, in essence, in appearance, in the imagination, the painter has first in his mind and then in his hands ... it lies in his power to create them . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: You grow in reputation like bread in the hands of a child."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Slender certainty is better than portentous falsehood."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Just as courage imperils life, fear protects it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: But to me all sciences seem vain and full of error that are not born of experience, mother of all certainty, and do not terminate in an actual experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Just as eating against one's will is injurious to health, so studying without a liking for it spoils the memory, and it retains nothing it takes in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: It is the infinite alone that cannot be attained, for if it could it would become finite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Threats alone, are the weapons of the threatened man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Therefore, O students, study mathematics and do not build without foundations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Let no man who is not a Mathematician read the elements of my work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Every man at three years old is half his height"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Having wandered some distance among gloomy rocks, I came to the entrance of a great cavern ... Two contrary emotions arose in me: fear and desire--fear of the threatening dark cavern, desire to see whether there were any marvelous things in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: I have found that, in the composition of the human body as compared with the bodies of animals, the organs of sense are duller and coarser. Thus, it is composed of less ingenious instruments, and of spaces less capacious for receiving the faculties of sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul. The former is easy, the latter hard as he has to represent it by the attitude and movement of the limbs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: I wish to work miracles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Where there is most feeling, there is the greatest martyrdom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: It is better to imitate ancient than modern work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: We might say that the earth has the spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Good writing comes from good talent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The lie is so vile, that even if it were in speaking well of godly things, it would take off something from God's grace; and Truth is so  excellent, that if it praises but small things they become noble."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: How many emperors and how many princes have lived and died and no record of them remains, and they only sought to gain dominions and riches in order that their fame might be ever-lasting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: He turns not back who is bound to a star."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: A long life is a life well spent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: While you are alone you are entirely your own master and if you have one companion you are but half your own, and the less so in proportion to the indiscretion of his behavior."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The painter will produce pictures of little merit if he takes the works of others as his standard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: A good painter has two main objects to paint, man and the intention of his soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Happy will they be who lend ear to the words of the dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Drawing is based upon perspective, which is nothing else than a thorough knowledge of the function of the eye."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Ask counsel of him who rules himself well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Every action needs to be prompted by a motive. To know and to will are two operations of the human mind. Discerning, judging, deliberating are acts of the human mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: He who has access to the fountain does not go to the water-pot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: It is easier to contend with evil at the first than at the last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: To enjoy - to love a thing for its own sake and for no other reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Lust is the cause of generation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: It seems that it had been destined before that I should occupy myself so thoroughly with the vulture, for it comes to my mind as a very early memory, when I was still in the cradle, a vulture came down to me, he opened my mouth with his tail and struck me a few times with his tail against my lips."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: All knowledge which ends in words will die as quickly as it came to life, with the exception of the written word: which is its mechanical part."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Just as food eaten without appetite is a tedious nourishment, so does study without zeal damage the memory by not assimilating what it absorbs."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Fear arises sooner than anything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The Book of the science of Mechanics must precede the Book of useful inventions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: If the thing loved is base, the lover becomes base."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Poetry is superior to painting in the presentation of words, and painting is superior to poetry in the presentation of facts. For this reason I judge painting to be superior to poetry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The mole has very small eyes and it always lives under ground; and it lives as long as it is in the dark but when it comes into the light it dies immediately, because it becomes known;--and so it is with lies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements; sickness is the discord of the elements infused into the living body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: One's thoughts turn towards Hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Every action needs to be prompted by a motive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Things that are separate shall be united and acquire such virtue that they will restore to man his lost memory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The lover is moved by the beloved object as the senses are by sensual objects; and they unite and become one and the same thing. The work is the first thing born of this union; if the thing loved is base the lover becomes base."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Nature is full of infinite causes that have never occurred in experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Who would believe that so small a space could contain the images of all the universe?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: What is fair in men, passes away, but not so in art"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: There is no doubt that truth is to falsehood as light is to darkness; and so excellent a thing is truth that even when it touches humble and lowly matters, it still incomparably exceeds the uncertainty and falsehood in which great and elevated discourses are clothed; because even if falsehood be the fifth element of our minds, notwithstanding this, truth is the supreme nourishment of the higher intellects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: There are many occasions when the muscles that form the lips of the mouth move the lateral muscles that are joined to them, and there are an equal number of occasions when these lateral muscles move the lips of this mouth, replacing it where it cannot return of itself, because the function of muscle is to pull and not to push except in the case of the genitals and the tongue."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The earth is moved from its position by the weight of a tiny bird resting upon it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Knowledge ... shall always bear witness like a clarion to its creator."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Instrumental or mechanical science is the noblest and above all others, the most useful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The lover is moved by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which perceives, and it unites with it and they become one and the same thing... when the lover is united with the beloved it finds rest there; when the burden is laid down there it finds rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Just as iron which is not used grows rusty, and water putrefies and freezes in the cold, so the mind of which no use is made is spoilt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Strive to preserve your health; and in this you will better succeed in proportion as you keep clear of the physicians, for their drugs are a kind of alchemy concerning which there are no fewer books than there are medicines."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Men wrongly lament the flight of time, blaming it for being too swift; they do not perceive that its passage is sufficiently long, but a good memory, which nature has given to us, causes things long past to seem present."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Beyond a doubt truth bears the same relation to falsehood as light to darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: O time! swift devourer of all created things!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Man and animals are in reality vehicles and conduits of food, tombs of animals, hostels of Death, coverings that consume, deriving life by the death of others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Painting is concerned with the ten things you can see: these are darkness and brightness, substance and color, form and place, remoteness and nearness, movement and rest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: We ought not to desire the impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Nothing is so much to be feared as Evil Report."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: When the thing taken into union is perfectly adapted to that which receives it, the result is delight and pleasure and satisfaction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: When you draw a nude, sketch the whole figure and nicely fit the members to it and to each other. Even though you may only finish one portion of the drawing, just make certain that all the parts hang together, so that the study will be useful to you in the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Men born in hot countries love the night because it refreshes them and have a horror of light because it burns them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The art of procreation and the members employed therein are so repulsive, that if it were not for the beauty of the faces and the adornments of the actors and the pent-up impulse, nature would lose the human species."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Just as iron rusts from disuse... even so does inaction spoil the intellect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: It is an acknowledged fact that we perceive errors in the work of others more readily than in our own."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Perspective is a most subtle discovery in mathematical studies, for by means of lines it causes to appear distant that which is near, and large that which is small."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offenses, and they cannot hurt your feelings."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: That painter who has no doubts will achieve little."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Here is a thing which the more it is needed the more it is rejected: and this is advice, which is unwillingly heeded by those who most need it, that is to say, by the ignorant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The eye, the window of the soul, is the chief means whereby the understanding can most fully and abundantly appreciate the infinite works of Nature; and the ear is second."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Of the horse I will say nothing because I know the times."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: All our knowledge originates in opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Nothing is more apt to deceive us than our own judgment of our work. We derive more benefit from having our faults pointed out by our enemies than from hearing the opinions of friends."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Our body is dependent on heaven and heaven on the Spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Man and the animals are merely a passage and channel for food, a tomb for other animals, a haven for the dead, giving life by the death of others, a coffer full of corruption."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Many will be busied in taking away from a thing, which will grow in proportion as it is diminished."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The beginnings and ends of shadow lie between the light and darkness and may be infinitely diminished and infinitely increased. Shadow is the means by which bodies display their form. The forms of bodies could not be understood in detail but for shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The acquisition of knowledge is always of use to the intellect, because it may thus drive out useless things and retain the good. For nothing can be loved or hated unless it is first known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Movement will fail sooner than usefulness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Shadow is the obstruction of light. Shadows appear to me to be of supreme importance in perspective, because, without them opaque and solid bodies will be ill defined; that which is contained within their outlines and their boundaries themselves will be ill-understood unless they are shown against a background of a different tone from themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Small rooms or dwellings set the mind in the right path, large ones cause it to go astray."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: It is ordained that to the ambitious, who derive no satisfaction from the gifts of life and the beauty of the world, life shall be a cause of suffering, and they shall possess neither the profit nor the beauty of the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Music cannot be called otherwise than the sister of painting, for she is dependent upon hearing, a sense second to sight, and her harmony is composed of the union of its proportional parts sounded simultaneously, rising and falling in one or more harmonic rhythms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: A beautiful body perishes, but a work of art dies not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The painter strives and competes with nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: I say that the power of vision extends through the visual rays to the surface of non-transparent bodies, while the power possessed by these bodies extends to the power of vision."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Science is the observation of things possible, whether present or past; prescience is the knowledge of things which may come to pass, though but slowly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: King of the animals \u2014 as thou hast described him \u2014 I should rather say king of the beasts, thou being the greatest \u2014 because thou hast spared slaying them, in order that they may give thee their children for the benefit of the gullet, of which thou hast attempted to make a sepulchre for all animals; and I would say still more, if it were allowed me to speak the entire truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: To such an extent does nature delight and abound in variety that among her trees there is not one plant to be found which is exactly like another; and not only among the plants, but among the boughs, the leaves and the fruits, you will not find one which is exactly similar to another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The poet ranks far below the painter in the representation of visible things, and far below the musician in that of invisible things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: He who draws... ought to take his position so that the eye of the figure he is drawing is on a level with his own... because, generally, figures or people whom you meet in the streets all have their eyes at the same level as yours, and if you make them higher or lower you will find that your portrait will not resemble them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: I have wasted my hours."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Mechanics is the paradise of the mathematical sciences because by means of it one comes to the fruits of mathematics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Although human ingenuity may devise various inventions which, by the help of various instruments, answer to one and the same purpose, yet will it never discover any inventions more beautiful, more simple or more practical than those of nature, because in her inventions there is nothing lacking and nothing superfluous; and she makes use of no counterpoise when she constructs the limbs of animals in such a way as to correspond to the motion of their bodies, but she puts into them the soul of the body."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Every action done by nature is done in the shortest way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The painter who draws merely by practice and by eye, without any reason, is like a mirror which copies every thing placed in front of it without being conscious of their existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: ... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The first of all simple colours is White ... We shall set down White for the representative of light, without which no colour can be seen; Yellow for the earth; Green for water; Blue for air; Red for fire; and Black for total darkness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: What induces you, oh man, to depart from your home in town, to leave parents and friends, and go to the countryside over mountains and valleys, if it is not for the beauty of the world of nature?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Truth at last cannot be hidden. Dissimulation is of no avail. Dissimulation is to no purpose before so great a judge. Falsehood puts on a mask. Nothing is hidden under the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The memory of benefits is a frail defence against ingratitude."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: A painter was asked why, since he made such beautiful figures, which were but dead things, his children were so ugly; to which the painter replied that he made his pictures by day, and his children by night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The vine that has grown old on an old tree falls with the ruin of that tree, and through that bad companionship must perish with it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The soul can never be corrupted with the corruption of the body, but it is like the wind which causes the sound of the organ, and which ceases to produce a good effect when a pipe is spoilt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: If you throw a stone in a pond... the waves which strike against the shores are thrown back towards the spot where the stone struck; and on meeting other waves they never intercept each other's course... In a small pond one and the same stroke gives birth to many motions of advance and recoil."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Just as courage is the danger of life, so is fear its safeguard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The eye transmits its own image through the air to all the objects which face it, and also receives them on its own surface, whence the \"sensus communis\" takes them and considers them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Shadow is the diminution alike of light and of darkness, and stands between darkness and light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Men standing in opposite hemispheres will converse and deride each other and embrace each other, and understand each other's language."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Make yourself a master of perspective, then acquire perfect knowledge of the proportions of men and other animals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Given the cause nature produces the effect in the briefest manner that it can employ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Fire is to represent truth because it destroys all sophistry and lies; and the mask is for lying and falsehood which conceal truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The motions of men must be such as suggest their dignity or their baseness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The lover is drawn by the thing loved, as the sense is by that which it perceives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Constancy does not begin, but is that which perseveres."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: I am still hopeful. A falcon, Time. But the coincidence is probably accidental."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: O painter skilled in anatomy, beware lest the undue prominence of the bones, sinews and muscles cause you to become a wooden painter from the desire to make your nude figures reveal all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Those who condemn the supreme certainty of mathematics feed on confusion, and can never silence the contradictions of the sophistical sciences which lead to eternal quackery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Though I may not . . . be able to quote other authors, I shall rely on that which is much greater and more worthy - on experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: O painter, take care lest the greed for gain prove a stronger incentive than renown in art, for to gain this renown is a far greater thing than is the renown of riches."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: My works are the issue of simple and plain experience which is the true mistress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Avoid studies of which the result dies with the worker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Perspective is to painting what the bridle is to the horse, the rudder to a ship."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The boundaries of bodies are the least of all things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Many will think they may reasonably blame me by alleging that my proofs are opposed to the authority of certain men held in the highest reverence by their inexperienced judgments; not considering that my works are the issue of pure and simple experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The spirit desires to remain with its body, because, without the organic instruments of that body, it can neither act, nor feel anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: All objects transmit their image to the eye in pyramids and the nearer to the eye these pyramids are intersected the smaller will the image appear of the objects which cause them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Good culture is born of a good disposition; and since the cause is more to be praised than the effect, I will rather praise a good disposition without culture, than good culture without the disposition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Men and words are ready made, and you, O Painter, if you do not know how to make your figures move, are like an orator who knows not how to use his words."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Of the original phenomena, light is the most enthralling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Nature varies the seed according to the variety of the things she desires to produce in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Intellectual passion drives out sensuality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The fame of the rich man dies with him; the fame of the treasure, and not of the man who possessed it, remains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Truth was the only daughter of Time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Now do you not see that the eye embraces the beauty of the whole world? It counsels and corrects all the arts of mankind... it is the prince of mathematics, and the sciences founded on it are absolutely certain. It has measured the distances and sizes of the stars it has discovered the elements and their location... it has given birth to architecture and to perspective and to the divine art of painting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Nature appears to have been the cruel stepmother rather than the mother of many animals."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The knowledge of the past times and of the places of the earth is both an ornament and nutriment to the human mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Each man is always in the middle of the surface of the earth and under the zenith of his own hemisphere, and over the centre of the earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Abbreviators do harm to knowledge and to love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Inequality is the cause of all local movements."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Very great charm of shadow and light is to be found in the faces of those who sit in the doors of dark houses. The eye of the spectator sees that part of the face which is in shadow lost in the darkness of the house, and that part of the face which is lit draws its brilliancy from the splendour of the sky. From this intensification of light and shade the face gains greatly in relief and beauty by showing the subtlest shadows in the light part and the subtlest lights in the dark part."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: O Time! consumer of all things; O envious age! thou dost destroy all things and devour all things with the relentless teeth of years, little by little in a slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror, seeing the withered wrinkles made in her face by old age, wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Do not reveal, if liberty is precious to you; my face is the prison of love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Life well spent is long."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: If you are on the side whence the wind is blowing you will see the trees looking much lighter than you would see them on the other sides; and this is due to the fact that the wind turns up the reverse side of the leaves which in all trees is much whiter than the upper side."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Fire destroys all sophistry, that is deceit; and maintains truth alone, that is gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The Medici made me and the Medici destroyed me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Here is a thing which the more you fear and avoid it the nearer you approach to it, and this is misery; the more you flee from it the more miserable and restless you will become."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: It reflects no great honour on a painter to be able to execute one thing well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: I am not to blame for putting forward, in the course of my work on science, any general rule derived from a previous conclusion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Fame alone raises herself to Heaven, because virtuous things are in favour with God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements, but not with a corresponding degree of strength, though it is deficient only in the power of maintaining equilibrium. We may therefore say that such an instrument constructed by man is lacking in nothing except the life of the bird, and this life must needs be supplied from that of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: How painting surpasses all human works by reason of the subtle possibilities which it contains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: If you are representing a white body let it be surrounded by ample space, because as white has no colour of its own, it is tinged and altered in some degree by the colour of the objects surrounding it"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Just as iron rusts from disuse, and stagnant water putrefies, or when cold turns to ice, so our intellect wastes unless it is kept in use."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: If you call painting dumb poetry, the painter may call poetry blind painting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Wherever good fortune enters, envy lays siege to the place and attacks it; and when it departs, sorrow and repentance remain behind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Weight is caused by one element being situated in another; and it moves by the shortest line towards its centre, not by its own choice, not because the centre draws it to itself, but because the other intervening element cannot withstand it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all the objects which are set opposite to it without knowledge of the same."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Medicine is the restoration of discordant elements."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: If anyone wishes to see how the soul dwells in its body, let him observe how this body uses its daily habitation; that is to say, if this is devoid of order and confused, the body will be kept in disorder and confusion by its soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: He who despises painting has no love for the philosophy in nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The eye - which sees all objects reversed - retains the images for some time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The limiting surface of one thing is the beginning of another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Those who fall in love with practice without science are like a sailor who enters a ship without a helm or a compass, and who never can be certain whither he is going."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: A luminous body will appear more brilliant in proportion as it is surrounded by deeper shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Savage is he who saves himself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Shadows which you see with difficulty, and whose boundaries you cannot define... these you should not represent as finished or sharply defined, for the result would be that your work would seem wooden."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: A natural action is accomplished in the briefest manner."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: To speak of this subject you must... explain the nature of the resistance of the air, in the second the anatomy of the bird and its wings, in the third the method of working the wings in their various movements, in the fourth the power of the wings and the tail when the wings are not being moved and when the wind is favourable to serve as guide in various movements."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Nature is so delightful and abundant in its variations that among trees of the same kind there would not be found one which nearly resembles another, and not only the plants as a whole, but among their branches, leaves, and fruit, will not be found one which is precisely like another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: There is no object so large but that at a great distance from the eye it does not appear smaller than a smaller object near."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Why are the bones of great fishes, and oysters and corals and various other shells and sea-snails, found on the high tops of mountains that border the sea, in the same way in which they are found in the depths of the sea?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The body of the earth is of the nature of a fish... because it draws water as its breath instead of air."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The light for drawing from nature should come from the North in order that it may not vary. And if you have it from the South, keep the window screened with cloth, so that with the sun shining the whole day the light may not vary. The height of the light so arranged as that every object shall cast a shadow on the ground of the same length as itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Do not imitate one another's style. If you do, so far as your art is concerned you will be called a grandson, rather than the son of Nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The eye which turns from a white object in the light of the sun and goes into a less fully lighted place will see everything as dark."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: O speculators about perpetual motion, how many vain chimeras have you created in the like quest? Go and take your place with the seekers after gold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Sculptured figures which appear in motion, will, in their standing position, actually look as if they were falling forward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel pain; and this is felt in the joints of the legs, the forehead and the nose, and has been so devised for the preservation of man, because if such pain were not felt in these limbs they would be destroyed by the many blows they receive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The fox when it sees a flock of herons or magpies or birds of that kind, suddenly flings himself on the ground with his mouth open to look as he were dead; and these birds want to peck at his tongue, and he bites off their heads."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The light and heat of the universe comes from the sun, and its cold and darkness from the withdrawal of the sun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: When you are painting you should take a flat mirror and often look at your work within it, and it will then be seen in reverse, and will appear to be by the hand of some other master, and you will be better able to judge of its faults than in any other way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Oh! how foul a thing, that we should see the tongue of one animal in the guts of another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The water which rises in the mountains is the blood which keeps the mountain in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The Medici created and destroyed me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: O time, swift robber of all created things, how many kings, how many nations hast thou undone, and how many changes of states and of various events have happened since the wondrous forms of this fish perished here in this cavernous and winding recess. Now destroyed by time thou liest patiently in this confined space with bones stripped and bare; serving as a support and prop for the superimposed mountain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Those who are in love with practice without knowledge are like the sailor who gets into a ship without rudder or compass and who never can be certain whether he is going. Practice must always be founded on sound theory, and to this Perspective is the guide and the gateway; and without this nothing can be done well in the matter of drawing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Experience never errs; it is only your judgments that err by promising themselves effects such as are not caused by your experiments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Happy will be those who give ear to the words of the dead: - The reading of good works and the observing of their precepts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Of several bodies, all equally large and equally distant, that which is most brightly illuminated will appear to the eye nearest and largest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: All the elements will be seen mixed together in a great whirling mass, now borne towards the centre of the world, now towards the sky; and now furiously rushing from the South towards the frozen North, and sometimes from the East towards the West, and then again from this hemisphere to the other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: An infinite number of men will sell publicly and unhindered things of the very highest price, without leave from the Master of it; while it never was theirs nor in their power; and human justice will not prevent it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The evil which does me no harm is like the good which in no wise avails me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Things severed shall be united and shall acquire of themselves such virtue that they shall restore to men their lost memory: - That is the papyrus sheets, which are formed out of several strips and preserve the memory of the thoughts and deeds of men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The part always has a tendency to reunite with its whole in order to escape from its imperfection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The motive power is the cause of all life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Of the four elements water is the second in weight and the second in respect of mobility. It is never at rest until it unites with the sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Experience, the interpreter between creative nature and the human race, teaches the action of nature among mortals: how under the constraint of necessity she cannot act otherwise than as reason, who steers her helm, teaches her to act."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Lust is the cause of generation\r\nAppetite is the support of life\r\nFear or timidity is the prolongation of life, and\r\nFraud the preservation of its instruments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: O mighty and once living instrument of formative nature. Incapable of availing thyself of thy vast strength thou hast to abandon a life of stillness and to obey the law which God and time gave to procreative nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Perspective is nothing more than a rational demonstration applied to the consideration of how objects in front of the eye transmit their image to it, by means of a pyramid of lines. The Pyramid is the name I apply to the lines which, starting from the surface and edges of each object, converge from a distance and meet in a single point."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The Bactrian have two humps; the Arabian one only. They are swift in battle and most useful to carry burdens. This animal is extremely observant of rule and measure, for it will not move if it has a greater weight than it is used to, and if it is taken too far it does the same, and suddenly stops and so the merchants are obliged to lodge there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: As regards this vice, we read that the peacock is more guilty of it than any other animal. For it is always contemplating the beauty of its tail, which it spreads in the form of a wheel, and by its cries attracts to itself the gaze of the creatures that surround it. And this is the last vice to be conquered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Painting embraces and contains within itself all the things which nature produces or which results from the fortuitous actions of men... he is but a poor master who makes only a single figure well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: One painter ought never to imitate the manner of any other; because in that case he cannot be called the child of nature, but the grandchild. It is always best to have recourse to nature, which is replete with such abundance of objects, than to the productions of other masters, who learnt everything from her."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The variety of colour in objects cannot be discerned at a great distance, excepting in those parts which are directly lighted up by the solar rays."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Every loss which we incur leaves behind it vexation in the memory, save the greatest loss of all, that is, death, which annihilates the memory, together with life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a most cruel and ruthless stepmother? I see thy children given into slavery to others without ever receiving any benefit, and in lieu of any reward for the services they have done for them they are repaid by the severest punishments."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: A single and distinct luminous body causes stronger relief in the objects than a diffused light; as may be seen by comparing one side of a landscape illuminated by the sun, and one overshadowed by clouds, and illuminated only by the diffused light of the atmosphere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: The instant the atmosphere is illuminated it will be filled with an infinite number of images which are produced by the various bodies and colours assembled in it. And the eye is the target, a lodestone, of these images."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: Those who become enamoured of the art, without having previously applied to the diligent study of the scientific part of it, may be compared to mariners who put to the sea in a ship without rudder or compass and therefore cannot be certain of arriving at the wished for port."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: When that which loves is united to the thing beloved it can rest there; when the burden is laid down it finds rest there. There will be eternal fame also for the inhabitants of that town, constructed and enlarged by him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: When the sun is covered by clouds, objects are less conspicuous, because there is little difference between the light and shade of the trees and the buildings being illuminated by the brightness of the atmosphere which surrounds the objects in such a way that the shadows are few, and these few fade away so that their outline is lost in haze."
  },
  {
    "text": "Leonardo da Vinci: I abhor the supreme folly of those who blame the disciples of nature in defiance of those masters who were themselves her pupils"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Knowing how to think empowers you far beyond those who know only what to think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I love being wrong because that means in that instant, I learned something new that day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Need a distraction today? Not only does 12 + 1 = 11 + 2, but the letters \"twelve plus one\" rearrange to give you \"eleven plus two.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We are part of this universe; we are in this universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts, is that the universe is in us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The problem, often not discovered until late in life, is that when you look for things like love, meaning, motivation, it implies they are sitting behind a tree or under a rock. The most successful people recognize, that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation. For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I dream of a world where the truth is what shapes people's politics, rather than politics shaping what people think is true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If factual information upsets you, then you are creating a world that is not embracing objective truths, and that's not how you advance a democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: It's better to understand something than to memorize something."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: One thing in life is for certain, the more profoundly baffled you have been in your life, the more open your mind becomes to new ideas."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Today, scientists sound the alarm on other environmental dangers. Vested interests still hire their own scientists to confuse the issue. But in the end, nature, will not be fooled."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The molecules that comprise our body are traceable to the crucibles of the centers of stars.These atoms and molecules are in us because, in fact, the universe is in us. And, we are not only figuratively, but literally, stardust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Everything we do understand about the universe - the periodic table of elements, Einstein's laws, Newton's laws, all of chemistry, all of biology - that's 4 percent of the universe. We got to the moon on the 4 percent we do understand. We landed on Mars on the 4 percent we do understand. So the day we crack the nut of the rest of that 95 percent... Oh my gosh."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Curious that we spend more time congratulating people who have succeeded than encouraging people who have not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: For me, I am driven by two main philosophies, know more today about the world than I knew yesterday. And along the way, lessen the suffering of others. You'd be surprised how far that gets you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: No one is dumb who is curious. The people who don't ask questions remain clueless throughout their lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If you want to assert a truth, first make sure it's not just an opinion that you desperately want to be true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Practically every food you buy in a store for consumption by humans is genetically modified food. There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There\u2019s no wild cows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Pretending to know everything closes the door to finding out what's really there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Does it mean, if you don't understand something, and the community of physicists don't understand it, that means God did it? Is that how you want to play this game? Because if it is, here's a list of things in the past that the physicists at the time didn't understand [and now we do understand] [...]. If that's how you want to invoke your evidence for God, then God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as time moves on - so just be ready for that to happen, if that's how you want to come at the problem"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: On Friday the 13th, April 2029, an asteroid large enough to fill the Rose Bowl as though it were an egg cup will fly so close to Earth that it will dip below the altitude of our communication satellites. We did not name this asteroid Bambi. Instead, we named it Apophis, after the Egyptian god of darkness and death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Why can't we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What's our excuse?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If your belief system is not founded in an objective reality, you should not be making decisions that affect other people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I don't have an issue with what you do in the church, but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me they've got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. Because that's when we're going to fight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When students cheat on exams, it's because our school system values grades more than students value learning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I wonder if, in fact, we have been observed by aliens and upon close examination of human conduct and human behavior they have concluded that there is no sign of intelligent life on Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Just to settle it once and for all: Which came first, the chicken or the egg? The egg, laid by a bird that was not a chicken."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Perhaps we\u2019ve never been visited by aliens because they have looked upon earth and decided there\u2019s no sign of intelligent life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: You can't have people making decisions about the future of the world who are scientifically illiterate. That's a recipe for disaster. And I don't mean just whether a politician is scientifically literate, but people who vote politicians into office."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Math is the language of the universe. So the more equations you know, the more you can converse with the cosmos."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Once upon a time, people identified the god Neptune as the source of storms at sea. Today we call these storms hurricanes.... The only people who still call hurricanes acts of God are the people who write insurance forms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Italy valued cathedrals while Spain valued explorers. So worldwide, five times as many people speak Spanish than Italian."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: People cited violation of the First Amendment when a New Jersey schoolteacher asserted that evolution and the Big Bang are not scientific and that Noah's ark carried dinosaurs. This case is not about the need to separate church and state; it's about the need to separate ignorant, scientifically illiterate people from the ranks of teachers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We should not be ashamed of not having answers to all questions yet... I'm perfectly happy staring somebody in the face saying, 'I don't know yet, and we've got top people working on it.' The moment you feel compelled to provide an answer, then you're doing the same thing that the religious community does: providing answers to every possible question."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: There are no wild, seedless watermelons. There's no wild cows... You list all the fruit, and all the vegetables, and ask yourself, is there a wild counterpart to this? If there is, it's not as large, it's not as sweet, it's not as juicy, and it has way more seeds in it. We have systematically genetically modified all the foods, the vegetables and animals that we have eaten ever since we cultivated them. It's called artificial selection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: ... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Our nation is turning into an idiocracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When we try to look farther into the universe we come to what appears to be the end of space but actually it's the beginning of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Imagine a world in which we are all enlightened by objective truths rather than offended by them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: How many times have you heard a person in a workplace say, \"I wasn't trained for this!\" That's an impossible reaction from a physicist, who would say, instead, \"Cool. A problem I've never seen before. Let's see how I can figure out how to solve it!\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: What are the lessons to be learned from this journey of the mind through the universe? That humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos. Have a nice day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: God is an ever receding pocket of\ufeff scientific ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: As areas of knowledge grow, so too do the perimeters of ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: My goal is not to shove information into your head. It's to find ways to reignite the curiosity that we all had as children for the natural world. You don't have to tell a child to explore the backyard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: America 2012: The Learning Channel has HoneyBooBoo, History Channel has PawnStars: and the Science Channel has PumpkinChunkin"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: For centuries, epilepsy was the exact expectation of someone being possessed by the Devil. There was no better explanation, and it allows you to admit the existence of the Devil. If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: God is an ever-receding pocket of scientific ignorance that's getting smaller and smaller and smaller as\ufeff time moves on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Science literacy is the artery through which the solutions of tomorrow's problems flow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: What would aliens say when told earthlings shift clocks twice a year to fool themselves into thinking there's more sunlight?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: WhenIWasYourAge: It took a week to learn whether your photos came out okay."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: He invited people to sign a petition that demanded either strict control of, or a total ban on, dihydrogen monoxide.... Yes, 86 percent of the passersby voted to ban water (H2O) from the environment. Maybe that's what really happened to all the water on Mars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I look up at the night sky, and I know that, yes, we are part of this Universe, we are in this Universe, but perhaps more important than both of those facts is that the Universe is in us. When I reflect on that fact, I look up \u2014 many people feel small, because they\u2019re small and the Universe is big, but I feel big, because my atoms came from those stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: A common way to compute density is, of course, to take the ratio of an object's mass to its volume. But other types of densities exist, such as the resistance of somebody's brain to the imparting of common sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If that god is described as being all-powerful and all-knowing and all-good, I don't see evidence for it anywhere in the world. So I remain unconvinced. If that god is all-powerful and all-good, I don't see that when a tsunami kills a quarter-million or an earthquake kills a quarter-million people. I'd like to think of good as something in the interest of your health or longevity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I object to religion in science classrooms not because it's religion but because it's not science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: WhenIWasYourAge: We had to open all doors by ourselves. None of them knew we were coming."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When a coincidence seems amazing, that's because the human mind isn\u2019t wired to naturally comprehend probability & statistics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: There is no true understanding of Biology without Chemistry. And there's no true understanding of Chemistry without Physics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If each dead person became a ghost, there'd be more than 100 billion of them haunting us all. Creepy, but cool."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Who knows how dead Lazarus was? Was Lazarus decomposing in a six-foot grave when Jesus resurrected him? No, he wasn't."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The day we stop exploring is the day we commit ourselves to live in a stagnant world, devoid of curiosity, empty of dreams."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'd like to live in a world where people embrace objective truths rather than be offended by them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: As religion is now practiced and science is now practiced, there is no intersection between the two. That is for certain. And it\u2019s not for want of trying. Over the centuries, many people\u2014theologians as well scientists - have tried to explore points of intersection. And anytime anyone has declared that harmony has risen up, it is the consequence of religion acquiescing to scientific discovery. In every single case."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I think everyone should have a personal mission to leave the Earth a better place for them having lived in it and let Earth then take it from there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Not only do we live among the stars, the stars live within us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Even with all our technology and the inventions that make modern life so much easier than it once was, it takes just one big natural disaster to wipe all that away and remind us that, here on Earth, we're still at the mercy of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: On this day long ago, a child was born who, by age 30, would transform the world. Happy Birthday Isaac Newton b. Dec 25, 1642"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Apart from the obvious advantages of having ice to melt, filter, then drink, you can also break apart the water's hydrogen from its oxygen. Use the hydrogen and some of the oxygen as active ingredients in rocket fuel and keep the rest of the oxygen for breathing. And in your spare time between space missions, you can always go ice skating on the frozen lake created with the extracted water."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Society needs to see science not as a luxury of funding but as a fundamental activity that drives enlightenment, economics, and security."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: As they are currently practiced, there is no common ground between science and religion... Although just as in hostage negotiations, it's probably best to keep both sides talking to each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I think that intelligence is such a narrow branch of the tree of life - this branch of primates we call humans. No other animal, by our definition, can be considered intelligent. So intelligence can't be all that important for survival, because there are so many animals that don't have what we call intelligence, and they're surviving just fine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Science is a philosophy of discovery. Intelligent design is a philosophy of ignorance. You cannot build a program of discovery on the assumption that nobody is smart enough to figure out the answer to a problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Kids are never the problem. They are born scientists. The problem is always the adults. They beat the curiosity out of kids. They outnumber kids. They vote. They wield resources. That's why my public focus is primarily adults."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Where did the concept of \"without borders\" come from? No one had that concept until you saw Earth from space, illustrated not by a mapmaker who's color-coding political boundaries; it's illustrated by nature itself and there's land, there's ocean, there's atmosphere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Never presume that just because you disagree with an idea that you must be correct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We went to the moon and discovered Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Many people are unhappy because there was some point in their past where there was some glory day, and as they get older they're not creating more glory days. They reflect on a time that they will never reach again, and it brings some level of dissatisfaction into their lives. I have circumvented that by simply making incumbent upon myself to always be productive in ways that are consistent with my physical body, my mental state of knowledge, but more important, my presumed growth in wisdom that would come with age."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I've said multiple times that the world's first trillionaire is going to be the person who exploits the resources of asteroids, the natural resources that are rare on earth and common on selected asteroids. So there are many different reasons you might want to go into space. You might want to spend your honeymoon on the far side of the moon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Right now people think God is dark energy and dark matter, the spirit. Go ahead and think that, but the day we can tell you exactly what it is - that it's gremlins in the vacuum of space or whatever - then what's your recourse at that point?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I have thoughts every day that are themselves tweets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I don't have an issue with what you do in the church but I'm going to be up in your face if you're going to knock on my science classroom and tell me I got to teach what you're teaching in your Sunday school. That's when we're going to fight... There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher 'that might not necessarily be true.' That's never happened. There are no scientists picketing out front of churches. There's been this coexistence forever, so to have religious communities knocking down the science door, there's something wrong there."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Civilization just takes it as a given that the whole world was flooding. Then science came and you had geology and modern astrophysics, and time became well understood going back billions of years. So enlightened religious people, as a necessity, had to shed the magical elements of the Bible. A little known fact is that Thomas Jefferson did just that. There's something called the Jefferson Bible. It's not widely publicized because it sort of conflicts with certain people's ideas of what the founding fathers were."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Curiously, light-loving green plants reject the Sun's green light, reflecting it back at you, which is why they look green."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: What are we promoting in society? Well-behaved automatons that spew back what they learned in a book. That's not science. You can get a parrot to do that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Kids should be allowed to break stuff more often. That's a consequence of exploration. Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: NASA was invented as a response to Cold War steps. There are those who presumed that we went to the moon because we're explorers. We went to the moon because we were at war with the Soviet Union. And so when it became clear that they (Soviet Union) were not going to the moon, we're done with the moon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Intelligent life can't be all that common because it's really rare on Earth and especially since we define ourselves to be intelligent. But in the eyes of an alien coming here who has the technology to make it here, they might observe us and conclude that there's no sign of intelligent life on Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If an artist is reaching for the universe as a source of creative muse, then I'm there. I'm gonna say, \"Yeah. Here's Saturn. Here's a black hole. Here's twisted space-time. Talk to me. What do you need? What do you want?\" And I'll just feed you, because I think only then does science become mainstream - when science becomes a legitimate topic for artists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: In the animal kingdom, one of the keys to survival is to outwit your enemies. And when you're surrounded by carnivores, one of the best strategies is to fade into the background and disappear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The history of exploration across nations and across time is not one where nations said, 'Let's explore because it's fun.' It was, 'Let's explore so that we can claim lands for our country, so that we can open up new trade routes; let's explore so we can become more powerful.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When I needed to overcome the low expectations of others or the bias that would be expressed in one circumstance or another, I'd keep on keeping on. And I climb over the obstacle, go around it, dig under it, fly over it. That's what kept me going. Otherwise I would have never been an astrophysicist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: For decades, we've been trying to cook up the building blocks of life, in the lab, and recreate the origins of it all, but the parts didn't seem to fit together, until now."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The great tragedy is that they're removing art completely, not because they're putting more science in, but because they can't afford the art teachers or because somebody thinks it's not useful. An enlightened society has all of this going on within it. It's part of what distinguishes what it is to be human from other life forms on Earth - that we have culture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Most science fiction is about tomorrow, a tomorrow brought to you by innovations in science and technology, and China was worried that if they just have everybody learning what is, they're not going to be in a position to invent a tomorrow because their brain isn't even wired to go in that direction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Cutting PBS support (0.012% of budget) to help balance the Federal budget is like deleting text files to make room on your 500Gig hard drive"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'm not criticizing the science in Star Wars. That's a waste of everybody's time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'm often asked whether I believe in Global Warming. I now just reply with the question: \"Do you believe in Gravity?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: In the New Testament, Thomas Jefferson cut out everything that was mystical, magical, miracle - physically with scissors - and then pasted in all that remained, such as Jesus's Sermon on the Mount."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: On Venus you could cook a 16-inch pepperoni pizza in seven seconds, just by holding it out to the air. (Yes, I did the math.)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The very nature of science is discoveries, and the best of those discoveries are the ones you don't expect."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We in astrophysics we think of the universe all the time. So to us, Earth is just another planet. From a distance, it's a speck. And I'm convinced that if everyone had a cosmic perspective you wouldn't have legions of armies waging war on other people because someone would say, \"Stop, look at the universe.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Jesus Christ rose up from the tomb. Well, he's the son of God, and now he's like God's spirit at this point. Why would a spirit need to move a rock? Why not just pass through the rock? But also, why wait for the guards to go to sleep?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: In terms of the most astonishing fact about which we know nothing, there is dark matter and dark energy. We don't know what either of them is. Everything we know and love about the universe and all the laws of physics as they apply, apply to four percent of the universe. That's stunning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Down there between our legs, it's like an entertainment complex in the middle of a sewage system. Who designed that?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Many people feel small because they're small and the universe is big, but I feel big."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: How much would you pay...for the Universe?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I would teach how science works as much as I would teach what science knows. I would assert (given that essentially, everyone will learn to read) that science literacy is the most important kind of literacy they can take into the 21st century. I would undervalue grades based on knowing things and find ways to reward curiosity. In the end, it's the people who are curious who change the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: After all, what nobler thought can one cherish than that the universe lives within us all?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The persistent failures of controlled, double-blind experiments to support the claims of parapsychology suggest that what's going on is nonsense rather than sixth sense."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I have a very high respect for professional comedians. What they do astonishes me. You have to be really smart and absorb everything, repackage it, bring it back to the person, and make them laugh at themselves. I can make people laugh during my talks because they didn't come to have me make them laugh. It's added value. So my job is way easier than that of a professional comic."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Science is not there for you to cherry pick ... You can decide whether or not to believe in it but that doesn\u2019t change the reality of an emergent scientific truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: This fear factor, this war driver is a very strong one and it's been with the species ever since the beginning and it motivated the Great Wall of China. War can be aggressive or defensive, right? So it motivated the Great Wall of China. Our space program was reactive to Russia."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: After your first job, is anyone asking you what your GPA was? No, they don't care. They ask you: Are you a good leader? Do people follow you? Do you have integrity? Are you innovative? Do you solve problems? Somebody's got to do that homework and redesign the educational system so that it can actually train people to be successful in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: WhenIWasYourAge: People were never \"living with their disease.\" We cured them. Or they died from it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Science surrounds you. It's not something that you can step aside, step over or push out of your way because you were never good at science in school. Science is around you. Once you know and embrace that fact, it might stimulate curiosity within you to learn more about the natural world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We are in the universe and the universe is in us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Whenever people have used religious documents to make accurate predictions about our base knowledge of the physical world, they have been famously wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When I shop for fruit & melons I like to hold a grape next to a cantaloupe & think of Earth next to Jupiter. Then I eat Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I simply go with what works. And what works is the healthy skepticism embodied in the scientific method. Believe me, if the Bible had ever been shown to be a rich source of scientific answers and enlightenment, we would be mining it daily for cosmic discovery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: ... informed ignorance provides the natural state of mind for research scientists at the ever-shifting frontiers of knowledge. People who believe themselves ignorant of nothing have neither looked for, nor stumbled upon, the boundary between what is known and unknown in the cosmos."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Where ignorance lurks, so too do the frontiers of discovery and imagination"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: You don't need to be a scientist to know Earth's age or that life evolved. You just need be one who embraces objective truths"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Some morning while your eating breakfast and you need something new to think about, though, you might want to ponder the fact that you see your kids across the table not as they are but as they once were, about three nanoseconds ago."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Creativity is seeing what everyone else sees, but then thinking a new thought that has never been thought before and expressing it somehow. It could be with art, a sculpture, music or even in science. The difference, however, between scientific creativity and any other kind of creativity, is that no matter how long you wait, no one else will ever compose \"Beethoven's Ninth Symphony\" except for Beethoven. No matter what you do, no one else will paint Van Gogh's \"Starry Night.\" Only Van Gogh could do that because it came from his creativity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The universe has really never made things in ones. The Earth is special and everything else is different? No, we\u2019ve got seven other planets. The sun? No, the sun is one of those dots in the night sky. The Milky Way? No, it\u2019s one of a hundred billion galaxies. And the universe - maybe it\u2019s countless other universes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I love the smell of the universe in the morning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The universe is hilarious! Like, Venus is 900 degrees. I could tell you it melts lead. But that's not as fun as saying, 'You can cook a pizza on the windowsill in nine seconds.' And next time my fans eat pizza, they're thinking of Venus!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Now imagine a world in which everyone, but especially people with power and influence, holds an expanded view of our place in the cosmos. With that perspective, our problems would shrink-or never arise at all-and we could celebrate our earthly differences while shunning the behavior of our predecessors who slaughtered each other because of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If Pizza sizes were given in area not diameter, you'd see instantly that a 7 inch is less than half the size of a 10 inch pie"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to put military bases on Mars, we'd be at Mars in two years. That would be quick. I don't want that to be the reason."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: There are street artists. Street musicians. Street actors. But there are no street physicists. A little known secret is that a physicist is one of the most employable people in the marketplace - a physicist is a trained problem solver."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Extreme skepticism and extreme gullibility are two equal ways of not having to think at all. And I don't think I'm the first to say that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: It could be that these other civilizations, if they are far more advanced intellectually than we are, would not even measure our existence as a blip on the intelligence radar. They could be so advanced that we are to them what worms are to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Emotional truths woven by lawyers in the court of law are apparently more important than the truths of actual events. I have grown to fear for those whose innocence became trapped within the legal system."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The only way you can invent tomorrow is if you break out of the enclosure that the school system has provided for you by the exams written by people who are trained in another generation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Typically, when you look for role models, you want someone who has your interests and came from the same background. Well, look how restricting that is. What people should do is take role models a la carte. If there's someone whose character you appreciated, you respect that trait."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I was raised Catholic. But if someone says I was raised in some religion, that's insufficient information to actually know what was going on. The real question is Was the religion in the household? The answer is no. Important decisions in the household were executed rationally and secularly. So as a result, the foundations of my reasoning derive not from religion but from the rational analysis of circumstances."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: It would be amazing if something completely spiritual sounding happened. Oh, my gosh! We'd be all over it. Because it's something new about the physical universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: 95, 96 percent of all that drives the universe has no known origin."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Space exploration is a force of nature unto itself that no other force in society can rival."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: My view is that if your philosophy is not unsettled daily then you are blind to all the universe has to offer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Dreams about the future are always filled with gadgets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If an alien lands on your front lawn and extends an appendage as a gesture of greeting, before you get friendly, toss it an eightball. If the appendage explodes, then the alien was probably made of antimatter. If not, then you can proceed to take it to your leader."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We are not simply in the universe, we are part of it. We are born from it. One might even say we have been empowered by the universe to figure itself out - and we have only just begun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: In life and in the universe it's always best to keep looking up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: No one is dumb who is curious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That's kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It's not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Not enough of our society is trained how to understand and interpret quantitative information. This activity is a centerpiece of science literacy to which we should all strive-the future health, wealth, and security of our democracy depend on it. Until that is achieved, we are at risk of making under-informed decisions that affect ourselves, our communities, our country, and even the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I've known from long ago that the universe was calling me. If you were one of those annoying adults that said, 'Oh, what are you gonna be when you grow up?' I would say, 'Astrophysicist .' And then they'd walk away real quickly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Science is a cooperative enterprise spanning the generations. It's the passing of a torch from teacher to student to teacher. A community of minds, reaching back to antiquity and forward to the stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I don't even think much about politicians. I think about the people in the audience who applaud the politicians. They are your fellow countrymen and they're the ones you live with - that should be who we target for education and enlightenment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: So what is true for life itself is no less true for the universe: knowing where you came from is no less important than knowing where you are going."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I don't want students who could make the next major breakthrough in renewable energy sources or space travel to have been taught that anything they don't understand, and that nobody yet understands, is divinely constructed and therefore beyond their intellectual capacity. The day that happens, Americans will just sit in awe of what we don't understand, while we watch the rest of the world boldly go where no mortal has gone before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying under-informed things. The change is that if you're in power and you say something under-informed, there are people out there with a voice who will take you to task for having done so"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Only when you question does society move or advance at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When we see animals doing remarkable things, how do we know if we're simply seeing tricks or signs of real intelligence? Are talented animals just obeying commands, or do they have some kind of deeper understanding? One of the biggest challenges for animal researchers is to come up with tests that can distinguish between the two."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: In any case, the leading edge of our \"on purpose\" radio signals is 30 light-years away and, if intercepted, may mend the aliens' image of us based on the radio bubble of our television shows. But this will happen only if the aliens can somehow determine which type of signal comes closer to the truth of who we are, and what our cosmic identity deserves to be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Merry Christmas to all. A Pagan holiday (BC) becomes a Religious holiday (AD). Which then becomes a Shopping holiday (USA)."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The best educators are the ones that inspire their students. That inspiration comes from a passion that teachers have for the subject they're teaching. Most commonly, that person spent their lives studying that subject, and they bring an infectious enthusiasm to the audience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I have yet to see a successful prediction about the physical world that was inferred or extrapolated from the content of any religions document."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'm not a scientist, I was not a good science student, I felt effectively alienated from science throughout my young life, and it was only when I became an adult that I began to really appreciate from a completely different angle the power of science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I would expunge the word \"aptitude\" from our vocabulary, because if you're interested in something, that's all that matters. You'll spend more time doing it, that than anything else, and possibly more time doing it than anybody else. And that's all that matters, because in the end, if you love what you do, you'll be your best at it compared to anything else you might have chosen as a career."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If you're a scientist, and you have to have an answer, even in the absence of data, you're not going to be a good scientist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Scientific truth is not what any one scientist puts forth. It can be that, but it is generally not. It is the sum of multiple studies that all lean in the same direction in their results conducted by different people at different times of different nationalities with different competitive urges who all end up getting the same result. Then you have an emerging scientific truth, and then you put that in the textbooks, and that will never be shown to be wrong later on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Nature is not here to keep you alive. It has just as many ways to kill you as it does to sustain you. And if you cherry-pick this fact, you are left thinking that earth is some haven for life, but 96, 97 percent of all species that ever lived on earth are now extinct from the actions of the earth itself and an occasional asteroid to stir the pot."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Great scientific minds, from Claudius Ptolemy of the second century to Isaac Newton of the seventeenth, invested their formidable intellects in attempts to deduce the nature of the universe from the statements and philosophies contained in religious writings.... Had any of these efforts worked, science and religion today might be one and the same. But they are not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We only recently figured out the origin of our own moon. And we have some idea of how the Sun and Earth formed, but that's only because modern telescopes empower us to see other stars and planets freshly hatched within gas clouds across the galaxy. As for the origin of life itself, the transition from inanimate molecules to what any of us would call life remains one of the great frontiers of biology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The cosmic calendar is quite a fertile mode for communicating how small we are over time and space."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: It's a weird state to be in to go to the Bible and try to invoke science, right?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I have a multivolume history of the world from the 19th century that begins with Noah's flood as though it's as historical a fact as the rise and fall of Rome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If Mars formed life, then life on Earth could have been seeded by life on Mars, making every life form on Earth descended from Martians."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: For centuries, magicians have intuitively taken advantage of the inner workings of our brains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: With no gravitational force to work against, your body not only doesn't need the same amount of muscle and bone, it starts breaking them down. As on Earth, so in space: use it or lose it. And exercise may not solve the problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The miniaturization of electronics, which ultimately was driven by the marketplace, was started by NASA, because it costs money to get something into orbit. So you want to trim your electronics, miniaturize your electronics, miniaturize your satellites."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We still refer to sunrise, sunset. That only has meaning if you think that Earth is in the center of things, and everything is moving around us. So even though we know intellectually Earth goes around the sun, the language is still pre-Copernican, as we would call it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'd like - inviting aliens and have them observe what we do because so much of what we do that we take for granted will just be weird or extraordinary or just plain dumb when observed by an alien from another civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: So not enough people in this world, I think, carry a cosmic perspective with them. It could be life-changing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We already know the limits of Einstein's theories. From the centers of black holes at the very beginning of the universe - we call these singularities - Einstein's equations fail. In fact, people have joked that's where God is dividing by zero."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Research in education has shown that we remember field trips long into adulthood. I remember visiting the post office in second grade and looking at the sorting machine. I have vivid memories of that, when I don't even remember the name of the teacher who took me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the time. It's whole universes coming into and out of existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Once you've got the makings of a star, gravity draws leftover gas and dust into a giant swirling disk. The dust continues to stick together, clumping into rocky asteroids, which eventually become orbiting rocky planets. And voila: a solar system!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: In the first year of a child's life we teach them to walk and talk. And then for the rest of their lives we want them to sit down and be quiet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: That is a cosmic perspective, that's correct. And in tandem with that, you will never find people who truly grasp the cosmic perspective such as the entire community of astrophysicists leading nations into battle. No, that doesn't happen. When you have a cosmic perspective, there's this little speck called Earth and you say you're going to do what? You're on this side of a line in the sand and you want to kill people for what?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: You can't be a writer and have nothing to write about. You have to have life experiences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: You could do math early, but there are no brilliant 16-year-old novelists. They don't know the human condition yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: As an educator, I try to get people to be fundamentally curious and to question ideas that they might have or that are shared by others. In that state of mind, they have earned a kind of inoculation against the fuzzy thinking of these weird ideas floating around out there. So rather than correct the weird ideas, I would rather them to know how to think in the first place. Then they can correct the weird idea themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Curiosity is a self-driven motivation to explore and to learn. Learning is like... you know, you have to take your medicine. And that is what it has become. And that's unfortunate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The idea that God resides in the unknown is what philosophers call the God of the gaps. And we have this thing called science, which marches on and makes discoveries in those gaps, ultimately closing gaps."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I've accomplished enough in life so that I do not fear death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of my body and mind after death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The school system is constructed to praise you if you get high grades. And if you get straight A's, you're the one that everyone puts forward, and they prognosticate that the straight-A person is the one most likely to succeed, because that's the way the school system is constructed and conceived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: You have the illusion of free will, but, in fact, that illusion comes about because you don't know the future. Because you are a prisoner of the present, forever locked in transition, between the past and the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I don't see why there is no intelligent alien life in the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: People think about life from day-to-day rather than thinking about life as something that invents a new kind of tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We're quite happy with our Big Bang description of cosmic origins. But actually, the Big Bang accounts for what happened only after the beginning. The beginning itself, and especially what happened before, remains the biggest mystery of all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We still don't know for sure what the trigger was, but since we've discovered meteorites with supernova dust, we do know that a violent explosion rocked our cosmic neighborhood at the time of our birth, and it's quite possible that without it, our stable, stately solar system would never exist at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: In fact, I think it was the philosopher Hume who argued that it's far more likely that a miracle is a new physical phenomenon that we have yet to discover and have now discovered in that moment than it is a spiritual force coming down from God making something happen in front of you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: You ask people, do you pray to [a person or] God. If you say yes to that, you're religious by, presumably, anybody's standards of your conduct. And it's the yes to that question that applies to 40% of scientists. So, there're plenty of atheists who are scientists or not scientists. There maybe a conflict but many people in this country coexist in both worlds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Hunting for meteorites is like trying to find a pebble on miles of beach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: when I wrestled, I would set aside the time to wrestle, so that in my mind it didn't interfere with my study time. That helped me psychologically. When I'm wrestling, I'm not studying the universe. And when I'm studying the universe, I'm not wrestling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Once something is answered, then there's another question. Hence the eternal quest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Some air you inhale was exhaled by Cleopatra."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We are not figuratively, but literally stardust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Last I checked, Bill Gates was worth $50 billion. If the average employed adult, who is walking in a hurry, will pick up a quarter from the sidewalk, but not a dime, then the corresponding amount of money given their relative wealth that Bill Gates would ignore if he saw it lying on the street is $25,000."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I would rather enlighten the electorate so that when it's time for them to put somebody in Congress, it will be self-evident that they will embrace the message and tools and discovery of science in a way that can transform our culture and even our civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The chances that your tombstone will read 'Killed by Asteroid' are about the same as they'd be for 'Killed in Airplane Crash.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'm a fan of the planets in any combination. When I was born, Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, the Sun, and the Moon were all in the sky."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When Kennedy said, 'Let's go to the moon,' we didn't yet have a vehicle that wouldn't kill you on launch. He said we'll land a man on the moon in eight years and bring him back. That was an audacious goal to put forth in front of the American people."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When you're enlightened, you don't have to reference other people, because you yourself are enlightened. And that's a better Earth. People can make more informed decisions politically, culturally, personally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Here's what I'm wondering: if, digitally, you can remove red-eye, smooth over wrinkles, make people look thinner, then why don't we have the technology to make me sing better?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: There is a growing awareness that we're losing our technological competitive edge. I think there's an awareness that we're losing our leadership, and that maybe our self image over the past several decades has been a little bit delusional."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Some memories are best absorbed through your eyes in real time, even if you have no record of it later. Because then you can access that memory and how you felt in that moment. If you're looking at your cellphone screen, taking a video of something that is otherwise unforgettable, watching it later will not recover the emotion you would have had, had you witnessed it directly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'd bet almost anything that life from another planet, if formed independently from life on Earth, would be more different from all species of Earth life than any two species of Earth life are from each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If Neptune were analogized with a Chevy Impala in mass, then how big is pluto compared to that? Pluto would be a matchbox car sitting on the curb."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Any time we are answer-driven rather than idea driven, we have lost the true meaning of education."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If you're denying God's power, that means you don't really believe they were miracles, and so then why believe they happened at all. What you're saying is you're taking the Bible's account as literally true in need of a scientific explanation rather than just people coming up with stuff to fulfill their religious missions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: You don't discard Newton. Newton becomes the limiting case of how you would apply Einstein's theories."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Deep down within anyone there's a flame that maybe had gone dormant that can be fanned or ignited in case it had blown out. This is the flame of curiosity, the flame of wonder, of awe, of all the things that make you want to learn something more tomorrow than you knew today."
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  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I want to encourage people to not think in terms of gifts, but think in terms of, wow. You work hard to succeed at that, because that's exactly what I do."
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  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that belief."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When you advance a frontier, you're doing something that no one has done before. Every time that happens, you have to innovate. You have to think in new ways that hadn't been thought before. You have to invent a new piece of hardware, a new concept, a new law of physics, a new material, a new construction material to enable you to accomplish what it is that you chose to reach for by dreaming about tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?"
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  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: People put clips of me up. There are quotes from me. I've written books, of course. I'm on Twitter. There are dozens of ways to consume my offerings, and a lecture in a large venue is really only just one of them. So I have no concerns about how much access people would have to me no matter what is the capacity of your pocketbook."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I see myself in pop culture. I listen to pop music, I do pop things, and I'm also a scientist."
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  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Essentially every scientist, when posed with the question, \"If you want to get science knowledge from Mars, do you want to send a geologist or do you want to send a robot?\" Well, the real answer is, you can send 100 robots for the price of sending one geologist, so let's send 100 robots to 100 different locations, and then we would all benefit. So that's the answer you would get. And I agree with that answer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The people talking on their cell phone and following GPS instructions to where grandma's house is saying I don't need space - excuse me, that's how you know where grandma lives, and when to make the left turn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Only when creative people take ownership of cosmic discovery will society accept science as the cultural activity that it is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If you're interested in something, that's all that matters. You'll spend more time doing it, that than anything else, and possibly more time doing it than anybody else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I think we are all the sum of that which has happened in our lives. And if you're successful, it would be wrong to think that you'd be more successful had something been easier. That's not a given."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: You gotta be a good sport! So when I would lose, I would say, \"That guy was better than I was; what do I have to do to be better next time?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: One of the things that fascinates me most is when people are so charmed by the universe that it becomes part of their artistic output."
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  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When you innovate no one else can figure out how to do what you're doing because you're too far ahead of them. And the day they do figure out, you're on to the next object, the next widget, the next concept in innovation. And so America has benefited economically from the space race even though it was driven by military."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I love the future we might invent for ourselves that I have not yet dreamt of."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If something comes up that is completely freaky, it's spiritual-looking to the scientist, the first explanation is not going to be that it's God, because the history of that has failed. It would have to be, like, the hundredth explanation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Astrophysicists perfected navigation. We perfected all these things that matter to the power of nations manifest on the world stage. So we want to go into space. That's the new high ground, right? We care about multispectral imaging of things. Well, that's what reconnaissance wants to do. So our expertise has been in bed with national security needs forever. So maybe, secretly, that's why they keep us employed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I am not the most annoying person to bring to a movie 'cause I basically hold it in and write about it later or tweet about it. The most annoying people to bring to movies, I think we all agree, are those who read the book first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Like a snowplow in overdrive, a supernova shockwave might sweep away any gas clouds in its path."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The whole society has to recognize the importance of the value in embracing what science is going into the 21st Century. Otherwise, we might as well start packing and moving back into the cave right now, because that's where we'll end up."
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  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We went to the moon using just Newton's laws of motion and gravity. Newtonian dynamics we call it. So then we find out, \"Well, this works because there's certain regimes we've never tested it in.\" Had we done so, we would show that it didn't work: For example, at very high speeds, very high gravity, Newton's laws fail. They just fail. You need Einstein's laws of motion and gravity. Those would be his special theory of relativity and general theory of relativity. Now you invoke those and it works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I can tell you about the universe, but she feels it; and when you feel the universe, it has a whole other meaning to you. Otherwise, you just put a Wiki page on camera. You can learn something, but it won't mean anything to you later on."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I think science has a better story to tell than anyone else has been able to tell and that's because it's based on the rigorous winnowing that science and scientists are always doing in order to find out what's really happening. I think it's really good to encourage generally our ability to tell stories and that's a great skill that we come by naturally, so I'm excited about that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The show [ StarTalk ] was born as a radio program out of a National Science Foundation grant."
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  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: One of the reasons we're here, that we exist at all, is that Earth, cosmically speaking, is in a relatively peaceful place: orbiting our Sun in a near perfect circle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If aliens did visit us, I'd be embarrassed to tell them we still dig fossil fuels from the ground as a  source of energy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: There's no shortage of people that we can put on, because science touches us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Asteroids have us in our sight. The dinosaurs didn't have a space program, so they're not here to talk about this problem. We are, and we have the power to do something about it. I don't want to be the embarrassment of the galaxy, to have had the power to deflect an asteroid, and then not, and end up going extinct."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When you're a hammer (as the saying goes), all your problems look like nails. If you're a meteorite expert pondering the sudden extinction of boatloads of species, you'll want to say an impact did it. If you're an igneous petrologist, volcanoes did it. If you're into spaceborne bioclouds, an interstellar virus did it. If you're a hypernova expert, gamma rays did it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Don't know if it's good or bad that a Google search on \u201cBig Bang Theory\u201d lists the sitcom before the origin of the Universe"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If your ego starts out, \"I am important, I am big, I am special,\" you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Those who see the cosmic perspective as a depressing outlook, they really need to reassess how they think about the world. Because when I look up in the universe, I know I'm small but I'm also big. I'm big because I'm connected to the universe and the universe is connected to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The limits on your enlightenment come not from the age you stopped going to school but from the age you stopped being curious."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When everyone agrees to a single solution and a single plan, there's nothing more efficient in the world than an efficient democracy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: By the way, were we to find life-forms on Venus, we would probably call them Venutians, just as people from Mars would be Martians. But according to rules of Latin genitives, to be \u201cof Venus\u201d ought to make you a Venereal. Unfortunately, medical doctors reached that word before astronomers did. Can\u2019t blame them, I suppose. Venereal disease long predates astronomy, which itself stands as only the second oldest profession."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We're talking about a being whose very existence challenges our own sense of priority in the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: My investment of time, as an educator, in my judgment, is best served teaching people how to think about the world around them. Teach them how to pose a question. How to judge whether one thing is true versus another."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I lose sleep at night wondering whether we are intelligent enough to figure out the universe. I don't know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: You like to explore things, and your parents don't like it because it gets the pots and pans dirty, and because it's noisy - but for you it's fun, you're resting. You're actually doing experiments... Just tell your parents that they're experiments, and you want to become a scientist, and then they won't stop you from doing anything you want."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Relativity. Gravity. Quantum. Electrodynamics. Evolution. Each of these theories is true, whether or not you believe in them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I never got into 'Star Wars.' Maybe because they made no attempt to portray real physics. At all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: This influential, yet controversial idea requires that the mixture of species on Earth at any moment acts as a collective organism that continuously (yet unwittingly) tunes Earth's atmospheric composition and climate to promote the presence of life... But I'd bet there are some dead Martians and Venusians who advanced the same theory about their own planets a billion years ago."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Ever since there have been people, there have been explorers, looking in places where other hadn't been before. Not everyone does it, but we are part of a species where some members of the species do, to the benefit of us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We should not measure our space-faring era by where footprints have been laid.... We should measure our era by how many people take no notice at all. A legacy rises to become culture only when its elements are so common that they no longer attract comment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If you get asteroids about a kilometer in size, those are large enough and carry enough energy into our system to disrupt transportation, communication, the food chains, and that can be a really bad day on Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Mars once was wet and fertile. It's now bone dry. Something bad happened on Mars. I want to know what happened on Mars so that we may prevent it from happening here on Earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: But my vote for Venus's most peculiar feature is the presence of craters that are all relatively young and uniformly distributed over its surface. This innocuous-sounding feature implicates a single planetwide catastrophe that reset the cratering clock... turning Venus's entire surface into the American automotive dream-a totally paved planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: What scientists want next is a thorough comparison of what we and exosolar planets and vagabonds look like. Only in this way will we know whether our home life is normal or whether we live in a dysfunctional solar family."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K for days on end, making them hardy enough to endure being stranded on Neptune. So the next time you need space travelers with the right stuff, you might want to choose yeast and tardigrades, and leave your astronauts, cosmonauts, and taikonauts at home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The past is another planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Wanna lose 1200 Calories a month? Drink a liter of ice water a day. You burn the energy just raising the water to body temp."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: In modern times, if the sole measure of what\u2019s out there flows from your five senses then a precarious life awaits you."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We fail in even the simplest of all scientific observations-nobody looks up anymore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite \u2018telescope envy\u2019 at gatherings of amateur astronomers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: With automatic spell checkers running unleashed over what we compose, our era is that of correctly spelled typos."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: There is no science in this world like physics. Nothing comes close to the precision with which physics enables you to understand the world around you. It's the laws of physics that allow us to say exactly what time the sun is going to rise. What time the eclipse is going to begin. What time the eclipse is going to end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Let us not fool ourselves into thinking we went to the Moon because we are pioneers, or discoverers, or adventurers. We went to the Moon because it was the militaristically expedient thing to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Newton, Einstein, and every other great scientist in history...They all made mistakes. Of course they did. They're human! Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: To believe in a universe as young as 6 or 7,000 years old is to extinguish the light from most of the galaxy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Astronomers do not commonly use Venereal, in favor of the less contagious-sounding Venutian. Blame the medical community, who snatched the word long before astronomers had any good use for it. I suppose you can't blame the doctors. Venus is the goddess of beauty and love, so she ought to be the goddess of its medical consequences."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I have a personal philosophy in life: If somebody else can do something that I'm doing, they should do it. And what I want to do is find things that would represent a unique contribution to the world-the contribution that only I, and my portfolio of talents, can make happen. Those are my priorities in life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If you seek only easy problems to solve, then ultimately, there'll be nothing about you to distinguish yourself from others."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: It's part of our pop culture to give animals human personalities and talents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: For the film to  'earn' the right to be criticized on a scientific level is a high compliment indeed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: On some issues, I'm a staunch Conservative \u2014 like curtailing greenhouse gas emissions so that we can Conserve the environment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: What are you doing? Why are you concerning yourself with the meaning of meaning?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We didn't build the interstate system to connect New York to Los Angeles because the West Coast was a priority. No, we webbed the highways so people can go to multiple places and invent ways of doing things not thought of by the persons building the roads."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Where there's water on Earth, you find life as we know it. So if you find water somewhere else, it becomes a remarkable draw to look closer to see if life of any kind is there, even if it's bacterial, which would be extraordinary for the field of biology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Words that make questions may not be questions at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Computers have proved to be formidable chess players. In fact, they've beaten our top human chess champions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I suppose I can live with missing decimals, missing floors to tall buildings, and floors that are named instead of numbered. A more serious problem is the limited capacity of the human mind to grasp the relative magnitudes of large numbers. Counting at the rate of one number per second...to count to a trillion takes 32,000 years, which is as much time as has elapsed since people first drew on cave walls."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Odd how often blood is shed to obtain freedom from those in power. Oppressors must be the most insecure people in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: And I don't care what else anyone has ever told you, the Sun is white, not yellow. Human color perception is a complicated business, but if the Sun were yellow, like a yellow lightbulb, then white stuff such as snow would reflect this light and appear yellow-a snow condition confirmed to happen only near fire hydrants."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: For your own safety, do not ever tell an astrophysicist, I hope all your stars are twinkling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Santa knows Physics: Of all colors, Red Light penetrates fog best. That's why Benny the Blue-nosed reindeer never got the gig."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I was born the same week NASA was founded, so we're the same age and feel some of the same pains, joys, and frustrations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Gamma rays are the sort of radiation you should avoid. Want proof? Just remember how the comic strip character \"The Hulk\" became big, green, and ugly."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I [do not know] when the end of science will come. ... What I do know is that our species is dumber than we normally admit to ourselves. This limit of our mental faculties, and not necessarily of science itself, ensures to me that we have only just begun to figure out the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: It seems that we're better at finding someone to blame for our problems than we are at finding creative solutions to fix them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: It's progress I think, that science has joined philosophy, metaphysics & religion as subjects drunk people argue about in bars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Evidence my 14yr old daughter is geek-literate: In lieu of OK, one might type K while texting. She instead typed \"Potassium\"."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: People are really excited about robotic exploration. I understand the feeling there because, in fact, robots can do things humans can't. They can survive harsh conditions, they can explore places we would never go, plus you never actually have to bring them back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: As the plow pushes through a parking lot of light fluffy snow, the snow clumps together in bigger and bigger chunks. Out in space, pressure hitting a gas cloud has a similar effect, except, instead of snowballs, you get stars!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Going into orbit around Earth - where the space station is today, and where the space shuttles and John Glenn and all those folks go-that's three-eighths of an inch above a schoolroom globe, just FYI. That's not very far from Earth. Yes, you are off Earth, but you're not really going anywhere yet. The moon was the only real destination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If there's a Devil, that mean's there's a God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Everyone has all different experiences in school. I just know that throughout my life, at no time did any teacher ever point to me and say, hey. He'll go far."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: It turns out that the history of astrophysics is where we perfected time keeping."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'm not hard to find. I'm all over the Internet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: You could be a poet, an artist, a comedian - if you're in the culture of innovation then you embrace those who do and you're going to protect the science curriculum in the classroom because you understand the meaning and the value of it. And science discoveries don't scare you. You say, \"Give me more science\", not less. \"Give me more technology\", not less."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When I wrestled, I would set aside the time to wrestle, so that in my mind it didn't interfere with my study time. If I'd say, \"I'm going to study this many hours, then I'm going to go work out and wrestle,\" then when that time comes, you don't feel like you should be doing something else. That helped me psychologically. But otherwise? When I'm wrestling, I'm not studying the universe. And when I'm studying the universe, I'm not wrestling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If I'm looking fit and I'm not, then I'm cheating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Spin-off technologies are changing the culture. Even if you don't become an engineer you could be a poet, a journalist, a lawyer, but you will be thinking innovation and your actions within society, who you vote for, what you value, all become a participant in an innovation economy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: You can get an Egg McMuffin all day; you just can't get the hamburger all day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We have people who believe they are scientifically literate but, in fact, are not."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The world, I think, has too many late-night talk shows."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I knew my interest in the universe and I owned a telescope that I bought with money I earned by walking dogs. 50 cents per walk, per dog, and that accumulated quickly. I bought a camera, a telescope. I taught myself astrophotography. I did all this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: This universe knows about me and my crops."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Not everyone is going to like science as a subject."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If you look at Einstein's equations and put in low speeds and low gravity, they become Newton's equations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: You innovate in ways that stoke your economy. Because innovations in science and technology are the engines of 21st century economies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Wanting to do one thing can require that you take on other interests."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Access to science is greater than ever before. There are more vehicles out there that grant the public access to science. Not to mention the Internet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Newton came up with Newton's laws of motion and gravity. They worked. They were working."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Speaking as just simply an American who cares about the economic health of our country, I see one of the surest ways to bring wealth and prosperity to the country is to innovate in science and technology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I don't like trying to influence politicians, who are themselves representative of huge numbers of people. As an educator, I'd rather enlighten the people and educate the people and let they be the ones who put the pressure on their elected officials."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The universe for me was other planets and other star systems and other galaxies. I enjoyed tracking it, but it had no specific influence on my ambitions for that reason. It wasn't really far enough away from Earth to matter to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The universe is so amazing and so limitless, who wouldn't want to study the universe?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The Earth is just one place of many that we could hang our hats."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The discovery of any kind of life [in Space] at all would be a tremendous watershed moment in biology, as well as all of science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: So many people have that kind of attitude and approach to learning that it gives me great hope for the world. I say hope in the sense that innovations in science and technology will be the engines of a 21st century economy and I don't want to go broke, as a nation. So, the hope I have is that, if people embrace it, we'll have a healthier, more secure, wealthier nation than we have."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Plenty of people get excited about the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Dark matter and dark energy are two things we measure in the universe that are making things happen, and we have no idea what the cause is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Whatever I am, I'm not as bad as the person that read the novel before watching the film. I'll enjoy whatever they [producers] are putting in front of me. If they made an attempt to get things right, then I'll criticize them for what they got wrong. If they made no attempt to get things right, and yet they stumble on something that's right, I'll comment on what they got right."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: As an educator, I think educators should meet the people wherever they are. Don't even ask them to come half-way. Find them where they are, and sit on a couch with them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Our planet has been around only for four and a half billion years. Let's imagine a planet that has life on it such as life is on Earth and it's seven billion years old. Let's say that planet evolved intelligence. Well, that intelligence would be way more advanced than what we call intelligence here on Earth. How long has intelligence been around on Earth as we've come to define it?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If NASA were advancing a space frontier there would be challenges you've never seen before. You have to be creative and you have to patent some new idea. You get to Mars...well, how do we get the water from the soil? I gotta invent a new device that will do that. And the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, how can we use that? Can we breathe the oxygen from the carbon dioxide?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Evil or not, the recording industry kept Auto-Tune on the down-low. Cher's producer forced Auto-Tune to jump suddenly from one pitch to the next."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When you're advancing a frontier it stimulates creativity to find solutions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I can't think that leaving Earth once is enough."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Today, in this, the 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Let's invent a new tomorrow and then make it happen. Let's invent the city of tomorrow, the home of tomorrow, the transportation of tomorrow."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I see all this talk about jobs going overseas as a symptom of the absence of innovation. And the absence of innovation is a symptom of there being no major national priority to advance a frontier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: There are books on my shelf that I'm not into. They are things I don't know anything about yet. It's going to lead me off into a new place. The books don't represent an interest; they represent a source of my ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The people that first climbed Mt. Everest weren't scientists, right, they were adventurers. If you're an adventurer, you want to go yourself. It's different than a scientist, who is simply wanting to learn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Pop culture is the scaffold we all carry around with us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The most creative people are motivated by the grandest of problems that are presented before them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: My popularity does not derive from me pandering to people. People came to me. I don't tell anyone to follow me on Twitter. I don't tell people to like my Facebook page. I don't tell people to fill the venue. I'm offered to people, and then people come."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If you look at the history of unexplained phenomena that was first explained by spiritual, mystical forces, the track record is not very good for the mystical, magical explanations to survive against more quote \"mundane\" physical explanations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'm an educator, and I'm a scientist, and I speak what is objectively true. And if that offends you, I can try to have a conversation with you to ask why it offends you, and tell you why objective truth should not offend you because that's how the world works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I don't want to go back into space for military reasons, but the economic driver still remains. And so it's a matter of people understanding how that economic driver is revealed with healthy investments on the space frontier."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Without new economies, our old economies get our jobs taken from them because everyone else has figured out how to do it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When you innovate, the jobs can't go overseas because other countries haven't figured out how to do it yet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: With ticket prices, do you ask yourself, why I'm paying $70 to see the arts? You say, \"No, that's what the symphony is costing me.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: There was a transition going on - Baghdad being the intellectual capital of the world where major advances were made in agriculture and mathematics and engineering and medicine and astronomy, and then that all sort of collapsed. And I was trying to understand how such a intellectually fertile environment can lose its compass bearing. Because I think about the creative centers today - countries, or even regions. Will Silicon Valley always be as innovative? Will the United States be innovative, or will we become complacent?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: As important as the civil rights movement was, I think what will rise to the top is that we left Earth in that time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If there's some kind of rock star status, would I be irresponsible if I didn't somehow use it for a continued greater good? I'm always involved in some way with reaching the public."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I don't have specific television ambitions in the sense that I remain fundamentally and academic, and so, my innermost ambitions are what's the next discovery I can make; that's in my direct center."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: One trait stands out in nearly all meteorites: metal; they've got it. So, the best way to find a meteorite is to hear it first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: In physics, opinions don't matter, only demonstrated experiments. The day the fellow succeeds, if ever, he won't need anybody else's opinion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I always wanted to be respected for my mind."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Modern science is under no obligation to satisfy the expectations of your five senses."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I would say - and paint doesn't peel unless it's acrylic paint, so maybe it is acrylic paint that they're using, not oil paint. So let me say yes, it would be acrylic house paint, which, when it dries, peels very nicely. So let's go with that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Science is not just 'Here are some facts, learn that'. There's a thread through these stories that, if you know how to tell it because you know how they connect, then it's a thread that will land right in your mind, body and soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Also, where does your identity come from? Your memory, of course."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If there's something that someone else can do, let them do it. If I couldn't do it uniquely, let someone else do it and I would get back to the lab."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I agree that we should go back to the moon and on to Mars. We should treat all objects in the solar system, including comets and asteroids, as exploration targets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: You know, there's black holes and what - could there be wormholes? Could - might there be a multi-verse? These are all fascinating frontiers. What is the nature of dark matter and dark energy? And what was around before the universe? And do we have access to higher dimensions?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: My interest in the space program has a certain purity to it because I recognize the romance of it but I was never seduced by it. That allowed me to view it through a more purely scientific lens. My interest in space while in school came about through my scientific activities."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I think I'm misunderstood when I post these comments about films. So here is Kate Winslet sitting on - you know, laying on this plank. This ship is down. She let her boyfriend drown. They didn't even try a second time to get him to float on that with her. So I'm angry by that. I think..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I don't know why a beauty salon would have a cop's hat and the curling irons are not deadly unless they're still plugged in and they're hot. So I'm not quite sure about that. But I don't know who remembers anymore that you can ignite spray cans, plus there aren't really any spray cans anymore 'cause that was destroying the ozone layer. So I'm - actually, I'll have to go with they chased him with the curling irons."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I believe that the manned space program can engage the public by advancing the space frontier. Every next mission takes you farther out in space than you were before, either technologically or in terms of distance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Wow, monitor lizards are pretty gnarly creatures. I want to go with the monitor lizard. That's just weird enough to be true. No?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'd go back and hang out with Isaac Newton. I'm torn between do I hang out with him or do I bring him into the present to hang out with me. See, that might be terrifying because his head will just explode once he sees everything that was derived from his discoveries, but I'd spend more time with someone who I think is one of the most brilliant minds our species has ever known."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Space is the ultimate frontier. I think when people historically thought of the frontier, there was where you were living and then there was some edge beyond which no one had explored."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If we want to unlock the secret behind the origin of our sun and its planets, it would be helpful to find some remnants from the birth itself, an event that took place about four-and-a-half-billion years ago."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We're an elective democracy where science and technology will define where the economically strong countries in the world will be. And science and technological literacy is important for security, as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Part of what it is to be scientifically-literate is how you think about information that's presented in front of you. I think that's the great challenge. You have people who believe they do know how to think about the information, but don't, and they're in the position of power and legislation. You can't base a society on non-objectively verifiable truth. Otherwise, it's a fantasy land and science is the pathway to those emerging truths that are hard-earned and that some have taken decades, if not centuries, to emerge from experiments all around the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: You can deceive yourself into thinking that America is a technological leader, but if you don't see what anyone else is doing you have no accurate assessment - you can't make an accurate assessment of where you fit and why. I consider our moving frontier in space as the anecdote to that downward trend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I've never been the critic of reality TV that others have, especially many of my colleagues who wonder if it's just the end of America. It's a free market and you just put it on. The fact that science has not been on neck-and-neck with it means that people believe science could not compete on that level."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The history of science shows that great mysteries get solved. It may be that there's an answer that humans are too stupid to understand. I'm intrigued by that possibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: 85 percent of the gravity of the universe has a point of origin about which we know nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Science, and its impact on a person's livelihood is the common denominator."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: You should chose your heroes a-la carte. Picking and choosing from one and then another, thereby assembling a kind of composite hero. That way when you discover something reprehensible about any one of them it matters nothing to you because that's not the part of them that piqued your interest."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: In this 21st century, bedtime doesn't matter at all. All that matters is what you set for your DVR [Digital Video Recorder]."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I as an astrophysicist, see the universe, feel the universe, smell the universe every day. Every day. And for people to say, I'm cool, I'm right here, it's all I need."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: In America, there are people who don't read science fiction but still think about tomorrow, so it's not only the force of science-fiction that makes you a tomorrow thinker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: No one with a living room radio that was a piece of furniture at the time would say, gee. I want to carry that around on my hip pocket. That was not a thought until NASA initiated this whole exercise. So there's an influence that's not just spinoff."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'm a little fatigued of adults saying we've got to worry about the kids. And these are the same adults that don't know science and are running things and wielding resources and legislation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: As children we all wonder - we wonder all the time. And that gets lost in adulthood. It gets beaten out, it gets filtered out or diluted out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: 'Cause a musician, you can't tell me, \"I've got this message I want share with the public,\" and it's three-and-a-half minutes long. That's not it. If your message is only three-and-a-half minutes long, then we got nothing else to talk about. Because life is more complex than three-and-a-half minutes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how you think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Because we all just function, the rest of us, just go to work and come home; artists make life bearable. They give perspectives on things we never knew you could have. They bring joy. They explore inner human emotion, and at its best, the full dynamic range of that emotion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Just before I said I wanted to be an astronomer I said I wanted to be a baseball player. I was quite athletic at the time, probably because I was bigger than other kids, and if you're bigger than other kids and you're 11 you win everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: It would be great if we were on multiple planets, but I think that's unrealistic. Hawking says we have to be on multiple planets so an asteroid could come and you'd still have some humans left. It's a nice idea. It satisfies the multiple-eggs-in-multiple-baskets concept."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: A state of negative energy means that you are essentially getting something for nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The history of exploration has never been driven by exploration. But Columbus himself was a discoverer. So was Magellan. But the people who wrote checks were not. They had other motivations. And there's Columbus - he couldn't even get Italy to pay for his voyage so he has to go to Spain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When you advance a frontier and you do tomorrow what's never been done today, you have to innovate to make that happen. You become an innovation culture. When I grew up, every time I turned around it was, \"Oh, here's the longest bridge or the deepest tunnel or the fastest airplane.\" And I originally thought that was just kind of like a pissing contest with men with too much testosterone. And then I realized that to make the tallest building you have to innovate. To make the fastest train you have to design the train in a way that it's never been designed before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Here's something that intrigues me: If you have faith, you believe regardless of the evidence, yet if there's ever evidence to support faith, everyone goes to it and points to it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I think the material that inspires artists is the fabric of the soul of civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When I would lose matches, I fully respected the person who beat me, because they beat me. I can't blame anybody."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Part of me thinks that I've been called by the universe, to get all sort of spiritual about it. Like, I've had no actual say in the matter. The universe found me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If you love what you do, you'll be your best at it compared to anything else you might have chosen as a career. Or at least you will love it more, and you won't lead a depressed day of your life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: This past year, we received our second Emmy nomination for Outstanding Informational Series. While we'd all like to win, I can say with utmost sincerity that it mattered more to me that we got noticed than whether or not we win."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I don't ever tell people what to do! Even if it seems and feels that way sometimes, I don't think I should tell a person how to spend their money. I try not to tell people what to read."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: For me, one of the most fertile consequences of the space program is the extent to which it stimulates people to innovate because they want to create a different tomorrow than what they're living in today. And it's that culture of innovation that spawns entirely new economies."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The value of the space program is beyond science, it's beyond military; it's a cultural shift in how we think of our place in the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: That the north star is the brightest in the night sky. I'd guess about 9 out of 10 people think this. But it does not require a grant from the National Science Foundation to learn the answer. The North Star is not even in the top 40 in the night sky. It's the 49th brightest star. Rather dull and boring by most measures."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: To get an Emmy nomination for a show that was the first-ever science talk show on television to us was an affirmation that there is an appetite for this content in the mainstream public, not just the erudite public. So we're all completely thrilled by it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Who you are, where you've been and what you've done is all up here, captured and preserved in your memories. If you lost that - the story of your own origins - you'd lose your identity, your sense of self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The only accounting we had of the origins and the structure of nature was Biblical Genesis."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The StarTalks - while kids can watch them, they're actually targeted at adults. Because adults outnumber kids five to one, and adults vote, and adults wield resources, and adults are heads of agencies. So if we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I don't require that the main guest [of StarTalk] have any science knowledge or background at all. It's just, I have a conversation with them, it's long and winding, and we find out what parts of what we learn about the person lend themselves to further scientific discussion with an expert who is brought into the studio. So that's how that comes together."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I try to educate the public and let them make the decisions for themselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: America has an economy reversing relative to other nations in the world. And I want to turn that around. And one way I know to turn it around is to get everyone excited about what it is to innovate again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We account for all the matter and energy that we're familiar with, measure up how much gravity it should have, it's one-sixth of the gravity that's actually operating on the universe. We call that dark matter. It really should be called dark gravity. We don't know what that is."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I don't want to make a member of Congress do something that that member of Congress's constituents would not approve of, or would not agree to. So in that regard, I'm kind of the opposite of a lobbyist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: In astrophysics, we care about how matter, motion and energy manifest in objects and phenomenon in the universe. Stars are born. They live out their lives. They die. Some of the ones that die explode. Our sun will not be one of those, but it will die. And it'll take Earth with us. So we make sure we have other destinations in mind when that happens. And I've got it on my calendar."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Exploration is what you do when you don't know what you're doing. That's what scientists do every day. If a scientist already knew what they were doing, they wouldn't be discovering anything, because they already knew what they were doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Enjoying science shouldn't be rocket science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I like seeing how people have succeeded when others would have presumed they would have failed, and others just go along with whatever everyone else does."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: A successful day for me is when I teach people something. They become enlightened by an idea and learn how to think about it, so that later on when someone says, \"Tell me about x, y, z,\" they don't have to say, \"I know this because Tyson told me.\" No, they'll say, \"Here's why it's true because I know and understand it.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The greatest teachers are the ones that turn a B student into an A student, or a failing student into a B student."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If we're going to affect policy, or affect attitudes, for me, the adults have always been the target population."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Einstein's theory, we know that it fails. In advance, we know it fails. So that a deeper understanding of nature is awaiting us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Life existed on Earth for nearly four billion years before anything remotely resembling a human being showed up. And even then, when we started to branch off from other apes about 10,000,000 years ago, our ancestors looked pretty different."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If God to you is where science has yet to tread, then God is an ever-receding pocket."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: That's the point, to get the people who wouldn't otherwise think to eavesdrop on a conversation that involves science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: No one is saying you're possessed by the devil anymore except the most ignorant of people in modern culture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: One of the most significant events in our distant past is still perhaps the greatest mystery: the origins of life itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Let's create a World's Fair that captures everybody's visions of tomorrow together and let's celebrate that vision. Let's have articles on it with illustrators imagining how we'd be living differently."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Miniaturization of electronics started by NASA's push became an entire consumer products industry. Now we're carrying the complete works of Beethoven on a lapel pin listening to it in headphones."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: But one of the coolest things about meteorites is that most were formed four-and-a-half-billion years ago, during the birth of our solar system, when, for reasons not yet known, a cloud of gas and dust was transformed into a sun with circling planets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'm just recommending you find other things to base your spirituality on, rather than where science is yet to tread."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Nothing is a thing: it's nothing. So I can imagine a place where there's not even nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I never volunteer to talk about god or religion, but people feel compelled to talk about it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Curiosity is missing. Curiosity in particular is something that the system, not only the educational system but, the parental... what you do as a parent at home."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Curiosity is unknown. All adults were once kids and once curious, but as adults you don't remember that and you see curiosity when it's expressed in children as a pathway to household disaster. They're simply exploring their environment, manifesting their curiosity. So what you need to do is create an environment where curiosity is rewarded rather than punished, or thwarted."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If you don't question you're stuck within a pre-existing parameters of knowledge. Questions are what take you outside of those parameters."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I don't even understand why I have 1.7 million Twitter followers. Every day, I want to remind them and say, \"Do you realize I'm an astrophysicist? Do you know what you're doing here?\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: All the great advances in cinema came about from technology. The 3-D camera was not invented by a movie director. The new industries are driven by the innovations in science and technology."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: These are two different exercises. One of them is, \"You don't know and I know, so just shut up and listen,\" and the other one is, you're curious and you're learning, and I have a way where you can learn this so you'll know it as well. And when you know it, and know why you know it, then you don't have to reference me ever again because you take ownership of the knowledge, and you can then share it with someone else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Our history, in the cosmos and on planet Earth, was shaped by countless events, some obviously epic, some seemingly trivial, yet all vital in getting us to this point, here and now, the people we are today."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: To view space as, \"Well, let's go to Mars now,\" or \"Let's do this now,\" maybe we should rethink of space as our backyard and have a suite of launch vehicles that can enable any ambition a person has regarding space. It's the same way you can go to buy a car: I want to go offroading, I'll buy this model. I'm a city driver, that's this model. I want to use less fuel, well, that's this model. They're not selling you one car, you have options. So when I think of space, I think of having options."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: So this show [Cosmos] does not only operate on you intellectually, because telling you stories of how science works and why it works and what was discovered and why it matters, but combines that with stunning visualizations of the cosmos. This has the chance of affecting you intellectually and emotionally, and as well as even spiritually, because the wonder and awe of the universe are especially potent when presented in this way.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When we went to the moon and realized that the Soviet Union had no realistic plans of getting to the moon, then we stopped going to the moon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Luckily, there are some rocks left over from our earliest days, asteroids formed during our solar system's birth. Occasionally, some of them drop in on Earth, and when they do, they're called meteorites."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Some of us wake up in the morning and just wonder how it is any of us actually sustain a paid job."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I don't live life to be remembered for anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: So much of what we understand comes from knowing what something is and what that something used to be, which allows us to figure out, or at least imagine, what happened in between."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I recognize that there's an appetite that I'm now serving, and I'm happy to do so. I think it means quite a bit that science has achieved this level of public interest and access. And so I'm simultaneously astonished every day upon recognizing this, and I think it's a good sign for the country and possibly for the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: It'd be a shame to talk about the universe and not show some images of it, because we have some of the more stunning representations of our field relative to any of the sciences. But I don't use the imagery as a substitute for the insights and wisdom I can convey so that when you leave you say to yourself, \"Wow, I'm a little more deeply connected to the universe, and I want to learn more.\""
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: There are two kinds of comments that I get. One is, oh, you're such a natural up there, and the other one is, you're working hard up there. And the ones who say I'm working hard are teachers, they're the educators; they're the people who are the performers. It's a huge investment of my psycho-emotional energy to pull that off and to make it look smooth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I've always been interested in pop culture. Some of my colleagues think of pop culture as beneath them, or there's the ivory tower and then there's everybody else, and I never could buy into that wall that's been put up by so many people over the decades and even the centuries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: We only went to the moon for military reasons. The space enthusiasts of the day kept saying, \"Oh, we're on the moon; we should be on Mars in ten years.\" That's if it was driven by exploration, but it's never been driven by exploration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: It is in the best interests of civilization and our economy and our nation to understand what objective truths are as revealed by the methods and tools of science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: A supernova is one of the most powerful explosions in the universe. It's so luminous, it can be seen across billions of light years. It releases as much energy in an instant as our sun will produce over its 10-billion-year lifetime."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Something we all have as kids and is beaten out of us as adults. Parents come up to me, \"How do I get my kids interested in science?\" They're already interested in science. Just stop beating it out of them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I don't need my name anywhere."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Since life on Earth is, so far, the only known example of life in the universe, our dilemma may simply be that we have no other examples to compare us with. If we did, then the life/non-life transition might look downright simple to us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Everybody's got money for vacation time. Look at how much we all spend just to get - well, I get sick on the loop-the-loop roller coasters. People pay money for that kind of experience. So I would certainly save up money, save several vacations worth of money, to go on a suborbital flight or any rocket flights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I grew up in New York City where there is no night sky. Nobody has a relationship with the sky, because, particularly in the day, there was air pollution and light pollution, and you look up, and your sight line terminates on buildings. You know the sun and maybe the moon, and that's about it. So what happens is that I am exposed to the night sky as you would see it from a mountaintop, and I'm just struck by it. Suppose I grew up on a farm where I had that sky every night of my life - then you're not going to be struck by it. It's just the wallpaper of your nighttime dome."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: There are countless space activities that would be no less exciting than the moon missions were, I have no doubt. The search for life on Mars, for example."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: No doubt, the most challenging class of questions in science is the origin of things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I wake up and I go to work. I don't look for the cup of coffee. The universe is enough of a draw for me - to awaken me and have me bound out of bed and go to my office."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I'm revealing information to people. I'm not creating it. And to the extent that people embrace it, I think they're empowered by it, because any time you have a bigger perspective today than you did yesterday, it's got to be only for the good of your mind, your body, your soul."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: While we may lose track of certain goals intermittently throughout the decades, I think we as a nation can be nimble when we need to be. All the buzz today is on the need for science literacy. That is on the agenda in ways it hasn't been in previous decades."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Too many people view on [space exploration] as a luxury rather than as a fundamental driver to stimulate interest in science to everyone in the educational pipeline. It's vital to our prosperity and security."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Any astrophysicist does not feel small looking up at the universe; we feel large."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: When NASA says they're going into space, they don't mean up and back. They mean orbit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: If you want to come behind the Bible and explain everything scientifically, then you're denying God's power over miracles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The solar system should be viewed as our backyard, not as some sequence of destinations that we do one at a time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Politics will take whatever shape it needs for people to get elected. But at the end of the day, the population remains and that's really, as an educator, who I care about."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Why can't Pluto be a planet? Some people like Pluto. And if it doesn't exist then they don't have a favorite planet. Right? Please write back but not in cursive because I can't read cursive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me. To fall into a black hole, that is more amazing than anything I've ever read in a science-fiction story."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: That is a big question we all have: are we alone in the universe? And exoplanets confirm the suspicion that planets are not rare."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: The trend lines in research and innovation look good for places such as India and China and less good for America as we go forward. So even if you're not enchanted by the prospect of cosmic discovery, the prospect of dying poor may be what it takes to understand the role of this adventure in the future of the natural world in which we live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: There are two ways you can receive energy from your environment: One is molecules bumping against you. That's the air. The other is radiative energy. That's what you're feeling from the sun. When they say \"Get out of the sun, out of the heat,\" the air is the same temperature; it's just you're exposed to sunlight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: Americans live in a free country, which allows you to believe what you want. Because you think that something is true does not require that it is objectively true. The value of science concerning itself with objective truths is that we can make decisions and statements that affect everyone, which is why legislation really should be based on objective truths, not what is going on in your head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Neil deGrasse Tyson: I've found that no one complains about pop culture being a source of someone lecturing to them. If someone's telling you about Kim Kardashian, you're not going to accuse them of lecturing to you. If I can explore an intersection between pop culture and science literacy, then it generally will not come across as a lecture."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: The idea came like a flash of lightning and in an instant the truth was revealed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Every effort under compulsion demands a sacrifice of energy. I never paid such a price."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Nature may reach the same result in many ways."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Throughout the infinite, the forces are in a perfect balance, and hence the energy of a single thought may determine the motion of a universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: I do not think you can name many great inventions that have been made by married men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: In the twenty-first century, the robot will take the place which slave labor occupied in ancient civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Each day we go to our work in the hope of discovering."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: The entire Earth will be converted into a huge brain"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Einstein's relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: In a crystal we have clear evidence of the existence of a formative life principle, and though we cannot understand the life of a crystal, it is nonetheless a living being"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labour and sacrifices made."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: It is paradoxical, yet true, to say, that the more we know, the more ignorant we become in the absolute sense, for it is only through enlightenment that we become conscious of our limitations. Precisely one of the most gratifying results of intellectual evolution is the continuous opening up of new and greater prospects."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed \u2014 only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: What we now want is closer contact and better understanding between individuals and communities all over the earth, and the elimination of egoism and pride which is always prone to plunge the world into primeval barbarism and strife... Peace can only come as a natural consequence of universal enlightenment."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: The last 29 days of the month are the toughest!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using seventeen of my patents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds. I do not believe that matter and energy are interchangeable, any more than are the body and soul. There is just so much matter in the universe and it cannot be destroyed. As I see life on this planet, there is no individuality. It may sound ridiculous to say so, but I believe each person is but a wave passing through space, ever-changing from minute to minute as it travels along, finally, some day, just becoming dissolved."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: The scientists from Franklin to Morse were clear thinkers and did not produce erroneous theories. The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane. Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Let the future tell the truth and evaluate each one according to his work and accomplishments. The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Misunderstandings are always caused by the inability of appreciating one another's point of view... The best way is to dispel ignorance of the doings of others by a systematic spread of general knowledge. With this object in view, it is most important to aid exchange of thought and intercourse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Of all the frictional resistances, the one that most retards human movement is ignorance, what Buddha called 'the greatest evil in the world.' The friction which results from ignorance ... can be reduced only by the spread of knowledge and the unification of the heterogeneous elements of humanity. No effort could be better spent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Within a few years a simple and inexpensive device, readily carried about, will enable one to receive on land or sea the principal news, to hear a speech, a lecture, a song or play of a musical instrument, conveyed from any other region of the globe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: This work somehow awakened my dormant powers of will and I began to practice self-control. At first my resolutions faded like snow in April, but in a little while I conquered my weakness and felt a pleasure I never knew before - that of doing as I willed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: The present is theirs; the future, for which I really worked, is mine."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Money does not represent such a value as men have placed upon it. All my money has been invested into experiments with which I have made new discoveries enabling mankind to have a little easier life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Our virtues and our failings are inseparable, like force and matter. When they separate, man is no more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on within themselves. The premature death of millions is primarily traceable to this cause. Even among those who exercise care, it is a common mistake to avoid imaginary, and ignore the real dangers. And what is true of an individual also applies, more or less, to a people as a whole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Man, like the universe, is a machine. Nothing enters our minds or determines our actions which is not directly or indirectly a response to stimuli beating upon our sense organs from without."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe, so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: With ideas it is like with dizzy heights you climb: At first they cause you discomfort and you are anxious to get down, distrustful of your own powers; but soon the remoteness of the turmoil of life and the inspiring influence of the altitude calm your blood; your step gets firm and sure and you begin to look - for dizzier heights."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: When wireless is perfectly applied the whole earth will be converted into a huge brain, which in fact it is, all things being particles of a real and rhythmic whole. We shall be able to communicate with one another instantly, irrespective of distance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: We are whirling through endless space with an inconceivable speed, all around us everything is spinning, everything is moving, everywhere is energy. There mart be some way of availing ourselves of this energy more directly. Then; with the light obtained from the medium, with the power derived from it, with every form of energy obtained without effort, from the store forever inexhaustible, humanity will advance with giant strides. The mere contemplation of these magnificent possibilities expand our minds, strengthens our hopes and and fills our hearts with supreme delight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: We crave for new sensations but soon become indifferent to them. The wonders of yesterday are today common occurrences"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: From childhood I was compelled to concentrate attention upon myself. This caused me much suffering, but to my present view, it was a blessing in disguise for it has taught me to appreciate the inestimable value of introspection in the preservation of life, as well as a means of achievement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Every living being is an engine geared to the wheelwork of the universe. Though seemingly affected only by its immediate surrounding, the sphere of external influence extends to infinite distance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: When natural inclination develops into a passionate desire, one advances towards his goal in seven-league boots."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: I have always been ahead of my time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: I hold that space cannot be curved, for the simple reason that it can have no properties. It might as well be said that God has properties. He has not, but only attributes and these are of our own making. Of properties we can only speak when dealing with matter filling the space. To say that in the presence of large bodies space becomes curved is equivalent to stating that something can act upon nothing. I, for one, refuse to subscribe to such a view."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: But the female mind has demonstrated a capacity for all the mental acquirements and achievements of men, and as generations ensue that capacity will be expanded; the average woman will be as well educated as the average man, and then better educated, for the dormant faculties of her brain will be stimulated to an activity that will be all the more intense and powerful because of centuries of repose. Woman will ignore precedent and startle civilization with their progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an appalling loss of time, effort and life. A cheerless view, but true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: It seems that I have always been ahead of my time. I had to wait nineteen years before Niagara was harnessed by my system, fifteen years before the basic inventions for wireless which I gave to the world in 1893 were applied universally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: So astounding are the facts in this connection, that it would seem as though the Creator, himself had electrically designed this planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: For ages this idea has been proclaimed in the consummately wise teachings of religion, probably not alone as a means of insuring peace and harmony among men, but as a deeply founded truth. The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: The spread of civilisation may be likened to a fire; first, a feeble spark, next a flickering flame, then a mighty blaze, ever increasing in speed and power."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Archimedes was my ideal. I admired the works of artists, but to my mind, they were only shadows and semblances. The inventor, I thought, gives to the world creations which are palpable, which live and work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: We have soon to have everywhere smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonizers, sterilizers of water, air, food and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads and in subways. It will become next to impossible to contract disease germs or get hurt in the city, and country folk will got to town to rest and get well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: To stop war by the perfection of engines of destruction alone, might consume centuries and centuries. Other means must be employed to hasten the end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success ... Such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: My belief is firm in a law of compensation. The true rewards are ever in proportion to the labor and sacrifices made. This is one of the reasons why I feel certain that of all my inventions, the Magnifying Transmitter will prove most important and valuable to future generations. I am prompted to this prediction not so much by thoughts of the commercial and industrial revolution which it will surely bring about, but of the humanitarian consequences of the many achievements it makes possible. Considerations of mere utility weigh little in the balance against the higher benefits of civilization."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: The economic transmission of power without wires is of all-surpassing importance to man. By its means he will gain complete mastery of the air, the sea and the desert. It will enable him to dispense with the necessity of mining, pumping, transporting and burning fuel, and so do away with innumerable causes of sinful waste."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Sometimes I feel that by not marrying, I made too great a sacrifice to my work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in my thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: The individual is ephemeral, races and nations come and pass away, but man remains."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Edison was by far the most successful and, probably, the last exponent of the purely empirical method of investigation. Everything he achieved was the result of persistent trials and experiments often performed at random but always attesting extraordinary vigor and resource. Starting from a few known elements, he would make their combinations and permutations, tabulate them and run through the whole list, completing test after test with incredible rapidity until he obtained a clue. His mind was dominated by one idea, to leave no stone unturned, to exhaust every possibility."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Fights between individuals, as well as governments and nations, invariably result from misunderstandings in the broadest interpretation of this term."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: It is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: The scientific man does not aim at an immediate result. He does not expect that his advanced ideas will be readily taken up. His work is like that of the planter \u2014 for the future. His duty is to lay the foundation for those who are to come, and point the way. He lives and labors and hopes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: My ear barely caught signals coming in regular succession which could not have been produced on earth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: There is something within me that might be illusion as it is often case with young delighted people, but if I would be fortunate to achieve some of my ideals, it would be on the behalf of the whole of humanity. If those hopes would become fulfilled, the most exciting thought would be that it is a deed of a Serb."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: We should begin at the very root from which we spring, we should effect a radical reform in the character of the food."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: The only method compatible with our notions of civilization and the race is to prevent the breeding of the unfit by sterilization and the deliberate guidance of the mating instinct. [...] The trend of opinion among eugenists is that we must make marriage more difficult. Certainly no one who is not a desirable parent should be permitted to produce progeny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: If the genius of invention were to reveal to-morrow the secret of immortality, of eternal beauty and youth, for which all humanity is aching, the same inexorable agents which prevent a mass from changing suddenly its velocity would likewise resist the force of the new knowledge until time gradually modifies human thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: The future will show whether my foresight is as accurate now as it has proved heretofore."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: I am credited with being one of the hardest workers and perhaps I am, if thought is the equivalent of labour, for I have devoted to it almost all of my waking hours. But if work is interpreted to be a definite performance in a specified time according to a rigid rule, then I may be the worst of idlers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe. This idea is not novel... We find it in the delightful myth of Antaeus, who derives power from the earth; we find it among the subtle speculations of one of your splendid... Throughout space there is energy. Is this energy static or kinetic! If static our hopes are in vain; if kinetic - and this we know it is, for certain - then it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: I never have, above my signature, announced anything that I did not prove first. That is the reason why no statement of mine was ever contradicted, and I do not think it will be, because whenever I publish something I go through it first by experiment, then from experiment I calculate, and when I have the theory and practice meet I announce the results."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Most certainly, some planets are not inhabited, but others are, and among these there must exist life under all conditions and phases of development."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Of all the endless variety of phenomena which nature presents to our senses, there is none that fills our minds with greater wonder than that inconceivably complex movement which, in its entirety, we designate as human life; Its mysterious origin is veiled in the forever impenetrable mist of the past, its character is rendered incomprehensible by its infinite intricacy, and its destination is hidden in the unfathomable depths of the future... ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: In past ages, the law governing the survival of the fittest roughly weeded out the less desirable strains. Then man's new sense of pity began to interfere with the ruthless workings of nature. As a result, we continue to keep alive and to breed the unfit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: All the great religions contain wise prescriptions relating to the conduct of life, which hold good now as they did when they were promulgated."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Though we may never be able to comprehend human life, we know certainly that it is a movement, of whatever nature it be. The existence of movement unavoidably implies a body which is being moved and a force which is moving it. Hence, wherever there is life, there is a mass moved by a force. All mass possesses inertia; all force tends to persist"
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: To create and to annihilate material substance, cause it to aggregate in forms according to his desire, would be the supreme manifestation of the power of Man's mind, his most complete triumph over the physical world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Our senses enable us to perceive only a minute portion of the outside world. Our hearing extends to a small distance. Our sight is impeded by intervening bodies and shadows. To know each other we must reach beyond the sphere of our sense perceptions. We must transmit our intelligence, travel, transport the materials and transfer the energies necessary for our existence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: To conquer by sheer force is becoming harder and harder every day. Defensive is getting continuously the advantage of offensive, as we progress in the satanic science of destruction."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: The motors I build there were exactly as I imagined them. I made no attempt to improve the design, but merely reproduced the pictures as they appeared to my vision and the operation was always as I expected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: So we find that the three possible solutions of the great problem of increasing human energy are answered by the three words: food, peace, work... Their scientific meaning and purpose now clear to me: food to increase the mass, peace to diminish the retarding force, and work to increase the force accelerating human movement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: I have harnessed the cosmic rays and caused them to operate a motive device."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: An inventor's endeavor is essentially lifesaving. Whether he harnesses forces, improves devices, or provides new comforts and conveniences, he is adding to the safety of our existence. He is also better qualified than the average individual to protect himself in peril, for he is observant and resourceful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: A point of great importance would be first to know: what is the capacity of the earth? And what charge does it contain if electrified? Though we have no positive evidence of a charged body existing in space without other oppositely electrified bodies being near, there is a fair probability that the earth is such a body, for by whatever process it was separated from other bodies - and this is the accepted view of its origin - it must have retained a charge, as occurs in all processes of mechanical separation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: It is a simple feat of scientific electrical engineering \u2014 only expensive \u2014 blind, faint-hearted, doubting world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by a power obtainable at any point of the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Perhaps it is better in this present world of ours that a revolutionary idea or invention instead of being helped and patted, be hampered and ill-treated in its adolescence - by want of means, by selfish interest, pedantry, stupidity and ignorance; that it be attacked and stifled; that it pass through bitter trials and tribulations, through the heartless strife of commercial existence. So do we get our light. So all that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed - only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: I am equally proud of my Serbian origin and my Croatian fatherland."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Of all things I liked books best."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Even matter called inorganic, believed to be dead, responds to irritants and gives unmistakable evidence of a living principle within. Everything that exists, organic or inorganic, animated or inert, is susceptible to stimulus from the outside."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Alternate currents, especially of high frequencies, pass with astonishing freedom through even slightly rarefied gases. The upper strata of the air are rarefied. To reach a number of miles out into space requires the overcoming of difficulties of a merely mechanical nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: But I hope that it will also be demonstrated soon that in my experiments in the West I was not merely beholding a vision, but had caught sight of a great and profound truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: The practical success of an idea, irrespective of its inherent merit, is dependent on the attitude of the contemporaries. If timely it is quickly adopted; if not, it is apt to fare like a sprout lured out of the ground by warm sunshine, only to be injured and retarded in its growth by the succeeding frost."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: The day when we shall know exactly what electricity is will chronicle an event probably greater, more important than any other recorded in the history of the human race. The time will come when the comfort, the very existence, perhaps, of man will depend upon that wonderful agent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Ere long intelligence-transmitted without wires-will throb through the earth like a pulse through a living organism. The wonder is that, with the present state of knowledge and the experiences gained, no attempt is being made to disturb the electrostatic or magnetic condition of the earth, and transmit, if nothing else, intelligence."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: With a different form of wireless instrument devised by me some years ago it was found practicable to locate a body of metallic ore below the ground, and it seems that a submarine could be similarly detected."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: Up to that time I never realized that I possessed any particular gift of discovery, but Lord Rayleigh, whom I always considered as an ideal man of science, had said so and if that was the case, I felt that I should concentrate on some big idea."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: We may produce at will, from a sending station. an electrical effect in any particular region of the globe; we may determine the relative position or course of a moving object, such as a vessel at sea, the distance traversed by the same, or its speed."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: The progressive development of man is vitally dependent on invention. It is the most important product of his creative brain. Its ultimate purpose is the complete mastery of mind over the material world, the harnessing of the forces of nature to human needs. This is the difficult task of the inventor who is often misunderstood and unrewarded. But he finds ample compensation in the pleasing exercises of his powers and in the knowledge of being one of that exceptionally privileged class without whom the race would have long ago perished in the bitter struggle against pitiless elements. . . ."
  },
  {
    "text": "Nikola Tesla: It has cost me years of thought to arrive at certain results, by many believed to be unattainable, for which there are now numerous claimants, and the number of these is rapidly increasing, like that of the colonels in the South after the war."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: There will be no one like us when we are gone, but then there is no one like anyone else, ever. When people die, they cannot be replaced. They leave holes that cannot be filled, for it is the fate - the genetic and neural fate - of every human being to be a unique individual, to find his own path, to live his own life, to die his own death."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Above all, I have been a sentient being, a thinking animal, on this beautiful planet, and that in itself has been an enormous privilege and adventure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self\u2014himself\u2014he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: There is only one cardinal rule: One must always listen to the patient."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional. It has no power to represent anything particular or external, but it has a unique power to express inner states or feelings. Music can pierce the heart directly; it needs no mediation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Biologically, physiologically, we are not so different from each other; historically, as narratives - we are each of us unique."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: I cannot pretend I am without fear. But my predominant feeling is one of gratitude. I have loved and been loved; I have been given much and I have given something in return; I have read and traveled and thought and written. I have had an intercourse with the world, the special intercourse of writers and readers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: To be ourselves we must have ourselves \u2013 possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must \u201crecollect\u201d ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative, of ourselves. A man needs such a narrative, a continuous inner narrative, to maintain his identity, his self."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: I have to live in the richest, deepest, most productive way I can"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace or compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: The power of music, narrative and drama is of the greatest practical and theoretical importance. ... We see how the retarded, unable to perform fairly simple tasks involving perhaps four or five movements or procedures in sequence, can do these perfectly if they work to music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: There is no one part of the brain which recognizes or responds emotionally to music. Instead, there are many different parts responding to different aspects of music: to pitch, to frequency, to timbre, to tonal intervals, to consonance, to dissonance, to rhythm, to melodic contour, to harmony."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Language, that most human invention, can enable what, in principle, should not be possible. It can allow all of us, even the congenitally blind, to see with another person\u2019s eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: I am a man of vehement disposition, with violent enthusiasms, and extreme immoderation in all my passions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: It is up to me now to choose how to live out the months that remain to me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Waking consciousness is dreaming \u2013 but dreaming constrained by external reality"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive \"cry\"). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: I am now face to face with dying. But I am not finished with living."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: If a man with a dog sits quietly enjoying music and smiling, his dog might sit down beside him and smile, too. But who knows whether the dog is having a comparable experience or whether the dog is simply happy that his master is happy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Very young children love and demand stories, and can understand complex matters presented as stories, when their powers of comprehending general concepts, paradigms, are almost nonexistent."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: And so was Luria, whose words now came back to me: \u2018A man does not consist of memory alone. He has feeling, will, sensibility, moral being ... It is here ... you may touch him, and see a profound change.\u2019 Memory, mental activity, mind alone, could not hold him; but moral attention and action could hold him completely."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Music is part of being human."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: We have, each of us, a life story, whose continuity, whose sense, is our lives."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: My own first love was biology. I spent a great part of my adolescence in the Natural History museum in London (and I still go to the Botanic Garden almost every day, and to the Zoo every Monday). The sense of diversity of the wonder of innumerable forms of life has always thrilled me beyond anything else."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: My impression is that a sense of rhythm, which has no analog in language, is unique and that its correlation with movement is unique to human beings. Why else would children start to dance when they're two or three? Chimpanzees don't dance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Even when other powers have been lost and people may not even be able to understand language, they will nearly always recognize and respond to familiar tunes. And not only that. The tunes may carry them back and may give them memory of scenes and emotions otherwise unavailable for them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: I rejoice when I meet gifted young people... I feel the future is in good hands."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Memory is dialogic and arises not only from direct experience but from the intercourse of many minds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: I feel a sudden clear focus and perspective. There is no time for anything inessential."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Music, uniquely among the arts, is both completely abstract and profoundly emotional."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: ... the body, normally, is never in question: our bodies are beyond question, or perhaps beneath question - they are simply, unquestionably, there. This unquestionability of the body, is, for Wittgenstein, the start and basis of all knowledge and certainty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: The miracle is that, in most cases, he succeeds - for the powers of survival, of the will to survive, and to survive as a unique inalienable individual, are absolutely, the strongest in our being: stronger than any impulses, stronger than disease."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: I think there are dozens or hundreds of different forms of creativity. Pondering science and math problems for years is different from improvising jazz. Something which seems to me remarkable is how unconscious the creative process is. You encounter a problem, but can't solve it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: It really is a very odd business that all of us, to varying degrees, have music in our heads."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Darwin speculated that \u201cmusic tones and rhythms were used by our half-human ancestors, during the season of courtship, when animals of all kinds are excited not only by love, but by strong passions of jealousy, rivalry, and triumph\u201d and that speech arose, secondarily, from this primal music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: But the saddest difference between them was that Zazetsky, as Luria said, 'fought to regain his lost faculties with the indomitable tenacity of the damned,' whereas Dr P. was not fighting, did not know what was lost. But who was more tragic, or who was more damned -- the man who knew it, or the man who did not?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: I was fascinated that one could have such perceptual changes, and also that they went with a certain feeling of significance, an almost numinous feeling. I'm strongly atheist by disposition, but nonetheless when this happened, I couldn't help thinking, 'That must be what the hand of God is like.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: The same areas which are active in listening to music are also active when you imagine music, and this includes the motor areas, too. That explains why earlier, even though I was only thinking of the mazurka, I was thinking in terms of movement."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: I feel I should be trying to complete my life, whatever completing a life means."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: If migraine patients have a common and legitimate second complaint besides their migraines, it is that they have not been listened to by physicians. Looked at, investigated, drugged, charged, but not listened to."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: It is easy to recollect the good things of life, the times when one's heart rejoices and expands, when everything is enfolded in kindness and love; it is easy to recollect the fineness of life-how noble one was, how generous one felt, what courage one showed in the face of adversity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Dangerously well\u2019\u2014 what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling \u2018too well"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Given her deafness, the auditory part of the brain, deprived of its usual input, had started to generate a spontaneous activity of its own, and this took the form of musical hallucinations, mostly musical memories from her earlier life. The brain needed to stay incessantly active, and if it was not getting its usual stimulation..., it would create its own stimulation in the form of hallucinations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: I think there's probably always been visions and voices, and these were variously ascribed to the divine or demonic or the muses. I think many poets still feel they depend on an inner voice, or a voice which tells them what to do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: I think the brain is a dynamic system in which some parts control or suppress other parts. And if perhaps one has damage in one of the controlling or suppressing areas, then you may have the emergence or eruption of something, whether it is a seizure, a criminal trait - - or even a sudden musical passion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Some people with Tourette's have flinging tics- sudden, seemingly motiveless urges or compulsions to throw objects..... (I see somewhat similar flinging behaviors- though not tics- in my two year old godson, now in a stage of primal antinomianism and anarchy)"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: When I was five, I am told, and asked what my favorite things in the world were, I answered, smoked salmon and Bach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: It seems that the brain always has to be active, and if the auditory parts of the brain are not getting sufficient input, then they may start to create hallucinatory sounds on their own. Although it is curious that they do not usually create noises or voices; they create music."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: The rhythm of music is very, very important for people with Parkinson's. But it's also very important with other sorts of patients, such as patients with Tourette's syndrome. Music helps them bring their impulses and tics under control. There is even a whole percussion orchestra made up exclusively of Tourette's patients."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: The power of music, whether joyous or cathartic must steal on one unawares, come spontaneously as a blessing or a grace--"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Scheele, it was said, never forgot anything if it had to do with chemistry. He never forgot the look, the feel, the smell of a substance, or the way it was transformed in chemical reactions, never forgot anything he read, or was told, about the phenomena of chemistry. He seemed indifferent, or inattentive, to most things else, being wholly dedicated to his single passion, chemistry. It was this pure and passionate absorption in phenomena-noticing everything, forgetting nothing-that constituted Scheele's special strength."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Sign language is the equal of speech, lending itself equally to the rigorous and the poetic, to philosophical analysis or to making love."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Although I think it is wonderful to have the whole world of music available in something that small and to have it conveyed with such fidelity almost straight into the brain, I think the technology is also a danger."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Dr. Kertesz mentioned to me a case known to him of a farmer who had developed prosopagnosia and in consequence could no longer distinguish (the faces of) his cows, and of another such patient, an attendant in a Natural History Museum, who mistook his own reflection for the diorama of an ape"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: There is among doctors, in acute hospitals at least, a presumption of stupidity in their patients."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: For 'wellness', naturally, is no cause for complaint - people relish it, they enjoy it, they are at the furthest pole from complaint. People complain of feeling ill - not well ... Thus, though a patient will scarcely complain of being 'very well', they may become suspicious if they feel 'too well'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: I suspect that music has qualities both of speech and writing - partly built in, partly individually constructed - and this goes on all through one's life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: he wanted to do, to be, to feel- and could not; he wanted sense, he wanted purpose- in Freud's words, 'Work and Love'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Astounded\u2014and indifferent\u2014for he was a man who, in effect, had no \u2018day before\u2019."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: I think hallucinations need to be discussed. There are all sorts of hallucinations, and then many sorts which are okay, like the ones I think which most of us have in bed at night before we fall asleep, when we can see all sorts of patterns or faces and scenes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Sacks: Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a smell from hell. An up-to-date hell, I decided, would have not just rivers of fiery brimstone, but lakes of boiling selenium and tellurium, too."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Beware how you take away hope from any human being."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Learn the sweet magic of a cheerful face."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: We are all tattooed in our cradles with the beliefs of our tribe; the record may seem superficial, but it is indelible. You cannot educate a man wholly out of the superstitious fears which were early implanted in his imagination; no matter how utterly his reason may reject them..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: The best servant does his work unseen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Why can't somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Don't flatter yourselves that friendship authorizes you to say disagreeable things to your intimates. On the contrary, the nearer you come into relation with a person, the more necessary do tact and courtesy become."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Put not your trust in money, but put your money in trust."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Don't be 'consistent,' but be simply true."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Man has his will, but woman has her way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Love prefers twilight to daylight."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Love is the master-key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Civilization is the process of reducing the infinite to the finite."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: And if I should live to be\nThe last leaf upon the tree\nIn the spring,\nLet them smile, as I do now,\nAt the old forsaken bough\nWhere I cling."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: I like children; I like 'em, and I respect 'em. Pretty much all the honest truth-telling there is in the world is done by them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Apology is only egotism wrong side out."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Amen of nature is always a flower."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Whatever comes from the brain carries the hue of the place it came from, and whatever comes from the heart carries the heat and color of its birthplace."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: The morning cup of coffee has an exhilaration about it which the cheering influence of the afternoon or evening cup of tea cannot be expected to reproduce."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Youth longs and manhood strives, but age remembers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Memory is a net: one that finds it full of fish when he takes it from the brook, but a dozen miles of water have run through it without sticking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: What refuge is there for the victim who is oppressed with the feeling that there are a thousand new books he ought to read, while life is only long enough for him to attempt to read a hundred?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Stillness of person and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: I firmly believe that if the whole material medica, as now used, could be sunk to the bottom of the sea, it would be better for mankind-and all the worse for the fishes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Science is the topography of ignorance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Without wearing any mask we are conscious of, we have a special face for each friend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: I would never use a long word, even, where a short one would answer the purpose."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Do not be bullied out of your common sense by the specialist; two to one, he is a pedant."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: When I think of talking, it is of course with a woman. For talking at its best being an inspiration, it wants a corresponding divine quality of receptiveness, and where will you find this but in a woman?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Sweet is the scene where genial friendship plays the pleasing game of interchanging praise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: No families take so little medicine as those of doctors, except those of apothecaries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: What we most want to ask of our Maker is an unfolding of the divine purpose in putting human beings into conditions in which such numbers of them would be sure to go wrong."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, Shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life's unresting sea!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: What a blessed thing it is, that Nature, when she invented, manufactured, and patented her authors, contrived to make critics out of the chips that were left!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: The sea drowns out humanity and time. It has no sympathy with either, for it belongs to eternity; and of that it sings its monotonous song forever and ever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Fame usually comes to those who are thinking about something else - very rarely to those who say to themselves, 'Go to, now, let us be a celebrated individual!'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: The year is getting to feel rich, for his golden fruits are ripening fast, and he has a large balance in the barns, which are his banks. The members of his family have found out that he is well to do in the world. September is dressing herself in show of dahlias and splendid marigolds and starry zinnias. October, the extravagant sister, has ordered an immense amount of the most gorgeous forest tapestry for her grand reception."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all, then closes the case, and gives the key into the hand of the Angel of the Resurrection."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: See how he throws his baited lines about,/And plays his men as anglers play their trout."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: People who honestly mean to be true really contradict themselves much more rarely than those who try to be 'consistent'."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Chicago sounds rough to the maker of verse. One comfort we have - Cincinnati sounds worse."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: A pun does not commonly justify a blow in return. But if a blow were given for such cause, and death ensued, the jury would be judges both of the facts and of the pun, and might, if the latter were of an aggravated character, return a verdict of justifiable homicide."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: I think that, as life is action and passion, it is required of a man that he should share the passion and action of his time at peril of being judged not to have lived."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades!\nEffund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids!\nO, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,--\nDepart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Seventeen hundred and fifty-five.\nGeorgius Secundus was then alive,--\nSnuffy old drone from the German hive."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: America is the only place where man is full-grown!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Every library should try to be complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Rough work, iconoclasm, but the only way to get at truth."
  },
  {
    "text": "Oliver Wendell Holmes: Yes, child of suffering, thou may'st well be sure He who ordained the Sabbath loves the poor!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: So remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and hold on to that childlike wonder about what makes the universe exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: It is my view that the simplest explanation is there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization. There is probably no heaven, and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe, and for that, I am extremely grateful."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: What was God doing before the divine creation? Was he preparing hell for people who asked such questions?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit, as well as physically."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression. It may have had survival advantage in caveman days, to get more food, territory or a partner with whom to reproduce, but now it threatens to destroy us all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Look up at the stars, not down at your feet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: One can't prove that God doesn't exist. But science makes God unnecessary. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a creator."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: So Einstein was wrong when he said, \"God does not play dice.\" Consideration of black holes suggests, not only that God does play dice, but that he sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: So next time someone complains that you have made a mistake, tell him that may be a good thing. Because without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The human race is just a chemical scum on a moderate-sized planet, orbiting around a very average star in the outer suburb of one among a hundred billion galaxies. We are so insignificant that I can't believe the whole universe exists for our benefit. That would be like saying that you would disappear if I closed my eyes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Life would be tragic if it weren't funny."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn\u2019t have to be like this."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes, it was 29 years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The development of full artificial intelligence could spell the end of the human race."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I think the human race doesn't have a future if we don't go into space. We need to expand our horizons beyond planet Earth if we are to have a long-term future. We cannot remain looking inward at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet. We need to look outward to the wider universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: If aliens visit us, the outcome would be much as when Columbus landed in America, which didn't turn out well for the Native Americans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: When I hear of Schr\u00f6dinger's cat, I reach for my pistol."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: It is not clear that intelligence has any long-term survival value."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I have lived with the prospect of an early death for the last 49 years. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first. I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: One can see from space how the human race has changed the Earth. Nearly all of the available land has been cleared of forest and is now used for agriculture or urban development. The polar icecaps are shrinking and the desert areas are increasing. At night, the Earth is no longer dark, but large areas are lit up. All of this is evidence that human exploitation of the planet is reaching a critical limit. But human demands and expectations are ever-increasing. We cannot continue to pollute the atmosphere, poison the ocean and exhaust the land. There isn't any more available."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I\u2019m not religious in the normal sense. I believe the universe is governed by the laws of science. The laws may have been decreed by God, but God does not intervene to break the laws."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: We live in the most probable of all possible worlds."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: People who boast about their I.Q. are losers."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Time and space are finite in extent, but they don't have any boundary or edge. They would be like the surface of the earth, but with two more dimensions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The human failing I would most like to correct is aggression."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Although I cannot move, and I have to speak through a computer, in my mind, I am free."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The idea that we are alone in the universe seems to me completely implausible and arrogant, considering the number of planets and stars that we know exist, it's extremely unlikely that we are the only form of evolved life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: We are all now connected by the Internet, like neurons in a giant brain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: So long as the Universe had a beginning, we could suppose it had a creator. But if the Universe is really completely self-contained, it would have neither beginning or end, it would simply be. What place then for a creator?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Nuclear weapons need large facilities, but genetic engineering can be done in a small lab. You can't regulate every lab in the world. The danger is that either by accident or design, we create a virus that destroys us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Science can explain the universe without the need for a Creator."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority, [and] science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win because it works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only intellegent beings in the galaxy we should make sure we survive and continue. . . . Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth but to spread out into space. We have made\tremarkable progress in the last hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is in space."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The laws of science do not distinguish between the past and the future."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: What I meant by 'we would know the mind of God' is, we would know everything that God would know, if there were a God. Which there isn't. I'm an atheist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Gravity is so strong that space is bent round onto itself, making it rather like the surface of the earth. If one keeps traveling in a certain direction on the surface of the earth, one never comes up against an impassable barrier or falls over the edge, but eventually comes back to where one started."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: What was God doing before the divine creation?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize a three-dimensional space!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the underlying order in the world. Today we still yearn to know why we are here and where we came from. Humanity's deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for our continuing quest. And our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Women. They are a complete mystery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: A theory is a good theory if it satisfies two requirements: it must accurately describe a large class of observations on the basis of a model that contains only a few arbitrary elements, and it must make definite predictions about the results of future observations."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I believe things cannot make themselves impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The rate of progress is so rapid that what one learns at school or university is always a bit out of date. Only a few people can keep up with the rapidly advancing frontier of knowledge, and they have to devote their whole time to it and specialize in a small area. The rest of the population has little idea of the advances that are being made or the excitement they are generating."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: It's clearly possible for a something to acquire higher intelligence than its ancestors: we evolved to be smarter than our ape-like ancestors, and Einstein was smarter than his parents."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Theology is unnecessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years, but if we want to continue, our future is in space."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: In A Brief History Of Time I used the word \"God\" like Einstein did as a shorthand for the laws of physics. However, this is not what most people mean by God, so I have decided not to use the term. The laws of physics can explain the universe without the need for a God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I have sold more books on physics than Madonna has on sex."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Time travel may be possible, but it is not practical."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: If you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Think of our DNA. In the last million years, our DNA hasn't changed at all. It's really much the same as it was in the jungle, a million, two millions years ago. But in the last 200 years, our destructive capacities have increased many, many millions of times over. Why don't we see intelligent signals from outer space? Because in all likelihood, once the civilization reaches the point our civilization has reached, it destroys itself."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order, which may or may not be divinely inspired."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Equations are just the boring part of mathematics. I attempt to see things in terms of geometry."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: There could be whole antiworlds and antipeople made out of antiparticles. However, if you ever meet your antiself, don't shake hands! You would both vanish in a great flash of light."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I'm a child myself, in the sense that I'm still looking. Children are fascinated by black holes and ask me questions. I find they soon get the idea if it is explained in nontechnical language."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. But now science offers a more convincing explanation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space. There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet. But I'm an optimist. We will reach out to the stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Not only that God does play dice, but that He sometimes confuses us by throwing them where they can't be seen."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: [I think the most about] women. They are a complete mystery."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I think [contacting an alien civilization] would be a disaster. The extraterrestrials would probably be far in advance of us. The history of advanced races meeting more primitive people on this planet is not very happy, and they were the same species. I think we should keep our heads low."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from nothing. Spontaneous creation is the reason there is something rather than nothing, why the Universe exists, why we exist. It is not necessary to invoke God to light the blue touch paper and set the Universe going."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: What could define God, [is thinking of God] as the embodiment of the laws of nature.  However, this is not what most people would think of that God.  They made a human-like being with whom one can have a personal relationship.  When you look at the vast size of the universe and how insignificant an accidental human life is in it, that seems most impossible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The life we have on Earth must have spontaneously generated itself. It must therefore be possible for life to generate spontaneously elsewhere in the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: If you understand how the universe operates, you control it in a way."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: There are plenty of dead scientists I admire, but I can't think of any living ones. This is probably because it is only in retrospect that one can see who made the important contributions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill. But our genetic code still carries the selfish and aggressive instincts that were of survival advantage in the past. It will be difficult enough to avoid disaster in the next hundred years, let alone the next thousand or million. Our only chance of long term survival, is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: If what we regard as real depends on our theory, how can we make reality the basis of our philosophy? But we cannot distinguish what is real about the universe without a theory. It makes no sense to ask if it corresponds to reality, because we do not know what reality is independent of a theory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: It would be very difficult to explain why the universe should have begun in just this way, except as the act of a God who intended to create beings like us."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Then we shall... be able to take part in the discussion of the question of why it is that we and the universe exist. If we find the answer to that, it would be the ultimate triumph of human reason - for then we would know the mind of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: A model is a good model if first it interprets a wide range of observations in terms of a simple and elegant model, and second if the model makes definite predictions that can be tested, and possibly falsified, by observation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Evolution has ensured that our brains just aren't equipped to visualise 11 dimensions directly. However, from a purely mathematical point of view it's just as easy to think in 11 dimensions, as it is to think in three or four."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Scientists have become the bearers of the torch of discovery in our quest for knowledge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The laws of science, as we know them at present, contain many fundamental numbers, like the size of the electric charge of the electron and the ratio of the masses of the proton and the electron .... The remarkable fact is that the values of these numbers seem to have been finely adjusted to make possible the development of life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Why do we remember the past, but not the future?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: So great a contribution to physics was Two New Sciences that scholars have long maintained that the book anticipated Isaac Newton's laws of motion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I think the universe was spontaneously created out of nothing, according to the laws of science. It has no beginning and no end."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: It is a waste of time to be angry about my disability. One has to get on with life and I haven't done badly. People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The usual approach of science of constructing a mathematical model cannot answer the questions of why there should be a universe for the model to describe. Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Only time - whatever that may be - will tell."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: One can imagine that God created the universe at literally any time in the past. On the other hand, if the universe is expanding, there may be physical reasons why there had to be a beginning. One could imagine that God created the universe at the instant of the big bang, or even afterwards in just such a way as to make it look as though there had been a big bang, but it would be meaningless to suppose that it was created before the big bang. An expanding universe does not preclude a creator, but it does place limits on when he might have carried out his job!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: In a world that is in chaos politically, socially and environmentally, how can the human race sustain another 100 years?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Many badly needed goals, like fusion and cancer cure, would be achieved much sooner if we invested more."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: If one is physically disabled, one cannot afford to be psychologically disabled as well."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21. Everything since then has been a bonus."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Science predicts that many different kinds of universe will be spontaneously created out of nothing. It is a matter of chance which we are in."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention. (The Catholic Church, on the other hand, seized on the big bang model and in 1951 officially pronounced it to be in accordance with the Bible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Bodies like the earth are not made to move on curved orbits by a force called gravity; instead, they follow the nearest thing to a straight path in a curved space, which is called a geodesic. A geodesic is the shortest (or longest) path between two nearby points."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: It matters that you don't just give up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The increase of disorder or entropy with time is one example of what is called an arrow of time, something that distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: No one undertakes research in physics with the intention of winning a prize. It is the joy of discovering something no one knew before."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Even if there is only one possible unified theory, it is just a set of rules and equations. What is it that breathes fire into the equations and makes a universe for them to describe?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I want to encourage public interest in space. I have never let my condition stop me. You only live once."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I am discounting the reports of UFOs. Why would they appear only to cranks and weirdos?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: We don't let animals suffer, so why humans?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I don't think the human race will survive the next thousand years, unless we spread into space."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: What lies north of the North Pole?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: We should seek the greatest value of our action."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: If everything in the universe depends upon everything else in a fundamental way, it might be impossible to get close to a full solution by investigating parts of the problem in isolation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Why does the universe go to all the bother of existing?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: One might think this means that imaginary numbers are just a mathematical game having nothing to do with the real world. From the viewpoint of positivist philosophy, however, one cannot determine what is real. All one can do is find which mathematical models describe the universe we live in. It turns out that a mathematical model involving imaginary time predicts not only effects we have already observed but also effects we have not been able to measure yet nevertheless believe in for other reasons. So what is real and what is imaginary? Is the distinction just in our minds?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code. By contrast, computers double their speed and memories every 18 months. There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over. We urgently need to develop direct connections to the brain so that computers can add to human intelligence rather than be in opposition."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Everything that civilisation has to offer is a product of human intelligence; we cannot predict what we might achieve when this intelligence is magnified by the tools that AI may provide, but the eradication of war, disease, and poverty would be high on anyone's list. Success in creating AI would be the biggest event in human history. Unfortunately, it might also be the last."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: One could say: \"The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary.\" The universe would be completely self-contained and not affected by anything outside itself. It would neither be created nor destroyed. It would just BE."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: There is no way that we can predict the weather six months ahead beyond giving the seasonal average."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Science fiction can be exciting and very gripping, but it doesn't tell us anything about the universe in which we live."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: As we shall see, the concept of time has no meaning before the beginning of the universe. This was first pointed out by St. Augustine. When asked: What did God do before he created the universe? Augustine didn't reply: He was preparing Hell for people who asked such questions. Instead, he said that time was a property of the universe that God created, and that time did not exist before the beginning of the universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: We only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldnt want to meet. I imagine they might exist in massive ships, having used up all the resources from their home planet. Such advanced aliens would perhaps become nomads, looking to conquer and colonize whatever planets they can reach."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: One can't predict the weather more than a few days in advance."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Everyone can enjoy a life of luxurious leisure if the machine-produced wealth is shared, or most people can end up miserably poor if the machine-owners successfully lobby against wealth redistribution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: God abhors a naked singularity."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: In effect, we have redefined the task of science to be the discovery of laws that will enable us to predict events up to the limits set by the uncertainty principle."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: It should soon be possible dramatically to increase the intelligence and life span of a few individuals. They and their offspring could become a master race. Evolution pays no regard to social justice. It was not fair on the Neanderthals they were replaced by modern humans."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The victim should have the right to end his life, if he wants. But I think it would be a great mistake. However bad life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. While there's life, there is hope."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: You can't regulate every lab in the world."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: In this way, Edwin Hubble worked out the distances to nine different galaxies. We now know that our galaxy is only one of some hundred thousand million that can be seen using modern telescopes, each galaxy itself containing some hundred thousand million stars."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Why are we here? Where do we come from? Traditionally, these are questions for philosophy, but philosophy is dead."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The lesson of the book is that the universe is governed by the laws of science."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Time travel was once considered scientific heresy, and I used to avoid talking about it for fear of being labelled a 'crank.'"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Someone told me that each equation I included in the book would halve the sales."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: It matters if you don't just give up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I think those who have a terminal illness and are in great pain should have the right to choose to end their own life, and those that help them should be free from prosecution."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency\u2019s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It may seem like a work of fiction, but it is very real, very impressive, and will help us to further uncover the mysteries surrounding the formation of the solar system. They made a beautiful short film using an imaginary landscape to illustrate today\u2019s historic feat."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: There are no black holes - in the sense of regimes from which light can't escape to infinity. There are however apparent horizons which persist for a period of time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Philosophers have not kept up with modern developments in science. Particularly physics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I believe that the long-term future of the human race must be space and that it represents an important life insurance for our future survival, as it could prevent the disappearance of humanity by colonizing other planets."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Disability can be no handicap."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: If it [the universe] was expanding fairly slowly, the force of gravity would cause it eventually to stop expanding and then to start contracting. However, if it was expanding at more than a certain critical rate, gravity would never be strong enough to stop it, and the universe would continue to expand forever."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Life on Earth is at the ever-increasing risk of being wiped out by a disaster, such as sudden global warming, nuclear war, a genetically engineered virus or other dangers. I think the human race has no future if it doesn't go into space. I therefore want to encourage public interest in space."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I think my dad [ Stephen Hawking] would have been pleased if I had turned out a scientist because he truly believes that is the most interesting career open to anyone. But he also believes that you have to follow your own path in life and so he certainly wasn't going to push me toward theoretical physics when it didn't look like I was going in that direction naturally."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I enjoy all forms of music - pop, classical and opera."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The boundary condition of the universe is that it has no boundary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Although September 11 was horrible, it didn't threaten the survival of the human race, like nuclear weapons do."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I think computer viruses should count as life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: There ought to be something very special about the boundary conditions of the universe and what can be more special than that there is no boundary?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Science will win because it works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: We've created life in our own image."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I'm very interested in film making. It's telling a story, fiction or non-fiction. I have been filmed quite a lot. Contrary to popular belief, filming isn't glamorous. It can be wearingly repetitious, as the same shot is taken over and over again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Just like a computer, we must remember things in the order in which entropy increases. This makes the second law of thermodynamics almost trivial. Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. You can't have a safer bet than that!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: If we ever do find a complete theory of the universe, it would be a great triumph of human reason but it wouldn't leave much for us to do. We need an intellectual challenge."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: We won't know for a few years."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: We shouldn't be surprised that conditions in the universe are suitable for life, but this is not evidence that the universe was designed to allow for life. We could call order by the name of God, but it would be an impersonal God. There's not much personal about the laws of physics."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands?"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: When I was young, Stephen Hawking wasn't the world's most famous physicist. The fame didn't arrive until the publication of \"A Brief History of Time,\" by which time I was in my late teens. When I was a child, he was well known among physicists, but they are a fairly select, serious bunch, not much given to celebrity idolizing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Physics as we know it will be over in six months - Max Born"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I think computer viruses should count as life ... I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: All that my work has shown is that you don't have to say that the way the universe began was the personal whim of God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: We got through all of Genesis and part of Exodus before I left. One of the main things I learned from this exercise was not to begin a sentence with \"And.\" When I pointed out that most sentences in the Bible began with \"And,\" I was told that English had changed since the time of King James. In that case, I argued, why make us read the Bible? But it was in vain. Robert Graves at that time was very keen on the symbolism and mysticism in the Bible."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: As a child, I wanted to know how things worked and to control them. With a friend, I built a number of complicated models that I could control. It was a natural next step to want to know how the universe works."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I have to speak through a computer... in my mind, I am free. Free to explore the universe and ask the big questions..."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: People think I'm a Simpsons character."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Being confined to a wheelchair doesn't bother me as my mind is free to roam the universe, but it felt wonderful to be weightless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Sometimes I wonder if I'm as famous for my wheelchair and disabilities as I am for my discoveries."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: [On President Bush's plan to get to Mars in 10 years] Stupid. Robots would do a better job and be much cheaper because you don't have to bring them back."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: There is a very real danger that we will kill everything on this planet now that we have the technological power to do so."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I have so much that I want to do. I hate wasting time."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The intelligent beings in these regions should therefore not be surprised if they observe that their locality in the universe satisfies the conditions that are necessary for their existence. It is a bit like a rich person living in a wealthy neighborhood not seeing any poverty."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I put a lot of effort into writing 'A Briefer History' at a time when I was critically ill with pneumonia because I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: More often than politicians, but not as often as they should."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The Universe in a Nutshell"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: A lot of prizes have been awarded for showing the universe is not as simple as we might have thought."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: In real time, the universe has a beginning and an end at singularities that form a boundary to space-time and at which the laws of science break down."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: If any one of about 40 physical qualities had more than slightly different values, life as we know it could not exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: It is said that there's no such thing as a free lunch. But the universe is the ultimate free lunch."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Maybe my variety is due to bad absorption of vitamins."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: We explore because we are human and we want to know. I hope that Pluto will help us on that journey."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: It is tribute to how far we have come in theoretical physics that it now takes enormous machines and a great deal of money to perform experiments whose results we can not predict."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I don't believe that the ultimate theory will come by steady work along existing lines. We need something new. We can't predict what that will be or when we will find it because if we knew that, we would have found it already!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: A million million million million (1 with twenty-four zeros after it) miles, the size of the observable universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: To boldly go where no one has gone before"
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: At times, I get very lonely because people are afraid to talk to me or don't wait for me to write a response. I'm shy and tongue-tied at times. I find it difficult to talk to people who I don't know."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Only a very few would allow creatures like us to exist. Thus our presence selects out from this vast array only those universes that are compatible with our existence. Although we are puny and insignificant on the scale of the cosmos, this makes us in a sense the lords of creation."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The human race shouldn't have all its eggs in one basket, or on one planet. Let's hope we can avoid dropping the basket until we have spread the load."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Working with my father [Stephen Hawking ] is a great thrill - he has the amazing ability to hold enormous amounts of information in his head."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: If I have questions about the universe on my mind when I go to bed, I can't turn off. I dream equations all night."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker. Although the universe doesn\u2019t have an end, it had a beginning in the Big Bang. One might ask what is before that but the answer is that there is nowhere before the Big Bang just as there is nowhere south of the South Pole."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: If human life were long enough to find the ultimate theory, everything would have been solved by previous generations. Nothing would be left to be discovered."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Observations indicate that the universe is expanding at an ever increasing rate. It will expand forever, getting emptier and darker."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: But a machine that was powerful enough to accelerate particles to the grand unification energy would have to be as big as the Solar System - and would be unlikely to be funded in the present economic climate."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Computers double their performance every month."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Science could predict that the universe must have had a beginning."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Many people do not like the idea that time has a beginning, probably because it smacks of divine intervention."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimate laws of nature."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Science makes God unnecessary."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structure on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical galaxy."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: There are too many accidents that can befall life on a single planet."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Any physical theory is always provisional, in the sense that it is only a hypothesis: you can never prove it. No matter how many times the results of experiments agree with some theory, you can never be sure that the next time the result will not contradict the theory."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: The universe is governed by science. But science tells us that we can't solve the equations, directly in the abstract."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: There is a real danger that computers will develop intelligence and take over."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: I thought Eddie Redmayne portrayed me very well... At times I thought he was me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: Our population and our use of the finite resources of planet Earth are growing exponentially, along with our technical ability to change the environment for good or ill."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: If we do discover a complete theory, it should be in time understandable in broad principle by everyone. Then we shall all, philosophers, scientists, and just ordinary people be able to take part in the discussion of why we and the universe exist."
  },
  {
    "text": "Stephen Hawking: One big contribution my father [Stephen Hawking] has made is to show that having a disability does not bar you from leading a full and eventful life."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Discontent is the first necessity of progress."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Be brave as your fathers before you. Have faith and go forward."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Genius is one percent inspiration, ninety-nine percent perspiration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: I do not believe in the God of the theologians; but that there is a Supreme Intelligence I do not doubt."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Show me a thoroughly satisfied man - and I will show you a failure."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Today, I am wondering what would have happened to me by now, if, fifty years ago, some fluent talker had converted me to the theory of the eight-hour day and convinced me that it was not fair to my fellow-workers to put forth my best efforts in my work? I am glad that the eight-hour day had not been invented when I was a young man. If my life had been made up of eight-hour days, I don't believe I could have accomplished a great deal."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: We will make electricity so cheap that only the rich will burn candles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: I never did a day's work in my life, it was all fun."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Anything that won't sell, I don't want to invent. Its sale is proof of utility, and utility is success."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Being busy does not always mean real work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: During all those years of experimentation and research, I never once made a discovery. All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention, pure and simple. I would construct a theory and work on its lines until I found it was untenable. Then it would be discarded at once and another theory evolved. This was the only possible way for me to work out the problem."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: It has been just so in all my inventions. The first step is an intuition-and comes with a burst, then difficulties arise. This thing that gives out and then that-\"Bugs\"as such little faults and difficulties are called show themselves and months of anxious watching, study and labor are requisite before commercial success-or failure-is certainly reached."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Everything comes to him who hustles while he waits."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: The doctor of the future will give no medication, but will interest his patients in the care of the human frame, diet and in the cause and prevention of disease. ~"
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: I start where the last man left off."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Seeming to do is not doing."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: X-rays ... I am afraid of them. I stopped experimenting with them two years ago, when I came near to losing my eyesight and Dally, my assistant practically lost the use of both of his arms."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come indirectly through accident, except the phonograph. No, when I have, fully decided that a result is worth getting, I go about it, and make trial after trial, until it comes."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: None of my inventions came by accident. I see a worthwhile need to be met and I make trial after trial until it comes. What it boils down to is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine per cent perspiration."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: I speak without exaggeration when I say that I have constructed 3,000 different theories in connection with the electric light, each one of them reasonable and apparently likely to be true. Yet only in two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory. My chief difficulty was in constructing the carbon filament... Every quarter of the globe was ransacked by my agents, and all sorts of the queerest materials used, until finally the shred of bamboo, now utilized by us, was settled upon."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: I owe my success to the fact that I never had a clock in my workroom. Seventy-five of us worked twenty hours every day and slept only four hours - and thrived on it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: My mind is incapable of conceiving such a thing as a soul. I may be in error, and man may have a soul; but I simply do not believe it."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Everyone steals in commerce and industry. I've stolen a lot, myself. But I know how to steal! They don't know how to steal!"
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: So far as the religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake ... Religion is all bunk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Many a person who could not comprehend Rousseau, and would be puzzled by Montesquieu, could understand Paine as an open book. He wrote with a clarity, a sharpness of outline and exactness of speech that even a schoolboy should be able to grasp."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Religion is all bunk."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Nature is what we know. We do not know the gods of religions. And nature is not kind, or merciful, or loving. If God made me - the fabled God of the three qualities of which I spoke: mercy, kindness, love - He also made the fish I catch and eat. And where do His mercy, kindness, and love for that fish come in? No; nature made us - nature did it all - not the gods of the religions."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: I believe in the existence of a Supreme Intelligence pervading the Universe."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: In 'Common Sense' Paine flared forth with a document so powerful that the Revolution became inevitable. Washington recognized the difference, and in his calm way said that matters never could be the same again."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: My mother was the making of me."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: An average American loves his family. If he has any love left over for some other person, he generally selects Mark Twain."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Through all the years of experimenting and research, I never once made a discovery. I start where the last man left off... All my work was deductive, and the results I achieved were those of invention pure and simple."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: I have not failed 10,000 times. I have succeeded in proving that those 10,000 ways will not work."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: I consider Paine our greatest political thinker. As we have not advanced, and perhaps never shall advance, beyond the Declaration and Constitution, so Paine has had no successors who extended his principles."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: If the Nation can issue a dollar bond it can issue a dollar bill. The element that makes the bond good makes the bill good also. The difference between the bond and the bill is that the bond lets the money broker collect twice the amount of the bond and an additional 20%. Whereas the currency, the honest sort provided by the Constitution pays nobody but those who contribute in some useful way. It is absurd to say our Country can issue bonds and cannot issue currency. Both are promises to pay, but one fattens the usurer and the other helps the People."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: To Monsieur Eiffel the Engineer, the brave builder of so gigantic and original a specimen of modern Engineering from one who has the greatest respect and admiration for all Engineers including the Great Engineer the Bon Dieu."
  },
  {
    "text": "Thomas A. Edison: Nineteen hundred and three will bring great advances in surgery, in the study of bacteria, in the knowledge of the cause and prevention of disease. Medicine is played out. Every new discovery of bacteria shows us all the more convincingly that we have been wrong and that the million tons of stuff we have taken was all useless."
  }
]